Episode 101: The Epidemic That Is Driving The Pandemic and what you can do about it.

Clearly most of us are to some degree pre-occupied with the lastest news related to covid-19. The Stats, locally, regionally, globally and the limits of our own confinements as we come to terms with own confinement for the next month and figure out how to make it work…. peacefully...stop the fighting kids. The variety of media has become our staple for this information especially around what the forecast are how concerned we should be.

I don’t know the facts any better than the next person and I have my concerns as to how accurate they are. I do know however that seasonal flus are generally experienced worst by those with hyper-insulinemia meaning insulin resistant. This generally also means those who are very overweight, obese, and morbidly obese. Just in this last week, articles have be have been coming out in major newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, New York Times, WSJ, Sky news in the UK. This ‘new’ (rather buried) perspective anticipates that the worst is to come as Covid-19 settles into the heartland of the US where the obesity rates are nearly 50%.

New, more specific and insightful, references are being made to  the 1918 flu pandemic and the fact that there were actually 3 waves of the ‘Spanish Flu’ (the old, then the young, then the middle aged) similar to now… but so far we have just experience the elderly be most effected. According to the stats from the NYC  chaos there is nearly no distinction between age groups. It’s no longer just the elderly but IT IS still more people with ‘co-morbidities’ that are tightly associated with obesity and insulin resistance.

To receive that information and not interpret it as some sort of societal prejudiced against heavy people, it’s
1) important to know what insulin resistance is, and
2) what you can do to put that odds in your favor of not falling victim to this version of the flu, Covid-19.

It’s not rocket science, and nor is it too late to make changes the would immediately benefit you.

Links to articles referenced:

Corona Virus and The Elephant in the Room Sky News 3-22

Obesity increases risk for coronavirus complications: report. 3-26

Americans Are Already Too Diseased to Go Back to Work Right Now. Nyt 3-30

The huge burden of obesity and other chronic conditions among people in the U.S. puts most of us at direct risk.

Report on 196 patients critically ill with COVID-19

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Transcript

spk_0:   0:01
Hi, This is Dr Karl Goldkamp. If you're interested in learning about the ketogenic diet like I was to save my own life, then this is probably the podcast for you. Eight years ago, I knew nothing about it. Six years ago, it saved my life. Three years ago, I started researching and talking with some of the authorities in the field and attending medical conferences about this to understand why and how Keto so dramatically changed my and my wife's lives. The first of this podcast is to share our journey of discovery with you and understanding how Keto is so effective in improving so many different conditions from obesity, epilepsy, diabetes, infertility, MS, Alzheimer's, heart disease, to name a few. So take a step away from all the hype you've probably heard and roll up your sleeves with me and join me weekly to explore this living miracle that anyone can access. We'll talk science. We'll talk food. We'll explore its history and evolution to today, which is that the sheer wonder of the ketogenic way of eating has changed untold number of lives, unlike anything before.  In case I forget to mention it, please join our Facebook group Keto Naturopath.  

spk_0:   1:15
Hi, this is Dr Goldkamp. Welcome back to another episode of the Keto Naturopath. We're living in unusual times for sure.  Today is March 30th 2020, and as anybody who's able enough to listen to this podcast, you're probably paying attention to the media on a daily basis. And, you know, clearly most of us are to some degree preoccupied with the latest news related to covid-19 the stats locally, regionally, globally and the limits of our own confinement, to come to terms with how we're living for the next month and to figure out how we can make it work peacefully. Stop fighting kids. That's for all of us.  

spk_0:   1:55
By the way, the variety of media has become our staple for this information, especially around what the forecasts are and how concerned we should be. I don't know the facts any better than any other person there, but I have my concerns of how accurate they are. I do know, however, that the seasonal flu is generally experienced worse by those with hyperinsulinemia, meaning insulin resistance.   I think you've probably heard this before on this podcast,  I am going to  go a little deeper this time. This generally also means those who are overweight, obese, morbidly obese.  

