Real Doctor Reacts To The Game Changers (Full Movie Documentary)

The Game Changers it's a new movie documentary released a few weeks ago in

which James Wilks who is a former UFC champion a fighting champion he gets

injured and he sets out on a quest to determine the optimum diet for human

health and performance and along the way he meets with various scientists and top

athletes to determine the best way to get healthy to perform and to recover so

today we're going to talk about the movie and the arguments made to see if

he indeed found the optimal diet coming right up hey I'm dr. Ekberg I'm a

holistic doctor and a former Olympic decathlete and if you want to truly

master health by understanding how the body really works make sure that you

subscribe and hit that notification bell so that you don't miss anything I think

that I'm somewhat uniquely qualified in commenting on this movie because I am a

doctor I have extensive training in physiology in neurology and in nutrition

furthermore I have been a vegetarian for seven years not the last several years

but from 1995 to 2002 or so I was a vegetarian I decided to not continue

that because I judged that for me that was not the best solution but if there's

someone else who feels that way then I'm not going to judge them or try to

convert them into meat eating I've also been an Olympic decathlete so I have

performed at that level of athleticism and I've had some success and at that

time I was eating meat then after that career I was like I said a vegetarian

for many years and now for the last 15 years or so I have been an omnivore I

eat all sorts of things one of the viewers on my channel Cindy Zhu she saw

this movie the game-changers and she was concerned so she wrote and asked if the

movie was indeed true and could the plant-based diet be an

even better alternative than what she had been doing so far the movie is a

very good movie it's very well produced it has a lot of names behind it a lot of

famous people have invested in the movie and are listed as co-producers arnold

schwarzenegger pamela anderson jackie chan and so forth James Cameron has

produced it directed it so there's a lot of famous people involved and as always

we tend to confuse Fame with expertise so as soon as something is well produced

and there's someone is famous behind it for some reason we think that the the

data has more value and we want to start understanding that that's not

necessarily the case so the movie makes the argument that a plant-based diet is

superior to an animal-based diet in every way that performance and sex drive

and longevity and health everything about your life gets better if you stop

eating meat and you start eating plants so I'm not opposed to vegans I'm not

opposed to vegetarianism but I I do get a little upset when someone has an

agenda and they say that this is the only way to eat and then they try to

scare you with tactics and misinformation and they they cherry pick

certain pieces of information and they present it in a way that it looks like

the truth so I think that there's lots of happy people who are vegetarians and

there's lots of happy healthy people who are omnivores who are meat eaters so we

just want to start understanding the bigger picture

so James Wilks sets out on this quest to find the optimal diet because he is a

UFC fighter he's a champion in the fighting circle and at the time he was

eating meat no less but then when he gets injured he decides he gets a lot of

time on his hands so he wants to find out what's the fastest

the most productive the most optimal way to heal and recover so they can get back

on his feet he starts doing some research and

interestingly enough being a fighter one of the things that catches his eyes is

one of the original fighters the gladiator so let's just take a quick

look and see what he has to say about that.

This totally blew my mind the gladiators were highly priced fighters who got the

most advanced training and medical care in the Roman Empire to think that the

original professional fighters ate mainly plants when against everything

I'd been taught about nutrition. The first argument in the movie is that

plant food is superior because the original fighters gladiators were

vegetarian and I'm not going to argue whether they were or not but I think

it's a bit strong to say that they were highly prized fighters and that they

received the best nutrition and medical care in the Roman Empire as if the

gladiators were prized because you they respected them and they were highly

valued they were valued like animals for slaughter they just like we feed up cows

