Welcome to Holistic Health Talk. I'm your host, James P. Madonna. I'm here with my co-host, the one and only the legendary Commodore Jeff Zanbel. I am sure, ooh, the awesome perfecto baklava from the Turkish restaurant where you have your lunch in St. John's, right, New Brunswick, Canada. Looks good with, made with walnuts and some pistachios, right, on the outside. And honey, too. And honey. Yeah. Looks good. Looks very good. As usual, as Turkish food usually is. So how did your week go with your training? Excellent training, especially yesterday. So Saturdays, I have a class with a young man, and that's going very, very well. They're very long classes, like two Saturdays ago. We trained for almost five hours. We could have gone longer, because CTT, there's hundreds of things to do. And so yesterday, it was only three hours, because I had to get to my office. And so I had to cut a short to three hours. About three hours. No, it's funny, but it's not enough time. I could do seminars for CTT that could last 16 hours. I could do two eight-hour days, easy. Well, you would call them workshops. Yeah, we did everything from Bulgarian squats, Hindu squats, body weight sit-throughs, Hindu push-ups. I have parallettes at home, and you do the table. We bring your belly up to a table, with your legs and your hands on the ground. And then you do triceps, and then there's all kinds of stuff to do with kettlebells, for your biceps. And then we also do the dumbbells, the Indian things, for the biceps, going on. Yes, in a circular motion. Exactly.  The meat just wants to fall off the bone.  When you're doing that, in India, they use wooden dumbbells, which is fine, because weight is weight. Weight is weight. The weight on the barbell never lies.  Titanium, weight is weight resistance. Or iron pipe, or whatever, yeah. Yeah, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Like I said many times, I once watched a movie about ancient Greece, the Spartans. And they were doing shoulder presses, and bicep curls with a boulder in their hands. Yeah. You know, and it's more challenging, because it's not a balanced barbell. And then we did something called the horse stance. Like they do a kung fu. Yeah, the Chinese, the Shaolin monks, they did that. Try doing that for one minute, and let's see how your legs feel. And then after doing that, try doing 20 Hindu squats after doing a horse stance for a minute. Ah, now you're talking. I was watching a video about the varieties of planks for the core. There's at least 60 varieties of planks. Really? Yeah, the one where you did zero. You bring, let's say, you bring your right knee.  Right knee to your left elbow. Left to left. And then the left knee to the right. And you're going back and forth. Then there's one where you got just so many variations. There's so many.  So you get one, your left hand is forward. Yeah. While your right leg is backwards. So you're on your right hand and left foot.  It's beautiful. Well, some of those planks, I don't have the balance for. But most of them I can do. Now, what about doing planks with a Bulgarian bag or sandbag over your upper back for resistance? Exactly. That's another thing. I never thought about that. Thank you, I'll have to do it next week. Yeah. Add resistance to the planks. I digress. I must have my baklava. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I gotta hold it. Enjoy the baklava. I'm going to say good morning to lovely Masumi. Good morning, Masumi from southeastern Japan. Good morning. It is now, I would say 6-11 AM Monday in southeastern Japan.  And thank you for stopping by. As always, it is always pleasant to get your greeting on my show. Yeah, so, you know, the, like let's say triceps, like a lot of people don't realize that if you do like a body weight exercise, even with no weight tight to your weight, if you do dips, let's say, if you do dips, or you do, let's say, Hindu push-ups on the Shana board with your hands close together, you're really hitting the triceps big time. And when you're doing those exercises, you don't really risk getting a tendonitis. Like if you, I think the worst thing for tendonitis of the elbow would be the skull crushes, where the guys are doing tricep extensions to their forehead or to their nose. Yeah, your bone tips. You're really putting a lot of stress on your elbow tendons. Yeah, I'm getting bone tips. Yeah. You know, doctors love that. They'll get their next Mercedes Benz. Yeah, they say that the dip is also an outstanding pectoral exercise. As long as you keep your elbows bent, you never want to straighten out your elbows. OK, so you're maintaining a time under tension. Yeah, you don't want to lock your elbows because you don't want to get bone chips either. Right, yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's been a lot of talk about time under tension. And one bodybuilder called the sweet spot, the spot where stress never comes off your muscle. The sweet spot or the G spot?  You know what else is good for your triceps? When you make love and you're on the plank position, but you're going, you know what I mean? Your triceps is burned. Oh my god. And the thing is, you don't want to stop. So actually, that's not a bad idea for women. Advice. And you know what, I'm glad you brought that up because if a woman is getting banged from behind, doggy style, she can assume the plank position on, let's say, not on a bed. It's too soft. Let's say a mat. Get on the floor on top of it, like yoga mat or something. You mean like the rubber mat floor flooring at the Long Beach kettlebell club? Oh, the Shlong Beach kettlebell club? Yeah. We're a certain someone's going to end up living. What was, is that one stringy, pastrami has a link with the. A little leprechaun. Oh, me pot of gold. Oh, me lucky charms. Oh, me lucky charms. Be part of both. Yes. And if the woman is on the mat, she can do planks while getting plowed. Plank and plow. Plow, plow and plow. Plank and plow. Let's, let's coin that phrase. Let's patent it. This is our plank and plow system. Yeah. Let's charge people $800 for a seminar. To show them the plank and plow technique. Step right up. Step right up. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I've got to play the circuit. OK. Anyway, I just want to say something sports oriented. That is not really sports oriented, but it's kind of is. Did you know that? See, right now the state of California comptroller is trying to close a tax loophole that will allow Shohei Otani, when he completes his career, when he completes his contract and receives his $700 million, will be able to move back to Japan without paying a dime in California state income tax. And why is that? Why would why would a state official who relies on tax revenues do such a thing? Pay it off. Yeah, why would that? Why a little bit of grease? It's called grease, James. You know, grease, greasing of the palm, greasing of the palm. Now, now they don't have anything to go do with going from JFK airport to southern New England, a digress, sorry. I agree, digress. Now, people have people have to realize besides the fact that trickle down has always been why, because you're lucky if it if anything drips down that that when the when the wealthy rich, again, somebody's trying to pull the wool over our eyes when the rich or the mega rich don't pay any taxes. Yes, we're the were the burden falls. I'm on the work and on the work and step on the middle class. And guess, guess who is the backbone of the American economy? It's the middle class. It's the small businesses, Main Street. It's the proprietary, you know, family owned businesses, small growth companies. It could be a professional who has a shingle out says certified public account or power practice or what have you are dead this city. These are all these are all middle class people. I know. And they get the burden. They get the burden. I rather I rather than Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg get pay super high taxes. They won't. And this is how it works. Walthy people take very, very low salary so they don't pay personal income tax, but all their personal living expenses are paid through the company. So that that yacht that you always see, you know, pictured in the news right that Jeff Bezos has, that's a company corporate paid yacht. The fuel is corporate paid. Everything that's how you do it. He doesn't make a salary of like six million dollars a year. He makes a salary of probably a hundred thousand dollars. So he pays income tax on that, you know, which is nothing. It's about, you know, what, so his net worth is $35,000 or something. Anyways, right? So, and then everything else, he pushes through the company. That's how the rich get richer.  And then the interest on the loans is tax deductible. Do you understand how the taxes work? Yeah. And everything imaginable that can be tax deductible is tax deductible. Every little everything like his medical care, because they don't get the medical care that the work in Stiff's get. All his prescriptions are paid because to his insurance corporate insurance policy, because he has the best medical insurance, everything is paid. He doesn't pay personal and his food expenses. It's all in the company. Oh, it's meals and entertainment.  He doesn't pay for a cheeseburger. Cheeseburgers. Sorry. You mean champagne and caviar for breakfast? It's company paid James the, the omelettes that he has in the morning. It's a business expense. Oy vey. Oy vey. Oh, oy vey, oy vey. I have, I have to send you a video.  But I played, I played a video on last night's show of something that happened recently where, where he was the razzle dazzle. Okay, I want to say hello. Good afternoon or good evening to Jordy in Scotland. Jordy's dead. Hey Jordy. Jordy. Why isn't Jordy on the show right now with his video? Hold on. James, I sent you three panels. I sent you a picture. Oh, he's welcome. I sent you a picture of food I got from the sushi place today. It is edamame and goma, guacamole salad. Oh, that's excellent. Edamame, edamame with a goma guacamole salad that I'm assuming knows about that food edamame and goma guacamole. Now Jordy has seen the light. He has changed. He has changed his life by getting off of booze and alcohol. And he has embraced the, the holistic health lifestyle. And, and he's eating properly and exercising. And he hasn't been feeling well. He's sick. Yeah. I wish him well. I hope he feels better today.  Oh, in New York City, what happened was it was real funny when I watched it. The Hasidic Jews had these secret tunnels underneath the city where they were next to the overcrested, uh, Pasek Revva. Excuse me, I had to clean my throat Hudson. No, they, they, they had, they had big sacks of money secretly stashed in tunnels under New York. And when the city found, when the city found the tunnels, the Hasidics were rioting and they were frantically grabbing the sacks of money and running with it. Wow. And to try to, to try to get it out of the tunnel before the, the city can confiscate it. Wow. Yeah. And, and there were like frantically doing it like, like their life depended on it. They were like running. Well, the, exactly. Which doesn't surprise me. That's funny. Well, yeah, in moderation, Jordan, that's all. Moderation is the way to go.  