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DESCRIPTION: Neurotoxins in chicken, such as the beta-carboline alkaloid harman, may explain the link between meat consumption and hand tremor, the most common movement disorder.
I also have a few videos about the other major tremor condition, Parkinson’s Disease: Preventing Parkinson’s Disease with Diet and Treating Parkinson’s Disease with Diet
These compounds created in cooked meats may also have implications for cancer risk:
• Carcinogens in the Smell of Frying Bacon (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/carcinogens-in-the-smell-of-frying-bacon/)
• Is Liquid Smoke Flavoring Carcinogenic? (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/is-liquid-smoke-flavoring-carcinogenic/)
• Meat Fumes: Dietary Secondhand Smoke (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/meat-fumes-dietary-secondhand-smoke/)
• Estrogenic Cooked Meat Carcinogens (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/estrogenic-cooked-meat-carcinogens/)
• PhIP: The Three Strikes Breast Cancer Carcinogen (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/phip-the-three-strikes-breast-carcinogen/)
• Reducing Cancer Risk in Meat Eaters (http://nutritionfacts.org/video/reducing-cancer-risk-in-meateaters/)
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Have to cut back on the butterflies..
That was frightening but highly expected.
Stunning. One of the first symptoms I noticed with my Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis was a combination of Peripheral Neuropathy and tremors at my extremities.
Another strike for meat! Veganisim saved my life and reversed a painfully crippling neurological disease that had me wheelchair bound and bed ridden for years. Now I'm planning my first marathon and only after seven months of being on a strict high carb/ low fat, plant based diet.
My brother suffers from Wilson's Disease and he is has really bad tremor. His diet is extremely poor. He eats anything that walks. Thanks to my mom. She allows it to continue. There's nothing I can do but watch him slowly die.
So wonderful and insightful as always. Thank youÂ
Usually shaking is used as a measure for alcohol damage.
Did any of these studies differentiate between healthy grass-fed meat and sick feed-lot meat??…BISH WHET!!! Â AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME 4 DAT!!!
Thank you for the scientific-based videos. Much appreciated!
I noticed that my hands were getting shaky as I was moving into my 50's.  It bothered me a bit and worried me that I knew it was probably going to get worse.  My hands are now rock solid still since going vegan. 🙂
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That's it, no more butterfly snacks for me 🙂  Thanks for more good reasons to stay vegan, Dr. G.
Uh, 23x where the error bars are from 3.5x to 130x is quite a lie… Though even 3x is bad.
Hi Dr Greger, Is ET something that can be reduced or eliminated by changing diet?
Ottimo!
I will go for wild mushrooms …. and leafs of old trees! Hope it helps!
 (what is left of it)
i will beat this virus… its too much…
Nice theory, but I've had essential tremor since I was a kid. I remember having it at least since first grade. I'm now 42 and have been vegetarian since I was a teenager. I don't smoke. Also, essential tremor runs in my family. So, there may be other contributing factors to ET as well.
Oh God… I was vegetarian for years, and recently reverted back to meat. I also have Essential Tremor…..
Guessing I should go back to Vege??
i just started  with  ET !!
BIT OF A Â BUMMER Â TRYING Â TO Â HOLD A Â CUP , Â UNLESS Â I HAVE Â AN ALCOHOLIC Â DRINK !
Don't listen to this quack. There is no connection between dietary β-Carboline alkaloids and essential tremors. β-Carboline alkaloids are widespread in plants as well as animals. The article he used clearly states "dietary sources of harmane probably play only a minor role and that endogenous production is the major contributor to blood harmane concentrations…..Our own recent dietary data also suggest that genetic-metabolic factors may be more important than dietary intake….In a study of the blood harmane and diet, while blood harmane concentration was elevated in ET cases, we did not find any differences in dietary protein consumption between patients with ET and controls." The study is also very flawed in that no controls were used and only 12 patients. This is nothing but an anti-meat scare ad.
as I just come back from grocery store with 20$ of chicken
This is really interesting. I've been trying the Paleo Diet, because a family member of mine told me that he was doing that diet and one day noticed that his shaking had gone away, or was at least much less noticeable. The Paleo diet promotes eating a lot of meat. This seems to be just the opposite in this post. Does this have anything to do with the quality of the meat, or could it be that some of our bodies respond differently to meat, while others respond differently to breads and sugars? I'l love to hear responses from Dr. Greger and anyone else.
I read that harman levels are high in seeds.
Vegan for a year…ET seems to have worsened since then, but additionally had cervical fusion which was supposed to fix the tremor I was experiencing. So I don't know anymore. Going to see a neurologist. This shit is horrible.
I've been shaking since i was in 3rd grade. I'm 53 now. Can barely get a fork to my mouth. Drinking out of a stemmed glass is a disaster. Can hardly put on makeup etc. Just discouraged.
At age 14 I had to wear a hand brace so I could eat and write properly at school. Now at 17 I never wear it thanks to a HCLF whole foods vegan diet! Thank you Dr. Greger 🙂
Well, i don't eat beef but eat the crap out of chicken. Was thinking about becoming a vegetarian (again but this time a healthy one) anyways for other health issues…thanks for the info!!
Excellent video
Thank you
Thanks for this enlightening and well presented video
i have had essential tremor all my life and have also been a life long vegetarian. So I don't think this is right.
Can I replace meat with protein supplements?
Citations, please. Can you provide citations, by which I mean credible peer-reviewed medical journals?
also present in significant quantities in soysauce and molasses (an ingredient in many processed foods -like dark bread for example -read labels). learned that the hard way. so important to stick with a WFPB diet
how long before really noticeable improvement is seen from the experience of those who have done it?
Sorry not buying any of it , out of six kids in my family four of us have essential tremors we inherited from my father. He kind of forgot to say that runs in families. And is passed on from generation to generation I wish it was that simple.
I hear sonic surgery called "Focus Ultrasound" is having good results for the worst essential tremor cases.
https://www.swedish.org/services/neuroscience-institute/our-services/focused-ultrasound
Can you provide any credible citations from peer-reviewed medical journals to back up your claims about harmane? I've seen the study that you are speaking of and it is inconclusive.
I'm almost totally vegan and my tremors have been getting worse. I occasionally eat eggs and salmon. I seldom eat chicken, I have hardly eaten any beef for years and I have only eaten pork a couple of times in my life. I am 66 y.o.
Are there nutritional supplements to treat essential tremor?
This harmane associated with essential tremors is me! My doctor has not been able to figure it out. Any time I now eat pork/beef/chicken (haven’t tried other meats) I get temporary essential tremors. I feel tingling started in my neck and shoulders and then my arms go numb and my hands will shake for about 30 seconds and then BAM! It’s gone. It could take anywhere from 5mins to a day for this to happen. I stopped eating meat 2 years ago and I haven’t had a tremor since. I miss meat though, has anyone found a way for them to be able to eat meat and not have this happen to them? What is this condition called so I can do more research on it? I’ve literally been explaining this to my doctor and she had thought I was just losing it, but this is exactly what happens to me. I love lamb and beef. I just want to be able to eat those again.
From my experiment I take vitamin b12 oral use and inderal but beware inderal can cause allergy for some people and it's essentially used for blood pressure but it is very effective
A very well-documented video! Thanks!đź’ś