April 17, 2025 - Epoch Times
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| One of the pillars has to do with transparency. | |
| Well, what does that mean? | |
| Well, first of all, we're being transparent ourselves. | |
| For example, in the journal, if you're a person that wants to look at the raw data of a paper, you have the right to do that. | |
| We actually have a process by which you can look at the raw data, make sure the statistics were done correctly. | |
| I mean, that's as transparent as you can get. | |
| Just out of curiosity, in many cases, people refuse to provide data when a paper or an outcome is questioned. | |
| That strikes me as odd. | |
| You would think that you would rush to do such a thing or that it would be expected. | |
| Exactly what you're describing would just be the norm. | |
| Correct. And if you remember, you know, there was one pharmaceutical company that specifically said that we could not look at their data for 75 years. | |
| It's like, why do you need to hide your data for 75 years? | |
| And that doesn't make any sense. | |
| Our journal, for example, and again, following one of the pillars, which has transparency, you can look at the peer reviews if you want to. | |
| I mean, if you really want to, I will show you the peer reviews, who reviewed, why they reviewed, what they did. | |
| So you know that everything is legit. | |
| The other pillar has to do with empowering patients. | |
| And by empowering patients, I'm talking about education, education, education. | |
| I believe that if there is a risk for anything, there needs to be a choice. | |
| So my primary goal and the goal of the organization is to make sure that people know the good, the bad, and the ugly. | |
| of whatever intervention they're going to receive. | |
| But they need to also understand what's going on with their primary illness. | |
| Another one of our pillars has to do with the process of primary education. | |
| I mean, we have made it sound like being ill is normal. | |
| No, there's nothing normal about it. | |
| I mean, we need to go back to the elementary schools and start teaching kids. | |
| What is good, what's bad, and how can you prevent things? | |
| I'm not telling you don't eat that donut that you like, okay? | |
| I'm telling you don't eat it every day, but, you know, once in a while, there's nothing wrong. | |
| Remember, we live in a country that is supposed to have free speech and freedom of choice, and I'm a big believer of that. | |
| As a pulmonologist, I see a lot of patients that smoke, and, you know, we do have a discussion about tobacco cessation and education and stuff like that, but sometimes at the end of the day, they need to make it. | |
| I mean, that's a fight that should have been fought early in life. | |
| Not when you have somebody that has been smoking for, you know, 30 years. | |
| Because at that time, you're just fixing an illness. | |
| You're not preventing an illness. | |
| And prevention is one of the primary goals of the organization. | |
| Where do you think you can make or where are you already making the biggest impact? | |
| On this chronic health epidemic? | |
| Prevention. Prevention, prevention, prevention. | |
| With simple interventions. | |
| This morning you heard Dr. Malik talk about the use of vitamin D. Simple little thing. | |
| Vitamin D going out on the sun. | |
| How difficult can that be? | |
| I mean, early in the pandemic, if you remember, we found out that the people that were coming to the hospitals were those people that had low levels of vitamin D, and those were the ones that were dying. | |
| So simple interventions. | |
| Prevention. Keep your vitamins. | |
| If you're a person that has a chronic illness, you already have it established. | |
| Keep it under control. | |
| Diabetes, I mean, so common diabetes. | |
| So keep your sugar under control, but it's not a matter of keeping your sugar under control by keep on injecting insulin or popping pills. | |
| What I do with my patients, I put a continuous glucose monitor on them, and I tell them, you go ahead, you eat, and then you're going to see. | |
| Just the fact that you know that after you ate a banana, your sugar... | |
| We'll make you not eat a banana next time. | |
| I mean, those are the things that people don't understand. | |
| Education is more important than treatment. | |
| For me, it's more important that my patient knows that maybe a sandwich doesn't bring their blood sugar as high as a single banana. | |
| Some people are very slow to change their minds, not as quick as you. | |
| For example, there's a food pyramid that's used in this country that I've come to believe is almost the opposite. | |
| I think there's a South Park episode about this, actually, right? | |
| It's not exactly the opposite, but something quite different, right? | |
| But to actually change, have people realize, wait a sec, the low-fat yogurt isn't the solution, or the low-fat milk isn't the solution. | |
| But I've come to believe that I've lived that way. | |
| It almost feels like it has to be more than just education. | |
| But it's a culture that you need to change. | |
| The whole culture has to change. | |
| I mean, all these low-fat fads, they're a joke. | |
| I mean, they don't recognize that by decreasing the amount of fat, you have to increase the amount of carbohydrates, and you're actually making things worse. | |
| So how do you change that? | |
| And I know that I go back to the same, but it's education. | |
| I mean, if you can start educating people at an earlier age, I'm not telling you about trying to educate people like us at this point. | |
| I mean, because we're going to have all that resistance of decades of being taught that low-fat is good, or that a low-sugar product of whatever kind of thing is better than not having sugar, or... | |
| Having fats or what we've been told that, you know, meats are bad and that they're going to give you all sorts of bad things. | |
| You can do it through science, but in order to do that, you're going to have to have a couple of nice trials. | |
| And then trying to convince our colleagues is very difficult. | |
| One of the things that I have seen in the last few years is the use of statins. | |
| I mean, I know that you have covered this in the past, but... | |
| You know, in the 1950s, walking around with a cholesterol of 350 was okay. | |
| In the 1970s and 1980s, walking around with a cholesterol of 250 was okay. | |
| Now you have people walking around with very low cholesterol because the moment your cholesterol goes over 200, they are already putting you on a statin. | |
| Instead of telling you, you should go exercise, you should go ahead and, you know, do other things. | |
| No. You take your statin because we need to have a low cholesterol. | |
| What they haven't recognized is that there are studies today that show that the lower the cholesterol, the more likely you are to develop dementia when you grow older because your brain requires cholesterol. | |
| So the biggest question I ask people, do you want to be demented or do you want to be heart healthy? | |
| And heart healthy is not a pill. | |
| Heart healthy is an attitude. | |
| It's knowing what you eat, knowing how to exercise, knowing those kinds of things. | |
| If we can, as a society, understand that, Trust me, our healthcare costs are going to go way down. | |
| You're going to have less bypasses, you're going to have less, you know, people having heart attacks, less people on respirators and stuff like that. | |
| Well, the other corollary is there is messaging out there and in some cases very powerful messaging that's sort of acting to maintain the status quo even when it's very problematic. | |
| And that's a problem because, you know, when you are confronted with 20 There's television advertisements every hour that deal with medications to bring down the cholesterol, for example, or that deal with some other stuff. | |
| And there is not one advertisement that tells you, hey, maybe you should go out into the sunlight and take your vitamin D. Then you know that we have a problem. | |
| The U.S. and New Zealand are the only two countries in the world that actually allow advertisement of medications, stuff like that on TV. | |
| That's wrong. | |
| I was listening to a comedian the other day, and the comedian says, You know what? | |
| I want to go on this drug. | |
| And the reason why I want to go on this drug, even though I don't need it, is because everybody's happy on that advertisement, everybody's smiling, and the kids are coming around. | |
| I mean, that's what we are bombarded constantly on that culture, like I call it. |
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