Yeah.  When I bamboozle. So in a supposedly elected politician who says, oh, it's in the best interest of, of, uh, the people know it isn't. Who's in the back pocket? Yeah. Well, like Jesse Ventura says, uh, all you have to do is follow the money, all of the money, follow the money trail. Um, um, I just want to tell the folks that if you are looking to optimize your Omega three fatty acid consumption, um, Tony, don't bother to spend a lot of money on, uh, Omega three, uh, soft gels. Simply instead of using tuna to make your tuna salad, use canned mackerel to make your. And that's good. Can go and replace, and I'll tell you why in replacement of salmon or tuna when you make your salad. And you know why? Because mackerel far surpasses all these other fish, even sardines and Omega three's a macro macro far surpasses all these other fish in Omega three contents. Okay. That's number one. Number two, did you know that they have determined they have proved that the nutrients, the high nutrients found in grass fed meat, grass fed red meat is much more bioavailable and of superior quality than the nutrients found in plants. So much for vegetarians and vegans. I know vegans. I would say vegans because vegans, they don't consume dairy or eggs. Speaking of eggs, the egg yolk is the super food. It really is. It's enriched with all the big complex. Yeah. Enriched with the essential fatty acids, vitamins, iron, magnesium, zinc. Yeah. It's really a super food and the body's level of bad cholesterol LBL is doesn't come from dietary cholesterol. It comes from sugar, refined carbohydrate and sugar consumption, white flour, white sugar. That's where it comes from. The body needs dietary cholesterol to make sex hormones and also our brains have a very high percentage of cholesterol, which comes from the dietary source. Okay. And last but not least, the best way to get your B complex vitamins is through old fashioned Brewer's yeast powder. Brewer's yeast is another super food. It's very inexpensive.  Oh, excuse me. I digress. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. That's a live yeast. The Brewer's yeast, which comes from the beer brewing, beer brewing industry is dead.  You know, I had my aunt, Vidina, she was alive. She found out I was taking Brewer's yeast. What's wrong with you, James?  She couldn't say yeast. She said yeast. You can eat yeast. That's funny. Yeah. You can all eat yeast. Hold on. Let me, let me keep up with you. Jordy should come on the show. That's good to know. I like Jordy. I've not had always liked Jordy. Yeah. And we, and we, we, we favorite. And we're concerned about his health and I hope things work out. I encourage Jordy to stay on, you know, I, I celebrate Jordy's sobriety. I really do, brother. Keep going strong. First comes the sobriety, then comes your, your diet and exercise. Now Jordy's interested in getting a juice extractor, which I think is a good idea. He loves seafood. I enjoy Marmite, a yeast extract. So that's good. Yeah. You showed me Marmite, but I wasn't, I wasn't quite sure what, what it was. Is it like a jam or, or a preserve? Is it a condiment that you would spread on, on toast or something? Marmalade? No, Marmite, it's a product in the United Kingdom. Oh.  And I'm just wondering. You both are awesome. Oh, thank you. Thank you, Jordy. We try our best. Mar, not Marmalade, Marmite. I've heard of Marmite. Let me look, you keep going with the show and look up on Google. I'm right here. It's like, it's like a beefy paste. Marmite. Marmite, as the, as the, I bought it before Boston, Marmite yeast extract. It's on amazon.ca. If it's $18.99 for the Marmite is a British savory food spread based on yeast extract invented by the German scientist, blah, blah, blah. It's made from byproducts of beer brewing and is produced by the British company Unilever. Marmite is a vegan source of B vitamins, including supplemental B 12, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So yeah. Oh, it, uh, including supplemental B 12. A traditional method of use is to spread it very thinly on buttered toast. Marmite is a sticky dark brown paste. With a distinctive salty, powerful flavor and heady aroma, blah, blah, blah. Oh, okay. It's a marmite. It has a very British, it says savory, hearty, like, like the flavor of mushrooms or beef or Jordy says, a lot of people don't like it. My taste in food is massive. Just like my music taste. That's right, brother. Well, you know, it's a lot, right? You said it's like a salty, beefy paste. Yeah. It's an acquired taste. So certain people, you know, there are people who dislike certain foods. And then there are others who appreciate it. And, uh, um, uh, like, for instance, in Japan, they have, um, a fermented soy product called natto, which is a very like mucoussey because it's very sticky and gooey. And, and, and it has a salty, a salty flavor that you would expect from fermented soy, but it's very high in nutritional value. Now this marmite is very high in value because I'd like to get some, you know what, I might order some marmite from Amazon.ca in Canada. I, I, I've been using, uh, yeah. So the brewer's yeast powder that I use, I put two level tablespoons in, in, um, in a shaker with some, uh, a shaker or a shake. Wait, no, not a shake.  All right. And I have this gra, powdered grass fed goat's milk that I order from Amazon. Powdered goat's milk from, uh, New Zealand. And, you know, it's very pristine over there in New Zealand. And, uh, I always love goat's milk. Ghost milk is actually very good for you. So I mixed that with the water and the brewer's yeast. And, uh, this marmite is, um, obviously made from the same yeast from the brewing industry. Uh, Jordy says, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's healthy stuff. You can also make hot marmite spoonful of marmite in a cup of boiling water.  Really interesting. Or, or maybe, hmm, that's interesting, Jordy. I bet you could, you could put, like, uh, I wonder if you can put, like, some fresh lemon squeezed in there. But I wonder, I wonder what you wrote. The wonder of you, who wrote the book of love. Remember that song? The wonder of you, who wrote the book of love. The viewers get an extra bonus when James and I start reminiscing about the classic oldies. Yes, we, sometimes we burst out in song. So we're, we're value-added people. We're very well-rounded, as opposed to people that have, which annoys me, tunnel vision. You know, like the Clydesdale horses with the, with this, they don't see, they can't see left or right. It's, it's only their brainwashed. Or certain people with pointy elbows that only see dollar signs and white envelopes. You know, the person's perception means nothing if you cannot prove anything. If you don't have any facts to back it up. Perception could be, it could be a deluded person with, lives in a fantasy world, their perception, hmm, based on what they want to hear. We mean like a psychopath or a narcissist. Well, a narcissist is bad enough. But if you have a narcissistic sociopath, they don't feel, they don't feel remorse for anything they do. It's like, it's like, remember Bernard Madoff, who made off with everybody's money? Yep. Well, Bernard Madoff, if he, if he didn't get caught, he would probably continue doing what he was doing. One for you and one for the, you know who. Yeah. Two for one for you and two. Keep it, keep it good. But he, if he felt no remorse for cleaning out people's life savings, then he would be a sociopath. Oh, he was a psychopath. That's even worse. Yeah. He was, he was cleaning out people's life savings. He felt nothing. He wasn't capable of feeling anything for other people. Just pure, pure evil. Now, now Jordy says he could become a vegan because he, he's lucky that he loves vegetables. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. But don't boil, don't boil your veggies until the color is all washed out. Try steaming them or stir-fry. Yeah. You have a stir-fry pan, Jordy, a wok. I need some steam. You could stir-fry like, like it could be any. On the Mongolian grill. I want the vapors of life, the steam from the Mongolian grill in Saddlebrook, New Jersey. Oh, yeah. And I used to have the, I used to give him the, the... He was a good guy then, the, the, the, the sous chef there. Yeah. I used to give him the, the, the, the low-may noodles to stir-fry, you know. And, and he would combine it with all the veggies and he would, he would stir-fry it on the grill, on the Mongolian grill. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. No, he was very, very good, young man. Now, let me ask you something. Does the Turkish restaurant have a wood charcoal rotisserie? Um, they have shawma, but I don't know because that's in the kitchen.  No, it, it goes this way. It doesn't go this way. It's a horizontal. Yeah. Okay. Like a whirlpool. Okay. I got you now. Now, um... A whirlpool versus a snowball going down the hill. Yeah. Like a vortex motion. Yeah. I like the word vortex. I told my sister, she, she says, uh, I know what I'm doing. You don't have to tell me anything. You couldn't, the, the, uh, the, the, the, the hot water from, this was during a holiday. Because of the tomato sauce residue, it was clogging the, the drain.  And all the liquid will go, liquid will go down the drain. And all the solid material will be in the, uh, in the trap. Do you know what you just reminded me of? The way that they, that the patrons of, we'll just say our HP, we don't want to get in trouble legally. Uh, wash their hands. They just stir the finger under the low flow. And then they wipe the finger in the paper towel.  And then they put the, the hands on the, on the ladles and the spoons. You know what else is unsanitary? The tip of the finger with the low flow faucet. When, when bartenders wash the glasses, they'll, they'll dip it in like two or three sinks. Now the problem is once you dip the glass in soapy water, then dip it in sink number two, sink number three. Eventually, sink number two and sink number three is going to get dirty. Right. Because there's no fresh water rinsing the glasses. Exactly. Now maybe, maybe when you first set it up, water just sitting there, it's, it's any water that stagnant is a bad thing. Uh, Jordy says, I usually put lemon juice in my bottle of waters. That's good. The toxifying the system. Oh yeah, lemon. It cleans all your kidneys too, Jordy. It prevents you from getting them. What's the, what's the calcium in your kidneys there? Kidneys. Now, you know what's good to, if you make tea, if you're not feeling well, Jordy, you make tea, you put a slice of fresh ginger. Ooh. And then you squeeze the juice of one whole lemon. Yes.  