Part 32 - Stephan Guyenet, PhD on the Brain Controlling Body Fatness, Your Food Environment, and Low Carb Controversy

Part 32 - Stephan Guyenet, PhD on the Brain Controlling Body Fatness, Your Food Environment, and Low Carb Controversy

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.

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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 169 - How to Fight Big Food, the Banking System & Corporate Control w/ Tristan Scott

Part 169 - How to Fight Big Food, the Banking System & Corporate Control w/ Tristan Scott

Embracing nature, loving the land, and teaching how you can embrace regenerative agriculture and cryptocurrency, Tristan Scott, is the author of the recently released Bitcoin and Beef: Criticisms, Similarities, and Why Decentralization Matters.  Both the regenerative agriculture space and the supporters of Bitcoin have many things in common, such as a disdain for large corporations that only seek to maximize profit, a lack of nuance in local problems and solutions, and deception of the masses.  Tristan brings a factual based argument to many of the myths and solutions that are facing the world today.  Bitcoin and Beef, The Book   BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   SHOW NOTES: [0:20] - Bitcoin & Beef: Why and What? [9:00] - What is Bitcoin and why should you care? [15:30] - What are the downsides to Bitcoin? [21:20] - What is the one thing that could go wrong with Bitcoin? [30:10] - Food systems, global reserves, and food subsidies  [38:45] - The Beef Initiative and the US Beef Market [45:45] - Should we be buying grocery store meat? [53:20] - Can we do this large scale? Stats on Regenerative Agriculture [1:05:50] - Climate, Pollutants and Beef Emissions [1:17:00] - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and African Farming [1:21:40] - 1971 and the getting off the Gold Standard [1:26:00] - How to get involved with your local farmers and get involved in decentralization at an individual level https://www.sovereignhumans.org   BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post   Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

24 Elo 20221h 42min

Part 168 - Dr. Anthony Chaffee - Do Humans Thrive Most on an All-Meat Diet?

Part 168 - Dr. Anthony Chaffee - Do Humans Thrive Most on an All-Meat Diet?

Dr Chaffee is an American medical doctor and Neurosurgical resident who, over a span of 20+ years, has researched the optimal nutrition for human performance and health. It is his assertion that most of the so-called chronic diseases we treat as doctors are caused by the food we eat, or don't eat, and can be reversed with dietary changes to a species specific diet. He began University at the age of 15 studying Molecular & Cellular Biology with a Minor in Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle, which culminated in an MD from the Royal College of Surgeons. Currently in Australia, he specializes in Neurosurgery and does private consultations in functional medicine while thriving on a carnivore diet https://www.patreon.com/thecarnivorelife GET THE MEAT! http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE http://sapien.org SHOW NOTES: [3:00] - Why Dr. Anthony thinks we are built biologically to be carnivores [10:30] - Why humans don't need teeth and claws to thrive [18:15] - Are we made to eat plants? [25:35] - Why most plants are toxic for you [32:20] - Longevity: Can we live to 120? [45:20] - Blue zones and genetic differences in humans [53:00] - Why are so many groups trying to villainize meat [1:14:00] - Fruit: good or bad? [1:23:25] - Thyroid and Sleep issues on carnivore/keto? [1:35:00] - Organ vs. Skeletal meat ancestrally and in modern times [1:38:10] - Grass-fed vs.Grain-finished GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE http://sapien.org Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

