There was a psychiatrist in the town where I live (Victoria) who prescribed certain vitamins for people with mental health issues and was very successful with this regimen. I remember Niacin was one of the most important vitamins he used for these patients. Dr. Abram Hoffer was the doctor. He passed on in 2009. A wonderful man and doctor!
@@smmargret6300 I know of one endocrinologist who actually significantly thinned the mental care ward of a facility she was on psychiatric rotation in, all due to endocrine issues. Two fairly common causes of such conditions that are fairly easily treated. Especially in the outlined case, which mirrors some issues in adrenal insufficiency, specifically the hyperpigmentation and psych issues, but blood panels would've been massively altered with. One fun part, have some health issues that can divert attention easily and indeed, did divert the attention of my primary, who is a resident. I actually utilized that error to remind doctor to guard against fixation on one issue to consider the entirety of issues and symptoms in a patient, as she studiously ignored several months of severe (Bristol 6 - 7) diarrhea (basically, liquipoops). Doesn't sound like a big deal, just keep hydrated, right? Nope, the colon is really important, it scavenges water from our stools, hell I've used it when out of needles and IV catheters to restore electrolytes and fluids in a patient in the field under rather austere conditions, as evacuation was problematic for an extended period. Note that I mentioned electrolytes. There's also sterols and other important things that get absorbed by the body in the colon, as many bile components get resorbed in the colon, as do a fair number of metals. I was also chronically low on magnesium, which mystified me, as my diet contains enough magnesium to start one hell of a fire or at least build a fairly sizable engine block (OK, that's a joke, but I do eat enough foods that are fairly high in magnesium that levels should be normal). Periodic zinc deficiency has been observed in the past, I tend to crave mussels when that occurs, which are high in selenium and zinc. Iron was normal, but sodium, chloride and magnesium were low, calcium and potassium center range normal. At the time, my blood pressure was literally all over the map, hypotensive at times, severe hypertension frequently, despite longstanding successful treatment for hypertension. Thyroid levels normal, so no thyroid mischief, despite Grave's disease that's been successfully treated with thyroid suppressive medication. Doctor did get a bit adventurous with the hypertension medications, resulting in syncope, tunnel vision and gray out from hypotension while crossing the street, which somehow attracted the attention of the practice fellow and attending, which wasn't particularly desired, but helpful to regain focus. Tissue transglutaminase antibody levels were checked, nice and happy there. C-reactive protein was high, which with longstanding diarrhea was about as surprising as the name of the day ending in the letter 'y', but still noteworthy. No polys in the stool. Calprotectin was extremely high, where 50 might be a high normal, over 1100 and extremely noteworthy. No parasites or eggs in the stool. Got a long delayed colonoscopy (long story, but suffice it to say a comedy of odd events conspired to obstruct attending the procedure, largely transportation and timing issues) observed Crohn's disease, which the inflammatory markers calprotectin and c-reactive protein suggested in the presence of diarrhea. Malabsorbtion is common in this scenario. On magnesium supplements, dietary restrictions apply, which makes dietary balancing a fair challenge. Steriods are calming the worst of the symptoms, mostly and the specialist is going with immune modulating synthetic antibodies - whenever the insurance company blesses the same, an appeal for one specific was denied yesterday, with my concurring on efficacy grounds, but I wanted everything in the denial quite well documented, just in case their proposed drug fails and making its approval simpler. When fighting with insurance companies, one uses the big guns - their own procedures and panels, not harming executives, well, save by perhaps giving them gibbering apoplexy. Annoyingly, some of my favorite foods are infamously healthy foods, love my beans and especially lentils, greens of all sort, etc and a fair number are listed to be avoided to avoid irritating the colon or triggering the inflammatory process... :/ I'll be scheduling a meeting with a dietitian on my next follow up, which is next week. Conveniently located next door to the lab, where I have tests scheduled for near mid-month anyway. Also discovered my hep-B vaccine needs a booster, which is required before immune modulating antibodies can be safely administered, but gives me information I didn't have on the longevity of the vaccine in my body. I'll probably go with some of the "childhood vaccines" as well, due to immune flagging and recommended best practices, since they're typically covered. Won't bother with probable flagging smallpox immunity flagging, as the chances of exposure to orthopox virus infection is beyond low now that I'm retired from military medicine. Were I still in uniform, it'd be a different story. Flu, COVID, shingles are all up to date. Many, many things circle back to nutrition, either primary or secondary to other conditions that can range from lifestyle/economic issues to diseases that throw off absorption and nutritional requirements. And also, treatments. My glucose levels are at diabetic levels, despite metformin, courtesy of the steroid, but that can and will be adjusted while the steroid is needed and the glucose is hence elevated, it should resolve to low prediabetes levels again once the steroids are discontinued. Immune modulating drugs have made conditions that were untreatable or barely controllable easily managed, that was impossible when I was my children's ages and that makes me wonder what will be easily managed when my grandchildren reach my own age of early 60's! Oh, what distracted doctor was serious, but still at watchful waiting. A misassessed mitral valve reflux condition that was caused by both some thyroid storm hypertension episodes causing ventricular hypertrophy before it was noticed and associated with that cause, an abdominal aortic aneurysm. That could easily distract me as well with inexperience, as the first patient I lost was a 28 year old female soldier, who died of a ruptured AAA, secondary to an adrenal tumor. Our physician astonished that I knew the cause of her elevated adrenaline, as it's one of those rare conditions a physician might encounter once in their career. Well, off to make the mussels in marinara, which will keep the mildly contraindicated pasta company, as I do tolerate that well at least. Going to freeze the leftover lentil soup, rather than waste that quart, I'll enjoy that once the immune modulating treatments do their jobs, as I also do tolerate lentils well.
He ate primarily oatmeal, white rice with margarine, and sometimes rice noodles. This led to a niacin deficiency and his health declined dramatically. Saved you 13 minutes.
This is why we need to assess mental health conditions for nutritional deficiencies. You’d think it would be easy to do this but through my whole rotation through nursing school I never saw one doc who assessed for B, C , or D deficiencies. It’s maddening to watch our country succumb to preventable illness associated with poverty.
It was the first thing my GP (primary care physician) checked for! I went in with depression, fatigue etc and she did a full panel of bloods including all the main vitamins. Turns out I did have burnout and mild depression BUT also Vit D and Iron deficient. Fixing that helped a lot and allowed me to have the energy to do the things I needed to support my mental health.
Naturopaths are better to turn to than doctors when it comes to checking your health. There are so many nutrients that can be checked with a naturopath. Even though this man was suffering from a b3 deficiency he was right to not consume gluten due to autoimmune issues. There are other ways to get niacin. And yes, we really do need that. It's already heading in the right direction but it's going to take a good while probably. I wouldn't turn to fortified foods though. Rather get quality supplements without fillers/flow agents etc if it's needed and food ofc.
I've suffered from chronic tiredness, no motivation to do sports, depressed since I was 8, but no doctor cared and my family was poor and working constantly, so they didn't make us good food. Finally after reseraching myself for decades and insisting to get B12 injections all of the symptoms are gone. Thank you for bringing light on it.
I went to psychiatric museum in Venice, Italy. Had a big display about "rough skin" disease due to bad corn for polenta. Was a big issue of VitaminB lack exacerbated by fungus as poor people picked corn cobs from side of road
I worked with a man who was an expert at his detail-ordered job. He started to make mistakes and began to get angry for no apparent reason. He insisted nothing was wrong with him and did not seek treatment or go to a doctor. Physically, he seemed just fine. A lot of people figured he got into drugs or something. His behavior and error rate got so bad they had to fire him. About 6 months later, we got the news he died of a brain tumor. :(
@@mynamo12people like him are OBSESSED with vaccines supposedly causing health issues. With no real proof, other than from their online echo chambers.
I'm pretty sure this is what my great-grandmother had. My grandmother described this exact scenario about her mother. They were very, very poor and malnourished and her mother descended into some type of delirium for quite a while. My grandmother explained the only thing that her mom would consume was coffee and cigarettes. She kept the food for the kids; five small daughters. This was an especially hard time in their lives. Economically the area was experiencing a great depression. And she did get better later. So my grandmother always thought that her mother was mentally ill. I truly believe it was Pellagra.
Pellagra,...the 4 D's!! Diarrhea, Dementia, Dermatitis and Death!!😮 Had a Good Friend that I suspect died of this 5 years ago, although being in Intensive Care for over 2 weeks. 😢🙏🇬🇾😎
That's because they sell drugs, not food. What most would call "health care" is really a sickness farm. It starts with the "food pyramid". Eat that diet and you will get sick.
It breaks my heart to think this man was working every day and yet was living on such a poor diet. It makes me wonder, how many people in our day to day lives may need help and we can't tell by looking at them and most wouldn't let us know. If I or anyone I know ever has a weird medical thing happening, I sure wished you would be around, I doubt you would make assumptions, but because you love figuring things out, you would check things other doctors would miss. I LOVE your enthusiasm and how much you love what you do. Siobhan, YOU'RE AWESOME! Thanks for the great information.
Saddest thing is - the lifestyle was entirely self inflicted. He was addicted to gambling. It's awful. I wish they would ban sports gambling apps. It shouldn't be so easy to flush your savings into your cell phone on a whim.
I blame the gluten free diet fad. Avoiding gluten and all those "eeeeevil processed foods" meant he got even less vitamins and nutrients in his diet! He probably wasn't even gluten intolerant, nearly nbody on the gluten fad diet is!
@@tsm688 In his case it was nescessary though, not just a random fad. Food allergies/intolerances and gut-affecting autoimmune diseases EXIST. You should acknowledge that fact, before you end up with a lawsuit, due to being a food heretic.
In 1980 I was a brand new nurse graduate, I was working on a medical floor of a large hospital. I cared for a patient admitted to die of a condition called Multi-infart Dementia. CT-Scans were not available in this hospital but I noticed that going through the chart that in the labs no thyroid levels had been ordered. So I called the doctor and ask if a level could be checked. It turned out that the patient had a critically low thyroid level. Injectable thyroxine was ordered and the patient like Sleeping Beauty woke up. So in your video this reminded me of this patient so long ago.
I saw photos of sufferers from Pellagra in a very old Medical Text books. In the US we have enforced fortification. I imagine it's also the case in Canada.
I am an internal medicine specialist , I watched some of your videos. They are simply amazing both for the common people as well as professionals. This video is top class, you have reminded many medical professionals the oft forgotten cause of disease ie nutritional deficiencies! Great job! Also I cant praise you enough for highlighting the history behind the discovery of the cause of pellagra, hats off VMD!!!
Thank you for, as a physician, being willing to continually learn. My GP stopped learning the day she left medical school. I volunteer at the medical school to help eager doctors learn new techniques (I get paid a small honorarium for my parking, but it doesn't cover even minimum wage). And I meet so many eager physicians who are learning new things. If my GP knew that severe endometriosis could be diagnosed through ultrasound, I could have had a good life. But she insists to this day that it cannot. But she finally at 45 sent me to a gyne who accepted the results.
But doctors are not nutritionists, I know far more than my doctor about nutrition and disease prevention. And I learned on my own for the last 35 years.
@ 👍👍 a pseudo doctor… and though some unregulated studies suggest that vegans have a lower risk of death from all causes, regulated clinical studies have not found evidence that veganism leads to a longer life. Most studies group vegetarians and vegans together, making it difficult to determine the exact effects of each diet on a person's life expectancy. They did find that vegans “can” have serious vitamin deficiencies. Researchers theorize that vegans who live longer than average tend to do so for two main reasons involving both diet and lifestyle.
