 Hello and welcome this is Dr. Michael Gregor live from my treadmill Here to answer any and all questions you may have I Did a Facebook live earlier today and doing YouTube now We'll do this every month for those of you unfamiliar with my work every year I read through every issue of every English language nutrition journal in the world so busy folks like you Don't have to I think follow the most interesting most groundbreaking most practical findings into new videos and articles upload every day to my Website nutrition facts or everything on the website is free There are no ads no commercial No corporate sponsorships strictly not commercial not selling anything just put it up as a public service as a labor of love as a tribute to my grandmother who is the reason that I went into medicine and Practice lifestyle medicine to this day Let me start at the top, and I will go through the questions and hopefully get to yours Paul asked are there any health concerns associated with drinking water from plastic bottles? Yes, there are if you look at there are both microbiological Concerns as well as chemical concerns. So for example From polycarbonate plastic if you search on nutrition facts that are for the word for the letters BPA You will see Videos about some of these plastics chemicals also on the fowlates start spell with a P P T H AL ATES Check out those or just type in plastics or plastic into nutrition facts that organ will search bar all my videos have come up And you can enjoy Lance ass. How do I prevent? water intoxication If I don't solve my foods If So hi bonnet dream is is you can actually wash out the electrolytes in your system if you exercise intensely sweat a lot and are just drinking pure water The concern was that wait a second don't have to add salt to my food as if for millions of years of evolution We had salt shakers sitting there No need to add salt to food But we should but if you are Excessively exercising you need to replete your electrolytes. That's the whole kind of Gatorade thing you can do it a lot healthier than just drinking sugar water by Eating actual food like fruit And so we should get all our sodium from natural sources not from salt shaker not from processed Which you do not have to take a bag of potato chips on your bike rides Seabird asks I am requesting an option to see Spanish subtitles absolutely in fact We have Spanish subtitles on hundreds of videos people don't realize that if you do a search for videos on nutrition facts or There's language options. You can say I just want to see the ones with Polish subtitles or Russian subtitles or You know the Italian subtitles and Spanish is actually our most common one We've got hundreds of videos already translated. We have a whole team of translation volunteers You actually can be one of those if you'd like to help out We're actually going to convert the entire site into Spanish So not just the subtitles for all the videos, but like all the wording on the sites It'll be like a little flag, you know, you go to some websites and there's like you can choose your language Well, it's gonna be same thing nutrition facts or where you can see it in English You can see the entire site in Spanish And then we're gonna move to other languages to broaden the Number of people that can have access to this life changing life saving information But right now you can access those Spanish subtitles by just doing a Search on nutrition facts that are work and then clicking the Spanish language button All right, Laura asked come on it. I've been diagnosed with a thrombus a clot takes warfare in every day to maintain an Are there vegetarians that is guaranteed reversal without anticoagulants? Absolutely not you need anti if you have Excessively clotting blood for whatever reason or if you have a heart valve or any kind of internal Hardware that could cause your blood to clot Although there is There are there's basically what's called salicylic acid which is kind of the active ingredient in aspirin found in plant foods Not just in willow bark or is originally Harvested from and so people eating plant-based diets, particularly eating spicy plant-based diets There's a lot of salicylates in spices like cumin You will have blood levels of aspirin Which rival that of people actually taking a baby aspirin a small dose aspirin pill every day Even though you're not on aspirin you have the same aspirin doses in your body That may actually been be beneficial in terms of reducing Heart disease risk Stroke risk certain types of stroke risk as well as cancer risk And I've got a bunch of videos coming up on aspirin and cancer But that's not your blood would not be thin enough to prevent clots if you have some excessive clotting disorder And so if your physician wants your own kumitan then you need to To remain on kumitan as long and just make sure that you they titrate the greens consumption You dark green leafy vegetable consumption is not a kumitan That's basically kumitan is a vitamin K poison and so if you eat a lot of vitamin K You need to up your dose to keep them in line All right Okay, Lance Okay Lance is just making some comments. That's good. Okay. I'm gonna keep going down I Don't know how to pronounce a Jo a with a little thing on it. Oh, sorry The the city has an exam with 289 people on grounds for milliliter of B12. Is that a healthy level? You Assuming those of the units I'm familiar with Yes, that would be fine But you still would want to take the question is should continue to take bottom B12 Of course, you should a 2,500 micrograms once a week of cyanobulamins probably all you or anyone should need And you say well, wait a second one of my levels are fine Well, they won't be fine for long if you don't get a regular reliable source of vitamin B12 I Sarah read an article from a nutrigenomics company saying that your genes determine whether or not Animal or plant-based omega-3s are good for you all omega-3s are originally