 Hello, this is Dr. Michael Gerger coming to you live from my treadmill to answer all your questions We are but five days away from my Cookbook my publication of my first and only So far cookbook the how not to die cookbook Coming out on December 5th. You can pre-order now. 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Systolic heart murmur have anything to do with low diastolic blood pressure So if it's a late systolic murmur it might be like much about prolapse and anything that kind of Decreases filling left ventricle could it wouldn't really make them. I mean it would prolong the the murmur Not really cause it Anyway any kind of murmur you have talk to doctor make sure it's nothing serious because it's a good point to some valvular problem Which in worse cases has to be treated with surgery? And V asks Muscudistry and children any recommendations? That's something I've not looked into in terms of diet If you want to go to PubMed.gov the database of the National Library of Medicine largest medical database in the world and type in Muscudistry and diet and see manning pops up. It does Send in my way and I'd be happy to look into if anything useful Interest in ground baking practical. I'll do a video about it Leanne a ass or any foods not safe to eat raw Other than the stuff like kidney beans, right? Obviously now when they say raw kidney beans you need kidney beans on a can because they're cooked Talk about dried kidney beans Which you say well, that's too hard to eat. Well, you could soak them and still they'd be raw and you can eat them You get very sick. So don't do that. Um any stuff not to eat raw Alfalfa sprouts do not eat alfalfa sprouts raw. I guess you cook them. That's kind of gross in fact Yeah, yeah, just because of food safety concerns because alfalfa if you look at the microscopy has all these little nooks and crannies We're bacteria like Salmonella like to hide And then when you put in nice moist warm growing conditions to make the sprouts the little bugs grow And so you could be producing a little Salmonella farm on your kitchen counter and hurt yourself. Thankfully Problem is not the same with broccoli sprouts Or lentil sprouts and so you can sprout those safely All right, and I've got videos and all those you could check those out if you're interested Luke asks is there any link between vaccines and autism only in the minds of conspiracy theorists? That has been so the MMR vaccine autism purported link that that Famous infamous paper in the Lancet has since been Retracted in fact retracted with a vengeance. In fact the guy wrote the paper Was in the Wakefield Got his medical license pulled because of not only kind of accusations kind of fraudulent data but had these Was it was colluding with lawyers to make money off the whole thing? I don't know ugly scene but no Relationship and in fact even when said set the video That was it my last video as the current video I have on kinkerser's last video. I did an autism. Oh It's not that one. It's one coming up Where I talk about the mercury containing preservative thimerosal And autism and still no link Anyway, not that much problem anymore cuz there's Thimerosal has been pulled from pediatric vaccines Okay resilient H Ask getting dehydrated from caffeine beverages that mean poor kidney function So you shouldn't be getting dehydrated. Well, I mean so like something like tea Um, the you the tea does have caffeine caffeine is a diuretic But the liquid the added water you get drinking tea more than makes up for the added fluid you lose so it he Is actually not dehydrating and so if it does dehydrate you does it mean you have poor kidney function? I guess that's the the question If you're getting dehydrated drinking enough water Then something may be going on and I get it checked out I don't know how you are necessarily measuring whether you're not your dehydrated and I actually do have a tip on how to do that What was it you I've got a video about it. You basically you chug down Like three cups of water or something and then if you don't pee a certain amount of water within a certain amount of hours Something then the men's diagnosis anyway got check it out in the video. That's why I do the video so I can Brain dump all this research out of my head Onto the under the internet and then move on to the next big research project All right opinion so Joe up Joe up active wear Asks opinion on ashwagandha tea not something I've looked into if you type in ashwagandha in the PubMed anything pops up That's interesting. Let me know Maple flavor asks. What's my top three legumes? Then I enjoy the taste of oh, well, that's kind of a I know it's that's useful to anybody, but what legumes do I love? Lentils chickpeas and Gigantes have you ever seen these? Oh, this is Greek dish where these massive beans my talking massive beans massive beans So they're big white kidney beans. I think eventually so nutritionally. They're probably not the best because What's the nutrition is actually found in the outer coat and so the surface? Surface area to volume ratio is totally off when you got something big so smaller beans are better But oh my god, they're so delicious In fact, yeah. Oh wow. All right, check it out if you haven't tried it It's actually worth You know cuz they got cooked forever cuz they're monstrous, but it's worth the time Yeah, anyway, yeah. Oh Now I'm getting hungry. Okay The healthy ingredient asks hi You found a evidence on how eating seeds and nuts is related to cyst formation. Oh like picas polycystic ovary syndrome and Eating nuts and seeds never heard of such a thing. Is it a myth look at PubMed and find out