STOP Gaining Fat and How You Can Turn FAT STORAGE Off | Dr. Rick Johnson on Health Theory

03/17/22 • 59 min

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It’s no secret, sugar has been labeled the bad guy in the standard American diet for years now. As new diet fads circulate around the internet and the latest trends and research seems to change every other day, finally some pieces of the “what’s making me fat” puzzle are starting to fit together. Even more so, with today’s health concerns, obesity is no longer the only indicator for poor health and metabolic disease. Dr. Richard Johnson is board certified in internal medicine, infectious diseases, and kidney disease and is known as the Fructose Expert. In this episode he’s breaking down the orchestrated events taking place in our bodies between sugar, salt, and how your foods are triggering you to gain weight.
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SHOW NOTES:
0:00 | Introduction to Dr Richard Johnson
0:42 | Why We Get Fat
6:18 | Fructose Signaling
17:47 | Is Fructose the Problem
26:34 | The Dehydration Trigger
34:59 | Watch Your Salt Intake
41:00 | The Role of Uric Acid
47:34 | Get Your Vitamin C
51:36 | Avoid These Foods
QUOTES:
“There is a switch that animals use to go from being us normal weight to overweight, that switch, you can activate it by certain types of foods.” [1:53]
“The fat is like the firewood, and the sugar is like the fire. So if you take away the fire, and you go on a low carb diet, and you are in high fat now, well, there's no stimulus to gain weight because because you've taken away the fructose” [17:18]
“One of the classic means for stimulating fructose turns out to be from a high glucose level in the blood.” [23:02]
“When you eat, if your glucose goes up in your blood, it triggers the production of fructose.” [37:59]
“So it's either the fructose you eat, or the fructose you make if you eat a lot of fructose, you're going to activate the switch.” [38:58]
“We have a higher uric acid, and this makes us more sensitive to the effects of fructose because fructose is working through uric acid. [...] and when that happens, we become very sensitive to sugar” [40:14]
“In the potency sugars, number one, high glycemic carbs are probably number two. salty foods are distant three, and umami is maybe even a four.” [44:36]
“Exercise turns out to be a great way not to lose weight, cause it doesn't burn many calories, but it stimulates the mitochondria, you won't notice the benefit except the benefit’s going to be happening.” [55:46]
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What You Know About the KETO DIET Is WRONG! This Is What NEW STUDIES Are Showing | Dr. Steven Gundry

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The ketogenic diet is so popular that it was searched over 25 million times in one year. Some experts support its effectiveness to help people lose weight, while others claim that it’s the worst diet to try. Research and data have advanced and proven that everyone has it wrong. Dr. Steven Gundry is with Tom explaining why he and the rest of the medical community got ketosis all wrong. He shares why mitochondrial uncoupling is really the star and this is what you need to know to make your dieting experience easier and more effortless. No need to live completely devoid of carbohydrates on a keto diet any longer.
SHOW NOTES:
0:00 | Introduction to Dr. Steven Gundry
0:55 | What You Got Wrong About Keto
8:05 | Why Mitochondria Is Key to Keto
12:22 | Metabolic Flexibility & Fat Burning
18:53 | What Ketones Are Signaling
23:05 | Mitochondrial Uncoupling
34:53 | The Miracle Weight Loss Drug
39:38 | Benefit of Polyphenols
46:35 | Mitochondria DNA is Female
50:01 | Restricted Eating & Feeding Times
56:40 | Blue Zone Diets & Goat Milk
QUOTES:
“50 percent of normal weight individuals have no metabolic flexibility.” [13:03]
“At full ketosis, human beings can only meet 30% of their calorie needs by burning ketones. The rest have to come from free fatty acids and glucose.” [19:09]
“Ketones are not a super fuel, they are actually a signaling molecule that tells mitochondria to protect themselves at all cost from damage” [20:15]
“In a ketogenic diet, if you do it right and uncouple your mitochondria, you waste fuel. You feed six dogs instead of one, and that's where the benefit of ketosis comes from.” [30:21]
“You want to cycle in and out of ketosis on a 24 hour basis.” [49:37]
“It's the cycling in and out of getting the benefits of ketosis. Without full ketosis, that makes all the difference.” [56:29]
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The DAILY HACKS To Improve Sleep, PREVENT DISEASE & Live Longer! | Roger Seheult

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For most of us, when we think of melatonin, the first thing we think of is “a chemical to make you feel sleepy”.
And while it’s true that melatonin plays a critical role in governing our circadian rhythm, it turns out that melatonin is also one of the most powerful antioxidants produced in the body.
This is a huge deal when it comes to disease prevention, as oxidative stress and inflammation are primary causes of some of the deadliest and most common diseases known to man.
In today’s episode of Health Theory, Dr. Roger Seheult breaks down the science of melatonin, vitamin D, circadian rhythm, and much more.
So whether you’ve been having trouble sleeping, are worried about inflammation and disease prevention, or just want to brush up on your biochemistry, then I promise you’ll get something beneficial out of today’s episode.
SHOW NOTES:
00:00 | Introduction
00:52 | Get More Sunshine
16:03 | What Is Oxidative Stress?
27:46 | The Physiology of Covid
33:03 | Optimize Your Circadian Rhythm
44:30 | The Double Slit Experiment
49:09 | Meat vs Plants
QUOTES:
“One of the things that we've discovered as scientists is that the mind and the body are a lot more connected than we thought they were.” [09:30]
“I think it would be a mistake to say that while I'm taking my vitamin D supplementation, I don't need to go out into the sun.” [11:18]
“We see diabetes associated with obesity, obesity with inflammation, diabetes with oxidative stress. So we do see them correlate - it's hard to tease them out.” [15:45]
“I can't stress this enough: Alzheimer's disease, autism, diabetes - a lot of these diseases that we see in society have been tied to mitochondrial damage from reactive oxygen species. It's really important.” [20:50]
“We have technology today, that allows us to eat 24 hours a day. We have technology today that we can turn night into day if we want, we can work 24/7. There's gamers that do that, they go straight for 48 hours and they die. And so what we're finding out is that technology, even though it allows us to do certain things, they may not be optimal.” [37:43]
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