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Our top story tonight, the U. S. Is expecting a response from Iran soon. It's on the latest U. S. Proposal to end the 10 week conflict. Plus, the British warship is heading to the Middle East to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. The cruise ship hit by the hand of virus is expected off the coast of Spain tomorrow. The plans to bring passengers home and what health officials say about the risk. President Trump said to travel to China next week for a face to face meeting with Chinese regime leader Xi Jinping, a China analyst on the cards each side holds heading into the summit, colorful performances and meditation filling Union Square in New York City as Falun Dafa practitioner celebrate ahead of World Falun Dafa Day. Mikubani reports and Mother's Day is tomorrow. We speak to Kimberly Fletcher, founder and president of Moms for America on the role mothers play in shaping the country. This is MTV Evening News live from our global headquarters in New York City. Thank you for joining us tonight. I'm Arlene Richards. The latest on the U. S. Iran conflict, the U. S. Now awaiting a response from Iran to the newest proposal aimed at ending more than two months of fighting President Trump telling reporters yesterday he expects to hear from Tehran soon. When asked if Iran is quote slow rolling the response, the president saying we'll find out soon enough. This comes as Project Freedom. The U. S. effort to secure the Strait of Hormuz has been on cause to allow time for a final agreement. There have been some flare ups in the straight, but President Trump says the ceasefire announced in early April is holding so far. U. S. Central Command reports that 58 commercial vessels have been and four ships have been disabled. Also new today, the U. K. Says it's sending a warship to the Middle East in preparation for joint efforts to secure the Strait of Hormuz. This follows an earlier move by France to deploy its carrier strike group to the Red Sea. Meanwhile, the U. S. Continues to pressure Iran on the economic front. The Treasury Department announcing a new round of sanctions yesterday targeting individuals and entities supplying weapons to Iran's military. Health authorities across the globe are working to safely remove passengers from a cruise ship struck by enhanced a virus outbreak. The ship is scheduled to anchor off the coast of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands on Sunday. Each country will arrange transportation for its nationals. So far, three people have died and several others are being monitored for symptoms. Passengers remain in their cabins under quarantine to prevent further spread. A total of 147 people from 24 countries are on board. According to the C. D. C. U. S. Passengers will take a chartered medical plane to a quarantine facility in Omaha, Nebraska. There they will be medically assessed. Some or all may then be released to their homes for about six weeks of monitoring. The C. D. C. Says the risk to the general American public remains extremely low from new developments in Iran and the secretary of state at the Vatican to UFC fighters at the White House. Plus a tribute to motherhood entities. Daniel Monaghan has your White House week in review. The U. S. Launching Project Freedom this week, escorting commercial ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Project Freedom is defensive in nature, focused in scope and temporary in duration, with one mission protecting innocent commercial shipping from Iranian aggression. But later in the week, President Trump announcing a pause in Project Freedom, saying major progress had been made toward what he called a complete and final agreement with Iran. Tensions flaring again Thursday, with the U. S. Military saying it intercepted Iranian attacks targeting three Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz and struck Iranian military facilities tied to attacks on American forces. They trifled with us today. We blew him away. The president saying the ceasefire remains in place. The talks are going very well, but they have to understand if it doesn't get signed, they're gonna have a lot of pain. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accusing Iran of violating international law and warning the administration is taking the issue to the United Nations. There is no international law that allows you to say I'm gonna put mines in an international body of water, and I'm going to blow up ships that don't listen to us and try to go through. In a busy week, Rubio also meeting with Pope Leo at the Vatican amid tensions with the White House over the Iran conflict. In April, the pope condemned what he called a delusion of omnipotence driving the war. As far as the pope is concerned, it's very simple. Whether I make him happy or I don't make him happy, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. President Trump brings back the presidential fitness test on the south lawn of the White House. The president also showing students his signature Trump dance. And President Trump welcomes UFC fighters to the Oval Office. But this is the greatest president of all the time in any country, in any world, in any time, and I thank you President Trump. I like him. I made a good move by asking him to say that. That was very good, thank you. The upcoming UFC Freedom 250 event planned for the White House lawn on June 14th was also discussed. The first lady discussing the importance of motherhood at a White House tribute to military moms in advance of Mother's Day. In every hug, every story read at bed time, and every sacrifice made without complaint, mothers build the moral foundation of our families. Brazilian President Lula da Silva visiting the White House Thursday for talks focused on trade, security, and critical minerals. President Trump saying the meeting went very well and more talks are planned. Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt sharing the first public photo of her newborn daughter Viviana, nicknamed Vivi. While Leavitt was away, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who else, filled in. Thank you guys for having me today. I'll be filling in for Caroline today, obviously. And White House Chief of Staff Suzy Wiles receiving the Barbara K Olsen Woman of Valor Award this week. President Trump previously calling Wiles one of the strongest people he knows. Daniel Monahan, NTD News. Congress returning to Washington next week with hearings focused on China, national security, COVID oversight, defense spending, and border enforcement. Senate Republicans are also moving forward with funding plans for ICE and CBP. And Denise Chris Bobb reports from Capitol Hill. The only way you can guarantee a matching organ on a specific date is if you control and the donor dies. Next week, the Congressional Executive Commission on China holds a hearing on forced organ harvesting in China. The panel includes Senior Research Fellow Ethan Guttman, former Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback, survivor Kalbinur Sadiq, and Epoch Times senior editor Jan Jekielek. Jekielek recently published a book on the topic. Will to order China's organ harvesting industry and the true nature of America's biggest adversary, China, that control exists in a prison system full of political and religious prisoners, especially Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghurs. There is bipartisan legislation in Congress now to combat this. The Falun Gong and Victims of Forced Organ Harvesting Protection Act. Yeah. And it just does something very simple. It sanctions people that are involved in this. Also next week, FBI Director Kash Patel appears before senators to discuss the Bureau's 2027 budget request. His testimony comes as the FBI continues investigating the attempted assassination of President Trump at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents Dinner. We can expect lawmakers to push for more details. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Dan Kane returned to Capitol Hill for another hearing on the Pentagon's $1.5 trillion budget request. This president's budget for 2027 supports the secretary and the department's goal of reinvigorating, recharging the defense industrial base and the national industrial base, enhancing our readiness and securing our military advantage. A ceasefire is in place in Iran. The topic of Iran I'm sure will come up often today, which I welcome. I look forward to sharing the incredible success of our military effort achieved in a matter of weeks. The Senate Homeland Security Committee plans a hearing featuring whistleblower testimony on covert Chairman Rand Paul posting on X quote. The American people still don't know the full story behind the covid cover up. Meanwhile, Congress is advancing the next phase of a reconciliation package after they funded other DHS agencies outside of ice and CBP before recess. Lawmakers considering a reconciliation package totaling roughly $72 billion through 2029, including more than 30 billion for ice and over three billion for CBP. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley says the legislation would help provide quote certainty for federal law enforcement and safer streets for American families. Reporting from Capitol Hill, Chris Bob and T. D. News and coming up with the high stakes Trump. She's summit fast approaching. What cards does each side hold and could Washington and Beijing find common ground on Iran, Taiwan and trade? The selling author, Lee Smith joined Tiffany Meyer to unpack it all. And in New York City, a celebration of faith and culture marking a special anniversary entities. Niku Bani reports on the impact of Falun Dafa ahead of its annual worldwide celebration. 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Now, this comes as the Iran conflict is still unresolved. How do you see Trump's strategy heading into this? What are the cards each side has? Well, the last time they met many months ago, remember, what preceded that meeting was Beijing's threat to withhold rare earth minerals, and, of course, this sent the administration scrambling. Right now, the positions are very different, since Donald Trump now has a hand on lots of the oil that Beijing was getting at very steep discounts. So right now, Donald Trump controls a lot of China's energy, and that makes things very different. So Xi no longer has the amount of leverage that he had before their last meeting. So I think that things have changed quite a bit, even though Iran has not been resolved. The president has seen Iran not only as a problem in itself, but also as a key ally of China, and right now that ally is in big trouble. And, of course, the other thing is that neither China nor Russia have done much to help Iran out of its very serious jam, and there's not much that they can do. Given the talks we've seen between officials before these trips, some of the topics coming up that are planned to come up with the Trump-Xi summit is Taiwan, of course, and then agriculture is a big one for the U.S. side, and rare earth a little bit less so. But how do you see that? Because President Trump has said he will bring up the