 Oh, this is Dr. Michael Greger coming to you live from my treadmill to bring you the good news that We have tremendous power of our health destiny and longevity. The vast majority premature death and disability is preventable with a plant-based diet another healthy lifestyle behavior all right, let me pull up I should have to pull up the Event page so I can see all your questions Streaming in let me do that first. Let me turn the the My my speaker off so we don't get a crazy echo effect The reason I'm a little behind here is I was just doing a half hour live on Facebook That ended just at 12 30 so I had to switch over but any moment now. Oh, I gotta find out where my Where the event page is all right Should be here so I'm going nutrition facts that or where we usually post the link and there it is Join on the YouTube right now Ta-da Okay, I'm clicking I'm clicking Join us today for live Q&A. Why is this not working? If there's any nutrition facts staff watching this, please Scape me the link not scared me the link slack me the link anybody I Need the link The link isn't showing up for me on I Think I had to do it before it showed up Need YouTube link now stat And then Um, so I'm sorry I can't see your questions until I well Maybe if I just go to the YouTube pay YouTube channel, it'll show up Let's find out. Oh, I think I just got it Christina save the day Oh Kick seems there's social media manager. You should know her well. Okay. Here. I am I'm on the official page Sorry about that delay Looking for your questions. Ah, there we go tons of questions. Wonderful. Okay. What toothpaste do I use it doctor G? I asked us a gear us a gear is raw vegan recovery my eye use Vitamin B12 fortified toothpaste. How cool is that in Germany? This wonderful group called Prove edge Um Realized that, you know, some people don't like taking a vitamin B12 supplements And look, they you know people eating plant-based diets are regular reliable source by me B12 is critical And so they partnered up with some company to produce vitamin B12 fortified toothpaste and questions Oh, wait a second. It's just some like does it actually work? No So they they they commissioned a study In fact, the study was published in one of the most prestigious nutrition journals American College American Journal clinical nutrition and show that indeed It's effective and so it must be kind of absorbed. You have to swallow stuff It comes absorbed through the oral mucosa through your gums or something And so they gave me a free Free tube of B12 fortified toothpaste. So now I so yeah, that's the toothpaste. I'm using anyway But I supplement with vitamin B12 to my 500 micrograms. I look a bomb once a week So I don't need to take B12 toothpaste, but look it's free. So that's why I'm using it anyway Darlene says good morning with lots of hearts happy belated Valentine's Day to you, darling the oily mama tribe Asks, I finally catch you Huh, I Don't understand your question Dylan asks I've read it. Have I read any science about Ray nods? Which is a condition where you are When you're you're the your blood flow your fingers can get Sinced off when you're supposed to cold. I don't know of any dietary interventions Um, so I do have a video about oh, I do have a video about citrus How if you eat citrus? I'm you actually maintain temperature in your fingers longer by improving blood flow But but these weren't renaughts people these were just people who are plunging their hands in In the ice water, but maybe it would work as well But I don't know so if you type in renaughts and diet into pub med dot org The database the largest medical ever in the world then you find anything. Let me know and they'll do a video about it Okay row Saxena As which plant foods contain lead I mentioned to be the most lead exposure comes from plant foods So the most concentrated lead exposure comes from lead ammunition shot game My even if you dig out the bullets, there's this dispersal little microscopic leg fragments But I did this whole long series in fact probably too long over a dozen videos on lead And how you can get contaminated from variety of sources basically the entire world is contaminated Why because we had this toxin being pumped out from every car and truck in the world Thanks to the leaded gas industry And so we basically blanket our world with lead. That's why we wash our fruits and vegetables Because there's lead in the air and it settles down on things, but we can rinse it off And so anyway watch my lead series. That's why I did it and also has things you can eat to Reduce a lead at toxicity as well And this is particularly important for Anytime there is any loss of bone whether during menopause or osteoporosis or during pregnancy I'm where the burden turner bone turnover because so that's where your lead Most of your lead is stored in your bones when there's any kind of dissolution bone Your lead levels can go up and pregnancy is not the time you want your lead levels to be going up There are lots of videos about that as well including using stochastic supplementation