DR. MICHAEL GREGER MEAT DIET vs VEGAN DIET: Is It Better To Eat Meat Or Be Vegan? | London Real
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On a vegan diet, you can eat foods made from plants, including: Fruits and vegetables Legumes such as peas, beans, and lentils Nuts and seeds Breads, rice, and pasta Dairy alternatives such as soymilk, coconut milk, and almond milk Vegetable oils.Here’s what several key studies have to say about veganism: A meta-analysis of over 90 studies found significantly lower levels of body mass index, total cholesterol, In one study, 99 participants with Type 2 diabetes followed either a vegan diet or a diet based on American Diabetes Over 50.A vegan (say “VEE-gun” or “VAY-gun”) diet is a total vegetarian diet. Besides not eating meat, vegans don’t eat food that comes from animals in any way.
That includes milk products, eggs, honey, and gelatin (which comes from bones and other animal tissue). There are many reasons why some people choose a vegan die.Vegan diets present more problems of micronutrient adequacy than do other vegetarian diets across the life cycle and particularly in infants and children because more food groups are eliminated, sources of vitamins B 12, D and bioavailable iron, calcium, and zinc may be lacking, the caloric density of the diet is lower, but bulk is higher and weaning is often very late. Vegan diets may also be low in calcium, iro.
The tips below will help you to get the most out of your vegan lifestyle: Make sure that your diet contains a variety of fruit and vegetables – eat a rainbow! Choose higher fibre starchy foods, such as oats, sweet potato, wholemeal bread, wholewheat pasta and brown rice Include good sources of.Summary: Can be very low, Substitutes can skyrocket the cost.
Maintenance / Transition to a Vegan Diet. How difficult is the diet to maintain? From my experience, learning to be satisfied with your meals is the key to maintaining a long-term vegan diet.A raw vegan diet includes healthy fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds and sprouted grains and legumes — which may lower diabetes and heart disease risk and.
Iron:People following a vegan diet can get enough iron through plant foods like legumes, tofu, nuts and seeds, wholegrains (especially amaranth and quinoa), dried fruits and dark green leafy vegetables. However, the type of iron in plant foods (non-haem iron) is not as easily absorbed as that in animal foods (haem iron).Veganism is a type of diet that exclude the consumption of all animal-based products including meat, fish, poultry, dairy, and eggs.
A vegan is a person who follows this diet. This strict form of vegetarianism inhibits the consumption of products processed using animal.A healthy and varied vegan diet includes fruits, vegetables, plenty of leafy greens, whole grain products, nuts, seeds, and legumes.A vegan (say “VEE-gun” or “VAY-gun”) diet is a total vegetarian diet.
Besides not eating meat, vegans don’t eat food that comes from animals in any way. That includes milk products, eggs, honey, and gelatin (which comes from bones and other animal tissue). There are many reasons why some people choose a.People who eat everything, sometimes called omnivores, are often shocked when they see the long list of food products that vegans cannot have.
It includes many all-time favorites like pizza, because of the cheese, every known type of meat and seafood, tons of delicious dairy-based desserts and much more.The simplest definition of vegetarianism is a diet free of meat, fish, and fowl flesh. But eating habits of vegetarians cover a wide spectrum. At one end are lacto-ovo vegetarians, who avoid animal.A vegan (say “VEE-gun” or “VAY-gun”) diet is a total vegetarian diet.
Besides not eating meat, vegans don’t eat food that comes from animals in any way. That includes milk products, eggs, honey, and gelatin (which comes from bones and other animal tissue). There are many reasons why some people choose a.The vegan diet can also be called “strict” vegetarianism, in that it excludes not only meat and fish but also eggs, honey and milk products.
Many practitioners of the vegan diet additionally avoid the use of animal products in other forms, such as clothing (wool, leather, silk), jewelry (pearls) and cosmetics (lanolin).
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I do think you should check out the study and view what foods they tell you to eat and which foods to avoid. I’m not really surprised that you lose weight on this diet, you’re not really eating much of anything. They also tell you to avoid caffeine, sugar, and alcohol, which definitely could have a big impact on the study, but not really something that gets talked about. Additionally I don’t think this diet would be very suitable for people who are very active. Protein is already difficult to get on a vegan diet, and limiting tofu and tempeh and nuts and seeds doesn’t make it any better. Granted I’m not a nutritional expert, just my two cents.
The documentary showed scientific facts. That’s why it was not opened to debate. Let’s debate science like math. 2 + 2 = 4. Now, they show in a documentary that 2 + 2 = 4 but they should show other points of views on this. It should be debated and not just accepted because leading mathematicians say 2 + 2 = 4. The Game Changers has 40+ years of scientific study behind it.
Listen to what the experts in the documentary say. Or will you listen to a podcaster debating the issue.
Lacks sufficient evidence? Maybe I need to look into TED to see who sponsors.
Any particular reason why I’m not allowed to add subtitles to this videos, @TEDx Talks? Not everyone speaks English. Please help us show these informative videos to our non-English speaking relatives by allowing us to add subtitles.
The meat our ancestors ate is RADICALLY different from what we eat now…..the animals had to be hunted and it was a work in process. There was no going to a pen and just picking it up. There was much much less saturated fats in the meat our ancestors ate as well…..if you want to eat meat find a hunter. The meat will be much closer to what they really ate
Vegan cult propaganda. Bloating, gases all day, toilet visiting 20 times a day, bone and teeth deterioration, anxiety, feminine look for men and weakness, not able to handle stress, digestive problems, destroyed digestive systems, pale skin, anemia, preparing food and eating all day long like a full day job and calculations in chronometer fake measures, leaky gut, IBS, eczema, mental illness, lost of memory. That is all about veganism. Is there anyone really who listen anymore that ridiculous voice of a vegan puppets.
I’ve just read How Not to Die. Wish I’d read it 10 years ago.
He should have worked in announcing fights, not in medical science. His voice and intonations both annoy me yet i keep going back to it.
Most Buddhist monks eat meat. There’s no restriction to it in Buddhism.
Legend goes that vegans made a statue of this man to worship. But it broke because it was to thin.
He looks like death…. If he’s an example of what the diet can do, I want nothing to do with it.
Meat industry is like the cigarette company back in the day, funding bs research to confused the public but ultimately they will fall. Am I right?!
Love the points you made throughout. That quote about debate and conversation is one that I’ll try to keep in mind and spread. I definitely agree with you final conclusion that we should be eating less animal and refined products and more plant based nutrition. It was a conclusion I also came to on my own after all the videos I’ve watched from different fitness channels. It shows a reasonable amount of compromise, at least from what I understand. Thanks for bringing a not so black and white view, which quite frankly is very welcome, as I’ve seen too many views that are so intent on proving what is right and such, when the truth is that the world is much more than right, wrong, good, evil, and etc.
One month one the plant based diet, lost 5kg, toned up a lot, improved my 5k running time yesterday by 1 minute despite not training for 3 whole weeks and have clearer skin than ever… I’ve also noticed a change in taste buds, am eating waaaaay more vegetables and have a new found love for coconuts and mango… love the plant based diet
I’m so confused about nutrition. There are some who eat carnivore diet that love it, recommend it to others who love it and feel great. Then there are the vegan/vegetarian crowd that say no meat at all. Dr Mike says limit your red meat, but then Dr Shawn Baker spent a year only eating steaks pretty much, and felt amazing.