spk_0:   2:33
Just in this last week, articles have been appearing out of major newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Sky News in the UK med page, which I'll read the headlines in just a second. The new, rather buried perspective, anticipates that the worse is yet to come with covid- 19 as it settles into the Heartland of the U. S. , where obesity rates here is as high as 50%. The states with the highest obesity rates that come to mind are West Virginia and Mississippi.  

spk_0:   3:04
Mississippi has been very reluctant to do social distancing, shelter in place, and residents to stay at home, so we'll see what happens.  New more specific and insightful references are now being made to the 1918 flu pandemic and the fact that there were actually three waves of the Spanish flu  The first did affect the old and then the young, and then the middle aged.  The combination is what made it so devastating similar to now, but so far, we've only just experienced the elderly being most affected.   Certainly that was iconic or what was going on in northern Italy and Lombardi specifically.  According to the stats from New York City, the chaos there, there is really no distinction between any age group. So they're now coming in, except for the very young, they're now coming in equally exposed and equally contracted and equally expressing symptoms.  So it's no longer just the elderly. But it is still more people with co morbidities. That is other things going on that are highly associated with obesity and insulin resistance to receive that information and not interpret it as some sort of societal prejudiced against heavy people, it's important to know what insulin resistance is.  

spk_0:   4:28
Of course, what you can do to put the odds in your favor of not falling victim to this version of the Flu, Covid-19. This is not rocket science by any means. We don't have to drill down to understand the molecular structures and reasons why certain things work and others don't. It is more about social distancing and sheltering in place to let the virus mutate to the point that it's not affecting. Yes, it's to flatten the curve as we hear flatten the curve so we don't overwhelm the health care facilities, which is easy to do and is being done in this country.  The story that's coming out is really something else. That is. now we've seen China.  Supposedly, China's numbers have not changed in the better course of a month, and they're even opening up the mass transportation system. I think that's wonderful, if that's true, but I don't know.  China is obviously one that does not want their information, the dirty laundry to get out to the public media.  Italy, on the other hand, is where we all watched it happened and to the point that they've had to make choices and nobody ever wants to make. And that is the idea that not everybody can get the same treatment because the facilities can't handle that many. So they have to triage, which means they have to take a guess on who they can help the most.  Those people are the ones that are treated the others were left on the gurney, in the waiting room or whatever. That's pretty tough choices. That's pretty emotionally devastating for everybody.  And then such people die by themselves.  

spk_0:   6:10
This is not, by the way, this broadcast is not to go off on the negative. This is to get a little more insight where I don't believe is being represented in the public, but I'll show you that's starting to be represented in the public. I don't have any more secrets than anybody else. Okay, then there's another aspect is that  when we talk about waves. The reference the waves in the 1918 epidemic was really about three different mutated waves. It affected three different demographics. In essence, there's another way of talking about waves. I got this from a blogger that I follow from a New Zealander,  Keith Woodford.  I've got to know him 13 or 15 years ago.

spk_0:   7:00
He wrote that the Devil's in the Milk.  He was the first to really come and elucidate the difference between the A1  and A2 casien and the difference that has on people's immune system and so on, so forth. He's in agronomist and so basically he's concerned about the economy of milk.  The economy of the agricultural industries in New Zealand and how they relate to Australia and how they relate to New Zealand. So reading his blog you get a sense of the economy through the agricultural economy. But what's happening in that part of the world that also happens in United States?   It's a nice supplemental way of looking at what's going on in the world. So in his reference and he's very big, very deeply he sees three different waves as well. The first way was in China in the second wave was in Italy and in the United States. But the third wave is for all the countries that have yet to really report in  The countries that in no way have healthcare systems to handle this and more. Unfortunately, they have no way to keep people in their homes. Who are the people who will follow up with you to see if you are going to shelter in place.  

