David Diamond

Ph.D. in Biology/Neuroscience
Professor, Univ So Florida
My second career focuses on cardiovascular disease
I'm skeptical of LDL cholesterol as a cause of CVD

[David Diamond @LDLSkeptic]

I'm honored that my paper on statistical deception in cholesterol research will be the topic of a Grand Rounds Med School panel discussion today.
https://t.co/nH345BCpIv
@ProfTimNoakes @DoctorTro @DominicDAgosti2 @lowcarbGP @SBakerMD @ethanjweiss @davidludwigmd @DrAseemMalhotra

[A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc]

Coconut oil has the lowest omega-6 content of any cooking oil and a high smoke point for frying. It can replace seed oils in 50-60% of processed foods.

Here I reveal why coconuts are one of the most underrated health foods and how to use them.

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[David Diamond @LDLSkeptic]

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[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

1900: the egg is hailed as nature's most complete food. Doctors prescribe it to invalids, infants and the elderly. A working man fries four for breakfast and thinks nothing of it.

1968: the American Heart Association decides the egg threatens your heart and tells you to eat no more than three a week. The cholesterol theory behind that order is, at the time, still unproven. The egg is sent to its room anyway.

1973: industry launches the first egg substitute, egg whites dosed with gums, preservatives and a squirt of colour, and sells it as the heart-healthy upgrade on a food people had eaten happily for ten thousand years.

1980 to 2010: the West eats billions fewer eggs. Obesity goes through the roof. Type 2 diabetes triples. Whatever the egg was supposedly doing to us, taking it away fixed precisely nothing.

2015: the US Dietary Guidelines committee reviews the entire evidence base and quietly drops the cholesterol limit. The egg, it turns out, was never a nutrient of concern.

2026: the egg is back. On the tasting menu. In the protein cookbook. In the influencer's morning routine. Welcomed home like a returning war hero.

For more than half a century the egg stood accused. The egg never changed. The advice changed, the advice was wrong, and not one person who handed it down has ever said sorry.

The grandmothers who carried on cracking eggs into the pan right through the 1980s, ignoring every health authority in the Western world, were correct the entire time.

Put the grandmothers on the committee.

[David Diamond @LDLSkeptic]

@ValerieAnne1970 @grok is this information about pink slime, correct?

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Every traditional cuisine on earth was built on a fat. Pick a country, name the fat:

- The French: butter and goose fat
- The Italians: lard in the north, olive oil in the south
- The Spanish: lard and the fat of the jamón
- The Germans: schmaltz and butter
- The Russians: butter, soured cream, and salo
- The Welsh: mutton fat
- The Irish: butter, sometimes aged in a bog
- The British: beef dripping, butter, and lard
- The Mexicans: lard and rendered beef fat
- The Americans: bacon grease, lard, and beef tallow
- The Indians: ghee
- The Chinese: lard and pork back fat
- The Greeks: olive oil and the tail fat of fat-tailed sheep
- The Argentines: tallow and bone marrow

Not one was built on seed oil, because seed oil did not exist as a food until 1911, when an American soap company put hydrogenated cottonseed oil in a tin and called it Crisco.

Then between roughly 1960 and 2000, every one of these kitchens was told its founding fat would kill it, and quietly handed the same replacement: a hexane-processed blend of soy, rape, palm, and sunflower from a factory in the Midwest or Malaysia. The cuisines kept their names. The fat got swapped underneath. Every country lost its kitchen in the same few decades, on the same advice, traced to the same handful of papers.

They called it progress. It was the largest uncontrolled dietary experiment in history, and we are what it was run on.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

My cardiologist checked two things after my heart attack at 52.

My LDL cholesterol. My total cholesterol.

He never checked my fasting insulin. He never checked my hs-CRP. He never checked my homocysteine. He never tested my thyroid. He never asked about my sleep. He never asked about my stress. He never looked at my gut health. He never measured my nutrient levels.

He had one answer for a disease with 12 root causes.

A statin.

Heart disease is not a single-headed monster. It is a 12-headed dragon. Insulin resistance. Chronic inflammation. Thyroid dysfunction. Gut dysbiosis. Poor sleep. Chronic stress. Seed oils and processed food. Refined sugar. Physical inactivity. Nutrient deficiencies. Alcohol and toxins. Diet versus your genes.

Your doctor checks 2. Treats 1. Ignores the other 11.