Brian, I would encourage you to go vegetarian, you practice TM right…Maharishi Mahesh Yogi taught his students to be vegetarian. I have been strict vegetarian for 40+ years and I am 62 and learning handstands, working out, doing yoga and still feel like I am in my 20s or 30s. You will be better for it.
Grass fed meet, pastured eggs, butter and seafood are more important than eating your fruit and veg. A bite of plants is in fact a missed opportunity displacing you of valuable animal nutrition.
Omg how is mono-cropping and shipping food all over the world better for the environment than eating local animals? You have it backwards
Soy powders grains and legumes must be heavily processed before consumption. You say to eliminate processed foods, which is plant sources of protein like processed beans and soy. You contradict yourself.
Veganism is a rapid aging diet because it is wildly deficient.
This guy deserves a Medal.:) Thank you Dr Greger for all your work and passion and changing the lives of thousands of people. I owe you and other Doctors who dedicated their life (and documentaries too e.g Forks Over Knives, Game Changers, what The Health) who revolutionized my belief system of what “healthy eating” really is. If not for all of you, I would still be gorging on dairy and meat naively. In behalf of all the people you have helped and will help in the generations to come, THANK YOU and GOD BLESS YOU! <3
something I HATE about doctors is they give nutrition advice. Doctors get a maximum of ONE course on nutrition. Some only get a few hours. As a dietitian student, we are learning that people should be moving towards a plant-based lifestyle. Plant-based diets actually have fewer deficiencies in recent studies. This is because it’s actually easier to get many nutrients, and the body absorbs them better. Heme iron (iron from meat) is carcinogenic. Milk leeches calcium from bones, increasing osteoporosis risk. The only exception for vegans is b12, which they’ll need to supplement for. So in fact, most omnivores are likely deficient in something and need to plan well. I’m just sad that people watch these videos and believe everything. Now I’m not saying you can’t have a bit of meat as a treat, but it is unhealthy. I do believe a vegan diet should be held as the gold standard and people should try to get as close to it as possible.
Watched the full video. Greger is a compulsive liar! Uses enough real science to sound legitimate only to then trow in his utter nonsense! He obviously knows he is doing this! PETA etc before human health. He is a LIAR, any biochemist or biologist will know this! It is sickening! Sugar is the demon, not fat! LOL my dick has too much fat in it???? What next Greger? I thought the eggs is like smoking 5 cigarettes was low, but you seem to keep digging that bar underground! What a lunatic! Barnard’s studies failed! Tell the truth! The game changer a movie of have beens and ex vegans, anyone mention that? Yes a number of their stars have since quit veganism! SHAME!
Thank you for posting this! As always, you made such a great video.
Please review “What the Health” on Netflix. I’m very curious about what you think about their reasoning. I recently went Vegan, health and animal cruelty reasons, and so far I’ll really loving it. It really makes you think about what is going into your body.
Just that thumbnail of greger alone is enough to keep me eating bacon and eggs, steak, fish and dairy. ����
I certainly don’t agree with TED’s disclaimer. This doctor’s presentation has TONS of research to back him up. And when was he in Bismarck??? Dang I could have gone!!!
Almost 2020 and some of y’all still eating dead animals lmao ������
I’m stunned by the sheer amount of scientific expertise in the comment section absolutely DESTROYING Dr. Greger with such intellectual classics as “mEaT nO gOoD?! dR. dOeSnt kNoW whAT hE tAlKiNg aBoUT!!”
ATTENTION DAIRY CONSUMERS
all milk you consume contains pus, blood, faeces and disgusting bacteria. enjoy your pus chocolate ����
I wish every vegan was like him by not judging those who eat meat
I went vegan partially from a rich oil-based meat and sugar diet (MS Diet), on the MS diet I gained weight to 94 kgat 5 ft 7 inchesthat’s way overweight. An angiogram convinced me and I switched to vegan oil free dietwith very occasional chicken and egg whites (that’s why partially vegan) WIth slight calorie restriction good exercise lost close to 22 kgs or 50 poundsgaining muscle when switching to protein-rich grains flour-like gram flour and lentil soups and kidney beans. I say combine healthy strength trainingI turned 53 this April, apart from long-distance bicycling indulged in no exercise. But gaining upper arm strength and slight reduction in belly fat. hoping to reduce it to near zero by just lifestyle change. Nice videos by the waysorry for the long message but I hope it helps some of your viewers.. Eat balanced low animal products and exercise regularly and maintain occasional only calorie restriction. That sums it for me. Oh by the way regrew hair on my calves which was gone for several years. Have a nice one and stay safe.
Simply put if you’re shitting a lot like multiple times a day (vegans) you’re not healthy. You shouldn’t be spiking your insulin constantly. Animal products are nutritious and satiating and cause lower insulin spikes, don’t eat processed meat get grass fed
La gran mayoría de estos argumentos son excesivamente especistas. Ponen la salud del humano como si debiera ser “perfecta”, mientras un animal es torturado en un matadero sin ningún tipo de privilegio. Entiendo que la salud es sana, no hay nada de malo con eso, pero podríamos poner las cosas en una balanza también no?
At 61 I now run upto Half marathons ( 1:55:30) 600 miles + for the last 2 years( I never run from school until 54) over 12 Months Keto and now carnivore, I always run fasted ( OMAD and never eat carbs. I have lost a load of weight, Fat and not muscle. Never felt better and I am running PB’s
I rarely eat and vegetables and never ever starchy vegetables or grains. I have cured a life times IBS, Hay fever and insulin resistance. i will never ever go Vegan (or vegetarian) I don’t wont to look like Dr G
This demand for more and better beef, pork, chicken and other meats has meant that more and more animals are fed grain in tighter and tighter quarters. Half of the pork produced in the U.S. are raised in enclosed, pre-fabricated, confinement buildings. The animals may never see the sun until they’re loaded onto semi-trailer trucks for transport to the nearby slaughterhouse.
In case it’s not clear what’s going on yet; this is a seriously deteriorated creature who is (by G-a te’s funding) pushing the Vegan agenda to the already starved population. What strikes me is that it’s the most intelligent folk like our scientist who fall for this trap.
So although Dr. Dean Ornish PROVED that a whole food plant based diet reverses heart disease, in trials completed decades ago, apparently that doesn’t qualify for “sufficient scientific evidence” by TEDx standards.
Love this man, he speaks at seemingly random speeds and just chooses a random word to emphasise every now and then, must be all the broccoli.
How old do you think this guy is, let’s take a guess… 60? 70? Nope, was 46 years old here. Long term plant based diet makes you age faster
I just inherently do not trust a man who talks like this…doctor or no.
I’ve watched a bunch of Dr. Mike videos but this is the one that made me finally subscribe. I’ve massively reduced my sources of animal intake and replaced them with plant-based choices over the past year but I just cannot seem to give up a couple of things, namely cheese and eggs. When I’ve looked at vegan channels I’ve felt so bad that I’m not doing enough by being 100% animal-free, but Dr. Mike’s take makes me feel like the 90% changes I’ve made is acceptable. It makes me see that it doesn’t have to be black or white. ANY change towards a more plant-based diet it a positive change. Thank you so much Dr. Mike!