You boil the rind. Cayenne pepper. Cayenne pepper. You, you boil the rind because the oil, the lemon oil in the rind is much more medicinal than the juice. So you boil part of the rind, even if it's a half, a half a rind, you know, I mean a half a lemon. One more. Like a rhinestone cowboy. Like a rhinestone cowboy. Rhinemaking. Anywhere. See if we give you a run for everybody. Yo. It's just like. The modern day soupy sales. Suppy sales. Goodness gracious. He uh, but when he danced around he did some something called the mouse, so he was like buck teeth. He was shown I know unfortunately today we can't get away with that stuff That kind of humor Yeah, so anyway, if you get back to the lemon You're you're boiling what I do is I'll cut the lemon in half Then I'll I'll I'll use the kazoo like make believe the kazoo's a fork I'll cut the lemon in half. I'll stick the fork into the lemon squeeze Because with the fork in here you could squeeze it easy And then squeeze isn't a kegel Right a keg kegel and then you put you just throw the half of the lemon with the rind you boil it And you can you can put green tea in there. It doesn't have to be only Lemon and ginger you could throw ginger You could throw the gilligan's island ginger A three hour tour I wonder if gilligan ever ever tasted ginger as yeast No, because ginger Sat alone. She didn't she didn't buddy upward anybody on the show even the professor No, nobody she just she was embarrassed to do the show She just He took it for the money Wow Felt that gilligan's she felt that the roll of ginger on a sitcom was beneath her Tina louise Tina louise. This is actually quite true. Wow Thank you for electing Dawn wells who played marianne was a sweetheart I heard She had the belly, you know the belly shirt. Oh, I like that with the belly button Like proper eating never proper eating was the first one to show a belly button in the genie uniform I didn't know that. Yep You know, it screwed up the sitcom I found out when when somebody decided To have major nelson and genie get married Oh That totally put an accent into the yeah Yeah, no, that's when the the show went down and then got cancelled Yeah, but anyway get back to the medicinal witches brew Got the lemon you got the fresh ginger You you put tea of your choice if you like earl gray you put earl gray if you like black demon Mm-hmm tea for two and two for tea It'll help you pee Bring her to her knees tea Okay, uh the kegel that not the kegel the uh, what do you call the the the uh Sounds like a chicken a big dump there My neck the The plank the plank and plow system. Yeah That's a commodore Commodore's special plank and plow technique where the woman works her core And and uh, it gets drilled from behind at the at the same time Ah You already said See we're adding a lot of comedy to this holistic health program Currently eating edamamis, which is a uh young green soybean in the pot I've recently came to love this food. It's actually very good for you First time I had it Was a week ago fun to experiment with foods. You never had well. I'm a big sushi lover I mean good sushi now now commodore hasn't I haven't taken him to the all you can eat Japanese place by me did about three or four good shows from that place for buck an hour It was very good. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, let me tell you the quality is like excellent and they have cooked food there, too So, you know, if somebody is really not into the sushi and sashimi they can order Uh grilled they can order the uh steak teriyaki of fried oysters temp tempura Someone and so forth uh udon beef udon pork udon noodles Well udon is the thick noodles That that's good. That's good. If you have a cold jordy you can get get a nice big bowl of like udon noodles T No, that's oolong me so long semi fermented tea. It's a it's a it's a typical chinese restaurant tea Uh, we should go to china town because I really miss china town in boston I used to go there all the time. Do you have a china town near you or do you have to go into um No, I gotta go You gotta go into man the biggest china town Brooklyn where is it one of the biggest china towns in the country is in flushing queens Okay Flushing flushing it's supposedly a lot bigger than Manhattan lower manhattan All right All right Herbalpert and the team one of brands dating game go All right That's classic americana Yeah, jordy sushi is great It's tasty too Boy with all with all this knowledge in comedy the the the hour with you Is going quite rapidly Um, I'll be playing a few holistic health oriented videos after the commodore Departs for the gymnasium. Yep in about 11 minutes And I think it's great that you're training somebody because let me tell you your seminars Compared to the seminars of people that receive several hundred dollars per client your seminars Are of such Lofty value like it's your seminars on mount olympus and their seminar the people that are ripping everyone off For all that money. They're in a suit. Well, my seminars are very similar to um um canthecins because Canthecin I actually apply our ctt to our actual On the platform Yeah athletic endeavors such as the vintage strength games with the maze or powellifton You know so key. I don't know. So canthecin and I actually We use it to for longevity in our athletic endeavors. I just have to go to print one second You're you're percolating. No, I think of stuff of the printer. Oh the printer percolating printer, um the um Yeah, canthecin actually uses the Old-fashioned original exercises of the akara with his clients Yeah, even the hoe The hoe. Yeah, he Without using the legs the rope without using the legs rope. I was gonna say ties the rope to the tree branch He uh like he takes him to the park. He finds a good tree branch concrete gata He make yeah, he's got some homemade gata and then he uh with the concrete Right and he's got some homemade concrete juries Oh, I didn't know that. Wow Yeah, he learned how to make them.    Two-faced How do you say the do a quadra? Facha facha Yeah, yeah Yeah Do do a duo do I say in italy and uh to to facha facha his face. Yeah two face Well, and then what about what about the fact that he got it? He was annoyed that the gym owner from northern ireland. It's do a facha Do you have a cce? Do it From belfast that bought one of the evil monkey Funky monkey And and and it became a dangerous projectile. Yeah Somebody swung it in his gym and it flew off and almost hit It almost hit one of his Members in the head as a dangerous projectile No Well, that could have been a big lawsuit against the owner and and and uh, he he's mad that the irish Gym owner complained and left him a message.  He's another fellow He also he also blocked me on facebook.  He ended up having uh, he's probably a friend a friend of He's probably a friend of paul teras So he um, no, but at least paul didn't block me. I see paul on facebook all the time The uh on the mace page paul's not my friend on facebook, but I do see paul's postings on the mace page So these oh, no, i'm not a member there It's the other asshole In ireland. No, no, where's that other asshole located someplace in the uk? in england So he ends up having uh, a dinner in in los angeles with uh With slick rick brown after he says that the bridge should be mended Yeah, that was another 10 minute rant on facebook Yeah, another another drama queen. Yeah Dancing queen i'm a drama queen in the ctt world young and sweet there Abba Very too very attractive swedish girl singing beautiful. Oh my god agnosta Egg no egg agnesta, right? It's like agness, but it's in swedish. So agnesta. She's a blonde one mama mia mama mia And what was the other one hilda something like that hildegard No, there's a one was blonde and one. Yeah, that was agnesta one was brunette. Yeah They're very beautiful and very Unbelievable singers. I mean, you know incredible incredible exactly Uh What's that? That's out of the song. Um, yeah, agnessa. That's her name agnessa uh And then if you have the other ones named that they're the Um, um, take a chance with me. Oh, I love that Yeah, her name's annie frid this was agnessa and annie frid annie frid That's on me money money money Money money always money in the ct were Send me your money all you sycophants and hero worshipers ask your um Your unnamed husband for $3,000. It was um, there was a real funny plan of fitness commercial But you're not from i'm not from new jersey People in california are my people In the rich man's world There was this commercial. I think it's still on youtube. It was uh advertisement for plan of fitness, uh, gym franchises or And and these two Muscle has walked into the into the gym Go up to the manager I call him Blancas. Blancas. He says hey, you need any trainers? Uh, uh, uh, oh first he says um Hey, you taking that protein bro. You taking that protein bro Yeah, and he said need any trainers Uh, uh, he says uh train and drain drain those suckers bank accounts. He goes And the guy the manager threw him out. He showed him the door. He says you like doors He showed that's funny Look at me. Love me worship me drain those suckers bank account Oh man Remember that james love me need me worship me Yeah, that was the uh Silvio the super silvio the superintendent I got my eye on that newman I like silvio. Yeah, that's when when uh kramer reversed the people on his door Yeah That was funny. Yeah. Remember when he turned the uh, uh, the hallway into a patio Yeah, you can yeah for the fourth of july and he had the um The things and then the kids put all the streamers or the stuff in the camp put a screen door out there and Wind chime come on. Come on.  I like the one with little jerry sign for the fighting rooster Yes Yeah, oh man jerry in the same episode jerry had all this the checks that bounced. Um He was on the the list morcello Marcello, I think guys name was morcello. Yeah, he uh, he had like a clown He had a clown check that bounced Oh Speaking of which crazy joe devola died this week at age 71.  He did Yeah Yep, crazy joe. He died on friday 71 71 that's all he was that he's that's not that and they said in real life. He was a very very very nice man Yeah, that was uh, that's not that crazy joe devola. That's not that. Oh, really I know I remember I know the soup was a periac. Was it periaci? No What is that periaci periaci a clown the uh, the sad clown Periaci you got your tickets periaci tickets periaci tickets Yeah, he said when they scalp them on the side on the sidewalk lane says You know, you left your door open He says well, I encourage intruders Exactly, but they can't leave I love that. Yeah, okay. Six on one. I must uh, okay. Let me pipe you I must bid bid adieu bid adieu Thank you Commodore jeff sandal. That was a fun show. That was that was I I had a lot of entertainment a lot of I like the variety ad libbing the ad lib variety And boy, I wish me maybe next week if we could push You know pay pay homage to uh the The king of one line is the henna young man So I'll We should both do a little bit of research and just you know bring them just pay homage It's good to pay homage to certain people Unlike certain ctt snake oil salesmen who never paid or the great gamma. He retired He retired undefeated the great gamma So anyways, I could have bid adieu. Thank you Have a good sunday. I have a great week, but I'll do it. Jordy. See you later. Stay strong, Jordy yes that That was wonderful people. That was wonderful Let me get let's see This one is about the most important vitamins for the eye so I wanted to touch on the eye and Very important vitamins for the eye and not just vitamins, but a mineral and a phytonutrient The first thing you need to understand is that A lot of these problems with the eye whether it's macular degeneration or retinopathies or cataracts or glaucoma They usually stem or get triggered from oxidation high levels of oxidation Usually from too much blood sugar. Okay, that's