700,000 Americans die from heart disease every year. It has been the number one killer for over 100 years. And the standard of care is still one pill aimed at one number.

Twelve heads. One pill.

That is not medicine. That is a guess.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

"Go carnivore and you'll get scurvy like an eighteenth-century sailor." Cue the citrus lobby.

The Inuit lived for generations on meat and fat with barely a plant in sight, and scurvy simply was not a thing among them. No oranges, no limes, no problem.

Here is what the scare story skips. Vitamin C and glucose are nearly identical in shape, and they fight over the very same doors into your cells. Flood your blood with sugar and the glucose shoves the vitamin C out of the queue, which is why diabetics tend to run low on it. Strip the carbs out and the jam clears. The little you take in walks straight in and gets used with ruthless efficiency.

So the official dose, set for a body wading through glucose all day, stops applying to you. Your real requirement falls to a fraction of it, single-digit milligrams, easily met by fresh meat. And one of vitamin C's jobs is building carnitine, which on carnivore you eat ready-made, taking that whole errand off its list.

Scurvy is a disease of preservation and sugar-soaked deprivation, of biscuit and rum with nothing fresh aboard. Blaming the meat is exactly backwards.

[Liz Churchill @liz_churchill10]

SHOCKING: Dr. Aseem Malhotra testifies about MASSIVE truth bombs on mRNA vaccine harms, scientific corruption, and the betrayal of public trust.

“I have called for a MORATORIUM on these UNSAFE and DEFECTIVE products…there is SERIOUS HARM…”

THIS IS WHAT BRAVERY LOOKS LIKE…

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

What scrambles people when they go carnivore:

They eat more fat and the fat leaves. They eat more red meat and the numbers that actually matter, blood sugar, triglycerides, waistline, all wander off in the right direction. They quit fibre entirely and the gut they'd babied for years goes quiet, almost insultingly so.

Everything they were warned would kill them, they're thriving on.

Then the real penny drops. The sugar, the refined flour and the seed oil were doing the damage all along, while the official advice stood there pointing at the steak.

Every food pyramid and every "heart healthy" badge on a box of breakfast sugar starts to read like an instruction manual for the disease it claims to prevent.

The emperor has no clothes. He's also diabetic, on three medications, and quietly wondering why his knees hurt.

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

I grew up thinking LDL was the enemy. Every doctor I ever saw told me it was.

Today, on Father’s Day, I want to honor the molecule that built every cell in my body and never once got thanked for it.

LDL works around the clock. It delivers hormones. It builds cell membranes. It supports your brain. It insulates your nerves. It repairs tissue. It helps create vitamin D. It delivers fat-soluble vitamins to every cell that needs them.

Your body produces 80% of its own cholesterol. On purpose. Every single day. Because without it, you are dead.

Not sick. Dead.

LDL is not the villain. It is the delivery system of life. It has worked for you since the day you were born. It will work for you until the day you die.

It never stops. It never complains. It never gets credit.

Kind of like a father.

Happy Father’s Day to the molecule that built you.

Respect the molecule.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson lost 50 pounds (22.7 kg) on carnivore and reversed decades of health issues.

In 2018 on Joe Rogan he revealed he eliminated psoriasis, gum disease, snoring, reflux, anxiety, depression, and more, just by eating mostly beef, salt, and water. He now wakes up clear-headed, needs less sleep, and feels better than he has in decades.

He has largely stuck with a meat-heavy/low-carb approach since (last detailed public comments were a few years ago), with occasional updates from him and daughter Mikhaila.

Chronic inflammation (inflammaging) is a major driver of muscle loss, arthritis progression, and reduced recovery as we age. Lowering systemic inflammation has been shown in multiple studies to improve muscle function, joint health, and physical performance even in older adults.

[David Diamond @LDLSkeptic]

@KetoCarnivore @ValerieAnne1970 @grok 😂

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

For thousands of years, India cooked in ghee. Clarified butter, simmered slowly until the milk solids browned and the fat ran clear and gold. Shelf-stable without a fridge. Rich in the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K, and in butyrate. A smoke point high enough for the fierce heat Indian cooking runs on.

Ghee was more than food. It was medicine in Ayurveda, poured into the lamps of temples, woven into the rites of birth, marriage and death. It was the cooking fat of a civilisation, and it was treated as sacred.