case of Jimmy Lai and human rights. That's a topic that most presidents have shied away from, human rights in general, when it comes to China. Why is that? Yeah. Presidents have shied away from human rights in China since at least Tiananmen Square, right? That this is something that presidents have not only shied away from, but they've essentially covered up for. This was in 1989 under George H. W. Bush administration, then Bill Clinton, who was at first criticizing Bush in their debate in 1992, said, I wouldn't do that. I would stand up for the Chinese people who are being repressed by this terrible communist regime. And of course, he did nothing of the sort. He was the person who ushered along the WTO, China's access to the WTO, by getting China permanent normal trade relations, PNTR. And same happened with George W. Bush. Same happened with Barack Obama. They've all paid no attention. A lot of times they haven't even said anything, never mind make Beijing hurt for its human rights abuses. And we've seen what's happened. Of course, you will know a lot more about this than I do. But what's happened to Falun Gong, no one has made any, very little noise coming out of Washington about that over the last several decades. So when President Trump says he's going to make some noise over human rights, I think this is a very big deal. And I think it marks a significant change from his predecessors. And part of that whole focus was in the past, you had certain Chinese administrations, if you want to call them administrations, where they tackled the strategy of really reaching out to the elites and making it in their interest to support the growth of communist China to open up their markets. And eventually now it's seen as a peer competitor. I think you lay out a lot of that in your own book, The China Matrix, how the elites are, you know, part of this whole thing. And it's gotten to the point where now presidents are facing that issue or dilemma where you can't really pressure the communist regime because it is now a peer competitor. Lay out that argument. And what can President Trump do now? Well, this is a very big problem. And it's been a problem going back for nearly 50 years. And of course, this relationship started with Nixon and Kissinger's opening to China during the February 1973 trip. So it's over half a century. But this what's been going on the whole time. I mean, there's a relationship. The first the first relationship, the core relationship is between political and corporate elites in the United States. The whole point then has been to for the corporate elites to get the political elites to play nice with China so they can make lots of money. And this has happened even though the corporate elites have found out that they're getting ripped off, ripped off in China or some of them want to get in and they want to make deals and they can't make deals and their intellectual property is stolen and forced to transfer technology. And now a lot of them are simply being pushed out because because CCP companies have replaced them. So it's been a disaster. I have to say that this is one thing that that critics of President Trump have been a little bit concerned about, especially regarding the TikTok deal. Now, it's not clear to me exactly what the status of that deal is. But yeah, but this this seemed to resemble previous arrangements between between political officials, U.S. political officials and U.S. corporate interest, that it was very important for different U.S. investors to see a huge return from TikTok. Of course, its parent company being ByteDance. And the IPO, should there be an IPO for ByteDance, is expected to reap many hundreds of billions of dollars. So again, it's not entirely clear to me where that deal is right now. But yeah, but this is certainly this is certainly something we would like to see the president to to move away from. I want to come back to something really crucial, though. You mentioned Taiwan in the beginning. The way I believe that President Trump sees Taiwan, and I think the appropriate way to see Taiwan, is as a function of a much larger problem. Taiwan is obviously strategically crucial for the United States, right? And for Western civilization, the entire First Island chain. If China makes a run on the First Island chain, makes a run on Taiwan, that's a big problem. But the reason that China's military is such a threat, the reason the People's Liberation Army is so big and so powerful, as Donald Trump has said many times before, is because the United States has made China rich. It's made the Chinese Communist Party rich. And a lot of that has come through the trade imbalance, the enormous trade deficit that the United States has been running with China for decades now. This amounts to a transfer of trillions and trillions of dollars over the last many decades. So this is why the tariff regime, this is why the trade war has been so important to President Trump, to eliminate that trade deficit, or at least until it's eliminated, cut it down seriously. And to take the money that the People's Republic of China has been used to investing in different instruments to defeat the United States, to take that money away from them. So that's really the big picture. And that's how Donald Trump sees it. And that's what I explained in a very long interview with the president in my book, The China Matrix. And very quickly in the end, given what you know of President Trump, meeting him and all of that, how would you compare Trump 1.0 to the current administration when it comes to the China strategy? Any differences, similarities