plant-based And are then created by animals such as yourselves when you eat them There may be polymorphisms, but which means kind of gene variations in Delta-6 desaturates enzymes the elongation enzymes, but and so one may want to take a Preformed the long chain of make a three Fadi has a supplement. I've got a bunch of videos new videos about that. So check it out a Vitamin Lindsay says what do I think about intermittent fasting? I've got a bunch of videos on intermittent fasting coming up. I keep saying that but I do and It's actually a really complex topic And but I will be talking about all the variations of intermittent fasting water only fasting Timing duration meals all sorts of good stuff. It's all coming out. It's not that I'm trying to keep anything from you I just haven't read all the science yet. There's tremendous load hundreds of new articles and so I want to make sure I have a sense of where they're going just Doing kind of a light reading, but I want to do a deep dive before I Before I synthesize all the available science Alright Michael good name as if you take a DHA EPA supplement How much ALA should you get every day as it's still important to keep an omega-6 to make a three ratio four to one? So If you're already getting pre I mean so the reason one wants to keep their ratio Relatively low of mega six to mega threes is To kind of facilitate your body's elongation the short chain of mega threes found in flaxseeds and walnuts Into the long chain versions But so do you still need to do that if you're taking um, you know, and do you need to get a source of Availa like flaxseeds or walnuts or hemp nuts or chia seeds if you're already taking that and my answer is Yes to both but not for the reason one might think so I mean what's the recommendation to About a mega six ratio. It's stay away from junkie of vegetables like Cornell safflower oil sunflower oil and cotton seed oil so you'd still want to do that regardless for all sorts of reasons and Why so do you not have to take flaxseeds now if you're getting a preform source of DHA will make a three-star the only reason we eat Super-healthy foods like flaxseeds and walnuts they have other health-prone and compounds for example flaxseeds have these anti-cancer lignan compounds Which you know you would be missing out on so I'd still stick with my daily doesn't recommendation to get a tablespoon of ground flaxseeds Every day for the other health benefits Priscilla talked about BPA at the beginning Sereno are their plant foods that reverse posture orthostatic tachycardia syndrome and small fiber neuropathy I Do not know of any But if you do a Pub med cert if you got pub med dot gov gov That's the database the National Library of Medicine Largest medical library in the world and you type in whatever syndrome that you're interested in and the word diet or foods or such and Studies come up. I'd be happy to look at them Send them my way. I will dig them up. And if there's something interesting useful for others. I will Make a video about it and share with others Alright Steve what foods would I recommend for a toddler to have on a daily basis? Oh, like a daily dozen toddler version. That's a good idea. I should come up with that Until I do though, I would encourage you to check out wonderful sources like anything Brenda Davis has written or read Mangles has written they both done wonderful books and chapters on Feeding healthy diets to infants and small children Um Christine and Amos has any research on diet and macular degeneration Very certain there is I just haven't looked at it yet. I haven't got to my latest eye folder Studies I could actually look at it now, but it would take some time But if there is I realize that's an issue that a lot of people deal with and will definitely do any videos on Any new exciting developments in that area? David asked what foods increase stamina and energy. I need more than a caffeine jolt well The question is I mean you should as a healthy person Have lots of stamina energy and if you don't if you're tired fatigue then instead of Caffeine like jolts or other stimulants that you can certainly try you treat the cause you're not getting enough sleep Do you have a endocrinological hormonal issue or? Anemia there's all sorts of things that can make people kind of drag and tired so you should get diagnosed So you can go to for example plant-based docs.com find somebody who knows a clue about nutrition and treating the cause of lifestyle medicine Treating the cause of disease and then you shouldn't need to have any kind of jolt in your life because life Will be jolt enough All right Any session any suggestions on rosacea lots of typical kind of medical Suggestions, but in terms of dietary suggestions. I don't think I've even have a let me see if I even have a Folder on rosacea. I don't think so because I haven't seen any videos Nope so I haven't seen any articles come by but I have a It's called a patent PubMed alert on rosacea and died Meaning you can set up a search in PubMed.gov a National Library of Medicine site such that even if there isn't any articles Currently on what you're interested in you can sign up for an email alert to get a an email anytime Anywhere in the world and peer-reviewed scientific literature a study is published on your topic So sign up on anything you're interested in if something comes by send it my way and I will get it for you Interpreted for you and if has broad applicability Do a video about it? all right Steve Oz is there any evidence that a vegan diet can affect testosterone production? Yes and I've got a video about that coming up in the next nine weeks Available now actually you can get a sneak peek of all the next nine weeks Actually about ten weeks of videos coming on nutrition facts.org I just released an email blast on Tuesday two days ago if you did not get that email You're not subscribed to my free newsletter. So feel free to subscribe if you