Dr. Anthony Chaffee reveals how chronic diseases account for 90% of deaths in the Western world and 74% globally, with the root cause being our species-inappropriate diet. He explains how humans evolved as apex predators for over 2 million years, thriving in Arctic conditions during ice ages when plant foods were unavailable, while agricultural societies only began 10,000 years ago when we developed amylase enzymes to digest starches.
The evidence shows that returning to our ancestral carnivore diet reverses diabetes, autoimmunity, hypertension, and other diseases of civilization. Dr. Anthony Chaffee exposes the saturated fat myth, citing a 2020 umbrella review in the American College of Cardiology journal showing no connection between saturated fat and cardiovascular disease, while revealing how sugar companies paid Harvard professors to falsify data blaming saturated fat instead of processed foods for heart disease.
Key Takeaways
- Humans evolved as apex predators for over 2 million years, with clear evidence of thriving in the Arctic Circle during ice ages when only animal foods were available, while agriculture only began 10,000 years ago
- Chronic diseases affecting 90% of Western deaths reverse when people return to ancestral eating patterns - diabetes, autoimmunity, hypertension, and Alzheimer's improve or disappear entirely
- The 2015 US Dietary Guidelines removed limits on saturated fat and cholesterol after finding no evidence they affect blood cholesterol or cardiovascular disease, contradicting decades of medical advice
- A 2020 umbrella review of all randomized controlled trials found zero relationship between saturated fat intake and cardiovascular disease, but discovered people eating more saturated fat had fewer strokes
- Chronic Disease Epidemic and Species-Appropriate Diet
- Human Evolution as Arctic Apex Predators
- Modern Diet vs Traditional Eating and Pet Health Parallels
- Saturated Fat Fraud and Cardiovascular Disease Research
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[Music] chronic disease. That's the major burden of disease and that's the major burden of disease around the world. 90% of deaths in the western world are from chronic diseases. 74% of deaths around the world are from chronic diseases. So this is um you know this is a major major issue and I think that it is very clear that this is nearly exclusively caused by eating a species inappropriate diet a biologically inappropriate diet. We need to go back to what certainly get getting rid of processed food. But even before processed food, people were still getting these these uh you know different sorts of diseases at much much lower rates and they called them diseases of the west because only westerners got them. Only people in post-aggricultural societies got them. But then when pre-aggricultural societies like the native Americans etc shifted to a post-aggricultural society then they all started getting them and at much higher rates. So I think that's that's very cut and dry. And then when you move back and you start eating to our biological design the way that humans have been eating since humans have been humans, you know, humans have been apex predators for at least 2 million years if not longer. We have very clear evidence that humans have been thriving in the Arctic Circle during the ice ages at a time when the Great Plains in America in North America were under a mile high block of ice. And you're talking about 2,000 miles north of that. What exactly is there to eat besides animals, right? I mean, nothing's growing. Certainly not growing wheat. You know, we only turned agriculture about 10,000 years ago. And we know that because we only started producing things like amalayise, which is a enzyme that breaks down plant starches into constituent glucose molecules. That only hit the genome about 10,000 years ago. It's very, very recent. And then these agricultural societies that spread very widely but not in the other societies that did not go to agriculture at that time. And then as populations shifted to agriculture they they started picking up this this um uh trait for um production of amala. So it's that's very clear to me. You you go back to eating what humans were eating during an ice age in the Arctic Circle and all of a sudden people's health issues are going away. Their diabetes goes away. their autoimmunity goes away and heart, you know, hypertension, high blood pressure starts going away, start putting on muscle, they lose fat, their Alzheimer starts to improve or they never form it in the first place. All these sorts of things are massively improving people's health and it and it's such a simple thing and we see it this cause and effect relationship when people are eating the way humans have always been eating or even close to that they don't get these diseases and then they shift to a post-aggricultural modern society way of eating and they get these diseases of civilization as described in anthropology textbooks and then you go back and eat you know a traditional Okay, it goes away for all populations. So to me, it's probably one of the most obvious things that that exists on this earth. It's it is crazy to me with with diet that it's seen as healthy to to have all this processed food and um be you know now there's this this movement that meat is bad and you know plant-based diet and this and that and it's fine to have a processed burger that tastes tastes like beef but it's nothing to do with beef. Now that is considered healthy but to have a steak is not. And it's just like mindboggling to me that that people believe this. Um, and if you think about, as you said, like thinking about what our ancestors must have eaten, surely that must be the the best way to eat. I mean, people animals don't get, unless they're our pets, animals don't get diabetes and uh and things like that. They know what to do. you know, people were born with the right sort of instincts, but we've we've messed that up over the last uh you know, the last however many hundred years, you know. Well, you know, and that and that's a great point, too, because it's our domesticated pets that that get the exact same diseases that we get. The only animals on Earth that get these these diseases are humans and the animals that eat human food, right? Hey guys, just want to take a second to thank our sponsor at Carnivore Bar. I don't promote many products because honestly all you need to be healthy is to just eat meat. 