With all the calamities that have befallen Chris (my husband, Mr. Plant Chompers), I would have been a widow many times over without heroes like Dr. Cois.

Thank you. As an Australian putting together a Veganuary guide for my colleagues for next year.. This just made it to video of the day for day 5. What another treasure of a perspective, and how very rational and tempered is his speech. So glad to have one video in our accent on the site now, thank you

Last week, my cousin lost two brothers to heart attacks. One of them was walking in the gym, and his heart attack was so sudden, he was probably dead before he hit the floor. And the other brother was stressed out because of his loss, and after a couple stressful days, he died of a sudden and massive heart attack too. I've been to their cookouts enough times to know what their diet was: LOTS of meat, LOTS of beer, LOTS of cheese, butter, ice cream, potato chips, donuts....pantry stacked high with colorful boxes.... fast food bags and pizza boxes usually visible... They were 44 and 49 years old.

What a pleasant and fabulous doctor to listen to! I'm 66 and mostly eat vegetables, whole grains, beans, nuts, some fruit and seeds. I have some chicken and a tiny bit of turkey and sardines as well. I am a small person: 5'6" and 138 lbs and exercise as heavyhander and tai chi player. Now I feel that I should ditch my animal foods. I'd probably do just fine without them and cause less suffering. Thank you for posting this interview.

I think our healthcare system plays a huge role in life expectancy and mortality rates. We put off going to the doctor because we can't afford it and next thing you know, we're dropping dead from a preventable and treatable disease. Add poor diet on top of that and there you go.

Great interview. I'm Australian and I've spent a lot of time in the USA including being married to a USA woman. As far as diet and health goes Australia isn't that great. The majority of people believe red meat is good for them and they'd die without it. The percentage of overweight people is around the same but the seriously obese rate is not as high in Australia. The biggest differences I've noticed are: Portion size in restaurants and fast food joints. Portion sizes are much, much larger in the USA. When I ate out in the USA my wife and I would share a meal and be more than full. Many Americans hate walking with a passion to a degree that's comical. Australians tend to be a little more active than Americans. This difference is most noticeable at the extremes. Australia has universal health care. We don't have to pay for health services for the most part which means in Australia if you have a health problem you go see a doctor. Early identification of conditions like cancer saves a lot of lives. Australia has less large companies lobbying government (most are mining companies and the meat industry). The country is not afraid of introducing policies that improve the health of Australians. Examples: we have plain packaging laws for cigarettes in Australia. When you buy a pack of cigarettes it has horrible pictures of people suffering from a range of diseases caused by smoking. During the pandemic the state and federal government enforced lockdowns, restrictions and preventative measures and encouraged vaccination in many ways. There are at least 300,000 dead Americans because the USA could not get a consistent health message about Covid-19 out to the public. Having said all that Australia still has huge room for improvement. Australian diets are 38.9% ultra processed foods. Australians eat way too much red meat. Australians don't eat enough vegetables. Many Australians don't get enough exercise. In the health system it is not common place for GPs to refer people who obviously have diseases caused by diet to dieticians (of all my pet peeves in western health systems this comes in at #1).

I love the aesthetics of your channel. The quality of the picture, the angles, your kitchen, your studio, the faces and their being colors, your effort need and cap... They're kinda fascinating.

I have a nice little meal suggestion - take some very thoroughly washed raw greens, pass them through the food processor with the thin slicing blade. I like a mixture of collards, kale, arugula, and spinach. Then after slicing this to a fine chiffonade, toss the (about a pound of) greens with a little garlic powder, prepared spicy mustard, red pepper flakes, lemon juice, and finally a ripe avocado or two. Smash it all together using the lemon juice to add moisture as needed. Finish with ground black pepper and just a dash of (optional) turmeric. I call it "salad salad sandwich" ...lol.....I like to eat it stuffed inside a Toufayan whole wheat pita. OMG....it's an implausibly delicious sandwich, considering it's almost all raw greens.

How is it possible to hold such an in depth wide ranging interview while holding a camera perfectly stable and with out any notes….? Thanks for bringing us to Portland for this great interview.