today whatever it takes to get the cow as fat as possible by feeding them grain

then that's what they did to the gladiators not to get them fat that's

not what I mean by that comparison but the purpose was only to make the

gladiator lasts long enough and perform well enough to last a couple of years as

a fighter before he was sacrificed for the purpose of entertainment so just to

refresh my memory I went to the Wikipedia and looked up gladiators and

there I read the following. Gladiators most were despised as slaves schooled

under harsh conditions socially marginalized and segregated even in

death now that doesn't sound like someone that they respected and cared

about for the value of the person that was they cared about them because they

had entertainment value in the movie they talk about the gladiators having

certain minerals in the bone that strontium was present and that that's a

sign that's proof that they were vegetarians and sure enough that I'm

sure that the gladiators had very good bone quality because human bone gets

stronger up to about age 20 that's when a human is fully grown and these

gladiators they really didn't live much longer wikipedia says about life

expectancy that george ville using evidence from first century gladiator

headstones calculated an average age at death of 27 and mortality among all who

entered the arena at 19 out of a hundred so for every hundred people that were

into the arena to fight nineteen died every time for each fight nineteen

percent of people died or were executed or sacrificed so again that doesn't

sound like highly prized to me but even age twenty seven is probably a high

estimate because that was based on tombstones and most of these people

didn't get tombstones so Marcus Jumkelman disputes Villes

calculation for average age of death he says the majority would have received no

headstone and they would have died early in their careers at eighteen to twenty

five years of age so the average career of a gladiator was about one to two

years that's the life expectancy so yes they're not going to have osteoporosis

they're not gonna have signs of degeneration they're going to be young

healthy people no matter what you feed them in one of the physicians that

provided that top medical care was someone a Greek physician called Galen

and he was to become arguably the most accomplished of all medical researchers

of antiquity Galen influenced the development of various scientific

disciplines including anatomy physiology pathology pharmacology and neurology as

well as philosophy and logics so Galen was a very well rounded physician and he

part of his training at a gladiator school in Pergamum where he saw and

would later criticize the training, diet, and long-term health prospects of the

gladiators so he criticized the diet and again you can't really make an argument

that these gladiators were very very well cared for and that they got they

were vegetarians because they felt that that was the best food available for

them at the time next James Wilks meets up with an ultra marathon runner has

been very successful and it's broken all sorts of records and he ran the

Appalachian Trail faster than anyone had done before and this person is a

vegetarian so James Wilkes asks well how can a vegetarian generate enough energy

for these long endurance races so he goes to get information from dr. James

Loomis. What I found in the locker room was some pretty outdated ideas about

nutrition you would go to a pre game dinner with the football team and you

would see this spread there would be steak and chicken very much protein

oriented because their perception was that the protein is what sustains their

energy but in fact that's not the case the actual energy for exercise comes

mainly from carbohydrates in the form of glycogen that we store in our muscles

and when we sacrifice those carbohydrate calories for protein calories in our

diet what ends up happening is you will develop really chronic carbohydrate or

glycogen depletion and what does that lead to well it leads to chronic fatigue

and loss of stamina I totally agree with dr. Loomis that it's an outdated idea

that the athletes had that you would get your energy from the meat from the

protein in the meat but when dr. Loomis says that carbs are the main source of

energy that carbs are the source of fuel and then he shows a diagram with protein

robbing energy from carbohydrates it's as if those were the only two

macro-nutrients that we have access to. Of course I seem to remember

that there is a third one namely fat and what most people don't realize even if

you eat zero fat which you wouldn't last very long but if you ate extremely low

fat diet your body your cells still run at about 50 percent carbohydrate and 50%

fat because a lot of your cells function better on fat and your body can't store

carbohydrate very well so it turns the carbohydrate into fat and then you burn

a mix of carbohydrate and fat so even if you eat almost zero fat your body is

still gonna burn about 50/50 so to have a graph that depicts that it is carbs

and protein that provide the energy that's just ridiculous

really so if you're a carb dependent if you eat mostly carbohydrate and no fats

you're gonna run on about 50 percent carbs and 50 percent fat however if you

are fat adapted then if you're on a ketogenic diet then you're gonna run

about five percent carbohydrate and you're gonna run about ninety-five

percent of your energy coming from fat now in both of these cases depending on

how much protein you eat some of the excess protein is going to be burned for

energy as well so these numbers are not exact but you get the approximate idea

that it's not energy from carbs or protein it's about energy from carbs or

fat and that the primary energy source in the body is fat if you eat a bunch of

carbs some of them will be converted to fat but if you eat mostly fat it will be

burned as fat you don't convert fat into carbs and his final argument was that if