to cut down on lead levels Alright The Mariah and I supposed to mean my my nails are missing Loomula should I be concerned? Oh, um, so that's that's a moon shape I've I have no idea. I've never heard of that. I don't know if that's if there's any Meaning whatsoever Presumably, that's just where your nails are attached. I um, I do not know but Look it up on PubMed.gov. And if there's anything juicy, let me know and maybe I'll do a video about chick magnet Sodium versus sodium chloride is the salt of the sodium that's is it the salt of the sodium the salt and the sodium are bad We should cut down a sodium intake to fifteen hundred milligrams a day, which basically means no process foods Alone animal food. So basically a whole food plant based diet will get you down naturally And you shouldn't add salt in the kitchen or at the dining room table So fifteen hundred milligrams is the recommendation for the American Heart Association Jim for stone asks Have I run across any information on aortic aneurysms? Absolutely if you type in triple a as in Abdominal aortic aneurysm into nutrition facts that are I knew I had some old videos come up I don't know if there's anything done since but check it out In fact so old. I don't remember what they said. Otherwise, I'd just tell you right now It's not like I'm just trying to plug the site. It's a long time ago live safe or live safe Academy LLC asks does freezing turmeric ginger or hot chilies reduce the health benefits? I Would suspect not although I've never seen that put to the test particularly, but I assume those The nutrients would not be formed Melissa asks. Oh excited about my videos on mycotoxins me too You know, I learn as much as anybody else does when they watch my videos I don't know it until I read the new research and then I know it and I just I Have this urge to share it with everybody Ha The next one is just very sweet Brendan asks TVP textured vegetable protein question mark So TVP is a yellow light food. Why this is a processed plant food you removed much of the fiber basically they just left with soy protein which is Maybe better than some other sources of protein, but ideally we would eat soy beans themselves like edamame or Whole soy food like tempeh or miso. All right Gia Kuchia asks my thoughts on green powder such as spirulina encourage people to stay away from spirulina stay away from blue green algae But eat all the chlorella you want and that's so um and this because we're concerned about toxins neurotoxins powder toxins Not necessarily made by spirulina itself, but because they just scoop it out of these lakes There's contaminants with algae light blue green algae that actually do make these contaminants on an idiosyncratic basis So unless you're testing every batch, which should be pretty expensive. You don't know what you're getting So stick to chlorella if you I mean you don't have to eat any green powders Kale is cheaper than chlorella, but kale is harder to sprinkle on your popcorn And so in my house we call it zombie corn because this is like bright green popcorn with nutrition yeast and What ah? Oh, where was I? I was in Winnipeg Canada last week and a call in I was on the radio show on the It was on the commute back to work. Oh, it was that CBC right Canadian broadcasting Anyway, someone called up and said, how do you make what's such a great question? How do you make your nutritional yeast? Stick to the popcorn. So I talked about it and how presumably I don't remember this But in how not to die talk about it how a snack I like is there pop popcorn when nutritionally sprinkled on it? And the question was how do you make it stick to the nutritional yeast because obviously not using butter or anything? And I was like, wow, that's such a high-level question like, you know, good for good for Winnipegans or I Don't know and ah, so ah what you do is you get a little spritz bottle. I'm sure I have some around I Get these little spritz bottles you fill it with apple cider vinegar And then you spritz it on the popcorn and then you put it on the nutritionist clarella any other powders you want and and then so the Opposite vendor gives it this kind of like a salt and vinegar potato chip kind of flavor And so then it sticks perfect. I mean, I want to pour it on because then it'll get all soggy But you spritz it on sprinkling powders. Oh my god. So yummy All right. Now I'm getting hungry. I didn't get to eat lunch yet And this is one of my, you know 20 interview days and so it's gonna be a while. But anyway Maybe I'll have some popcorn tonight okay, oh thong mai Sorry, I can't pronounce your name. Um, can I comment on oh on msg? Oh boy, do I have some old video on msg so Um So in my I mainly have one video on msg where I at the time The best available bounce of it was that msg was harmless So it was one of my this series of videos on harmful helpful or Helpful harmless or harmful something like that and I'd be like what about this And msg was one of those and I think it came out harmless um, and that was probably Well, I don't know Like 