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Part 105 - Nose to Tail Eating, Omega 6 to Omega 3 Ratio, PUFA Problems, Fatty Beef Snacks, and Beef Tallow Body Care

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Hello beautiful people, welcome back. This episode is a special one and I won’t do a whole intro. I’ll just let you know there’s 3 different interviews starting with one of the original grass fed, grass finished ranchers in America who I partnered with to do Nose to Tail. He called in on the phone and the sound quality wasn’t great, but his story and information are spot-on. Really great stuff from a 76 year old rancher who really knows health and is living proof of what happens when you eat meat in a healthy way.

He’s really into the Omega 6 to Omega 3 ratio and keeping the ratio near 1 to 1 like we would have ancestrally. He’s been onto this about 20 years before anyone else. This is really awesome stuff.

The next interview starts 19 minutes in and is with my South African business partner Gary I make the Nose to Tail biltong with. This is the traditionally made South African beef product that is kind of like jerky but a lot better. It is air-dried for 7 days instead of dehydrated at high heat in a matter of hours like jerky. We also don’t use any sugar or other preservatives or curing agents. We use all the good fat instead of trimming it off like other people do. We’re developing a dried sausage version with liver and heart. It will be the first of its kind in the world!

The final interview 39 minutes in is with Tommy who makes the regeneratively grown beef tallow body care products. He makes them all by hand and uses nothing but a few natural ingredients. He’ll talk about the origins of beef tallow as soap throughout human history and why using animal fat on your animal body is so beneficial.

Really interesting stuff here with all 3 interviews that you won’t hear elsewhere. Without further ado, let’s jump in.

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SHOW NOTES

[2:30] How Ted got into the grass fed beef business.
[5:00] The importance of omega-3 ratios for combating chronic diseases.
[8:30] The ratios of omega-3 comparing Nose to Tail and other grocers.
- https://www.nosetotail.org/fresh-meat/
[13:00] The balance of eating lots of high quality omega-3 foods and not so much omega-6 heavy foods.
[19:45] Introduction to our biltong processor in South Africa.
- https://www.nosetotail.org/biltong/
[21:30] The difference between biltong and beef jerky.
[26:00] The difference between our biltong compared to competitors.
[31:30] Everything you need to know about our new product, Droewors.
- https://www.nosetotail.org/product/traditional-droewors-air-dried-beef-sausage/
- https://www.nosetotail.org/product/peri-peri-droewors-air-dried-beef-sausage/
[39:00] The backstory of how Tommy got into manufacturing beef tallow body products.
- https://www.nosetotail.org/body-care/
[42:00] The history of the use of beef tallow for skin care/soap.
[44:20] What we should look out for when purchasing body care products.
[46:30] The importance of saturated fats on our skin.
[47:40] Difference between natural fragrances and essential oils.
[51:40] Some insight into our new deodorant that will be coming out soon.
[54:20] Where are all of our new body care products sourced from?

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Part 104 - Max Lugavere on Using Acute Stress to Fight Chronic Stress

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This is a Sapien podcast preview episode - subscribe to the Sapien podcast on your podcast app and watch the video version from our new studio on the Food Lies youtube channel.

The new products are live on NoseToTail.org

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Max Lugavere is a filmmaker, health and science journalist and the author of the New York Times best-seller Genius Foods: Become Smarter, Happier, and More Productive While Protecting Your Brain for Life, published in 8 languages around the globe. He is also the host of the #1 iTunes health podcast The Genius Life. He has also recently just written his new book The Genius Life.

Lugavere appears regularly on the Dr. Oz Show, the Rachael Ray Show, and The Doctors. He has contributed to Medscape, Vice, Fast Company, CNN, and the Daily Beast, has been featured on NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, and in The New York Times and People Magazine. He is an internationally sought-after speaker and has given talks at South by Southwest, TEDx, the New York Academy of Sciences, the Biohacker Summit in Stockholm, Sweden, and many others.

From 2005-2011, Lugavere was a journalist for Al Gore’s Current TV. He lives in New York City and Los Angeles.

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SHOW NOTES

[6:10] His background and story of how he got into the industry.
[13:20] Some of the dietary principles that he believes in.
[19:10] Plants in a nose to tail diet
- https://iog.publichealth.uga.edu/2017/08/19/renzi-hammond-lutein-cognition/
[23:10] Buying organic vs conventional
[24:20] High sugar fruits.
[27:20] Jogging for exercise vs resistance training.
[34:00] Leverage stressors to fight your own stress.
[37:50] Nasal breathing.
[42:50] Hot therapy.
[46:00] Cold immersion therapy.
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4094425/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0026049516300026
[51:20] The importance of not coddling the elderly.
[57:20] Use of diet/exercise to prevent mild cognitive impairment or progression.

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Part 103 - Kiran Krishnan on the Immune Health, Herd Immunity, Viral Exposure, Microbiome, Gut Health, and More!

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Kiran Krishnan is a Research Microbiologist who has been involved in the nutrition industry for the past 17 years. His early work involved hands-on Research and Development in the fields of molecular medicine and microbiology at the University of Iowa. He is a frequent lecturer on the human microbiome at medical and nutrition conferences and health summits and a regular expert guest on national and satellite radio. He is also a founder of Microbiome Labs, a company dedicated to researching the microbiome and providing research-based probiotics for patients.

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SHOW NOTES

[4:10] What we know about the Microbiome.

[6:10] There’s 40 trillion microbes in and on our body.

[10:00] Microbes in the gut are messengers.

[11:40] 80% of immune health is in the lining of the gut.

https://www.health24.com/Medical/Flu/Preventing-flu/your-gut-is-the-cornerstone-of-your-immune-system-20160318

[13:40] Our digestive tract is outside of our body.

[17:10] Obesity, diabetes, and heart disease are linked to severe COVID cases.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dmrr.3377

[22:30] Inflammation is the root cause.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579563/

[27:20] A non-inflammatory diet builds a resilient immune system.

[31:20] Strategic dietary changes shift our food options.

https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/22971-organic-meats-demand-continues-to-grow

[35:40] Alternative or natural medicine is growing.

[39:40] Stress is a potent disruptor of the microbiome.

[44:40] Fleeting exposure is the best protection against a virus.

[47:10] Herd Immunity is a long term protection.

[51:40] Filth and germs are critical for the immune system.

[56:40] Antibiotics save lives, but they’re over-prescribed.

[1:01:50] Gluten creates an immune response in everybody.

https://www.marksdailyapple.com/does-gluten-have-any-effect-on-non-celiacs/

[1:05:00] Alzheimers is a result of inflammation.

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2017.00407/full

[1:11:10] Probiotics can cure leaky gut. https://microbiomelabs.com/home/press/microbiome-labs-publishes-study-on-megasporebiotic-in-the-treatment-of-ibs/

[1:16:40] Spore-based probiotics are evolutionarily supported.

[1:21:10] Fermented meat and vegetables contain beneficial microbes.

[1:26:10] Dietary variety and nose to tail nutrition is beneficial.

[1:28:50] We can change our gut microbiome.

[1:32:20] Yes, you can eat onions despite their sulfate content.

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Part 102 - Joel Salatin on Regenerative Ag, Forest Fires, Immunity Secrets, Fake Meat, and Wasting Plant Foods

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Joel F. Salatin (born February 24, 1957) is an American farmer, lecturer, and author.

He co-owns, with his family, Polyface Farm in Swoope, Virginia. Featured in the New York Times bestseller Omnivore’s Dilemma and award-winning documentary Food Inc., the farm services more than 5,000 families, 50 restaurants, 10 retail outlets, and a farmers’ market with salad bar beef, pigaerator pork, pastured poultry, and forestry products. When he’s not on the road speaking, he’s at home on the farm, keeping the calluses on his hands and dirt under his fingernails, mentoring young people, inspiring visitors, and promoting local, regenerative food and farming systems.

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SHOW NOTES

[6:15] How he started his journey.
[9:45] The world’s biggest problem is inertia and the need for empowerment.
[16:15] Joel’s ways to improve your immune health
[19:45] The issue of living in a very sterile environment
[29:00] Be a part of the microbial system.
[35:25] Soil health and climate change.
[44:15] 75% of the reason for the wildfires is mismanaged land
[47:45] Methane and livestock.
[59:15] His thoughts on man made beef.
[1:06:15] Food waste in modern agriculture and food industry.
[1:19:15] The importance of integrating our food systems, nation wide.
[1:25:05] The true cost of running his farm and its ethical practices.

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Part 101 - Michael Rose, PhD Can Humans live until 200? Does Aging Stop?

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Dr. Michael Rose is one of the world’s leading scientists in aging, biological immortality, and human evolution. He is Director and Professor at the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine.

He has been doing research for 40 years and published over 275 Academic publications and authored 10 books including Does Aging Stop? and Evolutionary Biology of Aging

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SHOW NOTES

[4:20] How he got into evolutionary biology.
[10:00] The force of natural selection declines with adult age.
[27:50] Why we should eat an ancestral diet, especially as we age.
[34:00] The importance of sticking to ancestral diets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-9S8M78iRY&list=PLkl7B_X7mCo7SQD1RqcwsDe-TF0yLkcXG&index=11
[39:40] Drugs and supplements to help with DNA transcription.
[46:00] Autoimmunity, modern agriculture, and seed oils.
[58:00] Theories for how our brains grew so exponentially.
[1:02:40] How caloric restriction affects aging.
[1:07:00] Caloric restriction led to a longer living, robust “super fruit fly”.
[1:19:00] What his diet looks like and what he suggests.
[1:24:00] The importance of living in a tribal setting.
[1:26:00] Addiction to food and substances.

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Part 100 - Dr. Steven Lin on Proving the Superiority of Native Animal-Based Diets Using Modern Science & Dental Health

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Dr. Steven Lin is a world leading functional dentist, TEDx speaker and author of the International #1 Amazon Best Selling Book, The Dental Diet. As a passionate preventative, whole health-advocate, Dr. Lin focuses on the understanding of dental disease through nutritional principles. His work has highlighted that crooked teeth and the orthodontia epidemic are diet based problems and the need for public health policy to prevent braces in the next generation of children.

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SHOW NOTES:

[5:05] How Dr. Steven Lin connects dentistry and Functional Medicine.
[7:05] How dentistry is a bit of an isolated industry in the healthcare setting.
[10:00] Your dental health is the window to your health.
[13:35] How he heard about Weston A. Price.
[16:35] History of Weston A. Price.
[26:35] Conflict of interest for what Weston Price found and researched.
[35:35] How proper nutrition can help with proper mouth, jaw, and teeth formation.
[43:35] Fermented foods for mouth health.
[45:35] How sugar depletes calcium in the oral environment and leads to infections in the mouth.
[56:55] How sleep is affected from oral health.
[1:03:35] Tongue posture.

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Part 99 - Leigh Broadhurst, PhD on How to Feed Your Brain and How Our Brains Doubled in Size

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Dr. C. Leigh Broadhurst is a research geochemist and physical chemist with the Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service, and University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She is an expert on polyunsaturated fatty acid physical chemistry and biophysics, and together with colleagues has made dramatic advances in the field of paleonutrition and brain specific-nutrition; most importantly to understand the remarkable essentiality of docosahexaenoic acid (DHA; omega-3). Dr. Broadhurst has also published extensively in the fields of medicinal plants, environmental remediation utilizing plants, and natural diabetes prevention and cure. She has been a consultant, author and educator for the natural products industry for 25 years.

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[6:00] How different indigenous cultures ended up landing in different continents.
[12:50] How people knew they needed nutrition from certain foods.
[15:10] What he focuses on in his research.
[23:00] The importance of DHA from animal sources.
[28:15] Finding large amounts of shells throughout the South Africa coast and what it means for paleoanthropology.
[38:15] The issue with militant veganism.
[40:40] Veganism is and should be an adult choice.
[43:30] Plant foods are still important for our health.
[58:40] There used to be good reason for processed food, but not so much anymore.
[1:03:00] Aquatic Ape Theory.
[1:19:00] DHA Aquatic Theory.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9505798/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11923081/
[1:24:00] The problem with Paleoanthropology industry.
[1:26:50] The importance of putting effort into what you consume.
[1:30:40] More arguments and support for the aquatic ape theory.
[1:35:00] Physiological arguments for human elements for long term adaptations for an aquatic environment.

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Part 98 - Mary Ruddick, CNC Part 2 - Gut Microbiome, Finding a Healing Diet, Mental Illness, Plant vs. Animal Foods, Holobiome, and More!

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Wow what a response to the first part with Mary! I’m so glad everyone enjoyed her as much as I did. So much more great stuff in our part 2. Stick around until the end - everything she has to say is valuable.

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SHOW NOTES

[4:00] The truth of what a blue zone’s diet looks like.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3051199/
[10:00] Don’t eat any processed foods and eat very seasonally.
[15:50] Plant toxins in nightshades.
[21:50] Intuitive eating.
[27:10] Autoimmunity from non nutrientive amino acids from plant foods.
[28:00] Infertility for lions in zoos.
[31:00] Mental illness usually has a physical cause as well.
[34:10] Ovaries have thousands of insulin receptors on them.
[37:50] Losing your cycle from estrogen dominance and being undernourished, especially in a vegan diet.
[39:50] Ways to help with low testosterone.
[44:15] How to choose a diet that works for her patients.
[50:20] The microbiome is always the first thing she looks into.
[1:03:10] Lifestyle activity shifts the microbiome as much as the diet.
[1:04:30] Weston A Price and how it affected her research.
[1:08:50] What a diet that most people would do well on looks like.
[1:12:30] Eating low variety foods and keeping it seasonally.
[1:16:10] The best ratio for plant and animal foods in a diet.
[1:21:30] Salt and spices in ancient civilizations.
[1:25:40] PUFAs.
[1:29:30] The importance of having a healthy microbiome on the skin.

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Part 97 - Mary Ruddick, CNC (Sherlock Holmes of Health) on Reversing Disease, Debunking Blue Zones, Lifelong Health, and Ancestral Eating

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We’re back for season 8 of the podcast. I took an unannounced break to work on the Food Lies film and make sure I’m getting top quality episodes and guests. I really don’t want to just crank these out each week just for the sake of having an episode to release. I am constantly reading books, watching lectures, reading scientific papers, and previously going to conferences to seek out the best guests the world has to offer. Our guest today, Mary Ruddick, is just that.

She is a nutritionist, teacher, and author of books and online educational programs. People come to Mary to resolve their otherwise impossible health conditions. She teaches them tools they can implement to rebuild their own immune systems, nervous systems, holobiome, and microbiome and once again take control of their health.

Mary specializes in rebalancing the microbiome by addressing nutritional and epigenetic aspects that underlie various physical and mental health disorders. She is a specialist in the fields of autoimmunity, histamine intolerance (MCAD), mental disorders, and nervous system disorders that include dysautonomia, seizure disorders, and autism.

She’s been a nutrition professor, she’s travelled the world living with and observing other cultures and native-living tribes, she’s worked for big organizations teaching them about diet and lifestyles for disease prevention, she’s miraculously cured her own ailments that had her bed-bound for years and years, and so much more. I’ve been talking to her for months and am ready to call her the Sherlock Holmes of Health. She’s the real deal so I really hope you listen to this episode in entirety. We even have a part 2 coming out next week.

So I hope everyone got a chance to catch up on the back catalogue of episodes during this little break. I’m so happy to hear all the great life transformations taking place, especially when people go back to listen from episode 1.

Alright, so another reason I don’t need to crank out episodes each week is I don’t have any sponsors. So far I’ve turned them all down so I can remain independent from any outside interests. I have my own beneficial products and services we offer at Http://Sapien.org and http://nosetotail.org to support the show, the film, myself, and my great team. I make a lot less money this way, but it’s a lot more satisfying to not have to rely on anyone else or promote any other products.

I can’t wait to share the new whole food products we’re developing that will be out soon. Follow @eatnosetotail on Instagram or Twitter for updates. We’ve got some exciting stuff coming. You can also follow me on any platform if you search for Food Lies. I’m putting out all kinds of info each week and we have some good discussions going on there. Youtube as well. A bunch of great videos to check out.

So that’s all for now. Thanks for listening and sharing this show and any of the other content. Please give this podcast a review in the podcast app or on iTunes. Check out Sapien.org and NoseToTail.org and most importantly listen to this great info from the nutrition genius, Mary Ruddick!

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SHOW NOTES

[4:45] Her experiences in a blue zone island, Icaria, Greece.
[10:50] The importance of being very local and seasonal with your food.
[17:15] How the elderly stay so healthy in Icaria.
[21:35] The importance of having purpose and responsibilities in life.
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/46/16331
[25:15] How opportunistic and pathogenic bacteria damages the microbiome.
[30:35] Her educational background and how she got into her career.
[33:45] How the gut affects the nervous system and mental health.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6893818/
[38:15] How she reverses Schizophrenia and Autism with dietary and holistic health at her clinic.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/gaps-diet
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/325046
https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201493
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20683204/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5006292/
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/133/5/872.full
[45:35] Her 8 year journey through a severe illness.
[55:55] How meditation and implementing a daily routine helped her recover from her severe nerve damage from Pott’s Disease.
[1:00:35] How she used the Weston A Price and GAPS diet to help her recover from her illness.
[1:14:05] How the release of stress chemicals from eating food in a stressed environment can lead to issues.
[1:22:05] The link between zinc deficiencies and eating disorders.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2600063/
https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/130/5/1493S/4686425

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Part 96 - Dr. Paul Saladino on PUFAs, Insulin Resistance, Visceral Fat, and Longevity

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Hey hey everybody, hope you're ready for another information dense episode. We have Dr. Paul Saladino back on to dive deep on how insulin resistance develops. This is a perfect follow up to Dr. Ben Bikman on the last episode explaining to us how insulin resistance and other problems with insulin are the root cause to almost all chronic disease. It’s also a great follow up to the many guests who have been talking about the dangers of industrial seed oils, euphemistically known as vegetable oils, and high levels of polyunsaturated fatty acids also known as PUFAs in our diet.

I was thinking about this after we finished recording and thought I could have made a few more points and perhaps made this analogy. Maybe the disease process is like a hammer and a nail. You need both to create something. Either on their own might not be enough. Refined sugars and refined grains would be the hammer and the high PUFAs are the nail. Either one doesn't cause insulin resistance on its own. There’s examples of populations eating high carb but not getting insulin resistance (although most of this is whole food carbs). But these people aren’t getting a ton of seed oils (possibly zero) in their diet. And there also are examples of people potentially consuming a high amount of PUFAs (like one of the Blue Zones here in the Los Angeles area, Loma Linda) where they avoid a lot of animal products and presumably use vegetable oils as the guidelines dictate.

These people have many other great lifestyle factors and remain thin over their life and they tend to have a disproportionate amount of centenarians. They do all the healthy behaviors to remain thin like avoiding sugars, processed foods, alcohol, and staying active. So basically these people never overstuff their fat cells and start the process of insulin resistance that maybe the high PUFAs would have then been there to cause the real damage. If you have all the other bases covered maybe you can get away with more PUFAs in your diet. There’s some epidemiology that suggests this as well.

I’m not saying this is ideal at all, and likely it’s best to reduce seed oils as much as possible. I also am just theororizing here. It’s interesting to think about the many factors that play into this complex process nobody has definitively solved because there always seems to be some counter-evidence to every theory and I want to take it all into consideration and not just blame things on a single villain.

Please listen to this episode and let me know what you think. I’m on all major social media platforms if you search “food lies” and try to message everyone I can back.

Before we jump in I’ll do my new thing of mentioning my conflicts of interest. I believe I have none because I take no outside funding or advertising dollars for any products. I do have a company called Nose to Tail that you can find at http://NoseToTail.org where we deliver grass fed and grass finished beef and buffalo and high omega 3 and low omega 6 chicken and pork to your door. This is all raised here in America and not brought in from Australia or New Zealand like some other companies.

I also am partnered with doctor Gary here in Los Angeles where we have a program to reverse and treat chronic disease and obesity. We see patients in clinic at Evolve Healthcare and online as well. You can find out more at http://Sapien.org or http://sapienprogram.com

For those who are a little further down the healing road and want to connect with other like minded individuals and thrive instead of just survive, we have the Sapien Tribe. There’s a bunch of extra features you get there like the exclusive videos, extended show notes, Zoom calls with Dr. Gary and I where you can get your health questions answered, the private feed area, and more. You can check some of it out for free at http://tribe.sapien.org We are running out of our special lifetime membership offers - they're more than half gone. Get in today and be part of the tribe for life. You also get the bonus episodes of this podcast.

Today in this bonus episode I talked to Paul about the coca-cola funded lobbying and real conflicts of interest, the calorie in - calorie out equation, and what other things factor into the equation besides food. Joining the Tribe is really a win-win for all parties. Members get a whole bunch of perks and features and it also makes all the content creation possible on our end. Go to http://Sapien.org and find out about all these things I mentioned.

Without further ado, here’s Paul.

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SHOW NOTES

[10:40] How and why PUFAs are the true enemy of the chronic disease crisis.
[16:10] Carbohydrates do not cause insulin resistance.
[21:40] Difference between a processed and unprocessed carbohydrates.
[26:10] Why having too much linoleic acid is bad for your health.
[34:40] Studies that show the mechanisms behind why linoleic acid is responsible for metabolic dysfunction.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9488997/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0952327812001469
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2643423
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23386268
[46:10] How our body uses our fat cells for communication and signaling.
[51:10] The negatives of linoleic acid and benefits of stearic acid.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05614-6?fbclid=IwAR17XRTHYulrCpvlQ_0eo-m71Pu3I3BkPwHHSRvOiHixmf9tdH6HmvjxPDk
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25222131/
[58:10] When you give your cells PUFAs your cells remain insulin sensitive, when you give them saturated they become insulin resistant.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Robert_Hegele/publication/10954408_Elevated_serum_C-reactive_protein_and_free_fatty_acids_among_nondiabetic_carriers_of_missense_mutations_in_the_gene_encoding_lamin_AC_LMNA_with_partial_lipodystrophy/links/54de5a940cf2510fcee384c2/Elevated-serum-C-reactive-protein-and-free-fatty-acids-among-nondiabetic-carriers-of-missense-mutations-in-the-gene-encoding-lamin-A-C-LMNA-with-partial-lipodystrophy.pdf
[1:07:40] The importance of nose to tail foods in an animal based diet.
[1:12:45] The plant toxicity spectrum.
[1:15:40] Paul’s thoughts on longevity, mTor, and intermittent fasting.

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Part 95 - Dr. Ben Bikman on The Root Cause of Chronic Disease and What to Do About It

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Hello everyone! Welcome back. Today we have everyone’s favorite Dr. Ben Bikman for another engaging discussion. My name is Brian Sanders and I’m creating the Food Lies film which we’re actively working on daily. I’ve been doing social media, youtube videos, and podcasts over the last 3 years as we’ve produced the film. I’m on a mission to spread health knowledge since I lost both of my parents about 6 years ago.

Now I’ll act like I’m giving a presentation at a scientific conference and give my disclosures - I take no money from any company, organization, or industry. I support myself with my business partner Dr. Gary treating patients with diet and lifestyle and getting them off of medications with the Sapien Program.

Also with my company http://NoseToTail.org I started after finding out the true health of animal foods that are grass fed and finished, organic, ethically and sustainably raised. We sell grass fed and finished meat from our farm in Texas to the 48 contiguous US states. That’s at http://NoseToTail.org

With the Peak Human patreon where people throw in a few bucks to support the content production and keep me from taking on advertisers. And the Sapien Tribe where members get extra content, materials, and interaction with myself, health Coach Becker, and Dr. Gary. THe program and Tribe can be found at http://sapien.org

And also with Grass Fed nose to tail products that we’ll be releasing soon. Follow Food Lies on social media or join our newsletter on Sapien.org to get notified when these amazing whole food products go live. You can also follow sapien.store on instagram. We’re even doing grass fed beef tallow all natural body care products. I’m excited to announce all of these soon!

So instead of taking a dime from any product or advertiser or worse, I’ve developed my own products I am creating in small batches with the highest quality ingredients. Products that I believe in and across the board benefit people’s life and health.

If you choose to buy these, then great. If not, that’s completely ok and I hope you’ll find local farmers and artisans to purchase quality goods from.

About this episode today. Ben Bikman has a Ph.D in Bioenergetics and a Masters in Exercise Physiology. He is currently an Associate Professor of Physiology and Developmental Biology at BYU. His lab research (Laboratory of Obesity and Metabolism) focuses on what molecular mechanisms mediate and cause metabolic disorders such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. He is especially well versed in how insulin and ketones work as key drivers of metabolic function. He regularly publishes his research in peer-review journals and presents at international science meetings.

His new book is called Why We Get Sick and I’d recommend it to everyone. It gets at the root of almost all modern chronic disease - insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia. We talk today about this at great length.

He can speak on so many other things as well, which he did in the my first episode with him Peak Human #57. I highly recommend people going back and starting with that one, it’s one of the most popular episodes of all time. While you’re at it you might as well listen to all the other episodes starting from the beginning. This is how people are changing their life just by walking around listening to free info I’ve carefully curated.

Anyway, please enjoy this episode with Dr. Ben Bikman and join the Spaien Tribe at http://Sapien.org to get the exclusive bonus part of this episode where we discuss the ultimate longevity diet. So happy to get the great Doc Bikman to weigh in on this.

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[13:40] Overlooking insulin resistance and only looking at glucose.
[20:50] Why glucose shouldn’t be the main clinical marker.
[24:25] Conditions and chronic diseases related to insulin resistance.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3877124/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00392-013-0577-y
[28:00] Why modern medicine focuses on glucose more than insulin.
[34:00] What insulin does and how it develops into hyperinsulinemia and eventually insulin resistance.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4164890/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02573821
https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-7075-3-7
https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/53/9/2375
[39:50] Personal fat threshold.
[47:20] The benefits of fermenting carbohydrates.
[51:10] Why women tend to live longer than men.
[58:40] A calorie is not a calorie.
[1:05:45] Body set point.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989512/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6917653/
https://www.health.harvard.edu/diet-and-weight-loss/lessons-from-the-biggest-loser
[1:12:25] The best protein source for humans is undoubtedly animal protein.
[1:18:40] His thoughts on veganism.
[1:22:10] Four lifestyle changes that you can implement to help control insulin resistance.

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Part 94 - Rob Tuncks on Plant Foods Causing More Deaths, Why Are We Told to Eat 80% Plant Foods, and Is It Possible to Feed the World?

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Food/population graph mentioned in the episode: https://www.dropbox.com/s/kqqlf9jjqrwjnie/food_population.jpg?dl=0

Hello my friends, we’re back at it with another super interesting episode. I’m Brian Sanders and I’m creating the much anticipated Food Lies film. You can follow along with the progress as well as get daily valuable content on the latest health info, pertinent studies, nutrition news, and my diagrams and graphics making sense of the complicated and conflicting world of nutrition. You can find me on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook and join the now 100K people who are staying tuned into the latest and greatest info. Just search any of those platforms for “Food Lies” and you’ll find me.

Today I’m talking to Rob Tuncks who’s an Australian farmer and former telecommunication company owner. He sold his business, retired at 30, and now produces grass fed lamb as well as other plant and animal food products. He has very insightful experiences with food systems and the morals we have placed upon them because he has experience growing both plant and animal foods he is acutely aware of the vast amount of deaths required to grow the staple crops so much of the world relies on. He also studies food systems on a world scale to investigate the enormous caloric need to feed 7.7 billion people and how we can accomplish that.

We’ve been talking for many months about some of these issues and I think there’s so many challenging and important questions that need to be answered here. Some of his views are a bit hard to swallow. Some are necessary to acknowledge and address. Some make our broken food system make much more sense. He also could very well be wrong about some of these things. I think there’s some great solutions using holistic farming methods using plants and animals together. Humans are pretty intelligent and adaptable when we have to be.

Instead of my usual announcements, I’m just going to encourage people to go to http://sapien.org to discover all the great things we have going on. No matter where you are on your health journey, we have resources and free things to help you on your way. We also have a link there for the Nose to Tail grass fed and finished meat. This is my company, I’m not promoting someone else’s service. Everything we’re doing at Sapien and Nose to Tail is created by us and for the specific purpose of getting humans healthier. We have the Tribe there with the special features, the Sapien Program, and more info about the Food Lies film as well. Just go to http://sapien.org and get everything there.

I want to thank the community for being great and pushing this all forward. I love hearing your stories of success, so keep sending them in. Keep sharing this podcast and writing the reviews. And keep up your healthy living. Let’s grow old together. Enough out of me, please enjoy this interesting interview with my Australian pal, Rob Tuncks.

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SHOW NOTES

[13:15] Animal death from monocrops.
https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2018/07/how-many-animals-killed-in-agriculture/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK208754/
[17:25] Increased biodiversity when rotational grazing increased animal life, soil health, etc.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5574735/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285796177_Grazing_as_a_tool_to_maintain_biodiversity_of_grassland_-_a_review
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/314261725_A_biodiversity-friendly_rotational_grazing_system_enhancing_flower-visiting_insect_assemblages_while_maintaining_animal_and_grassland_productivity
[25:15] Debunking antibiotics and the negative stigma on feedlots.
[33:25] Difference between ruminant animals and pigs/chickens when it comes to soil health.
[40:15] The corruption and conspiracy of how the food pyramid started.
[45:05] Using the whole animal for food and other industries.
[1:00:05] A majority of food waste is from plant foods.
[1:08:45] The evolution of humans hunting with wolves/dogs.
[1:20:15] Stress of an animal and how it affects the meat quality.

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Part 93 - Dr. Mindy Pelz on the Ultimate Superpower: Immune Health and How to Increase it w/ Food, Fasting, and the Gut Microbiome

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Hey everyone, welcome back. I have a great one this week. Dr. Mindy and I had a really fun discussion while she also dispensed a lot of useful info. We covered the science and benefits of fasting in great detail along with all kinds of tips and tricks for pulling short and long fasts off successfully. We also talk about how healthy periods of time spent not eating are. This should not be considered fasting - it should just be normal. What’s not normal is eating from when you wake up until you go to sleep. We covered a lot on the gut microbiome and immune health as well. You’re going to love her.

Dr. Mindy Pelz is empowering people all over the world to believe in their body’s own healing abilities through fasting, diet variation, removing chemicals from the body, and so much more. Dr. Mindy is a recognized leader in the alternative health world and is the founder of Family Life Wellness, her local clinic that is made to speed up healing and maximize performance. She is also the founder of the Reset Academy, a private group where she and her team help people implement the principals of fasting, keto, and diet variation into their daily lives. She is the host of one of the leading science podcasts, The Resetter Podcast, and the author of three best-selling books, The Menopause Reset, The Reset Factor, and The Reset Kitchen. She also has a great youtube channel.

Alright, so the announcements for this week are simple. We have the Sapien Tribe lifetime memberships available for a bit longer at the deeply discounted rate. This community is all about building relationships with likeminded people who are going to help you with your diet & lifestyle practices. I know it’s not alway easy to live like a homo sapien in this modern world so we have a virtual community of people and resources to help you do so. We also have the bonus episodes of this podcast, extended show notes, Zoom calls with Dr. Gary and I, and more. Check it out at http://sapien.org

If you're serious about losing a significant amount of weight or fixing health programs you can join our Sapien Program. We have some special rates for that as well as we get it going. You can find out more at http://sapien.org and also get the free Sapien Food Guide there. It breaks down the Sapien diet principles and provides a super easy to use visual meal guide and shopping guide. Get that for free at http://sapien.org

Get your grass fed and finished meat delivered to you from http://nosetotail.org We have a ranch in Texas sending out top quality nose to tail meat, organs, and even marrow and broth bones. Please share this podcast with a friend and give it a review in the podcast app or iTunes. Make sure to start back at episode 1 if you haven't been listening from the beginning, people have been calling this a free college course on nutrition. I’d have to agree - I’ve had over 90 of the world’s top nutrition, human evolution, and environmental doctors and scientists on the show and can’t tell you how much valuable information is in these episodes.

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SHOW NOTES

[6:40] Feast famine cycling.
[8:00] What she recommends for new/first time fasters.
[10:40] The various stages of fasting and how it affects your body.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1934590918301632
https://www.sciencealert.com/fasting-for-just-24-hours-boosts-the-regeneration-of-stem-cells-study-finds-intestine-longevity
http://news.mit.edu/2019/ketones-stem-cell-intestine-0822
[30:00] Her experimentation with the carnivore diet.
[34:10] A weekly fasting routine she recommends (5:1:1).
[39:40] How to implement a 3-5 day water fast.
[42:00] How our immune system and microbiome is so important against the fight with COVID-19.
[46:40] How our diet can truly affect our immune system and viral spread. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m2237
[49:30] Metabolic syndrome, Toxicity and COVID-19. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coronavirus-is-attacking-the-navajo-because-we-have-built-the-perfect-human-for-it-to-invade/
[55:10] Women’s health and aging.
Her website https://drmindypelz.com

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Part 92 - Glenn Livingston, PhD on Binge Eating, the Reptilian Brain, and Mastering Your Relationship with Food

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Hi friends, thanks for joining me for another episode of Peak Human, I’m Brian Sanders and I’m creating the much anticipated Food Lies film. You can follow along with the progress as well as get daily valuable content on the latest health info, pertinent studies, nutrition news, and my diagrams and graphics making sense of the complicated and conflicting world of nutrition. Which really should be quite simple if we used some common sense, knowledge of human evolution and our ancestors, and meld that with the new science that’s coming out daily. You can find me on Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook and join the now 100K people who are staying tuned into the latest and greatest info. Just search any of those platforms for “Food Lies” and you’ll find me.

Today I’m talking to Dr. Glenn Livingston who’s a clinical psychologist, food addiction specialist, and even worked for the food industry for many years giving him an inside look at their shady practices. He was the long time CEO of a multi-million dollar consulting firm which has serviced several Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. You may have seen his (or his company's) previous work, theories, and research in major periodicals like The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Sun Times, and many other major media outlets You may also have heard him on ABC, WGN, and/or CBS radio.

Disillusioned by what traditional psychology had to offer overweight and/or food obsessed individuals, Dr. Livingston spent several decades researching the nature of bingeing and overeating via work with his own patients AND a self-funded research program with more than 40,000 participants. Most important, however, was his own personal journey out of obesity and food prison to a normal, healthy weight and a much more lighthearted relationship with food.

I really enjoyed this conversation because I’ve had countless guests covering what we should eat and why, but there’s an entirely other side of the story that's rarely addressed: what happens when you have all the right knowledge but eat the wrong foods or go on binges anyway? This really may be half the battle (or more) for a lot of people. Please make sure to listen carefully to this one as there’s a lot of practical and actionable info he gives out.

If you’d like more help with what to eat, why, and maybe most importantly how to stick to the plan, please look into our new Sapien Program at http://Sapien.org we’ve got our program led by Dr. Gary and our lead health coach and myself that will help change your life. We’ve got your back. You can get the free Sapien Food Guide there if you just want to get started on your own.

We also have some lifetime memberships left for the Sapien Tribe. There’s a lot of exclusive perks for our members including our zoom calls with Dr. Gary, Coach Becker, and myself. All of this is at http://sapien.org

Lastly, we’ve got the grass fed and finished beef and buffalo and high omega 3 pork and chicken at http://nosetotail.org That’s delivered to your door in the 48 contiguous states. Our best selling and unique product is the Primal ground beef with liver, heart, kidney, and spleen mixed in. It’s a great way to get the most nutrient dense and delicious meat into that body of yours. Regular ground beef tastes watered down after you’ve tried this stuff. That’s at http://nosetotail.org

Let’s get onto the show. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for reviewing it on the podcast app. And most of all, thanks for listening and being healthy and awesome people. I love interacting with everyone on Instagram and social media and there really is something special about the community we’re creating together. Hope everyone enjoys this one with Dr. Glenn.

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Part 91 - Briana Pobiner, PhD on Meat-Eating Throughout Human History

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Hey there everyone, I hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend. Los Angeles tried to cancel it by closing all the beaches, the one place that would assumably be safe to spend some time outdoors with friends and family and soak up some vitamin D, so I spent some time in beautiful San Diego where people enjoyed the independence and freedom America fought for.

Today I’m talking to Dr. Briana Pobiner who is a paleoanthropologist and works at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural HIstory and put together the Hall of Human Origins. Her research centers on the evolution of human diet (with a focus on meat-eating), but has included topics as diverse as chimpanzee carnivory and cannibalism in the Cook islands. She has done fieldwork in modern ecosystems, conducted excavations, and studied fossil collections in Kenya, Tanzania, South Africa, Indonesia, and Romania and has published many scientific papers on these topics. Additionally, she serves as an Associate Research Professor of Anthropology at the George Washington University. For more info see https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/briana-pobiner

We go through the entire history of human meat-eating starting with when we split off from our ancestors 6-7 million years ago. We even get into chimp hunting and meat-eating as well. If you are a member of the Sapien Tribe you’ll get the bonus part of the episode where we cover cannibalism. Pretty wild stuff here.

We still have some lifetime memberships available at a deep discount. This is funding all the content we are making at sapien.org that will only increase in the future. We are completely community powered and I’d like to keep it that way.

If you are ready to lose some serious weight you can also find out about our new Sapien Program at http://sapien.org We are offering a 10 week program that will change your life. We have all the materials and information to educate you, as well as health coaches to guide you in your journey. The info is all out there, but we have done the work to make it simple and actionable and keep you accountable. We have a special price for the program for a limited time. You can find out more at http://sapien.org and grab our free Sapien Food Guide there as well.

Of course there’s always the grass fed and finished meat at http://nosetotail.org and you can help us out by giving this podcast a review on itunes or the podcast app and sharing it with family and friends. Like I always say, I’d strongly recommend going back and starting with episode one or working backwards to the beginning. Now please enjoy this episode with Dr. Briana Pobiner.

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SHOW NOTES

[5:35] Her experience in field work.
[8:00] Different forms of research and history we can look into to learn more.
[11:00] The importance of looking into modern hunter gatherers.
[15:00] Chimps and how they hunt monkeys.
[18:35] The timeline of how animal scavenging and butchery evolved for early humans.
[28:10] What is leftover when free ranging predators would hunt and eat prey.
[33:05] Some limitations of research into paleoanthropology and aspects of her research.
[37:35] Aquatic sources of food for early humans.
[40:35] Her take on the modern carnivore diet.
[45:05] Increase in meat consumption as well as brain and body size.

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Part 90 - Aviaja Hauptmann, PhD on Traditional Inuit Animal-Based Diets & Fighting the Plant-Based Agenda That’s Killing Her People

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Well hello again Sapien people. I’m really excited about this episode. I feel like I’ve found another gem from the far reaches of the globe. Aviaja is of Inuit descent and was born in Greenland where she continues to do her research. Her work revolves around the 98% animal-based diets of the native people there. SHe also is a public speaker and activist for the preservation of their native animal-based diet which is being jeopardized by anti-meat activists and plant-based ideals of the government recommendations. They are trying to get people to eat industrialized plant-based foods that have to be shipped into their country instead of eating their natural diet.

She’s a microbiologist with a Ph.D. in microbial ecology and bioinformatics. She’s been researching the microbiology of Greenland and the broader Arctic through large amounts of DNA sequencing data, also called metagenomics. She’s particularly interested in studying traditional Greenlandic foods eaten by the inuit.

We get into all kinds of interesting topics, especially around fermented foods, which are mostly animal foods in her culture. You’ll want to make sure to stick around for this entire interview.

A few quick announcements - get the free Sapien Food guide on the new http://sapien.org site. It’s like a cheat sheet to being healthy for life. It breaks down the Sapien principles and gives a visual guide of what to eat.

You can also learn about our Sapien Program there if you’re ready to make some serious changes in your life. Our program educates you on how to be healthy for life and lose weight in the process. It’s backed by Dr. Gary and our health coaching team. You can join us in our clinic Evolve Healthcare in Los Angeles or anywhere in the world. That’s at http://sapien.org

You can also join the tribe there. This is for people who already have sorted out their health but are looking for more and to be part of the special community we’re growing. We just had a private Zoom call last week where Dr. Gary and I answered member questions live. It was really great and we record these and share them to the tribe after as well. We have a limited number of lifetime memberships available at a deep discount at http://sapien.org

That’s it! You can always get the grass finished meat from our ranch in Texas delivered to your door at http://nosetotail.org and please share this podcast with family and friends and give it a review. Really appreciate all of you - here’s Aviaja Hauptmann.

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SHOW NOTES

[4:45] Her work in metagenomics.
[8:20] The impact of straying away from traditional foods and eating imported foods.
[14:10] There is a much bigger picture than just what nutrients go into your body.
[17:10] Food and sustainability.
[21:35] The difference between eating an animal completely fresh and from a grocery store.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0227819
[25:10] A high fiber diet does not guarantee a healthier, more diverse gut microbiome.
[37:10] The importance of connecting to the resources required to eat the food that we eat.
[40:30] What we can do to improve our regenerative way of living.
[44:45] The importance of accepting opposing truths.
[1:13:00] What happens when we move away from a traditional/ancestral diet?
[1:18:30] Her current and future plans on research.

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Part 89 - Dr. Brian Lenzkes on The Future of Medicine, Aligning Incentives, and Fixing the Broken Healthcare (Sickcare) System

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Hello everyone, we’re here with another fresh episode of Peak Human, hot off the press. I’ve been recording these each week and posting them within a few days to make sure they’re current and relevant. For those of you who are new to the show, I’m Brian Sanders and I’m creating the Food Lies film which we are trying to finish by the end of the year. We got slowed down a bit due to the current state of the world, but are actively working on it daily.

I also work with an internal medicine physician, Dr. Gary Shlifer here in Los Angeles where we treat patients with diet & lifestyle instead of rushing to medications. In fact, our goal is to remove as many medications as possible which we successfully do across the board. We have just launched the Sapien Program where people can radically change their life with our physician supervised diet & lifestyle program that includes, videos, written materials, visual resources, and health coaching. You can learn more about it and get the free Sapien Food Guide at http://Sapien.org Anyone in the world can take part in this program if they are serious about losing weight and dedicating themselves to a change. We’re all about making it fun, delicious, sustainable, and enjoyable. This isn’t about counting calories, being hungry, or needing tons of will-power.

We also have the Sapien Tribe for people who have already made diet & lifestyle changes and are looking to further their knowledge and keep themselves motivated, accountable, and up to date on new info. It’s an amazing group of people that help each other grow. We also have a ton of perks like our private members area, private Zoom community meetings, extended show notes of the podcast, and unlisted video resources on meal prep and exercise routines. You can also find out about this and join at http://sapien.org

Get in on the ground floor of this community and be a founding member for life with a deep discount on a lifetime membership. We are running out of these limited spots. We’re building something special together.

Brian Lenzkes is an internal medicine doctor in San Diego. Dr. Lenzkes received a BS in Biology from UC Irvine, and an MD from USC Medical School. He practices root cause medicine and has moved away from the standard insurance-based medical system to a Direct Primary Care model to better serve his patients. He also speaks around the country on the benefits of diet & lifestyle-based medicine.

We speak today on the future of medicine. Not only does this of course rely on root cause medicine and diet & lifestyle intervention, but aligned incentives, new technology, and a collaborative model. This includes wearable technology such as CGM or continuous glucose monitors, smart blood pressure cuffs, smart scales, and more. Things will really make sense concerning our current nightmare of a healthcare system after listening to this episode.Once again please go to the new version of http://sapien.org to get the free Sapien Food Guide, learn about http://NoseToTail.org grass finished meat delivery service from our ranch in Texas, and to join the Sapien Tribe. Thanks so much for supporting this podcast with a review and sharing it with friends and family! Now here’s my friend, Dr. Brian Lenzkes.

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SHOW NOTES

- [8:25] Dr. Brian’s own health journey.
- [13:45] Bigger tests/biomarkers to look at.
- [20:55] Cardiac disease and insulin levels.
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/type-1-diabetes-and-heart-disease-linked-inflammatory-protein
- [22:15] The difference between the direct primary care model and normal medicine.
- [28:35] The issues with westernized medicine.
- [31:15] The power of community and positive peer pressure.
- [34:35] Incentivizing better health and results for doctors towards their patients.
- [50:35] Benefits of being metabolically healthy and flexible.
- [58:15] Finding the correct amount of “moderation” in relation to your own health and goals.
- [1:02:45] Different technology and wearables to improve your health.
- [1:10:25] The best and most valuable things Dr. Brian has learned throughout his journey and experiences in the field.
- [1:15:25] What Dr. Brian offers at his practice and his services. https://lowcarbmdsandiego.com/

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Part 88 - Dr. Phil Maffetone on the Overfat Pandemic, Improving Your Immune System, and the Benefits of Running on Fat

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Hello again beautiful people! I hope everyone is doing well. Since I can’t ask how you’re doing, I’ll just skip straight to myself. I’m getting loaded with vitamin D daily and chowing down on Nose to Tail meat like it’s my job. It actually kind of is my job. My pool and gym are back open and things are looking good from where I’m standing. I hope people listening can say the same. Let’s try to keep that attitude positive!

I’m talking to my new pal Dr. Phil Maffetone today who’s a super interesting guy with a long career doing amazing things. He first tried running his body on fat back in the 70s and has been one of the leaders in the world getting athletes fat adapted to achieve peak performance.

During his two decades in private practice and beyond, Dr. Maffetone has been a respected pioneer in the field of complementary medicine, bringing the latest advances to health-care professionals around the world. He is an internationally recognized researcher, educator, clinician and author in the field of nutrition, exercise and sports medicine, and biofeedback.

He’s worked with athletes in almost every sport at the highest levels including professional and olympic athletes.

Dr. Maffetone’s research has been reported in newspapers, magazines and other media around the world, including Huffington Post, The Today Show, Men’s Health, CNN, Readers Digest and The Atlantic magazine. He’s also published over 20 books since 1980. I think I’m just going to stop with his achievements already and get on to a few quick announcements.

We’re finally officially launching the Sapien Program for those who want to seriously improve their health with a physician supervised program, our video series, and other written and visual materials. We also are offering personalized health coaching to guide you through and keep you accountable. If you're not ready for all that you can grab our free Sapien Food Guide at http://sapien.org

And if you're already on the right track you can join the Sapien Tribe to connect with us on a deeper level and get bonus content, extra resources, our private weekly Zoom meetings with Dr. Gary and others, and our private members area. This is all just getting going and we’re getting a lot of sign ups to the special limited lifetime membership at a deep discount. Find out about all of this at http://sapien.org

Otherwise just share this podcast with a friend, go back and listen to the great episodes all the way back to #1, review it on the podcast app or itunes, and don’t forget about http://NoseToTail.org we’re shipping grass finished meat out weekly from our small ranch in Texas. I’ve been eating the primal ground beef with all the organs mixed in a lot lately and now regular ground beef tastes watered down. You gotta check it out.

Well that’s it so now it’s time for my interview with Dr. Phil Maffetone which I really enjoyed. We had such a good time we went for over 2 hours and then recorded even more bonus content for the Sapien Tribe members at the end. So much great info in this one - please enjoy!

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SHOW NOTES

[9:05] Sugar is the new tobacco.
[18:35] What is overfat? https://philmaffetone.com/overfat-pandemic/
[26:45] Overfat, normalfat, and underfat.
[33:05] Being overfat makes us more vulnerable to chronic diseases and infectious diseases.
[37:25] How quickly can we fix this overfat problem?
[45:05] His first experience with the keto diet.
[54:45] You can't out exercise a bad diet. https://philmaffetone.com/why-some-runners-struggle-with-weight-loss/
[58:55] Waist to height ratio.
[1:05:35] His thoughts on oils and grains.
[1:09:05] Who are at high risk from the COVID-19. Check out this article with cited research from Dr. Maffetone to learn more in depth https://philmaffetone.com/covid-19-whos-most-at-risk/
[1:12:15] How essential your immune system is for preventing sickness from viruses. [1:19:45] How the COVID-19 works against your immune system.
[1:25:05] Current thoughts and news on COVID-19.
[1:44:20] Prevention in modern healthcare is not what it used to be.

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Part 87 - Dr. Bill Schindler on Meat & Human Evolution, Should Humans Eat Dairy or Grains, and the Real Story of Food Processing

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Hello everyone, welcome back. I’ve been getting a lot of questions on dairy, grains, food processing, and what humans evolved to eat. This is a very nuanced topic so I wanted to do a thorough podcast with probably the best person in the world to speak on this, Dr. Bill Schindler. We frame this whole conversation around a recent New York Times opinion piece called “The end of meat is here” https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/opinion/coronavirus-meat-vegetarianism.html

This is an absurd article that uses the coronavirus era we’re in as a way to propose that the human race should not eat meat anymore. It’s a strange notion that we’d stop eating the most important food in human history, a super food that literally made us human. I usually wouldn’t pay much attention to such a thing, but it was a good way to frame our discussion and expose all the errors the author made. It’s always fun to debunk these type of things but there's not always time for each and every one that keeps popping up. This episode should also go a long way to clear up many aspects of meat-eating and a proper human (or should I say Sapien) diet.

Dr. Bill Schindler is the director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab at Washington College where he is also an associate professor of archaeology and anthropology. Two years ago he co-hosted the National Geographic show The Great Human Race. He spent a year abroad recently continuing his hands-on research and professional development by immersing himself and his family with indigenous and traditional groups around the world to learn about their food and diets. As an experimental archaeologist and primitive technologist his specialties are in recreating technologies of the past to better interpret our ancestral diets. His current focus is learning how to translate the outcomes of that research into something meaningful for modern day diet and health and is working to fuse lessons from our ancestral dietary past with modern culinary arts to create a food system that is relevant, accessible and meaningful to modern Western life.

Stay tuned for the Sapien Tribe bonus podcast with Dr. Bill if you are a Sapien Tribe member. If you aren’t a member yet, we have a limited time offer for a lifetime membership at a steeply discounted rate. You can do this at http://Sapien.org We’re giving a whole bunch of exclusive content and special features to members of the Tribe. It’s going to be a much more comprehensive version of the Patreon. Members will get the extended show notes, the bonus episodes of the podcast each week where I spend some more time with the guests, and a lot more. You can see all the perks at http://Sapien.org

This is our new way of powering all our efforts instead of taking outside money or advertising outside products. We want to be as transparent as possible and not be influenced by any other interests.

So support us there, get the grass finished meat delivered to your door at http://NoseToTail.org

And share this podcast and give it a review. Thanks so much everyone, we’re all in this together! Please enjoy this episode with Dr. Bill Schindler.

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SHOW NOTES

[18:05] Plants were not made on earth to feed us.
[29:15] Bill explains why we should include animal sources in our diets.
[39:30] How to make bread much more digestible.
[51:55] Food processing of the past makes food very safe, nutrient dense, and bioavailable.
[55:15] Milk is a food that if treated the right way, can be one of the most nutritious foods possible.
[1:00:05] Infants and how they are able to digest milk.
[1:09:55] Why cheese in the US is usually not real.
[1:18:55] The benefits of making food from scratch.
[1:30:55] Animal agriculture and global warming.
[1:41:35] The amount of food that can come from animals if we eat them differently.
[1:44:20] Bill’s experience in Kenya.

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Part 86 - Cate Shanahan, MD on Unlocking Your Body’s Fat Burning Potential, Sinister Seed Oils, and Corona Thoughts

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Hey, hey! How’s everyone doing? We’re living in some strange times. I really hope we find a way to end racism in the US and the world and I hope justice is served for that horrible police officer. I’m here in LA and just tried to go to the post office and found that it was closed and storefronts in the Venice / Marina Del Rey area were being boarded up. We all got messages to our phones saying a curfew would be enforced at 5pm. My friend got beat up in Santa Monica for trying to stop looters. I don’t know why he was trying to do this, but it looked pretty scary. Violence is not the answer. I hope everyone stays safe and we make some changes in our society towards true equality.

Today we have Dr. Cate Shanahan back on the show. There’s a few great people who have made it on twice. Dr. Ted Naiman, Ivor Cummins, Dr. Paul Saladino, and I'm talking to Dr. Bill Schindler again tomorrow. Please go back and catch these awesome repeat guests, as well as all the other great episodes in the back catalogue.

For those who don’t know of Dr. Cate she was just on Bill Maher’s show Real Time where she talked about ancestral nutrition, avoiding seed oils, running on fat, and staying healthy as the number one goal during the time of coronavirus. It was such a treat to hear someone from our health community make it to the mainstream. Bill seemed to support her message 100% and didn’t even start with his plant-heavy leaning ideas. I was just so excited to see her spreading these messages I wanted to have her back on. I also have been reading her new book The Fatburn Fix and am thoroughly enjoying it. She goes into a lot of interesting details of her new information in this episode.

Don’t forget to get your orders in for Nose to Tail this week. If you haven’t heard about it yet, all the info is on http://NoseToTail.org We ship out grass fed, grass finished, beyond organic beef, buffalo, and high omega-3 and low omega-6 pork and chicken. It’s from our small ranch in Texas and shipped out to the 48 contiguous US states. We have all kinds of organs mixed into ground meat products, the bones, sausages, even beef jerky and beef sticks. Check out all the great stuff at http://NoseToTail.org

I’d also like to give all you listeners first access to the new Sapien Tribe. We’re making our cult official! Just joking. We have a special lifetime access deal on http://Sapien.org right now especially for Patreon supporters and podcast listeners. We’re going to expand our offering from the normal Patreon perks and add a lot more exclusive content and features. Learn more about it at http://Sapien.org

Thanks for being a part of the Sapien community and please enjoy this week’s episode with Dr. Cate Shanahan.

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SHOW NOTES:

[7:15] Body fat can become dysfunctional by consuming seed oils.
[8:45] Why are seed oils so bad for you?
[13:45] The inflammatory response from seed oils and how it relates to COVID-19.
[21:25] Gluten and celiac disease.
[35:05] Because of how these seed oils affect our metabolism, they are causing the vast majority of chronic illnesses.
[40:55] Whole wheat bread vs sprouted bread.
[54:55] How seed oils play a role in the development of cancerous cells.
[1:02:55] Flattening the curve and coronavirus.
[1:10:55] Metabolic flexibility is the key to being metabolically healthy.
[1:14:35] You can eat carbs and still be metabolically healthy/flexible.

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Part 85 - Stu Philips, PhD on How to Lose Fat While Gaining Muscle, How Much Protein to Eat, and Busting Protein Myths

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Welcome back, everyone! I hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend and got a chance to soak up some sun, get some vitamin D, see friends and family, and eat some glorious meats. I know I did.

If you're new to this podcast, I’m Brian Sanders and I'm making a film called Food Lies that goes to the beginning of human history to find out what we should be eating. We go through all the bad science that has led us astray, the new science that vindicates ancestral eating, and we even get into how we can eat meat in a not only sustainable way, but one that it is regenerative to the environment. All of these topics have been covered in the now 84 episodes of this podcast, so please start back at episode 1.

Today I’m talking to Professor Stu Phillips who is one of the world’s leading authorities on protein and muscle science. He shares vital information in this interview on long term health, short term health such as fat loss and muscle gain, as well as combating the multitude of protein myths out there.

Professor Phillips is the director of the Physical Activity Centre of Excellence (PACE), director of the McMaster Centre for Nutrition, Exercise, and Health Research, and a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Skeletal Muscle Health in Aging. In addition to being a full Professor in Kinesiology, also Graduate Faculty in the School of Medicine at McMaster University. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (FCAHS), American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and the American College of Nutrition (ACN). His research is focused on the impact of nutrition and exercise on the mechanisms of human skeletal muscle protein turnover. He is also keenly interested in diet- and exercise-induced changes in body composition particularly in older persons.

While we’re on the topic of protein we all know the best sources are from grass finished, well-raised animals. Luckily that’s what we specialize in at http://NoseToTail.org that’s a little typographical humor for you there. You can get our extra-nutritious meat from our family farm in Texas delivered to your door as long as you're in the 48 contiguous United States. Our signature product is the Primal ground beef which includes liver, heart, kidney, and spleen, all without the hassle of incorporating them yourself. It also tastes great. I like to add a little seasoning to mine, but even if you don’t, it just tastes like a richer beef flavor. We have boxes that include a variety of cuts including the primal beef, sausage, beef bacon, and our premium boxes include bone meal for calcium (which you can add into the ground beef or use in bone broth), sardines (for more calcium and magnesium, among other things), and whole cod liver pieces in cod liver oil for vitamin A, D, and others. This is the full nutrient spectrum here! You even get marrow bones. Check out our great meats that are also great for the land at http://NoseToTail.org while supplies last. We’re still selling out each week so check in often!

