Link to WaPo opinion piece (no paywall) https://archive.ph/mR9iU

Link to Cochrane review on masking https://cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD006207.pub6/full

Links to University of Minnesota commentaries https://cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/commentary-wear-respirator-not-cloth-or-surgical-mask-protect-against-respiratory-viruses

https://cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/commentary-what-can-masks-do-part-2-what-makes-good-mask-study-and-why-most-fail

Link to fatally flawed CDC study https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm

From Andres's show notes:

"Despite what we want to believe, cardiovascular disease does not only start once we are in our 50s and 60s. As we welcome Kevin Bass back to the Know Your Physio podcast, we hear his opinions on cholesterol, the medications to take, and opinions on collected long-term genetic studies. We don’t hold back on having a controversial conversation around starting the reduction of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in your mid to late 20s, the role of genetics in our predisposition to cardiovascular health issues, and how we need to look at things from an environmental, health, and nutrition perspective. Kevin tells us about his preferences and opinions on the different interventions for LDL cholesterol reduction and how he aims to (one day in the future) create a risk reduction calculator that will look at and create a risk-benefit profile. Plus, Kevin discusses his feelings toward Andrew Huberman, consulting medical professionals, and some signs of when it may be time to start looking at taking prescription cholesterol medication!

Key Points From This Episode:

• People in the fitness industry who are pissing Kevin off.
• Different calculations people can do to determine their risk of cardiovascular disease.
• Interventions for LDL cholesterol (including prescription medication) and their side effects. 
• A look at how to reduce LDL cholesterol.
• Kevin’s opinions on Andrew Huberman.
• Unpacking cardiovascular disease considering your genetics and potential preventative measures. 
• Why Kevin believes people 25 and older can start cholesterol medication.
• Where Kevin gets the long-term genetic studies data from.
• Analyzing and interpreting data on cardiovascular disease to create a relative risk reduction.
• Why Kevin wants to create his own risk reduction calculator and risk-benefit profile.
• Signs people should start looking for when deciding to take cholesterol medication.
• Questions to potentially ask your doctor to help you identify your cardiovascular risk (and why they may be unlikely to prescribe).
• A look at the purpose and benefits of statins, metformin, and rapamycin.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

The Diet Wars

Kevin Bass on Twitter

The Kevin Bass Show YouTube

Debunking Andrew Huberman

BiOptimizers

Andrés Preschel

Know Your Physio Podcast"

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From Andres's show notes:

"When it comes to nutritional science and social media it can be uniquely challenging to differentiate fact from hype. Here today, to help us unpack the topic of scientific influencers and misinformation is Kevin Bass, an MD and Ph.D. student, and founder of The Diet Wars, a site dedicated to upholding evidence-based nutritional research and exposing figures who spread nutritional and scientific misinformation online. We dig into how social media can incentivize the spread of misinformation, why these systems need to change, and take a closer look at the growing community of evidence-based nutritional science experts and influencers online. Tuning in, you’ll learn how to identify legitimate scientific influencers, and what red flags you should look out for when trying to avoid misinformation. Kevin also breaks down key areas of misinformation including how to combat sun damage, the so-called harms of seed oils, and how saunas can realistically benefit your health. Combating misinformation online is a huge challenge, but we can all find ways to better navigate the online space by thinking critically and by asking the right questions. Tune in for this important conversation on nutritional science, social media, and much more!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Learn about the power of Magnesium Breakthrough by BioOptimizers.
• Introducing today’s guest, Kevin Bass.
• Kevin’s early encounters with medicine, misdiagnoses, and how it informs his perspective.
• How current systems incentivize misinformation in the nutrition space.
• The growing evidence-based community in nutritional science and on social media.
• What sets evidence-based nutritionists apart from their counterparts.
• Tips on how to discern which experts to follow online.
• The benefits and harms of sunscreen use, and suggested alternatives for sun protection.
• Some of the advantages of early morning sun exposure.
• An overview of general attitudes toward seed oils and what is based on fact versus emotion.
• The role of anti-nutrients in certain foods and how they can work synergistically with other elements to produce positive outcomes.
• Examples of how influencers misrepresent information to sell their products on social media.
• What regular blood work can teach you about your physiology and your risk factors.
• How using steroids as a health professional affects your credibility.
• An overview of saunas, their potential benefits and harms, and how to utilize them appropriately.
• The science behind cold exposure, weight loss, and building resilience.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

BiOptimizers

The Diet Wars

Kevin Bass on Twitter

Public Health Initiative Against Misinformation

Magnesium Breakthrough

Red Pen Reviews

Layne Norton

Peter Attia

Dr. Mark Hyman

Rhonda Patrick

The Peter Attia Drive Podcast

Andrés Preschel

Know Your Physio Podcast

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For the past few months, thanks to @derek_barbellmedicine (and thanks to @austin_barbellmedicine for referring me to him), I have seen big improvements in my back pain and stiffness, and I'm able to train my sport and lift with less pain than I thought possible.

I have been struggling with lower back pain for more than a decade, and the idea that simply strengthening and progressively overloading my back using the very movements that cause it to hurt has been a welcome challenge to my belief system.