Greedy food industry, greedy healthcare system, greedy politicians, crazy lack of gun safety...I'm not surprised. I'd be surprised if we were doing well. As a nurse, I didn't realize how our food is killing us. I did realize and do see how our health system fails those of us who aren't rich.

We eat terrible diets in the UK and have high obesity and overweight population. Free healthcare is likely the reason our life expectancy hasn't dropped off a cliff like the US.

On kids' preferences, that you touched on briefly around midway through, with the comment about ice cream, our experience is that our young kids will ask if things are vegan (on their own initiative) - which they usually are where we live - but will turn down even vegan sweets for being too sweet. Consequence of being plant based from birth.

I am an Australian physiotherapist that has been traveling to and from the USA since 1979. There are differences between the nations that Adrian has been excessively PC about. This unfortunately masks the real reasons why America scores poorly among developed nations on longevity. 1. America has a higher spread between rich and poor. The poor generally eat worse than developing world standard. 2. America has a higher % of minorities who in general are more poorly educated, poorer, and eat a poorer diet. Minorities pull the American average lifespan down significantly. 3. American diet guidelines are set by a commercially swayed organization (USDA). Australian guidelines are set by a govt dept that is more independent. Check the daily recommendations of the US vs Australia for fibrous carbs. 4. Under the guidance of the USDA, American schools and colleges provide meals to students that guarantee an early death after decades of diabetes, hypertension, and obesity. 5. On my first visits to America, I was shocked that there were stores that sold nothing but donuts and coffee. I could not understand how they could sell enough to make a profit. Over the decades such stores have come to Australia as well. So America led the trend. 6. I was also shocked at how much sugar and salt was added to American meals.....and how big servings were in restaurants. 7. I met many Americans who just did not have a palate for vegetables. This is only possible if one eats fast food regularly. 8. Australia is not that far behind America today, in eating a disease promoting diet. 9. It saddens me that 97% of patients I see are diseased because of a poor diet. Medicine has become compartmentalized. Doctors I know believe it is not their role to promote a healthy diet and weight loss. Instead they just prescribe prescribe prescribe bandaids to mask the effects of their patients' poor lifestyles. They do so because they do not comprehend how powerful lifestyle choices are.....But also, there's arrogance among doctors, in that they think rehashing the weight loss and healthy diet message isn't sophisticated enough for all the education and status a doctor undergoes. On the other hand, physiotherapists are not taught pathophysiology deeply enough to comprehend how one's diet causes chronic disease and degenerative diseases. Tendinopathies, inflammatory arthridites, osteoarthritis, neurodegenerative diseases....all these are in great part due primarily to poor blood flow and blood loaded with inflammatory and oxidative agents.

Certainly one of your best interviews ever! I sent this video to my brother-in-law who is an emergency room Dr. I hope he relates.

Really love your videos! This was insightful and I’m looking forward to your next discussions! But…is there a way I can buy you another tripod?? So you don’t have to hold the camera next time 😅

Have you ever gone to Walmart and looked what's in people's shopping carts? People eat garbage like it's their true calling.

Frenchie here, great video! Watching it as I'm shelling hyacinth beans and thinking: "here's a nice food that I grew, organic, is helping biodiversity, on site local, perennial, and healthy with no animals dying for me." Add the fact that I got my seeds from the local wild populations and planted them, it's 100% free food that I really just harvest and shell, and don't do any other work. Plus I get to binge your videos while I shell them and prep the beans for the pressure cooker 😆

Dr. Cois seems like a great guy, nice video Chris and Dr. Cois !