want and And you and so the video is coming up and you can see it now streaming and video As well and that's all that information is in the email blast Which will come out next week on as a blog on the site, but if you want to see it now you should subscribe Okay David asks talk to Oprah Getting your own TV show send doctor Oz I was actually on a doctor Oz once which was Very neat talking about TMAO trimethylene oxide and the carnitine and cold ink connection Would love to do more And so yeah, the more people I can reach about evidence-based nutrition the better Danielle asked about FOD maps and another hot research topic I'll be doing a series of videos about but have yet to read the I've collected them We have a team of volunteer article retrievers You can be one too by signing up by clicking on the volunteer opportunities button and nutrition facts.org. We are Retrieving about 1700 articles Every week now categorizing so I have a Massive FOD maps folder, but I have yet to read all the articles and make a series of videos about them So I will let you know Catwoman XwX Ass is corn healthy. Well Foods aren't healthy or unhealthy. They are healthier or less healthy, right? So cool is corn healthy compared to what? Well, it's corn healthy compared to most things. Yeah I would choose yellow corn or even better purple or blue corn But yeah corn in the cotton It's how most people eat corn, which is the problem Like tortilla chips bad You know deep-fried, you know taco shells bad, but eating corn on the cob or that's delicious wonderful Of course, you're not slobbering butter on it. What I do is I do hot sauce and black pepper but Do however you like or you can sprinkle some some balsamic vinegar. That's also yummy, too. Or at least yummy to me All right, how much? Oh? Vitamin K1 K2 Videos about that coming up. No audio. Are people really not hearing audio? I There's a note saying there's no audio. I'm hoping people are hearing audio. Otherwise, there'd be lots of I don't know Let me know if you are not hearing any audio Here I'm gonna scroll down to the bottom. Oh someone hears me Okay. All right, so okay I Scroll down to comments and other people say I can hear you so I guess we do have audio Okay, so I'm scrolling back up to try to not lose my place Where am I? Oh darn it Okay, I lost my place. All right, so I'm just gonna Scroll down in the middle of comments and start answering more way where I left off. Oh boy. They're scrolling fast. Okay I've got does from bloke guy asked us freezing whole foods Now someone's calling me hopefully that's not in regards to the YouTube channel It'll have to go to voicemail. Does freezing whole foods like potato rice and beans ruin nutritional benefits? No in fact, what a great way to To you know, you make a big pot of beans or a pressure cook Which is what I like to do pressure cook a big pot of beans back there just did today Ran out of black beans. So we're stuck with chickpeas, but that's fine Big, you know over the weekend do a big pot of beans and then you can freeze it and a nice little serving-sized containers and then you know throwing stuff throughout the week. That's a great idea bloke guy The vegan animator asked us eating carbs make it harder to lose fat. We have to I mean carbs as Dr. Katz David Katz likes to say carbs are lollipops or lentils You can't really talk about carbs. You don't eat carbs Food and there are some carb rich foods that are bad for you like cotton candy There's some carbs with rich foods that are fantastic for you like, you know pinto beans or So so that it's you can't really ask that question about or Answer that question without really talking about what carbs talking about but just eating pinto beans make it harder to lose fat No but if you eat if you drink soda or something if you Eat a whole bunch of sugar along with fat your body will store the fat burn the carbs And so that would indeed make it harder to lose fat So don't drink soda drink water or green tea or viscous tea my three favorite beverages Got some More PCOS, polycystic ovarian syndrome videos coming up I think I have one on the website now and talking about the benefits of spearmint tea But I have some others popping up Marjoram, I think that's what it came up earlier at YouTube. I excuse my Facebook in fact, let me look Because I don't want to get that wrong PCOS Yes, Paulie. Oh, here we go treating Paul. I have a video coming up soon Actually, you can watch it right now streaming in the new DVD But if not, you can just wait for it to pop up for free on nutrition facts or but I can give you I can read it right now Okay Plus as your very yeah, you have blah blah, so I basically give the intro talk about How to prevent it, but we want how to treat it, right? So let's keep going down Stop smoking first thing you do is stop smoking. All right the glycotoxins to smoke not only increase risk of heart disease and cancer, but also The problems with PCOS, and so of course you'd want to stay away from other high glycotoxin foods like Like meat that is cooked with high heat such as broiling searing frying, etc And then oh so basically a low AGE diet I think that's what this video is coming out with and you're like wait a second What is an AGE what is a glycotoxin just type that into nutrition facts dot org and you can learn all about Advanced glycation end product so eating a low AGE diet evidently Can help with PCOS as this video coming up soon on nutrition facts will tell you all with all the primary sources, of course All right S O's Turk Oz Turk asks what do I think about nut and seed butter for fit people who want to lose a Bit more body fat and build muscle. Well, I I Nut and seed butters I encourage people to eat nuts and seeds every day as part of a daily dozen Checklist of foods I encourage people to get into their daily diet and get a free app iPhone Android Dr. Various daily dozen and so yes, I think you should eat it but Not to necessarily