I found out I have a Niacine deficiency after 4 surgeries for Neuroendocrine Cancer. I had the discolouration on my hands, feet and neck-upper chest. It took a few months to improve. I have multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies now cause half my colon and part of my small intestine were removed. I get regularly tested to keep my numbers up. It didn’t help that I have a gluten allergy as well. Great video!
@natalie is this in addition to the cancer or was the cancer a misdiagnosis? How can they help you better absorb the vitamins? Do you have to get a PEG tube?
@@miaomiao5462 it’s because of having half my colon and a large part of my small intestine removed so there’s less places to absorb vitamins & minerals. Eventually I will most likely lose more of the colon and small intestine so yes I will need to use iv nutrition. Definitely not a misdiagnosis but because it’s so rare I went many years of symptoms not being able to figure out what I had until my appendix ruptured and I was diagnosed. Having Neuroendocrine Cancer is very rare and my primary was the appendix which is even more rare. 1 person out of 5 million I’ve been told is the average. I’ve met many HCW who didn’t know or met anyone with cancer starting in the appendix. Everytime I wake up from surgery the first thing I check is if I have an colostomy. Every surgery it’s a high risk but I need the surgeries in order to take out my cancerous areas. I’ve had 4 major open surgeries since March 2020 and getting ready for my 5th to try and stay ahead of the Mets.
I've only just recovered from a severe vitamin D deficiency. But my diagnosis was fairly straightforward. I went to see my obgyn for a missed period, and after doing a bunch of tests and finding nothing, she referred me to an endocrinologist. Right away, she insisted on a vitamin D test. The symptoms are very similar to hypothyroidism, which can impact your menstrual cycle, and cause unexplained weight gain. Other symptoms I had were brain fog, fatigue, and really bad forgetfulness!
I had vitamin D deficiency AND hypothyroidism from a faulty parathyroid. You have 4 of these next to the thyroid, and they are important for the balance of vitamin D and calcium levels. I had one enlarged parathyroid that burrowed into the thyroid, causing symptoms of hypothyroidism and looking like a benign thyroid tumor on scans. Took two years to get correctly diagnosed, then I got surgery and then it took two years to get my hormone, mineral and vitamin levels back to normal.
I had all those symptoms too, and also severe back pain! So bad to where I couldn’t bend down or do other basic things a 30yo should be able to do. It wrecked me up real bad! So glad they ran the test instead of giving me pain meds for my back!
@@kayleigh3648Wow that explains my back pain! I had the same symptoms and had to Google them and self-diagnose because my doctor was useless. Now I drink some prescribed vitamin D drops (2000 IU) and pills (2000 IU) but I'm not sure if it's enough. In a month I raised the level from 39 to 52.
@@kathilisi3019 I'm so sorry - I hope you're much healthier now! I did go down a thyroid rabit hole when I thought I had it. Getting a diagnosis is such a world of difference. Glad your levels are up to snuff now.
As I understand it, too little salt is more dangerous and easier to achieve than getting too much, so naturally we're always told to avoid it like the plague.
@@justgivemethetruth..It does not matter if it's in the food. It's whether or not your body is able to utilise it as intended, or as required. Hyponatremia is one such condition...
This is why we always ate rice and beans with vegetables from the garden and fresh eggs from the chickens. It covered all the basics. I bought the rice and beans in bulk, grew the veggies and eggs. We also bought popcorn and peanuts in bulk for snacks. It was a "poor" diet, but it was healthy for a normal gluten sensitive person.
do you have good lukc growing your own vegetables,?I live in an apartment but I'm considering trying that because when I buy vegetables at the grocery store they make me sick, and it's not gluten it's something else....
I've often said an egg has every ingredient in it to make a fully functioning animal, that's why you see animals in nature going ham if they come across eggs, amazingly nutritious. I'm glad I ignored the TV during the 90's when eggs became evil and we were told not to eat them. I also always thought the food pyramid was nonsense, we were told to mostly eat grains, we didn't evolve with grains.
@@WildFungus I live in an appartment as well. Solved the problem partly with a vertical garden. About a square meter total surface. It's not like you can grow anything you need, but it's not a lot of work and gets you quite a nice harvest a couple of times if you stack correctly. Lettuce, leafy beets, radish are easy to do. The lower basket can grow courgette or cucumber if you have the space in front to let them grow out. You could grow Sprout 'veggies' inside as the hardly need light. Couple of growing tubs with strawberries. Just to let you know with smart gardening a little space can go a long way. Coco peat based soil with liquid organic fertiliser works like a charm.
My great grandmother died from pellagra. Impoverished sharecroppers. She died when my grandfather was 14 years old. He said that the last few months of her life was horrific. It makes me enraged to hear people say that "fortified" food is bad or poisonous.
I understand what you are saying BUT most fortified foods are made this way as the food item has been messed with so much that all nutrition has been removed from it. Unfortunately it's big business' bank balance that's more important not our health 😢
And for some people fortified food is the only way to get these vitamins because they are so poor that they can't afford to get the natural and whole foods. Or, they live in a food desert. Eat air are drink hope.
I didn’t notice any tests for B1 (Thiamine) or B12 - both of which would also probably have been very deplete on his diet, too. Deficiencies of these crucial nutrients are rampant these days in our ‘high calorie malnutrition’ modern diet. Thiamine is not only in short supply, but the modern diet places far higher demands on the body for Thiamine than it supplies. Thiamine deficiency can lead to various forms of Beri-Beri - ‘wet’ (heart & CVS), ‘dry’ (neuropathies), Gastrointestnal, Brain, etc. Anything that involves autonomic nerve functions, like breathing & heart pulses, etc. (B12 deficiency can also affect autonomic functions - it switches off my autonomic breathing when too low) B12 deficiency is also rampant - even often amongst meat-eaters, because so many people struggle with digestive issues now and their bodies don’t convert inactive B12 to Active B12 very well. Serum blood tests can also be very misleading because they do not show cellular status, nor how much of the B12 is active or inactive - and if most is inactive it’s not getting into the cells & the test result is meaningless. Many people can have ‘normal’ or even high B12 levels yet still display blatant clinical B12 deficiency symptoms. And many doctors rely solely on the serum test results & sadly know diddly squat about the many & varied clinical symptoms - including neurological issues, ataxias, neuropathies, brain fog, cognitive decline, memory loss, psychosis, paranoia & even dementias. Hidden (occult) B12 deficiency may also be misdiagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis or other ‘diseases’. So many health issues have nutritional deficiencies behind them, yet testing & investigation in this area is woefully inadequate.
What can you eat to stop this? What vitamins or diet would you recommend? Seems like you have a lot of knowledge on the subject. Are you a Dr or a nutritionist???
@@rainmanj9978 The best overall advice I've seen is to eat a varied diet including significant amounts of fruits and vegetables, somewhat less meats and proteins and a little bit of healthy fat. From what I can tell, grains can mostly be avoided as they don't seem to really contribute much that can't be easily had from something else. Pretty much no matter what you do, you're going to need some sort of multivitamin as it's pretty much impossible to get a completely balanced diet in the number of calories that modern people in the US burn in a given day.
I have celiac disease & found out after going to a naturopathic Doctor who has helped me more in 3 years than all western medicine Dr’s. My Dr was able to give me nutritional IV’s to help fix the problem, diagnosed my food allergies (40+ items), gave me serum to help reverse my allergies (still working on it), mold allergies, mold serum to tolerate exposure more easily on my body, serum that fixed the problem until a fire that led to mold returning since insurance company refused to pay out covered damage & diagnosed with Lyme disease. I can’t afford the IV treatments since the fire plus complicated family drama so I can feel myself declining. It’s SO important to get enough nutrition no matter what the cause is, insurance companies need to stop making getting nutrition easier to do. My insurance technically covers the IV treatments but it has to be prescribed by one of their doctors, I’ve been trying to get it to happen for 6 years! They need to make sure that people can get the help that they need so that it’s not so difficult. It is more expensive to eat gluten free but not so much eating healthy, people don’t always know what is in their food that if they knew they wouldn’t touch it! If I’d known about my celiac that would have changed my diet in a way that could have saved or extended the lives of several loved ones including my mom. If I’d known my mom would know how toxic the “healthy food” was so she could have changed her diet & hopefully avoided getting cancer again or had a longer life.
This just reminded me of something about Dementia! This book called “The 23 Former Doctor Truths by Lauren Clark”. My health shifted in a whole new way.
Med professional here, what an amazing channel!!!! Love the detective work, and goes to show how just one element can either shed light or obscure the entire picture
I guessed right! I reember an episode from House MD in which a woman attempted to drown her newborn in the bathtub. After extensive tests they narrowed it down to pellgra which was causing her halluciations.
As soon as you mentioned what he was eating, the dermatitis and confusion, I shouted PELLAGRA!! I remembered the whole corn issue where a bunch of children developed pellagra from having a corn based diet. Sometimes a mystery diagnosis can be something simple, or something bizarre! (like the brain abscess I had!) We really do need to start talking about pellagra again, if people continue to get poorer we may see more of this.
people are screeching about eeeeeeeevil processed foods even in these comments but if he'd eaten those he would have avoided pellagra! food fortification is still a thing.
@@tsm688You mean that vitamin B3 and tryptophan aren't present in unprocessed foods? The rice we eat is highly processed. I don't think recommending a high sugar diet to people is in any way healthy.
@@tealkerberus748 he would have done better to eat cheaper food! he got sick on a weird fad diet that avoided all healthy or enriched foods. He was also only poor because he was a gambling addict.
I've been watching you since pre covid. I'm now in my freshman year of college, pursuing my dream of being a medical toxicologist. It's been a crazy few years, and even thought for my life from my thyroid quitting, then surgery, then getting diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Watching you and some other doctors made me feel better about my er visits and hospital stay. I was fortunate to not need chemo, but I'm stable now! 2 years coming up. Thank you for your content!
This is why I have given a year supply of daily multivitamins away to homeless people. I learned this practice from a methadone clinic which provided free fiber supplements & multivitamins.
That's very wise of you! Even protein shakes with all the vitamins would be a great blessing for a homeless person. I read that drugs are biggest robbers of vitamins.
Really?? I'm weening off methadone very slowly. I'm about a year in and have 15 more months to go. I'm on a pretty low dose now, 16mg 2x/day. My mind is struggling. My dreams interfere with my reality. I am forgetful and misuse a lot of words. Plus I need so much sleep. Sometimes I work 10 hours, then sleep 10 hours, wake for 2 and need to go back to sleep. It's an extreme feeling of exhaustion. My methadone doc has no advice. Nor does my counselor. My primary doc doesn't even agree with methadone. I feel like I'm kind of "white knuckling" this process and I'm ok when compared to real "dope-sickness" but compared to a good life, I'm not ok, you know? I'm looking for ways on my own, to help myself. And maybe I can help someone else in the future.
@@readerjoy this is merely part of the true story. That rabbit hole dives far deeper. These poisons start the yeast cycles of candidiasis start thinking permintly drunk visual distortions body tremors even hallucinations. Only to be diagnosed psychotic never getting any results but near death from USA medicine practices
I'm quite skeptical of fortified foods. I'd use that as a last resort but good quality supplements (preferrably without flow agents, fillers etc) or vitamin injections from a naturopath. I'd rather turn to those if the nutrients aren't enough from food.
you should mention that pellagra wasn't an issue before they started taking the bran out of wheat. White flour is lacking niacin but whole wheat flour is not.