You raise an important topic here… How to teach the children. The problem is, It’s more than “not kind” to the animals. It’s the largest holocaust ever, and ethicists are correct in viewing it as such. How do you relate to people, loved ones, family, who commit atrocities, as though those suffering creatures didn’t even exist? Tip toeing around this subject does not express the urgency of the crisis, nor the severity of the violence, or the wrongness of the transgression. Kids should be taught that animals deserve to be protected, not that meat eaters should be respected and accepted(which is what they demand). their behavior is not accept-A-ble. We didn’t defeat Nazi Germany by downgrading the intensity of the crimes against humanity. In fact, much of the US struggled to find its ethical center and practically supported Germany’s antisemitism in the lead up to WW2. (See Ken Burns, US and the Holocaust). Also see the latest gas chamber investigations of how they kill pigs in the Uk. (Joey Carbstrong) Animal agriculture is a crime against the animal kingdom, and that includes humanity, and against ALL the earths ecosystems. Regarding biodiversity, it is the single worst industry in the entire world. The Holocene extinction is underway. (See the 2020 study from Oxford published in the journal Science. ) Doctors as scientists need to step up, like this fine gentleman. But, my favorite question is, would you dine with Nazis? In that regard, should we even patronize establishments that serve animals and their babies’ milk? Ordering vegan food…. You are still helping their bottom line. How lonely do you want to be? Thankfully, Chris’ large family seems quite supportive and great company. He’s got an army!

Well, they definitely don’t have as many gun deaths per capita.

Problem with US system is it's penalized for doing a good job with prevention...your dentist loses money and job security if they successfully help you do a good job with preventing tooth decay, and there are many other examples like that. So you get this situation where the healthcare industry goes out of business if it actually does a good job...just a simple conflict of interest on a massive scale. This is why dentists didn't march or lobby in DC decades ago to get refined sugar regulated etc. On top of that, healthcare is the largest industry in the US, so if we suddenly started doing a great job at prevention the healthcare industry and whole economy would be negatively effected.

Would love a video on low blood pressure! I have low blood pressure and there is to be no advice to manage beyond "stand up slowly". It's really annoying to feel groggy and *still* be told to limit salt 😢

Universal Healthcare in Australia, everyone e gets the same top level of care--no insurance companies denying treatment coverage. And the doctors get paid the same--the profit motive to practice is not like in the u.s. where many doctors are only in it for the money. The animals are not fed corn, they are grass fed only.

Problem #1: Oversight by insurance companies largely disallows interventional preventative medicine. Problem #2: Food industry PR is designed to confuse consumers about about what's in their food and its real effects on the human body. Problem#3: Big pharma's co-option of medical school curricula to de-emphasize nutritional studies hamstrings young physicians into believing that the only interventions worth considering are pharmaceutical. US citizens face a gauntlet of obstacles navigating the truth about health and food.

Working towards a Vegan world one day at a time! ❤ Was surprised you guys didn't talk about the culture of sports here in Aus ad a potential factor in longevity...

Thank you for this interview, Chris!

Another thoughtful, thought provoking episode, Chris!! Thanks!!

what will it take for americans to recognize that universal health care is a GOOD thing? and not 'socialist take-over'...or whatever else they think. i will never ever understand this - and it breaks my heart. thanks for another great interview!

Such an excellent interview! Thanks!

Really enjoyed this interview; the way it was filmed was novel and engrossing, and the conversation style was familiar but very informative. I was pre-med for a couple of years many years ago (before changing majors completely), and have worked on and off as an informal medical caregiver and patient advocate for friends and family since then, and it was fascinating to hear the thoughts of an ER medico with training in a different medical system, as well as here in the U.S. Good luck to Dr. Cois and his family in their pursuits, and thanks to you, Chris, for posting : )

I liked this more than I thought I would like this. We truly have a disconnect in this country between what we sell/promote through advertising and what is really healthy for us. This has been this way since the Victorian era; it’s only intensified since the 70’s. That’s why channels like this, giving scientific interviews & in depth discussions of evidence is so important. It’s not saving everyone, but I’m sure it’s saving some. Curious on when the interviews you alluded to in the video are going to drop. More!! More, please. :-).

Awesome video like always just shared like many times, so glad you are ok now, God Bless you and your family.

What an amazing insightful voice. Encouraging and very much appreciated. Thank you guys.

Excellent interview, I like Dr Cois. Keep chomping Chris!

Great interview and holding that camera still for that long! Wow 👏

Great interview.

