So welcome to the Dr. Gendry podcast. You know, we've probably all been touched by mental illness Maybe it's a friend or family member or maybe you struggled with it yourself Well, my guest today says that the way we think about mental illness and mental health is all wrong He's Dr. Daniel Amon and one of America's leading psychiatrist and the author of a brand new book the end of Mental illness and I I can't think of a more important book that we should have in our hands right now You know in in the new book Dr. Amon Exposes the most common misconceptions about mental illness and explains why there is Something you can do to help yourself or your loved ones So in today's episode Dr. Amon and I will discuss the difference between mental health and brain health Why mental illness is not your fault and the biggest problems with modern psychiatry? Dr. Amon so good to have you back on the Dr. Gundry podcast Thank you, Dr. Gundry.  Mental health and brain health and why is that so important, you know, we started looking at the brain Just about 30 years ago with a couple of different studies quantitative EEG and then brain spectimaging and It became very clear that these are not mental health issues At all that their brain health issues and that one Distinction changes everything because people begin to see their problems as medical and not moral It decreases shame and guilt it increases Compliance because people want better brains and it increases compassion and forgiveness from families and most psychiatrists actually never talk about brain health that the things you talk about for example the impact of diet on Your microbiome, but that completely affects your brain health How avoiding Toxic chemicals in the products we put on our body or the issue with concussions Having an undiagnosed brain injuries a major cause of suicide anxiety depression ADHD learning problems and homelessness But nobody's talking about it because most psychiatrists never look at the brain So think about that. What other medical specialty never looks at the organ it treats And that's insane because how do you know if this depression is because your brain works too hard or? not hard enough and giving everybody SSRI's which calmed down the brain and Can really help some people and be a disaster for others so how Okay, so, you know, I see this actually in my patients all the time You know, they've come to see their medical problems as as personal failings Rather than being caused by their environment or the foods they or even you know the drugs they've been prescribed So how do you propose we reframe this issue between quote mental health and physical health of our brains? Well, I think the first thing we need to do is actually start looking at the organ We treat that making diagnoses based on symptom clusters with no biological data I mean somebody should be upset about this and I've been upset about this for a long time but Cardiologists don't make diagnoses with no biological data Gastroenterologists don't orthopedic doctors don't nobody I know Does that so I think imaging just needs to become part of what we do because the brain is an organ you can look at both Structurally and functionally and so my colleagues will say well There's not enough science and I'm like seriously if you go to pub med calm today and type in brain speck You'll get fourteen thousand six hundred abstracts. It's like let's not say there's no science And it's like well, it's not part of our training and it's not part of our tradition Except the outcomes in psychiatry are no better than they were in the 1950s In fact disability for mental health reasons has quadrupled since the 1980s So obviously we're doing something wrong and so we we need a new paradigm Plus what I get excited about I don't know if you and I ever talked about the Daniel plan It's a program. I did with Pastor Rick Warren and Mark Hyman The first week fifteen thousand people signed up the first year they lost a quarter of a million pounds and then literally thousands of churches around the world have done the Daniel plan and Part of the testimonials are not just weight loss. It's they lost their antidepressants. They lost their anti-anxiety drugs. They Felt better their memories were better and it just highlights that when you get your brain, right? your mind follows but unfortunately most people suffer with mental health issues See psychologists and psychiatrists that virtually never talked to them about diet about exercise about supplementation about looking at do you have an infection? In your brain. I'm in a new docu series with Justin Bieber I've been Justin's doctor for a long time and he came out publicly that he had Lyme disease and that was part of What was driving his mental health challenges?  It's clearly a brain health issue get your brain right your mind will follow You know one of the most interesting Things in the book is a section where you take a patient of yours and describe how he would or she would have been Diagnosed throughout history. Can you give us an example of that to kind of bring this home? so Jared was eight years old when I first met him and He was a hellion. He had been diagnosed with ADHD when he was three He had been on five different Stimulant medications for ADHD. They all made him worse violent rages He did terrible in school the third-grade teacher said Don't have any expectations for him because he's never gonna do well in school And when they wanted to put him on an anti psychotic his mother called the clinic And when we scanned him he didn't have ADHD that's usually goes with sleepy activity in the front part of the brain He had a pattern we called the ring of fire, which is there's too much activity in his brain So we had to calm it down and when we did his behavior normalized He's been on the honor roll or the Dean's list for the last ten years straight He has friends. I mean it's just stunning and How would they have treated him 6,000 years ago? Well, they would have drilled a hole in his skull to let out the evil spirits and in the time of Hippocrates Which was actually the most forward thinking time they would have changed his diet got him to exercise listen to soothing music and Got him into a job that fit his restless nature and then unfortunately they would have also bled him In the Middle Ages, they would have chained him and an asylum and in the 19th 19th century They probably would have sterilized him and faced it placed his family under suspicion in the eugenics program Which actually started in the United States, but was the precursor for Nazi Germany And in the 20th century Fred would have put him on his couch Which wouldn't have worked and then of course we could have blamed his mother and It's like and now what we're doing is the 15-minute Med check It's like well, let's try this and let's try that and if this doesn't work We'll go with that without any biological Data, which I would argue we need a new paradigm So I have so many of my Patients who will walk in with the report or the actual film of their brain MRI or their CT scan or their brain with a note from their Caring Neurologist or some and or psychiatrist and say see there's absolutely nothing wrong with my brain Why don't why are people using this an anatomical? Map of the brain as the basis to make a decision so there's a difference between structure and function and most Psychiatric problems not all but most of them are not structural problems They're functional problems the brain works too hard in certain areas or not hard enough and I published a study on traumatic brain injury that showed how spacked was Remarkably more sensitive than an MRI or CT and just think of it this way If I had a computer in front of me, and I dropped the computer well the computer might look just fine but you might not be able to turn it on or when you turn it on it would go into these loop patterns and MRI and CT are lagging indicators of trouble where specked is a leading indicator of trouble so with specked we can tell 20 years before you get Alzheimer's disease If your brain is headed to the dark place where you won't see that on an MRI or a CT scan At all so you know people listening think of it is like a car engine You know if you pop the hood you can see what the engine actually physically looks like But what you really want is to turn it on and see how it works and that's what functional imaging does which should be part of Every psychiatric evaluation. I believe because you know, I'm just no good at guessing You know, I often think of my colleagues like Johnny Carson from Karnak the Magnificent You know he'd get the envelope hold it up to his head and then wonder You know well, what's the question and I'm like I'm just not good at that and to expect me to guess on your Physiology without knowing I mean would cardiothoracic surgeons really Ever do that would they develop a treatment plan without any biology? No, although in the past We used to joke that half the people that we operated on for chest pain with a coronary bypass Actually had reflux esophageitis and half the people we operated on for Heidel hernia reflux esophageitis had coronary artery disease and we just weren't we didn't have the tools to to tell the difference and Obviously now we do so so can Can Joe blow or our listener or our viewer walk into their neighborhood? Hospital clean that clinic imaging center and say hi I want a spec scan of my brain Well, they can they have spec cameras virtually in every major hospital in the world for spec heart studies spec bone studies now The doctor generally is probably not going to have any experience Doing it and what we see because we read scans from all over the world is what people call normal generally is not Normal because nuclear medicine doctors never were taught to read Increases in the brain and a lot of psychiatric conditions the brain works too hard And so basically they're just looking for symmetry and holes so experience matters Which is why we have eight soon to be nine clinics around the United States to provide this service