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You know, dogs and cats are known carnivores and we're giving them grain and plant-based kibble because it makes these companies a lot of money. You know, we worry about processed foods, but then we don't realize that pet food, dog and cat food is largely owned by the processed food manufacturers like Mars, like Mars bars. They make dog and cat food and they call it like you know sexy names like science diet science told us you know put this exactly what should eat you know science tells us that dogs should eat meat science tells us that cats have to eat meat you know so this is this is um you know it's marketing you know they're saying they're calling it science like oh this is the best a bone with meat on it that's the best you know and that's obvious you know an animal that they just caught and are eating. That is the best. Obviously, you know, you can't mimic that with grains and plants because a they don't have the same nutrition and b they have a lot of toxic elements that cause harm. That's all there is to it. Wolves in the wild when eating their natural diet are in ketosis. They do not eat carbohydrates. Lions in the wild are in ketosis. They have tested this and and of course they would be. They're not eating carbohydrates. They're getting fat and protein. So, why would we think putting a dog or a cat on a heavily carbohydrate-rich diet, spiking their insulin and taking them out of ketosis would be a good idea. Obviously, it's uh it's it's very unlikely to do that. There's an immutable law in biology is that of adaptation. What a species has been adapting to and exposed to the longest is what is they are best equipped to deal with. And humans have been eating meat for literally millions of years. multiple millions of years. We've been apex predators for over two million years. That's what all the best evidence shows. And apex predators by definition are carnivores. And then you look at felines and canines and they've been carnivores for far longer than that. And we're saying no, this plant aka wheat or corn or soy that is a human construction that did not exist in nature um before we bred it and created it. No, that that's the ideal food stuff for for all of the above. That doesn't make any sense. We haven't been adapting to this at all for any length of time. You know, 10,000 years is a blink of the eye in in regards to just human existence. You know, if we're talking about the entire existence of of the human species, it's it's literally just a a fraction of of our existence. You know, there there was some sort of analogy. used to say, you know, if you had an entire like football field, you 100 meter field and and you know, and that was all of human existence, we would have been eating meat all the way up until like, you know, the last, you know, centimeter and like that's agriculture. And now it's like it's like two blades of grass and like that's it. That's the only time we've actually been eating plants. The rest of the time we just been eating meat. So, you know, we're heavily adapted to eating meat. We know that that's not harmful. There are no toxic elements in in meat. that saturated fat does not cause heart disease. That is a pure con because that was you know that was um pushed by the you know the mostly the sugar manufacturers and processed food companies and potentially the tobacco companies as well who then bought up most of these uh food companies in the 80s. They pushed that because they needed to protect their own investment in their processed food and garbage that they were selling because that was very likely to be the cause of cardiovascular disease. So they needed to pick a scapegoat and they just dumped money behind it and paid off some of the most prominent professors and researchers in the world from Harvard and elsewhere to lie and and say this stuff. And one of those professors was named head of the USDA. And he was, you know, he he was the one who authored and published USDA declaration in the late 70s saying that cholesterol causes heart disease. Saturated fat increase cholesterol. Stop eating both. This is going to kill you. And we still listen to this nonsense even though it goes it's in direct contravention of the published data and evidence. So much so that the the US dietary guidelines and recommendations in 2015 were actually changed and they removed the recommendation to limit the amount of dietary saturated fat and cholesterol because as they said there's absolutely no evidence that um dietary cholesterol or saturated fat has any effect on your serum blood levels of cholesterol and has absolutely no impact on the development of cardiovascular disease. So they said this this is a non-issue anymore and we shouldn't be worrying about it. They they you know they removed this as a um you know a substance of concern in uh in the diet you know and yet people are still a decade later screaming this from the rooftops. Oh limit your saturated fat to less than 10%. Well you know if you want to go more than that because you know just you know recommendations are just you know it's it's just expert opinion. And that's the, you know, lowest tier on the evidence hierarchy. Okay. Well, let's go to the very top, the tippy top of that pyramid is an umbrella review. So, you have randomized, high quality randomized control trials because you can have poor quality randomized control trials, but high quality randomized control trials and that can tell you something and then you make a meta analysis of those those high quality randomized control trials and that gives you even stronger evidence. But then when you amass enough metaanalyses of high quality randomized control trials, you can actually do a meta analysis of those metaanalyses and that's called an umbrella review. So what the journal American College of Cardiology published in 2020 a metaanalysis of metaanalyses of all the randomized control trials looking at the connection between dietary saturated fat and cardiovascular disease and they found absolutely no relationship. whatsoever between the intake of saturated fat and cardiovascular disease. But in fact, they found an inverse relationship between saturated fat intake and strokes. So people that ate more saturated fat actually had less strokes and people who ate less saturated fat actually had more strokes. And yet we are still trying to tell people that saturated fat you have to avoid it. This is so bad for you. This is absolutely against the available evidence at the highest level of evidence. This is not opinion. This is not conjecture. This is fact. And when you look back at the original vilification of saturated fat, cholesterol, you actually see that it was a complete con and a fraud. And we have hard evidence of that as well, published in the journal American Medical Association in 2016 when they published actual internal memos from the sugar companies detailing how they paid off professors from Harvard and elsewhere to falsify data and publish fraudulent studies and how one of those professors became head of the USDA. So that's where I got that. I got that from one of the top medical journals in the world. This is published literature. This is not conjecture. This is not an accusation. This is a matter of historical record. They made it up. They lied and it has been substantially disproven since then and it needs to go away and die. Will tend to well it's the folk wisdom you may have been taught by you know your mother parent or something like that that you're looking for produce if it has like signs of like an insect biting it or burrowing in you even if that insect is gone. economy it you use oh you don't eat that one that