And now please get your steak ready for this protein info extravaganza with Professor Stuart Philips.

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SHOW NOTES

[6:50] Why protein is important for fat loss.
[8:00] How protein makes you feel full.
[12:20] Thermic effect of protein.
[13:20] Recommended range of protein.
[18:05] Quality of protein matters.
[24:50] Difference between weight lost and fat loss.
[35:10] What do you need to gain muscle?
[47:30] Low protein diets.
[51:25] How to age gracefully and strongly.

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Part 84 - Dr. Paul Mason on Fiber Myths, Gluten, Lectins, Salt, Blood Pressure, Carnivore, Microbiome, and COVID

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Hi again everyone, another week has begun! We’ve slipped into season 7 without a break in the action. There’s no time for a pause, there’s so many interesting people to talk to. If you're new to this podcast, I’m Brian Sanders and I'm making a film called Food Lies that goes to the beginning of human history to find out what we should be eating. We go through all the bad science that has led us astray, the new science that vindicates ancestral eating, and we even get into how we can eat meat in a not only sustainable way, but one that it is regenerative to the environment. All of these topics have been covered in the last 83 episodes of this podcast, so please start back at episode 1.

Today Dr. Paul Mason and I get into a wide variety of topics including salt, blood pressure, lectins, gluten, intestinal permeability, the microbiome, fiber myths, autoimmune issues, animal based diets, and we end on how this all lines up with staying healthy and protecting yourself from viruses like COVID-19. Get out your notepad for this one!

Dr. Paul Mason is a Sport Exercise Medicine Physician Specialist. He obtained his medical degree with honors from the University of Sydney, and also holds degrees in Physiotherapy and Occupational Health. He works with a variety of patients from the general public to elite athletes from teams such as the Penrith Panthers, Sydney FC, and the Australian Men’s Waterpolo team. He also presents at conferences around the world.

Become a producer of the show on Patreon by searching for Peak Human there or going to http://Patreon.com/peakhuman This show is made possible entirely by listeners like you. I really appreciate this model and us making it happen as a team with only a few bucks here and there.

Find out about everything else at http://Sapien.org and join the newsletter there to stay in tune with the new announcements and other special features we’re offering to the Sapien tribe.

Everyone knows about the great meat we deliver at http://NoseToTail.org by now. We’re selling out each week so jump on it Friday midday to Sunday night to make sure we can get it out Monday or Tuesday morning.

Here’s Dr. Paul Mason

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SHOW NOTES

[2:00] Australian dietary guidelines about sodium intake.
[3:45] Optimal ranges for biomarkers.
[14:20] Debate on saturated fat vs polyunsaturated fats (PUFAs).
A great video done by Dr. Paul Mason covering the 4 buried studies regarding the saturated fat vs PUFAs debate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lJPjsuftmQ
[26:10] There is no such thing as one diet that works for everyone.
[29:30] Intestinal permeability and gluten.
[39:15] Lectins and its effects on the body.
[49:00] Diet should depend on metabolic health and autoimmune issues.
[59:30] Fiber myths.
[1:04:30] Fiber is essentially a waste product.
[1:07:30] The gut microbiome and internal health.
[1:16:30] Insulin resistance and COVID-19. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31142858

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Part 83 - Ivor Cummins on Vitamin D, the Immune System, Severe COVID Cases, and Locking People in Their Homes

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Hey there friends, hope everyone is well. I’m on a vitamin D roll over here with another great guest talking about how it is a central part of almost every system in our body, including (and maybe most importantly these days) our immune system. Again I want to stress that D is not a vitamin, but a pre-hormone. I know talking about vitamins can make many people’s eyes glaze over. I am kind of one of these people actually. I think we can get all the vitamins and minerals we need from the food we eat and if we’re eating an ancestral, nutrient dense diet then we don’t need to supplement or worry about this kind of thing.

But vitamin D is different. Just like our bodies expect ancestral foods, we also expect an ancestral environment. Humans lived outdoors for all of history. Is it surprising at all that when we live and work indoors for the vast majority of the day this might not be ideal?

This interview also covers the link between vitamin D and the coronavirus. This is very striking and we go into even more studies and correlations on this. Tying this all together, we get into the efficacy of the lockdown. Ivor has been tracking this data for the last couple months. Nobody is minimizing the tragic deaths or saying the lockdown didn’t help in many ways, but maybe there is a smarter way to do “smart distancing” instead of blanket mandates for everyone in the country.

Maybe forcing people to be locked in their homes might actually weaken their immune system. Maybe it would have been better for people to get sunlight and vitamin D this entire time considering we have good data showing the virus isn't really transmitted outdoors. Maybe there are many unintended deaths from these lockdown measures. Maybe there was a different way to go about things once we initially reacted. These are all interesting questions and it’s great to live in the United States where you are free to ask these questions.

Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI PMP completed a Biochemical Engineering degree in 1990. He has since spent over 25 years in corporate technical leadership and management positions. His career specialty has been leading large worldwide teams in complex problem-solving activity.

Since 2012 Ivor has been intensively researching the root causes of modern chronic disease. A particular focus has been on cardiovascular disease, diabetes and obesity. He shares his research insights at public speaking engagements around the world, revealing the key nutritional and lifestyle interventions which will deliver excellent health and personal productivity. He has recently presented on heart disease primary root causes at the British Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR). He has also debated Irish Professors of Medicine on stage, at the annual conference of the Irish National Institute of Preventive Cardiology (NIPC).

Before we start I’ll just mention a few other things. If you're new to this podcast I’d start at episode 1. It’s best to experience the whole journey and soak up the valuable information from each hand-picked guest. You also should know about http://NoseToTail.org where we deliver grass finished, sustainably raised beef, buffalo, lamb as well as our one-of-a-kind high omega 3 pork and chicken. This is special stuff that is not only beyond organic and humanely raised, but is fed a special diet so that the meat has an extremely high omega 3 to omega 6 ratio. It’s in high demand so we can only sell the bacon 1 package at a time. Our other signature product is the primal ground beef with liver, heart, kidney, and spleen mixed. Very tasty stuff. I’ve seen and heard of so many kids chowing down on this stuff and enjoying it immensely. They don’t mind the organ taste at all and I think have an intuitive sense for the superior nutrition it provides.

That’s my company so you can get your meat there and support me (in a small way) and our ranch in Texas. You can also support the Food Lies film on http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post by clicking through http://FoodLies.org - we still are taking preorders and have the Eat Meat shirts there. We are in the last steps of getting the film finished but still need your help.

You can also get the private food and exercise videos as well as the extended show notes for this podcast by becoming a Patreon supporter on http://patreon.com/peakhuman

And if you’d like to support in a non-monetary way you can give the podcast a review on iTunes or the Apple podcast app and share any of these things with family and friends! Thanks so much everyone, it wouldn't be possible without you. Please enjoy this interview with Ivor Cummins.

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SHOW NOTES

[1:25] Small study of 100 people, no selection bias. COVID-19. Those with lower vitamin D levels were experiencing much more severe/critical symptoms.
[8:40] There are many reasons as to why your Vitamin D may be low.
[11:30] How latitude can be affecting COVID-19.
[23:00] Should you use sunscreen?
[38:00] Italy has some of the worst vitamin D levels in Europe.
[42:45] Brazil’s experience with SARS-1 and COVID-19.
[44:10] Imposing lockdowns in the various countries does not seem to have influenced the R0 value.
[47:20] All cause mortality per head of population.
[1:00:40] How lockdown has affected the R not value in various countries
[1:08:20] Those over 65 years old should stick to isolation.
[1:14:20**] It seems like people are no longer trying to look at the big picture and the data supporting that the lockdown may not be as effective as we thought it was going to be

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Part 82 - Dr. Joel Gould on Vitamin D, Sunlight, the Immune System, and Coronavirus

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Hello, hello! What a beautiful day it is to be alive and well. I hope everyone is getting outside and getting some sun each day if they live someplace where that is possible. If not, at least getting outdoors and getting some exercise will have a ton of other benefits.

Today’s podcast is all about vitamin D and how it relates to human health and the immune system. Living a healthy lifestyle, avoiding metabolic disease, eating nutrient dense animal foods, and getting responsible sunlight all play into your vitamin D status. Even some supplementation can be sometimes very necessary and beneficial. I posted another great study out of Indonesia on the correlations between vitamin D status and deaths from COVID-19. They are very striking and everyone should check them out on social media on my Food Lies accounts. Just search for “Food Lies” on any platform.

I’ve been talking to Joel about this vitamin D stuff for about a year now and have been tracking it over the past 6 weeks during the Coronavirus pandemic. We’ve been trading information and it was good to see that some good data has finally been coming out. I kept mentioning getting outside and getting sun exposure but didn’t want to post anything definitive until the science was clear. I think we’re getting to that point now with multiple studies from multiple countries. Even Dr. Gary has been reporting extremely low levels in all his patients who are having bad cases of COVID. I’d also like to point out that the logo for my company Sapien is a sun. I couldn't think of a better representation of everything that represents healthy humans.

Dr. Joel Gould is a dentist with 30 years of experience in Canada and the United States. He is on the forefront of revolutionizing modern dental approaches by furthering his knowledge on science, technology, and the human body. He has been featured for his innovative work on network TV such FOX, NBC, ABC, and CBS. He launched His unique “Sleep Restoration” program in 2016, focusing on organic, non pharmaceutical solutions for insomnia and sleep apnea. Dr. Gould’s new book The Modern Epidemic set to be released this summer lays out a new health paradigm based on sleep and breathing, and natural regeneration, founded on ancestral health, and evolution.

Before we jump in I want to make sure everyone knows about http://NoseToTail.org where we ship 100% grass finished beef and buffalo, and high omega-3 pork and chicken to your door. This is all raised beyond organic in Texas. Our primal ground beef with liver, heart, kidney, and spleen is flying out the door these days. Get while you can, we only process animals every 2 weeks. There’s so many nutrients in this tasty ground beef that are hard to get otherwise. You can make a custom box at http://nosetotail.org and get free shipping if it’s 20lbs or more.

You can also support this podcast and everything else I do at http://patreon.com/peakhuman I’ve been able to scrape by without taking on any advertisers or outside money for any of my ventures so far and really want to keep it that way. The Food Lies film, the Food Lies youtube channel, and all my social media is powered all by the community. I have yet to take a cent from another company. That’s http://patreon.com/peakhuman or click through http://sapien.org where you can find out about all the projects I’m working on including the health technology. We’re still looking for doctors, healthcare providers, and health coaches to work with us. You can add yourself to the waiting list at http://sapien.org

Thanks for sharing this podcast and reviewing it on iTunes and the Apple podcast app! Really appreciate all of you and all the inspiring messages of positive health journeys! Now let’s hear some more great information about vitamin D from Dr. Joel Gould.

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SHOW NOTES

[1:25] Vitamin D and how it relates to COVID-19.
[5:30] Vitamin D regulates our gut microbiome.
[7:50] When the Vitamin D level is lower, the sicker the person is according to this study. https://www.grassrootshealth.net/blog/first-data-published-covid-19-severity-vitamin-d-levels
[12:00] How you can know your Vitamin D levels are low.
[16:25] Grassroots health study.
[20:50] Vitamin D and Autoimmune disease.
[22:00] Vitamin D deficiency allows cancer to grow and manifest.
[24:30] Vitamin D comes from UVB radiation from sunlight.
[29:45] Vitamin D is made from cholesterol in your skin.
[43:00] Sunlight is antiviral.
[53:40] The lower the vitamin D level, the harder it is to access your DNA.
[1:03:00] How Vitamin D and sunlight exposure may have helped with the Spanish Flu.
[1:05:50] Supplementing to get a higher Vitamin D level before starting to go out into the sun consistently will protect you from getting skin problems from too much sun exposure, especially all at once.
[1:18:00] Factors that affect the amount of Vitamin D that you will produce.
[1:29:20] Glyphosate interrupts the enzymes in the liver that take vitamin D itself and activate.
[1:43:20] Vitamin D isn't a magic bullet against COVID-19, but it is very valuable in many aspects of overall health.

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Part 81 - Dr. Michael Eades on What Humans Evolved to Eat & What Happens When You Stray From That

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Welcome back everyone! Thanks for tuning in and I hope you are putting your health first during this time. In case anyone is wondering, I'm working on the Food Lies film daily and we’re still trying to get it out in the fall right when everything is hopefully back to normal. You can still preorder a copy on Indiegogo and also get great extras like the special features or the Eat Meat shirt. We just sent out the new batch of shirts last week and have about 20 left if people want to jump on those. That's on http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post and search for Food Lies Post or click through http://FoodLies.org

Today Dr. Mike Eades joins me for a really great and comprehensive interview. I’ve been following his work for many years and always enjoy his presentations that can be found on YouTube. We got to hang out all weekend in Denver a little ways back and I got to see another of his amazing presentations live talking about what humans evolved to eat and what happened as we strayed away from that diet. It’s shocking stuff and sure to ruffle the feathers of every single mainstream doctor, dietitian, and nutritionist around. We go over this and much of his other work in this interesting episode.

Dr. Michael Eades is a physician and the author of 10 books in the fields of health, nutrition, and exercise over the last several decades––among them the New York Times best seller Protein Power and The Protein Power LifePlan which laid out one of the first nutritional concepts of the paleo lifestyle. Since 1986 Dr. Eades has been in full time practice of bariatric, nutritional, and metabolic medicine.

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Here’s Dr. Mike Eades

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[5:05] Some noted evidence of meat eating since the dawn of man until now from Dr. Eades.
[13:30] Our brains are our weapon.
[20:20] Hunter gatherers’ health vs agriculturists.
[26:05] How the Egyptians’ wheat based diet destroyed their health.
[40:20] Eades’ take on the history of obesity in the US.
[49:35] How PUFAs play a role in the obesity crisis.
[55:30] How PUFAs affect the Reverse Electron Transport. Watch this presentation for a deeper dive with graphics to help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIRurLnQ8oo
[58:10] The role incretins play in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes and obesity. Watch this presentation if you want to dive deeper and see the graphics that go along with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMO-5mq3crU
[1:11:30] Why he advocates alternate day fasting.
[1:12:55] His experimentation with a continuous glucose monitor.

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Part 80 - Dr. Nadir Ali on Why Plant Sterols Are Bad, LDL Can Be Good, and ApoE4 Does Not Mean You’ll Get Alzheimer’s

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Hello, hello my healthy friends! Here’s some news for you - I don’t have Sars-CoV-2. I did the antibody test at Evolve Healthcare with Dr. Gary who co-founded Sapien with me. He has some tests if anyone is nearby. I just did it because I was curious. I haven't felt the slightest bit bad or even coughed yet in 2020 so it’s not because I had any symptoms. Still doing my living room workouts and sprinting 5 days per week and eating nose to tail.

You can get your own official http://nosetotail.org grass finished, American raised, beyond organic meat at http://nosetotail.org We actually have a bit left this week. Usually we sell out by Tuesday night but you can still order if you get a jump on it. It’s the best way to support food producers directly. I’m sure people have heard about processing middlemen jacking up prices and disrupting the supply chain to grocery stores. I’ve still seen grocery store shelves empty all while meat sold by producers is at bargain basement price. It’s messed up. Support your local farms or get it online from us and we’ll ship it straight to you. The primal ground beef is the best seller and it includes liver, heart, kidney, and spleen making it a true superfood.

Stay in touch by getting on the newsletter at http://Sapien.org there will be some special content given out there. There’s also a bunch of special content for Patreon supporters at http://patreon.com/peakhuman Remember this is a community powered show and if you’re getting value from this podcast and have gotten healthier or lost some weight, maybe you can put a little wind in the sail to keep this boat goin!

The Food Lies film editing is going well. I just had a good meeting today reviewing some of the footage. We’re shipping out the new batch of “Eat Meat” shirts this week so get them while you can at http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post and support the film!

Dr. Nadir Ali is an interventional cardiologist with over 25 years of experience. He is also the chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center. He has several years of experience using the Low Carbohydrate High Fat (LCHF) diet in the treatment of metabolic disease, diabetes, and heart disease to improve the quality of cholesterol. He and his team organize free monthly diet seminars at the Searcy Auditorium of the Clear Lake Hospital that receives more than 100 visitors.

All of his work and presentations are fantastic - please check them out on youtube. Until then you can get to know him a bit in our 2 hour interview. He’s got so much good info in his noggin we just kept talking, even with the 30 minutes we did before we started recording. Please listen closely to this one! Here’s Dr. Nadir Ali.

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SHOW NOTES

[0:40] How Nadir Ali got into his journey of the low carb lifestyle.
[4:35] Becoming metabolically healthy in many cases can actually lead to your LDL cholesterol to rise.
[11:35] The history of why much of the science community wrongly thinks LDL cholesterol is bad.
[21:45] Phytosterol, the toxic cholesterol from plants.
[23:35] The role of cholesterol in our brains.
[25:30] To be able to feed the brain you must be able to absorb highly nutritious foods quite quickly.
[34:30] Why Dr. Ali thinks we need to stop demonizing insulin.
[45:40] Why a vegan diet is most likely not the most optimal diet.
[50:55] Why phytosterols are bad for you.
[56:10] What you need to know about PcSK9 and how it regulates cholesterol.
[1:01:25]**
[1:03:05] The paradox of some ethnicities where they are not obese but not healthy either.
[1:06:12] Personal fat threshold.
[1:10:20] Why fasting and feasting is such a beneficial practice.
[1:19:10] How adiponectin can tell you if you are metabolically healthy.
[1:22:00] ApoE4 and how it relates to Alzheimer’s and dementia.

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Part 79 - Dr. Sean O’Mara MD, JD on Measuring True Health, Visceral Fat, and Are All Calories Created Equal?

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Hey everyone out there in quarantine land, how’s everyone doing? Hopefully you’re holding strong and eating nutrient dense Sapien foods instead of ordering takeout. And going for walks in the sun and doing workouts in your living room. This is exactly what I’ve been doing and have been feeling better than ever.

I talked to Dr. Sean O'mara about so many interesting things during this interview we decided to cut it off and do another in the near future. We ended up not doing this immediately so please reach out to me on social media and let me know what questions or other topics you’d like us to address when we do our follow-up episode.

His work with measuring visceral fat with MRI is so important. This is such a huge thing that people are missing, even in the health community. It’s a relatively new concept and technology and is pretty costly, so it makes sense. But this is one of the huge ways to not only prove a calorie is not a calorie, but also really see someone’s true health status.

I won’t go on because there’s too many interesting things to bring up - better to just listen to the episode. Dr. Sean is very in tune with everything I’ve learned over the past 5 years and I hope to work with him in the future and get him into the Sapien organization.

Here are a few updates before we begin. http://NoseToTail.org is in high demand right now and we don’t have a ton of inventory, so jump on it while you can. You can still order this week if you're close to our ranch in Texas. If not, check the site over the weekend and get your order in so we can ship it Monday. Our most popular product is the primal and primal lite ground beef that has liver, kidney, heart, and spleen mixed in for the most nutritious burger patty in the game. We also have pork and chicken that is fed a special diet to make their meat ultra high in omega 3 compared to omega 6. As you've been learning through all these great experts on this podcast, a high ratio of omega 6 in your diet and all these pufas that are so ubiquitous these days is one of the biggest factors in chronic disease. So get the good stuff delivered straight to your door at http://NoseToTail.org

Become a show producer on Patreon at http://patreon.com/peakhuman Supporters here are making this show possible. I’ll continue to turn down advertisers if we can continue to power the show with the community. You get the extended show notes, the other unlisted video content, and soon to be more perks by being a supporter on http://patreon.com/peakhuman

Other than that you can share with a friend, give it a review on the podcast app or iTunes, and make sure to start back at episode 1. It really makes me happy to hear people’s stories of starting from the beginning and learning more than most doctors and nutritionists know by the end. Especially when they implement it into their lives and have universally great results. How could you not? We’re talking about a Spaien diet here. This is how humans should eat. Find out more at http://Sapien.org/diet

And now let’s get to this enlightening interview with Dr. Sean O’Mara.

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[5:20] How Dr. Sean O’Mara got into the Paleo/low carb diet.
[14:20] The importance of health and how it reflects on you physically and mentally.
[25:20] Dr. Sean’s work with professional athletes, businessmen, and social leaders.
[32:40] The interventions he uses on his clients.
[39:25] What he suggests for exercise.
[55:45] The effect of sprinting on visceral fat. https://twitter.com/DrSeanOMara/status/1239611500228206594?s=20
[56:10] How he got into researching visceral fat.
[1:02:15] Visceral fat is highly associated with chronic disease. 1:01:30**
[1:06:00] Best ways to get rid of visceral fat.
[1:12:30] Your microbiome influences you and your cravings.
[1:19:08] His experience with the carnivore diet.
[1:24:30] Calories are not all the same, in regards to the accumulation of visceral fat.

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Part 78 - Chris Knobbe, MD on Vegetable Oils: The Hidden Killer

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Hello again my friends, hope you continue to stay healthy and sane in these tumultuous times. I did another livestream with a health professional and just uploaded it to youtube. This time it was with an ICU nurse working in the COVID unit in a hospital in the downtown LA area. This goes along with my posts on social media where I made an inquiry for anecdotes of super healthy individuals getting severe cases and ending up in the hospital. I had a lot of interesting comments from that post, including people accusing me of one thing or another. I don’t know where they're getting any malicious ideas from.

I actually really want to know if there are people in our health community experiencing severe cases. So far I have heard of none. People mentioned 2 Spanish soccer players who seemed healthy and there were 2 reports of people in their 40s where the commenter assumed they were healthy. I still haven't heard of anyone who actively focuses on their health and actually engages in healthy lifestyle behaviors on a daily basis dying or going to the ICU. I only hear about people eating a Standard American Diet who aren't yet diagnosed with an actual disease. I want to prove myself wrong here. I don’t want to be lulled into a false sense of security. But so far it seems that the supposedly “healthy” people ending up in the ICU are 40+ obese males.

My nurse friend Rylee confirmed this in our livestream in her limited sample set, and everything that people sent me seemed to confirm this as well. There were reports of thin people getting it, I’ll admit. But this spurs the discussion - are thin people always healthy? NO way! Many commenters even expounded on this telling stories of how messed up they were healthwise even when outwardly they looked in shape.

So I’m not saying just because you're overweight you're unhealthy or just because you're thin you're healthy. I’m also not saying you're going to avoid a severe COVID case just because you are healthy. There was one anecdote of a healthy person on a low carb diet who qualified for a major triathlon. I don’t know much more about his diet or health status other than someone reporting this, but I won’t sweep it under the rug. There’s always outliers here. We don’t know everything about this virus obviously and I’m by no means the expert. I’m just trying to get people to focus on the thing they DEFINITELY have control of in these crazy times - their own health.

Focus down on keeping yourself metabolically healthy, do home workouts, and keep your nutrient density super high with every meal! Get some fresh air and some sun, stay positive, and have some control in your life by doing these things. Enough out of me, let’s get to the episode.

Dr. Chris Knobbe is an esteemed eye physician and surgeon in Boulder, Colorado and currently leads the Cure AMD Foundation. Cure AMD Foundation seeks to spread the message regarding his research that AMD (Age-related macular degeneration) is caused by “Westernization of the diet”. Luckily, he has a theory that macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of irreversible vision loss and blindness, is not only preventable but also treatable with the implementation of an ancestral diet. He came to this conclusion when he left his full-time practice to commit his time to numerous years of full-time investigative research on nutrition. He now shares his breakthrough findings on this and the harms of industrial seed oils through presentations across the country as well as scientific papers and books. You can learn more at cureamd.org

He did an amazing presentation in Denver recently and has really brought a lot of new information to the table when it comes to the industrial seed oils being the root of all evil! I’m not even exaggerating that much. Populations can be healthy on almost any diet on the planet until the high omega 6 seed oils come into the picture. These go along with processed foods of course, and the refined grains and sugar. But maybe the seed oils are the real X factor. Long time listeners will be familiar with this concept from episode 20 with Tucker Goodrich who did an eye opening interview on this same topic. Go back and check this one out and make sure to start at episode 1 to get the full download of all this super valuable health info.

So make sure to balance your omega 3s to omega 6s and definitely don’t eat oxidized vegetable oils which are even worse - the ones they use in deep fryers that are reused and kept at super high temperatures. You can get super high omega 3 to omega 6 ratio pork and chicken at http://nosetotail.org We have a bit left and will be restocking friday. Pork and chicken have gotten a bad rap in our health community, and rightly so, because they are usually super high in omega 6 compared to omega 3. At Nose to Tail we feed our animals a special (and expensive) diet that’s super high in omega 3 which makes the meat have an unmatched omega 3 content. Our beef also has a great ratio, as does all beef that’s solely grass fed and finished. Get all the organ meats mixed in as well with our primal ground beef. Get it while it lasts at http://nosetotail.org

Thanks for the continued support on Patreon - you can be one of the proud show supporters or show producers you could say - the ones that make this show possible. That’s http://Patreon.com/peakhuman Also please continue to share and rate this show on iTunes or the podcast app. 5 star reviews help get the show noticed and let the big important guests I'm trying to get on the show know that it’s worth their time. Really appreciate each and every one of you. Much love and please enjoy today’s interview.

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SHOW NOTES

[7:07] Chris’s battle with arthritis and how he fixed it.
[9:12] Processed seed oils are the major culprit for many chronic diseases.
[10:12] Westernization of our diets.
[17:42] The rise of seed oils and why they are so harmful.
[21:42] Why omega-6 linoleic acids are so bad for us.
[25:12] The prevalence of heart disease and how seed oils play a huge role.
[33:12] In 2010, seed oils represented 32.5% of the standard american diet.
[34:32] Four major problems from vegetable oils.
[36:32] What it means when a molecule is proxidative.
[40:37] Omega-6 fats drive insulin resistance by breaking down the electron transport chain of the mitochondria.
[46:52] Toxicity and how it relates to seed oils.
[50:57] There is no relationship between total cholesterol and heart disease.
[52:47] LDL cholesterol, heart disease, and lifespan.
[54:22] 80% of all olive oils are often adulterated with cheap seed oils.
[58:52] Anecdotes of tribes who ‘should’ have chronic disease but are actually some of the healthiest.
[1:10:37] Why Chris is a fan of a low-carb diet.
[1:14:42] AMD is the third leading cause of blindness in the world.
[1:18:22] How diet affects AMD.

[1:21:17] How aging and genetics plays less of a role in AMD than some professionals think.
[1:25:24] Vitamin A, D, K2 deficiency are all driving AMD.

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Part 77 - JP Sears on Food Religion, Plant Medicine, Awakening, Humor, Health, and Happiness

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Hello friends. Hope everyone is faring well in these challenging times. Hopefully this episode lightens the mood and lifts people’s spirits a bit. My guest today is JP Sears who’s a super funny guy and a popular comedian touring the world, but is also focused on health, fitness, and creating a better planet.

He is a YouTuber, comedian, emotional healing coach, author, speaker, world traveler, and curious student of life. His work empowers people to live more meaningful lives. JP is also the author of “How To Be Ultra Spiritual,” He encourages healing and growth through his humorous and entertaining informative videos, including his hit Ultra Spiritual comedy series, which have accumulated over 300 million views. He makes great videos on IGTV making fun of vegans, keto people, and everyone in between. He’s on Instagram at @awakenwithJP

I know a lot of people have been waiting for Nose To Tail meat to be available. You can check http://nosetotail.org now and we have some more stuff in stock. We’ll be getting more on Friday so check over the weekend and we’ll ship it out to you on Monday. It’s a great way to get the most healthy and sustainable grass finished and humanely raised meats to your family without having to brave the grocery stores!

Since this is a community powered show, I’d like to invite people to continue to support it on Patreon at http://patreon.com/peakhuman This is the only way this podcast can continue to exist. I really want to thank the few and the proud that support it currently. Please don’t let them do all the heavy lifting. If you find value in the show, please add a few bucks in there on Patreon.

Ther than that, just please continue to share it and review it on iTunes or the podcast app. That really helps the visibility of the show in the charts and takes only a few seconds. I’ll do a hard sell I guess for once. You can just pause right now and hit the 5 stars and then we can all feel good about ourselves. Done? Ok thanks. Let’s continue the good vibes with my new pal JP Sears!

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SHOW NOTES

[2:00] His passion for emotional healing.
[4:25] Using comedy in realms that he respects.
[7:20] We need to stop being so “food religious”.
[12:35] JP describes his diet.
[15:00] His thoughts on the Netflix documentary “What The Health”.
[24:40] His philosophy of doing hard things that make you uncomfortable makes you grow and expand.
[28:50] His opinion on plant medicine.
[32:50] How to find the balance with plant medicines.
[40:10] The importance of comedy to JP.
[45:25] The importance of low stress and being happy for our health.
[47:20] His mission statement and what it means to him.

[49:10] Some closing statements from JP.

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Part 76 - Pulmonary doctor treating COVID on the front lines in NYC - Dr. Lina Miyakawa

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Hey everyone, we got a special episode here. My friend Dr. Lina Miyakawa is with us today live from New York City. She’s a pulmonary ICU specialist and is treating coronavirus cases in Mt. Sinai hospital in Manhattan.

She went to NYU for her undergraduate degree, received her medical degree from John A. Burns School of Medicine at University of Hawaii, completed her Internal Medicine residency training at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, affiliated with Stanford University in California and her specialty fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel in New York City.

Let’s get straight to the episode - I think it’s really interesting to get to hear this inside scoop from someone dealing with this on the front lines. She’s been working nonstop treating patients and spared a few minutes to talk with me. Just to give you an idea of what we’re dealing with, she had to cancel our interview yesterday because she lost another patient.

If you’re new to this show make sure to start back at episode 1. I’ve spent the last 2 years finding the brightest minds in the world to interview and people continually report how life changing the information presented has been for them. Here’s Dr. Lina.

Find her here: https://www.mountsinai.org/profiles/lina-miyakawa

Or on IG: http://instagram.com/linalinalina

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Part 75 - Dr. Aseem Malhotra on Our Absurd Obsession with LDL, Hospitals Required to Serve Junk Food, and Banning Sugar

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Hello, hello everyone! I hope everyone is staying safe and properly sequestering themselves in their own homes. The big thing I’m focusing on and I hope other people are as well, is keeping myself healthy and productive. We can make this into a vacation and mess around and eat bread and desserts and get all fat and sassy. Or we can use this time to cook delicious, healthy meals and do home workouts. We can get things done on to-do lists that have been sitting around for months, or we can watch Netflix. I’m having moments of pure unproductivity but I snap out of it and am actually taking care of things that have fallen to the wayside and feel pretty good about it. Hopefully everyone listening is staying motivated and optimistic and making the best of this situation. You certainly have the power to do so - it’s up to you.

I did this podcast with my new friend Dr. Aseem Malhotra a couple weeks ago and think he has some great info to share. He’s doing some great things out there across the pond. I just posted a video he sent me of him on a news program talking about how important it is to stay metabolically healthy in these crazy times. Underlying metabolic disease such as obesity, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes are huge risk factors with coronavirus. Luckily everyone listening is probably very metabolically healthy or on a journey towards that.

Dr. Aseem Malhotra is becoming one of the most influential cardiologists in Britain and a world leading expert in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. He is successfully leading the campaign against excessive sugar consumption. The award-winning NHS cardiologist has successfully motivated leading academics, the media and politicians to make sugar reduction a health priority in the UK by publishing commentaries in the BMJ and mainstream media. He also created the film The Big Fat Fix with Donal O’Neil.

We’ll be putting a limited number of Nose to Tail boxes on http://nosetotail.org thursday. We weren't ready for this rush of orders but got everything shipped out to those who ordered in the past 2 days. We’re ramping things up and should have more and more meat as the weeks roll on.

The Sapien Program is coming soon so be ready! Make sure you’re subscribed to the newsletter on http://Sapien.org

Other than that just make sure to rate this show on iTunes or the podcast app, start back at episode 1, share with a friend, and support the show on Patreon. I continually turn down sponsors to the show and am leaving a lot of money on the table. I really want to not have any affiliation with advertisers even if they have good products. I think everyone can agree this would be better. This only works if people support the show.

And on that note, let’s get to it. Here’s Dr. Aseem Malhotra

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[6:45] “The science alone isn't enough, opposition from invested interests needs to be overcome”.
[10:10] His movement to get junk food out of hospitals.
[14:15] How he pioneered the movement for the sugary drink tax in the UK.
[20:20]** There are actually contracts in hospitals for those bound to hospital beds to have a trolley sent to them stocked with sugary drinks, potato chips and candy.
[21:25] The way the food industry infiltrated sporting events and organizations to promote their products.
[29:25] Why we should stop demonizing LDL cholesterol.
[35:40] Reducing saturated fat in your diet to lower cholesterol and LDL has no benefit and can actually be very harmful.
[40:25] Statins and the latest research and data on it.
[43:05] Insulin resistance is the number 1 risk factor that no one is talking about.
[52:55]** LDL lowering diets are actually at the very root of the chronic disease crisis.
[57:25] What else can we do to help the movement?

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Part 74 - Full Coronavirus (COVID-19) Actionable Advice & Info w/ Dr. Katelyn Kalstein & Dr. Gary Shlifer

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Special episode on the Coronavirus COVID-19 with actionable advice and full info download.

Dr. Katelyn Kalstein is a Naturopathic Doctor and new member of Evolve Healthcare

Find her at http://instagram.com/drkalstein

Dr. Gary Shlifer is the Founder of Evolve Healthcare and Co-founder of SAPIEN

Find him at http://instagram.com/drgaryevolve

SHOW NOTES:

coming soon

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Part 73 - Alex Leaf, MS, CISSN on Some New Ideas on Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, and the Carnivore Diet

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Hello good people, we have a fun one today covering a lot of things. We covered so much we didn’t even get to all the stuff I initially wanted to talk to Alex about. He had 2 good blog posts on Time Restricted Feeding and why we definitely should not restrict protein for longevity that we unfortunately didn’t get to.

A little news before we jump in - I joined Low Carb Denver as a speaker at the last minute. People are apparently pretty worried about this Corona Virus thing and some speakers dropped out. I am not worried, especially because of my super robust immune system due to eating a nutrient dense Sapien diet. If there’s anyone else out there with herculean health please join us in Denver this weekend, the flights are cheap. I also may be getting some free conference live streaming codes courtesy of Food Lies film supporter Amanda if you want to reach out to me. You’ll be able to watch all the action from the warm safety of your home.

Alex Leaf has a masters in nutrition, a teacher for the University of Western States’ Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine master’s program and was a writer and researcher for Examine.com He has a great blog where he breaks down topics simply and cites a bunch of studies to back it up. He’s very into the evidence based approach to nutrition science and has some interesting takes on things.

This wasn’t a debate, but it could have been. I try to continually bring on people I don’t necessarily agree with to make sure we hear all sides of things and don’t get trapped in one way of thinking. I was pretty agreeable with him in retrospect which is what always seems to happen when I’m hosting a podcast.

I realized after he was a proponent of standard diet advice - lean meats & dairy, eggs and fish as well as complex carbs. This is the thing - this can work for people and does fit within the Sapien Framework. Many bodybuilders still do this with success. The vast majority of athletes do this with success. When I was training for the Decathlon last year at UCLA this is what the athletes were doing (for all sports) and yes, they had top professionals using evidence based principles to advise them. The athletes thought I was insane for eating almost no carbs and doing a decathlon. So the story is, yes, you can be ok doing this and you can have whole carb sources (preferably not grains)

We later get into cholesterol. I don’t mean any disrespect, but Alex is not a cholesterol expert and please don’t take his opinion on LDL as a fact or something I agree on. There’s many guests in the past that have spoken on why LDL is not harmful including Ivor Cummins, Dave Feldman, Dr. Bret Scher, Dr. Paul Saladino, and next week Dr. Aseem Malhotra will be talking about this as well. So again, so I don’t end up in an echo-chamber I heard what Alex had to say. I still don’t think it holds much water. I’ve been reading/listening to Dr. Malcolm Kendrick for quite a while and a great episode just popped up on Paul Saladino’s podcast with him about the real cause of heart disease and how LDL is not the problem. So listen to that one if you want to learn even more.

Anyway, there’s a lot of other good stuff in this one so take a listen. If you want to support this podcast and get some amazing grass finished, sustainably raised, beyond organic meat head to http://nosetotail.org and get it delivered to your door. We will be getting the epic beef bacon back in stock next week. We have the high omega 3 pork and chicken that are fed a special diet. We also have the classic true superfood - the primal ground beef with liver, heart, kidney, and spleen mixed in. We have one that’s 30% organ meat where you can taste those delicious nutritious bits and one that’s 5% if you're not quite ready for the big leagues.

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Part 71 - Allan Savory on How to Save the World

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Allan Savory was born in Zimbabwe and educated in South Africa at the University of Natal, BS in Zoology and Botany. In the 1960s he made a significant breakthrough in understanding what was causing the degradation and desertification of the world’s grassland ecosystems and, as a resource management consultant, worked with numerous managers on four continents to develop sustainable solutions.

In 1992 Savory and his wife, Jody Butterfield, formed a non-profit organization in Zimbabwe, the Africa Centre for Holistic Management, donating a ranch that would serve as a learning site for people all over Africa. In 2009 Savory, Butterfield, and a group of colleagues co-founded the Savory Institute in Boulder, Colorado to serve the world through an international network of entrepreneurial innovators and leaders committed to serving their regions with the highest standards of Holistic Management training and implementation support.

In 2003, Allan Savory received Australia’s International Banksia Award “for the person or organization doing the most for the environment on a global scale,” and in 2010 Savory (and the Africa Centre) received the Buckminster Fuller Institute’s Challenge award for work that has “significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems.” A TED talk Savory gave in 2013 has received over 10.8 million views and in 2014 was voted one of the 50 most intriguing TED talks of all time. The Savory Institute is one of 11 finalists in the Virgin Earth Challenge, a $25 million initiative for the successful commercialization of ways of taking greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere and keeping them out with no countervailing impacts.

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You can also support this podcast and everything else I do at http://patreon.com/peakhuman I’ve been able to scrape by without taking on any advertisers or outside money for any of my ventures so far and really want to keep it that way. The Food Lies film, the Food Lies youtube channel, and all my social media is powered all by the community. I have yet to take a cent from another company. That’s http://patreon.com/peakhuman or click through http://sapien.org where you can find out about all the projects I’m working on including the heath technology. We’re still looking for doctors, healthcare providers, and health coaches to work with us. You can add yourself to the waiting list at http://sapien.org

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SHOW NOTES

[5:45] Livestock can help us to reverse desertification and climate change.
[11:23] The specific environment in which we develop leads to our specific adaptation and change.
[15:10] Humans and our technology are nowhere near complex as when we compare to nature.
[21:20] The problem with all the natural resource policies in the United States.
[24:40] What does it mean to develop a holistic context for management?
[33:00] What is desertification?
[35:10] Brittle environments have periods of humidity and periods of long dry periods.
[35:50] How to reverse desertification.
[50:00] The issue of uprooting paradigm shifts.
[54:28] Climate change and its denial.
[1:02:05] Mainstream agriculture supported by universities and governments is the most destructive and extractive industry ever in the history of mankind.
[1:03:10] Billions of hectares of grasslands and savannahs are burnt every year.
[1:08:40] Allan’s take on anti-animal activists.

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Part 70 - Dr. Tommy Wood on How to Maintain a Healthy Brain and Body Into Old Age & Crush Life in the Present

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Holy smokes were coming in strong with season 6. This one with Dr. Tommy Wood is pretty special. We also have the legendary Allan Savory next week. Get ready now by watching his world famous TED talk on YouTube.

Dr. Tommy Wood is a full-time research assistant professor at the University of Washington in the Department of Pediatrics. The majority of his academic work has focused on developing therapies for brain injury in newborn infants. His current research interests include the physiological and metabolic responses to brain injury, as well as developing easily-accessible methods with which to track human health, performance, and longevity. He does this work through academic positions at University of Washington and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.

Tommy received a bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences and Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge before studying medicine at the University of Oxford. He worked as a junior doctor in central London for two years after medical school, and then moved to Norway to complete a PhD in physiology and neuroscience at the University of Oslo.

Tommy is the former President of the Physicians for Ancestral Health society and has also coached and competed in multiple sports including rowing, CrossFit, powerlifting, and ultra-endurance racing.

He’s got a strong foundation in many areas of health and I think his views are really valuable. Some people get hyper-focused on one or two things - which can be super beneficial and can lead to amazing discoveries. But it could also sometimes cause people to only look at things from one viewpoint or miss the forest for the trees. I love looking at all sides of nutrition and keep trying to evolve my views based on the almost 150 people I’ve talked to so far.

It seems some people just take something that a super smart doctor like Paul Saladino says (who’s a good friend of mine, and I mean no disrespect) and take it as the end all, be all. That’s not going to work well in something as complicated as nutrition. I’ll take his well-informed interpretation of the body of evidence and then go listen to another super smart and experienced doctor who believes in more plant-heavy approaches. And then try to make sense of it all. But I don’t have it all figured out either! I’m just confirming my own biases and gravitating towards ideas that fit my views no matter how hard I try not to. The best I’ve come up with through all this is the Sapien diet. It will be ever-evolving as new information comes to light.

Anyway, just listen to this whole episode, even though it’s long. I think it’s really valuable and Tommy is up there on my Mount Rushmore of people who I am totally in line with like Dr. Ted Naiman.

You can also support this podcast and everything else I do at http://patreon.com/peakhuman I’ve been able to scrape by without taking on any advertisers or outside money for any of my ventures so far and really want to keep it that way. The Food Lies film, the Food Lies youtube channel, and all my social media is powered all by the community. I have yet to take a cent from another company. That’s http://patreon.com/peakhuman or click through http://sapien.org where you can find out about all the projects I’m working on including the heath technology. We’re still looking for doctors, healthcare providers, and health coaches to work with us. You can add yourself to the waiting list at http://sapien.org

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[9:13] The Terry Wahls protocol.
[14:35] Humans are able to thrive on a wide variety of diets.
[19:20] The importance of having metabolic flexibility for your physical and mental health.
[28:00] The vast majority of plants are probably close to neutral for your health.
[33:08] Processing food leads to dissociate the hormonal/metabolic/satiety response to food from the macronutrient profile.
[36:32] If you put your body in the environment it expects and understands, your body will be able to function in its optimal state.
[42:00] Tommy Wood’s work with Formula 1 drivers.
[45:35] Blood work testing and metabolic health panels.
[55:10] The importance of subjective quality of life.
[58:55] Dr. Wood’s opinion on DNA testing.
[1:03:04] ApoE4 is probably the one single gene that has the largest effect of penetrance on a disease.
[1:14:10] Dr. Wood explains his current research.
[1:17:25] What causes premature birth?
[1:19:30] What can we do to keep our brain healthy?
[1:23:25] How movement and exercise is going to be able to keep your brain healthy.
[1:30:38] Can you do a ketogenic diet and perform with full potential?
[1:33:25] Is Uric acid bad and how it relates to gout.
[1:36:35] Should you be afraid of fructose in your diet?

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Part 69 - Mark Schatzker on the Hidden Secrets of Which Foods Are Killing You

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Hi there friends. This is Brian Sanders who’s name and photo is now featured on the cover of this podcast. I’m the guy who’s making the Food Lies film which has taken up much of the last 2 years of my life. I’ve interviewed about 150 people now (both formally and casually) on topics of nutrition, health, exercise, and the environment. I’m also the guy that posts something every day on social media that interests me or conveys a point that currently has my attention. Search for Food Lies on Instagram, youtube, twitter, and facebook and you’ll find some great content.

Start back at episode 1 to get the full health info download, share with friends and family, and give it a review on itunes or the Apple podcast app. Please know that I really appreciate all of you for doing this! I love interacting with people daily on these social platforms. It helps continue my quest for simple truths about health and nutrition, and hopefully not get caught up in one way of thinking.

Let’s get straight to today’s guest, Mark Schatzker who is the author of The Dorito Effect and another book called Steak. I really enjoyed the Dorito Effect and have brought it up on multiple podcasts. His award-winng journalism has appeared in in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Condé Nast Traveler and Best American Travel Writing. He is a field reporter for The Dr. Oz Show as well as a radio columnist for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

I really connected with Mark Schatzker in this episode on so many things. I’m really excited about this one and think it might help people to look at nutrition in a different light. Apparently we’ve both been thinking about some of these nuances in the same way for years. We talked for a while after we stopped recording and followed up on email as well. Some of it may be controversial, so I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts.

There’s so much going on when we talk about the concept of “processed foods.” Even when I make a post about it, there’s lots of confusion and pushback about what a processed food actually is. When I posted that the excess fat people carry is just the processed food they have eaten, there was an uproar. I still stand by this statement.

There’s 3 main components to what makes a processed food bad. The first is the diluting of good things like protein, vitamins, and minerals with empty calories like refined sugar, grains, and oils. The second is how those foods interact with your body. They can spike your blood sugar far more than whole foods, interact with your digestive system in different ways, and therefore affect hormones and satiety signals in different ways, as well as other inflammatory effects. The 3rd is the hyperpalatability factor which leads to overconsumption.

Throughout history, food processing increased nutrient density. Modern food processing pretty much across the board decreases nutrient density. Therein lies some of the confusion. Sauerkraut is a processed food by most definitions. But for me, it doesn't fit the classical definition because it makes a pretty empty food like cabbage that has anti-nutrients (therefore potentially detrimental), into something nutritious with vitamin C, probiotics, and very little antinutrients through the act of processing - in this case fermenting.

Other people didn't understand how King Henry the 8th, who was famously obese, could get that way without processed foods. Processed foods doesn't just mean McDonald’s and Oreos! He had access to unlimited quantities of refined flour baked goods, sugar, and alcohol. These are the worst of the processed foods! Just because you made a cake at home with organic flour and organic agave, doesn't mean it’s healthy for you. This also goes for a snack bar that is “keto approved” with all natural ingredients.

Ok enough out of me, we can get to the episode. I’ll just make a youtube video about it with all my thoughts in order and some graphics. Check the Food Lies youtube for new videos each week.

Also please check out http://nosetotail.org which we mention in this episode. This is my grass fed meat company which we both really believe in. And support this show on Patreon at http://patreon.com/peakhuman so I can fend off the advertisers that keep contacting me. Now please enjoy this compelling interview with my new pal and accomplished author and food investigator, Mark Shatzker.

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SHOW NOTES

[4:44] Why Mark wrote his books Steak and Dorito Effect.
[8:25] Nature knows best, and the more we try to manipulate it and change it, the worse it gets.
[12:40] If raised properly, red meat is one of the most beneficial foods you could eat.
[13:30] The shift in our culture from avoiding red meat and leaning towards processed foods has contributed greatly to our health crisis and obesity epidemic.
[17:40] Sheep are able to self-medicate and how it relates to our ability to choose to eat certain foods.
[19:55] What is flavor feedback and why it matters.
[22:10] Do humans possess the same ability?
[26:25] How the creation of Doritos has forever changed the way we create food today.
[32:10] How flavors trick us into thinking we are getting nutrients and how they are addictive.
[39:20] How the industrialization of the food industry has ruined the taste of real food.
[48:15] The issue of the protein/nutrient leverage hypothesis.
[52:10] Humans were designed to seek out the flavors that brought us the nutrients of what we need.
[57:10] How the corruption and greed of the food industry is affecting our world’s health.
[59:50] Just because a product is ‘plant-based’ does not mean it is completely guilt-free and ethical.
[1:05:00] MSG: what role does it play in our modern society?
[1:06:12] Overuse of the word ‘chemicals’ and the negative connotation it has in our society.
[1:09:35] Mark urges people to read ingredient labels and be wary of foods that are engineered to taste good.
[1:13:20] How the flavor model of obesity and satiety model of obesity are related.
[1:15:55] Mark’s take on the future regarding obesity and the food industry.
[1:17:40] How the use of technology can help us to lead towards the shift towards healthier, natural foods.

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Part 68 - Dr. Ben Bikman, Dr. Jaime Seeman, and Dr. Aseem Malhotra Give a Health Masterclass

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Hey, hey, how is everyone doing out there? Spectacular I assume. Not many updates this week. I’m just working away on the Food Lies film and the new interviews we got. You can still support it on Indiegogo by clicking through http://FoodLies.org - it’s a community powered project and we’ve taken no outside money at all. Just from the beautiful people like you listening.

I’m working on more videos for Patreon supporters. If you go to http://Patreon.com/peakhuman or search for Peak Human there you can support the show, get the extended show notes that are super useful and really add up to entire eBook on nutrition, and get the private videos on cooking and working out as well.

Speaking of eBooks, Kristi and I are actually creating a Sapien eBook and 10 week program for complete info on what the Sapien diet and lifestyle is and how to implement it in your life. Look for it soon on http://Sapien.org

Lastly just a quick mention of http://nosetotail.org where you can get the grass finished, pasture raised, beyond organic, high omega-3, regenerative farmed meats. It’s grown here in the US (not shipped in all the way from New Zealand like some other meat box services) and delivered to all 48 states. We use the whole animal so boxes come with all kinds of cuts including the ground beef with liver, heart, kidney, and spleen mixed in, as well as the bones for marrow and broth. I’m all about the high omega-3 ground pork breakfast sausage these days. It's already seasoned and you can fry up the most delicious patties with some eggs and maybe a little cheese. If you ever liked fast food breakfast, you’ll think it was gross compared to this meal. You can get it with or without the organs mixed in. We feed the pigs and chickens a special feed (which is pretty expensive) to give them this high omega 3 to omega 6 ratio. It has been independently tested and it blows conventional and even organic pork out of the water. That’s at http://nosetotail.org

Now onto this awesome panel discussion! We covered a bunch of stuff including why is fat not bad, but actually good? Why are the Dietary guidelines wrong and what’s stopping mainstream adoption? Is sugar a drug? Why carbs are actually worse than protein/fat for health. Insulin, longevity, and if there are any downsides or myths about these types of diets?

I’ve had Ben and Jaime on the podcast already, so you should already know who they are, or I’d recommend going back and listening to their episodes. I say this a lot, but I really recommend going back to episode 1. And please share with friends and family. People send me a lot of messages about how beneficial this podcast is for people new to these topics. They share it and they get hooked!

Dr. Aseem Malhotra is a British Cardiologist who’s making waves around the world. I’ll give him a full intro when he comes on the podcast in a couple weeks. We have awesome footage of this panel that will make it to the Food Lies youtube channel soon! Until then, here’s the 3 brainiacs and their wise words!

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We have three guests with us today from the Metabolic Health Summit. Dr. Aseem Malhotra is becoming one of the most influential cardiologists in Britain and a world leading expert in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. He is successfully leading the campaign against excessive sugar consumption. The award-winning NHS cardiologist has successfully motivated leading academics, the media and politicians to make sugar reduction a health priority in the UK by publishing commentaries in the BMJ and mainstream media.

Ben Bikman is a professor of pathophysiology and biomedical science at BYU in the physiology and developmental biology department and teaches in pathophysiology. His research focuses on molecular mechanisms that mediate the disruption that causes and accompanies metabolic disorders, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, and dementia. He has a Ph.D in Bioenergetics at East Carolina University and did a postdoctoral fellowship with the Duke-National University of Singapore in metabolic disorders.

Dr. Jaime Seeman (M.D. FACOG) is a board certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist with a background in Nutrition, Exercise and Health Science. She is also a current Fellow in Integrative Medicine and a Board Certified Ketogenic Nutrition Specialist. She did her undergraduate training at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she was a collegiate athlete for the Cornhuskers receiving many awards and honors. She then continued her education at the University of Nebraska School of Medicine where she received her Doctor of Medicine degree. She is a wife and mom to three little girls.

[4:00] Dietary fat consumption has no effect on spiking insulin.
[5:25] The obsession/fear with LDL cholesterol.
[6:50] Saturated fat does not cause heart disease.
[7:05] Jaime Seeman explains how women need adequate amounts of fats for proper hormonal function.
[8:56] Does dietary saturated fat increase plasma saturated fat?
[10:38] The fats correlated to heart disease is from consumption with starch, sugar, and alcohol.
[12:30] What is hyperinsulinemia and what is its role in these metabolic issues?
[14:29] Insulin resistance is at the root of cardiovascular disease.
[16:00] Jaime Seeman’s experiment with wearing a continuous glucose monitor (CGM). [23:20] Keys to longevity and how they relate to insulin.
[26:25] The importance of resistance training and protein intake for women especially.
[27:20] The more you dampen insulin signaling, the longer life is extended.
[31:10] Importance of exercise and protein for the elderly population.
[32:10] Kidney issues and consumption of protein?
[33:25] There are essential amino acids and fatty acids, but not carbohydrates.
[34:15] The ketogenic/low carbohydrate diet is very sustainable contrary to what some people may say.
[35:35] The sources of the fat we consume matter.
[37:20] Is sugar a drug?
[41:50] How can we get this information into the mainstream and get the masses to adopt these practices?

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Part 67 - John & Molly from The Biggest Little Farm on Feeding the World with Regenerative Practices

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Hello there beautiful people, I’m just getting back from an extraordinary weekend at the Metabolic Health Summit. I’d highly recommend it next year and I believe they have some super discounted tickets on sale now. I don’t know how much it costs, but it’s worth it! It’s an entire weekend of hanging around all the top researchers and doctors in this space and not only getting to see their latest research in the presentations, but getting to talk to them about it in person. Everyone is walking around and available to talk to - it’s so cool. And of course all the attendees are awesome as well.

I got 7 more interviews for Food Lies and I guess the 2nd film that will no doubt be made. I also did some really cool panel discussions that will go to YouTube. The first one was with crowd-favorite Dr. Ben Bikman, and 2 of my new best pals the lovely Dr. Jaime Seeman and Dr. Aseem Malhotra the renowned British cardiologist. The 2nd panel was with 2-time world champion rower and PhD Brianna Stubbs, 2-time world record holding ultra runner Zach Bitter, and 2-time hanging out with Brian nutrition, metabolism, and exercise physiology expert, Mike Mutzel. These will be out on YouTube soon and maybe as a podcast as well. So many great connections and fun things in the works, I can’t begin to name them all.

So on to the guests today. John and Molly are an amazing couple that own Apricot Lane Farm which is just north of Los Angeles. They spent the last 8 years creating a thriving regenerative certified organic farm growing many kinds of animals and countless fruit, vegetable, and cover crops. They documented this journey for most of the 8 years and made an award winning film called The Biggest Little Farm. You can watch it on iTunes, Amazon, or Hulu and I suggest you do this immediately. Maybe even before listening on any further. I won’t spoil any of the story and leave it for them to highlight in this podcast or for you to watch in the film.

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Part 66 - David Montgomery, PhD on The Foundation of Human & Environmental Health - The Soil: Regenerative Farming & Growing a Revolution

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Hello there, we’re back for Season 6! I can’t wait to kick this off and I’m really sorry it took so long to arrive. I had a million things going on working on the Food Lies film back home in Hawaii and also when I got back to LA. Also a couple interviews fell through. I did focus on getting some more video content out on youtube, so check out the Food Lies channel. There’s a ton of short & sweet content to keep you educated and entertained!

My number 1 goal of Peak Human is to have top quality informative content - quality over quantity. I also wanted to not have any conflicts of interest so I decided from day 1 to not have any sponsors. This also allows me to have top quality guests at my own pace. If I was making money per episode I’d have all kinds of random people on because I’d be incentivized to do so. Instead, I briefly mention my own projects and companies before each episode and have guests I really want to have on and take some time off if I need to.

So what’s going on with me? We made an epic intro to Food Lies that took months of planning and all kinds of resources. It’s a 4.5 minute piece with 130 shots, each which took many hours to prepare and shoot. This film is going to be something special. As I’ve said before, we could have rushed something out that was a B+ by last fall. We are going for an A+ (which might take a year longer). You can continue to support it’s costly creation on Indiegogo by clicking through http://foodlies.org The trailer is very outdated and was created with almost no budget - so it’s not representative of the final product. We’ll redo it at some point.

