00:00:00Introduction to Dr. Akhil Tahir's journey
00:22:30Cultural factors influencing heart disease in South Asians
00:48:00Dietary habits and their impact on heart health
ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Are you aware that South Asians represent a shocking 25% of the global population yet account for 60% of heart disease cases? This episode tackles the pressing issue of heart health within the South Asian community, featuring Dr. Akhil Taher, who shares his personal journey from a heart disease diagnosis to becoming a thriver in holistic health.
Key discussions center around the cultural nuances impacting health outcomes, particularly focusing on dietary habits that have long been ingrained in South Asian culture. Dr. Taher discusses visceral obesity, a hidden risk affecting many people who may seem healthy based on traditional BMI metrics, but are at significant risk health-wise due to fat accumulation around vital organs.
We explore the dietary pitfalls, such as the overuse of saturated fats and unhealthy oils which contribute to heart disease, while also addressing the critical need for tailored health assessments for those of South Asian descent. Through our informative dialogue, we provide listeners with actionable insights to navigate these challenges while respecting their cultural influences.
Whether you’re South Asian or interested in understanding cultural health disparities, this episode is packed with knowledge and strategies for promoting better heart health. Join us for an enlightening conversation that could change how you view heart disease and your lifestyle choices. Don’t forget to subscribe, share, or leave a review to keep these essential conversations going!
Content repurposed from Season 2. Listen in full here. This particular segment focuses on some of the detrimental foods people get habituated towards. Culturally Indian food(especially South Indian) is predominantly gluten free and focuses a lot on very good combinations that are inherently beneficial if cooked right and followed according to traditional methods(including how ghee is meant to be prepared!). Yet over use of certain ingredients and snacking, binge eating can be detrimental. That is the primary focus of this segment.
DISCLAIMER: THIS PODCAST IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. IT IS NOT INTENDED TO BE A MEDICAL CONSULT NOR IS IT A SUBSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL CONSULT. PLEASE CONSULT WITH YOUR PRA
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WEBVTT
00:00:09.590 --> 00:00:14.715
Welcome to Freshly Forever, a podcast that gives you fascinating insights week after week.
00:00:14.715 --> 00:00:16.687
Here's your host, vaikumar.
00:00:16.687 --> 00:00:35.430
Dr Akhil Tahir is an experienced physician who, until 2009, in his words, believed that heart disease won't happen to me.
00:00:35.430 --> 00:00:39.863
To quote him, he is now a resurgent physician.
00:00:39.863 --> 00:01:02.067
Further to a bypass surgery at the age of 61, and he recovered from it remarkably is now a septuagenarian athlete, a heart-healthy speaker, holistic health and wellness consumer and a big proponent of whole food, plant-based diet.
00:01:02.067 --> 00:01:13.912
We had the pleasure of talking to Dr Tahir in season two of this podcast in a two-part episode on heart health.
00:01:13.912 --> 00:01:21.230
Here are some nuggets from that conversation on the cultural impact of heart disease.
00:01:21.230 --> 00:01:23.213
Let's take a listen.
00:01:23.213 --> 00:01:28.822
Is heart health compromised more in certain cultures than others?
00:01:28.822 --> 00:01:29.444
You think?
00:01:29.665 --> 00:01:30.186
Absolutely.
00:01:30.186 --> 00:01:31.489
You hit the nail on the head.
00:01:31.489 --> 00:01:45.849
We South Asians when I say South Asians, we mean people mainly from India, pakistan, nepal, sri Lanka, as far as Bhutan and Maldives we are all South Asians.
00:01:45.849 --> 00:01:48.694
We are 25% of the world's population.
00:01:48.694 --> 00:01:51.825
Roughly, we carry 60% of the world's heart disease.
00:01:51.825 --> 00:02:02.167
Oh, no, yes, in India, from 2000 to 2019, our disease increased double for heart disease.
00:02:02.346 --> 00:02:03.870
Now what has happened?
00:02:03.870 --> 00:02:12.061
Even in the United States, we are four times more likely to get heart disease than other ethnic groups like the Japanese, koreans or Chinese.
00:02:12.061 --> 00:02:26.840
We are getting our heart disease at a younger age 25% are getting it before they reach the age of 40, and 50% are getting it before they reach the age of 40 and 50% are getting it before they reach the age of 55.
