LLVLC On YouTube: Is The Fat Nocebo Effect What Is Really Behind Fatal Heart Attacks? (Episode 72)
LivinLaVidaLowCarb.com blogger Jimmy Moore and his wife Christine discuss the little-known but very real “nocebo effect” as it relates to heart health in the latest installment of their popular “Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb on YouTube” series. In Episode 72, Jimmy and Christine discuss an article called “A Fat Nocebo” by a biochemist named Marshall E. Deutsch, a biochemist who poses an interesting theory about why people who fear getting a heart attack or death from consuming saturated fat and cholesterol are sealing their own fate: www.lewrockwell.com You may have heard of the “placebo effect” where a non-medicinal treatment like a sugar pill is used to help “cure” someone of a particular ailment simply because they believed it would. But a “nocebo effect” is when you think something is going to harm you so much that it actually does because of your strong belief that it will. Sounds like a bunch of hocus pocus mind games, but scientific research has shown this to be a very real phenomenon. With the issue of saturated fat and cholesterol, could it be that the fear of these is actually what is driving people to heart attacks and death more than the actual consumption of them? Is the worry about these things bringing so much stress on our bodies that we are living a self-fulfilling prophecy when we concern ourselves about them? It’s an interesting thing to think about in light of the ongoing fat phobia that still exists today. Special thanks to Dr. Deutsch for the conversation …
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June 8th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
Hi there!
I’ve just started my watch me shrink the low carb way last week. I used to eat low carb and had gone from 180 – 125. Now I’m back at it again (gained weight due to baby btw).
Thanks for your videos! They are very informative and I’m looking forward to watching more!
June 8th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
I saw your YouTube channel today…GREAT JOB!!! Let me know if I can help you in any way. Be sure to check out my other projects, including my blogs, podcast show and other cool stuff at livinlavidalowcarb dote com!
June 8th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
What a charming way to get the message through!
A lot of people will be touched from your video.
You are so funny! You don´t worry about health and low carb.
After all – what´s better – loosing weight with fat or staying obese with lots of pounds?
So many people are brainwashed with “healthy carbs”.
Fat is good, if it isn´t hydrogenated oder rancid.
Guys, did you hear Jimmy?
FAT IS GOOD FOR YOU! Yeah! Enjoy it!
June 8th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
You got it, BWD! THANKS for your enthusiasm today.
June 8th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
i love this vid and its cool to know how powerful our minds can be
June 8th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Kinda scary when you stop and think about it, though. How many people are walking around in fear of something and it’s the fear that’s causing them the problems. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was spot on and prophetic when he uttered his famous phrase, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
June 15th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
In my family (mother’s side) fatal heart disease has been more than “mental.” I have worried about it, but I believe low-carb recently gave me the physical resilience to weather stress that I thought would kill me. If I die of a heart attack, it *won’t* be because of what I eat!
June 15th, 2009 at 7:17 pm
My dad had quintuple heart bypass surgery and my brother Kevin died at the age of 41 in 2008. So cardiovascular problems run in my family, but livin’ la vida low-carb is gonna keep me from falling prey to the same fate.