Health doesn't need care or medicine. Birth is normal. Health is normal. Smart children who can entertain themselves and grow and flourish without drugs is normal. It's not a special state. It's how we are created. Health needs to be guarded and protected from the great attack.
Huge win for health!
RFK Jr just explained that doctors will now get paid to take patients OFF unnecessary and harmful medications through a new policy called “deprescribing.”
This is the first policy of its kind, and will incentivize doctors to STOP prescribing unnecessary medications.
@Rainmaker1973 more petroleum based polyester, plastic shoes, plastic-based clothing, and petrol driven food imports - MORONIC. sustainable harvest of wildlife with enforced regulations works best. this is emotional-based and not logic-based
Peter Misses the Plot: a Swift Debunking 👇
It’s come to my attention that @PeterAttiaMD has come out with an attempted debunk to The Cholesterol Code documentary and, more broadly, the research on lean mass hyper-responders.
I won’t mince words: It’s embarrassing. It’s simultaneously arrogant, deeply misinformed, and, as I read it, a transparent avoidance of the facts at hand. It’s posturing, not insight. And I’m prepared to back that up.
First, Peter attempts to discredit the documentary, the research on lean mass hyper-responders, and the Lipid Energy Model, on superficial grounds: credentials and authority.
He almost exclusively referring to the work as a product of the Citizen Science Foundation (CSF), i.e., @realDaveFeldman: the 'uncredentialed' outsider.
He conspicuously avoids discussing the broader teams involved, many of whom carry credentials that would easily meet the standards typically valued in more traditional, credential-focused settings (and exceed his own). Even setting aside myself, an MD-PhD, there is: Dr. Adrian Soto-Mota, MD-PhD, ith the Lundquist team, there are others who have co-authored work in this space, including Anatol Kontush, Ronald Krauss, William Cromwell, and, notably, Peter’s own former head of research, Bob Kaplan. Go figure.
Might have been a fact fact for Peter to include: "My former head of research was a coauthor on the Lipid Energy Model paper I'm inadequately trying to debunk."
And that’s the short list.
I’ll also point out that when I was writing an editorial on lean mass hyper-responders, I reached out to Peter, and he declined to contribute, citing that it was not his area of expertise.
He instead referred me to Ronald Krauss at “the expert,” who has now collaborated with us on a couple of projects.
So even at a superficial level, what we’re seeing here is avoidance, posturing, and frank hypocrisy.
Peter further attempts to cast doubt on lean mass hyper-responders by questioning the existence of the phenotype, which is, frankly, comical. It exists. It is defined by three clear cut points, and people meeting those criteria unquestionably exist. It is also a dynamic and reproducible phenomenon, as demonstrated by multiple experiments, case series, and even meta-analyses of randomized controlled trials that we have published. Peter forgot to talk about those data. No surprise there.
Peter also demonstrates a misunderstanding of the Lipid Energy Model, for example by incorrectly suggesting a contradiction between the model and the low triglycerides observed in lean mass hyper-responders. And, more broadly, he reveals a lack of familiarity with the practical realities and constraints of clinical study design. If we are going to lean on authority, then it is fair to ask about experience. To my knowledge, Peter has not conducted clinical trials, and frankly, that gap shows here.
At a deeper level, I don’t think Peter understands this physiology or this domain. And behavior like this, particularly when presented under the banner of scientific critique, is exactly the kind of thing that fuels “broader distrust in institutions and experts.”
This is a textbook case of the pot calling the kettle black.
I could go on, but I think the core point is clear. If further discourse is needed, Peter and his colleagues, including Tom Dayspring, have had ample opportunity to engage, collaborate, and discuss these ideas directly.
If they choose not to, that speaks for itself.
In the meantime, we’re not going anywhere. And no amount of pedantic posturing is going to change the trajectory of the data.
Oh, and two more things…
i. For those tempted to fall back on the overly simplistic take that “they’re saying high LDL is good” and “fear mongering about pharma,” or similar caricatures, you’ve entirely missed the plot.
And, I have something coming this week.
Again, if you interpret it as a pivot, you’ve missed the point entirely, as Peter has.
ii. Finally, Peter’s central criticism seems to be that the documentary and our research suggest that even very high LDL cholesterol may not always indicate cardiovascular risk.
Well, yes.
The alternative is to argue that in all circumstances, at all times, very high LDL necessarily drives cardiovascular disease.
This isn’t about discrediting, with a blanket statement, any role of ApoB or LDL in cardiovascular disease. This is about asking important questions at the frontier of science, because the status quo has been wholly inadequate in addressing the problem at hand.
That's obvious.
At least to some extent, we have been barking up the wrong tree.
Anyone with a modicum of perspective can see that.
And anyone with genuine curiosity would be willing to engage with the nuance, rather than lecture, avoid, and misrepresent, as Peter is doing here.
Lastly: See the Cholesterol Code Documentary. It's on Amazon. And judge for yourself.
