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Hello everyone! Wanted to do an update on the Food Lies film: we're shooting at low carb USA in San Diego in a couple weeks with Ivor and a couple other doctors, including the preeminent researcher in this field (along with Dr. Steve Phinney) Dr. Jeff Volek who's studies are actually mentioned a few times in this episode. Really excited about this shoot and our next one at conference in Ohio next month.

Also really excited that we're 34% funded on Indiegogo - there's been a huge surge recently so I want to thank everyone who's been contributing. I want to say the film is happening no matter what. I'll pay for it myself if I have to. So please support it - there's a link in the show notes.

http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post

This is really important to me. I'm not some rich guy like pete Evans who made The magic Pill. I'm a guy living on some money i saved up so that I could take time off to make this film, just trying to scrape by. My friends think I'm crazy. So tell a friend about it if you can't contribute yourself or already have. Thanks so much.

Now on to this episode. Ivor Cummins is a sharp Irish gent. He's a chemical engineer by trade and his specialty is leading teams in complex problem solving scenarios. This background helped him to really dive deep into cholesterol while also being unencumbered by the outdated mainstream views of the substance. He's gone over 3,000 studies on cholesterol and made some amazing realizations. He now travels around the world speaking on this to help doctors and laypeople understand the new data and updated science.

I did link to some of the graphs he will mention - they're pretty compelling - here's the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kES6-ueXSghNuae5Qzh-QzbGwLThwdRs67eF9Qlle-0/edit?usp=sharing

Find Ivor:

http://Thefatemperor.com

https://twitter.com/FatEmperor

Show Notes

• Got back from FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF NUTRITION http://institute.swissre.com/events/food_for_thought_bmj.html
• Most people have a surface level understanding of cholesterol that is highly misinformed
• Top experts have moved on from LDL being bad
• How your cholesterol ratios work and why they're a better indicator. It always comes back to insulin.
• There's more factors beyond insulin in all these chronic diseases
• Cholesterol is a vital necessity to every cell in your body. It has gotten maligned just because it's found at the scene of the crime.
• How did we start believing cholesterol was bad?
• 1950s explosion of heart disease
• Ancel keys and the McGovern report
• Let's spread the word that saturated fat is bad without a real study - what's the worst that could happen?
• If you're telling us we can't eat stuff we've been eating for millions of years you better have some compelling data showing us why. Oh wait, you don't?
• Women's Health Initiative was a study for 8 years and cost a billion dollars and didn't prove anything
• MR FIT study didn't show anything

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