Separating Science from Religion | Gary Fraser, Md, PhD

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Simon Hill

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 26 December 2023

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Episode #293. What can health-conscious people learn from the Seventh-day Adventist Church? Join me as I sit down with Distinguished Professor Gary Fraser, a cardiologist and leading nutrition scientist, to discover the science on why Seventh-day Adventists have better health outcomes. You’ll learn key highlights from Professor Fraser’s 40+ year research and practice career, including BMI and mortality in the Adventist population, the risks and benefits of dairy consumption, omega 3s, and a variety of other health indicators. We also evaluate the key differences between omnivore, pescatarian, vegetarian, and vegan diets, and examine the conspiracy theories that are often projected onto this population. We discuss: Intro (00:00) Discovering Gary Frazier's Scientific Career (02:04) What Influences a Scientist's Change of Mind? (08:17) How to Avoid Bias in Nutritional Data Analysis (15:07) Exploring the Seventh-Day Adventist Perspective on Nutrition and Lifestyle (20:46) Investigating Longevity in Vegetarians and Non-Vegetarians within the Seventh-Day Adventist Community (25:13) Comparing Health and Longevity: Seventh-Day Adventists vs Average Americans (29:59) Analysing Body Weight Differences: Adventists vs Typical Americans (33:30) Muscle Mass and Bone Density: Insights from the Seventh-Day Adventist Population (39:38) The Impact of Protein Consumption and Physical Activity on Strength (44:16) Dietary Variations Among Seventh-Day Adventist Women and Men (48:14) Evaluating the Risks and Benefits of Dairy Food Consumption (51:35) The Impact of Long-Term Diets on Health (1:05:15) Omega 3 Supplementation vs Fatty Fish: What Does Research Indicate? (1:07:19) An Introduction to the Seventh-Day Adventist Church (1:09:00) Uncovering the Story of John Harvey Kellogg (1:12:56) Exploring the Link Between Plant-Based Diet Patterns and Reproductive Health (1:16:36) The Role of the Seventh-Day Adventist in the Battle Creek Sanitarium (1:20:58) Gary Frazier: A Scientist Embracing Seventh-Day Adventist Beliefs (1:24:58) Addressing Major Criticisms of Gary Frazier's Nutrition Research (1:30:24) Diet Comparisons: Adventist Vegetarians vs EPIC-Oxford and British Vegetarians (1:34:49) Assessing Diet Quality in Adventists: Vegans, Vegetarians, and Non-Vegetarians (1:39:31) The Role of DNA Methylation in Diet and Health (1:44:26) Identifying Main Mechanisms Behind Health Outcomes (1:47:03) Investigating Dietary Patterns in Adventists: A Study on Lupus Correlation (1:48:55) Delving into Additional Research on the Seventh-Day Adventist Diet (1:52:08) What Does Adventist Diet Research Reveal About Dairy? (1:54:53) Identifying the Most Significant Dietary Change for American Health and Longevity (2:00:53) Where is the Future Heading in Diet Studies for Ultimate Human Health? (2:05:10) Outro (2:10:59) This episode is brought to you by: If you want to improve your health, you need to measure where you’re currently at. InsideTracker analyses up to 48 blood biomarkers including ApoB, LDL, HDL, A1C, and more before giving you advice to optimise your health. Get a 20% discount on your first order at insidetracker.com/simon. Eimele Essential 8 is a comprehensive multivitamin that is scientifically formulated to complement your plant-rich diet, increase and sustain your energy, support the immune system, as well as heart and brain health. Head to Eimele.com and use code SIMON at checkout for 10% off your first order. Whoop, the most advanced fitness and health wearable available. Your personalised fitness and health coach to recover faster, sleep better, and train smarter. Claim your first month free on join.whoop.com/simon. Simon Hill, MSc, BSc (Hons) Creator of theproof.com Author of The Proof is in the Plants Connect with me on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook Nourish your gut with my Plant-Based Ferments Guide Download my complimentary Two-Week Meal Plan and high protein Plant Performance recipe book

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0:00.0	One study where we looked at a panel of blood metabolites recently, we had about 900 different
0:05.4	panolites. The vegans as compared to our non-vergetarians, all of them adverts,
0:10.4	differed in 600 of those 900 to a significant extent.
0:15.0	So you could make the claim that the fluids that bathe the cells of vegans
0:21.0	have a different composition of the average that the Adventist men were living about seven years longer and the woman
0:35.2	about four and a half years longer. If we took an Adventist for instance who was
0:40.4	vegetarian ate moderate quantities of nuts, had never been a smoker, was careful about
0:47.6	their body weight, exercised vigorously three or four times a week. That's when you got to that 10 to 12
0:54.9	years more for that kind of a very highly observant advenices compared to the
1:01.7	non-advenison California.
1:04.0	In today's episode, I sit down with Professor Gary Fraser.
1:07.8	Gary is a cardiologist and leading nutrition scientist
1:10.8	with a three-plus decade interest in how nutrition affects the health of Seventh-day
1:15.2	Adventists, a particular denomination of Christianity.
1:19.6	If you've heard of the Blue Zones, then the Seventh- Adventists and the town Loma Linda, is likely familiar.
1:26.4	Gary and his colleagues are the ones formerly studying this population of long-lived people. In this episode, you'll hear from Gary on how omnivores,
1:35.6	pescetarians, vegetarians and vegans fare with regards to lifespan and
1:40.8	risk of particular chronic diseases.
1:44.0	We talk about the common criticisms thrown at the Adventist studies, whether the church influences
1:49.6	the research, how Gary separates religion and science, how vegetarian and vegan diets affect fertility,
1:57.0	soon to be published research on diet and cognition, and plenty more.
2:02.0	Enjoy. Finally, it's here, the essential prenatal supplement by a meal.
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