for people So when you say brains work too hard you talk about in the book about brain types and Is is is explain what that means? I mean doesn't it doesn't everybody have the same brain? No, as a matter of fact one of the big early lessons is That everybody's sort of different. I mean we have healthy balanced brains. We have spontaneous Brains that really have sleepy frontal lobes and they're creative and restless and spontaneous But they're also impulsive and they can't concentrate and they're late and disorganized There's persistent brains where the front part works too hard Often in many Cardiothoracic surgeons or neurosurgeons They want things a certain way and if things don't go a certain way it gets them Upset and you want your cardiothoracic surgeon to be that way They're not our ADD group at all a little bit of OCD And then our sensitive they're people who's limbic or emotional brains work too hard and our cautious brains people who tend to be anxious and What I learned is like if we just took obesity for example Putting everybody on the same program sort of silly when you realize they're impulsive Over-eaters they're compulsive Over-eaters they're sad over-eaters. They're anxious over-eaters putting everybody on the same program is sort of silly When a high protein low carbohydrate diet works really well for the spontaneous group the ADD group and it is a freaking nightmare for The persistent group because it's a focused diet And if you have OCD tendencies you will focus more on the things that upset you and I was on the Rachel Ray show and we were talking about this and she has that persistent brain type and she said I went on the Atkins diet and I was so mean I Wondered why my husband didn't leave me and so get on the wrong diet.  So we have a free online assessment people can take brain health Assessment calm brain health assessment calm and it'll tell you which of the 16 brain types you have Because there are combinations of types as well and it's good for Your husband to take it your children to take it someone you're dating to take it to see, you know What vulnerabilities there may be in relationships and I talk about this in the book when I first met my wife I really liked her and But I didn't want to like her until I saw her brain and so about two weeks later I'm like you haven't been to the clinic.  You're wealthier. You're more successful at whatever you do So I can see it now that you're going to open a series of online dating services Where you're going to match brain scans with the appropriate person I'm am I going too far here or I don't want to give you a great idea because my goodness Now many years ago. I thought about brain match calm, but I When my daughter she you know fell in love really for the first time And and the rule in my house is if you guys date for more than four months I want to see his brain and I particularly Wanted to see Michael's brain because his mother when he was 12 years old killed herself and He found her and he had struggled with a fair amount of anxiety But just by falling in love with his brain taking the right supplements. He has done dramatically better Wow, so I can just see this, you know, I want you to meet my father, but he needs to scan your brain first That's a that's a lot of pressure. That's a lot of pressure. It's sort of like meet the parents.  She said no one had ever asked me to see my naked brain that that was the most important part of me So what do you think about what can you tell our listeners about the link between their gut bacteria and their mental health? They're intimately connected More so than we ever thought and when I was a resident nobody said boo about this But if your gut bacteria is unhealthy as a child it actually sets you up for lifelong anxiety disorders and So think of all the kids who had tubes in their ears because they had multiple ear infections often because they're sensitive to dairy that That It damaged their microbiome Think of all the kids who were born by c-section and their microbiome wasn't properly populated or were not breastfed and And I don't want to make anybody feel guilty It's like okay you know that may be a risk factor and so you then go and take care of that risk by repopulating the gut in a healthy way with Forvented foods and probiotics, but this idea of leaky gut syndrome increases inflammation which is a major cause of both depression and dementia and So in the end of mental illness, I really take a functional medicine approach to brain health and and mental health and I have this mnemonic called bright minds to help you remember the 11 major risk factors that steal your mind and the first eye is inflammation Often caused by an unhealthy gut Yeah, you mentioned, you know, you mentioned the times of apocrates Which was I think we'd both agree probably the most he was so enlightened. It's scary but you know, he he said all disease begins in the gut and How he knew that back then is you know, it's shocking But you're right in the last even five years We've we've learned things that you and I never were taught in medical school And you know, even our friend David promiter when he did his five-year anniversary of grain brain About, you know, he didn't know nor did any of us about the microbiome brain connection back then and To his credit he changed a lot of his advice As I've changed a lot of my advice as we've relearned things But some of the things that frustrate me is that there are Well-known nutritionists who haven't changed their dietary advice in 20 or 30 years even though we have Totally new information that's available to all of us Can that apply to psychiatry? I assume you would say absolutely. Why haven't we done that? Yeah, no question. There's this great study from Australia Where they looked at two outer islands one of the outer islands had fast food restaurants The other one didn't and what they did is they measured their omega-3 fatty acid levels And the level of depression and as you might think the island with fast food restaurants had significantly lower levels of omega-3 fatty acids and five Five times the level of depression. It's the food the food is So important to the health of our brains, but what happened? So I did I published this study and I was actually looking at the data this morning on 22,000 patients looking at their bmi or their body mass index And function in 127 different parts of the brain And all 127 Parts of the brain it's almost a linear correlation between healthy overweight obese and morbidly obese as your weight goes up the actual physical size and Function of the brain goes down Which should just scare the fat off of everybody And it's the biggest brain drain in the history of the united states And now it's actually a national security crisis Because 70 percent of the people who try to apply for the military are rejected Because they're not healthy enough We're going the wrong way as a society And and we need to do better If we're going to stem the tide, this is not going to happen in congress It's going to happen through a ground swell Of education and information from doctors, you know like you and dr. Perlmutter and dr. Hyman and Dr. Bredesen, I mean it's really all of us Trying to get captured the attention Of the american population to change the way They eat so they don't have to suffer with chronic illnesses So you got any got any thoughts on why this will never happen from a government in incentive why congress Isn't scared to death about all of this Yeah, I think too many of the food companies the alcohol companies donate to their political Campaigns that I think it's about money And it should horrify us that You know we allow I think we ban like 11 chemicals where in europe they ban And 2500 chemicals and in canada they ban 500 chemicals and clearly what I can see on spec scans Is toxicity in your brain from yes drugs and alcohol but also environmental toxins as well Just for example the products you put on your body the tea in bright minds is for toxins And then there's just great app. I like called think dirty It's not what you think it is but you can actually scan your personal products And it'll tell you on a scale of one to ten how quickly they're killing you And so aluminum is probably not a good thing to put on your body or 60 percent of the Lipstick sold in the united states has led in it.  It's I want to eat Right because I love myself and in the book there's a whole chapter called food made insanely simple and it's It's really about finding food you love that love you back And that's the trick because you know, I want you to eat in a healthy way And I know you have recipes and they're delicious. Um, it's Getting well is never about suffering Um that when you you're not well, that's about suffering Yeah, no, I you know, I always try to explain to my patients as far as You and I know this is the only house that we're ever going to live in And you know, this is the only heart the only brain you you get And if you would pay as much attention to the care and upkeep Of the only house you ever get that you do to your car your home your lawn This problem would could stop virtually overnight No question. You're absolutely right and you know and nobody cares about their brain Why because you can't see it?   But I played football in high school. I had meningitis as a young soldier And I had bad habits. I wasn't sleeping more than four hours at night. I ate a lot of fast food You know, I'm a double board certified psychiatrist And I don't care one bit about my own brain until I saw it and then I was horrified And I developed a concept I call brain envy Freud was wrong penis envy is not the cause of anybody's problem I've not seen one case in 40 years Um, but people need to start caring about their brain because if your brain's not right, your life is not right No, you know, you're right. You know, I was a world famous heart surgeon and Uh, I would look at people I operated on and at that time they looked a lot like me Um, you know, they were they were fat.  