Nick Norwitz
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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unprocessed red meat was not associated with dementia in any way shape or form was only the processed red meat and then when you looked at the physiologic explanations there was nothing there that was specific to the unprocessed red meat which were the only place they found the effect in effect the study said nothing negative really about like say a steak nevertheless it got presented
the public as don't eat red meat because it's bad for your brain. Instead, have a cauliflower because we can take this nice sagittal section and make it look like a brain and, you know, feed into your base human emotions.
By and large, yes.
I agree. And to that extent, speaking about forests and plants, I just want to be very clear. Me saying a carnivore diet can be beneficial for certain people and red meat's not bad is not saying all fruit is terrible for you in all circumstances. Fiber is bad for you. Like these are consistent ideas. And I think people get so captured in one camp that there are presumptions based on
unrelated statements. So red meat, not bad for you. Red meat can be a health food. Does it mean brussel sprouts are poisoning you or broccoli's a conspiracy? No, it does not. If you tolerate those foods, I think they're perfectly fine. In fact, I'm quite jealous. I love brussel sprouts. They just don't agree with me. So.
This will be the first time I probably announced this on a platform of this size, but I took the very big step and decision of deciding I'm not going to apply to medical residency. Now, you know the weight of that, but just to clarify it for other people, if you don't do a residency, you're not a practicing clinician.
So I have spent my entire life imagining being a practicing clinician and doing everything by the book, which means getting into the best college I can, best grad school I can, best medical school I can, and I've basically done all that. And then you, you know, go to residency, you go to fellowship, you run a lab, you, you know, do everything in a nice professional academic jade tower manner.
To give that up at this late stage is a big deal. Because on the one hand, people could say like, well, what was the point of medical school for you? What I've been thinking a lot about as I observe from my interesting vantage point as a patient, medical student,
um trying to provide health care a scientist and a young person in social media what i've observed is that i think the biggest impact can be had from empowering individuals with knowledge about metabolic health and finding innovative ways to fund groundbreaking research that is not going to come from normal channels i'm not going to get a million dollars from the nih study i want to do um and and i've seen people try to change the system from the inside
without major success. So what I've decided I want to do is try to, after graduation, scale up the early efforts that I've been making with respect to social media education, metabolic health education at a grander scale. The last year for me, starting around New Year's 2024, was experimenting with how people responded to
to some of my communications kind of in my free time on the side of medical school. And I think the response has been tremendous publicly, but also on the back end, it has been really incredible to hear from certain parties who are interested in say giving $5 million for a particular trial because metabolic health is touching so many people's lives.
Some people have resources and they'll support you. So for me, it's about finding a way going forward to stimulate conversations get research funded and put people's data in their own hands, knowledge in their own hands so they can start their health journey today while the system as a whole, hopefully slowly changes. Yeah. Yeah.
The Buzuki family, they've been very nice to me. And yeah, they're a great example of someone who You know, I would never wish bipolar disorder on Matt Pazuki. However, it's just like I'd never wish ulcerative colitis on me. But sometimes misfortune strikes the right group of people in order to build a highly motivated army to make change.
And I think that's what's happening with metabolic health, and that's why I'm so...
optimistic is because on the one hand it's a david and goliath scenario where big pharma the current medical infrastructure biomedical infrastructure like the incentive structure business models are set up to favor pills and procedures yeah and an unhealthy food environment however there is a growing group of people who are just finding incredible success with metabolic health approaches and then
unionizing and coming together with albeit you know individually maybe fewer resources a purpose that is so powerful i can't imagine things don't change dramatically but they're only going to do so if we really lean into it and so that's what i'm committing myself to it's not because i don't think western medicine has this place that i don't think it's important it's that because over the past year or so when i'm sitting in that intern room doing my intern level tasks
It's not that I don't care about the patient, but my mind is not there. My mind is how can I communicate this incredible scientific story about nanotubes in the brain or cyanide being produced by our lysosomes or whatever to the general public to excite them. Metabolic health, this incredible thing, my mind just wasn't in the clinical medicine.
And so I thought that wasn't fair for me, the patients who, or whatever, you know, a member of my cohort, my peers would otherwise have that position in residency that I'm going to try doing something different because it's where my story, my skillset, my passion, and my skills are most geared where I genuinely think I can have the biggest impact. And maybe I'll fall on my face, but I have to try.
Thank you. I feel like I'm definitely standing on the shoulder of giants and just so excited for the future to come. One thing I will say that will hopefully bring listeners and you some more positive vibes, let's say, is like, I've been feeling out just kind of naturally the interest in metabolic health among my generation of future healthcare leaders. And it's incredible.
It's like people see, my peers see, our system is screwed up. Medicine has changed for the worse, that patients are suffering, and we are not stepping up as a system to help them enough, and they're looking for innovative solutions. And so I have found my peers to be so receptive to the metabolic health message.
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