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Why This Doctor Is Trying To Sue Me

I can't believe I would have to make a video like this a health Guru claimed puffing on cigarettes is linked to longer living but now he's trying to extinguish the controversy you guys hear this on Dr Mike's podcast Dr Steven gundry appeared on the ccka podcast with Dr Mike and claimed smoking cigarettes was linked to longer living actually let me stop you right there probably it's because he smoked that he's doing so well Dr gundry sent a cease and desist letter demanding Dr Mike remove an Instagram clip of the interview posted earlier this month you're wrong but how you are wrong I thought it's pretty common knowledge that smoking is unhealthy and shortens lifespan but clearly there's a story here to tell so let's start with the podcast earlier this year I had a chance to interview Dr Steven gundry an Uber popular cardiothoracic surgeon who became a New York Times best-selling author that makes some pretty controversial nutrition and health claims I was actually really happy to have him on my show for two reasons one every podcast he would go on first of all he would get millions of views but he would make some extreme claim with limited to no scientific backing and the podcast hosts instead of challenging it or at least approaching it with skepticism would do the same thing every time it's a secret it's a secret okay there you go wow wow my gosh no really no way wow this is interesting what second he knew that I disagreed with some of his theories and yet he was still open to having a debate on those topics it's pretty rare these days given that most people prefer the other kind of interviewer who just ooze and Oz had claims made especially if it helps their podcast get views the podcast went pretty much as expected with one major exception several times throughout the interview Dr gundry noted that people who lived longer lives could have done so because they smoked cigarettes I mean I pushed back on this pretty heavily throughout the entire interview it made no sense to me that a card thoracic surgeon who has to know how destructive cigarettes are to our health and lifespans would somehow glorify smoking to be clear Dr gundry himself even stated that he doesn't recommend people to smoke nor does he smoke himself so the situation was just really confusing anyway during one section towards the end of the interview we got into a really heated discussion about that very topic our team decided to clip that section and make it into a short and for fear of being disingenuous we didn't any of the dialogue in that section we started with smoking we ended with smoking in fact here's that clip you live longer by consuming a high grain diet in the Leon heart study and you're arguing against those things and you live longer if you smoke in some of these areas but that's not it's not because if you smoke it's in spite of smoking no you're wrong but how you are wrong you know smoking proinflammatory nenic acid is one of the best mitochondrial in Dr British doctor study not good we need to at least end British smoker British doctors who smoke have a 30% less incidence of Parkinson's and because they die of 10 other diseases beforehand oh man this is so problematic even Dr Danielle Bardo preventive cardiologist who also joined us on the podcast was beyond shock that the statements made first of all let's be clear smoking is a proven risk factor for cancer and cardiovascular disease and is the leading cause of avoidable disease in most industrialized countries and this translates very clearly to a shorter lifespan even in the British doctor study that Dr gundry mentions in the clip confirmed the association between smoking habits and many severe diseases including the suspected relationship between smoking and 12 different types of cancer the authors actually found that men who smoked cigarettes continuously died about 10 years younger than lifelong non-smokers while stopping at age 60 50 40 or 30 years gained about 36 n 10 years of life expectancy respectively interestingly on Parkinson's Dr gundry is somewhat correct there has been some research including the study he mentioned that shows smokers tend to have lower rates of Parkinson's disease but we don't really know why even the researchers who analyzed the study wrote very clearly the findings of the study support the protective of effect of tobacco smoking on Parkinson's disease risk however the results do not provide a mechanism by which this effect occurs so it is premature to assume that there is a direct causative relationship between tobacco use and a reduced risk of Parkinson's disease correlation vers causation did two things happen simultaneously or did they cause one another to happen and even Dr Robert Clark who published in the medical journal Neurology on the topic said current smoke is the leading cause of premature death and disability worldwide and any such hazards would greatly exceed any potential benefits of current smoking on the risk of Parkinson's disease but Dr gundry did also mention a protective effect for dementia so let's look at Alzheimer's and Dementia I actually wonder if the Alzheimer's Society in the UK answered this question before Oh yes they have yes science okay maybe that's only one source let's ask the folks at Alzheimer's research UK they write a recent review of 37 research studies found that compared to never smokers current smokers were 40% more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease it's pretty clear that smoking doesn't help and really can increase the risk of Alzheimer's but what about dementia well a 2019 Lancet commission that was actually focused on dementia prevention ended up ranking smoking as third among nine modifiable risk factors for developing dementia look all this is to say smoking is not healthy and it's actually cut millions of lives short it should not be glamorized and any potential associations with benefit cannot be used as a rationale for smoking at best it could be used for studying mechanisms of disease and improving the search for new treatments clearly Dr gundry does not agree with me but he also may not want you to know that given that after I posted that clip on Instagram his team immediately sent us a Seas andth assist to take down that clip they said something along the lines of we made it look like he recommends smoking let's be clear Dr gundry doesn't recommend smoking but it's fairly clear he believes some live long lives because they smoke I hope the information I just provided made it clear that's not true what a mess I hope the takeaway from a situation like this for all doctors especially those on social media is that it's okay to make a mistake it's okay to misspeak but it's not okay to double down on misinformation and certainly not to use the legal system to silence those who are only interested in the accuracy of the information despite all this my battle against misinformation lives on so click here to check out a YouTube channel that's spreading misinformation about weight loss as always stay happy and healthy [Music]

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