hey it's mike here and today i'm gonna respond to dr mike's very recent video about how he had alarmingly high levels of cholesterol i didn't expect this at all um my cholesterol is through the roof and i don't want to have a heart attack i don't want to die it was a brutal wake-up call for me i first want to say it is very commendable to take a personal flaw and expose it on social media and make it a teachable moment most people on social media do not want to expose any of their flaws you've seen the filters that exist nowadays they're ridiculous that being said in this video i do want to talk about how some of the goals that he was setting in terms of cholesterol as ideal are actually maybe a little bit flawed we're going to go into the science on that and then there was also a food that him and a lot of people who eat a standard american diet think is like a great healthier food in a healthier direction and i'm going to be arguing against that as well also i just want to say that this video is sponsored by seed with their daily synbiotic they're super eco cool companies so we're going to get into that in a little bit but let's just go for those that don't know dr mike is a doctor that also has a youtube channel and his recent video which was titled this was my wake-up call which is the one we're covering has over a million views so a lot of people are seeing this and i will say he does great on a lot of subjects in my opinion but then there are some that i have to disagree with a little bit like the time you may remember that i responded to his video that was sponsored by the pork board where he was more or less making some excuses for red meat consumption and eating pigs and on and on but it appears that he took that video down or i'm just really bad at searching youtube despite it being my job for like over six years anyway that means that he noticed that maybe it wasn't the best public health message and took it down or who knows the story behind it either way it appears that he tends to try and fix things so in this video he actually does two blood tests one when things were really bad and then one five weeks later and just at the starting point he says this is how it happened my cholesterol levels were quietly going through the roof because i was consuming a lot of saturated fat a lot of fried foods unhealthy foods a lot of red meat giant steak like it was way too much red meat he also said that he was eating a weird schedule where he's almost intermittent fasting and then binging all of these atherogenic foods but still only eating like NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN calories which explains why he was able to maintain a normal bmi i mean i'd be starving if i was eating that little he then calls in dr danielle bellardo who is a cardiologist who as far as i know is vegan and they don't mention she's vegan that's neither here nor there but she does give him some good advice of of course lowering your dietary cholesterol and eating at least NUMBER_TOKEN grams of fiber a day
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN also i just want to say that this video is sponsored by seed with their daily synbiotic they're super eco cool companies so we're going to get into that in a little bit but let's END_SPONSOR_TOKEN