Does The Paleo Or Atkins Diet Shorten Human Lifespan?

[Music] over the last 40 years you’ve seen a lot of people who’ve lived on the Atkins poleo a lot other low carb diets what have the short and long term results been for the people who followed this diet anymore anyone who wants to comment on that anyway basically you know I’ve been in practice for approximately 28 years now and I’ve seen many people get into trouble following various fads and hypotheses that they’re you know however we have to give more credence to studies that track thousands of people and they follow thousands of people for decades and the studies we give more credence that use hard endpoints the hard endpoints are things like death cardiovascular events like heart attacks or cancer diagnosis have more credence in the studies just checking wait or checking cholesterol we can show any study short-term study we can show a Twinkie diet is beneficial if we by losing weight and lowering your cholesterol if we feed people less calories they get sick of eating just Twinkies and they consume less calories the point I’m making is we need to give more credence to long term studies and we do that we follow people and we have these studies that are published in the medical literature today that follow thousands of people like if for example one study followed 6,000 people for 18 years and they had they had 400% increased death in the increased cancer death in those people eating higher amounts of animal products 30% of calories compared to those eating less than 10% of calories it’s one study but I can name I can name multiple studies scores of them that show that as animal protein increases in the diet soda both cancer deaths car and cardiovascular deaths and overall mortality so I think that the question about paleo type diets that are generally high in animal products and what was the other diet you mentioned and the Atkins diet yeah I think that’s not a question that really isn’t is controversial anymore I think that it’s true that they’re still popular it’s true that a lot of people are doing it but think among nutritional scientists even the World Health Organization and at least 90% of people into human nutrition who’ve read most of them will follow the literature I don’t think among nutritional research there’s any controversy see at all left that these diets shorten human lifespan it’s my mic oh there it is my presentation on Monday is about the Paleolithic diet and a lot of the claims and what we know in the research that

1. Fuhrman was talking about but just

to add a little bit to that we we have literally dozens and dozens of studies as you were saying and one that was quite convincing I think it was 2013 a study out of Harvard that followed people doing these kinds of low carb diets for a number of years and I if I’m not mistaken I think it was 50 some percent increase in mortality and or one of the other one fifty one percent and then 34 percent or something increase in heart disease deaths and so long-term what you’re doing when you’re eating that kind of diet is you’re you’re making your body more acidic more prone to kidney stones and kidney disease and of course to cardiovascular disease and so I think a lot of people what they care about is weight loss and in a culture where you’ve got you know at least seventy percent of people are overweight or obese if you go with dr. Fuhrman’s numbers of under a BMI of under 23 eighty eight percent as you were saying today and people go on a diet where they’re eating mostly meat and a little bit of non starchy vegetables as these many of these diets suggest of course they’re going to lose weight they’ve just cut out all of the processed white flour products and the burgers and the pizza and they cut out all of that that’s of course they’re going to lose weight when you lose weight you start to feel better and what they’re not recognizing this it’s sort of long term pain for short term gain it is is kind of what what you’re doing when you when you adopt this type of diet but one if for those of you that can’t be yet the Paleo presentation I just wanted to tell you that that even if these diets were the healthiest diets bar none you know a diet really is only as healthy as it is good for the planet and and our population and for other creatures and for biodiversity and so on if every single person on it on the on the face of the earth ate a paleo diet today we would need 15 planet Earth’s to sustain the current population it’s insanity and you know we just we really have to look as I was saying earlier today we’ve got to look at the consequences of our choices beyond ourselves we’ve got to start to do this on cancer right one hotdog and so you know it’s about the microbes it’s about the bacterial flora you as soon as you start eating meat let’s say you were a vegan and you ate only plant-based you actually change the bacterial flora and now you are increasing the risk for colon cancer victim and this has been in studies we know that for sure a vegan bacterial flora does not promote colon cancer so it’s very much about changing the microbes and bacteria and you you’re actually inviting subpopulations that the bad guys come in they’re amoebas the e.coli and all kinds of bacteria that should not be there we have a lot of friendly bacteria and if I’m not in a good place please take a take really good probiotic and enzymes to get you there I think five planet Earth’s are sufficient maybe Earth’s without humans are really sufficient [Music] you [Music]