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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 19 hours 12 minutes
episode 21: Alcohol and the Mediterranean Diet
Alcohol and the Mediterranean Diet Alcohol consumption is controversial. No one disputes that excess alcohol consumption leads to dire consequences. But what about moderate alcohol consumption? Can we define moderate alcohol consumption? Is there a safe and therapeutic level of alcohol consumption? Alcohol is a component of the Mediterranean Diet. However, the consumption is limited to 10 ounces of red wine for men, which translates to 14 grams of alcohol...
episode 20: Mediterranean Diet After Weight Loss Surgery
Mediterranean Diet after weight loss surgery Success after weight loss surgery doesn't end with an operation. It just gets started. The most recalcitrant people to diets are those who undergo weight loss surgery. Weight loss surgery patients were on multiple diets prior to surgical intervention. The Mediterranean Diet is the best post-operative diet one can have. The Med Diet is favorable for health...
episode 19: Implementing the Med Diet - Part One
Implementing the Med Diet - Part One Do you think you eat enough plants in your diet? How many plants do you eat in a week? Not refined grains, but plants. You can cook them, boil, bake, microwave, roast them or even eat them raw. How many? Further, it's not just eating more volume of plants, it's diversity. Adherence to the Mediterranean diet depends more on plants...
episode 18: Mediterranean Diet - Fats
Mediterranean Diet - Fats Perhaps the most important part of the Mediterranean Diet is this plant. Olive oil is the single ingredient most associated with the Mediterranean Diet. It is the one single food substitution you can do that will improve your health immediately and have great consequences. But not all olive oil is the same. There are many types of fat that you can find in your diet...
episode 17: Inflammation and the Mediterranean Diet
Inflammation and the Mediterranean Diet The Mediterranean Diet is the most anti-inflammatory diet studied. The inflammatory response is the body's mechanism to fight infection, repair itself and rid itself of cancer. Inflammation is a coordinated response to trauma, infection, and cancer. Without inflammation, we would be dead within twenty-four hours. Too much inflammation results in wanton destruction of tissues, pain, fevers, and misery...
episode 16: Cancer and The Mediterranean Diet
Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet decreases the risk of cardiovascular disease. The Seven Country Cohort Study clearly showed this.
But what about cancer? Does the Mediterranean Diet impact cancer or cancer prevention? To study this, another cohort study began called the EPIC study. Uniquely, the EPIC showed not only a decreased risk of cancer but also mortality from cancer.
All vegetables, even the green ones, have nitrates...
episode 15: Ancel Keys and Revisionist History
Was Ancel Keys responsible for the modern epidemic of obesity?
If you have read any low carb blog lately, you would think so.
Their revisionist history is broken down to this:
- Ancel Keys was an influential scientist who thought fat was to blame for heart disease
- He did a study of diet and correlated fat and heart disease in those people of the seven countries
- But Dr...
episode 14: The Modern Mediterranean Diet
Scientists and dieticians consistently rank The Modern Mediterranean Diet (MED diet) as the diet most recommended. But often people don't know what the MED diet is. This post will define the Med diet.
Critics of the Med Diet
Critics argue that there is no uniform MED diet. They make these assertions based on one of these three arguments:
- That there is no uniform diet of the Mediterranean Region...
episode 13: Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors for Non-Diabetics
If you don’t have diabetes, should you even consider a blood glucose monitor? Well, here is the science behind this new tiktok trend and why these Continuous Blood Glucose Monitors (CGM) are here to stay and what we know about them.
The device
First, the device – a continuous blood glucose monitor is a device that you place on your body and it measures the blood glucose level and reports that data typically to an application on your phone...
episode 12: Bioidentical Hormones Cause Weight Gain
About 15 years ago physician came to me telling me that she was opening a new venture, distributing plant-based bioidentical hormones, and surgically implanting those hormones as pellets. She wanted me to send her all of my patients who presented in menopause because "with bioidentical hormones they won't need weight loss surgery...