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The $46 Trillion Health Crisis No One's Talking About | Dr. Anthony Chaffee DSH #909
Thu, 21 Nov 2024
The $46 trillion health crisis is bigger than you think - and it's affecting every one of us. 🚨 In this eye-opening discussion, we uncover how our modern diet is fueling a massive healthcare catastrophe that's draining trillions from the global economy. From shocking statistics about disease rates to fascinating insights about traditional diets, this video reveals why our health crisis is spiraling out of control. Discover why chronic diseases are skyrocketing worldwide, how our ancestors maintained incredible health without modern medicine, and what simple dietary changes could revolutionize global health. Learn why some populations are four times more likely to develop chronic diseases and the surprising truth about what we're feeding our children. You'll learn: - Why chronic disease rates are exploding worldwide - How traditional societies maintained perfect health - The real cost of our modern health crisis - What ancient cultures knew about nutrition that we've forgotten - Why some doctors are calling for a complete dietary revolution Whether you're interested in health, nutrition, or the future of healthcare, this conversation will change how you think about food and disease. The solutions might be simpler than you think - but time is running out. #HealthCrisis #Nutrition #ChronicDisease #Healthcare #Diet #Wellness #Health #Medicine #Prevention #GlobalHealth #anthonychaffee #paleodiet #metabolicsyndrome #functionalmedicine #animalbaseddiet CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - Ketogenic Diet and Fasting Benefits 01:40 - Ketogenic Diet and Mental Health Recovery 07:45 - Impact of Ketogenic Diet on Disease Rates 10:29 - Animals and Human Disease Resistance 15:44 - Chronic Diseases in Pre-Agricultural Societies 21:53 - Economic Costs of Chronic Diseases 24:30 - Expense of a Meat-Based Diet 26:58 - Role of Fat and Cholesterol in Brain Development 29:54 - Meat vs Vegetables: Cost Analysis 31:00 - Animals' Natural Eating Behavior 37:05 - Human Evolution Inflection Point 39:37 - Agricultural Revolution's Health Impact 42:15 - Brain Energy Requirements Explained 45:34 - Height of the Tallest People 47:26 - Nutrition's Influence on Height 51:56 - Dr. Pottinger and Nutrition Foundation 54:10 - Importance of Vitamin D 1:00:03 - Where to Find Dr. Anthony 1:00:43 - Thanks for Watching APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [email protected] GUEST: Dr. Anthony Chaffee https://www.instagram.com/anthonychaffeemd/ https://www.howtocarnivore.com/ www.youtube.com/@anthonychaffeemd LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the ketogenic diet and how does it work?
And so people argue, well, then, you know, this is just the ketogenic diet sort of mimics the metabolism that you'd be in when you're fasting. And we know that fasting is really good for you. So it's just mimicking that.
But I argue that fasting actually mimics the metabolic state we're supposed to be in all the time anyway, which is a ketogenic diet, which is the same metabolic pathway that most animals are in the wild. Wow.
All right, guys. Dr. Anthony Chafee here today. We're going to talk the carnivore and ketosis. Let's do it, baby. Any new studies or findings recently come across your desk?
Well, there are new studies coming out all the time on ketogenic diets in general. Carnivore diet is a ketogenic diet, and typically what a ketogenic diet is is you're eliminating out carbohydrates, and you'll go into a completely different metabolic state, and you start running on your own body fat, and you produce the carbohydrates, ketones, and glycogen that you need.
And so instead of bringing in a lot of carbohydrates and shutting down your metabolism, you actually are allowing your metabolism free a bit. And so there's more and more research coming out on ketogenic diets. A carnivore diet is a ketogenic diet. When you eliminate out carbohydrates, you have to replace it with fat and protein. Where does that fat and protein come from?
It typically comes from meat, and most of the studies show that. It's a high-fat, meat-based ketogenic diet, and a carnivore diet is a high-fat, meat-based ketogenic diet, so you're cutting out the rest of the stuff too, like vegetables. So there are more studies coming out on a pure carnivore version of a ketogenic diet. but a lot of those are in the works as well.
