November 17, 2023 • 31 mins
There are a variety of ways to lose weight: reduce calories, pharmaceuticals, bariatric procedures. But these are successful only in the beginning: You lose, say, 40 pounds over a year only to gain it all back. Of that 40 pounds, 10 pounds is muscle. And, when you gain it back, it is nearly all fat, very little muscle. You are now less healthy than you were at the start of your weight loss journey. And, if repeated, as with yo-yo dieting in which you lose, regain, then lose and regain again, your metabolic health gets worse and worse and, not only are you discouraged and demoralized, but you are also setting yourself up for some pretty serious health consequences including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and increased potential for cognitive decline and dementia.
So let’s be smarter. Let’s not repeat the mistakes of conventional thinking in weight loss and let’s instead discuss 7 counterintuitive strategies that help you lose weight, not lose muscle, and thereby not regain the weight or regain the fat and thereby not only enjoy your new shape and body composition, but avoid all the health complications of the conventional path.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
There are a variety of ways to lose weight Reduce
calories, pharmaceuticals,bariatric procedures among them
but these are successful only inthe beginning.
You lose, say, 40 pounds over ayear, only to gain it all back
Of that 40 pounds.
10 pounds lost is muscle, andwhen you gain it back, it's
nearly all fat, very littlemuscle.
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You are now less healthy thanyou were at the start of your
weight loss journey and ifrepeated as with yo-yo dieting,
where you lose, regain, thenlose and regain again your
metabolic health gets worse andworse, and not only are you
discouraged and demoralized, butyou are also setting yourself
up for some pretty serioushealth consequences that include
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type 2 diabetes, heart diseaseand increased potential for
cognitive decline and dementia.
So let's be smarter, let's notrepeat the mistakes of
conventional thinking in weightloss and let's instead discuss
seven counterintuitivestrategies that help you lose
weight, not lose muscle, andthereby not regain the weight or
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regain the fat, and thereby notonly enjoy your new shape and
body composition, but avoid allthe health complications of the
conventional path.
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As ubiquitous as this struggleis with overweight and obesity,
I'm just shocked that the realmessage is not getting out to
people.
That is, you can lose weightand you can do it successfully.
And you can do it rapidly andyou can do it with long-standing
, long-term success.
What happens with most peopleis they cut calories in some way
, and we'll talk about why I saythat.
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They cut calories, calorieintake in some way.
They lose weight and then, overtime, they regain all the
weight.
There's a reason for that.
There's a well-establishedexplanation for why people can
lose weight in the near term butregain the weight in the long
term, which is very demoralizingand disappointing, isn't it?
So let's talk about that.
So let's take, for instance,going on a GLP1 agonist, a drug
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like WeGovie or Osempig.
So you spend, say, $15,000 overa year to lose 40 pounds and
you can lose a lot of weight inthose drugs.
No question about that, that iswell-established.
So you lose 40 pounds, of which10 pounds, sometimes more, is
muscle.
And of that 30 pound of fat youlost about 50-50 spread between
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what's called subcutaneous fat,that's fat below the skin
distributed throughout the body,and the other 50% is abdominal
visceral fat, that is fat withinthe abdomen that encircles your
organs.
So there's loss of muscle about10 pounds of that 40 pounds.
Then of the 30 pounds of fat,it's a 50-50 spread of
subcutaneous to abdominalvisceral fat.
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Well, these are importantbecause when you lose muscle,
your basal metabolic rate drops.
What that means is basalmetabolic rate is the rate at
which your body burns caloriesto do the work of living, the
work of breathing, of digestingfood, of creating proteins to
replace lost cells in your heartand skin and brain.
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So when you lose muscle, yourbasal metabolic rate drops.
And what that means is thatafter you've lost the weight,
you lose muscle because you'reburning calories at a lower rate
.
You will regain weight even ifyou maintain a low calorie
intake.
So you lose 40 pounds.
You stop the drug.
Most people can't afford thosedrugs forever, right?
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So you stop the drug and youregain nearly all the weight,
and the weight you regain isnearly all fat, very little
muscle.
Now you're less healthy thanyou were at the start because
when you have more fat and lessmuscle, not only is your basal
metabolic rate lower, but youhave higher levels of insulin
resistance, higher blood sugar,higher risk for conditions like
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type 2 diabetes, heart disease,dementia, breast cancer.
Even though you spent all thatmoney and you lost all that
weight after stopping the drug,you are less healthy than you
were at the start and prone tomany common conditions.
Also, because the drugs do notspecifically target the most
problematic form of fat, whichis that abdominal fat.
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Abdominal fat is thedeterminant of a process called
insulin resistance andinflammation.
So in other words, if you don'tspecifically target abdominal
visceral fat, you don't get fullbenefit health benefit.
If you could specificallytarget abdominal visceral fat
that determines insulinresistance and inflammation, you
would lose weight faster,because it's insulin resistance
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and inflammation that causeweight gain and prevent weight
loss.
So that because these drugs andother methods do not
specifically target abdominalvisceral fat, you don't obtain
full benefit.
So someone taking these drugsat great cost lose weight only
to regain the weight, and youare less healthy than you were
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at the start.
Now this also applies to anymethod in which you cut calories
.
So how do those drugs work?
Where they reduce your appetite, you lose your taste for food,
so you take in less food andthat's how you lose weight.
We could also do it with cuttingcalories, just just reducing
calorie intake.