00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:38.825
Therefore, the American Heart Association says that being of South Asian descent is an independent risk factor for heart disease.
00:02:40.927 --> 00:02:47.276
Now, when we go a little bit more into depth, why and what is being done?
00:02:47.276 --> 00:02:57.331
We are a small community compared to the whites and the blacks, so what happens is we do not have too much of research facilities.
00:02:57.331 --> 00:03:19.060
We don't have the money for that, but there is a study which is called the Masala Study, that is, the mediators of South Asians living in America and what they found was, when they did a study with 40, between the ages about 1,100 people I don't know why they took this number, 1,100, between the ages of 40 and 84,.
00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:29.965
What they found was that people of South Asian descent do not appear obese according to the Western terminology, but they carry fat.
00:03:29.965 --> 00:03:32.849
They carry fat in their abdomen.
00:03:33.531 --> 00:03:35.354
So it is called visceral obesity.
00:03:35.354 --> 00:03:42.800
This visceral obesity is where fat is deposited into your muscles, in your liver and around the heart.
00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:49.604
The subcutaneous fat just below the skin is perfectly okay, but this fat which is there?
00:03:49.604 --> 00:03:55.528
So if we go by body mass index according to the Western term, we will have a problem.
00:03:55.528 --> 00:03:57.503
We will not be able to.
00:03:57.503 --> 00:04:00.848
We will be slipping through the cracks, mm-hmm.
00:04:00.848 --> 00:04:07.366
So my point first is that according to the body mass index, it's 25.
00:04:07.366 --> 00:04:08.908
Up to 25 is normal.
00:04:08.908 --> 00:04:10.942
We should keep it as 23.
00:04:10.942 --> 00:04:17.187
Our obesity as South Asians should be 28, not 30 and above.
00:04:17.187 --> 00:04:25.954
Do an abdominal girth and you will find that 35 is supposed to be normal in males and 30 is normal in females.
00:04:25.954 --> 00:04:27.677
35 is supposed to be normal in males and 30 is normal in females.
00:04:27.677 --> 00:04:32.709
I would go lower for South Asians 32 for 33 for males and 28 for females.
00:04:32.709 --> 00:04:34.521
But we do carry fat.
00:04:34.521 --> 00:04:38.886
My body mass index when I had my heart disease was only 22.
00:04:38.886 --> 00:04:42.365
And I was carrying a pouch.
00:04:42.365 --> 00:04:44.382
So that is the first thing.
00:04:44.634 --> 00:04:46.663
What are the other things that we South Asians have?
00:04:46.663 --> 00:04:48.362
We're insulin resistant.
00:04:48.362 --> 00:04:57.240
When people hear this thing insulin resistant I tell them very simply a lay person is that when you get sugar in your blood.
00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:01.959
The insulin carries the sugar to the cells and it is used as energy.
00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:13.023
But if your cell is deposited with fat, then it comes back into the blood and you get your blood sugar rise and therefore you get pre-diabetic and diabetic.
00:05:13.023 --> 00:05:21.365
Third thing we, for some reason and we are studying on this calcium is very much more deposited in our coronaries.
00:05:21.365 --> 00:05:35.192
Number four our coronaries are very small compared to others and we have got larger lesions in our coronaries are very small compared to others and we have got larger lesions in our coronaries.
00:05:35.192 --> 00:05:38.057
We've got multiple vessel disease and we've got tight stenosis.
00:05:38.057 --> 00:05:46.579
When we have that blockage, and then independent risk factors are like spilling protein in the urine, which is more so in our women.
00:05:46.579 --> 00:05:52.622
Our women, they are more likely to get gestational diabetes as opposed to other women.
00:05:52.622 --> 00:05:56.028
And finally, your age group is different.
00:05:56.028 --> 00:06:10.290
But my age group, the first generation of Indians of my age group, we did not know how to spell exercise and so we were all sedentary slobs or couch potatoes, including myself.
00:06:10.509 --> 00:06:13.216
So, oh, and then our food habits.
00:06:13.216 --> 00:06:14.619
Think about our food habits.
00:06:14.619 --> 00:06:23.557
We have mostly saturated fats, oils, processed food, sugars, refined foods.
00:06:23.557 --> 00:06:29.050
All this is that you know something, why they've got a connection with oil.
00:06:29.050 --> 00:06:30.432
You've got a cultural connection with oil.