@@cheldog9356 and the bran will destroy a host of other things. Notice the very unique circumstances this man found in his life... wheat oats barley triticale rye spelt...the entire list of the wheat family members none are gluten free. The starches become alcohol in your intestines... might wanna deep dive this rabbit hole
@@cheldog9356 this is 4 all three present texts here. USA wheat is genetically modified just like corn and soy.. go ahead use them. The problem for candidaisi is both the gluten and the starches. Read my posts here in all chats it will provide the opening of this rabbit hole. Bran is only the outside fiber. The germ is the life portion. That one is what is critical for any thing to remain a living viable food source. Ask me maybe I have your answers fact check me every time some of my data is more than 3 decades old.
There she is again. Our QUEEN of POSITIVITY. I always watch your vlogs. You are such a warm, positive person and a very good doctor. Thank you very much for your great vlogs and good work as a doctor along with your very positive attitude. 👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤
Whatever FDA says I try to avoid it. I found myself in this rabbit hole of so many industry lies when I read "The 23 Former Doctor Truths". Its no wonder why Doctor left her career.
what does that mean the fda recommends eating a balanced diet of fruits and veggies, meats and wheats are you going to stop eating that and instead go eat the dirt outside???
So being a dramatic king. Before FDA was established, people's health was even worse than today's. Go be a doctor yourself if you think you know better.
@adw6894 Before the FDA peoples health was worse... i wouldn't say that the FDA is the reason for that shift, and peoples health today is awful due to "FDA approved" poisons. Just look at the average american The Gospel for all: Jesus Christ loves you and died, rose from the dead, and ascended to heaven to pay for your sin! Repent and turn to Him and you will walk in light and be saved. Read the book of John and Luke to see God's love for you!
Thank you for these awesome videos. I don’t understand how you have the time with your busy days/nights of practice to make and edit them. Thank you for providing us such well presented and interesting information.
This looks like my eldest son's diet. He has tons of GI problems as well as MCAS, hEDS, and POTS. They removed his healthy gallbladder to stop spasms and now he has more problems. He has lost 120+lbs and throws up everything he eats. He can't tolerate anything, and it makes sense that he would have malabsorption problems. But his doctors (here in the US) test him and when they come back 'normal', say 'Good news! All tests were negative." So, we assume that his nutrients are "okay"!?? Clearly, HE is not!
@@carolinecornelis40 meat doesn’t have vitamin C and if you aren’t a cat then you’re not capable of converting meat into vitamin C. So you’re on the path to getting scurvy and having problems with your health.
@@allolobophorusAre you a cat? Cats are obligate carnivores and they can create enough vitamin C for their body but humans can’t so having vegetables and fruits is necessary for good health.
Awesome video! Keep them coming! Next one is Beriberi. That actually happened to me. It felt like I was anemic and I litterlly could not stay awake even when driving.
I've been anemic and I felt like I was gonna die. It took awhile to recover after I finally got the diagnosis. First doc I went to did zero blood test or I wouldn't have suffered so long. Ugggh!
@@mariantreber8055Wow. My twin sister went Vegan & got SO low in iron (even while taking supplements) & ferritin she had to be hospitalized & thought she was going to die, too! Scary!! 😢
@@rainmanj9978 Beriberi is a vitamin B1 deficiency. It gets it's name from the fact that it makes people lazy as they lose their ability to do much of anything due to an energy shortage. The good though though is that if you know that's what's happening, the ability to avoid it is pretty easy, even just a cheap B1 supplement doe the job, but fixing the diet is a better idea.
Yes, I have noticed that taking niacin things improve ... LOTS! I use to have the runs, but, when I started on the niacin, it stopped. I use to be forgetful, but, that was stopped by playing music on keyboards, memory came back. Thank you for this post, it confirmed it was the niacin.❤
Psilocybin mushrooms have certainly had a beneficial effect on my mental health. They've been quite effective for me in managing my anxiety and depression.
Thanks for posting the video, I have a Computer Science degree, work as a programmer for 30yrs, lifelong learner, and love medical mysteries/puzzles love watching your channel.
Diseases that used to be easy to diagnose have become hard for doctors to recognize, because they have never seen a case, and don't expect to encounter one. Dietary causes like vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) just aren't top of mind. Leprosy, (Hansen's disease) is another. I met a doctor who described treating a patient who was probably the only case in North America at the time.
Not just there. In Europe Pottasche, (potas, potasch, potassium) is an important old baking ingredient. I think mankind developed this food treatment very early or in parallel development. Potash is a salt that was extracted from plant ash with water.
Did you notice how recently so many people in health industry are coming forwards with new truths? The book called the 23 former doctor truths by lauren clark made me question everything
Ihad a coworker bin retail, he lived by himself, knly ate noodles for lunch everyday. He got alopecia and was so embarrassed. I purchased vitamins for hime omegas 3,5,6,7,9 abd bitamin B12 sublingual. About a mo later his hair was growing back. Left work cause i had 2 babies, but lived near my, he past away in 2024 At age 28 from colon cancer 😢 very young, unbelievable
Or maybe he could have just added a piece of chicken here or there. I mean the guy had no protein (big source of niacin all around). Freaking ridiculous.
What nonsense! A proper diet is simply the fundamental groundwork for a good health but it does NOTHING for you when you succumb to an illness that requires a specialized medical treatment.
It's always great when, as a medical student, I realize that I actually remember stuff LOL. I was able to diagnose this correctly in the first couple of minutes! Great video!
I'm so glad that when I needed a low-gluten diet for a while, the first thing my doctor warned me about was vitamin B deficiency. He didn't need to say more than that, it was enough for me to be a little bit careful, and I never got this. That was years ago though, and I'm thankful for the reminder as food costs rise. 👍 My mind's not quite all right, but there are entirely different explanations for that, including a quite awful case of meningitis when I was 13.
Many years ago, Dr. Hoffer cleared out a mental hospital in Canada, he went in and gave all of them B3, (Niacin) and basically cleared the place out. I think you have such a useful show about medical mysteries. I will mention that Niacin can give you a histamine flush that can be quite uncomfortable, but, they have flush free versions.
I questioning everything, especially advice from government health organizations after reading 'Health and Beauty Mastery' by Julian Bannett, this book exposes so many shocking truths about the health industry. I completely changed my habits.
if you question especially advice from government health organizations …😂then why are you watching this channel? Health organizations were created by such as you and I , and those who question everything , FYI. Health organizations in United States in Canada are doing their very very best to heal people , to teach people… Do health or organizations make mistakes ? yes, absolutely. That is why health organizations are scientific organizations … they learn from their mistakes and change their guidelines accordingly to the research. Not something that religion is famous for . Julian Banette’s booklet = homeopathic pseudoscience sales, placebos, and herbal home remedies. 50/50 success rate. People should be aware and beware of such booklets. While several of the remedies might work, several can also cause great damage which will require a hospital visit if not a lengthy stay . I urge for everybody to use great caution with advice from @EmilyJason-e1w.
As a B.A. and M.P.S., I also thank you for your reminder to eat healthy, even though sometimes vitamin B seems redundant during a time like this Dr. Siobhan Deshauer! ❤😄😄
I had and still have lingering signs of a major flesh eating bacterial infection. When I first came to the e.r my lips were swollen for 3 and half weeks I had to have a nice pack or frozen water bottle on my mouth all day and even when I slept if I could even sleep. I slept maybe 2 hours each night for a month. I went to 4 different emergency rooms. The first hospital laughed in my face and acted like I was fine. Yet it was eating my face under my lips and around them. I had to research everything myself and essentially diagnosed myself and asked certain doctors at the last 2 e.r visits who agreed with my diagnosis of it being bacterial and prescribed me varying antibiotics I asked for. Esentially I was dealing with an extremely aggressive bacteria who actually developed and was a resistant strain to antibiotics. I had a dermatologist who prescribed me the ones I am using now who seem to be clearing it up, but I can still feel bumps inside my mouth and lingering throbbed as if something is stil trying to live inside my lower lip. Doctors will only go as far as they are paid to research. Otherwise they do not care. I had to research and do all of this on my own and basically inform the doctors just to get a result. What a crazy world.
As a Hispanic male, it was fascinating to learn the origins of Mexican cuisine, specifically corn. This video blended history, science and psychology perfectly. Well done! 👏🏼
I've often wondered how they worked out how to do that. Maybe they were trying to pickle it or something? And noticed that the pickled product made people healthier than the straight product.
This was fascinating. I figured out what he had when he developed dermatitis! As a dietitian, I really appreciate these videos about nutritional deficiencies!
I have never dealt with this but as a renal nurse and living in a farming area I dealt with issues that related to dialysis diabetic patients. Beans and rice are cheap and that is all a lot of families could afford. Problem was the potassium in the beans. Lots of dietary issues in that group. Food and medication Together created lots of problems.
@@youknow6968when you have diabetes that is not controlled it damages your kidneys. When your kidneys are damaged to the need for dialysis your body usually can't get rid of excess potassium on its own and when potassium is high enough it leads to complications with your heart rhythm.🎉
Beans and rice eaten together create a complete protein and if it's brown rice, a whole grain, there's lots of fiber in whole grains and legumes. How can this be unhealthy? If this causes kidney disease, that financial guy, Dave somebody, is going to start getting sued for advising living on beans and rice to pay off debt. 😅
Dave means that people are wasting their money on eating out etc and they better cut back & pay off those bills. Often, young people who have lived pampered lives don't have any discipline regarding money management. People actually choose what they eat. It's tough times right now.
I have ulcerus colitis, im much better now, i triple my meat consumption and eat half a stick of butter with my food in my breakfast, i think i was suffering from low fat diet, so i upped my animal fat.
There is a book called Woyzeck we have to read in class about a soldier eating nothing but peas and loses his mind leading to him killing multiple people including himself. That's the only reason I immediatly jumped to the conclusion his diet consisted of peas only.
@ Please, don’t! The author died without specifying in which order the four parts have to be read, it’s so confusing and is not fun at all. I don’t want to be the reason why you waste your time.
The psych ward checked my bloodwork, and getting on thyroid meds cured my depression. I actually started to have serotonin syndrome symptoms from my antidepressant.
People don't realize how lucky we are that cereal grain products have added vitamins and table salt has iodine. Pellagra, goiters, scurvy and other vitamin deficiency diseases used to be rampant. I get deeply concerned about the deliberate misinformation some people spread about these fortifications. Also anyone on a medical diet that is very restrictive should take a multi vitamin!
Do you know WHY? Because fortification isn't natural. They are adding back biolab created CRAP. If grain were milled AT THE TIME OF USE, all the vitamins and minerals are available. But the folks YOU'RE defending do MASS PRODUCTION of grain, sift out everything and anything good for us, bleach it,bag it and wash their hands of all the health issues that ensue. Fortification NEVER should have been introduced. Now everything is super processed and lacking in every way. YOU - stop being dumb, look some shit up and get educated.
@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807 Oh I know! I have NCGI and leaky gut so my diet is very restricted. Even worse is people saying "well people without deficiencies don't need to take vitamins". My husband didn't take any vitamins and he is a night shift worker. He was getting really ill and his DR finally ordered vitamin levels. His vitamin d was non-existent. He had to take 50,000 units once a week for 2 months to get his levels up, he takes a regular dose now. It really is infuriating that the levels are not checked as a regular check up.