spk_0:   8:13
So that is another way, an altogether different way of looking at three different waves. I never quite thought of it that way, but some of the articles that have been coming up and you'll hear one of them because it's a news broadcast from the UK,  but, , let's start with about a week ago on  March 23rd (today is the 30th), so about a week ago exactly.  We have Americans unfit to fight a pandemic, epidemics of obesity, sedentary habits, and chronic stress.   This is a nation with core baseline health and it goes on.  That's actually in a, I'd call it a semi medical journal, and it talks about what we've always known. You know, we talked about it since the early eighties. You could even go back and say, arguably the mid seventies. I don't think it's quite back that far. When we saw those charts begin to climb, what brought on obesity? We all point to something. Is it the processed foods? Is it the high consumption of sugar? Is it the  chemicals that were put in?  I guess you could come back to processed foods, but is it the high carbs? Because we then came out with guidelines in '77 saying no, you should have low fat and high carb diet.  

spk_0:   9:26
Well, that was disastrous. And so now we're trying to dig out from under there. And if you're anybody who grew up in the northern latitudes, it's digging out from under a very heavy snowstorm of bad misrepresented.  I think,  manufactured information. You know , I say it's another example of manufacturing consent by Norm Chomsky. That's a concept that he would talk about, how that's what would happen.  I think so. I think so. But however you get there, the reality is such that you need to drop the carbs very quickly. You really need to start thinking about what you're doing, and you need to stop making excuses for yes, I'm stressed, yes, I'm this. At some point, some little sliver of discipline has to start. Whether that's truely changing your routine by pushing away the processed foods. If you want to start at that very light step, hide them away. Put him in the cupboards. You live in a family and other people ask them to do that. Set down some basic ground rules to get it out of your sight now,, Obviously you could go way beyond that. You can throw it all away. There's no carbs for the most part in your kitchen. Since we're all at home, we have something called a kitchen. Could be a cupboard, Could be an apartment. Could be a one burner cook stove or whatever. And the cubbyhole that's underneath that. So,  out with carbs. Ideally, you have some little fridge that you can keep good quality of meat. It doesn't have to be meat, beef, chicken, fish. You know that list, but we're gonna all call that whole food protein. Okay, whole food protein means it is not a protein powder. It means it's not a cupboard of supplements.  It is real food - so out with carbs!   

spk_0:   11:11
If you want to have carbs, there are salads - organic salads.  The reason we say organic is because you don't want the pesticides. It's just such a dark hole to go down to talk about that. Part of my practice was all about exposing the poor quality of most of our produce in the grocery store because of the pesticides.  Go to Environmental Working Group and they have their list called The Dirty Dozen. The top worse produced items that you could eat and then the clean 15 which are the least contaminated.  That's pretty much where we're headed.  The problem is this message isn't getting out, and the problem is that it's very easy to stay on track with a terrible diet and think you're doing okay. You can justify it because you had are a bad day.  You can justify because these are the easy foods to pick up. You can justify it because you want to feel good.  We now have talked about how feeling good with process food means you're feeding your dopamine fix and you're gonna feel good at the end of the day because whether you are the at home parent or partner who's taken care of  the kids or whatever the things were that need to be taken care of at home and the other person was out working came home.  The day as all adults, they justify their actions by saying, I put in a good adult day. I was an adult for eight hours. I don't have to be an adult anymore. I can sit back and, used to be you'd have a drink,  but now it's  - I can have my fast food.   I can snack for a while before dinner. I can  load up on cheese. Right?  