00:06:30.432 --> 00:06:32.516
You've got a cultural connection with oil.
00:06:32.516 --> 00:06:44.247
If, in my family or otherwise, if we don't use oil means that you're doing, you're showing generosity to a person in our culture, which is wrong.
00:06:44.247 --> 00:06:46.151
It's a sign of warmth.
00:06:46.151 --> 00:07:01.870
If you have a pot of curry on your dining table and if you want floating of oil oil like the Valdi slick that means you're not being just as to your yes, and this oil is absolutely new to the new Newton, you know.
00:07:01.870 --> 00:07:12.694
So the idea is that this cultural connection to oil is so deeply ingrained into it that I have seen people use the oil again and again.
00:07:12.694 --> 00:07:18.244
The same oil back in India I've seen this is that oil again and again.
00:07:18.244 --> 00:07:32.490
At very high temperatures it becomes those meat products or things like this, secret chemicals that become cancerous, carcinogenic do you think this happens only to South Asians?
00:07:32.850 --> 00:07:35.317
or what about the standard American diet?
00:07:35.317 --> 00:07:37.634
And what about other Western cultures?
00:07:37.634 --> 00:07:41.696
And what about people, say, in the Mediterranean region?
00:07:41.696 --> 00:07:50.793
So how do the other cultural folks succumb to heart disease, even when that happens in those cultures?
00:07:51.305 --> 00:07:56.872
The standard American diet is very aptly called the SAD diet Meat, eggs, dairy sugar.
00:07:56.872 --> 00:07:59.473
Now this is the worst diet.
00:07:59.473 --> 00:08:06.495
But my point is this why is it that 80% of Indians are vegetarians 75 to 80%.
00:08:06.495 --> 00:08:08.934
Why are we the heart disease capital of the world?
00:08:08.934 --> 00:08:14.125
It's because of our dairy saturated fat and cholesterol isn't there?
00:08:14.125 --> 00:08:17.971
Because of our overuse of oil and butter and ghee.
00:08:17.971 --> 00:08:20.295
Do you know that ghee has now?
00:08:20.295 --> 00:08:31.589
Just two weeks back I was doing some studies and it said that ghee has got where you have oxidized cholesterol, which is terrible, worse than the regular cholesterol.
00:08:31.589 --> 00:08:35.578
Tenfold increase in oxidized cholesterol if you use ghee.
00:08:35.578 --> 00:08:47.277
But then comes the question is so many talks have gone around and people have asked me that, look, is ghee helpful and can we use a teaspoonful this and that?
00:08:47.277 --> 00:08:49.871
No, if you want, medically speaking.
00:08:49.871 --> 00:08:56.831
No, if you are talking about certain, because all I'm saying is questions that have been put forward to me.
00:08:56.831 --> 00:09:00.447
The Sri Krishna Bhagwan used to drink dahi and ghee and all that.
00:09:00.447 --> 00:09:09.751
So I turn around and say, look, I am not a religious expert at all, I'm only talking about from the viewpoint of what it is medically wrong.
00:09:09.831 --> 00:09:15.748
Now, in those days, do you have the means to put a cow in your shed and feed the grass?
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Totally no, you don't.
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Dairy in this country is liquid meat, saturated fat and cholesterol.
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Rip Esselstyn said it very aptly One ounce of meat is equivalent to 2% of regular milk.
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A cup of 2% milk, and look at the milk.
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How do you get milk on the shelves of your grocery stores?
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You have to impregnate the cow continuously.
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So you push estrogens like crazy and this estrogen in the milk that comes in is one of the leading causes of prostate cancer in men.
00:09:49.388 --> 00:10:00.989
So that estrogen that you are having, you're getting saturated fat, you're getting cholesterol, you're getting a load on your kidneys, so you get renal functions which are going down.
00:10:00.989 --> 00:10:03.857
You get osteoporosis faster with your meats.
00:10:03.857 --> 00:10:10.192
Why in the world would anybody want to have meat and dairy, or meat for that matter?
00:10:10.292 --> 00:10:13.879
Then you have the question of lactose intolerant.
00:10:13.879 --> 00:10:14.198
Do you know?
00:10:14.198 --> 00:10:21.350
Some of the people in the world are lactose intolerant, but we say that because we have the belching and distension.
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Oh, we have enjoyed the meal.