Everybody go look at their brain so Kind of summarize the book When you find out about your brain You there are steps you can take at any age to make a difference You bet. I mean, that's what's exciting.  She's uh news personality Uh, she's beautiful. She's smart her mother and her grandmother died with Alzheimer's Disease and as I got to know her I'm like you want to come see me because we can tell Years and she goes well, why would I want to know and I said well if you knew a train was going to hit you Wouldn't you want to at least try to get out of the way? And so I have her brain at 51 and then I did it You know look terrible and then I have her brain at 62 and it looks stunningly beautiful Why because she does all of the right things So genes aren't really a death sentence. They should be a wake-up call For you to do the right things to prevent what you're vulnerable to Yeah, no, you're right. In fact, I I just recently joined you on public television with the longevity paradox And you're right genes actually have so little to do with with our destiny and our long-term health And our long-term brain health, you know 30 of us carry the apo E4 allele, which is a predictor of increased risk of Alzheimer's And so many of my patients come to me carrying that gene But the fascinating thing is and I'll tell anyone who will listen I have a number of people now in their late 80s carrying the 4 4 allele, which Not a good thing to have but they're doing great But I have a 97 year old gentleman who's a 3 4 And he still runs his company and his three daughters will not let him retire Because he's so good at what he does and so I'll any of my apo E4 folks. I'll say hey, you know 7 and you're running your company, of course, they're going to say why doesn't he retire? I tell anyone who listens don't retire if you're smart Because particularly men and now increasingly women in the workforce Being engaged In Everyday activities of work is Back me up on this is important in in your life So in the mnemonic bright minds where I talk about the risk factors are is retirement and aging when you stop Learning your brain starts dying And so being engaged You only want to be engaged as long as you want to be able to think And I had one woman said who is 60 and she's like, you know, I dieted and I exercise I don't really want to do that anymore And I said as long as you're okay with the consequences of aging which is depression and dementia Then why worry about it? But I'm not okay with it And I need to keep my brain actively engaged in order For it to work at an optimal level and quite frankly, you know, I have four children and I love them, but I never want to have to live with them I never want to be a burden and I don't want them taking my keys from me I don't want them telling me what to eat or what to wear I want to be independent But that means I need to be making good decisions for my health So my brain doesn't do what it often does with aging and it deteriorates. I've seen way too many 80 90 100 year old brains and Most of them except for a select few who loved their brains throughout their life Look terrible and I'm not okay with that. Yeah This has been great You know, I think that's so important and I tell Anyone who will listen to that it is never too late And in the number of stories I have of people You know on the way out in their mid 80s suffering from diabetes heart disease arthritis You name it who are now in their mid 90s and they're they're thriving individuals I wouldn't have believed this it was possible, you know in most of my career But I think your message That your brain is malleable. I think the sooner you get to work on it the better I think we could both agree on that But it is it's never too late. Lisa Gibbons is a great example To turn things around Yeah, it's never too late to have a better brain and a better life And it starts with love Love of yourself. Love of your brain. Love of your family. So doing the right thing And and the scans just always give me hope That I can tell how much better people can be and and I always tell people whatever we see is good news Because you have what you have And if it's great, we celebrate and if it's bad we go to work and rehabilitate it And I did the big nfl study when the nfl was lying. They had a problem.  I know there's bunches of them. Give us one today So I worked with bj fog for six months. Uh, he's a professor at stanford on creating tiny habits You know, it's the smallest thing you can do today that will make the biggest difference So the one thing three seconds a day whenever you go to make a decision ask yourself Is this good for my brain or bad for it? And if you can answer that question with information and love love of yourself You'll begin to change your brain in such a positive way All right very good So where can viewers and listeners find the end of mental illness and learn more about you So the the book will be everywhere on amazon barns and noble wherever great books are sold They can learn us about us at amen clinics Dot com so amen like the last word in a prayer clinics dot com And we're in the middle of a six week challenge To get people's Brains healthy because the end of mental illness begins with a revolution in brain health and we're creating brain warriors to Move this revolution forward just like you're doing as well All right. Thanks again, and we'll we'll be talking soon. I'm sure thanks so much Okay, it's time for the audience question This question is from bill stanley on youtube Dr. Gundry I have been following the plant paradox for a year now and the question I have Is if the lectins are in the seeds and skins of vegetables Why can't we eat things like pumpkins squash, etc. If we skin and de-seed them Boy, do I get this question a lot from my patients and thanks for asking that bill So here's the deal. It's true that the major lectins are in the peels and seeds of the squash family My problem with my particular patient population is that these are fruits Anything with a peel and a seed is a fruit Certain fruits like the squash family do have lectins in the peels and seeds And yes, you can absolutely take the peels and seeds away and make them lectin free But that doesn't change the fact that their flesh is primarily fructose And lots of carbohydrates So when I'm dealing with patients with heart disease and or obesity or diabetes The fact that we're removing lectins from their diet is factor one But equally as important is reducing these fructose bearing carbohydrates out of their diet And you're going to learn more about this in my next book the energy paradox But fructose Is a major mitochondrial damaging sugar molecule And if you want to kill off your mitochondria Then eat all the deseeded squash and pumpkin you want to But otherwise I would stay away from these things and we've shown in my clinic In patients that we follow every three months for blood work that when we take These fruits out of their diet their triglycerides fall their hemoglobin a1c falls their fructose fructosamine falls And their kidney function improves So as much as I like pumpkin pie as the next person and as much as I think butternut squash soup is delicious I don't eat those things anymore. There's no human need for them. So great question I get it all the time. So thanks for sending the questions like that in So that's it for the dr. Gundry podcast. We'll see you next week Before you go I just wanted to remind you that you can find the show on itunes google play Stitcher or wherever you get your podcast because i'm dr. Gundry and i'm always looking out for you


Russia unveils mysterious winged glide bombs which will be used in Ukraine. The Russian Ministry of Defence has released official footage showcasing Su-34 full-back bombers undergoing preparations for combat sorties with modified FAB-500M-62 bombs featuring a kit pop-out wings. According to defence blog media outlet the Russian glide bomb, commonly referred to as the Russian Joint Direct Attack Munition, is a modified bomb equipped with UM-PK which stands for Unified Gliding and Correction Module. The Russian Armed Forces employ these modified bombs to target Ukrainian military assets from significant distances, mitigating the risk to aircraft within the range of Ukrainian air defence systems. While comparisons with the Joint Direct Attack Munition may have limitations, the integration of wings and a guidance system into a general-purpose bomb has become a formidable tool for Russian Aerospace Forces in the ongoing conflict posing a serious challenge for Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian military, Russian Su-24 and Su-34 combat aircraft equipped with UM-PK guided bombs can engage targets with high precision at distances of up to 50 kilometres. These wing kits empower Russian aircraft to conduct indirect attack missions on targets that would otherwise pose a significant risk.


network effects. So this is the thing where a product becomes more valuable the more people have it, right? There's a lot of big platforms that have big network effects that work very well. If you look at our app, storage doesn't have network effects, file browsing doesn't have network effects, offline sharing does have network effects. Offline sharing is really only useful if everybody around you also uses the same technology to do offline sharing. There's about five different technologies out there to do offline sharing. So this is a pretty difficult market. What you see, very interesting with offline sharing is that it's extremely local. You have some cities where people use technology A and some cities where people use technology B. And that is kind of very clearly network effects in action because if I'm in a technology A city and I think technology B is better, I need to convince everybody around me that B is better before it actually starts working for me. So I think network effects can be very much of your advantage if you're one of the first to build the network. It can be very difficult if you're coming into a place where there already are quite established network effects.