While this was a super well thought out, and honest about bias, response to the Game Changers. The criticisms were all good and valid. But! Veganism, whole food plant based, does so much more than provide individuals with health. If you aren’t a vegan promoting dietician, which is totally reasonable, you should definitely say more than just “avoid processed meat”…you should also be promoting research into cruelty free meat. While vegans will debate if killing animals is ethical ever. No one will argue that less torture isn’t definitely better. We all need to fight the corruption behind the animal product industries and you telling people they should eat meat, is fine, but you need to help promote cruelty free products!
His speaking style is so affected I can barely stand to listen to it, which is a shame cause I’m vegan and interested in this stuff.
That Note by Tedx is BS & obviously was pushed by their sponsors!!!
im vegan because i don’t see myself as superior and don’t feel entitled to take the life of another for the sake of my enjoyment when i have readily available alternatives that taste better and are better for my health, the environment and the welfare of animals
47 y.o. looks like a 70 y.o. go veganism! Put him face to face with Paul Saladino, see how he holds up.
The way he speaks reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld. Anyone else?
So many people in the comments butt hurt that the science doesn’t confirm their beliefs lol.
Any Doctor that argues that humans are carnivores in any way IS AN IDIOT!!
Sure, the human body can handle and adapt to an omnivore diet, but humans are not designed to eat meat in any way!!
The best athletes in the world are vegetarians.
Even the world record holding weight lifters.
And just think, Gorillas are herbivores and they’ve got some pretty strong and developed muscles!!!
“I actually went vegan before….for 30 days.” 0:58 lol You went plant based. As far as I can tell, you do not know what vegan means. Please watch Earthlings at http://www.NationEarth.com to learn about veganism. You can find it in the Ethics section at http://www.VeganVids.com.
Disclaimer don’t listen to this guy, plant based diet will kill you, here’s a 50% discount coupon and go to kfc and enjoy your life
You have to be careful with statistics. I believe there is a reason however, that my doctor has an intestinal cancer graphic on his wall.
if you’re a doctor and you’re not vegan, i don’t trust you to give me good advice, point blank.
the host is obviously feeling very guilty and one of his primary concerns is what other people think of *him*. bottom line it’s about him. you’re not vegan until you become a lot less self-centered and you start thinking about how you’re hurting others. then a side effect can be you can achieve your healthiest self and help heal the planet, as the UN notes in multiple reports and as per overall scientific consensus and basic logic if you think about it.
Non-veg food(meat,beef, chicken & many more) increases acidity in our stomach which simply leads to gastritis, peptic ulcer,nausea…also when animals are killed their stress, emotions, anger are transmitted in Human body if that animal in non veg form is eaten… eating meat can cause cancer also…there are many demerits behind eating nonveg foods..but no demerits of eating green leafy vegetables & a high fibre diet.
And also doctors consultant that we have to maintain our acid base balance which can be maintained properly by consuming green leafy vegetables…the most famous young & fitness freak virat kohli is a great example behind this..he doesn’t eat non veg but see how he maintained himself…
He is just 47 but my 76 years old grandfather looks like younger.
Look how healthy looking you can become if you eat vegan kibble for a long time!
Plant based is the way to go! I’ve been at it for over 7 years.
Then why have a majority of Vegans quit going vegan, because it was killing them? Why have most people gotten horribly sick in 3-5 years on a vegan diet and quit? Dr. Greger is a joke.
The reason you lose weight on a vegan diet is becasue you’re not only being malnourished, but having nutrients leached from your body, by anti-nutrients.
Once you stop losing weight, it’s because your body has finished consuming all of your energy stores. Next it begins eating muscle tissue, and eventually your organs, until the only thing left for your brain to eat is itself.
he keeps referncing the joe roagn podcast…. how can you listen to that podcast? it’s horrible, and not sometihing you should be building opinions around.
The point this documentary is able to prove was that well planed vegan diet is completely healthy & you can live on the vegan diet without any animal product. There are health concerns with meat but not yet conclusive to the point the we can say its completely unhealthy.
Now what is conclusive are the ethical and environment hazards of animal products. On that fact, we should all become vegan unless one has a solid & justifiable reason not to do so
can someone give me the article name or the doi of the study mentioned at 12:48? that’s insane! I’m quite shocked and would love to read the entirety of that study
We want Dr Greger @Joe Rogan’s podcast! Make it happen, Joe!
Vegan seven years, best choice I ever made. I’d probably be dead..
You can hear his BS as he looks for acceptance continually; right, right, right, right….over and over! This guy needs to talk over you and needs you to accept him as Boss! ridicules.
His manner is speech is so annoying to me, other than that good talk…
I am from Sardina. I go from Catania Sicily to Colorado. We have been plant based from my grandparents great grandparents. My family all live well over 100. I will not be having this conversation with most of you 50 yrs from now.
As long as ya take a vegan multi vitamin then u will be fine
TED is afraid of Youtube rejection and criticism therefore putting himself on the fence as not taking sides, although the scientific evidence speaks for itself. Not just being a Greger fan, I have tried and tested the Plant Based lifestyle like thousands of others and can only speak highly of the ONE AND ONLY remedy that can heal almost all the diseases in the world, of which the Keto and Palio (Atkins) diets can make no claim at all.
He looks like David henrie (wizards of waverly place) but better
give bart kay a call greger and get a discussion going that would be great thanks
Watch the full episode for free here: https://londonreal.tv/e/dr-michael-greger/
IT shouldn’t really matter about the health side of veganism because it’s not about health it’s about animal rights. You wouldn’t claim that there are environmental reasons when fighting for women’s rights or Indigenous rights because it takes away from the victims. There is no trait that defines what we do to animals, that we couldn’t justify doing to humans, so at the end of the day to be morally consistent not paying for animals to die is the moral baseline that everyone should have.
Yea listen to the bald dude with shitty teeth and a bird chest lol
Here a vegan opinion: good discussion of the documentary and it is certainly true that the documentary looked to much on the positive health sides of veganism and the bad sites of an omnivorous diet. However, your recommendation goes to an omnivorous diet solely from a health/feasibility standpoint. It is true that you have to plan a lot for a vegan diet but this holds only true for the beginning until you adapted to it. If you look at mortality rates, CVD risk, diabetes etc. an omnivorous diet is however not superior to a vegan diet. And you completely leave out the environment and the ethical standpoints which is a huge reason to choose a vegetarian/vegan diet considering climate change/ deforestation/ water consumption /animal cruelty etc. And I believe that if a specific diet does not give you health benefits you should choose socially responsible.
Greetings your penetrant vegan 😉
The issue with that debate was that neither Chris nor James are nutrition experts. Instead of Chris I would have loved them to have had a Ph.D. in nutrition or biochemistry. I am just a lowly biochemistry masters student but even with my limited education compared to an expert I could easily recognize both of these gentlemen were out of their depth.
If you have to use supplements to get the required micronutrients on a diet, that diet is probably not optimal.
kill kill kill, eat, lots of meat! with toxins! and pumped full of steroids, and other nasty things. never mind the ‘fear’ your eating, never mind the agenda to keep us eating “death” and blood, and going against our natural diet, as based on our teeth, digestive system, etc.
keep eating Hek293 Human embryonic kidney cells, which are classified as natural flavours now. Its all a personal choice as to what you eat, but you have a choice now. to cause more suffering or to relieve suffering. which one do you choose?