Lose body fat and build muscle but just as a as a nutritious food You know the way to build muscle is resistance exercise Alright That vegan surgeon Asks, do you have to buy whole flaxseeds or are milled flaxseeds? Okay? What if they aren't they oxidized they're milled before eating and the answer is no You can you can if you you can grind flaxseeds live in an airtight container on your kitchen counting I didn't refrigerate it for months without significant oxidation Which is quite remarkable. I think the reason people have that the sense is because Flaxseed oil oxidizes very rapidly. You have to keep it in the fridge. Even then it oxidizes really rapidly goes rancid but You know, it's it's isolated. It's fractionated From the flaxseeds itself the ground flaxseeds flaxseeds are packed with antioxidants to keep that very unstable Omega-3 fats safe and And so again, that's why we eat whole foods because it becomes as a package deal to keep the Make three fantasies marks that you so you can buy them free mill you can mill them yourself Whatever you want to do. What about kereginin ass insomniac bite? I've got a video about kereginin Get out Bottom line. I think for people that have Gastrointestinal inflammation may want to stay away from it Okay, whoa My so many cuts so many questions In my screen keeps keeps scrolling up and so I so I'm about to read something and then disappears. Okay. Um, Well keep scrolling. Okay, so Vin Bailey s. How do you five date? Oh? Okay, hold on stop scrolling. Okay. Sorry about that Okay, Matthew Hello, my wife has been on a whole food plant-based diet for months and her nasal polyps are shrinking But her nose is still stuffy does she need surgery to get rid of them or where they clear up on their own, you know I Well, so nasal polyps can form these kind of little fingers in your nose It's an inflammatory reaction So it may be that could explain why an anti-inflammatory diet whole plant foods could cause them to shrink Unfortunately, there's no data. I've never I've not so I mean that I guess it shouldn't surprise us But I've never seen actually published and so I don't know what the course of the natural history Kind of of the disease would be on a healthy diet And so I don't know you'll have to tell me if they're getting better One might want to forestall surgery to see if they continue to get better And then if they plateau reconsidered the surgical option It's very kind of typically a very quick outpatient type surgery But there's always risk of bleeding and so you don't want to do surgery unless you absolutely need to so if they're shrinking I'd consider talking to your Doctor about holding off to see if they go away completely All right Lance vegan strong says soy increases estrogen levels and so men should avoid it. It's just not true You can check out my recent soy videos Scott ass of okay. That's not a question How oh wow, that's a great question from Alex. How do you reduce the million tour? I And you do that by decreasing your leucine intake got a bunch of videos on tour just type in to our And you can talk and you can see all the dietary intervention is to To suppress the kind of engine of aging enzyme tour What are my thoughts on our current system of cancer donations of Asks Chris. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by that. You mean organizations that That solicit donations. There's good organizations. There's bad organizations probably my favorite and if you wanted to donate to a cancer charity I like the American Institute for cancer research They seem to be doing more kind of diet related Research than other bodies like national cancer or not the national cancer Institute the That's a other big cancer charity. Anyway, I like a ICR The best of the current options available Rubin asked what's the best nutrition diet for losing a large amount of weight you eat a healthy diet, right because Diets by definition don't work because you well you can because you don't need a diet need a lifestyle otherwise You just gain it right back. I mean you can lock yourself in a room And lose all the weight you want, but then you once you but that's you know By definition not very sustainable since you get out of the room and you go back to your old habits It goes right back up. So you need to develop a lifestyle change You need to eat healthy healthfully on which is a diet packed With whole plant foods like fruits vegetables whole grains legumes like beans peas split peas lentils Nuts and seeds or some spices mushrooms basically real food the growths out of ground Those are our healthiest juices while decreasing our healthiest choices while decreasing intake of Meat eggs dairy and junk food those of that would be the healthiest way to control one's weight And you stick with that because it would also control one's chronic disease risk All right Um How to now so Carson asks how to naturally increase hematocrit level through foods So matric is kind of a blood count level better to look at hemoglobin actually But they again, how do you do anything? I mean the answer to every question in medicine is treat the cause treat the cause of why one hematocrit low If it is because of artificial enema then you increase your consumption of iron-rich foods environment Seamers foods with boost absorption of healthy iron But if you're a hematocrit slow because you're bleeding in your intestines or Excessive menstrual blood loss Then there's other things you do. So for example, check out my ginger video talking about decreasing Excessive menstrual blood loss though that may not be a problem Or if you aren't menstruating Um, okay I'm going to scroll down. Oh my god. We already out of time. That's crazy I am so sorry Thanks so much for joining us for another Q&A I probably got to like it like I don't know 10% they just keep scrolling up I will be doing new live Q&A's every month Facebook and YouTube. 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