My sister went on a salt free diet for some reason. It set off a series of medical problems and 5 years later , died "of alzheimers." Just one day, she became ill and never got to go back home after what happened. I've not known of anyone in the family to get alzheimers.
I remember when physicians commonly stated that you could eat any food, and you'd manage to get all the nutrients you need. This was around the same time many physicians were advertising cigarettes as a healthy product.
Some years ago there was a case here in Australia of a teenage boy with deteriorating eyesight presenting for medical attention. None of the medical professionals consulted could diagnose the problem until the boy and his parent(s) were fortunate enough to see a GP who recalled from her medical training that the boy could possibly have scurvy - which was confirmed when it emerged that the boy was a very fussy eater who would only eat chicken nuggets and some other thing. After a suitable change to his diet, it was reported that one of the boy's eyes had pretty much recovered, but the other eye would be stuck with permanent damage.
I have a persistent mental health condition that I treat with a high level multi-mineral and vitamin supplement. Stopping the supplements always leads to a return of symptoms within a couple days at most.
In 1975 there was a book titled "Nutrition and the Mind", which documented successes in treating some mental disorders with high doses of time release vitamin B complex family, including PABA, Inositol and Choline.
Being severely low in vitamin B12 for too long - due to undiagnosed pernicious anemia - I was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, due to depression/lethargy and psychosis. It was actually Megaloblastic Madness, aka psychosis caused by low B12. Get your B12 checked yearly, imo.
That's a good (timely, thanks to budgeting issues) reminder that I need to keep an eye on the nutrients I don't get because I can't eat gluten (and therefore the easy enriched wheat products), especially since given other health issues I have, many of the symptoms (other than the dermatitis, which I would limit aggravating because I don't really go outside) overlap with some of the symptoms of my chronic illnesses, so I would be delayed in noticing a difference.
Loved this video. The whole puzzle is fascinating and I’m an accountant. But health is key to living well. Nutrition is more important than I realised.
Wow, those experiments to confirm the cause of Pelagra were wild! By the way, I dodn't know the word nixtamalization, but after listening to your explanation, I remembered that decades ago, I watched women cooking a pumpkin sweet and they added a spoon of calcium oxide ( CaO ) to the boiling pumpkin with sugar.
@ViolinMD I was a child and I asked why that substance ( used to paint walls white and often added to concrete ) was added, and they answered that it was for giving the sweet a more firm consistency when cooled. Throughout the 60's and the 70's, Brazil had the habit of consuming too much sugar. Nowadays I'm struggling successfully with limiting sugar in my diet; especially after your video where I learned that sugar can even coat tendons! Sugar is so addicting! ( adictive? I must check the right word. ) Have a blessed weekend!
Such an informative video! I learned so much about how food and nutrients can affect both our physical and mental health. Really makes me rethink my own diet.
Already by mentioning the carbohydrate diet @0:20 it was quite strongly indicating a vitamin B deficiency, here the niacine, formerly vitamin B3 ("Pellagra"). Another carbohydrate related vitamin B deficiency (vitamin B1) would be the "Beri-Beri". Basically most of the vitamin B complex is necessars for the neurological functions.
Another dietary deficiency story comes from the Japanese, specifically diagnosed in the navy. White rice was considered the food of the rich over brown rice, in the navy it was all you can eat white rice. So when recruits got into the navy and got the option to fill up on white rice that is what they did. 1/3 of the navy was sick at any given time and the disease was also found in cities. This was beriberi (vitamin B1 deficiency) . This also affect the emperor and high class members from time to time as well. They mandated meat portions to diet to cure. The process to make the rice white removes most of the good stuff.
They should have given them brown unprocessed rice instead of dead animal flesh. While rice is where all the goodness has been removed so its useless as a food.
@@tsm688 Gotta love the ability to add back in the vitamins the processing takes out. Even Count Chocula and Franken Berry give you the B's you need. 84% of your daily requirement of B12 in 1 cup of CC.42% of daily Niacin B3.
Thank you for the great presentation. I enjoy the breakdown of the cases, the steps to diagnosis, and the outcomes. It is enlightening to know the history of diseases that plagued mankind and how we solved some of them.
How many people are misdiagnosed because doctors don't understand nutrition and the importance of it. "Eat a balanced diet" is the most info I've ever gotten from a doctor.
Niacin is so important to mammalian life that if you increase the intake the liver will literally stop doing anything other than processing the niacin. The classic way to crack triglycerides down is to give a large dose of anywhere from 500 to 1500mg of actual niacin resulting in the "flush". A pharma co tried to make sustained release niacin and it never made it through trials because it was emulating liver failure. The new pill is "extended release" meaning that instead of your body processing it as fast as it can it will instead take a couple hours to fully digest. Which is sad because the flush, if managed correctly and NOT TREATED WITH PAIN KILLERS was actually good for your blood vessels. people who take tylenol to block the flush are the same ones who take cold meds when they go to get immunized... it defeats the whole purpose
I know right? Look at the comments. Over and over we see astroturfing of this guy's "human diet" book... over and over we see people blaming processed food when its the LACK of processed food that deprived him of all vitamins! Nobody's paying attention at all, just pushing their own fn agenda
My dad 5 years ago was diagnosed with scurvy! For real!! He never ate any fruit or on a rare occasion strawberry or cherries, didn't eat salads or other healthy vegetables, didn't take any vitamins. He only ate meat, potatos, pasta, rice, corn, pizza very rarely carrots, broccoli, bell pepper. He went to his doctor with sores on his skin. He's fine now but that blew my mind!
8:52 Wait a second, you mean the #1 road block for improvement and advancement in healthcare was the medical establishment? I guess some things never change.
You know. Processed bread. Enriched with vitamins. Including niacin. Put there by the medical establishment. Which discovered niacin. And realized we need more of it. For our benefit. That processed bread? Which he didn't eat. Because processed food is bad and the medical establishment is lying to you. The gluten-free fad diet told him so.
After education, training and 30 years of experience helping adults with (what's now called) intellectual challenges stay out of institutions and in their communities, I've learned there is more than one sort of poverty. ALL of them can easily lead to poor, even life threatening mental, physical and yes, spiritual health. It's time and past time, so-called healthcare in this country stop addressing health with a disease paradigm and focus on promoting and implementing care and cultural norms that are health centered so that poverty of any sort is much less likely. In Korea, there is a word that is said in the same way we use 'good-bye.' Our word used to be a phrase. 'God by with ye.' Sometimes we'll say, 'Take care.' But do we really mean it? The Korean word means Please take care of your health. I'm sure they don't always say it and mean it. But I hope you see my point. Your channel is a great start! Thank you! And I sincerely mean it when I say, Please take care of your health!
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There was a psychiatrist in the town where I live (Victoria) who prescribed certain vitamins for people with mental health issues and was very successful with this regimen. I remember Niacin was one of the most important vitamins he used for these patients. Dr. Abram Hoffer was the doctor. He passed on in 2009. A wonderful man and doctor!
@@smmargret6300 I know of one endocrinologist who actually significantly thinned the mental care ward of a facility she was on psychiatric rotation in, all due to endocrine issues.
Two fairly common causes of such conditions that are fairly easily treated.
Especially in the outlined case, which mirrors some issues in adrenal insufficiency, specifically the hyperpigmentation and psych issues, but blood panels would've been massively altered with.
One fun part, have some health issues that can divert attention easily and indeed, did divert the attention of my primary, who is a resident. I actually utilized that error to remind doctor to guard against fixation on one issue to consider the entirety of issues and symptoms in a patient, as she studiously ignored several months of severe (Bristol 6 - 7) diarrhea (basically, liquipoops). Doesn't sound like a big deal, just keep hydrated, right?
Nope, the colon is really important, it scavenges water from our stools, hell I've used it when out of needles and IV catheters to restore electrolytes and fluids in a patient in the field under rather austere conditions, as evacuation was problematic for an extended period. Note that I mentioned electrolytes. There's also sterols and other important things that get absorbed by the body in the colon, as many bile components get resorbed in the colon, as do a fair number of metals.
I was also chronically low on magnesium, which mystified me, as my diet contains enough magnesium to start one hell of a fire or at least build a fairly sizable engine block (OK, that's a joke, but I do eat enough foods that are fairly high in magnesium that levels should be normal). Periodic zinc deficiency has been observed in the past, I tend to crave mussels when that occurs, which are high in selenium and zinc. Iron was normal, but sodium, chloride and magnesium were low, calcium and potassium center range normal.
At the time, my blood pressure was literally all over the map, hypotensive at times, severe hypertension frequently, despite longstanding successful treatment for hypertension. Thyroid levels normal, so no thyroid mischief, despite Grave's disease that's been successfully treated with thyroid suppressive medication.
Doctor did get a bit adventurous with the hypertension medications, resulting in syncope, tunnel vision and gray out from hypotension while crossing the street, which somehow attracted the attention of the practice fellow and attending, which wasn't particularly desired, but helpful to regain focus.
Tissue transglutaminase antibody levels were checked, nice and happy there. C-reactive protein was high, which with longstanding diarrhea was about as surprising as the name of the day ending in the letter 'y', but still noteworthy. No polys in the stool. Calprotectin was extremely high, where 50 might be a high normal, over 1100 and extremely noteworthy. No parasites or eggs in the stool. Got a long delayed colonoscopy (long story, but suffice it to say a comedy of odd events conspired to obstruct attending the procedure, largely transportation and timing issues) observed Crohn's disease, which the inflammatory markers calprotectin and c-reactive protein suggested in the presence of diarrhea.
Malabsorbtion is common in this scenario.
On magnesium supplements, dietary restrictions apply, which makes dietary balancing a fair challenge. Steriods are calming the worst of the symptoms, mostly and the specialist is going with immune modulating synthetic antibodies - whenever the insurance company blesses the same, an appeal for one specific was denied yesterday, with my concurring on efficacy grounds, but I wanted everything in the denial quite well documented, just in case their proposed drug fails and making its approval simpler.
When fighting with insurance companies, one uses the big guns - their own procedures and panels, not harming executives, well, save by perhaps giving them gibbering apoplexy.
Annoyingly, some of my favorite foods are infamously healthy foods, love my beans and especially lentils, greens of all sort, etc and a fair number are listed to be avoided to avoid irritating the colon or triggering the inflammatory process... :/
I'll be scheduling a meeting with a dietitian on my next follow up, which is next week. Conveniently located next door to the lab, where I have tests scheduled for near mid-month anyway. Also discovered my hep-B vaccine needs a booster, which is required before immune modulating antibodies can be safely administered, but gives me information I didn't have on the longevity of the vaccine in my body. I'll probably go with some of the "childhood vaccines" as well, due to immune flagging and recommended best practices, since they're typically covered. Won't bother with probable flagging smallpox immunity flagging, as the chances of exposure to orthopox virus infection is beyond low now that I'm retired from military medicine. Were I still in uniform, it'd be a different story. Flu, COVID, shingles are all up to date.
Many, many things circle back to nutrition, either primary or secondary to other conditions that can range from lifestyle/economic issues to diseases that throw off absorption and nutritional requirements. And also, treatments.
My glucose levels are at diabetic levels, despite metformin, courtesy of the steroid, but that can and will be adjusted while the steroid is needed and the glucose is hence elevated, it should resolve to low prediabetes levels again once the steroids are discontinued.
Immune modulating drugs have made conditions that were untreatable or barely controllable easily managed, that was impossible when I was my children's ages and that makes me wonder what will be easily managed when my grandchildren reach my own age of early 60's!
