Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

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The Truth: Fiber is undigestible plant matter that passes through you unchanged. When controlled studies are done on the topics of constipation, diverticulosis, and colon cancer, adding more fiber to a diet has no effect whatsoever on the outcome of the diet. Clearly, this is a flawed argument. I mean, surely he realizes that we are the only animals that can harvest another animal's milk. And it's probable, even likely, that a lion who kills a lactating gazelle consumes (and enjoys) her milk as part of the meal. So I'm a big Dr Berry fan and have probably heard most of the content through the countless videos of his that I have watched on Youtube. I know there were lots of issues with the audiobook in who was reading it etc and that he could not do it himself but I was really excited about this book and hoped to share it with my family. The only reason I marked this book down a star is just that it's not very "well-written" in the sense of how it would be put together by a professional writer. It's self published, and the author is a practicing physician, not a writer. I've been an RN for 35 years, and trust me--not all physicians are eloquent with the ability to drop two paragraphs of well-crafted words at the drop of a hat, much less a whole books' worth! That doesn't mean that the information they are conveying isn't important. Add to this the fact that I'm known as the spelling and grammar mistress by almost everyone who knows me...yeah, I'm THAT person...it was inevitable that I'd find some things that bugged me. Sorry. LOL

Berry’s Advice: Stay active and exercise, but don’t “work out.” Do what you enjoy. Go outside and play, have fun moving around. Statins Reduce Death from Coronary Artery Disease by 28% in Men According to Longest Study Ever Conducted: Another point the author makes is just because whole grains may not be as bad for us as processed grains, that doesn't mean that they are good for us. And he is right, just because something isn't bad for us, doesn't mean it is good for us and certainly doesn't mean there isn't something better for us. But when discussing diet, we need to look at the overall content of the diet, the nutrient density of the foods, and the variety, balance, palatability, and sustainability of a diet. Just because we've only been eating grains for the past 10,000 years, doesn't mean we can't or shouldn't eat them. And just because some people don't tolerate gluten, doesn't mean that everyone needs to avoid it. Even though I was a little disappointed that Dr. Berry wasn't the narrator, it was still enjoyable.I have just finished this book after watching some of Dr Berry's youtube videos. I have found that I really enjoy his videos. I love that he is not a regular doctor that just wants to prescribe drugs and make crap loads of money off it. Instead, he tries to tell you you don't have to spend a ton of money on drugs, processed food (crap) and to not blindly listen. Eat a piece of bread or oatmeal and test your blood glucose 2 hours later. Your glucose spike will make you second guess what you have thought was optimal nutrition. This is a very straightforward little book, focused on exploding common and dangerous medical myths. And there are a lot of them.

How doctors are taught to think about nutrition and other preventative health measures—and how they should be thinking b) In the 1980s, Farmers DID feed cows animal flesh (the leftover flesh of butchered cows), and while it did help to fatten them up, it caused the Mad Cow Disease epidemic, so they kind of decided to move away from that approach. (Wise). Nutritional therapy is often overlooked in medical school, and the information provided to physicians is often outdated. Advice to avoid healthy fats and stay out of the sun has been proven to be detrimental to longevity and wreak havoc on your system, and yet many doctors still regularly espouse this “wisdom.” What kind of advice is your doctor giving you? Is it possible you’re being misled? The findings: After studying mortality over a 20-year period, researchers led by Professor Kausik Ray at Imperial College London showed that 40mg daily of pravastatin, a relatively weak type of statin, reduced deaths from heart disease in participants by more than a quarter. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases... I don't know enough about this topic to agree or disagree. It's something I'd like to learn more about. I have read that some of the studies that associated negative health outcomes with estrogen replacement were done on estrogens that weren't biologically identical, as he points out.

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Who's to blame? Not your doctors. They are overworked with unreal expectations for practicing and staying current on studies and research while also having any sort of work/life balance. While I don’t have a study to repudiate the claim that Grains are more fattening- I will use simple logic on Dr. Berry’s argument which is “If meat was more fattening than grains, farmers would use it to fatten up their cows instead of corn.” This one is just silly...

