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Please provide the evidence that metabolically health people will benefit from LNT (lifelong nattokinase therapy)
By the way I am favorable of it, I want to merely see the nature of the logical and intellectual consistency
thank you and good luck David
consider using nattokinase, which is available at a discount from Toku Health
tokuhealth.com/DAVID20
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I can own my tone without walking away from this fight. I lived at 350 pounds. I watched what obesity did to my family. Here is why the fight over obesity and nutrition is personal to me.
toward.health/why-obesity-an…
ALT Dr. Tro Kalayjian holding a microphone beside the words: This fight is personal. Obesity, nutrition and why I speak up.
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This is exactly correct 👍🏻
N-acetylcysteine (NAC), an OTC supplement, is useful for many conditions, from lupus to OCD and even alcoholism, by delivering cysteine, a sulfur amino acid.
But it may be useful only because most people don't eat enough animal protein, which has a cysteine content of up to 6%, with dairy having the highest.
It seems possible that many of the conditions which NAC treats may be caused or exacerbated by low dietary protein.
Vegetarians are particularly likely to have a sulfur amino acid deficiency, and the RDA for protein is too low.
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Drugs decreasing plaque volume: high-intensity statins, PCSK9 inhibitors, ezetimibe (+statin), icosapent ethyl.
These also reduce cardiac events (MACE).
Numerically lower CV deaths: statins, icosapent ethyl, some PCSK9i data, colchicine, bempedoic (primary prev).
Statistically lower events: all listed lipid drugs + colchicine (MACE trials).
All-cause mortality: robust for statins; mixed/numerical for others (IPE, alirocumab); not for ezetimibe, bempedoic overall, colchicine.
Unclear event/mortality but used by metabolic docs: nattokinase, K2/MK7.
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Bret, please allow me to correct you. There has also never been a study on lean-mass hyperresponders, who started ezetimibe on a Thursday of a blood moon, who also had an uncle whose barber lost an eye in the war that demonstrated 1.23562 more years of life and no side effects while adjusting for calories.
"There's no RCT showing statins or ezetimibe extend life in lean mass hyper-responders. So doctors who prescribe them are misled."
The first part is technically true. But here's why the conclusion doesn't follow. 🧵
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Why did LDL drop 53% on ezetimibe in keto patients? A 14-patient series showed marked drops, but selected responders do not tell us what happens for everyone. Read the full interview: toward.health/interview-towa…
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Clarification and apology
- I said on @LCMDPodcast that Ezetimibe lowered cardiovascular mortality in a clinical trial - it HAS NOT done this - it was remained neutral for cardiovascular mortality while decreasing cardiac events.
I mixed this up with Icosapent Ethyl which DECREASED cardiovascular mortality and events.
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Why did LDL drop 53% with ezetimibe in 14 keto patients? A new case series shows marked response in selected individuals, but does not prove mechanism or heart outcomes. Read the clinical interview: toward.health/interview-towa…
ALT Dr. Laura Buchanan speaking beneath the headline “Keto & High LDL? The Ezetimibe Question,” with the Toward Health logo in a white rounded badge.
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For lazy gymbros and peptide maxxers @grok summarize the above evidence
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DoctorTro retweeted
So basically you are saying that BEFORE I show you data and looking at it honestly you believe you have data to contradict it 🤔
I’m so glad I asked you what type of data you needed to change your mind because the answer is NO data WILL lead to honest discussion
It’s not worth my time to engage with ignorance
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Common sense stopped being common
Nice find!
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DoctorTro retweeted
You have no reason to be in this discussion, frankly... you jumped into a conversation where someone claimed food “doesn’t contribute” to obesity.
That’s why I brought up losing 150 pounds and keeping it off, and our published average of 43 pounds lost. Not to talk about my self, as you are suggesting.... those outcomes literally don’t explain the national trend. They DIRECTLY challenge the claim that food is irrelevant.... why did you ignore that?
Yes, obesity prevalence has fallen as GLP-1 use has risen. I’m not disputing that. I’m disputing the leap from “these trends track together” to “GLP-1s caused the entire decline.” Let alone by someone who literally doesnt understand nutrition.
How do I know he doesnt, here is a study showing seed oils blunt GLP response compared to olive or lard. How inconvenient for the peptide maxxers
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
Also in same timeframe, people have also been questioning nutrition dogma, and low-carb diets have gained recognition in diabetes care in 2019. CDC stopped pushing carbs in 2022. The new dietary guidelines emphasize real food in 2025. None of those trends, on their own, tells us how much each contributed.
And a drug working does not prove the disease is caused by a deficiency of that drug. Antibiotics treat sepsis. Sepsis is not an antibiotic deficiency. GLP-1 drugs act on appetite pathways; that doesn’t mean food sits downstream of a “broken hypothalamus.” THATS literally STUPID and the reason I wrote the post NOT to talk about myself as you accused me of. Literally to point out a gap in knowledge... which I did quite bluntly.
The problem here is people talking about shit they dont understand pretending to be an authority when they arent.
Your solution, accuse me of being selfish? Get over your ignorance and help him get over his.
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In a randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial, 17 men with type 2 diabetes took 10 mg of melatonin one hour before bed for three months and placebo for another three months. Researchers used a glucose clamp, a direct experimental measure of insulin sensitivity. Insulin sensitivity fell by approximately 12% during melatonin treatment...
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you can read our whole take on melatonin here -> toward.health/melatonin-hear…
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