Oh, what distracted doctor was serious, but still at watchful waiting. A misassessed mitral valve reflux condition that was caused by both some thyroid storm hypertension episodes causing ventricular hypertrophy before it was noticed and associated with that cause, an abdominal aortic aneurysm. That could easily distract me as well with inexperience, as the first patient I lost was a 28 year old female soldier, who died of a ruptured AAA, secondary to an adrenal tumor. Our physician astonished that I knew the cause of her elevated adrenaline, as it's one of those rare conditions a physician might encounter once in their career.
Well, off to make the mussels in marinara, which will keep the mildly contraindicated pasta company, as I do tolerate that well at least. Going to freeze the leftover lentil soup, rather than waste that quart, I'll enjoy that once the immune modulating treatments do their jobs, as I also do tolerate lentils well.
Niacin non flush ? 12-7-24 SA
I could class the cause of his malnutrition as poverty induced famine.
He ate primarily oatmeal, white rice with margarine, and sometimes rice noodles. This led to a niacin deficiency and his health declined dramatically. Saved you 13 minutes.
Yeah, B3; I thought it was pretty odd that somebody would have problems with that. The guy has essentially ZERO protein.
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Thank you
Much appreciated!
So the moral of the story… take your vitamin B complex supplement regularly.
Thanks.
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This is why we need to assess mental health conditions for nutritional deficiencies. You’d think it would be easy to do this but through my whole rotation through nursing school I never saw one doc who assessed for B, C , or D deficiencies. It’s maddening to watch our country succumb to preventable illness associated with poverty.
It was the first thing my GP (primary care physician) checked for! I went in with depression, fatigue etc and she did a full panel of bloods including all the main vitamins. Turns out I did have burnout and mild depression BUT also Vit D and Iron deficient. Fixing that helped a lot and allowed me to have the energy to do the things I needed to support my mental health.
Vitamin and mineral deficiency is horrible seriously
That’s the first thing both my psychiatrist and family doctor checked for.
Naturopaths are better to turn to than doctors when it comes to checking your health. There are so many nutrients that can be checked with a naturopath. Even though this man was suffering from a b3 deficiency he was right to not consume gluten due to autoimmune issues. There are other ways to get niacin. And yes, we really do need that. It's already heading in the right direction but it's going to take a good while probably. I wouldn't turn to fortified foods though. Rather get quality supplements without fillers/flow agents etc if it's needed and food ofc.
20 years with anxiety and not able to be out and about to switching my diet to carnivore/keto and I'm anxiety free. Also don't drink anymore either.
I've suffered from chronic tiredness, no motivation to do sports, depressed since I was 8, but no doctor cared and my family was poor and working constantly, so they didn't make us good food.
Finally after reseraching myself for decades and insisting to get B12 injections all of the symptoms are gone.
Thank you for bringing light on it.
Did you have pernicious anemia? That's what my grandmother used to have.
Your gut might not be able to use it, did you try diet first?
You don't need to take injections, methilcobalamin (a special form of B12) orally is just as effective.
just drink a monster it's 400% of your daily intake of niacin.
I went to psychiatric museum in Venice, Italy. Had a big display about "rough skin" disease due to bad corn for polenta. Was a big issue of VitaminB lack exacerbated by fungus as poor people picked corn cobs from side of road
I worked with a man who was an expert at his detail-ordered job. He started to make mistakes and began to get angry for no apparent reason. He insisted nothing was wrong with him and did not seek treatment or go to a doctor. Physically, he seemed just fine. A lot of people figured he got into drugs or something. His behavior and error rate got so bad they had to fire him. About 6 months later, we got the news he died of a brain tumor. :(
Jabbed?
@@kunka592 Pre-jab. c. 2015.
@@kunka592bro what
Did he get arm tickets? @@mynamo12
@@mynamo12people like him are OBSESSED with vaccines supposedly causing health issues. With no real proof, other than from their online echo chambers.
I'm pretty sure this is what my great-grandmother had. My grandmother described this exact scenario about her mother. They were very, very poor and malnourished and her mother descended into some type of delirium for quite a while. My grandmother explained the only thing that her mom would consume was coffee and cigarettes. She kept the food for the kids; five small daughters. This was an especially hard time in their lives. Economically the area was experiencing a great depression. And she did get better later. So my grandmother always thought that her mother was mentally ill. I truly believe it was Pellagra.
Thank you for sharing. It is the type of story that should be written about. 👍
Pellagra,...the 4 D's!! Diarrhea, Dementia, Dermatitis and Death!!😮
Had a Good Friend that I suspect died of this 5 years ago, although being in Intensive Care for over 2 weeks. 😢🙏🇬🇾😎
Ask your doctor if Pellagra is right for you
But being in ketosis from notneating improves brain function. Thats much much different than eating grain only.
Thank goodness his coworker noticed him and cared enough to call the police
And police too did their job well. Usually they just dismiss everything.
@@filipflidr2654 Likely to see him as a drunk and a bum.
Thank goodness he lived in Canada.
What if "David" also had a drug problem?
He would not make it as everyone thinks it was "his fault".
Thank goodness the police didn't fear for their life
It never ceases to amaze me that nutritional state is the LAST thing doctors ever consider.
Not me. Medical training only requires 8 hours on nutrition education in all those years.
They spend very little time on nutrition in medical education... they would rather you wrote a script!
That's because they sell drugs, not food. What most would call "health care" is really a sickness farm. It starts with the "food pyramid". Eat that diet and you will get sick.
That doesn't make them or big pharma money......
They are stupid that's why
It breaks my heart to think this man was working every day and yet was living on such a poor diet. It makes me wonder, how many people in our day to day lives may need help and we can't tell by looking at them and most wouldn't let us know. If I or anyone I know ever has a weird medical thing happening, I sure wished you would be around, I doubt you would make assumptions, but because you love figuring things out, you would check things other doctors would miss. I LOVE your enthusiasm and how much you love what you do. Siobhan, YOU'RE AWESOME! Thanks for the great information.
Saddest thing is - the lifestyle was entirely self inflicted. He was addicted to gambling. It's awful. I wish they would ban sports gambling apps. It shouldn't be so easy to flush your savings into your cell phone on a whim.
I blame the gluten free diet fad. Avoiding gluten and all those "eeeeevil processed foods" meant he got even less vitamins and nutrients in his diet! He probably wasn't even gluten intolerant, nearly nbody on the gluten fad diet is!
The gambling addiction caught up with him.
how does it break your heart when he literally gambled his money on sports betting? xD
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In his case it was nescessary though, not just a random fad.
Food allergies/intolerances and gut-affecting autoimmune diseases EXIST.
You should acknowledge that fact, before you end up with a lawsuit, due to being a food heretic.
In 1980 I was a brand new nurse graduate, I was working on a medical floor of a large hospital. I cared for a patient admitted to die of a condition called Multi-infart Dementia. CT-Scans were not available in this hospital but I noticed that going through the chart that in the labs no thyroid levels had been ordered. So I called the doctor and ask if a level could be checked. It turned out that the patient had a critically low thyroid level. Injectable thyroxine was ordered and the patient like Sleeping Beauty woke up. So in your video this reminded me of this patient so long ago.
I hope you’re a professor. During four years at Yale School of Medicine, I never met a doctor with such a natural gift for teaching.
As a scientist, I have found several of your videos to be informative. They have definitely increased my knowledge!
There are other doctors on YT who show similar and even more strange medical scenaries
@orionxtc1119 Yes, I watched a whole bunch of weird medical cases. As well, thr whole series for Dr.G, a coroner. etc.. etc..
I haven’t heard the word pellagra since nursing school 40+ years ago!Thank you for brushing me up on it. 😊
I saw photos of sufferers from Pellagra in a very old Medical Text books. In the US we have enforced fortification. I imagine it's also the case in Canada.
@@danawildman8766 rethink your textbook definitions my lady.. they are truly avoiding food caused ills and dis eases
Me neither. Retired nurse here; 71
"he could go home" - did he still have a home?
Feel like I need a follow up. I'm invested in David's story now!
Me toooo. I also want to know if he got a hold on his sports gambling. That's becoming such a big problem right now :(
@@xcryxbabyx2001 I expect his gambling problem might be largely caused by his pellegra.
He got hit by a car and died next day.
They probably can't provide any further information due to patient confidentiality and anonymity requirements for research ethics, sadly
Its a fake story. You really think a guy who cant afford decent food will get 5 star treatment at a hospital much less pay for a 6 month stay??
Hard to believe a doctor actually took the time to diagnose him. But love your stories!
I was very pleasantly surprised to hear that, too.
I am an internal medicine specialist , I watched some of your videos. They are simply amazing both for the common people as well as professionals.
This video is top class, you have reminded many medical professionals the oft forgotten cause of disease ie nutritional deficiencies! Great job!
Also I cant praise you enough for highlighting the history behind the discovery of the cause of pellagra, hats off VMD!!!
Thank you for, as a physician, being willing to continually learn. My GP stopped learning the day she left medical school. I volunteer at the medical school to help eager doctors learn new techniques (I get paid a small honorarium for my parking, but it doesn't cover even minimum wage). And I meet so many eager physicians who are learning new things.
If my GP knew that severe endometriosis could be diagnosed through ultrasound, I could have had a good life. But she insists to this day that it cannot. But she finally at 45 sent me to a gyne who accepted the results.
@@kirstinmorrell Glad you are doing such great voluntary service. The motto is to keep your eyes and ears open to new things, knowledge is an ocean
But doctors are not nutritionists, I know far more than my doctor about nutrition and disease prevention. And I learned on my own for the last 35 years.
@ 👍👍 a pseudo doctor…
and though some unregulated studies suggest that vegans have a lower risk of death from all causes, regulated clinical studies have not found evidence that veganism leads to a longer life. Most studies group vegetarians and vegans together, making it difficult to determine the exact effects of each diet on a person's life expectancy.
They did find that vegans “can” have serious vitamin deficiencies.
Researchers theorize that vegans who live longer than average tend to do so for two main reasons involving both diet and lifestyle.
I found out I have a Niacine deficiency after 4 surgeries for Neuroendocrine Cancer. I had the discolouration on my hands, feet and neck-upper chest. It took a few months to improve. I have multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies now cause half my colon and part of my small intestine were removed. I get regularly tested to keep my numbers up. It didn’t help that I have a gluten allergy as well. Great video!
Wow. Am adult onset celiac and have best thoughts and hopes for you.
@ thank you so much
@natalie is this in addition to the cancer or was the cancer a misdiagnosis? How can they help you better absorb the vitamins? Do you have to get a PEG tube?
@@miaomiao5462 it’s because of having half my colon and a large part of my small intestine removed so there’s less places to absorb vitamins & minerals. Eventually I will most likely lose more of the colon and small intestine so yes I will need to use iv nutrition. Definitely not a misdiagnosis but because it’s so rare I went many years of symptoms not being able to figure out what I had until my appendix ruptured and I was diagnosed. Having Neuroendocrine Cancer is very rare and my primary was the appendix which is even more rare. 1 person out of 5 million I’ve been told is the average. I’ve met many HCW who didn’t know or met anyone with cancer starting in the appendix. Everytime I wake up from surgery the first thing I check is if I have an colostomy. Every surgery it’s a high risk but I need the surgeries in order to take out my cancerous areas. I’ve had 4 major open surgeries since March 2020 and getting ready for my 5th to try and stay ahead of the Mets.
@@kitefan1 Me too. It's a lot of work, isn't it?
