Matt Gruber said:
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How to reverse diabetes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4UhVInyfoY
i just bought 12# of bananas, 7 mangoes, 2# cherries and grapes too.
see how this works in the video, with scientific studies 8)
I don't usually use "Ad hominem" attacks on people, preferring to discuss the idea than to attack the source. However, in a field where there is no consensus between reputable scientists, disreputable ones, I prefer to not even waste my time on.
I'm 90% sure it's the same guy, but Cyrus Khambatta is a known ethical vegan. This doesn't make him wrong, but someone on a Keto forum showed him saying that even if it was worse for you, he'd still recommend avoiding animal products. The same poster then showed several of his claims which have been "disproven" by mainstream science.
Unfortunately, the whole low carb vs low fat debate has been "infiltrated" by extremist vegans intentionally spreading mistruths. The "One egg a day is as bad for you as smoking five cigarettes" has been repeatedly debunked, but still quoted as fact (as much as you can debunk a claim that has no backing to it at all. I.e. if I wrote a study that said that eBikes cause cancer, and showed my experiments, you can prove errors or assumptions I made. If I just claimed that it did without a study, you'd have a much harder time "Debunking" me.)
So my defacto stance now now is that if a vegan suggests that animal products are bad for me, I'll assume they are using poor science or intentional mistruths until proven otherwise (Yes, it is a kind of ad hominen attack, but with the volumes of conflicting information is so great, if you don't filter, you get overwhelmed and are just gullible). If the majority of the material I saw from Vegans were of academic standard, I could accept that they have an agenda, but were worth listening to, but the intentional deception by so many, has turned me off them as a reliable source.
The gold standard for me is either meta analyses by major universities, or the very, very rare controlled large scale experiments (Rare, because it's so expensive to control people's food intake for long enough to be meaningful. E.g. it's known that saturated fat temporarily raises blood cholesterol, but even the evidence that elevated FASTING cholesterol is dangerous is correlative. Evidence that temporarily raised blood cholesterol contributes to CHD is closer to speculative).
I biohack. I record my resting heart rate, heart rate variability, sleep quality and blood pressure multiple times a week. I record my cholesterol and blood sugars along with other markers such as kidney and liver performance, twice a year. The amount I exercise, the stress I am under, how I am eating, is all broadly recorded and correlated. High Fat, Low Carb (Not fully keto, I target 50g of Carbs a day) works. My blood pressure is down, and after an initial spike in cholesterol, that too fell. Kidney function rose slightly, though within normal variabilities, and there was no change to liver function.
I do try to get more of my fat from healthy sources (plant and fish), because Harvard said that saturated fats had roughly the same correlative risk of CHD as carbs, so maybe that's why it works better for me than for others. But I also try to avoid too much processed meat - not for the saturated fats, but for the nitrates, salt and trans-fats, which are also known to be correlated to CHD.
Anyway. It's been a long post, and one people get emotional and defensive about. Some people curiously overly. I can understand if that if they carry a hidden agenda about animal welfare, but have also seen Keto'ers get very upset. Makes no sense to me. Unless it's someone I love, they can eat whatever they want, and be any health they want. I don't accept that people have a duty to keep their load on public healthcare down (Hey, if I am hit by a car while on an eBike, I don't want anyone to be saying I'm costing the health system), I don't accept that people have an obligation to "look good" in public (If someone 24st wants to wear a crop top and hot pants, I have no objection). But by the same token, don't ask me to find that attractive either.
Live and let die, I say.