December 9, 2025 • 34 mins
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- Tofu and cognitive decline in the middle aged and elderly
- Red Kiwis
- Anti-inflammatory foods to eat
- Best type of pickles to eat
- Are the amounts of cadmium and lead in dark chocolate bad for you?
- Microgreens
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Hello everyone, welcome to another Ask me Anything with
Doctor Dan. Hope you guys are doing well.
Hope you're having a wonderful week wherever you are on this
beautiful planet. We're here to talk about
science, to talk about health and Wellness, to answer your
questions. So let me know what questions
you have can submit questions here on Instagram, through
Facebook, through my website, drdangubler.com.
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Thank you everybody, so good to see you.
Hi, welcome in. Let let's get to some questions.
I have some questions here that people have said are the amounts
of lead and cadmium in dark chocolate bad for you?
Well, let's understand the dose is in the in the poison.
It depends on how much lead and cadmium you eat.
But if you're eating one tablespoon of 100% dark
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chocolate every day, you're not going to get sufficient amounts
of lead and cadmium to be an issue.
One of the cool things, though, that I recommend you do when you
buy your dark chocolate is to ask that dark chocolate
manufacturer to send you a certificate of analysis called
the C of A. The C of A actually shows the
amounts of heavy metal in the chocolate.
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So there's always going to be a little bit of cadmium in dark
chocolate. That's just how it is, because
cacao grows in volcanic soils, and these volcanic soils are
rich in nutrients and minerals, and so there's always going to
be some cadmium in there, and that's actually a good thing
that actually allows the cacao to grow healthy and strong and
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to produce these medicinal molecules.
Without cadmium, the tree, the cacao tree doesn't grow well.
So a little bit of cadmium is good lead.
Where lead comes into the process in dark chocolate is how
it's processed. A lot of times they take these
beans and in Indonesia or South America or wherever, and they
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lay it out on the concrete on the patio outside of the
manufacturing facility. And because of pollution, lead
dust settles on the beans. And so you want to make sure
that there's a good supply chain, good environment for it
to happen. And so if you're eating a high
quality dark chocolate, no issues when it comes to cadmium
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and lead poisoning or anything like that.
Hello, what questions do you have?
Have I covered black seed oil? Yes, I have black seed oil.
Amazing. I've done a reel on that.
You could go check it out. Black seed oil contains a really
cool molecule called thymoquinone, which is a really
potent anti-inflammatory. Black seed oil, good for
inflammation, good for intestinal health.
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It's really good for stomach health, for gut health overall.
And black seed oil, there's somereally cool formulations people
are doing. They're doing black seed oil
with manuka honey. So they're combining kind of
this inside, outside gut health approach with the properties of
manuka honey. So you could check that out.
There's, there's some products there, but black seed oil is
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great thing to do, great thing to take good science behind it.
Now, when it comes to black seedoil, you want to choose a black
seed oil that is standardized tothe molecule called
thymoquinone. That's that's the important
thing. So if you choose one of those
thymoquinone standardization, it's going to give you good
health benefits and take about ateaspoon a few times a week.
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Have I covered? Let's see.
Thoughts on vibration plates. Oh man, yeah, I did a real on
vibration plates. If you haven't checked it out,
please do so go to my Instagram or Facebook profile.
It's the pinned one there and vibration plates really powerful
health benefits. And that's because I think we
talked about it in previous liveprevious episode, these small
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mechanovibration mechanism of action.
When you have these small vibratory events in the body
that actually stimulates repair,it causes a little teeny bit of
what's called acute inflammation.
And that's a good thing. So that helps with muscle
repair, it helps with balance, it can help with tinnitus,
mental health, vibration plates,really good scientific
literature behind it. Look at my blog post.
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You want to find a vibration plate that has different
settings, not just A1 size fits all, that actually has different
frequencies. And if you do that and you find
one of those, it's a great thingto do for your health.
You don't need to be crazy on the speed.
Keep it about medium speed. Do it 10 to 15 minutes a few
times a week and it's a powerfulthing for health and Wellness.
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Doesn't charge dark chocolate have caffeine in it, has a
little bit of caffeine in it, but mostly the amount of
caffeine is pretty negligible. What it does have is it has a
molecule called theobromine, andtheobromine is basically
caffeine without a methyl group.So they're pretty much the same
molecule. And the first thing that happens
when you take caffeine into the body, that methyl group is
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removed, called demethylation, and it gives you theobromine.
But theobromine is metabolized abit differently in the body.
Eating dark chocolate, some somepeople are saying eating dark
chocolate can keep you up at night even though you have
theobromine. It's not the same mechanism and
you're not going to get the samefeeling as you do when you drink
like a caffeinated beverage or certainly an energy drink.
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And why is that? Because the theobromine and the
caffeine are combined. They're complexed with the
polyphenols, the flavonols, anandamide, phenol, ethylamine
and the other molecules in the cacao bean in the dark
chocolate. So it's not giving the same
response. And that's an important thing we
need to understand. It's a collection of molecules
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in a food that provide the response.
And sometimes these molecules complex with each other and they
hold on to each other. And so it's not like bam, it
gives the response like caffeine.
If you take caffeine, synthetic caffeine just by itself in an
energy drink, ma'am, you feel itright away, right?
And and you get energy and, and it peaks after about 3045
minutes and then you're on this downward descent.
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Well, that doesn't happen when you have natural caffeine in
like uribamate or green tea or something like that.
And so it's the same thing when it comes to medicinal molecules.
So we need to be careful there. What other questions do you
have? Grateful that you are with me
tonight. Appreciate you all.
Does food or lifestyle change face shape?
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Food can change face shape. It can actually when you eat the
right food with the right medicinal molecules, you're
going to lose a little bit of weight and where you see that
weight happen first is in the face.
The beautiful thing about eatingmedicinal molecules from plants
and you lose weight in a naturalway that it slopes, it sharpens
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the face naturally. One of the issues that we're
seeing with these GLP one drugs like Ozempic and the others is
that when people lose weight so quickly that and, and they lose
it in, in a relatively short period of time, then the face
can start to sag and the skin. And that's what we're actually
calling Ozempic face and whatnot.
So you want to be careful with that.
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But diet change really good and exercising as well.
They're both just gentle toning motions, but diet is the best
thing to do when it comes to losing weight and having a nice
shape and face. This is great.
What other questions do you have?
Keep them coming for me. Is nicotine patch good for
muscle pain? I'm not a huge fan of nicotine.
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I know people want me to talk about that, and I might in the
future. But in all the science that I've
seen, you know, it's obviously areally hot topic on social
media, a lot of people talking about it.
And nicotine does have some goodhealth benefits.
I'm just not convinced that putting nicotine in an easily
available form that for people to use in addition to how it's
already used, I'm just not convinced that that's the best
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way to go about promoting health, you know, when people
are self treating, self medicating themselves.
So that's my thoughts on nicotine and I'll talk more
about that in the future. All right, what other questions
you guys have? Is it beneficial to take
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creatine daily for women? It is.
There's no issues when it comes to taking creatine for women.
