I really enjoy and value how you explain your ideas. I often skip what people say in these videos but your explanations are so clear and compelling that I can only stay and listen. Thank you!
Hey @nicknorwitzphd have you looked into Dr Jack Kruze’s explanations of how phenols affect metabolism in particular in response to various lightwave frequencies and via the mediating effect on various hormone generation? Not a specialist (I only wish) but have a suspicion the reason this diet has been shown to work might have to do with being able to leverage more light and subsequent production of the correct hormones for people possibly not in an ideal situation in terms of daily light exposure. I suspect you will find some leads there for some of the questions around why that green med diet makes such a difference.. Let me know if you do, best of luck! 😊
Are elagitans found in flaxseeds as they are a good alternative to walnuts for omega 3 and does omega 3 also help in visceral fat loss @@nicknorwitzPhD
I lost 150lbs and it took me 2 years. From 320lbs to 170lbs. I’ve maintained it for 5 years now. And I’m now 64 years old, suffer from Hemochromatosis, and had my aortic valve replaced 2 years ago. I drank green tea, and still do, all through these years. I drank no coffee. I hardly exercised due to the damage that hemochromatosis has done to my joints. I can only take a casual 20-minute walk everyday.
I appreciate that you take the low carb factor into account. However, what you mentioned are all high-oxalate foods, which can contribute to joint and bowel inflammation, skin issues, kidneystones and calcium deficiency in bones. I have had the best results excluding almost all plant material from my diet except coconutcream, coffee, tea once or twice a day and olive oil. Every now and then adding a bit of vegetables or very little amounts of lentils, buckwheat, wheat or rye flour, so carbs stay under 20 g.
Wow!! Good one! I appreciate the work, insight, and production value that goes into your videos. As someone who dabbles in making similar content, I really respect your work. Thank you!
My partner's exam showed her heart was encassed in fat. A year later it was gone. She lowered her rice intake and increased her intake of pork, fish and eggs.
@@MiDnYTe25I think things have moved on from simply good/bad cholesterol. Dr Nick might have videos. Failing that try Dr Ken Berry, Dr Jason Fung, Dr Sten Ekberg....... many videos on the benefits of cholesterol.
@MiDnYTe25 there are no bad and good cholesterol variants. LDL and HDL are lipoproteins, they transport some amount of vitamins and lipids, including cholesterol through your body to places where it is is needed right now to produce cell membranes, hormones and energy. High LDL is SOMETIMES bad, LDL by itself is as good as HDL. Your brain will stop working without LDL and HDL.
Nick, this is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your insight. This, like so many of your other videos, is so helpful for me in trying to navigate a plan to help me achieve my goals.
I agree! And I suspect some spicy comments on this one, given the skew of these diets towards MUFA/PUFA. That said, bear in mind, if both low-carb diets had similar fat profiles it doesn't make any claims on the superiority/inferiority of plant/animal fat.
@@nicknorwitzPhDduckweed is something that aquarium hobbyist's hate. Once you get it in your aquarium by accident it is very hard to eradicate. It grows very easily and fast. Never knew you could eat it though. 😂
I enjoyed this video and think it looks much better than the other recordings done out of your bedroom, much more professional., I hope your ok if i give you some feedback which i hope you dont take badly. I belive that many people who are more instinctively judgmental than nerds like myself would judge the videos which u use your bedroom background as being less credible due to it appearing less clinical or professional. I think you should do more videos like this to appeal to a broader audience and therefore get your message out there!, i say this because i want you to blow up and be someone i can share to a wider diversity of my clients! keep up the great work!
Most days I will eat a half a bowl full of yogurt, Kefir, or skyr, with pecans, macadamia nuts, sprouted walnuts, and pumpkin, flax, and hemp seeds. I am glad to hear several of those ingredients mentioned in this episode.
I have Heard that IS not a good ideia tô mix diferente NUTS, not tô mix diferent seeds, for our body to better absorb and utilize, is best to eat ONE type at a time
My fave snack is raw Grassfed cheddar with roasted macadamia nuts and raw pecans with matcha tea so this is good news for me! Thanks, very interesting.
I've tried to feed grass to my cheddar, but somehow it just sits there, seems uninterested. 😁😏 PS In the old days (1800s) there were critters in cheese called cheese hoppers - a delicacy, apparently. Very cheesy little mites. But you had to catch em as they escaped. 🫤 I've now looked them up. Tyrophagus casei. So cute!
I eat blueberries, kefir and macadamia nuts every day. I Drink green tea a few times a week. I carry zero viseral fat. Cheers for the video explaining why it works. Appreciated
More on the magic of microbiome-produced metabolites, please! So interesting with the "Mediterranean diet", which I'd associate with loads of bread, pizza, pasta, potatoes, albeit freshly produced, served and enjoyed with much love, cheese and delicious sauce
Med diet is more about loads of olive oil, sardines, fish, pork, beef, etc. They will serve on the side bread and potatoes. Pizza and pasta came later in history and aren't eaten very often by the long-lived natives of the area.
My #1 go-to for health content and answers. A question: What strains of gut critters produce hippuric acid and urolithin A? Also, am I correct in thinking that moderation by tea is better than higher dose supplementation if there is such a thing? I guess you answered this question. (Pee-kans! You crack me up.)
@nicknorwitzPhD Nick, how do we separate out "combined with sensible diet and exercise" from the results and know the true effect of the tested theory, in this or any test involving weight loss???
"Visceral Fat is the worst type of fat" - no, hepatic fat is even worse. And this mantra that "visceral fat is proinflammatory" is also only a half-truth. The problem is GETTING FAT due to high insulin. Then, adipocytes start to burst because these take up more fat than what these can handle. And that is an injury which needs repair which obviously is pro-inflammatory. But just HAVING FAT is by itself NOT pro-inflammatory. The proof is: If you start losing weight, the inflammation goes down very rapidly even if you haven't lose a significant amount of fat YET. And this is true for any adipose tissue...
Too fat is too fat, that is simply bad. Lots of science to back it up. Some people however can carry a lot of fat in a relatively healthy manner - under skin. Others, not so. Having excess fat is, on several levels, pro inflammatory (decreased blood circulation around tissues, storage of toxins, pro inflammatory hormone signaling) - with or without insulin. Insulin resistance makes matters much worse, of course, compounding the effect.
@@Ruudwardt "Too fat is too fat, that is simply bad." Myth. "Lots of science to back it up." Lot of "science" is crap. "Having excess fat is, on several levels, pro inflammatory" False. Having high insulin is pro-inflammatory...
