Several years ago I was having some health issues and it was suggested I do the Med diet and, better yet, the Blue Zone diet. I got a book, did some research... and then the guy from Nat Geo who coined "blue zones" interviewed my grandmother (who lived to almost 107 and by herself until 8 mos before her death). When she told him she felt the reason for her longevity was chocolate and filet mignon, he abruptly ended the interview and never used her info. We also had lived in Nicaragua very near Costa Rica, and I knew for a fact that they ate a lot of animal proteins and eggs. Doing more research, I found that the whole Blue Zone thing was a business, and has been sold to the Seventh Day Adventists (vegetarians). I read Dr. Catherine Shanahan's book Deep Nutrition and it totally changed how we eat, and I feel SO much better than I used to.
I took the same road after 25 years of a vegetarian diet, and am so much healthier for it. One important point that I did not see in your post (I may have missed it!) is that consumption of meat from grass-fed cows is essential. Same goes for free-range chickens. Industrialized meat and egg production is unhealthy for humans and the environment. Meat and eggs from local happy cows and chickens keeps me happy and healthy. Enjoy your workshop today. Joe Saladin is terrific.
Good message. I am 60, and eat 6 soft boiled eggs for breakfast daily. These are fresh, organic eggs from our chickens. I have no heart disease, diabetes or blood pressure issues. In college I ate 10-12 eggs daily -- I never credited their egg lies. I also eat grass fed rather than grain fed meats, and I exercise (11 cows and 50 sheep keep me regular in my routine). They also lied about carbs and cornflakes....
Say hello to Joel for me: we are friends as well as allies. Joel is a true warrior and hero, trying to rescue people from the lies of industrial profiteers.
And while we are on the topic of much maligned foods, here's to nuts.
Conclusions: "Higher nut intake is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality, and mortality from respiratory disease, diabetes, and infections."
Article:"Nut consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer, all-cause and cause- specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies"
Citation: Aune et al. BMC Medicine (2016) 14:207 DOI 10.1186/s12916-016-0730-3
I emailed the author and innocently asked if roasting had any impact. Nope. Eat away, every day.
Swiss men live the longest worldwide. Why are we not included in the blue zones? Maybe because we do not eat the official 'longevity diet'?I do not know of any older vegeterian Swiss. Most of us love eating meat, cheese and drinking regularily wine to our dinners and our annual chocolate consumption is with 10 Kilogramm per person worldwide the highest..
Some months ago, you mentioned in one of your articles that you suffered an attack of gout. I am 57, and until May of 2022, thought I had escaped the same gout affliction that had affected my dad and uncle for decades. I was slammed for an uncharacteristic 7 weeks with my first attack, or at least the first that I recognized as such. It was the worst time of my life. My bloodwork showed out-of-range values, and for a while I thought I was dying. After many doctor visits spread over multiple specialties, I still have no explanations for the out-of-range values.
After suffering from the attack for 7 weeks, I finally gave up my resistance to medical dependency, and went on allopurinol. At the time I read multiple resources that advised NOT to go on that medication while an attack was still active. Luckily for me, a podiatrist was willing to prescribe it, and it worked almost immediately. I have resumed a mostly normal condition of health, at least as far as age and the psychological torments of current circumstances will allow.
No one had to persuade me to go off red meat, because I had absolutely no interest in indulging in any foods that might trigger another attack. I counted eggs as lifesavers, discovering that they were very low in purines, and along with dairy these were the only protein sources that I trusted for a while. I have gradually resumed poultry consumption, but still mostly avoid beef and pork.
From Wikipedia I read that allopurinol was approved for use in 1966, the year of my birth, and is on the WHO list of essential medicines. Imagine that: a medicine that works, a medicine that's cheap, a medicine developed by pharma companies that back then wanted to ease human suffering.
I count the whole COVID phenomenon as either the greatest crime or greatest set of crimes in human history. I understand that will sound hyperbolic to many, but I stand by that assertion and it is aging well. It prompts me to reevaluate every bit of information, dietary, medical, historical, and otherwise, that I've ever been taught in my life. I hope I live long enough to see the current generation of lethal frauds exposed and the fraudsters brought to justice.