And I don't know how that happened.
But back 510, certainly 15 yearsago and even if you go back 30
years ago, creatine was thought to not be great and only the the
weird muscle heads in the gym were using creatine and they
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were going to suffer for it in the future.
Was kind of the unspoken thoughtthere.
But creatine really good properties for men and women.
There's great science coming online and you can look at my
blog post about creatine. There's data showing that
creatine can help with osteoporosis to keep good bone
mineral density levels. Creatine is good for hormone
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balance. It's good for heart health, for
brain health, in addition to exercise performance.
When you take creatine, you might see a little bit of weight
gain. You know, you might see a pound
or two, and that's because creatine does retain a little
bit of water. Creatine is a molecule that
loves water, so it complexes with water.
So you might see that a little bit.
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It's not anything to worry about, but you might see that
and it's also going to help withmuscle gain and you're going to
see that as well. And creatine for women, I think
it's a great idea. One of the biggest issues for
both men and women as we age is sarcopenia, which is muscle loss
is the fancy word for that. And losing muscle as we get
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older contributes to obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's,
Parkinson's, neurodegenerative diseases.
And so we want to make sure thatwe're retaining good amounts of
muscle as we age. And creatine is a good thing to
help with that. All right, what other questions
do you have? Keep them coming.
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Cacao, chocolate, Mehidol, datesand peanut butter.
That is a killer combination. If you haven't had that before,
Dark chocolate, dates, peanut butter, Highly recommend.
Which magnesium supplement is good for teenage girls?
So magnesium is an essential nutrient.
It's something that we need. There are natural sources of
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magnesium and so we want supplementation is a good thing
to do and it's OK Magnesium though, by itself in its
synthetic form, is not absorbable in the body.
So if you're going to take a magnesium supplement, the best
is a magnesium yeast glycoprotein matrix or basically
magnesium. And then you have a part of the
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cell membrane attached to that magnesium.
That's the most bio available and the most absorbable.
But magnesium 3 is good, magnesium bisglycinate is good
and there's there's some other good options there when it comes
to taking magnesium naturally from different sources.
There's some great options thereand one one of the best options
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there is, you have Kiwis. Kiwis are a good source of
magnesium, but like we talked about recently, dark chocolate.
Dark chocolate is an excellent source of magnesium.
So that's one of the reasons whymagnesium boosts mood and
cognitive function. Dark chocolate can help you
sleep better and it can help with anxiety.
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It can help with PMS and PCOS and that's one of the reasons.
There's many reasons because of all the molecules and dark
chocolate, but one of those is because of the good amounts of
magnesium. So that's what I would recommend
before going for a supplement. Have I covered cashew milk?
No, I haven't. And I'm planning on talking
about cashews here in the near future.
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Cashews have a really cool molecule called anticartic acid,
which is really good when it comes to cognitive health and
other functions. And so it's it's a really great
thing to do to take cashews and cashew milk.
How to speed up the metabolism? That's a great question.
So there's supplements online that you could buy, African
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mango seed extract, bitter orange, different things like
that. Eating Chili Peppers though, is
what I would recommend. And I talked about Chili Peppers
not too long ago on Instagram and Facebook on a real, you
could check it out. Chili Peppers with its capsaicin
and the other molecules, it could actually increase
metabolic function and, and increase what we call the
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burning of brown fat. So in our body, we have two
different types of fat. We have brown fat and we have
white fat. White fat is the fat that that
jiggles on our body and that contributes to diabetes.
Brown fat isn't that way, but wewant more brown fat.
What brown fat does is it is it continually burns calories and
it burns the fat cells around itas well.
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And So what we want to do is we want to what we call beige or
brown fat. And that process can actually
help with weight loss where we're just a burning calorie
machine. We're like a furnace where the
temperature's turned up. That's what we want to do.
And so work out, working out helps with that.
Watermelon helps with that. So things with branched chain
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amino acids, oysters can help with that.
OK, great questions. How can we be sure there's no
lead in cocoa powder? This is where we need to ask and
demand that people who sell cacao products send their
certificate of analysis. The C of A and I know several
different chocolate manufacturers and chocolate
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distributors, They do that. If you ask them, hey, can I see
your certificate of analysis? They'll send it to you and
you'll be able to see and you can compare and contrast
different types of dark chocolate cacao powders to just
make sure that there's not an issue there.
OK, Love being with you guys. Appreciate you.
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I'm not a medical doctor. I'm a PhD biochemist, natural
prox chemist. And so if you have specific
questions about how something works for your particular
condition, then you need to talkwith your personal medical
doctor, your physician. All right, appreciate you all.
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Hope you are all doing well. Have I done tarot root?
I haven't done tarot yet. And tarot has great properties.
Tarot is really good for regulating blood sugar levels.
So that's something that if you want to regulate blood sugar
levels and if that's important to you, then tarot is a really
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good way to do that. As far as eating tarot, you
know, there's the Hawaiian way of making poi.
I lived in Hawaii for five yearsas a professor.
And so there's that, there's tarot that's infused into rolls,
ice cream. You can find it a lot in Asia.
But tarot's a really good thing to do.
And I am going to do a yes no ontarot in a bit, probably in a
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month or so. So stay tuned for that.
How to lower inflammation? Great question.
How to lower inflammation? Curcuminoids, really good for
lowering inflammation. You could take a teaspoon of
turmeric. You can put it in your shake,
You can put it on yogurt. You want to mix it with food.
You don't want to just put it inwater by itself, but turmeric's
a great thing. Boswellia, really good at
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reducing inflammation. Black cumin seed oil, like we
talked about earlier on this episode, that can help to reduce
inflammation. So those are some really good
things that you can do. And fish, don't underestimate
the power of fish. It's interesting, I did an
Instagram, Facebook reel on Turkey and people were not very
happy about Turkey and they weren't happy that it didn't
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have all these great health benefits.
You know what, I was expecting that it would with, you know,
maybe the tryptophan and whatnot, but the tryptophan in
Turkey that makes you sleepy. It was interesting.
And I said this on my reel, but I studied and I analyzed the
tryptophan amounts of all different types of meat.
And beef contains tryptophan, chicken, Turkey, pork, and the
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tryptophan levels are all about the same in these different
meats. So when we eat Turkey for
Thanksgiving dinner or after a big meal and we feel like we're
going to pass out, it's not because of the tryptophan, it's
because we've eaten like 4000 calories during that meal.
So. So anyways, with with with with
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Turkey, that's that's what we have there.
It's a lean protein, but besidesthat, not much better.
But fish, fish can reduce inflammation because not only is
it a lean protein, good carbohydrate, good, good
macronutrient balance, but it contains these molecules,
omega-3 fatty acids and these omega-3 fatty acids are
converted to molecules called specialized pro resolving
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mediators. And these are one of the most
powerful anti-inflammatory molecules on the planet.
And it's, it's actually the bodyconverts them so they're not
found in nature. EPA and DHA, these omega-3 fatty
acids are found in nature, but when we eat them, our body
transforms them into these anti-inflammatory molecules.