spk_0:   12:51
Cheese is one of those things you don't hear much about in the Keto World because it's just too politically incorrect. I don't buy it. I love cheese as much as everybody else. But I also know what cheese does, and that's another three or four podcast.   Feel free to look those up. So where are we now? So now we have Med Page Today, it says, you know, my dad made a Costco run a few days ago, blah blah, blah.  From cart to cart, I saw boxes of soda chips, candy bars, a lot of frozen chicken wings. The picture epitomized bandage based approach we have in this country towards health and disease.   This came out  the same day.   It was from the UK called The Metro.  Is says that obese people are at higher risk from the Corona virus.  Let's see if I can fill out something pretty quick here. The mean age of covid-19 patients was 70 years old, and one of the major risk factors for admission to intensive care is obesity. They're putting it right out there. Is obesity what they should be saying? It is insulin insensitivity. If you want to say that insulin resistance is too much insulin to keep your glucose down. You know when you think about. We now have cars waiting in line to be tested, and they have dry through testing, and that's a nasal swab. That's nothing to do with getting a shot.  

spk_0:   14:14
As people do actually get blood work done, they should do a fasting glucose and insulin in the very least.  Then they could throw in C R P.    That's the inflammatory marker.   If they just did insulin, $5 tests  Glucose is a $2 test. For all of 10 bucks you could cover and you would have data showing you that this  is actually, the thing that we're after.   When the flu comes in, it hits those with the highest insulin first, and those those with the highest insulin and non normal as an elevated glucose levels. So So there you go. If that  collection of data was defined, we would know to protect them.   We would know to address, to bring in the information, to bring in the education, to bring in the treatment for this particular group of people and say, These are the things we need to do to change.  And you know all those things we need to do to change. Well, now we have this pandemic here, but we could go back to the mers, epidemic or the SARS epidemic and we could see the data there.   We could say 'This is the data as much as we know it' because weren't taking it that carefully back then. But a lot of people did come into the hospital to find out if they had SARS or MERS and they did get some of these other tests. So the data is there to show who is most affected.  To just limited by age alone is really an ignorant way to go nowadays.  It's just like height and weight.  You know, it's like, that's not really that helpful.  Nor is age that helpful. Yes, it's relevant, and things as we get older, obviously can get worse for us,  but they also can be addressed and get better for us, so it doesn't have to be that way.  

spk_0:   16:11
Let's go a little deeper. So I'm advocating all of five, what'd I say was $10?,  You could do it for$5 I'm sure.     Maybe even less. And you had set a whole new visual perspective of the population that can be treated proactively, ahead of time, well after the pandemic passes this time.   We aren't  thinking about that right now , and nobody will want to go back and say, Golly, you know, there are some lessons we've learned. Nobody's going to want to hear about it. That's the thing about crises and calamities. It's sheer chaos, and nobody wants wants to go back and remember the darkness of that chaos to extract the lessons that could clearly be applied to the next calamity,  chaos, health crisis.   I don't mean to sound like an AM talk radio show host, but there's some obvious things that can be done.  Only now are these articles  coming up saying - This is exactly the case. It's obesity. It's not just age. It's  a lot to read here, but it's very interesting. I will post these on the show notes because I think these are great things and it gives you that perspective. But you could pick your country. You could go to Turkey.  If you want, you can go to Iran and Iraq. Obviously, they do not have the obesity concern as much as we do, but they do have it.   See who was most affected by the flu.  Once you have this sort of honey pot for the virus, others that have nothing to do with this particular  qualification in terms of insulin and glucose and and insulin resistance are more than likely to be affected.  

spk_0:   18:07
The other thing is that you can have insulin resistance 10 years before you have somebody who is noticeably overweight.  10 years before obesity.    10 years before diabetes, we'll call it pre-diabetes. But it's even pre-pre-diabetes. Most doctors don't diagnoses pre-diabetic because they don't know enough to do insulin before they see the signs and symptoms that you're probably a diabetic, you know, things like things like weight. But things like hypertension and too much sugar in your urine. Some of the obvious things that you could have spotted 200 years ago, certainly more than 100 years ago. So these change can be made pretty easily.  