I also have been fired up about Nose to Tail. I served some of the grass finished primal ground beef with liver, heart, kidney, and spleen at the Meat-Up we had in West LA this past weekend. It was a huge hit and went very quickly. It’s so delicious - you don’t taste the organs - it just tastes like richer, more nutrient dense meat. Especially if you add a little seasoning in. We have all kinds of great stuff on http://NoseToTail.org that’s all sustainably and ethically raised, beyond organic, high omega 3, and extra tasty.

Per popular demand, I’ve been making some cooking videos and am just finishing my 15 minute workout routine video for Patreon members. I only work out 4 times per week for 15 minutes and have seen great results. If you go to http://patreon.com/peakhuman and join as a supporter you’ll get these private videos and also support this podcast and everything else I do. I really, really appreciate everyone who has stepped up and done this. I honestly turn down sponsors each and every week because I don’t want to promote other people’s products and get caught up in all that - even if I totally agree with what they’re selling! It’s just a few bucks per month at Patreon.com/peakhuman or click through the link in my Instagram bio. My instagram is where most of the action takes place daily. If you're not following there my handle is http://instagram.com/food.lies

That’s it! Give the show a review on itunes or click on 1-5 stars in the podcast app if you’d like to do something that’s free. You can also share any of my content with family or friends of course! So here’s a bit about my Guest today.

David R. Montgomery is a MacArthur Fellow and professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington. He is an internationally recognized geologist who studies landscape evolution and the effects of geological processes on ecological systems and human societies. An author of award-winning popular-science books, he has been featured in documentary films, network and cable news, and on a wide variety of TV and radio programs, including NOVA, PBS NewsHour, Fox and Friends, and All Things Considered. His books have been translated into nine languages. He also travels the country speaking and educating on regenerative practices.

I first caught wind of him from his excellent book DIRT: Erosion of Civilizations and am halfway done with his book Growing a Revolution. Listen to this interview and you’ll probably want to grab them both. He’s an awesome guy doing great things. Although soil seems like a boring topic, trust me, there’s a lot more to it, and a ton of great info in this interview. Without further ado, here’s Professor David Montgomery.

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(Need to add 4:20 to these timestamps to account for the intro)

[4:15] Our main focus should be how we raise food, whether it is plant or animal based. [5:15] David explains gross biogeography and how it should influence us on how to feed the world.
[6:18] How the modern factory method of raising livestock is destroying our soil.
[6:42] David explains how organic plant-based farms aren’t in the clear either.
[8:40] “The nation that destroys its soil, destroys itself” - Franklin D. Roosevelt.
[10:15] There has been a long history of agriculture soil degradation and erosion impacting ability of people living on the land.
[11:42] Why big river flood plains are able to get away with constant farming.
[18:00] Inca terraces and their fertile soil.
[18:25] Terra Preta: black earth of the Amazon and Northern Europe soil.
[21:30] Inclusion of charcoal and how it helps the soil.
[27:30] The issue of tobacco and the erosion of soil it caused in the colonial years.
[28:50] Difference of farming practices of the North compared to the South colonies.
[30:22] Why David is shifting from being a pessimist about the world’s soil health into an optimistic.
[34:40] Disparity between how fast we can degrade soil and create soil.
[39:45] How farming started and the systems of cropping and animal husbandry.
[43:08] How diversified, smaller farms with plants and animals are much more efficient for food production compared to large scale industrial monocultures farms.
[44:03] The role of regenerative farming in the quality of the food we eat.
[51:20] No till farming and why it is so important for improving soil health (the first pillar of regenerative agriculture).
[56:50] Research and incentives on regenerative farming and practices like it to restore soil health is clearly absent in our modern society.
[1:00:45] What are cover crops and how they help with preventing soil degradation (the second pillar of regenerative agriculture).
[1:02:29] The diversity of crops and the soil that it will bring (the third pillar of regenerative agriculture).
[1:03:15] The role livestock plays in regenerative agriculture practices and how they are incredibly beneficial.
[1:05:40] Nitrogen fixing microbes in the soil and how it works.
[1:06:30] The relationship of plants, rocks, and fungi.
[1:10:00] Profitability of regenerative agriculture practices compared to conventional methods.
[1:15:10] Are we able to feed the US with regenerative farming practices?
[1:17:40] What can we do to get to this idealistic future of regenerative farming and improving soil health?
[1:19:00] The farm bill and the structure of policies regarding agriculture.
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Part 65 - Mike Mutzel, MS Proves the Safety & Effectiveness of Ketogenic Carnivore Diets, Fasting, Metabolism, Autophagy & More

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Welcome Back! I'm about to takeoff to Hawaii to work on the Food Lies film with the amazing Director, Jay. I got to do this podcast in person with the very awesome Mike Mutzel AKA Metabolic Mike. We ran outside to feed his backyard chickens and pigs and then got the mics going.

Mike Mutzel has an MS in clinical nutrition and currently focuses his efforts on communicating the science behind longevity, fasting, ketosis, exercise and all things pertaining to improving our metabolic health

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Mike Mutzel has an MS in clinical nutrition and currently focuses his efforts on communicating the science behind longevity, fasting, ketosis, exercise and all things pertaining to improving our metabolic health
He raises his own pigs, chickens, and turkeys in his backyard
He thinks it’s important for his daughter to eat real food and see where it comes from
Raising animals has improved his mental well-being
Mike started his health journey just simply removing the buns from his burgers
Measuring objective biomarkers motivates people to stick to lifestyle changes because they can see the benefits
Mike was exposed to drugs and alcohol at a very young age and used diet and exercise to improve his life
Soy protein made him depressed and gave him GI issues
Mike got into keto because of his interest in heart rate variability
The ketogenic diet is not stressful on the body
Mike runs blood labs twice a year to know he is on the right track
Donates blood twice a year now that he is eating more meat
His wife follows OMAD and has seen amazing benefits
Him and his wife got full body MRIs and DEXA scans to show that their lifestyle is benefiting them
Pros and cons to testing biomarkers
GrimAge test to test your biological age against your chronological age
Ancel Keys and the Minnesota Starvation Experiment
The Game Changers nuances
Mike’s experience losing a lot of weight and muscle with veganism
Time-restricted feeding, alternate day fasting, and early time restricted feeding
Circadian biology and feeding times
Mike isn’t concerned with coffee during his morning fast
Fasting will lower glucose and insulin and increase glucagon and ketosis
Reducing glycemic variability has some benefits for reducing oxidative stress
Mike does a 24-hour fast every Monday
Fasting is a stoich practice and teaches discipline
Fasting is not just about restricting calories
You wouldn’t do the same workout every single day, and variability of energy intake works the same: restricting food intake (fasting) and feeding (maybe some days you are in a surplus)
Fasting causes you to deal with how you use food to fill voids in your life (emotional eating)
Fasting is a very safe practice
People who claim fasting is a stressor need to understand that eating is stressful on the body
Your body can anticipate the intake of food
How long do we need to fast to induce autophagy?
Mike thinks on a bare minimum everyone should be fasting for at least 12 hours a day
Autophagy declines as you age
Mike’s thoughts on One Meal A Day (OMAD)
People are scared that protein is going to stimulate mTOR but they should be more concerned with mTOR over-expression
The importance of sleep
Chronic calorie restriction vs periodic fasting
Kids who eat the proper foods are so much more well-behaved

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Part 64 - Did James Wilks Get Anything Right Against Chris Kresser? With Paul Saladino MD

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Alright everyone, I’m fired up about this one! Dr. Paul Saladino was up in LA yesterday and we recorded some gold here. We spent the weekend digging through studies to give the much needed rebuttal to the “debate” between James Wilks and Chris Kresser on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast. For those not familiar with this, it was a huge deal. Joe Rogan has the most popular podcast in the world (by far I believe) with many millions of worldwide listeners and viewers on youtube as well - per episode. James Wilks is one of the producers of the Game Changers - the most recent installment of vegan propaganda films.

Listeners will know we already put out a feature-length film debunking his film on YouTube, aptly named Game Changers DEBUNKED. We just posted a document at sapien.org/gamechangers with 156 studies and 57 resources listed to go along with the film. We put many of the studies on screen, but due to limited time couldn’t reference each one.

So here’s a bit more context: Chris Kresser went on the Joe Rogan podcast and debunked the Game Changers. He did a great job and we included some of that footage in our film with his permission. James Wilks then went on to defend himself, but instead, attacked Chris personally and used many tactics to avoid answering the simple question of “why do you think red meat is bad?”

He did catch Kresser on some things, I think. But for many points, he actually didn’t if you look more into it. James just caught Chris off guard and cited studies Chris wasn’t familiar with. Paul and I looked into those and found out James was actually wrong, was completely overstating what the study said, or made false claims about the dates of references that were central to his criticism of Chris.

I’ll leave it at that for now and get on to the show. I’ll skip any ads for this one and will just encourage people to go to Sapien.org for more information about my film Food Lies which will be the ultimate answer to vegan propaganda films, to support me on Patreon so I can keep doing stuff like this, and to share this episode with someone.

I’d really recommend watching the YouTube video version of this one. We show all the studies we mention on screen and all the graphics and tables as well. That will be posted on the Food Lies youtube channel on Tuesday. The site where all the studies can be found is http://sapien.org/debate This will be an extensive page with timestamps, notes, and links to all studies mentioned.

Lastly, I think it would be valuable for Joe Rogan to be aware of this. I hope people share the video with him. I think it would be great for Joe to have James bring his “science advisor” back on the podcast and Paul and I could come on and have a debate without all the ad hominem attacks. We can share studies beforehand and break this all down once and for all. It would be filmmaker and science advisor against filmmaker and science advisor. Although, as you’ll see in this episode, Paul will be doing most of the talking.

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[12:20] Wilks complains how the meat industry research is largely funded by interest groups, but this is the case with all industries

[14:40] Dairy products and cancer association

[18:45] James Wilks completely misinterpreted the Dairy Product Consumption and Prostate Cancer RIsk in the United States

[16:20] The issue with epidemiological studies

[20:19] Does dairy cause inflammation?

[24:50] Dairy has actually been proven to have health promoting components

[26:25] Wilks falsely claims that Richard Wrangham, British primatologist and Harvard Anthropologist, believes that ancestors were primarily plant eaters throughout evolution

[29:20] The reliance or sudden ability to get meat allowed our brains to grow

[38:40] Wilks claims that meat consumption causes inflammation

[53:50] Does a high protein diet cause kidney problems?

[55:02] High protein does not cause problems with bone density

[56:50] Heme iron and N-nitroso compounds

[1:08:30] If red meat is so bad for you why do some cultures live longer while eating lots of meat?

[1:09:10] Meat intake and cause-specific mortality: a pooled analysis of Asian prospective cohort study

[1:10:25] Athletes and carbohydrates

[1:17:45] Forest Plots

[1:19:00] Vitamin B12 in lake water

[1:22:40] Vitamin B12 from unwashed vegetables

[1:24:03] Vitamin B12 supplements and cattle

[1:26:58] James claims it’s because of the pesticides that the soils are depleted but this is not true

[1:28:17] Wilks brings up a point about omnivores and how some are deficient in B12

[1:30:22] Fiber and the microbiome

[1:31:45] Meat and inflammation

[1:34:02] Magnitude and timing of the postprandial inflammatory response to a high-fat meal in healthy adults: a systematic review

[1:37:45] Vegetables, inflammation, and oxidative stress

[1:41:38] It is hard to accept that vegetables aren’t as great as they are made out to be

[1:44:20] Paul’s first episode on Peak Human talking about the WHO report and the IARC

[1:45:18] NutriRECS 2019 meat recommendations

[1:46:15] Harvard, Walter Willett, and industry funding

[1:49:57] More on red meat and cancer

[1:50:24] Appropriately planned vegan diets

[1:52:55] Protein quantity on a vegan diet

[1:55:20] Protein amounts and calories

[1:56:10] Leucine & protein quality

[1:59:47] Problems with pea protein

[2:00:30] Digestible indispensable amino acid score (DIAAS) and protein quality

[2:10:55] Flow-mediated dilatation

[2:14:00] Conclusion and takeaways of the podcast

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Part 63 - Gabe Brown on the Little Known Truth About Cows, Crops, the Environment, and Our Future

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Hello, hello good people, I hope you all had a joyous Thanksgiving. I certainly did with some friends up in Seattle for a SAPIEN style dinner, finishing the Game Changers DEBUNKED film, having the awesome Meat-Up and film viewing, hanging with everyone’s favorite Dr. Ted Naiman, and then going to Mike Mutzel’s house and backyard farm for a podcast.

A bit more info on each. Mike Mutzel is known as metabolic Mike and has a longstanding podcast called High Intensity Health - go check him out, he’s a great guy. Everyone should be familiar with the Game Changers DEBUNKED film by now. There’s 2 versions out on youtube as of late - one with the “deleted scenes” and one with just the info and none of the gags. When we started this on Halloween, Shawn Baker, Chris Kruger, and I had the idea to do some skits and have some fun with this. I appreciate the fact that not everyone is looking for that so we have both options!

Lastly, a SAPIEN way of eating, for anyone unfamiliar, is how a growing number of people are characterizing how they eat and live. It encompasses many dietary strategies from pescatarian all the way to keto and carnivore. It has a sweet spot (where I like to be) with over 90% of calories coming from animal foods. This makes it high fat, low carb, and mainly has you running on fat. It is nose to tail. It embraces smaller feeding windows of one meal per day to 2 meals in 8 hours (which I like). It is based on all whole foods. It’s also not based on any dogma. Humans have evolved to eat many things over millions of years, and even in the last 10,000 years. It also focuses on the other lifestyle factors as like getting quality sleep, exercise, sun, etc. You can learn more at http://Sapien.org/diet

You can also learn about the grass finished meat at http://NoseToTail.org that’s shipped to the 48 states. It is all grown ethically, organically, and sustainably. We have unique and nutrient dense foods such as Primal ground beef that includes liver, heart, kidney, and spleen. We also have high omega 3 pork and chicken that blows away conventional and even organically grown animals. I’m proud to offer these products delivered to your home, but also encourage people to find local farmers and source from them.

Now onto a food producer I’d also love to endorse who’s meat you can get if you’re in the North Dakota area, Mr. Gabe Brown. I saw a TEDx talk of his 2 years ago and had a long call with him soon after. I wanted to include him in the film but it didn’t quite work out. I’m glad we finally reconnected and found some time to record a talk.

Gabe Brown is a farmer and leader in the movement towards regenerative agriculture. He is the owner of Brown’s Ranch, just east of Bismarck, ND. He believes in and practices Holistic Management, a part of which is farming and ranching in nature's image. At his ranch improving soil health is a priority and no-till farming has been practiced since 1993. His ranch has eliminated the use of synthetic fertilizers, fungicides, and pesticides. He does not use any GMOs or glyphosate. His ever evolving grazing strategy allows most of his pastures a recovery period of over 360 days. All of these practices have led to the health of the soil, mineral and water cycles to greatly improve and of course the quality of the agriculture and livestock he produces as well.

Make sure to listen to the end. There’s some great info all the way through. He has solutions to some huge worldwide problems with simple and proven practices.

Last quick things - Food Lies is going strong. We have a new and awesome graphics guy that is really savvy with all this info and is eager to help the cause. Please support this podcast by giving it a review on itunes or the podcast app. And also support our endeavors on Patreon at http://patreon.com/peakhuman We’re doing the extended show notes each week with all the extra info and studies and also creating some new video content. There’s been a high demand for my 14 minute workout. I am going to make videos available to Patreon supporters of this and more about eating and other lifestyle practices that won’t be available to the public.

Appreciate everyone’s support and now let’s hear from the spectacular Gabe Brown

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SHOW NOTES

[10:34] What is tilling soil and should we do it or not?
[14:07] Limiting pesticide, fungicide and herbicide usage to improve soil health long term.
[19:00] Diversity in the ecosystem and why it is important.
[22:30] There is a vast network of communication within the soil from plants.
[24:30] We need animals on the landscape grazing naturally to maintain the best health of the soil and ecosystem.
[26:00] The importance of having a system of rotational grazing for ruminants.
[30:35] Gabe has seen 30-50 times the amount of wild life compared to other farmers around him because of his rotational grazing practices.
[33:35] Gabe explains a more efficient and practical way of bale grazing.
[35:35] Regenerative agriculture has the ability better than anything else to combat climate change.
[37:35] How regenerative agriculture can help with the issue of the amount of phosphates/nitrates in the soil.
[38:00] By improving the soil ecosystem and the health of it, we can vastly improve the agricultural nutrient and livestock nutrient density.
[42:50] The corruption and greed of modern agriculture.
[48:30] The biology in our guts are directly related to the biology in the soil.
[51:20] If these practices are so good, why isn’t everyone doing it?
[54:40] Good thing it isn’t all bad news as we are seeing a shift towards regenerative agriculture.
[57:19] There are major differences in the soil on regenerative farms and neighboring farms.
[1:08:20] How the crops, animals and soil all work together as an ecosystem.
[1:14:50] How regenerative agriculture can help bring us all together, it can help alleviate the issues of climate change, water quality, human health, biodiversity and sustainability.
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Part 62 - Dr. Jaime Seeman on Body Composition, Hormones, Thyroid, Women’s Health, and Meat

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Hey, hey, we’re back. Let’s get straight to it. I gotta get back to working on the Game Changers DEBUNKED film. Please support that on http://Indiegogo.com/projects/gamechangers-debunked or click through the show notes. Just to make sure, I want to let people know this a scientific and factual debunking film with researchers and doctors addressing the science. Yes, we have a bit of fun here and there to keep it interesting, but it’s all about the truth, and exposing their cherry picking and misrepresenting science to fit their agenda.

Dr. Jaime Seeman AKA Dr. Fit and Fabulous is a board certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist with a background in Nutrition, Exercise and Health Science. She is also a current Fellow in Integrative Medicine and a Board Certified Ketogenic Nutrition Specialist. She did her undergraduate training at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she was a collegiate athlete for the Cornhuskers receiving many awards and honors. She then continued her education at the University of Nebraska School of Medicine where she received her Doctor of Medicine degree. She is a wife and mom to three little girls.

This was an awesome one - so many topics my guests haven’t covered yet. I wish we recorded some more updated stuff about the blood spinning tests she’s doing for the Game Changers DEBUNKED mini-doc. She ate 5 eggs and 3 pieces of bacon and spun her blood in a centrifuge and it was - guess what - clear. The Game Changers mockumentary tried to say animal foods caused cloudy blood plasma. They did a little “experiment” in the film and showed it was cloudy after a beef burrito and clear after a bean burrito. They are outright liars and cheaters I tell ya! They are deceiving the world with false information. Two engineers in Seattle also debunked this by eating huge amounts of lamb and milk fat and producing clear blood plasma as well.

Dr. Jaime is going to do a 2nd experiment tomorrow and match the amount of fat and calories of a beef and cheese burrito with a vegan burrito and see if it produces cloudy blood. What’s likely going on here is that eating a high carb AND high fat meal creates more triglycerides in the blood for a longer time. There’s more to this that will all be explained in the mini-doc.

So please support that on Indiegogo in the last few days of the campaign. There’s a lot of overtime going into this with editors, graphics people, sound people, etc. Food Lies is looking great - I just was going over some of it with the separate editing team. NoseToTail.org is firing on all cylinders and it’s hard for us to keep that good meat in stock. Learn more about all this at http://sapien.org And give this podcast a review on Apple!

Thanks so much! I can’t wait to air this mini-doc on November 27th on YouTube. We’ll have a Meat-Up and viewing party in Seattle - Sunday Dec 1st and another one in LA on thursday Dec 5th. Now here’s Dr. Fit and Fabulous - Jaime Seeman.

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[10:05] She had three kids in 60 months failed glucose testing in pregnancy and this led to her becoming pre-diabetic/gestational diabetic. She had also suffered hypothyroidism after her 3 pregnancies.
[11:30] She tried whole 30, paleo, ketogenic and carnivore.
[14:40] Is carnivore safe for pregnancy?
[17:06] The carnivore diet helps a lot of people but it wont work for everyone.
[18:50] Her main takeaway - let's eat a diet of whole, unprocessed foods that are natural and with no ingredient list.
[20:00] The issue of the keto/low carb community making these extravagant sweets and treats.
[21:08] Woman, pregnancy and the underlying issue of insulin resistance.
[22:27] The issue of our health system and the way it screens for pregnant women and nutritional consulting.
[24:08] The effects of hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia on your baby.
[25:25] Hyperinsulinemia and preeclampsia (cardiovascular disease during pregnancy).
[27:30] Pregnant women and the realization that its okay to have ketones in their blood, especially the third trimester.
[29:20] Should you use prenatal vitamins?
[31:53] Why the ketogenic/low carb diet is so much more than a diet for weight loss.
[33:20] Pregnant woman and carb cravings, what’s happening?
[37:03] Contraception and its side effects.
[47:00] Sun exposure and vitamin D supplementation.
[48:50] Thyroid issues when on a ketogenic/low carbohydrate diet.
[54:04] Women and the myth of them becoming too “bulky”.
[1:00:05] How do you feed your children and teach them to eventually choose independently.
Go check out her website doctorfitandfabulous.com to learn more about her and the services she offers!

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Part 61 - Dr. Joan Ifland on How to Conquer Food Addiction, and the Behavioral, Emotional, and Mental Component of Eating

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Hello everyone, welcome back to the time of week where I get to share another fantastic guest with you. I try to get all kinds of thought leaders and experts covering a wide variety of topics that pertain to your health, fitness, longevity, and even environmental health. They're all connected - who would have thought.

If you’re new to this show, I’m Brian Sanders and I’m creating the feature-length documentary Food Lies that seems to be taking forever to come out. But that’s just because it’s going to be that good. Please be patient. We’re actually learning more each day and more and more things are happening in the world that either are going to make this film better or that we need to address. It’s turning out to be a good thing, in a way, that we didn’t rush this thing out. We have more resources, better experts, and more opportunities that are too many to name. Learn more at http://FoodLies.org

In the meantime I’m creating the Game Changers DEBUNKED film which is almost in a rough cut somehow even though we just started it! It’s been a whirlwind and we’re moving at lightning speed. It also is opening doors and benefitting the Food Lies film. Look out for it on YouTube on November 27th - be sure to subscribe to the Food Lies channel. We’ll also try to get it on another platform. Thanks for supporting its creation on Indiegogo. You still can help out and even get a producer credit - just search for Game Changers DEBUNKED on http://Indiegogo.com/projects/gamechangers-debunked or click through the show notes.

I also work with patients at Evolve Healthcare in Los Angeles. We have a medical clinic where Dr. Gary Shlifer and I treat the root cause of disease with diet and lifestyle. This is part of our company SAPIEN and the Sapien diet. Find out more at http://Sapien.org

I also have a company similar to Butcher Box called Nose to Tail. The difference is we raise our animals in the US and we use the entire animal. We have the organ meats mixed into ground beef, buffalo, and pork and also sell the bones and bone broth. It’s all grass fed and finished and raised sustainably and ethically. You can even get a thanksgiving turkey with ultra high omega-3s due to our special diet we feed them. Get it delivered to you at http://NosetoTail.org

Now onto today’s guest. Dr. Joan Ifland who has been creating breakthroughs in recovery from food addiction starting in 1999. She is currently at work on evidence-based trainings for health professionals. Dr. Ifland is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition. She earned her PhD in addictive nutrition at Union Institute and University and her MBA at Stanford Business School

She was selected by the Oprah Winfrey Network as the food addiction specialist on the Book of John Gray. Dr. Ifland is the lead author of the first scholarly publication describing refined food addiction and the definition of addictive foods. She’s doing great things in this space including giving talks and creating support groups to continue to help people with problems around food. I think she has very valuable additions to the health conversation that go beyond what has been covered in the past 60 episodes of this podcast and most other podcasts and lectures I’ve heard.

And if you want to get the super valuable extended show notes and support the show please go to Patreon and search for Peak Human or http://patreon.com/peakhuman The other way to support the show is to simply give it a 1-5 star rating on the Apple podcast app or iTunes and give it a review. Thanks so much, I really appreciate everyone. I love all the messages I receive and am glad people are finding this podcast valuable! Here’s Dr. Joan Ifland.

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SHOW NOTES

Joan Ifland has her PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies, with a specialization in Addictive Nutrition and wrote a textbook on food addiction titled “Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery”
A lot of money spent on marketing processed foods and suppressing knowledge of addiction
There are addictive substances hidden in processed foods
When you are addicted to processed foods your taste perception is completely altered to maintain the addiction
There is a scientific foundation for food addiction
If you are addicted to food, you don’t stand a chance trying to adhere to “calories in calories out” method
One of the hallmarks of any addiction is obsession
11 diagnostic symptoms of addiction
Joan initially removed processed foods from her diet as part of a weight loss program and found she was dramatically less irritable and had less anger
She has a food list that she uses for herself and her family at foodaddictionresources.com
Her children had significant behavioural improvements by removing processed foods
She has three rules for her children: they can not bring these foods in the house, they cannot ask her for them, they cannot ask for money to buy them but they are allowed to do what they want outside of the home
The food industry has done a remarkable job at suppressing the connection between processed foods and health and disease
1600 die every day from diet-related disease
[9:40] every bite of processed food hurts you
If that child is getting processed foods regularly it is reducing their quality of life
In the 1980s food companies hired a Harvard trained PhD psychologist to max out their food products addictiveness
Different foods activate different reward centres in the brain
The more variety and targets you hit in the brain, the harder the addiction is to overcome
“Hunger doesn’t sell snacks, desire will”
[40:28-41:00] By 1997 Americans were eating a pound per person per day of sugars, flours, high-fat dairy, and French fries
[42:28] Your kid isn’t a picky eater, he/she is just addicted to processed foods
Our reward centres wear out and require more and more to get the “high” from the food so people are eating more and more
[46:54] Addiction scientists formulate foods to be highly addictive
The limbic system gets more agitated and uses up more of the brain’s power and the addiction centre is capable of controlling behaviour
When you have cravings you also have a stress response and vice versa
You need to remove food stimulations from your life
The same way you train your muscles you alter the way you stimulate the brain
We started out as a reptilian brain and developed an emotional brain and then only recently we developed this neocortex in the front of the brain a very small region of the brain for thinking, creativity, and learning
You activate the reptilian brain during food scarcity (evolutionarily) and same occurs when you diet
Binging was a survival behaviour
Now in our culture with full-time access to food it’s dangerous to activate this binging behaviour
One of the steps in binging recovery is to have three meals a day, spaced out, slow release meals
If you surround yourself with people that eat a healthy diet you are more likely to eat a healthy diet and vice versa
Mirror neurons are all about conforming or die but in this culture it can be dangerous
Joan and her team run online video chat groups to help with adherence and support
There is a facebook group called “Food Addiction Education” where people can communicate
She hopes to educate practitioners set up these online communities in their practices
Doctors and health professionals can use her textbook to learn how to diagnose their patients
Joan highly advises people work with a healthcare professional if they need help
If you are addicted to food, processed foods can not be eaten in moderation

Where you can find Joan Ifland:

http://www.foodaddictionresources.com

https://www.facebook.com/foodaddictionreset/

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Part 60 - Dr. Ted Naiman on Weight Loss, Health, and Fitness SOLVED: The P:E Diet

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Hello, hello beautiful people, how great is it to be alive and well in 2019? I’m Brian Sanders and this is Peak Human where I talk to the leading experts around the world about all things health, food, exercise, food production, and being your best self.

Today I’m talking with one of my favorite humans ever, you’ll probably get the gist of this as we continually talk about how much we respect each other’s work. Dr. Ted Naiman was the first person I got ahold of 2 years ago when I started making the Food Lies film and has been a great help and inspiration ever since. He was my first guest which has always been a fan favorite episode. I’m glad to have him come back on and talk about a ton of new stuff. Blows the old one away. Who needs it after this one. He’s spent years working on his magnum opus which is the book The P:E Diet which he wrote with William Shewfelt. I felt bad because we didn’t bring up William in this episode. I’ll be interviewing him on the new SAPIEN podcast tomorrow actually, so we’ll get a chance to hear from him soon!

A recap on Dr. Ted - he’s a board-certified Family Medicine physician practicing in the Seattle area. He’s seen about 100,000 patients over the past 20 years and has drawn a lot of conclusions from his observations as well as from the scientific literature. He’s spoken at major health conferences around the world and is basically a genius. Maybe I just feel this because we think the same way - either way, let’s get a few updates out of the way.

The Game Changers DEBUNKED film is moving along at lightning speed. We had a great shoot last week and I’m going to San Diego Wednesday to film with Dr. Paul Saladino, Tim Shieff (the Vegan Prince who dropped out of the Game Changers film), and ex-vegan celeb Alyse Parker. This will premiere on November 27th so please help us finish it by supporting the project at http://indiegogo.com/projects/gamechangers-debunked

Food Lies is also in full force. Meeting up with that editing team thursday to work through some of this beautiful footage. That’s also on Indiegogo - please learn more at http://FoodLies.org

And we’re shipping out a lot of grass fed and grass finished meat lately. You can get your own at http://NoseToTail.org We do all the organs and bones and everything is raised ethically and sustainably. It’s beyond organic. And our chicken and pork is fed a special feed that makes them very high in Omega 3. We also do this for our turkey which is a new product just in time for Thanksgiving. Nothing like this is sold in stores. They have an unprecedented 2:1 omega 6 to omega 3 ratio. Check them out and all the other delicious meats at http://NoseToTail.org

Lastly please support me on http://Patreon.com/peakhuman and get the extended show notes. This way I don’t have to take on any outside sponsors which I’ve been turning down. These show notes are super valuable and go into depth on everything mentioned. If you can’t afford any of these things, please give the podcast a review! Just tapping the 5 stars icon on the Apple podcast app or itunes is giving us a boost.

Alright, I really, really appreciate everyone and let’s get onto the show!

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SHOW NOTES

Dr. Ted Naiman is a board-certified Family Medicine physician in the department of Primary Care at a leading major medical center in Seattle. His personal research and medical practice are focused on the practical implementation of diet and exercise for health optimization
He has a new book out called “The P:E Diet: Leverage Your Biology To Achieve Optimal Health” go check out his website for more information at thePEdiet.com
Ted explains how nutrition unfortunately doesn't have any first order science - there is too much religiosity, voodoo, mysticism
He explains what we need to do is to zoom out and look at the bigger picture of nutrition based off of principles like the importance of the ratio of protein, minerals, and energy from carbon-carbon bonds
[6:15] Three things we need to accomplish when we eat
Foods rich in protein and nutrients seems that we see higher satiety in individuals
Most processed foods that have been stripped of these vital proteins and nutrients have caused us to eat more of these foods while lacking the essential nutrients our bodies need
He makes the argument that food choice (in other words what we eat) is the big picture we should focus on rather than how much we eat
His thought experiment of if you were stranded on a deserted island with nothing but whole foods (fruits, vegetables, roaming animals, seafood) the likelihood of someone eating excess energy and a diet low in protein and nutrients is very unlikely
[18:20] How the cultivation, breeding, and processing of these whole natural foods we find in nature is the reason why we see so many health issues in our society today
[19:30] These “empty calories” tend to make us overeat through a “push pull” method
[24:45] The importance of a protein-rich diet while keeping energy lower and how it helps create and maintain more lean muscle mass and less fat
[26:40] The problem with the general population, especially women, who think because they lift weights and eat protein they will build too much muscle and look “bulky” like a bodybuilder
[29:15] The phenomenon of fat adaptation
How reducing carbohydrate feeding frequency can aid in fat adaptation
[32:20] Although Ted is trying to avoid zealotry he explains that it does show in the results that a lower carb/cyclical carb feedings are much more efficient for the average everyday person
[35:40] The importance of timing your meals/carbohydrate intake
[37:50] Benefits of intermittent fasting and why you should consider it
[40:35] Animal foods versus plant foods
[46:15] Why eating animal foods “nose-to-tail” is so important and should be implemented in modern diets more often
[49:10] Plant based diets are possible but not optimal; there is so much room for error
[53:02] Having a larger portion of our diets come from ruminants rather than plant foods makes much more sense, in regards to economy, health, and practicality
[1:00:14] The importance of not trying to be so fragile in our diets and being so dogmatic in eating in one way or the other
[1:07:30] Running out of subcutaneous fat storage and storing it all in the ectopic and visceral fat (abdominal, pancreas, organs) is what causes insulin resistance
[1:09:30] The ability to burn glucose or fat as energy is like a see-saw, it depends on what you have consumed for your body to rely on
[1:12:54] Why he prefers low-carb diets over low-fat, even though both have their time and place for effectiveness in weight loss and body recomposition
[1:17:40] The Carbohydrate Insulin Hypothesis and why it is false
[1:22:09] Intensity is the most important factor for exercise
[1:32:45] The use of drop sets and rest-pause sets for driving more intensity in your workouts
[1:43:20] Carbohydrates, are they really necessary of high intensity/explosive activities?
https://www.burnfatnotsugar.com/
http://twitter.com/tednaiman

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Part 59 - Ken Berry, MD on Why You Shouldn’t Take Advice From a Fat Doctor, Fatty Meat Keto, and Egyptian Mummies

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Hello. We’re back. I’m Brian Sanders and I’m excited to share another great episode with you lovely people. Dr. Ken Berry is the author of the great book “Lies My Doctor Told Me,” he’s a speaker, he’s got an awesome and very popular YouTube channel, and he’s a great doctor who realized he was doing everything wrong and had the humbleness to admit this was so and reverse course. His own health was failing him and the advice he was giving his patients was failing them as well. I love these people who can man up to their mistakes, admit they didn’t have all the answers, and work tirelessly to make up for it. He’s got a bunch of great takeaways to offer so listen up to the good doctor!

Now I’ve got a few updates - we just started an impromptu project - a mini-doc debunking the latest installment of vegan propaganda called the Game Changers. If you haven't heard of this, it’s a “documentary” on Netflix about a few athletes who eat only plants and think everyone in the world should do the same thing. They misrepresent science and purposely deceive a huge population of the world who is not well-versed on food and nutrition and might believe that because a few genetic freaks are doing midly well eating a few salads and James Cameron who has $140 million invested in pea protein which they make the fake impossible burgers out of say that this is how humans should eat that it is actually true. I could go on and on about this, but I won’t because this short film will say it all much better.

We got a great team together on short notice including Shawn Baker, Paul Saladino, Mark Sisson, and Tim Shieff who used to be called the Vegan Prince and was actually in the Game Changers film. That’s until he realized the diet was destroying his life and he moved to embrace animal foods and basically immediately restored his health. We’re filming some comedy reenactments of some of the stupid so-called “experiments” they do in the film tomorrow with some of these guys. We’re going to be releasing this on YouTube for the whole world to see for free on November 27th the night before Thanksgiving. So many people were falling for this propaganda piece we had to make this and get it out quick - just in time to show your family members who may be refusing that turkey because they saw this unscientific joke.

This is not going to delay the Food Lies film which is still my main focus. You can learn more about that if you haven't heard of it yet at http://FoodLies.org I have a different team working on that and it’s moving full steam ahead, so don’t worry!

http://NoseToTail.org is also going strong. We deliver sustainably raised grass fed, grass finished meat to your door. It’s similar to other meat delivery services but we use the entire animal and it's from our family owned ranch in Texas. Get the bones, marrow, fat, organs, and everything else at http://NoseToTail.org I’m liking the beef bacon these days. It’s kinda like your best guy friend and best girl friend getting married. It’s a beautiful thing.

That’s about it for now. So much going on daily here at SAPIEN it’s hard for me to not go on about it - you can learn more at http://SAPIEN.org So now I’ll let ya’ll hear from my man Dr. Ken Berry.

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SHOW NOTES

Dr. Ken Berry is a medical doctor, author of the book “Lies My Doctor Told Me”, and has a pretty amazing YouTube channel

He triggered some people with his tweet: “Don’t take advice from a fat doctor”
15 years ago when he started his practice he was obese, inflamed, diabetic, etc.
In changing his nutrition he reversed all his health issues and made it his mission to help others do the same
[around 4:54] People are so obsessed with losing weight, but they’re spending so much of their discipline on the meaningless practices
You can lose a significant amount of weight without exercising
90% of the battle is what you eat, 90% of that 90% is to cut carbohydrates
You don’t need to be able to afford fancy gym memberships and grass-fed beef
Eat less move more is useless advice
Doctors believe patients are noncompliant instead of thinking their advice is wrong
If you don’t look like you should be giving nutrition advice then you should be doing something about it
[17:29-18:11] If you remember biochemistry, physiology, and anatomy from med school, a ketogenic diet makes sense but is completely counter to the nutrition you learn about in med school
Eat Lancet is not concerned with you entering old age with muscle mass and good health, they are interested in feeding the world as cheaply as they can
Egyptian mummies had terrible atherosclerosis, bad teeth, and the majority of their diet was a grain-based plant based
The DASH diet is not backed by science and risks elevated glucose, insulin, and cortisol
There is plenty of positive research supporting low carb and ketogenic diets
There is a lot of negative evidence for grains and low-fat diets
Ken’s “Proper Human Diet”
The proper human diet is a spectrum, some people do well on vegetarian some people do well on carnivore
He used to think a vegetable heavy keto diet was the best diet, but has changed his perspective of this and essentially follows a carnivore diet now
When you can sit in front of food and not have the desire to eat is when you have control over your hunger
The first step with patients is eliminating processed grains, refined sugars, and industrial seed oils, if you are hungry eat fatty meat, eat some veg, eat some eggs, just eat real food
Just removing these three slow poisons, will make a huge difference
Carbohydrate addiction appears to be a real thing, when you withdraw from carbs you will get symptoms and it will suck from 3-10 days but once you get past that, you will realize how sustainable this way of life is
In the same way you can eat the standard American diet and not develop any obvious nutrient deficiencies for decades, you probably can on a muscle-meat only carnivore diet too
You will develop vitamin and mineral deficiencies quicker on a vegan diet than on a carnivore diet
When you use a carnivore tool, and start adding back foods, they are given answers to what makes them feel good
Even cheap meat is better than eating grains and processed foods
Myth that meat causes gout
Ken predicts that in 5-7 years, Layne Norton will recommend a ketogenic diet
The HDL to triglyceride ratio is best improved on a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet
Ken has admitted where he went wrong in the past, prescribing statins, etc.
Eating this way helps with acne
Where to find Ken berry:
https://www.kendberrymd.com/
https://www.youtube.com/kendberrymd
https://twitter.com/kendberrymd
https://www.instagram.com/kendberry.md/

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Part 58 - Dr. Cate Shanahan on the True Human Diet, Why Athletes Fail on Vegan Diets, and Bringing Nose to Tail Animal Foods to the NBA

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Hello there Sapien Tribe! That’s right, we’re a tribe now. This is very fitting to me and we have a lot of great people leading the way. I’m going to make pages for each of them on http://Sapien.org

I’m talking about people like Professor Bill Schindler who’s hosting an online video series with a bunch of great people. Somehow I slipped in there and am kicking it off with one of the OGs Robb Wolf on Monday, October 28th. Sign up for free at https://www.modernstoneagediet.com/bs/

He’s having a bunch of these other tribe leaders on like Tara Couture (my favorite person ever - @slowdownfamstead on Instagram), Mark Sisson, Shawn Baker, all the people. Professor Bill is a great guy, a friend, and I want to support his project and message. That link is https://www.modernstoneagediet.com/bs/ or find it in the show notes.

Now that I strategically brought up show notes, I’ll mention the message I got from a Patreon supporter who said “If I realized you offered such extensive show notes to patreon supporters I would of joined a hell of a lot sooner. What a valuable perk!!! I think if you elaborate on the podcast about on how comprehensive these google docs are (links to studies, links to youtube videos, refined information, and links to articles) surely more people will join for access!”

It’s all Kristi! She does an awesome job. Support us at http://patreon.com/peakhuman

You can also get grass finished meat delivered to your door at http://NoseToTail.org

And put a few branches on our fire. This tribe metaphor is going to continue. You have to just try this even if it’s just to get the ground beef with the organs mixed in. There’s really no other way you can get grass finished beef plus liver, heart, kidney, and spleen all ground into a perfect little ball of nutrition for a better price, taste, or convenience factor. Support Sapien and a family Texas ranch by ordering at http://NoseToTail.org

The film is going great. We don’t have a release date but you can still preorder it and get some of the perks by clicking through http://FoodLies.org to the Indiegogo page.

And now onto the guest today, Dr. Cate Shanahan. I read her book Deep Nutrition awhile back and was hooked. She has a great philosophy that’s very inline with the Sapien lifestyle. She’s a board certified family physician, she trained in biochemistry and genetics at Cornell University’s graduate school before attending Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She helped create the PRO nutrition program for the LA Lakers which helped Kobe start eating an ancestral diet and boost his performance as he went later into his career. She’s got a new book coming out early next year called Fatburn Fix which you can already preorder on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Fatburn-Fix-Great-Weight-Using/dp/1250114497

And she’s an amazing person all around - here’s Dr. Cate.

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SHOW NOTES

Cate Shanahan is a practicing medical doctor and author of Deep Nutrition
She was inspired to write Deep Nutrition because we are currently living longer lives but not healthier lives
There is a difference between life expectancy and life span
Past generations grew up without GMOs, pesticides, so basically eating all organic, free-range, foods and no processed foods
Genetic momentum will carry you forward even when diet might fall apart and this is how a lot of people live very long lives
Your connective tissue determines your lifespan and your connective tissue is determined in your teens and twenties
Cate has genetically poor connective tissues and experienced various repetitive injuries
Status of connective tissue is the number one predictor of injury and duration of athletic career
The problem that can occur with vegan athletes is that they are deprived of animal-based components that support connective tissue
Many traditional diets include bones and products you get when you break down/boil bones
Gelatin can help our joints and injuries
Bone broth is the youth serum for connective tissue and extending athletic career
Cate worked with the LA Lakers and various other professional athletes and has seen the power of nutrition and specifically bone broth in athletic performance, recovery, and career longevity
How LDL and HDL cholesterol levels matter
Brian’s theory: the only people that don’t benefit either didn’t try it or did it wrong
Many high-level athletes adopting low-carb diets
Sugar isn’t good, but vegetable oils are the worst thing we could possibly eat
Cate believes that if we didn’t have vegetable oils we wouldn’t have all these chronic diseases
Mitochondria produce 30% more energy (ATP) using fatty acids and ketones for fuel than glucose
Polyunsaturated fatty acids from vegetable oils shut down mitochondrial metabolism and can trigger apoptosis
As your cells demand more and more sugar, the brain responds by keeping your fasting blood sugar up in an unhealthy range and this is what is diagnosed as diabetes
Vegetable oils play a role in diabetes
Short fasts can be a part of a healthy lifestyle but a lot of people aren’t even healthy enough to fast
Eating between meals blocks fat burning
You shouldn’t need a snack if you have body fat
People underestimate how many calories they eat a day, and these hidden calories come from snacking
There’s a difference between burning fat and burning body fat
There are toxins in the vegetable oils that have accumulated in body fat, so when you fast and start burning body fat, you release them and get a pro-inflammatory effect
If you have toxic body fat and you try and push through to fast, it could be harmful
The reason some people can’t access their body fat goes beyond lowering insulin
Some people aren’t even ready to go low-carb
Carbs are not the enemy, if you do it right, you can have your carbs and lose weight and be healthy
MCTs can be used directly by the brain for fuel
Your body makes most of its antioxidants
The antioxidants in food probably have a negligible contribution in your cells
If you do carnivore, you should be doing it nose-to-tail
Cate’s 4 pillars for a maximally healthy diet
The RDAs are almost irrelevant
Ancestral diets were based on farming, culinary practices, and traditions
Our intuitions were so good for so long and we’ve lost our ways
Diet can impact how our children physically look and grow
Feed your genetics what they are expecting to receive
You have a gene in your bones for growing more bone matrix
The raw materials in our food can act as switches for our genes
Cate tells people to supplement with vitamins (e.g. vitamin D), minerals (e.g. calcium), and superfoods (e.g. probiotics) if your diet is not rich in what you are supplementing with
Vegans who believe “just don’t eat meat and you’ll be fine” can turn into a really unhealthy diet
DHA requirements go down when you remove vegetable oils
Epidemiology is just like “voting” on what a healthy diet is and shouldn’t be what we make dietary recommendations on
When we eat damaging dietary fats for the brain we see mental illness
Stress isn’t a new phenomenon, we are just not wired to deal with it with the food we’re eating
Humans are being built wrong and if we continue down this path, humans will become extinct

Where to find Dr. Cate Shanahan

https://drcate.com/

https://www.facebook.com/DoctorCate

SHOW NOTES

Cate Shanahan is a practicing medical doctor and author of Deep Nutrition
She was inspired to write Deep Nutrition because we are currently living longer lives but not healthier lives
There is a difference between life expectancy and life span
Past generations grew up without GMOs, pesticides, so basically eating all organic, free-range, foods and no processed foods
Genetic momentum will carry you forward even when diet might fall apart and this is how a lot of people live very long lives
Your connective tissue determines your lifespan and your connective tissue is determined in your teens and twenties
Cate has genetically poor connective tissues and experienced various repetitive injuries
Status of connective tissue is the number one predictor of injury and duration of athletic career
The problem that can occur with vegan athletes is that they are deprived of animal-based components that support connective tissue
Many traditional diets include bones and products you get when you break down/boil bones
Gelatin can help our joints and injuries
Bone broth is the youth serum for connective tissue and extending athletic career
Cate worked with the LA Lakers and various other professional athletes and has seen the power of nutrition and specifically bone broth in athletic performance, recovery, and career longevity
How LDL and HDL cholesterol levels matter
Brian’s theory: the only people that don’t benefit either didn’t try it or did it wrong
Many high-level athletes adopting low-carb diets
Sugar isn’t good, but vegetable oils are the worst thing we could possibly eat
Cate believes that if we didn’t have vegetable oils we wouldn’t have all these chronic diseases
Mitochondria produce 30% more energy (ATP) using fatty acids and ketones for fuel than glucose
Polyunsaturated fatty acids from vegetable oils shut down mitochondrial metabolism and can trigger apoptosis
As your cells demand more and more sugar, the brain responds by keeping your fasting blood sugar up in an unhealthy range and this is what is diagnosed as diabetes
Vegetable oils play a role in diabetes
Short fasts can be a part of a healthy lifestyle but a lot of people aren’t even healthy enough to fast
Eating between meals blocks fat burning
You shouldn’t need a snack if you have body fat
People underestimate how many calories they eat a day, and these hidden calories come from snacking
There’s a difference between burning fat and burning body fat
There are toxins in the vegetable oils that have accumulated in body fat, so when you fast and start burning body fat, you release them and get a pro-inflammatory effect
If you have toxic body fat and you try and push through to fast, it could be harmful
The reason some people can’t access their body fat goes beyond lowering insulin
Some people aren’t even ready to go low-carb
Carbs are not the enemy, if you do it right, you can have your carbs and lose weight and be healthy
MCTs can be used directly by the brain for fuel
Your body makes most of its antioxidants
The antioxidants in food probably have a negligible contribution in your cells
If you do carnivore, you should be doing it nose-to-tail
Cate’s 4 pillars for a maximally healthy diet
The RDAs are almost irrelevant
Ancestral diets were based on farming, culinary practices, and traditions
Our intuitions were so good for so long and we’ve lost our ways
Diet can impact how our children physically look and grow
Feed your genetics what they are expecting to receive
You have a gene in your bones for growing more bone matrix
The raw materials in our food can act as switches for our genes
Cate tells people to supplement with vitamins (e.g. vitamin D), minerals (e.g. calcium), and superfoods (e.g. probiotics) if your diet is not rich in what you are supplementing with
Vegans who believe “just don’t eat meat and you’ll be fine” can turn into a really unhealthy diet
DHA requirements go down when you remove vegetable oils
Epidemiology is just like “voting” on what a healthy diet is and shouldn’t be what we make dietary recommendations on
When we eat damaging dietary fats for the brain we see mental illness
Stress isn’t a new phenomenon, we are just not wired to deal with it with the food we’re eating
Humans are being built wrong and if we continue down this path, humans will become extinct

Where to find Dr. Cate Shanahan

https://drcate.com/

https://twitter.com/drcateshanahan

https://www.facebook.com/DoctorCate

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Part 57 - Dr. Ben Bikman on the Secret Tool for Burning Fat, How to Eat Protein Properly, and Metabolism Mysteries Explained

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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, boy and girls. Season 5 is here. I took a short break to collect some more interviews and put out a few episodes of the new SAPIEN podcast. You can check that out on youtube or any podcast app. It’s a more casual and conversational show we shoot on video and audio with Dr. Gary in our medical clinic Evolve Healthcare in Los Angeles. We’ve started to take on more patients to our weight loss, chronic disease management, and SAPIEN lifestyle programs. You can find out more at http://Sapien.org/programs

We offer one off consultations, physician supervised weight loss through insurance, and the 3 month Sapien program with one-on-one diet and lifestyle coaching. This is offered in the clinic in Los Angeles or remotely. Again that’s http://Sapien.org/programs

This episode is jam packed with information so get ready to take some notes. Dr. Ben Bikman is a legend. He is a professor of pathophysiology and a biomedical scientist whose research focuses on the molecular mediators of obesity and its co-morbidities. Employing cell-autonomous to whole-body systems, his lab’s main efforts explore the intimate associations between the metabolic and immune systems.

He also is a world class presenter and has some fantastic lectures on youtube. I highly recommend watching them and links will be included in the show notes. Dr. Bikman is really one of the foremost minds on human metabolism in the world. I’m honored to be able to speak with him and share this episode.

I’ll quickly give a shout out to Kristi and the super comprehensive show notes she does. You can get access to them by supporting the show on Patreon at http://patreon.com/peakhuman

Throwing a few bucks there allows me to keep doing this show and creating content of all kinds.

If you can’t spare any cash, please give this podcast a review or even just tap the 1-5 star rating on the Apple Podcast app would be helpful. It bumps up the show in the results and gives it a bit more cred. Appreciate all the complimentary reviews so far. It helps keep me going!

Also if you like meat and eat it to survive as a human being, why not get top-quality grass finished meat from http://NoseToTail.org This is my company so you will be supporting me and a Texas ranch. Our signature products are ground beef, pork, and buffalo with all the organs mixed in. You can get your liver, kidney, heart, and spleen without having to get out the meat grinder and while enjoying a very delicious burger. With a little seasoning it tastes beautiful. I think it’s the best way to get all those amazing nutrients.

Our pork and chicken is actually extra special. We spend quite a bit more money giving them a proprietary high omega 3 feed that translates into super high omega 3 meat. The omega 6 to omega 3 ratio is insane - it’s less than 2 to 1. Compare it to conventional pork which is about 20:1 and conventional chicken about 24:1. This is much better for you than normal stuff obviously. Chicken and pork usually get a bad rap, and maybe that’s well-deserved for conventionally grown versions. This is a different ballgame here folks. If you want to mix it up from the wonderful staple that is red meat, this is where it’s at.

So let’s get to this episode with Dr. Ben Bikman - we talk about brown fat vs. white fat, how this relates to the calorie in calorie out model of obesity, insulin, glucagon, and why protein doesn’t cause problems in a low glucose context, longevity, mTOR, body composition and gaining muscle, to name a few - he covers so many interesting and valuable things, I don’t want to hold it up any longer. Enjoy the show!

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SHOW NOTES

Ben Bikman is a professor of pathophysiology and biomedical science at BYU in the physiology and developmental biology department and the class he teaches is pathophysiology
His undergrad and MS was exercise physiology and he loved learning how the body adapts to exercise
He got into his current research interests by stumbling upon research on adipose tissue as an endocrine tissue that secretes anti-inflammatory and pro-inflammatory hormones
Insulin resistance is at the root of many diseases
Type-2 diabetes is at its core a disease of insulin resistance where there is too much insulin, the pancreas is working so hard to produce insulin but the body is not responding to it as well as it was before
Teaching pathophysiology exposed him to the link between insulin resistance to almost all chronic diseases and the more he covered more diseased states insulin resistance was always relevant
Clinicians typically look at fixing individual problems with separate medications when we could just target the underlying issue
Insulin resistance is a disease of too much insulin and part of the insulin resistance is caused by too much insulin it’s a vicious cycle
Too much of a stimulus, system will reduce sensitivity to this stimulus
If insulin resistance is relevant to every chronic disease you have to resolve the insulin resistance if one of the main causes of insulin resistance is hyperinsulinemia then the best way to reverse course is to reduce the insulin and low-carb is the easiest strategy
His concerns about vegan diets
What he tries to focus on is the common grounds, keto or low-carb, vegan, whatever diet you choose the thing in common needs to be avoiding processed foods, at the end of the day, the goal is to lower insulin
If a person is in ketosis, then you know their insulin is low, it’s a nice metric to know you are controlling insulin because you can’t make ketones if insulin high
Of the three macronutrients, carbohydrates have the greatest insulin spike and carbohydrates are the only non-essential macronutrient
Anyone attempting to control insulin should consider the insulin to glucagon ratio which
Glucagon is one of the hormones that act in opposition to insulin, released in the alpha-cells of the pancreas
One of insulin’s main actions is to lower blood glucose, if it is elevated to get glucose into our cells which is required to live
Glucagon’s main job is to elevate blood glucose
In a fasted state you will have a low insulin to glucagon ratio, because glucagon triggers the mobilization of energy from stored energy
[around 20:20] When we are eating a low-carb high-fat diet, this insulin to glucagon ratio will remain similar to that of fasting so that we can mobilize energy not store it
On a low carb diet high fat diet, we are eating but we are mimicking the state of fasting
Eating carbohydrates frequently throughout the day almost guarantees insulin will be elevated all day long
In a fasted state the insulin to glucagon ratio will be around 1, on a standard american diet that will go up to around 10 and a low carb high fat will go up to maybe 2-3
A lot of people are scared to eat protein on a ketogenic diet and instead people eat a lot of pure but this is not found in nature
Context matters, glucose interferes with the insulin response to protein
[around 29:45] You can not afford to spike insulin from protein in a low carb state because you will shut down glucogeonesis which makes glucose in the fasted state and you will go hypoglycemic
Protein on a high carb diet amplifies the insulin response to glucose
The main substrate for gluconeogensis is lactate not amino acids
Gluconeogenesis is demand driven
Ketones spare muscle break down by providing an alternative fuel source
Transitioning into ketosis you go through a brief phase of using amino acids from muscle for glucose but you transition out of that once you get into ketosis
The difference between fasting and starvation is breaking down muscle as last resort
The glycemic load of the carbohydrate in the diet matters for the insulin response
Dangers of low-protein “longevity diets”
We know in experimental models one of the keys to longevity is to lower insulin
Promoting a high carb diet for longevity isn’t logical because carbohydrates have the biggest insulin response
[around 40:20] Insulin increases mTOR much greater than amino acids do so the argument to lower protein to lower mTOR for longevity by replacing protein with carbohydrates is not achieving this
Soy is a complete protein however a normal response to exercise in both females and males is to transiently increase androgens (e.g. testosterone) and animal proteins don’t change this response but when a man takes soy, it abolishes this androgen spike from exercise (studies haven’t been done in women)
Pea protein is about half as absorbable to animal proteins
You do not need carbohydrates for the insulin spike to build muscle
The difference between lean gains vs bulking and cutting
In order to make ketones you need fat to enter mitochondria via carnitine
Carnitine is the essential transporter for fatty acids
If you are focusing on protein, fat, and carnitine in order to maintain a good insulin to glucagon ratio, there is nothing better than a piece of red meat
Insulin slows metabolic rate and ketones accelerate metabolic rate
Brown fat is enriched in mitochondria and is enriched with mitochondria in contrast to white fat and these mitochondria behave differently
Mitochondrial metabolism is “uncoupled” in brown fat and “coupled” in white fat
Ketosis helps “waste” energy so to speak
Ketones help turn white fat cells to brown fat cells
Insulin turns off mitochondrial uncoupling
Hormones dictate what the body does with food consumed to mobilize or store
Ideas behind personal fat threshold and carbohydrate-insulin theory of obesity
Inflammation and fat create a perfect storm for creating insulin resistance throughout the body
The personal fat threshold explains why slim people can be insulin resistant and overweight individuals can be metabolically healthy
Fat storage can differ among different ethnicities
You can eat a high carb diet and not gain weight and lose weight if you are eating whole food carb sources
Lab grown meats are not natural and require a ridiculous amount of antibiotics to grow in the lab
His lab website https://bikmanlab.byu.edu
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBikmanPhD

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Part 56 - Nina Teicholz on Meat, Butter, Bread, Cholesterol, and Fat: How Did We Get Them So Wrong?