Would chronic stress in America be a contributing factor? How would this be measured? Cortisol per country?

Your YT’s are well edited, produced, researched. All are interesting, I’m surprised you don’t get more subscribers.

Thank you, what a nice doctor and you did a wonderful job with the interview 😊

Great respect for Dr. Adrian, and other ERs. I always wonder as well: how come people do not care too include more healthy lifestyle changes in their lives? We could be enjoying a much longer and healthier life with our loved ones. It's mind-boggling, and sad.

I had no idea America had such a difference in life expectancy to the rest of the world. I am in the UK and here our health service has been underfunded for years sadly. It seems to be under attack.

What an interesting interview. Thanks for introducing us to new people. I'm off to follow him, too!

Such a great video again - two great minds 🙏

Very enjoyed this conversation. Something very interesting should (imo) be visited. The obvious US drop of ”Life Expectancy” in 2021. This is vey strange…. Thank you

I had no idea Ken Berry had his license suspended. I stopped watching him when he went from keto to carnivore. I'm trying to be plant-based so he wasn't the one to follow.

Great interview! Can you talk more about salt? About Hyponatremia? I'd very much like to hear about outliers. We keep our sodium at or below 1500mg per day. But we're not salt free. Still, I'd love to see what trustworthy guidance there is about _minimum_ sodium intake.

Great interview with a great person! 👍 👍 👌 👍 👍 Actually with 2 great persons ;).

Thank you both for what you do! Spreading the word & saving lives 🥰 You mentioned two US populations and I immediately thought of the Adventists in Loma Linda, but cannot think of the second.. Thank you for another great video, looking forward to the next one!

Well, when you don't have to worry about getting healthcare, childcare or going to college....that helps mightily in addition to a plant based approach to eating.

Love your vids

Hi Chris, another great video. The ER doctors are all heroes and Dr Cois is certainly one of the best. Over in the UK the NHS staff are just as important. Also very interesting to hear his story on going plant-based (what a lovely family). Interesting to hear of the trauma the ER staff get (and no surprise). Chris - your arms must have hurt by the end of the shoot (hand-holding the main camera for the footage!) 😉Keep up the great work. I'm glad the medics were there for you when you needed them! best wishes Michael

Cliffhanger… waiting for next episode.

Another great video! Thank you - prevention really is the key to sustaining great health, in my opinion.

A couple of other things: in a lot of Asian cultures (and perhaps elsewhere): a person eats until they're 3/4 to 2/3 full. Also, as pointed out in some of the comments: Aussies apparently walk more then Americans in general. And obviously, as pointed out by the doctor, Australia has universal healthcare. One other thing, and correct me if I'm wrong: Australians typically get more Sun then their American counterparts (higher vitamin D levels perhaps?). This last one is just a theory.

I do think the "isolate yourself from others" mentally in America also plays a role in the reduced walking hours which also related with reduceed health. So many kids in the suburban are becoming mentally ill. Homo sepians are not meant to live like this. We are social animals, we eat plants and tubers, and we walk all the time.

32:51 this detachment from the patient journey is way some doctors don’t listen to their patients, pulling the “I know more than you” card and have wrong diagnosis. That being said. There are lots of caring people in medicine that just don’t treat it like a job clocking out after 10 hours and don’t care. Thanks to all those giving kindness, respect and humanity 🙏🏾

Wish I had a doctor like this

When I see that chart I think of that song, "One of these things is not like the others..."

Chris, do you have a Patreon or a charity to donate to? I am getting so much value and enjoyment watching your content. I am 29, vegan for almost 5 years, I bike a lot. I feel in some ways I am very healthy and in others, I have a lot to learn. Thanks for your teachings!

This is a very compassionate man. As a nurse, I remember so many of the patients who died under my care, as he does. The first one I remember as a student nurse was a German man whose family was just outside the intensive care door. After the doctor informally pronounced the patient dead he said, "We might as well let the student nurses do compressions, because to continue to agressively work on him is like beating a dead horse." That remark still gives me the creeps. What if a family member had heard that?