@@btudrus Where do you get that insulin is pro inflammatory? Depending on context it can have one or the other role. Insulin resistance makes for nice pro inflammatory environment, and the resulting high insulin is more of a symptom than cause. Excess fat is environment for insulin resistance. Deduce away.. How do you back up your 'facts' then, if not with science (or other data based analysis)? Never heard of adipocytes that burst. Did you just make this up?
@ There may be factors like age at play in that response. As an older man, achieving six-pack abs is definitely more challenging.😂🤣 thinner DaD bod would probably be the norm 😜
green tea. Its probably one factor in why people in Japan are in general healthier with one of the highest life expectancies in the world. You should repeat your Oreo N of one study on a lean mass hyper responder without a intestinal disease. I bet you the results will be quite different.
@phyju cal restriction is not a thing. There is at least one vidéo from Nick about it. Moreover those are not cal restrictive diet, you eat when you're hungry until you're not anymore.
I had already watched a similar video discussing the findings of this study and somehow ended up with the main takeaways: green tea and micro greens. I'm not sure how close duckweed and microgreens are...maybe I looked up polyphenolic properties since I haven't seen 'duckweed' in my local produce section? I don't know for sure but I've been putting microgreens on everything of late just to cover the bases...lol! Another great video!
Love the new set/delivery. Question- was the hydration kept consistent across all diets - because if not, could the green tea drinkers just be more hydrated? (Drinking water assists with weight loss no? )
Interesting that you did not mention cocoa, which is also very high in tannins (perhaps the wrong kind of tannins?). I am extremely sensitive to tannins - especially black tea, but also green tea and cocoa. They cause me severe constipation. I have had this issue all my life. So no green tea for me... But plenty of fermented cheese 🤗
It's a great pity that a pure carnivore diet wasn't included. Who knows whether the gut bacteria a carnivore diet supports ( which has been shown to be highly varied and associated with superior health outcomes ) may lead to an even greater visceral fat loss than the green tea/ duck week med diet?
@nicknorwitzPhD thanks for your reply. It would be fantastic if Dave Feldman could include such a carnivore v green tea/ duck weed trial (effect of visceral fat levels ) on his citizen science trials to fund/do list!
Would decaffeinated green tea still have the same compounds needed to get the health benefits? Also any specifics on the type of green tea? I know a lot of supermarket teas aren't really matcha or contain a really small amount of matcha - does it make a difference? And there is also matcha vs. sencha, etc.
Did the study specify a dosage on the Duckweed? All I saw was 100g/day for the duckweed in a google search. That's almost the entire can that they sell on Amazon
Hey Nick, what does a full day's worth of eating look like for u when not experimenting? I couldn't seem to find any content regarding that, even tho it is very interesting to me since u seem to be one of the few content creators trying to find good enough evidence against the mainstream advice
Watching as I drink my first cup of green tea. You mentioned at the end specifically loose-leaf green tea. Is there a difference between that and what is found in the green tea sachets I can buy off the shelf at the grocery? Also, do we know how much wolfia globosa was being consumed in the study? Sorry if either of those were explained in the video and I missed it. Thanks as always!
If you compare loose leaf tea to what's in a tea bag, the loose leaf stuff is a much better, higher quality product...!!! And the concern with tea bags is that you might be ingesting microplastics yuck 🤢
@@bobwilkerson9760 what if i cut the tea bag and brew the tea without it instead? can it be done that way? or the microplastic is already in the grounded tea?
Your videos are always interesting, thank you for this shared work. We must also consider hormones, if we are a woman or a man and hormonal age I think. When I was younger I ate a lot and I didn't gain too much weight. now it's hard. I am very very sporty (>12h/week of fight’s sports) and >50 years old. I eat very well. No classic diet I follow to lose ten extra pounds. and I know nutrition well. I tried the ketogenic diet, the Mediterranean diet and the carnivore diet. The low calorie strict carnivore is what works best for me. When I'm not on a diet, I naturally eat a lot of organic peanut butter, nuts from my garden, cheese aged in raw milk (I live in France), and a lot of meat, and have been doing so for years. Espresso coffee and green tea every day. This diet suits me perfectly for my health, to perform in my combat sports, but unfortunately not to lose weight. Even when I do intense sports weekends like 8 hours a day, I don't lose a single gram. On the other hand, I'm gaining muscle and getting leaner, I'm losing water I think, which helps a little. The ONLY method that works for me, a postmenopausal woman, is when I stick to a VERY low-calorie diet, taking into account that I also do two hours of sport every day. To lose weight I must be hungry and limit myself to 1200kcal per day. I believe that genetics determines a lot. being able to store is good for survival, but not for our aesthetic desires. The best proven method that makes me lose weight is a very hypocaloric carnivore diet (very important because Dr Dagostino says that carnivore not associated with hypocaloric diet makes you age, be careful), a low-carb diet (just enough to practice my sports, i.e. the equivalent of two large fruits per day) you also need omega 3 (a tablespoon of canned cod liver and its oil), practice intermittent fasting (I don't eat before 12am), miso broth, fish, beef, fatty veal, fish fillets, very few green vegetables (I can't digest them anymore unfortunately), two kiwis, or a grapefruit, a little kefir . And no nuts. even macadamia. Every time I return to the usual diet with lots of nuts, even when controlling calorie intake, I gain weight or I don't lose, but on the other hand I feel super fit on a daily basis and for sport. Health diet and weight loss diet are two different things.
We need more RCT-s like this. Ignoring the cultists who disregard energy balance (not educated enough to understand high school thermodynamics) there still remain unanswered questions that might be relevant. Energy balance is likely still the first thing to consider for obese people. It does not mean that this is all there is. I am quite buzzled by my own physiology and that of some of the people I know - who can eat 4000 .. 5000 kcal a day, do some basic weight training (in my case a lot), be moderately active and yet struggle to put on or keep body weight. These physical demands are not severe - I have induced myself into extreme demands at times, and the added calories I need to keep BW are reasonably proportional to the added work. Other things I do that probably contribute: cold exposure, I eat almost all the things in the list - save for green tea, I spend a lot of time outdoors. Most other people I know who eat a fraction these of calories, also work out, make their mandatory 10 000 steps are struggling to loose adipose tissue. What gives? Is it all genetics? It would be convenient answer, but I doubt it explains all of it. Years I thought low carb was the key, until I disproved this by going half a year 150..300 grams of carbs a day. No difference in body composition. Only difference eating more carbs in my case is increased hunger - on low carb (less than 100g in my case) I have to force feed myself, which appears to be unnecessary torture. One more thing that I've not heard a nutrients influencer to spell out is that foods rich in carbs are very poor (at best diluted) sources of other nutrients. The theme appears to uncover in more scientific data points that for health outcomes quality (minerals, vitamins, fiber, all those fancy mystery nutrients cited in this study and then some, not to forget protein) competes to the podium spot with quantity. Ratio of macros (fat to carbs) is distant no 3. Clearly, it is not only how much we eat, and the calories. There is more nuance. This study is a great start.