from Trump 1.0? Well, I mean, I think the biggest thing right now is we're seeing that Donald Trump has been rolling up Beijing's allies around the world, Iran, Maduro in Venezuela, what the different attention that we've paid to Chinese interference in the Western Hemisphere, including the Panama Canal. I mean, there's certainly a lot more to do the, you know, the different problems in the Western Hemisphere. But certainly in the Middle East, there is there is no power, right? People talk here about, you know, about other powers, whether it's Qatar or Russia, trying to damage our position in the Middle East. There is no power that wants to see the U.S. pushed out of the Middle East more than China. Right. And so this is a very big deal. That's the big difference right now, the amount of leverage that Donald Trump has over Xi Jinping and that he has over the Chinese Communist Party. And that is because he has his boot on Iran's throat. That's a very big deal. Definitely a lot at play here at Lee Smith. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you so much. And one day ahead of the planned Trump-Xi meeting is May 13th, World Falun Dafa Day, showing resilience amid persecution. Practitioners of the faith gathering today in New York City to mark the upcoming celebration with meditation, music and cultural performances. And today's Nikul Bani brings us more. Meditation, music and vibrant cultural performances are part of a gathering here to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day upcoming on May 13th. Now, practitioners gathered here in New York City today say the spiritual practice has brought peace and hope to millions around the world. Falun Dafa, also known as Falun Gong, is a spiritual practice rooted in meditation exercises and the principles of truthfulness, compassion and forbearance. Practitioners gather this weekend for a celebration ahead of May 13th, the anniversary marking 34 years since Falun Dafa's public introduction in China in 1992. Falun Dafa, it guide me how to be a good person, to be a better person. Ever since I started practicing Dafa, I felt a sense of calmness, you know, and this calmness is not something which is external, it comes from within. Some passerby also joined in the meditation, describing the experience afterwards. It was really nice. Like I heard all the city sirens and everything, but it was like I was able to block it out and like my mind felt really like clear and powerful. An overwhelming sense of compassion. And I don't know if acceptance, but but it was like this feeling of love and kindness. It was still gives me tears. The event also features traditional dances and musical performances, bringing together practitioners of all ages to celebrate the practice and its upcoming anniversary. But for many practitioners, this celebration is also a reminder of and a chance to speak out for those who cannot practice freely in China. The Chinese Communist Party has persecuted Falun Dafa since July 20th, 1999. Practitioners in China are persecuted and put in labor camps, tortured and even organ harvested. It's important for people to know because it's only when everyone is really clear about what's happening in China that there's a chance for it to stop. And with May 13th just days away, practitioners say they are preparing larger celebrations in New York City and across the world to celebrate World Falun Dafa Day. Nikubani, NTD News, New York. 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Well, then let's get into the NBA playoffs right off the bat. We have two games today. Where do things stand? Yeah, well, the Cavs just beat the Pistons a few minutes ago in Game 3, 116-109. Very tightly contested game. Now, Cleveland really led for the majority of the way. Detroit, though, came back, tied it down the stretch a couple times. It was really the Cavs defense that saved them in that final quarter. Max Strews, Jared Allen, even James Harden, known for more for his offense, all making critical defensive plays down the stretch. Harden also scored seven straight points there at the end. So the Cavs now trail the series 2-1, but they had to win this one. No team has ever recovered from an 0-3 deficit to win a series. So that was the first game tonight. Tonight, we've got the second game between the, it's Game 3 between the Lakers and the Thunder. Lakers are in the same position as the Cavs. They're down 0-2. They have to win tonight. Like I said, no team ever come back from an 0-3 deficit. That game starts at 8.30 Eastern time. Then we've got two more tomorrow. The Knicks, they've got a 3-0 lead over the 76ers. They can close out that series, sweep the series if they win it tomorrow. That game's at 3.30 Eastern time in Philadelphia. And then at 7.30, Minnesota hosts San Antonio. The Spurs lead that series two games to one. So that's where we are in the four series right now. The Knicks looking the best at this point. Like I said, they've got that 3-0 lead. Thunder win tonight, they've got a 3-0 lead too. So that's where we are. Well, you know, the Knicks and the Sixers, I think they used to be more equal in terms of their performances. But what's happening now with the Knicks, with the 3-0? You know, the Sixers, for one thing, they've got some injury problems. You know, Joel Embiid has been off and on just because he's had an epidectomy. He had that sprained ankle. He also had that bruised hip. So he's been in and out of the lineup with all those injuries. And this guy's a former MVP. I mean, he won the MVP, what, three years ago? It's tough when you've got your best player