I don’t like the vegan diet. Personally, I think that health-wise it is comparable to many other diets. You can be extremely healthy on a Mediterranean or Asian diet. I will say that the “American” diet is pretty unhealthy. We focus a lot on red meat and fatty foods, and I think we should consume a wider variety and more vegetables. However, a wider variety of vegetables does not mean not eating meat. I don’t think people see massive benefits in the vegan diet because they are not eating meat, but because they are eating more veggies. Personally, I grew up on a Mediterranean diet (My family is from the south of France), and have great success. I also think the vegan diet isn’t great for the environment. Cows, goats, chickens, ducks, sheep, fish, frogs, rabbits, and whatever else you eat can all be raised on land with native wildlife. If you want to grow massive fields of high protein crops like soy or beans we have to cut forests and burn grasslands. Not to mention to support a large population of vegans we would have to monoculturally grow food (no crop rotations). This practice is proven to deplete the soil of nutrients, and I noticed that the video mentioned that all things come from plants, and the animals are just moving it to us. No, all things come from the soil. That is where the nutrients come from, and it is vital we take care of the soil. Also, even with crop rotations farmers still have to fertilize the soil, and they either use harsh chemicals or they fertilize organically and use a mixture of compost and animal excrement, and yes you could use just compost, but massive compost piles just take up more space. Plus, it takes a lot of care to keep a compost pile properly balanced. We also have to think of global warming, and I know a lot of people point to cows as a source of greenhouse gasses, but if what cows didn’t eat was left to decompose those same gases would be released into the air, and because we cut down forests to grow some beans the CO2 has nowhere to go but up.
Who takes advice from a peado looking soyboy doctor? You vegans need a reality check
“we haven’t seen the evidence for that” excuse me? there’s enough evidence and studies to show that going vegan cleans your arteries and your organs and muscles can thus be supplied with more blood and nutrients and more efficiently and directly.. that statement you made is just ludicrous.. As opposed to your playing the “meat devil’s advocate” for which we already billions dollars industries and lobbies and propaganda I’m still waiting for all the vegan diets to finally hit home. Look it up, just look how many vegans get diabetes for example! This absurdity of we have to eat meat is just crazy, not to mention that when you say eat meat it’s fine and by that you mean one portion once a week and some typical westerner then goes like, yey meat is great and eats meat 5-7 times a day (including here all animal products). Just look at our supermarkets and tell me in what human history did we ever have SO much animal product in offer? When I went vegan (long before it was fashionable) I found myself not being able to buy almost anything but the fresh vege and fruit produce, everything else had animal products in it! It’s absurd!
Eating animal products makes you a bad person, health benefits aside. I’m one of these bad people, I’m far too weak willed to change, totally happy to blame my parents for raising me wrong. But I’m not going to pretend animal agriculture is kinda fucked and unnecessary.
I really liked this video and how simple and clearly you present the benefits. I shared this on the Jewish Food Hero FB page.
Lectins, Phytates, Oxalates & Saponins are all anti nutrients,… ANTI nutrients which block the absorption of nutrients in food & these ANTI nutrients are all found in vegetables!
Pound for pound, meat is the most nutrition dense food on the planet:)
13:20 The reach of Industry does not stop at funding research. They host events for these governing agencies as well as financially support them. So, I don’t buy that because you haven’t seen a recommendation from one of the big health organizations saying “all meat is unhealthy” mean that meat is healthy (to any extent) for a population.
I take issue with one thing: No one is fat because they eat too much meat. Carbohydrates, refined and unrefined, are the reason for our obesity epidemic. Prove me wrong. Or ignore me. I don’t care.
Some foods are objectively some of the healthiest foods on the planet. Grassfed liver for example, has more nutrients gram for gram for gram than almost any other food.
After 5 years of veganism and suffering I am now 1 year animal based and I feel awesome. Thanks Greger.
Why would it be so good if it needs supplements?
Shouldn’t the best diet need no supplements?
Supplements mean it lacks in something. Something that could have been taken from other sources, without pills…
Surprised at the warning in the description. Having tried both vegan, and keto, at different points, I’d say it definitely smacks of bias, as both have supporting evidence, both have good and bad studies, and both have fans that subscribe to their chosen path with an almost religious fervor. I find myself watching fewer and fewer TED Talks as the years go by, and that warning, unless also applied to other new/”fad” diet talks, only serves to reinforce the impression (to me) that TED Talks have declined in quality and credibility.
10:37 protein deficiency is not heard of in developed countries. There’s not even a medical term for it. It only has found to come with general undereating. Have never heard of a vegan with protein deficiency when they ate enough.
This guy’s speech pattern and movements remind me of my middle school geometry teacher, Mr. Potratz.
Did you hear kresser’s response after the debate? How wilks’s references were all BS?
I think to go vegan or vegetarian the place where u live also should have the infrastructure for that. I mean if majority everything is nonveg and only few options that too expensive it will really be hard. In country like india(my country) u never have problem going vegitarian coz u have more options in veg food like in thousands ( not kidding)
OMG the way this guy talks is sooooooo annoying! Why the constant octave change in his voice?! Incredibly annoying. Good info but could barely get through it.
Cleaning up one’s diet doesn’t only come from a lense of being obese, Dr Mike. I know you know this, do better.
Is a vegan diet always healthier than a non-vegan diet? No, you could eat mostly vegan junk food. Is eating plants mostly healthy and eating animal products unhealthy? Yes, look at the studies. Is eating animal products unnecessary for human health and therefore cruel and unethical? Yes. Please go vegan. Thank you from the animals. �� Also, veganism is not about food only.
Excellent. I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr Greger also at vegmed.
Throughout history peasants, cults, starving refugee camps all only eat veggies and fruits and don’t understand there vegans and are healthier than meat eaters
This comment section looks like something out of the daily caller or breitbart. These people don’t know how to argue logically and in good faith. Yes. Dr Greger is thin. He is a researcher not a weight lifter. He doesn’t spend his time lifting weights in the air and putting them back down. He spends his days doing research and writing. Weight lifter Kendrick Farris is also vegan so OBVIOUSLY the fact that a vegan researcher is thin isn’t evidence of anything.
The fact that Dr. Greger doesn’t have movie star looks is also irrelevant. Not everyone does. Lots of non-beautiful people who eat all kinds of foods including whatever foods you eat. Also, lots of beautiful people eating vegan so STFU.
Healthy fats like olive oil… Trans fats and about 17% saturates… Almost no micro nutrients… And oils go rancid very fast if not stored thoughtfully.
11:41 I don’t think it’s a personal choice since it has a victim. Of course, in terms of health concerns, a steak now and then won’t kill you or harm your health seriously. But it will kill an animal. And “vegan” diet is about ethics, not health, plant-based diet would be the correct term to use in the context.
I dont know this gregor doctor but he looks like a magnificent interesting character.