Yes!! We changed our diet to high animal protein, very low carb, very low sugar in 2020, best decision, health wise, ever. Please note that after eating like this for the past several years, if you eat just a little carbs and sugar it piles the weight back on very quickly, (We’re in our late 50s) so it has to be a permanent change. Intermittent fasting is definitely the key, we have found. We only eat two meals a day and both within 7-8 hours. Some people do it with only 6 hours between meals, which we’re found is too close. European doctors knew that sugar was the health hazard, not animal fats. Cholesterol is brain food!
Congratulations on your diet change and weight loss. The few vegetarians I have known over the years seemed to catch everything that went around and were sick so often! I believe in eating in moderation and also, enjoying what you eat! There seems to be an effort to remove so many of life’s pleasures from us humans! We are controlled in many different ways, our sustenance should not be one of them!
I hope your words find good landings, Dr. malone. I tried for 20 years to convince people that there is a genuine, ancient, healthy way to eat and it requires eliminating processed food, most processed sugar, eating more fruits and vegetables and, yes, meat. People always take things to extreme though. When the Atkins diet came out the '30 carb daily limit' was not inaccurate for losing weight but it was only a piece of the whole story. Like all diets, it worked for the short term.
My journey was to do what I always do, ask questions first. My conclusion, after writing a column on healthy low card dieting was - if you have to lose weight, pick a diet you can live with or you will not only get bored and revert back to your old way of eating, you will gain all the lost weight, then some and probably impact your overall health.
Eating 'healthy' requires moderation, eating high value carbs, which mean fruit and vegetables, and the protein source that has served humankind for millennia - meat.
As for paying any attention to the scientism du jour, I do what I did when they declared coconut was bad - I ate it anyway reasoning that coconut has been a staple for Hawaiians forever. Common sense is a valuable tool for navigating this life. Too bad it has been kicked aside.
My late father-in-law, the preeminent cardiologist in the Philippines before legally immigrating to the U.S. in the early 1960s, where he taught cardio-electrophysiology at Seton Hall University College of Medicine, told me decades ago that the lecithin in egg whites, balances out the cholesterol in egg yolks. I never looked back & enjoy eating eggs whenever I please. A wise & highly intelligent physician & scientist, he is also listed in the Who's Who of medicine for his work on the effects of vitamin B1 on the heart & trained with Carl Wiggins at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. Further, cholesterol is not the bad guy that it is made out to be. It is vitally important for many bodily functions, especially our nerves. The brain has a significant amount of cholesterol & would not be able to function properly without it. Like most everything else that emanates from our federal health agencies, their recommendations on nearly everything needs to be questioned.
Bravo bravo Robert. Thank you for the take back to my childhood of “Wheatie” sugary cereal experience. Jacked up and couldn’t sit in class. Then the drs wanted to give me Ridellan to help me obey, when all I needed was to get my a$$ outside and dig my hands into the dirt and enjoy Creation beauty, playing with a stick! Yes, grounding outside and foods that Creator Divine has graciously given us to smack down with gusto is truth for us to embrace; humbly. Blessings on you and your family as you journey on! Peace be with us.
My family was a farming and ranching family with a steady diet of meat and eggs (a lot of both) and all have lived into their upper 90's. The more I've listened to people like you, the healthier I've become!
Oct 14, 2023·edited Oct 14, 2023Liked by Robert W Malone MD, MS
I've read a few articles on Yahoo that say that eggs are good for people, especially seniors (!) and that statins are useless for stopping heart attacks. And several years ago I read about a study that showed that people whose LDL was under 160 suffered from depression. And then very recently I read another article that said that dementia increased with too much good (HDL) cholesterol, again on Yahoo.
The reason I'm mentioning Yahoo as my source is because if these studies that question old medical dogma are appearing there, then the dogma is actually changing.
The truth is to have a varied diet that suits your health. If a lot of meat does it, then go for it. If a plant-based diet does it, go for it. If a fish/vegetarian diet does it go for it.
Just stay from processed foods, because there have been studies since the 1990's that consistently show that chemical additives can cause cancer. And, as I've written before, there's solid medical evidence that chemicals can cause ADHD, the autism spectrum, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. (Sources: "Why Your Child Is Hyperactive,' by Dr. Ben F. Feingold and "The Future of the Mind," by Michio Kaku)
Thank you, Dr. Malone, for you necessary dose of common sense.