But there are literally thousands of randomized controlled trials in humans on a high-fat meat-based ketogenic diet. It may include vegetables or not, but the main thing is being ketogenic. So the ketogenic diet is the most well-studied diet in the world. There isn't a single other diet form that has the rigor of scientific testing
that a ketogenic diet has and looking at specific endpoints and diseases. So things like diabetes has been shown in clinical trials to be reversible with a high-fat meat-based ketogenic diet. Alzheimer's, a high-fat meat-based ketogenic diet has been shown in experimental data in humans to be a better treatment for Alzheimer's than every medication ever trialed.
Whoa.
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Chapter 2: What are the mental health benefits of a carnivore diet?
What is it doing to us? Or don't feed bread to ducks at the park because it can make them sick. It will give them diabetes.
Wow.
And fatty liver. I mean, how do we make foie gras? That literally means fat liver. We stuff a tube down a duck or a goose's throat and we pour grains down. How do we get marbling, intramuscular fat in steaks? We give them a bunch of grains. Well, in humans, that's called myosteatosis. It's a pathological sign that we see on MRI and that denotes very serious metabolic dysfunction. So we're
we're causing metabolic dysfunction in the animals because it increases the fat and pathological deposition of fat in the liver and in the muscle tissues because it tastes better. Wow, wagyu, right? Wagyu, exactly. And it doesn't matter that they're getting sick because we're going to slaughter them anyway. But we get sick.
So the exact same practices that we're doing to animals to make them sick and get this pathological fat deposition in their muscles and organs We're doing that to ourselves as well. In the 1930s, there was an article about getting the poundage up on pigs and increasing their fat content and making them bigger and bigger product. And the way they did that was giving them grains and also skim milk.
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Chapter 3: How does diet influence chronic disease rates?
which was a byproduct of the cream and butter industry. And so it was just sort of a throwaway product. And they found that giving the combination of grains and skim milk actually increased their hunger, and so they overate. And when you're eating grains, that can raise your insulin, that can then drop your blood sugar, and so you feel a little down, so you want to eat more, but it also blocks...
a hormone called leptin, which is your satiety hormone. So you're blocking that and you tend to overeat. And then milk has casomorphines, which cause a baby mammal to drink more because you're trying to encourage babies to get their weight up and grow. And so when you drink that as an adult, it still will trigger that hunger signal.
Chapter 4: What do traditional societies know about nutrition?
So you have this combination of grains and skim milk, and all of a sudden it says specifically in this 1930s article paper that... The reason that this worked is because it caused them to overeat. So what is grains and skim milk? That's breakfast cereal. So we're doing this to ourselves, and we look at these same diseases, these non-communicable chronic diseases.
Animals get them too, but only animals in captivity. Wow. And so only animals that are being fed something outside of their typical evolved species appropriate biological diet. And so you get dogs and cats, which are known carnivores, and yet we're giving them food and kibble that has some meat in it. So they get the nutrients that they need, but it's packed out with grains because it's cheaper.
And you put something on it, you know, like put science in the name and go, oh, this is supposed to be. Well, science actually tells us that they're supposed to eat meat. That's what science tells us. And then, you know, marketing agencies tell us otherwise.
And they get sick and they get obesity and they get diabetes and they get cancer and they get autoimmune issues and arthritis and they get osteoporosis and these sorts of things. But that's not typical. And those disease rates have gone up and up and up in recent decades. The average life expectancy in the US of a golden retriever in the 1970s was 17 years. Now it's nine years.
So it got cut in half.
Got cut in half. And I think that's directly because of the food that we're feeding them. There's a big shift. That was when we started switching over to kibble. It was in the 80s. And now vets are talking about how there's a massive increased prevalence in so-called human diseases in domesticated pets. So these human diseases, these non-communicable chronic diseases...
such as metabolic disorder or diabetes and all these other sorts of things. And those are human diseases. Okay, well, what the hell is a human disease, right? Well, it's non-communicable, so we know we're not passing it to anybody. And yet they catch it when they eat this other diet.