Teruskan ke kualiti Notebook Di mana-mana anda telah memperkenalkan Github Image for Sing Notebook Ada beberapa Notebooks yang sudah diberikan untuk anda Mari kita mulakan dengan yang pertama Pytone Imaging Library Google Pytone Imaging Library Pytone PIL Library Ada sesiapa yang tahu tentang Google Equivalent untuk Pytone Imaging Library PIL yes PIL is for installing the package But PIL is PIL is the same So if for you to install Pytone Imaging Library You need to do this right Okay you got that For those who can't get into TSSG You can try TSSG2 Password is 123456 7 Okay So if you have already installed Python using Anaconda You probably should You probably already have PIL If not If this fails Then you of course just do a period stop below So for those who don't know About Jupyter Notebook Who is new to Jupyter Notebook So Jupyter Notebook is an interactive Programming interface For Python It's interactive, it's GUI It's easy to use It's each of these You just need to click on The IPYMB All the Python Notebooks Has the extension IPYMB Ipyton Notebook It uses the Ipyton Library To run the pretty little thing We see in front of us So once you click on it It's a new session So for you to run any of this cell Each of this cell it could be a markdown language It could be a Python 3 format So You could have a Python 3 Format So you also have a bar 2 bar That you can use This will tell you whether this is In markdown language This is in code I'm just going to close this bar Base On the screen Everybody can see the screen fine Okay And for you to run any of these You can click run Or you can hit shift enter They will run and go to the next cell Every time you run a cell Basically this number change The number tells you What order We have run the cell So if I restart my kernel So basically it's a new session Let me close the 2 bar And you see number 1 This means it's the first cell I've run So this is the first cell Basically all the codes inside that cell I've run it Okay So Everybody with me so far Okay The Python Imaging Library Is the library that we tend to use For images processing in Python It comes as one of the core libraries That is provided For you to run images It has all the required Required tools that you need So if you just need to look At image Okay Then you can see all the different Types of image processing you can run Just by using the image library Inside the PIL library So first What we want to do We want to first get an image So run the next cell Now you have your image How you want to see your image Just need to do this And you get your image Yup This is how you open any image Simple as that So if you want to save the image In a different format Straight away This here we have 2 jpg format Library Now we run this We're getting all the files And we can convert it into jpg Okay So for this right If let's say We have a PNG here So Let's change this to PNG instead Okay Now we should have These 2 jpg images Converted into PNG If you have any questions Just raise your hands So that's just a very simple Conversion of images Next we want to create a thumbnail What's a thumbnail I understand what's a thumbnail Basically what you see inside your windows It's called a thumbnail It's a small little Small little Very small little Thumbnail basically A smaller size image Of your original image Like this To crop You just need to use dot crop You have your image This is dot thumbnail We just next do a box Basically your box Basically shows An upper Left corner XY Of your upper left corner And your XY Of your lower right corner And you get a box Like that Okay As you can see This is probably somewhere here To somewhere here To transpose You need to have your transpose You need to add in your rotation You want to transpose it into And this here just paste it into The same box That we've cropped Resize We just need to dot resize And voila Okay Rotate Similarly just dot rotate And that's it You put in the rotation angle That you want And you get a new image So try it yourself Okay Anybody have any problems? Got problems? And I already have pillow Okay So Let's see Okay The other one you need to check Is whether you have How did you Did you download Anaconda?  Do you have admin? Okay run the command line in admin Conda install Okay Okay you need to go to your users Right there And do a conda install The same path Never broken But I think Have you run it? Ya Ya that's good And this one is You should load the first one This is the thumbnail Per this one I don't know why Ya that's good Ya that's okay What's wrong with that? Okay Ya list of files is good Okay did you manage it so? You need to find your conda If you can run the Anaconda Window Command Sorry Anaconda Command Anaconda Prom Just now You see that Conda Anaconda Prom Somebody got prank You okay? Ya I have a very dumb question How do I make changes? You need to run From the first cell onwards How do I run? Shift enter Click on it You need to click on it first Okay so this is This is not This is not Jupyter Notebook This is GitHub Jupyter Notebook? Ya you need to Have you launch that? Okay launch that Ya Okay go to your Project repository Project repository Have you downloaded the Where did you download into?  You need Jupyter Notebook So is there a reason You are not installing? I just try to name this You need Jupyter Notebook Have you installed Jupyter Notebook?  Newbie? Newbie So I'll just recommend you to install anaconda Anaconda Okay you have all the links from the meetup Okay Install anaconda Okay Okay install anaconda I'll try to launch the Jupyter Notebook But you commit the error When you install Did you install everything? Ah yes On Python 3 or? The latest one Python 3 Okay Did you do you have administrator rights? Ah yes Okay Okay You might need to reinstall Okay Ya reinstall this There's something wrong with your installation This is brand new? Ah yes Ya You can search Sorry, not search Search for the error code Sorry Is it okay? No it's okay Oh you have Why do you have two? I call you I'm not sure why there's two Why is this? Ya that's not good First we start everything Okay let's restart everything We restart my computer Okay You okay? We install it But then I restarted my environment Really but she had this And you launched this from Ah you didn't launch this from Anaconda Did you launch this from? I launched from Jupyter Notebook Using Jupyter Notebook Okay so that's a different one Oh So if you launch from Jupyter Notebook Do this pip3 install Pillow Install Pillow Pip3 install Pillow Or you don't not recognise Okay So search for your You install Anaconda right? Ya search for Anaconda Yes that one, navigator And launch Jupyter Notebook From Anaconda And try again Okay So just now was just a simple exercise Now let's look at Matplotlib Okay so for images right When you're doing coding Image processing on images It's actually a lot of Mathematics involved All those algorithms you see When you use any Any image processing Applications like Give me one Any Like Adobe Photoshop Right All those They have a lot of mathematics at the back end Right at the back that you don't see So when we deal with images It's actually a lot of mathematics The libraries that we use To process all these images Are the mathematics libraries So Matplotlib NumPy And another one If we have time I'll introduce to you is the SciPy Right So Let's see So Matplotlib It's great When we deal with mathematics And plotting of graphs And when we're talking about images As I said 2 weeks ago We'll need to deal with The individual Members that represent Every single pixel In your image So again let's import our image To show an image using To plot the image on a graph Or Matplotlib graph You just need to do I am show And you have it on a graph And basically these pixels On your X axis Sorry And your Y axis 800 pixels So let's say We plot some points We plot X And we plot Y And wala We have X And Y And this here I'm drawing a white line White line from X1 Sorry from X1 To Y1 And all these you can You can Google For what all these notation stands For These stands for a red star So these stands for white Blue I think it's B Black is K And so on and so forth Okay The other thing That we usually want to plot Is the contours In an image So we are talking about The difference On the brightness of the image When we are plotting The contours of the image We are plotting about A grayscale image So from the The difference In the lightness And the darkness Of your neighbouring pixels That's where your contour lies So simple way of Plotting your contour first We need to first convert Your image into An array So let's take a look What do we have in here Okay So this array Every single element Of your array represents A grayscale value So this means It has a grayscale value Of 157, right? And from this array We can now plot the contours Now that we have the contours Just need to use the contour You have your figure Gray, all these are Comments And you just need to Plot your contours By passing in your array Your two-dimensional array And voila Okay So the difference in colours Basically Darker in these The bigger the difference That's it It's that simple Between the pixel And its surrounding neighbours So like this It only has If you want to Plot the average difference Between this pixel And the neighbourhood pixel That's what you get The other most important information About any picture Is your histogram plot So this here We are only plotting The grayscale image Of your histogram You can always plot The red Red, green Or yellow Of your image Red, green Or blue Pixel of image Just converting into RGB Plot the different channels And you get a different plot But here we are just Getting the grayscale image And we are plotting it right here And you can see From the histogram It means that We don't have A lot of white Right 255 means it's white colour So the whiter colours Is lacking And it has more darker Colours in the image Okay Now Get one of your own images Try to plot it Okay Okay, ready? Okay The path Good Great stuff You okay? So you're freaking out? Ya Okay So you're opening your image From a different path Okay Right So but you're running From which directory?  I don't think she used git to install She just Ya, download You download the file directly But you did not download the image You did You download the image to where? Also to To see actually So to hear The same base Where is the image? This part here Ya And the image is For Skyline Ya Okay Let's have a look So where is your Ya Okay Okay So this here Sorry Do you need more? Ya Okay So Don't move the Don't move the mouse while I'm typing Okay Don't touch anything Backspace, right?  