The whole push to eliminate meat, dairy and egg consumption is CONTROL.
The U S Government destroyed the Bison to eliminate their source of food.
The biggest lie is that Cattle cause methane. Rotting ungrazed grass will cause methane ANYWAY without being utilized. If it catches fire it increases carbon.
If not allowed to grow at all by being paved over it can't produce oxygen for all to breathe. There is enough pavement in the USA to cover an area 1/2 the State of Colorado. This doesn't include what is an unpaved roed.
Highways and RR Tracks fence off a huge amount of right of way with ungrazed grass that often catches fire and burns thousands of adjacent acres.
Nature is a genius in how grass and trees provide oxygen, get consumed and turned into meat without really increasing the methane or carbon.
Native Americans knew to consume not just the muscle meat, but also the organ meat and suet. They taught the Mountain Men to do this to prevent scurvy.
People without meat won't live as long and will be easier to control. If we die younger, think how much elderly income and housing they will save.
Look how much money a nursing home charges and many of not most of these places are rampant in elderly abuse.
A 93 year old friend of ours was having to pay $10,000 a month OUT OF POCKET to stay in a Nursing home and he wasn't even bed ridden. He had to take a MANDATORY COVID vaccination to live there and his wife living at home and healthy couldn't visit him until she took a mandatory COVID vaccination. We couldn't go see him cause we wouldn't take the death jab. He passed away so is in a better place.
The government has money for war and killing but a Boot in the butt for the former taxpayer.
I wish the Malones health with their new diet. For those interested, on my pathetic substack I did a quick look at PubMed, inquiring as to the value, if any, of a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle. TL;DR: it looks like going vegan/vegetarian might extend one's life expectancy by 5% or so. I don't claim any expertise in statistics, but based on other reading I've done, that might amount to a few months, or perhaps even just a few weeks, of added life. I'll take the juicy stake and the bacon cheeseburger instead, thank you very much.
Several years ago I was having some health issues and it was suggested I do the Med diet and, better yet, the Blue Zone diet. I got a book, did some research... and then the guy from Nat Geo who coined "blue zones" interviewed my grandmother (who lived to almost 107 and by herself until 8 mos before her death). When she told him she felt the reason for her longevity was chocolate and filet mignon, he abruptly ended the interview and never used her info. We also had lived in Nicaragua very near Costa Rica, and I knew for a fact that they ate a lot of animal proteins and eggs. Doing more research, I found that the whole Blue Zone thing was a business, and has been sold to the Seventh Day Adventists (vegetarians). I read Dr. Catherine Shanahan's book Deep Nutrition and it totally changed how we eat, and I feel SO much better than I used to.
I took the same road after 25 years of a vegetarian diet, and am so much healthier for it. One important point that I did not see in your post (I may have missed it!) is that consumption of meat from grass-fed cows is essential. Same goes for free-range chickens. Industrialized meat and egg production is unhealthy for humans and the environment. Meat and eggs from local happy cows and chickens keeps me happy and healthy. Enjoy your workshop today. Joe Saladin is terrific.
Good message. I am 60, and eat 6 soft boiled eggs for breakfast daily. These are fresh, organic eggs from our chickens. I have no heart disease, diabetes or blood pressure issues. In college I ate 10-12 eggs daily -- I never credited their egg lies. I also eat grass fed rather than grain fed meats, and I exercise (11 cows and 50 sheep keep me regular in my routine). They also lied about carbs and cornflakes....
Say hello to Joel for me: we are friends as well as allies. Joel is a true warrior and hero, trying to rescue people from the lies of industrial profiteers.
And while we are on the topic of much maligned foods, here's to nuts.
Conclusions: "Higher nut intake is associated with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer and all-cause mortality, and mortality from respiratory disease, diabetes, and infections."
Article:"Nut consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease, total cancer, all-cause and cause- specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies"
Citation: Aune et al. BMC Medicine (2016) 14:207 DOI 10.1186/s12916-016-0730-3
I emailed the author and innocently asked if roasting had any impact. Nope. Eat away, every day.