For that reason, I couldn't recommend the folks at Barbell Medicine enough.

However I still have serious reservations about the kinds of programming and the culture of weight lifting, powerlifting, resistance training, etc. that I believe led to my back problems--starting in my teens--in the first place. I believe that intelligent programming is not communicated and that the fitness industry systematically overstates the benefits and downplays the risks associated with misuse of powerful barbell exercises.

By misuse, I mean an excessive emphasis on intensity, high loads, etc., with little to no supervision and minimal education about intelligent programming. Without that supervision or education, injuries are inevitable.

What the fitness industry does at this point is what I call "outsourcing of risk". It takes credit for all of the benefits of resistance training, sometimes overhyping them out of proportion to what an impartial evaluation of the scientific literature really shows, but then, when risk is discussed, blaming all of that risk on the misapplication of resistance training by the user.

What this common response to discussions about risk misses is that, if marketing and overhype take center-stage, and education about risk-reduction and appropriate programming is given short shrift, then the responsibility for harm is not with the user, but with the fitness industry that overpromises and undereducates--elevating both sales and rates of injury.

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In this video, I talk with Kevin Folta about glyphosate, Roundup Ready, Monsanto, GMOs, biotech, and science communication. We talk about some of the current controversies in agricultural science and try to explain how they came to be.

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Does lifting weights automatically make someone healthier?

Not so fast.

One recent study showed that current and former power athletes (wrestlers, judo players, and powerlifters) have higher rates of metabolic dysfunction than non-athletes, despite a lower body fat percentage and, for active athletes, a smaller waist circumference (PMID 30148100). See figure in post.

Being big and strong does not automatically make someone healthy. In fact, the opposite might be true.

With our culture’s current obsession with muscularity, isn’t it important to know that muscularity might come at the price of health?

Enter studies of the mortality rates of former athletes. Consistently and internationally, they show that endurance athletes have a marked longevity advantage, mixed athletes have a slightly lower longevity advantage, and power athletes have a much lower advantage, even in some cases dying slightly earlier than the general population (PMIDs 33368029, 23241272, 26301178, 28149523).

One study published last year, meta-analyzing studies of more than 165,000 athletes showed that power athletes do not live any longer than the average person in the population. In contrast, former endurance athletes enjoyed a full 35% reduction in risk of death at all ages (PMID 33368029).

A new paper even showed that longevity benefits were maximized at 1-2 hours of weight training per week, after which they declined precipitously and even increased above the average population at 3-4 hours per week. That’s right. The average gym bro lifting 3-4 hours per week had a higher risk of death at all ages than the potato chip bro playing Xbox. This was despite lower metabolic and diabetes risk, probably due to increased amounts of muscle mass (PMID 35228201).

It’s true that weight training helps to stave off sarcopenia, an important cause of declining quality of life among the elderly. But the benefits of higher muscle mass can be gained without needing to become a bodybuilder. In fact, it might be more healthy to hit the treadmill more and the weights less.

Learn more at THE KEVIN BASS SHOW.

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Do seed oils cause inflammation? Are heated seed oils bad for you? Are seed oils part of a global conspiracy by agricultural and pharmaceutical companies to ruin our health and profit from it? Kevin confronts these questions head-on in this podcast.

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In this episode, I have more fun with Bart Kay talking about nutrition and health. My connection this time is better. We end by disagreeing about LDL cholesterol and cardiovascular disease, a subject we will take up further in the next discussion.

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In this podcast, I debunk Paul Mason's nutrition science book chapter in the book Clinical Sports Medicine by Brukner and Khan. Through a critique of just the introductory section, I show that it is not a work of science. If Paul would like to see further debunkings of the other sections (which in many cases are worse), please let me know and I would be happy to do further videos.

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In this discussion, Bart Kay and I talk about on the ethics, environmental effects, paleoanthropology, and nutrition science of meat consumption.

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In this episode, I talk about how Joe Rogan recently lashed out at the agricultural scientist Kevin Folta when Kevin discussed an alternative interpretation of the scientific data that was different than the one that Joe preferred and was familiar with.

Following lockstep with Chris Kresser, an alternative health guru that has been deeply influential on Joe, Jhee has been misled to believe that all exposures to glyphosate are harmful, no matter how low the dose, and expresses anger and outrage that legitimate scientists disagree with him about this topic.

I point out that Bruce Ames more than 30 years ago wrote a very influential paper called "Dietary pesticides (99.99% all natural)" (PMID: 2217210), where Ames pointed out that many natural pesticides present in plants already constitute a much higher exposure of "carcinogens" than synthetic pesticides.

I also point out that regulatory agencies are nearly unanimous in agreeing that glyphosate is not carcinogenic, that glyphosate is much less toxic than many natural pesticides, and that the exposures to which consumers are subjected at thousands of times lower than the doses required for even mild biological effects.

In other words:

THE DOSE MAKES THE POISON.

Finally, I defend Kevin Folta and point out that he defends glyphosate not because he is paid by corporations (he isn't), but because glyphosate has made agriculture more efficient and safer and has helped feed millions of people. I point out that misinformation about glyphosate and agriculture can lead to higher food prices and less ability for farmers to feed millions of people.

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