How Nutrition Misinformation Spreads 2: Fact Checking Dr. David Diamond's Response

I always look forward to your content. Thank. you for your hard work. I wanted to make sure you know there are many of us out here who appreciate all your efforts.

Excellence, as always, Chris. :) Edit: @22:15 - it's crazy to me that a scientist wouldn't point out that relative risk is a 'in the moment' explanation of risk while absolute risk is a 'over time' explanation of risk. The idea is that absolute risk delta increases as time under treatment extends (1, 5, 10, 30 years... the absolute risk reduction continues to increase). It's irresponsible to make fun of the data here and not point out that incredibly sobering information.

Another great video! I was told 2 years ago, by a doctor, to look into Dr. Bikman and follow his advice to lose weight, and help me with insulin resistance. I watched some of his stuff, but knew I needed to be plant based instead, I had gone plant based before. My son, then was on Dr. Bikman's son's baseball team, and I couldn't put my finger on where I knew him from. I finally told him that I watched his stuff on Youtube, he asked if I had done it. I said no, I went plant based instead! Today marks 2 years of plant based, and I have lost 70 pounds, and feel better than ever! Thank you for helping so many of us!

Thank you for your videos! I adopted a plant based diet when I became a seventh day Adventist 6 years ago. My crohns disease has now been remission for several years and no longer on medication after basically a lifetime of suffering.

Dr. Bikman says "humans cannot live a purely plant-based diet; it is impossible." I've been vegan since 1988. I'm still here. Being impossible. Or not human. And I'm not even the oldest or longest standing vegan I know. So . . . that's embarrassing. How does he square longtime vegans with his claims of impossibility?

excellent video as usual and can i just say, as someone who is just finished with university and is understanding how hard it is to find these papers without being a part of an institution that paid for access to these sites that hoard the papers, thank you so much for making all this available for the public.

I almost feel stressed out by this video, not in a bad way. It's just that I often imagine how things are made. Just the references in this video alone -- finding, poring over, checking, collating, explaining all of them -- it must've taken a lot of research, work, and time. And imagining taking on this task makes me feel second-hand stress, especially since the polished final product never shows everything that went into it. The fact that there are scientists who are willing to do this work and create this content is awesome. This is one of the good corners of the internet :)

As the son of a research professor, it is heartening to view your great presentations, Chris. I saw growing up that it's not easy to make a career in research, and I am grateful that you are showing what diligent, competent science can achieve to give us guidance. Good science can assist us in finding out what to eat to promote good, long-term health and well-being. You are doing millions a true public service! I really admire how you truly manage to keep an even keel in the midst of ad hominem attacks and many types of bushwa. Bravo!

I'm so glad I found your channel! This is just astonishing the gaslighting these doctors are providing! I was planted-based well before this due to trying to reduce/control some of my ADHD/ASD symptoms, but knowing that there are people like yourself and Dr. Nagra who know the ins and outs of these studies is just priceless! Since then I've realized that not only did it help with my symptoms, but greatly improved my health. Then I realized it wasn't just for my health, but the well-being of trillions of animals consumed yearly on top of being healthy for the environment as a whole! Keep up the great work and look forward to any and all the videos you post! =)

The biggest shock to me as a British person was that for once the Daily Mail wasn't spreading misinformation that harms ordinary people

If anyone is looking for a lengthier explanation on relative vs absolute risk, be sure to check out Gil Carvalhos video (nutrition made simple) on statins! Another awesome video Chris, always so excited to see them pop up in the feed

Amazing. Total destruction of the misinformation crew. I don't think they can really come back from this. It becomes apparent that they are resting upon their taste buds and not on science.

Nutrition science is one of the most fascinating topics. Thank you for trying to show us the signal in the noise!

Gosh, how stressful for you to get so much unwarranted push back from other ‘scientists’ who are not as scrupulous as you about telling the truth. I have watched a lot of the talks you reference and have, in the past, been confused by the varying advice. I’m so pleased I found your channel. You are such an intelligent and interesting person and I have such respect for you after watching many of your videos. I hope you have a great time with your family in Japan 🙂👌

It's so disheartening to see people so blatantly spread such misinformation. Using ad-hominems, falsifying claims, bad maths and statistics. Thank you for doing these! During my physics degree, we had a course in ethics in science, and one of the things we did was to analyse some articles (picked by the lecturer) to see if we could discover some fiddled data or stats. It was an eye-opener to see how easy it was to gloss over such things, but also how easy it was to disprove them with a simple check or calculation of your own. Unfortunately, people like Dr. Diamond speak to audiences who don't have the ability to check his claims or stories. And that someone with a science background would completely misinform their audience and trivialize incredibly high impact results and even how to interpret such results in general is just mind-boggling!

Thanks for your channel. 1 year vegan and 3 months no alcohol (not a problem- just a test for a year). Your channel has sent me legit nutrition advice around the internet. Thanks for your good work and your family’s support.

For those that would like to read in a browser as opposed to watch, you can select the ellipsis (3 dots) next to the download button and select "show transcript." Great work!

So they recommend a diet to people which raises LDL and tell folks statins are useless. Well that's one way to avoid overpopulation....

Thanks for the work Chris, even from the way you present on screen I can tell these take a mental toll. With how measured your responses are and how carefully you seem to choose your words, the way some of these people come after you personally is unacceptable and painful to watch. I sure am glad that somebody is doing this, though.

Great way to spend lunch, watching another of your videos. My twelve year old said, " There is another Planchompers!" I'm sure she is the only 12 year old who knows Ancel Keys, thank you again for putting science first. Vegan for life!