why diabetics. You see so many problems of the eye Or high levels of insulin Other things in the diet can affect the eye, but the big thing is the sugar Okay, so I've done all the videos on that and then the high sugar also will deplete you of certain nutrients as well But these nutrients I want to mention act as antioxidants. So if you have enough of these nutrients in your body It will reduce the complications from Diabetes or high sugar or whatever you have They basically have protective properties. Okay So the most important is vitamin a without vitamin a you're going to have a lot of eye problems Vitamin a helps you see in the dark and it can reduce night blindness and prevent it basically Um and people that can't see when they're driving at night without vitamin a your Tearducts and your mucus membranes are on the eye drive right up. So you get dry eye There's so many people like carrying around this little Solution to help lubricate the eye When they need vitamin a And also make note that you might need more bile salts If there's a gallbladder problem or a liver problem because you need that to help you Absorb vitamin a without vitamin a you tend to get cataracts And macular degeneration the macula is the back part of the eye All right, then we get vitamin b1 Which gets depleted when you're a diabetic when you eat high carbohydrate diets When you eat refined foods and also if you're taking metformin by the way that will deplete b1 Without b1 your risk of getting cataracts go way up and also your risk for getting retinopathy problems with the retina Because b1 is involved in keeping the outer coating of your nerves intact that myelin sheath So if you have any type of peripheral neuropathy problems because you're a diabetic You want to take b1, but you want to take it in a fat soluble form Um as in benphotamine, okay? Benphotamine is also good to penetrate the fat layers of the eye and even the brain So it's really good for something like this if you catch it in time All right b3 Is good for glaucoma and all the b vitamins that i'm going to talk about You can take nutritional yeast to get your b vitamins. It's a good source But glaucoma is high pressure in the eye. Okay, then we have zinc Zinc is a very powerful antioxidant. It's a trace mineral Over two billion people on this planet are deficient in zinc. It's a very common deficiency also in in Agriculture as well. So it's one of the most common But zinc allows vitamin a to work. Okay to do its job without zinc vitamin a has a hard time Creating its functions. All right. Another point is that your eye is loaded with zinc Okay, because zinc acts as a cofactor or a helper in all these different enzymes over a thousand different enzymes dealing with proteins without zinc you get an increased risk of getting a cataract and macular degeneration Other than that, you're perfectly fine Okay, then we get carotenoids, which is not a vitamin. It's a phytonutrient It's an additional thing in plants and other foods that give you health benefits like lutein zeanthin Um, you may have heard about eating tomatoes for example It's high in lutein or kale or any type of leafy greens Because these carotenoids actually help prevent macular degeneration and a lot of other things Okay, vitamin d actually can help reduce the risk for cataracts.  This is a fat cycle vitamin Vitamin e is also involved But I didn't want to mention that because there's not a tremendous amount of research on the eye with vitamin e Maybe a little bit here and there, but vitamin e is a very powerful antioxidant Also, so is vitamin c from food Very important But again, I didn't want to put that because I didn't find a lot of research on that All right, vitamin b2 deficiencies can increase the risk of cataract and macular degeneration as well and vitamin b2 Is a antioxidant for the nervous system too. So I did another video on this related to Parkinson's very interesting All right, guys, there's a summary. Make sure you're getting these nutrients from the food that you're eating Hey guys, real okay Let's see Okay, we're going to move on to the next um health Related video hosting health video Let's see what we got here All right Bear with me We'll go to this one. This is about This is a video is called Can supplements actually shrink your prostate gland? Uh referring to men with uh Enlarged prostates benign Prostatic hyper hyperplasia Newest stress supplements, they're everywhere In fact, as you age particularly over the age of 60 people are likely to report taking four or more dietary supplements So hand supplements help your prostate. I'm dr. Rina Malik your urologist and pelvic surgeon and today we're going to cover What supplements there are that might help with prostate enlargement or symptoms related to prostate enlargement And what is the data behind them benign prosthetic hyperplasia bph or prostate enlargement is a very common In fact, 80 percent of men at the age of 80 will have prostate enlargement So people often have symptoms related to prostate enlargement and these can be things like having a weak urinary stream Having difficulty emptying your bladder having to wait for your stream to start or your stream having to stop and start During urine flow in some cases it can also cause going to the bathroom very often during the day or even at night And it can cause the urge to go got to go got to go and sometimes not even make it so Wouldn't it be great if we had supplements to help with these symptoms now before I get into the data on the variety Of supplements that are available. I want to let you know what supplements are They're what we call phytotherapeutic products mean that they come from plants And so plants themselves will have variability And so oftentimes even if you get the same supplements from the same manufacturer Sometimes they may work better than others. Also companies use different processes when they extract Being ingredient from the plants and so that can also vary the efficacy And the amount of the product within the supplement can vary in one study looking at 27 saw palmetto products They saw huge variability in the active ingredient, which is the free fatty acid within the saw palmetto And that ranged from anywhere from none in the supplement to 95 percent the amount that was needed And only 17 met the criteria for a saw palmetto supplement Which was to have 85 percent of that free fatty acid component or more in the supplement So the way these supplements typically work is they have anti-inflammatory effects And if you watched my last video last week, you know That inflammation is one of the causes of prostate enlargement. So they have an anti-inflammatory effect Sometimes they also interact with some of those growth factors I told you that are involved in cell proliferation like ilgf or insulin like growth factor And other growth factors that cause cell growth And lastly sometimes they interact with the hormones dht or the enzymes that convert them five alpha reductase Now one of the pharmaceutical drugs that we use for bph Does also affect that same enzyme called five alpha reductase and it inhibits the conversion of testosterone to dht And this is actually quite effective in reducing prostate size and growth So some of these medications are similar in that way If you want to learn more about that medication check out my video where I talk about medications for enlarged prostate in quite detail Including the side effects that you may experience if you're taking them So let's start off with the most rigorously studied supplement in probably all of urology And that's called saranoa repins or saw palmetto This is a berry from a dwarf plant tree And while the mechanism of action is not 100 clear, it's thought to reduce inflammation It's also thought to reduce the conversion of testosterone to dht by acting on the five alpha reductase enzyme It's thought to inhibit the binding of dihydrotestosterone, which is the most concentrated Androgen in the prostate how this supplement works is one it reduces prostate inflammation Two it's thought to inhibit the conversion of testosterone to dht by its effect on five alpha reductase And lastly it also may affect the binding of dihydrotestosterone two receptors in the prostate Now i'm going to go over the abundance of data on saw palmetto So i want to start by saying this was used very often in the 90s In europe and the united states because the early studies were very very promising and of course people like taking measurements over taking pharmaceuticals And so the first study was published in the new england journal of medicine Now i have not seen many studies on supplements with the exception of like vitamin d and magnesium In the large journals like the new england journal and jamma These are sort of the top tier medical journals that clinical doctors and clinical physicians use to assess the medical literature And these are the type of articles that cause changes in our practice in our clinical practice of how we take care of patients So all the studies i'm going to talk about are randomized controlled trials Now this study was also a double blinded randomized controlled trial of 225 men And this is important because not only did they not know what they were getting but the people who were giving the medication Didn't know what they were giving and these men had to have moderate to severe symptoms And they had to take saw palmetto for one year during the duration of the study at 160 milligram dose twice daily And all these studies look at different factors. Obviously they look at symptom scores So they use validated questionnaires that correlate with the severity of symptoms And they use these to sort of standardize the outcome and they use those they look at your flow rate Which is how fast your urine flows out how quickly it hits the toilet in milliliters per second They sometimes look at prostate size and oftentimes they also look at how well your bladder is emptying So how much urine is left over after urinating and in this trial they also looked at quality of life And so in all of these measures They found no statistically significant difference between those who took the saw meadow and those who took a placebo pill Now the reason i've said this many times the reason these studies are so important is because every time you take a pill There is a placebo effect Meaning you think it's going to work and your brain is quite powerful And it will tell your body that your symptoms are better or it may help even with some symptoms But it's all based on just a placebo. There's no active ingredient in that pill And so it's important to differentiate what is a placebo effect and what is a true effect of the actual Treatment that you're giving so in the next study, which was published in jamma the journal of the american medical association In 2011 now this was also a double blind randomized controlled trial It was over 11 different centers in north america and it recruited over 300 men in this day They were dose escalated mean that they started was getting 320 milligrams a day of saw palmetto Which is the same that they were getting in that last study It then increased the dose to double that and then triple that to see if there was any difference And they followed the