I've only just recovered from a severe vitamin D deficiency. But my diagnosis was fairly straightforward. I went to see my obgyn for a missed period, and after doing a bunch of tests and finding nothing, she referred me to an endocrinologist. Right away, she insisted on a vitamin D test. The symptoms are very similar to hypothyroidism, which can impact your menstrual cycle, and cause unexplained weight gain. Other symptoms I had were brain fog, fatigue, and really bad forgetfulness!
I had vitamin D deficiency AND hypothyroidism from a faulty parathyroid. You have 4 of these next to the thyroid, and they are important for the balance of vitamin D and calcium levels. I had one enlarged parathyroid that burrowed into the thyroid, causing symptoms of hypothyroidism and looking like a benign thyroid tumor on scans. Took two years to get correctly diagnosed, then I got surgery and then it took two years to get my hormone, mineral and vitamin levels back to normal.
This guy was 40 which is about the time, IF you have a healthy lifestyle, that you begin to need Vitamin D espeically up north in Canada.
I had all those symptoms too, and also severe back pain! So bad to where I couldn’t bend down or do other basic things a 30yo should be able to do. It wrecked me up real bad! So glad they ran the test instead of giving me pain meds for my back!
@@kayleigh3648Wow that explains my back pain! I had the same symptoms and had to Google them and self-diagnose because my doctor was useless. Now I drink some prescribed vitamin D drops (2000 IU) and pills (2000 IU) but I'm not sure if it's enough. In a month I raised the level from 39 to 52.
@@kathilisi3019 I'm so sorry - I hope you're much healthier now! I did go down a thyroid rabit hole when I thought I had it. Getting a diagnosis is such a world of difference. Glad your levels are up to snuff now.
My dad just went through 3 months of dementia like symptoms because of low sodium
As I understand it, too little salt is more dangerous and easier to achieve than getting too much, so naturally we're always told to avoid it like the plague.
That's strange, how do you become sodium deficient with our food system? That seems hard to do.
@@justgivemethetruth..It does not matter if it's in the food. It's whether or not your body is able to utilise it as intended, or as required. Hyponatremia is one such condition...
in america avoiding high salt is almost impossible
Word of advice from someone salt sensitive, When your legs feel heavy but aren't tired, get some salt in you quickly.
Happened to poor southerners during the civil war, WW1, Great Depression.
Anytime poverty causes cutbacks in foods with niacin.
This is why we always ate rice and beans with vegetables from the garden and fresh eggs from the chickens. It covered all the basics. I bought the rice and beans in bulk, grew the veggies and eggs. We also bought popcorn and peanuts in bulk for snacks. It was a "poor" diet, but it was healthy for a normal gluten sensitive person.
do you have good lukc growing your own vegetables,?I live in an apartment but I'm considering trying that because when I buy vegetables at the grocery store they make me sick, and it's not gluten it's something else....
I've often said an egg has every ingredient in it to make a fully functioning animal, that's why you see animals in nature going ham if they come across eggs, amazingly nutritious. I'm glad I ignored the TV during the 90's when eggs became evil and we were told not to eat them. I also always thought the food pyramid was nonsense, we were told to mostly eat grains, we didn't evolve with grains.
@@WildFungus
I live in an appartment as well.
Solved the problem partly with a vertical garden. About a square meter total surface.
It's not like you can grow anything you need, but it's not a lot of work and gets you quite a nice harvest a couple of times if you stack correctly.
Lettuce, leafy beets, radish are easy to do. The lower basket can grow courgette or cucumber if you have the space in front to let them grow out.
You could grow Sprout 'veggies' inside as the hardly need light.
Couple of growing tubs with strawberries.
Just to let you know with smart gardening a little space can go a long way.
Coco peat based soil with liquid organic fertiliser works like a charm.
eggs pretty much have everything you need
Oh you grew the eggs huh?
My great grandmother died from pellagra. Impoverished sharecroppers. She died when my grandfather was 14 years old. He said that the last few months of her life was horrific.
It makes me enraged to hear people say that "fortified" food is bad or poisonous.
I understand what you are saying BUT most fortified foods are made this way as the food item has been messed with so much that all nutrition has been removed from it. Unfortunately it's big business' bank balance that's more important not our health 😢
The reason why we say that is because they pull the natural vitamins out and put back synthetic ones to make the product shelf stable.
@@SweetSassyBullNope. You've been had.
@@NikoBellaKhouf2Nope.
And for some people fortified food is the only way to get these vitamins because they are so poor that they can't afford to get the natural and whole foods. Or, they live in a food desert.
Eat air are drink hope.
I didn’t notice any tests for B1 (Thiamine) or B12 - both of which would also probably have been very deplete on his diet, too. Deficiencies of these crucial nutrients are rampant these days in our ‘high calorie malnutrition’ modern diet. Thiamine is not only in short supply, but the modern diet places far higher demands on the body for Thiamine than it supplies. Thiamine deficiency can lead to various forms of Beri-Beri - ‘wet’ (heart & CVS), ‘dry’ (neuropathies), Gastrointestnal, Brain, etc. Anything that involves autonomic nerve functions, like breathing & heart pulses, etc. (B12 deficiency can also affect autonomic functions - it switches off my autonomic breathing when too low)
B12 deficiency is also rampant - even often amongst meat-eaters, because so many people struggle with digestive issues now and their bodies don’t convert inactive B12 to Active B12 very well. Serum blood tests can also be very misleading because they do not show cellular status, nor how much of the B12 is active or inactive - and if most is inactive it’s not getting into the cells & the test result is meaningless.
Many people can have ‘normal’ or even high B12 levels yet still display blatant clinical B12 deficiency symptoms. And many doctors rely solely on the serum test results & sadly know diddly squat about the many & varied clinical symptoms - including neurological issues, ataxias, neuropathies, brain fog, cognitive decline, memory loss, psychosis, paranoia & even dementias. Hidden (occult) B12 deficiency may also be misdiagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis or other ‘diseases’.
So many health issues have nutritional deficiencies behind them, yet testing & investigation in this area is woefully inadequate.
What can you eat to stop this? What vitamins or diet would you recommend? Seems like you have a lot of knowledge on the subject. Are you a Dr or a nutritionist???
Nice response.
How about The most vital vitamin: VITAMIN D
@@rainmanj9978 The best overall advice I've seen is to eat a varied diet including significant amounts of fruits and vegetables, somewhat less meats and proteins and a little bit of healthy fat. From what I can tell, grains can mostly be avoided as they don't seem to really contribute much that can't be easily had from something else.
Pretty much no matter what you do, you're going to need some sort of multivitamin as it's pretty much impossible to get a completely balanced diet in the number of calories that modern people in the US burn in a given day.
@@rainmanj9978 nutritional yeast is thiamine. DR Eric Berg talks about it quite a bit and he's awesome.
This is so fascinating! I had absolutely no idea about this condition.
Because it's a disease that only happens to very poor people, and maybe only those that have additional reason to be selective in their diets.
Diet is the main cause of mental illness....and the cure.
I have celiac disease & found out after going to a naturopathic Doctor who has helped me more in 3 years than all western medicine Dr’s. My Dr was able to give me nutritional IV’s to help fix the problem, diagnosed my food allergies (40+ items), gave me serum to help reverse my allergies (still working on it), mold allergies, mold serum to tolerate exposure more easily on my body, serum that fixed the problem until a fire that led to mold returning since insurance company refused to pay out covered damage & diagnosed with Lyme disease. I can’t afford the IV treatments since the fire plus complicated family drama so I can feel myself declining. It’s SO important to get enough nutrition no matter what the cause is, insurance companies need to stop making getting nutrition easier to do. My insurance technically covers the IV treatments but it has to be prescribed by one of their doctors, I’ve been trying to get it to happen for 6 years! They need to make sure that people can get the help that they need so that it’s not so difficult.
It is more expensive to eat gluten free but not so much eating healthy, people don’t always know what is in their food that if they knew they wouldn’t touch it! If I’d known about my celiac that would have changed my diet in a way that could have saved or extended the lives of several loved ones including my mom. If I’d known my mom would know how toxic the “healthy food” was so she could have changed her diet & hopefully avoided getting cancer again or had a longer life.
Youve never heard of vitamin deficient vegans?
Thank you
This just reminded me of something about Dementia! This book called “The 23 Former Doctor Truths by Lauren Clark”. My health shifted in a whole new way.
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Med professional here, what an amazing channel!!!!
Love the detective work, and goes to show how just one element can either shed light or obscure the entire picture
I really enjoy Dr Vs enthusiasm and energy …never knew so many puzzle pieces to find out the correct diagnosis! Great work!
I guessed right! I reember an episode from House MD in which a woman attempted to drown her newborn in the bathtub. After extensive tests they narrowed it down to pellgra which was causing her halluciations.
As soon as you mentioned what he was eating, the dermatitis and confusion, I shouted PELLAGRA!! I remembered the whole corn issue where a bunch of children developed pellagra from having a corn based diet. Sometimes a mystery diagnosis can be something simple, or something bizarre! (like the brain abscess I had!) We really do need to start talking about pellagra again, if people continue to get poorer we may see more of this.
people are screeching about eeeeeeeevil processed foods even in these comments but if he'd eaten those he would have avoided pellagra! food fortification is still a thing.
@@tsm688 the gluten-free foods that he was eating were not fortified, unlike wheat-based foods.
@@tsm688You mean that vitamin B3 and tryptophan aren't present in unprocessed foods?
The rice we eat is highly processed.
I don't think recommending a high sugar diet to people is in any way healthy.
When people in rich countries are getting sick because they can't afford good food, that's really time to eat the rich.
@@tealkerberus748 he would have done better to eat cheaper food! he got sick on a weird fad diet that avoided all healthy or enriched foods.
He was also only poor because he was a gambling addict.
I've been watching you since pre covid. I'm now in my freshman year of college, pursuing my dream of being a medical toxicologist. It's been a crazy few years, and even thought for my life from my thyroid quitting, then surgery, then getting diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Watching you and some other doctors made me feel better about my er visits and hospital stay. I was fortunate to not need chemo, but I'm stable now! 2 years coming up. Thank you for your content!
This is why I have given a year supply of daily multivitamins away to homeless people. I learned this practice from a methadone clinic which provided free fiber supplements & multivitamins.
That's very wise of you! Even protein shakes with all the vitamins would be a great blessing for a homeless person. I read that drugs are biggest robbers of vitamins.
God work sir proud of you.
Well done
Did any of them have a big improvement in their mental state?
Really?? I'm weening off methadone very slowly. I'm about a year in and have 15 more months to go. I'm on a pretty low dose now, 16mg 2x/day. My mind is struggling. My dreams interfere with my reality. I am forgetful and misuse a lot of words. Plus I need so much sleep. Sometimes I work 10 hours, then sleep 10 hours, wake for 2 and need to go back to sleep. It's an extreme feeling of exhaustion. My methadone doc has no advice. Nor does my counselor. My primary doc doesn't even agree with methadone. I feel like I'm kind of "white knuckling" this process and I'm ok when compared to real "dope-sickness" but compared to a good life, I'm not ok, you know? I'm looking for ways on my own, to help myself. And maybe I can help someone else in the future.
I'm glad you brought up the lack of fortification in gluten free flours! I needed to know that.
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@@readerjoy this is merely part of the true story. That rabbit hole dives far deeper. These poisons start the yeast cycles of candidiasis start thinking permintly drunk visual distortions body tremors even hallucinations. Only to be diagnosed psychotic never getting any results but near death from USA medicine practices
I'm quite skeptical of fortified foods. I'd use that as a last resort but good quality supplements (preferrably without flow agents, fillers etc) or vitamin injections from a naturopath. I'd rather turn to those if the nutrients aren't enough from food.