The wolfia plant is one of the common plants fish hobbyists and fish breeders feed to their fish in southeast Asia. I used to keep wolfia to feed my goldfish. They are so easy to grow.
Great video as usual Nick. I would like to point out one caveat with respect to the consumption of green and black tea. I love and drink green tea every day. However, the tea plant (Camellia Sinensis) is known to be a hyperaccumulator of fluoride and fluoride is delivered to the final brew of tea. As I'm sure you must know, long term fluoride intake is associated with multiple negative health outcomes. I've collected 14 studies on this issue and there are many more. I therefore believe that black or green tea consumption should be somewhat tempered. For instance, drinking one liter or more of tea daily, 4 or 5 cups depending on the cup size and tea type/brand, can put one over the tolerable upper intake level for fluoride of 7 mg/day for adults. Furthermore, if one lives in a municipality where water fluoration is practiced, this further exacerbates the situation. And finally, one musn't forget that the vast majority of people use toothpaste that contains fluoride further compounding the problem.
Sodium fluoride vs calcium fluoride. Also, the body has a use for all elements in nature except aluminum. Your body does need fluoride and in a natural form like this, your body can distinguish BETTER between it and other things. In the natural form it's bundled with other things that make it easier for the body to choose to intake it or discard it as waste. The charge of particles also matter and in the natural form, is ideal. If you isolate compounds from nature I'm sorry to say, you'll find they all have necessary use in the body to prevent bad health. It is the second most stored micro mineral in the body responsible for the elasticity of tissues, tendons, ligaments, skin, etc, your heart would be unable to beat without it.
Nope. Fluoride had been consistently shown to be safe at concentrations most people experience, outside of rare hyper exposure groups. If you read the literature properly and slid cherry picking the few studies which seem to support your favourites conclusion, it will become clear.
Another great video! I wish they didn't include so many variables in the study, but it's still interesting. And, there seems to be a growing body of research on green tea for health benefits. If you're adding in more nuts to the diet, try to find organic dry roasted if you want to try to avoid some of the pesticides and added seed oils.
"Roasting nuts is a tricky business. If you like roasted nuts, we think it best to roast your own nuts at home using temperatures at or below 265 - 285 F (130 - 140 C) for 20 minutes. The temperature sensitivity of nuts derives from their fragile omega-6 fats. But because macadamia nuts are low in omega-6, they are more stable. Even at 150 °C/ 300 °F, macadamia are okay. In fact, if you roast equal amounts of macadamia and walnuts at 300 F, the macadamia will end up with 1/30th the oxidized fats!" - quoting from an article I wrote for Martina S.'s website: ketodietapp.com/Blog/lchf/macadamia-nuts-king-of-keto-nuts
@@nicknorwitzPhD thank you. Nick do you know if taking a pcsk9 inhibitor is indicated for someone who may have familiar hypercholesteremia and ho had very negative reaction to statins? thanks again.
Keto diet is becoming a political topic for the Left lining crowds. Dr.Ekberg, Dr.Berg, and other advocates of low carb diets are censored by UA-cam, Meta, and Google.😢
Thank you for the awesome video Dr Norowitz! I have an upcoming Dexa scan in Cambridge to establish some baselines. If we were interested in adding Wolffia Globosa to our diets, where might we find it? I've only seen Wolffia Globosa supplement powders on Amazon and I can't imagine that would have the same impact? Thank you again!
green tea or tea in general (not herbal tea that does not contain the tea leaves) has been increasingly indicated to be associated with other conditions. If fat loss is the only metric then sure it might be beneficial on a 'lowish' carb med diets. Outside of that is it really worth it?
Too many WAGs here. Too many alternatives. Too much speculation, especially in the sense that the specific compounds are beneficial overall. How do you know some, or all, of them are not stressful for the body, hence causing an increase in metabolic stress that leads to burning more calories? How do you know you are not feeding species in the biome that are poor contributors to overall health? How do you know...
What great information, been seeing a lot about urolithin a don't want to take another supplement I do drink matcha green tea every morning with my creatine I will incorporate more of it throughout the day. I do eat wild blueberries every day add yogurt and Kiefer . So far so good not a whole lot of visceral fat going on here 😂😂 just got finished doing an upper arm resistance workout and jumping on my mini trampoline !! Will definitely be using all the knowledge that you just gave . Thank you so much have a beautiful day😊
I get the very best feesh whole leaf green tea directly from the growers in Japan. Its a bit expensive but it is so far superior to anything available in America, it is BEYOND worth it. The taste, ellagic acid content and tge way it makes me feel cannot be obtained from those bags in the tiny bix at tge grocery store. AND you then eat the tea leaves afterwards and man- o man it's amazing.
Before I get too far into this video, I just want to say that, I would bet my grandma's left testicle that I don't like any of the foods that you're about to list.
The conclusion of the study adds in reduction in red/processed meat as well as the variables you mentioned. Did the study tease out processed vs not process red meat? I do not understand lumping those things together, apples and oranges as my Algebra teacher used to say.
No it didn’t. I also don’t necessarily agree with that conclusion based on the presented data. It also wasn’t a between group difference, more of a background factor common across groups.
Unfortunately Mankai is no longer available in the USA. It used to be sold in frozen cubes and I’d add it to my smoothie. There wasn’t enough interest in the USA so they stopped selling it here. Big bummer.
I’d caution people on drinking green tea. I love it and spend well over a thousand dollars a year on the highest quality teas from china and Japan. The problem is the caffeine. Having quit tea earlier in the year, and only drinking water (or water mixed with salt for electrolytes), my sleep has dramatically improved and i especially feel far more alert after waking up. Whatever benefits from green tea can be gotten elsewhere without the added caffeine.
Interesting! I wonder, when they say they included 4 cups or so of green tea, if they also added 4 cups of water to the control diet to control for any of possible effects of extra fluid intake.
Seeing PRODUCT of CHINA on my garlic , for example, is disconcerting enough... But seeing PRODUCT of MARS on mah produce is REALLY gonna throw me for a loop... 😳!!!