spk_0:   18:51
Let me bring up this one that just came out today, March 30th. This is in The New York Times. Americans are already too diseased to go back to work. Right now, the huge burden of obesity and chronic conditions among people in the U. S. puts most of us at risk. Is that amazing?  I don't know why this is coming out now. It should have come out  years ago. I think they're running out of the drama of Covid-19 and Sars covid to whatever you want to refer to. It is causing all the problems. Now, it's like, huh? Yeah, this absolutely is right on, and and they're doing a great job relative to this. So here we have a news broadcast from they got Sky News in the UK, and this came up March 22. So you can sort of see how I won't say it's manufactured consent on this, but there's a trigger when somebody starts telling the truth. And when it's a pretty big broadcast or a pretty big journal or pretty big newspaper than they all want a piece of it, and they go back to hopefully the source of that information. But here you listen to this - the first couple of minutes -and I'll shoot to the end.   I love the way they do interviews on the news. This guy, the newscaster, introduces a speaker and then shuts up doesn't interrupt him all the way to the end. Here we go. Take a listen .

spk_0:   20:25
Interviewer: and team is Well, it makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? To be as healthy as possible. Doctors are looking for a vaccine, but while they're doing that, there's a sensible call for us to all have a balanced lifestyle. Well, let's talk to cardiologists Dr Asseem Malhotra Good to see you this morning. I mean, we know obviously that people most at risk have got compromised immune systems. What do we therefore do to boost to bolster our immune systems?

spk_1:   20:55
I think the first thing to say before we talk about that. I think it's really important issue, you know, continually reiterated on sky news. People must must maintain social distancing. So that means I think we all have to behave like we've got the virus. Whether we're asymptomatic, we've got something and keep away from people as much as possible. If you have to go out and talk about that and maintain a two meter distance from the person that you're with now the elephant in the room. Steve and all of this, which hasn't been discussed so far is the people who are most vulnerable to severe complications from this virus have chronic metabolic disease. So

spk_0:   21:30
Hear that ?  The elephant in the room those that are most affected by the virus that nobody wants to talk about, suffer from some form of metabolic disease. What is  metabolic disease means, and he will later go on to define it. I'll give you my very paraphrase way of defining it. It's diseases that obviously affect your metabolism,  but its affects your metabolism by starting with chronically exposed or consistently high levels of glucose, which then means you've had consistently high levels of glucose. It means your insulin isn't even strong enough to get your insulin to keep your glucose down to normal levels. So you already losing  the fight. So even before the glucose gets up, your insulin's gonna be high for, and some people think, even 10 years before your glucose is actually abnormal. So for those 10 years your insulin was never taken by your family physician, you were getting worse and worse. You were getting a metabolic disease.  it could be certainly diabetes  which is a metabolic disease. So you have diabetes. You have heart disease. You have vascular disease, as we've talked about before. Pick the part of your body. Most people are biggest concern is obviously about heart and certainly about brain. So you have cerebral vascular conditions, you have cardiovascular conditions. Then you can even go to phlebitis, which is another vascular problems with rest your body. So it begins there and then it starts to affect more and more inflamation. More, more inflamation affects things like your joints, and therefore, you have your arthritis. It begins to affect more and more things.  Now you get organ problems to start  to happen. Then you get endocrine problems that start to happen. But we'll just go on from there.

spk_1:   23:17
I looked at this data quite extensively If you look at Italy, the average age of death, of course, was older  the population 81. They have the oldest population in New York. Yes, but they average person who died had at least 2.7 chronic conditions. It's included high blood pressure types of diabetes, smoking and cancer in Wu Han, more than 60% of the people who suffered major complications and tragically, many of these people died had type two diabetes or high blood pressure.

spk_0:   23:45
Did you hear that?   Wu Han?  You didn't hear that before.   Probably this is now going through the data set more than 60% of those who died in Wuhan. So if you imagine the numbers you're getting out of Wuhan, whether they're just cases or those who died, you remove them, in other words, they didn't, pretend  in a fictional world that they did not exist because they're all healthy over there, right? We tend to have a stereotype that Asians are healthier, they're not obese and so on so forth. That might have been 100 years ago. It's not now they have very similar diets as us unfortunately, very high carb, etcetera, etcetera and processed foods. So 60% of all of that  would bring it under the radar of an epidemic or barely at an epidemic. It would be back to the levels of maybe SARS and lower than MERS.  So when you take that, this is the whole point,  If you take that out of all the numbers of being reported, you then are left with, would there be an epidemic? Would there be a pandemic? That's what the name of this podcast is. The epidemic within the pandemic. This is the driver, So insulin, resistance, metabolic disease and all its variations is the driver for the pandemic. Interesting.

