Gary Fettke

Cleared of all charges! @AHPRA notified me yesterday of their overturning of determination that #sugar & #LCHF advice to my patients was dangerous. Formal apology included. Opens door for all HCP's to offer this as 'safe' options. 🙏 all for your support. isupportgary.com/articles/ahpra…

Would you rather drink fresh water or treated sewage water? Take 5 minutes to see how that come be done with farm improvement for a fraction of the cost of sewage treatment plans. Warragamba Dam Plan youtu.be/r2YyfTWNxxw?si… via @YouTube

What if the shame you've felt about your body was manufactured by the very industry profiting from it? 🏭 Novo Nordisk funded over a decade of obesity stigmatization research before launching Ozempic. 🏷️ Reframing obesity as a disease turned a lifestyle issue into a multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical market. 🧠 The language around body image was strategically shaped to prime the market for a drug already in the pipeline. 💊 Create the disease. Have the medicated solution. #nutritionwithjudy #carnivorediet #metabolichealth #bigpharma #ozempic

Watch the full episode: youtu.be/qB1rVC40uX8

Farmer vs activist logic on the carbon cycle. Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere." Farmer: "Where did they get it?" Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere." Activist: "From... eating?" Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it." Activist: "The soil?" Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from." Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere." Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it." Activist: "Then just don't have the cow." Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle." Activist: "It's not that simple." Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it." Via facebook.com/share/1DtgfoAg… @zoeharcombe @SBakerMD

One of the biggest lies in nutrition is that you need plant fiber in order to have a diverse gut microbiome A recent study on the gut microbiome of long term carnivores completely shows that assumption to false! A very diverse gut microbiome can be had with zero plant fiber!! mah.bioscientifica.com/view/journals/…

Standard doctor / patient interview. Who is getting educated this time?

Where does the Mediterranean Diet come from? Another manipulated saga, and it's all in the history. @BelindaFettke delves deeply with Jesse Chappus. I still am learning from Belinda, and I live with her. 🙃 youtu.be/_SV-BNUGqRA?si…

One hen had watery eyes today after laying this one!

Just like Agricultural ≠ Arable, and Land ≠ Soil, Biomass ≠ Food. My latest post - What's There to Eat? open.substack.com/pub/ruminati/p…

Ozempic blamed for an 8% increase in profits for Hershey's mints. I thought it was a joke, but 'Ozempic Breath' recognised as a significant problem. AI suggests "This is due to slowed digestion, which can lead to food fermentation in the stomach, producing foul-smelling gases." Seems to be some irony going on here. msn.com/en-us/health/o… @zoeharcombe @ProfTimNoakes @bigfatsurprise

Pushing the calorie control myth as a method of obesity management. Regulators get it wrong 'again' by labeling fast food & encouraging calorie ⬇️ Keep the public confused #bigfood #wecandobetter #wecantwait latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/… @bigfatsurprise

Here they go. As soon as obesity becomes a disease watch the money roll in for #BigPharma. Billions for drug industry if @novonordisk can #fatshame government into making obesity a drug treatable condition rather than a lifestyle problem.

Good to see the results of a low carb carnivore lifestyle change being talked about publicly.

Here we go. Next lock down based on energy shortage? 'Coincidental' explosion at Geelong at 2nd biggest Australian oil refinery. abc.net.au/news/2026-04-1… @SimonDixonTwitt

What if obesity isn’t a math problem at all? Dr. Robert Cywes (@carbaddictiondr) argues we may be thinking about obesity & type 2 diabetes all wrong—and that “eat less, move more” misses what actually drives behavior. A thought-provoking read ahead of his appearance at the 11th Annual Symposium for Metabolic Health: lowcarbusa.org/advancing-the-…