Well, I’m in that camp. I think a very low carb diet with or without fasting likely is even more potent than the green med diet described. That’s speculation. I don’t have head to head tests. Works for me. Also decaf green tea should have a similar effect
The isocaloric part of the study seems to only be verifiable at the design/start of the study? Seeing as the participants had less and less checkins as the months went on. It also involved a self report food questionaaire with 127 items on it. How can we rule out the possibility that the the greenmed dieters weren't just eating less calories because of the reduced red meat consumption they were instructed to adhere to coupled with potentially crushing their appetite with 3-4 topups of caffeine?
For an 18 month free living study it's difficult to make it a feeding study. It's possible, in theory, but with an insane price tag at 200-300 people. Thus, it's true there are certain things that can't be strictly controlled; however, the randomization should help account/compensate for this. Another question to ask is why would the Green Med dieters, as a population, have a biased self-report vs the other groups? Also note that both low-carb groups had similar "other" instructions re red meat/cholesterol etc. So, unless it was the tea and/or duckweed that causatively led to reduction in intake of X, Y Z...
n = 286. 90% retention at 18 months. Starting BMI 31.2 in all groups. All baseline characteristic re in Table 1. Quite similar. Feel free to look. It was a free living RCT, given the duration of the study. The assumption is one does not need to "control" for things like step count since the randomized should eliminate that as a confounder.
I'm not falling for it. Not enough studies or proof. Plants have oxalates and other antinutrients. Tell me what the side effects were in this study please.
This is interesting. Duckweed is the 1 plant that took me over a YEAR to remove completely from my aquarium. It's so annoying -- I could see why they want to use it in space. It reproduces so insanely quickly. It's a nightmare. Almost impossible to kill/get rid of. Eating it? Not sure I'd do that. Any idea what the Oxalate content is of duckweed? I don't think I'd risk a kidney stone/anti-nutrient from it. Green Tea seems legit though. Drinking 1 glass a day recently. Any more than that seems to introduce a moderate amount of oxalates.
Bro 100g/day of wolffia globosa duckweed...the 3/4 cups a day of green tea is practical with my costco card but this wolffia globosa duckweed is not cheap...is the juice worth the squeeze
I really enjoy and value how you explain your ideas. I often skip what people say in these videos but your explanations are so clear and compelling that I can only stay and listen. Thank you!
I appreciate that!
Hey @nicknorwitzphd have you looked into Dr Jack Kruze’s explanations of how phenols affect metabolism in particular in response to various lightwave frequencies and via the mediating effect on various hormone generation? Not a specialist (I only wish) but have a suspicion the reason this diet has been shown to work might have to do with being able to leverage more light and subsequent production of the correct hormones for people possibly not in an ideal situation in terms of daily light exposure. I suspect you will find some leads there for some of the questions around why that green med diet makes such a difference.. Let me know if you do, best of luck! 😊
Are elagitans found in flaxseeds as they are a good alternative to walnuts for omega 3 and does omega 3 also help in visceral fat loss @@nicknorwitzPhD
Are elagitans found in flaxseeds as they are good alternative to walnuts for omega 3 and do omega 3 have a role in visceral fat loss@@nicknorwitzPhD
I lost 150lbs and it took me 2 years. From 320lbs to 170lbs. I’ve maintained it for 5 years now. And I’m now 64 years old, suffer from Hemochromatosis, and had my aortic valve replaced 2 years ago. I drank green tea, and still do, all through these years. I drank no coffee. I hardly exercised due to the damage that hemochromatosis has done to my joints. I can only take a casual 20-minute walk everyday.
What do you take for the hemochromatosis?
I appreciate that you take the low carb factor into account. However, what you mentioned are all high-oxalate foods, which can contribute to joint and bowel inflammation, skin issues, kidneystones and calcium deficiency in bones. I have had the best results excluding almost all plant material from my diet except coconutcream, coffee, tea once or twice a day and olive oil. Every now and then adding a bit of vegetables or very little amounts of lentils, buckwheat, wheat or rye flour, so carbs stay under 20 g.
You have great inflection and it allows me to watch the entire video! Lots of interesting stuff here - thank you!
Very welcome!
Wow!! Good one! I appreciate the work, insight, and production value that goes into your videos. As someone who dabbles in making similar content, I really respect your work. Thank you!
Cheers Ambs :) Appreciate it.
My partner's exam showed her heart was encassed in fat.
A year later it was gone.
She lowered her rice intake and increased her intake of pork, fish and eggs.
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Thanks again Nic for your ongoing work
Live long and prosper 👍🐕
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That little space carrot is super cute! 🥰
Nice use of visuals to leverage the impact. I like the clean background too.
Thank you! Cheers!
The clip of the guy chugging beer and rubbing his belly is def a guy living his best life haha.
Where are the french fries and milkshake?
😂🤣😁😅🤣😂
Hey wanna get some free beers so we can film you drinking them?
Who can say no to that
@@GTE_Channel Me? Easy. No. I don't drink beer.
Great information! Thanks Nick. I hope you get 1 million subscribers.
My LDL is down a lot since I switched from coffee to green tea. N=1. The only real downside is that I have to drink green tea.
Put some agave syrup or stevia or honey in it and it becomes delicious.
Why is lower LDL a good thing?
@@BuzzMoves365 it's bad cholesterol
@@MiDnYTe25I think things have moved on from simply good/bad cholesterol. Dr Nick might have videos. Failing that try Dr Ken Berry, Dr Jason Fung, Dr Sten Ekberg....... many videos on the benefits of cholesterol.
@MiDnYTe25 there are no bad and good cholesterol variants. LDL and HDL are lipoproteins, they transport some amount of vitamins and lipids, including cholesterol through your body to places where it is is needed right now to produce cell membranes, hormones and energy. High LDL is SOMETIMES bad, LDL by itself is as good as HDL. Your brain will stop working without LDL and HDL.
Awesome Nick! Good discussion with Dave F. as well...thanks for taking time out on Thanksgiving for that!
Welcome! Always love spending time with Dave. Stay tuned for a BIG DROP on his channel Wednesday
Nick, this is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for sharing your insight. This, like so many of your other videos, is so helpful for me in trying to navigate a plan to help me achieve my goals.
Love to hear it Chad. Be well! You got this. N = 1 life! Stay Curious!
Your material is amazing and so creative and specific. Thank you.
Thank you!