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Hello, hello healthy people. Have you been eating a sapien diet recently? Are you feeling better than ever? Or is it just me? Many people are probably doing it without even realizing it. It’s basically just a high animal food, high fat, low carb, low antinutrient diet with a condensed eating window.

We talk a lot about why this way of eating is so beneficial and so misunderstood today with the legendary Nina Teicholz. She is an adjunct professor at NYU’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, the Executive Director of The Nutrition Coalition (a group devoted to evidence-based nutrition policy), an investigative science journalist and author of the must-read book Big Fat Surprise. Just go read it now. Seriously. She spent almost 10 years researching and digging up studies to blow the top off one of the biggest mistakes in human history. Yes she says it. Demonizing cholesterol and human health foods like red meat and saturated fat has truly been a catastrophe for the health of our world.

She got in this early and made waves, woke people up, and got the movement going. She and Gary Taubes have been instrumental in getting the word out to the mainstream. Listen up everyone, she’s awesome!

I have a few more things before we start, though. We’re actually still looking for a story or two to weave into the film. If you know a family whose kids have lost a ton of weight, I’d love to hear from them. I’m also interested in connecting with an LA based editor and videographer that can help make some more youtube content with us. We have a lot of things cooking and not enough chefs!

Do you have pets? We’ve got the healthiest pet food possible at http://NoseToTail.org It’s grass finished ground beef with all the organs in it, specially made for animals. Get some for yourself while you're at it. We make it for humans too. We also have high omega 3 pork and chicken that’s pasture raised and fed a special diet. The meat and fat are loaded with possibly the best omega 3 to omega 6 ratio in America. Get it delivered to you with a few clicks at http://NoseToTail.org Restocking on friday so I’ll add the products back in stock wednesday (which is when this episode is coming out) and we always ship on Mondays and Tuesdays.

Please support the film on Indiegogo by clicking though the show notes or http://FoodLies.org

We’re about to make another order of the “It’s what else you eat, not the meat shirts.” You can get one with a preorder copy of the film.

Support this show on Patreon and get the extended show notes on http://patreon.com/peakhuman

And subscribe to the new SAPIEN show on any podcast app or youtube. We film video and audio at Evolve Healthcare in Los Angeles with Dr. Gary and some really interesting guests. Just search for Sapien.

So here we have it, the ex-long-time-vegetarian turned eater of meat, butter, eggs and cheese, Nina Teicholz.

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SHOW NOTES

Nina is a journalist who spent nearly a decade writing her book The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet
She thought she was writing about science but realized she was writing about politics
She started Nutrition Coalition to bring an alternative point of view to Washington to try and get government support to change the dietary guidelines
Turns out Americans follow the dietary guidelines, but are still getting sick
Consumption of red meat, butter, and whole milk are down
Consumption of grains and vegetable oils are up
Ever since the dietary guidelines were introduced in the 1980s diabetes and obesity rates have exploded
No one can prove that the guidelines caused these epidemics, but we have a body of science that show if people ignore the guidelines and eat high fat low carb they can manage and reverse their diseases suggesting that the guidelines are no promoting health
Quote from Nina’s book: “But like lost languages, lost skills, and lost songs, it takes only a few generations to forget”
It seems normal that everyone has a disease, but it’s not normal
Challenging the idea of low-fat plant-based diets is extremely difficult because it is enshrined at the highest levels and there is a lot of corporate interest behind it
The main ingredients in the grocery stores are sugar, grains, and vegetable oils
Food only became medicalized in the 1950s when people were suffering from heart disease
Diet-Heart Hypothesis introduced by Ancel Keys claiming that saturated fat and cholesterol would clog your arteries like hot oil down a cold pipe and that would lead to a heart attack
The first dietary recommendation in the world was to limit saturated fat issued by the AHA in 1961
It wasn’t until 1970 that all fats were demonized and not just saturated fats
The AHA recognized that they didn’t have all the answers but they couldn’t imagine any negative unintended consequences but in reality, the unintended consequences were two-fold
By cutting down on saturated fats we shifted to PUFA vegetable oils which turned out to cause higher death rates from cancer
Since 1960 we have increased carbohydrate consumption by 30% and have decreased fat since 1965 by around 30% and protein has stayed relatively constant
They tested the diet-heart hypothesis after the dietary recommendations had already been made, and were never able to support it by science
The majority of studies that couldn’t confirm any health benefits to low-fat diets were largely ignored and considered “silent studies” it was too uncomfortable for anyone to admit they might have got things wrong
The Minnesota Coronary Survey study wasn’t published for 16 years because the researchers weren’t happy with the results since they didn’t support a low-fat diet for reducing risk of heart disease
[29:51] The demonization of cholesterol has been one of the greatest mistakes in human history
All of the trials that swapped out saturated fats for polyunsaturated fats showed increased death rates from cancer but they were so convinced that lowering cholesterol was the answer so they accepted it
One of the scariest parts of her book was researching the detrimental effects of vegetable oils which didn’t even exist in the food supply until the early 1900s
The types of fats in vegetable oils can replace the stable fatty acids in our cell membranes, there are significant effects of these fats on our health
There are over 100 clinical trials showing the benefit of carbohydrate restriction
We need to ask what diet can people stick to in the real-world
The metabolic ward studies are flawed because they are short-term
Type-2 diabetes is reversible
[41:31] Nina tried to get media coverage on type-2 diabetes remission with a ketogenic diet and the on air doctor wouldn’t allow it because it contradicted everything he had been promoting over the years
Institutions have been promoting low-fat diets for so long that people can’t go back on their word
Much of the media are funded by pharmaceutical companies so ads aren’t going to promote lifestyle factors that can get people off their medications
There is huge corporate investments in meat replacements
Nina is open minded to the carnivore movement based on the nutrient density of animal foods and the various toxins that can be in plant foods
We are moving in the right direction by removing the caps on dietary cholesterol and dropping language around low-fat diets
We need better science and grass-roots movements to continue this paradigm shift
We need our doctors to be educated on this because no one wants to feel like they can’t trust their doctor, and we shouldn’t have to
[51:18] The foods that are in institutions are determined by the dietary guidelines
[52:02] If you belong to a large medical practice, you risk medical malpractice if you teach people a low-carb diet if it’s not standard of care, until it’s included in the dietary guidelines its not available as an option
The focus of the Nutrition Coalition is about doing proper science and reviewing it properly and not ignore science and if the science is done correctly and not ignored we can get answers
The current dietary guidelines for vegetarianism, mediteranean diet, and DASH diet are supported by almost no evidence
We are dealing with politics not evidence
We need more people spreading this message because everyone shares in a different way that may resonate with someone

Where to find Nina Teicholz:

https://ninateicholz.com/

https://www.facebook.com/NinaTeicholz/

https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/

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Part 55 - Dr. Anthony Jay on Decoding your DNA, Avoiding Male Feminization, and Epigenetics

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Hey everyone out there in podcast land, we’re back for another great episode. I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Anthony Jay this week. He’s probably best known for his book Estrogeneration where he explores how all the nasty xenoestrogens creep into our body through plastics, food like soy, personal care products, sunscreen, the water, etc. This is important stuff because you may think it doesn’t affect you, but it does, and you just don’t realize it. You don’t have to go crazy over this stuff, but it’s best to minimize your exposure.

What was really cool for me is that I got to talk to him before and after the show and realized what a great wealth of knowledge he has on so many subjects - which is also very apparent throughout the episode. We could have talked all day, but we cut ourselves off at 2 solid hours of hot nutrition talk.

Dr. Jay earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Boston University School of Medicine, researching fats, hormones, and cholesterol. He’s currently at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota researching stem cells, epigenetics, and infrared light. He also does DNA consulting which I’m going to do with him in the near future.

So now for a huge announcement - the SAPIEN show is finally here! I haven’t mentioned it much, but it’s been in the works for a while. It’s recorded on video and audio at SAPIEN headquarters at Evolve Healthcare in Woodland Hills, California with in-person guests.

My co-host is the one and only Dr. Gary Shlifer who was a recent Peak Human guest. By far the most positive feedback of any episode. Go back and listen if you’d like (it’s episode 48) or just jump in and start with the Sapien podcast that is launching today!

So I’d suggest pausing this episode and subscribing now before you forget. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Just look up Sapien in any podcast app or on youtube. The podcast version has higher quality audio and the youtube version has our smiling faces! We already have a bunch of great episodes in the bag, including one where Dr. Paul Saladino and Dr. Gary get in a small war. It got awkward after that one.

My other co-host is Yaniv Fituci, the producer of Food Lies and co-founder of http://Attack.Media

He produces shows for Disney, Sony, Nintendo and all that other Hollywood stuff. He’ll be coming in and out and bringing his awesome perspective into the mix.

So I’ll keep it quick this week on how to support this show, myself, and all things Sapien. My main venture is the sapien organization which can be found at http://sapien.org which includes the Food Lies film, Nose to Tail grass finished meat, this podcast, and even the long term vision of changing the way we farm with the Sapien Movement. You can find out more about the Sapien Diet there which people have been asking about. I posted my before and after picture on instagram, facebook, and twitter to show what happens when you eat densely and move intensely and live a Sapien Lifestyle, which is how us modern homo sapiens in 2019 should be living. I swear it’s the easiest thing to do once you understand what to do and why you’re doing it. I eat the most delicious meals I can imagine until I’m full, never worry about calories or macros, then go work out for 17 minutes most weekdays… and this helped me transform my body and my life.

So start eating densely with all the grass finished meat on http://NoseToTail.org support this podcast so I can keep doing it at http://patreon.com/peakhuman preorder the film so we can finish it - the more funds we have, the sooner it will come out. You can click through to the Indiegogo at http://FoodLies.org and subscribe to the new Sapien show on any podcast app and the Food Lies YouTube channel.

Without further ado, please welcome the superb Dr. Anthony Jay.

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SHOW NOTES

Dr. Anthony Jay is currently a researcher at the esteemed Mayo Clinic
He received his Phd at Boston University School of Medical in Biochemistry
Anthony’s definition of cholesterol and why it is absolutely essential
Why dietary cholesterol does not directly affect your blood cholesterol in a harmful way
How harmful exposure from estrogen is all around you whether it be everyday use products, your environment, diet or water supply
Fake estrogen (man-made chemicals) are harming you in products you would never expect
Why scientists, researchers, and governmental standards tend to ignore the negative effects of these everyday products and how they manage to stay on shelves
Explanation of how the problem lies with the slow buildup of these artificial estrogens in the body long term
How artificial estrogens alter sex hormones and can lead to male feminization
How Epigenetics work and instances it has been shown in history
You can read more about one of the first instances of Epigenetics here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2579375/
How methylation changes creates physical marks on DNA which lead to increases in DNA mutations and epigenetic alterations
How Atrazine, a widely used herbicide in North American agriculture (but illegal in Europe) is harming current and future generations
How estrogen directly influences PPAR-gamma (Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor Gamma) to store more fat
How estrogen affects SHBG (Sex Hormone Binding Globulin) and leads to lower testosterone

Why 4-Methylbenzylidene-camphor is being outlawed in Hawaii, Australis, New Zealand, Philippines, and the Caribbeans
How xenoestrogen compounds are even being found in polar bears in northern Alaska
Why Dr. Anthony Jay stopped using sea salt due to microplastics
How a pristine mountain lake in Switzerland with little to no human contact had its male fish somehow becoming female
Atrazine in even relatively low doses compared to US agriculture can still lead to male frogs to become female
How religious dogmatism in scientific community leads to little or no discourse about these types of issues

What Dr. Anthony Jay’s power rankings of dangerous xenoestrogens are
Check out what everyday products he uses and feels safe about at: AJconsultingcompany.com/whatiuse
Learning about your genetic predispositions and how to cater your diet, supplements, and lifestyle to best fit your genetics is an effective way to live a healthier, longer life
How ancestry.com analyzes your genetics and allows you to get it looked at by professionals such as Dr. Anthony Jay to customize your own diet and supplementation
Iodine and Vitamin D are essential
The importance of cycling in and out of ketosis and being able to get fat adapted/metabolic flexibility
Reasoning behind intermittent fasting
Developing a foundation of strength - the big 6: squat, deadlift, bench, row, pull-down, overhead press
Why there is no such thing as a perfect diet for everybody
How to optimize sleep and why it's important
What flavonoids are and why he suggests them for most people
How you can optimize your testosterone
Heavy metal exposure can lead to testosterone to drop
How having too much of essential micronutrients can drop testosterone
Why you should avoid BPA, BPS, BPF and phthalates
If you want to learn more go check out his book “Estrogeneration: How Estrogenics are Making You Fat, Sick and Infertile”
Find him at http://ajconsultingcompany.com

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Part 54 - Chris Masterjohn, PhD Questions Carnivore

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Alright everyone, we’re back, Brian Sanders here with another episode of Peak Human where I talk to the leading experts around the world about health, nutrition, exercise, and how to live a long and healthy life. I’m a bit behind this week due to the holiday and filming a couple more awesome interviews for the Food Lies documentary. Every time I think we’re done, I get a new opportunity to talk to an amazing expert.

Yesterday we filmed with Professor Craig Stanford a USC anthropologist and world-renowned authority on primates who walked us through how savage our chimp ancestors were and still are. It’s no vegan utopia out there with them quietly munching on leaves and twigs. They hunt monkeys and rip them apart and eat them with their bare hands. He also explained the changes our bodies, brains, and digestive systems went through as we began eating more and more nutrient dense animal foods and became human.

Then today we hit my alma mater UCLA completing the cross-town rivalry professor square-off and talked to Dr. Aaron Blaisdell. He’s a powerful force in the ancestral health space and actually co-founded the Ancestral Health Society which puts on the Ancestral Health Symposium each year. They bridge the gap between the science and researchers in academia with the rest of the world. They’re basically undoing all the weak correlations and bad epidemiology that’s been done in the last 60 years that gave red meat and saturated fat a bad name using actual hard science. It’s a little sad that we need this group of “crazy rebels” to show us simple facts of human evolution and animal foods being the foundation of how we became human and continue to be the foundation of health.

So check them out and support the Food Lies film at http://FoodLies.org We’re on Indiegogo and you can help us finish the film by clicking through - one more time FoodLies.org - and pre-ordering a copy. It’s seriously the only way we can fight this battle - which is crazy that it is turning into an actual battle for our right to eat the healthiest foods on the planet.

Speaking of eating animal foods, Nose to tail is going strong and it’s hard to keep all the meat in stock. By the time you’re hearing this we should be back with some of our signature products such as the primal ground beef with liver, heart, kidney, and spleen mixed in. We’ve got a ton of nose to tail cuts of beef, buffalo, lamb, pork, and chicken as well on http://NoseToTail.org

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So onto the guest this week, Chris Masterjohn, PhD. If you haven't heard of him, you should have because he’s a force of nature when it comes to nutritional research. He’s got a PhD in nutritional sciences and knows more than just about anyone concerning how fat, carbs, protein, vitamins, and minerals work in our body. He’s publishing papers, putting out tons of great content on his site and youtube, has a masterclass series, and is a great guy for putting up with all my questions. I hope he wasn’t put off by this interview that I pushed to the very last minute before his next meeting. I wanted to bring up a lot of points that went against the standard nutritional narrative. I think a strict carnivore diet (or victus I should say - which is a better word than diet that I think we should be using) is super interesting and wanted to see what he thought about it. It gets technical in the beginning, but hold on and wait for the end, because that’s when it really gets good. So here’s the interview, I hope you enjoy it.

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SHOW NOTES

Chris Masterjohn has his PhD in Nutritional Sciences
He runs his own online blog and programs at https://chrismasterjohnphd.com
Chris’ definition of nutrient density and selecting nutrient dense foods
The importance of nutrient balance when considering nutrient density
Why looking at nutrients per calorie isn’t that useful, for example if you compared protein per calorie for broccoli it would be very high but no one is going to eat that amount of calories of broccoli to ever reach a sufficient amount of protein
He has a 5 tier ranking system that helps you figure out which foods help you hit your nutrient targets for the day and which don’t
You can either choose to eat foods super dense in nutrients or you can choose to eat a lot of different foods that are moderately dense in nutrients
Why he is strongly against Joel Fuhrman’s nutrient density score
You want to consume all the essential nutrients well over the point of being deficient without being near the point of having too much
Reaching riboflavin toxicity is unheard of
The role of vitamin D in preventing leaching calcium from your bones
The interactions of vitamin D with vitamin K and vitamin A in preventing calcification in soft-tissues (ie. anything but bones and teeth)
If you don’t balance vitamin D with vitamins A and K you may be at risk for soft-tissue calcification (e.g. kidney stones) and this is a danger of having too much vitamin D
You can read about is theory here: https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/abcs-of-nutrition/from-seafood-to-sunshine-a-new-understanding-of-vitamin-d-safety/
Animal foods with vitamins A and K: 4-8oz of liver per week, cod liver oil, egg yolks, full-fat dairy products (you won’t get enough vitamin A and K with dairy and egg yolks alone)
Plant foods with vitamin A: red/orange/yellow/green vegetables have vitamin A in the form of carotenoids that needs to be converted into the form in animal foods which is retinol, these are good sources of vitamin A but many people have poor conversion rates, there are also other factors that can interfere with the conversion
Two main forms of vitamin K: K1 (in plants - fermented foods like sauerkraut or natto) and K2 (in animals - fermented dairy (cheese, yogurt), liver, egg yolks, meat, etc.)
Non-fermented animal foods have MK4 that appears to have unique and essential roles in humans
Most people are bad at converting vitamin K to MK4 therefore it’s a good insurance policy to get vitamin K from animal foods
The dropout rate of vegans is very high
Carnivore shares a lot in common with veganism by cutting out a whole group of foods and the risks are the same because you are cutting out certain nutrient profiles
You are vulnerable to getting too much of something on the carnivore diet
Why eating too much protein could be bad
Carnivores are also vulnerable to not getting enough manganese and vitamin C
There’s no longitudinal data on carnivore diets and the life-long effects and there is no human population that traditionally eats a carnivore diets
Weston Price looked for vegans and only found cannibals: https://www.westonaprice.org/weston-price-looked-for-vegans-but-found-only-cannibals/
All traditional diets emphasize animal products for health but they also all eat plants
Even at the extremes of the arctic where plants barely grow, they try very hard to get plants
Theoretically, if you insist on being carnivore then the best way to avoid nutrient deficiencies you would need to eat nose to tail, there are no nutrients you can’t get
What is in an animal’s tissues is a snapshot of what that animal needed in that tissue at the time it died
Eating nose to tail and shellfish (especially mussels for manganese) and eating fish is probably going to prevent you from nutrient deficiencies if carnivore
Risk of not getting enough vitamin C
Solutions to acid-base issues on carnivore
There are no populations that were chronically keto
If you look at the anthropological spread of traditional diets across the globe correlates strongly with latitude, the maximum plant consumption is at the equator and the further you go from the equator the more animal products are consumed
Plant foods availability goes down and down as you move from the equator and Chris believes this is the main thing that has driven more animal foods in the diet
Even when plant foods are maximally abundant, no one has chosen to eat all plants
Calorie availability was probably the driver of food choices
Canadian Natives prevented scurvy by eating the adrenal glands of moose
All cultures were either seeking plant foods or obscure parts of the animal that were more nutrient dense that you could usually get from plants like vitamin C
The default for humans is neither vegan or carnivore
We have protein needs and you can choose carbs and fats in a way that provides micronutrients, fits your lifestyle, and in a way you won’t overeat
The physiological requirements for glucose are only low if you are keto-adapted
Chris does not believe you need less vitamin C if you aren’t eating carbohydrates (i.e. the theory that glucose and vitamin C compete for the same transporter)
Carbs are generally going to improve vitamin C recycling
Plant polyphenols are toxins that we have co-evolved throughout animal evolution and we are adapted to them and learned how to exploit them to increase our defences without allowing them to cause toxicity - it increases our defences enough to make it a net positive
Anything that’s hormetic is only hormetic in the hormetic range and then it’s toxic
People that react to plants and go carnivore probably have genetic problems with their defense mechanisms
For most of us, plants and vegetables are hormetic
We know mechanistically what molecules in plants do and how they benefit us
Chris' site http://chrismasterjohnphd.com

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Part 53 - Dr. Sara Place on The Real Impact of Beef on the Environment

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Hey hey, what’s going on healthy friends? Is everyone eating densely and moving intensely? People have been saying I should make shirts or stickers for that phrase. Anyone want to help design that? I want it to look really cool.

Also for new people, or anyone really, I should quickly spell out what eating densely and moving intensely is. A nutrient dense diet with a full array of bioavailable nutrients and the least processing, sugar, and other antinutrients is what I’ve been exploring for the past 5 years and more intensely for the last 2. I’ve landed on the sapien diet which is really a framework that many good dietary strategies fit into. Go to sapien.org/diet to learn more. Moving instesley just means resistance training and high intensity stuff like sprinting. There’s nothing wrong with long cardio workouts if you enjoy them, I just don’t think they're that efficient timewise or for weight loss. Start back at episode one of this podcast if you haven't caught them all - you’ll be glad you did.

So hard cut transition to today’s episode with Dr. Sara Place. She works in sustainable beef production research at National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. She did her PhD under Dr. Frank Mitloehner at UC Davis who’s awesome and was a guest on a very popular episode a few weeks back. She’ll also be presenting tons of information that goes counter to all the vegan propaganda you hear thrown around in mainstream media or the social media world.

She works daily to improve the environmental impact of raising cattle. Beef producers also want to do this because they care for the environment just as much if not more than a vegan activist. It’s their livelihood. They care for animals, care for the land, and care about being efficient for the future of these as well as actually trying to make a few dollars off this challenging enterprise. Contrary to popular belief the meat industry gets zero subsidies from the government.

Sara was kind enough to spend almost 2 hours answering all my questions, partly to help prepare me for the presentation I'm giving at the big food industry conference in Chicago at the end of September and the friendly debate with the vegan activist lady after. This really helped and I hope it will help you get the other side of these arguments you never get otherwise.

Other updates and thinly veiled promotions include us compiling and editing all our footage for Food Lies. We’re really on a roll here and have some great graphics coming together. You can help fund these on Indiegogo by clicking through http://FoodLies.org

My favorite thing I ate last week was definitely the NoseToTail.org lamb. I slow cooked some overnight with onions, rosemary, and garlic. Also the ground lamb with a bit of greek seasoning is one of the best things ever. Always sad when that runs out. Get a box delivered to you at NoseToTail.org and add on some marrow bones or cod liver - get some extra nutrition in the mix.

Also want to say thank you to Kristi for helping me daily. She also puts together the extended show notes for this podcast for supporters on Patreon at http://Patreon.com/peakhuman Throwing a few bucks a month helps support all this work. I’ll say it again - I really appreciate this community and couldn't do it without you guys! Much love!

Alright so that’s it! Enjoy this episode with Dr. Sara Place and support your local farmers and ranchers!

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SHOW NOTES

Sara Place received her PhD from UC Davis working under Dr. Frank Mitloehner studying animal agriculture
She currently works in sustainable beef production research at National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
This association serves as a contractor to the Beef Checkoff Program which is a program that beef farmers and ranchers fund for research and promotion as it relates to beef in the US and part of that is sustainability which is what she manages
www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/
Her research at UC Davis was measuring methane emission directly from cattle
People think the beef industry is an evil empire, but there are people trying to improve the impact
[5:30] Its harder to find something more important than how are we going to nourish ourselves for the next few decades
[6:30] only around 10% of cattle’s diet is edible to humans
Beef production in the US is based on grazing, forage of whole plants, and most are finished on grain
People assume cows spend their whole life in a feedlot but this is not the case
[8:44] Most of the animals are primarily eating forage, almost all feed resources going into producing beef is mostly forage the stuff humans can’t eat
CO2 out of the air, is transformed through photosynthesis, carbon is captured in plants, and if we ate them we wouldn’t be able to access the energy, but ruminants can and they turn it into food, it’s a symbiotic relationship
Beef production is not inefficient
Feed for beef is not in competition with the human food supply
If we were to compare cattle, to pigs, to chicken, it would look like cows would look like they need a lot more feed resources but if we look at human edible feed inputs, cattle are consuming less than chicken and pigs or at least equivalent
Chickens and pigs are monogastric, they have to eat more energy dense feed and higher quality protein source
Ruminants can consume forage resources and have a symbiotic relationship with the microbes in their gut that ferment the material and convert it into something that the animal can absorb and metabolize
This also plays into the feed efficiency when we look at what are human edible protein inputs going into the system vs outputs, this is where ruminants shine and are much more efficient than pigs or chickens, ruminants are the best from this standpoint
About 10% for US average of grain going to cattle but another 7-8% is from byproduct feed that humans can’t consume
[15:47] Cattles take this waste product and upcycle into something of worth
The plant based vs animal based foods dichotomy is false because it doesn’t take into consideration how agriculture works
Plant and animal agriculture is integrated
Plant-based companies are indirectly supporting animal agriculture
There are farms that integrate animal and plant agriculture together (for example, 1 acre of land producing corn and also supporting cattle for part of the year)
A lot of corn is grown to make ethanol and then cows can eat the byproducts of this
Crops today are far more efficient (higher yield for less space)
38% of all domestic corn use in the US goes towards corn ethanol production for fuel and the same amount goes to all livestock, beef cattle is around 10% of this
Cattle accounts for about 8 million acres of corn, that’s about 2% of US cropland acres
[24:43] We generate more human protein by taking that corn and running it through cattle to generate beef than consuming that corn directly
If we look at the whole US cattle system we generate two times more high quality protein than goes into the cattle themselves
We have to ask the question “What’s the alternative?”
Soy as an alternative protein source wouldn’t produce more protein per acre than cattle
[28:55] These discussions are too far from reality because we have to consider what the actual alternative would be, and where corn is grown, a common alternative would be in fact a corn-soy rotation this is reality we’re not going to start growing quinoa or something similar
If we remove the cattle industry we lose grasslands and these grasslands play a crucial role in the environment and in ecosystems
[31:14] We could have a much smaller land footprint by producing a certain crop but we are degrading the soil over time so it’s not a durable or resilient system, so is that better?
We’ve lost the connection between the reality of the human animal bond and just the fact that human beings are part of the cycle
You can visit beefitswhatsfordinner.com to see 360 degree videos of feedlots
Feedlot operators are proud of what they do, and the perception that its evil crushes them
Feedlot practices are a lot better than what is represented online
There are PhD researchers who formulate the diets of these animals to make it as efficient as possible it’s much more precise than human nutrition
The reality is that the resources in North America are lots of forage as well as all this byproduct from processing grain crops and so feeding it to animals makes sense
The majority of people live in cities and suburban areas so efficient food production is needed to feed everyone
We have gotten more efficient, the number of cattle in a herd today is the same size as it was in 1953 but we produce far more beef and milk with these cattle
It is not perfect but we are doing the best we can
Cattle and livestock are more than just food, they are a source of livelihood for people, they cycle nutrients, they provide all sorts of byproducts, we even use cow material in medicine (heart valve replacements)
The life cycle assessments are calculated inappropriately
[46:45] Eliminating livestock in the US wouldn’t solve anything
We are avoiding micronutrient deficiencies when we eat animal-sourced foods
82% of the cattle’s feed comes from grass and forage, 7% from by products and 11% from grains
The best source is USDA to find out % use for each US commodity
Most of the beef raised in the US are family-run operations, even the feedlots
If you want to consume grass-fed beef that’s awesome, but there isn’t substantial evidence to say that grain-fed isn’t healthy
When animals go to a packing plant, they are screened for antibiotics and hormones so there is no contamination in the human food supply
Dairy is very highly regulated and is tested rigorously for antibiotics
In the US we have a very safe food supply
The FDA came out with a regulatory directive over two years ago that you cannot feed antibiotics to livestock for growth promotion but you can for disease prevention
They give antibiotic doses based on body weight, it is very precise, and they make sure to give a withdrawal period before going for slaughter where for human medicine the doctor will prescribe antibiotics in dosing that is the same for someone that weighs a lot more than you
Fossil fuels are a lot worse than the methane produced from cattle
On the GHG issue, remember that according to the EPA cattle contribute only 2% of GHG emissions most coming from methane
Cattle numbers are stable in the US for the last decade or so but methane is increasing so we can’t point our fingers at cattle
If we put all our hopes to fix climate change by eating our way out of it, unfortunately all our hopes will be lost
If we look at the potential impact of climate change, we do not want to pigeon ourselves into a less diverse agricultural system
The government does not directly subsidize beef production in the US it is 100% funded by the farmers and ranchers
There is a small group of researchers that kind of just cite each other to create consensus but there is a large amount of data showing the benefit of animal based foods, there is no consensus
Beef consumption in the US is going down
All of the food security challenges are happening in developing countries and we should be helping them out to improve
A lot of this privileged conversation is coming from the US and Europe and doesn’t take into consideration the other growing countries
There are so many people depending on animals for livelihood, food, power, etc.
If we want to make a big difference in climate change, changing your diet is not the way to do it
Fake meats and lab-grown meat is not the solution
We already have solar powered plant-based meat, it’s called beef.
Videos of feed lots https://www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/raising-beef/360-videos

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Part 52 - Dr. Zsofia Clemens on How to Cure Almost Any Modern Disease Without Medicine

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Alright, we’re back! We got Dr. Zsofia Clemens from Paleomedicina in Hungary. They’re doing groundbreaking stuff over there curing all types of diseases mainstream medicine believes are incurable. And you know what - they use zero medications. Their whole thing is removing patient’s medications one by one. They’ve published a bunch of studies you can link to from their site.

Dr. Zsofia is a neurobiologist and clinical researcher specialized in nutrition, nutritional therapy and brain research. Previously she’s been affiliated with the National Institute of Clinical Neuroscience, Budapest and the Neurological Department, University of Pécs, Hungary and have been involved in research related to epilepsy and sleep, electroencephalography, vitamin D and brain MRI.

They take a pretty radical approach. It makes sense to me though. If I ever had one of these diseases I’d follow their program as well. Take a listen. Some of it may be a bit controversial. Let me know what you think on the old Instagram machine.

I’ll give a quick nod to the things that make this show possible. First and foremost is http://NoseToTail.org where you can get sustainably raised grass finished beef, buffalo, lamb, and high omega 3 pork, and chicken shipped to your door. This is my company so you’re supporting me by ordering and a Texas ranch. My favorite thing this week is definitely the Omega 3 primal pork breakfast sausage. It’s seasoned so perfectly and you don’t even taste all the great pastured liver, kidney, heart, and spleen mixed in giving it all the great nutrition. I posted a stack of these patties I cooked up with some pastured eggs and cheese online the other day to make people jealous. I’m telling you it was something special. Maybe it’s all in my head. Maybe it’s that I know how nutritious it is as I eat each delicious bite. Who knows.

Last couple things - we have the Food Lies film on Indiegogo with a bunch of perks. We still need to fund all the awesome graphics we have planned for the film. This will be important to get across all the info. It’s a lot, but it’s so important to spread this message in a way people can understand. So much of the world doesn't know about this information. If you’re listening, you probably do know it. But just think how long it took you to figure it all out. I’m here trying to get every single bit possible across in 95 minutes. It’s not easy.

You can preorder the film on Indiegogo or click through from http://FoodLies.org and you can also help the cause by supporting me on Patreon at http://Patreon.com/peakhuman

Kristi has been adding to the extended show notes for supporters there.

And that’s it. Thanks everyone! Really appreciate it. Now let’s hear from Dr. Zsofia Clemens

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SHOW NOTES

Dr. Zsofia Clemens is a neurobiologist, brain researchers, and head of the institute run in Hungary called Paleomedicina also known as ICMNI (International Center for Medical Nutritional Intervention)
Their clinic treats patients with various autoimmune diseases, different cancers, and neurological disorders
They work with the patients and implement their diet which they refer to as the paleolithic ketogenic diet (PKD)
They don’t use any medications in their clinic
The clinic was established in 2011 and they have had amazing success with treating patients
Crohn’s disease cannot be managed by medications, and 100% of their patients are cured by the PKD
The diet was originally developed by Csaba Toth
The PKD is 100% animal based and includes meat, fat, and organs
The ratio of fat to protein is 2:1 (82% fat and 18% protein) which differs largely from most carnivore diets which are much higher in protein and lower in fat
Red meat is very important
In the US and UK the quality of pork is usually very low and not recommended
Intestinal permeability is associated with all autoimmune disease and cancers
The diet works by normalizing the gut permeability
Zsofia doesn’t believe genetics play a significant role in disease and that it is all related to diet
The survival rates with chemotherapy are extremely low and patients lose all quality of life
Their clinic has treated various patients with Glioblastoma (GBM), one of the most aggressive types of cancer, who have become progression free
The standard of care for GBM may go against the effectiveness of the PKD
Patients that adhere to the diet correctly always do well
The classical ketogenic diet (CKD) is not enough in most cases for treating cancer and once they shift to PKD they see results
There are side effects to the CKD: delayed growth in children, respiratory problems, kidney stones, vitamin and mineral deficiencies and pneumonia related deaths
CKD does not normalize intestinal permeability
Problems with dairy include iron deficiency, lactose intolerance, causing leaky gut and inducing intestinal permeability
Milk proteins are associated with diabetes, multiple sclerosis, cancer, and more
Milk only came into the human diet when we started domesticated animals, it is not part of the hunter gatherer diet
The role of the intestinal line and how gut permeability leads to disease
When the gut is permeable, proteins get into circulation and trigger autoimmunity
Milk proteins that get into circulation can attach to pancreatic beta cells and trigger an immune response that destroys these cells and can cause type-1 diabetes
Gluten also triggers autoimmunity but attaches to joints and cartilage
The importance of organ meats to avoid mineral and vitamin deficiencies
The most nutritious organs: liver, heart, brain, kidney
The higher the metabolic rate of the organ, the more vitamin C it will have
They can tell if their patients are eating organ meats or not by their bloodwork
All vitamins and minerals that humans need are found in animal foods
Taking supplements can interfere with the effectiveness of the diet
In the context of the PKD, nutrient requirements are lower because there is less interfering with their absorptions and bioavailability
Adherence is the number one issue with patients
They have documented cases where they have put type-1 diabetes into remission and off insulin with a PKD
Majority of epileptic patients become seizure free
Brain cancer patients also become seizure free
They don’t recommend fasting to avoid nutrient depletion
The protein requirements of PKD are low compared to general protein recommendations because excess protein overloads the systems in the body that have to get rid of it
Too much protein can turn to glucose
Athletes should increase food intake but keep the same ratio of fat to protein
The claims about needing carbohydrates for functioning thyroid are not true
Children do not need carbohydrates during growth, if you feed a child PKD they may not be as tall but this is what their normal height should actually be
Crohn’s, IBS, colitis, and other bowel conditions are what they have the most success with
You can find Zsofia Clemens at:
https://www.paleomedicina.com/en
https://c.nutriintervention.com/order
https://twitter.com/clemenszsofia
https://www.instagram.com/zsofiaclemens/

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Part 51 - Vinnie Tortorich on Fat: a Documentary and Where We Went Wrong in Nutrition & Health

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We got Vinnie Tortorich in the house for some not nutrition talk, his film FAT, my film Food Lies, and the crazy world that is our little health space we occupy.

We actually almost made Food Lies together before we realized it would be better to each make out own film.

Happy listening!

Find Vinnie at http://vinnietortorich.com

And on Twitter at https://twitter.com/VinnieTortorich

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Part 50 - Fredrik the Sami Reindeer Herder Live From the Arctic Circle

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Live, from the arctic circle, please welcome Fredrik Prost. This is such an interesting episode. One day I’m watching epic nature shows from NatGeo about a group of people subsisting in the freezing arctic tundra on nothing but reindeer and fish, the next day I’m talking to one of them.

He originally contacted me to politely correct me on something I mentioned in a post on Instagram that I read in a study about his people. The study claimed that sometimes the reindeer were too lean for them to get enough fat to eat. That’s not the case he said. They boil the heads to get all that good fat from the brain, eat the bone marrow, and even eat the hooves. There’s always enough fat on an animal.

We talked about this and so much more. He told me how his people are being affected by anti-meat activists. He told me about his parents early demise due to (in his mind and mine) the bread and sugar they began eating and going away from their native diet. He told me about their lost traditions and the ones they keep. He told me about the steady decline in lifespan and healthspan that drops markedly over each generation.

This is one of those rare treats where we get a window into another world. I don’t know if any other one of his people have given a podcast interview and he told me he plans to not ever do one again. Please stay tuned for this one to the very end, it’s a good one...

But first, I want to have some real talk about my grass finished meat on http://nosetotail.org

I know it’s a bit more expensive to eat grass finished, really well-raised meat. I’m having trouble affording it myself. I mean, I don’t even eat all my own product. Like I’ve said many times, there’s no money in well-raised meat. There’s just no profit margin. I should be just selling some keto snack bar or supplement and might be able to afford grass finished meat and ultra sustainable wild caught seafood for every single meal.

This is just the price it takes to get animals from calves to slaughter to your door. If you go to costco and see frozen ground beef patties with a label saying grass fed for a couple more dollars than conventional beef, I’d be highly suspect. All cows are grass fed for much of their life so some of these labels can be very deceiving. If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Even when I go to my local farmers market where they drive the meat straight from their farm in a bunch of coolers, it still costs $20/lb at best for a ribeye.

So anyway, support your local farmer. If you don’t know of any or prefer to just click a few buttons online you can support a small Texas ranch and myself by ordering from http://NoseToTail.org

Thanks so much, I really appreciate all the people who have ordered so far. It’s a dream of mine to help supply good meat to people and support American ranchers.

I’ll also thrown in the Food Lies film here, which is still available for preorder on Indiegogo.

You can also support me on Patreon at http://patreon.com/peakhuman

I’ve got some fun news - I’ve been asked to speak at a big food industry conference called Foodscape in Chicago at the end of September. I mention it in this episode. I’m going to do a presentation on why meat is a healthy part of our diet and actually beneficial for the environment. Then a vegan lady will giver her side, then we’ll have a friendly debate with a 3rd person who represents a vegan fake meat company. This is my dream come true! Most of the giant food companies will be there including Impossible Foods. I really hope to reach people in the audience and hopefully even in these big organizations and have them hear the other side. It will be interesting if they accept some of these counterarguments, or it is just about the money.

Well that’s all folks, as the cartoons used to say, here’s Fredrik sharing his words of wisdom from the North.

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SHOW NOTES

Fredrik Prost lives in the Arctic Circle in northern Sweden
Where he lives is very remote, it’s 100 miles to the nearest town
Every summer he herds reindeers
It is a traditional way of living for the Saami to follow the reindeer
That’s all they eat for months at a time
Brian wrote a post about the Saami eating fish for fat because the reindeer was too lean but Fredrik reached out to correct him saying the reindeer are not too lean in fact it’s the fish are very lean
Reindeer in the end of September are very fat
In summer, they go out in the Tundra to follow the herds and mark the calves
One herd can take up to 24 hours and they eat dried meat and traditionally would live in teepees they carry with them
His parents did it traditionally carrying the teepees around with them but now they stay in more of a camp
Herding has changed with modernization and civilization
Environmentalists affected the use, trade, and sell of seal skin
Herding starts around 6pm depending on how many herds there are and how far away they are and can take all night to funnel them into a pen
By around 5-6am they will be calm and grazing on pasture in the large pen all day and they will start again the next day
Fredrik describes how they find and follow the herd
Herding goes on for about a month
When he isn’t herding reindeer, Fredrik makes handicraft (knives, sculptures, cups, etc.)
He always knew health is determined by food and lifestyle even when no one was talking about it
He tries to eat as traditionally as he can
Indigenous groups don’t experience these modern diseases
When indigenous populations start eating a westernized diet that’s when their health fails
His dad died at 96, and just two weeks before he was still able to ski 20km to go see a neighbor
“Live strong and healthy and drop dead”
Saami health is declining with each generation
We are dying now younger and frail and weak vs dying strong at an older age
His parents lost their health when they adopted the dietary recommendations like eating whole grains, no limits on sugar, low saturated fat, etc.
This generation was also the same generation that started losing their teeth
If your teeth are rotting it’s probably a good indication of the wrong diet
Both his parents died at a young age from dementia and heart disease
The older traditional people used to tell them that vegetables were bad and they would make them sick
The Saami traditional diet is 90% meat but in the summer they eat berries and some fermented leaves
The idea of carbohydrates in the summer to fatten up for winter
Learning from bears: bears will eat reindeer calves in the spring and will eat salmon in the summer, in the fall they will eat tons of berries to fatten up for hibernation, this is the same for humans
Saami people and genetics
APOE4 is common among Saami people
Saami people have a certain polymorphism in that helps them digest and take energy more effectively from animal foods (28% of Saami people have this compared to only 2.3 % in Chinese)
The Saami eat nose to tail
The intestines are made into sausages, using the tougher meat on the animal
They eat eggs from a special type of bird that lives in the lakes
They eat a lot of fish and fish roe too
They eat berries in the summer until fall
Traditional story about the Saami people making a deal with the reindeer, promising them a quick and painless death in exchange for their meat and milk
Animals in nature die horrible deaths from other animals
Fredrik is trying to prevent the Saami organizations from partnering with EAT Lancet and promote plant-based diets
Gunhild Stordalen (from EAT Lancet) says she is an environmentalist but Saami are environmentalists by birth
The environment and preserving the land and animals
The “overkill” or “over hunted” hypothesis doesn’t make sense to Fredrik he has even done the calculations to show it is illogical
It’s not worth the time to forage and gather all these low-calorie foods when there are large animals around
A good analogy is if you are going to eat the same amount of meat from birds than you could from one moose the amount of time that goes into getting the birds is enormous, it is so much more effective to go after the moose
There is a problem with the anti-meat activists, people don’t understand how this could affect the Saami people
It’s always the people in the city that are trying to “be better than nature”
It’s the people that are working with nature that should be making these policies
Reindeer and moose turn leaves and pine needles into meat… you can’t grow crops there

Find Frendrik’s amazing knives and other work http://www.fredrikprost.com

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Part 49 - How to Lose Half Your Body Size, Conquer Food Addiction, Fix Your Skin, Gain Libido, and More

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Are you guys ready for this? This episode is 7 months in the making and has a ton of interesting takeaways. We have ex-679 pound Jeff, a fruitarian college wrestler, and a woman who no joke looks like a completely different person.

First, I want to talk about how I make all this content possible - support from people like you. I appreciate it so much and it’s the only way I can do this. I’m living off my savings as I try to make the Food Lies film a reality. In the meantime I’m putting out as much content as I can to get the information out there. I get messages daily from people whose lives are changing through this info, so that’s really keeping me going. You can also support me by going to http://patreon.com/peakhuman and contributing there. Members will get the extended show notes and an invite to the private Slack group.

You can also preorder the film on http://Indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post through http://FoodLies.org - it’s still open and we still need your help.

Lastly, you can check out http://NoseToTail.org where we have grass finished sustainably raised beef, buffalo, pork, lamb, and chicken for sale. We have all kinds of nose to tail products including ground beef with organ meats mixed in - which is so easy and nutrient dense, marrow bones, suet and coarse ground fat, all natural sausages, and all the normal cuts as well. It’s shipped each week to your door in a custom insulated box. Thank so much for ordering! Now more about this episode.

Laura has tried every diet out there and has never found something sustainable. She lost half her body weight and looks great - people think her before and after photos are fake. Her story is inspiring and resonating with people - she went from 100 followers on Instagram when we first talked to just about 10,000 as of today! We recorded the first call in January and the 2nd call 6 months later in July.

I’ll post before and after pictures of each of these guests on social media and on the podcast episode page at Peak-Human.com

Next up is Jeff who lost 365 pounds by finally finding a carnivore diet. He tried every diet under the sun and nothing ever lasted. We had about 5 months in between calls as well.

Last up is Mike who is a division 1 college wrestler in the middle of competing. He was convinced that a fruitarian diet was the way to go based on information he found online about our primate ancestors. Such a different story than I’ve ever heard told. Stick around for this one and hear how he changed his diet and changed his body composition and life.

A quick announcement before we begin. I had some great talks with people at the Meat Up in San Diego, which was so much fun! It was packed and we even had Dr. Gary Fettke and his lovely wife Belinda in from Australia show up. They're the ones that tracked down the history of 7th day adventists and the anti-meat agenda - you can hear it on Peak Human episode 29. We also got some awesome interviews for the Food Lies film down there including the aforementioned Dr. Gary and Belinda, Nina Teicholz, Dr. Bret Scher, and Dr. Hassina Kajee. We’re finally done filming people! The countdown has begun for wrapping this up!

Anyway, I also had some great talks with some developers at the Meat Up about the great need for the sapien technology we’re developing. I realized we need some help. Building tech is slow going and we’d love to build a team of like minded individuals to speed up the process and expand on the platform. Email me at brian@sapien.org if you’re interested in helping.

So let’s get to it. I hope people like this new type of episode to change things up. I thought it was really interesting to hear these people’s stories so hopefully you find value in them as well. Here’s my first call with Laura Spath.

SHOW NOTES

Laura Spath

She started by posting photos of her transformation on instagram which is how I found her
At her highest weight, she weighed 263lbs
She went low-carb/keto but still had cravings for other foods
Then she went carnivore and lost a total of 120lbs
When she was on keto should relied on low-carb sweeteners and packaged foods that never allowed her to get over her cravings
Carnivore was the first time she didn’t want to cheat
She has lost substantial amount of weight before but always ended up gaining back more, but with carnivore she has been consistent
She went vegan for a year, and was having a lot more health problems
She looks very healthy now, it’s helped her acne and body composition
She doesn’t see herself adding plant foods back into her diet because of how good she feels without them
Her husband has lost 110 pounds and reversed his diabetes and high blood pressure

Follow up with Laura

Since they last talked she is the same weight, which is a huge win because she has never found a diet that was sustainable
Maintaining weight loss is a lot harder than losing weight
Her body composition is improving vs losing weight on the scale
She uses short-term goals to stay on track
She fears not being able to moderate herself where a cheat meal turns into a week or month
Staying strict is easier than tempting herself with moderation
She had one cheat day and she gave herself no option but to get back on track and dealt with cravings for the next 2 weeks of mental cravings and stress it wasn’t worth it
Restriction gives her freedom from having to ration
Find Laura http://instagram.com/lauraespath

Jeff

Went from weighing 679lbs to 343lbs
He got to his highest weight over the course of 30 years
He has tried every weight loss strategy and diet, he even has gastric bypass surgery
He has lost weight in the past but would always gain it back
He couldn’t continue to live as a prisoner to his body and knew he had to change
The first big moment when he knew he needed to change was laying face down in the middle of the living room and couldn’t get up
He now goes to the gym regularly
He started on a ketogenic diet and transitioned to a more carnivore diet and now follows a hyper-carnivore diet
He was doing ok with very-low carb/keto but when he started carnivore he dropped another 40-50 pounds in a very short period of time
The carnivore diet and his rapid weight loss triggered the formation of gallstones
The carnivore diet caused him to eat less and it was easy for him to intermittent fast
Fat shaming and loving yourself
No one is happy being fat
Love yourself enough to strive to be healthier
His biggest piece of advice: Do what works for you

Follow up with Jeff

Had a major sugar binge on his birthday and is experiencing a terrible time physically and mentally
Weight now is 314
Scale doesn’t move as much but body composition is improving
Still on a hyper-carnivore diet
Protein is what he prefers eating because it keeps him satiating
If he was eating carbs he would always be looking for what’s next to eat
Lean meat doesn’t satiating, he has realized that he needs fat to keep him full
His advice remains the same, find something that works for you that you can stick to
He has a skin reduction surgery in the future
Find Jeff http://twitter.com/fatboybeastmode

Mike

D1 wrestler at Rutgers University
Always had to go through periods of cutting weight so he was searching for a way to cut weight and still feel good
He started his “health” journey as a raw vegan after gaining a lot of weight after his season
He was following a very high-fruit diet
He wasn’t performing well and has aches and pains
He just started incorporating animal protein back into his diet
He lost muscle on a raw vegan diet
He felt like he always had to be eating on a raw vegan diet and that he was always bloated
Just 2 weeks of adding beef and eggs into his diet he could see more muscle definition
He feels stronger now
Eating big salads ruined his performance because it was just so much food volume wise
As soon as he introduced eggs into his diet he had one of his best practices

Follow up with Mike

He is now on a high meat diet with a little bit of fruit and vegetables
He competed on a high meat diet and placed in the top 12 out of 140 participants
His body composition has changed completely and he is way stronger now
He is deadlifting 420 with a body weight of 165
He’s noticed huge improvements with his skin and doesn’t experience eczema flare ups that he used to on a raw vegan diet
His libido has done a complete 180
The raw vegan community convinces people that their health problems are normal and makes up justifications for them
He has a lot more energy now
He doesn’t have to eat as frequently throughout the day
He likes to know both sides of the argument (vegan and carnivore) but he is much more convinced now that we should be eating meat
Find Mike http://instagram.com/mike_vanbrill

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Part 48 - Dr. Gary Shlifer on The Flawed Medical System, Nutrition Dogma, and Solutions Through Ancestral Principles

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And we’re back from Canada with amazing footage in hand. The film tour was a huge success. I posted a bunch of stuff from Tara’s farm on Instagram that you have to check out I’m @food.lies and she is @slowdownfarmstead. It was the best food I’ve ever had in my life. All the animals and plants were grown from start to finish on her land, killed and butchered by her and her husband Troy, and cooked and prepared from scratch all the way down to the raw butter that was bright yellow and chock full of nutrients. I was full in a way I’ve never felt before. Truly an unbelievable experience.

We also were in Calgary filming at TK Ranch with the awesome Dylan Biggs. He’s doing great things on rocky, thin soil that can’t be used for anything else but cattle - who really are nature’s miracle.

We also had the 2 meat-ups in Toronto - such a good time. So many great people came out and the talks were inspiring.

Then there was the fat-adapted Pentathlon where I did the 5 events back to back on the track for the North, Central American and Caribbean World Masters Athletics Championship and took 2nd in my age group. I didn’t eat all day and then during the event I had a little raw liver and 2 thin slices of salami and cheese to get a little something in my stomach just in case.

The last event was the 1500 and everyone was dying after a long, hot day. I had full energy still and came in 2nd overall. Maybe I would have done better if I was training instead of traveling around stuffing my face at all these events and farms.

Now onto this episode which is with a great board certified internal medicine specialist and functional/root cause medicine practitioner Dr. Gary Shlifer. He’s a founding member of Sapien.org and I talked to him live from his clinic that I also work out of in Woodland Hills, California.

He’s part of a new wave of doctors that see through the outdated textbooks and teachings and aren’t going to continue that standard “sick care” medical practice that doles out pills and meds and never treats underlying disease. He’s got a lot of passion and been on some big podcasts and youtube videos lately and is doing great things! We’re following in the footsteps of Virta Health and reversing tyor 2 diabetes and obesity with diet, lifestyle, and a collaborative model using technology and health coaches. You can find out more at http://Sapien.org/sapienhealth

A few more things before we begin:

The Meat-Up in San Diego is growing by the minute. We have special guests Dr. Paul Saladino, Alyse Parker from a couple episodes ago, William Shewfelt, Dave Feldman just freed up and is going to make it, Logan Sneed AKA Logan FusionLean, and now the great Dr. Ken Berry. We’ll all be at Queenstown Public House wednesday night July 24th. RSVP at NoseToTail.org/event It’s going to be awesome!

It’s the night before the Low Carb USA conference starts. If anyone wants last minute tickets message me on social media and I’ll give you a coupon code for 20% off.

You can also find the nose to tail meats on that site NoseToTail.org where we have grass finished ground beef with grass finished organ meats mixed in. One which has about 30% liver, heart, kidney, and spleen, and one with about 5% of those organs. There’s so many other delicious and nutritious things there like bone marrow bones, bone broth, beef and buffalo bacon, high omega 3 pork and chicken, omega 3 ground pork with organ meats mixed in, lamb, and buffalo. Just check it out. It’s all delivered to you each week as long as you’re in the contiguous 48 US states.

We still have the Eat Meat shirts and other perks if you preorder the film on Indiegogo - click through FoodLies.org We are trying to scrape the last money together for all these awesome graphics we’re creating to really make this film shine and get the info across. It’s not cheap, even though we’re calling in some favors.

Lastly, please support this podcast on Patreon.com/peakhuman and get the extended show notes and my sincere gratitude. It’s not possible without the community. Thanks so much for supporting all my efforts! Now here’s Dr. Gary Shlifer!

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SHOW NOTES

We are live in person with Dr. Gary in his clinic in Woodland Hills in Los Angeles
He’s my business partner at http://Sapien.org and has had his own private practice for 3 years now while also working in hospitals around LA
He practices root cause medicine, functional medicine, or whatever you want to call the better way of doing things instead of just slinging medications and treating symptoms like many mainstream doctors
You invest a lot of time and money into medical school, it makes it hard to accept that there are things you learn about medicine health care should be questioned
It’s scary for doctors to go against big organizations like the American Diabetes Association
My content challenged the foundational knowledge of what Gary was taught in medical school and what triggered him to question what he had learned
There is more and more anecdotal “science” surfacing that allows us to question what nutritional science tells us, for example the carnivore diet
[15:12] In order to prove to a modern day American that we shouldn’t be eating processed foods we need a randomized placebo control study, you should just need common sense
Everyone who has stuck to our SAPIEN diet has found that the overall benefits extend so much further than weight loss
In just 50-60 years of misinformation people are disconnected from what food should really look like
Gary grew up eating foods like pate, caviar, and liver and onions and when he moved to America, he was almost convinced that he shouldn’t be eating these foods but now he is grateful that his upbringing allowed him to have an open mind
When we go against human nature, eating fake foods and avoiding the sun, we get these illnesses
Animal foods are the heart of our nutrition [19:57] and plants are no longer fallback foods, we don’t need fallback foods, we can’t pretend that a cucumber or bell pepper is healthier than a steak
If an alien looked down on human’s they would think we are nuts for going from eating nutrient dense animal foods to a plant-based diet
[27:43] In medical school, there is a huge focus on basic science, disease management, you don’t learn a lot of practical information or how to actually help people and you do not learn nutrition
[28:01] He learned all the science behind metabolism and macronutrients, but they never connected that to food
Doctors don’t deal with nutrition, you just refer to the dietician or nutritionist
In the 4 years of medical school, you don’t learn anything about food and nutrition
All of the medical dietary recommendations are anchored in very little research that doctors get attached to
Gary’s passion for end of life care
[34:31] The doctors have to listen to the hospital administrators and if you fight back, you are at risk of losing your job, license, being sued, etc.
Story of Gary prescribing a low-carb diet in a hospital to a diabetic patient and the hospital giving him the “low-carb” option which was a cheese burger with a bun and baked potato with all the fixings, given to the patient by the hospital’s nutritionist
Gary was given the tools to keep sick people alive but not take care of the general population
Gary has seen doctors held to the fear of legal retribution and not do the best thing for the patient because of this
Gary became very vocal about whole-foods, low-carb diets in his practice and he also had his own transformation too and people were interested in what he was doing
He knew he had an uphill battle when his highly educated peers didn’t understand that carbohydrates and sugars were contributing to poor health outcomes
Gary cleans up other doctor’s mess, who are on countless drugs and have been given no meaningful dietary recommendations, and many are put on a plant-based diet
The archaic ideas around saturated fat and cholesterol and plant-based diets
[55:11] He has had his patients reverse his diabetes and other doctors tell them that they need a new doctor because he is recommending a SAPIEN diet which is high in animal fats despite them getting healthier
[56:54] Patients are very confused about what to eat, and people are basically eating dessert for breakfast
The SAPIEN diet is what humans should eat in the context of modern day America from an ancestral point of view with the addition of modern science
The three pillars of the SAPIEN diet
Pillar one: focus on protein, embrace fat, and minimize carbs
Pillar two: nutrient dense whole foods
Pillar three: condensed eating window
We are building technology to help patients adhere to these diet and lifestyle changes and connect patients to doctors and health coaches
Packaged foods have destroyed any innate food culture of our ancestors
We can’t accept that these fake foods are not part of a healthy diet, they are treats

Where to find Dr. Gary Shlifer:

Instagram: @drgaryevolve

Gary’s Clinic: @evolvehealthcare & www.evolvehealthcare.com

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Part 47 - The Great Meat Debate w/ Mark Sisson, Dr. Paul Saladino, & Dr. Shawn Baker

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Ohhh man we have a special one today, everyone. I didn’t want to release this as a podcast but hey, why not? I had some of the superheroes of meat eating in one film studio, so I had to take advantage of this opportunity to let everyone hear the audio version.