I've never heard of it and I've done I've done searches for picas and nutrition So unless it's something that just came out And I've done videos on picas and died never run across that to my knowledge Luke Harrison should people get flu shots every year according to the centers of disease control. The answer is yes Um Resilient ages back asking for brain function. All my providers are telling me to take fish oil Then there's sources where I can get the same benefits without the wish what benefit oh for brain function Okay for brain function for my friend Yeah, well you can get yeah, you can get you can get it where the fish are getting it from which is algae So you get micro algae Based DHA EPA you can get the benefits without the risk of the pollutants that build up the food supply and build up the food chain I'm the aquatic food chain TJ a asks please Mention some vegan protein foods Anyone who does not eat protein on a plant-based diet doesn't know beans Bees whoopies chickpeas lentils legumes upon protein superstars Include them every day. They're one of my daily dozen for a reason Alright Okay the holistic in me Says on they were diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis Does whole plant food sources of protein fat need to be restricted for liver diseases? Less than oh less than 10% of calories from protein and fat is what they say who are they? I've never heard of that to dietary recommendation for autoimmune hepatitis. I mean certainly your liver is involved in protein metabolism but when you switch people from with liver failure from a From animal source protein to plant-based or to protein a video about this. This was decades old now You can actually decrease The level of a toxically toxin circulating the blood that would otherwise be toxified You know eating meat that are fully functional liberty to detoxify your blood And so if your doctor says he's less than 10% thousand protein fat I'll say Please doctor tell me where you found that I would love to share that with my good friend Dr. Michael Gregor because he wants to do a video about it I'm maple flavor is back and says do I take algae oil every day? I do follow my recommendations to take 250 milligrams of it long chain of Microalgae or yeast based long chain to make threes every day And yes, I do And I also make sure you get my vitamin B12 and vitamin D because I don't get a lot of sunshine Because I don't get out much because I'm inside making videos for you Okay Cassandra Gartman Gartman says I've been plant-based for six months trying to heal my hypo heal my hypothyroidus is possible Don't want to take thyroid medication rest of my life other steps I can be taken well depends what the hypothyroidism is from if your hypo if you have an underactive thyroid gland because your iodine deficient Then that can be easily Q word by taking a fight on If however, it's an autoimmune thyroiditis and you've your thyroid is scarred up One would expect you will need to take thyroid plus my hormones for the rest of your life and If it makes you feeling better, it's not really thyroid medication Are you taking the exact thyroid hormone that your thyroid would normally make just bring your levels up to where it would be? otherwise and so it's not like you're taking some like you know pharmaceutical that some new Synthesized molecule or something you're taking you're just bringing your thyroid hormone levels up to where they should be had your thyroid not been all scarred up Okay, gone T murty as best way to reverse atherosclerosis. I have both the crotted blocked And these suggestions. Oh, okay lots of questions The best way of verse after sclerosis is a whole food plant-based diet as shown by Pritikin Norrish and Esselstyn got a lot of videos about that Um, and so ganti says that ganti's eating vegan, but of course vegan doesn't mean healthy vegan can be coca-cola and Potato chips and you know God knows what and So I encourage you to since you died around whole plant foods and Also, of course, I don't know what your cholesterol is doing. I'll sort of things And suggestions for getting fat soluble antioxidants. Yes, you eat lots of nuts and seeds To facilitate the absorption of the carotenoid phytonutrients found in greens All right, what are Maple flavor, it's what's my top three easiest meals easiest meals Easiest snack something like But an apple but a piece of fruit about as easy as it can comes Pre-package and like edible packaging you just eat it can't be more convenient than that Anyone who says oh, I'd love to eat healthy, but it's just not convenient has never met an apple Right. Okay, but meals. What's an easiest meal? Well, I mean You could Boil some whole wheat pasta right takes ten minutes And throw in a bag of frozen greens and a can of a drain can of beans and You're done right open tomato sauce right and I think it's made us us And then you mix it up so you got greens beans tomato sauce Oh, and then spices just add like a you know, Italian seasoning spice mix boom Meal is done. You got your beans. You got your greens got a whole grains Good. That's an easy meal another easy meal. Okay. How about we take some yellow tort corn tortillas, right? I'm sprouted might even be better you take them out I can get them frozen so you can always have my handy and you put them in a toaster oven You very very lightly toast them and you take them out and then you put some Fat-free You know refried beans from a can on them or you might so heat it up first you heat it up You have some diced onion Pour in some salsa have a lot of powder or anything and put it on there, and then you have a little tortilla thingy