study over 72 weeks So it was not a short study and what they found over those three years Was that there was really again? No statistically significant difference in all the parameters that they investigated Now remastering the new england journal was moderate to severe lutz This study was actually a group of people who probably had more mild symptoms. They were younger overall They were less symptomatic. They had better flow rates and lower psa's now psa is a blunt test That is often used for screening of prostate cancer But it also can be used as a surrogate for prostate size because the larger your prostate is the more psa it makes This has also been studied so much that they created what's called a cochlear review Cochlear reviews are sort of a well respected organization the cochlear review organization that creates systematic reviews Of all the data and literature and in fact saw palmetto Went through i think three cochlear reviews the last one being in 2012 because once they saw this new JAMA article they had to incorporate it into the systematic review and analyze all the data from all the studies together To come up with a definitive plan is saw palmetto actually helpful in this review They include 17 randomized controlled trials with over 2000 patients these patients were about 64 years of age Most of them were white and they had moderate to severe symptoms based on their symptom scores When they focused on the high quality long duration studies and analyzed those specifically They again saw no significant difference in symptom score or flow rate with Saw palmetto compared to placebo. So I will say this is actually a really good example of what happens in the field of science Right, we start off with smaller studies. Usually they're less, you know, they receive less funding They're less of interest and so they they're smaller duration studies and we may see promising results But when we follow this data for years with larger numbers of patients that difference may Become diluted and actually not be significant. It means that it may not make a difference. That's clinically meaningful Two patients. What do I do with saw palmetto? I still offer it to patients if they are wanting to try a supplement option because I do find that some patients Still do see a benefit However, I always tell them the data did not show a benefit. So this is essentially Maybe a drain on your wallet and may not be helpful But for some people they would much rather take Either that or take that with other medications to avoid a surgical procedure for an enlarged prostate And again, this is about what you want and what you need that saw palmetto is generally very very safe Has very little side effects. It can affect blood clines. So if you're going to have a major procedure Generally, it's a good idea to stop it two weeks before But otherwise it's pretty safe. Most people tolerate it pretty well And I will see that generally speaking any supplement or anything you take can have GI side effects. So nausea, vomiting, changes in bowel habits So if that occurs with anything obviously you can stop it and make sure that those symptoms improve And if they persist that it's important to see your primary care doctor to make sure it's nothing more serious The next supplement is called Pigeum africanum. Now this is from the bark of an african cherry tree And the fruit that it produces are african cherries or african plums However, you want to call it but that's where the word Pigeum comes from and this works by a multitude of actions First off, it reduces five alpha reductase activity So it prevents the conversion of testosterone to dihydrotestosterone also inhibits the Endured receptor from binding so that it reduces signaling and by that way it's supposed to reduce prostate cell growth There was also so many studies on this that they also had a cochlear review that was published in 2002 This also included 18 randomized controlled trials with over 1500 men And however, it's important to note that these studies were really short in duration It was about 64 days And in this cochlear review, they actually did see a benefit people who took the Pigeum at least in this short duration Were it twice as likely to show an improvement in overall symptoms They reduced the need to urinate at night by about 19 percent The amount of volume of urea left over after urinating in the bladder by about 24 percent And they increased the full peak urinary flow by another 23 percent So it did see an improvement and the dose they took ranged from 100 to 200 milligrams Now there were some side effects again most common were GI side effects and nausea abdominal discomfort things like that, but despite this positive review So while they saw a positive improvement I don't believe there's been any subsequent longer term studies that have shown benefit with this particular supplement Now I see it a lot in combination with soft palmetto in terms of those supplements that have multiple ingredients in them And so perhaps maybe together they do see a better benefit But generally speaking, like I said, these studies are really small. The outcomes were not standardized It was a really short duration So hard to tell if it's really going to help in the long term And generally speaking when you take supplements, that's usually not a quick onset Like when you take a pharmaceutical medication Those are really sort of concentrated to have just the active ingredient in them And so they work a lot quicker whereas supplements you generally have to take A couple months or at least a month to see a true benefit So I'm not really sure if this would be replicated in longer term studies The next supplement is called jucurbita pepo or pumpkin seed And so pumpkin seed usually comes in extract either an oil or a supplement pill formed Shrink swollen prostate using this simple 10 second method in just a few moments Even if you've been living with an enlarged prostate for months, years or even decades Or if you've been experiencing symptoms such as nighttime urination Incomplete bladder emptying or weak urine And it works by again affecting the five alpha reductase enzyme It also has anti-inflammatory component And in fact in rat studies it has been shown to increase nitric oxide Which can then allow for smooth muscle relaxation So that can also help relax the prostate and allow for improvement in symptoms Additionally pumpkin seeds have really high levels of zinc And the prostate is one of the organs in the body that has high concentration of zinc So the zinc itself is thought to ameliorate some of the bph symptoms Now it's important to note in your extract that you decide to take If you decide to take it after watching this that there are high levels of phosphate Zinc as I mentioned magnesium and manganese and a lot of pumpkin seed extract So if you for example are taking another magnesium supplement You don't want to take both or if you have kidney issues You don't want high levels of phosphate. So you want to avoid something like this So always no matter what supplement you take check the ingredients on the back Because you don't want to excessively take any one ingredient Again, we're focusing on studies that are randomized controlled trials So here they had a randomized controlled trial looking at men getting Two 500 milligrams of pumpkin seed extract versus the control over 12 months And they recruit about 476 men They did see a significant improvement in symptoms based on validated questionnaires A 65 improvement in the pumpkin seed group versus a 54 improvement in the control group Now look that's a huge placebo effect 54% that's pretty high They didn't see an improvement in other factors like flow rate residual urine leftover PSA levels And the size of the prostate There was again another study very similar to this 1400 patients That were randomized to receive either the pumpkin seed extract of 500 milligrams Or the pumpkin seed itself at 5 grams twice a day compared to a placebo And again they did see an improvement in symptoms scores But they weren't sure if it was really clinically significant So generally speaking I think in terms of pumpkin seed I've seen a lot of stuff on social media about pumpkin seed extract pumpkin seed oil And I think there may be a benefit But if we're not seeing changes in the other parameters like how quick your urine is flowing Which is usually the big one that I like to see is that your flow is better Then it may not be useful But I think that also it does have some beneficial effects on the bladder itself So it may improve some of the overactive bladder symptoms Like going often or gotta go gotta go Or having to wake up at night Which isn't really assessed by these other parameters Like prostate volume and residual urine But it may overall help with those symptoms The next one is beta cytosterol So this is a very common molecule that's found in a lot of cell membranes That's similar to cholesterol And it's found in plants, cereals It's very highly abundant But it works in one way as an anti-inflammatory And it also has what we call pro apoptotic mechanisms So it actually helps sort of kill off some of the cell growing in the prostate And that's the theory anyways Again this is also seen most commonly in sort of combination supplements But this was studied again in a Cochran review This was published in 1999 And it has five randomized controlled trials included in it with over 500 men And so in these two in the both control and the supplement group They saw an improvement in symptoms But they also saw an improvement in flow rate It's important but they did not see an improvement in overall prostate size So it doesn't cause prostate shrinkage It may improve urinary flow rate Side effects again are GI related So gas, constipation, diarrhea But otherwise generally pretty well tolerated And that moves us on to the last one for today Which is stinging nettle or uretica diosa I might be saying that wrong So this is a perennial plant that's usually found in damp soils and abandoned fields And typically people will use the root extract for the benefit of BPH symptoms So similar to beta cytosterol It has anti-inflammatory and anti-growth essentially factors It will inhibit some of the growth factors that are responsible for BPH growth It may even inhibit the connection of sex hormone binding Glabalin to receptors in the prostate itself There was no good high-quality study with stinging nettle by itself But there was one where it was combined with sawpalmetto Or in the study called sawball fruit In the study they randomized to receive 160 milligrams of sawpalmetto With 120 milligrams of the root extract of stinging nettle Twice a day compared to the placebo And they followed these people for up to 48 weeks And after 48 weeks they were then all given the active supplement to up to 96 weeks And so based on this they again saw an improvement in symptoms and urinary flow rates With both together over 96 weeks And so that does again show a pretty that's a pretty good rigorous Long-term study that's shown a benefit Stinging nettle has a little bit more sort of reactions that you need to be aware of One is that it can interact with iron So if you're taking iron it can reduce the efficacy of the iron you're