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So that's why you should take fish every single day, as often
as you can. Sardines.
You guys like sardines, love sardines, love smoked salmon,
but however you can get it, be sure that you're eating fish
several times a week so that you're getting these medicinal
molecules. Fried fish.
Fried fish is okay as long as you do it quickly.
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You use an olive oil or an avocado oil or something like
that and it's great. People are like, can you fry
with olive oil? You actually can.
That's that's one of the biggestmisnomers that somehow people
have missed in the scientific literature.
And I'll post some references onmy website so you could check it
out. And I think under olive oil, if
you go to my blog, olive oil, there's already some references
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there showing that olive oil doesn't degrade under frying
conditions. 4 hundred 450°F. It doesn't degrade.
It's not going to cause damage. It's not going to fall apart.
It's not going to produce bad, bad chemicals or anything like
that for the body. And I don't know why people say
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that it does, but when you look at the scientific literature,
scientific literature is clear that it that it doesn't.
So anyways, but yeah, avocado oil, olive oil, canola oil,
whatever you want to do there. Appreciate you guys.
What other questions do you have?
Let's see, does dark chocolate ruin your teeth?
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So there's a, a thing going around about how dark chocolate
can be bad for your teeth. Well, it's the sugar that's bad
for the teeth, not dark chocolate.
Cacao in and of itself actually has a protective effect on the
teeth. It can actually reduce cavities.
It can help with teeth brightening.
It can help reduce gingivitis. And that's probably because of
the flavanols and the, and the polyphenols and the other
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molecules that are in cacao thatcan help with oral health.
So, so that's a big thing. What are the best types of
Pickles to eat? So I talked about Pickles
recently and when you go to the grocery store, there's a couple
of different options. You can go to the shelf kind of
by where the condiments, the vinegar, whatnot, it's at room
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temperature and there's all sorts of Pickles there.
And those Pickles are great. There's nothing wrong with them.
They are cured in vinegar and that's what gives the the pickle
taste and the flavor, and then they add sweet, they add dill
and they add different things toit to impart flavor to the
cucumber and that's fine. No issue with that.
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The better choice though is if you go to the refrigerated
section. There's Pickles that have been
made by taking cucumbers and immersing them in brine and when
you immerse them in a brine solution that actually it's a
fermented food. Now the Pickles on the shelf are
not fermented foods because a vinegar kills any, any of the
bacteria that might be in there.So I recommend getting Pickles
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from the refrigerated section ofthe grocery store because they
have probiotics, they have prebiotics, they have post
biotics. Do you know what post biotics
are? Post biotics are the good.
Molecules that probiotics make, so you have good bacteria, those
are called probiotics. The food they like to eat to
help them to grow and be strong are called prebiotics.
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And then when probiotics are happy, they give off molecules
and these molecules are called post biotics.
And so when you eat Pickles, you're getting pre pro and post
biotic. Same thing with kimchi, same
thing with sauerkraut. So eating as much fermented
foods as you can is a big deal. What are my thoughts on
fermented daily vitamins? Fermented daily vitamins are
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good. That increases absorption.
When you do that, you're actually getting some of these
glycoproteins that I talked about earlier that can help with
absorption. Appreciate you guys.
Should we consume MCT? Absolutely.
MCT oil, especially found in coconut is really good when it
comes to fat burning. It's really good to put the body
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into ketosis. It's good for weight management.
It's it's a great thing to do Microgreens.
So I talked about microgreens onFacebook and Instagram and a lot
of people were like, I don't know what microgreens are.
So let's talk about microgreens for a quick second.
Microgreens are when you grow a plant like broccoli, radish
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deal. When it starts to grow, it grows
this little teeny plant that's 11/2 two inches tall.
Simply put, that's the microgreen.
And when you have microgreens, what they do is when they grow
these seeds, they cut them when they're just a few days old, one
to two inches tall. And the cool thing about
microgreens is that scientific studies, the studies on my blog,
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you can check them out under microgreens have shown that they
contain 40 times the amounts of vitamins and minerals as the
mature plant. And why is that?
Well, it makes sense that if theplant's going to grow and is it
struggling to take root and to grow tall, that it needs
vitamins and minerals and different nutrients in order to
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do that. And so microgreens are
supercharged in vitamins and minerals.
Microgreens, you can buy them atthe grocery store.
They're easy. You can grow them, you could
grow them yourself. You could look online chat, CBT
can help you. There's kits that you can buy
that you can grow microgreens really easily.
So they're great. They're powerful.
They have great properties for heart health, for brain health,
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for gut health, and they're a great thing to add to your
salads. I love adding it on top of
avocado toast. It's an amazing thing to do, but
it's great. And microgreens, as I said here
in this great comment, it is great food for vegans and
especially vegans who need vitamins and minerals, need to
make sure that we're getting those microgreens.
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Great source of that. OK, so why does tofu reduce
cognitive function? This is an interesting 1 and I
wasn't expecting this when I wasstudying tofu.
I've I've studied tofu, the molecules and tofu, the soy
isoflavones for many years. I formulated with them and
whatnot, but I wasn't expecting that tofu in middle age.
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From about age 45 on up, if you eat excess tofu, meaning if you
eat a serving four or five timesa week, it can reduce cognitive
function. And a lot of people didn't like
that. A lot of people said I was
wrong. They were upset.
And the first point that I want to bring up, it's really
interesting when it comes to science and the scientists,
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we're trying to find the truth. We're trying to find out what's
going on. We don't know everything, and
there's still so much that we don't know.
So we do. That's why we do research.
And it's crazy. I was not expecting that to be
the case. And it actually made me a little
uncomfortable. I didn't like the fact that
tofu, as it stands in the current literature, can reduce
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cognitive function. That's crazy.
I didn't like that. I was unsettled with that.
And so I read all the scientificpapers and I read them in
detail, and the science is actually pretty strong.
Unfortunately, some people were saying, well, the papers were
wrong or they're just correlation does not equal
causation. Other people were sending me
papers saying that, hey, look, soy isilflavones can help with
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cognitive function like jenison and dateson, and they can, but
we're talking about tofu, everything mixed together.
And that's one of the mistakes that we make when we do research
or when we're talking about health, is we'll take a molecule
in a food and we'll pull it out and that molecule has certain
health benefits. But when you plug it back into
the food, that food has different health benefits.
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And so we need to be really careful when we do that.
We need to not extrapolate. So anyways, the bottom line
though, with tofu, it's great for overall health.
It's a good protein source. It, it has anti cancer
properties. There's a lot of really good
things that it does. It helps to regulate the genes
and chemical switches in our body.
But too much of a good thing canstill be too much.
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And that goes back to what we were saying earlier.
The dose determines the poison. You can have too much of
anything. Water, the universal Solomon of
life. If you if you drink too much
water in a short period of time,your cells will implode because
you reverse osmotic pressure. And so that's just how it is.
So one of the key dogmas for health is we want to eat as many
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different foods as we can. We need to have molecular
diversity. One food has one or two really
cool molecules, another food hasanother one or two really cool
molecules. And so we want to eat a variety
to make sure we're getting all of the molecules.
