I've spoken to many of the top names in
plant-based medicine but I've never
shared an interview quite like this one
if she got her life back you can't put
that into words this video seized of the
Milton Mills of what the health Fame as
a form of us who finds racism oh you can
talk about life dad and how his daily
struggles influenced him as a doctor
sometimes people ask well if like you
know why are you carrying around extra
weight I've met him briefly before and
it was very clear that he doesn't hold
back when it comes to responding to
critics what I would say to Joe Rogan is
Joe Rogan you need more fiber in your
diet because you're full of it I had so
many questions I wanted to ask him
starting with why he thinks we are
herbivores by design look at the way
human beings are actually constructed
anatomically and if you look at our
physiology we are truly strict
herbivores and that's why when we depart
from a strictly plant-based diet we
become ill that's why Anna dies they
contain large amounts of animal food are
associated with a number of chronic
diseases like heart disease cancer
diabetes autoimmune diseases high blood
pressure stroke the more we eliminate
animal foods from our diet the healthier
we are and again it has to do with the
fact that we are really designed to eat
a strictly plant-based diet yeah yeah
and I guess for the people that want to
know how specifically we're designed
anatomically to eat plants you just have
to look our physiology like the jaw
structure the stomach acidity the length
of our intestines stuff like that what
do you say though to the people with a
say that might be true but the only
reason we're here today is because we
ate meat back in the day unless we
survived
because of me what'd he say to that yeah
there there are a number of people who
have advanced these theories and number
one none of the people putting forth
those theories are physicians and the
reason I make that point is because if
they
understood what meat does to our health
and to our physiology they would never
make that argument first of all there is
no way that Stone Age humans could
possibly hunt efficiently enough to
gather enough animal food to make that
their primary means of gaining nutrition
number one number two people have come
up with theories saying oh well okay
yeah it's clear that humans couldn't
hunt well enough to collect enough meat
to to live off of
so human being scavenge well that's a
ridiculous statement because it's clear
that we do not have the physiology of a
scavenger I mean every at least in
America every Thanksgiving people get
sick from eating poorly cooked turkey
and that's a turkey cooked in a you know
thousand-dollar stainless steel range
that has temperature control there's no
way people eating rotting flesh
you know burned in some fire could
possibly hope to sterilize that flesh
well enough to prevent themselves from
becoming ill so we clearly are not
scavengers furthermore most large
Savannah predators don't leave enough
tissue on their kills to scavenge and if
there is food left
they guard those kills jealous jealously
and don't allow other animals including
humans to actually come and try to
scavenge from them and then lastly there
really is no advantage in human beings
eating large amounts of protein there is
no point to consuming huge amounts
protein because it's not healthy for its
number one the human brain is mostly
fatty tissue it burns
pure glucose which comes from
carbohydrate protein is not the
preferred energy source for our brain so
eating huge amounts of protein is not
helpful for us because our bodies can't
store protein and so any protein that we
take in over and above what we use on a
daily basis which is approximately say
50 to 60 grams
of protein on a given day is converted
into carbohydrate anyway and that
process of converting that protein into
carbohydrate is very energetically
costly it dehydrates us and therefore it
doesn't pay for us to try to eat huge
amounts of protein because it saps too
much energy uses up too much water and
doesn't get us any physiologic benefit
so again it doesn't make sense that
humans would have wasted a lot of energy
looking for protein that doesn't help us
and there's a researcher out of UC
Berkeley by the name of Kathryn Milton
who has this absurd theory that meat
caused humans to develop large brains
number one it's an illogical argument it
makes no sense whatsoever before the
reasons that I just outlined
there's nothing about meat that in any
way stimulates brain development and if
in fact eating meat or hunting
stimulated brain development then the
carnivores would have the biggest brains
of all animals or and they don't and
which is why if you have a dog he still
drinks from the toilet you know they're
not very bright so yeah there's there's
there's nothing about me
that in any way is important for brain
development or brain function in fact in
terms of the intelligence it requires
much more intelligence to learn how to
exploit plant-based resources in an
environment because number one you have
to be able to recognize wait a minute
these plants over here are flowering
that means that in approximately 90 days
there these plants are going to be
fruiting so I have to one remember where
these plants are in the environment I
have to be able to tell time so I can
come back and then collect these fruits
when they're available and then take
these fruits and cache them so that I
will have a source of food that's gonna
last me for
time and not only that once you
recognize that dynamic that a flower
ultimately leads to fruit you can then
apply that to not just say an apple tree
or a peach tree you can recognize the
flower on a squash plant say oh goodness
I can come back and look for something
to eat and if in a month or two from
this plant and that will then allow you
to exploit a much wider range of food
throughout your environment than just
being you know held to just this tree or
that tree or this food source of that
food source and again that requires a
much greater intellectual ability to
make those kinds of connections and to
be able to exploit those sort of food
resources throughout our environment
than just trying to chase something and
kill them hmm yes interesting isn't it
cuz from what you just said it's made me
realize like the reason plots are so
colorful
for example fruit and veggies so you
write to the human eyes because humans
are natural herb cause we're designed to
eat these foods I'm just wondering
whether there's any other evidence like
this that clearly shows where we're
natural habit was if you think about
plants they're edible plant parts our
hand size objects that are smooth edged
brightly colored and they're small
enough to be held in the hand and of
course they smell and taste like plants
so what do we do to animal tissue to
make it acceptable to us we take it we
skin it we cut it into the smooth edge
hand size objects we then take the blood
out of it we cook it so that instead of
being wet and slimy it's now firm like
plant tissues but most importantly we
cover it with all of these plant
products to try and make it taste like
plants which is what our brain really
wants so we really don't want the animal
tissue because if we did we eat it the
way the carnivores do wet slimy bloody
and rotting no we take it and try to
make it look and taste and smell like
plants in order to make it acceptable
furthermore the fact that
we actually cover ourselves with the
sense of plants to make ourselves more
attractive tells us that plants have
always been important throughout the our
existence as a species and the reason we
like to smell like plants is because
that is a subtle signal to our brain
that we have been ingesting the
compounds that actually make us
healthier make us live longer and make
us more resistant to disease yeah yeah
that makes that I guess it makes a lot
of sense and I'm sure like most people
would agree
some people they the naysayers and the
critics would say what about b12 day how
do you respond sighs yeah yeah it's like
okay we're gonna ignore all the heart
disease all the cancer all the diabetes
and all of that we're just gonna talk
about b12 well okay let's talk about b12
all b12 is made by bacteria that no
animal makes big b12 no plant may expect
b12 and when human beings were living in
more natural settings we got b12 all the
time from the dirt from water sources
from you know many things in our
environment but where do we live now we
live in these concrete and steel jungles
that are that we've we've invented for
ourselves so we've eliminated the
natural sources of b12
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