2007 or something. So we are like 11 years out. What's been happening in the msg world in the last 11 years I have no idea, but um Um, if there's enough interest, I'd be happy to do another video on the topic, but Um, um, when I did do that video it was considered harmless Okay Oh will says wow, this is live. This is indeed live. I am Coming to you live from my treadmill in the washten dc area Okay, manual Um asked do marathon athletes live longer? Huh, it's a fantastic question. I do not know the answer to that. Oh, but find out and let me know That's neat Marjorie says hello. Hello divya As how do I convince loved ones that dairy is unhealthy when doctors recommend it as a part of a healthy diet? um, well, I mean if you're willing to you can ask you doctor, um You know to uh Provide you evidence that there aren't healthier way that that's really the healthiest way to get those nutrients um, so I mean certainly there is a calcium and dairy just like there's Protein and pork and iron and beef, but you know food is a package deal, right? As much as burg king says have it your way. You can't be like, yeah I gotta get a burger hold the saturated fat cholesterol hormones all that stuff. No, it all comes together Um, so by getting your calcium from low x-ray darkening leafy vegetables, for example Then the baggage you get is not baggage is the bonus, right? You get the fiber and the folate and the iron and all these other wonderful things found the greens missing from the dairy um, you know every time So so basically since food is a package deal, we should get our nutrients in the package that's healthiest So now you can get a box of fruit loops Says now with calcium in it. I mean that's I mean that's you know, I mean there's this The food industry loves this nutrient centrism The sense that uh, you know, we just need the individual nutrients. It's all about nutrients rather than food They love that because then they can take absolute junk multicolored marshmallows spray it with some multivitamins and then claim it's healthy um when We're not dying from deficiency diseases like berry berry and plager and of course york or and scurvey We're dying from these excess diseases like excess sugar salt sensory effect cholesterol Um, and that's of course what they're trying to sell you after sprinkling some vitamins on it Boy, did I get off topic? What was what was the question? Oh dairy? Ha um, so Um, yes, you can get calcium and dairy, but there are healthier sources of Calcium I encourage you to do that so you can get calcium without the butter fact without the cholesterol Um, and with all these other wonderful added bonus ingredients So that's what I would recommend. So right so food isn't um, uh, uh, you know Bad nor good but better or worse and there's certainly better sources um, then there a Milk is for babies All right cleven clinic states that eggs are healthy to consume Um, and again, it's well compared to what? Um compared to breakfast sausage absolutely. I agree. Whoa compared to oh, we're not even close, right? um, and so look food is a lost every time food has an opportunity cost Every day we only have about what 2000 calories in the calorie bank every day um, uh, so uh every time we put something in our mouths It's a lost opportunity to put something even healthier in our mouth. Um, and uh, so, uh It's lots healthier things to put in our mouths than eggs Shara asks would I ever do a series? Oh on polycystic ovaries. Yes. I've got videos on pc os Check it out type pc os into nutrition. I said organ that'll pop right up I think I have a few more coming out in the queue Um, um, kc cantor event page. Yes Um, are the live questions being posted? No, they're right here in the chat box um, I called an event page just because In youtube when you sign up to to do a live thing it calls it an event, but no, this is where you do Um, you ask your questions kc type away Um, mike asks any good tips for type one diabetic? She started eating hopeful plant based. Oh, uh, what's his name? mango man guy um, uh fellow type one diabetic eating hopeful plant based he does a series of diabetes workshops um, and uh, he uh, I'm sure would be happy to talk to you about, um that Oh, what's his name other than mango man? That's mango man All right, I'm just uh googling very quickly There he is um Oh, oh, okay. I don't feel so bad mango man nutrition And uh fitness. That's not just his uh, you know, so his name is cyrus His name is cyrus. What's his last name? uh cyrus combata, so if you go to mango man nutrition dot com uh, you can uh Uh, you can learn about his stuff okay um Where are we okay? Um charlie l what are the best foods for weight loss? That's such a great question. I just started my new book. How not to diet? Uh, manuscripts do in march will be out uh, december 2019 um, and so i'm working on that right as we speak but even before I'm doing all the new research for the book. Um, presumably, um things that are high in fiber and water um high nutrient density low and caloric density would be a good place to start um, and