🚨 WOW! Joe Rogan reveals President Trump IMMEDIATELY offered him FDA approval for a psychedelic treatment in a text chain
Because the data was SO CONVINCING and STUNNING
"I wanna tell everybody how this happened. I send President Trump some information."
"With one dose of Ibogaine, more than 80% of people are free of that addiction. With two doses, it's more than 90%. I sent him that information."
"The text message came back, sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let's do it. It was literally that quick!"
"For 56 years, we've lived under those terrible conditions. We're free of that now."
"We're free of that now, thanks to all these people that you see next to me, and thanks to President Trump!" — @joerogan
When I started higher education, I trusted the experts. After going through an MD-PhD, I learned for every true expert, there are several more repeating conclusions they’ve never really interrogated. And from the outside, it’s surprisingly hard to tell the difference.
@MarissaFahlberg @nietzsche258918 You do you. Put whatever needles you want into your body. Just don’t expect me, as an elected official, to pass laws forcing other people to do the same.
The wake up call for me is when I caught the CDC lying about the efficacy of COVID jabs for those who had natural immunity.
It’s painful to even look at this shit... this is what they are teaching high school kids!
Our system is fucked, doctors, medical organizations, trainers, textbooks LC dietitians... ALL FUCKED
Over the last 30 yrs, incidence of colorectal cancer among adults younger than 55 is up 100%.
The WHO says red meat raises the risk of colorectal cancer by 17%.
Over the last 50 years, red meat consumption is down 40%.
The math isn't mathing.
🚨 NEW STUDY 🚨
The keto diet was tested against the American Heart Association ❤️ diet in dementia & guess what happened?
The ketogenic diet showed superiority in every marker analyzed
The AHA, corporate-sponsored diet of canola oil is killing you
You are standing in a forest.
The forest is full of rabbits. Hundreds of them. You have a reliable means of catching them. You are catching and eating them every day, as many as you need, as many as you can consume. You are eating nothing but rabbit. Protein in every meal. More protein than most people eat in a month.
You are dying.
Not from starvation in the conventional sense. Not from lack of food. From a specific and documented metabolic failure that the Arctic explorers who encountered it called rabbit starvation, and that the Plains Indians who had encountered it long before any European arrived had understood well enough to have a practical rule about it: you do not eat lean meat alone. If the animal is too lean, you do not eat it at all until you find fat.
What happens: the liver can only process a certain amount of protein per day. Pure lean protein, consumed in large quantities with insufficient fat, overwhelms that capacity.
The body has no mechanism for storing excess protein; it attempts to process all of it, and the processing consumes B vitamins, generates ammonia as a metabolic byproduct, and eventually produces a cluster of symptoms: nausea, diarrhoea, headache, increasing weakness, that worsen rather than improve the more you eat.
The brain interprets this as starvation because at the cellular level it functionally is, regardless of the volume of food being consumed.
Lewis and Clark documented it. In their journals. The passages describing the periods when they were subsisting primarily on lean game: deer that were too thin, lean season meat, describe increasing weakness and what they called a gnawing hunger that eating more did not resolve. The men ate and were still hungry because the hunger was not for protein. It was for fat.
The Plains Indians would not eat lean animals. Full stop. If a buffalo was killed and found to be too thin: late in the hard season, insufficient body fat, the meat would be given to the dogs. A practical policy based on generations of observational data about what happens when you eat lean meat without fat, and the answer is that you decline rather than improve.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who spent years living on Arctic meat diets, documented the same thing. The Inuit would not eat lean meat alone. The fat was not a luxury component of the meal. The fat was the point. The meat without the fat was not food in any functional sense.
Two to three pounds of properly fatted meat per day.
That's it. That's enough. That's more than enough.
The hunger disappears. The energy is stable. The body doesn't ask for anything else.
The idea that you need more protein, that you should strip the fat for leanness, that a chicken breast is the optimal form of animal food: that idea is so recently constructed, so perfectly inverted from everything the humans who ate animal food for 2.5 million years understood, that I genuinely don't know whether to be impressed by the achievement or depressed by the scale of it.
Canada does not believe in the death penalty for repeat violent offenders.
But I followed the rules.
I listened to the government.
I took the mandated vaccine.
I became permanently paralyzed.
They promised compensation for severe side effects.
I have received nothing.
Instead, I have been offered Medical Assistance in Dying.
Let that sink in.
No death penalty for criminals who harm others.
But for a law abiding citizen who trusted her government and was injured, the system’s solution is assisted death.
If this doesn’t disturb you, it should.
Repost if you believe injured Canadians deserve care, accountability, and the compensation that was promised not a suggestion to disappear.
Breast milk contains more cholesterol per serving than any other food on Earth.
Nature decided that rapidly developing infant brains need massive amounts of cholesterol.
But the medical establishment decided adults eating cholesterol is dangerous.
Either evolution spent millions of years poisoning infants with the most critical nutrient for brain development, or doctors are catastrophically wrong about dietary cholesterol.
Pick one.