It seems obvious that a plant-based diet is great for losing weight and helping cholesterol, but what if your problem is diabetes instead of obesity? Is the plant-based diet too carb heavy for the weight loss to benefit you? Basically should you switch to a plant-based diet if you are overweight and have diabetes
First question wasn’t really that complicated. And that’s not what the person asked. He wasn’t asking if we should start eating grass. The question was do Animals produce their own protein or all the protein they get is from the grass or plants they eat?
one will never doze off during his talk，due to his high and low tone
Greger sounds more like a scam artist salesman than a scientist/doctor in this talk he doesn’t go deep at all into any science he simply repeats mantras and catch phrases. What a buffoon, can understand how people take him seriously
As per ayurveda, root cause of every disease is in stomach And basically if a human eats flesh it doesn’t get digested but it get rots as our digestive system is not capable of digesting meat.( Don’t agree, try eating raw meat.)
To all meat eatersif u don’t care of innocent animals atleast care for your own health and become vegetarian/vegan.
We don’t have any right to kill innocent animals for their flesh, let them live their lives.
Kangaroo tastes nothing like venison ffs.
Also, before refrigeration what do you think we kept meat and other things to store, that’s right, salt. So how is it, just like meat, all of a sudden bad for you.
It’s like these people are caught up in a time warp on science.
Tf wrong with carnists saying Greger looks older? His face is absolutely wrinkle-free!
Since their are a bunch of vegans on this video can someone help? I went vegan and I feel amazing and I’m gaining so much weight ( finally because I need it), but I started to have acne breakouts all over my face? Is that normal. Or am I doing something wrong.
Man, you made some pretty garbage points. First, it was odd how you brought up supplementation multiple times especially in the context of amino acids. You absolutely don’t need to supplement amino acids on a vegan diet, and even the B12 issue is questionable. How about being specific since you’re literally a doctor and supposed to be well-versed in this stuff?
Second, you also brought up reduction in animal products a lot, but absolutely no specifics. I get that nutrition is very personal and depends on countless factors, but your whole bent just sounds like you’re trying to justify whatever level of meat you feel like eating for taste preferences. You made a point that just stating facts is not enough and you have to take into account what the audience takes in so follow that advice yourself! “Get the majority of your calories from plants” doesn’t mean anything in practice to literally anyone. And while we’re at it… no mention of grains or legumes literally at all?? How much fruit are you eating to get your “majority of calories from plants”??
Finally, super nit picky, but humans are animals, too. Words matter when you’re a doctor giving medical advice to laypeople.
Arable farming = climate change. We have been destroying our eco system for 10,000 years! What are you planning on eating in 60 years time when all the arable land has turned to desert? Every year arable food production emits millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere. Every year the land gets dryer & dryer & climate change gets worse. How are you going to put carbon and water back into the soil? It can be done btw its called Regenerative Agriculture!
Sounds like we should reduce refined carbs and processed foods, but based on everything he says in this vid I’m not sure how he gets to we should eat less whole food animal products…? Obviously a lot of us could stand to increase our fruit/veggie intake. He is very vague here about the amount of healthy, whole foods animal products that is “okay”. We should “all” eat less, doesn’t make sense. The metric of how much we are eating right now is different for all of us, and comprised of different amounts of processed vs whole… Like if someone is eating a ton of fruit and veg, but also eats either fish or chicken breast or eggs daily, do they also need to lower their intake of animal protein? Why?
Kinda seems like Dr. Mike knows how controversial this topic is and wants to remain vague. Because it doesn’t make sense to say both “there is no scientific consensus that we should remove animal products entirely” and “vegan diets require more careful planning to prevent nutrient deficiencies and damage” and then sum it up with a blanket statement of “reduce animal product consumption”. Reduce it how much? If that is the take away it would be really easy to run with that and say the less animal product you eat the better, and I don’t think that is necessarily true, especially if animal products are providing some easier way to get nutrients that need to be more carefully planned for or supplemented in a vegan diet as he admits. Less and less as a general statement then implies less of some nutrients that are more bioavailable to us in the forms present in meat/dairy/eggs/fish. That’s also not to say that more and more meat is increasingly good. There are nutrients and anti-nutrients present in plants and animals. They work best when they are consumed together to counteract and balance each other in my opinion.
Short and to the point about the benefits. I dropped 30 pounds in four months without a focus on weight loss. That was a byproduct of eating whole food, plant based protocol.
yeah, i’m not taking diet advice from someone who looks that unwell.
So thankful you talked about this, I agreed with many of your points. I’ve been a vegan for three years now, and even my family has been really open to plant-based meals. I have a doctor who says exactly what you said. I was worried she would go against my decision, but she actually encouraged me and we went over how to do it correctly.
I have been a vegetarian for 14 years and vegan for a little bit more than 1 year. And i have honestly seen a major improvement in my health! My immune system is so much better! I was always sick before, my immune system really wasn’t great. But since I went vegan more than a year ago I have not been sick at all! Not once! Only got a cold 1 time, but got rid of it in 1 week. Before it would take 2 3 weeks before I got better from a cold. So amazing! I feel a lot better and have become a lot healthier, very happy. Started eating healthier as well. I’m never going back. ����
Love this video, Dr. Mike! Hope you could collaborate with a Clinical Dietitian on your next videos.
It’s the exact opposite. Animal-based foods are unquestionably more nutrient-dense and the nutrients are more bio-available for humans. Anytime you are eating a plant, you are displacing better nutrition you can be getting from animal-based foods. Just search on youtube for ex-vegan to carnivore vs the reverse if you’re skeptical. People feel good initially if going from a processed SAD diet to veganism, but 4-5 years in and you can see the rapid deterioration that happens when people try to stay vegan. Most people going from vegan to carnivore or even keto or low carb to carnivore are seeing great benefits, because they’re no longer displacing animal foods with plant foods.
Agent Smith from The Matrix has nothing on this guy’s intonation.
He looks worse and worse each time I see him he should start eating some meat!
“Will I have more energy as a vegan?”. The answer to that question is definitely no. Source: ex vegan of 6.5y:)
excellent video and info. love his delivery too hehe. what im left curious about is if (ethics aside) the optimal diet would/could consist of whole foods, mostly plants, with occasional consumption of the highest quality animal products, such as fish and eggs perhaps. thinking out loud, but it would stand to reason, by Dr. Greger’s own wording, that since 90% of our evolutionary past consists of mostly plants, that the optimal diet would/could likewise be mostly plants. some more food for thought i suppose:)
I only came here to see if this man could man could respond my wonder…but I haven’t accomplished yet. Is it possible to maintain a proper wellness by erasing all products from animals or not?
Title says it all ‘ a real doctor’ let me add this… a real doctor (as in MD I presume because a lawyer also has a doctorate degree!) is someone who had little training in nutrition. So, that vid is only his personal opinion, period! NO better than anyone else.
I helped my father reduce his high cholesterol with a vegan diet and also cured my acid reflux issue.
10.35. “…develop vitamin and mineral deficiencies most notable vitamin d and calcium…” Everyone is vitamin d deficient because we don’t get out in the sun because the medical profession tells us that if we let 2 rays of uvb hit our face we will immediately develop melanoma. Egg yolk, salmon and fortified milk (we don’t get fortified milk in the uk) are all poor sources of vitamin d. You need to either supplement or use sensible sun or tanning bed exposure whether you are vegan or not. No-one who has a sufficiency of vitamin d dies from Covid-19. In fact there is good evidence that if you have sufficient vitamin d you won’t get infected in the first place. The idea that you will develop calcium deficiency if you don’t drink milk is typical medical dogma. We have too much calcium from milk products and too much sodium from salt. We need far more potassium and far more magnesium in our diet. There is plenty of calcium in green leafy vegetables and it’s in a good balance with the magnesium also in green leafy vegetables. (I am not a vegan).