you don't eat enough carbs you're going to deplete your glycogen stores and

you'll end up with chronic fatigue lack of energy and stamina and the exact

opposite is true because what robs you of stamina is when you are not fat

adapted and when you eat enough carbs to become insulin resistant it's the

insulin resistance that creates the chronic fatigue not the other way around

so there is no mention in this entire movie about fat as an energy source the

only time that fat comes up is when they mention how bad it is when you have

animal fats in the blood they talk about how it interferes with the circulation

and with the endothelium so take a look at that there's a direct correlation

between a meal and endothelial function the endothelium is the lining of

blood vessels it regulates blood flow throughout the body it knows that a

particular muscle group or organ needs more blood flow and it dilates it opens

up when the endothelium is impaired it cannot open up it cannot allow blood

flow to increase as much and therefore repairs athletic performance now that

looked pretty convincing to me I mean I get scared when I see those graphics and

I see that blood vessel shut down and I mean it feels like that's a really bad

thing so I went to look at some of the research and I didn't have time to look

at a bunch of it but I did just sort of pick one at random to see what it said

and I picked one from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2013

it's listed in in the movie and what they actually said though is that

saturated fatty acids do not impair endothelial function and arterial

stiffness so the research that they quote says the exact opposite of what

they said in the movie now that doesn't inspire a whole lot of confidence in me

I must say so it says in this study results for a hundred and twelve

participants with data available for analysis

on the specified outcomes no significant differences were shown and in the

conclusion it says the replacement of saturated fatty acids with multi

unsaturated fatty acids or carbohydrates in healthy subjects does not affect the

vascular function so here's the thing about research though that in this case

the the claims were not even supported the the research said the exact opposite

at least in the one that that I found I'm sure that there were some positive

findings in some of the other research I'm not disputing that but for every

piece of research that says one thing there is an equally prestigious piece of

research that says the opposite that when you look enough into research it's

almost like a perfect 50/50 split on the topics and they're all sort of

contradicting each other why is that because for two reasons

people tend to find what they're looking for they have an objective when they

start the research and they're more likely to meet that objective than to

not meet it the other thing is that if you find what you're looking for you're

really happy and you rush to publish but if you don't find what you're looking

for as a researcher then you tend not to publish and this isn't just my opinion

or theory it turns out about 85 to 90 percent of positive results get

published about 85 to 90 percent of negative results don't get published so

in other words they publish when they find what they're looking for and that's

the stuff that we believe is research and even so they contradict each other

so whatever you look whatever you're trying to prove with research you can

always go out and find a study that supports what you believe

so then after they show us the scary video of the endothelium

collapsing then they actually do some blood tests and then they do put the blood in

a centrifuge to separate it and then they show us what happened. Here's your

blood from today and your blood from yesterday nice and clear both of them so

notice the wording there when he holds them up he says look nice and clear okay

who says clear is nice there is no evidence there is no proof there's no

suggestion what if cloudy is better there's lots of athletes who eat meat

and do extremely well with cloudy blood maybe that's better

but we're given these presuppositions that help us make the decision so right

after he the chicken fried guy is shown the vials he says oh that's pretty gross

okay I wouldn't want that floating in my blood because he's been given the

impression that that's a bad thing but what if cloudy is better

okay the research they gave certainly didn't support the fact that it had any

impact may be cloudy is better and if it actually is fat in the blood and fat is

our primary fuel then maybe that's a good thing I don't know but I'm just

saying that what they're suggesting is not proof of anything a little later in

the movie they ask the question well what are humans actually supposed to eat

what are we biologically physiologically suited to eat are humans primarily plant