coming in and out of the lineup. Plus, you can see when he's in the lineup, he didn't quite have the same mobility. I mean, it's tough. We've got ankle and hip problems. The Knicks, meanwhile, you know, they've been hapless for so long. It's kind of amazing to see them do this. Especially last year after they fired Thibodeau, who was their best head coach in I don't know how long. They've done very well with Mike Brown. Mike Brown, I thought was a great hire at the time, and he's done a great job in these playoffs. But he's really put Carl Anthony Towns, their center, a little bit out in the perimeter. He's been more of a playmaker. So it kind of forces Embiid to come out of the post a little bit. It's very tough for him to do that. So that, I think, has been a big part of why the Knicks are here. I want to talk about the Lakers and the Cavs a little bit because the Lakers used to be the team, right? They were the ones. But the Cavs, I remember, were not always so good back in the day. So what's the status of those two teams now? You know, the Cavs have never been a dynasty. You know, last year they had a great regular season, struggled in the playoffs. Like a number of teams, they had a number of injuries that all of a sudden came up in the playoffs. I think they lost in the second round last year. So right now, this year, they're down two games to one to Detroit. It's tough to say with them, you know. They haven't had the same regular season that they did last year. I don't know if they can finish. I don't know if they can get past Detroit. Detroit's got the home court advantage. They're up two games to one in that series. Of course, the Lakers, I mean, they have been. The Lakers and the Celtics, those are the two premier franchises in the NBA. They have, by far, the two most NBA titles. I think it's 18 and 17. Next is like, you know, 6 and 5 or something like that. The Lakers have good players. You've got LeBron James, but he's 41 now. He's still the best 41-year-old in NBA history, if you ask me. You've got Luka Doncic. Doncic has been sidelined for more than a month with that hamstring strain. That makes a huge difference. Meanwhile, though, Oklahoma City, this is like, they're like Golden State of 10 years ago. They've got a bunch of good, young players. You know, all like 30 and other under. And they're just like the Warriors 10 years ago. They won last year's NBA title. They are certainly the frontrunners to win this year. So if the Lakers are going to do it, it seems like it would be an incredible job for them if they're going to actually do this. Uphill battle, I'll say, for LA. And LeBron James, is this his last season now? He has not announced it. He hasn't actually quite said. A couple of years ago, the popular thinking was when his son, Bronny James, gets the NBA, that could be it. Because he wanted to play with his son. His son plays for the Lakers. It's a very nice thing. His son is now in his second season. He's actually got a second son that's probably not going to be coming out for the draft this year. I don't know if he's planning to stay that long. How many sons does he have? He's only got the two. But I gotta say, it's pretty incredible what we're seeing with LeBron James. As a 41-year-old, still. I mean, he put up 27 against the Thunder the other day. He's still a great playmaker. He's not as quick on defense as he once was. But to watch like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in his final seasons, he wasn't quite the same, of course, at age 40. Even Michael Jordan retired at, what, 38? And he was down to, for him, lower numbers. But LeBron, it's incredible what he's putting up with these days. Good for him. Alright, let's shift gears to baseball. Former longtime Atlanta Braves manager Bobby Cox passing away, according to an announcement made by the team. Yeah, sad day. What a great manager. He was a Hall of Famer. He was a player, too. Played for a couple seasons in the big leagues. But it was really as a manager where he made his mark. He won just over 2,500 games in his career. This is the fourth most all-time in Major League history. Most of those wins were with the Atlanta Braves, where he managed for 25 seasons. He also managed the Toronto Blue Jays for four. But his managing career started and ended with stints with Atlanta. He was there in his second stint where he had the most of his success. I mean, he led the Braves to 14 straight division titles from 1991 and 2005. Included in there, they won the 1995 World Series title, five National League penalties, and then retired in 2010. He was also very passionate about the game. He was about as kind as I can say. He was ejected by umpires a record 158 times. Hey, that's some passion there. If you ever remember watching the Braves play, you can remember him on the field also arguing with an umpire. But he was very successful. His players loved him. Fans loved him, too. So our sympathy goes out to his family and friends. Yeah, I'm sure he's going to be really missed. All right. So elsewhere in the game, Milwaukee pitcher Jacob Mizorowski had an historic outing last night throwing some of the fastest pitches. That was incredible. I mean, Mizorowski threw at least 10 pitches of at least 103 miles an hour last night against the Yankees, including three pitches that hit 103.6. Now, those are the three fastest pitches recorded. They use this thing called StatCast, which is what baseball's been using to record these things since 2008. Those are the fastest pitches ever, and he did three of them in one night. Now, by comparison, since 2009, all