You're attributing extreme claims without citation or context.

loeg · 2025-01-09T00:28:25 1736382505

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n28W4AmvMDE

22:31 - "fructose is addictive"

No. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27372453/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28330706/

25:14 - "the fiber is what mitigates the absorption ... that fructose wasn't for you"

Not how that works. You absorb the same fructose whether or not it's co-located with fiber.

33:40 - "this whole calories in / calories out makes no sense ... there's no study that actually shows that cutting calories makes a difference"

Completely wrong and against the literature. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32238384/

1:00:17 - "fructose causes leaky gut; that causes inflammation of the liver and ultimately systemic inflammation"

No. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29757229/

1:31:10 - Asked to explain trend towards obesity over the past 20 years if not the transition away from trans fats. "It's the increase in sugar."

No. Sugar consumption has fallen steadily since about 1999, while obesity continues to rise. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31938015/

2:03:40 - "The mean increase in lifespan from being on a statin is 4 days."

No. They have a huge positive impact on mortality and CVD events. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32619724/

2:05:10 - "LDL is not really the problem, there are two LDLs: large buoyant, small dense. Large buoyant is irrelevant, cardiovascularly neutral."

No. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31642874/ (small particles do penetrate easier, but large particles have more apoB; they're both bad)

2:26:39 - "when people go on diet sweeteners ... are they reducing the fat? no."

Wrong again. There's a wealth of literature on this. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33168917/

Directly following that, he goes on to totally misrepresent a 2011 study in which groups were assigned diet soda, water, milk, or full sugar soda; the study saw diet soda participants gain less weight than the water group and actually lost fat. (All other participants gained weight and fat.) That's https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22205311/ .

If he isn't a crank, he should stop going on podcasts and saying crank things.

And finally, he's a pediatric endocrinologist. Not a specialist in many of the subject areas he makes claims about (cardiology, gastroenterology, nutrition).