Lies My Doctor Told Me Quotes

“Fourth, take more responsibility for your health. Keeping you healthy is not your doctor’s job, nor your spouse’s. It is your job, and you only get so many chances to work on this. You are made of what you eat, so eat the right stuff. Your brain is filled with the knowledge you put in it, so put in good stuff. You life is filled with what you accumulate, so make sure you keep only what you really like.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“To fatten up any animal, you feed it large amounts of corn and grain, but somehow, magically, you fatten up humans by feeding them fat? That “logic” doesn’t make sense.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“Doctors don’t really want to be nutritionists, they want to be experts on drugs and medical procedures.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“The most powerful and most deceptive medical lie of all, is that your doctor knows everything there is to know about your health, or about medicine in general.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“Less important than what you should eat is what you shouldn’t eat. Some ancestral diets were very plant-heavy, whereas others consisted mainly of animal products. Both sets of ancestors thrived, even though their diets were very different. The few things that none of our ancestors consumed until a few hundred years ago were grains in any quantity, low-fat dairy, and high levels of sugars and processed starches.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“Less important than what you should eat is what you shouldn’t eat.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“This lie originally gained real traction with the publication of the Seven Countries Study by Dr. Ancel Keys, who started collecting data in 1956 in Yugoslavia and finally published his study in 1978. The deeply flawed (some would say dishonest) study appeared to show that eating saturated fat was linked to rising cholesterol levels in the blood, which would then lead to heart disease. Dr. Keys collected data from twenty-two different countries, but when he published the study, it mysteriously contained data from only seven of those countries, hence its name. Are you wondering why Dr. Keys didn’t publish his data from all twenty-two countries? Can you guess? The reason, I kid you not, was because the data from the other countries showed that eating fat either had no effect on the rate of heart disease or actually protected the eater from heart disease. So, the data from those countries was intentionally left out, and suddenly every expert, even the federal government, was telling us that saturated fat had been proven bad for our hearts.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“Doctors are on average very smart people, but that doesn’t make them infallible or above suspicion.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“The gluten and other proteins in today’s hybrid wheat seem to contribute to gut inflammation and leakiness, both of which can lead to body-wide inflammation and possibly even to autoimmune conditions such as hypothyroidism and lupus.”
― Ken D. Berry, MD, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“A Japanese study published in the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism in 2015 reported that high cholesterol does not lead to heart disease and protects against many illnesses, including cancer. This study found an inverse relationship between all-cause mortality and cholesterol levels. What does that mean? It means that the higher your cholesterol level, the less likely you are to die from any cause.”
― Ken D. Berry, MD, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“If you break your leg or rupture your appendix, modern medicine is what you need. If you are relatively healthy and are interested in both optimizing your health and working toward true, meaningful prevention of disease, then modern medicine will probably let you down.”
― Ken D. Berry, MD, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“Doctors are men who
prescribe medicines of
which they know little,
to cure diseases of which
they know less,
in human beings of which
they know nothing.”
― Ken Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“A Japanese study published in the Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism in 2015 reported that high cholesterol does not lead to heart disease and protects against many illnesses, including cancer. This study found an inverse relationship between all-cause mortality and cholesterol levels.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“Stop blindly trusting your doctor and Big Pharma to give you a magic pill to fix the health problems your diet has caused. Stop expecting your doctor to have a magic treatment to correct the damage your lifestyle”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“The Primal Blueprint: Reprogram you genes for effortless weight loss, vibrant health, and boundless energy. Mark Sisson. 2013. This”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

“The gluten and other proteins in today’s hybrid wheat seem to contribute to gut inflammation and leakiness, both of which can lead to body-wide inflammation, and even possibly to autoimmune conditions such as hypothyroidism and lupus.”
― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health

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― Ken D. Berry, Lies My Doctor Told Me: Medical Myths That Can Harm Your Health