Peter Attia’s nutrition advice & why nutrition research is flawed
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December 23, 2024
I diet but I always add a food that is not part of the plan. This food helps my gut regardless of the diet or splurge.
For me the carbs seem to spur on my cravings. Fats and proteins let me naturally moderate overall intake – I naturally don't want more calories than I need. I wish just this simple plausible insight and been told to me without all the over complication. Everyone is not the same but you need to start somewhere.
Peter Attia is unbelievably wrong here when he speaks of epidemiology, there are MANY very high quality diet studies and epidemiology done well is very accurate. He's disparaging a field he literally does not do research in and paints it with a broad brush and uses strawman arguments to dismiss them. The scientific nutrition community has been in agreement for literally decades on what a health promoting and longevity diet is. Beware of people who are educated in one area and then talk outside of their field. Peter borders on quackery when it comes to nutrition.
So excessive eating is the demon
Not McDonald’s
Not processed food
Not GMO plants
Not red meats
….its excess
The problem with experiments in human nutrition is that what is consumed does not tell what is absorbed from the gut due to the gut microbiome which changes with diet and can do so from one day to the next nor the epigenetic effects on what enters the cells which can depend on the a number of factors including genetics. So far we do not have adequate tools to track these. This is especially a problem in those trials comparing treatment groups with controls that claim to have dived the population used in the trials randomly but we know that this does not even work with identical twins.
Would love to see a discussion with Peter and Dr Belardo, (if he would be able to get a word in). She believes all these nutritional studies like a zealot
Dont eat ultra processed foods. If you don't know what that means, do some simple research.
Eat a variety of wholefoods.
Dont eat more than you need.
If you cant understand that, you probably won't be healthy for the long run. This is made way too complicated for the average person buying groceries for a family.
4:51 – Maybe it's time for me to quit the ApoE4 diet and just take a statin or some cholesterol lowering medication and eat saturated fat.
I want to take diabetic medications in order to eat a high carbohydrate diet, but physicians will not prescribe metformin and other diabetes medications unless your A1C reaches the diabetic range, but by that time, you may have damaged your arteries and raised your risk of cancer from being prediabetic.
Criticise me however you like, but I can no longer tolerate lean meat, vegetables, avocados, and olives, and my compliance with this ApoE4 diet is poor.
I do not mind eating those foods, but only if I can eat them with plenty of carbohydrates or saturated fat.
You make working out feel like a breeze. Thank you for the fantastic content! Great video
Im not taking any advice from these men. They both look unhealthy, depressed and seem slooooow with their speech.
Carbs are not bad enjoy
What about women in peri/menopause eating 1000 calories and gaining due to metablism down regulating (from chronic restriction in many cases) and hormonal issues?
I post this on every diet video. Peter Attia is about 5-9 times smarter than I am. This is a good position to take. Below is what I post to what i refer to as "Ding Dong youtuber takes". But.. Peter is brilliant. You could sincerely sit down and pray to be as intelligent as him. But still consider the below text.
I get a suspicion that most viewers are here for confirmation bias. That being said I think meats/fats are probably what has carried human evolution through success. But certainly not Mr KenDberry or 95% of people speaking on the matter of nutrition do a very good job articulating their position via science. Its 2024 and most of mathematics in the human spectrum are considered to be solved. I'm not a professor but lets say far above 50%, probably closer to 80-90, No one can agree on nutrition (In a more narrow perspective, obviously following calorie maintenance and minimum macros most nutritionists can agree on). Why is that? We are all monkeys and defensive on our positions. Be prepared to defend your position in a way that is…- peer reviewed (100 persons+ ideally) and evidence based. People just spouting things about "what they believe" is essentially useless. Until you are able to extremely precisely (at the molecular level) defend your position you carry, then you need to completely stop speaking about it. This is not a shot at you, its a shot at everyone making claims on diet recommendation. In the end, it doesn't really matter what I have to say about it, slowly and surely over time, evidence based approaches will overcome ding dong youtubers and we will figure it out. Sadly we are very much overcome in the social media era to just get information out there, and hope it sticks. Stop making videos. If you made it this far, I post this on every "diet video". Think about this while you watch this video. Consider if this sticks to the video. Most people don't really have a good idea on what they are talking about. Refer back to "Until you are able to extremely precisely (at the molecular level) defend your position you carry, then you need to completely stop speaking about it."
What he’s saying is beyond obvious: don’t eat too much. Unfortunately the obvious is not obvious to a lot of people.
Eat a lot of protein !!!!!!!!!
GREAT TAKE !!! And I happen to agree :-)) The video is also VERY WELL composed !!
"Yes but what methodology do we use to know that we won't die, at all, of any cause?"
All nutrition research is flawed but here we have SGOTI that knows all the facts, lmao. People are so gullible.
I also am weary of the diatribes of the dietary tribes.
Would someone push Dr Attia on how effective he think's the science behind CGM devices, which show you in real time how likely or unlikely your developing
insulin resistance,
Two notes.
1. Veganism is a lifestyle, not a diet. Technically the diet part is called plant based.
2. What is considered to an extreme with plant based? Because by definition being vegan doesn’t restrict you at all on macronutrient level. You can eat all the carbs, all the protein, all the fat you want. It is only the source that matters.
So is the extreme more of a subset version, like fruitarian, or people who only eat raw food?