Here in New Zealand we have a similar health care system like Australia. The downside here in New Zealand is the system is underfunded with a chronic shortage of nurses and doctors, resulting in huge waiting list for most common surgeries. People just have to wait, suffer and pop pills to manage their pain.

I would also add the alienation from natrue. People no longer have a sense and connect with the land and soil. "food" in many people's mind are some packaged good from industrial plants. People no longer have the knowledge that they can simply grow endless amount of leafy greens basically for free. And there's so much invasive plants outside we can help eat. On the other end there's animal being cut into small chunks are renamed to "proteint". The separation from what people see in grocery store by their marketing schemes and the reality of origin of the products. I think people need to get reconnect with natrue and who we really are as a species.

"I'LL NEVER GET OUT OF THIS WORLD ALIVE." Hank Williams, Sr.

I'm looking at your chart at 00:58 and thinking about well known data that the "wealth" of the US is mostly concentrated in the top 15 or 10th percent of the population. What would the chart look like if the top 10% of each country were thrown out? A lot worse, I'm guessing.

Love that phrase: “We have high performance teams”

Thank you 💗🥦

Could it be that Australians are more physically active than your average American and that they participate in more outdoor activites as leisure? Also, I'm curious about their rules regarding chemical additives to food and if the government subsidizes corporations that make ultra processed food like we do here.....

I think it’s the American attitude to working. Americans have an attitude that if you want to go home at the end of your shift on time, or actually take any part of that two measly weeks of vacation given to you, or take a sick day because your actually sick, then your a slacker, lazy, underperforming. Americans think they have to work, even if they have the flu. And they must work 80 hours a week! And the more hours you work the better. Even if you don’t get paid for the extra hours. And companies expect this work ethic!! But younger Americans are pushing back. Demanding their vacations. Taking off when sick. Demanding a better work life balance. So I’m expecting this trend won’t continue as Americans start learning the value of spending quality time with their families outside of their jobs. I’m an American and I work to live. Not live to work. And I’m a freak because of it. But I’m proud of it! I go home at 5. Work 40 hours. That’s it. Take my vacation and treasure it as time with my son. And I’m considered abnormal. Lazy. But I don’t care.

We just learned from a specialist that my husband has Chronic kidney disease, so I went with him to his primary care visit. After convincing my husband to eat only a plant based diet & he agreed, his PCP said, no you do have to do that, “I love meat & cheese.” I was furious. She didn’t even know what stage he was in but said that she is monitoring him.

What a great guy

Thought provoking as always Chris - I appreciate the time and effort you put into your videos. As a guest suggestion, could I recommend Chris Van Tulleken, author of the recent book "Ultra-Processed People (Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn't Food... And Why Can't We Stop?)". Reading his book I was struck by how he focused on the work of many of your previous guests - Kevin Hall and Mark Schatzker to name two. I think you would both find a lot to talk about!

Compared to the health system in the 50's 60's 70,and 80's, and it has been ,what we have now in Australia is a dark shadow ,of what was once a patent orientated system , to a drug company driven machine .The Australians are unfortunately catching up to the USA.................

China Study is a great book, changed my life. Now 67 feel good and happy.

I bet he’s a great doctor because how more aware he is compared to others doctors, but the medical system also contributes to early mortality. Misdiagnosis, under-diagnosis, putting patients under procedures they don’t need, dismissing new ideas that could benefit patients. Being around doctors is mostly a bad idea, but they can help during acute situations sometimes. Chronic situations, not so much.

I'd be curious to see the number of prescriptions/age charts for each country. My dad:16, mom:12. They both died of medical errors.

I learned about hyponatremia the hard way in high school, fortunately I got to a doctor quickly and was able to recover by the end of the next day. Still the worst experience i have ever had in my life.

Chris, please do a review of Caldwell Esselstyn's book Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease if you want to see your fellow Americans live longer! I'm on week 3 of his heart attack proof diet and already feeling wonderful.