And you talk to zookeepers and they know you feed any animal outside of what they're supposed to eat, they get sick. And what do they get sick with? They get all the same things we get. They get the so-called human diseases. And I've spoken to some people and I'm sort of knew the answer ahead of time, but asked him, I was like, do you ever give them grains or dog food or anything like that?
And the guy said, are you out of your mind? If you give animals that garbage, they'll get human diseases. So if you feed the animal human food, they get human diseases. When you don't feed them that food, they don't get human diseases. That means directly that the food is causing the disease. And we see this in pre-agricultural population.
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Chapter 5: What are the economic costs of the health crisis?
So the Native Americans, especially in the Great Plains, when they had a lot of access to meat, bison, they would do a buffalo drop knock over a bunch of bison and just eat those throughout the year. Other places, they didn't have as much animals available to them, so they had to sort of flesh out their meals with plants that they grew locally. But they also had specific ways of preparing them.
Maize was, corn was prepared with a process called nishtomalization. It was a complex process to lower the toxic load and increase the bioavailability of the nutrients of corn. They had fermentation, all these other sorts of processes that we use to lower the toxic load of plants. So plants defend themselves by being toxic. All plants are toxic.
They make about a million different defense chemicals in order to protect themselves from animals and insects. Animals are hard to catch. They're hard to kill because they'll fight back. They'll run away. Those are their defenses. But once you get them and you take them down, it's the most bioavailable and nutritious food that exists on this earth. Plants are easy to catch.
They're just sitting there, right? So they can't just be straight up nutritious. Their major defense is by being physically poisonous. And so their traditional ways of eating plants are, it was never raw food, vegan or anything like that. It was very specific ways of preparing these plants to make them more nutritious, but also lower the toxic load.
And so when you look at these pre-agricultural societies, and anthropologists talk about this in these sort of hunter-gatherer populations, that the health issues that afflict them... are very different than what we have. It's basically infections and injuries, childbirth.
Mothers can die in childbirth, infant mortality rates, things like that are pretty high, but they don't get these chronic diseases. And people say, well, it's because they only live 30 years. That's not true. Right now, pre-agricultural hunter-gatherer populations, when they've been studied, as long as they're not killed by something. So there's a difference between...
average life expectancy from birth and how long you live if you die of old age. And so since the infant mortality rate is much higher and you're fighting off panthers and maybe polar bears and things like that up in the Arctic North with the Inuit, that's obviously going to lower your average life expectancy from birth.
When they look at the people and how long they live to old age, actually people are living just as long, if not longer, than people today. Wow. And they don't get these chronic diseases. And anthropologists talk about this shift in the health issues. And they look at just infections, chronic disease, infant mortality, things like that, and injuries being attacked by lions, things like that.
And then when they go to post-agricultural sort of civilized sort of society, they then have a shift and they get more of the diseases of civilization, which are also called human diseases, which are also called chronic diseases. And 100 years ago, 150 years ago, they were called Western diseases because we only saw these diseases in Western populations.
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Chapter 6: How can dietary changes affect global health?
Chapter 7: What role does fat play in brain development?
Whoa.
And they were completely treatment resistant. Standard of care had not worked for them at all. And so that was a major finding. And now that's not a randomized controlled trial, but now they're doing randomized controlled trials. And so that's some of the new exciting research over at Harvard.
And so that's sort of been in the- So you believe if every single human was on a ketogenic diet, the rate of disease would go down? Oh my goodness, yes. Absolutely. The large burden of disease are these so-called non-communicable chronic diseases. So things like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, mental health issues, Alzheimer's, dementia, Parkinson's, autoimmune issues.