All right. Could it be because tofu these
days are made from GMO soy? I don't think so.
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In reading the scientific papersand whatnot, I don't think that
that's the case. I don't think that it's GMO.
My my best guess is that it might be something with the
protein matrix and something with how with how tofu is made
when it's fermented. Because we haven't seen someone
ask an excellent question. Does the same thing apply with
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soy milk? And it doesn't in the scientific
literature, we haven't seen anything with drinking too much
soy milk can reduce cognitive function.
But when it comes to tofu eatingorganic's great, non-GMO, that's
great, but we still don't know exactly what's going on.
And there's some researchers that are working on this.
And I hope that they'll, this isn't, this isn't research that
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I do, this isn't an area that I focus on.
But I really hope that they'll figure this out and that we'll
know soon so that we can know what to do.
But in the interim, again, I want to stress in the interim,
go ahead and eat tofu 123 times a week.
And it's a great thing to do to mix up protein source and
intake. All right, what other questions
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do you have? Sure, appreciate you guys.
All right, I talked about binaural beats last week and
binaural beats. I was reading about them again,
just great for concentration, great for memory, great for
sleep. So have you tried them yet?
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Have you tried using binaural beats?
Again, really easy to do. Pull up your favorite listening
platform, Apple podcast, Spotifyand and Apple Music.
Wherever you listen to your music.
If you type in binaural beats, it'll give you some different
some different options there andyou can do that.
Foods recommend for IBS Artichoke hearts good.
Artichokes are awesome. Artichokes have great benefits.
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They're really good for balancing blood sugar levels.
Artichoke hearts really good forgut health.
Artichokes really good prebioticsource prebiotic fiber for the
good bacteria in our gut to eat.So they're, they're awesome,
really good dragon fruit. Dragon fruits, great dragon
fruit. It has large amounts of
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different flavonoids, flavonoidsand polyphenols.
So dragon fruit when it comes toantioxidant scale, dragon fruit
is one of the higher ones. Dragon fruit is really good at
reducing oxidative stress in thebody.
Oxidative stress is the process by which the body essentially
rusts out, RUST, it rusts out and we and in order to protect
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that rusting from happening, we need to make sure that we have
large amounts of antioxidants inthe body and dragon fruit helps
to do that. Papaya.
Papaya is amazing. Papaya is one of the best things
to help with Constipation. Papaya is rich in carotenoids,
vitamin A precursors and so it has some of the largest amounts
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of pro vitamin A's. It has large amounts of vitamin
E, It's a good source of fiber. It's great for the gut.
So if you want, you know if gut health is really important to
you and if you have access to it, eating a papaya a few times
a week is powerful, powerful thing to do.
And papaya seeds, papaya seeds are actually good to rid the
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body of parasites. And so that's a good thing to do
there. And if you're interested in
that, you should work with your medical doctor and just make
sure that you and them are on the same page.
But papaya, grapefruit, when I lived in Hawaii, I ate papaya
every day and it was amazing when it came to my health, when
it came to my skin, when it, when it came to gut health
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especially, it was, it was a great thing to do.
I actually started losing weight.
I was overweight. So when I lived in Hawaii, I was
actually 220 lbs and I'm 160. So I don't know if you know that
I went, I have a crazy weight loss journey that I'll talk
about sometimes where I lost 60 lbs in the course of about a
year and I've kept it off for what 12/12/13 years now.
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And papaya was one of those things that really helped me in
my weight loss journey. All right, how many ounces of
tofu is a safe serving? You know about four to five oz.
Let's start with that. Rice cakes, healthy or not,
these are great questions. Rice cakes, when you look at
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rice cakes, they contain carbohydrates.
They they're complex carbohydrates depending on the
types of rice cakes that you get, but that's it.
So there's no fiber, there's no,importantly, there's no
medicinal molecules in rice cakes.
Maybe if you want to stretch it,maybe there's one or two
benzoxazenoids, but really there's, there's not a lot in
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rice cakes. And so when people use rice
cakes for competitions or body shaping or stuff like that, you
know, there's, it's just basically to put you in a
caloric deficit. So if you want to put yourself
in a caloric deficit, rice cakesare one of the best things to
do. But when it comes to nutrition
and health for the body, they don't provide a lot of that.
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Is it normal to have stomach pain when you drink ginger tea?
No, I haven't heard of that. But the body, everybody is
different. And so it's, it's interesting
that what works for one person might not work for another
person when it comes to foods, the food intolerances are a real
thing. And a lot of that depends on us
personally. It depends on our genes, our
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genetic disposition, how our genes are being expressed or not
expressed. It depends on our gut
microbiome. For whatever reason, our the,
the gut flora just might not be amenable to certain foods that
we're eating. But what's interesting is that
when we eat good food to take care of our health, I've heard
story after story after story ofpeople who whose health they
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couldn't eat certain things. They had an intolerance to a
certain food and then they're fine.
But why is that? That's crazy.
Well, it's epigenetics. Good food can change our gene
expression for the better and it's good food can increase
health of our gut microbiome, the second brain.
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So good. Emmy had artichokes for
breakfast and lunch. That's awesome.
Hi, Emmy, hope you guys are doing well.
I'm just so grateful for all of you that follow me on social
media, for you that listen to mehere on this Instagram live in
the podcast. I'm just grateful for your
support. You guys are amazing.
I love the good camaraderie thatwe have, the unity that we have
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that we can talk about science without being disagreeable.
And I'm just thankful for you guys and the culture that you
have. Appreciate you red Kiwis from
Jeju Island. That's cool.
I, I have red Kiwis once on JejuIsland and they're rich in
anthocyanins. That's what makes them red.
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If you can get red Kiwis, you get all the benefits of Kiwi
with the vitamin C and the fiberand everything like that.
But then you get these really cool anthocyanins.
So I haven't seen them here in the in the States.
If I do, I'm going to snap them up.
I'm going to buy, I'm going to buy all of them.
So awesome. OK, I have time for one more
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question. Let's see.
And let's talk about Shohujit. A lot of you have asked about
Shohujit also. You know, if you're just
phonetically saying it's she legit, but it's Shi JALIT Shojit
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is how you pronounce it. But shojit is called mountain
blood. It it's it's this resin that
oozes out of out of mountains like the Atlas mountains in Asia
and the Himalayas in different areas.
And this resin is rich in humic and folic acids and it's rich in
vitamins and minerals. And these vitamins and minerals
are bioavailable. So a lot of it also depends on
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the Shojit on how it's processedand what it is.
A lot of people actually take shogi, the pure stuff, and
they'll dilute it down with mineral oil to make sure that
it's cheap. So what you should do is you
should ask for the certificate of analysis and have them show
it to you so that you can see the process by which it's done
and what what you want to see onthat certificate of analysis.
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You should also ask for the flowchart and the flow chart will
tell you how it's extracted. Basically what you want is you
want them to take it directly from the mountain, run it
through a fine mesh screen to get rid of, you know, any pieces
of rock or anything like that and boom, that's how you want
it. All right everyone, I appreciate
you. I enjoyed our time together.