Whats going on with dr gregers hands??? It looks like a theres no flesh whatsoever on them. His glasses have got about half an inch thicker and hes aged about 2 decades in the last few years. Why would anyone take advice from someone whos so clearly malnourished?
losing weight stops being healthy if you dont have the equal muscle ratio……….ergo Malnutrition
Well his eyesight is getting worse…
Maybe a mix of chiken hearts, livers and gizzards fried in bacon fat… With onions and mushrooms is in order
He’s like a bobble head. He can’t hold his own frame up. I feel sooo much better knocking all of the plants out.
https://youtu.be/k8hgfXmZSHE Maybe you should defer to actual specialist on the subject matter… BTW, it was not focused on vegan, but whole food plant based diet. Much different nutritional concept. Also, I made the switch because of this movie and not only healthier now, but in serious shape. I don’t think a family dr.’s opinion should take precedence of actual specialists. But way to piggy back on a popular show to further yourself. ���� #gamechanger #forksoverknives
Slaughterhouse workers suffer from PTSD! We have to get desperate people from other countries to come work in slaughterhouses. Gag laws so these workers won’t speak of the horrors they experience.
I don’t understand why this is an issue…..If your happy on a vegan diet, i’m happy for you! why can’t you be happy for me, on a meat, cheese and milk diet? Why is this a topic of discussion.. like I dont care and criticize others on their diet why do you have to have an opinion on mine???
beware of Paleo got me to high TC and BP, now I have to rectify and go to WFPB diet. I was never overweight.
Vegetarian going on vegan here: I agreed with everything Dr. Mike said. I haven’t watched the documentary yet but if indeed they based it mostly on what is healthy and what is not and basically proclaimed that any amount of animal products in someone’s diet cannot be a healthy choice that is incorrect at best.
I love your videos. Would love a video where you spoke to Dr. Michael Greger from nutritionfacts.org about nutrition and health.
veganism is already debunked no matter what new studies says against eating meat, its all lies
I think they wanted to point out that we don’t NEED animal products, and CAN go animal product free with no cost to health. And it also has a smaller environmental cost, and ethical cost. I eat meat and don’t eat the healthiest working on it, but I thought the documentary did a great job at debunking a lot of myths about going vegan.
Greger looks like he could use a steak. Looking frail, 10 years older than your actual age, is part of only eating plants lol
Why didn’t you discuss the way we industrialize meat?? That was a huge point in the whole documentary. The way we raise and feed our meat is not sustainable for us or the animals. Disappointed you didn’t make that a major point in this. If people eat meat, you need to inform them of what meat they are eating, and what those animals go through just so people can eat their steak.
Very well explained! It’s incredible that you made sure to cover all points from all aspects based on evidence, and not just on the basis of emotions or blind beliefs!
Thanks a lot, Doctor!! ☺️
Americans in general on an omnivorous diet, are not hunting, trapping and fishing for animals and then eating the flesh that evening. If this were the case, the flesh would be fresh enough to have some value. The meat sold in stores are poorly preserved cadavers several days to several years old, depending on the preserving method, and are already putrified and decaying by the time you purchase it at the grocery store. Then the flesh must be thoroughly cooked to deactivate or hopefully kill any possible bacterial and parasite infection in the meat. Therefore, the question isn’t “Does animal flesh have nutritional value?” The question should be “Does highly processed animal flesh still have nutritional value, despite the fact that it is no longer fresh and is already decaying?”
And all of that juicy knowledge encased IN THAT VOICE! LOVE IT
You were honestly the first video I watched right after the documentary and I have to say without seeing the others, you have the best mindset towards your critique. There’s so many points you made that I completely agree as I was watching it but the way you did not want to make any absolute answer because you yourself don’t have the concrete answer as well was something I don’t see in alot of doctors. I truly appreciate your take on this subject and from now on I’m always going to reference that amazing quote of yours lol
Yet Dr Mike gives no reason why a predominently plant-based diet is preferred, other than occasional references to the Mediterranean Diet. Sometimes the correct answer is not somewhere in the middle; one side might be right and the other wrong. After years struggling with a mainly plant-based Mediterranean diet (I’m Italian) I moved to a high saturated fat, 95% carnivore diet and my blood profile has improved dramatically. A mainly plant-based diet was pushing me towards pre-diabetes, CVD and the likelihood of a lifetime of medications.
“Trust the science.” This is when you know it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Looking good Dr. Goggles, you’ve only aged a decade in the past year.
Stop worrying about macro nutrients like where you get your protein from, just eat whole plant based food most of the time and enjoy a beef once in while.
My grandma is 91, lived on meatbut bought meat from local butcher/fisherman. I think thats the best option, stay away from factory farming
Oil….Really? Fish….?? Oh yeah. Most Dr.s only get 5 hrs or so of nutrition training? Yeah….ill go with evidence and science thanx.
If you need to supplement to be a vegan ie D3, then its pretty obvious that humans aren’t designed to be fully vegan.
If you were my doctor we all would be on the treadmill diet lifestyle nutrition personal trainer specialist sports nutrition 25 years a plant based nutrition key
Heme iron actually helps conversion of non heme iron, so how is red meat bad again?
When you have a causal link to ANY disease from red meat meat, get back to me Greger.
I have a question. Is it possible to live a healthy vegan diet if you lived off the land without modern supplements? This is the reason why I won’t ever go vegan. If i can’t do it naturally without added supplements i won’t do it. That goes for any diet not just vegan.
1. What is the role of cholesterol in the body?
2. What is your brain made out of?
3. What is special about ruminants that allow them to get amino acids from plants?
Please research and answer these questions before you do anything to your diet. Look up the mechanisms of the human body.
If the general consensus is that not eating a lot of animal products is healthy and that a proper vegan diet is healthy, then the moral argument about not eating animal products (if feasible), becomes quite important.
(Edit in the middle of the comment: the following paragraphs is just me talking about my eating habits and not the discussion of animal rights, so don’t read it if you want to read about animal rights)
I feel like my diet is not mostly vegetarian, or mostly vegan, only because of the cultural status quo. I don’t really know the dishes which are not “the vegetable part of the plate & the animal-based part of the plate”, like a salad and rice and chicken, or rice/groat with vegetables and meat.
And I’m probably not even “meeting the quota” for that omnivorous, mostly plant based diet, which is currently recommended for the general population. If I remember correctly the recommended meat servings combine to less than one meat-including meal every day (so for example a few hundred grams of (especially red?) meat everyday is too much and it should be a few hundred grams per whole week) and I usually have some meat in half the meals I eat, usually at least as a part of dinner.
Now that I think about it I’m not lately a fan of red meat anyway, so I’ll push healthier bird meat more into the place in my diet occupied thus far by the red meat and fill the void with some middle eastern and Indian foods I wanted to try.
For a vegan to sustain themselves on what I get from a nice grass fed steak, they would have to eat a bushel of vegetables, and still not get the same nutrient level.
This guy is full of speculations and bullshit. Can’t clearly explain any of his claims.