so that's one of the reasons why whole food plant-based diets Um, uh appear to be so useful in allowing people to eat all they want. Um, but lose weight just because um Plant foods tend to be so calorically dilute that you can eat till you're full and um without overdoing calories All right Simon says thoughts on Anything in particular JF says do dried fruits raise triglycerides? Uh, dried fruits in the context of excess calories, um can just as anything can Raise triglycerides. Um, but just dried fruits on their own. Um, should not affect your triglyceride levels Um, uh Yeah, um, but the same thing with like soda if you had a sip of soda Uh, it's not going to raise triglycerides either, but you have a leader of soda in your triglycerides will shoot up Ro Saxena, uh, thank you for oh, thanks for answering my question. It's great. Um, oh and her real name is Roche knee And I'm 16 years old and in Myers And oh and says that veganism cured her eczema too Wonderful. I'm so glad Um, uh that uh, you're our fingers feel better Hack sign 21 says How have how have I been good? Thank you. Thank you so much Oh, wonderful eight months eating healthy happier than ever. That's what I like to hear wonderful Um, us the gears raw vegan recovery ass. What's the best mouthwash? Green tea, um with some amliadid That's what I uh, that's what I use for a mouthwash Um, and so if you type in mouthwash You all those videos will pop up the most important thing to stay away from antibiotic Michael um mouthwash is because you have these bacteria that live on your tongue that take the um, That uh, able to use the nitrates that are pumped out in your celery glands To give you all sorts of wonderful benefits from the nitrate rich vegetables you eat But you blow it um, you ruin all of those wonderful nitrates from uh a rugler or beetroot If you uh, have killed off those the bacteria on your tongue So no antimicrobial mouthwash and the green tea and amla which is dried in the gooseberry powder You can just make your own in a shake bottle. Um, uh, we'll uh, um help Reduce your cavity risk. I think that's why Um that I I've made that concoction, but you have to check the video to check it out all right um, oh, uh, so rebecca says can a colognes patient eat bread? So this is probably a Um a reference to video series I did about how colognes patients May want to reduce their intake of bakers yeast brewers yeast and nutritional yeast um, and so um, so Yeah, so is thinking about bakers yeast um, I um, uh, so you one would have to eat it. I guess an unloving bread quick breads a matzah In order to cut down one's intake of yeast do we um So, yeah, no, so we so we there's these there's these um Uh, there's I know you go got to watch the series of videos. I was really quite compelled So there's both hid red hid red minus separativa one autoimmune disease and chronic disease which seem to improve I'm cutting down on yeast. So now I used it as a way to encourage people not to add go out of the way to add I'm used to the diet like I wouldn't be adding nutritional yeast to foods Um, but yeah, one could take that logical step to try to stay away from yeast altogether To see if that improves your condition. Um, and so that would include most yeast raised breads Primo Primo z Oh, or I'm sorry. Don't know how to pronounce your name. Are there any news? Is there any news about psoriasis and diet? Um, yeah, I think I have a video about psoriasis I've just typed in psoriasis nutrition back store. It'll pop up. Um, I think it was in relation Oh It's escaping me now um No, check it out. I think I do Um, uh, if I don't let me know in a month be it might be a video coming up And I give you a sense of when that video will be out Okay, keel and ass is just a myth that cow's milk leeches calcium from the bones Um Yeah, it's a myth. Um, cow's milk does not leach calcium from the bones Um, even if it did it has so much calcium in it that overall calcium balance Um, would that be maintained? Uh, yeah, don't um Yeah, calcium does not leach calcium from the bones calcium milk does not leach calcium from the bones Um, and so I have a video with something about uh, the title is animal protein bones calcium something like that and it goes through the science sign that that was a That that was not that was a long-term misconception among the the general nutrition community that high protein intakes plead access calcium loss Um, that's because high protein intakes increase absorption of calcium predominantly Um, so all this calcium that you're peeing out after eating a steak isn't coming from your bones It's actually coming from your diet predominantly and so that until we radioactively label calcium We had no idea where the calcium has come from and so no wonder we had this misconception But we've known better for many many years Jody asked to please do a video about athletic shock In oral allergy symptoms related to hay fever Um, I think the only anaphylaxis videos I have about um are the Are those crazy long star tick videos who it gives people an allergy to Red