eaters or are we better suited to be meat eaters. Humans do not have any

specialized genetic anatomical or physiological adaptations to meat

consumption by contrast we have many adaptations to plan consumption we have

longer digestive tracts then do carnivores and this allows humans to

digest and fibers that require longer

processing time so let's discuss that argument

she says that humans have no specific adaptation to eat meat but we have many

adaptations to eat plants well again she's selecting certain data

so there's probably 50 different criteria to determine if we're suited

for one or the other but I'm gonna pick three she picked one and she talked

about the length of the digestive tract so yes humans have a different digestive

tract than a lion but we are closer to a lion much closer to a lion than we are

to a cow so if we look at a carnivore a meat-eater like a lion they have a short

relatively short digestive tract small intestine they have a very low pH

meaning they make a tremendous amount of hydrochloric acid the pH is between one

and three in most carnivores their teeth are sharp to allow shredding of meat and

they don't have any flat teeth to grind down vegetables and plants plant either

an herbivore like a cow or a rabbit or an antelope they have a very different

digestive tract they have a very long digestive tract very complicated

digestive tract it really has nothing in common with a human or a lion because

they have mostly have stomachs with bacteria that digest the food for them

they have multiple stomachs with bacteria and humans and lions have none

so it's a very long and complicated and different very different their pH is

high they have very little hydrochloric acid because there is no animal protein

to break down and digest and their teeth are flat to allow the grinding of grass

and plant products so where do humans fall when humans are omnivores that

means we can eat a little bit of everything

carnivores have developed primarily in areas where there is plenty of meat to

eat herbivores have developed they live in areas where there's plenty of plants

but humans as you know they have spread out over the planet and there's some

people that eat primarily meat there's some people that eat primarily plants

there's some people that eat primarily fish some eat primarily fruit and they

all do relatively well because we are omnivores we have the length of our

digestive tract is medium it is longer than the lion but it looks nothing like

a cow we also have a stomach that is very very similar the first part of

digestion where we break down protein is almost identical to a lion it is a a

small bowl that receives the food that produces tremendous amounts of

hydrochloric acid we have the same pH between 1 and 3 as a lion or most

carnivores do if we look at the teeth human teeth are sharp in the front and

flat in the back so that we can do both we don't have one or the other we have

both which means that we are suited to eat all kinds of different food there's

probably no one alive that hasn't heard that you're supposed to eat more fruits

and vegetables and I'm not gonna argue with that I would say eat more

vegetables and fruits if your insulin resistant then eat and very little

fruit but we hear this eat more vegetables and fruit eat more vegetables

and fruit it's like a mantra and the main reason the primary argument is that

it is full of vitamins, minerals, and anti-oxidants. So let's see what they

have to say about that the antioxidants dr. Stahl was talking about I found

almost entirely in plants which have on average 64 times the antioxidant content

of animal foods even iceberg lettuce has more antioxidants than salmon or eggs as

a result switching to a plant-based diet can help

reduce measures of inflammation by 29 percent in just three weeks. So if we

have bought into the idea of antioxidants then that sounds like a

compelling argument like wow sixty-four times more antioxidants like 64 times

more of the good stuff even iceberg lettuce that's just like water has more

antioxidants than salmon so why would you want to eat salmon if it doesn't

have any antioxidants? So all of this is part of a big myth the first thing is

that what antioxidants are and who they're good for so plants make

antioxidants to protect plants they don't have any higher ulterior motive

they don't sit around in the soil and say oh I bet there's some human that's

going to come and eat me later I think I'm gonna make some antioxidants so that

human can get healthy. No, plants make antioxidants to protect plants okay

humans do the same thing humans make antioxidants for humans. Inside our own

cells we make something called glutathione and that is the primary and

the only antioxidants that really matter in humans and guess what it doesn't come