17 Elo 20221h 55min

Part 167 - Kate Deering on How to Fix Your Metabolism

Part 167 - Kate Deering on How to Fix Your Metabolism

Kate Deering brings 25 years of experience in the holistic health and wellness space, along with a robust and tested approach to healing someone - nutritionally, mentally, physically and spiritually. With a dense background in sports performance, biochemistry, and physiology, Kate has recently shifted her thoughts on what "true-health" meant, focusing on a more root-cause, holistic approach towards optimal health, while also writing the book "How to Heal Your Metabolism" She often is associated with the likes of Ray Peat and Jay Feldman, embracing fruit, sugar and carbs as a natural and fundamental source of energy, focusing on the underlying issues that leads to intolerances in handling carbohydrates. www.katedeering.com Kate's Instagram GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE http://sapien.org SHOW NOTES [0:10] - Recap of the discussion between Kate and Jaime Seeman [4:40] - What is the Ray Peat Diet and Bioenergetic philosophy [9:10] - Stress and energy production [15:50] - Why burning fat may be stressful to the body [22:05] -Long-term stress levels and Type 2 Diabetes [33:15] - OMAD and Protein levels and general macro advice [45:15] - Digestion and nutrient bioavailability [51:55] - Cholesterol - does it matter? [54:30] - Stress, The GI system and exercise [59:20] - Blood sugar, hormones and fruit [1:09:37] - What are the most nutrient dense foods? [1:14:28] - The context of different carb types in the bioenergetic philosophy [1:19:40] - Food logging vs "Intuitive Eating", and overeating [1:31:40] - Does this approach make sense ancestrally? GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE http://sapien.org Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

10 Elo 20221h 47min

Part 166 - Dave Asprey on How to Navigate the Crazy Modern World

Part 166 - Dave Asprey on How to Navigate the Crazy Modern World

Dave Asprey is the "Father of Biohacking", a 4x New York Times Bestselling Author, the founder of several companies such as Bulletproof and Upgrade Labs, as well the host of the award-winning podcast The Human Upgrade. Dave's mission is to empower the entire globe with information and knowledge that unlocks the Super Human in everyone at any age, working with world-renowned doctors, researchers, scientists, and global mavericks to uncover the latest, most innovative methods, techniques and products for enhancing mental and physical performance. BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org SHOW NOTES: [1:20] - Freedom, Rights and Handed-Down Wisdom [10:50] - Consciousness and Food [16:10] - Making Money and Promoting your Brand - Dave's Take [19:30] - How food affects the speed your brain works [24:00] - Conspiracy theories and purposeful lying, and rational action [31:40] - Are CEOs trying to destroy the world or do good? [38:00] - Where should we get fats from? [44:30] - Grass-finished meat, Ancestral Eating and Nutrient Density [53:40] - Plant vs. Animal foods and a dietary framework [1:00:20] - Eat these and stop doing what makes you weak [1:04:20] - The absurdity of "The China Study" and nuance around food [1:08:30] - Dave's thoughts on protein, collagen and digestive enzymes BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

3 Elo 20221h 29min

Part 165 - Jay Feldman on Are You Producing Maximum Energy From Your Diet?

Part 165 - Jay Feldman on Are You Producing Maximum Energy From Your Diet?

Jay Feldman is a health coach, independent health researcher, and host of the Energy Balance podcast. He has degrees in neuroscience and exercise physiology and is devoted to using his knowledge and experience to help people heal from all manner of disease, dysfunction, and difficulty losing excess body fat. To work with Jay you can find him at http://jayfeldmanwellness.com GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org SHOW NOTES: [1:02] - Jay's background and beginnings in nutrition, exercise and health [6:30] - The basis of disease and energy metabolism [9:30] - Insulin resistance, glucose and Jay's stance on low-carb diets [16:30] - Fructose and fatty liver disease [21:05] - Types of carbohydrates, fruit juice and a discussion on glucose spikes [31:20] - Why Jay recommends eating every 3-5 hours [43:35] - General advice for the general population and carbohydrate addictions [52:48] - Overeating, hunger signals why very fat people cannot access their stored energy [53:35] - Gut health and common issues that occur [1:02:00] - Jay's thoughts on paleo and other ancestral diets [1:08:40] - Fat or carbs for fuel? Which is better [1:14:45] - Stress: the good and bad types [1:19:01] - "Why do I need to eat breakfast?" [1:24:56] - Are PUFAs the worst part of the Standard American Diet? [1:31:00] - Is the Bio-Energetic way of eating ancestrally appropriate? GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE http://sapien.org Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