spk_1:   25:01
Now the reason I talk about the elephant in the room keys is that the general health, unfortunately of the British, American and many European people is dire. We have six out of 10 adults are overweight or obese in this country, similar in America, only 17.4% people in the United States and metabolically healthy. Now why is that important? Well, first and foremost, if you have high blood glucose,

spk_0:   25:27
did you hear what he just said? Only 17.4%. That's a pretty specific percentage, by the way, are metabolically healthy. That's less than one in five people. So if you're at any gathering , wherever you are and you look around you, less than one in five people ,call it one in six for the most part, pretty close to one in 6.  1 in six people are metabolically healthy around you. Oh my gosh, that's huge. 17.4 percent is the percentage of people who are metabolically healthy caught in the West. He's primarily many of the U. S and the U. K.

spk_1:   26:11
Because if you're pre-diabetic or type two diabetic, then you have a dis-regulated immune system. Your white cells are not function optimally. The same applies to people who are overweight or obeseas well, we know people who were there.

spk_0:   26:22
So again, I hate to interrupt him because he's really heavy with the information it dis-regulates your immune system. Your white cells do not respond like they should. See your white cells are your immune system, right?  Your immune system is your moral order, and it can go on from there. It's different kinds of your four different kinds of your white blood cells and how they mount an immune response to either bacterial or virus infection. And so when you don't even have the ability to coordinate that, which is really what he is talking about, you don't have the ability to coordinate your white blood cells to coordinate your immune system. The little things end up being a big thing, and they can't be expelled.

spk_1:   27:03
Obesity so form or complications from influenza. So I think this is a really important message of people need to get across now. It's not all doom and gloom because, as you started, you know, in the intro, you said that we could do things from a lifestyle perspective. Well, lifestyle changes. Steve can actually have an impact on people's health within weeks to months. We know Type two diabetes, for example, can be.

spk_0:   27:22
And that's my point. Lifestyle interventions, which we've all been talking about. Drop your carbs, yada, yada, yada. We've said that too much here, probably is that that does not take a long time. You can start doing this now as a family. Make it a family project. Now's a great time. It's like everybody's gathered back around the hearth, asthey used to say.   Remember the fireplaces that was the center of 150 years ago or 200 years ago? I know times have changed, but now it's the kitchen, gather around the kitchen and saying, We're gonna do things differently here. We're going to be a healthier family. Wouldn't that be a great little family come together story, even if it's just you and one other person? Frankly, even if it's just you and you, it's a great conversation to have. Let's start now. We're all in our houses. We can either drink ourselves to death with excuses. We can either eat all the poor quality foods, primarily fast food carbs for all the excuses. Or we can make a change