Hope you guys are all doing welland I will catch you next week.
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Take care, bye bye.
Hello everyone, welcome to another Ask me Anything with
Doctor Dan. Hope you guys are doing well.
Hope you're having a wonderful week wherever you are on this
beautiful planet. We're here to talk about
science, to talk about health and Wellness, to answer your
questions. So let me know what questions
you have can submit questions here on Instagram, through
Facebook, through my website, drdangubler.com.
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Thank you everybody, so good to see you.
Hi, welcome in. Let let's get to some questions.
I have some questions here that people have said are the amounts
of lead and cadmium in dark chocolate bad for you?
Well, let's understand the dose is in the in the poison.
It depends on how much lead and cadmium you eat.
But if you're eating one tablespoon of 100% dark
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chocolate every day, you're not going to get sufficient amounts
of lead and cadmium to be an issue.
One of the cool things, though, that I recommend you do when you
buy your dark chocolate is to ask that dark chocolate
manufacturer to send you a certificate of analysis called
the C of A. The C of A actually shows the
amounts of heavy metal in the chocolate.
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So there's always going to be a little bit of cadmium in dark
chocolate. That's just how it is, because
cacao grows in volcanic soils, and these volcanic soils are
rich in nutrients and minerals, and so there's always going to
be some cadmium in there, and that's actually a good thing
that actually allows the cacao to grow healthy and strong and
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to produce these medicinal molecules.
Without cadmium, the tree, the cacao tree doesn't grow well.
So a little bit of cadmium is good lead.
Where lead comes into the process in dark chocolate is how
it's processed. A lot of times they take these
beans and in Indonesia or South America or wherever, and they
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lay it out on the concrete on the patio outside of the
manufacturing facility. And because of pollution, lead
dust settles on the beans. And so you want to make sure
that there's a good supply chain, good environment for it
to happen. And so if you're eating a high
quality dark chocolate, no issues when it comes to cadmium
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and lead poisoning or anything like that.
Hello, what questions do you have?
Have I covered black seed oil? Yes, I have black seed oil.
Amazing. I've done a reel on that.
You could go check it out. Black seed oil contains a really
cool molecule called thymoquinone, which is a really
potent anti-inflammatory. Black seed oil, good for
inflammation, good for intestinal health.
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It's really good for stomach health, for gut health overall.
And black seed oil, there's somereally cool formulations people
are doing. They're doing black seed oil
with manuka honey. So they're combining kind of
this inside, outside gut health approach with the properties of
manuka honey. So you could check that out.
There's, there's some products there, but black seed oil is
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great thing to do, great thing to take good science behind it.
Now, when it comes to black seedoil, you want to choose a black
seed oil that is standardized tothe molecule called
thymoquinone. That's that's the important
thing. So if you choose one of those
thymoquinone standardization, it's going to give you good
health benefits and take about ateaspoon a few times a week.
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Have I covered? Let's see.
Thoughts on vibration plates. Oh man, yeah, I did a real on
vibration plates. If you haven't checked it out,
please do so go to my Instagram or Facebook profile.
It's the pinned one there and vibration plates really powerful
health benefits. And that's because I think we
talked about it in previous liveprevious episode, these small
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mechanovibration mechanism of action.
When you have these small vibratory events in the body
that actually stimulates repair,it causes a little teeny bit of
what's called acute inflammation.
And that's a good thing. So that helps with muscle
repair, it helps with balance, it can help with tinnitus,
mental health, vibration plates,really good scientific
literature behind it. Look at my blog post.
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You want to find a vibration plate that has different
settings, not just A1 size fits all, that actually has different
frequencies. And if you do that and you find
one of those, it's a great thingto do for your health.
You don't need to be crazy on the speed.
Keep it about medium speed. Do it 10 to 15 minutes a few
times a week and it's a powerfulthing for health and Wellness.
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Doesn't charge dark chocolate have caffeine in it, has a
little bit of caffeine in it, but mostly the amount of
caffeine is pretty negligible. What it does have is it has a
molecule called theobromine, andtheobromine is basically
caffeine without a methyl group.So they're pretty much the same
molecule. And the first thing that happens
when you take caffeine into the body, that methyl group is
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removed, called demethylation, and it gives you theobromine.
But theobromine is metabolized abit differently in the body.
Eating dark chocolate, some somepeople are saying eating dark
chocolate can keep you up at night even though you have
theobromine. It's not the same mechanism and
you're not going to get the samefeeling as you do when you drink
like a caffeinated beverage or certainly an energy drink.
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And why is that? Because the theobromine and the
caffeine are combined. They're complexed with the
polyphenols, the flavonols, anandamide, phenol, ethylamine
and the other molecules in the cacao bean in the dark
chocolate. So it's not giving the same
response. And that's an important thing we
need to understand. It's a collection of molecules
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in a food that provide the response.
And sometimes these molecules complex with each other and they
hold on to each other. And so it's not like bam, it
gives the response like caffeine.
If you take caffeine, synthetic caffeine just by itself in an
energy drink, ma'am, you feel itright away, right?
And and you get energy and, and it peaks after about 3045
minutes and then you're on this downward descent.
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Well, that doesn't happen when you have natural caffeine in
like uribamate or green tea or something like that.
And so it's the same thing when it comes to medicinal molecules.
So we need to be careful there. What other questions do you
have? Grateful that you are with me
tonight. Appreciate you all.
Does food or lifestyle change face shape?
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Food can change face shape. It can actually when you eat the
right food with the right medicinal molecules, you're
going to lose a little bit of weight and where you see that
weight happen first is in the face.
The beautiful thing about eatingmedicinal molecules from plants
and you lose weight in a naturalway that it slopes, it sharpens
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the face naturally. One of the issues that we're
seeing with these GLP one drugs like Ozempic and the others is
that when people lose weight so quickly that and, and they lose
it in, in a relatively short period of time, then the face
can start to sag and the skin. And that's what we're actually
calling Ozempic face and whatnot.
So you want to be careful with that.
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But diet change really good and exercising as well.
They're both just gentle toning motions, but diet is the best
thing to do when it comes to losing weight and having a nice
shape and face. This is great.
What other questions do you have?
Keep them coming for me. Is nicotine patch good for
muscle pain? I'm not a huge fan of nicotine.
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I know people want me to talk about that, and I might in the
future. But in all the science that I've
seen, you know, it's obviously areally hot topic on social
media, a lot of people talking about it.
And nicotine does have some goodhealth benefits.
I'm just not convinced that putting nicotine in an easily
available form that for people to use in addition to how it's
already used, I'm just not convinced that that's the best
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way to go about promoting health, you know, when people
are self treating, self medicating themselves.
So that's my thoughts on nicotine and I'll talk more
about that in the future. All right, what other questions
you guys have? Is it beneficial to take
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creatine daily for women? It is.
There's no issues when it comes to taking creatine for women.
And I don't know how that happened.
But back 510, certainly 15 yearsago and even if you go back 30
years ago, creatine was thought to not be great and only the the
weird muscle heads in the gym were using creatine and they
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were going to suffer for it in the future.