Okay I need to put the image into the Yes Okay, good Ya, restart thing Hopefully you can follow Okay, anybody got Any problems? Nice Pretty Everything okay? Lovely Okay Okay Okay Okay Can You okay? Okay Okay So any questions About contohs or histogram? If not, we'll move on So next we'll Introduce the NumPy library For image processing So again I already talked about How mathematics Is very useful In terms of image processing And the NumPy library Is basically the Python Library for any Numerical Calculations You need Right So we'll see What sort of numerical calculations That we're doing For the next couple Of image processing That we have So here We need to Import the NumPy library So typically For Python The NumPy library We just Use it as NP As a short form And the map prodlit as PLT Right We import our image library And you need your Magical keyword For the map prodlit inline So this basically Is just for Jupyter Notebook If you're not running On Jupyter Notebook You don't need this Okay Alright So again Let's Import Our image As an array So We have our shape Which is 600 pixel By 800 pixel 3 This means that it's RGB format It has 2 channels It doesn't just have one channel And For Most images When we are doing processing If you want to display it It's in UIN 8 But you don't have to You can process it in float UIN 16 It's up to you Right Only when you want to display it Then you need to convert it Back to UIN 8 Okay So it's an array So you can access Any Value of your array Through your normal Array Access Okay Okay So this here We are opening the image As a black and white image L And we are converting it Into a floating Marital value So let's try this This here We have Black and white image So we don't have Three dimension What do you call that? We don't have The third dimension Of your array Basically It's a 2D array We don't need a 3D array To represent The three channels We only have one 2D array To represent Each value Gray level Value of your pixel It's 600x800 pixel And it has a floating Value of 32 Simple as If you want to check Any Array Just print it out Okay This is already an array So we don't need that Okay So a couple of different Gray level transforms That we can do So what we are doing here Is that This is the first one We are inverting an image How do we invert that image? All the images Is represented from 0 to 255 You want to invert Just flip it around Do a 255 minus Your image This here We are just setting The gray levels We are setting The gray levels To make sure that It goes within The interval Of 100 to 200 And this here We are just squaring the values So let's take a look What we do to the image Okay So this is the original image And the Second image Is just an inversion Right Simple as So as you look at this image Just remember What Numerical transformation That we have just done We invert the image Just by just minusing The image from 255 Next one We are clamping the values So the images Is a more gray Color tone Softer And this here We are What did we do We squared the image So we made it more Contrast We have a darker image Okay For image resizing There is The resize This is just a very simple Function To resize your image You can straight away Do an image resize A PIM Image dot resize Basically your PILO library Once you've got Your PILO library So this here Is just transforming Your array into A PILO image And from a PILO image Use the resize Transform it back into an array That's it So now we have A new array Of 200 by 150 pixel Histogram equalization As we talked about Histogram Equalization 2 weeks ago It's great Equalization basically As we have seen This Histogram This is quite One sided It's very much Tutored towards one side We don't have anything From 200 to 255 And we have a very high Concentration Between these values About 175 to 200 Right It's high concentration So what we talk about Histogram is that This is the histogram And when we Equalize the histogram That means that We are flattening out This histogram Right here So what does that do To the image Let's have a look So this here This is basically We get the histogram Of your image We put it into The number of bins We get a cumulative distribution And we use A linear interpolation To flatten out The distribution The cumulative distribution Once you have a cumulative distribution You can flatten it out Right A cumulative distribution Basically Goes like this It culminates So the number of pixels You have Basically it goes up And once you flatten it out We can get Once you equalize The distribution It becomes a normal distribution Normalize it And then we have Our new values And that's it Okay So let's try it on our image And there you go So as you can see The previous image is a lot darker Now we have a lot more white What does that do To the histogram That's how it looks Any questions? Okay So give it a try Plot the original image And make a comparison Let's do that together So just Okay So with the histogram Side by side You can see How the original histogram Is like that We just equalized it We pulled it apart Make sure That it's more evenly distributed And we get a new image Again You can do this For the different channels If you have an RGB image You can do the different channels On the red channel The green channel And the blue channel All you need to do You have a three-dimensional array Do the same for each dimension Of your array The three different dimension Your red channel The blue channel But obviously If you do that The results Are not exactly the same As what you have For your gray level Okay Alright So if you have no questions We can take a look At your sci-fi library So for sci-fi library Is the library for all Your scientific calculations So if you need Whatever you do On a sci-fi calculator That you don't get On your normal calculator You'll find it In your sci-fi library Okay For a sci-fi library We can do more With your image So in your sci-fi library There's this thing Called the ND image The n-dimensional image And we can import the filters From that library Inside that filter That's all sorts of things So if you Let's take a look Alright There's all sorts of things That's your Gaussian filter Maximum filter Uniform filter You can play with it Okay The Gaussian filter Is one of the More famous filters That we use For blurring an image It uses the image Standard deviation To perform blurring So this here We input 5 standard deviation Means that This is the amount of blurring That we want to Achieve The higher it is The more blur your image should be And Once you've gone through A Gaussian filter We have our new image So This here Again This is on a grey level channel So if you want to do On a RGB Image This here We are going through The red Green and blue channel And we're doing that We have our new coloured image Image intensity We talked about When we do the histogram That shows A different image intensity And from there We have gradients We can calculate gradients And we have Once we calculate Our gradient magnitude And gradient angle We can perform A different filter So this here We calculate the derivatives For the different images For the X And the Y So we are calculating From the X Basically on the rows And the columns Of each Of your image So once you calculate The filters From your rows And your columns And you calculate The magnitude From these two You get Your gradient magnitude So your gradient magnitude Is basically For each row How big is your magnitude And then from each pixel How different Your pixel is From the magnitude What is the Angle of magnitude That you get Okay Next one A bit more fun Counting of objects So for any image That For an image Let's See So this is the image That we are going to get Right We want to count The number of objects In this image So for any image You can basically Create a Trash holding We talked about trash holding You do a trash holding You have black You have white You have nothing in between Okay Once you have done A binary trash holding So once that's done You can count The number of white objects Rounded by black Or black objects Rounded by white So this year We import The measurements And the morphology Packages From the ND image Again We need to work On a grey level image It doesn't work On a colour image So We need to convert it Into a grey level image And here Just by doing A simple trash holding Once we do a trash holding And we divide Your image into Black and white We use the measurements label And we can count The number of objects Okay Very simple Next Let's count The individual Zero and once So a tip On how to do that This is a slightly different Grey level, right? So instead of 150 You need to Change this value So let's try that Who can finish this first I'll give you another sticker You don't have a laptop Even with the new one Ya Oh no It's fine Because I'm a beginner So Okay Okay Sorry You okay? Could you get it? It's okay I mean if you've Done it so far Count the individual Zero and once Include the zero and once Do the same thing You just need to change the value Change the trash hold value Okay Okay, what's the new value? How many zero and once Included On top of the The other Objects In the image Who got the new value Shout it out 1730 No Just need to change this value What How many number of objects did you get? Count the number of zero and once You have Included Include the number of zero and once In this image On top of the other objects Anybody want to give a guess? Beautiful You get 188 So basically this trash holding Image trash holding Is just Converting every single value Of your array Of your image array Into either one Or zero And from there The measurements dot labour It will basically labour From here I can't We can't see the whole thing But basically You will see the surrounding images It will go There's a way they calculate There's different ways to calculate Basically they go down the rows Sorry They go Go through the rows One by one And basically once They hit A difference of value They hit a difference of value They will labour That Byte With a number So this here It will labour as zero And it will go down here With one Two, three, four Until it hits 188 Like so Correct So You're absolutely right It could be my mistake If anybody would like To basically count The number of objects There are It basically You need to look at What's the difference What is the threshold To get Between this colour And this colour You get what I mean? So you can print out The array And get the value of this byte And the value of this byte You need to set Your threshold Between these two values So just now If we put We set it to 150 That means Both this byte Both this grey number Is It falls On one side of the threshold It falls On this side of the threshold So we need to Push the threshold value Lower So that there is a difference So that if this is one This is Zero This is also zero I mean So previously if the threshold is 150 That means this is If this is zero This is one Or this is one This whole thing is one So you push the threshold lower This is zero The darker grey is one But the lighter grey is zero Okay And that's it For our session today You can play with it Try with your own images Transpose it Flip it around Rotate it Create your own histogram Your own contours Give it a try Alright Thank you


