Dr. Michael Greger

Now, which is in part good, there's no longer that kind of monopolistic control of the message, right?

But there's confusion.

But it's replaced with confusion.

So even if these days we had the quote-unquote authorities, the experts that came out and said X, Y, Z,

A lot of people wouldn't believe them.

Now, for good reason in many cases, because there's been so many terrible crises with drugs that were promoted and then turned out to be terrible and pulled from the market.

And look, all the authorities were telling people to use these drugs.

So it's hard to imagine a similar kind of aha moment with diet that we saw with this kind of clear surge in general thing.

And so there's always going to be the sugar pushers and there's always going to be these people that are muddying the waters just enough to introduce enough doubt that people will kind of throw up their hands and eat whatever crap's put in front of them, which is how the industry makes money.

Exactly.

The calendar age just keeps going forward until we get a DeLorean or something.

But then there's the

Right.

But just because we happen to have this many birthdays doesn't necessarily mean our body is functioning as if it could be worse.

We have accelerated aging and that we really should have the heart and the kidneys and the liver of a 50-year-old, but they're actually functioning like a 60-year-old.

We actually have the muscle mass of a 60-year-old.

Or alternately, we take care of ourselves and we have tremendous power over this leeway

Or, yeah, I've had 50 birthdays, but, you know, I have the aerobic capacity of a 40-year-old.

I mean, all these benefits.

And so that's this difference.