I'm often asked what my opinion about a diet or disease is.

Who cares what my or anyone else's opinion is?

Always you care about is what the science says.

What does the best available balance of evidence

published in the peer-reviewed medical literature

have to say right now?

Welcome to the Nutrition Facts Podcast.

I'm your host, Dr. Michael Greger.

Did you know that a single meal high in saturated fat can impair

artery function for hours after consumption?

Here's our first story.

We are only as old as our arteries.

What can we do to preserve artery function as we age?

A poor diet and send our behavior can lead to adverse aging processes

like impairment to the little power plants in ourselves

which can result in free radical formation,

and oxidative stress and inflammation which leads to

artery dysfunction that can end in the cardiovascular disease that ends us.

In a series of videos that it about a decade ago,

I discussed this landmark research showing that a single high fat meal could

cripple artery function within hours of consumption compared to no change in the

low fat meal.

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