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Beating the Odds: Inside the Tribe with a Near-Zero Rate of Heart Disease.

Dr. Paddy Barrett

It kills almost twice as many people globally when compared to all cancers combined. Dementia Up to 40% of dementia cases could be prevented by focusing on modifiable risk factors 11. Those with high blood pressure from midlife have twice the risk of developing dementia over a 25-year follow-up 12. In my view.

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Living Past 100: Insights from Centenarians on a Long, Healthy Life

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Their diets are often poor. It’s not that they don’t get cardiovascular disease, cancer or dementia; they just get it way later than everyone else. When broken down by disease category, cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, stroke, osteoarthritis, hypertension and stroke, the pattern is the same.

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What To Eat To Lose Weight & Maintain Muscle

Dr. Paddy Barrett

Please go and read every single GLP-1 trial on weight loss (Average 15 kg) and show me where they got everyone to go on an extremely low-carb diet to avoid insulin spikes. That’s not to say that using a low-carb diet is not effective. Because you won’t find it. Because it’s not there. Now, we have set up the basics.

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Understanding Our Brain: Why We Get Hooked and What to Do about It

Physiologically Speaking

You’ll learn: What the Scarcity Loop is and how it guides our behaviors How ultraprocessed foods hack the Scarcity Loop About a small Amazonian tribe with virtually no incidence of cardiovascular disease How to structure your diet to achieve success in our modern food environment And more! Selecting the optimal diet.

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10 Things You Can Do To Improve Your Heart Health

Dr. Paddy Barrett

What kind of diet should I eat? For those who have optimised their cardiovascular risk, their future risk of dementia and many cancers is also likely to reduce. During each consultation with a patient, I would have to explain certain topics related to heart health, and I found myself repeating them over and over.

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The legal case – naming a few names

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick

At one point George Mann attempted to arrange a meeting of scientists who agreed that the diet-heart/cholesterol hypothesis was bunk. I believe you are right, and that the diet-heart hypothesis is wrong, but I cannot join you, for that would jeopardize my perks and funding. I don’t think so. I have read some utter bollocks in my life.