from a plant it is made up from three amino acids that called glycine

glutamine and cysteine and amino acids of course are protein so there's nothing

magical about antioxidants in plants because they're made for plants. Humans

make glutathione which is by far the dominant it provides the vast majority

of antioxidant function in the human body and we make it ourselves from amino

acids which come from proteins another thing most people don't realize

about antioxidants is the very name antioxidant why do we what does that

mean it's against oxygen that's what it means why do we have oxygen why do we

breathe because we breathe in oxygen so that we can oxidize the fuel the protein

carbohydrates and fat and turn them into energy that's how humans make energy

it's from fuel that we oxidize with oxygen when you take an antioxidant you

interfere with that energy production so don't worry if you just eat a normal

food if you just eat plenty of vegetables and even fruit if you're not

insulin resistant then you're not gonna get any damaging amounts of antioxidants

but if you eat that plus you take a bunch of supplements of alpha lipoic

acid and mega doses of vitamin A and C and E now you're actually shortening

your lifespan you are interfering with the energy production you're preventing

your body from producing the energy that it needs to have so if you're not sure

about how important that oxygen is for energy production then just hold your

breath for a few minutes and see how eager you are to get some more oxygen in

you and then realize that the more synthetic antioxidant supplements that

you take the more you're interfering so that those supplements are more like

suffocation therapy than than anything else probably the most common argument

though for carbohydrates not just for plants in general but for carbohydrates

is that we need blood glucose and that the brain can only run on sugar let's

see what they have to say about that. "We have a brain that just is desperate for

glucose it I mean it's such a fussy organ that's the only thing it really

takes in for energy well meats not a very good source of

glucose. To have a big brain like this you need to eat something different and the

most efficient way to get glucose is to eat carbohydrates." Brain is desperate for

glucose it's such a fussy organ and protein is not a great source all of

those three things are just wrong because the body uses whatever fuel is

available and I agree protein by itself is not the best fuel but if need be the

body can make glucose from protein the brain is pretty fussy because it doesn't

eat protein it uses glucose and it doesn't use fat per se but in the

absence of glucose the brain will run on as much as 75% ketones and ketones is a

byproduct of fat metabolism so to say that the brain only runs on glucose is

just plain wrong and when he says that the brain when you have a big brain that

the best way to fuel it is to eat lots of carbohydrates that is just not true

because carbohydrates especially processed carbohydrates but

carbohydrates in general what they do is they create blood sugar spikes they do

indeed raise blood sugar and provide fuel for the brain but it produces too

high a level it produces spikes and then when you have a spike it's going to come

down so now you have a blood sugar roller coaster and over time you can

also get hypoglycemia on the bottom end of it and with continued carb

consumption you develop insulin resistance and this is not a mystery

anymore 85, 87 % of the world is overweight of the Western world is

overweight and that is because of insulin resistance and what happens to

the brain that he argues that the brain loves that glucose well when you get

insulin resistant then you also get an insulin resistant brain that is why they

now call dementia type 3 diabetes okay carbohydrates is not the

preferred fuel it is one of two fuels it is a good fuel if we can provide it in a

