I've made a new video against low-carb diets

[FlatAssembler]

Your accent makes you difficult to understand by times.

Well, I am Croatian. I will never be a native speaker, no matter how much I practice. It is unfortunate. It is unfortunate that there are different languages.

Don't waste the first minute of your video telling us why your life sucks.

I was saying why I hadn't published a video for almost a year.

If you would have done the very basic research in this case you'd have recognized the glucose spike - insulin spike problem that the good Doc describes as an overcompensating feedback loop that's incredibly common in bad computer code.

I am a third-year computer science student and I have no idea what you are talking about.

If you'd done this basic legwork you'd have avoided making an embarrassing video attacking a professional who actually isn't saying anything that hasn't been recognized by the medical community for several decades.

What mechanism is she proposing when saying that protein you eat increases your blood glucose levels? Does eating protein (or some amino-acid) trigger gluconeogenesis like eating fructose or saturated fat does? Without explaining that, her diagram sounds like complete nonsense (and I think it actually is).

In short, pick your topic well, research it to death, script it, have a few friends and a couple people who know the topic read it over, rewrite as necessary, practice it until it's polished, then shoot it well.

I don't think I will make YouTube videos any more, at least not any time soon. It takes way more effort to make a YouTube video than to write a blog-post, yet I fail to see that it reaches more people.

So you're just as likely to get kidney stones on your high protien, high carb, high fat western McDiet as you are from a solely high protien diet

Sorry, I am quite sure that's not the case. Epidemiological data seems to be strongly against that. If that were the case, how it is that around 5% of children put on a ketogenic diet (because it supposedly treats epilepsy) get kidney stones, whereas virtually none of children that are not on a ketogenic diet do? Are you suggesting those 5% of children were not following the diet properly and were eating some crazy-high-protein diet instead of a ketogenic diet? Have you got any evidence of that?

What data did you feed into that thing?

It does not read any data. Have you looked at the code? It only uses three constants which are coded at the beginning of the program:

Code:

const how_many_people_in_the_general_population_have_low_blood_pressure=1/3; // I think it's even less than that, but let's go with that.
const how_many_people_with_heart_attacks_have_low_blood_pressure=0.41;
const how_many_people_were_in_the_study=100; // And I am quite sure there were more, but let's go with that.

I think I could have used the Student t-distribution as well, but I am not willing to look it up.

Also, P values don’t definitively prove cause and effect.

So, how do you definitely prove cause and effect? Tell me, as it may come useful to me when writing my papers about historical linguistics. It would be a revolution to definitely prove cause and effect in the field of Croatian placenames.

Stop taking heart meds, wrap a stick of butter with bacon and sprinkle liberally with salt.

Now you are straw-manning. I never said to stop taking heart medication. I never said bacon did not increase your risk of getting a heart attack (though it does less than coconuts do). And if you actually have dangerously high blood pressure, then don't eat a lot of salt. My point is that more people have dangerously low blood pressure (causing heart attacks) than dangerously high blood pressure, so eating more salt could maybe decrease heart attacks in the general population (not those with dangerously high blood pressure).