I don't think fortifying them in the solution. Eating a wider variety of foods also prevents deficiencies.
@@jacqslabz I wouldn't choose fortified either but if you either have to choose to become crazy or take the fortified (worst) choice then I'd do it
you should mention that pellagra wasn't an issue before they started taking the bran out of wheat. White flour is lacking niacin but whole wheat flour is not.
@@cheldog9356 and the bran will destroy a host of other things. Notice the very unique circumstances this man found in his life... wheat oats barley triticale rye spelt...the entire list of the wheat family members none are gluten free. The starches become alcohol in your intestines... might wanna deep dive this rabbit hole
Yet the bran from whole wheat flour causes gut issues like IBS so it swings and roundabouts, best is not to eat wheat at all.
Almost all the flour is enriched - they add niacin and many other nutrients.
yet whole wheat flour causes gut issues so it swings and roundabouts - best not to eat grains.
@@cheldog9356 this is 4 all three present texts here. USA wheat is genetically modified just like corn and soy.. go ahead use them. The problem for candidaisi is both the gluten and the starches. Read my posts here in all chats it will provide the opening of this rabbit hole. Bran is only the outside fiber. The germ is the life portion. That one is what is critical for any thing to remain a living viable food source. Ask me maybe I have your answers fact check me every time some of my data is more than 3 decades old.
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That's a bit much brother
I love how genuinely interested you are in all the aspects of science, not just the medical side.
Whatever FDA says I try to avoid it. I found myself in this rabbit hole of so many industry lies when I read "The 23 Former Doctor Truths". Its no wonder why Doctor left her career.
what does that mean
the fda recommends eating a balanced diet of fruits and veggies, meats and wheats
are you going to stop eating that and instead go eat the dirt outside???
So being a dramatic king. Before FDA was established, people's health was even worse than today's. Go be a doctor yourself if you think you know better.
@adw6894 Before the FDA peoples health was worse... i wouldn't say that the FDA is the reason for that shift, and peoples health today is awful due to "FDA approved" poisons. Just look at the average american
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@@adw6894 or just blindly follow what your doctor tells you based on their one nutrition class in med school.
Thank you for these awesome videos. I don’t understand how you have the time with your busy days/nights of practice to make and edit them. Thank you for providing us such well presented and interesting information.
Aw thank you!
This looks like my eldest son's diet. He has tons of GI problems as well as MCAS, hEDS, and POTS. They removed his healthy gallbladder to stop spasms and now he has more problems. He has lost 120+lbs and throws up everything he eats. He can't tolerate anything, and it makes sense that he would have malabsorption problems. But his doctors (here in the US) test him and when they come back 'normal', say 'Good news! All tests were negative." So, we assume that his nutrients are "okay"!?? Clearly, HE is not!
@@carolinecornelis40 The Donner party used the Carnivore Diet. And we all know what happened to them!!
Yes, he should try to eat only foods from animals. Check out videos by Dave Mac on No Carb Life.
Get him tested for pellagra asap
@@carolinecornelis40 meat doesn’t have vitamin C and if you aren’t a cat then you’re not capable of converting meat into vitamin C. So you’re on the path to getting scurvy and having problems with your health.
@@allolobophorusAre you a cat? Cats are obligate carnivores and they can create enough vitamin C for their body but humans can’t so having vegetables and fruits is necessary for good health.
Awesome video! Keep them coming! Next one is Beriberi. That actually happened to me. It felt like I was anemic and I litterlly could not stay awake even when driving.
Oh wow - perhaps I could feature your story? If you want, write your experience down and send it to me by email at theviolinmd@gmail.com
I've been anemic and I felt like I was gonna die. It took awhile to recover after I finally got the diagnosis. First doc I went to did zero blood test or I wouldn't have suffered so long. Ugggh!
@@mariantreber8055Wow.
My twin sister went Vegan & got SO low in iron (even while taking supplements) & ferritin she had to be hospitalized & thought she was going to die, too!
Scary!! 😢
What is this and how can you prevent it?
@@rainmanj9978 Beriberi is a vitamin B1 deficiency. It gets it's name from the fact that it makes people lazy as they lose their ability to do much of anything due to an energy shortage. The good though though is that if you know that's what's happening, the ability to avoid it is pretty easy, even just a cheap B1 supplement doe the job, but fixing the diet is a better idea.
Yes, I have noticed that taking niacin things improve ... LOTS! I use to have the runs, but, when I started on the niacin, it stopped. I use to be forgetful, but, that was stopped by playing music on keyboards, memory came back. Thank you for this post, it confirmed it was the niacin.❤
Psilocybin mushrooms have certainly had a beneficial effect on my mental health. They've been quite effective for me in managing my anxiety and depression.
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Thanks for posting the video, I have a Computer Science degree, work as a programmer for 30yrs, lifelong learner, and love medical mysteries/puzzles love watching your channel.
Diseases that used to be easy to diagnose have become hard for doctors to recognize, because they have never seen a case, and don't expect to encounter one.
Dietary causes like vitamin C deficiency (scurvy) just aren't top of mind.
Leprosy, (Hansen's disease) is another. I met a doctor who described treating a patient who was probably the only case in North America at the time.
Northeastern American Indians put wood ash (readily available in your cookfire) in to help with accessing the vitamins.
I think it is called biochar? You can use it in your soil for growing food.
@@cavelleardiel no, ash is not the same thing as coal. The ashes are alkaline, I don't think biochar is
yeah not for a hundred years or more
Not just there. In Europe Pottasche, (potas, potasch, potassium) is an important old baking ingredient.
I think mankind developed this food treatment very early or in parallel development.
Potash is a salt that was extracted from plant ash with water.
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Did you notice how recently so many people in health industry are coming forwards with new truths? The book called the 23 former doctor truths by lauren clark made me question everything
Yea i totally did!
Thanks for sharing I think i already heard about that book
TY. Mother suffers from Dementia. Officially Diagnosed at age 70. Will seek and read this recommendation. Thanks again!!
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Ihad a coworker bin retail, he lived by himself, knly ate noodles for lunch everyday. He got alopecia and was so embarrassed. I purchased vitamins for hime omegas 3,5,6,7,9 abd bitamin B12 sublingual. About a mo later his hair was growing back. Left work cause i had 2 babies, but lived near my, he past away in 2024 At age 28 from colon cancer 😢 very young, unbelievable
You have a wonderful ❤~Thank you for helping him & sorry he passed away so very young🙏🌠.
Guessed it was pellagra just when you said the doozy legendary 3D's: dermatitis, diarrhea and dementia. Great vid!
Nutritional Yeast? It contains 7.2mg of Niacin Thank you for the education from this video!
If he ate only potatoes, he would get 50% more niacin than needed
Bananas have B3 and B6bif I'm not mistaken.
Or maybe he could have just added a piece of chicken here or there. I mean the guy had no protein (big source of niacin all around).
Freaking ridiculous.
This case proves that the best medicine is our diet. Wow. Amazing this is very educational. Thank you! ❤
What nonsense! A proper diet is simply the fundamental groundwork for a good health but it does NOTHING for you when you succumb to an illness that requires a specialized medical treatment.
Wrong
Nah, thespecialant8092 is CORRECT
What are your diet recommendations for a rabies infection?
Excellent communication and solid knowledge of the issues. I enjoyed it!
It's so important to understand nutrition, and I think not well understood by the majority.
YAY!! A new video from Violin MD!! I’m early. I’m happy.
Wow! I just found your content. I really fell in love with your narration style and your accent 😅 You just got a new sub.
It's always great when, as a medical student, I realize that I actually remember stuff LOL. I was able to diagnose this correctly in the first couple of minutes! Great video!
I'm so glad that when I needed a low-gluten diet for a while, the first thing my doctor warned me about was vitamin B deficiency. He didn't need to say more than that, it was enough for me to be a little bit careful, and I never got this. That was years ago though, and I'm thankful for the reminder as food costs rise. 👍
My mind's not quite all right, but there are entirely different explanations for that, including a quite awful case of meningitis when I was 13.
Many years ago, Dr. Hoffer cleared out a mental hospital in Canada, he went in and gave all of them B3, (Niacin) and basically cleared the place out. I think you have such a useful show about medical mysteries. I will mention that Niacin can give you a histamine flush that can be quite uncomfortable, but, they have flush free versions.
Psychiatric disorders are all the last great medical mysteries.
I questioning everything, especially advice from government health organizations after reading 'Health and Beauty Mastery' by Julian Bannett, this book exposes so many shocking truths about the health industry. I completely changed my habits.
Thanks for sharing
exactly
It’s a scam
@@KittyCuriosothe book is ? Like bait ???
if you question especially advice from government health organizations …😂then why are you watching this channel?
Health organizations were created by such as you and I , and those who question everything , FYI.
Health organizations in United States in Canada are doing their very very best to heal people , to teach people…
Do health or organizations make mistakes ? yes, absolutely.
That is why health organizations are scientific organizations … they learn from their mistakes and change their guidelines accordingly to the research.
Not something that religion is famous for .
Julian Banette’s booklet = homeopathic pseudoscience sales, placebos, and herbal home remedies. 50/50 success rate.
People should be aware and beware of such booklets.
While several of the remedies might work, several can also cause great damage which will require a hospital visit if not a lengthy stay .
I urge for everybody to use great caution with advice from @EmilyJason-e1w.
As a B.A. and M.P.S., I also thank you for your reminder to eat healthy, even though sometimes vitamin B seems redundant during a time like this Dr. Siobhan Deshauer!
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I for some reason manage to need more Bs
I had and still have lingering signs of a major flesh eating bacterial infection. When I first came to the e.r my lips were swollen for 3 and half weeks I had to have a nice pack or frozen water bottle on my mouth all day and even when I slept if I could even sleep. I slept maybe 2 hours each night for a month. I went to 4 different emergency rooms. The first hospital laughed in my face and acted like I was fine. Yet it was eating my face under my lips and around them. I had to research everything myself and essentially diagnosed myself and asked certain doctors at the last 2 e.r visits who agreed with my diagnosis of it being bacterial and prescribed me varying antibiotics I asked for. Esentially I was dealing with an extremely aggressive bacteria who actually developed and was a resistant strain to antibiotics. I had a dermatologist who prescribed me the ones I am using now who seem to be clearing it up, but I can still feel bumps inside my mouth and lingering throbbed as if something is stil trying to live inside my lower lip. Doctors will only go as far as they are paid to research. Otherwise they do not care. I had to research and do all of this on my own and basically inform the doctors just to get a result. What a crazy world.
As a Hispanic male, it was fascinating to learn the origins of Mexican cuisine, specifically corn. This video blended history, science and psychology perfectly. Well done! 👏🏼
I've often wondered how they worked out how to do that. Maybe they were trying to pickle it or something? And noticed that the pickled product made people healthier than the straight product.
@ right! It could also be the case that the process Dr. Sihoban mentioned releases the nutrients needed to sustain life. Very interesting
Thank you! Yes the history is fascinating isn’t it
Is it me, but this kind of person makes videos so good and intensive, and suspensful and mysterious! 🎉
You'll definitely like Chubbyemu vids then
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1,000Th like come one! For this video 🎉
@Joshco1112 Absolutely. Let me know what you think.
Storytelling is a crazy valuable influential skill.
Love that you are presenting these nutrient deficiency cases!