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The vegans are dropping like fruit flies. Bonnie Rebecca's vegan story is a textbook example of why the human body needs animal products and how in denial just about every single vegan is. The level of brainwashing and delusion is unreal. As you guys will see when we take a look at these clips. I'm not vegan anymore as you can probably tell by the title of this video. I was vegan for just over five years and it was kind of everything to me. It was my whole life, my whole identity, it was a motivation behind my youtube channel. It was just my whole world. It was something I believed so strong down to my core to have that all change with over the last six months has been extremely difficult to accept and to process and to even think about talking about with you guys. So I hope you know that this was not an easy decision for me to make. Prior to going vegan my health was not great. I would try and eat healthy but I would always fail and then I would feel like a failure and then I would binge out on food. Anyway just had a bad relationship with food. I've talked about this lots in the past and just to give you guys context I had a few health problems like skin. My skin was never great. I had a lot of rosacea and just like discoloration in my skin as well as breakouts. I had chronic sinus issues so my sinuses were like blocked all the time. Like I could never breathe out of my nose and I had a really bad digestion in general. I was constantly constipated like I just never really went to the toilet and when I did my bowel movements were not great. So that's kind of like a summary of my pre-vegan health I guess you could say. Considering the standard American diet is pretty much a vegan diet but with inflammatory processed foods it's easy to understand why some people feel better initially when they go on a vegan diet but after a period of weeks to months to even years for some people nutrient deficiencies and problems with the diet eventually show up that were unrelated to issues they were having before they were vegan. We were eating a lot of smoothies for breakfast and lunch and then having like big high carb dinners you know lots of rice potatoes that kind of thing and yeah a few months into that Tim started to notice that his skin was breaking out and I also did notice this too but I didn't really think much of it because my skin was never great so I just kind of was like whatever like I noticed that a lot of my rosacea had cleared up but I started getting pimples in new areas like in particular around my cheeks I would get really big pimples there and I was like that's weird but my skin's cleared up in other places and my sinus is so much better and I feel so much better so there's all these positives I didn't really focus on the negatives um but Tim skin was really weird because he had never had acne in his life like even through puberty growing up his skin was always like perfect and when I met him his skin was perfect we kind of just brushed it off and thought that it was detox because that was kind of a word used a lot in that community oh you're just going through detox you have to give it time like you're just pushing out old toxins because your body's like cleansing itself and all this stuff and he also picked up exercise quite a lot he was cycling a lot more and doing jiu-jitsu and stuff so we thought maybe it was that and because I was like pretty new to veganism we were still eating out once or twice a week and we were like oh maybe it's the oil like the fats when we eat out so we stopped eating out we cut out all fats all oils and we're like yeah this is totally going to make it all go away however it didn't it only got worse now looking back on it I'm kind of like why did we keep eating that way when you know obviously it wasn't getting better detox is the most ridiculous thing there is I cannot stand the word detox is a low level inflammatory reaction to something you're doing in your diet in your lifestyle yes if you drink milk and you get acne that might be considered detox because your body is literally trying to expel the allergens through its skin is the detox a good thing no you should stop drinking the milk you should stop consuming the food that is giving you that low level inflammatory reaction so we decided to change our diet and start incorporating more cooked foods and in particular we kind of focused our diet around the starch solution which is a diet made famous by dr mcdougal who's a plant based doctor and this diet was meant to help with you know skin digestion and a lot of other health problems as well so we gave that a try still very low fat and you know eating more like cooked foods for breakfast lunch and dinner in short that didn't help at all but it did make us feel a little bit more satiated and especially without energy levels we weren't having such big drops after our meals like we were when we're having fruit because fruit made us feel like really energized and then like drop down whereas this would make us feel a little bit more balanced so they went from spiking their blood sugar with fruit to complex carbohydrates that have a slower release and the lack of understanding of glycemic load and that someone would follow a diet for such a long period of time without realizing that their highs and lows are directly correlated with their sugar intake to me that really screams lack of nutritional knowledge anyway so we were kind of eating more of a balanced vegan diet Tim's skin at this point was probably just getting worse um so we decided we're going to reach out and try and find a doctor that can help because we'd already emailed all the plant-based doctors that we knew of from online and reached out to all the gurus that were kind of following on social media and just tried like Tim had kind of tried everything that we could think of at this point like different diets and for a long periods of time and when I say like he tried something he tried something like he didn't binge out on junk food he never ever like if you ask any of my friends up with like I don't know how Tim did that for so long like he never ate anything bad he never treated himself he was always very strict to try and fix his problems a great analogy for all these vegans that are trying different versions of the vegan diet and are wondering why it's not working is like someone trying to put out a fire with different grades of gasoline they're pouring the regular gasoline on the fire it's getting worse they switched to the premium it's getting worse they switched to ultra which is maybe a raw vegan diet and it gets worse these people are so brainwashed and ingrained in this idea that veganism is the way that they will deny the bucket of water sitting right next to them because we had kind of gone down this like natural path and like um natural healing we were kind of like not against doctors but just like we were skeptical to go to one because we thought they're not going to be able to help us with this problem they're probably just going to give him medication and we really wanted to fix like the root cause of it naturally you want to do things naturally and you're following a vegan diet there has literally never been any group of human beings that have ever followed a vegan diet before modern times half the foods you're eating didn't exist 300 years ago and the other half are shipped halfway across the world in plastic packaging and were made in a laboratory I guess there are one too many vegans drinking lemon water out of mason jars that have convinced you that a vegan diet is natural so we were more trying to do our own research which wasn't really working out because it wasn't helping Tim so we were like we should probably you know reach out to a doctor and do see what they say so we did a lot of research and picked a doctor in Sydney who specialized in like skin and digestive problems so we went to her it took us a while to get in because she was quite renowned and she's a specialist she ran a whole bunch of tests on him and long story short she pretty much said he has a bacterial overgrowth and he needs to take antibiotics and change his diet he was like you need to stop eating so many carbs and so much fiber and you need to eat more protein and he was like I'm I'm not going to do that like I'm not eating animal products and she was kind of like pushing him to and he felt really uncomfortable about that so he was like I'm not doing that and she was like okay well you know I'm giving you my advice like this is what's going to help you and she's like you can try eating a more of a high protein vegan diet and see how that goes instead so he took the antibiotics and he started eating more protein and his skin got better after like a month of taking the antibiotics but his digestive problems were still pretty much the same but it definitely cleared his skin after three months of taking antibiotics he stopped and all of his symptoms came back he then got described another antibiotics for six months he stayed on them for six months cleared up his skin again and then he stopped and everything came back and then she put him on another three months of antibiotics except for this time he started taking them and nothing happened his skin and his digestive just got worse and worse so after that happened things started to get really bad all of his symptoms were like 10 times worse than they were before he took the antibiotics but he got a whole lot of other things going on as well including insomnia, chronic fatigue, depression, anxiety, serious pain, gas and bloating every time he ate a meal we were really lost and we didn't know what to do at this point to me that sounds like a possible candida overgrowth or small intestinal bacteria overgrowth at this point we were feeling beyond confused because it's not like Tim was eating just whatever he wanted like I said he was eating a very very healthy whole foods plant-based diet he wasn't eating gluten or anything refined or anything processed he was eating like steamed vegetables, steamed sweet potatoes and steamed you know greens we pretty much dove into research and trying all different things that we possibly could that we thought might help at low FODMAP, high FAT, kind of trying every variation we could think of of a whole foods plant-based diet and we tried going to a handful of like natural doctors, naturopaths, other medical doctors, ayurvedic doctors, nutritionists and dietitians and a lot of them said you need to change your diet and as soon as that kind of they said that we were like okay bye obviously you don't know what you're talking about there was quite a few moments throughout this time where people would just tell Tim it's just stress distressing about it you need to just relax you know let it go and he had moments of that I definitely know that stress has a big impact on your health and we were very aware of that and did everything in our power to keep the stress down but there's only so much management you can do in that area when your food is directly