This is a great repetition of @mrianleslie article in @guardian ten years ago theguardian.com/society/2016/a… which needs more repetition, for example in #Finland where I recide. The seven countries study put @helsinkiuni on the academic map with their North Karelia Project. The claims has been defended by their star-nuritionist @MikaelFogelholm, often with support by Finnish media, e.g. @yleuutiset, @hsfi, and @hblwebb. And as late as March 2022, Finland's institute for Welfare and health (@THLorg), with @MikaSalminen currently at the helm, pride themselves of convincing Finns to reduce their consumption of #butter and #salt. 🥶 Sadly, Finland is leading the global ranking for #Alzheimers. And their local scholars attribute the high prevalence on biology. 🤔 A comparison with neighboring Sweden comes handy, because the countries share genetics, history, and language. (Finland is bilingual.) The prevalence of death by Alzheimer's per capita in Sweden: 10%. The prevalence of death by Alzheimer's per capita in Finland: 20%. 😳 The prevalence of death by ischemic heart disease per capita in Sweden: 10%. The prevalence of death by ischemic heart disease per capita in Finland: 15%.😳 Ergo. Finland's high prevalence is more likely explained by culture – what people eat or not eat. 🤔

In 1953 an American physiologist called Ancel Keys stood up at a World Health Organization conference in Geneva and presented a graph. The graph plotted fat consumption against heart disease mortality in six countries. The United States at the top. Japan at the bottom. A smooth upward curve in between. The room was convinced. The graph would go on to define global nutrition policy for the next seventy years. There was one small problem with the graph. Keys had data from twenty-two countries. He chose six. The other sixteen, which included France and Switzerland eating vast quantities of butter and cheese with low heart disease, and countries like Chile eating almost no animal fat and having high heart disease, did not produce the line he wanted. So they were not on the graph. When this was pointed out, in print, at the time, Keys did not engage with the science. He launched a career. He became chair of the American Heart Association's nutrition committee. He got himself on the cover of Time magazine. He organised the Seven Countries Study, a sequel to the cherry-picked six, which selected populations and time points that would confirm his hypothesis and excluded those that would not. Crete was measured during Lent. The comparisons were, by design, not fair. Then he did the thing that turned him from a scientist into a politician. He went after the opposition. Dr John Yudkin, a British physiologist, published a book in 1972 called Pure, White and Deadly, arguing that sugar was a better fit for the heart disease data than fat. His data covered more populations, more years, and more accurately matched the rise in cardiovascular mortality across the twentieth century. Keys called him, in print, a charlatan. He used his position at the AHA to block Yudkin's research from conferences. He pressured editors. He lobbied funders. Yudkin's grants dried up. His reputation was systematically dismantled by a man who was, at this point, not doing science but running a protection racket for a hypothesis. Yudkin died in 1995 in obscurity. His work has since been quietly vindicated. Nobody has apologised. Meanwhile the American Heart Association, funded since 1948 by a $1.7 million donation from Procter and Gamble (makers of Crisco, a product that urgently needed a reason for Americans to stop cooking with lard), adopted Keys's recommendations and issued them as medical advice. The American public complied. Butter consumption collapsed. Margarine tripled. Seed oils, negligible in 1950, became the dominant cooking fat. The food industry reformulated thousands of products to remove fat and replace it with sugar, because the fat was the enemy and the sugar was not. American obesity rates, stable for fifty years, began to climb in 1977, the year the McGovern committee translated Keys's hypothesis into federal guidelines. They have not stopped climbing since. Type 2 diabetes followed. Metabolic syndrome followed. Fatty liver disease, which barely existed in 1950, became endemic. The entire constellation of chronic metabolic disease now occupying every doctor surgery in the developed world tracks, almost perfectly, onto the adoption curve of the guidance Keys spent his career promoting. He retired to Italy, drank olive oil, ate cheese, lived to 100, and described himself in interviews as a pioneer. He was a pioneer. He pioneered the practice of producing a predetermined conclusion from selective data, destroying the reputations of anyone who noticed, and using institutional capture to convert the conclusion into policy. Ancel Keys was not wrong the way scientists are sometimes wrong. Ancel Keys was wrong the way politicians are wrong. Deliberately. Profitably. Without consequence. You are still eating the consequences now.

Worth following the thread if you are on a statin or contemplating it. How they work is an education. Thank you @Marion436842126

If we have a worldwide fertiliser shortage , wouldn't that be a good time to revisit the benefits of animal-based food production, particularly on the ~20% of land mass that is underutilised grassland. My take is the fertilser is largely needed for plant-based CHO rich food. carnegieendowment.org/emissary/2026/…