You’ll see this on the big screen - in Food Lies and maybe even other places someday. We shot it in our production studio which belongs to my Sapien.org business partner who is producing Food Lies with me. To set the scene a bit, it’s a large warehouse and we were sitting in the middle on director chairs with 3 cameras filming.

We hit 7 main topics based around meat. We started off high level for a general audience to ease in - why should meat be included as a part of a healthy diet? We went all the way into details of a carnivore diet and should it be nose to tail or just steak and eggs? We also talked about how much plant food we should include in our diet. I always include some - and Mark Sisson used to recommend including a lot - seems like things are changing though...

So I definitely agree with the nose to tail meat-eating approach - so much so that I named my grass finished meat company after it. We have grass finished beef, buffalo, and lamb, as well as pasture raised pork and chicken. Our pork and chicken has been tested in an independent lab and has one of the best omega 6 to omega 3 ratios around. It’s around 1.5 to 1 which is amazing! Most conventionally raised pork is 20:1 and conventionally raised chicken about 24:1. You can see the results on NoseToTail.org and also place an order. It’s shipped out to all 48 contiguous US states each week on Monday and Tuesday. We also have ground beef, buffalo, and pork with organ meats mixed in. You get liver, heart, kidney, and spleen all grass finished and all mixed in so you barely taste it.

If you can’t support me in this way, you can join the Patreon and get the extended show notes for the podcast each week at http://Pateron.com/peakhuman and get invited to the private slack group while also keeping the show ad-free.

We’re in the final days of filming for Food Lies. People keep asking me when it will be released and unfortunately I don’t know. We’ve been editing it for months and keep finding great new experts and stories to add. The world is changing by the day as well and it’s hard to find a cutoff for what content to include in the film. Do we include the news that there’s glyphosate in the Beyond Meat burgers? What about Miki Ben-Dor’s latest study on human evolution and meat eating? Anyway, it’s close to being finished but we still need to do a ton of graphics to illustrate all of these points and make these big concepts easier to understand - so it will take some time.

We just got back from an incredible film tour in Calgary, Toronto, and Ottawa. Some awesome farmers and ranchers doing some great things for the land, the animals, and dispelling vegan propaganda. So much of the land on earth just isn't suitable for crops, yet works perfectly for cattle and other ruminant animals. Anti-meat activists are so clueless when it comes to this, it’s a real shame.

We’re about to head out for the very last shoots in San Diego July 24th-27th based around the Low Carb USA conference. Some great doctors will be in town that we’ll be getting in the film. Come say hi - I’ll be at the conference a bit.

We’ll also have our Meat-Up there on Wednesday July 24th in downtown san diego with Dr. Paul Saladino and ex-vegan turned carnivore Alyse Parker from the last episode. RSVP at http://NoseToTail.org/event

Can’t wait to see everyone there! Now here’s the mighty meaty men themselves - Mark Sisson, Dr. Paul Saladino, and Dr. Shawn Baker.

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SHOW NOTES

Why should meat be included in a healthy diet?
Human evolution and brain development relating to meat eating
Bioavailable nutrients
Where did we go wrong if we’ve been eating meat for all of history?
Agriculture “was the worst mistake in human history”
Our brain sizes have shrunk since agriculture
We can survive on grains, but can we thrive?
Fallback foods
Are we eating the same meat as we did in the past?
What about fruits and vegetables in the past?
We’ve been eating meat in the same basic form for 2 million years yet plants are very new
Only consistent food we’ve had for history has been animals
Mark has always said “make half your plate plants” does he still believe this?
You don’t need the amount of calories you may think to still thrive and not be hungry
Are the RDAs relevant to those who don’t eat a bunch of carbs, sugar, and processed foods?
Our nutrition guidelines are based on a bad diet
Diet is turning into religion
Much of our nutrition info is based on poorly conducted observational studies
There is no nuance in nutrition reporting
People eating the most meat in Asia have the longest life
Replacing animal products always equates to processed versions that make food companies a lot of money
What should the ratio of plant to animal foods be?
What is the definition of an ideal diet?
We need all the vitamins and minerals in the most bioavailable form with the least amount of toxins
America eats 70% plant foods in our diet
Peoples health improve as they eat more animals foods in many cases
Do people really need a whole bunch of bulky fiberous plants?
No benefit of fiber - where did this myth come from?
Healthy user bias
Vegetarian benefits go away when you control for people who also have healthy behaviors
Meat is a status symbol in Asia
Should we be eating Nose to Tail, or is it ok to just eat steak and burger patties?
Organ meats provide all the necessary vitamins and minerals
Our ancestors ate Nose to Tail and even did this as little as 100 years ago, but we find it weird today
Animals eat the organs and fat and many times leave the muscle meat
Shawn Baker does not believe the organ meats are necessary but agrees they are nutrient dense and are great
Mark Sisson wants to live an awesome life and enjoy every bite of food
Solve for the highest quality of life at all times
People maybe shouldn’t focus on tiny things that make maybe 1% difference
We shouldn’t have to use trackers to figure out how to eat and sleep
Eating a species appropriate diet should be intuitive
I think Nose to Tail eating was natural and intuitive
Tastes are cultural
What about meat eating and longevity?
mTor and igf-1
Muscle mass and long life
Carbs signal insulin more than animal protein
Healthy diets are more about what you don’t eat
Closing statements

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Part 46 - Alyse Parker (RawAlignment) on Going From Vegan Celebrity to an Animal Based Diet

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Hey Hey welcome back. Thanks for listening and thanks for all the kind words about this podcast. I get tons of messages and emails weekly and the stories of change are inspiring. It helps to keep me going and put in the work to find amazing experts and put out a good show.

Today we have Alyse Parker who used to go by Raw Alignment. She had a huge vegan following of over 750,000 subscribers on youtube and hundreds of thousands on Instagram. She did different plant based diets over the course of about 4 years including raw vegan and ended up with some terrible health conditions. I won’t give up too much, but she’s now eating almost completely animal foods. It’s an interesting story and I hope you enjoy it! SHe’s a great person and I’m looking forward to a meat up we’ll be having in San Diego on July 24th with her and Paul Saladino. I’ll announce that soon so people can RSVP.

We have 2 Meat-Ups in Toronto coming up. One this Saturday at the world famous Speducci Mercatto with North America’s only meat sommelier. Mikhaila Peterson, Tara Couture (who’s @slowdownfarmstead on Instagram - my favorite account ever), and Bryan Gilvesy a sustainable farmer and speaker will be there as our guests of honor. They’ll all be saying a few words and hanging out and eating the all you can eat delicious meat and some wine. We’ll have the Food Lies team there as well so grab a ticket on http://NoseToTail.org/event

We also have a free Meat-Up at The Simple Kitchen Friday JUly 19th. We’ll have grass fed burgers and other paleo/keto/sapien options there for purchase as well as wine and beer. RSVP at the same place http://NoseToTail.org/event

Comment or message me on social media if you’d like to have a Meat-Up in your city. A few other quick things. Please support this show on Patreon at Pateron.com/PeakHuman. I really need your support to keep this podcast ad-free. You’ll get the extended show notes which are super information-packed and an invite to the private Slack group.

You can still pre-order the film and get the Eat Meat shirts and the other great perks on Indiegogo. You can link there from http://FoodLies.org

And last, but not least we have my grass finished meat company Nose To Tail. Don’t need to talk about this because Alyse made her own advertisement at the end. We never talked about this beforehand, I promise. So here it is, the wonderful reformed vegan celebrity, Alyse Parker.

SHOW NOTES

Alyse is a YouTuber who created a following living a vegan lifestyle
She lived on a fruit farm in Hawaii where she started a raw vegan diet
After 4 years on a vegan diet she realized her health was declining
Her experience hiking the Appalachian trail
She moved back to Hawaii and started experiencing loss of appetite, sinus congestion, brain fog, fatigue, and loss of memory and found out she had mold toxicity
Out of desperation she tried a carnivore diet and felt immediately better
She now realizes everything she was missing from a vegan diet
She believes there is a trend with vegans who notice at year 4-5 their health begins to decline
There is no open dialog around the negative side effects of veganism
If you are vegan you believe you are eating the ideal diet
There is a trend with vegans developing sensitivities to foods
Her experience with such a big following when her identity was centred on veganism
The reactions of her followers transitioning away from veganism
Why is there a stigma around red meat for women?
How she felt after adding animal products back into her diet
She wants to continue sharing her journey online to inspire people to make any changes they need to make and for them to know it’s ok not to have your health figured out
Hearing other people’s stories gives you permission to question things and see it helping someone else helps you make rational decisions
Alyse’s main messages online are not revolved around food, her message is about tuning into yourself and building confidence
http://instagram.com/alyseparkerr

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Part 45 - Miki Ben-Dor, PhD on The Humans Eating Fatty Meat For All of History

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Alright we have a special episode today. We’re lucky to hear all about Miki’s new paper looking at the complete story of our dietary past and humans being high-trophic level carnivores. He gave me a sneak peak at this awesome 40 page paper he’s submitting for review.

Miki Ben-Dor got an undergraduate and masters degree in economics and then went back to school later in life to study paleoanthropology. He’s now Post doctoral fellow at the department of archeology of Tel Aviv University.

You can find some great presentations on youtube and his paper “Man the Fat Hunter” published in 2011.

Love the work he’s done - he’s hit it from all angles and it all lines up. We ate meat for all of human history. Ok here’s a bit of business to take care of - Let’s see how concise we can make this. Get your own grass finished meat at Nose to tail.org. Support the show on Patreon at patreon.com / peak human. Preorder the film at FoodLies.org. Watch highlights from the film on the Food Lies youtube. Get daily content on the Food Lies instagram, twitter, and facebook. SIgn up for the newsletter on Sapien.org. Get on the waiting list if your a health coach, doctor, or other healthcare practitioner at sapien.org. I think there’s too many things at this point. Maybe just pick 1 of these and go for it.

I really appreciate it. At this point we’re a community powered company. We’re scrambling around here at SAPIEN trying to make this all happen without outside money or influence. Really love this tribe. We can’t go back to the glory days thrusting spears at wooly mammoth and gorging on fatty meat, but we can still try to bring the community together and spread the word and focus on our own health and people around us. Now let’s hear from Miki Ben-Dor

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SHOW NOTES

Miki completed his undergrad and masters in economics and switched later in life into paleo anthropology
His research is largely focused on the reconstruction of the human diet and the relationship between plant vs animal foods and the proportion of each as far back as 2 million years ago
If we want to understand human evolution we have to go much further back than just modern hunter gatherers
Gut morphology similar to carnivores
When we compare humans to chimpanzees, Miki has calculated that to be 77% smaller colon and about 60% longer small intestine which is exactly the direction of carnivores
The size of our stomachs is another cue
Gut pH is very convincing too since herbivores have a more basic stomach pH whereas omnivores have more acidic and carnivores have very acidic stomachs and scavengers have the most acidic, humans are most similar to scavengers
The size and number of human adipocytes is closely related to carnivores vs herbivores
One of the main differences between their diets and today’s diets is bone marrow, Miki believes our ancestors ate a lot of bone marrow and had the ability to break bones which appeared broken to get the marrow
Liver is also the first thing that humans would go for when they killed their prey
The evolution of the Savannah vs forest and how this changed the diet
It’s easier to hunt larger animals than smaller animals
Humans ate plants for all of history, there is no question that we ate them, the only question is how much
Hypercarnivore is defined as a carnivore that eats 70-80% of energy from animals and the rest from plants
If you want to be safe, eat 80% from fat and meat
Using the Hadza to reconstruct the human diet is completely inaccurate
You also can’t use modern hunter gatherers to see what our ancestors ate
Everytime we find plant matter in human remains, everyone celebrates but it doesn’t tell us anything about how much they ate
Isotopic discoveries are more reliable than archeology and definitely shows that we are mostly carnivorous
Humans do not want to spend energy gathering plants when they can spend that energy hunting animals
Humans have higher fat reserves than other animals which allowed us to get through periods of starvation and we can afford to because we don’t chase or escape we don’t need to be fast
All large carnivores eat large animals and are hypercarnivores
Miki thinks we spread across the globe because we can hunt animals of any size, with plants you have to use trial and error and adjust to them
Wherever humans went, these large animals decreased and that humans could have been the reason for the decrease in megafauna
Domesticating plant foods and animals was about 10,000 years ago
As we approach agriculture revolution we started eating more plant foods but our stature also decreased and our brain size decreased
Fat was prized for all of history and plants are fallback foods
He tried to find evidence for plants in the human diet and couldn’t, all his evidence showed was that humans were carnivores
Papers showing mixed diets are misleading and these scientists are not reporting proper evidence
http://paleostyle.com
http://twitter.com/bendormiki

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Part 44 - Keith Baar, PhD on How to Live Long & Live Strong

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Aaand we’re back! Season 4 is coming in hot with some great guests and some more interesting formats. I have some special episodes coming up like the meat-eating heroes panel that we filmed for Food Lies with Mark Sisson, Dr. Shawn Baker, and Dr. Paul Saladino. I also put together a compilation episode that is 6 months in the making with amazing stories from people around America using nutrient dense diets to change their life.

What is a nutrient dense diet you may be asking and who am I? The podcast is growing by the day and I want to give new listeners a quick overview. If you’re not new, be sure to stick around there’s a special event announcement at the end.

I’m Brian Sanders and I’m creating the feature-length documentary Food Lies which covers the entire story on what humans should be eating including an evolutionary history, where we wrong in the last 60 years, and how we can do this sustainably. We’re in the process of editing now and are shooting some of the last segments in Canada in July. We don’t have a release date yet unfortunately.

After years of studying different diets and eating strategies, I’ve landed on what we’re calling the Sapien diet or way of eating or lifestyle. Because it's not a diet - it’s a nutrient dense way to eat for life. I believe you can even dip into non-ideal foods on the weekends or at a special event once you hit your goal weight and if it doesn’t interfere with food intolerances or restrictions. The Sapien diet is based on 3 simple pillars.

1) Nutrient dense whole foods. THis means mostly animal foods which are the most nutrient dense and have the most bioavailable nutrients. This means eating nose to tail and including foods like liver, bone marrow or broth, grass fed butter or tallow, eggs, cold water fish like salmon and sardines, oysters and other mollusks, fermented vegetables, and low sugar fruits like avocados and olives.

2) is for each meal focus on protein, embrace fat, and minimize carbs. The animal protein should be the base of each meal but make sure it comes with enough fat and don’t be scared of it. Most carbs are nutrient poor and really don't provide much to you other than getting in the way of your body burning the fat from your meal or better yet, from your body. And the last pillar is

3) don’t eat all the time. You could call this a condensed eating window or intermittent fasting. Try to eat within an 8-10 hour window each day and let your body rest from constantly having to digest food. There’s a lot more to this so please listen back from episode 1, check out http://sapien.org/diet that’s sapien.org/diet, and we’ll continue to put out more details on the Sapien framework in the future.

Ok so onto this episode - I’m starting off the new season with a bang. Maybe you haven't heard of Keith Baar? You should have. I hope to get some of these researchers doing groundbreaking and valuable work into the spotlight

Keith is a brilliant researcher who has done great work in his career and published a ton of papers. Much of this work around mTor, muscle protein synthesis (AKA building muscle), collagen synthesis (AKA building all the other tissues that are so important in your body), and so much more.

He’s a professor of Molecular Exercise Physiology at UC Davis and works in the

Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences and the

Department of Physiology and Membrane Biology, School of Medicine. He has a bachelors degree in Kinesiology from the University of Michigan, a masters in Human Biodynamics from UC Berkeley, and a PhD in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Illinois.

You’ll learn a ton about how to live long and live strong. He only goes to the gym for 10-12 minutes two times per week yet is still getting stronger each year. We talk about how to live a long healthy life and if eating too much meat is going to help or hurt that.

I love talking about the benefits of eating meat so much that I started a grass fed meat company called Nose to Tail which can be found at http://NoseToTail.org We ship nutrient dense boxes of meat to all 48 contiguous US states. We have ground beef with liver, kidney, heart, and spleen mixed in so you get all the nutrients and none of the hassle and barely any of the livery taste. We have so many other things like bone broth, marrow bones, tallow, suet, and all the normal cuts as well.

You can also support my work at http://Patreon.com/peakhuman This is where we keep the podcast ad-free so I don’t have to take anyone else’s money to talk about (or be influenced by) their products. This is also where you get the amazing extended show notes put together by Kristi with all the studies and further details included. This is valuable stuff. I’d say better than most nutrition colleges. Definitely better than most nutrition programs teaching all this whole grain nonsense actually.

And of course the Food Lies film is still on Indiegogo and needs support. We’re desperately trying to finish it. Check out the “EAT MEAT” shirts there - they are a great way to let people know they can’t blame the steak for what the fries did.

One more big thing! We’re having some incredible events in Toronto on Saturday, July 13th and Friday July 19th. We’ll be having a Food Lies special supporters luncheon at North America’s only meat sommelier’s restaurant Speducci. That’s right - he’s a meat sommelier. They will be serving all you can eat platters of their famous cured meats, Speducci meat kabobs, as well as lamb chops, cheeses, and wine. This is going to be a tremendous event with special guests of honor Mikhaila Peterson (peak human episode 18), Tara Couture from SlowDownFarmstead on Instagram (peak human episode 26), and sustainable farmer and speaker Bryan Gilvesy, who will each say a few words I’ll be there with some of the Food Lies and Sapien team as well.

Would love to see all you beautiful people in Toronto! Get your tickets on http://NoseToTail.org/event

We’ll have another casual one of these in San Diego on July 25th and comment on this podcast post on Instagram if you would like to have an event in your city. Thanks everyone, here’s Keith Baar, PhD.

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SHOW NOTES

Keith got into research because he wanted to know how muscles get bigger and stronger at a molecular level
His PhD looked at which genes are turned on in response to resistance training
Why different athletes respond differently to identical training protocols
Responders vs non-responders (for muscle growth)
Why lifting to failure is the best way to increase muscle mass
If you want a strong muscle you just need to lift heavy
If you want a bigger muscle you just need to lift to failure
Research in people getting same muscle growth lifting 90% of their max for less reps vs lifting 30% of max for more reps and how this could be important to protect against injury
One set to failure is just as good as multiple sets
Using isolated exercises in combination with compound exercises
Keith’s workout routine
Lifting every day, whole-body workouts, and “bro-splits”
Leucine rich protein and foods leucine is found in
Leucine in plants is not as bioavailable
Muscle strength is correlated with longevity
There are physical, sociological, and metabolic components to why entering old age with muscle mass and strength is associated with living longer
The role of mTOR in muscle building and cell growth
The difference between using rapamycin and diet to reduce mTOR activity
Why it’s important to cycle in and out of mTOR activation once we have reached mature development
Calorie restriction and longevity
Research Keith was involved in showing the ketogenic diet extended lifespan in mice to the same extent of rapamycin without inhibiting mTOR globally in the body
Three ways to activate mTOR and the overlap between resistance training and insulin/IGF-1 pathway
We need mTOR to for the immune system, learning and memory, building muscle. and many more important processes in the body
Why you don’t need carbohydrates and a spike in insulin to gain muscle
Why we need more protein as we age
Functional proteins (i.e. bioavailable protein sources)
Collagen supplements and what collagen’s role is in the body
You need vitamin C in order to synthesize collagen
Why fat-adapted athletes may not be able to sprint as well but can outperform in endurance events
How fat-adaptation shuts down the ability to properly use glucose for fuel
Dystrophin and its importance in maintaining muscle mass as we age
Study using natural chocolate (rich is epicatechins) to increase dystrophin and muscle function in elderly
Where you can find Dr. Keith Baar:
Twitter: @musclescience
Learn more about his research here: http://fmblab.com/

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Part 43 - Dr. Dale Bredesen and the End of Alzheimer’s, How YOU Can Prevent it, and Hope for All Degenerative Diseases

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This is an interview I’ve been looking forward to for years. Dr. Dale Bredesen is shaking up the medical world by showing that Alzheimer’s actually can be prevented, treated, and sometimes even reversed. This is really important to me because my mom is the final stages of Alzherimer’s and I, of course, am doing everything I can to prevent myself from falling to the same fate.

I believe the Sapien way of eating and lifestyle is doing just that - setting me up for my best chances at my longest healthspan. You can learn more about this at http://sapien.org/diet

Dr. Bredesen and I agree on all the core principles. He really is describing a Sapien diet with his protocol. We’re only at odds with the ratio of plant foods to animal foods.

As I’ve posted today on social media, I think people are actually more on the side of animal foods than they think. In the context of a whole foods, low carb diet without refined grains, sugar or vegetable oil, more often than not people are getting the majority of their calories from animal foods without necessarily realizing it. Only people eating Standard American Diets or Mediterranean Diets and the like are getting most of their calories from plant foods from all the empty calories coming from grains and other carbohydrates.

Many health figures in this space say things like “a plant heavy diet” or “fill half your plate up with greens” and people take this as being akin to a vegetarian diet. As I showed in my post, a daily intake where about 70% of the plates are filled with plants are actually 92% animal foods by calories.

I actually eat this way a lot. This is carnivore adjacent and is part of the Sapien Framework. You’re still getting a ton of flavor, variety, and nutrients from plants (even though they’re not as bioavailable), but you're really getting 90% of your calories from animal foods. So make your own decision on the ratio of plant to animal foods, but from what I’ve found, higher animal foods is more species appropriate for homo sapiens, and is actually what most people avoiding empty calorie, nutrient poor foods are already doing.

As always, I didn’t want to press him on this. I don’t invite people on my podcast to tell them I don’t agree with their opinions. I’d love for this to be debated with a moderator at some point, but as long as it’s a 1 on 1 Peak Human podcast I’m letting the guest speak their minds.

Here’s a bit of Dr. Bredesen’s extensive resume. He received his undergraduate degree from Caltech and his medical degree from Duke. He served as Resident and Chief Resident in Neurology at UCSF, he was the Director of the Easton Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research, he’s a Professor in the Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology at UCLA School of Medicine, and the Founder of the Buck Institute for Research on Aging.

The Bredesen Laboratory studies basic mechanisms underlying the neurodegenerative process, and the translation of this knowledge into effective therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions, leading to the publication of over 220 research papers. He and his group developed a new approach to the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, and this approach led to the discovery of subtypes of the disease, followed by the first description of reversal of symptoms in patients with MCI and Alzheimer’s disease, with the ReCODE protocol, published in 2014, 2016, and 2018. His book, The End of Alzheimer’s, is a New York Times Bestseller and has been translated into 29 languages.

I’ll largely skip the plugs for today. Everyone listening knows about the Food Lies film on Indiegogo, the Patreon at http://patreon.com/peakhuman and my new grass fed meat company http://NoseToTail.org If you find any value in this podcast or my other content on YouTube or social media channels, please consider supporting me and my projects there. I wish I could really get across how much it means to me. It’s honestly the only way any of this is possible. Thanks so much, and I’ll most likely end season 3 with this episode and come back in a couple weeks with an amazing season 4. Here’s the future legend, Dr. Dale Bredesen.

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SHOW NOTES

Dr. Bredesen has been studying the phenomenon of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) for 3 decades and have published over 200 papers on his research
Understanding the fundamental nature of the disease is how we can design an effective treatment
His protocol is different because it targets the root cause, not the symptoms like most AD drugs do
Humans are extremely complicated and there is no one single therapy that will treat the complexity of AD
AD is the result of the brain protecting itself from different insults
The protective response in the brain causes the brain to shrink and “retreat” so that there is less for foreign substances (insults) to target
Amyloids are antimicrobial, bind to toxins, and change the brain’s response to glucose but when they are overproduced and build up that’s when problems occur
Some of the contributors to AD are: chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, glycation damage, toxin exposure, decrease in nutrients, hormones, trophic factors, poor vascular support
He has identified and categorized 6 different types of AD: inflammatory, atrophic, glycotoxic, toxic, vascular, and traumatic
Paraffin candles produce toxins that damage the brain
Most damaging mycotoxins (produced from mold) are the ones you breathe - test your home for molds
Go to www.survivingmold.com to learn how to test your home for mold and if you are concerned about mold exposure to learn about what to personally get tested
For overall markers you should get tested, you can order tests directly from Dr. Bredesen’s site www.drbredesen.com or go to your doctor and test markers
Markers for glycotoxicity: fasted insulin, HbA1c, and fasted glucose
Markers for nutrients, hormones, and trophic factors: o Vit. D, pragnenolone, progesterone, estradiol, testosterone, free T3 and free T4 (for thyroid), TSH (thyroid stimulating hormone), and reverse T3 (which is an inhibitor of the effect of your active thyroid hormone)
Inflammation markers: HS-CRP, TNF-a, IL6, IL8, IL1-b
Don’t wait until it’s too late to check for these things, because AD is preventable
Glycotoxicity and how sugar is toxic
Humans are not designed to eat sugar
Overconsumption of sugar is linked to hypertension, CVD, diabetes, dementia, arthritic, leaky gut, and more
Sugar is this generation’s smoking, we will get to a day when we think back to how crazy it was that we were eating this stuff
We have biomarkers that will tell you whether AD is creeping up on you, so check early in life because you might not feel sick now, but that doesn’t mean it’s not on its way
All these lifestyle and diet changes that you make to prevent AD, apply to so many other modern illnesses
If AD runs in your family, you should be interested in prevention
AD should be a rare disease
APOE4 is the most common genetic risk factor
If you have a single copy of APOE4 the risk is ~30%
If you have a double copy of APOE4 the risk becomes greater than 50%
For people with APOE4, find out early and get on prevention, and you will have a low chance of getting the disease
21st century medicine is about root cause and prevention
There is no mono-therapy for AD
Look out for symptoms of early cognitive decline like the lack of ability to learn new things, losing organizational skills, not being able to do simple calculations, not being able to find the right word, getting lost in familiar places
Don’t shake these off as “senior moments”
Basic things everyone can do: optimize insulin sensitivity, follow a low-carb, moderate protein, high (good) fat diet, exercise, get enough sleep, reduce stressors in your life, detox, avoid or fix any gut issues, go into periods of ketosis
His diet plan is called “KetoFlex 12/3”
“Keto” for going into periods of ketosis
“Flex” because it is flexitarian, if you want to be a vegetarian or eat meat you can do either
“12” because he wants people fasting for at least 12 hours between dinner and the next day’s first meal
“3” because he wants people to finish eating at least 3 hours before they go to sleep
The Big Four to avoid: grains, simple carbs, dairy, and lectins
He has had amazing success with his patients and has been publishing results since 2014
He has never had someone at risk come in for prevention and develop even mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
People who come in with subjected cognitive impairment (SCI) see improvement
People who come in with MCI the majority improve
People with full-blown AD, some people improve and some people don’t
He has had people score zero on cognitive tests that have improved
The most important point of all of this is that if you get put on a drug for AD you might get a little bump but you fall back to declining again, his approach targets what is actually causing the decline, the people who get better sustain their improvement
Complexity gap between the complexity of the problem (human illness) and the data sets that traditional medical doctors are using to treat them (aka we can’t expect a simple mono-therapy to treat a complex condition)
Dr. Bredesen’s daughter is a brain health coach and you can find her at www.siabrainhealth.com
His protocol includes sauna for riding the body of toxins
We are swimming in an Alzheimer’s soup with the amount of toxins we are exposed to in our modern world
Get rid of toxins by sweating (sauna and exercise), high fiber diet, optimizing glutathione levels, filtered water, urination, each one of these gets rid of different things
If you have leaky gut, fix that
The importance of sleep
Current research on macular degeneration
His new book coming out “The First Survivors of Alzheimer’s Disease” will be about people’s first-hand stories of people told they had no hope but used his protocol and got better and have kept themselves better
The future of medicine will need to look at how humans were evolutionarily designed to live
You are not powerless to AD, you have control over it
We can reduce the global burden of dementia, we can fight cognitive decline
Find Dr. Dale Bredesen at www.drbredesen.com
His Facebook page https://facebook.com/drdalebredesen/

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Part 42 - Abel James the Fat Burning Man on Ancestral Eating, Optimal Living, and Diet Wars

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Hello again, my friends. Welcome back, I’m Brian Sanders and this the podcast that you just turned on and don’t need a reminder on what it’s called. But maybe you need a reminder of my name because I didn't put it on the cover art and I didn’t put a picture of myself with my shirt off… yet. That’s how you’ll know it’s a real podcast in the Fitness & Nutrition section of iTunes. Until then, I’ll just say hello again to return listeners and if this is your first episode make sure to start back at episode one. Every episode is important and a valuable piece of this elaborate web we call nutrition and health.

I had a great time kicking back with the Fat Burning Man Abel James in this episode today. We are on a really similar paths and believe in a lot of the same things. He has a degree from Dartmouth in Psychological and Brain Sciences, he’s the author of The Wild Diet, he’s a radio show host, musician, and was also featured on the ABC show Diet Wars where he helped his contestant Kurt lose 50 pounds in 6 weeks using, you guessed it, a high fat diet.

He’s a great resource for everyday living and tips and an awesome member of the community. Let’s get to the episode after a few brief updates of what’s going on lately.

We’re selling out of a lot of the great grass finished sustainably raised meats at http://NoseToTail.org Maybe don’t try to put in an order just yet. It’s a complicated process to use an entire animal, butcher it into all the cuts, manage an inventory, and ship it out across the country. In the meantime if you’d like to support this show you can become a member of the tribe on Patreon at http://patreon.com/peakhuman. You’ll get access to the comprehensive show notes Keto Kristi does there. It really will help to keep this content free. And if you’re one of the few people who hasn’t pre-ordered the Food Lies film you can do so at http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post

I’m about to put in another Eat Meat shirt order so grab one on Indiegogo quick. This really is a tribe and the whole community is involved in making it work. Thanks so much, I really can’t express how appreciative I am of everyone. Let’s hear from the fat burning fella himself, Abel James.

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SHOW NOTES

SHOW NOTES

Travelling opened his eyes to other ideas around food and the culture around foods
There is a lot of tradition around food that people in the US are not aware of
Fast food and institutions changed the traditions in the Western world
Our ancestors had the right instincts around food, our grandparents never ate like we do now
It just takes a little bit of common sense to realize why our current nutrition climate is flawed
quote from Nina Teicholz “but like lost languages, lost skills, and lost songs, it takes only a few generations to forget”
We live in this world where things are supposed to be getting better and improving yet we have so many problems
Abel’s technology detox went as long as 8 months
If you believe in fasting than you should believe in taking breaks from technology
We should be eating seasonally
How he turned to a minimalist lifestyle, sold all his belongings, and travelled around with his wife
His “Wild Diet” is based on eating whole foods, primarily seasonal vegetables and meat
Most of your energy will come from fat if you are eating an ancestral diet
You can abuse anything that starts out as healthy, so eat seasonally
The American diet has extremely low diversity, ancestrally we had a lot of diversity in the diet
Eating intuitively
On a day to day basis he incorporates fasting, he started with 16/8 but now he prefers to eat only one meal a day which comes naturally for him
He breaks his fast with some raw vegetables and bone broth, and for dinner he will have a home-made meal
Eating out all the time likely leads to eating poor quality food
He packs his own food when he travels
When you prepare your own food, you know what’s in it, you have confidence in it and you won’t be blindsided by foods that set off cravings for days
It’s important to recognize your “trigger foods”
Are the foods you are eating making you hungrier or satiating? This is a good compass and very telling of if you are eating the right foods
The words “paleo” and “keto” are misleading people to think these are health foods when they are still hyper-palatable processed foods
If he wants to celebrate with food he will make a healthier alternative
He was featured on the TV show: ABC TV called Diet Wars, a fitness and weight loss competition where trainers/coaches compete to get their clients to lose weight
His client lost 82 pounds and has kept the weight off after a few years
During the Biggest Loser, everyone regained all their weight or more, it’s not healthy to lose weight extremely quickly or in unhealthy ways there are ways to do it healthy
His strategy was to eat whole foods, embracting fat, and utilizing intermittent fasting
Nutrition is blown out of proportion in the media with names like vegan, paleo, and keto, everyone is looking for the new next diet but the truths lie in these simple principles and there’s no one diet fits all
His show was almost 10 years ago and he still believes in the same principles
Where to find Abel James:
www.fatburningman.com for health and food related content
www.abeljames.com for music related content

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Part 41 - Dr. Frank Mitloehner Dismantles Every Myth You’ve Ever Heard about Cows, Methane, Climate Change, Animal Welfare, The Environment, Meat Eating, and More

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You guys are in for a treat. Dr. Frank Mitloehner is about to destroy every argument every anti-meat propaganda spewing know-it-all has ever let slip from their quinoa-loving lips. I’d list them all to get you fired up, but it would take too long. You’re just going to have to listen up and pay attention to every second of this episode.

Dr. Mitloehner has a masters in Agricultural Engineering and Animal Science from University of Leipzig, Germany, and a PhD in Animal Science from Texas Tech University.

He’s currently a professor and air quality specialist at UC Davis and conducts research and outreach that is directly relevant to understanding and mitigating air emissions and greenhouse gases from livestock operations, as well as the implications of these emissions for the health and safety of farm workers and neighboring communities.

He has served as chairman of a global United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) hosted partnership project to benchmark the environmental footprint of livestock production. This is big, everyone. He’ll talk about how he helped correct the FAO data (which is the world leader in this kind of information). These are the bogus statistics used in the film Cowspiracy and that vegan activists still try to use today. He corrected the scientists and showed that the numbers were completely false.

He’s also published dozens of papers on the topics we’ll be discussing today and travels the world giving lectures on this as well.

All this talk about livestock is making me hungry. I’ll have to drop a plug in for my grass fed meat company Nose to Tail which you can find at http://NoseToTail.org It’s keeping this podcast alive and hopefully me as well. We have some amazing products like the Primal Lite ground beef with liver, kidney, and heart mixed right in. It’s so good, I’ve been eating a lot of it lately, and you don’t even taste all those nutrient dense bits and pieces. This is such a great way to get in your vitamins and minerals. It’s basically the world’s best multivitamin - a delicious patty of sustainably grown beef raised right here in Texas.

We’ve got great boxes you can get delivered to your door or you can also create your own. You gotta at least check this stuff out at http://NoseToTail.org I spent a long time creating the site myself and am very proud of it.

If great steak isn’t your thing then you also can support this show on Patreon at http://patreon.com/peakhuman or click through the show notes. For a few dollars a month you can keep this thing chuggin along and also get the full extended show notes. These things are like a free college education… or better. Like this podcast, a lot of work has been put in them.

You can also grab the “It’s what else you EAT not the MEAT” t-shirts while getting a copy of the Food Lies film at http://Indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post

We still definitely need your support as we try to scrape enough money together to keep these editors fed. They’re down for the cause. They’re eating beef and skipping out on those worthless carbs and sugars. Trust me, they’re living this stuff and making this film the best it can be.

So keep me from taking on any outside sponsors and support these worthy causes and ventures. I really appreciate it everyone, this wouldn’t be possible without the generous support of the community. Thanks again and here’s Dr. Frank Mitloehner, my new favorite guy around.

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SHOW NOTES

What he does on a day to day basis to study animal agriculture, emissions, air quality, and climate change
Vegan propaganda films like Cowspiracy made people believe animal agriculture caused more GHG than the whole transportation industry
The report “Livestock’s Long Shadow” was publicly retracted https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatechange/7509978/UN-admits-flaw-in-report-on-meat-and-climate-change.html
He helped to show that they used totally different inputs and methods that
In California transportation is responsible for 50% of all emissions and livestock is only responsible for 5%
In the US livestock is actually 3.9% of direct GHG emissions and all fossil fuel sources combined is 80% according to the EPA
What is a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and what is it for beef?
They created the global partnership LEAP which he was the first chairman of
Created global guidelines to circumvent these problems for the future but many people still use these flawed statistics despite knowing they are wrong
Those that are anti-meat fall closer to that of a religion than of dietary preference
Cattle are raised on pasture for 2/3 of its life (regardless of if they are grass-finished or grain-finished)
When calculating water needed to raise cattle, rain water (green water) was included which is not sensible
Water that goes into an animal is excreted and serves as fertilizer, it’s a cycle
Water needed to make almond milk vs dairy milk is 17X higher
The water argument for fruits and vegetables vs animal products is misleading and must take into account your entire food choices
Our food choices will affect the lives of others no matter what diet you follow
Animal proteins are far more bioavailable than plant proteins
Biological value of animal products in ratios that are well-suited for humans needs to be talked about more
Environmental impact of plant proteins are relatively low but the nutritional value of these are lower than animals
In the US 90 million beef cattle and 9 million dairy cows
Vast majority of beef cattle (~75 million) are on pasture at any given time and 15 million are in feedlots
Cattle only spend 4 months in feedlots the rest of their life they are on pasture
Over their lifetime cattle consume 85% non-edible animal feed
Study mentioned: Tackling climate change through livestock (FAO)
Cattle are very efficient, they make use of a resource that humans cannot (cellulose)
Humans cannot digest cellulose
The vast majority of ruminant-produced food stems from the digestion of cellulose which humans can’t do anything with
2/3 of agricultural land in the world is “marginal land” which cannot be used to grow crops
Ruminants are going to be very important for population growth
Domesticated animals and pets contribute to GHG (e.g. horses which there are 9.5 million of vs only 9 million dairy cows)
People critique livestock’s carbon footprint but not these companion animals
Feedlots aren’t as bad as we think
Each feedlot animal has enough space, fresh water, a specific nutritional diet, and the animals are cared for
Corn-finished steer will be on pasture for about 10-11 months and then will go to a feedlot for 4 months
Grass-finished will be on grass its entire life (~26-30 months of age)
The carbon impact of feedlot animals is actually less than grass-fed
The hormones in meat argument is totally bogus
US has the lowest environmental impact of any livestock producing country in the world (3.9% of GHG for all livestock combined)
12% of all GHG in the world stem from the US and 11 of the 12% that the US contributes stems from fossil fuels and 1% of this stems from food production
0.5% of the total GHG in the world comes from plant production and 0.5% comes from livestock
40% of food in US ends up in landfills and most are fruits and vegetables
Fossil fuels are carbon sources and every time they are burnt you release carbon into the atmosphere
CO2 stays in the atmosphere for ~1000 years
Methane from ruminant animals starts from plants taking CO2 from the atmosphere combined with sunlight, used to produce cellulose and oxygen, now the animal eats the plants and exhale CO2 or they convert it to methane from the microbes in the animal’s stomach
Methane stays in the air for ~10 years because methane is very different from CO2
Livestock contribute to the CO2 cycle, the amount that animals add to the atmosphere is equal to the amount that is destroyed
Fossil fuel derived gases just add to the atmosphere, whereas methane is consumed and destroyed
CO2 has a GWP (ability of gas to store heat from sun) of 1
Methane has a GWP of 28 but the lifespan of these gases matter
Methane is not just generated it is also destroyed whereas CO2 is only generated
Problems with the Lancet “Planetary Diet” proposed by scientists that feel we should be plant-based claiming that this diet will protect human health and will be better for the environment
Claims about a plant-based diet that were falsely advertised that impact our decisions
GHG and carbon impact statistics in the Eat Lancet report were very flawed
150 years ago, we had 60-100 million wild ruminants (particularly bison) and today we have ~90 million beef cattle and they emit pretty much the same amount of methane
The total amount of methane from ruminants has really not changed in the US since we just replaced natural herds of bison with domesticated herds of livestock
What has changed is the number of cars and travel emissions
Many misrepresented citations in the Eat Lancet paper
Lab grown meat vs farm-raised meat
Keeping cell-based meat “clean” of pathogens is very difficult, they are very artificial, and still require a ton of energy input
There are 400 different products from a beef and therefore foregoing the whole animal means you need alternatives to all of these products
Animal agriculture is a business and getting rid of this sector means many unintended consequences
“Impossible Burger” cannot be sold in supermarkets because the FDA has not approved “soy leghemoglobin” to be sold, yet you can buy it in restaurants
84% of all vegans stay vegan for 1 year
The total consumption of beef vs beef-like products is much higher, and shows that this movement is not as large as we think
The most important decision we make day to day is what we eat and our decisions should be made with facts
We are responsible for providing animals with the best quality of life and we must honor the animals that feed us

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Part 40 - Paul Saladino, MD: Animal Food vs. Plant Food, The Conclusion

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We’re back for the conclusion of this mighty animal vs. plant food discussion. Paul is a beast on this science and I think it’s really interesting to think about this in a whole new way than most of the mainstream nutrition world has for the past 60 years.

We’re a day late because I’ve been desperately trying to launch my Grass Fed meat company Nose to Tail which you can find at NosetoTail.org which we mention in this episode. I couldn't release this episode until the website was live. So guess what? We’re now selling grass finished American-grown beef raised in the heart of America in Northeast Texas as of right now. I’ve spent over a year figuring this out and searching for the right ranch to partner with. My guy is the real deal.

We have grass fed, grass finished beef, buffalo and lamb, pasture raised Omega-3 pork, and omega-3 chicken. We specially formulate the diet of the pigs and chicken for an incredible Omega-6 to Omega-3 ratio is 1.5:1 to 1.7:1. This is huge. If you’ve been listening to the experts I’ve been interviewing we want our ratio right around this range.

We sent the pork and chicken to a lab for analysis and you can see the full fatty acid profile results on my site Nose To Tail.org. To give some context this blows away even pastured poultry at an 8:1 ratio and free range poultry at an 18:1 ratio. Our pork tested at 1.5:1 and conventional pork is 20:1.

I’m most excited about the primal mixes. We have beef, buffalo, and pork primal mixes with either 30% organ meat mixed in or 5%. We’re talking liver, heart, kidney, and spleen. You can get all the extra nutrients without dealing with the taste that is harsh for some.

At the risk of going on too long, we also are offering tins of cod liver in their own oil, wild caught sardines, and bone meal. These things round out the ultimate nose to tail diet and are what I’ve been eating regularly in my diet. So many great things with these including huge amounts of omega-3s, huge amounts of vitamin A, calcium, magnesium, phosphorous, the list goes on.

Just check out NosetoTail.org and check out all the boxes and products. I’m so excited about this I can’t believe it’s finally here. This is such a win-win-win-win-win. It’s good for your health, it’s supporting an amazing ranch, it’s helping regenerate the soil and the environment, the animals are raised well and are happy, and it even supports me so I can keep putting out this content and finish the Food Lies film, etc. Thanks so much and I know you’re going to enjoy it.

Now onto the rest of the discussion with Paul. We cover everything else you can imagine from coffee, more plant toxins, longevity and anti-aging research, the Blue Zones myth, advanced glycation end products and heterocyclic amines in cooked meat, mTor, the balance of Methionine to Glycine (which is another reason to eat Nose to Tail and why not buy it from NosetoTail.org and get the best stuff around), Paul’s workouts, inflammation, APOe4, safest plant foods, and more.

This is an episode where you really need the extended show notes Kristi has been doing that are available to Patreon supporters. You can go to http://Patreon.com/peakhuman and support the show there and get access to the very comprehensive show notes she put tons of time into from this week and last, plus from Dr. Thomas Seyfried and Dave Feldman.

So now you have a whole bunch of ways to support the show and the film from $2 on Patreon, to preordering the film and getting your name in the credits on Indiegogo, all the way up to a giant $200 box of grass fed meat delivered to your door. I really appreciate your support and let’s jump in with Paul and hear why eating nose to tail is so great.

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Show Notes

Recap on last episode - fiber, polyphenols, plant toxins, no need for hormetic stressors when we can mimic them with lifestyle stressors such as exercise, cold stress, heat stress, etc.
Risk of thyroid impairments from sulforaphane
Bruce Ames paper: Dietary pesticides 99.99% all natural
Carcinogens in coffee
Dangers of oxalates
Tea, coffee, and oxalates
What are lectins and how do they disrupt the gut
Phytic acid as a plant anti-nutrient
Minerals in plants are bound to phytic acid and render them non-bioavailable
Paul’s own personal cutting out grains and having major benefits on his stress fractures from ultramarathon running
Resveratrol and its benefits but also its autoimmune potential
Anti-aging research is becoming a stream of biohacking and using molecules instead of diet and lifestyle
All the benefits from these anti-aging molecules can be achieved through living a “radical” life
We have enough stressors in our modern environment, we don’t need more from plants
Carcinogens and cooked meat
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) and Heterocyclic Amines (HCAs) in cooked meat and how to cook your meat to limit them
Advanced Glycation End Products (AGEs) are in cooked plants and meat
Acrylamide in coffee
The dangers of a carnivorous lifestyle
Environmental toxins in animal fat are no different than toxins in plants
mTOR and why we shouldn’t be afraid of protein
Insulin vs leucine effect on mTOR
Building muscle on a carnivore diet
Paleo anthropology perspective of a carnivore diet
Problems with Blue Zones
Genetics vs diet in Blue Zones
Methionine-Glycine balance and why this is important
Importance of calcium on a carnivore diet
BUY THE MEAT http://NoseToTail.org
Why you should consider adding bicarbonate to your water
Flaws in the ethical argument for veganism
Paul’s workouts
What Paul’s currently questioning - APOE4 and saturated fat, endotoxins, electrolytes
Meat and inflammation
Would Paul feed his kids a carnivore diet?
Safest plant foods
Fermented foods

Where to find Dr. Paul Saladino

Email: paulsalidinomd@gmail.com

Instagram: @paulsaladinomd

Website: www.paulsaladinomd.com

Twitter: @mdsaladino

Facebook: Paul Saladino MD

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Part 39 - Paul Saladino, MD on Everything You Thought You Knew About Food Might Be Wrong

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Wow. Get ready for this one, everyone. Paul and I have been talking constantly for weeks and we have something special for you. This is a 2 part, 4 hour series that covers everything you can imagine on plant and animal foods.

If this is your first time listening, make sure to go back and start at episode 1. To catch people up I’m Brian Sanders and I’ve quit my job and dedicated my life to studying health and nutrition. I’m trying my best to be unbiased and to simplify the conflicting advice out there and distill down concepts into something anyone can understand. I’m not a doctor or nutritionist. I’m a mechanical engineer and I’ve lost both of my parents to chronic disease and have set off on my own path for the last 4 years to study this topic and make sure I don’t fall to the same fate. My role is the curator, the communicator, the curious mind collecting and spreading this information. I’ve interviewed over 100 of the top scientists, doctors, nutritionists, fitness experts, and other health professionals and have come to find some simple truths that I’d like to share.

Today I’m talking to Dr. Paul Saladino who received his MD from the University of Arizona and is also a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. He has quickly become one of the leading voices and experts on animal-based diets and nose to tail eating. He’s a good friend and a wealth of knowledge. We just got back from Paleo f(x) in Austin and are getting ready to shoot the final interview for the Food Lies film. You guys are in for a treat.

But first I have to ask for your support. I’m working almost every night until midnight these days trying to keep up with all my projects and content creation. So far I’ve done this all for free and it’s taking a toll on me and definitely my non-existent bank account. You can support me directly by joining my Patreon - you can go to http://Patreon.com/peakhuman or search for Peak Human on Patreon, or of course click through in the show notes. A couple dollars a month goes a long way. You can also support me through the Food Lies film which is still on Indiegogo. We have all kinds of great perks like your name in the credits, the Eat Meat shirt, and the Real Foods coin. Thanks so much, I really appreciate it, and it’s not possible without you. Now please enjoy the wise words of Dr. Paul Saladino.

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SHOW NOTES

Food directly contacts our body everyday
Food is a signal to the body and affects us on a cellular level, it is so much more than calories and macros
If your blood markers improve on a vegan diet your doctor would praise you, if you told them you did it with a carnivore diet they would tell you to stop
People have a very difficult time believing that plants could be bad
High D15 nitrogen values in the bones and collagen of neanderthals and early humans confirm humans were eating primarily animals
Studies referenced:

Humans evolved as facultative carnivores
Plants were our fallback foods during times of starvation
“Thriving vegans” would probably thrive more if they ate animals
If you enjoy plants eat them but animal foods are the ideal foods for humans
Study showing male height is associated with high quality animal proteins
Eating nose to tail is basically a multivitamin for humans in the most bioavailable form
There are no unique nutrients in plants that we can’t get from animals
The history of fiber and how it got associated with health
No real evidence to suggest fiber protects against colon cancer
Meat does not cause colon cancer
Major flaws in the fiber deprived mice study showing mucosal layer in the gut degraded in the absence of fiber but with no symptoms or association with disease or inflammation
Fiber and health is based on epidemiology and confounded with healthy user bias
Asian countries show opposite association between meat and all-cause mortality than western countries
Plant sources of vitamins and minerals are either in a non-bioavailable form or bound to other minerals that inhibit their absorption
Vitamin C requirements are a lot less than we think
Polyphenols are plant defense molecules
What are free radicals?
Polyphenols trigger our own antioxidant defenses but we can get these same responses with less damaging stressors like exercise, cold therapy, or sauna
Sulforaphane can be harmful even if it does trigger a hormetic response
Sulforaphane inhibits iodine absorption and can lead to hypothyroid
Herbivores co-evolved with plants and have different strategies to deal with plant toxins than humans
Fruits and vegetables have never actually been shown to have any benefit in humans in controlled studies
Curcumin shows results in a test tube but there are no double blind placebo controlled clinical trials to show that it is beneficial
When curcumin enters the body it is immediately detoxified and excreted
Black pepper inhibits the detoxification of curcumin
We should actively avoid black pepper
Plants are not going to create the ideal micronutrient or antioxidant status in humans

Where to find Dr. Paul Saladino

Email: paulsalidinomd@gmail.com

Website: www.paulsaladinomd.com

http://Instagram.com/mdsaladino

Facebook: Paul Saladino MD

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Part 38 - Chris Bell on Family, Addiction, Carnivore, Life, & Documentaries

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Welcome back everyone, I’m Brian Sanders and I’m the founder of Sapien.org and the filmmaker behind the feature-length documentary Food Lies.

Today we have fellow filmmaker and neighbor of mine, Chris Bell. We’re making similar films and have a lot of similar ideas on nutrition. We’re both coming at it from different angles and I think they’re going to really push the movement forward in unique ways. He has some solid advice on filmmaking as well as life. All the films he has made are awesome and he’s a really interesting and genuine guy. I definitely enjoyed spending time with him talking about all my favorite topics.

You can get the Real Foods coin I gave him in the middle of the episode on our Indiegogo page while getting a copy of the Food Lies film. They’re these nice, large metal challenge coins I designed and are actually really cool. We might only have 10 left so get them while you can.

If you’ve already preordered the film or don’t have the cash lying around to do so, and you're getting some value from this podcast, I’ve also made a Patreon to help support this show and keep it ad-free. People have been reaching out to sponsor it but I’ve been turning them down. I’d rather give this brief message here in the beginning allowing the community support it instead of having to break for annoying ads, even if the products are something I believe in. Thanks for making this possible - just go to Patreon.com/peakhuman or click through the link in the show notes and you can throw as little as $2 per month at this endeavor and keep it afloat. I sincerely appreciate it and really love our tribe we are forming. I’ll be at Paleo f(x) this weekend so give me a shout if you’re there. Now here’s Chris Bell.

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SHOW NOTES

We’ve met up a lot lately and realized we definitely not making the same film
Vinnie Tortorich is also making a great film to complete the trifecta called Fat
Filmmaking is a long, slow process
The film changed once he got his parents involved
He some health problems and an epiphany
They started out wanting to call it War On Carbs
Struggle with addiction is real
He made the film Bigger, Faster, Stronger which is awesome. He looks a lot better than he did 10 years ago when he filmed it
Going back to the beginning with powerlifting and his brother Mark Bell
He doesn’t believe there’s any evidence for needing carbs to build muscle
You can see his photos on a keto diet and carnivore diet http://instagram.com/bigstrongfast
Steroid use
The war against carbs is his personal journey
Eating well is “sobriety from bad foods”
Spread messages through love instead of hate
Vegan bodybuilders
Being fit is synonymous with being healthy for the most part and also very important as you age
He made the movie A Leaf of Faith about kratom
Feedlot beef vs. grass finished, omega 3 to omega 6 ratio, and all the intricacies
Who do you believe in all this conflicting information?
Colesterol, LDL, statins, and metformin
He also made the movie Prescription Thugs
How do you know when the documentary is finished and you found the story?
We watch vegan content to make sure we’re on track and not ruining the world
Carnivore adjacent
The SAPIEN diet is just eating for nutrient density, focusing on protein, embracing fat, and minimizing carbs
http://sapien.org/diet
His movie is turning more into a family story
Chris Bell on Instagram http://instagram.com/bigstrongfast

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Part 37 - Sally Norton, MPH on Oxalates, Plants Hurting Your Health, and Never Eating Spinach Again

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Sally Norton has a degree in nutrition from Cornell University and a Masters of Public Health from the UNiversity of North Carolina. She managed a five-year, National Institute of Health-funded program at the UNC Medical School. She’s a nutrition consultant, speaker, and an all around oxalate expert.

This is a sad story with a happy ending. Sally’s life goal from age 5 was to study nutrition and help people be healthy. She followed all the traditional advice and ate a very plant-heavy vegetarian and even vegan diet only to have 30 years of health problems because of that diet.

At first all this oxalate stuff is hard to believe. It’s talked about so little and there’s not a lot of mainstream knowledge on it in the medical community. We talk some real science a little ways into the episode, so know it’s coming. Also for people who may be skeptical of how bad oxalates are you can go to the vegan site veganhealth.org/oxalate and see the comprehensive mile-long list of problems and warnings about oxalates. Yes, a vegan site warning about plant food dangers. This is not some wacky carnivore idea people.

I just started a Patreon for this podcast. I really want to keep this ad-free and I’m getting multiple offers for sponsorships. This is a huge amount of work I do completely on my own and I don’t think I have the bandwidth to keep it up much longer. I’ll spare you the details of how many hours it takes me weekly to put it out, but just know it’s way more than you think. I’ll continue keeping this a high quality and from what I’ve heard valuable resource for people if I can get the support of the community. We are a tribe and everyone does their part to keep things moving. I appreciate all the messages I get that help keep me motivated when the hours get long. Even people’s suggestions on guests really help. This episode was possible from 1 or 2 listeners who kept mentioning Sally and her work. Thanks so much for supporting me in all my efforts. This will allow me to keep putting out content on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube as well. Please go to Patreon.com/peakhuman and become a member of the tribe there. Just a couple dollars a month really helps. You can also get more perks like extended show notes and bonus content we’re just beginning to put out or an invite to the private Slack group. That’s http://Patreon.com/peakhuman Thanks in advance, and here’s Sally Norton.