impacting you and you can feel it after you eat you you can't just not be stressed about it like that's just not a solution I'm sorry it's crazy how so many people tell these vegans that their diet is killing them to their face that they need to eat animal products and you literally have to kill the horse like 18 times and they still will deny that animal products are necessary and they'll still have reservations about the positive aspects of a vegan diet it's completely mind boggling it's really hard to understand the thinking of these people and how cultish and it's like a religion it really is and after about a year we were speaking to a friend who had been to a doctor slash naturopath who had really helped her with some digestive problems that she was having and she was also vegan so we thought maybe this guy might be able to help so we went and saw him and he definitely helped me I must say but pretty much his whole theory with Tim was that he had like a bacterial overgrowth and his immune system was too weak to be able to fight off this bacterial overgrowth that it should be able to fight off so his theory was to try and build Tim's immune system to be able to fight off this bacterial overgrowth and he ran a whole bunch of tests on us and he said that Tim you know was deficient in quite a few things like zinc magnesium and he had a lot of heavy metals in his system um he had really high levels of mercury and cadmium in particular but all of these heavy metals were really high so he was like we need to deal with this so he was kind of like trying to detox him of heavy metals and trying to get his supplements up oh we were both also really low in iodine so he was like iodine's you know super important for making the thyroid function which controls your hormone so we were kind of like oh my god this is all connected like what do we do you know how Tim on a lot of supplements trying to boost his immune system taking lots of high doses of vitamin a and vitamin c and actually when he first started taking the vitamin a it definitely helped with his skin um but that kind of wore off like as soon as he was taking it regularly it just stopped helping he's liking the fat soluble vitamins and minerals contained in animal products to strengthen his immune system this is a classic textbook example of what happens long term when you follow a vegan diet high in anti-nutrients and low in vitamins and minerals that are available to the human body i didn't want to like make veganism look bad essentially because i didn't think it was veganism's fault why what has veganism done for you this girl is beyond brainwash i bet at the end of this video she'll still be promoting veganism in some way so after a few months of seeing this naturopath i was feeling pretty good because i had seen some changes Tim on the other hand was feeling worse than ever because he really had a lot of hope in this naturopath doctor and he wasn't helping Tim at all he was eating like a normal vegan diet at this point like a whole foods vegan diet including protein and fats and just trying to eat as balanced as he could i mean throughout this whole time we had a lot of ups and downs it was kind of like this but it was slowly going like this down because once again we found ourselves in a situation where the doctor wasn't helping we'd exhausted every avenue we'd spent so much money on tests and supplements and we had no answers no no no no you had plenty of answers just not answers that you wanted to hear you were so beyond brainwashed and the answer was right in front of you but you refused to listen to it if you go to three four five different doctors and naturopaths and they're all saying the exact same thing but you don't want to listen to them it becomes very clear who's in the wrong a naturopath kept telling us to be patient but the next time we saw him we were like this is not working like we need something else is anything else you can do and he said okay well i have a dietitian next door that i work with and she could run an allergen test on you to see maybe there's some foods that you know you're eating that are making this worse so we both got allergen tests done and it came back with well mine wasn't as bad as Tim's mine was probably like 10 foods but he's came back with like everything that he eats pretty much so we were confused as to why so many things came back on our tests as allergens but the dietitian continued to explain that she thinks that this might be a sign that we have some intestinal permeability so the anti-nutrients in the plant foods destroyed your stomach gave you leaky gut this is essentially what will happen if you consume large amounts of improperly prepared plant foods if we look at various anthropological evidence indigenous groups of people that didn't know or didn't have the means to prepare certain grains had various skeletal problems from rotten teeth to brittle bones and this is a very rapid thing that happens to vegans because the sheer amount of plant foods they're consuming in combination with the lack of animal vitamins in their diet plus the plant foods not being properly prepared it really is a recipe for leaky gut and developing allergies this is something we see in just about everyone who follows a vegan diet long term they start developing IBS, Crohn's disease, all of these allergies they start having to limit their foods is it possible to soak and ferment and do all these grains properly I don't really know but it's very apparent that these vegans are not doing it what do we do now and she gave us like some diet recommendation she's like try and eat like a low allergen diet like a low FODMAP diet kind of thing and you know these are some foods that you should try and include more of like buckwheat and pumpkin rather than having like legumes or rice or things like that so we tried to kind of switch up our diets again because after seeing my naturopath I was so much more aware of my digestion and what was happening down here I definitely found it easier to notice what foods were working and what foods weren't so I was more aware of how food was digesting and my bowel movements and everything like that so I definitely felt like the low allergen diet helped but I found it to be unsustainable because I felt unsatisfied after meals and I found that when I did crave you know other foods like legumes and stuff like that and I wanted to have them that my symptoms were really bad when I did eat them Tim was also eating the low allergen diet except his food list was smaller than mine because he couldn't eat as many foods as I could so that made his meals really boring really unsatisfying so yeah we did that for a few months and nothing helped his symptoms he started losing a lot of weight it felt like he was eating and his body was absorbing nothing it was hard because he was obviously trying to eat enough food to put on weight but every time he ate he was in pain and the more he ate the more all of his symptoms got worse so it was a really hard weird situation um yeah I mean at this point it's definitely safe to say he has some type of gut dysbiosis whether it's a candida overgrowth or SIBO. Tim had come across a few people online that were talking a lot about SIBO which is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and he kind of thought maybe that's what he had so he started researching a lot into that and trying to figure out you know what he could possibly do and that's when he came across you know different diets and a lot of people getting success from moving fiber from their diet and eating you know more protein and he was feeling really confused about what to do so our next plan of action was to find a doctor that ran SIBO that could do a SIBO test for us and a few other tests that we wanted to get done so we kind of went on the hunt to try and find the right doctor slash gastroenterologist we had four months to wait till the doctor Tim was losing so much weight like I already said he weighed less than me and just to give you an idea when I met him he weighed 14 to 15 kilos more than me so yes it's really hard for me to even try to put into words like what he was going through um because talking about it like this like it just doesn't really do it justice how much he suffered over the last four years and yeah things were bad look at how much this girl and her boyfriend have suffered how can you promote a vegan diet in any way after they have gone through all of this it's insanity that's really the only way to put it we couldn't wait to go see the doctors to do something about it so long sorry short we ended up seeing another doctor in Sydney so he went to this doctor he told her that he's going to get these tests done in a few months time and he needs something to hold him over in the meantime and she pretty much said to him look I know you've been vegan for a really long time but right now what you're eating your gut cannot physically break down and extract nutrients from you're not getting any nutrients you're not getting calories you are fading away and you have to change your diet otherwise you're gonna end up in hospital so the first thing he started eating was some fish and eggs he had fish twice a day for lunch and dinner and eggs for breakfast and within about five days all of his symptoms had cleared yeah trying to wrap my head around that was one of the hardest weeks ever we quickly realised that fish was not the most sustainable because he needed to put on weight quickly and um fish is not very high in calories or fat so he started eating chicken instead and that gave him the same great results but he was also putting on weight more rapidly so that was really good he was feeling so much better um his digestion had improved his skin was clear he was sleeping he was laughing he was smiling he had energy it was I was so happy at but at the same time I was devastated because I couldn't believe that this was the only thing that helped him really a vegan diet might not be good for you how many more bricks do these doctors have to throw at you finally went to our doctor's appointment four months later I felt so comfortable with my doctor I felt like he really understood my background and my history he had lots of people coming from similar backgrounds and then also so much knowledge about autoimmune diseases and understanding my dad's situation and also about plant-based diet so I felt like I was in really safe hands and I actually finally felt like I could breathe and not not try and fix it myself you weren't really trying to fix it yourself you just refused to listen to the advice of probably over a dozen doctors because all this all this time I've like been listening to doctors that I'm like talking with but also doing my own research and also trying to figure out what you know what the best way to go about it is and although I think that can be a good thing like you know trying to figure out things yourself I just felt so exhausted from doing that and I felt like I needed to take a