Dr. Nathan Bryan
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Yeah, you've got to eliminate sugar. And I think the benefits of a straight ketogenic diet or a straight vegan vegetarian diet is just the elimination of sugar and carbs.
Right. But I think to answer your question, what should we be eating? I think you've got to eat a balanced diet in moderation. You know, Americans are overfed. All you got to do is walk around and see the epidemic of obesity. Good high quality protein, good quality fats, and little or no carbs. And it's really that simple.
Beets, yeah, the beets hit really the airwaves back in 2012 in the London Olympic Games. There was a lot of data coming out at the time of the benefits of beetroot juice on enhancing athletic performance. And there was a benefit of the nitric oxide being produced that could explain the improvement in athletic performance.
The problem is these athletes were drinking liters and liters of beetroot juice and causing a lot of gastric discomfort, causing diarrhea. Their urine and their feces would turn red, and a lot of people misinterpreted that as gastric bleeds or urinary bleeds.
And then when I started looking at the products on the market, most of the beet products, the desiccated beet powders, provided zero nitric oxide benefit. They didn't contain any nitrate, no nitrite. They were just, we called them dead beets. They're a dead beet product.
And so I thought if consumers are out there looking for beets because they've been shown to enhance their performance, but that enhancement in performance was dependent upon the beet's ability to improve nitric oxide production in the body, then the non-scientist out there wouldn't know what to look for, right? They're buying products that aren't providing any benefit to them.
And so years ago, we would do randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials, and we would take some of these commercial bead products that you can go to your local nutrition store or pharmacy, buy off the shelf, and we would use those as placebos in our clinical trials because it's the perfect placebo.
So what I tried to do in that book is educate, okay, what is it about beets that are so important? What's the mechanism and what is necessary in those beets that can improve nitric oxide production?
So again, everything I do is intended to educate and inform the consumer so that they know how to make informed, educated choices on the products they're taking or the foods they're eating or their oral hygienic practices.
Yeah, that may be in the Beat the Odds. I thought it was in this book. But if you go back to historical times and you look at the hieroglyphics on caves of the ancient cavemen, You know, people thought they were drinking wine because they would have these red stuff in this before battle.
But what these ancient Egyptians were doing was they were drinking beet juice to improve their performance before they went into battle so that they were ready, they were energized, they improved their circulation. So that's the historical study on beets. And obviously, these were beets grown at a time when there were no herbicides, pesticides, and the soil was probably fertile.
So these beets were full of nutrients, probably full of nitrate that provided the benefits of that. But unfortunately, today, the beets that are grown, at least in America, really are nutrient depleted, just like most of the food.
No, because, again, through our survey that we published in 2015, we realized that you really can't eat enough beets to get enough nitrate to improve your performance. And the other caveat is that if you're using mouthwash, you've got fluoride in your toothpaste or fluoride in your drinking water that you're mixing the beet powder in, you're not going to get a nitric oxide benefit from it.
Oh, yeah, from 2004 to... So a 20-year period, we're seeing... What is that? Almost a quadrupling of the use of antacids. And this is globally or is this in the US? That's worldwide, I believe. Yeah, worldwide. Now, this is the problem. I mean, these antacids... What is an antacid? So it's a medication that's given orally to suppress stomach acid production.
And as a biochemist and physiologist, I can't think of nothing more damaging than to inhibit stomach acid production. Because stomach acid is required to break down proteins into amino acids, whether you're eating animal protein or plant-based protein. It's required for nutrient absorption. You need stomach acid to absorb B vitamins.
You need stomach acid to absorb selenium, chromium, iodine, magnesium, iron. I mean, most nutrients, micronutrients, are absorbed in the lumen of the stomach. And if the stomach is not making stomach acid, then these nutrients are not absorbed. And most Americans, 75% of Americans are deficient in magnesium. 95% of Americans are deficient in iodine. I mean, it's a huge problem.
No, these are like the Prilosec, the Prevacids, the Nexium, the prescription medications are Omeprazole, Pantoprazole. Today in the U.S., I think it's probably worldwide, you don't even need a prescription for these from your physician. You can go to your local drugstore and you can buy these, what we call proton pump inhibitors or PPIs. What about Tums? Over the counter.
So there's a difference in—so Tums and things like baking soda are a buffer, right? Sodium bicarb or calcium carbonate, and it's a buffer, right? So if you have an acute bout of hypersecretion of acid, you can take a Tums or some buffer, some base, alkaline substance, to neutralize the acid.
Neutralizing acid is completely different than inhibiting its natural production in the polyuric cells of the stomach.
Well, there's certain classes of antacids. There's what we call H2 blockers. There's proton pump inhibitors. And then there's the natural buffers that are just kind of neutralizing the acid environment in the stomach. Gaviscon, I'm trying to think what class that falls under. I don't think it's widely used here in the U.S. I mean, the main drugs used here are Prilosec, Nexium, Prevacid.
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