Was kind of the unspoken thoughtthere.
But creatine really good properties for men and women.
There's great science coming online and you can look at my
blog post about creatine. There's data showing that
creatine can help with osteoporosis to keep good bone
mineral density levels. Creatine is good for hormone
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balance. It's good for heart health, for
brain health, in addition to exercise performance.
When you take creatine, you might see a little bit of weight
gain. You know, you might see a pound
or two, and that's because creatine does retain a little
bit of water. Creatine is a molecule that
loves water, so it complexes with water.
So you might see that a little bit.
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It's not anything to worry about, but you might see that
and it's also going to help withmuscle gain and you're going to
see that as well. And creatine for women, I think
it's a great idea. One of the biggest issues for
both men and women as we age is sarcopenia, which is muscle loss
is the fancy word for that. And losing muscle as we get
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older contributes to obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer's,
Parkinson's, neurodegenerative diseases.
And so we want to make sure thatwe're retaining good amounts of
muscle as we age. And creatine is a good thing to
help with that. All right, what other questions
do you have? Keep them coming.
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Cacao, chocolate, Mehidol, datesand peanut butter.
That is a killer combination. If you haven't had that before,
Dark chocolate, dates, peanut butter, Highly recommend.
Which magnesium supplement is good for teenage girls?
So magnesium is an essential nutrient.
It's something that we need. There are natural sources of
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magnesium and so we want supplementation is a good thing
to do and it's OK Magnesium though, by itself in its
synthetic form, is not absorbable in the body.
So if you're going to take a magnesium supplement, the best
is a magnesium yeast glycoprotein matrix or basically
magnesium. And then you have a part of the
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cell membrane attached to that magnesium.
That's the most bio available and the most absorbable.
But magnesium 3 is good, magnesium bisglycinate is good
and there's there's some other good options there when it comes
to taking magnesium naturally from different sources.
There's some great options thereand one one of the best options
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there is, you have Kiwis. Kiwis are a good source of
magnesium, but like we talked about recently, dark chocolate.
Dark chocolate is an excellent source of magnesium.
So that's one of the reasons whymagnesium boosts mood and
cognitive function. Dark chocolate can help you
sleep better and it can help with anxiety.
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It can help with PMS and PCOS and that's one of the reasons.
There's many reasons because of all the molecules and dark
chocolate, but one of those is because of the good amounts of
magnesium. So that's what I would recommend
before going for a supplement. Have I covered cashew milk?
No, I haven't. And I'm planning on talking
about cashews here in the near future.
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Cashews have a really cool molecule called anticartic acid,
which is really good when it comes to cognitive health and
other functions. And so it's it's a really great
thing to do to take cashews and cashew milk.
How to speed up the metabolism? That's a great question.
So there's supplements online that you could buy, African
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mango seed extract, bitter orange, different things like
that. Eating Chili Peppers though, is
what I would recommend. And I talked about Chili Peppers
not too long ago on Instagram and Facebook on a real, you
could check it out. Chili Peppers with its capsaicin
and the other molecules, it could actually increase
metabolic function and, and increase what we call the
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burning of brown fat. So in our body, we have two
different types of fat. We have brown fat and we have
white fat. White fat is the fat that that
jiggles on our body and that contributes to diabetes.
Brown fat isn't that way, but wewant more brown fat.
What brown fat does is it is it continually burns calories and
it burns the fat cells around itas well.
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And So what we want to do is we want to what we call beige or
brown fat. And that process can actually
help with weight loss where we're just a burning calorie
machine. We're like a furnace where the
temperature's turned up. That's what we want to do.
And so work out, working out helps with that.
Watermelon helps with that. So things with branched chain
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amino acids, oysters can help with that.
OK, great questions. How can we be sure there's no
lead in cocoa powder? This is where we need to ask and
demand that people who sell cacao products send their
certificate of analysis. The C of A and I know several
different chocolate manufacturers and chocolate
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distributors, They do that. If you ask them, hey, can I see
your certificate of analysis? They'll send it to you and
you'll be able to see and you can compare and contrast
different types of dark chocolate cacao powders to just
make sure that there's not an issue there.
OK, Love being with you guys. Appreciate you.
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I'm not a medical doctor. I'm a PhD biochemist, natural
prox chemist. And so if you have specific
questions about how something works for your particular
condition, then you need to talkwith your personal medical
doctor, your physician. All right, appreciate you all.
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Hope you are all doing well. Have I done tarot root?
I haven't done tarot yet. And tarot has great properties.
Tarot is really good for regulating blood sugar levels.
So that's something that if you want to regulate blood sugar
levels and if that's important to you, then tarot is a really
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good way to do that. As far as eating tarot, you
know, there's the Hawaiian way of making poi.
I lived in Hawaii for five yearsas a professor.
And so there's that, there's tarot that's infused into rolls,
ice cream. You can find it a lot in Asia.
But tarot's a really good thing to do.
And I am going to do a yes no ontarot in a bit, probably in a
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month or so. So stay tuned for that.
How to lower inflammation? Great question.
How to lower inflammation? Curcuminoids, really good for
lowering inflammation. You could take a teaspoon of
turmeric. You can put it in your shake,
You can put it on yogurt. You want to mix it with food.
You don't want to just put it inwater by itself, but turmeric's
a great thing. Boswellia, really good at
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reducing inflammation. Black cumin seed oil, like we
talked about earlier on this episode, that can help to reduce
inflammation. So those are some really good
things that you can do. And fish, don't underestimate
the power of fish. It's interesting, I did an
Instagram, Facebook reel on Turkey and people were not very
happy about Turkey and they weren't happy that it didn't
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have all these great health benefits.
You know what, I was expecting that it would with, you know,
maybe the tryptophan and whatnot, but the tryptophan in
Turkey that makes you sleepy. It was interesting.
And I said this on my reel, but I studied and I analyzed the
tryptophan amounts of all different types of meat.
And beef contains tryptophan, chicken, Turkey, pork, and the
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tryptophan levels are all about the same in these different
meats. So when we eat Turkey for
Thanksgiving dinner or after a big meal and we feel like we're
going to pass out, it's not because of the tryptophan, it's
because we've eaten like 4000 calories during that meal.
So. So anyways, with with with with
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Turkey, that's that's what we have there.
It's a lean protein, but besidesthat, not much better.
But fish, fish can reduce inflammation because not only is
it a lean protein, good carbohydrate, good, good
macronutrient balance, but it contains these molecules,
omega-3 fatty acids and these omega-3 fatty acids are
converted to molecules called specialized pro resolving
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mediators. And these are one of the most
powerful anti-inflammatory molecules on the planet.
And it's, it's actually the bodyconverts them so they're not
found in nature. EPA and DHA, these omega-3 fatty
acids are found in nature, but when we eat them, our body
transforms them into these anti-inflammatory molecules.
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So that's why you should take fish every single day, as often
as you can. Sardines.
You guys like sardines, love sardines, love smoked salmon,
but however you can get it, be sure that you're eating fish
several times a week so that you're getting these medicinal
molecules. Fried fish.