All of these things, they cannot be passed on. They live in your body and you get them or you don't. And people think, well, it's just part of getting older. You just get unlucky. It's genetic. Well, if it was genetic, then why is the prevalence of these things going up decade after decade after decade? So there's more people in society that are being afflicted with this.
Well, that's just screening. We're getting better at screening. I'm like, I'm sorry, but you have somebody with Crohn's disease and you have 30 bouts of bloody diarrhea every single day. You're not going to miss that. So it's not a screening issue. And cancer rates have skyrocketed. They've more than tripled in the last 40 years.
Now, one in two people throughout the course of their life will get cancer. Holy crap. One in two. That's crazy. Yeah, it is nuts. It's a coin flip. Exactly. And so then you look at places like India. I mean, they're metabolic. They're some of the most metabolically sick people in the world. They also eat some of the least amount of meat in the world.
They eat about three kilos of meat per person per year. They have... some of the highest metabolic disease and diabetes rates in the world, America. And we talk about America or we get painted as being the sickest country in the world and having horrible metabolic health and everyone's overweight and just eating junk food and evil meat that makes them all sick. But our diabetes rate is 9%.
And we have a lot of pre-diabetes, about 40% of pre-diabetic, but diabetes is 9%. Well, India, where they eat hardly any meat, it's 25%. That was published in The Lancet in 2018. And that was looking at rural populations as well as urban populations. They were both 25%. So it wasn't just people living in the cities that were getting a higher affliction rate. It was everybody. 25%.
And that's diagnosed. And so people in India have much less access to medicine. So it could be higher than that. There could be more people that are diabetic and they just haven't discovered that. So yes, I do think so. 90% of the things that we treat nowadays as doctors are these non-communicable chronic diseases.
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Chapter 8: Is a carnivore diet affordable?
different things now you're seeing it now you're seeing it show up more now you're seeing diabetes which if you have diabetes increases your risk of developing cardiovascular disease by a thousand percent right and metabolic syndrome will increase it by 600 percent and so those are major major risk factors that those metabolic issues are major risk factors for all these chronic diseases and
Now we're starting to see those in the Maasai. And we saw those, you know, and those disparities between the Maasai and the Akikuyu, exactly the same disparities that we saw pre and post agriculture in the fossil record. And the Native Americans, especially in the Great Plains, there was a study in 2001 that was just called tallest in the world.
And they looked at records from the late 1800s with the Plains Indians and the Great Plains that were largely just eating buffalo and bison. And then they found that they were the tallest human beings alive on earth at the time. They were far taller than the Europeans, five, six inches or more. taller on average.
And there's sort of an average between them, ranging from like five foot six to five foot 10 on average, but the Cheyenne were about five foot 10 on average, adult male height. And now in America, last I checked, it was five foot eight. So it's still taller than people here today. But they were far taller than people at the time, which was much lower, more like 5'3", 5'4".
And so they were much, much, much taller. And that was at the end of the 1800s, after they'd killed all the bison and put them on the reservations. That's a really interesting thing. So they were still taller than everybody else, even though they had started transitioning onto a more Western diet and started getting sicker and started having their height come down.
And in those studies and measurements, they said that the older generations were far taller than the younger generations. And so if they just looked at the older generations or maybe looked 100 years back, the average height would have been much, much taller.
And in fact, we see the fossil record of people going back tens of thousands of years who back before the megafauna died out because we were eating mammoth, that the big mammoth hunters, that some of these people were on average six foot two to six foot four.
average that's great right and so you know i would i'm six three i would be average you'd probably be you know slightly above a slide above that but you know everyone would be you know it would just be you know a population of you know nba players and things like that yeah you know mammoth damn eating man why do you think asian people are so short
Well, a lot of it's going to be because of diet as well. You look at the Mongols. Well, look at more recently. There's been a lot of famines in the 20th century as well with Mao and the forced famines and poverty and things like that. And of course, if you're not getting... adequate nutrition during development, you're not going to grow as tall as you possibly could.
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