spk_1:   28:21
put into remission up to 50% of cases within months of changing lifestyle that all these things need to be thought about. Now what? What would I advise? What I'm advising my patients. What I'm advising the public to do about this? Well, first and foremost, the problem with obesity and excess body fat is really related to all process food. Part of the diet in Britain is ultra processed food. We need to curb that considerably. A lot of people are gonna be at home now. This is a great opportunity to think about spending more time cooking, nutritious foods, think about what you eat is gonna impact your immune system, and the likelihood is that we are probably all at some point gonna get this virus. The question is, are we gonna have mild symptoms are more severe symptoms. If we look after our health properly now, we can protect ourselves from severe illness. So eating nutritious, whole foods, cutting the ultra processed foods and snacks, the crisps, the chocolates, all that to a bare minimum. If we can do that, we're already on a good way to better health . Being active now, a lot of people are gonna stay a home. I understand that. CrossFit health. Have a website, three website where people go online. Look at home exercises. Physical activity is a major problem. William Byrd There's an article today in the Sunday Express. A new story William Byrd, whose and advisor to the World Health Organization of Physical Activity is estimated that just from three months of being inactive extra three months on, in addition to the next entity we already had, could result in an extra 7000 deaths in the next one year in the UK So what can we do about that simple things going out for brisk walks for 10 minutes a couple of times a day and boost immune system Really important. Some strength training at home. You can do home exercise, so I really stressed that. Very importantly, the other thing is sleep. We need to try and ensure. I know, it's difficult. People very stressed. Right now, we need to try and ensure that we could get at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep now. One quick anectdote, though many years ago, working as a junior doctor working very busy shifts, I suffered the worst bout blue I never imagined and what happened leading up to that was three things. One is I was very stressed. I wasn't sleeping. I was snacking on junk foods and then to make the situation worse, I then over trained I over exercised.   I ran for an hour at high intensity. Actually, what many people don't realize If you over exercise, you do too much it depresses the immune system for at least 24 hours. So let's just think about this carefully. And of course, let's do what we can to reduce our stress levels. You know, it means connecting with family members, even if its via skype,  or on the phone, doing things that we can try and enjoy doing in the household, but also getting out and getting some fresh air. If we do all of this, Steve, it's not just an opportunity for us to help save many lives from the corona virus, but moving forward. We will get through this. We will get through this. Our health care system will be in a much better place in a year or two from now because one of the reasons we're not coping with this crisis is because of these call it. Metabolic diseases related to lifestyle over the last couple of decades that have increased  have meant that our healthcare systems were already overstretched. We've now got the Corona virus involved. This is a complete public health crisis, as you know,

spk_0:   31:31
A couple things, he said. He obviously talked about exercise and great references. So myself and Judi, my wife who you now know, is that we are actually  starting to film what we're doing, which is basically Dr Ben's workouts with bands and some of own variations of that. But you really do need to come up with, and there's plenty of places of doing this,  we will be posting some of this in the blog because it is just as you saying it's It's a metabolic intervention by doing at home exercises.  Were gonna be more high intensity focused with resistance training. That's a big deal. He talked about sleep and how you get there. The exercise will help, but these things, I'm going to post these links,  but I also posted out in our Facebook group, by the way, is what a basic protocol for helping your immune system. If you're into something like that, if that's of interest to you, will put a link and you can do an opt-in on that one.  That's totally free. But some basic things that I hope you're hearing that you can do and the reason Judi and I are gonna start doing this and for our Facebook group and maybe put it on YouTube, we have no desire to be YouTube aficionados or influencers is we're just average people doing this, and it's important for average people to be doing this. And this is what moves the whole society is when the average person and people in community whatever average now means becomes healthier because they're just doing the basic things. Okay, don't let it just be the affluent that have the time and money to go to their clubs. You don't need a club for this were all at home or all hunkered down. We all have the same limitations, 99.9% of us. So we'll share those. And I hope you'll view those. This isn't a plug for that, but it's to say that we're doing exactly what he's saying is, well, I just happen to re hear this and realized that's what we're doing to continue.

spk_1:   33:23
Well, to be honest, a lot of that

spk_0:   33:25
sounds like common sense, you know, eating more fruit and veg, you know, cook cooking stuff from scratch. And as you say, a lot of people are gonna have more time to do that now. So it's a good time to be getting into that habit. But you started off talking about metabolic health and poor rates of metabolic health.

spk_1:   33:42
What does that actually mean? Well, metabolic health, essentially, Steve sit for in simple terms is basically lifestyle. Things that we do is part of our lifestyle that have adverse effects on conditions related to excess body fat. So high blood pressure probably about 50% of high blood pressure is related to excess body type two Diabetes is a condition of, you know I will call the ultra processed food disease, Really too many refined carbohydrates and sugar in particular. Unhealthy fat.