Thank you Nick! I subbed on the last video of yours. Great information I am using from this point forward❤
Thank you! Hope you enjoy what's to come!
Damn, will have to come back and watch later. This comment section is usually as good as the videos for information.
I agree! And I suspect some spicy comments on this one, given the skew of these diets towards MUFA/PUFA. That said, bear in mind, if both low-carb diets had similar fat profiles it doesn't make any claims on the superiority/inferiority of plant/animal fat.
Another "superfood" to spend your money on.
Wolffia globosa 😅
@@Raxados I clearly did not say that ;)...
As always, very informative video. I’m quite intrigued by WOLFFIA GLOBOSA and want to try it. Is there a brand you recommend?
@@nicknorwitzPhDduckweed is something that aquarium hobbyist's hate. Once you get it in your aquarium by accident it is very hard to eradicate. It grows very easily and fast. Never knew you could eat it though. 😂
Cutting dairy and running sprints helps massively too. 💪🏼
I could never give up cheese... esp Roquefort
I can give it up temporarily. But I’ll be returning to it and seeing how my body reacts. I love jarlsburg.
I enjoyed this video and think it looks much better than the other recordings done out of your bedroom, much more professional., I hope your ok if i give you some feedback which i hope you dont take badly. I belive that many people who are more instinctively judgmental than nerds like myself would judge the videos which u use your bedroom background as being less credible due to it appearing less clinical or professional. I think you should do more videos like this to appeal to a broader audience and therefore get your message out there!, i say this because i want you to blow up and be someone i can share to a wider diversity of my clients! keep up the great work!
Most days I will eat a half a bowl full of yogurt, Kefir, or skyr, with pecans, macadamia nuts, sprouted walnuts, and pumpkin, flax, and hemp seeds. I am glad to hear several of those ingredients mentioned in this episode.
When you say bowl, is that a large mixing bowl?, or what...
It's seems you're overdosing on calories. I am joking. Nuts are good for you.
@@tlots2345 I am unsure what the bowl is called, but I put about 1 cup (8 oz) of ingredients in it.
@@kotenoklelu3471 😁Instead of calories, my goal is to limit net carbs. The nuts I select don't have many net carbs.
I have Heard that IS not a good ideia tô mix diferente NUTS, not tô mix diferent seeds, for our body to better absorb and utilize, is best to eat ONE type at a time
2:28 you delivered on the space vegetable thing better than I thought you would!
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My fave snack is raw Grassfed cheddar with roasted macadamia nuts and raw pecans with matcha tea so this is good news for me! Thanks, very interesting.
Sounds good! If you want discount on macadamia: partner.houseofmacadamias.com/nick-norwitz
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I've tried to feed grass to my cheddar, but somehow it just sits there, seems uninterested. 😁😏
PS In the old days (1800s) there were critters in cheese called cheese hoppers - a delicacy, apparently. Very cheesy little mites. But you had to catch em as they escaped. 🫤 I've now looked them up. Tyrophagus casei. So cute!
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beard looking sharp my dude!
Cheers
As a carnivore who eats Greek yoghurt and takes urolithin A, I found this encouraging.
I eat blueberries, kefir and macadamia nuts every day. I Drink green tea a few times a week. I carry zero viseral fat. Cheers for the video explaining why it works. Appreciated
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How do you know you have zero visceral fat ? MRI? DEXA scan? Or something else?
Is there even a cheap way to measure visceral fat?
MRI supposedly is effective.
@@petermadany2779 @emiki6 pinch test. You will know convincingly when you have zero or close to it. Abdominal muscles cannot be seen with it there.
Awesome work Dr Nick
Thank you kindly
More on the magic of microbiome-produced metabolites, please!
So interesting with the "Mediterranean diet", which I'd associate with loads of bread, pizza, pasta, potatoes, albeit freshly produced, served and enjoyed with much love, cheese and delicious sauce
Med diet is more about loads of olive oil, sardines, fish, pork, beef, etc. They will serve on the side bread and potatoes. Pizza and pasta came later in history and aren't eaten very often by the long-lived natives of the area.
My #1 go-to for health content and answers. A question:
What strains of gut critters produce hippuric acid and urolithin A?
Also, am I correct in thinking that moderation by tea is better than higher dose supplementation if there is such a thing? I guess you answered this question.
(Pee-kans! You crack me up.)
Great information. Thanks as always!
Thank you for watching
You bet!
Always interesting. Thanks Dr Nick.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@nicknorwitzPhD Nick, how do we separate out "combined with sensible diet and exercise" from the results and know the true effect of the tested theory, in this or any test involving weight loss???
"Visceral Fat is the worst type of fat" - no, hepatic fat is even worse.
And this mantra that "visceral fat is proinflammatory" is also only a half-truth.
The problem is GETTING FAT due to high insulin. Then, adipocytes start to burst because these take up more fat than what these can handle. And that is an injury which needs repair which obviously is pro-inflammatory.
But just HAVING FAT is by itself NOT pro-inflammatory. The proof is: If you start losing weight, the inflammation goes down very rapidly even if you haven't lose a significant amount of fat YET. And this is true for any adipose tissue...
Splitting hairs at its finest. 😉
I found this very informative. Thanks.
Too fat is too fat, that is simply bad. Lots of science to back it up.
Some people however can carry a lot of fat in a relatively healthy manner - under skin. Others, not so.
Having excess fat is, on several levels, pro inflammatory (decreased blood circulation around tissues, storage of toxins, pro inflammatory hormone signaling) - with or without insulin. Insulin resistance makes matters much worse, of course, compounding the effect.
@@Ruudwardt "Too fat is too fat, that is simply bad."
Myth.
"Lots of science to back it up."
Lot of "science" is crap.
"Having excess fat is, on several levels, pro inflammatory"
False.
Having high insulin is pro-inflammatory...
@@btudrus Where do you get that insulin is pro inflammatory? Depending on context it can have one or the other role. Insulin resistance makes for nice pro inflammatory environment, and the resulting high insulin is more of a symptom than cause.
Excess fat is environment for insulin resistance. Deduce away..
How do you back up your 'facts' then, if not with science (or other data based analysis)? Never heard of adipocytes that burst. Did you just make this up?
Wait!! I want the Thor six pack!! Duck duck six pack 😂🤣 Great info Nick
Duck duck six pack sounds like a fun game... if you don't get "ducked" do you end up with a dad bod?