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SHOW NOTES

Sally had a lifelong quest to be in the nutrition and wellness space
Despite eating plant-based diets all her life and focusing on what she thought was good nutrition, she had major health problems
Some books convinced her to vegan and soon she could barely walk up and down stairs and got pneumonia multiple times per year
She finally figured out it was the build up of oxalated from all the plants foods she was eating
She published a great paper “Lost Seasonality and Overconsumption of Plants: Risking Oxalate Toxicity” https://jevohealth.com/journal/vol2/iss3/4/
How come she has all this training and she didn't know a thing about oxalates?
We actually knew about oxalates in the 1700s and 1800s
Populations like the Irish drank a lot of tea, ate a lot of potatoes, had greens in season, and rhubarb in the spring - all of these have high oxalate
Spinach and whole grains have a lot of oxalate
They did tests on rats to see calcium absorption of and we saw that spinach wasn't delivering calcium - same for iron and folate
The nutrients also degrade quickly unless the spinach is kept very cold the entire time after harvest (which is basically impossible)
All USDA data on nutrition in plant foods are wrong and don’t account for bioavailability
Nutrients drop significantly in spinach after harvest, especially when not refrigerated to a very cold 4 degrees celsius
More and more people are heading towards mostly animal foods as they learn about bioavailability and antinutrients and listen to their body
The carnivore movement has been great to just let people know it’s ok to eat only animal foods
World War 1 is when we started relying on fallback plant foods she thinks. We invented the idea of the victory garden
I was out with a girl from Peru who was laughing at Americans for eating green vegetables - the mainly eat meat, fish, and starches.
She talks about why we even think vegetables are so great in the first place
Our natural state is now a diseased state
Biggest current problems are toxicity and deficiency
High oxalate foods: nuts, seeds, brassica veg, potatoes, some berries
If doctors don’t have a remedy for it, you don’t have a disease
Calcium is being blamed for what oxalates are doing
Science behind oxalates
Range of oxalate poisoning that could kill you is 3.5 grams - 30 grams
A guy died of oxalate poisoning from sorrel soup
Cases of people with permanent kidney damage from juice/smoothie cleanses
Kidney disease is on the rise faster than anything in the last few decades
There’s so many other toxins your kidney needs to deal with these days besides the oxalate
She’s read about 3,000 studies and articles on oxalate over the last 4.5 years of research
Oxalates travel all over the body before going through your kidney to be detoxified
Even vegan sites warn about the enormous problem of oxalates https://veganhealth.org/oxalate/
Whole system is skewed supporting plants foods
Researchers aren't doctors don’t have time or aren't curious enough or can't get funding to do all this research
She’s had major foot problems most of her life due to oxalates and it kind of ruined her career
Susan Owens has great data on oxalate accumulation http://lowoxalate.info
Clive Solomons and the Pain Project http://www.thevpfoundation.org/effective_treatment.htm
Comprehensive oxalate charts http://lowoxalate.info/recipes.html
USDA food charts don’t account for bioavailability and 10-15% of the data is just wrong
A lot of oxalate problems are determined by how much is getting through the intestinal tract and how compromised it is / what problems you have like IBS, etc.
If you're constantly getting low doses of oxalate your immune system is constantly cleaning it up so you won’t really see any major problems… but that’s not good at all
We need to eat seasonally for a real reason - to give our body a break from different foods that may be giving us problems if eaten in excess
Herbivores evolved differently to be able to handle oxalates
Even these can die if they are stuck somewhere where they only have access to high oxalate food
She’s working on some proposals and a book
Her site is http://sallyknorton.com
Her Instagram is http://instagram.com/sknorton

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Part 36 - Dr. Mark Cucuzzella & Zach Bitter on Fat Adapted Running, Fine Tuning Your Body, and Helping the Community

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Today we have a double header with 2 great figures as well as athletes in the low carb community.

Zach Bitter is the 100 mile American record holder and 12 hour world record holder for ultramarathons. He hosts the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Dr. Shawn Baker and has learned many lessons from amazing people along the way. He has wealth of knowledge of fat adapted athletics and fueling himself with meat while healing his body.

But first we have Dr. Mark Cucuzzella who is a Professor of Medicine at West Virginia University medical school, Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Family physician for 20 years, and a Lt Col in the US Air Force Reserves. He’s doing such great work in his hospital and community and has implemented some very beneficial programs. He’s a great guy and was a big supporter of the film early on.

He brings up that Zach Bitter was actually in the FASTER study that previous podcast guest Dr. Jeff Volek famously did that rewrote the textbooks on fat oxidation. Lot’s of good stuff her beyond running!

Thanks again for helping us finish the Indiegogo campaign. We hit our goal, but that certainly wasn’t the amount needed to finish the film. You can still preorder a copy of Food Lies on Indiegogo by clicking through FoodLies.org. Get the limited edition Eat Meat shirt there and check out the other perks - that’s at FoodLies.org.

A quick update about me - I just started training for a Decathlon at UCLA. I’m going to do it running on meat and fat. Many of you probably saw the video of me pole vaulting for the first time in over 16 years on social media. This is going to be awesome. Everyone there thinks I’m insane for doing it at 35 while never having done most of the events before, let alone all of them in 2 days at the Masters Championships in Iowa. Also the mostly eating meat, fish, and eggs thing is really tripping them out. Follow along on social media. Also I’ll have a totally unrelated big announcement in the upcoming weeks. Stay tuned - I’m very excited. Now here’s Mark and Zach.

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Show notes

Zach Bitter

Hosts the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Dr. Shawn Baker
He holds the 100 mile American record with an average pace of 7 minutes per mile
He also holds the world record for farthest distance run in 12 hours
He spent the first half of his running career on the conventional high carb diet that all runners believe is best
He followed a whole foods approach with lots of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables - no processed foods or junk food
At age 24/25 he was having some bad symptoms that shouldn’t face a young man in his prime
He wasn’t sleeping well, he didn’t have sustained energy throughout the day, and had poor recovery after workouts
He looked towards nutrition as a cure and found the low carb, high fat diet
Got turned on to Dr. Phinney and Dr. Volek early on so he had a solid approach to transitioning into fat-adaptation correctly
He transitioned in the off-season and sleep and energy immediately improved
Recovery and mobility greatly improved after races once fat-adapted
What are some other sports where it’s good to be fat-adapted?
It seems to be dependent on how soon you’re going to train again. If it’s only once per day it seems carbs aren't really necessary. 2 sessions per day, probably yes.
He only needs carbs when doing intensity plus high volume. Either one separately he doesn't.
How he got into the carnivore world
He’s done 73 podcast episodes with various experts and has learned a lot
2 big things are that vegetables aren’t really necessary it seems and there’s a lot of myths about protein that are turning out to not be true. There’s probably no such thing as too much protein
My ultra simplistic theory is that animal foods are +1, processed foods are -1, and plant foods are just neutral (or 0). Plant foods aren't doing much for you other than taking up space in your stomach from things that could be worse. The real nutrition is from the animal foods.
He agrees with this and builds his meals around fatty meat, eggs, and some full fat dairy
He ferments his own vegetables
If you have digestive problems try doing only animal foods and add stuff back in slowly and carefully to track it
Hunter gatherers used to eat (and still do) fermented plant matter out of animal’s stomachs, especially in cold environments when that was their only vegetation
Check out the HPO podcast he does with Shawn Baker
Zach does running and nutrition coaching - find him at zachbitter.com
He’s on twitter at twitter.com/zbitter and Instagram at instagram.com/zachbitter

Mark Cucuzzella

SHOW NOTES

Mark is a doctor in West Virginia doing great things for his community and grew up as a runner
He’s appeared in a lot of big news articles and news segments over the years https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/running-christopher-mcdougall.html
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6112350
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1dyKDrkABc
His website https://www.drmarksdesk.com
He recently wrote the book Run For Your Life which I’ve read and recommend to any runner https://www.amazon.com/Run-Your-Life-Without-Well-Being/dp/110194630X/
He created the Efficient Running Project for the US Air Force https://www.drmarksdesk.com/usaf-efficient-running
He almost made the olympic trials for the marathon but was plagued by injuries and almost quit before taking health into his own hands and also running barefoot or almost barefoot
He was able to keep running and has a streak of 30 years of under a 3 hour marathon
He opened a running store and has organized tons of runs & events for adults and kids and got the community a lot more active
He bought into the low fat high carb diet HUGE waking up at 2am eating more cereal he was so hungry
He was in charge of figuring out why people in the Air Force kept failing the fitness tests
This was in 2002 and he saw the Gary Taubes article What if it’s All Been a Big Fat Lie? https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/07/magazine/what-if-it-s-all-been-a-big-fat-lie.html
As a doctor he always has learned from his patients. He asked auditoriums full of recruits who has lost 50 pounds or more and kept it off for a year? The only answer was “I gave up bread, or I gave up soda, or I did Paleo, or I did Atkins”
He also is a professor at WVU writing papers, etc.
He started a program at his hospital that removed all sugary drinks
80% of people in a hospital have insulin resistance and/or metabolic syndrome why would we be giving them a toxin like sugar?
The staff supported him in this after getting healthier and losing weight by cutting sugar and carbs
He helped get double dollars for food stamps at the farmers market https://youtu.be/k5zptL5c9mI
#1 thing purchased with food stamps (now called SNAP) in America is soda!!
He’s also starting programs to help people make better choices at dollar stores
I think “food deserts” are a myth. It’s just information. You don’t need fresh fruit and veg to be healthy. You can get meat, eggs, and canned fish anywhere in America within a few blocks
Food industry and advertisements are working against us
EAT Lancet debunking
His blog post on this http://naturalrunningcenter.com/2019/01/27/eatlancet/
He’s part of the Nutrition Coalition with Nina Teicholz
I grew up running barefoot in Hawaii
Human evolution and persistence hunting
Daniel Lieberman comes up again who’s the Harvard professor I had an unpleasant call with
Running shouldn't be about burning calories it should be about being efficient
His comprehensive article on fat adapted running http://naturalrunningcenter.com/2017/02/19/simple-food-rules-2/
Zach was actually part of the FASTER study by Phinney and Volek https://www.metabolismjournal.com/article/S0026-0495(15)00334-0/abstract
The textbooks say humans can only oxidize 0.8 grams per minute but in the study they doubled that. Dr. Mark did it himself and measured 2.0 grams of fat/min
HIs heart rate dropped down significantly after only 1 minute because he is in such good shape and running so efficiently on fat - great for recovery
If you’re a medical professional and would like to make changes in your community or otherwise you can contact him at afrundoc@gmail.com
Dr. Eric Westman is a great doctor doing low carb for decades with his patients and having great success https://www.dukehealth.org/find-doctors-physicians/eric-c-westman-md-mhs
http://DietDoctor.com
Dr. Robert Lustig’s “The Complete Skinny on Obesity” https://youtu.be/moQZd1-BC0Y
Even though the campaign is over you can still preorder the film and get the great perks

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Part 35 - Dr. Thomas Seyfried on Cancer as a Metabolic Disease, More Effective Therapies, and Treating it Without Toxicity

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Dr. Thomas Seyfried is a Professor of Biology at Boston College, and received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Biochemistry from the University of Illinois. He then worked as an assistant professor in the neurology department at the Yale school of medicine. He has over 180 peer-reviewed publications and is author of the book, Cancer as a Metabolic Disease. He recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Complimentary and Integrative Medicine.

I got a chance to meet and interview him at the Metabolic Health Summit earlier this year. You’ll notice we did this podcast shortly after the Super Bowl. In case people aren’t familiar with American football the New England Patriots had just beaten the LA Rams.

I hope people look up the paper he recently published that we mention and watch his presentation I linked to in the show notes and go deeper on this topic. It’s very surprising to learn of this completely new view on cancer if you haven't heard of it before. This really shouldn't be very surprising to anyone, however, because of course our modern diet and lifestyle would have the biggest effect on the rising cancer rates. And of course fixing these things would also be a major part of the treatment. He’s really doing legendary work. So without further ado, here’s professor Seyfried.

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Show Notes

Dr. Thomas Seyfried believes cancer is a metabolic disease, not a genetic disease and explains in simple terms why that is
The mitochondria in your cells make energy (ATP)
There’s 2 types of energy: ancient energy which is a fermentation metabolism which means you can make energy without oxygen, or respiration where you make energy from breathing air
Cancer cells ferment - therefore they don’t use oxygen
Not all cancer cells have genetic mutations, but all cancer cells ferment
The mitochondrial metabolic theory says that the organelle that makes energy from respiration is defective, forcing the cell to ferment. When the cell ferments, mutations collect in the nucleus
This means the genetic mutations seen in cancer cells come from a downstream effect of disruption of energy metabolism
The cancer cell has to consume a large amount of glucose and the amino acid glutamine in order to survive on a fermentation metabolism
On the other hand, normal cells use oxygen and very little amounts of glucose
This should make sense to a lot of people because they’ve probably heard cancer cells need a lot of glucose and if you starve them of that they die
Have to re-emphasize the fact that the DNA damage comes as a downstream effect
Damaged mitochondria, instead of making ATP, make Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) or oxidative stress (which causes a lot of problems in our body)
The oxidative stress also causes damage to the nucleus and the genome
The field of cancer research studies effects instead of causes
We’re not treating cancer by looking at the root cause - it’s absurd - how would we ever cure it?
This is supported by thousands of experiments and studies
Obvious step to treat cancer is to deprive the cancer cells of glucose and glutamine and transition healthy cells into the use of ketones which they can readily use
We evolved as a starving creature and convert fatty acids into ketones and usable forms of energy
Cancer cells can't use ketones
There’s no dietary way to restrict glutamine to the cancer cells so drugs have to be used
Basically nobody he’s heard of is treating it this way
If it’s so clear this is how cancer works, why has this not reached the mainstream?
The Federal government puts out websites saying cancer is genetic, medical schools teach it's genetic, leading cancer clinics tell patients it's genetic
Entrenched beliefs continue this. Also funding money is all based around the genetic theory
If you look at the mitochondria of any cancer cell under an electron microscope you can easily see the damage to the organelles and mitochondria
Cancer is a result of the industrialization as a society
Cancer is so rare throughout history or with non-industrialized societies they don't even have the word for it in their language
Cancer comes from all kinds of things like pollution, chemicals, radiation, hypoxia, infections, chronic inflammation, even some rare inherited diseases like BRCA1 (but it has to damage the mitochondria)
These are all secondary - the root cause is damage to the respiration
Obese people have higher rates of cancer and also higher inflammation (measured by C reactive protein)
To avoid cancer it’s as simple as avoiding diets and lifestyles that risk damage to the mitochondria
Metabolic therapies need to at least be options for people
Problem is doctors aren't aware of them or aren't trained on them
Therapeutic ketosis is a medicine - it’s different than just a diet (which is a turn-off to a lot of medical professionals)
There’s therapeutic weight loss and toxic weight loss
Using a suite of therapies to cure cancer including ketogenic metabolic therapy and hyperbaric oxygen therapy
Hyperbaric oxygen creates reactive oxygen species that kills cancer cells but healthy cells using ketones are protected from oxidative stress and are fine
Burning ketones creates less ROS (which is a good thing) and is why many people without cancer eat a ketogenic diet
ROS damages tissues and is why you age
He published the glucose-ketone index calculator
People need to realize sweets are a treat once in awhile - not an everyday thing
The food industry has played into our ancient desires for sweet
Otto Warburg studied cancer in the early 1900s
He found that cancer cells would grow in an 100% oxygen environment - they continue to ferment and create lactic acid
Because their mitochondria are defective they can’t switch back to oxidative phosphorylation
He recently published a paper filling in the gaps from Otto Warburg’s work
Missing link was the glutamine that cancer cells can also use
Have to pulse the glutamine so the immune system can do it's job and clear out the dead cells
He’s developed the press-pulse system in his lab to attack tumors strategically
Almost there with dosage, timing, and schedule - when done with this will have the pathway to resolution
He’s having trouble getting funding for this for some reason
One problem is people have created separate little communities and foundations around their specific type of cancer even though they all have the common metabolic foundational problem
People are going to have to participate in the management of their disease and the culture of the diseases has to change
Another problem is the high cost of these standard therapies - people have to pay $400k
His paper looking at research conducted on cancer https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3941741/
If you take a normal cytoplasm and implant a nucleus with a tumor you get normal cells. But if you implant a normal nucleus to a cell with damaged cytoplasm, you get more tumor cells. This shows it's the damaged mitochondria in the cytoplasm, not the DNA in the nucleus
The wheelchair doesn't cause your legs to not work
Needle biopsies are putting people at risk and are pointless
He calls this general misunderstanding of cancer the biggest tragedy in the history of medicine
What do critics of his views say? They try to create doubt
They rely on private funding and some great organizations supporting this research
Travis Christofferson’s foundation https://foundationformetaboliccancertherapies.com
His book Tripping Over the Truth https://www.amazon.com/Tripping-over-Truth-Overturning-Entrenched/dp/1603587292/
Dr. George Yu’s foundation https://yufoundation.org
Presentation by Dr. Seyfried https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APwnkpD_BfI&frags=pl%2Cwn
Dr. Seyfried’s book https://www.amazon.com/Cancer-Metabolic-Disease-Management-Prevention/dp/0470584920/

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Part 34 - Dave Feldman on a New Way to Look at Cholesterol, Increasing Health Markers with Fat, and Lowering LDL with a Bad Diet

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Dave Feldman is a senior software engineer, lipid and cholesterol investigator, and self-experimenter. He’s done a ton of tests on himself over the past 4 years that are making huge waves in the nutrition world. He’s helping the world rethink cholesterol and go away from the standard lipid hypothesis to the energy model of how our lipid system works. He’s got a great facebook group with an active audience of Lean Mass Hyper Responders. He also travels around the country speaking at conferences

This is a must-listen if you have high LDL cholesterol on a high fat diet or still think that cholesterol is bad. You should also go back and listen to the Ivor Cummins episode in season 1 which gives more of a foundation of knowledge and a bunch of other great info on the topic.

We jump straight in and get technical in the beginning, but stick around. We backtrack and give a lot more context and explain things more clearly. You’ll want to keep going even if we get into the weeds because we come out again and go over a lot of useful information and ideas.

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Show Notes

We jump straight into his carnivore experiment
He unexpectedly had very high triglycerides after a short time eating only beef products
How much things like fasting affect lipid tests
New blood test protocol doesn't even ask you to fast even though if you're eating a low carb diet and eat a fatty meal before your blood test you're loading your body temporarily full of triglycerides that will throw off the test
We back up a bit and start from the begining with his story of how he got into this cholesterol world
Cholesterol is like a distributed systems network
The less fat he ate (on a keto ratio) the higher his cholesterol would go. So to lower his cholesterol he would just have to eat more fat before his test
This is disrupting the whole standard medical community in 2 ways - they don’t think it can change that much over the course of a few days, and it’s also the opposite of what they say - they believe more fat should be bad
What is the lipid hypothesis?
There’s no study that really confirms this hypothesis
He thinks LDL particles have 2 purposes - first to deliver energy, then to patrol
The energy delivery might only be an hour, but they can “patrol” for 2-4 days
There’s other purposes we haven’t even studied much like immune response
They can bind to pathogens or can provide alpha tocopherol to reactive oxygen species to turn them into non-reactive products
Ambulances, accidents, and aliens
All cause mortality and lower LDL does NOT correlate as the standard narrative suggests it should
People go on low carb or keto diets and every single thing in their life and lipid panel improves except for this 1 factor - LDL
He’s been developing what he calls “the energy model” for how lipids work
He runs a Facebook group called Lean Mass Hyper Responders for a certain type of people who are lean and fit on a LCHF diet who have super good HDL and triglycerides but super high LDL
He polled the group and the vast majority report they feel better to significantly better
This “cholesterol is bad” stuff has been hammered into him for so long he may never believe anything otherwise
He did a 3.5 hour podcast with Peter Attia (who was in ketosis for 3 years straight) who still looks at cholesterol in the context of a Standard American Diet of trash
The group of LMHR people is really interesting to study because they also have super low cardiovascular disease markers
The podcast with Peter had some positive outcomes
His CIMT (Carotid intima-media thickness) tests that he does regularly to measure his CVD risk factor
It actually got a lot better since transitioning from his SAD diet to keto, even though doctors say that’s not even possible
He then made his score get worse eating white bread, pizza, and a high carb + high fat killer combo diet and gaining a lot of weight
He then got it to drop back down again on a keto diet all while having 200+ LDL-C and 2000+ LDL-P
Doing exactly the opposite of what the literature says should happen
ALSO on the unhealthy Standard American Diet test where he was gaining weight his LDL went back down to good levels that a normal doctor would like WHILE his CIMT score got worse
Join the facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeanMassHyperResponder/
He thinks LMHRs experience a higher level of autophagy - they’re in a blended fasted state - so it’s hard for them to do extended fasts (which is true for me)
Your cells need to time to rest and repair
Basically, don't always be eating!
Let’s talk other diets - he has too longtime friends who are vegan and they eat from when they wake until they sleep
You can get away with eating trash while you’re young - he was skinny as a rail while eating rame, Totinos and chugging Coke
For the vast majority of people it eventually catches up to them - it could be alcohol, smoking, excessive sunlight - they seem immune to it and then all of a sudden they fall off
We both haven't been sick since being fat adapted/eating a nutrient dense diet
I actually got a tiny but sick though, for the first time, by assaulting my body with stressors for 3 days straight and then working out
More on how LDL plays a big role in the immune system
He has an interesting theory about people with familial hypercholesterolemia having lower total mortality rates despite having high cholesterol because of these high LDL numbers that serve them in times of need. These people have survived pandemics
Let’s talk N of 1 studies
If you’re feeling good 24/7 you're probably doing something right and shouldn't worry about a single number or theory
Find dave on Twitter http://twitter.com/daveketo
His website is http://cholesterolcode.com
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Part 33 - Mark Sisson on Metabolic Flexibility, Ancestral Health, and How to Live Long & Drop Dead

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Today I’m talking to the legendary Mark Sisson. For many people, including myself, he’s the person who got them interested in ancestral health and sent them down a path of feeling great, losing weight, curing problems they didn’t even know they had or could be treated, and more. He’s been an inspiration to millions and has spent most of his life on a pursuit of health knowledge.

He’s been writing his blog Mark’s Daily Apple for 13 years as well as publishing best-selling books such as The Primal Blueprint and the Keto Reset Diet. He also travels the world giving talks and is the founder of Primal Kitchen. He’s 65 and living better than most 20 year olds. I saw this first hand filming with him in Miami Beach and running around with him on the ultimate frisbee field. He is a role model of how to look, live, and feel as you enter the latter part of your life. This probably isn’t new information to anyone listening so I’ll just get to our talk already.

Of course I have to mention the Food Lies film crowdfunding first. There’s only 12 days left in the Indiegogo campaign and we have a long way to go. This is when we really need your help. It’s the last crowdfunding we’ll do and we need to hit our goal to make this film. I know it’s been a long process and people are tired of hearing about it, but it’s the only way this can be made. We have no outside investors. This is a group effort by the community to make an important piece of history. This will help change the world’s view of food and human health. Documentaries like this are the best way to inform the public of this important information and open people’s eyes.

If you’re listening to this podcast you probably know most of this stuff already - the problem is 98% of the world doesn’t! They’re not going to read all the studies and books and watch all the lectures that you have. They need to see this presented to them in a simple and entertaining audio-visual format that they can stream from the comfort of their own home on a wednesday night. Let’s make this happen. Please go to FoodLies.org and click through to the Indiegogo page. That’s FoodLies.org and you can also click through the link in the show notes. Thanks so much and here’s Mark Sisson.

SHOW NOTES

After about 25 years in Malibu he moved to Miami Beach
I filmed with Mark in his awesome condo and then we played ultimate frisbee
Mark has been in the health space for about 40 years and then got into ancestral health when it bloomed in the early 2000s
He started with his blog about 15 years ago which helped get the community involved and his message honed
He wrote The Primal Blueprint which is an amazing book that I continue to share with people as an entry point into ancestral health and nutrition
Through your environment, actions, and what you eat you have control over your gene expression
Our genes are awaiting information in order to act - epigenetic influences
Primal laws to live by
Rejecting modern norms leads to health - on either end of the spectrum
The most important factor is what you're not eating
Plant protein is less bioavailable and you're getting a bunch of extra carbs trying to get enough usable protein
We are wired to overeat
Our system of energy storage as fat is the most elegant, perfect design imaginable
Our body doesn't want to maintain expensive machinery it doesn't use - most people only burn glucose and lose the ability to burn fat efficiently
Being metabolically flexible is the win-win-win-win-win-win-win of nutrition and life
Some keto people go too hard in the other direction and are too fat adapted and can’t handle any bit of carbohydrate
Some people use keto as a way to overeat and maintain their gluttony
A lot of people doing keto for long periods don’t have high ketone numbers - body adapts
If you eat an appropriate amount of calories per day over your life you’ll probably help not wear your body out and maybe live longer
Everyone eats too many calories - he spells out a 1900 calorie day that should sustain anyone
Stephan Guyenet’s strategy to not overeat is to eat food that isn’t that tasty
His #1 goal in life is to live awesome and enjoy life - you can eat this way and still be healthy
His pet theories on the obesity and chronic disease epidemic
Access to these cheap, nutritionally devoid foods are at an all-time high
He thinks industrial seed oils are the biggest problems in our food system and the most damaging to our health
He carries around his own salad dressing made of avocado oil
Primal Kitchen sold to Kraft-Heinz but will remain under his control and will maintain all the high quality ingredients
The less glucose you burn in a lifetime the better
Lifespan vs. healthspan - don’t see these modern diseases in indigenous living populations
“Live long, drop dead”
People used to die from accidents, childbirth, traumatic events, and infectious diseases
He defines quality of life as mobility and memory
I eat this way because it’s the best way we know at the time to prevent chronic disease and extend healthspan
A lot of times we don’t realize the inflammation an ill-effects of our diets and lifestyle and think it’s just part of life
His arthritis that he thought he would have to live with for life went away at age 47 when he stopped eating grains
Whole 30 is a great way to see how much better you feel and examine your diet
How do we fight against vegan activist DISinformation?
They have way more money and are very organized and good at putting out propaganda
All we can do is put out sound, unbiased information and hopefully people will see the truth
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Part 32 - Stephan Guyenet, PhD on the Brain Controlling Body Fatness, Your Food Environment, and Low Carb Controversy

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Today we’re talking to Stephan Guyenet who has a degree in biochemistry and a PhD in neuroscience. He’s spent over 12 years in the neuroscience research world studying neurodegenerative disease and the neuroscience of body fatness. He wrote a great book called The Hungry Brain, speaks at conferences, is a Senior Fellow at GiveWell and scientific reviewer for the Examine.com Research Digest.

He is definitely not a low carb person which is why I had him on. He has a lot of great ideas and is a great mind in the space of nutrition. It was very interesting to hear him talk about all the great benefits he did see when he ate a low carb diet 11 years ago. Make sure to listen until the end when he talks about this.

He has some problems with certain people and aspects of the low carb community and is going on Joe Rogan’s podcast soon to debate Gary Taubes on his views of the Carbohydrate Insulin theory of obesity and sugar being uniquely toxic

We had some disagreement on the recommended daily allowance of nutrients - he thinks what’s recommended is all you need and getting more than that is pointless. I think this is wrong. I think he’s basing it on studies of worthless, non-bioavailable vitamin C pills that in excess do nothing. So in that - I agree. I don’t think there’s any benefit to popping a bunch of these and think we’re going to cure a cold. I do know that our ancestors got estimates of 10-20 times the amount of nutrients we get today, so there’s a lot more to this discussion that we didn’t have time to get into.

We also disagreed on fiber which led to some carnivore talk. He got some things wrong about the member of the Grateful Dead who was a carnivore. He said he died at a young age of a heart attack. I looked into it and it turns out he was carnivore for 48 years and was in excellent health and died in a car accident at 72.

He also says we don’t have longterm studies on the safety of low carb diets at the end. This isn’t exactly true and furthermore, we have hundreds of thousands of years of human populations living on low carb diets to prove its safety and efficacy. He additionally mentions the low carb community makes crazy claims that aren’t based on science. I’m not sure what he’s referring to. Not everything can be measured anyway. If tens of thousands of people report to their doctor they aren’t hungry anymore, their energy is stable, their brain is working better, they aren’t addicted to sugar, they finally have control of their food intake, etc. then this is some great clinical observations and patient anecdotes that add up to a lot.

I think everyone has their own ideas about things and collects info to support their opinion. It’s only natural, and I’m sure I’m doing it to, even though I’m trying not to. Everyone has to be in their camp and collect data and narratives to support their theories. He seemed to do this as you’ll see throughout the episode.

I agreed with a lot of his points though, especially that humans didn’t evolve to eat based on tracking macros and calories and using an excel spreadsheet to figure out what to eat. He’s doing great work and looking at this from a different angle which is important. A lot of interesting stuff here so let’s get to it. But first I gotta mention the Food Lies film which is in the last stretch of crowdfunding on Indiegogo. We really need your help to finish it. We have a bunch of cool perks like the Eat Meat T-shirt, the movie poster, bonus features, and more. Find it through FoodLies.org or by clicking through this link in the show notes. I really appreciate it - and now here’s Stephan Guyenet.

Show Notes

I’m obsessed with why we get fat and what to do about it and you’ve been researching this for a long time
Why the brain is the most important place to focus on
The brain regulates how much we eat, our food choices, and our exercise
There’s also non conscious processes the brain regulates that influence caloric expenditure, etc.
We also study the human genome to find how that plays a role in body fatness
When it comes to body weight, the genes that relate the most are in the brain
Nobody wants to overeat, but we end up doing it anyway
We need to look at our past to understand why we are wired to seek excess calories
Animals and hunter gatherers we’ve studied follow the Optimum Foraging Theory when they acquire food. It’s all about the calories per the amount of effort
Because we were eating whole foods from nature, if we got enough calories, we by default we’re getting all the vitamins and minerals needed
They didn’t have white flour, sugar, or refined oils
We only have receptors for fat, sugar, salt, and glutamate
Apparently those are the nutrients that natural selection cared about most to create reward systems for
The Hadza people went mainly for meat, tubers, and honey and didn’t go for leafy greens
The brain is motivated to pursue calorie containing foods, not vitamins and minerals
Combining bliss points make certain foods almost irresistible
You need to control your food environment
Not only don’t have it sitting out so you can see certain foods, don’t even have them in the house
How do genetics play a role? We know it’s way more to do with the type of foods eaten
About 70% of people in countries like the US are genetically susceptible to become obese when eating the bad diet that exists there. The remaining percent just aren’t as susceptible and can get away with it
Energy balance while always be a fact, but there’s a lot more to it
Eat less, move more may work for some people, but it’s not how we evolved. It’s not a natural way to regulate body weight
You can set up a food environment to allow your body to naturally eat the right amount
You’d have to be hungry all the time to continue eating processed foods and try to lose weight
His definition and thoughts on nutrient density
Questioning the necessity of fiber
His views on the carnivore diet - he thinks a big factor is becoming lean and it certainly does that
He questions if there’s long term chronic disease problems that we don’t know about
Inuit seek some plant matter
Sound engineer from the Grateful Dead who was carnivore for 48 years - Stephan said he died of a heart attack at a young age. Turns out he was super healthy and died of a car accident at 72.
His book https://justmeat.co/docs/the-bear.pdf
They call him “Bear” https://dangerousminds.net/comments/uncle_johns_ham_the_grateful_deads_all-meat_diet
Wikipedia on him: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owsley_Stanley
Stephan agrees with what I always say about going to either end of the extreme with super low carb or super low fat you have great benefits
He’s going on Joe Rogan’s podcast to debate Gary Taubes on his views of the Carbohydrate Insulin theory of obesity and sugar being uniquely toxic
What happened with Gary Taubes and Dr. Peter Attia’s non profit venture NuSI - the Nutritional Science Initiative?
What Stephan got wrong in his blog posts
Why he thinks Gary Taubes is wrong and what is the evidence
He doesn’t like the fact that Gary is calling out scientists
Exercise and weight loss
The model of obesity he subscribes to is that it’s all regulated by the brain
Homeostatic regulation - hypothalamus controls body fatness like a thermostat
The hormone leptin sends feedback to your brain regarding body fat levels
Personal fat threshold, how someone can be skinny on the outside but fat on the inside, people can be obese but metabolically healthy, and insulin as a dam holding back fat in the cells
He doesn’t think that eating an insulin lowering diet like low carb allows you to lose weight because of the lowered insulin
He thinks low carb diets and low fat diets work merely because you’re taking away the extreme motivation to overeat the foods, AKA hyperplatability
Potato hack
Metabolic flexibility
He thinks being metabolically inflexible is more a sign of insulin resistance than anything
He eats about 50% carb, 18% protein, 32% fat
He ate a low carb diet after reading Taubes’ book Good Calories, Bad Calories 11 years ago
He said it was about the same but one benefit was that he wasn’t tied to meal times. Eating high carb he definitely knew when it was time to eat. Easier to fast
He was easily doing 24 hour fasts. Now on high carb it’s way harder and he experiences brain fog
Why are low carb diets so maligned in the mainstream media and medical system?
What are his solutions for fixing the nation’s health problems?
His book The Hungry Brain http://www.stephanguyenet.com/thehungrybrain/
His website http://www.stephanguyenet.com
His Twitter https://twitter.com/whsource

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Part 31 - Dr. Jeff Volek on Carb Intolerance, Reversing Type 2 Diabetes, and Personalized Nutrition

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I talk to a lot of great people on this podcast but this may be the man who really knows this stuff at the deepest level and most qualified to talk about fat adaptation and ketogenic diets & therapies. He has been doing amazing work in this field for such a long time.

Dr. Jeff Volek is a professor, researcher, registered dietitian, and co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Virta Health. For the last two decades, Dr. Volek has performed cutting edge research on how humans adapt to diets restricted in carbohydrates with a dual focus on clinical and performance applications of nutritional ketosis. His scholarly work includes more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and five books, including a New York Times Best Seller, and he has provided more than 200 lectures at scientific and industry conferences around the world. He’s an all around great guy and someone I admire.

He very rarely does interviews so I was honored to spend some time with him. He is busy running his lab at OSU while also being a co-founder of a major health company I mention a lot called Virta. My company SAPIEN which you can find out more about at SAPIEN.org is producing technology similar to them. They use an app as well as devices like a smart scale to help monitor patients and keep them accountable as well as communicate with a health coach as they reverse type 2 diabetes with diet and lifestyle. We’re doing the same thing at SAPIEN so if you are a healthcare provider or a health coach and are interested in our platform please reach out to us via our site SAPIEN.org

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SHOW NOTES

He presented some of his research at the Metabolic Health Summit in Long Beach at the beginning of February
Keto is very popular these days but it’s a double-edged sword
His interests in ketogenic research are broad including metabolic disease, type 2 diabetes, athletes, military personnel, etc.
He’s studying tons of military applications to help them deal with energy, fatigue, recovery, cognitive function, etc.
He and Dr. Steve Phinney wrote the great book The Art & Science of Low Carb Living which should be perfect for the savvy nutrition folks listening to this podcast https://www.amazon.com/Art-Science-Low-Carbohydrate-Living/dp/0983490708
The concept of carb intolerance
What percentage of the population might be carb intolerant?
Before the agricultural revolution humans had very little access to carbohydrate
Low carb or ketogenic diets are what our bodies were made to run on
There’s probably only a small percentage of the population that is tolerant to these refined and abundant carbs in the modern food environment
Carb tolerance also goes down with age
What’s great is that basically everyone can adapt to a low carb diet and this makes sense from an evolutionary perspective
We all have the ability to run on fat but eating a ton of carbs suppresses that
It’s helping to treat diabetes (reverse it or put it in remission), cancer, neurological diseases
The preponderance of trials shows low carb diets are superior to low fat diets in a free living setting
There was interest and studies in ketogenic diets for weight loss in the 50s and 60s but then we hit the “dark ages” of this research with the USDA guidelines and it was basically toxic to study low carb in the 70s, 80s, and 90s
There’s been a huge amount of research done in the last 20 years that supports low carb diets
There’s so much entrenched beliefs and momentum behind low fat paradigm it just takes a while to get past it - we’re doing really well actually
The dietary guidelines don’t reflect the current body of science
They dietary guidelines actually matter - affect what kids eat at school, military eat, what’s taught to dietitians
I think we should have two dietary strategies offered as the official guidelines instead of ending up high fat AND high carb like most americans artoday
Dr. Volek believes low carb should be the preferred option for those with any sort of metabolic syndrome
Personalized nutrition is the future but we’re just scratching the surface
Mapping the genome and genetic testing aren't really panning out
He’s looking at some biomarkers to help tell if people are mismanaging carbs
What about eating more protein?
It’s pretty straightforward to implement a ketogenic diet but it’s also pretty challenging in modern society
His company Virta http://virtahealth.com is working on tools for this
I’m doing something similar with SAPIEN http://sapien.org
They use technology to efficiently scale the program to thousands and potentially millions of patients
Dr. Sarah Hallberg ran the clinical trials and showed amazing efficacy of the program and keto diet in reversing type 2 diabetes
Their blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c values were normalized which is pretty unheard of in the standard treatment of T2D
They recommend eating fat to satiety but limit carbs and protein to achieve ketosis
They recommend 1.2 to 2 grams of protein per pound of reference bodyweight
Ketones have an anti-catabolic effect so they decrease protein breakdown - so no need to overeat protein
Some people report less than ideal body composition on a ketogenic diet - may be because not getting enough minerals and electrolytes
You can get a stress response as a result from this - sympathetic nervous system response and aldosterone causes potassium to be wasted as it tries to absorb more sodium
If you have low sodium that has a negative effect on your protein status
He has another book called The Art and Science of Low Carb Performance focused on athletics
He had a great presentation at the conference I missed
In the 60s and 70s Scandinavian researchers found out about the importance of muscle glycogen which led to the concept of carb loading
A coach out of Florida invented Gatorade a bit later and then the Gatorade Sports Science Institute formed which really influenced our view sports and exercise science
Since the 1960s it's been unanimous that all athletes should eat as much carbohydrate as possible before, during, and after exercise. It’s pretty insane. And there’s multi-billion dollar industries behind it to keep it this way
He thinks athletes should be consuming as few carbs as possible while maintaining peak performance
Consuming all these carbs are like absorbing punches to your body - you can get away with it for a while but the damage builds up
It also prevents them from being able to burn their own fat
He rewrote the textbooks and what was possible with VO2 max and fat oxidation in his FASTER study
Ultra distance runners are winning races fat-adapted
Burning basically 100% fat for 3 hours during tests
They’re recovering better, not relying on tons of sugar and refined carbs packs, better GI function, and have greater enjoyment exercising
He also studies military applications which overlap with these athletic advantages
He says more importantly even are the cognitive benefits of the ketogenic diet
They are also studying the effects of ketones on inflammatory pathways, an association with less oxidative stress, perhaps better immune functioning
So far being in ketosis has been found to help people recover faster, cope with stress better, improved mental clarity and cognitive function
Also helpful for traumatic brain injuries
There’s so much more that needs to be studied and there’s so much promise for new applications of ketosis
We need to support federal and private funding of research on ketogenic diets and therapies

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Part 30 - Dr. Tro on the Psychology of Obesity, Losing 150 Pounds (and how to do the same), and Not Even Knowing Why He Was Fat

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Welcome back, everyone. I’m working hard to make each episode very informative and get great guests that bring something unique to the table. I go for quality over quantity. I love having guests with new messages and insights that we haven’t heard before, and Dr. Tro is one of these great sources of information. People have been requesting a weight loss journey - someone who’s actually lost a ton of weight themselves. Not only did Dr. Tro lose 150 pounds, but he’s a… you guessed it… doctor. He helps people figure out how to transform their body and health on a daily basis. This is real world application here, people.

There’s so many sides to this stuff and the psychology behind eating (and more importantly overeating) is huge. He knows a lot about what it means to be obese and make these changes and make them last. He was 350 pounds 3 years ago and has kept off the weight despite the usual statistics of 97% of people just putting it back on. This was no easy feat and if you haven’t seen a photo of him, he’s actually pretty ripped.

We start off with some social media controversy about a post I made that rubbed some people with food addiction the wrong way. The episode is about so much more than that, so keep listening and I think there’s huge value for anyone and everyone in this episode.

Once again, I have to talk about the Food Lies film Indiegogo campaign. Basically all podcasts have sponsors to pay the bills. My film is this sponsor. I’ve turned down other sponsors and could be making quite a bit based on the expanding audience of the show. I’d really rather not do this so please support the film if you’re enjoying the podcast and the lack of annoying ads. This film is my baby and I’ve spent an immeasurable amount of my time and own money on it. I know it will all be worth it when it’s completed, so please help me get there. Go to FoodLies.org to click through to the Indiegogo campaign or click on the link in the show notes. Thanks so much and here’s Dr. Tro.

Show Notes

I made a remark on social media that was supposed to be motivational and ended up backfiring
Food addiction is something Dr. Tro knows a lot about
Controversial topic - Dr. Robert Lustig has a book on it http://www.robertlustig.com/hacking/
Is you buy and eat the correct food you shouldn’t be hungry all the time
I have my own food addiction - once I start eating I can’t stop
His wife had to hide food from him
He didn’t know why his appetite was so messed up
I wrote the post under the context of it being inspirational and that people who follow my accounts would understand what I’m talking about and what foods they should be eating
He thought he was “meant” to be obese. That it was his genetics. His family was all overweight
This was reinforced in medical school where they taught him that it was genetic
75% of patients he sees for weight issues have a history of childhood trauma
People don’t even realize how much they’re eating
If you’re eating processed foods stuffed with carbs and sugar it’s basically impossible to be full
Even nutritionists and doctors don’t know how much they really eat - when asked they are off by 20%
Satiety is the most important thing we need to be talking about - some people don’t even realize different foods provide different satiety
Liquid calories are enemy #1
Layne Norton and bodybuilders are way different than the normal person
Counting calories doesn’t work - we have calories listed everywhere for decades, we have My Fitness Pal, it's plainly obvious it doesn't work
Our bodies don’t have a calorie receptor to know how much we have eaten or need to eat
When glycemia shifts (blood sugar up then down) you're going to be hungry
He levels out their blood sugar with a LCHF diet. Can do it whole foods plant based if the patient has that personal preference
Low fat approach not good in long term because it knocks down hormones like CCK and neuropeptide YY
Once you’re fat adapted you're not beholden to food for energy
A lot of hunger is just mental at this point - you have hundreds of thousands of calories of fat stored on your body you can use
Cortisol makes you hungry and your blood sugar to swing
Part of helping people to lose weight is coaching them on what to do in times of stress
He advises people to just eat protein and fat if they’re hungry in the early stages - they can build up to being more strict later. They also will be full for hours after eating the right foods. Anything to avoid the donut
He can eat 3 pounds of meat at once - overeat his satiety signaling
Hyper palatability comes when you add sugar + fat
Formerly or currently obese have large stomach volumes and need more tools to not overeat and be full
He doesn't recommend a lot of vegetables and fiber but it has its place to fill the stomach from a volume perspective
He didn’t know this before. None of the other doctors or nutritionists around him knew it either
We’ve all been given useless and bogus advice on weight loss for the past 50 years
There’s not only 1 way to do things
If one of his obese binge eating patients gets told by a conventional dietician to eat a portion-controlled low-fat diet it's a setup for complete failure
He’s totally against myplate.gov - conventional advice didn’t help him and won’t help anyone that comes to see him
On all conventional diets: “instead of telling people how to be full, they’re telling people how to be hungry”
He puts his health program online for anyone to see and has virtual visits and programs http://doctortro.com
He’s also opening a brick and mortar clinic in New York
Many people claim to not like beef - I think it’s because of all the propaganda against it all these years. They think it’s bad for them deep down and can’t get over it
People also say they don’t feel well on a low carb diet - they probably just aren't fat adapted yet. The keto flu can be bad
Just because fat is good doesn't mean you can eat unlimited amounts of it
Reasons for stalls: carb creep, fat creep, or alcohol
Need to learn to cook in a framework
One reason carnivore probably works is through restricting foods. If you restrict anything people tend to eat 25% less
His story of losing 150 pounds without exercising much and then training for a 5k with barely any carbs
Layne Norton is talking about pop tarts and bro scientists are talking about how you have to have carbs for your brain or for energy
Dr. Tro went from the worst at 99th percentile to the top 1% percentile in the 5K without any carbs
He was fasting 20+ hours per day for the last 6 months and his bench, squat, and deadlift all went up
99.5% of athletes don’t need carbohydrates. Maybe if you’re a professional and elite athlete they could help
Had Luis Villasenor on season 2 who is a giant muscular guy and doesn't eat carbs
Dr. Tro went to the science and found low carb - don’t understand why guys like Layne Norton call people low carb zealots
In an ad libitum free living setting (which is how every single one of us live are life) low carbs diets consistently outperform low fat diets
Layne Norton’s flexible dieting and “if it fits your macros” is in no way science based yet he constantly talks about how he’s all about the science
Every other diet he dismisses and disses is based on science except his

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Part 29 - Dr. Gary Fettke on the History of the Anti-meat Agenda, Disinformation, and Being Silenced by his Medical Board

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Season 3 is in full swing with worldwide leaders in their field talking about the latest science of nutrition and health.

To catch people up I’m Brian Sanders and I’ve quit my job and dedicated my life to studying health and nutrition. I’m trying my best to be unbiased and to simplify the conflicting advice out there and distill down concepts into something anyone can understand. I’m not a doctor or nutritionist. I’m a mechanical engineer and I’ve lost both of my parents to chronic disease and have set off on my own path for the last 4 years to study this topic and make sure I don’t fall to the same fate. My role is the curator, the communicator. I’ve interviewed over 100 of the top scientists, doctors, nutritionists, fitness experts, and other health professionals and have come to find some simple truths that I’d like to share.

A lot of this will be presented in the feature length documentary called Food Lies, but it’s not all about the film. I’m spreading this information to the public anyway I can. I do this podcast, I post daily ideas and information on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, and soon to I’ll be doing more videos on youtube. Search for Food Lies on any of these platforms.

Dr. Gary Fettke has an amazing tale of deceit, deception, disinformation, conspiring dietitians, medical evangelism, his medical board attempting to silence him, and even John Harvey Kellogg, founder of the cereal company and his anti-masterbation mission. A lot going on here and a lot of alliteration as well. Dr. Fettke is an orthopedic surgeon living in Tasmania off of Australia. He practices preventative medicine and helps treat patients long before resorting to surgical interventions. Like Professor Tim Noakes, he stood up to his medical board and powers that be that were trying to stop him from dispensing simple and logical nutrition advice like eating fresh, local, and seasonal foods instead of processed foods. He spent 3 years of his own time and money on this absurdity before being exonerated of all charges. Strap yourselves in folks, this is a good one!

As I’m recording this I’m dealing with the harsh realities of a measly budget and worries of how to finish the Food Lies documentary properly. If you haven’t supported it yet, please consider doing that now. It’s a true community-powered project. If enough people pre-order the film at a pretty reasonable cost of $25 we can complete this in a matter of months instead of maybe a year. That’s what we’re facing if we don’t have the funds. This will be made no matter what, don’t be worried about that. This is my life’s work and all I care about right now. Thanks for your help - just go to FoodLies.org and click through to the Indiegogo campaign or click through the link in the show notes. We have an amazing woman named Amanda adding in $20 more for each person who contributes. Please take her up on her kind offer today. Also, please leave a review of the podcast on itunes or the Apple podcast app. I sent out a care package to listener Aaron from Ohio yesterday who had the review of the week. I really appreciate these reviews and they help get the podcast more visibility. And now here’s Dr. Gary Fettke.

Show Notes

Dr. gary Fettke is an orthopedic surgeon living in Tasmania off of Australia
Part of his job entails cutting off toes and limbs of type 2 diabetes patients
He uncovered documents proving the collusion of the food industry (Kellogg’s and other cereal/grains companies) to target him and 7 other Australians
They feel that low carb and paleo diets are hurting their sales and want to do something about it
All he was promoting was to reduce sugar, refined grains, and industrial oils which he calls the model of inflammation
By doing this you are eating low carb healthy fat and avoiding processed foods. Pretty simple… but directly against the big food manufacturers
He was also saying red meat was ok
He was silenced by his medical board and wasn’t allowed to ever give nutritional advice again
Was finally thrown out years later after much time, expense, and lobbying
He originally thought it was about the science, but that was simple and they had all the facts on their side
Found out about the vested interests and the role of the 7th day adventist church
There’s an article in a journal called Religion where they pretty much self-admit all of this - so it sounds crazy, but it’s all true
Traced the beginning to America in 1917 when the American Dietetics Association was born
They are responsible for much of the textbooks and teachings in that era
A woman named Lena Cooper was instrumental in founding this organization. She was a vegetarian and 7th day adventist
She worked with John Harvey Kellogg who went on to found the cereal company Kellogg’s
The 7th day adventists started with the visions of Ellen G. White who believed meat was unclean and made men violent and also caused masterbation
It started around the temperance movement when there was push to ban alcohol and eat clean and close to God
Kellogg grew up typesetting for the Adventists and raised by those principles
He later founded the Sanitarium in Battle Creek Michigan and owns the patent for corn flakes
He created it as a bland food that would help stop masterbation - if you don't believe it, google “kellogg cereal anti-masterbation”
Her beliefs were based on visions she had as a girl
People were leaving the farms and coming into the cities during this time - meat had to be transported without refrigeration
They believed in the “Garden of Eden Diet” which was all plants and included cereals, grains, fruit, veg, nuts, and legumes. It’s still what’s promoted today
It keeps evolving and they keep changing the story on why meat is bad. First it's meat causes violence, then meat causes masterbation, then they moved to meat causes cancer, then meat causes heart disease, and finally meat is destroying the environment
The adventists are the world’s 2nd leading educator behind the Catholic church yet only have 0.3% of the world’s population
7th day adventists also connected with bringing in soy and all the fake meat products from China
7th day adventists own 22 food industries outside of the US
7th day adventists produce over 4,000 “food products” made of processed plant foods
7th day adventists have 8,000 schools around the world
7th day adventists are proud of their medical evangelism
7th day adventists own over 60 publishing houses
7th day adventists over 850 radio stations
7th day adventists 441 TV stations (in 2016)
7th day adventists did 70,000 podcasts (2016 report) with 1.1 billion downloads
7th day adventists are also inserting their vegetarian agenda in medical textbooks and journals
7th day adventists inserted backend material on 99% of medical software in Australia (2017 report) - This means if you are a doctor and look up any printed material for a patient it’s all Adventist vegetarian material
Generational education - this is the problem
It’s repeated so many times and in all the textbooks for so long, we just believe it
Food manufacturers embrace these plant-based ideas and make more money - they stuff sugra, refined grains, and polyunsaturated oils in the food and it lasts longer and has a higher profit margin
Watch out for the terms “lifestyle medicine” and “exercise is medicine” - these are being pushed by the food industries and organizations like ILSI started by Coca-cola
EAT Lancet published a study mid-january and a new “planetary diet” that is supposed to be good for your health and the good for the environment. THe face of the organization is a billionaire vegan and all the big food companies are behind it
There’s an article that came out recently saying the vast majority of the 37 experts that made up the diet don't follow it
This diet is back to the Garden of Eden diet - all plant based with a little bit of meat thrown in
The United Nations and the World Health Organization are being influenced by a group of activists
I think there’s been such a successful anti-meat campaign for so many decades people can’t even think otherwise
He says people are gullible and it’s crazy to get your health information from the news
Kellogg’s, Unilever, and PepsiCo are the ones selling you this information
There’s also powerful films convincing young people that meat is ruining the world
Veganism is highest amongst teenage girls - they’ve become the foot soldiers of the food industry
Vegan activists surrounded a teenage girl doing her job at a zoo
Our biggest export is our topsoil - we’re losing it
Take back the buying power of these food companies by shopping locally at a farmers market
When you search for “low carb bread” on youtube anti-low carb videos are being advertised
Dr. Gary Fettke says “Eat fresh, local, and seasonal”
Everything he talks about is based on biochemistry but most of the other side is based on association and propaganda
Nutrition science doesn't use the scientific method a lot of the time
A lot of nutrition is based on what’s cheap and easy to produce and palatable
They’re spreading disinformation - purposeful misinformation
Food companies are using the same tactics as tobacco companies used
We have followed the recommendations - our whole grain and fruits/veg consumption went up and red meat went down, but we only got fatter and sicker
Our cattle numbers have actually been decreasing over the last few decades
Vegan diet falls apart when you look at the science
My podcast with Dr. David Klurfeld comes up who was on the WHO panel that decided meat was a carcinogen who talked about it being full of vegans with undeclared agendas https://www.peak-human.com/home/dr-david-klurfeld-on-meat-not-causing-cancer-bogus-vegetarian-scientists-and-balanced-nutrition
Vegetarian research papers are written by 7th day adventist vegans
Coca-cola uses “exercise as medicine” to throw people off from the sugar water they are drinking
I say we should “eat densely, move intensely” and that “eat less, move more” is a worthless statement
To enact change you need to start with yourself and not wait for government and guidelines to change
Back in the 40s and 50s when we were healthy we’d eat once per week or have 1 soda per week - it was a treat - a special occasion. Now people eat like this every day, all day
In farming communities it was traditional to maybe eat only 1 main meal per day
Snacking and constantly eating it a totally new thing
You don’t have to wither away and have a terrible quality of life
You can either be pushed into home plate in a wheelchair drooling on yourself or you can slide in with a cloud of dust
Find him at http://nofructose.com
http://isupportgary.com
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Dr. Gary Fettke on twitter http://twitter.com/fructoseno

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Part 28 - Dr Ryan Lowery on the Benefits of Being Fat Adapted, Life Extension, and Positivity

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Aaaaand we’re back! Thanks for waiting patiently for season 3. We have an all-star lineup of guests and many interviews already in the can ready to be released.

Today I’m talking to Ryan Lowery who is a PhD in Health and Human Performance and a researcher studying cellular, molecular and whole body changes in muscle size, strength, and power in response to novel nutrition, training and supplement interventions. He’s also the president of the Applied Science and Performance Institute where he’s bridging the gap between the latest research and science and practical application. He runs ketogenic.com which is a great resource to check out.

He’s the guy that Layne Norton called out in a previous episode. I wanted to get him on to talk about the benefits of being fat adapted and why ketogenic diets are an effective tool in the arsenal. I was actually just hanging out with him at the Metabolic Health Summit. This was an awesome conference put on in part by Dr. Dom D’Agostino who mentioned it last summer in Peak Human episode 6 that I did with him. The top scientists studying ketogenic metabolic therapy were there talking about their latest research and how in conjunction with some other treatments it has been used to shrink brain tumors, prevent epileptic seizures, and even reverse cognitive decline and Alzheimer's. Pretty amazing stuff.

So a quick message about the film - please go to FoodLies.org and support us on Indiegogo as we finish post production. We have to cover the cost of our amazing animators, graphic artists, and editors working away on this. I won’t sell it anymore, just know I make no money on this and have in fact spent every cent of my savings making it so far. I really appreciate your support. Here’s Dr. Ryan Lowery.

Show Notes

Phinney and Volek set him off - they hadn’t run experiments on resistance training
He was a high carb athlete chugging 250 grams of carbs just from weight gainer shakes and skeptical about keto and sports performance
Endurance athletes can have an advantage by being fat adapted and metabolically flexible to tap into tens of thousands of calories they have in their fat stores
Online war with Layne Norton
Benefits of being fat adapted
Some studies that show when protein and calories are equated there is benefits to running on fat
In real world applications, so what if keto people eat more protein, we live in the real world
Is it possible that all these amazing results I and others are getting from eating this way is just due to eating at a deficit?
Energy balance remains
Are all calories the same?
Nutrient density is king
All calories are certainly not equal - Layne’s own studies show this
You can eat whey protein and rice and hit your macros and lose weight - doesn’t; mean it’s healthy. There’s studies showing our ancestors ate 10-20 times the vitamins and minerals we eat today
Problems with “if it fits your macros”
Benefits of running on fat instead of glucose
Phospholipids and brain health
We lose our tolerance to carbs as we grow older
Dr. Michael Rose is the one doing the fruit fly studies - look him up or listen to him on Robb Wolf’s podcast #416
You can’t force someone to eat a certain way, but you can help them find what they want to do
His brother is obese
Cyclic keto AKA blowing it out on the weekends
Not back in ketosis until thursday
I don’t care about ketosis necessarily and just eat nutrient dense foods
Ketones are muscle sparing - help you retain muscle mass
If you’re on a long term ketogenic diet your pancreas isn’t secreting much insulin and you aren’t prepared for a bolus of glucose - don’t be super strict then go bananas for a holiday or vacation
People on low fat diets can’t handle a huge bolus of fat either
Gut problems when transitioning to high fat or carnivore
Don’t get caught up in a tribe
Their animal studies on a keto diet for its entire lifespan
Visceral fat around the organs is the worst kind of fat
Thin on the Outside, Fat on the Inside (TOFI) which Layne disregarded and said wasn’t a thing
Layne Norton called out Prof. Tim Noakes as a liar saying that he never had pre-diabetes
His message is to make positivity louder
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Twitter http://twitter.com/DrRyanLowery
Instagram http://instagram.com/ryanplowery

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Part 27 - Sally Fallon Morell on the Wise Traditions of our Ancestors & Weston A. Price

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Sally Fallon Morell is the director and co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation. She’s spent the last 20 years doing amazing work to promote the wise traditions of our ancestors and their farming, preparation, and consumption of foods. She’s written many amazing books such as Nourishing Traditions, Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and a new Book called Nourishing Diets. I really value all that she’s done and continues to do.