00:10:22.895 --> 00:10:24.581
No, that is wrong.
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You have not enjoyed the meal, you are lactose intolerant.
00:10:27.572 --> 00:10:34.373
And one final thing when my patients, when I tell them to give up milk, dairy, they come back to me in six months and say.
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I ask them have you given up dairy?
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And they say yes.
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I say what about cheese?
00:10:39.470 --> 00:10:41.370
They say no, no, we have the cheese.
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Why?
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Because it takes a large quantity of milk to make a small quantity of cheese and cheese.
00:10:49.467 --> 00:11:01.239
We've got casein, a protein which is found in cow's milk, and that protein turns into casomorphine, so that casomorphine becomes an addictive quality like morphine.
00:11:01.239 --> 00:11:03.692
So the last thing people want to give up is cheese.
00:11:03.692 --> 00:11:06.528
They say I can give up everything, but I can't give up cheese.
00:11:07.470 --> 00:11:10.017
Yeah, it's interesting, you pointed that out.
00:11:10.017 --> 00:11:35.842
It's interesting, you pointed that out B-A-I-P-K-U-M-A-R and our website, ypkumarcom.
00:11:35.842 --> 00:11:42.337
Until next time, with yet another interesting guest and yet another interesting topic.
00:11:42.337 --> 00:11:46.216
It's me Y saying so long.
00:00:09.590 --> 00:00:14.715
Welcome to Freshly Forever, a podcast that gives you fascinating insights week after week.
00:00:14.715 --> 00:00:16.687
Here's your host, vaikumar.
00:00:16.687 --> 00:00:35.430
Dr Akhil Tahir is an experienced physician who, until 2009, in his words, believed that heart disease won't happen to me.
00:00:35.430 --> 00:00:39.863
To quote him, he is now a resurgent physician.
00:00:39.863 --> 00:01:02.067
Further to a bypass surgery at the age of 61, and he recovered from it remarkably is now a septuagenarian athlete, a heart-healthy speaker, holistic health and wellness consumer and a big proponent of whole food, plant-based diet.
00:01:02.067 --> 00:01:13.912
We had the pleasure of talking to Dr Tahir in season two of this podcast in a two-part episode on heart health.
00:01:13.912 --> 00:01:21.230
Here are some nuggets from that conversation on the cultural impact of heart disease.
00:01:21.230 --> 00:01:23.213
Let's take a listen.
00:01:23.213 --> 00:01:28.822
Is heart health compromised more in certain cultures than others?
00:01:28.822 --> 00:01:29.444
You think?
00:01:29.665 --> 00:01:30.186
Absolutely.
00:01:30.186 --> 00:01:31.489
You hit the nail on the head.
00:01:31.489 --> 00:01:45.849
We South Asians when I say South Asians, we mean people mainly from India, pakistan, nepal, sri Lanka, as far as Bhutan and Maldives we are all South Asians.
00:01:45.849 --> 00:01:48.694
We are 25% of the world's population.
00:01:48.694 --> 00:01:51.825
Roughly, we carry 60% of the world's heart disease.
00:01:51.825 --> 00:02:02.167
Oh, no, yes, in India, from 2000 to 2019, our disease increased double for heart disease.
00:02:02.346 --> 00:02:03.870
Now what has happened?
00:02:03.870 --> 00:02:12.061
Even in the United States, we are four times more likely to get heart disease than other ethnic groups like the Japanese, koreans or Chinese.
00:02:12.061 --> 00:02:26.840
We are getting our heart disease at a younger age 25% are getting it before they reach the age of 40, and 50% are getting it before they reach the age of 40 and 50% are getting it before they reach the age of 55.
00:02:26.840 --> 00:02:38.825
Therefore, the American Heart Association says that being of South Asian descent is an independent risk factor for heart disease.
00:02:40.927 --> 00:02:47.276
Now, when we go a little bit more into depth, why and what is being done?
00:02:47.276 --> 00:02:57.331
We are a small community compared to the whites and the blacks, so what happens is we do not have too much of research facilities.
00:02:57.331 --> 00:03:19.060
We don't have the money for that, but there is a study which is called the Masala Study, that is, the mediators of South Asians living in America and what they found was, when they did a study with 40, between the ages about 1,100 people I don't know why they took this number, 1,100, between the ages of 40 and 84,.