step back and stop thinking that I could figure it all out myself and actually get help from a professional anyway so he ran a whole bunch of tests on us and I'm not going to go into too much detail into those because it's extremely hard to read them and unless you're a professional very hard to kind of break them down but I'm going to give you an overview of what he kind of found and that was for me a bacterial imbalance in my gut a really big imbalance with my omega 3 to omega 6 ratio an imbalance in my cortisol levels and the main thing that he was concerned about which was very high inflammatory markers so I had a lot of inflammation and that was kind of his main concern chronic inflammation can lead to you know things like autoimmune diseases so it's really important to get that under under wraps but hey I thought a whole foods plant-based diet wasn't inflammatory and that omega 6 didn't really matter there was quite a few different changes in the diet but one of them included adding in fish and eggs all this time I was always thinking when when a doctor would recommend you know eating more protein or something I would always think plant food has plenty of protein in it there's nothing in animal products that you can't get from plants doesn't make sense why would that help the situation so the understanding of the fat soluble vitamin content of animal foods is something people don't get and it's clear that we've been brainwashed to think that plant foods are good for us and meat is bad for us so why in any way shape or form would someone be compelled to try to find out if meat is actually good for you or if vegetables are actually bad for you this is only really found out when you look into indigenous groups and tribes and our ancestors and find the constant of these animal foods in the diet every single indigenous group subsisted off of approximately 65 of their calories from high quality animal foods no exceptions it turns out it's not what animal protein has it's what it doesn't have and that is fiber fiber is good for you fiber is really important for you know healthy bowel movements and a healthy gut but there is such thing as too much fiber and especially when you have a damaged gut or an in bacterial imbalance and your body is unable to break down food properly too much fiber can be a bad thing and it can cause inflammation so she's blaming fiber when the anti-nutrients and the lack of fat soluble vitamins in her diet literally ruined her gut and destroyed her immune system the lack of nutritional understanding in general and conventional dietary wisdom it's really just crazy there's no other I really don't know what to say every single person is different every single person's microbiome is completely different so to say that one diet is going to work for everyone it really is naive and it really is not possible yes indigenous groups and various groups of people throughout the world have different dietary habits but the one constant is there's never been a vegan group of people especially in regards to our hunter-gatherer ancestors no one has even been vegetarian it took me a while to figure this out as you can tell like I've been vegan for a long time and I think that a part of me wanted to believe in this diet so much because I had such a strong ethical connection to it that I kind of was turning a blind eye to my problems and to my to the severity of my health issues because I didn't want to believe them a lot of the times when I was really struggling I didn't show it I didn't show it on here I didn't I put makeup on to cover you know my acne or I would film on days when my skin was good because I would go through a lot of like you know three days my skin would be horrible and then I would kind of clear out for two days and then it would be horrible again and I would kind of only show when I was when it was okay or when it was bearable oh now we hear about the ethical side of veganism this far into the video imagine how many other vegans were suffering to this degree but refused to come out about it because of their beliefs in this ethical side of veganism and I don't understand is it okay to grind up rabbits and deer and mice in commercial harvesters as long as you're not actually consuming a piece of their meat I just want to make it very clear that I do not blame veganism for any of my problems I do not regret going vegan I veganism still was the best decision I made because they taught me how to get to where I am I don't think I ever would have been able to overcome healthy eating if I hadn't have gone vegan and have gone through what I'd gone through to get here unfortunately I think that the vegan community has become very toxic and not understanding of people's situations and this was a huge slap in the face for me because in the past I have been that person not saying it to people but thinking oh they're just not doing it right or they just didn't try hard enough or of course veganism works for everyone they just didn't give it a good enough go or they didn't do this or they didn't do that there was always an excuse and I was never understanding of people's situations that it might just not be working for them people are different people have different situations going on and different foods are going to work for them depending on their health their current state of health and that's how it is oh you don't say what's ironic is now there are people posting the exact same thing on your video but unfortunately you're on the other side of the fence Tim had similar results but he also had a lot more going on like some parasites and some food allergies and much worse bacterial imbalances than I did but overall he's eating a similar diet to how he was eating except slowly incorporating back in um foods that he wasn't able to eat before like you know grains and stuff like that so he's um going really well with that and doing so so much better thank thank god oh my god I find it funny how people comment on my videos especially the raw meat ones oh my god he's got a parasite he's gonna die from the bacteria and both of these vegans have had parasite and bacterial infections yet here I'm standing without no such issues after being on a carnivore die for over six years go figure hate to break it to you guys but there's more animal shit on your vegetables than there ever will be on any of the meat I purchase I felt like I completely lost myself identity I didn't know who I was without veganism I didn't it was just it was a mindfuck to be honest that's the best way to put it but then I realized that if I don't have my health I don't have anything and I have to put that first I was so scared about what other people would think that it was controlling me and I wasn't listening to myself I wasn't listening to my body oh look another closed-minded vegan who can't imagine that they're wrong about something especially their diet veganism did not cause my problems I'll never put the blame on veganism for that I had underlying gut issues but eating a high fiber diet may have been making my problems worse over time or at least not allowing them to heal holy shit underlying gut issues before a vegan diet this girl is in another goddamn dimension one day I sincerely hope I am reborn as a hot ass vegan chick with an IQ of like 62 I will be the happiest clam in the ocean mark my words I've accepted my changes and I've accepted my flaws and the things that I've done wrong over the last few years especially when it comes to promoting things online no you haven't you're still giving horrible dangerous advice saying that the vegan diet had nothing to do with this you're completely out of line one thing that sticks out to me is how she was able to hide her problems she was having and only film on days where she felt okay and also how long she was actually consuming animal foods without people knowing about it imagine all these vegans that are filming videos and they look terrible in the video what could they possibly look like on their off days and for anyone saying oh well frank you probably sneak vegetables when you're not filming carnivore diet eating videos the difference between me being on the carnivore diet and a vegan is that I can actually obtain every single vitamin mineral element that the human body needs from animal foods in some way whether it's vitamin c from liver vitamin e from egg yolks every single food that is contained in plants can be found in animal foods the same cannot be said about a vegan if a vegan is cheating on their diet they are getting specific nutrients that they would not normally be getting that's why it is essentially like cheating if I was to eat lemons or kale or broccoli in my free time it would not affect me in any way whatsoever if a vegan was to sneak in meat and eggs and things like that they are creating an illusion of health in a way to their viewers I guess one thing that this video really opened me up to even more although I've thought about it in the past is how many of these vegans are actually vegans on YouTube if this girl was able to hide it for a couple months no problemo who knows really I mean how can we really trust any of these people you know what they do at home that's off camera it's really hard to say so overall I think the vegan denial mechanism is unreal honestly the comments on her video weren't actually as bad as other vegan videos but the way she went about it was like really hammering it in she made it very evident that they tried literally everything and that she was on the other side of the fence too she literally pretty much said every single thing that they could come against her with and then the vegans in the comments were still like oh you know veganism is not just about diet it's about other things too so what are you gonna do at the end of the day Frankie boy is gonna be right and I've been spouting that veganism and vegans will be looked at in the future as deniers of everything from the health benefits to the environmental benefits to the ethical benefits and to me it just seems like it's crazy it's deluded to me I just don't get it I mean I guess it requires a certain amount of open-mindedness and objectiveness to actually look into and understand why certain diets are better for certain things but a vegan diet is certainly not better from a health standpoint from a moral standpoint from an ethical standpoint environmental standpoint whatever you may have it there is no reason to actually follow a vegan diet so if you guys would like to support the channel please subscribe and share the video if you guys would like to check out anything from my patreon to my amazon shop everything is in the description down below and last but not least if you guys would like to reach out to me for one-on-one consultations maybe you are a long lost vegan looking to incorporate animal foods into your diet you can reach out to me frankatefano at gmail.com or through the contact form on my website below


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