@ There may be factors like age at play in that response. As an older man, achieving six-pack abs is definitely more challenging.😂🤣 thinner DaD bod would probably be the norm 😜
green tea. Its probably one factor in why people in Japan are in general healthier with one of the highest life expectancies in the world. You should repeat your Oreo N of one study on a lean mass hyper responder without a intestinal disease. I bet you the results will be quite different.
Only 14% reduction in 18 months seems a super low rate. Looking forward to see this study with keto / carnivore diet, I bet it will be way faster.
@phyju cal restriction is not a thing. There is at least one vidéo from Nick about it. Moreover those are not cal restrictive diet, you eat when you're hungry until you're not anymore.
I had already watched a similar video discussing the findings of this study and somehow ended up with the main takeaways: green tea and micro greens. I'm not sure how close duckweed and microgreens are...maybe I looked up polyphenolic properties since I haven't seen 'duckweed' in my local produce section? I don't know for sure but I've been putting microgreens on everything of late just to cover the bases...lol! Another great video!
Great stuff, Stayin' curious
Love the new set/delivery. Question- was the hydration kept consistent across all diets - because if not, could the green tea drinkers just be more hydrated? (Drinking water assists with weight loss no? )
Interesting that you did not mention cocoa, which is also very high in tannins (perhaps the wrong kind of tannins?).
I am extremely sensitive to tannins - especially black tea, but also green tea and cocoa. They cause me severe constipation. I have had this issue all my life. So no green tea for me...
But plenty of fermented cheese 🤗
Different tannins.
@nicknorwitzPhD Good to know 👍
Thanks a lot !
Can it be because of the B-12?
What's the 411 on Green Tea Extract supplementation? Keep up the great content!
It's a great pity that a pure carnivore diet wasn't included. Who knows whether the gut bacteria a carnivore diet supports ( which has been shown to be highly varied and associated with superior health outcomes ) may lead to an even greater visceral fat loss than the green tea/ duck week med diet?
It's possible... would love to see that study! Will have more to say on Carnivore in the coming months...
@@nicknorwitzPhDwink wink
@nicknorwitzPhD thanks for your reply. It would be fantastic if Dave Feldman could include such a carnivore v green tea/ duck weed trial (effect of visceral fat levels ) on his citizen science trials to fund/do list!
@nicknorwitzPhD .... and I look forward to hearing what you will be saying about carnivore!
Lack of fibre in Carnivore diet can't be good for a healthy diverse gut flora needed
Would decaffeinated green tea still have the same compounds needed to get the health benefits? Also any specifics on the type of green tea? I know a lot of supermarket teas aren't really matcha or contain a really small amount of matcha - does it make a difference? And there is also matcha vs. sencha, etc.
Yes, but caffeine is also very good for you
Did the study specify a dosage on the Duckweed? All I saw was 100g/day for the duckweed in a google search. That's almost the entire can that they sell on Amazon
gross
I'm wondering if Chlorella Spirulina would function similarly as the Duckweed w/o the 'clone' or space factor. 🤔
How was visceral fat loss determined?
Mri scan before and after the 18 months?
Yes, MRI.
Would be nice to see before and after Mri images.
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Hey Nick, what does a full day's worth of eating look like for u when not experimenting? I couldn't seem to find any content regarding that, even tho it is very interesting to me since u seem to be one of the few content creators trying to find good enough evidence against the mainstream advice
Watching as I drink my first cup of green tea. You mentioned at the end specifically loose-leaf green tea. Is there a difference between that and what is found in the green tea sachets I can buy off the shelf at the grocery? Also, do we know how much wolfia globosa was being consumed in the study? Sorry if either of those were explained in the video and I missed it. Thanks as always!
If you compare loose leaf tea to what's in a tea bag, the loose leaf stuff is a much better, higher quality product...!!! And the concern with tea bags is that you might be ingesting microplastics yuck 🤢
@@bobwilkerson9760 what if i cut the tea bag and brew the tea without it instead? can it be done that way? or the microplastic is already in the grounded tea?
What do you think of Urolithin A supplements?
TBH, I wouldn't, personally. There's a sweet spot for these things.
@ but what if you don’t have the microbiome to produce Urolithin A on your own?
Another excellent video. I may try an n=1 test of this, assuming I can find Duckweed in my local grocery space vegetable section.
Thank you nick,
Welcome :)
Just wondering about this yesterday ! ❤
Perfect!
New subscriber here. Great well researched info, but that sweater is awesome! Any product links to share? 😊
Your videos are always interesting, thank you for this shared work. We must also consider hormones, if we are a woman or a man and hormonal age I think. When I was younger I ate a lot and I didn't gain too much weight. now it's hard. I am very very sporty (>12h/week of fight’s sports) and >50 years old. I eat very well. No classic diet I follow to lose ten extra pounds. and I know nutrition well. I tried the ketogenic diet, the Mediterranean diet and the carnivore diet. The low calorie strict carnivore is what works best for me. When I'm not on a diet, I naturally eat a lot of organic peanut butter, nuts from my garden, cheese aged in raw milk (I live in France), and a lot of meat, and have been doing so for years. Espresso coffee and green tea every day. This diet suits me perfectly for my health, to perform in my combat sports, but unfortunately not to lose weight. Even when I do intense sports weekends like 8 hours a day, I don't lose a single gram. On the other hand, I'm gaining muscle and getting leaner, I'm losing water I think, which helps a little.
The ONLY method that works for me, a postmenopausal woman, is when I stick to a VERY low-calorie diet, taking into account that I also do two hours of sport every day. To lose weight I must be hungry and limit myself to 1200kcal per day. I believe that genetics determines a lot. being able to store is good for survival, but not for our aesthetic desires.
The best proven method that makes me lose weight is a very hypocaloric carnivore diet (very important because Dr Dagostino says that carnivore not associated with hypocaloric diet makes you age, be careful), a low-carb diet (just enough to practice my sports, i.e. the equivalent of two large fruits per day) you also need omega 3 (a tablespoon of canned cod liver and its oil), practice intermittent fasting (I don't eat before 12am), miso broth, fish, beef, fatty veal, fish fillets, very few green vegetables (I can't digest them anymore unfortunately), two kiwis, or a grapefruit, a little kefir . And no nuts. even macadamia. Every time I return to the usual diet with lots of nuts, even when controlling calorie intake, I gain weight or I don't lose, but on the other hand I feel super fit on a daily basis and for sport. Health diet and weight loss diet are two different things.
Thank you.
We need more RCT-s like this.
Ignoring the cultists who disregard energy balance (not educated enough to understand high school thermodynamics) there still remain unanswered questions that might be relevant.
Energy balance is likely still the first thing to consider for obese people.