stable manner the carbohydrates don't provide it in a stable manner it

provides it in a rollercoaster manner and the brain doesn't like that at all

another pretty tragic thing is in a movie like this when they're talking

about athletes about ultimate fighting champions about boxers about football

players these are people in contact sports these are people who hit their

head on a regular basis and even if they wear helmets which some of them don't

then the brain is very soft and it's inside a very hard shell and when you

get hit even if the helmet prevents the skull from cracking the brain is

bouncing around and hitting up against the inside of the bone creating

traumatic brain injuries micro traumas all day long and the brain has a very

limited ability to repair it's encased in bone for the very reason that it's

supposed to be protected it's delicate and when it's not supposed to get

injured it has a very poor ability to clean up and regenerate and the best

hope the brain has of regenerating is called autophagy and autophagy happens

in the absence of insulin and carbohydrate so if you get hit in the

head on a regular basis and you eat a high carbohydrate diet you're really

setting yourself up for some long-term neurological damage so especially the

people who get hit in the head they should do a keto diet and they should

work with intermittent fasting because that autophagy is their best hope of

preventing brain degeneration a couple of more things that they mentioned in

the movie is protein that they say that it's a myth that meat has a higher

quality protein that all that matters is the presence of the essential amino

acids in the food itself and that's simply not true they are correct in that

plant food has lots of protein but it's not in the same proportion and it isn't

as bioavailable it is not absorbed and utilized to the same degree to the same

percentage that animal food is and they also talk about iron heme iron meaning

iron from muscle or blood and they say that that's associated with increased

inflammation and increased heart disease again they're picking pieces isolated

pieces of information they don't know what else that person ate okay it could

have been all the sugar or all the trans fats or all the bread that they had with

it but iron availability is a huge deal and heme iron is much more available so

there is 2 billion people in the world up to 2 billion people who are anemic

and anemia is one of the worst diseases that you can have anemia means that you

don't have enough iron you don't have enough hemoglobin in your red blood

cells to capture and transport the oxygen to your cells so it's like you're

always starving for oxygen everything in your body runs on 70 to 80 percent

because it's not getting the fuel and that's up to 2 billion people and guess

what most of those people are primarily vegetarian because the iron in the

plants are not as available as a matter of fact they've checked and 2/3 of the

iron in the human body comes from heme iron from blood or muscle even though

that's only one third of the iron ingested so we can eat tons of spinach

and plant food that has iron but it doesn't mean that we're actually going

to absorb and utilize it and the same thing holds true for the protein

that the bioavailability how much of it that we absorb and utilize is not the

same we don't absorb as much from plants as we do from animals so there's a lot

of people who can do well on plant food and I congratulate them and I applaud

them and I respect and support them but there's also a large number of people

who after several years of being a vegetarian get very sick because they

can't absorb the iron and the protein and the appropriate amino acids as a

clinician you see a lot of difficult cases we see a lot of vegetarians we see

a lot of examples so it doesn't mean that meat or plant food is good or bad

but you got to figure out what works for you and if something works for you don't

try to push that on someone else and say that this is better for you and then

toward the later part of the movie they bring up a very very serious problem

that I totally agree with them except they're drawing the wrong conclusions

from it this is regarding the environment and the deforestation and

how much water is used the wrong way let's take a look. About three-quarters

of all the agricultural land in the world is used for livestock production

and it imposes a huge cost on biodiversity and what is the single

biggest source of habitat destruction it's the livestock sector

meat dairy egg and fish farming use 83 percent of the world's farmland yet

provide only 18% of the world's calories. So this is the real big problem that we

face that the way that we produce food has gotten totally out of control

but it's so easy to blame to try to find a scapegoat and in this movie they say

oh look it's the meat eaters they are the problem but it's not it's the way

that we are producing food overall it's not the the meat eaters it's not the

cows fault it's the industrialization of Agriculture it's the industrialization

is the mass scaling of food production that's the problem the soil depletion

and the runoff and the pollution and all the garbage ending up in the rivers it's

not about the meat or not it's about the fact that we use mass farming we use

synthetic fertilizers chemical fertilizers and we don't rotate crops we

don't respect nature we don't treat we don't do anything in balance with nature

and it doesn't matter if you grow plants for themselves or if you grow plants to

feed to animals it's just the wrong model okay it's not that we need to stop

eating meat it is that we need to change how we produce food overall and so often

we hear the argument that oh well we need GMOs to feed the world's population

we need those mass farms we need the chemical fertilizers and that is one big

lie it's a huge fallacy and I looked into that just a little bit and I

thought to myself that well you know there are small farms that I know of

farms that produce tremendous amounts of food and they are using the resources of