00:03:19.060 --> 00:03:29.965
What they found was that people of South Asian descent do not appear obese according to the Western terminology, but they carry fat.
00:03:29.965 --> 00:03:32.849
They carry fat in their abdomen.
00:03:33.531 --> 00:03:35.354
So it is called visceral obesity.
00:03:35.354 --> 00:03:42.800
This visceral obesity is where fat is deposited into your muscles, in your liver and around the heart.
00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:49.604
The subcutaneous fat just below the skin is perfectly okay, but this fat which is there?
00:03:49.604 --> 00:03:55.528
So if we go by body mass index according to the Western term, we will have a problem.
00:03:55.528 --> 00:03:57.503
We will not be able to.
00:03:57.503 --> 00:04:00.848
We will be slipping through the cracks, mm-hmm.
00:04:00.848 --> 00:04:07.366
So my point first is that according to the body mass index, it's 25.
00:04:07.366 --> 00:04:08.908
Up to 25 is normal.
00:04:08.908 --> 00:04:10.942
We should keep it as 23.
00:04:10.942 --> 00:04:17.187
Our obesity as South Asians should be 28, not 30 and above.
00:04:17.187 --> 00:04:25.954
Do an abdominal girth and you will find that 35 is supposed to be normal in males and 30 is normal in females.
00:04:25.954 --> 00:04:27.677
35 is supposed to be normal in males and 30 is normal in females.
00:04:27.677 --> 00:04:32.709
I would go lower for South Asians 32 for 33 for males and 28 for females.
00:04:32.709 --> 00:04:34.521
But we do carry fat.
00:04:34.521 --> 00:04:38.886
My body mass index when I had my heart disease was only 22.
00:04:38.886 --> 00:04:42.365
And I was carrying a pouch.
00:04:42.365 --> 00:04:44.382
So that is the first thing.
00:04:44.634 --> 00:04:46.663
What are the other things that we South Asians have?
00:04:46.663 --> 00:04:48.362
We're insulin resistant.
00:04:48.362 --> 00:04:57.240
When people hear this thing insulin resistant I tell them very simply a lay person is that when you get sugar in your blood.
00:04:57.240 --> 00:05:01.959
The insulin carries the sugar to the cells and it is used as energy.
00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:13.023
But if your cell is deposited with fat, then it comes back into the blood and you get your blood sugar rise and therefore you get pre-diabetic and diabetic.
00:05:13.023 --> 00:05:21.365
Third thing we, for some reason and we are studying on this calcium is very much more deposited in our coronaries.
00:05:21.365 --> 00:05:35.192
Number four our coronaries are very small compared to others and we have got larger lesions in our coronaries are very small compared to others and we have got larger lesions in our coronaries.
00:05:35.192 --> 00:05:38.057
We've got multiple vessel disease and we've got tight stenosis.
00:05:38.057 --> 00:05:46.579
When we have that blockage, and then independent risk factors are like spilling protein in the urine, which is more so in our women.
00:05:46.579 --> 00:05:52.622
Our women, they are more likely to get gestational diabetes as opposed to other women.
00:05:52.622 --> 00:05:56.028
And finally, your age group is different.
00:05:56.028 --> 00:06:10.290
But my age group, the first generation of Indians of my age group, we did not know how to spell exercise and so we were all sedentary slobs or couch potatoes, including myself.
00:06:10.509 --> 00:06:13.216
So, oh, and then our food habits.
00:06:13.216 --> 00:06:14.619
Think about our food habits.
00:06:14.619 --> 00:06:23.557
We have mostly saturated fats, oils, processed food, sugars, refined foods.
00:06:23.557 --> 00:06:29.050
All this is that you know something, why they've got a connection with oil.
00:06:29.050 --> 00:06:30.432
You've got a cultural connection with oil.
00:06:30.432 --> 00:06:32.516
You've got a cultural connection with oil.
00:06:32.516 --> 00:06:44.247
If, in my family or otherwise, if we don't use oil means that you're doing, you're showing generosity to a person in our culture, which is wrong.
00:06:44.247 --> 00:06:46.151
It's a sign of warmth.
00:06:46.151 --> 00:07:01.870
If you have a pot of curry on your dining table and if you want floating of oil oil like the Valdi slick that means you're not being just as to your yes, and this oil is absolutely new to the new Newton, you know.