I’ve come to realize my ideal diet is the one the Weston A. Price Foundation recommends minus the grains, even though they are safe if you prepare them properly as Sally mentions. I’d prefer to run on fat and most people listening probably know the vast benefits of doing this. I want to highlight that they can be safe to eat if you soak them overnight, etc. so if you choose to eat these foods at least do it properly.

You may have noticed I’m getting all kinds of people on the show. I don’t want to be totally one sided. I’ll let people share their differing opinions and not argue with them. That doesn’t mean I support their stance. Dr. David Klurfeld, Layne Norton - let’s hear what they have to say.

I think it would be a disservice to just keep getting people on the show who 100% agree with me. You have to be open to all sides so you’re not caught being dogmatic just like vegans and only look at things from one angle or miss the truth because your head is in the sand. All I’m after is truth, and will change my views if necessary. So far, nothing has shaken my belief that we need to eat nutrient dense ancestral diets with a lot of animal fat. I believe it’s better to run on fat, and most carbs are pretty worthless because they don’t have a lot of nutrients for how much energy they have. You can get the same nutrients that properly sprouted and fermented grains have elsewhere.

People doing carnivore. Listen to the teachings of Dr. Price. Eat the whole animal. So much of the good stuff is in the bits and pieces. You can point to many populations over time eating mostly all or even 100% animal foods for long periods or life, and I agree with you, but they weren’t eating only muscle meat.

I think the best diet out there is basically what Tara Couture, my last podcast guest who’s a homestead farmer, feeds her family. The full animal plus fermented veg and other fresh grown veg thrown in. Add in some more exotic foods such as fish eggs, avocado, mushrooms, and coconut oil. You can’t get more nutrient dense and less potentially harmful than that.

This was our last film tour and we’re now actively engaged in post-production for Food Lies. All the T-shirts and rewards are being sent out shortly. You can still pre-order the film and get the other rewards at Indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post which is linked here in the show notes and at FoodLies.org where you can also see the film trailer. Thanks so much for the support and here’s Sally.

Show Notes

Just got back from filming with her on her farm in southern Maryland
They mimic nature with regenerative and holistic farming practices and produce raw milk and raw cheese, etc.
It’s strange that we need an entire organization just help re-educate people on how we have always eaten. It’s an uphill battle with a ton of opposition
Rotational grazing mimics the grazing and movement of ruminants throughout history
Weston A. Price foundation validates traditional farming and eating practices with modern science
Demonization of saturated fats
Procter & Gamble and the cottonseed oil and Crisco story - they were experts at marketing to housewives of the time
Vegetable oils might be worse than trans fat
For all of history humans prized animal fat
It’s insane to give kids skim milk
Dr. Price found that different culture all over the world had similar practices of a nutrient dense animal food diet 6 months prior to conception
Vegetarian diet 2014 UK study: “our results showed that a vegetarian diet is associated with poorer health (higher incidences of cancer, allergies, and mental health disorders), a higher need for health care, and poorer quality of life.” https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0088278&type=printable
Tooth health is a great indicator of overall health
Wide dental arches and face and not needing braces is a sign of good nutrition from pre-conception through the growth phase
Our ancestors built up their vitamin A stores well ahead of becoming pregnant by eating organ meats, animal fat, butter, egg yolks, etc.
The heart starts growing before the women even knows she’s pregnant
Prenatal vitamins aren't bioavailable - you need to get the full nutrition from the food you eat
The foundation has seen so many examples of healthy, strong, smart, attractive babies born from eating this nutrient dense diet
Some of his other studies and observations of kids in youth detention facilities and where he gave different groups of low income kids one nutritious meal per day of beef stew and cod liver oil with really good grass fed butter
When displacing foods of modern civilization came in (sugar, flour, canned foods, vegetable oils) the first thing that happened was rampant tooth decay. The next generation had the narrow jaws and crooked teeth
People on the traditional diet didn’t get tuberculosis
He studied the level in vitamins in butter compared to when the cows were on the best grass compared to heart attack rates
He also presented data showing the level of minerals in the soil and the correlation to PhDs - the areas that people were born and raised with the most fertile soil produced far more doctors
Her new book is called Nourishing Diets and it looks at what populations around the world really ate throughout history. Of course none of them were vegan or vegetarian - they all highly cherished and regarded animal foods https://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Diets-Ancestral-Traditional-Peoples/dp/1538711680
Crushes the original Blue Zones book that tried to claim many long living populations were plant based
He actually lied - there’s studies showing all the people who got more animal foods and animal fat lived longer than people who didn’t
She has an article about each one of the 5 blue zones refuting the original author:
http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-okinawa/
http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-sardinia
http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-ikaria-greece/
http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-loma-linda/
http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-costa-rica/
The China Study is also oft cited by vegetarian zealots. That was a very poorply done study and actually the authors said it was not to be used to draw conclusions from or show causation… although that’s exactly what vegan propagandist T. Colin Campbell did
She says grains were actually being cultivated before we thought. BUT all the cultures knew to detoxify them by soaking and fermenting them
Eating a bunch of whole grains caused a ton of problems in modern society like gluten intolerance, leaky but, SIBO, IBS, and much more. THere’s so many anti-nutrients in grains, humans aren't meant to digest them
No whole foods are excluded on the Weston A. Price diet. It’s all about the context and preparation of your food
A little know fact is that brushing your teeth isn't the biggest factor in tooth decay - it’s actually your diet. Obviously these non-westernized cultures throughout history didn't have toothpaste, toothbrushes, and flouride, yet they all had near-perfect teeth
How the nutrient diet of our ancestors affects jaw development
Anecdotally, her parents both had perfect teeth (raised on butter and animal fat), her and her 3 siblings all needed braces (raised on vegetable oils), and all her children and grandchildren have great teeth (went back to butter and animal fats)
Her daughter has a gluten intolerance because she got too many whole grains too early in life. For her later children she waited and they’re all fine
Why raw milk is considered harmful (even though it is what we should be consuming)
It’s funny to see all this new enthusiasm for bone broth and fermented foods when Dr .Price and the foundation have known about it all along
The future is in small artisan producers of these foods - it doesn’t take a lot of capital to start up
The new generation is already heading this way - they don’t want to work for big corporations
Technology got us away from our roots but it has the potential to help us get back
They set up http://rawmilk.com
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Part 26 - Tara Couture on Nutrient Dense, Ancestral, and Optimal Eating, Farming, and Life

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Welcome back everyone, I’m Brian Sanders and I quit my job and have dedicated my life to the investigation of nutrition and lifelong health. I’m creating the feature length documentary Food Lies, this podcast, and a health technology company here in Los Angeles with a doctor and 2 other partners.

Today I’m talking to Tara Couture who is a certified nutritionist, homestead farmer, expert in nutrient dense cooking and living, and maybe my new favorite person ever.

She’s raised her family for 25 years on the most amazing, nutrient dense foods you can imagine using her nutrition background, teachings from Weston A. Price, raw milk from farmer friends, and mostly her own animals she raises. She butchers her own animals, churns her own butter, makes her own head cheese, etc., etc. She is the real deal. Check out what I’m talking about before you even listen to this episode on her amazing Instagram account http://instagram.com/slowdownfarmstead

She’s a wealth of information and I genuinely enjoyed our talk. We get into vegan lies, the canadian mafia-like police arresting people for selling food they produced by hand, crazy family members refusing to eat her food, and a lot more. Her husband is an ER doctor and deals with some of this insanity as well.

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Show Notes

She has the best Instagram account in the game http://instagram.com/slowdownfarmstead
She lives on a homestead farm in Canada and raises basically all her own animals and food
She eats the most glorious, nutrient food you can imagine
Tara and her husband (who is a doctor) were in the military and moved around for many years. Every place they went they immediately found local farmers to supply them with the nutrient dense food they needed
She bought deep freezers on Craigslist for $50 and bought bulk animals for the whole year
People in cities can go to farmers markets or get involved with a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) https://www.localharvest.org/csa/
Her daughter is living in a small apartment and buying bulk meat from farmers and deep freezing as well
It doesn't have to be all or nothing - do what you can
Daughters went off and ate normal food with friends as teenagers and felt sick and hated it
She’s eating an animal food-only diet currently but doesn't like to call it carnivore or keto because that’s not what she’s after - she’s going after nutrient density
She lists some of the things she eats daily - duck confit, head cheese, rabbit liver, kidney, adn heart pate, duck prosciutto… the list goes on
Duck prosciutto sounds fancy but is actually super easy to make
We’ve been sold a bunch of lies by big food producers making it seem like they’re the only ones that can feed us and it’s so hard to cook on your own
She inexplicably has a 26 year old daughter while looking 26 herself
Her daughter was misdiagnosed with a rare disease which made her go vegetarian. Her health fell apart despite doing it very well with all the right food combinations
All her daughters were raised on organic foods, raw milk and cream, lots of animal fats and they are all beautiful and lean
They’ve never had antibiotics and none of them even have a doctor
The younger 2 daughters have never had a cavity (Tara was eating vegetarian when she had the oldest so…)
Her youngest is on the boys hockey team and squats 225 lbs and was born 10 lbs 6 oz
She thinks their calm and even-keeled temperament is very noticable and attributes it to a very healthy diet
They bring big coolers of real foods (meat) to hockey tournaments
Youngest daughter has never had fast food before - she says she wants that to be on her tombstone “the kid that never went to McDonalds”
They have a beautiful organic garden and eat fermented plant foods like sauerkraut and kimchi
She’s temporarily eating only animal foods because she has zero inflammation that way, feels great, and has no gut issues
She lives near Ottawa on the Canadian Shield which has thin soil and is very rocky. There’s also trees everywhere. This land cannot be used for crops. The only good use for it is animals.
They wander the forest and eat a really diverse variety of forage
She does rotational grazing with her cows in the warmer months
“The idea that grain or vegetarian diets will save the earth is so nonsensical. Anyone that works on the land can explain to you in one sentence why that can’t happen”
Vegans have the loudest voices so people think it’s the majority
People like Bill Gates think they know how to save the world - he’s some nerd who started a computer company - what does he know about farming?
Don’t wait for these changes to come from the top - get your own well-sourced meat today
She raises dairy cows, beef cows, ducks, meat rabbits, and heritage breed pigs (off and on)
She makes her own butter which destroys any store bought grass fed butter
Animals have instincts, just like humans, of what’s good for them
She is working outside the system regarding insurance, so if anything happens she’s screwed
They have a quota system for milk where you have to buy the right to sell milk for tens of thousands of dollars
It’s like a mafia. They raided her neighbor and took him to court
It would be illegal for her to serve me milk if I visited
Her slaughter story
7 min documentary on mobile slaughter called “I Kill” https://vimeo.com/118461898
The first animal she was around for the end of life was a bison she butchered with her mentor
She develops relationships with these animals. This is part of life. We have a disconnect with death, and it’s not good
For some reason we’re trying to rewrite nature and evolution with our current “me” oriented thought patterns
An unnamed person in her life came over for dinner and brought her own diet yogurt, 7up, and granola bar to eat and refused to eat her farm grown, handmade food
Her dad has major health problems
Her husband is a doctor but doesn’t want to be part of the system pumping out drugs
People go to the hospital for a common cold and demand antibiotics
So much depression, ADHD, and anxiety in children these days, it’s crazy
When he asks people what they eat they're offended
Our society is soft
We need to start with our community food system first - not the big food companies or policy at the top level
https://www.westonaprice.org
http://www.eatwild.com
“It’s been the great con job of our century to make us think that all this stuff is hard and foreign and out of reach”

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Part 25 - Layne Norton on Carbs vs. Fat, Metabolism, and Personalized Nutrition

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Today we have Layne Norton who I had a great time talking with and has a lot of good messages… Nobody should get too caught up in one way of doing something, even if it has tons of apparent benefits. I’ve always tried to keep an open mind and have repeatedly talked about how many different dietary strategies can work, especially on the two opposite ends of the spectrum. Just don’t get caught in the middle like most Americans.

This wasn’t supposed to be a debate. Previous guest Dr. Dom D’Agostino recently had a quote debate with Layne on Joe Rogan’s podcast which I recommend that everyone check out. I don’t think Dom challenged him enough so I wanted to have him on and ask a few more questions. I believe people can do fine running on fat or glucose, or both, there's just benefits and downsides depending on which. I see almost no downsides to fat, it’s working for me, I see way more lines of evidence pointing to this being our default state, and so I continue to lean on this side as the preferred metabolic state.

We talked about a very interesting study that just came out in November that I feel puts a big hit on his position that if you keep protein and overall calories consistent between to groups of people, the fat and carb content doesn't matter. This study which I linked to in the show notes https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4583 by Dr. David Ludwig controls for these, lasts 20 weeks - so long enough to actually get the subjects fat adapted (which I wanted to make a bigger point of that almost all other big studies fail to do) - and clearly shows as you drop your carb intake and replace it with fat, you burn more calories. If you’re burning more energy, you're losing weight.

I have so many regrets on things I could have brought up and I’m sure I left things out. Many people listening will probably be yelling at their phones that I could have contradicted the old Kevin Hall studies in this way or brought up some point here or there. I’ll just say it’s hard to get everything out in the moment, live on air.

One thing I was was going to say was NuSi funding the study doesn't make it biased. They purposely found researchers that don’t agree with the hypothesis to run the experiments with Dr. Ludwig. The subject changed and I forgot to bring this up.

I also wanted to point to the blood markers that improved in the low carb group in this study compared to the higher carb group. This is important no matter what, but even more important to me because they weren't in a calorie deficit - they were just maintaining weight. That’s huge. Layne always says all the benefits of low carb can be attributed to being in a deficit. He said he didn’t get a chance to go over the study yet though. I’ll have to ask him about this another time. I posted the images of the graphs from the study on Instagram so you can see them there if you go back a few posts. Just search for @food.lies.

Also, I’m not diminishing all the great aspects of keto. I feel like I’m going to piss off the keto community in this episode because they think I’m dismissing it or not bringing up all the studies showing the unique benefits. That’s for another time - I’m talking to Dr. Ryan Lowery about coming on the podcast soon who is the guy Layne is having a little online war with that comes up in this episode. He’ll talk about all the great studies on the benefits of a ketogenic diet. I wanted to focus on other things with Layne. We agree on a bunch of stuff in the first half then start to debate things in the second half.

A bit more about him; he has a PhD in Nutritional Science and a background in biochemistry, he’s a professional natural bodybuilder, he’s won a bunch of competitions, he’s published a number of scientific papers, he’s a bodybuilding and physique coach, and also an author of a new book on weight loss.

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Show Notes

He recently debated previous guest and keto researcher, Dom D’Agostino on Joe Rogan’s podcast
He’s main goal is to call bullshit on bad science and bad dietary advice
Dr. Mark Haub and the junk food diet http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html
Calories in = calories out will always stand, there’s a lot more to it though
The real problem is excess eating, so find a way that works for you to not do this
He just finished an Ebook on losing weight and actually keeping it off called Fat Loss Forever https://www.biolayne.com/fat-loss-forever/
Everyone has their own hack or restriction they prefer. It could be keto makes you never feel hungry, for him it’s tracking his calories and macro intake
People get really zealous about one way of eating when it works for them
Exercise doesn't contribute a ton of weight loss by burning calories unless you’re doing a ton of it
Exercise lowers the set point your body defends
Some research showing exercise or activity sensitizes you to satiety signals
Bengali workers study https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article-abstract/4/2/169/4787034
Recency and delayed gratification
Change your reward structure
The real problem is fat and carbs together
Why do diets fail?
Rodent study showed it took twice as long to lose weight the 2nd attempt at dieting and they regained the weight 3 times as fast
4 basic components of your metabolic rate: BMR, NEAT, TEF, activity expenditure
Don’t ever attempt a “diet” that has a start and end point, it’s destined for failure - choose lifestyle modification you can stick to
Diets fail when things go wrong in people’s lives - limited will power
I believe there are benefits to being fat adapted
New study showing more energy is burned on a low carb diet compared to low fat, when calories and protein are controlled https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k4583
Here’s one study about the brain (in rodents) using ketones preferentially over glucose https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874681/
Here’s another in humans https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0271678X16669366?journalCode=jcba
Also from a Biochem textbook: “Many tissues prefer to use fatty acids and ketone bodies as oxidizable fuels in place of glucose. Most such tissues can use glucose but prefer to oxidize fatty acids and ketone bodies” Thomas M. Devlin, ed., Textbook of Biochemistry with Clinical Correlations

Humans can only store around 600g of glycogen in the muscles and liver yet we can store basically unlimited fat - we’re meant to run like batteries. Glucose wasn't always around.
Metabolic flexibility
Layne Norton’s keto experiment
More carb vs. fat debate
He is doubting if Tim Noakes actually had type 2 diabetes symptoms
TOFI Thin on the Outside, Fat on the Inside
Protein leverage hypothesis and Dr. Ted Naiman
Eating pop tarts and their expensive toll
Evolution and fat
Eating at a deficit might be all that matters
What about all the micronutrients?
His angle is coming from bodybuilders who have a lot of energy to burn and are already good at tracking things like calories and being disciplined
What he’s changed his mind on
He’s debating Dr. Shawn Baker on Mark Bell’s podcast about vegetables

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Part 24 - Dr. David Klurfeld on Meat NOT Causing Cancer, Bogus Vegetarian Scientists, and Balanced Nutrition

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Today my guest is Dr. David Klurfeld, which is a quite a treat. This is his first podcast appearance and had to get special clearance to be able to participate. He couldn’t talk about certain things because he’s the National Program Leader for Human Nutrition in the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA since 2004. He was also on the working group of the World Health Organization that decided meat causes cancer in 2015. I won’t leave you guessing - he was very opposed to it and called it “the most frustrating professional experience of his life.”

He’s accumulated a vast amount of knowledge over his 40 years researching nutrition and dietary factors in cardiovascular diseases and cancer. He wrote an amazing peer-reviewed article defending meat titled “what is the role of meat in a healthy diet” which I linked to in the show notes. https://academic.oup.com/af/article/8/3/5/5048762

He’s not going to support a fully carnivorous diet, but certainly sees past the bogus vegan propaganda

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A little more about Dr. Klurfeld before we start: He is responsible for the scientific direction of the intramural human nutrition research conducted by USDA laboratories. He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American College of Nutrition for 6 years and is currently Associate Editor of the American Journal for Clinical Nutrition. He is also a member of National Institute for Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases Advisory Council.

Let’s just say he’s done his homework… and still enjoys a good steak… here he is!

Show Notes

Dr. David Klurfeld focuses his research on the 3 macronutrients and their effect on health on chronic disease - specifically breast and colon cancer
People debate on how much what we eat affects diet and disease
A paper published tries to stick all of cardiovascular disease precisely on 10 factors https://jamanetwork.com/data/Journals/JAMA/936095/joi170008f1.png
Full article: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2608221
David and I spoke earlier and are on the same page - there’s no one-size-fits-all solution for how to eat, and nobody should pretend they have all the answers. There’s a framework and some general guidelines, however, that people should be aware of (if this isn’t already abundantly clear, this is the goal of the Food Lies film
They have high salt as #1 factor of “cardiometabolic mortality attributable to dietary habits” and #2 being “low intake of nuts and seeds”
There’s no evidence to support these specific quantities like amount of PUFAs
Residual confounding is a big problem that’s not really addressed
The thing that meat consumption correlates with most is not living a healthy life and ignoring doctor’s recommendations. Smoking, not exercising, etc.
Eating meat made us human - why would it be killing us?
Dr. David Klurfeld: Red meat is somehow blamed for a multitude of varying diseases and cancers. Imagine if one medication was purported to cure all of these disparate things? It’s just not plausible
You can get half your daily requirement of protein in just 3.5 ounces of meat
Dr. David Klurfeld: there are 8 essential amino acids which are in animal foods but absent in all plant foods
We should get the best of both worlds and eat an omnivorous diet
We don’t know exactly what our ancestors ate but they sure didn't have international trade of peaches and didn’t have farms. We chased animals
He’s done a lot of research on fiber and therefore not that hot on the carnivore diet
Even though there’s no requirement for fiber in our guidelines, he believes we have more science now
He believes if you don't eat fiber in your diet, your body will eat away the good mucus membrane in your intestinal walls
I ask about people or populations on long term carnivore diets - connective tissue in animals feed gut intestines like fiber does
He also says the lifetime risk of colon cancer is only 5 out 100 - so we’d have to study hundreds of thousands of people for a long period of time to get meaningful data - we just don’t know the effects
He’s like to see dietary guidelines have a grade for the level of evidence
After all the decades of research and gazillions of dollars he still can’t say anything with any level of certainty about what you can eat to get or not get cancer
Processed meat is said to increase risk of cancer by 1.2 while cigarettes are 10 to 30 times the risk
You don’t know if it’s real risk or noise in the system at these very low levels like 1.1 and 1.2
He talks about studies they do which are pretty controlled with meals handed out and weighed in the lab - way better than these bogus food questionnaires
People can’t remember what they ate over the course of the whole year
Tylervegan.com has a graphing tool for correlations. He made a graph showing the correlation between per capita consumption of beef and deaths by lightning that are correlated by almost 90% - this stuff CAN’T show causation
He actually appeared in the plant based film Forks Over Knives where they tried to get him with a gotcha moment and make it seem like the meat industry is funding them and they are biased
Dr. David Klurfeld says the USDA is a giant organization with 90k employees and many different departments - they don’t influence each other though when it comes to studies. He is 100% certain about that
He’s seen vegetarians on these committees who want everyone to be vegetarian, but never meat eaters who want everyone to eat meat
He believes being a vegetarian is a conflict of interest on these committees
He was on the World Health Organization working group to decide if meat causes cancer in 2015 with a bunch of vegetarians and vegans and says it was the most frustrating professional experience of his life
There were 22 scientists - half of which were epidemiologists
They claimed they used 800 studies but they actually only used 18
There was a group of people that were strongly against the vote
He thinks a number of the people made up their minds before they even arrived
National Cancer Institute study with 900 people split into 2 groups who had an intestinal polyp removed on a colonoscopy. One group told to eat whatever they want, one group was assigned a “healthy” diet low in red meat and processed meat, high in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. 3 years later the risk to get a 2nd polyp was exactly the same in both groups. The emission of red and processed meats did nothing.
Then came the Women’s Health Initiative - largest nutrition study in history. 9 years of a low fat diet compared to a control - again, no difference in risk for colon cancer
So they threw out the 2 studies that were actually scientifically controlled on humans, none of the animal studies showed any problem with meat, and they're left with epidemiology and mechanistic studies they CANNOT show causation
One of the members of the working group did a study feeding mice bacon and also an agent to induce cancer and actually found the bacon diet reduced precancerous lesions!
They relied on one study that fed mice blood sausage at 3 times the normal dose of protein and the diet had a calcium deficiency - only then was
The report on that 2015 decision finally came out this summer and he has no idea why or if they omitted those studies he brought up
He mentioned to a staff member of the WHO that he thought people on the working group should declare that they are a vegetarian as a conflict of interest - she laughed and said she was a vegetarian and they changed the subject
Being a vegetarian, in his view, is far more of a conflict of interest than who funds you - it's a more deep-seated belief
He estimates ¼ to ⅓ of the committee making the decision against red meat were vegetarians
His journal article “The role of meat in a healthy diet” https://academic.oup.com/af/article/8/3/5/5048762
Since the only used observational studies, it should only be suggestive that they should look into it more, certainly not causal
In other fields of study this is the case. Nutrition is somehow held to different and much looser standards
Nutrition researchers with a bias think they're saving the world and push this information without solid evidence, just their beliefs and some observations
People have different responses to whole grains and refined grains - there’s no way to tell. So many factors from gut bacteria to genetics
It’s impossible to give everyone in the country personalized tests and recommendations. Personalized nutrition is the future though.
What can we do now knowing this?
His personal nutrition ideas are 1) eat a variety of foods, 2) don’t eat too much of any one food, 3) enjoy what you eat
He mentions nutrient density - Americans eat an enormous amount of calories from non-nutrient dense foods packed with white flour plus sugar and fat
Eating out used to be a once per week treat, now it's almost every meal
Soda used to be a 7oz bottle as a treat - now people are luggin home multiple 2 liters to have on hand at all times
We started getting obese when we gave out the dietary guidelines - the problem was we said eat less fat so carbohydrates got a free pass
He thinks we are on a bounce back from the low fat thing and it's not correct to say carbs are bad
Unless you have high blood pressure you don’t have to go on a low salt diet
Salt is essential and fine - the problem is processed foods usually have too much salt so we think it’s a problem, but it’s actually the processed food
For all vitamins and minerals - it's dose dependent
“The dose makes the poison” - toxicologists have known this for 500 years
With nutrition it’s all or nothing, though
All the studies we have showing fruits and vegetables are good for us are from people eating conventionally raised produce - not organic
He says half the fruits and vegetables we eat have no pesticide residue on them at all - the USDA tests thousands and thousands of samples each year
Here’s the latest available (2016) report https://www.ams.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media/2016PDPAnnualSummary.pdf.pdf
He’s right - it says only 0.46% of samples exceeded the safe levels
The permissible levels have built in margins of safety
He says heart attack rates are way down and cancer is up due to us living longer (I beg to differ)
Commercial fryers can have oxidized PUFAs
We need a more balanced Omega 3 to Omega 6 ratio
We should be cooking more at home - no profit for big food manufacturers however
What about carcinogens in meat from burning or charring? I say we have been cooking meat for 2 million years and have developed mechanisms to deal with this acute stressor just like the small toxins in plants
The animal studies pointing to problems in animals had 1000 times the carcinogens as in a well done piece of meat (that I would never cook anyway…)
Why would we blame meat, that we’ve been eating for all of human history, for our modern diseases
Elderly people need adequate protein and ground beef would be preferable to cottage cheese or tofu because all of the great micronutrients and total nutrient profile
It’s insane that what many people today consider a “healthy diet” is one that avoids red meat
He did the first study showing benefits of red wine back in the 80s
Future of nutrition research is going to be more personalized
Companies are selling a bunch of yogurt - we have no idea if those help your gut bacteria or not
Maybe we’ll have 10-20 “buckets” to put people in based on their physiology that will give them an ideal nutritional approach
It’s all about developing a healthy pattern of eating

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Part 23 - Pete Evans on Making The Magic Pill, The Paleo Way, and Colluding Dietitians

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Today I had the pleasure of talking to celebrity chef, filmmaker, and all around great guy, Pete Evans. He co-hosts the #1 show in Australia, My Kitchen Rules which is in its 10th season and is shown in 160 countries. He’s written a ton of books and cookbooks, he’s created the show The Paleo Way, and has a great podcast called Recipes For Life. You may know him from the documentary The Magic Pill, which everyone listening has probably already seen on Netflix.

He’s an amazing, positive force in Australia and the world, and it may not be apparent from our brief talk. We only had an hour so I’m going to have him on again because there’s so much more to get into. I’ll get a better recording situation next time. You’ll notice the quality wasn’t so great due to the recording service we were forced to use. A lot to enjoy in this episode though - he brings up some really creepy stuff about the dietitians association of Australia colluding to discredit and silence himself and a prominent doctor who advocate for people to lower sugar in their diet. Absurd, but true.

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Show Notes

Find out more about Pete Evans https://peteevans.com
His TV show My Kitchen Rules https://mkr.7plus.com.au
His series The Paleo Way https://peteevans.com/initiatives/the-paleo-way/
He self funded The Magic Pill and The Paleo Way and executive produced it
Got a distributor and it went nowhere…
He realized he had a lot of great content and a documentary was a better format for this valuable information
His director Rob Tate came in huge
Hope For Health - benefitting the Australian Aboriginals https://www.hopeforhealth.com.au
Why Warriors Lay Down and Die http://www.whywarriors.com.au/services/why-warriors-lie-down-and-die/
He brings up Weston A. Price - has he been mentioned every episode?
The power of an ancestral diet is undeniable - changes unfolded in real time on film as people got off their diabetes medication and got healthier
The trial of Professor Tim Noakes (listen to Prof. Noakes in episode 3) was going on at the same time so they decided to film that as well
Dr. Gary Fettke has also been silenced by the dieticians in Australia. He’s an orthopedic surgeon who cuts off limbs due to diabetes yet he was silenced for telling patients to avoid sugar
Had great stories from Nina Teicholz, Joel Salatin, and Lierre Keith (all friends of Food Lies film/this podcast)
Original cut of Magic Pill was more controversial and inflammatory but Pete wasn’t comfortable with that
The president of the Australian Medical Association called it a dangerous film and tried to get it taken off of Netflix. He’s now been replaced…
He’s working with Dr. gary Fettke to get the dietary guidelines changed in Australia
Dr. Gary Fettke got ahold of some internal files showing Dietitians Association colluding with multinational food organizations to have himself, Pete, and other members of the paleo community silenced or discredited
The more films and information about ancestral eating, the better
Carnivore movement - Shawn Baker and Mikhaila Peterson - it’s good to fight against the vegan propaganda and prove meat isn’t harmful, but in fact beneficial
Pete put up a $1 million bet if those dietitians can prove that the grass fed, grass finished steak and vegetables he served his family for dinner can be proven to be harmful
As a chef, why would you use the blandest foods in your cooking? The pasta, the bread, the plain starches that add no nutritional value or flavor. Instead you can use the most nutrient dense and delicious foods possible - all the low carb foods
Nora Gedgaudas and her life changing book for Pete, Primal Body Primal Mind https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9571633-primal-body-primal-mind
They went on a speaking tour together over the course of 2 years
Food should be something you can eat straight from nature, full of nutrients and flavor. That is not wheat and grains
The problem is we are taking bland foods devoid of nutrients (refined carbs) and adding fake flavors to them which is tricking us into overeating and not getting adequate nutrition
The Dorito Effect https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609354-the-dorito-effect
From a restaurant’s point of view, the best thing for someone to order is the pasta because there’s such a high profit margin
Cooking your own grass fed meat, wild caught seafood, and organic vegetables is very affordable and can be cheaper if you make a little effort
Don’t wait until your health fails to start eating correctly
What if there was a generation of young people who grew up thriving their entire lives on a good diet?
How can we implement a change even in the school system where kids are taught what to eat and how to cook?
Pete Evans says the dietary guidelines need to be changed
After a birthday party the kids leave with a a bag of candy - what a bizarre tradition
Pete tells a very good story about his daughters when they were younger
We wrap things up with some positive messages and a plan to continue the conversation when there’s more time at a later date

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Part 22 - Marty Kendall on Nutrient Density, Satiety, and Rethinking Diabesity

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Marty Kendall is an engineer, a speaker, and a writer. He’s analyzed a bunch of data and built some cool, free technology. He’s also brought a lot of people together who are working on cutting edge, practical information. He runs a group where some of the smartest people in nutrition are interacting daily, sharing information and studies and clinical experience. This includes Dr. Ted Naiman who was my first guest and who we bring up a few times in this episode. These are not anti-carb people, they aren’t dogmatic, they don’t let other interests or beliefs enter the picture. They're after information and truth and are working towards healing people and changing lives.

They’re coming at this from all sides and from all over the world. Some are doing the research, some are just interpreting it and thinking about it from new angles. Ted is in the clinic daily, putting it into practice and reversing diabetes. Marty is building tools and thinking about it from his engineering perspective. I love people who think about it this way - I’m like a broken record, because I’m an engineer too. We need to stop thinking that only a doctor can be an expert on nutrition. Why would they be? They have extremely little or no nutrition specific training. They are brilliant when it comes to a million other things, but they aren't the end-all be-all of nutrition They can be though. But so can an engineer who dedicates years of their life to researching a topic. Not everyone who does this will be smart or correct, but some are. These are the people I get on the podcast. Ivor Cummins, Tucker Goodrich, Gabor Erdosi, Dave Feldman soon, and now Marty Kendall. There’s many more as well, and I’ll continue to find them.

Enough of my ranting - just a quick word on the Food Lies documentary. It’s going really well and being pushed forward daily. I just booked our trip to Maryland to film with Dr. Bill Schindler. Go back to listen to that episode if you missed it. There’s only about 11 days left on the Indiegogo.com crowdfunding page. Please go there to preorder the film. There’s a link in the show notes in your podcast app and on peak-human.com. You also can search for Food Lies on Indiegogo or go to FoodLies.org to learn more. Now please take a listen to Marty and I talk about my favorite topic - nutrient density.

Show Notes

Marty Kendall runs the great site http://optimisingnutrition.com and the facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1419823171384689/
Ted Naiman, Robb Wolf, Luis Villasenor, and Tyler Cartwright (ketogains) all collaborate with him to figure this nutrition stuff out
What is nutrient density?
Matt Lalonde’s presentation at AHS 2012 https://youtu.be/HwbY12qZcF4
Cronometer is a great app to track food and nutrients https://cronometer.com
Nutrient dense foods are less insulinogenic, more satiating, and less energy dense
Try to quantify things because nutrition is confusing enough
I disagree with Joel Fuhrman’s nutrient density scoring system
His version of nutrient density is variable and is based on what you personally aren’t getting enough of
If you’re getting enough micronutrients, you’re very likely to be getting all the protein you need
Can’t make a perfect diet because too many factors - season, cost, preference, etc.
Some of the most nutrient dense and satiating foods are leafy greens, fish eggs, seafood, liver
We’ve always sought after nutritious foods throughout history, with or without knowing it
He mentions my recent episode with Tucker Goodrich https://www.peak-human.com/home/tucker-goodrich-on-vegetable-oils-being-at-the-heart-of-modern-disease on seed oils and how unnatural and energy dense they are
Modern foods are engineered to trick us - they tastes delicious, but have no nutrition
The book The Dorito Effect chronicles this https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22609354-the-dorito-effect?from_search=true
It’s a cliche for a reason - eat real foods
Trying to formulate a low insulin diet for his wife with type 1 diabetes that is also nutrient dense
What are the most nutrient dense foods?
Amazing benefits of seafood
Modern food is dog food - stuffed with cheap grains and vegetable oils with huge profit margins for big food manufacturers at the expense of the consumer’s health
Satiety
Used 587,000 day worth of publicly available food data from MyFitnessPal to do some data crunching
Fed state, glucagon, and type 1 diabetes closed system insulin pump
How to eat less and manage hunger?
Holt satiety study in 1995 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/15701207_A_Satiety_Index_of_common_foods
Carbs and fat together gives you the highest calorie intake
HIs in-depth article on satiety https://optimisingnutrition.com/2018/10/09/calculating-satiety/
They have an app that helps you only by satiating foods in the grocery store
Cian Foley has a book called Don’t Eat for Winter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34616334-don-t-eat-for-winter?from_search=true
Protein leverage hypothesis
Nutrient leverage hypothesis
Crops losing nutrition - USDA data shows nutrients going down as obesity goes up right at the point where Big Agriculture begins
Vitamin A, B12, and protein levels dropped as we avoided animal foods
We need mixed farming methods that include ruminants that put nutrients back in the soil
Graph of highest and lowest intakes of food and macro ratios https://twitter.com/tednaiman/status/977992445387448320
Thermic Effect of Food (TEF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_dynamic_action
Unifying Theory of Nutrition
Potato hack diet https://visualimpactfitness.com/potato-hack-for-rapid-fat-loss/
Holt study from 1995 plain baked potato had the most perceived satiety
The potato hack and a juice fast may work temporarily but they are ill-advised
Best thing to do is eat a nutrient dense diet - my view is that if you can gradually adjust your lifestyle and preferences towards this you never worry about counting calories or being hungry
Marty notes the advantages of tracking and being mindful for many people
Building positive habits around healthy choices when shopping or eating
Watercress is at the top of his satiety and nutrient density data
I’m developing a practical version of nutrient density and satiety focused foods that people can look at and make meal choices from it
If we want to eat like (some) our ancestors (for some periods of history) and eat a carnivore diet, you need to actually eat like them by eating nose to tail
Ideas on how our ancestors eating whole foods diets had well-formed jaws, wide dental arches, and great dental health (along with amazing health in general)
His trip to Vanuatu and their amazing tasting, fresh food that they can’t really afford (or maybe prefer) so they sell it and then buy oreos and vegetable oil
Dr. Gary Fettke has to go over there and amputate limbs due to the new epidemic of diabetes from these western foods
He personally witnessed the striking difference between the people eating the modern foods and the isolated people eating the native whole foods - the isolated people had amazing teeth, well-formed jaws, and perfect health, while the ones in the main city were having a ton of problems
Carbohydrate-insulin model of diabesity and the adipose centric model - see the graphic and the full article here https://optimisingnutrition.com/2018/05/03/ted-naimans-dam-fat-storage-insulinographic-explained/
Don’t overeat energy
Can do ok on a bivalve plant based diet - still getting nutrient dense animal foods
Personal fat threshold
We can store a limited amount of protein and carbohydrate, but almost unlimited fat
Professor Roy Taylor study - normal weight individuals with type 2 diabetes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25515001
Thin on the Outside, Fat on the Inside (TOFI) - how do they get like this?
One more description of the dam analogy (everyone should check out the full article linked above)
Bolus vs. basal insulin in type 1 diabetics - why a low carb diet is good
How to keep insulin in check in general - strength training, some HIIT
His Nutrient Optimizer app and Never Hungry Diet app - free tools to help you eat more nutrient dense foods, fill in gaps in micronutrients you are lacking, and shop for more satiating foods while in the store https://nutrientoptimiser.com
All of diet is so context specific, you can’t recommend just one way of eating
He’s off to Low Carb Down Under to do a presentation on Satiety

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Part 21 - Gabor Erdosi on Food Processing, Hunger Signaling, and the Gut

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Gabor is a food scientist with a masters in molecular biology. He lives in Hungary and is one of these engineers slash scientists who I love talking to who look at nutrition differently. He has a very unique perspective because he works for a big food manufacturer that makes sugary syrups that he believes are harmful. It’s rare point of view.

He’s spends almost all of his free time researching this stuff to help people understand how bad these processed foods actually are. He has a large community on facebook where he shares and discusses this information. He also has some great presentations he’s done you can find online.

We recorded past midnight and I was losing steam at the end and didn’t continue the conversation much. He was talking about a really interesting topic though - the adipose centric model of diabetes. For a long time many people have been talking about the insulin-carbohydrate model of diabetes. There’s a lot to this subject and we’ll get more into it in the coming weeks. I have already recorded an episode covering more of this that will come out next week. It’s basically flipping our thoughts of insulin resistance around. The problems occur when you eat more than your personal fat threshold can take - whether it be carbs, fat, or protein. So the problem is your adipose tissue can’t properly store all the lipids. People start becoming insulin resistant because of their obesity (or overstuffed and inflamed fat cells), instead of becoming obese from the insulin resistance. This may be super boring and esoteric to some, but for others it will be super interesting. I personally am very into it.

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Show Notes

Gabor is a food scientist with a masters in molecular biology calling in from Hungary
He works for a big food manufacturer making sugary syrups
Asked to give a presentation on food processing and the short term metabolic effects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rcfvRGZsDs
Long term negative effects would have included seed oils but they only gave him 35 minutes
People says processed carbs are bad but nobody asks why or how
He doesn’t trust textbooks so he goes to original sources and studies
He studied the digestive system, physiology, and mechanisms of how food is digested and the hormone responses
If we eat evolutionary appropriate foods like meat, tubers, and berries, for example, the sensors in our small intestine and resulting hormone signaling is fine
If we eat flour and ground starches it's very different and not fine
But humans have been processing food for all of history? Looks at this with cooking of food vs. raw food, pre-digesting proteins
Studies looking at eating a whole apple and a blended apple with all it’s pulp (not just the juice which would be different) - more glucose and insulin response to blended apple
THings aren't the same once you break down the structure of the plant
Questioning nutrition labels because of this
After this surge of glucose, insulin dips below baseline a couple hours later and you become hypoglycemic. And then hungry.
Studies show this is also when self-reported satiety kicks in
As well as ghrelin surge (which is the hunger signaling hormone)
Glycemic index and glycemic load can be thought of proxies for how processed something is or “lacking plant structure”
This is why we get inconsistent studies when we use observational data using glycemic index or load as a proxy
Fiber is a better indicator because usually these people aren't adding back in fiber - it means they are eating whole foods
Also if you destroy the plant structure by processing then add fiber back in it’s not as good - you already destroyed the structure
But some fiber is good that swell when you add them back because they increase the volume and slow the gastric emptying
Simple message is it’s better to just eat plant foods in their whole form
He also says it's safer to just eat animal foods - protein and fat - that don’t have these problems when processed
Better to eat carbs at the end of the meal
Better to eat slowly
Rodent studies show they get more obese when they grind the normal chow
Rodent studies are poorly done in general because the chow they use is highly processed with no real food ingredients
Their synthetic diet also causes dysbiosis in their large intestine
Gut permeability and small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), etc. in humans
Sometimes the body needs a small and purposeful inflammation
In inflammatory disease it’s a chronic inflammation, not acute
He does almost all animal foods plus some fruit because of his condition
People don’t need to cut out all carbs, but it would be smart to do an elimination diet and add foods back in gradually to see what might be causing problems
Not everyone needs to do low carb, some report doing very low fat helps type 2 diabetes
This greatly reduces the need for insulin which is a partitioning fuel so you can still be pretty healthy even if you’re taking in a lot of carbs
Needs to be really low though - less than 10% - so very few people can actually pull this off
He can’t subsist on leaves and flowers and stalks, no thanks
Killer combo of fat plus carbohydrate - what’s the mechanism?
Fat and protein together take longer to digest, don’t cause the same big jump in hormonal release, and stimulate the receptors in the lower intestine as well - much more balanced
GIP and GLP-1 are incretins - they stimulate your pancreas to release hormones
You create an insulin and glucagon imbalance if you stimulate these hormones in an unbalanced way
Fasted and fed state and metabolic regulation
Sweet spot is to eat 1-3 meals per day
Total insulin response lower with bigger meals
Studies say best to limit your eating window to max 10 hours
Autophagy and letting your body rest
Microbiome - all the rage these days
Study on mostly plant based diet and carnivore diet and microbiota
We still don’t know how the microbiome works - just that your diet greatly affects it
Rat studies aren’t conclusive for humans
Problems with how we treat diabetes today - just the symptom, not underlying problem
Type 2 diabetes is actually an adipose problem - can’t store lipids correctly
More gut permeability and inflammation from refined foods
The beer belly and visceral fat
Tying together mechanisms of fatty liver from alcoholics and non-alcoholic sources
Caveman check for foods: animals, berries, tubers, etc., not a wheat field
Out of season fruit study with rats - not good to eat out of season it seems
The answer to health is to reject the modern processed foods - both vegetarian/pecatarian and carnivore/keto/paleo people are doing that
He’s going to be doing some more work with organizations soon to spread his learnings
He has a closed Facebook group that is really active and interesting called Lower Insulin https://www.facebook.com/groups/198981013851366/

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Part 20 - Tucker Goodrich on Vegetable Oils Being at the Heart of Modern Disease

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Tucker Goodrich is a Wall Street tech extraordinaire and nutrition science enthusiast. After doctors and the healthcare system let him down in severe and avoidable ways, he took his health into his own hands and had amazing results. He’s done a ton of research on Omega 6 fatty acids otherwise known as seed oils otherwise known as vegetable oils previously known as an industrial waste product before we started feeding them to humans. He makes a compelling case for them being a major factor in many, if not all, modern diseases. You’ll definitely not want to be eating fast food fries cooked in old, rancid vegetable oils after this episode.

The sunburn stuff at the end is legit. I won’t spoil it, but just know Robb Wolf just backed this up on his podcast with science. There is a mechanism there that makes total sense and I’ve seen it anecdotally as well.

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Show Notes

Works on Wall Street and developed software that deals with trillions of dollars of assets
Had a stroke-like event at age 38
Then got acute diverticulitis
Got a colon resection and followed “healthy” diet and doctor’s advice and was still sick
He called himself “Mr. Whole Wheat” - stopped eating sugar when he was 19 so that wasn’t it
16 years of IBS… finally found Stephan Guyenet’s blog http://stephanguyenet.com
Started fixing himself in 2 days using dietary change
His surgery was probably unnecessary
He is well connected to Daniel Lieberman and The Story of the Human Body
Diseases of civilization
Agriculture allowed us to build cities, paved the way for written language to keep track of grains, etc.
We over-hunted all the very large animals
From eating grains we got shorter, got cavities, lesions on bones, all while our population exploded
We used to be more robust and have bigger brains
Diabetes used to be super rare - we have medical records of this
Cancer a huge problem in Germany
Heart disease in England
Diseases went around the world as eating patterns went around the world
We even give other species diabetes and our diseases when we feed them our foods - monkeys, dogs, cats - even racoons who eat human garbage
Weston A. Price needs to be mentioned for his great work
Realization came at the salad bar with the dressings
Cut all vegetable oils and cured himself
Cut out carbs and processed foods and exercised less and lost tons of weight
Started doing more research - lots of people said seed oils are bad, but nobody really explained the mechanism back then
Maybe the largest epidemiological study ever on saturated fat in India looking at the northern and southern populations
The south who ate like our food pyramid suggests had 7-15 times the heart disease rate
How about England? Heart disease skyrocketed with the intro of seed oils
Okinawa is a Blue Zone - place where people live abnormally long
First fast food restaurant opened in Okinawa
Okinawa went from the longest lifespan in Japan to the shortest
Seed oil consumption tracks modern disease all over the world
These cultures were eating a high carb diet so it's likely not the carbs - the carb consumption actually went down
Japanese and chinese are some of the shortest populations and they subsist on high carb, low meat diet. We know we got shorter when agriculture was invented. We know when we lower carb intake and up meat intake populations get taller
Grains are a “fallback food”
It’s funny that rich people in Santa Monica purposely try to live in the Failed Environment Metabolic State while thinking they’re morally superior to us
Tarahumara Indians eat this way - their children have a malnutrition rate of 80%
Carbohydrate is a cofactor. 5 key studies: rats and diabetes & heart failure; (Ghosh 2004); LA and obesity (Alvheim 2012) Lyon Diet Heart (De Lorgeril 1994); Seed oils and insulin resistance in India (Nigam 2014); Seed oils and NAFLD, (Maciejewska 2015)
Lyon heart study - lowered Omega 6 and raised Omega 3 to improve heart attack risk of repeat by 70%
William Lands: “I’ve studied saturated fat for 50 years and never found a mechanism that it could kill somebody”
American Heart Association’s “Prudent Diet” proved to be outright harmful to people in this study
History of LDL cholesterol and heart disease
To make LDL atherogenic omega 6 fats need to be oxidized
Researchers found this mechanism before De Lorgeril had success with replacing Omega 6s with olive oil, where he improved heart attack outcomes without knowing the mechanism
Researchers prime rats to get cancer and can’t do this unless they use omega 6s
Western Cancers and the P53 gene mutation
Japanese women moving to America breast cancer went up 7 fold
Why is there DNA damage present in all western diseases?
Mitochondrial dysfunction is a hallmark of all western diseases
Avoiding heated seed oils is not good enough - damage still happens inside cells
damaged cardiolipin cause mitochondria to stop working properly and is primarily caused by excess carbohydrates in the diet
A lot of disease is teed up by excess carbs but the seed oils are what activate the damage
Asian countries and rice consumption
Knockout gene and detoxifying seed oils
Selenium deficiency in China and glutathione
Omega 6 fats combined with glucose causes oxidation and can be seen in a petri dish
Women in CHina were getting lung cancer that didn’t smoke - turned out it was cooking with seed oils and inhaling the fumes
Seed oils break down into one of the same toxins as in cigarette smoke
Seed oils used to be an industrial waste product
There’s no conspiracy theory - they thought these oils were fine. They aren't acutely toxic, it takes years to do damage
Everything has a U-shaped curve - too little or too much is bad
There’s essential fats in dairy and maybe more we don’t know about
How do vegans temporarily survive?
Kitavans
Sunburn and diet - how could they possibly be related?
His wife with dark skin and his light skin
What’s the mechanism?
His radiation research
Evolutionary context for omega 6 causing sunburn (or lack of omega 6 making us able to not get sunburned)
Now are omega 3 to omega 6 ratio is a nightmare
Giving omega 3 and a better diet to prisoners helped with their behavior
Weston Prices studied diet and its effects on troubled youth as well
Not everyone needs to cut out wheat, but just know it’s effects. Everyone should cut out sugar, refined grains, and seed oils though
Gabor Erdosi lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rcfvRGZsDs
The amount of physical grinding of starch affects your digestion and health in a negative way
Gabor is actually the next podcast guest
Japanese people eat high starch but it’s in its whole form, not ground
People are confused on what healthy even is, so it’s hard to be healthy
Going to restaurants is not even worth it anymore when you can make things better at home
Tucker’s blog http://yelling-stop.blogspot.com/
Tucker on Twitter https://twitter.com/TuckerGoodrich

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Part 19 - Craig & Maria Emmerich on Fat Being the Preferred Fuel

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Today we have Craig and Maria Emmerich who have a long history of contributing to the low carb community. They have done a ton of health consulting, speaking, writing of great books and cookbooks, and also built a large community around their blog and facebook. They have a lot of hands-on knowledge and experience working with people and with the ins and outs of implementing a great diet and healthy lifestyle.

We got into some interesting details that haven’t come up on the podcast before like oxidative priority, being censored by a TV news show, butter chuggers, keto babies, the science of high carb diets, the Failed Environment Metabolic State, keto desserts, and a lot more.

I just got back from our film tour when we recorded this, which will definitely be apparent during my frequent mentions of Mark Sisson. He’s a great guy and I want to be like him when I am in my mid 60s, running around with 20 years olds playing ultimate frisbee. His book Primal Blueprint got me started with all of this years ago and is a great read. He’ll be in the film along with a ton of great doctors and researchers. Please continue to support Food Lies on Indiegogo - we haven’t raised enough money to finish the film yet. By pre-ordering a copy or buying the “It’s what else you eat, not the meat” T-shirt you are directly helping this film’s creation and will be listed in the credits. We’re personally matching every dollar that is coming in, but we’re still behind. Thank you so much and here’s Maria and Craig.

Show Notes:

They live in rural Wisconsin and hunt and smoke ribs
Halle Berry is a fan of Maria’s keto cookbooks
They wrote a great book called Keto. https://www.amazon.com/Keto-Complete-Ketogenic-including-Simplified/dp/1628602821
Oxidative priority: your body burns fuels in a specific order which is correlated to how much it can store of each, in reverse order
Alcohol burns first, then exogenous ketones, protein, carbohydrate, and lastly fat
Becoming fat adapted
Many benefits, especially in athletics. Better mitochondrial efficiency
Low carb longevity study and how bogus it is
Quality of the fats and carbs are of utmost importance
Studies show the majority of people lie in self-reported food studies
Maria was asked not to talk about restricting cereal on a TV news show who’s major sponsor was a cereal company
Nutrient density - animal foods far superior but because of the saturated fat and cholesterol they are demonized
The sheath of our bones is made up of saturated fat
When fat adapted you don’t lose muscle or bone mass when fasting
Nutrient density!! It’s all about the animal products. Plants foods don’t hold a candle
Obviously animal foods have way more bioavailable protein and nutrients as well
People do keto wrong and make fat bombs and put butter in their coffee - you’re getting no nutrients and probably too many calories (you can overeat fat on keto)
A piece of meat is naturally keto at about 70% fat
Gluconeogenesis is a demand driven process
If you eat too much protein and your insulin spikes it’s because you are insulin resistant
If you’re insulin resistant, not only do you need to avoid carbs, sugar, and most fruit, but also too much fat with protein
To reverse insulin resistance you need to shrink your fat cells so they aren't overstuffed and inflamed
Can be skinny and still have diabetes
To reverse you just need to get more fuel from your body than your diet
Protein sparing modified fast - adequate protein, almost no carb, fat is a lever
A lot of time a stall in weight loss is due to dairy consumption
The great importance of sleep which even affects insulin resistance
Unifying theory of nutrition
Why is fat the preferred fuel source?
How other diet work. Can a vegan diet work? Their experience with clients
Vegans Maria works with trying to do keto are on antidepressants
Protein from grains or soy can’t stimulate Mtor or muscle building
Need complete proteins and amino acids (all found in animal products)
Mother’s milk is high in cholesterol… so when does it become evil?
Men lowering their cholesterol with statins often need Viagra
Also, babies are constantly in ketosis for the breastfeeding years
The label keto is kind of a fad right now, but the low carb high fat diet is the exact opposite of a fad and what we’ve been doing some version of it for all of human history
Smart vegans understand it’s nutritionally inferior and say they wouldn’t do it while pregnant
Vegan on the show Alone knew he had to eat animal foods to survive
Fiber causes a lot of intestinal stress actually and we actually don’t even need it
Make sure you’re getting enough salt - it isn’t bad
How some people are able to tolerate carbs if they go low fat and whole foods enough
It’s so hard to eat enough plant matter, vegans are basically just calorie restricting to lose weight or stay thin
Ideal diet uses oxidative priority - eliminate a lot of the fuel sources, adequate protein, eat at a deficit without feeling hungry
All diets come down to managing appetite
Nothing tastes as good as healthy feels - you can have both eating this way
Failed Environment Metabolic State
Insulin, fat cells, and carb burners
How do you execute this in modern society when everything is working against you?
Maria made chipotle at home for half the cost and half the time it took for Craig to drive and get the real thing
They make 15 racks of ribs at once and put them on the freezer
There’s a perfect cross-section of foods I love and nutrient density, and it’s for a reason. Steak, salmon, eggs, sardines - delicious for a reason
How to eat dessert and treats and still be healthy
There’s some great sweeteners out there other than stevia like Swerve, and erythritol, and monk fruit
Their awesome book is called Keto. https://www.amazon.com/Keto-Complete-Ketogenic-including-Simplified/dp/1628602821
Their blog http://mariamindbodyhealth.com
Other site
http://keto-adapted.com
https://twitter.com/MariaEmmerich and https://instagram.com/MariaEmmerich and https://facebook.com/ketoadapted

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Part 18 - Mikhaila Peterson on the Carnivore Diet, Mental Health, and Vegan Propaganda

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Today we have a rare in-studio podcast with Mikhaila Peterson. You may have seen here on the news or in articles (where she is being attacked). Her and her dad Jordan Peterson eat an all meat diet which the mainstream media and doctors seem to have a giant problem with.

This is just her story, and yes she has specific problems, but I think there’s value in hearing this and considering an elimination diet to see how you feel. You can always add back in foods slowly. You never know if you could be on a whole new plane of existence and feel that much more amazing if you eliminate foods that could be giving you problems. Also, I should say that I have no problem with the carnivore diet but believe it should be done from a more nose to tail approach. At least get some liver and bone broth in the mix. Just my 2 cents.

Mikhaila came into the studio to film for a little segment of the Food Lies film. We did a relatively short podcast and then did some film-specific stuff. Please support the Food Lies by pre-ordering on Indiegogo. It’s the only way this film or even this podcast is possible. I’m keeping this ad-free because, as a podcast listener myself, I hate to interrupt good content with ads. So please know that pre-ordering the film and/or getting the Eat Meat t-shirt is a way of supporting us.