Fried fish is okay as long as you do it quickly.
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You use an olive oil or an avocado oil or something like
that and it's great. People are like, can you fry
with olive oil? You actually can.
That's that's one of the biggestmisnomers that somehow people
have missed in the scientific literature.
And I'll post some references onmy website so you could check it
out. And I think under olive oil, if
you go to my blog, olive oil, there's already some references
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there showing that olive oil doesn't degrade under frying
conditions. 4 hundred 450°F. It doesn't degrade.
It's not going to cause damage. It's not going to fall apart.
It's not going to produce bad, bad chemicals or anything like
that for the body. And I don't know why people say
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that it does, but when you look at the scientific literature,
scientific literature is clear that it that it doesn't.
So anyways, but yeah, avocado oil, olive oil, canola oil,
whatever you want to do there. Appreciate you guys.
What other questions do you have?
Let's see, does dark chocolate ruin your teeth?
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So there's a, a thing going around about how dark chocolate
can be bad for your teeth. Well, it's the sugar that's bad
for the teeth, not dark chocolate.
Cacao in and of itself actually has a protective effect on the
teeth. It can actually reduce cavities.
It can help with teeth brightening.
It can help reduce gingivitis. And that's probably because of
the flavanols and the, and the polyphenols and the other
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molecules that are in cacao thatcan help with oral health.
So, so that's a big thing. What are the best types of
Pickles to eat? So I talked about Pickles
recently and when you go to the grocery store, there's a couple
of different options. You can go to the shelf kind of
by where the condiments, the vinegar, whatnot, it's at room
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temperature and there's all sorts of Pickles there.
And those Pickles are great. There's nothing wrong with them.
They are cured in vinegar and that's what gives the the pickle
taste and the flavor, and then they add sweet, they add dill
and they add different things toit to impart flavor to the
cucumber and that's fine. No issue with that.
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The better choice though is if you go to the refrigerated
section. There's Pickles that have been
made by taking cucumbers and immersing them in brine and when
you immerse them in a brine solution that actually it's a
fermented food. Now the Pickles on the shelf are
not fermented foods because a vinegar kills any, any of the
bacteria that might be in there.So I recommend getting Pickles
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from the refrigerated section ofthe grocery store because they
have probiotics, they have prebiotics, they have post
biotics. Do you know what post biotics
are? Post biotics are the good.
Molecules that probiotics make, so you have good bacteria, those
are called probiotics. The food they like to eat to
help them to grow and be strong are called prebiotics.
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And then when probiotics are happy, they give off molecules
and these molecules are called post biotics.
And so when you eat Pickles, you're getting pre pro and post
biotic. Same thing with kimchi, same
thing with sauerkraut. So eating as much fermented
foods as you can is a big deal. What are my thoughts on
fermented daily vitamins? Fermented daily vitamins are
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good. That increases absorption.
When you do that, you're actually getting some of these
glycoproteins that I talked about earlier that can help with
absorption. Appreciate you guys.
Should we consume MCT? Absolutely.
MCT oil, especially found in coconut is really good when it
comes to fat burning. It's really good to put the body
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into ketosis. It's good for weight management.
It's it's a great thing to do Microgreens.
So I talked about microgreens onFacebook and Instagram and a lot
of people were like, I don't know what microgreens are.
So let's talk about microgreens for a quick second.
Microgreens are when you grow a plant like broccoli, radish
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deal. When it starts to grow, it grows
this little teeny plant that's 11/2 two inches tall.
Simply put, that's the microgreen.
And when you have microgreens, what they do is when they grow
these seeds, they cut them when they're just a few days old, one
to two inches tall. And the cool thing about
microgreens is that scientific studies, the studies on my blog,
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you can check them out under microgreens have shown that they
contain 40 times the amounts of vitamins and minerals as the
mature plant. And why is that?
Well, it makes sense that if theplant's going to grow and is it
struggling to take root and to grow tall, that it needs
vitamins and minerals and different nutrients in order to
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do that. And so microgreens are
supercharged in vitamins and minerals.
Microgreens, you can buy them atthe grocery store.
They're easy. You can grow them, you could
grow them yourself. You could look online chat, CBT
can help you. There's kits that you can buy
that you can grow microgreens really easily.
So they're great. They're powerful.
They have great properties for heart health, for brain health,
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for gut health, and they're a great thing to add to your
salads. I love adding it on top of
avocado toast. It's an amazing thing to do, but
it's great. And microgreens, as I said here
in this great comment, it is great food for vegans and
especially vegans who need vitamins and minerals, need to
make sure that we're getting those microgreens.
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Great source of that. OK, so why does tofu reduce
cognitive function? This is an interesting 1 and I
wasn't expecting this when I wasstudying tofu.
I've I've studied tofu, the molecules and tofu, the soy
isoflavones for many years. I formulated with them and
whatnot, but I wasn't expecting that tofu in middle age.
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From about age 45 on up, if you eat excess tofu, meaning if you
eat a serving four or five timesa week, it can reduce cognitive
function. And a lot of people didn't like
that. A lot of people said I was
wrong. They were upset.
And the first point that I want to bring up, it's really
interesting when it comes to science and the scientists,
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we're trying to find the truth. We're trying to find out what's
going on. We don't know everything, and
there's still so much that we don't know.
So we do. That's why we do research.
And it's crazy. I was not expecting that to be
the case. And it actually made me a little
uncomfortable. I didn't like the fact that
tofu, as it stands in the current literature, can reduce
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cognitive function. That's crazy.
I didn't like that. I was unsettled with that.
And so I read all the scientificpapers and I read them in
detail, and the science is actually pretty strong.
Unfortunately, some people were saying, well, the papers were
wrong or they're just correlation does not equal
causation. Other people were sending me
papers saying that, hey, look, soy isilflavones can help with
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cognitive function like jenison and dateson, and they can, but
we're talking about tofu, everything mixed together.
And that's one of the mistakes that we make when we do research
or when we're talking about health, is we'll take a molecule
in a food and we'll pull it out and that molecule has certain
health benefits. But when you plug it back into
the food, that food has different health benefits.
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And so we need to be really careful when we do that.
We need to not extrapolate. So anyways, the bottom line
though, with tofu, it's great for overall health.
It's a good protein source. It, it has anti cancer
properties. There's a lot of really good
things that it does. It helps to regulate the genes
and chemical switches in our body.
But too much of a good thing canstill be too much.
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And that goes back to what we were saying earlier.
The dose determines the poison. You can have too much of
anything. Water, the universal Solomon of
life. If you if you drink too much
water in a short period of time,your cells will implode because
you reverse osmotic pressure. And so that's just how it is.
So one of the key dogmas for health is we want to eat as many
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different foods as we can. We need to have molecular
diversity. One food has one or two really
cool molecules, another food hasanother one or two really cool
molecules. And so we want to eat a variety
to make sure we're getting all of the molecules.
All right. Could it be because tofu these
days are made from GMO soy? I don't think so.