That's super easy What's another good super easy one? For breakfast You can make my cherry chocolate oatmeal. We take you know, I make some steel cutouts I just guess they're yummy and nice and chewy and then you add Drain can of tortillas just tortillas and water and Some cocoa powder it's a date syrup or something and you have this like warm chocolate, but it's like you're eating Chocolate covered cherries for breakfast super yummy delicious for a bonus add some Fresh mint leaves that you're growing on your windowsill right now because care about your health, right? okay Patricia Palletti asks I've heard for years that vegan promote that excuse me that sugar promotes cancer That's we've got a whole series of videos coming out about that Short answer is No I mean so basically, you know the whole thought is well cancer eats sugar. So does all ourselves It's like saying Hitler breathes air Breathe there. So you shouldn't breathe air What I mean? Yeah, but normal You know non-villainous people also breathe air like it doesn't make a lot of sense. Anyway, I Not saying sugar is good for you. I think we should cut it all out of sugar from the diet. Okay, maple Flava is back Saying do I use a water distiller? No Water distiller seems to me age. I'll I waste of energy Resilient H asks where can we find information on a healthy level of fitness at different ages? What we should be able to do. Oh, that's interesting Like how many push-ups should be able to do at age 70 or whatever? Yeah, I've never run across anything like that if anyone has any suggestions for a resilient H Please write them in the comments Wreck-a-tunk-o asks what are key supplements for mental illness? Most important thing is a healthy diet period and exercise actually can improve mood if we're talking about depression Supplements I'm trying to think if I have oh don't I have stuff on saffron. Let me see saffron lavender You just got to type in mental illness whatever particular mental illness you're interested in Nutrition factor and pull up all the foods now. I encourage you to just I mean you just make things with You know make paella with your saffron, but I'm sure you could take it in capsules as a supplement if you really want it to Rebecca asks can it should a Crohn's patient take probiotics and a multivitamin? um Crohn's patients should eat healthfully I have not reviewed the probiotics Crohn's literature in a while, but I think if something really phenomenal have popped up. I would have heard about it and I mean depending I mean if you're a Crohn's patient that has much of your intestine removed and you might run into vitamin Kind of the absorption issues But that'd be something you talk to your physician about in terms of what parts of your intestine Intestinal tract have been removed and they talk about what particular nutrient deficiencies you might run into Certainly see a lot of problem with that with people getting these kind of gastric bypass operations running into serious nutrient deficiencies But if you have your entire gut Then you should be able to get all your nutrients from the Producile with the exception of vitamin B12 and vitamin D Um, all right, Jesse Burt Burt tick. Sorry if I'm mispronouncing everybody's names I Says I always put my questions on YouTube every month in advance and they never show up Well, it just did and so if this was a question instead of saying that I would answer it anyway Leanne. Hey, I said I came across something called alkaloid buildup And it being important to rotate your greens That sounds like That just sounds like crazy talk to me. It sounds like there's someone on the internet trying to Get clicks by confusing people Maple flavor, so should I trust the added vitamins B12, etc. Um in my daily great value brand flakes. Oh Can you rely on them as it being really there? Like if it says that must be 12 Should you trust your brand flake manufacturer? Well, ideally We probably shouldn't be eating brand flake. I mean presumably I mean most cold cereals With very few exceptions are pretty bad for you. They have a lot of added sugar added salt There's a few exceptions like Uncle Sam cereal Um, basically has like I think two ingredients right rolled whole wheat berries and like flax seeds But but anything processed like that It's just not a very healthy food But in terms of does it actually have the vitamins that it that it says probably although vitamin B12 So critically important for people eating plant-based diets. I wouldn't necessarily rely on on Rely on on their word for it Adam a wants to play asks Anybody does about the benefits of being in nature. Oh cool Japanese force bathing, you know, I've never heard about that I don't even know how I ran across it probably because I put in Maybe if I put in my green leafy vegetables or something and it caught the word green on PubMed and anyway There's this very interesting body of literature about the Proportant health benefits of being in nature Now, of course, you can imagine all the co-founders who's in nature people actually have to kind of walk into nature So there's exercise then there's like fresh air the sunshine So is being in nature actually good for you beyond just all those other things Like if you walked on a treadmill and had fresh air and sunshine would it be the same as being surrounded by forest? So they do these studies where they like put people in front of a TV screen and they show you a four Oh, you lots of green, but you're actually not in a forest Maybe there's some like, you know, uh, you know pine needle compounds in the air that are beneficial Anyway, you can imagine how difficult those kind