taking It of course can cause the same GI effect Some people do get swelling or hives or other sort of dermatologic issues Although that's quite rare And if you're taking lithium or blood thinners You want to avoid taking stinging nettle Also if you're diabetic stinging nettle can have sort of a hypoglycemic effect So you want to watch that with your diabetes medications That may not be a good idea to take those together If you're taking diuretic stinging nettle can also decrease your body's potassium Which can be dangerous if combined with the wrong diuretic So if you're any of those categories I would just avoid taking stinging nettle all together Now in my last video I talked about lycopene So lycopene is a powerful carotenoid that has an anti-inflammatory effect It also is a strong antioxidant and it can slow prostate growth By the way interacts with certain growth factors like IGF-1 To help reduce the growth of the prostate So in terms of studies with lycopene There's no randomized controlled trials on lycopene By itself But there have been reviews looking at sort of all the published literature And I will say it's extremely variable They've seen doses from anywhere to 10 milligrams twice a day Up to 500 milligrams twice a day They follow people for up to six months And they've done it on a large number about 2000 patients If you look at all the data together and they've shown some benefit But again these days are really variable And you cannot confirm this without a randomized controlled trial So until there are randomized controlled trials That go head to head with lycopene and placebo It's really hard to say if this truly works And if you are going to try lycopene I'd say start with the food grade first Rather than taking supplements So add some tomato paste into your diet Or tomatoes or watermelon Or any other food that has lycopene And see if that helps with your symptoms Again lycopene in terms of tomato based products Can be a bladder irritant So if you are experiencing irritation from eating those things And maybe taking a supplement may be better But again I can't say if it's truly effective The only randomized controlled trials we have As I mentioned are with other things Like saw palmetto and selenium Where they did see a benefit And also just know that lycopene can affect blood clotting So if you are taking lycopene To stop it a couple weeks before surgeries That you don't have any adverse bleeding during surgery So in terms of BPH These are probably the most rigorously studied supplements And the one that has the most data is saw palmetto Ultimately did not show a benefit But still I think highly used And it does help for some individual patients And then the other ones you know there's some data But not as robust as saw palmetto And ultimately I think If you are having bothersome BPH symptoms Of course my concern is your quality of life And improving that quality of life And so if these supplements help you get there That's great There's also of course a number of medications That you can take or procedures That you can get done if it's becoming too bothersome Really the biggest concern as a urologist Is that over time when you have a large prostate blocking the bladder It can affect bladder function It can make the bladder not squeeze as strongly As it used to because it keeps pushing urine Through the prostate for years and years Which can create a problem And so in terms of that If you are symptoms are getting worse Or you're having symptoms very young I encourage you to consider doing something To alleviate those symptoms And either start medication or consider a procedure Because you're young and you've got many many years to live And it could become a problem as you age But at the end of the day We just want you to feel better And hopefully live a happy healthy and fulfilled life If you're enjoying this content Please be sure to subscribe to my channel And consider being a premium member Every month we do ask me anything Episodes on the premium membership That will be from questions only from premium members We also offer early access to all our podcast episodes That are ad free So check it out at rena malik.com Okay, I just want to say that The lycopene content In tomatoes Is greatly increased by cooking The cooking process for some reason Releases much more lycopene It becomes more bioavailable I take I keep my tomato sauce Down to a minimum Because I'm subject to acid reflux By certain foods Especially like foods high in carbs High carbohydrate type foods You know I try to consume them to moderation But I take Rose hips powder In as a part of my elixir That I mix with the organic dark rose coffee I put moringa in there I put the rose hips Five grams of rose hips powder I put I would say about a half a two spoon of organic clove powder Because It has the highest antioxidant OREC score of any known food Among other things Being a natural antiseptic And being that I was given a big bottle a big jar From a relative I put this organic certified raw honey Just to give it some flavor Because moringa has a horseradish taste But anyway Rose hips is very high in lycopene So it's a non-mesitic form of lycopene As far as Ronnie Eskos I'm going to have to ask him On messenger To see how he's feeling Thank you for reminding me He's on messenger So you can you can communicate with him If you wish I have one last Video or play For this week's show Holistic health Holistic health thought And it has to do with eggs It's I'd say it's a positive video about eggs Got the wrong one Oh no I'm trying to find it Oh here we go Hope you're having a good weekend Mr Mr. Daryl Messiah So things are good The show went pretty well last night Even though I didn't have any co-hosts It went well I had good communication By way of texting You know in the commentary section So I made the best of it And it ended up being a good show Uh here we go Hello health champions Today I want to talk about the shocking truth Regarding eggs and heart disease There is a prevailing truth An accepted truth in mainstream medicine And in our society as a whole That cholesterol is bad That saturated fat is bad That saturated fat increases cholesterol And that's why saturated fat is bad And also that high levels of cholesterol Causes heart disease And then basically We've been told this so many times That we don't question it anymore That the case is closed This is how it is And we're going to talk about All of these different factors And we're going to talk about it In a way that you learn to think about it Not just refer to some study or some article But you'll understand these things And when you think about them You'll be able to go Hey, that makes sense Or that does not make sense But how come this became the prevailing truth The mainstream truth The current dogma And a lot of it has to do with the fact That we associate things That these fatty plaques have some cholesterol In them And therefore we think Hey, that must come from somewhere It must be from what we're eating It must be the cholesterol And a lot of that thinking Had to do with something called The Seven Countries Study So this was late 50s, early 60s Where a guy called Ansel Keys He was a nutritionist Was very convincing in his arguments So here is how that study came about He studied number of countries And as you soon notice There were a lot more than seven countries And in fact there were 22 countries That he started with And then you would think This should be called the 22 countries study But he selected a number of these countries So these were the only countries That ended up in the study Which is five of them And then the other countries Were scrapped Because they didn't fit what he was looking for So he had this idea That he was trying to prove That diets high in saturated fat and cholesterol In countries where they had those diets They also had more heart disease So he had to pick the countries That matched what he was trying to prove And that was only five countries out of 22 That matched his criteria And then he had to go and find two more countries Greece and Yugoslavia So now he had seven countries Where he could kind of see a pattern And that's what he published as the seven country study And you don't have to be a rocket scientist To see that cherry picking like that Is not a great idea If you want to be objective But even so This has been hailed as a landmark study And is basically the foundation Of why we think the way we do today And since then there's been hundreds Of studies performed on these topics And they tend to kind of fall 50-50 Or in two opposite camps Not necessarily equally split But there are some studies that prove That show that high cholesterol Is strongly correlated with cardiovascular disease But for every study that says that There is another that says there's no correlation Or even an inverse correlation That actually high cholesterol, high saturated fat Diets result in less cardiovascular disease And that's why he had to scrap most of those 22 countries Because a lot of them actually showed The opposite relationship But why is it so difficult to figure this out? If we have gold standard research Double-blind placebo control Why can't they figure it out? And one thing that we have to ask is Who pays for it? And these studies are not cheap They're in the millions or tens of millions Of dollars to perform a big comprehensive Well-designed study So if you have tens of millions of dollars Sitting around You can go and order yourself a study And someone will be happy to perform it for you But for the most part The people or the companies with that kind of money Tend to be pharmaceutical companies So they have huge budgets Because it's in their best interest To prove that high cholesterol causes heart disease But here's an astounding fact That most people don't realize But it kind of makes sense If you understand human nature We don't want to look bad So if someone orders a study And they get the results back And they're favorable Then there's an 85% chance That their studies will get published If they can get it through the peer review process To show that it's well-designed And relevant Then 8% of those will get published But Why is everyone in the US going crazy Over this portable heater? With inflation at an all-time high Heating your home might just become a luxury But thanks to this new invention You can warm up any room for almost zero cost This invention If it is not favorable If the results coming back Do not support what they wanted Then there's an 85% chance That it won't get published And these are not totally exact numbers Because it's going to vary a little bit But they're roughly in the ballpark And what this shows us Is that what we call scientific truth That we base this on double-blind placebo control studies And we think, hey, what's out there, what's published That represents the truth But what's built into this process Is a 45x bias Toward the person who ordered the entity Who ordered the study So we can't just look at what's out there And assume that that's the whole truth And nothing but the truth So I don't have tens of millions of dollars Sitting around either So I have performed some of my own studies On a smaller scale And you may have seen those