Show notes

Mikhaila is in SAPIEN Headquarters live in studio the day before she goes on the Joe Rogan podcast
People don’t think of diet when they think of stuff like depressions, anxiety, arthritis, etc. when it is likely the first place we should be looking
Her story of growing up with terrible health problems that went undiagnosed
Had a pretty healthy diet until college
Got laughed at by doctors when mom mentioned oranges caused a flare up
Then got a rash that pushed it over the edge. Looked into celiac disease
She started an elimination diet without knowing anything about food
She accidentally started eating an autoimmune disease protocol diet
Everything changed when she got pregnant
Cut down from meat and salad to just meat
Why didn’t doctors question what she was eating through all her visits over her life?
She had her hip replaced and an ankle replaced as a child
She has specific problems, so it’s in one way her specific circumstance, but in another, it’s representative of many people
Slowly getting worse over the years without realizing it. The new norm is 20 pounds overweight
Brain health: Depression, anxiety, Alzheimer’s, etc.
Some people can cheat, but others have to be really strict with their diet
Her dad is Jordan Peterson https://jordanbpeterson.com and has his own struggle with physical and mental problems
People attack her and her dad and say it’s a placebo effect or they are lying, etc.
Vegan propaganda
Vitamin C and other vitamins, minerals, and bloodwork
Adjusting to the all meat diet
I had no cravings for sweets after only 2 days on carnivore
Should all people try out an elimination diet?
Even just cutting sugar and grains can make a world of difference. Also could lose soy and dairy she says
All animal based diets and all plant based diets are equally extreme
Eating this way is a lot easier and not hard to stick to
Stefansson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson
Morning sickness could just be eating foods that don’t agree with you and your growing baby
Pregnant women who crave meat or sardines - your body is telling you something
We have the wrong message in America demonizing meat which we know is especially needed during pregnancy
Meanwhile Germany has the correct message and has meat vending machines

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Part 17 - Dr. Bill Schindler on Food, Our Ancestors, and How We Became Human

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Dr. Bill Schindler is the director of the Eastern Shore Food Lab at Washington College where he is also an associate professor of archaeology and anthropology. Two years ago he co-hosted the National Geographic show The Great Human Race. He spent the last year abroad continuing his hands-on research and professional development by immersing himself and his family with indigenous and traditional groups around the world to learn about their food and diets. As an experimental archaeologist and primitive technologist his specialties are in recreating technologies of the past to better interpret our ancestral diets. His current focus is learning how to translate the outcomes of that research into something meaningful for modern day diet and health and is working to fuse lessons from our ancestral dietary past with modern culinary arts to create a food system that is relevant, accessible and meaningful to modern Western life.

We got into so many interesting things like the development of humans and how it tracked with food technology, drinking blood and milk with pastoral tribes in Africa, eating brains, ancient food preparation and hunting, my favorite topic - nutrient density, and so much more. It was so enlightening talking to him, I’ll stop talking now so you can have a listen.

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Show Notes

Dr. Bill Schindler is a professor at Washington College in Maryland
Director of Eastern Shore Food Lab https://www.washcoll.edu/departments/eastern-shore-food-lab/
His whole life has led up to his career and interests
His dad took him into nature and he learned to deal with taking an animal’s life even though he didn’t enjoy it
Also grew up with mom and grandmother in kitchen cooking - realized it was all connected
Learned to hunt and make tools as our ancestors did
He became what’s known as an experimental archeologist
Almost every single primitive technology made is related to food. Every tool and invention was based on getting food, processing food, storing food
THe realization of the different types of food processing made all the difference
Food processing of the past all focused on INCREASING nutrient density
All modern food processing focused on money savings, shipping, shelf life, etc.
Modern food processing also DECREASES nutrient density
Not everything new we do is bad though
Dairy is a hot topic. Just because we didn’t always consume it or other mammals don't consume it past a certain time in their life, doesn't mean it’s not healthy (if you tolerate it)
Everything changed 3.4 million years ago when we made the first tool
Humans are one of the weakest species on the planet on our own
Our bodies and brains were quite small before we created tools to access meat
Our digestive systems are actually pretty inefficient. We need to process our food with tools and fire to feed our large brains
We have bones from Ethiopia that have butcher marks on them from this time, as well as impact fractures to get bone marrow inside
2 million years ago the invention of fire and some other hunting techniques were monumental for our species
Humans started off as scavengers
Once we started actually hunting ourselves we had first access to the animals we killed so therefore all the most nutrient dense, choice parts like the organ meats, etc.
Results in a huge increase in body and brain size and women catch up in size to men more
We mimic other animals in techniques of acquiring and processing foods
Our biology isn't set up to eat meat like other carnivores - humans are set up to use tools and technology to consume nutrient dense animal products
As we changed our diets, our bodies adapted to it. Homo sapiens wouldn’t have made it 300,000 years ago if we didn’t develop these extensions of our physical form necessary to cook and process meat
We have brains that require high quality animal fats to function
What is domestication? Humans were the first domesticated species - we domesticated ourselves
Our teeth got smaller as we started relying on processing food outside of our bodies
If we had absolutely nothing and were left to survive, the first thing we’d have to do is create a tool or control fire. Our body can do almost nothing on it's own
Our food technology tracked with our body and brain size over history
Almost all our modern produce was at one point toxic
Nobody knows our exact diet 300k years ago, but that doesn’t matter - we have certain nutritional requirements that were established
We accomplished the impossible back then, but even more impossible we now have gotten ourselves obese and malnourished at the same time
We’re using modern processing to create nutrient-free food and it is what we are basically programmed to seek out in the modern food environment
He argued with a pediatrician who was demanding patients to drink skim milk
We evolved away from our chimp ancestors who’s digestive systems were made for digesting a ton of plant matter
When we became bipedal 5-7 million years ago, everything changed
Apes have to eat all day long and have giant jaw muscles to do this and tiny brains
Theories on why are brains doubled in size
Fat was prized for all of history
Eating the ENTIRE animal
White meat chicken breasts are the least nutrient dense, newest, wackiest thing we could eat
His family rule is kill the animal yourself or know the person who raised and killed it
Farmers markets are key
The advent of agriculture can clearly be seen in the fossil record with a decrease in physical size and brain size
What’s the real problem with agriculture?
How can we utilize modern agriculture and technology to feed the billions of earth today?
Connect yourself to your food. Try foraging. Go hunting. Go to a butcher. Make the foods you like from scratch at least once.
Know the story of food
Focus on quality
Animals are the most nutrient dense foods available, especially the organ meats, brains, marrow, etc.
He spent a year abroad in places like Kenya and Mongolia and studied many hunter gatherers such as the Hadza
He was with a group that brought down a genet cat and ate all the organs immediately
They were continuously hunting and gathering and hide a very varied diet
Picturesque physiques with wide, healthy jaws, white teeth, big smiles, almost prancing as they ran
Just blood and milk diet for 6 months
How to have a meaningful conversation about diet, health, and sustainability
Took a year off to live with these cultures and wrote a book
His TV show on NatGeo called The Great Human Race http://www.natgeotv.com/int/the-great-human-race
We must use the lessons of the past to learn what to do now and the future
He painstakingly made all the period-accurate clothes for the show by hand
How did our ancient ancestors lived based on this knowledge?
We weren’t “surviving” - we must have been thriving to be able to continue having many babies who could then propagate our species
Food Lab https://www.washcoll.edu/departments/eastern-shore-food-lab/
His personal site http://ancestralinsight.com
Follow all his work over the past year http://FoodEvolutions.org
Twitter http://twitter.com/drbillschindler
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Part 16 - Luis Villasenor on Implementing a Keto Diet & Building Muscle

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Luis is a smart and level-headed guy that doesn't get caught up in a lot of dietary dogma. He has been helping people lose weight and get in better shape for many, many years. He’s the cofounder of an awesome community called Ketogains. You need to google some photos of him to make sure you appreciate the advice he gives. He definitely is proving you can gain muscle on a keto diet even though most people believe you need a ton of carbs to do so. Take a listen and I think you’ll enjoy his simple message, which is definitely not just for people trying to get swole.

I’ve gained muscle on somewhat of a ketogenic diet over past 6 months and just released a video on youtube showing all the details because a lot of people have been asking about it. We also are back on Indiegogo with new “It’s what else you eat, not the meat” shirts and now unisex tank tops. We still need your support to make the Food Lies film happen. My production partner and I are matching every dollar that comes in, but we still have a ways to go to reach the full budget. Thanks so much and enjoy the episode.

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Show Notes

Luis is the co-founder of KetoGains.com but it’s not all about bodybuilding. It’s more about nutrition and staying fit and many clients are middle aged women.
It’s not only low carb all the time, but it’s usually better
His story of being chubby as a kid, then skinny as a teen
Used a low carb approach to gain muscle after college
Fat is a lever
His rhyme: Protein is a goal to make you grow, carbs are a limit to stay below, and fat is a fuel so you are not slow
Don't chase ketones, chase results
You don’t really need to be measuring ketone levels unless you are using keto in a therapeutic context to treat a disease
What is the role of protein and how much do you actually need?
Gluconeogenesis
Just eat nutrient dense foods and don’t worry about counting calories or ketones
Your body doesn't know what you are deficient in
Can be malnourished and obese at the same time
Answer is nutrient dense foods
Can’t replace one bad habit with another
At some point you have to reduce calories one way or another
Our ancestors managed calories naturally
Prehistoric fruits were much different in edible mass and lower sugar
People thinking baked apple pie with agave is part of a healthy paleo diet
Need to change your relationship with food
Got no time for keto breads and cheats
Food has become and entertainment industry. Scientifically developed to make you eat.
Cheesecake exists - it's your job to eat it responsibly
Cost is not an excuse - eating healthy can actually be cheaper
Can easily eat for $5-7 per day
Sardines are cheap, delicious, and super nutrient dense
Luis’s best sources of protein and vegetables
More efficient metabolism when very fat adapted and eating low carb for a long time
Evolutionary perspective on getting the most energy from things we do
You can pig out at a bbq and just make it a warrior meal and not have to eat again for 22 hours and you’ll be fine
Intermittent fasting and condensed eating windows, or as he calls it “intelligent intermittent fasting”
Training fasted is not good for building muscle
Appropriate feasting after fasting
Gaining muscle on a ketogenic diet
Insulin is a nutrient transport signaling hormone
Can you lose weight and/or remain thin while building muscle at the same time?
What about people new to lifting weights?
Compound lifts - multi-joint exercises.
Bayesian Bodybuilding
Can actually train every muscle group 5 times per week for more gains
Training each muscle group separately is known as the “bro split”
He has 3 routines that he cycles through, each focusing on a lift, but includes full body
Cardio myths
It’s way more about diet than exercise
Going to failure?
“That which cannot be measured, cannot be managed” using apps or notebooks to track weights and routines
You need to push yourself each week and constantly be adding weight

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Part 15 - Dr. Georgia Ede on the Shocking Facts of Plant Foods

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Dr. Georgia Ede is a psychiatrist, researcher, and an advocate of nutrition and diet as an alternative approach to standard medications. She’s also a speaker and writer and although has spent much time working and taking courses at Harvard, she has not fallen into their plant based diet dogma. She, in fact, researchers plants and some of their negative effects in a human diet. It really seems counterintuitive to most, but there is hard science out there about this. People are curing diseases and their depression and anxiety by cutting out certain plant foods.

She’s also an expert on Alzheimer’s and how what we eat affects the onset of this scary disease which we get into a little. We also do some more debunking of studies including the new low carb and longevity study as well as that old WHO study trying to claim red meat causes cancer.

Please listen carefully to this important and eye-opening episode. I really enjoyed my discussion with her and she provides a lot of great information.

We’re in the last 24 hours of the Food Lies Indiegogo campaign so please preorder the film there now to make sure you get it. Backers will receive the film a couple months early and there’s a bunch of other perks you can get as well. You’ll get your name in the credits as a backer of the film as well as options like the “It’s what else you eat, not the meat” t shirt and the special features bonus footage. THanks so much for supporting us in this project. It really is a lot of work and we’re not accepting outside funding - only from people like you. Ok now enjoy the show!

Show notes

Georgia had 2-3 hours of nutritional education over 4 years of medical school and didn’t receive any nutritional education while studying to be a psychiatrist for 4 years
Nutritional epidemiology dominates most of the nutritional studies in the world
Plant foods contain antinutrients and lack key brain nutrients, Dha, B-12
Refined carbs are mood destabilizers
It is possible that chemicals that plants use to protect themselves can exacerbate mental health conditions by entering the bloodstream
Plant seeds are the most heavily defended part of plants, have lectins and phytic acid which makes it hard for us to digest them
Georgia has recommended an animal based diet as an all natural approach to treating depression
Spinach contains iron that we can’t absorb
Sugar rushes to the brain which makes it hard for insulin to cross the brain, this is a contributor to alzheimer's
phytic acid is considered an anti nutrient, however it also fights cancer and prevents iron overloads in people
Vitamins D, E, A, and K are all fat-soluble
Two types of fiber, soluble and insoluble
Her article in Psychology Today about the The Antioxidant Myth https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/201712/the-antioxidant-myth
Pom Wonderful does more harm than good with a huge load of sugar and a few antioxidants that aren't even bioavailable
Sulforaphane, curcumin, oxidation, and free radicals
Alzheimer’s and type 3 diabetes - it’s all about the insulin!
Harvard School of Public Health has a goal to try to find a way to show meat is bad and promote grains as much as possible
Epidemiology is the only area of science that has any indication that red meat is bad for you
The one study the WHO put out on red meat being bad is based on very poor quality studies and only 2 are clinical trials in humans that don’t really show anything
Debunking the new low carb decreases lifespan study
Low carb group wasn't even low carb. There’s also way too many variables to make any conclusions
THe whole hypothesis that meat would be cancerous is ludicrous in the first place
Dr. Walter Willet defends nutritional epidemiology
Harvard School of Public Health’s agenda
If you eat all plant based diet you’re a healthy hero, if you eat all animal based diet you’re a deranged madman. They’re both extreme and both sides think they are completely correct and all the world’s problems would be solved if everyone went on their diet.
http://DiagnosisDiet.com
Twitter @GeorgiaEdeMD

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Part 14 - Dr. Bret Scher on Debunking Low Carb Studies and Recommending Fat as a Cardiologist

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Ok everyone, we’re back early! The Harvard studies and researchers need debunking. Low carb diets reduce lifespan? Coconut oil is pure poison? I’ve had enough of this insanity. Not only is Monsanto funding a lot of their studies, but I think they really believe this vegan stuff and it’s turning them into bad scientists. Good scientists don’t have pre-existing beliefs and they should work to disprove their theories. I think they need some more saturated fat in their diet to help their brains work better. So I got Dr. Bret Scher, who is an intellectual powerhouse to help debunk their nonsense. He’s a cardiologist, a speaker, a podcaster, a scholar, and a gentleman.

So let’s kick off season 2 with a bang. I’ve been planning and searching for guests for the past couple months and have talked to some really interesting people so far. This is going to be good everyone, looking forward to it.

Don’t forget we’re on Indiegogo trying to raise some more money for post-production. We need this movie to look as good as all the information that it provides - so don’t make me try to edit this myself. Let’s rally the troops and make this happen together!

Show Notes

It is hard for the average person to decipher what a scientific study is really saying, therefore people have to rely on news outlets
Low-Carb diets can shorten life expectancy study
Similar study in 2010, these studies just follow various individuals for many years and see who gets certain medical conditions and look for associations
Low-Carb and longevity study looked at low carb diets in which 37% of calories came from carbs, these are not true low carb diets
The collected data from this study was drawing associations rather than causations
This study includes a paragraph stating how at baseline the individuals on low carb diets tended to smoke more, exercise less, and were a higher percentage at diabetics (they were less healthy from the beginning of the study and the study cannot control these factors)
This study only collected data twice and asked participants to fill out a questionnaire based on what they can remember about what they ate over the course of the past several years
Senator McGovern’s warnings
High fat diet causes diabetes study, mice were force fed crisco and got diabetes
Harvard researcher talking about saturated fat in coconut oil
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/aug/22/coconut-oil-is-pure-poison-says-harvard-professor
Minnesota coronary experiment
Sydney diet heart study
Carrie Diulus
LDL responds to injury in the vessel wall
LDL to HDL ratio is a far more effective way to measure cholesterol rather than just being frightened by a high LDL
Low carb approach is not one size fits all, however all doctors should at least consider it as a potential tool
Making it financially viable to actually take care of patients in big healthcare institutions

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Part 13 - Gary Taubes on Nutrition Science; How Much We Know, How Little We Know

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Today we’re hearing from Gary Taubes who I got a chance to interview for Food Lies a couple months ago when he was in LA. Gary is an investigative science and health journalist who for the past 20 years has been questioning the bad science that’s been done along with the mainstream nutritional wisdom. He’s written some groundbreaking articles in the New York Times and has written multiple best selling books. He’s won various awards for his journalism and is a real authority on nutrition science so it was a treat to hear his musings on all of this. He generously lent me 2 hours of his time so we covered a lot - there’s a ton of links in the show notes. We get into some interesting details at the end so stick around.

This actually will be the last episode of the season. I already have an almost fully booked next season of episodes and have begun interviewing. There will be a a little break because these episodes are a lot of work even if it doesn’t seem like it. I’ll also be busy for a couple weeks on a film tour across the US next week followed by some other filming and editing.

The big news is we are starting a new crowdfunding campaign as of today, this time on Indiegogo. Too many people missed out on pre-ordering the film and have been reaching out to me. You also can’t make a documentary on the $30k we did on Indiegogo. So please support us by searching for Food Lies on Kickstarter.com or clicking through from the show notes. Now here’s Gary.

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Show Notes

Nutrition science is almost impossible to do well and people become almost religious about their pet theories
Good Calories, Bad Calories https://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Controversial-Science/dp/1400033462/
Historical context of good science and then nutrition science
Vilhjalmur Stefansson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhjalmur_Stefansson
Dr. Shawn Baker and thousands of carnivores http://MeatHeals.com
My call with Professor Daniel Lieberman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Lieberman
Fiber
Thomas L. (Peter) Cleave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Cleave
Sir Richard Doll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Doll
Burkitt’s Lymphoma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkitt%27s_lymphoma
Interviewing doctors who prescribe low carb diets
Most people understand what a healthy diet is supposed to be and that they should exercise
Calories in vs. calories out analogy
Eat more, move less
Why We Get Fat: And What to do About It https://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Get-Fat-About/dp/0307474259/
Why do obese people’s body hang onto fat while skinny people’s bodies don’t. This is the question that needs to be asked
Hormones
Psychologists and psychiatrists used to be the ones looking at obesity - why do they eat so much?
The study of obesity was somehow divorced from the basic science of endocrinology
Group think
What kind of studies can we make to prove this?
But sugar calories are different
Cold fusion fiasco https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_fusion
Bad Science book https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Science-Short-Weird-Fusion/dp/0394584562
Francis Bacon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
“You start accumulating evidence to prove you were right all along”
Philosophising on vegan diets and longevity
Can we ever know the answers?
How fat works on a cellular level
How do very low fat diets even work?
Are vegans more starch tolerant?
Why is sugar uniquely fattening and not just another calorie
The Case Against Sugar https://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Sugar-Gary-Taubes/dp/0307701646
Salt and what we got wrong http://science.sciencemag.org/content/281/5379/898
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/opinion/sunday/we-only-think-we-know-the-truth-about-salt.html?
More Daniel Lieberman bogus ideas
Earliest humans probably ate high fat large animals
Are we making progress? Swiss Re conference http://institute.swissre.com/events/food_for_thought_bmj.html
This giant re-insurance company has a lot to gain financially if they figure out what the right diet is to prevent or cure diabetes is
Smart people and good scientists ask questions and don’t speak in absolutes
A theory is supposed to get stronger with time, not weaker. So why is there a new headline every week, showing another exception?
Fat is bad paradigm gets weaker and weaker
Send topics and questions for the “Meeting of the minds” with Gary Taubes, Prof. Tim Noakes, Nina Teicholz, and Dom D’Agostino to me @FoodLiesOrg on Twitter and @food.lies on Instagram

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Part 12 - Peter Ballerstedt on Cows Being Essential to Environmental and Human Health

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Today we have Peter Ballerstedt who has a Phd in forage production and utilization. He’s also an expert in ruminant nutrition (this means cows, sheep, bison, etc.) He travels around the US and world giving lectures on the necessity and benefits of animal agriculture, for the health of our environment and human nutrition. I love him because he presents facts that go against the mainstream narrative and the animal rights propaganda that is absolutely rampant and taking over the conversation. He’s one of the only voices we have, so appreciate him and listen to his wise words.

You may have noticed I skipped a week putting out episodes - I had to prep for our upcoming film tour and make the Shawn Baker and Ted Naiman videos - check them out on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies

It’s the last days of the Food Lies film Indiegogo campaign - please pre-order the film. It’s the only way to be sure to be able to get it and share it with family and friends. It could take months to get to Netflix or never even make it there. Who knows. Just know you’ll likely get the film 3 months in advance if you pre-order now on Indiegogo before the campaign ends on August 10th.

I really appreciate all the support so far, we can’t do it without you all. Let’s hear what the leader of the Ruminant Revolution has to say.

Show notes

What Peter does for a living - forage agronomist
Eating beef is not only good for you, it is in fact good for the environment as well.
All cows spend the majority of their life on pasture
The facts around animal agriculture are skewed and basically the opposite of what the mainstream narrative has led us to believe
We’re removed from the entire process of raising animals
Very small and well-funded minority of animal rights activists with the loudest voices
They claim the majority of the land is used for animal agriculture. The truth is there’s 4 times as much rangeland we can use for cows or other ruminants that can’t be used for crops
The vegan rope starts unraveling
Wildly exaggerated claims of environmental impact if we ate less meat
Let’s look at insulinemia and diabetes
Animal agriculture more greenhouse gas emissions than transportation based on a flawed and retracted study
Cows aren't alchemists. The CO2 containing compounds they release came from the grass they are which got it's CO2 from the atmosphere.
They’re finding it harder and harder to try to claim eating meat is bad for you so they’re trying harder and harder to claim it’s bad for the environment
Don’t feel guilty if you’re eating some or all animal products in your diet and restoring your health
If you haven't heard of Mikhaila Peterson http://mikhailapeterson.com here’s an articel https://www.healthline.com/health-news/meat-only-diet-eased-autoimmune-disease-symptoms#7
Jordan Peterson talks about his carnivore diet on Joe Rogan’s podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGikB-54Lwk
We talk about soil health
The role of ruminants in reducing agriculture's carbon footprint in North America http://www.jswconline.org/content/71/2/156.short

Climate change and CO2
How the carbon cycle actually works with grasses and grazing cows
CO2 helps plants to grow faster
The great horse manure crisis of 1894 https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Horse-Manure-Crisis-of-1894/
plant protein and micronutrient content is far less than animal equivalent
Study with oysters, beans, and corn tortillas showing zinc absorption https://www.researchgate.net/publication/22684528_Studies_on_the_bioavailability_of_zinc_in_man_II_Absorption_of_zinc_from_inorganic_sources
We can study the diet and outcomes of animals and make lots of conclusions, but can’t do that for humans
“Our animals have never been healthier, and humans have never been sicker”
Modern societies are dependent on ruminant animals. We need to meet the growing need for animal protein with the growing population.
For an ancient food to cause a modern disease is ludicrous
The danger of nitrates and nitrites has been debunked
Omega 3 and Omega 6
What’s going on with this carnivore thing?
All plant diets = healthy hero. All meat diet = insane person who’s going to die
“Diet for a Small Planet” and “Population Bomb”
Lab grown meat
How’d the margarine experiment go?
Can you really replicate all the intricacies of meat? It's not just a protein matrix. Do we trust the makers to even get the ratios of fat/protein correct?
Ruminants are part of the lifecycle of grasslands and soil health, we shouldn’t exclude them. Essential for watersheds, carbon cycle - what’s their replacement?
We shouldn't put a big portion of our food supply into the hands of one company that gets the patent or a few big companies
Where are the nutrients going to come from?
They’re starting from a false nutritional premise
What about other wealth generation from cows, especially in developing countries
What about the energy it would take to cool and produce all this lab grown meat?
Same thing that’s going on in the healthcare system - we’re making a medication for each disease instead of treating the root problem
Eating beef is beneficial to you and the environment
Buy the animal products you can afford to feed yourself and your family and don’t let the other side and their fear-mongering influence you.

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Part 11 - Lierre Keith on the Moral, Nutritional, and Environmental Superiority of Eating Meat

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One of my favorite humans I have never met in person, Lierre Keith, shares a ton of information with us today. We talked for almost 2 hours and could have gone longer. You may recognize her from the Netflix film The Magic Pill - she was a hardcore vegan for 20 years and lived the lifestyle with passion. I won’t give away everything, but she wholeheartedly enjoys animal products now and wrote a book that thoroughly refutes the three major tenets vegans and vegetarians stand on. They claim a plant based diet is better morally, better for the environment, and superior nutritionally. As I know, and you at home probably are aware of by now, the opposite is true on all accounts.

We also bring up the Sapien Movement near the end as a way to join together and fight the vegan propaganda, spread the truth, and work to improve the way we do agriculture and human nutrition. The site is live at SapienMovement.com and you can also find the group on Facebook and the twitter and instagram accounts, all under that name. The goal is to “End industrial agriculture and eat ancestrally” - other than that, It’s not defined yet. Join us and help us figure out what we can do to make a difference.

As we speak, I’m in San Diego filming with some awesome researchers and doctors. We still really need your help if you haven’t pre-ordered or contributed to the film - it’s called Food Lies and it’s on http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post Thanks so much to everyone who has supported us so far. Let’s hear from Lierre!

Show notes:

How she got caught in the vegan ideology
Body began to degrade, but she ignored it due to beliefs
Blood sugar and insulin problems
Not getting enough protein, fat, or cholesterol
Honeymoon of phase where veganism works
Her spine and joints started falling apart
Skin problems, reproductive problems
Nasty soy and hormone problems
Damaged stomach and can’t produce proper acid
Reach out to her at http://lierrekeith.com if you are a vegan and having problems
Her book The Vegetarian Myth begins with breakin down the moral argument
Where we went wrong with salt https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/health/salt-health-effects.html
Plants are beginning to become dependant on humans to plant them because they are too big, humans have to clear land
Monocropping only takes from land, plants don’t give back and chemicals/fossil fuel is required in large amounts
Most vegans don’t understand the negative traits of monocropping
The water table has dropped far due to monocropping, oil drilling is used to get to the water
Ruminants and grass coevolved
Cows should not be fed corn
Cows stimulate the growth of grass
Bison make mini wetlands with their horns by stabbing land above water
E. coli is a result of factory farming and over usage of antibiotics
Cowspiracy is not based on real evidence and some of the individuals involved admitted they were wrong
It is hard to present facts to groups of individuals who are always convinced that their ideology is correct despite what any evidence points to
Grow your own food to reduce carbon footprint
Lierre talks about her gardening experience/realization about the cycle of life
Many vitamins are only available in animal fat
Some individuals need to eat meat because they can’t make the enzyme that converts the vitamin a found in carrots
There is not any plant source for vitamin B12, this has caused physical harm to some vegans such as damaged vision or hearing
Omega-3’s and omega-6’s get converted into fats
USDA used to not even consider soy a food
Studies showing higher mortality rates for people using vegetable oils [LINK]
Big health organizations have admitted that they have made mistakes when telling us what to eat
The govt. is subsidizing the worst food for us, corn, wheat and soy
Wheat is addictive
1800 marks the beginning of the fossil fuel age
Agriculture requires intensive labor and is resulting in poor nutrition
Lierre talks about agriculture during the age of empires to explain some of the negative traits of agriculture that are still relevant today
Phytoestrogens in soy are harmful
Soy consumption among children contributes to precocious puberty
Soy disrupts the hippocampus which can lead to memory problems
The Japanese eat soy as a condiment rather than as a protein substitute
Quick overview of what Weston Price did
Overview of “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration”
Vegans have to cheat on their diet to maintain health
Discussion about the two different metabolic states humans can exist in
Noticed less low fat products when filming B-roll at the store
It’s all about information - we know fast food and sugar are bad
This Sapien Movement is a real thing. Go to http://SapienMovement.com and @SapienMovement on twitter and Instagram, and join the private Facebook group
I talk more and more about her book and how everyone should read it - find it at http://lierrekeith.com

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Part 10 - Unifying Theory of Nutrition Conclusion

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You may be wondering what happened to that plant based couple I talked to in episode 1… well they haven’t withered away from their poor diet just yet. Just joking it isn’t too bad and they seem to be pretty savvy with not eating a lot of the plant-based trash. You’ll also notice they started eating sardines in this episode, so they should be getting a great boost of nutrition there to keep their bodies in tact. It took us a while to find a time to record again but we finally got a chance to finish up the conversation and get into the environmental aspects as well. I’ll have some more guests talking about this side of things very soon.

So now this is the time when on other podcasts you’d be hearing annoying ads for products you don't care about. Luckily, I’ve chosen to not try to make any money off this podcast even though it’s taken hundreds of hours of work. If you're listening, you probably really care about this topic or are interested to learn more. If you're getting any value from this podcast, please show your support by contributing to the film. It’s called Food Lies and is crowdfunding now on http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post

Show Notes

Picked up where we left off with
Soy and corn are bad, many vegans don’t know this
Impossible burger (vegan burger) has many ingredients that may be bad for us but moreover it requires more energy to get to your fridge - worse for environment than just eating meat
All cows spend 2/3 of their lives on pasture
There is not a lot wrong with processed meat
Contrary to popular belief, hormones are not running through beef
People have more levels of estrogen, vegetable oils and soy olis have contributed to this
T. Colin Campbell vs. Loren Cordain
Protein U shaped curve https://twitter.com/tednaiman/status/978288369011589120
There is a movement trying to say that we don’t need as much protein as we may think we do
Food is 4 things, protein, fat, carbs, micronutrients
Focus on protein and micronutrients while limiting your energy source to your goals - Unifying Theory
You can vote with your wallet by creating a demand for sustainably raised beef when buying the right products
When consuming animal products we are not eating what the animal was fed
When eating liver you are not eating toxins
Both the vegan and carnivore sides are in a business, however the government is more focused on selling corn, wheat, and soy compared to animal products
Humans probably evolved switching between low carb and low fat diets in cycles because of not always being able to have access to meat
Rotational grazing has many benefits and could be done on a large scale if there is more land, we could get this from land that is used to grow grains and soy for animals and humans
We don’t need fiber. Here’s a study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3435786/
The China Study was supposed to be used only as observational studies
Tuoli, the native people here ate twice the amount of saturated fat as Americans but are healthier
Bacon and N-nitroso compounds https://www.wired.com/2015/10/who-does-bacon-cause-cancer-sort-of-but-not-really/
Alzheimer’s genes and metabolic damage from too many carbs
Wrap up - we may have made some headway

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Part 9 - Amy Berger on the Antidote to Alzheimer's

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We’ve got Amy Berger here to tell us about your noggin and how to keep it working well. She’s got a masters in human nutrition, she’s a certified nutrition specialist and a nutritional therapy practitioner, and an expert on Alzheimer’s disease.

What’s great about her is she’s taken the info from the cutting edge research being done in brain chemistry, metabolic disease, dementia, alzheimer’s, cognitive decline, and a ton more and done all the dirty work to figure it out and package it up so anyone can understand it. It may get detailed at times, but just listen on. I let her do the talking so sit back and be ready to soak up some info.

I’m not going to mention the Food Lies film crowdfunding on Indiegogo this time so let’s just hear from Amy.

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Show Notes

Her book “The Alzheimer’s Antidote” https://www.amazon.com/Alzheimers-Antidote-Low-Carb-High-Fat-Cognitive/dp/1603587
We have a lot of control over our cognitive density
How Alzheimer’s works
We know what’s going on in the brain, we just don’t know why
It’s about glucose
Modern lifestyle and its effects on the brain including the most important - what we eat
Insulin and low carb diets
Alzheimer’s is being called Type 3 diabetes
Current status of the (lack of) progress on research
What’s the root cause?
Amyloid plaque
Decline starts early - even in 30s and 40 but it’s not detected
Processed and sugary foods are almost certainly causing gene expression
Treating and/or preventing with a ketogenic or low carb diet
Food is the answer. She doesn't support a vegan diet
Intermittent fasting
Sleep affects insulin sensitivity and is hugely important for your brain and preventing cognitive disease
Exercise and BDNF
Doctors aren't checking for insulin resistance or catching stuff early
Triglycerides, HDL, blood pressure and salt
My family and Alzheimer’s and insane doctors
How to have the best chances of not developing Alzheimer’s disease
Normal people don’t need to go crazy tracking and measuring food and ketones
Her book “The Alzheimer’s Antidote” https://www.amazon.com/Alzheimers-Antidote-Low-Carb-High-Fat-Cognitive/dp/160358
Bonus article: Is the Leading Theory ABout Alzheimer’s Wrong? https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/02/alzheimers-amyloid-hypothesis/517185/

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Part 8 - Ivor Cummins on Changing the Cholesterol Narrative

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Hello everyone! Wanted to do an update on the Food Lies film: we’re shooting at low carb USA in San Diego in a couple weeks with Ivor and a couple other doctors, including the preeminent researcher in this field (along with Dr. Steve Phinney) Dr. Jeff Volek who’s studies are actually mentioned a few times in this episode. Really excited about this shoot and our next one at conference in Ohio next month.

Also really excited that we’re 34% funded on Indiegogo - there’s been a huge surge recently so I want to thank everyone who’s been contributing. I want to say the film is happening no matter what. I’ll pay for it myself if I have to. So please support it - there’s a link in the show notes.

This is really important to me. I’m not some rich guy like pete Evans who made The magic Pill. I’m a guy living on some money i saved up so that I could take time off to make this film, just trying to scrape by. My friends think I’m crazy. So tell a friend about it if you can’t contribute yourself or already have. Thanks so much.

Now on to this episode. Ivor Cummins is a sharp Irish gent. He’s a chemical engineer by trade and his specialty is leading teams in complex problem solving scenarios. This background helped him to really dive deep into cholesterol while also being unencumbered by the outdated mainstream views of the substance. He’s gone over 3,000 studies on cholesterol and made some amazing realizations. He now travels around the world speaking on this to help doctors and laypeople understand the new data and updated science.

I did link to some of the graphs he will mention - they’re pretty compelling - here's the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kES6-ueXSghNuae5Qzh-QzbGwLThwdRs67eF9Qlle-0/edit?usp=sharing

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http://Thefatemperor.com

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Show Notes

Got back from FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS OF NUTRITION http://institute.swissre.com/events/food_for_thought_bmj.html
Most people have a surface level understanding of cholesterol that is highly misinformed
Top experts have moved on from LDL being bad
How your cholesterol ratios work and why they’re a better indicator. It always comes back to insulin.
There’s more factors beyond insulin in all these chronic diseases
Cholesterol is a vital necessity to every cell in your body. It has gotten maligned just because it’s found at the scene of the crime.
How did we start believing cholesterol was bad?
1950s explosion of heart disease
Ancel keys and the McGovern report
Let’s spread the word that saturated fat is bad without a real study - what’s the worst that could happen?
If you’re telling us we can’t eat stuff we’ve been eating for millions of years you better have some compelling data showing us why. Oh wait, you don’t?
Women’s Health Initiative was a study for 8 years and cost a billion dollars and didn’t prove anything
MR FIT study didn’t show anything https://books.google.com/books?id=lDdRDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT535&lpg=PT535&dq=mrfit+study+cholesterol+ivor&source=bl&ots=LmyfxwCOnz&sig=s7jvDK8UBhXu-IBKxKeHhfFXqz4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig3Z6bmqTcAhVKslQKHepOBGYQ6AEIcjAF#v=onepage&q=mrfit%20study%20cholesterol%20ivor&f=false
Site where all studies are published regardless of the outcomes http://alltrials.net
Unpublished trials and bad reporting: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-teicholz-saturated-fat-wont-kill-you-20170723-story.html#
Research community gave the green light to big food manufacturers to use a bunch of super cheap vegetable oils, sugar,and carbs to make all these terrible low fat products
Cheap ingredients with huge profit margins that harm people’s health
It goes against all the big companies interest to reverse the mistakes that have been made
Sweden one of the first to accept low carb https://healthimpactnews.com/2013/sweden-becomes-first-western-nation-to-reject-low-fat-diet-dogma-in-favor-of-low-carb-high-fat-nutrition/
The great Cholesterol Conundrum video https://youtu.be/fuj6nxCDBZ0
Images of some of the graphs from the presentation https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kES6-ueXSghNuae5Qzh-QzbGwLThwdRs67eF9Qlle-0/edit?usp=sharing
Ivor breaks down some of Dr. Jeff Volek’s studies
He’s gone over about 3,000 studies in the past 6 years and a good one is the Helsinki Policeman’s study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9714089
Dr. David Unwin in the UK https://www.diabetes.co.uk/blog/2015/08/dr-david-unwin-publishes-more-evidence-of-low-carb-diet-benefits-in-the-bmj/
What’s up with LDL cholesterol?
Dave Feldmen’s Cholesterol Code http://cholesterolcode.com and his discoveries almost by himself
How do people actually get clogged arteries?
Refined carbs and sugar are the real problem. Or the combo of that with fats. It’s not saturated fat
ApoE4 genotype and avoiding insulin resistance
The earliest ancestral gene
Human instincts for certain foods and modern sugar consumption
The CAC score test to measure your actual risk for a cardiac event
Mayo Clinic conspiracy
Irish Heart Disease Awareness http://www.ihda.ie
The Widowmaker movie http://www.thefatemperor.com/blog/2017/1/28/the-widowmaker-full-movie-now-available-to-all-via-fat-emperor-
The awesome book Eat Rich, Live Long https://www.amazon.com/Eat-Rich-Live-Long-Mastering/dp/1628602732/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1531463015&sr=8-1&keywords=eat+rich+live+long+book
We talk about the Food Lies film!

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Part 7 - Denise Minger on Questioning Nutrition Dogma

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Denise is a joyful ball of energy and talent. She speaks at conferences, writes books, and is an all around great person. I love her view on things and her balanced approach, but she does lean towards the high carb diet side. But here’s the thing - she advocates eating a lot of nutrient dense animal products, no sugar, grains, or vegetable oils - so a lot to agree with there. I want everyone to hear this to see an opposite approach and see if it might work for you. The Unifying Theory of Nutrition says things can work on both sides - so here’s the other one.

I still think it’s insane to expect people to live like a tribesman in the bolivian wilderness. You’re asking all of America to eat an ultra-clean Vegan diet plus organ meats. To maybe 99% of the population that sounds awful. Like the worst ever.

I didn’t agree on everything but I went along with it. In retrospect I could have challenged her more and I also want to see some studies that actually show this dietary approach works in a scientific setting. I could have brought up more of the points supporting low carb diet showing much better results in clinical trials and on lowering risk factors for heart disease, etc. but I didn’t want to argue and we already yammered on for almost 90 min.

So support the Food Lies film on Indiegogo and let’s hear what Denise is all about!

Show notes

Famous for her teardowns of things like the China Study, and vegan propaganda like Forks Over Knives and the book How Not to Die http://deniseminger.com
Her story of ruining her health as a vegan
Questioning the China Study and blowing over night
She always questions dogmatic thinking in the nutrition world
From her book “we leave the classroom woefully unequipped with the thinking skills that matter most: how to balance open–mindedness with skepticism, how to identify bias, and how to challenge assumptions – including our own – in a way that’s truly objective.”
Ancel keys and the story of how began thinking fat was bad for us
The McGovern Report which prescribed America with a low-fat, high-carb diet.
Why was meat demonized when it was and still is so highly regarded as prized source of nutrition?
Confounding variables with meat-eaters. What are you eating with the meat? Lifestyles are very different for different groups
Why did we ever think vegetable oils were good for us?
America does not actually eat low fat.
Humans can actually do well on a true low fat, whole foods diet
How does this other metabolic state work?
Big food would ruin things if they got the go-ahead from the government to do low-carb high fat
I don’t believe it’s realistic at all to expect people to eat this way in America. You’re asking people to eat a Vegan diet plus organ meats
What would you actually be eating on this sort of diet?
If you’re vegan or vegetarian this doesn’t work
Do vegetables have anti-nutrients or other toxins we should be worried about?
Is fiber necessary?
Nutrient density and satiety
Problem with people eating all the time
Killer combo of fat and sugar… it’s irresistible
So how do we figure this all out? It’s confusing when 2 totally different paradigms seem to work.
Eating whole foods, going back to nature

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Part 6 - Dom D’Agostino on Keto, Carbs, and Cancer

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Today we have the mighty Dom D’Agostino who is at the forefront of the science behind why low carb diets work and specifically the more extreme form of a low carb diet you’ve probably heard a lot about lately - the ketogenic diet. It can be used therapeutically with the help of doctors to treat and reverse diseases like type 2 diabetes and epilepsy. It can also help the everyday person lose a lot of weight if done correctly. It’s not a fad diet - although it currently could be considered a fad just because technically it is very popular right now and might get less popular in the future. It is however quite the opposite as our ancestors have likely been eating in a similar way for millions of years depending on the geography, time of year, and current world climate.

I’d like to apologize for not checking the audio while I recorded - there was a effects knob on my old school mixer I use that got turned on and it put some sort of concert hall echo effect on my voice.

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Show notes

Dom’s many conferences and travels spreading info on his research
What research he does
Helping people understand the benefits of a ketogenics diet
Fasting, ketosis, the military, and seizures
Neurodegenerative diseases and burning ketones
Evolutionary function of ketones
How to not be slave to sugar
Choosing fat as your energy source makes it easier to control your hunger, keep your brain happy, and eat fewer calories
Don’t have to go high fat
Teens with type 2 diabetes eating tons of carbs
Carbohydrate intolerance
Intermittent Fasting
Cancer as a metabolic disease
The Warburg Effect
Glucose, ketones, and cancer and how the ketogenic diet helps prevent tumor growth
More stuff on ketones and the future of beta hydroxybutyrate as an endogenous metabolite
The Charlie Foundation and curing epilepsy and seizures with the ketogenic diet https://charliefoundation.org
The Metabolic Health Summit in January 2019 in Los Angeles https://metabolichealthsummit.com

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Part 5 - Zoe Harcombe on the Weird and Backwards World of Nutrition

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Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Zoe Harcombe has a PhD in public health nutrition, she speaks at conferences around the world, she’s wrote many books, and she’s a true gem. She currently lives in rural England and apparently has a great mic and internet connection because she sounded like she was in studio with me. She’s an expert on dietary guidelines (and how unscientific our current ones are), nutrition and obesity.

She’s a prolific writer and has an amazingly informative site that I use frequently and I suggest people check out to learn about this stuff - it’s http://zoeharcombe.com - So let’s hear what she has to say!

Before we start I have to give a shout out to everyone who’s contributed to the Indiegogo campaign, I’m so grateful. We’re extending it 30 more days and I’m sure we’re going to hit our goal if everyone continues to support us by pre-ordering a copy of the Food Lies film.

Show Notes

She used to be vegetarian, but has reformed!
Vegetarian bias is rampant
Saturated fat is in everything - how is it bad?
Our nutrition guidelines are BS
Why 5 a day isn't based on anything
High nutrition of meat, fish, eggs, dairy and low nutrition of fruit and some veg
How you can eat a nutrient complete diet for $5.53/day
How cancer is not caused by whole foods like red meat that we’ve been eating for millions of years
Big fellas at weddings crushing rice at every meal
There’s more myths out there we’ve all just come to believe including bad cholesterol, drinking tons of water, eating tons of fiber
The Vegetarian Myth (Lierre Keith - great book http://LierreKeith.com ) all their arguments break down
Cows and other ruminants are imperative to a healthy planet and food security
Vegan/vegetarian food is raping our planet
Allan Savory’s TED talk https://www.ted.com/talks/allan_savory_how_to_green_the_world_s_deserts_and_reverse_climate_change
Grass-Fed Nation by Graham Harvey https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256297-grass-fed-nation
No such thing as a heart-healthy grain. But eat what’s in front of you and don’t be a dick.
Dr. Perlmutter Grain Brain - read this too, it’s great
Basically universally feel better when people come off of refined grains, sugar, and vegetable oils
Thermodynamics, fat, and the human body
Why calories in doesn't equal calories out
Gaining weight while skiing 8 hours a day and eating pasta and me gaining weight while hiking 8 hours a day and eating a bit of rice.
Too much exercise hurts weight loss a lot of the time
Are things getting better in regards to this info spreading?
Nina Teicholz https://twitter.com/BigFatSurprise
Sam Feltham https://twitter.com/SamFeltham
Aseem Malhotra https://twitter.com/DrAseemMalhotra
David Unwin https://twitter.com/lowcarbGP
Campbell Murdoch https://twitter.com/CampbellMurdoch

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Part 4 - Dr. Shawn Baker on Human Evolution, Meat, and Healing Yourself Through Diet

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For many this man needs no intro, he’s the savage carnivore orthopedic surgeon who deadlifts 700 something pounds. He’s lighting up Instagram and twitter these days as the unofficial president of the carnivore movement that I’ve just named him. Anyway, he’s a great guy and shares a lot of wisdom in this episode. And no, he doesn't think everyone should be a carnivore and either do I. We need to look at all sides of nutrition and I have Denise Minger coming on soon who I highly respect and has a very opposite view of things… and it’s not veganism…

Ok so there’s an interesting series of events unfolding right now as I’m recording and releasing this which begins 5 years ago. You're going to have to listen to the show to hear it.

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Show notes

Caught him for the film interview when he was in town for Joe Rogan’s podcast
Toxins are dose-dependent, yet this is not consistent with eating meat
Epidemiology in nutrition is very flawed
Shawn is sort of the ringleader in the carnivore world and is collecting thousands of success stories from around the world.
People treating their diseases by just eating meat
Younger and younger people are getting metabolic disease these days
Modern carnivore diet is based on millions of years of humans eating meat. It’s actually one of the only foods no humans have an intolerance for. People start it as an elimination diet - if you’re having problems you take away everything but meat and the add foods back in to see how they affect you. Some people never add the foods back in…
Until you experiment you don’t know if you could be living much more optimally
What’s up with us thinking we need tons of fiber?
Your body absorbs basically all of the nutrition from meat… not so much from plants
What Doc Baker eats on an average day
Eating should be simple and satisfying
We’ve created a food system based on endless options and engineered flavors
Human skeletons and brains shrank when we invented agriculture and started eating a larger portion of grains in our diet
Can too much protein cause a blood sugar rise due to gluconeogenesis?
Dealing with vegan hate
Vegans are confused on how the circle of life works
The vegan diet supports Monsanto and monocropping which ruins the environment.
We’re going to start a movement!
People need to be more in touch with how food is grown
Mixed farming as we’ve done in the past that is sustainable
Gabe Brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfTZ0rnowcc
Lab grown meat
His blood work and labs after eating only meat for 18 months
His experience with the medical system as an orthopedic surgeon
What can we do?

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Part 3 - Prof. Tim Noakes on Dietary Misconceptions & Finding the Truth

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Today we have Professor Tim Noakes and I gotta say I was so excited to interview such a highly respected and world renowned scientist and researcher.

He has published more than 750 scientific books and articles. He has been cited more than 16,000 times in scientific literature and has been rated an A1 scientist for a second 5-year term. He founded the Noakes Foundation which does critical research on these new dietary approaches and helps underserved communities eat better. He’s changing million of people’s lives in South Africa and the world as one of the biggest voices in the low-carb high fat movement.

Please listen to his story because it’s very important. He was in great shape his whole life as an ultra endurance athlete and marathoner yet still developed type 2 diabetes. You can be thin and fit and still be damaging your body with a high carb diet that athletes believe is necessary. So please take a listen to his words of wisdom.

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Show notes

How Professor Noakes got started with his career
Los Angeles played a role!
Accepting the high carb dogma
Lore of Running https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/112160.Lore_of_Running
Waterlogged - you don’t actually need a bunch of water https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14537326-waterlogged
Placebo controlled study on carbs show they have no effect on performance
A new Atkins for a new you shakes up his world https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7158682-the-new-atkins-for-a-new-you
He’s reversed his type 2 diabetes as of 2 months ago
Challenging your beliefs
Ripping out pages of the Lore of Running
His father’s diabetes
Michael Phelps eating 12,000 calories per day
Being a thin athlete and still causing damage to your body with all the carbs
What is insulin resistance?
Doctors not knowing if their insulin resistant or doing insulin tests
I didn’t see much low-fat messaging when filming at a grocery store
Why should I use full-fat cream in coffee instead of skim milk?
Won’t I die of heart disease if I eat a bunch of saturated fat from red meat?
Is cholesterol bad for you?
I thought we should all be eating a bunch of heart-healthy grains?
Ok but whole grains have to be good for me right?
Where’s the evidence that we need a bunch of fiber? Kelloggs pushed his cereal and started this message
Before around 1959 it was common knowledge that carbohydrates made you fat
Meat was prized for all of history
Ancel Keys and the saturated fat myth
Nina Teicholz The Big Fat Surprise https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16130316-the-big-fat-surprise
Sugar industry paying of scientists NY times article
Unilever
The tweet heard around the world - the trial of Professor Tim Noakes http://foodmed.net/the-noakes-trial/
Real Meal Revolution https://realmealrevolution.com/
Colluding dieticians
Promoting real food
Back to normal life
The Noakes Foundation http://thenoakesfoundation.org/
Nutrition Network launched May 1
Updating Lore of Running
Brain regulates athletic performance
Carb burning athletes are so reliant on sugar every hour or two
Fat adapted runners
Real Meal Revolution free resources http://go.realmealrevolution.com/banting20lists
What would happen if the whole world went LCHF?

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Part 2 - Dr. Ted Naiman on Lifelong Health

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Our first guest is the great Dr. Ted Naiman. Maybe you know who that is, maybe you don’t…. But I’ll just say, listen to the man. Some of this may be new to people who aren’t total nutrition nerds - but just know it’s the truth. Dr. Naiman might be the most on-point authority on how your metabolism works, how to stay lean and fit, and how to eat optimally.

He has a ton of experience with thousands of patients and sees first hand how different diets affect all different kinds of people.

I’ve learned so much from him and a lot of things clicked into place once I started really understanding his way of thinking about nutrition.

So before we start, just remember that we’re trying to break even on all this by crowdfunding to get the film made. Please pre-order it now on Indiegogo - just search for Food Lies or click here - Thank you!

Show Notes

How insulin resistance develops
Can’t eat both high carb and high fat
How a few of his patients are “pulling off” veganism with a lot of supplementation and restrictions
Problems with vegan and low protein diets
Your body is a battery - it runs on stored body fat. How this works.
Protein sparing modified fast
WHy juice cleanses and starvation is absurd and doing more harm
Lean mass and fat mass
Macronutrient wars and how America got obese
Too much protein and gluconeogenesis is overblown
Low carb and low fat both have success stories - what’s the unifying theory?
The amazingly simple (and free) way Ted stays ripped

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Part 1 - The Unifying Theory of Nutrition

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This episode gives you a complete look at nutrition. Learn what to eat, what not to eat, and why. Learn how basically all chronic diseases come from us moving away from the foods our ancestors ate (you know, the ones free of all chronic diseases). Everything will make a lot more sense after this episode.

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Show Notes

Pat and Marife - who they are and why we are doing this
Why I’m doing this film
Major health myths
cholesterol
Saturated fat
Link to studies about sat fat

Vegetable oils are harmful https://chriskresser.com/how-too-much-omega-6-and-not-enough-omega-3-is-making-us-sick/
What causes clogged arteries
WHO and other orgs have vegetarian members which should be a conflict of interest
Meat and cancer https://chriskresser.com/the-truth-about-red-meat/
Processed meat
Nitrates and nitrites https://chriskresser.com/the-nitrate-and-nitrite-myth-another-reason-not-to-fear-bacon/
Salt is not bad for us https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-time-to-end-the-war-on-salt/
Healthcare company reversing type 2 diabetes with low carb, high fat diets http://virtahealth.com
Published study of this https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13300-018-0373-9
What you get from animal products that you can’t get from plants
Study of iron absorption of spinach
“Even though some plants, such as spinach, are high in iron, the body can only absorb 1.4-7% of the iron in plants whereas it can absorb 20% of the iron in red meat”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1745900
Influence of dietary carbohydrate and fat on LDL and HDL particle distributions.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16256003

No link between saturated fat and CVD
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20071648
https://news.osu.edu/news/2014/11/21/study-doubling-saturated-fat-in-the-diet-does-not-increase-saturated-fat-in-blood/
A total of 6,786 people have participated in these 76 studies. 6 have lasted 2 years or more to prove the low carb diet is effective
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ucfpvs2CmKFnae9a8zTZS0Zt1g2tdYSIQBFcohfa1w0/edit
Weston A. Price info https://www.westonaprice.org
The great book The Vegetarian Myth http://www.lierrekeith.com

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(SAPIEN) Dr. Gary Rants - Follow up on Pandemic Clinical Experience

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This is a short episode I did with Dr. Gary - we do these in between episodes on the SAPIEN podcast. Please subscribe to SAPIEN as well as Peak Human! We have guests live in our studio with 4 cameras and put the episodes on the Food Lies YouTube.

Got another Saturday decompression episode with Dr. Gary for ya to follow up with the full in-studio episode on lockdown fallout. This was recorded Dec 1.

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Peak Human Podcast Preview

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Hi Everyone, I’m Brian Sanders, and I’m making a feature length documentary called Food Lies which is about the sordid history of our dietary guidelines, the epidemic of chronic disease and obesity that followed, what the new science is telling us humans should actually be eating, and how to eat that food sustainably.

As I make the film, I’m talking to a bunch of experts who have graciously lent me their time to create this podcast. Actually, you can think of this as a free audio course on nutrition - all without ads. I’m doing this to support the Food Lies film which is now crowdfunding on Indiegogo.com.

Over the next 13 episodes you’ll hear from some of the top experts in their field, specifically chosen to cover all areas of this complicated subject. There’s so much conflicting health information out there, it’s almost impossible to know who and what to believe. I quit my job and have spent the past year researching it from all sides, even veganism, and this audio series provides an overview.

By the end, all the confusion around health and what we should eat should make sense. You’ll learn so much more of the science behind this all, like the real deal with cholesterol and saturated fat, how to prevent cancer and diseases, if carbohydrates can be part of a healthy diet, and how ruminants like cows are essential for the health and future of the soil and environment

The first part of the season includes these amazing doctors, researchers, and journalists:

Professor Tim Noakes
Dr. Ted Naiman
Dr. Zoe Harcombe
Gary Taubes
Dr. Dom D’Agostino
Denise Minger
Dr. Shawn Baker
Amy Berger
Peter Ballerstedt
And more to come

There’s so much awesome information in this audio series, I can’t wait to share it with everyone. So please subscribe now wherever you get your podcasts.

You're probably wondering “So who’s this Brian guy?” by now. Well, first of all, I’ve been a filmmaker since middle school. I’ve also built and sold a tech company, worked as a mechanical engineer, and now, I’ve quit my job to devote the rest of my life to this cause. I’ve read dozens of books, watched dozens of films, watched hundreds of lectures and presentations, and listened to over a thousand hours of podcast episodes on this subject.

I’ve looked at all the different approaches and figured out what the common truths are and what’s BS. I now understand the unifying theory of nutrition that pulls together all sides - from Paleo to Vegan. Nobody is really talking about this - everyone is too busy being blinded by their tribe.

I’ve also put this research into practice, and now, at age 35, I’m in the best shape of my life. My vitals and blood work are flawless and I haven’t been sick in 3 years. The same goes for countless family and friends, as well as millions around the world. I’m so excited to share this all with you.

Once again, the film is called Food Lies and we’re crowdfunding now on Indiegogo.com. Please support us and preorder a copy the film. We also have tons of great rewards like the limited edition Real Foods challenge coin. Also don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast as the episodes will be airing soon. You can find out more at peak-human.com and foodlies.org and find us on Twitter (@FoodLiesOrg) and Instagram (@food.lies). Thanks again!

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