All Aboard The Weight Loss Express! (DON’T USE)

The figures are just as depressing in the rest of the Westernized world! For example 44.7% of Egyptian women and 25.9% of Egyptian men are living with obesity. Tahiti (French Polynesia): 38% of males and 56% of women; Saudi Arabia 31% of males and 43% of women respectively.

[Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128•9 million children, adolescents, and adults. Lancet. 2017;390(10113):2627‐2642. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32129-3]

What is worse is that 93% of Americans now fail to meet all their basic health markers. Instead, they have one or more parameters indicating a glucose disorder or metabolic disease.

You can’t afford to be much overweight. Obesity is even worse. It’s DANGEROUS. Nobody reaches the age of 100 years who is overweight or obese! Insurance companies know the facts (they have to get it right or they’d go bust) and so they increase premiums for anyone overweight. You mustn’t kid yourself.

And don’t try to gloss over the facts by saying “I’m only carrying a few pounds extra.” You are missing the point. The risk factors go up proportionately and eventually exponentially (very sharp rise) with how much extra you weigh.

Surprisingly, perhaps shockingly, I want to tell you that the pounds of fat are not the real problem. It’s what comes with excess weight that costs lives. Obesity doesn’t just happen on its own. It’s part of a disease picture which includes many other factors related to sugar, grains, manufactured foods with seed oils and the resulting altered glucose metabolism.

In fact overweight is part of a spectrum of disorders, which progresses from overweight, to obesity, to pre-diabetes, to diabetes (you may come across the term diabesity), and this spectrum eventually underpins all cardio-metabolic diseases, from heart attack, age decline (including dementia), stroke, liver disease and kidney failure. We call this progression in its entirety the “metabolic syndrome” or MetS for short.

This killer condition amounts to what is now the #1 “pandemic” in the world. If you are overweight, obese or have any of the above health conditions, you are at risk; not just from the disease but from doctors meddling! See, modern doctors have no understanding of healthy ground zero. They think only in terms of irreversible sickness and make no attempt at solving underlying causes. Their answer—their ONLY answer—is drugs. And when those don’t work, MORE drugs.

They talk about “managing” the patient’s condition. But that only means steering him or her inexorably into an early grave. Fact: diabetes is really just accelerated aging. Patients die 15 years younger on average, even if blood glucose is kept strictly “under control”.

But look, it’s not just about sugar metabolism. The problem widens and includes disordered (unhealthy) blood fats. Nobody who knows anything believes that cholesterol is the villain. It’s oxidized (rancid) fats that damage your blood vessels.

That’s why some doctors—half knowledgeable—still blame cholesterol. If you have high levels of cholesterol and you are not properly protected by anti-oxidants, then you will have higher levels of damaging rancid fats, whether HSL, LDL or triglycerides. That stands to reason.

Still, it is not primarily high levels of certain blood fats that are the main threat but unhealthy oxidized versions of those fats. It’s a little known fact—unknown even to most doctors—that older individuals (over 65 years) with HIGHER levels of cholesterol live significantly longer than those with supposed “healthy” levels.

In fact, apart from young men and women in the age range 24 – 35 years, a Korean study of over 12 million adults showed that supposedly “high” levels of more than 240 mg/dL were associated with a decreased risk in all-cause mortality for both sexes and in every other age group [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6367420/].

Doesn’t that fact alone blow the whole cholesterol theory out of the water?

So how come cholesterol and other blood fats get oxidized? Sugars and inflammatory carbs are mainly to blame. The more sugar we consume, the more unhealthy cholesterol and triglycerides we produce in our livers.

But there are inflammatory fats too. Polyunsaturates—once considered the only healthy dietary fats—are now know to be immensely damaging because of the widespread inflammatory effects they create. Vegetables oils, so-called, are really seed oils and in processing these become contaminated with dangerous omega-6s, which is turn cause other fats to oxidize and turn rancid.

It's quite a complex picture…

But there’s a secret, a missing “factor X; something that unlocks the whole problem and permits knowledgeable doctors to act effectively: what links all these deteriorating metabolic conditions together is an underlying condition we call INSULIN RESISTANCE.

Your doctor will have heard of this but likely he or she doesn’t give it the urgent emphasis that’s needed—indeed essential for you to stay alive. Yet 93% of Americans are now technically insulin resistant and 60% are diabetic or prediabetic. Incredible!

Insulin is supposed to lower your blood glucose levels (and it does). But after a while, if you insist on continuing to eat sugar, carbohydrate-rich grains and seed oils, blood glucose levels begins to creep up. The body stops listening to the insulin message. In a frantic effort to get a result, the body secretes more and more insulin.

But the blood glucose level doesn’t come down. The regulatory mechanism is overwhelmed, leaving blood sugar high and insulin levels very high (but ineffective). That’s why we call it “insulin resistance”; the body no longer responds to insulin.

What we do know is that insulin resistance, as measured by a high fasting blood glucose and insulin, is a very good predictor of obesity, diabetes and early death. You don’t want to go there and yet today’s typical diet is geared very much to creating insulin resistance.

That’s why losing weight, beating this sugar mechanism, getting your glucose and insulin down to normal, and correcting an unhealthy fats pattern is crucial for health and longevity. That’s where we step in! The two doctors…

For this project I have teamed up with my friend and colleague Dr. Graham Simpson MD. He’s been getting stellar weight loss results and diabetes reversal with his patients, using a special MetS protocol involving semaglutide, marketed variously as Wegovy, Ozempic, Rybelsus, etc.

You may have read of the outrageous pricing of these new wonder weight loss drugs; clearly a case of Big Pharma cashing in on a demand and milking it ruthlessly. In the US, Wegovy has a list price of $1,349.02 per month as of 2022, according to The New York Times, suggesting that because of the high costs many people "who could most benefit from weight loss may be unable to afford such expensive drugs". What’s crazy about these prices is that injections are required only once a week: in other words well over $300 per shot.

Could it possibly be worth that much? And what are the side effects? Is it safe?

Well, you know I’m a great cynic of Big Pharma’s efforts to help Mankind! Haha! But it does seem to work. And that’s where Dr. Graham comes in…

So far he’s helped over 200 patients with semaglutide, and every single one has lost significant weight (25 lbs. to over 100 lbs.) and none of them have experienced more than very minimal side-effects.

So to me, that makes him an “expert”. What’s more, he’s happy to work on a very friendly fee scale… NONE OF THE RIP OFF PRICING OF BIG PHARMA!

You all know me anyway, the voice of reason! I have always been keen that good health and longevity starts (and ends) with good nutrition. Being significantly overweight—or even worse obese—is very bad for you.

But I am aware of the difficulties some people face and have always sought affordable ways to help.

Well, this is it!