Swiss men live the longest worldwide. Why are we not included in the blue zones? Maybe because we do not eat the official 'longevity diet'?I do not know of any older vegeterian Swiss. Most of us love eating meat, cheese and drinking regularily wine to our dinners and our annual chocolate consumption is with 10 Kilogramm per person worldwide the highest..
Some months ago, you mentioned in one of your articles that you suffered an attack of gout. I am 57, and until May of 2022, thought I had escaped the same gout affliction that had affected my dad and uncle for decades. I was slammed for an uncharacteristic 7 weeks with my first attack, or at least the first that I recognized as such. It was the worst time of my life. My bloodwork showed out-of-range values, and for a while I thought I was dying. After many doctor visits spread over multiple specialties, I still have no explanations for the out-of-range values.
After suffering from the attack for 7 weeks, I finally gave up my resistance to medical dependency, and went on allopurinol. At the time I read multiple resources that advised NOT to go on that medication while an attack was still active. Luckily for me, a podiatrist was willing to prescribe it, and it worked almost immediately. I have resumed a mostly normal condition of health, at least as far as age and the psychological torments of current circumstances will allow.
No one had to persuade me to go off red meat, because I had absolutely no interest in indulging in any foods that might trigger another attack. I counted eggs as lifesavers, discovering that they were very low in purines, and along with dairy these were the only protein sources that I trusted for a while. I have gradually resumed poultry consumption, but still mostly avoid beef and pork.
From Wikipedia I read that allopurinol was approved for use in 1966, the year of my birth, and is on the WHO list of essential medicines. Imagine that: a medicine that works, a medicine that's cheap, a medicine developed by pharma companies that back then wanted to ease human suffering.
I count the whole COVID phenomenon as either the greatest crime or greatest set of crimes in human history. I understand that will sound hyperbolic to many, but I stand by that assertion and it is aging well. It prompts me to reevaluate every bit of information, dietary, medical, historical, and otherwise, that I've ever been taught in my life. I hope I live long enough to see the current generation of lethal frauds exposed and the fraudsters brought to justice.
Yes!! We changed our diet to high animal protein, very low carb, very low sugar in 2020, best decision, health wise, ever. Please note that after eating like this for the past several years, if you eat just a little carbs and sugar it piles the weight back on very quickly, (We’re in our late 50s) so it has to be a permanent change. Intermittent fasting is definitely the key, we have found. We only eat two meals a day and both within 7-8 hours. Some people do it with only 6 hours between meals, which we’re found is too close. European doctors knew that sugar was the health hazard, not animal fats. Cholesterol is brain food!
Congratulations on your diet change and weight loss. The few vegetarians I have known over the years seemed to catch everything that went around and were sick so often! I believe in eating in moderation and also, enjoying what you eat! There seems to be an effort to remove so many of life’s pleasures from us humans! We are controlled in many different ways, our sustenance should not be one of them!
Steak and eggs for breakfast has always made for an amazing start to the day.
I hope your words find good landings, Dr. malone. I tried for 20 years to convince people that there is a genuine, ancient, healthy way to eat and it requires eliminating processed food, most processed sugar, eating more fruits and vegetables and, yes, meat. People always take things to extreme though. When the Atkins diet came out the '30 carb daily limit' was not inaccurate for losing weight but it was only a piece of the whole story. Like all diets, it worked for the short term.
My journey was to do what I always do, ask questions first. My conclusion, after writing a column on healthy low card dieting was - if you have to lose weight, pick a diet you can live with or you will not only get bored and revert back to your old way of eating, you will gain all the lost weight, then some and probably impact your overall health.
Eating 'healthy' requires moderation, eating high value carbs, which mean fruit and vegetables, and the protein source that has served humankind for millennia - meat.
As for paying any attention to the scientism du jour, I do what I did when they declared coconut was bad - I ate it anyway reasoning that coconut has been a staple for Hawaiians forever. Common sense is a valuable tool for navigating this life. Too bad it has been kicked aside.
