Primitive Nutrition 71: Waking to Realities, Part IV

[Wooblue]

Absolutely brilliant series to watch. I for one agree with everything you've put together. I hope everyone using youtube for personal nutritional research comes accross these videos. I hope they save people from the misery of low carb long term effects and animals from needless farming and death. Thanks!



[PrimitiveNutrition]

@Wooblue Thank you for watching and for your kind words! New videos are almost here. Keep checking for them.

Please share these videos!

[LloydChristmas777]

Beautiful ending.

[roshisatori]

My initial comments and questions regarding the Paleo Diet are posted on the PALEODIET ARCHIVES November, 1998. On the same site, M. Enig, and S. Fallon of the Weston Price Foundation responded on December 1998, and L. Cordain responded on November, 1998. My response to both parties was on March 1999. In those early days of the Paleodiet phenomenon, I seemed to one of the lone voices on their primary website with a dissenting voice. This may be of historical interest to some.

[roshisatori]

@roshisatori Re the PALEODIET ARCHIVES postings - they were under the title of 'Paleo Queries'

[roshisatori]

Thank you for your response. I tried to post what I think are some interesting postings from the past – where I was debating with L. Cordain, M. Enig and S. Fallon. However, the comment section gives an ‘Error’ message despite character number acceptable. What to do?

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@roshisatori You can't post links.

[roshisatori]

@roshisatori Questions regarding your apparent alignment with mainstream medicine, aside, this video series is by far the best and most intelligent critique of the low-carb/paleo notion available. I have recommended it to friends and colleagues. Thanks again. Hoping you might consider turning this into a book at some point.

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@roshisatori Thank you very much for your support. This will appear on a website soon and more videos are on the way. I will probably never sell anything or make any money from this. I'm just trying to do the right thing.

[LloydChristmas777]

@PrimitiveNutrition, Personally, I don't care if you make money. So either way, as long as the information is scientific and logical, the integrity remains.

[roshisatori]

Thank you for this fine series of videos and the considerable work required for their production. In the early days of the Paleo notion, I weighed in on the debate on the main Paleodiet site, and was one of the lone voices of dissent. For those interested, the following postings may be of interest:

[roshisatori]

3. It seems that most of the people who fall into the vegetarian camp also openly support or at least are sympathetic to alternative treatment methods, and quite opposed to allopathic medicine. These same people are often antiestablishment and believers in conspiracies hatched by those in power, including corporations and the government agencies which presumably oversee them. I am wondering why this was not addressed in your series, which also adds to my curiosity about your affiliations?

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@roshisatori I don't think one needs a particular political philosophy to be a vegan. Again, your agenda is a totally separate topic from anything in this series as far as I'm concerned. There are plenty of pro-cholesterol people with similar suspicions of conspiracies.

[roshisatori]

I have several comments and questions to pose about the Primitive Nutrition series;

It is also peculiar that you did not mention the incestuous economic relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and mainstream medicine and the obvious practical implications of this. This leads me to wonder if you are an allopathic medical doctor?

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@roshisatori Who I am doesn't matter. You seem to have a separate agenda. Be careful with the "allopathic" stuff. I am not sympathetic.

[roshisatori]

I have several comments and questions to pose about the Primitive Nutrition series;

2. You state in one of your videos ‘Listen to your doctor’ with regard to direction for proper nutrition. In such a statement you seem to be assuming that mainstream medicine has a monopoly on accurate health maintenance knowledge and practices. It strikes me as odd that you would not know the paucity of nutrition education allopathic doctors receive in medical school.

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@roshisatori You should post this in the comment section for the corresponding video. I'm pretty sure you are quoting me inaccurately.

[roshisatori]

@PrimitiveNutrition In Video #43 at 37 seconds, you stated: 'Listen to your doctor and eat a prudent diet high in whole plant foods'. As you may know, doctors know little about this subject matter and rarely make any such comments to patients. Just before this you state that doctors 'know how to interpret all the other biomarkers to treat their patients properly' Really? Since they know little of nutrition and much about drugs, are you equating drugs with proper treatment?

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@roshisatori Please post your comment where it is most useful, in the comment section of video 43.

[roshisatori]

@roshisatori Ok -will post there.  I posted my comments at the end of the series, as I thought they would be more likely to be read and stimulate discussion.

[roshisatori]

I have several comments and questions to pose about the Primitive Nutrition series;

1. You point out that John Ioannidis stated in a 2005 paper, that most findings in peer reviewed journals are false. Would this not call into question a significant percentage of the studies you cite to support your contentions?

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@roshisatori Yes, but all the other factors must be considered as well, especially prior probability. Also, financial motivation and industry power are important, as well as the reputations of the investigators.

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@roshisatori For clarification, if by "call into question" you mean have some healthy skepticism, then yes, always, as long as it is within reason.

[roshisatori]

Thank you for this fine series of videos and the considerable work required for their production. In the early days of the Paleo notion, I weighed in on the debate on the main Paleodiet site, and was one of the lone voices of dissent. For those interested, the following postings may be of interest: On next posting

[1imesub]

I try not to use trust the newest research that comes out until it stands the test of time, at least if it sounds controversial and probably incorrect. Thanks for putting all the work into these educational videos. I can't imagine you're doing all of this voluntarily... you must be an extreme workaholic.

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@1imesub Yes, and highly motivated to help people. More is on the way. I hope you will enjoy it. Thank you for taking the time to watch what I've done so far!

[ivet4126]

I loved the entire series!

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@ivet4126 So glad! Thanks for watching it all!

[patotohead]

Oils are empty calories do you incude coconut oil also as empty calories?

Thank You

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@patotohead Yep, I think so. Coconut oil raises your cholesterol for one thing. There are worse things you could eat, of course, but I don't buy the hype. I'd rather just eat and drink a young coconut every now and then. Coconut oil is great for getting the sap off my knife when I cut open a jack fruit, though.

[Manofaction20psi]

Just finnished the whole series. Thanks for making this. Very interesting and well made. Clears up alot of questions I had.

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@Manofaction20psi Thanks for watching it all! I'm so glad it was helpful!

Some new ones are on the way so stay tuned.

[Lixuzstatic]

Pretty good stuff. Good work

[PrimitiveNutrition]

@Lixuzstatic Thank you for watching! And thanks for adding some humor!

[IronCladBen]

Great series, really appreciate all the work you put into doing all of this.

[brianv00]

Excellent point about adaptation! Paleo is not sustainable. Our species would fail miserably if we all ate that way.