Common Sense! (looking for intelligent life in the universe)

I think I'll do a series of blogs on common sense, because it is, sadly, not all that common, but oh so necessary for the development of real understanding. Looking back at my own progression it's easy to forget how confused I was about the substances and conditions that induce health vs those that cause disease. Along the way certain voices I found spoke with logic and clarity simply because what they said consistently made sense. The cumulative effect of finding these voices has been the reversal of my own confusion and ill health.

Here's a relatively new voice for me, Dr. Garth Davis, a bariatric bypass surgeon who, with a conventional medical education, had gained weight himself, and developed high cholesterol and early stage cardiovascular disease coming into middle age. At first he accepted this fate as a simple consequence of aging or "bad genes", but then motivated by professional curiosity (he is after all a weight loss doc) began looking into the whys and wherefores, taking a deep and long dive into the scientific literature. He had been recommending to his patients a high protein low carb diet, and consuming one himself, but then did a 180. The change in his own health and that of his patients has been extraordinary. There are many interviews and talks by him out there, but I chose this brief one, an excerpt from a talk, because in it he shows off some of that common sense:

If that got your attention, you may want to check this out too...a talk Dr. Davis gave at a medical conference on diabetes, recorded by an attendee in the audience. You may need to turn up the volume a bit or use headphones to hear it clearly. It's gold.