other starting pitchers since 2008 have thrown a total of four pitches registering 103, and he did 10 by himself. It was quite a dominant performance. Now, Mizorowski pitched six shutout innings, struck out 11 Yankee batters. Brewers won six, nothing. Max Fried took the loss for the Yankees. He's certainly no slouch himself. The Yankees' Brewers player again tonight, Kyle Harrison, starts for Milwaukee while New York counters with Cam Schlittler. Schlittler is actually a very good pitcher himself. He's probably the early favorite for the American League Cy Young Award. Right now, he leads the AL in both wins and ERA, so that game starts in just a few minutes here. 7-10 Eastern time. I don't know if anyone... I don't think either one of them is known for throwing as hard as Mizorowski did, at least did last night, but, yeah, that was an incredible performance. So is Milwaukee one of the top teams for this season? Yeah, they're, I think, in third place right now in the NL Central. I mean, it's early in the year. They had the best record, actually, in baseball last year, but they had trouble in the playoffs, as it turned out. But they are a very good team. They are in a very tough division, though. I was actually talking about this with Kerry last night on the Evening News. All five teams in their division are above .500. Now, meanwhile, if you look at, like, the AL West, there's only one team that's above .500 in the NL Central. All five teams would actually be in first place. Were they in that division? So there's a lopsided going on right now between the National League and the American League. A lot of better National League teams, I've got to say, than there are American League teams right now. It's early in the season, though, right? We go until October. Wow, you've got a long way to go. We've got a ways to sort this out. But right now, you've got the National League Central really head and shoulders. The American League, I think there's only, like, three or four teams above .500. So it's a little bit crazy if you look at the standings right now in baseball. All right, well, enjoy the show tonight. I will. All right, thanks, Steve. Thanks, Arlene. The new Inverted Food Pyramid, released by the USDA in January this year, prioritizes whole foods, proteins, and healthy fats. In this episode of Vital Signs, neurologist Dr. David Perlmutter joined host Brendan Falun to outline the strengths of the latest dietary guidance and where he says it may fall short. Here's that conversation. Dr. Perlmutter, a pleasure to have you on again. Great to see you again. Some drastic changes to America's dietary guidelines with protein now taking pride of place. What do you see as most significant about the changes that have come about? Let's look first at the broad strokes. What exactly happened here? If people recall what the previous dietary guidelines looked like, they really did favor, ultimately, a lot of processed food as to what we should be eating. There was no science at all to support it. One of the things that was supported in the previous guidelines was the idea that added sugar to the diet was probably no real big deal to the extent that in 2021 we put out a paper. It was actually an op-ed in MedPage Today to then-President Joe Biden saying, you know, the addition of 10% calories coming from added sugar is erroneous, it's threatening to brain health, it's threatening to physiology, it's threatening to metabolic health, and it should be rescinded. It wasn't. There's no nutritional value for sugar and, in fact, the nutritional requirement for sugar is none. I think that the emphasis this time around on avoiding sugar, really, it's what it says, is absolutely valid. Either sugar or ultra-processed foods, which do what? They raise blood sugar. In that regard, I'm hugely supportive. Overall, the new dietary guidelines favor whole foods, unprocessed foods, and certainly emphasize more the consumption of protein and really welcoming back to the table fat. I think it's real important for your viewers to understand that it's not just open the doors to fat in all forms, but there are some fats that are discussed in the new dietary guidelines that are good for us. Unprocessed fats, fats that come from sources that provide rich availability of omega-3s, like fish, for example, monounsaturated fats, but highly processed fats, especially seed oils, are less recommended, and I'm in favor of that. The other thing is the mention of protein, and I think this time around, there is a discussion of increasing dietary protein to 1.2, to 1.4, maybe even 1.6 grams per kilogram, ideal body weight. I think it's valuable for me to deconstruct that a little bit. So rather than your current body weight dictating how much protein you consume, you should be looking at what is ideal for you based upon your muscle mass and your height. So if you happen to weigh, you know, 150 kilograms, it doesn't mean you should be consuming 200 grams of protein a day. Again, the ideal body weight. And your typical male is 70 kilos, 70 kilograms for a male, so 1.2 to 1.6 times that amount in grams would be the recommended amount of protein a day. Overall, increased protein is important. The proviso I would add is if you are going to increase protein consumption to that level, you want to maximize its utility by exercising more and building muscle. I think that's sorely needed in our society, higher levels of muscle. If we have time, we'll discuss why that's important. Where I see some inadequacies in the new recommendation are really two areas. First, there's no specific mention of dietary