My late father-in-law, the preeminent cardiologist in the Philippines before legally immigrating to the U.S. in the early 1960s, where he taught cardio-electrophysiology at Seton Hall University College of Medicine, told me decades ago that the lecithin in egg whites, balances out the cholesterol in egg yolks. I never looked back & enjoy eating eggs whenever I please. A wise & highly intelligent physician & scientist, he is also listed in the Who's Who of medicine for his work on the effects of vitamin B1 on the heart & trained with Carl Wiggins at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, Ohio. Further, cholesterol is not the bad guy that it is made out to be. It is vitally important for many bodily functions, especially our nerves. The brain has a significant amount of cholesterol & would not be able to function properly without it. Like most everything else that emanates from our federal health agencies, their recommendations on nearly everything needs to be questioned.
Bravo bravo Robert. Thank you for the take back to my childhood of “Wheatie” sugary cereal experience. Jacked up and couldn’t sit in class. Then the drs wanted to give me Ridellan to help me obey, when all I needed was to get my a$$ outside and dig my hands into the dirt and enjoy Creation beauty, playing with a stick! Yes, grounding outside and foods that Creator Divine has graciously given us to smack down with gusto is truth for us to embrace; humbly. Blessings on you and your family as you journey on! Peace be with us.
My family was a farming and ranching family with a steady diet of meat and eggs (a lot of both) and all have lived into their upper 90's. The more I've listened to people like you, the healthier I've become!
I've read a few articles on Yahoo that say that eggs are good for people, especially seniors (!) and that statins are useless for stopping heart attacks. And several years ago I read about a study that showed that people whose LDL was under 160 suffered from depression. And then very recently I read another article that said that dementia increased with too much good (HDL) cholesterol, again on Yahoo.
The reason I'm mentioning Yahoo as my source is because if these studies that question old medical dogma are appearing there, then the dogma is actually changing.
The truth is to have a varied diet that suits your health. If a lot of meat does it, then go for it. If a plant-based diet does it, go for it. If a fish/vegetarian diet does it go for it.
Just stay from processed foods, because there have been studies since the 1990's that consistently show that chemical additives can cause cancer. And, as I've written before, there's solid medical evidence that chemicals can cause ADHD, the autism spectrum, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia. (Sources: "Why Your Child Is Hyperactive,' by Dr. Ben F. Feingold and "The Future of the Mind," by Michio Kaku)
Thank you, Dr. Malone, for you necessary dose of common sense.
The whole push to eliminate meat, dairy and egg consumption is CONTROL.
The U S Government destroyed the Bison to eliminate their source of food.
The biggest lie is that Cattle cause methane. Rotting ungrazed grass will cause methane ANYWAY without being utilized. If it catches fire it increases carbon.
If not allowed to grow at all by being paved over it can't produce oxygen for all to breathe. There is enough pavement in the USA to cover an area 1/2 the State of Colorado. This doesn't include what is an unpaved roed.
Highways and RR Tracks fence off a huge amount of right of way with ungrazed grass that often catches fire and burns thousands of adjacent acres.
Nature is a genius in how grass and trees provide oxygen, get consumed and turned into meat without really increasing the methane or carbon.
Native Americans knew to consume not just the muscle meat, but also the organ meat and suet. They taught the Mountain Men to do this to prevent scurvy.
People without meat won't live as long and will be easier to control. If we die younger, think how much elderly income and housing they will save.
Look how much money a nursing home charges and many of not most of these places are rampant in elderly abuse.
A 93 year old friend of ours was having to pay $10,000 a month OUT OF POCKET to stay in a Nursing home and he wasn't even bed ridden. He had to take a MANDATORY COVID vaccination to live there and his wife living at home and healthy couldn't visit him until she took a mandatory COVID vaccination. We couldn't go see him cause we wouldn't take the death jab. He passed away so is in a better place.
The government has money for war and killing but a Boot in the butt for the former taxpayer.
I wish the Malones health with their new diet. For those interested, on my pathetic substack I did a quick look at PubMed, inquiring as to the value, if any, of a vegetarian/vegan lifestyle. TL;DR: it looks like going vegan/vegetarian might extend one's life expectancy by 5% or so. I don't claim any expertise in statistics, but based on other reading I've done, that might amount to a few months, or perhaps even just a few weeks, of added life. I'll take the juicy stake and the bacon cheeseburger instead, thank you very much.
https://satansdoorknob.substack.com/p/vegging-out-does-a-vegan-or-vegetarian