of studies are but there have been a couple well-designed studies I'm actually gonna do a series of videos on that very topic stay to Rebecca Naviera asked when you have your appendix taken out. She's changed your diet at all well you should vastly improve your diet as appendicitis is Is kind of a consequence of eating a miserable western low-fiber diet So something like appendicitis is rare Among populations sending their diets around whole plant foods, so that's probably just you should take that as a sign that you have many enough Fiber containing foods, but I'm like beans and old grains and so you should bump it up a notch TGA Cassandra G. Oh I think somebody TJ is responding to Cassandra, Maria Um V ass am I concerned about studies showing antibiotics hormones, etc showing up in tap water from people flushing prescription medications Actually, sometimes it's actually not just flushing. It just gets excreted unchanged in the urine So they're just taking the medications and peeing the medication straight into the water supply Um, and so I actually have a video about that Talking about they, you know how much prozac builds up in fish flesh because of all the stuff that's dumped into our waterways So check out that video She probably searched for prozac. I think prozac is one of the drugs It should pop right up. Maybe prozac in water All right, Maria V asked what do you eat drink for energy to beat the afternoon slump? My colleagues all resort to caffeine, but I'm looking for a healthier alternative. Well, um, you know that slump may be caused by not By not even particularly healthy in the first place So you may the slump may be kind of this post lunch crash because if you do lots of refined junk That cause your blood sugar go way up them way down such that your overshoot with insulin and your blood sugar's can actually drop below fasting and and cause symptoms and so And obviously I need to make sure you're getting enough sleep all these kind of you know treat the cause why you slump in the first place Rather than just trying to treat the symptoms by afterwards, but If you do everything right, you're still slumping. How about a nice healthy snack like a piece of fruit or some veggies dipped in hummus or something and see if that doesn't perk you up without needing to medicate yourself The holistic the holistic in me asks What are your thoughts on full extract cannabis oil for celiac disease? Ah, yeah Many quota study done back in 2013. You miss my cannabis webinar. I talked about that study and So there was this ah So it turns out cannabis may be Detrimental for those with Crohn's disease So at first we saw this like tremendous symptomatic improvement, but it turns out they did worse long term in terms of believe surgery relapse rate and then and then there's this cannabis hepatitis literature Showing increased scarring of the liver and sort of thinking oh, maybe it's increased scarring intestine. That's why they didn't do so good so it's actually a So it's actually a note of caution. So in my cannabis webinar, so I talked about the pros and cons was good for what it's bad for and actually Crohn's disease went into the bad It's potentially bad for category and so you if you want to Check it out all those cannabis that whole webinar was basically all the videos from the webinar It was like a three-hour webinar Is I got put on DVD. So if you go to dr. Gregor org And click on DVDs or click on downloads digital download section out on a physical DVD, but digital download You can download all 20 something Cannabis videos and I think the last one is actually the one on Crohn's if you want to skip straight to that one You can do that Alright, where were we? Maple flavor says I noticed most of my contributions go to charity. How do you make? Most of your living well, you still have a day job, but that But I left it last end of last year. So now I'm a year Now as research director for nutrition facts or and so the first five years I didn't take a penny from nutrition facts and it was just kind of a hobby I did nice and weekends But I wanted to dedicate my life totally to it. So now I actually draw a salary From nutrition facts. So your donations to nutrition facts is actually In part buying me kale. Um, so you should know that And but yeah, so now I'm actually an employee of nutrition Leanne asked could you give my dad Stuart have to ah Happy birthday Stuart That's the shout-out from your darling daughter Leanne The holistic and me asked. Oh, yeah, hepatitis. We did that one. Okay. Oh Maple flavor. What are my top three favorite fruits now ask me what my favorite are and what's the healthiest may not necessarily do the same But if you're really just curious what my favorite fruits are Um, oh my god, I love all the so many I'm had a pomegranate this one to the pomegranate season. I love pomegranate season I love mangoes, but my favorite fruit pa pa is the largest native fruit in North America You can buy them for like one week But boy, that's a very good week in my life. I'm able flavor. Do I agree with the bell curve? Um, I presume they're talking about a book talking about like racial IQ Levels things like that. I have not read the book. I'm not familiar with the thesis Gordo asked. Oh Okay, this is Gordo is talking to somebody else on the chat Marie asks is it safe to consume a monk fruit sweetener? Ah I've got a video a monk free sweetener coming up Somebody asked about that before and so I scripted. I think just one video one video on monk fruit and Ah, my call is coming in because 130 I will leave you on suspense Have a wonderful day everyone. I have an idea coming in bike