videos Where I do something I get some blood work Then I eat something And then I do blood work again And then I report what happened So for example, I ate 100 eggs in seven days And the pre and post blood work Showed a few items going up or down But overall, I did not get sicker There were no dramatic markers That I had a poor health after doing that Then another time, I ate 100 tablespoons of butter In 10 days And interestingly, you would think that all that saturated fat Would end up in my bloodstream As triglycerides But my triglycerides went down And my insulin resistance improved After doing that I ate 100 hamburgers in 10 days Or rather, 100 hamburger patties Because I didn't want to eat a bunch of bread and carbohydrate To screw up my metabolism And interestingly, my cholesterol Went from 233 to 199 Which is one of the lowest ones I have had in recent decades And I don't really know why I thought it would stay pretty much the same And another interesting thing was the blood urea nitrogen The bun Which went from 16 to 10 Even though I ate almost twice as much protein As I usually do And the residue from protein Is this nitrogen that we can measure in blood urea nitrogen And when I mentioned in that video That I wasn't sure why that bun went down And I still don't One of my viewers enlightened me and said Of course It went down because you ate the hamburger Without the bun And if you notice I put quotation marks around the word studies Because I do that kind of tongue in cheek I don't believe that these are good examples of research This is actually pretty bad science And I'm not claiming that it's anything else And the reason is that the total sample population Meaning the number of people studied is exactly one Namely myself And it still cost a few hundred bucks To do that So the reason it's not great science Is that I may not be like you Whatever results I get could be different than yours But I'm not claiming that it's good science Or that I represent you But guess what When they do bigger studies If they have a study with 10,000 people in them And then they have 55% of people respond a certain way That's going to create a trend It's going to be statistically significant probably Even though 4,500 people out of the 10,000 Didn't respond that way And I'm just making course gross examples here To illustrate something But the point is that it doesn't matter how big the study is It may still not be like you Okay So you still have to figure out you And the way that you do that Is in these videos I explain the mechanisms And the basic physiology So you can start understanding how the body works Rather than just looking at one example Whether it's mine or somebody else's And then you can look at your own blood work Or you could look at your own results in life How you feel, your weight, your waistline, etc And then you figure you out But you can't do that unless you understand some mechanisms And some basic physiology Let's look at some very simple facts Eggs have cholesterol Eggs have saturated fat But the question then is First, if we eat a bunch of eggs Does this mean that we raise our blood cholesterol? We don't know Sometimes we do, sometimes we don't But if it did go up Would that be a bad thing? And here's the huge misconception That a lot of people think if it goes up then that's bad But in itself it doesn't mean anything We have to look at the bigger picture Now let's take a look at the concept of conversion Of turning one thing into another Because based on the prevailing truth About eggs, cholesterol, saturated fat and heart disease As a culture we believe That dietary cholesterol leads to plaques Leads to atherosclerosis So let's take an example Let's make a comparison So here we have an egg Which has obviously cholesterol And then we have this theory That this leads to Placking and atherosclerosis And narrowing of arteries And this is basically how we think Based on these studies The seven country studies That the cholesterol from here Ends up as cholesterol in the plaque It's the same cholesterol More of this leads to more of that But here is a question Now if we assume that maybe this isn't true Maybe there's some conversion going on And let's ask a question That if in another example That we have a cow And this cow Has a body with some fat in it With some saturated fat With cholesterol in the fat This cow produces milk From which we can make butter That has lots of fat Lots of saturated fat Lots of cholesterol So if this cow is full of cholesterol Where did that come from? Is it because that cow ate a bunch of eggs With cholesterol?   Does it go around eating the other cows? Is that how the cholesterol ends up in the cow? No, if this cow eats what it's supposed to Then all it eats is grass Green grass Pure carbohydrates basically Has a trace amount of protein and fat in it But basically this cow eats things It's grass that has no cholesterol And yet it ends up with all that cholesterol in the body So maybe if we understand that there's a conversion process Maybe that cholesterol in the plaque doesn't come from there That's a possibility And this conversion is also known as metabolism Which means to transform So it's a form of transformation So if we look at the things that we eat as humans And we are, by the way, quite similar to a cow In that we are bulls We both store fat And we store it as about half saturated And about half mono unsaturated That's typical for the body fat of both a cow and a human So the big groups The big macronutrients that we eat Are protein, carbohydrates, and fat And protein The purpose is to turn into tissue To building blocks, to body parts But the excess will actually turn into carbohydrates And carbohydrates, in turn, can become fat But it can't work the other way around So we can convert things sometimes one way But not necessarily both ways And then all three of these Turn into something called acetyl-CoA And don't worry about the name Don't try to memorize any of this I'm just trying to show you That we have something called conversion Metabolism, transformation We eat these things And along the way they become something else This is an intermediary metabolite that we use To make energy So if we make energy from protein, carbs, or fat It's because we can turn it into acetyl-CoA But if we're really, really low on carbs This acetyl-CoA can turn into something else Depending on certain After not pooping for three days My mom was rushed to the hospital To have a log of poop surgically removed from her colon So Circumstances, depending on what's appropriate For the body, what it needs at that time So if we're low on carbs We can turn this acetyl-CoA into ketones And this acetyl-CoA is also the raw material for cholesterol So again, I'm just trying to show you That this cholesterol didn't necessarily come from cholesterol That we can turn anything that we eat Can turn into cholesterol If we need it But here's the thing It's really not a mystery anymore Today we know what the cause of cardiovascular disease is And it is chronic inflammation, oxidative stress And something called insulin resistance So I'm not going to go into depth here Because I've done videos on all of this And it's called metabolic syndrome Or syndrome X And this is a label This is a concept When we're metabolically unhealthy Then we have certain manifestations And if we have abdominal obesity Hyper tension Meaning high blood pressure If we have high fasting glucose If your body can't control blood glucose As in type 2 diabetes If we have high triglyceride High blood fats Also very common in diabetes If we have low HDL The supposedly good cholesterol Which of course there is no good or bad There's just appropriate and appropriate cholesterol Then if you have any 3 out of these 5 Then they consider you to have metabolic syndrome And then they know that you'll be predisposed To all these different problems of heart disease, etc But the people with metabolic syndrome What they really have is chronic inflammation Oxidative stress and insulin resistance So these 3 things are the causes That we need to work on And that we need to control And this is very, very well established There's really no discussion or controversy About this at all What there still is controversy about Is which type of foods And what type of lifestyle Will create these states That cause cardiovascular disease But the question now in this video is Do eggs cause cardiovascular disease So the question is Do eggs cause these 3 things And the answer is no they don't There is nothing in there That causes insulin resistance Or oxidative stress or inflammation Unless you are allergic to them Then that becomes a bad food for you Or if you combine the eggs With things like sugar, margarine, and chemicals And this is the problem with a lot of observational studies Like the 7 country studies that He picked countries that had a high intake Of saturated fat and cholesterol But what else did they eat?  How much did they smoke? Did they ever exercise? We don't know But here's what we do know High total cholesterol in itself Does not cause heart disease And here's an article that I referenced once before But it's so good I want to bring it back So basically they looked at the total cholesterol levels They only measured 2 things They measured total cholesterol and how many people died And this was a huge study Because they did this in Korea over a decade or so And it was basically everyone in Korea more or less So 12 million adults were part of this study And it's not like the 7 country studies Where they don't know all the variables Because here they were only interested in 2 They didn't care what else they did They only looked at what happens with cholesterol And how many people die Of all the people who died What were their cholesterol levels So they looked at 12.8 million adults And they looked at all cause mortality So what that means is They didn't really care if the cholesterol caused heart disease or not All they know Because you could maybe save a few people from heart disease But if they die faster from something else Then that's not really a gain, is it? So all cause mortality is pretty much what we're interested in And here's the interesting thing that they found That we're told that high cholesterol is bad Low cholesterol is good And they give people statin drugs I've had people come through my office on statin drugs With a cholesterol under 120 And they keep giving them the statin drug As if less is always better But here's what we find on this graph Is that low cholesterol is really really bad Like really low cholesterol is really bad And if we compare that to very high cholesterol We see that a cholesterol of 110, 120 Is many many times worse Much more likely to cause death Than a cholesterol of 300 But when was the last time you saw a commercial For a medication to raise cholesterol It's like oh my god your cholesterol is 120 We got to get you up into the 250s They don't do that so much do they Because we have this bad idea that less is always better And in fact what we found in this study Was that the sweet spot The absolute lowest death rate The optimal cholesterol would fall somewhere Around 230 And if we looked at the area where they had A very slight increase above