Hi friends, I am again posting about red meat and I come in peace. Last week I shared why I don’t eat red meat. I did this because people have been asking me about this topic for 3.5 years and I’ve responded neutrally saying...here is what I do, but you do you. Just be sure to measure your biomarkers. It's also what I said last week. That didn’t stop many people from losing their minds. It’s legit an interesting psychological phenomenon. Let me be clear: if you like red meat, eat red meat. I choose not to and am providing you an explanation why. You can agree or disagree. My team and I are conducting an experiment and are following the evidence as we understand it and transparently sharing my biomarkers. Nutrition is not a solved science so there will inevitably be disagreement. I’m being transparent about our research, reasoning and measurement. Whatever you decide, I'm wishing you the best. The primary reasons I don’t eat red meat: 1) My goal is longevity and other foods (outlined in my Don’t Die nutrition guide) have more robust evidence for longevity 2) Is red meat good or bad? The evidence tilts towards red meat possibly creating health risks which is enough of a reason to exclude it from the protocol. 3) The foods we’ve selected to consume have me maintaining world leading biomarkers. 🧵

When in India, I did end this podcast early due to the bad air quality. @nikhilkamathcio was a gracious host and we were having a great time. The problem was that the room we were in circulated outside air which made the air purifier I'd brought with me ineffective. Inside, the AQI was 130 and PM2.5 was 75 µg/m³, which is equal to smoking 3.4 cigarettes for 24 hours of exposure. This was my third day in India and the air pollution had made my skin break out in rash and my eyes and throat burn. Air pollution has been so normalized in India that no one even notices anymore despite the science of its negative effects being well known. People would be outside running. Babies and small children exposed from birth. No one wore a mask which can significantly decrease exposure. It was so confusing. The evidence shows that India would improve the health of its population more by cleaning up air quality than by curing all cancers. I am unsure why India's leaders do not make air quality a national emergency. I don't know what interests, money and power keep things the way they are but it's really bad for the entire country. When I returned to the U.S., my eyes were fresh to see what is normalized to me. I saw obesity everywhere. 42.4% of American are obese and because I was around it all the time, I had been mostly oblivious to it. In many contexts, obesity is worse than air pollution in the long term. Why wouldn't American leaders declare a national emergency on obesity? What interests, money and power keep things the way they are but are really bad for the entire country.