It does not mean that this is all there is.
I am quite buzzled by my own physiology and that of some of the people I know - who can eat 4000 .. 5000 kcal a day, do some basic weight training (in my case a lot), be moderately active and yet struggle to put on or keep body weight. These physical demands are not severe - I have induced myself into extreme demands at times, and the added calories I need to keep BW are reasonably proportional to the added work.
Other things I do that probably contribute: cold exposure, I eat almost all the things in the list - save for green tea, I spend a lot of time outdoors.
Most other people I know who eat a fraction these of calories, also work out, make their mandatory 10 000 steps are struggling to loose adipose tissue.
What gives? Is it all genetics? It would be convenient answer, but I doubt it explains all of it.
Years I thought low carb was the key, until I disproved this by going half a year 150..300 grams of carbs a day. No difference in body composition.
Only difference eating more carbs in my case is increased hunger - on low carb (less than 100g in my case) I have to force feed myself, which appears to be unnecessary torture.
One more thing that I've not heard a nutrients influencer to spell out is that foods rich in carbs are very poor (at best diluted) sources of other nutrients.
The theme appears to uncover in more scientific data points that for health outcomes quality (minerals, vitamins, fiber, all those fancy mystery nutrients cited in this study and then some, not to forget protein) competes to the podium spot with quantity. Ratio of macros (fat to carbs) is distant no 3.
Clearly, it is not only how much we eat, and the calories. There is more nuance. This study is a great start.
The wolfia plant is one of the common plants fish hobbyists and fish breeders feed to their fish in southeast Asia. I used to keep wolfia to feed my goldfish. They are so easy to grow.
Great video as usual Nick. I would like to point out one caveat with respect to the consumption of green and black tea. I love and drink green tea every day. However, the tea plant (Camellia Sinensis) is known to be a hyperaccumulator of fluoride and fluoride is delivered to the final brew of tea. As I'm sure you must know, long term fluoride intake is associated with multiple negative health outcomes. I've collected 14 studies on this issue and there are many more. I therefore believe that black or green tea consumption should be somewhat tempered. For instance, drinking one liter or more of tea daily, 4 or 5 cups depending on the cup size and tea type/brand, can put one over the tolerable upper intake level for fluoride of 7 mg/day for adults. Furthermore, if one lives in a municipality where water fluoration is practiced, this further exacerbates the situation. And finally, one musn't forget that the vast majority of people use toothpaste that contains fluoride further compounding the problem.
Sodium fluoride vs calcium fluoride. Also, the body has a use for all elements in nature except aluminum. Your body does need fluoride and in a natural form like this, your body can distinguish BETTER between it and other things. In the natural form it's bundled with other things that make it easier for the body to choose to intake it or discard it as waste. The charge of particles also matter and in the natural form, is ideal. If you isolate compounds from nature I'm sorry to say, you'll find they all have necessary use in the body to prevent bad health. It is the second most stored micro mineral in the body responsible for the elasticity of tissues, tendons, ligaments, skin, etc, your heart would be unable to beat without it.
In seawater fluoride concentrations are 1.2 to 1.5 mg/litre. I wonder how much of that is absorbed transdermally by swimmers and divers.
Oxalates are even worse.
Nope.
Fluoride had been consistently shown to be safe at concentrations most people experience, outside of rare hyper exposure groups.
If you read the literature properly and slid cherry picking the few studies which seem to support your favourites conclusion, it will become clear.
Another great video! I wish they didn't include so many variables in the study, but it's still interesting. And, there seems to be a growing body of research on green tea for health benefits. If you're adding in more nuts to the diet, try to find organic dry roasted if you want to try to avoid some of the pesticides and added seed oils.
"Roasting nuts is a tricky business. If you like roasted nuts, we think it best to roast your own nuts at home using temperatures at or below 265 - 285 F (130 - 140 C) for 20 minutes. The temperature sensitivity of nuts derives from their fragile omega-6 fats. But because macadamia nuts are low in omega-6, they are more stable. Even at 150 °C/ 300 °F, macadamia are okay. In fact, if you roast equal amounts of macadamia and walnuts at 300 F, the macadamia will end up with 1/30th the oxidized fats!" - quoting from an article I wrote for Martina S.'s website: ketodietapp.com/Blog/lchf/macadamia-nuts-king-of-keto-nuts
excellent information. would decaf green tea work as well do you know? thank you.
Yes it should be similar
@@nicknorwitzPhD thank you. Nick do you know if taking a pcsk9 inhibitor is indicated for someone who may have familiar hypercholesteremia and ho had very negative reaction to statins? thanks again.
It's a shame the study didn't include a zero or ultra low carb diet too, I suspect that might have been even more effective for visceral fat loss.
I wasn’t consulted at the design phase
@@nicknorwitzPhD Thus showing their lack of meticulousness
Keto diet is becoming a political topic for the Left lining crowds. Dr.Ekberg, Dr.Berg, and other advocates of low carb diets are censored by UA-cam, Meta, and Google.😢
Is there any easy way to tell if the weight around your middle is subcutaneous or visceral w/o a MRI?
If it jiggles is SubQ.
You need a podcast so I can learn how to be healthy at work all day
Very interesting and very well done.. Drink green tea all the time but now where do we get our space veggies?
Call Elon… ;)
Another great video.
Off topic question to Dr. Norwitz: how much are you running these days?
Cheers. I don't run anymore, actually. Bad right knee.
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@@nicknorwitzPhD Oh, sorry to hear that.
Thank you for the awesome video Dr Norowitz! I have an upcoming Dexa scan in Cambridge to establish some baselines. If we were interested in adding Wolffia Globosa to our diets, where might we find it? I've only seen Wolffia Globosa supplement powders on Amazon and I can't imagine that would have the same impact? Thank you again!
8:30 min why would you want to get your Urolithin A from tea when pomegranates have the highest levels of Urolithin A?
Any information on powdered Wolffia vs fresh? I the powder effective?
I’d guess it’s similar
green tea or tea in general (not herbal tea that does not contain the tea leaves) has been increasingly indicated to be associated with other conditions. If fat loss is the only metric then sure it might be beneficial on a 'lowish' carb med diets. Outside of that is it really worth it?
Too many WAGs here. Too many alternatives. Too much speculation, especially in the sense that the specific compounds are beneficial overall. How do you know some, or all, of them are not stressful for the body, hence causing an increase in metabolic stress that leads to burning more calories? How do you know you are not feeding species in the biome that are poor contributors to overall health? How do you know...
