What is up you guys? I'm back for controversial thoughts and today I have a very interesting story for you.

As many of you know, I love to dig into mechanistic stuff and I love to look at

interventional studies. Sometimes we look at observational studies for what they're worth, but

I think that history and anthropology can teach us a lot as well. If you have heard the

podcast that I've done in the past with Chris Kenobi, you know about the history of COIL consumption

in the United States. And you know that there are striking correlations between the introduction

of seed oils into the western diet and massive increases in chronic disease. These are correlations

only from which we can draw a hypothesis which can be tested, which has been tested, which I will

talk about in this video. And we cannot draw causative inference without making those actual

interventional studies. But if we go even further back, we see evidence of chronic disease in populations

from thousands of years ago. One of the most fascinating of these examples is the ancient Egyptians.

These are perhaps some of the first examples of chronic disease in antiquity, in anthropology. And so

this raises a very fascinating question. What may be Egyptians fat and sick? There are others who have

made videos about this on YouTube. And when I saw those videos, I thought, I don't agree with

their conclusions. There's a video that's very well done from the channel, which is what I've learned,

which has the thesis that it was the introduction of carbohydrates into the Egyptian diet that

caused them to become diabetic. Now, I don't agree with that. I don't think that the large amount

of wheat in the Egyptian diet was fantastic for them. I think this is very nutritionally

bereft and nutritionally devoid of nutrients. But I don't think that carbohydrates per se caused

diabetes. I've talked about that in the past, but I want to show you guys evidence for what I think

actually made the Egyptians fat and sick. And there is a lot of consistency here across thousands

of years, millennia and very disparate populations, which I think points again toward a common culprit

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