568: The Great Plant-Based Con: A Vegan Diet Hurts Your Health & Won’t Save the Planet | Jayne Buxton
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/Cd7eP7Z7H58
Jayne Buxton is an ambassador for the Real Food Campaign and the Public Health Collaboration.
In her twenty years as a published author she has written on a wide variety of subjects.
Jayne is the author of The Great Plant-Based Con: Why eating a plants-only diet won't improve your health or save the planet.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The top nutrients missing from a plant-based diet
- Jayne advocates for real-food diets
- What are anti-nutrients?
- How the anti-meat propaganda started
- The Game Changers documentary exposed
- People in the Blue Zones aren't eating a plant-based diet
- Epidemiological studies explained
- The eat real food message
- Can carnivore diets provide the essential nutrients?
- The therapeutic benefits of ketogenic diets
- The Great Plant-Based Con
- Debunking the saturated fat myth
- Does red meat cause cancer?
- Phytonutrients are higher in grass-fed meat
- The role of CO2 in regenerative agriculture
- Linoleic acid from seed oils creates toxicity in the body
- Soy foods can cause hormonal imbalances
- The problem with the food guidelines
- The trouble hiding in your plant-based foods
- The fear of carbon and methane
- The environmental impact of animal agriculture
- The carbon footprint of plants vs. animals
- Biodiversity in agriculture
- The methane myth
- To eat is to kill
- The truth about human life and mortality
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Related links:
Jayne Buxton - The Great Plant-Based Con (book)
Follow Jayne Buxton on Twitter (X)
Listen to Chris Kresser previously on TUHP (episode #247)
Listen or watch Dr. Steven Gundry previously on TUHP (episodes #202, #287, #404, #461, #538, and #556)
Dietary Guidelines for Americans
American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM)
Listen or watch Dr. Gabrielle Lyon previously on TUHP (episodes #514 and #563)
Dr. Gabrielle Lyon - Forever Strong (book)
Listen or watch Dr. Robert Lustig previously on TUHP (episodes #474, #542, and #561)
Dr. Robert Lustig - Metabolical (book)
The Game Changers (documentary)
Tim Rees - The Game Changers Movie - A Systematic Takedown (article)
Listen or watch Dan Buettner previously on TUHP (episodes #170 and #466)
Dan Buettner - Live to 100: Secrets Blue Zones (Netflix)
Dr. Fred Provenza - Nourishment (book)
Listen or watch Dr. Paul Saladino previously on TUHP (episodes #400 and #554)
Dr. Paul Saladino - Carnivore Code (book)
Listen or watch Dr. Eric Westman previously on TUHP (episode #531)
Dr. Eric Westman - End Your Carb Confusion (book)
Listen to Nina Teicholz previously on TUHP (episode #166)
Nina Teicholz - The Big Fat Surprise (book)
Listen to Gary Taubes previously on TUHP (episode #387)
Dr. Georgia Ede - WHO Says Meat Causes Cancer? (article)
Dr. Christine Jones - Amazing Carbon
Lierre Keith - The Vegetarian Myth (book)
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | The fact that they have these three legs, the health, the environment and ethics, |
| 0:08.0 | makes for this, what I sometimes refer to that as a three-legged stool, |
| 0:11.0 | it's pretty hard to kick over a three-legged stool. If you take one of those |
| 0:14.3 | legs out you can kick it over pretty quickly, but the three legs mean it's very hard to |
| 0:18.5 | kick over, very hard to argue against, because you've got to do it on all fronts. The land cannot survive without animals on it. We would end up with desertified land, land that is dry and brittle that has no nutrients in it because the animals are essential for keeping that land, |
| 0:36.0 | keeping the moisture in the soil, keeping the nutrients in the soil, keeping the carbon in the soil. |
| 0:41.0 | We know that all agriculture is going to kill some animals because to eat is to kill. |
| 0:47.0 | Something must die for us to eat no matter what it is that we eat. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 568. |
| 1:01.2 | I'm Jesse Chappas and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 1:05.0 | Each week I'll bring you long-form conversations with health and wellness leaders from |
| 1:08.6 | around the world. |
| 1:10.0 | This week I'm chatting with Jane Buxton. |
| 1:12.4 | Jane is an ambassador for the Real Food Campaign |
| 1:15.1 | and the Public Health Collaboration. |
| 1:17.3 | In her 20 years as a published author, |
| 1:19.5 | she's written on a wide variety of subjects. |
| 1:22.4 | Jane is the author of The great plant-based con, why eating a plants-only diet, |
| 1:27.2 | won't improve your health or save the planet. And today we're talking about that debate between plants and animals. |
| 1:33.4 | It's a far-reaching conversation. I know you're going to love this. |
| 1:37.1 | Highlights of our chat include the top nutrients missing from a plant-based diet, |
| 1:42.0 | how the anti-meat propaganda started, the |
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