fiber. Though it does mention increased consumption of fruits and vegetables and nuts and seeds, as such you're going to increase your dietary fiber. I'd like to see calling out dietary fiber specifically in terms of grams consumed per day. In other words, treating dietary fiber like a macronutrient though it's carbohydrate, so you can't do that. But I'd like to see a recommendation of at least 40 to 60 grams of dietary fiber in the diet per day. I think Americans by and large are really lacking in dietary fiber which we know is very important not only for digestion but for nurturing the gut bacteria, what we call the microbiome. The second thing is I think there's some inequities in these recommendations. Overall this type of diet is going to be not something that everybody in every economic class is going to be able to afford. In terms of protein having such primacy if we're talking about meat, that's expensive, right? That's right. Number one and number two, under the old recommendations with higher levels of ultra processed foods or highly processed foods, the reason that ultra processed foods are so processed is to increase their shelf life ability and also the fact that mass producing these foods is very cheap. So to load your grocery cart with ultra processed foods is something that people of less economic means could do. You're getting calories but I think what we realize now that a calorie is not a calorie. That a protein calorie, a fat calorie a carbohydrate calorie all behave differently in human physiology. That's why people have fallen into that trap of processed food because it's so convenient. Go back to look at protein a little further, Dr. Perlmutter what is the value of this in terms of brain health specifically? There are a lot of values. First of all when we consume protein and fat we're consuming the raw material to build a brain. The brain is 70% dry weight fat so a lot of the proteins that are part of the new dietary recommendations are actually animal proteins and as such they do contain fat hopefully healthful fat. The second thing with reference to protein is as I mentioned earlier, protein will help us build muscle provided we are challenging our muscles and we stress our muscles then they hypertrophy meaning they grow. The reason we want to grow our muscles is that the muscles when they're used produce chemicals called myo meaning muscle kinds and these are chemicals that travel from the muscle and ultimately make their way around the body and indeed make their way to the brain so as such we need to begin to consider the muscle as an organ as an endocrine gland an endocrine gland like the pituitary gland or the adrenal glands thyroid gland are glands in the body, they're structures in the body that produce chemicals that work off site they go somewhere else and do something. Thyroid hormone influences the brain, influences the heart, influences muscles etc. Similarly muscle creates chemicals called myokines that go around the body and do good things for example make their way into the brain and can ultimately trigger pathways that lead to actual growth of new brain cells and help us reduce inflammation To see that full interview and others on how to optimize health go to ept.ms forward slash VitalSigns VitalSigns offers general health information not intended as medical diagnosis or advice. Please consult your doctor before undertaking a new health regimen And a bit of fun news to end our show. Scientists visualized a skyscraper sized tsunami event no one was around to witness and a pair of brother bears get wet and wild to welcome the summer Here's a closer look at what's making waves and making splashes Scientists are taking their studies of a skyscraper sized tsunami that recently occurred in Alaska to another level by making a 3D jet ski riding video game out of it. No, not kidding Let me explain. Researchers say in August of 2025 an entire mountainside broke off of a massive Alaskan glacier sliding into the sea and creating a gargantuan 1500 foot plus tall tsunami that tore through the remote Tracy Arm Fjord causing immense destruction to the landscape. No one was around to see the cataclysmic event but scientists say data indicates the resulting tsunami was the second tallest ever on record. Nearly as tall as New York City's Freedom Tower Since then teams of researchers have been studying the event to determine not just how it may have occurred but how to raise awareness in coastal residents Enter a 3D video game like animation created by a University of Southern California team showing the tsunami from the perspective of a jet skier trying to outrun the huge wall of water Researchers say the model offers visceral visual public education on the size and scope of events like these. And while they admit the animation may not win any awards, it offers the next best and safest thing to actually being there Now, from a wall of water to a wet and wild brother bear bathtub jamboree. That's what folks at the Oregon Zoo recently shared on social media, showing a pair of orphaned bear siblings enjoying a spirited splash in a 300-gallon tub in the Northwestern Zoo's Black Bear Ridge habitat. The playful dip was the first of the season, according to the zoo, which labeled the vid simply Tubs out, cubs out. And while the thrashy, splashy glee wasn't exactly a tsunami, ooh wee they sure did soak their surroundings while soaking up some sun And that's the news for this evening. Thank you for tuning in. From all of us here at NTD, have a great weekend and a wonderful Mother's Day. I'm Arlene Richards. Good night.