00:07:01.870 --> 00:07:12.694
So the idea is that this cultural connection to oil is so deeply ingrained into it that I have seen people use the oil again and again.
00:07:12.694 --> 00:07:18.244
The same oil back in India I've seen this is that oil again and again.
00:07:18.244 --> 00:07:32.490
At very high temperatures it becomes those meat products or things like this, secret chemicals that become cancerous, carcinogenic do you think this happens only to South Asians?
00:07:32.850 --> 00:07:35.317
or what about the standard American diet?
00:07:35.317 --> 00:07:37.634
And what about other Western cultures?
00:07:37.634 --> 00:07:41.696
And what about people, say, in the Mediterranean region?
00:07:41.696 --> 00:07:50.793
So how do the other cultural folks succumb to heart disease, even when that happens in those cultures?
00:07:51.305 --> 00:07:56.872
The standard American diet is very aptly called the SAD diet Meat, eggs, dairy sugar.
00:07:56.872 --> 00:07:59.473
Now this is the worst diet.
00:07:59.473 --> 00:08:06.495
But my point is this why is it that 80% of Indians are vegetarians 75 to 80%.
00:08:06.495 --> 00:08:08.934
Why are we the heart disease capital of the world?
00:08:08.934 --> 00:08:14.125
It's because of our dairy saturated fat and cholesterol isn't there?
00:08:14.125 --> 00:08:17.971
Because of our overuse of oil and butter and ghee.
00:08:17.971 --> 00:08:20.295
Do you know that ghee has now?
00:08:20.295 --> 00:08:31.589
Just two weeks back I was doing some studies and it said that ghee has got where you have oxidized cholesterol, which is terrible, worse than the regular cholesterol.
00:08:31.589 --> 00:08:35.578
Tenfold increase in oxidized cholesterol if you use ghee.
00:08:35.578 --> 00:08:47.277
But then comes the question is so many talks have gone around and people have asked me that, look, is ghee helpful and can we use a teaspoonful this and that?
00:08:47.277 --> 00:08:49.871
No, if you want, medically speaking.
00:08:49.871 --> 00:08:56.831
No, if you are talking about certain, because all I'm saying is questions that have been put forward to me.
00:08:56.831 --> 00:09:00.447
The Sri Krishna Bhagwan used to drink dahi and ghee and all that.
00:09:00.447 --> 00:09:09.751
So I turn around and say, look, I am not a religious expert at all, I'm only talking about from the viewpoint of what it is medically wrong.
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Now, in those days, do you have the means to put a cow in your shed and feed the grass?
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Totally no, you don't.
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Dairy in this country is liquid meat, saturated fat and cholesterol.
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Rip Esselstyn said it very aptly One ounce of meat is equivalent to 2% of regular milk.
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A cup of 2% milk, and look at the milk.
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How do you get milk on the shelves of your grocery stores?
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You have to impregnate the cow continuously.
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So you push estrogens like crazy and this estrogen in the milk that comes in is one of the leading causes of prostate cancer in men.
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So that estrogen that you are having, you're getting saturated fat, you're getting cholesterol, you're getting a load on your kidneys, so you get renal functions which are going down.
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You get osteoporosis faster with your meats.
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Why in the world would anybody want to have meat and dairy, or meat for that matter?
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Then you have the question of lactose intolerant.
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Do you know?
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Some of the people in the world are lactose intolerant, but we say that because we have the belching and distension.
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Oh, we have enjoyed the meal.
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No, that is wrong.
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You have not enjoyed the meal, you are lactose intolerant.
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And one final thing when my patients, when I tell them to give up milk, dairy, they come back to me in six months and say.
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I ask them have you given up dairy?
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And they say yes.
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I say what about cheese?
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They say no, no, we have the cheese.
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Why?
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Because it takes a large quantity of milk to make a small quantity of cheese and cheese.
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We've got casein, a protein which is found in cow's milk, and that protein turns into casomorphine, so that casomorphine becomes an addictive quality like morphine.
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So the last thing people want to give up is cheese.
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They say I can give up everything, but I can't give up cheese.
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Yeah, it's interesting, you pointed that out.
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It's interesting, you pointed that out B-A-I-P-K-U-M-A-R and our website, ypkumarcom.
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Until next time, with yet another interesting guest and yet another interesting topic.
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It's me Y saying so long.
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