LOL to that disclaimer. The number of people putting out hate (not only here) because of Dr. Greger’s hair, appearance, speech, etc. is ridiculous. Aren’t you guys ashamed of yourselves? That’s called bullying. But, of course, when you lack arguments you gotta appeal to cognitive biases, right? It must feel very bad for you watching vegans and people on a plant-based diet thriving while people like Dr. Greger and plant-based doctors are changing the world and saving thousands, if not millions, of human lives & billions of animal lives while you sit behind a computer screen looking for ways to distort or avoid the facts so that you can tell you ego that your views are right.
I hope you (haters) realize the consequences of your unthoughtful actions. Just don’t blame vegans when your ketogenic or omnivore diet fails you. If plant-based doctors and science don’t suffice you, maybe you can rely on Jesus Christ, after all, he has lots of hair in the Western-Catholic brainw… I mean… portrail, right?
I like the way this guy talks. It’s like the opening voiceover to a loopy Farrelly brothers movie.
Please do not look to this talk for medical advice. The speaker makes strong assertions about a specific diet that lack sufficient scientific evidence for general prescription………… says the description of this video….. funny…
You should interview Dr. Ken Berry!! He has so great insight about keto and the carnivore diet
All the so called ‘blue zones’ in the world the regions with highest human longevity rate are overwhelmingly plant-based. Up until 1950 Okinawans ate a 98% plant-based diet, since then a lot of western influence from the West and a rise in the consumption of animal products has brought heart disease, diabetes and cancer to those people.
That that mean as well that I can drink fresh fruitjuices as well as much as I want with any restrictions??
Greger is dead wrong. Look up the bioavailable nutrient profile of an ounce of grass fed beef, then do the same for an ounce of chick peas……..no contest, fat soluble vitamins in beef dominate. Fact: all plants have anti nutrients (toxins), you have to deal with,which is why most food allergies are plant based. VEGE heads are mal -nourished, thus their brains are not thinking clearly.
Please re-title as “If someone does a diet that naturally restricts their calorie intake, they will lose weight: the Ted Talk”
the image on the right at 13 minutes and 40 seconds is from dr. Caldwell esselstyn’s book prevent and reverse heart disease. one of his colleagues at the Cleveland clinic was stricken with a widow-maker heart attack at 45 years old. that is a picture of his healed artery do to a plant-based diet 3 years later. dr. esselstyn personally saved that guy. those of you who are on keto need to understand that outward appearance doesn’t mean anything, it really comes down to your cardiovascular health. I wanted to throw dr. esselstyn name into the mix because his scientific research in the mid 1980 was pivotal in the knowledge of plant-based diets for atherosclerosis and diabetes.
People are reversing heart disease on plant based and animal based eating by following the Randall cycle and cutting out processed oil, sugar and grains.
Fats are nutrients that give you energy, fats help in the absorption of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K.
Be a vegan if u want to reduce animal suffering. Don’t be a vegan if u want long term health. I have tried vegan and carnivore. Vegan sent me into a ten year long health decline.
recommending red meat in moderation is like recommending smoking in moderation…all credibility out the window mike, sorry bud
Hey TED, are you getting money from the animal torture industry? 😉
I eat a plant based diet and I also eat wild meat and drink water from a natural spring.
the very fact that one on a vegan diet needs to supplmetn proves how unnatural it is
Yeah its about what is better for us. You know pain, suffering, fear, sadness and on the other side joy, wanting to live is real even in animal. If we are so above them, our goal should be to make world a better place, go above taste, knowing we ourselfs can be greatest source of everlasting joy and satisfaction, not just temporary satisfaction of good taste. We are not above animals with our nature like that!
10 boiled eggs, 4 tomatoes, 4 red peppers, 1 protein shake, vitamin tablet that covers all your daily need (more goes to toilet less screws your life) and a really good amount of salt per day (because otherwise your brain doesn’t work due to the lack of sodium especially after 4-5 hours of working, if you don’t like using your brain you can lower the salt), I never felt such better in my whole life and I tried a lot of diets, plant based, meat based, eggs are the real superfoods, but this is not an advice, egg cholestherols are just insane and I’m not a doctor, it was just a personal experiment that I did on my body that I wanted to share
Thank you for this information. Chickpeas has a lot of protein……plant based sounds good. Always open to ideas…..
Remember that when watching this video, that this doctor doesn’t even know what”Vegan” means. You can’t “go Vegan for 30 days”. That isn’t possible because Veganism at its core is not a diet. It’s a moral stance to do the least harm to animals that is rational and practical. This doctor isn’t Vegan and as such if he doesn’t even understand the basic premise of Veganism then he cannot be a trusted source for information or opinion on the topic, either by diet information or ethical information.
So if we are supposed to be non-vegans. Why can are bodies process plants in the rawest form, if not a toxic plant, such as blueberries, and it’s healthy? Yet we cannot process meat in the rawest form, we get rid of the blood in the meat, and we will die if we eat meat in the rawest form possible, we are the only species that cooks their meals. For example all other “omnivores”, omni meaning all, vore meaning to eat, well they can process both plants and ANIMALS raw!!! We don’t have the ability to process animals in the rawest form (straight from biting an animal) for we will die from parasites, bacteria, and so much more. Explain? This is a matter of common sense for me.
Why is there so much hate against Dr. Michael Gregors enthusiasm? It seems that with Nutritional Science being so politically motivated people will reach for anything to defend their position. I personally love it! He brings life to a subject which can otherwise be dull in many ways, reminds of Bill Nye in his approach.
My personal read: Whole foods plant based is a diet. Strict Veganism is a religion. WFPL is done for primarily health reasons. Veganism is done primarily for ethical reasons. Once or twice a year, I might have meat. A few times a year, I might have a few slices of cheese pizza. The rest of the time, it’s beans, tofu, lentils, grains, veg and fruit. According to my omni friends I am vegan. According to vegangelicals, I am not and I have engaged in murder and animal slavery.
If it’s so healthy, why do vegans look like corpses, especially vegan doctors?
I’m sad that so many debates on nutritional perspective completely ignores animal suffer, deforestation, the social impact meat has on workers who spend all their day killing.
Ok can someone tell me if this is true, I wrote it in class because I could never find the answer to what I was looking for so I studied and wrote one myself to get some understanding. _��the Question I was ask was All protein comes from plants, animals are “just the middlemen ��_��������Protein is a macronutrient that is essential to building muscle mass. The definition of a protein is a substance that has amino acids. Nonessential amino acids can be made by the body, while essential amino acids cannot be made by the body and are synthesized only by plants, so you must get them from your diet. Animal proteins are called complete proteins meaning they provide all of the essential amino acids our body needs but can not create. However animals do not make these essential amino acids and must be provided through dietary intake. We can get these amino acids through animals however the animals have received these amino acids through their plant based diet, by choosing to receive these amino acids through animals means we are also receiving extra non-essential amino acids that animals and us humans can create. So yes all protein comes from plants however animals are just the vehicle for the non-essential amino acids and both the animal and plants provide non-essential amino acids.��������
The problem is, humans are selfish, they kill and ravage everything just to survive when they don’t have to. Put yourself in the cow, sheep, pig’s situation, your companions are put down in front of your very eyes and you know you are next, you panic, scream, call for your mama, call for your god but that won’t do anything. If someone takes your pet away and you know you will never see them again, you will be depressed. Imagine having that feeling over and over again everytime you have a pet until you die. Multiply that by ten, I imagine that is how a cow would feel everytime her calf is taken away. I have 3 kids, and I will kill whoever takes one of them away or even hurt them for no reason. If the cow knew how to shoot an AK, we would have a massacre! Thing is if you are ok with killing other beings for pleasure, which eating a burger is, or having a steak is, then that is up to you, but I won’t bring up my kids like that. They will not be “immoral”! We are engineered to live a certain number of years, some leave more and others less. But eventually, we will all go, we just have to make the most out of it without causing anyone in the animal kingdom (including humans) any pain and suffering. Humans are the most intellectually advanced beings in this earth, why are we doing this? Can’t we think of a better, more co-existent way of getting the things we need from a cow, sheep, pig, etc…
I’m 1 minute into the video and I’m not sure I can make it another minute let alone to the end. But I really want to know what he has to say. If he could do it in a way that didn’t sound like he slammed a bottle of tequila right before going on stage, it would be much easier to watch.