27 Heinä 20221h 45min

Part 164 - Farmer Angus on Feeding (and Saving) the World

Part 164 - Farmer Angus on Feeding (and Saving) the World

Big podcast with Farmer Angus who was visiting Austin from Cape Town, South Africa. It was so great to talk in person with someone from halfway around the world who is entirely on the same page. We talk about how good food works, good animal agriculture works, and even how the world works. A great chat with a great guy - don't miss it! GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org SHOW NOTES: [1:45] - The Food Lies Trailer and film update [3:40] - Angus's thoughts on the plant-based narrative and it infiltrating traditional African agriculture [8:45] - Glyphosate and Industrial agriculture [15:03 - What problems and solutions Angus saw visiting farms in the US [20:10] - Angus's thoughts on Weston A Price and his teachings [31:10] - The downward spiral of conventional agriculture and farmers [37:10] - The history and disintegration of Zimbabwe, the "breadbasket" of Africa [41:20] - How we can feed the world [50:30] - Brief overview of Brian's Sapien Compound [55:05] - Fertilizer, methane emissions, and food waste [1:07:42] - The WHY behind Angus's Farm and How they do it GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE http://sapien.org Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

20 Heinä 20221h 21min

Part 163 - Jayne Buxton on The Great Plant Based Con

Part 163 - Jayne Buxton on The Great Plant Based Con

On this episode, Brian speaks with the renowned author and journalist Jayne Buxton. Jayne had published several books, non-fiction and fiction, on various subjects, but had a strong passion for regenerative agriculture, nutritional research and advocacy for animal products.  She is the author of the recently released book, The Great  Plant-Based Con, which is discussed today.  Jayne is also an ambassador for The Real Food Campaign and The Public Health Collaboration, while also having written for publications such as The Guardian and The Independent.   GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE http://sapien.org   SHOW NOTES: [3:00] Jayne and Buxton speak on their books/film and what inspired them to start that path [5:15] - Brian and Jayne share their experience with the USDA scientist David Klurfeld  who blew the whistle on the WHO study which demonized Meat  [9:25] - The high-level view of plant-based arguments  [14:10] - Diving into the nutritional differences in omnivore and vegetarian diets and their relation to health [29:30] - the ramifications of Ancel Keys and the demonization of saturated fat, cholesterol and their association to heart disease  [49:40] - The propaganda and narrative behind the environmental arguments in the plant-based agenda  [1:12:00] - Where the globalization behind the plant-based agenda is leading to [1:17:00] - Getting the book and moving forward   GET THE MEAT http://NosetoTail.org FREE SAPIEN FOOD GUIDE http://sapien.org   Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

29 Kesä 20221h 27min

Part 162 - L. Amber O'Hearn on Should Humans Eat Mostly Fat and the Rest Meat?

Part 162 - L. Amber O'Hearn on Should Humans Eat Mostly Fat and the Rest Meat?

Amber O'Hearn has an eclectic background, with academic publications in several fields including theoretical mathematics, cognitive psychology, computational linguistics, and more recently, evolutionary nutrition and biology. She has been studying and experimenting with low-carb, ketogenic diets since 1997, and is particularly interested in evolutionary constraints and interspecies differences. Amber has been eating a nearly plant-free diet since 2009 Ambers Website Mostly-fat.com BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post SHOW NOTES [1:00] - Amber's background, history, education and interests related to nutrition and a long-term carnivore lifestyle [9:00] - Amber's introduction in 2009 to keto and carnivore through pregnancy [15:45] - Plant antinutrients and health [24:40] - Carnivore + Fruit and Ray Peat [34:35] - "Zooming out" on Plants vs Meat studies and the risks vs costs [42:45] - Plant compounds, antioxidants and oxidative stress [53:00] - Ineffectiveness of RDA's based on individual diets and vitamin deficiencies [1:03:15] - mTOR, Valter Longo, and longevity diets [1:14:30] - High fat diet vs. high protein [1:20:35] - Can the Carnivore community fall into the vegan community nutrient deficiency trap? BUY THE MEAT NosetoTail.org Support me on Patreon! http://patreon.com/peakhuman Preorder the film here: http://indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post Film site: http://FoodLies.org YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoodLies Follow along: http://twitter.com/FoodLiesOrg http://instagram.com/food.lies http://facebook.com/FoodLiesOrg

8 Kesä 20221h 32min

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