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In reading the scientific papersand whatnot, I don't think that
that's the case. I don't think that it's GMO.
My my best guess is that it might be something with the
protein matrix and something with how with how tofu is made
when it's fermented. Because we haven't seen someone
ask an excellent question. Does the same thing apply with
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soy milk? And it doesn't in the scientific
literature, we haven't seen anything with drinking too much
soy milk can reduce cognitive function.
But when it comes to tofu eatingorganic's great, non-GMO, that's
great, but we still don't know exactly what's going on.
And there's some researchers that are working on this.
And I hope that they'll, this isn't, this isn't research that
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I do, this isn't an area that I focus on.
But I really hope that they'll figure this out and that we'll
know soon so that we can know what to do.
But in the interim, again, I want to stress in the interim,
go ahead and eat tofu 123 times a week.
And it's a great thing to do to mix up protein source and
intake. All right, what other questions
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do you have? Sure, appreciate you guys.
All right, I talked about binaural beats last week and
binaural beats. I was reading about them again,
just great for concentration, great for memory, great for
sleep. So have you tried them yet?
(27:05):
Have you tried using binaural beats?
Again, really easy to do. Pull up your favorite listening
platform, Apple podcast, Spotifyand and Apple Music.
Wherever you listen to your music.
If you type in binaural beats, it'll give you some different
some different options there andyou can do that.
Foods recommend for IBS Artichoke hearts good.
Artichokes are awesome. Artichokes have great benefits.
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They're really good for balancing blood sugar levels.
Artichoke hearts really good forgut health.
Artichokes really good prebioticsource prebiotic fiber for the
good bacteria in our gut to eat.So they're, they're awesome,
really good dragon fruit. Dragon fruits, great dragon
fruit. It has large amounts of
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different flavonoids, flavonoidsand polyphenols.
So dragon fruit when it comes toantioxidant scale, dragon fruit
is one of the higher ones. Dragon fruit is really good at
reducing oxidative stress in thebody.
Oxidative stress is the process by which the body essentially
rusts out, RUST, it rusts out and we and in order to protect
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that rusting from happening, we need to make sure that we have
large amounts of antioxidants inthe body and dragon fruit helps
to do that. Papaya.
Papaya is amazing. Papaya is one of the best things
to help with Constipation. Papaya is rich in carotenoids,
vitamin A precursors and so it has some of the largest amounts
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of pro vitamin A's. It has large amounts of vitamin
E, It's a good source of fiber. It's great for the gut.
So if you want, you know if gut health is really important to
you and if you have access to it, eating a papaya a few times
a week is powerful, powerful thing to do.
And papaya seeds, papaya seeds are actually good to rid the
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body of parasites. And so that's a good thing to do
there. And if you're interested in
that, you should work with your medical doctor and just make
sure that you and them are on the same page.
But papaya, grapefruit, when I lived in Hawaii, I ate papaya
every day and it was amazing when it came to my health, when
it came to my skin, when it, when it came to gut health
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especially, it was, it was a great thing to do.
I actually started losing weight.
I was overweight. So when I lived in Hawaii, I was
actually 220 lbs and I'm 160. So I don't know if you know that
I went, I have a crazy weight loss journey that I'll talk
about sometimes where I lost 60 lbs in the course of about a
year and I've kept it off for what 12/12/13 years now.
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And papaya was one of those things that really helped me in
my weight loss journey. All right, how many ounces of
tofu is a safe serving? You know about four to five oz.
Let's start with that. Rice cakes, healthy or not,
these are great questions. Rice cakes, when you look at
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rice cakes, they contain carbohydrates.
They they're complex carbohydrates depending on the
types of rice cakes that you get, but that's it.
So there's no fiber, there's no,importantly, there's no
medicinal molecules in rice cakes.
Maybe if you want to stretch it,maybe there's one or two
benzoxazenoids, but really there's, there's not a lot in
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rice cakes. And so when people use rice
cakes for competitions or body shaping or stuff like that, you
know, there's, it's just basically to put you in a
caloric deficit. So if you want to put yourself
in a caloric deficit, rice cakesare one of the best things to
do. But when it comes to nutrition
and health for the body, they don't provide a lot of that.
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Is it normal to have stomach pain when you drink ginger tea?
No, I haven't heard of that. But the body, everybody is
different. And so it's, it's interesting
that what works for one person might not work for another
person when it comes to foods, the food intolerances are a real
thing. And a lot of that depends on us
personally. It depends on our genes, our
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genetic disposition, how our genes are being expressed or not
expressed. It depends on our gut
microbiome. For whatever reason, our the,
the gut flora just might not be amenable to certain foods that
we're eating. But what's interesting is that
when we eat good food to take care of our health, I've heard
story after story after story ofpeople who whose health they
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couldn't eat certain things. They had an intolerance to a
certain food and then they're fine.
But why is that? That's crazy.
Well, it's epigenetics. Good food can change our gene
expression for the better and it's good food can increase
health of our gut microbiome, the second brain.
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So good. Emmy had artichokes for
breakfast and lunch. That's awesome.
Hi, Emmy, hope you guys are doing well.
I'm just so grateful for all of you that follow me on social
media, for you that listen to mehere on this Instagram live in
the podcast. I'm just grateful for your
support. You guys are amazing.
I love the good camaraderie thatwe have, the unity that we have
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that we can talk about science without being disagreeable.
And I'm just thankful for you guys and the culture that you
have. Appreciate you red Kiwis from
Jeju Island. That's cool.
I, I have red Kiwis once on JejuIsland and they're rich in
anthocyanins. That's what makes them red.
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If you can get red Kiwis, you get all the benefits of Kiwi
with the vitamin C and the fiberand everything like that.
But then you get these really cool anthocyanins.
So I haven't seen them here in the in the States.
If I do, I'm going to snap them up.
I'm going to buy, I'm going to buy all of them.
So awesome. OK, I have time for one more
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question. Let's see.
And let's talk about Shohujit. A lot of you have asked about
Shohujit also. You know, if you're just
phonetically saying it's she legit, but it's Shi JALIT Shojit
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is how you pronounce it. But shojit is called mountain
blood. It it's it's this resin that
oozes out of out of mountains like the Atlas mountains in Asia
and the Himalayas in different areas.
And this resin is rich in humic and folic acids and it's rich in
vitamins and minerals. And these vitamins and minerals
are bioavailable. So a lot of it also depends on
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the Shojit on how it's processedand what it is.
A lot of people actually take shogi, the pure stuff, and
they'll dilute it down with mineral oil to make sure that
it's cheap. So what you should do is you
should ask for the certificate of analysis and have them show
it to you so that you can see the process by which it's done
and what what you want to see onthat certificate of analysis.
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You should also ask for the flowchart and the flow chart will
tell you how it's extracted. Basically what you want is you
want them to take it directly from the mountain, run it
through a fine mesh screen to get rid of, you know, any pieces
of rock or anything like that and boom, that's how you want
it. All right everyone, I appreciate
you. I enjoyed our time together.
Hope you guys are all doing welland I will catch you next week.
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Take care, bye bye.
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