Yea, and what if the sky is falling and what if is not…
Good teaching
Thanks :)
You should do a video with Georgi Dinkov and Brad Marshall
Are you keen to try green tea + Duckweed? Do you think this would affect your sensible gut problems?
What great information, been seeing a lot about urolithin a don't want to take another supplement I do drink matcha green tea every morning with my creatine I will incorporate more of it throughout the day. I do eat wild blueberries every day add yogurt and Kiefer . So far so good not a whole lot of visceral fat going on here 😂😂 just got finished doing an upper arm resistance workout and jumping on my mini trampoline !! Will definitely be using all the knowledge that you just gave . Thank you so much have a beautiful day😊
Cool! I drink green tea everyday because its cheap, has some caffeine but doesn't give me jitters and well.. I actually like the taste.
Sounds great!
I get the very best feesh whole leaf green tea directly from the growers in Japan. Its a bit expensive but it is so far superior to anything available in America, it is BEYOND worth it. The taste, ellagic acid content and tge way it makes me feel cannot be obtained from those bags in the tiny bix at tge grocery store. AND you then eat the tea leaves afterwards and man- o man it's amazing.
Before I get too far into this video, I just want to say that, I would bet my grandma's left testicle that I don't like any of the foods that you're about to list.
Well points for originality
Awesome thank you 💪🏼🤘🏼😃
Welcome :)
The conclusion of the study adds in reduction in red/processed meat as well as the variables you mentioned. Did the study tease out processed vs not process red meat? I do not understand lumping those things together, apples and oranges as my Algebra teacher used to say.
No it didn’t. I also don’t necessarily agree with that conclusion based on the presented data. It also wasn’t a between group difference, more of a background factor common across groups.
Unfortunately Mankai is no longer available in the USA. It used to be sold in frozen cubes and I’d add it to my smoothie. There wasn’t enough interest in the USA so they stopped selling it here. Big bummer.
I’d caution people on drinking green tea. I love it and spend well over a thousand dollars a year on the highest quality teas from china and Japan. The problem is the caffeine. Having quit tea earlier in the year, and only drinking water (or water mixed with salt for electrolytes), my sleep has dramatically improved and i especially feel far more alert after waking up. Whatever benefits from green tea can be gotten elsewhere without the added caffeine.
Does black tea lose anything during the oxidation process to make it any less beneficial in this respect than green tea?
Based on my searchers, Green Tea > Black
Interesting! I wonder, when they say they included 4 cups or so of green tea, if they also added 4 cups of water to the control diet to control for any of possible effects of extra fluid intake.
Does matcha suffice as green tea? I like to put matcha powder in my fruit smoothies!
Looks like we may see a new vegetable become a lot more popular. Very interesting.
Maybe... the space agriculture thing is new...
Seeing PRODUCT of CHINA on my garlic , for example, is disconcerting enough...
But seeing PRODUCT of MARS on mah produce is REALLY gonna throw me for a loop... 😳!!!
and that may be the point. Like the marine biologist sharing all these marvelous discoveries re: C15. Guess where you can get it?
Wolffia globosa is a cute, tiny plant; I have some growing in a bowl of water. I plan to taste it at some point...
What would you suggest for people with IBS who are sensitive to caffeine and nuts …and really need to lose visceral fat?😢
Well, I’m in that camp. I think a very low carb diet with or without fasting likely is even more potent than the green med diet described. That’s speculation. I don’t have head to head tests. Works for me. Also decaf green tea should have a similar effect
@ Thank you 😊
There was also a study on avocados , an avocado a day keeps the belly fat away
Pomegranates are also high in ellangitanins. One of the highest I think. Not super low carb though.
See video notes. They are mentioned.
What kind of green tea do you use, sir?
Ok, you got me, never heard of manki. Thanks
Glad I could help! New to me too!
I aim for 3 coffees daily (one has added mushroom powder, and can be decaff if evening) and 3 Green Tea (one as matcha and evening is decaff version)
Great how you've slowed down your speech so us mere mortals can comprehend what your saying.
The Tasmanian devil inside me is crying
@nicknorwitzPhD lol, I can tell you're fighting it
The isocaloric part of the study seems to only be verifiable at the design/start of the study? Seeing as the participants had less and less checkins as the months went on. It also involved a self report food questionaaire with 127 items on it. How can we rule out the possibility that the the greenmed dieters weren't just eating less calories because of the reduced red meat consumption they were instructed to adhere to coupled with potentially crushing their appetite with 3-4 topups of caffeine?
For an 18 month free living study it's difficult to make it a feeding study. It's possible, in theory, but with an insane price tag at 200-300 people. Thus, it's true there are certain things that can't be strictly controlled; however, the randomization should help account/compensate for this. Another question to ask is why would the Green Med dieters, as a population, have a biased self-report vs the other groups? Also note that both low-carb groups had similar "other" instructions re red meat/cholesterol etc. So, unless it was the tea and/or duckweed that causatively led to reduction in intake of X, Y Z...
Sample size?
Environmental/ life style controls?
Other relevant variables not controlled for?
n = 286. 90% retention at 18 months. Starting BMI 31.2 in all groups. All baseline characteristic re in Table 1. Quite similar. Feel free to look. It was a free living RCT, given the duration of the study. The assumption is one does not need to "control" for things like step count since the randomized should eliminate that as a confounder.
I'm not falling for it. Not enough studies or proof. Plants have oxalates and other antinutrients. Tell me what the side effects were in this study please.
This is interesting. Duckweed is the 1 plant that took me over a YEAR to remove completely from my aquarium. It's so annoying -- I could see why they want to use it in space. It reproduces so insanely quickly. It's a nightmare. Almost impossible to kill/get rid of.
Eating it? Not sure I'd do that. Any idea what the Oxalate content is of duckweed? I don't think I'd risk a kidney stone/anti-nutrient from it. Green Tea seems legit though. Drinking 1 glass a day recently. Any more than that seems to introduce a moderate amount of oxalates.
Personally, I'm enjoying Green tea, not duckweed, albeit for other reasons. Funny story about the aquarium
@@nicknorwitzPhD isn't green tea reducing testosterone production?
Bro 100g/day of wolffia globosa duckweed...the 3/4 cups a day of green tea is practical with my costco card but this wolffia globosa duckweed is not cheap...is the juice worth the squeeze
Duckweed! 😆 It is fantastic and a very quick and easy grow 😉
thoughts on matcha?
Enjoy it :). Included in "green tea" category.
Can’t get this in supplement form?