The Magic Pill Debunked | Keto Netflix Documentary

A science-based response to the recently released keto documentary that will have you thinking that high meat keto diets cure everything.
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Legumes Survival Predictor Study:

Bone Broth Lead:

Paleo Mom's List of Adverse Effects:

Acute Pancreatitis keto child death study:

Keto Diet Theoretical Study on Cancer:

Plant-based Diet Slowed Cancer Growth by 8 times:

2 Week on Plant-based diet cancer killing increased study:

Barnard Study fasting serum glucose concentration dropped 28%."

Vegans 78% lower total risk of diabetes:

NIH Study - Keto group had less fat loss:

BROAD Study Whole food vegan weight loss:

Over 90% of fat stored is from fat eaten reference:

Okinawan Study:

Neanderthals Eating Pre-Wheat 30K years ago:

Starches built our brain study:

Breakdown of meat consumption by animal chart:

27% of US land used for grazing:

Nina Teicholz Article Politico:

Atlantic:

Nina BMJ Article Response by CSPI:

Graph of 40 Countries, Sat fat, and cardio death:

Sat fat causes CVD: "The relationships are accepted as causal."

Low carb diets clog arteries:

Corn: 15 million calories per acre!!

1.75 cows acres per cow (lbs meat from NPR article)

[deanray]

I met a man that moved to Alaska to die. Doctors told him he had 8 months to live due to 2 types of cancer. (Bone being one & I can not remember the other) He moved to the famous Kenai River to live his dream. He ate only organice fruits, veggies & salmon from the river. 15 months later he decided he needed a job. 2 years in he was cancer free. Just one nice story.

[GutsToCuts]

Carnist: vegan diets are too expensive.
Also Carnist: grass fed beef! Sign me up!

[michaelcarlone]

2001, got tired of being fat. Went on an Atkins diet lost15 pounds and had a quintuple bypass. 2016, tired of weight gain. Went on a keto diet lost5 pounds and was told I was showing signs of blocked arteries. 2017 1/2 tired of being fat went on the McDougall diet lost40 pounds was told by doctor, " Don't change anything."

[tonkertim]

I went on a Keto diet when my Doctor told me I was pre diabetic and had high blood sugar and blood pressure. It was a struggle and I craved sugar 3 days in like a drug addict. 2 months on and my blood sugar is in normal range, I have lost about 10 lbs of fat, I feel a lot better and my blood pressure is in normal range. I now avoid sugars and processed foods where I can and it has worked for me big time!

[emfoes]

Your video on bone broth made me vegan! I had bought a slow cooker to make bone broth, I did some research in Youtube to find some recipes and boom! Your video was on the list. After that video I found out your channel and other vegan channels. You made a difference in my life, thanks!

[rhouck]

I watch a LOT of these food documentaries. The funny thing is, and I think it's something we can all agree on, is that the vast majority of them share the same messages:

Processed foods are bad. Dairy is bad.

[chadrandazzo]

William Davis "wheat is the perfect obeseogen perfectly crafted to make you fat"

Has a triple chin

[jennyadams]

I am a type 2 diabetic who has tried many diets to try to get my blood sugars under control. I ate a vegan diet for 6 months, I lost 17 pounds, but my blood sugars were all over the place. I was really into it and very strict. Eating whole foods and limiting sugar... but I wasn't getting better. My A1C was worse than before. It went from a 7.2 to 8.4 when tested after the 6 months. My cholesterol also went from 187 to 221 in the same time frame. I loved being on a vegan diet and felt that it should be the best for my health, for the animals, and for the environment... and I was SO discouraged that my health wasn't getting better.

I have now been eating a keto diet for 4 weeks. I have lost 36 pounds. My doctor, who was concerned about this way of eating, as was I, wanted to closely monitor me for the first few months. I haven't had my A1C rechecked yet, nor my cholesterol, but I have been taken off of all insulin (was on 45 units a day of Toujeo) and down from 1500mg of Metformin to 500mg daily. I don't know why it's working, but so far it seems to be going well. The only down fall is that I don't like eating this way. I prefer the vegan diet, but it didn't work for me.

[angieb]

A well planned and researched vegan diet did not work for me.. Keto has healed things I didn't even know I needed help with. One of the first things I noticed after switching my diet was for the first time in years, I stopped thinking about food continuously. When I was vegan, as soon as I was done eating, I was planning my next beautiful meal. And after that...my next beautiful meal...it gets exhausting. I cried when I realized I went a few hours with out thinking about food. It freed me!

[sarahlittrell]

I had a miscarriage in June. I decided it was my weight. So I tried a couple weeks of keto and went to the doctor. My blood pressure was high and my heart randomly hurt. I have now been plant based vegan for two months and have lost weight and my blood pressure is in the normal range. Now after doing tons of research there is no way I would go back.

[jrowlove]

Does NOT promote high protein (meat) that is a lie.

[katiesdumbvideos]

Never trust anyone who tells you bacon is better for you than a banana.

[charlottepearson]

Do keto and paleo not have alot of similarities!? Why does there always have to be these "sides" and animosity towards the other, to the point of debunking? Can't we just be happy that people are seiously questioning the dietary guidelines that we're given and are promoting more whole foods?! It's the standard dietary guidelines we should be fighting against, not each other! Otherwise all we do is create cults and scare people off from making healthier choices with all the confusion.

[TheRoshan]

I do vegan keto. No matter what anyone says, it cures my depression and anxiety, helps me eat less, and cures my ibs and insomnia. I feel horrible eating hclf whole food diet.

[rubbersole]

Been on keto for the last 9 months. Down 65 lbs, my mental acuity seems way sharper, my constipation is a dim memory, and my joints including my back don't hurt anymore. Eat what you want but keto works for me.

[md]

“The people claiming that the Okinawan traditional diet has barely any meat are basing that on a survey done in 1949 done right after the war decimated the Okinawan pig population by 90% and Okinawan people were starving. Dr. Shunichi Kimura wrote in his 1988 book Meat and Health that the 100 year old Okinawans were eating as much as 3 times the pork of other regions in Japan. A 1992 study specifically found that Japanese centenarians ate much more animal protein than the average Japanese person.” Joseph Everett

I would be very happy if you can debunk this rebuttal as well. Seems like the Okinawa diet argument is factually wrong and in fact they eat a lot of pork and saturated fat.

[tizoc]

I've been on keto 8 months now and it completely changed my life down 70 pounds and blood pressure went down by 40 plus no more inflammation and pain in the joints I only eat low carb veggies and sometimes beans

[erinsmith]

He looks so done, having to explain over and over what evidence based science is.

[twosnakesonesword]

My friend's son is on a vegan keto for epilepsy so still no need to have animal products.

[JentasticVintage]

If you eat excessive amounts of protein on a low/no carb diet your body will convert the excess protein into glucose which is why Dr. Shaun Baker that you mentioned has the issues he has. That didn’t really prove anything. You have to keep your macros in balance on keto. It’s super low carb, high fat, moderate protein.