This is a podcast interview (Ultimate Human Podcast #105) featuring cardiologist Dr. Aseem Malhotra and host Gary Brecker. Early excerpts emphasize Malhotra's view that poor diet is the leading cause of disease and death—surpassing physical inactivity, smoking, and alcohol—and that insulin resistance is the central pathophysiological process behind cardiovascular disease with no effective pill to target it. The conversation critiques aspects of mainstream medicine and the food environment (e.g., junk food sold in hospitals), promotes Malhotra's documentary and prior interviews, and sets up a longer discussion about lifestyle and dietary interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk.
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Poor diet is responsible for more disease and death than physical inactivity. Smoking and alcohol combined.
Cardiovascular disease is still the number one killer. So the biggest killer in the world has been confronted with one of the biggest medications in the world, and it hasn't slowed down. In fact, it's gotten worse.
The main pathophysiological process behind heart disease is insulin resistance. And there's no pill that is effectively targeting insulin resistance.
During my career, we used large data. We were finding lots of trends that were not being echoed in mainstream medicine.
Medicine itself, itself is not an exact science. It's not like physics or chemistry. It's constantly evolving. And in fact, 50% of what you learn in medical school will turn out to be either outdated or dead wrong within five years of your graduation.
You're kidding me.
This is how extraordinary and crazy this health misinformation mess is. When I was working on calls in the hospital, I was like, the food that was available wasn't the most nutritious. There's definitely something going wrong with the food environment here. We've got this obesity epidemic, but we're selling junk food in hospital grounds. That doesn't make any sense.
More than 50% of Americans right now pre diabetic. What would you say are the suggestion steps that they follow to get out of it?
So if we go back to square one, and this may surprise a lot of people.
You are in for a real treat. This guest, Dr. Asim Malhotra, is a board certified cardiologist, a world renowned cardiologist, he's an author, he's a huge advocate of dietary and lifestyle changes. But he's also published clinical research and written numerous papers in the British Medical Journal and all kinds of other published journals. And this podcast was one of my favorite podcasts because we just got real visceral and raw about the corruption in our medical system, very often in our randomized clinical trials, and about what lifestyle choices you could make to completely change your trajectory to cardiovascular risk. In other words, if you have cardiovascular risk factors in your family, high blood pressure runs in your family, high cholesterol runs in your family. And worried. And you don't want to go on statin therapy or you don't want to go on conventional therapy. This is the podcast for you. Please pay attention. You'll get a pen and paper out. I love this pod. I loved it so much that when we were done the podcast, I did a short podcast with him afterwards because the post podcast talk was so good. So enjoy this podcast guys, and remember it's Just science. Hey guys, welcome back to the ultimate human podcast. I'm your host, human biologist Gary Brecker, where we go down the road of everything. Anti aging, biohacking, longevity, and everything in between. And today I have a very special guest on the podcast. I know I say that all the time, but this is an incredibly special guest, Dr. Aseem Malhotra. And Dr. Aseem is a world renowned cardiologist, an author, a huge advocate of lifestyle medicine, and I am really, really excited to run this podcast. In fact, my team gave me the talent research on you. I said, no need, I've got this. I've watched his Rogan podcast. I've watched his documentary. I can't wa. Wait for you guys to listen to this podcast. I can't wait for it myself. We did an entire podcast in the kitchen before we, before we even came into the podcast room. So welcome to the podcast, Dr. Mahal. Gary.
It's an absolute pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me.
It's. It's a pleasure to be here with you too. You know, interestingly, I, I got a call a few months ago from a good friend of mine in, in the UK doctor we call him Dr. E. Dr. Moenyatt. And he and I've been friends for years and he is like, Gary, you, have you heard of Dr. Malhotra? And I said, you know, that name sounds, sounds familiar. He's like, you gotta check this guy out. You gotta have him on your podcast. He speaks your language. I mean, he's right up, right up your alley. And so I went down the rabbit hole of everything, Dr. Aseem. And I gotta say, man, I am, I'm extraordinarily impressed with your background, the fight that you've been on for humanity, your willingness to actually stand up and be criticized in the, in the public square for going against the mainstream. And I really would recommend every, every single person listening to this podcast. I'm going to put a link to it in the notes below. Watch. Do no Farm. That's P H A R M. The documentary that he put together. It's all in layman's terms. It is absolutely eye opening. I watched it once, listened to it a second time while I was driving. Fascinating documentary. It will actually lay the foundation for you for what is causing the chronic disease pandemic in, in this country. And I thought it was fascinating. Your Rogan podcast was also excellent. I, I listened to that whole podcast. So I'm really excited to get going with you today. You know, I often start my podcast because with the same a similar theme and and I think that you fit this theme because I feel like a lot of the most impactful people in the world, the most passionate, the most purpose driven people in the world that are following the calling are doing so because they solved a real problem in their life. They had a real issue. There was some tipping point, loss of a loved one, they overcame addiction, they solved the health crisis that they were having on their own and now they're out serving humanity the way that you were, the way that you are. What was it if any what were it was a tipping point in your life that aha moment as a practicing cardiologist, as a traditionally trained allopathic physician that made you open your eyes and say wait a minute.
Yeah it's a great question Gary. I think there's probably been a number of events that have happened in my life that have shaped me and my journey not just.
