Dr. Berg Fact-checks the Fact-Checker

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so there was a Dr Gil caral who did a factchecking video on me so today we’re going to do a factchecking video on the fact Checker so we got a ton of requests from a lot of you guys to comment on this video okay so the first thing he says is there’s a ton of you that requested to do a video on one of my videos H what what is my channel have to do with your channel I’m just curious like Gil can you just maybe show us uh how many people actually requested this video we’re going to focus only on the substance no ad omms I didn’t Google him I don’t know anything about him I didn’t go watch a bunch of his other videos for context nothing because it doesn’t matter the only thing that matters is whether the claims match the evidence so don’t you hate that when you know that there’s some bad news coming so some negative things about you coming but they kind of prep it with you know oh we won’t look at as a character we won’t we’ll be really nice to as someone maybe pushes you underneath the bus okay let’s continue let’s go this was in 2018 the new guidelines by the American Heart Association okay this is brand new they said total cholesterol is not significantly associated with heart disease okay that’s the new finding they just found out looking at your total cholesterol doesn’t really give you a lot of information with in relationship to predicting heart disease I don’t know what he’s talking about total cholesterol is not the best marker it’s a dirty marker but it definitely Associates with cardiovascular disease with heart disease I don’t remember any American Heart Association guidelines saying that it just doesn’t associate period here’s the 2018 American Heart Association guidelines like he said population studies suggest optimal total cholesterol levels are about 150 populations with cholesterol in this range manifest low rates of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease nobody’s saying it’s the best marker but this is the opposite of what he’s saying I’ve read these guidelines there’s nothing in there about total cholesterol not associating period maybe he saw something else and misunderstood it uh is there anything in the description that he links as a reference okay two links to journals that’s good American Heart Association Journal that’s probably it let’s click here all right sweet um wait this is scientific advisory for dietary cholesterol no way no way don’t tell me this guy is confusing wow wow yep here’s the passage he’s referring to my God generally no significant association with cardiovascular disease risk but this document is the scientific this is the science advisory on dietary cholesterol I think most people understand the difference but just in case all right so that sounds a little bit staged but nevertheless he’s absolutely correct I did make a mistake the American Heart Association did not say that but they did say that the dietary cholesterol is not associated with cardiovascular risk however if you take a look at this paper in 2018 entitled LDL cholesterol does not cause cardiovascular disease a comprehensive review of the current literature under section two does high cholesterol cause atherosclerosis and in summary no association between total cholesterol and degree of AOS sclerosis that’s stuff that clogs up your arteries so Gill point is correct American Heart Association did not say that but another uh paper did say that so both dietary cholesterol and blood level cholesterol is not associated with cardiovascular risk more specifically risk for getting atherosclerosis all right let’s move on particle size no longer predicts risk it’s just like the astri analogy and they add two more lines of evidence okay wait a second let’s go back to this for a second saturated fats and cardiovascular health current evidence and controversies this is an editorial piece it’s not an actual study it’s someone talking about the data and they add two more lines of evidence statins which have a well-established effect of lowering risk preferentially reduce large LDL and number two patients with familial hyper cholesterolemia which is a disease where people have very high cholesterol and very high risk of heart disease they have mainly large ldls and they are at high risk indicating that large ldls are not benign okay the next point he brings up which is rather a long explanation I’m going to summarize it because it gets into a lot of additional things which are a bit complex but basically the point I was making was that um you have two different size particles with LDL you have small dense and you have large buoyant okay and I was making a point that the small dents were more pathological they create more problems than the large buoyant particles and so then he shows several references that it’s not true they’re both Dam damaging especially if you look at the total concentration of LDL if that’s high you know that’s going to be a bigger problem but uh there was two additional studies that I want to show you right now that um came a little bit later than the one he posted this one was originally published in 15 February 2021 small dense low density lipoprotein that would be the small dense LDL cholesterol is the most atherogenic lipoprotein parameter in the prospective gringham Offspring study in the conclusion it says our data indicate that small dense LDL is the most atherogenic lipoprotein parameter and then there’s one more study I want to show you 2017 small dense lowdensity lipo Protein that’s LDL as biomarker for atherosclerotic diseases so this is the conclusion the results of the recent study demonstrate that LDL fractions talking about the low dense versus the um large buoyant okay the two different uh particle sizes have different atherogenicity that means ability to affect the arteries with the small dense LDL being more arthrogenic than the large LDL subfractions small dense LDL is characterized by the enhanced ability to penetrate the arterial wall that makes it a potent source of cholesterol for the development of atherosclerotic plaque importantly longer circulation times of small dense LDL result in multiple atherogenic modifications of small dense LDL particles in plasma that’s your blood further increasing its atherogenicity now they just mentioned why the small dense LDL is more pathogenic because it has the ability to penetrate the deeper walls as as well as having a longer circulation time the longer that a small dense LDL is exposed to the arteries okay it’s going to create more problems and there was some additional data that there’s more oxidation going on with the small dense LDL than the large buoyant okay let’s move to a different topic um one little thing that um Dr Gil kept bringing up was uh this this word we he keeps saying well we did this or we’re doing that um my first thought was I thought you were an independent guy who just basically is putting out the message and and um doing videos on various topics it’s not on his YouTube channel I had to do a little searching and I suspect it’s a a group that he’s a member of and of course I’m just guessing but that’s the only group that I could find so Dr Gil is a member or council member of an organization called true health initiative so let’s take a look at what this organization is plant-based Di for reversing disease and saving the planet okay so this is a plant-based organization all right let’s go down to the bottom and and take a look at the purpose of this organization and what they do okay changing policy changing Minds improving lives we are a global Coalition of world-renowned experts fighting fake facts and combating false doubts about creating a world free of preventable diseases using the time time honored evidence-based fundamentals of Lifestyle as medicine okay so the whole uh mission is to fight fake facts and uh combat false doubts okay all right so t