Jeff Bland is a functional medicine practitioner. His work focuses on the relationship between dietary interventions, immune function regulation, cellular aging, and chronic disease prevention.
36 claims checked on air: 3 context 8 contradicted 4 overstated 15 supported 6 unverified
"80% of autoimmune disease is seen in women. That's a fact." (said at 0:00:05)
No published record matching the claim that 80% of autoimmune disease cases occur in women was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"So what happens is that heart attack in that, you know, 1900 was like a rare disease, right? Diabetes was super rare. In fact, in 1900, I remember reading some of the the original reports saying if there was a heart disease patient in clinic, they used to run over and try to see them because they may not see another one in their practice." (said at 0:02:07)
No published record matching the specific claim that myocardial infarction and diabetes were extremely rare clinical conditions in 1900 was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"Yes, there is a correlation between childbearing and autoimmune disease." (said at 0:05:21)
No published record matching the claim that there is a documented epidemiological correlation between childbearing and autoimmune disease was located; this does not prove the claim false.
"Now it turns out that plasma proteins and erythrocytes don't have DNA. So when you're measuring then the biological age of a blood spot sample, you're actually measuring the age indirectly of the immune system." (said at 0:15:30)
No published record matching the specific claim that blood-based epigenetic biological age clocks exclusively reflect leukocyte DNA because erythrocytes and plasma proteins lack DNA was fetched; this does not prove the claim false.
"When we analyzed it very precisely for its composition, we found there were 121 different phytochemicals from the polyphenol family across all the various families—the flavonol, flavone, flavanone, and anthocyanin families." (said at 0:51:08)
No published record matching the specific claim that Himalayan Tartary buckwheat contains exactly 121 distinct phytochemicals across the flavonol, flavone, flavanone, and anthocyanin polyphenol families was located; this does not prove the claim false. While Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum tataricum) is well-documented in the scientific literature to be rich in polyphenols and flavonoids such as rutin, quercetin, and anthocyanins, proprietary or lab-specific compositional analyses identifying a precise count of 121 polyphenols have not been published in peer-reviewed journals.
"And the reason we chose that is that there were data that had already been published in the uh Asian medical literature showing that they could show clinical effects in humans um in terms of improved insulin sensitivity, reduced inflammation, reduced lipids when they fed that amount of flour to individuals." (said at 0:54:26)
No published record matching the claim that consuming Tartary buckwheat flour in amounts equivalent to ~1,200 mg/day of polyphenols improves insulin sensitivity, reduces inflammation, and lowers lipid levels in humans was located; this does not prove the claim false.