meat you get bitten by a tick and all of a sudden You can get allergic reactions to eating meat Um, uh, but I think that's the only ones I have um If anything pops up, I will let you know that I think is Is useful for a general audience Schizy Schizy will he asks uh says that uh That they've been eating a plant-based But still suffer from a fast resting heart rate and bad Insomnia, what would you do? um, so both uh high resting heart rate and bad insomnia could both be um reaction to stress or anxiety So, uh, you may want to obviously As always we want to root out the cause treat the cause if there's a way That you can decrease the stress and anxiety in your life If that is indeed the case and then if it's unavoidable then it's a matter of stress reduction techniques like mindfulness meditation um, and other things you can do to um, uh to bring down your heart rate and uh A lot of insomnia has to do with bad sleep hygiene So, you know, we need to it should be dark and it should be cool and it should be, you know You shouldn't be drinking caffeine for bed and um, uh, there's all sorts of things If you just type in sleep hygiene, you get a lot of tips basic stuff You want to have bright lights those blue rays blue wavelength lights at night exclusive for circadian rhythms your melton production, etc um and uh, yeah try that and uh um, and If none of that uh makes any sense to you or doesn't work then There are some medical conditions that could cause such things So you should go see your doctor and get tested just make sure you're not suffering from um Some kind of uh the inter chronological issue um rubalicious Uh rubalicious crystal geometry How's that for a name? Just bought my book. That's wonderful. No question Rebecca portis says any advice for a trigeminal neuralgia? I don't know. I've never run across any dietary treatments for trigeminal neuralgia. Oh, although What about my uh the hot sauce video? Um, but I think the video is called hot sauce and the nose for cluster headaches question mark um, and so it was using capsaicin the capsaicin to basically deplete the cranial nerves from Of their substance p this pain transmitter Um, so I wonder if that would help with trigeminal neuralgia So that would be my guess, but I'd have to look it up But yeah, if you go into pub med dot gov and put in capsaicin capsaicin I think that's the spelling and trigeminal neuralgia. I bet there's it's at least been put to the test I don't know what they found. Um All right, natalie asks Uh diet suggestion for someone who's been plant-based, but suffers from high cortisol low estrogen and chronic tellygen ethyl uvium um, uh, and so uh, if you have um, so people that suffer dramatic weight loss I wouldn't say suffer some people would love a dramatic weight loss for whatever reason whether it's a healthy diet or unhealthy reasons to lose weight you can Your Your hair loss and normally each of our hairs only lasts a certain amount of time and then we lose it, but it happens You know Sporadically and so we don't lose all our hair at the same time basically, but After a severe weight loss or sudden weight loss They can all kind of sink up And so you don't actually not losing more hair than you normally would but it's just happening At more of the same time so you're losing appears to be losing a lot of your hair Um, and so if that so if you went plant-based and lost a lot of weight that could do it and that'll normalize As soon as your weight normalizes, hopefully add a good healthy weight Um, and then in terms of high cortisol low estrogen Um, you'd have to kind of send me your lab as I can see those in the context sometimes those are used Um, so-called high cortisol low estrogen. You're actually not and it's just some Quacky alternative medicine doc trying to sell you crazy supplements or something So let me just see what your values are and I'd be happy to Um advise you or your physician three one four anis Ask sir avocado pits safe and beneficial to grind and eat them That is a Cookey question. I have no idea, but I would probably I would advise against it I do not think we were meant to eat avocado pits um, and uh The reason I'm being so hesitant here is because there actually are pits that could be deadly like apricot Seeds so the seed inside the apricot seed So I and cyanide that you can actually there's actually cases of people that opened all the little pits and and uh, and and uh Got cyan intoxication. Um, and so Now I'm not saying avocado pits have cyanide, but who knows what they have in them Certainly has never been put to the test But we do have studies on people eating avocados and having good health outcomes stick to the avocados and use the pits As fun science experiment to grow little avocado trees on your windows sell with toothpicks Um for your kids Will tolly. Oh my god. I'm over time. I got another um So I've got another interview starting right now and I am going to have to apologize and tell them that my youtube went a little late Sorry about that. Um, until next time have a wonderful wonderful month