Lest repeat again. ����VEGANISM �� IS ��FOR ��THE�� ANIMALS �� period ���� #govegan
Greger was raised in a small Arizona town, “the only Jewish family within 30 miles.” His parents were New York natives; his mother taught Biblical Hebrew at the community college.
STAY AWAY from self destruction. Vegan is slow death malnutrition Go vegan and die STAY AWAY!
2 yrs Carnivore and going strong… healed everything: Mind. Overweightness. Inflammations. Digestion. Energy/sleep. Performance………… u name it, i fixed it with Carnivore RAw diary. Pastured eggs. Grass fed grass finished meats and organs ( rawest the better). Wild caught fish and shellfish raw when possible.
Doctor G is not even a doctor! He never even finished his residency! Hes never treated one person!
You feel better initially but complications creep in. An animal based diet has none of these disadvantages.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on What the Health which talks a lot about the level of control pharmaceutical companies and meat and dairy companies have over the recommendations that trickle down to even the GP level. That’s the part of the whole conversation that is tripping me up. It makes the general person not know who to trust and feel overall helpless when it comes to “right and wrong” ways of eating…
I recently had a stomach flu. And what is the best remedy for an upset and virus weakened digestive system? Toast/white bread, cooked white rice, salty crackers, bananas and all other fruit, along with cooked veggies. What you should not eat: oil, dairy, fatty foods or greasy meats. This alone tells me how bad animlal products-based diets are and how great plant-based diets are for us.
Plan protein…. Come on! If one eats beans and lentils… little bit of chlorella… One can ask meat eater where do you get your protein… As the document stated plant based eater gets more protein than “omnivores”.
Dr. Mike, love the videos. Future video idea: you and Dr. Greger discuss the high points of this movie and the evidence behind plant-based diets. Please tell me you heard of the book How Not to Die and nutritionfacts.org
All proteins come from plants, animals are vehicle for that. This statement actually focuses on the resources used for animals and plants. Plants get the energy from the Sun, Animals eat plants, we eat both plants and animals. Animals are taking a major share of resources (sun, land, water etc) in the middle. We can just cut them out from the equation. Animal farming is not as sustainable as crop farming. (All livestock is supplemented with Vitamin B12, they dont get it naturally). Veganism is chiefly based on moral and ethical reasons, u cant kill sentient animals for ur food, u r violating the most basicTHE RIGHT TO LIVE. U must consider the environmental issue as well.
If u consider the tradeoff, its like
Option A (meat) Ok if Limited but KILLS BILLIONS OF SENTIENT INNOCENT LIVES, DESTROYS EARTH and DEPLETES RESOURCES MORE, NOT SUSTAINABLE, also involves a serious health issue (IGF-1, HCA carcinogen and Cholesterol)
Option B (plants)Need more effort to make it well-balanced but no killing of lives, less environmental impact, more sustainable, takes less resource.
Now which one would u choose?
Note from TED: Please do not look to this talk for medical advice. The speaker makes strong assertions about a specific diet that lack sufficient scientific evidence for general prescription.
DOCTOR Greger: “Effectively the cure to our #1 killer could get lost down some rabbit hole and ignored, what else might there be in the medical literature that could help my patients, but didn’t have a corporate budget driving it’s promotion. I made it my life’s mission to find out. That’s why i became a doctor in the first place”
I’ll trust Doctor Greger over TED. He already said the stuff was ignored and a rabbit hole, but TED didn’t listen to the speech themselves obviously
The information given in this talk does not lack scientific evidence. There are thousands of studies that show what Dr. Gregor is telling to be the truth. I have been eating a WFPB diet for 5 years and whenever a doctor looks at any of my test they do not believe it belongs to a 32-year-old woman with a desk job, they always think they were switched with a 15-year-old, which is funny, because people don’t believe I’m 32, they actually tell me I do not look over 20. Best thing, not how I look, but how I feel. If I’d know I’d be feeling this good before, I would have changed my lifestyle long ago. Made me so mad once I realized how great, light, and carefree I felt just by changing what I eat (instead of how much), that this information seems to be so secretive, or “lacking sufficient scientific evidence”, even to doctors. Share this information! Make the change! you will not be sorry!
I think we as human beings, the only species that extorts from mother nature and destroys it in ways previously unimaginable, have bigger responsibilities than JUST looking at scientific evidence about “IF ANY ANIMAL PRODUCT IS BAD”. It is NOT entirely about supplementing your nutrition the best way possible. It is about a bigger responsibility. A bigger cause.
I’ve started plant base living about 7 weeks ago.. it started as a 30 day challenge. I’ve lost 7 pounds without starving myself. I feel good inside and out. ����������������������������������������������������������
We humans are omniverse. If not, we would not be able to eat stuff like Salmon and sushi ��. Pasture raised animals is good for the planet and you what ruined meat was corporate greed.
This guy did for me with a twenty dollar book in a week what twenty thousand dollars of specialists couldn’t do in ten years.
This guy is either stupid or just misinformed but sayin that plant foods don’t cause inflammation? The fuck is wrong with you
Healthier diet = Eating food you can’t digest and massive amounts of sugar, absolute madness, veganism does this to your brain. Veganism is just delusional and dangerous.
Veganism is mental illness. Why would a normal person would care for some pathetic animal more than his own health?
The answer to the plant protein question was not satisfactory at all. Plants do make all the protein, its a fact. We do not eat grass like cows to get our protein. Plant products like lentils, legumes, grains, and nuts are the ones with a good amount of protein. You just have to make sure you pair your lentils with rice and vegetables to make sure you are getting all the essential amino acids. Also Vitamin B12, D, and calcium deficiency is not only a vegan problem, most people are deficient in those.
That guy became a plant!
All vegans just look unhealthy and weird, no thanks i’ll continue being a carnivore.
Do they have family plans I would love this but it so expensive for a family of 5 form companies like this
hahahahaha…. Bacon and Eggs very good! “Beans” are poisonous! Love my beef and lamb!
Meat vs Vegan, gee I wonder which way Greger will go. smh.
What a poor title choice.
It’s pretty self explanatory.
Once a zealot doctor, always a zealot doctor.
this guy looks 60 and very emaciated. His gestures are also really weird. How can you consider him healthy.
what a legend. If you’ve not read his book “How not to die”, please don’t say anything nutrition-related because you’re just not informed enough
Just listen to your body and stay away from chemical foods. Scientism is failing us.