Then, in the 20th century, a tin arrived. Inside was vanaspati, vegetable oil hydrogenated until it turned solid and pale and looked, near enough, like the real thing. The company that would become Hindustan Unilever branded it Dalda, sold it cheap, and sold it as the modern choice for the modern kitchen. It was loaded with trans fats, the one fat the entire world now agrees destroys a human heart.

The rest followed. The global campaign against saturated fat reached India, and soybean, sunflower and palm oil flooded the market. Ghee was recast as the fat of the past, heavy, rural, a thing the rising middle class was meant to leave behind. Seed oil was the future. Refined. Scientific. Heart-healthy. The cardiologists said so.

India is now the largest importer of cooking oil on earth. In millions of homes the ghee tin slid to the back of the shelf, and the refined oil bottle took its place at the front.

Then heart disease began to climb, year on year, in step with the switch. A civilisation traded the fat its grandmothers trusted for an industrial stand-in, and earned the heaviest burden of cardiac death it has ever carried.

The ghee is still being blamed.
The sunflower oil is still being recommended.
In India.
In 2026.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

"SIDS ‘DISAPPEARED’ In Japan After Raising The Age of Vaccination To 2yrs Old."
~Dr. Pierre Kory, MD

In 1981, Japan delayed the DTaP vaccine until children turned two years old.

Japan holds one of the lowest infant mortality rates, while the US ranks among the highest.

During the 1970s, following only two reported infant deaths linked to the whole-cell pertussis vaccine (DTwP), intense public concern prompted the Japanese government to halt routine DTwP vaccinations.

They later introduced the acellular pertussis version (DTaP) in 1981, but limited its use to children aged two and older.

In 1993, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor & Welfare discontinued the combined MMR vaccine after it triggered a significant increase in severe adverse reactions — particularly aseptic meningitis resulting in serious harm and fatalities.

Japan now provides separate measles and rubella vaccines and has never reintroduced the mumps component or the MMR combination shot.

In 1994, Japan revised its Immunization Act, changing all childhood vaccinations from mandatory to voluntary/recommended status.

This removed any penalties for declining vaccines and moved administration from mass public health clinics to individual choice via private doctors — prioritizing personal decision-making and informed consent.

The U.S. continues to have the highest infant mortality rate among 16 other developed nations.

As of 2022, the CDC reports the U.S. rate at 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births. Japan’s rate remains among the world’s lowest at 1.7 per 1,000 — the U.S. rate is more than three times higher.

[Maxine Pye @LiveAncestral]

Real food does not have to be more expensive.

People assume eating this way is expensive because they picture sirloin and ribeye. The cheap cuts tell a different story. Braising steak, short ribs, ox tail, mince. These sit at a fraction of the price and carry more collagen, more gelatin, more of what your joints and gut actually need.

This is the opposite of what supermarkets train you to think. Premium cuts get marketed as quality. Cheap cuts get treated as lesser. Biologically it runs the other way. Connective tissue, marrow and slow cuts feed you things muscle meat alone does not. Glycine, collagen, fat soluble vitamins. The "expensive" cuts often deliver less of what your body is short of.

My weekly shop costs around £60. Stewing beef, mince, ox tail, pork belly, bacon, three dozen eggs, double cream, Greek yoghurt, blueberries, eggs and double cream. No seed oils, no additives, no ingredient list to check.

Compare that to a week of convenience food at the same spend. You get less food, less nourishment, and a body that pays for it later through the damage it slowly causes.

Cheap does not mean lesser. It means underused.

What do you buy most weeks, mince and stewing cuts or are you eating steak daily?

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

You want to read how I came back

Find it in the book UNPLUGGED https://t.co/xwAaYY2HYI

[Mark Kaplan @markkaplan20]

Then my daughter Sarah came home.

I was in the living room. I remember the light coming through the window. I remember her face when she walked in.

She sat down across from me. Looked me in the eyes. And said:

Dad. You are not the same father I have known. You are negative. You are angry. You think you are going to die every second. This is not who you are.

My own daughter. The girl I raised. The girl who watched me compete on tennis courts around the world. She was telling me the man she grew up with had disappeared.

Then she said four words that changed everything.

I want my old dad back.

[Mike Lustgarten, PhD @mike_lustgarten]

@Mangan150 Definitely, and here's that data in video format with the study's lead author: https://t.co/zsKHuoLyah

[P.D. Mangan Health & Freedom Maximalist 🇺🇸 @Mangan150]

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