This was fascinating. I figured out what he had when he developed dermatitis! As a dietitian, I really appreciate these videos about nutritional deficiencies!
This confirms so many health issues; mental and physical. Thank you
This is well written and easy to understand. Great video! 👍
I have never dealt with this but as a renal nurse and living in a farming area I dealt with issues that related to dialysis diabetic patients. Beans and rice are cheap and that is all a lot of families could afford. Problem was the potassium in the beans. Lots of dietary issues in that group. Food and medication
Together created lots of problems.
What was or is the issue with excess potassium?
I'm assuming you meant Hispanic.
@@youknow6968when you have diabetes that is not controlled it damages your kidneys. When your kidneys are damaged to the need for dialysis your body usually can't get rid of excess potassium on its own and when potassium is high enough it leads to complications with your heart rhythm.🎉
Beans and rice eaten together create a complete protein and if it's brown rice, a whole grain, there's lots of fiber in whole grains and legumes. How can this be unhealthy? If this causes kidney disease, that financial guy, Dave somebody, is going to start getting sued for advising living on beans and rice to pay off debt. 😅
Dave means that people are wasting their money on eating out etc and they better cut back & pay off those bills. Often, young people who have lived pampered lives don't have any discipline regarding money management. People actually choose what they eat. It's tough times right now.
Fascinating story. Can you please do an update video on ulcerative colitis, including new treatment methods ?
Have you looked into the Autoimmune Protocol Diet?
@lsaraswati957 I haven't, I'll look in to it now, thank you !
I have ulcerus colitis, im much better now, i triple my meat consumption and eat half a stick of butter with my food in my breakfast, i think i was suffering from low fat diet, so i upped my animal fat.
There is a book called Woyzeck we have to read in class about a soldier eating nothing but peas and loses his mind leading to him killing multiple people including himself. That's the only reason I immediatly jumped to the conclusion his diet consisted of peas only.
Thanks. I’ll get the book
@ Please, don’t! The author died without specifying in which order the four parts have to be read, it’s so confusing and is not fun at all. I don’t want to be the reason why you waste your time.
The psych ward checked my bloodwork, and getting on thyroid meds cured my depression. I actually started to have serotonin syndrome symptoms from my antidepressant.
I love your videos, and more the way you say the stories, you keep us glued to our chair until you finish the story, Love it ❤😊.
People don't realize how lucky we are that cereal grain products have added vitamins and table salt has iodine. Pellagra, goiters, scurvy and other vitamin deficiency diseases used to be rampant. I get deeply concerned about the deliberate misinformation some people spread about these fortifications.
Also anyone on a medical diet that is very restrictive should take a multi vitamin!
Do you know WHY? Because fortification isn't natural. They are adding back biolab created CRAP.
If grain were milled AT THE TIME OF USE, all the vitamins and minerals are available.
But the folks YOU'RE defending do MASS PRODUCTION of grain, sift out everything and anything good for us, bleach it,bag it and wash their hands of all the health issues that ensue.
Fortification NEVER should have been introduced.
Now everything is super processed and lacking in every way.
YOU - stop being dumb, look some shit up and get educated.
Yep. I have Celiac Disease, and I get very angry if someone says I should not take a vitamin.
@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807 who on earth says anyone SHOULDN'T take vitamins?
That didn't happen.
@sdilluminatigrandfounder3807 Oh I know! I have NCGI and leaky gut so my diet is very restricted. Even worse is people saying "well people without deficiencies don't need to take vitamins". My husband didn't take any vitamins and he is a night shift worker. He was getting really ill and his DR finally ordered vitamin levels. His vitamin d was non-existent. He had to take 50,000 units once a week for 2 months to get his levels up, he takes a regular dose now. It really is infuriating that the levels are not checked as a regular check up.
My sister went on a salt free diet for some reason. It set off a series of medical problems and 5 years later , died "of alzheimers." Just one day, she became ill and never got to go back home after what happened. I've not known of anyone in the family to get alzheimers.
I remember when physicians commonly stated that you could eat any food, and you'd manage to get all the nutrients you need. This was around the same time many physicians were advertising cigarettes as a healthy product.
Some years ago there was a case here in Australia of a teenage boy with deteriorating eyesight presenting for medical attention. None of the medical professionals consulted could diagnose the problem until the boy and his parent(s) were fortunate enough to see a GP who recalled from her medical training that the boy could possibly have scurvy - which was confirmed when it emerged that the boy was a very fussy eater who would only eat chicken nuggets and some other thing. After a suitable change to his diet, it was reported that one of the boy's eyes had pretty much recovered, but the other eye would be stuck with permanent damage.
I have a persistent mental health condition that I treat with a high level multi-mineral and vitamin supplement. Stopping the supplements always leads to a return of symptoms within a couple days at most.
In 1975 there was a book titled "Nutrition and the Mind", which documented successes in treating some mental disorders with high doses of time release vitamin B complex family, including PABA, Inositol and Choline.
Being severely low in vitamin B12 for too long - due to undiagnosed pernicious anemia - I was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder, due to depression/lethargy and psychosis.
It was actually Megaloblastic Madness, aka psychosis caused by low B12. Get your B12 checked yearly, imo.
That's a good (timely, thanks to budgeting issues) reminder that I need to keep an eye on the nutrients I don't get because I can't eat gluten (and therefore the easy enriched wheat products), especially since given other health issues I have, many of the symptoms (other than the dermatitis, which I would limit aggravating because I don't really go outside) overlap with some of the symptoms of my chronic illnesses, so I would be delayed in noticing a difference.
Thank you doctor V. Very educational info.
Amazing subject almost nobody knows about!
Surprised I haven't been recommended your videos for a while.. wonder why?
Loved this video. The whole puzzle is fascinating and I’m an accountant. But health is key to living well. Nutrition is more important than I realised.
Wow, those experiments to confirm the cause of Pelagra were wild! By the way, I dodn't know the word nixtamalization, but after listening to your explanation, I remembered that decades ago, I watched women cooking a pumpkin sweet and they added a spoon of calcium oxide ( CaO ) to the boiling pumpkin with sugar.
Oh wow interesting!
@ViolinMD I was a child and I asked why that substance ( used to paint walls white and often added to concrete ) was added, and they answered that it was for giving the sweet a more firm consistency when cooled. Throughout the 60's and the 70's, Brazil had the habit of consuming too much sugar. Nowadays I'm struggling successfully with limiting sugar in my diet; especially after your video where I learned that sugar can even coat tendons! Sugar is so addicting! ( adictive? I must check the right word. ) Have a blessed weekend!
I swear you're incredibly talented in narrating/doing voice overs or whatever it's called! Never once got bored watching/listening to your videos.
United Healthcare would have denied his care.
Exactly immediately, no questions asked he's a " Delay Delay: delay + Denied .
Such an informative video! I learned so much about how food and nutrients can affect both our physical and mental health. Really makes me rethink my own diet.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
Thanks, reminded me to take my B Complex for the day.
Took cbd lol not really.
Actually vitamin c b d lol then few minutes later... this video pops up 😮 creepy some 😅😅
Fortunately i live in Poland with access to great whole grain breads, pasta, groats etc. 😂
Already by mentioning the carbohydrate diet @0:20 it was quite strongly indicating a vitamin B deficiency, here the niacine, formerly vitamin B3 ("Pellagra"). Another carbohydrate related vitamin B deficiency (vitamin B1) would be the "Beri-Beri". Basically most of the vitamin B complex is necessars for the neurological functions.
Another dietary deficiency story comes from the Japanese, specifically diagnosed in the navy. White rice was considered the food of the rich over brown rice, in the navy it was all you can eat white rice. So when recruits got into the navy and got the option to fill up on white rice that is what they did. 1/3 of the navy was sick at any given time and the disease was also found in cities. This was beriberi (vitamin B1 deficiency) . This also affect the emperor and high class members from time to time as well. They mandated meat portions to diet to cure.
The process to make the rice white removes most of the good stuff.
They should have given them brown unprocessed rice instead of dead animal flesh. While rice is where all the goodness has been removed so its useless as a food.
Nearly all the rice you get these days is fortified fortunately
@@tsm688 Gotta love the ability to add back in the vitamins the processing takes out.
Even Count Chocula and Franken Berry give you the B's you need.
84% of your daily requirement of B12 in 1 cup of CC.42% of daily Niacin B3.
Thank you for the great presentation. I enjoy the breakdown of the cases, the steps to diagnosis, and the outcomes.
It is enlightening to know the history of diseases that plagued mankind and how we solved some of them.
Well done! What a story! I watched right to the end (just had to see how this turned out!)
How many people are misdiagnosed because doctors don't understand nutrition and the importance of it. "Eat a balanced diet" is the most info I've ever gotten from a doctor.
Niacin is so important to mammalian life that if you increase the intake the liver will literally stop doing anything other than processing the niacin. The classic way to crack triglycerides down is to give a large dose of anywhere from 500 to 1500mg of actual niacin resulting in the "flush". A pharma co tried to make sustained release niacin and it never made it through trials because it was emulating liver failure. The new pill is "extended release" meaning that instead of your body processing it as fast as it can it will instead take a couple hours to fully digest. Which is sad because the flush, if managed correctly and NOT TREATED WITH PAIN KILLERS was actually good for your blood vessels.
people who take tylenol to block the flush are the same ones who take cold meds when they go to get immunized... it defeats the whole purpose
Insanely interesting. so rare to get food science that isnt just marketing infected
I know right? Look at the comments. Over and over we see astroturfing of this guy's "human diet" book... over and over we see people blaming processed food when its the LACK of processed food that deprived him of all vitamins! Nobody's paying attention at all, just pushing their own fn agenda
My dad 5 years ago was diagnosed with scurvy! For real!! He never ate any fruit or on a rare occasion strawberry or cherries, didn't eat salads or other healthy vegetables, didn't take any vitamins. He only ate meat, potatos, pasta, rice, corn, pizza very rarely carrots, broccoli, bell pepper. He went to his doctor with sores on his skin. He's fine now but that blew my mind!
Where is the meat and animal fat in his diet? That is missing.
Informative story telling about an important subject.
8:52 Wait a second, you mean the #1 road block for improvement and advancement in healthcare was the medical establishment? I guess some things never change.
You know. Processed bread. Enriched with vitamins. Including niacin. Put there by the medical establishment. Which discovered niacin. And realized we need more of it. For our benefit. That processed bread?
Which he didn't eat. Because processed food is bad and the medical establishment is lying to you. The gluten-free fad diet told him so.
Thanks to Canadian health care! 6 months in USA hospital would be a fatal financial outcome.
After education, training and 30 years of experience helping adults with (what's now called) intellectual challenges stay out of institutions and in their communities, I've learned there is more than one sort of poverty. ALL of them can easily lead to poor, even life threatening mental, physical and yes, spiritual health. It's time and past time, so-called healthcare in this country stop addressing health with a disease paradigm and focus on promoting and implementing care and cultural norms that are health centered so that poverty of any sort is much less likely.
In Korea, there is a word that is said in the same way we use 'good-bye.' Our word used to be a phrase. 'God by with ye.' Sometimes we'll say, 'Take care.' But do we really mean it? The Korean word means Please take care of your health. I'm sure they don't always say it and mean it. But I hope you see my point.
Your channel is a great start! Thank you! And I sincerely mean it when I say, Please take care of your health!
Good luck David, I’m glad you got fixed up and hope you enjoy the rest of your life.
You are well spoken. Informative and interesting. Thank you for sharing