nature they're doing everything sustainably and environmentally and they

rotate and they can keep this going forever

so I thought let's see how many percent how much of the

world's food is actually produced on small farms because we get the

impression that almost all the food comes from these mega farms alright so I

expected to see that maybe a few percent that maybe 2 percent of the world's food

comes from small farms and then I was preparing the argument to say that well

you know if 2 percent comes from small farms let's just multiply those farms 50

times and we can have a hundred percent of the food supply ok I thought that

would be reasonable but it totally blew me away I had absolutely no idea how

much of the world's food comes from small farms it turns out more than 70%

of the entire production of food in the world comes from farms less than 25

acres the large farms only supply 30 percent of the food so it's not even a

big transition the only reason that we have ended up with these mass production

farms is for commercial interests for the convenience of automation and for

government subsidies ok and if we really want to go back to producing food in a

natural way we can produce vegetables and meat in abundance on the areas that

the world provides and even meat can be produced sustainably and one great

example is a place called Polyface farm in Virginia there's the farmer it's a

family farm farmer named Joel Salatin and he has been farming there for over

50 years and for the last 50 years I don't know if he himself has done it for

that long but for the last 50 years they have not introduced they have not bought

any chemical fertilizers they have not planted any seeds they do not own a plow

or a silo they have 500 acres and out of those 500 acres they have a

hundred acres open for grazing where they feed their animals 400 acres is

still forest so on that hundred acres they produce naturally 300 percent more

meat than a commercial farm okay using product modern production methods the

way that we are taught the way we're made to believe that it's the only way

to feed the world through chemicals and and mass production well he's doing it

naturally and he is producing 300 percent more food per acre and he

doesn't add anything it just lets nature take care of it he rotates the crop he

moves the fields around he moves the cattle around and it happens the way

it's supposed to I think the movie succeeds in showing that there's a

really good chance that you can be healthy and you can have a very

productive long life if you choose to be a vegetarian or a vegan I think the

movie completely fails to prove its arguments that the plant-based food

would be superior I think all of their arguments are hollow I think they have

gathered their information by picking and choosing which anybody can do to

support their point of view I think they have backed themselves with a lot of

famous people and influential people and that we confuse that with the truth with

expertise so again learn as much as you can about the principles about the

physiology and I wanted to make this movie because when my viewer asked me

and I started looking into the movie I saw it as a threat because the biggest

problem that we have is insulin resistance and if people stopped eating

animal food and they start eating predominantly plant-based food and the

way not that you can't eat a low carb diet on plant food

but the way the movie promotes it is to eat a high carbohydrate food to fuel

your activity and fuel your brain and what you're going to fuel that way is

insulin resistance and if you are very insulin sensitive and you eat this way

you can probably do that and live very well for very long but if you are

insulin resistant like almost 90 percent of the population then you are not going

to be able to reverse that insulin resistance by eating the way they

suggest so I wanted to really clarify things in this comment so that people

feel assured and feel safe that yes it is okay to eat an omnivorous diet you can

eat a little bit of everything I don't think you should necessarily over do one

or the other figure out what works best for you I would also urge you to buy the

best quality food that you can I know that some people don't feel that they

can afford it but if you can spend a few extra dollars then support the movement

toward healthier food the organic and the grass-fed and the local and the

sustainable because that is the future of food production and the more you

support it the more it's going to grow I don't think a lion is unethical because

it eats an antelope and I don't think humans are unethical because we eat meat

I think it's unethical to raise animals the way that we do in mass farms I think

an animal is entitled to a life in the environment that it's designed for and

then I think it's perfectly ethical to eat that animal just like the lion eats

the antelope but we need to respect them just like the American Indians respected

the Buffalo they used everything from that animal I hope this was helpful and

if you enjoyed this movie then I'm sure you're gonna love that one