the lowest rate of death Like less than 10% increase above that lowest rate We would consider that a pretty good pretty good odds Then that gives us a pretty wide range where we are safe So anywhere from 180 to 270 Is a very slight increase in risk And then we overlap that with the standard range With the normal recommendations that we get all over the world Is that the cutoff is a 200 Anything over 200 is too high And you should take medication to control it And if you notice here that What the study of the optimal range Where you have just a slight increase Falls almost entirely in the red area Where you would prescribe or recommend medication Or lifestyle changes or both to lower your cholesterol Now let's just add one more factor to this Because I think it's a great study But remember they only look at the total cholesterol And the total amount of death all cause mortality But what we have to realize Is that some of these people with high cholesterol were healthy And some of them were very unhealthy And the other things that we just talked about That we know cause heart disease That some of these people had those factors And some didn't So what if we were to take this population And I'm speaking hypothetically now And we took all the people with abdominal obesity And we took them out of here Because we're trying to find out How does cholesterol affect death If we now correct for the people who had abdominal obesity Which we know is a risk factor And we also take out the people who have hypertension And high fasting glucose High triglycerides and low HDL We know these are risk factors for heart disease Let's take these people out So now we isolate more For what cholesterol in itself Actually does And we also correct We take the people out who have high insulin levels Now we have a pure population Where only cholesterol is a causative factor of death And I believe Not that I've ever known that they've done this study But I very strongly believe that if we corrected for this Then the curve would look like that It would be almost flat And I don't know Maybe around five, six, seven, eight hundred Total cholesterol that it might go up For some other reason But I think the majority of people With cholesterol in the three to four hundred range If we correct for this Which we can control through lifestyle Then we will not have an increased risk From cholesterol And please hear me when I say that I'm not suggesting that 350 is any better than 250 What I am saying The number of total cholesterol by itself Is not what we want to look at Now let's just go back to the actual causes That we talked about And see why do they cause heart disease Or why is part of the reason So when we have insulin resistance Chronic inflammation Oxidative stress And poor metabolic health What happens in the body Is that the LDL changes It's not that LDL is bad But we can change LDL into something bad If we have these factors present Because LDL is normally relatively large I call it large and fluffy That's how your liver produces it Large and fluffy It actually comes from even larger Lipoproteins that shrink down And then if they're healthy How did you get off Metformin? I used the 10 second peanut trick What's the 10 second peanut trick?  Well a study from Penn State In Stanford School of Medicine shows Healthy they kind of fall into this range But if we have these factors These destructive factors present in the body Then they hurt They damage these LDL particles And they shrink So now this inflammation causes damage The inside of your blood vessels Plus it makes these small LDLs unrecognizable You can't recycle them properly And they're small enough to go to the wrong places And create damage So what I have found in clinical cases We have done hundreds of these We do blood work on everyone We test the size of these in everyone So we can follow up and see what the changes are And when we put people on a lifestyle change Where they eat no sugar and no seed oils No processed damaged vegetable oils We give them a high quality diet Meaning good quality meat, fish, chicken Good quality vegetables, low carb vegetables Non-starchy vegetables And we combine that with intermittent fasting Meaning we restrict their feeding windows So they don't eat every hour of every day We feed them meat, vegetables, and yes Eggs unless they are sensitive to eggs Then we take them out And we also give them high quality fats And give them extra virgin olive oil Lots of butter, lard, tallow, coconut oil etc Stable saturated fats Plus of course extra virgin olive oil Which is mostly mono unsaturated Then what we find is we measure these sizes Before and after And we find that it goes the other way That by making these lifestyle changes You reduce the inflammation and the oxidative stress And the insulin resistance And now the body can start to slowly cycle out Clean out these small damaged LDLs And then the body as it makes new and healthy ones Then the proportion of these small ones Get fewer and fewer, less proportion But then of course the question is Does that always work? Does this work 100% of the time? And the answer is no Nothing works 100% of the time And I put only here kind of as a joke Because 90 to 95% is sensational And yet that is kind of where we're getting Maybe not in the first couple of months Maybe not the first time around For a lot of people probably 2 thirds to 75% They get dramatic changes like the first time through But for others we might have to play around with it And figure out what they're sensitive to Is there an autoimmunity thing? Is there other things causing inflammation? But we need to put this in perspective The only 90 to 95% Because there's something called placebo And in a double blind placebo control study They always have different groups And they give one group a placebo Meaning something that looks like It's going to do something but there's nothing in there There's no active component in there And yet the placebo group Always gets somewhere around 35% improvement 35% of people notice improvement Even though they didn't get anything So 35% is kind of the baseline That's what you get no matter what Because when people believe That they're going to get better They get better And a success medication Only has to be better than placebo So if it's a very large study All they have to show is that it's statistically significant That it's better than placebo So 1 or 2 or 3 or 5% maybe Better than placebo And that's a sensational success For a medication And if a medication can show maybe a 40% improvement Then they are super happy with that That's a sensational result But we of course are not happy with 40% So we try to always get as close to 100 as we can So now we want to start looking at other sources of inflammation And this is where it gets tricky Because now it gets a little more complicated And a little bit more individual variation But there are things like allergies There is other toxicity There is autoimmunity And of course gut issues If you have inflammation in the gut If you have poor absorption If you have leaky gut Now we have lots of variables that might be hard To control at least in the short term That start affecting these numbers But if we're patient enough And we're willing to continue to make changes And monitor blood work and check on these Then very often We can get to 99% And that doesn't mean necessarily complete remission Or that there are no symptoms left But that we are much better off than we were And then there is that last 1-2% And this is very unfortunate But some people are just given some bad cards That there are various genetic factors That if you do all the things we talked about You're still going to be way better off But that may still not be enough So the shocking truth about eggs and heart disease Is that you have been lied to We have all been lied to for much too long For decades They have been focusing all their attention On the wrong guy They've been demonizing the hero Because it's not about total cholesterol It's not about dietary cholesterol It's not about saturated fats Or how many eggs you eat It is about metabolic health And all the factors that go into that Like insulin, toxicity, gut health And the list goes on and on And that's why we need to understand more About how the body works And how the world has changed Because the world has changed more in the last 50 years Than it has in the previous 50,000 And we need to understand how does that affect us So that we don't just walk like lambs to the slaughter So the solution is learn what real food is And eat that And this includes eggs as many as you like Make sure to get good quality eggs Get the pastured eggs And eat both the yolk and the egg white Unless you have been found to be sensitive Or allergic to eggs Because then they're going to create inflammation And then they're bad for you So everyone is different Learn what works for you But understand it from the mechanisms and the physiology If you enjoyed this video You're going to love that one Okay I just want to say In response to what urologist Dr. Malik was saying in her video About benign prostatic hypoplasia, BPH Where she was saying there's not enough Or there's no randomized controlled studies To prove that any of these supplements really do work I want to reflect on and repeat what Dr. Ekberg was saying That I mean to do all these Randomized studies It's expensive The double-blind placebo randomized controlled studies are expensive And the only people that can afford to do them Unfortunately is the pharmaceutical industry And they don't conduct these studies On these herbs and nutritional supplements Vitamins, minerals, whatever They don't do it because they can't put a patent on mother nature And make a fortune off of it That's why they don't do it That's why they don't spend the money on doing them So naturally a medical doctor I mean don't get me wrong I think her videos are great Medical doctor urologist Dr. Malik Keeps on saying there's no Randomized controlled studies to prove Any of these supplements work Because they're just they're just not done It's not that they can't be done It's not that they can't prove anything About these natural supplements It's just that they're not done And she does not say one word if you notice That is a scourging word or critical Towards the drug company by telling the truth About why they're not done She didn't mention the pharmaceutical industry at all Because she's a medical doctor Because I just wanted to go through that I just wanted to explain that In detail that I got sidetracked before I meant to do it earlier But better late than never But Dr. Ekberg excellent Excellent video on eggs And Dr. Stewart Berg outstanding video on How to maintain and achieve the health of your eyes Nutrients for the for eye health Very good So anyway Thank you for joining me Thank you everyone for stopping by Not just the the viewers But the the Commodore Jeff Sambello Masumi from Japan Jordy from Scotland Jordy Kay from Scotland Brian Souk Okay Daryl Messiahs Thank you everyone for stopping by The show With your commentary participation So enjoy Your Sunday evening and have a safe And healthy upcoming week This is Holistic Health Talk James P. Madonna Signing off Have a good evening