Lies My Doctor Told Me reveals the truth behind the lies told by well-meaning doctors. Whether it's recommending a low-fat diet, or warning you to avoid the sun, these medical lies can cause really harm to your health. One more study from Harvard which shows that a study which followed over 120k men and women for 20 years found that yogurt consumption appeared to protect from weight gain due to the colonic bacterial from the yogurt. (It may also protect against heart disease and type 2 diabetes. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritio... I'm not quite sure I'm going to get 100% on that bandwagon. Not everything in nature is healthy for you. What about the sun's radiation? What about the correlation of skin cancer and Australians--surely the Australians don't eat the unhealthiest diet in the world but they DO have high incidents of skin cancer. The Truth: Research studies uniformly show that exercise is a very poor method of weight loss. Exercise is wonderful for your mind, body and spirit in hundreds of ways. It will make you healthier and happier, but it will not help you lose weight.This book contained a lot of woo, and a few gems. I learned some of the things were true as I looked them up, but not many of those. There's a great deal of appeal to conspiracy theory - and references to BIG-(whatever). In subsequent chapters, he encourages avoiding (vitamin D) supplements, then in the next chapter says they are absolutely necessary. He uses loaded terms like "junk food" - which is effectively meaningless. He appears to ignore the "organic" junk food sold in health food stores - and says that "a company would make very little money telling people to not eat junk food" - but some of these companies are making a fortune on just that! I ended up going to a specialist, an endocrinologist, who actually correlated my symptoms with my blood work and prescribed treatment. I have been fine for the past 2.5 decades, no thanks to my doctor. But you can't have a book like this without a villain, so there you go. Ironically, he warns about mistaking an association with causation. Just because weight has been steadily increasing since the introduction of the guidelines, doesn't mean that the guidelines are to blame...especially if no one was following them. And no one did. Like so much of the science, the guidelines were bent and molded (sometimes aggressively so into something unrecognizable) to suit the needs of all the someones trying to sell us their somethings. Once again, he feels the need to identify a villain. I'm not sure the medical community ever agreed that all calories are equal, though I think that many people (doctors also being people) ultimately developed that impression. Part of the problem is that when it comes to nutrition, the public isn't getting educated by the experts, people who actually study nutrition, but by doctors who don't really know that much about nutrition and by special interests that have ulterior motives. (I dated a physician for several years while in PT school and he laughed when he told me that the nutrition advice he gave his patients came from his mother.) Sounds about right. How doctors are taught to think about nutrition and other preventative health measures, and how they should be thinking.

That said, my experience is despite all their failings, the original guidelines really weren't all that bad. It has also been my experience that very few people followed them. Has your doctor lied to you? Eat low-fat and high-carb, including plenty of “healthy” whole grains—does that sound familiar? Perhaps this is what you were told at your last doctor’s appointment or visit with a nutritionist, or perhaps it is something you read online when searching for a healthy diet. And perhaps you’ve been misled. Ken Berry, MD, FAAFP is here to dispel the myths and misinformation that have been perpetuated by the medical and food industries for decades. Eating Saturated Fat and or animal fat (cholesterol) is not unhealthy (and having high cholesterol is not detrimental to your health) I'm a little more cautions when he begins to claim HRT is 100% fine for women in menopause. There's aren't good studies that show HRT is any more of a link to breast cancer and heart disease. One has to take into account sugar and cigarettes. It depends upon the type of hormones used--were they organically the same as human hormones--then they're safe, after all women had them coursing through their bodies for decades prior to menopause. Unfortunately, I think this particular doctor has parked his car in the keto garage and in doing so has stymied his own intellectual growth when it comes to matters of nutrition as it relates to health. His logic and his arguments are often as flawed if not more flawed than the ones he's supposedly debunking.Interestingly, if you follow this sort of thing, you'll know that the vitamin D craze has lost steam, and there are many studies now questioning the role of vitamin D supplementation as well as its long term safety.