Thanks for your’s and your guests' insights and sharing. Just a thought on the high sucker rate in the US for wellness “products and gurus”. (It would be interesting if American are more taken in, I see it in many countries). It could be these folks want to be well and healthy, but can't afford legit medical care so they start listening to the talk show circuit, social media and hear-say. It also does not help when commercial interests start promoting unsubstantiated “healthy options”.

I think it’s hilarious how cranky the CT technicians get when ER docs order CT abdomens on basically everybody with abd complaints. Like what else would you have them do bud? There’s only several dozen different structures and organs that could be causing it. Beats opening up 50% of ED patients.

So... you kind of were ghosting the Emergency Room Guys? I'm glad you changed your mind and came back to full consciousness. I love your Videos ❤ Ps. What you described somehow reminded me of the Track "Descending" by Tool

Michael Pollen has the bare minimum for not dying, not good health. The quote should be: Eat food. Only plant based. As much non-refined food as you want!

Love this interview and all your videos. This video has a lot of cuts in it though, which is a bit annoying 🙃 it makes the conversation a bit staccato and weird. And, btw, influence of big pharma is a very real and dangerous thing. Please don’t put everything on one big heap and stay critical always.

My concern about a vegan diet is getting sufficient calcium and risk of osteoporosis. My close group of friends and family -- we're all around 65 years old -- are either vegetarian or vegan, and almost all of us have osteoporosis or osteopenia. I've added occasional sardines and salmon to my diet, along with eggs and yogurt, hoping that will help -- basically, the Mediterranean diet. I'm hoping you can make a video about the risks of osteoporosis with a vegan diet, and what you do, and what others recommend, for avoiding this. And how the vegan and Mediterranean diets compare in regards to osteoporosis. Thanks!

I listened to a friend talking about health care in Canada last night and the extreme difficulty of arranging and receiving care. It's not the first Universal Health Care story that I have heard either. And I learned that many folks I worked with do buy or are provided private health care coverage. This is true in the UK, Australia, and Canada. It begs the question "If universal health care is so good, why do people buy private insurance? Then I look the US attempt at "improving" and all I see is insurance exchanges ($$), increased cost and fewer covered items. I also recall hearing a breakdown of malpractice insurance costs that was just staggering and I'm sure the fear of malpractice drives a lot of unnecessary testing. As far as EOL, I think we desperately need to have discussions among ourselves as to what the end of life means and what our desires are--this, I learned from my mom who spent the vast majority of her nursing career working in the ICU. So many folks spend their last days in the ICU ($$$) or hospital ($$) when maybe home care would be better. And so many receive heroic treatment when maybe it's not the best thing (hence the need talk about what end of life means for us all). I'm not convinced Universal care is all that it's made up to be. At the end of the day, those with wealth receive better care making it two classes. There are still problems of scheduling and perhaps even of evaluating need. I'm sure there is a better way for us in the US, I just don't believe what we have today is any better than what it replaced.

NOT JUST EAT MORE PLANTS. IT IS TO DROP THE SUAGR OIL AND SALT. DO NOT SMOKE AND DRINK. KEEP FIT LAUGH, LOVE AND HAVE FAMILY CONNECTION.

Unless you're wealthy, in the US you don't go to the doctor until something is severe, and often not even then. So health conditions get to severe or gonna-kill-ya level before we can even consider going to the doctor, and then when we do, of course, the medical debt will probably make us jobless, homeless, and utterly destitute. But wait, there's more! Many US states are making any kind of obstetric care illegal, so if women give birth in those states, they're going to be in the 1890s as far as medical care is concerned. Better have a jug of whiskey to pull on and a bullet to bite, and if you die in childbirth, Oh Well, it's Gawd's will. So while life expectancy in the US has been falling for something like a decade, I expect it to keep falling and at a steeper rate.

Good interview that make me as a Canadian glad to have universal healthcare. Alas, It is not without it’s flaws because the system Is busting at the seams with more patients than ever and not enough money to be able to offer treatments without lengthy wait list times or offer a full range of all types of treatments. Seems to me it is time to start promoting “healthcare” Not just disease care.