spk_0:   34:11
Did you hear that? Type two diabetes is ultra process food addiction addiction.

spk_1:   34:19
These contribute to that. And, of course, heart disease cardiovascular disease, which is obviously my area of expertise, is related to these conditions or risk factors. Smoking. Let's not forget smoking. There's still a relatively high prevalence of smoking has come down dramatically in the country over the last few decades, but if you smoke, then you're much more likely to have complications from respiratory viruses. So this is the best time or best time than ever. But there's no better time than now to stop smoking As well. So you combine all these conditions with obesity, then these are what we call the chronic metabolic diseases. And also I know it's, you know, a lot of people can't do much about this now, but moving forward, we think there is a very strong, uh, evidence to suggest the these chronic conditions relate to, you know, poor lifestyle choice is also a big contributing factor to development of cancer, too.

spk_0:   35:10
Okay, I see, as always, Good to talk to you. Thank you.  

spk_0:   35:14
Isn't that a kick in the head? It was fast. It was intense. It was fact filled. And it's the same old song number of us are saying. So I hope you appreciated this and that. So I would say we're all we're all hunker down together now, really. And we're finding the limitations of our tolerance towards each other as we live in, Whether it's multiple people in the same place or just you and your partner or whatever is that exercise has to be part of it. That really is a key to getting along with each other. For one, um, the other is really getting out the processed foods, really getting out the carbs and,  working on getting a good sleep. So I will leave it at that, and I am going to put in the links to these particular articles certainly to this news broadcast.  To our immune protocol we put together, and I hope that helps. I hope you really take this home and saying, You know, now is the time to start. There could be in a very backhanded way. A gift here in that gift is we've now come back to our family. Our nucleus centers, right? The nuclear family that is supposed to be disappearing. We're now back to a nuclear family, even if it's only for a month. And in that restructuring, temporary restructuring, we can have conversations like we didn't have before that have actually lifesaving. So until next time, Thanks for listening. This is Karl. Take care.  

spk_0:   36:44
Hi, this is Dr Goldkamp. I just wanted to encourage you to send in your questions to Drgoldkamp@ketonaturopath.com  Many of you have And so what I've done with these questions that gotten back to mostly people by email But some of the questions that were so good and if they're overlapping to other questions, I would combine them and try to put that into the topic of a podcast either via one of the micro topics that are covered in an interview. As you know, we cover a lot of topics in any given interview or some of my own sort of reporting, if you will, on some of these issues. So please keep the questions coming.  

spk_0:   37:26
Feel free to send in an email and I will get back to you. One thing I want to say. A number of questions have come in in which I've given this answer and the email didn't work. So just make sure that you're receiving at the same email that you sent it in. And I think that might have been the difficulty. So I look forward to your questions. I just wanted to make sure that you knew that I'm open to answer your questions. And I think this world of Keto is not just black and white. You know, it's nice that it's simple, but it's not simple for some. I'm really trying to, you know, go down as anybody, any of you who have listened to all my podcast. We started way back when history, evolution, epilepsy and so on so forth, you know. Now we're seeing some tremendous overlap in various mental disorders, schizophrenia or neurological disorders that are not just epilepsy and also just for people and losing weight. It's sometimes pretty complicated for them to engage in Keto, and so they need some help. And so that's the whole point of, at least that's what I think I'm doing is exploring the world. Why are there other factors? So in exploring some of those other factors, we've covered addiction. We've covered hormones.  We've covered nutritional deficiencies. We've covered certain metabolic lab results and we'll go further. We'll even get to more on genome and aspect. So these are all just contributions that make for an obstacle for some people to engage easily in the ketogenic diet. This is my belief and these are things that I've discovered, and I think other people have discovered some of these things but not ever put them together. So stayed listening. Send in your questions and I will definitely get back to you.