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When it comes to socialized medicine (something I'm all for) it's more sophisticated than just corporate propaganda against it. If Americans are going to accept universal healthcare they're going to have to also accept the reality that the government is going to heavily tax anything (food especially) that will increase their risks. As much as I am for universal healthcare, getting even a quarter of Americans to accept that reality is going to be basically impossible.

In a world where trump was president,musk is considered a genius and Peterson an intellectual,the message does not matter,the loudest matter. Thks for the effort though! Take care.

Does Dr. Cois make sure his kids have a source of vitamin K2? Natto, or tobacco-based MK-4 supplement, like the one by NOW, that contains alfalfa? There is chickpea natto, but I don't know if it contains K2. Sauerkraut contains too little to use it as your sole source of K2.

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A couple of things the good doctor said that really stood out to me. He mentioned that sometimes a person has to get maybe several points of view or just an impactful story from someone to have an epiphany (if you will) to change. Mine was a few interviews that Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders (I loved her first two albums with the original lineup) gave on KZfaq and the conviction she showed toward animal rights (for some people this would be off putting). The other thing the doctor was basically saying vis a vie his children was "a half a loaf is better then no loaf" (I believe this saying is often attributed to Ronald Reagan, though I'm sure others have said the same). Anyway, while I value vegan purists, it more people would just eat a lot less meat & animal products in general, this would go a long way toward improving the health of many plus take away a lot of environmental degradation and cruelty/death toward animals.

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0:00: 📊 The video explores the disparity in life expectancy and healthcare costs between the US and other advanced countries. 7:30: 💡 The speaker discusses the addition of ethics to their dietary choices and the cognitive dissonance surrounding our treatment of animals. 11:37: 😅 Parents struggle to get their kids to eat healthy food, but it's important to keep trying. 28:04: 😔 The speaker is upset about people receiving bad advice, particularly in the diet book industry and on the internet, which he believes is dominated by Americans. 15:27: 🍖 The video discusses the impact of lifestyle choices on health, particularly in Australia and the US, with a focus on meat consumption. 19:33: 🌿 Nature-based interventions have excellent outcomes for health and the healthcare system in Australia values preventative health. 23:34: 🔑 Access to different perspectives and experts, and the challenge of discerning trustworthy information. 31:38: 🩺 The speaker experienced hyponatremia due to low sodium intake and strenuous exercise, but received medical treatment and learned about electrolyte balance for endurance athletes. Recap by Tammy AI

Chris, thank you! I loved hearing from this doctor. Have you had enough feedback in the other comment sections? I don't want to come across as rude. In this video, there were 1 or more times, when you didn't pause before starting a new topic. It was hard to follow your train of thought until after you finished speaking. It makes it a lot easier for the audience if you add those pauses. Even a maximum of 1 second is enough. Is that possible? By the way, in a recent video comment section, I said that you were losing me. I was writing in terms of losing my loyalty as an audience member. I was referring to you communicating in ways that I couldn't understand. I say this, because I realized that I might have seemed off-putting.

It's surprising what he says about Australian healthcare system because I was under impression it was ran much like the rest of the UK. I have a friend in England who is always complaining how she can't get care or tests even for things like heart scans for chest pain. She is envious that as an American I often just go to the doctor asking for specific tests and get tested right then. I have two friends in Australia and while I have never discussed their healthcare with them what stands out is how active and outdoorsy they are and that may be why their health is so much better. They hike, go snorkling, clam digging, fishing and kayaking and belong to a community group where they play bagpipes and march. So there is the social aspect to health which I often read reports is a problem in the US as there is less social activity and more isolation among people. I have noticed that myself as I have moved cross country to areas where there is less community activity. The part about young heart attack victims makes me think they probably have the MTHFR gene mutation and if they take un-methylated B12 or folate or don't consume enough methyl donors then it makes their homocysteine high which is a risk for heart attack or stroke. Those people need homocysteine and lypoprotein-A blood tests often. And if it's high then genetic testing.

Is there any chance you could go on try to go on Joe Rogan? He does a lot of harm with misinformation, and I think because you have such a pleasant personality you would be a fantastic guest to correct him.

You didn't mention Rip's dad being an influence on him.