Let's say a diet where yourdoctor says move more, eat less,
or push the plate away, or adietitian tells you eat many
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small, small meals every twohours all throughout the day.
Whatever the method, you'recutting calories and that can
lead to weight loss.
Likewise, if you have abariatric procedure, it could be
lap band, where they put aconstricting band around your
stomach to reduce stomach volume, or it could be bypass gastric
bypass where they actuallyreduce the volume of the stomach
.
Those procedures are also allvariations on the same theme as
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reducing calories.
So whether it's a GOP oneagonist drug like we gov, or as
ozempic, or a low calorie dietor bariatric procedure, they're
all variations on the same themereducing calories.
And when you reduce calorieslong term, not near term you can
lose weight near term and nothave these effects, but then you
only have limited success andlosing weight.
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Right If you only do it for,say, for a week, but if you do
it more than that, you reduceyour basal metabolic rate
because of the loss of muscleand you do not selectively
target the most problematic formof fat.
So let's talk about some of thecounterintuitive rules to be
aware of.
That can help you.
One more specifically targetabdominal visceral fat, thereby
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reduce insulin resistance andinflammation at drive weight
gain.
And two, preserve muscle oreven increase muscle so that you
don't regain the weight.
In other words, you can losethe weight, you don't lose
muscle, you don't regain theweight and you specifically
target the most problematic formof fat abdominal visceral fat,
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the fat that drives risk for allthose health conditions like
diabetes and heart disease.
The first rule to follow isnever limit calories.
So don't cut calories, don'tpush the pletaway, ignore, move
more, eat less, never limitcalories.
You can do it for a short term,for a few days, but don't do it
for long term.
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That's counterintuitive, isn'tit?
People think, oh, the morecalories you take in, the more
you're going to gain weight.
Cutting calories leads toweight loss?
It does in the near term, butthen you regain the weight
because of the impact, becauseof the effect on your basal
metabolic rate.
So we do not limit calories.
Another counterintuitive key tosuccess.
A long term weight loss isnever limit fat.
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We've been told to reduce ourintake of cholesterol and
saturated fat to reducecardiovascular risk.
There never was evidence tosupport that argument in the
first place.
And of course, for the firstthree million years our species
has been on this planet nounlimited fat and there was
almost no heart disease, by theway.
So if your great grandmotherwas here, a woman who loved
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bacon, fat and butter and wholemilk and cream, there was almost
no heart disease in her time.
Yet we have lots of heartdisease now.
It's the number one moneymakerfor hospitals in the healthcare
system during a time when we'velimited intake of saturated fat
and cholesterol.
So not limiting fat, notlimiting cholesterol, does not
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increase your cardiovascularrisk.
There are real ways to identifyyour risk for heart disease,
but it has nothing to do withfat intake or cholesterol intake
.
So we do not limit fat.
So if you're going to have somepork chops, say, buy a fatty cut
, eat the fat.
Use more butter.
Use more extra virgin olive oil.
When you make some bacon, savethe oil for cooking.
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It's delicious.
Fat makes food taste better.
Fat is satiating.
You're much more likely to besatisfied with your meal If you
had, let's say, two or threeeggs with some bacon or some
sausage and butter.
You're satisfied for many hours, unlike, say, a bowl of
breakfast cereal rich in bran,rich in fiber.
That's nonsense.
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So we're not going to limit ourfat, we're not going to limit
calories.
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How difficult is it to loseweight if you are being exposed
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to an appetite stimulant.
Well, very difficult, right?
You try to cut calories, youtry to walk away from food and
you're miserable because you'reobsessed with food.
You're being exposed to anappetite stimulant.
Well, anything made of wheatand related grains, like rye and
barley and corn, yields opioidpeptides.
That is, humans are notequipped to break down the
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protein.
Some of the proteins in wheatand grains, such as the glydein
protein in wheat, the ceclineprotein in rye, the hordein
protein in barley, the zianprotein in corn.
We don't have the enzymes tobreak those proteins down into
single amino acids as we do withother proteins, like the
protein in an egg or the proteinin beef.
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So we break those proteins fromwheat and grains down into
peptides, that is, four or fiveamino acid long peptides.
These peptides are very unique.
They cross into the brain andstimulate opioid receptors.
They don't make you high,though they stimulate appetite.
They're very powerful appetitestimulants.
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So anyone who includes wheat andgrains in their diet takes in
many hundreds of calories moreper day and often exposed to
incessant hunger.
You see this in its mostextreme form in people with
bulimia and binge eatingdisorder.
These are people who can't stopthinking about food.
They're obsessed with food.
They're always thinking aboutfood and eating.
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When they stop wheat and othergrains, and thereby the opioid
peptides they drive appetite,they're miraculously freed of
those food obsessions.
So those people who sit infront of the refrigerator at 3
am in the morning and binge andthen go to the toilet to purge
by throwing up all that goesaway when you banish all wheat
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and grains that drive appetite.
Another counterintuitive way toobtain long term success and
losing weight is to avoid foodsthat trigger blood sugar and
insulin, because every time youtrigger blood sugar, insulin has
to accompany that blood sugar,because it requires insulin to
allow that sugar, those sugarsin the blood, to enter the cells
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of your body muscle, brain,liver, elsewhere.
Now, every time you raise bloodsugar let's say you eat a bowl
of oatmeal and your blood sugargoes from 100 milligrams per
deciliter to 160, which is verytypical, by the way, in a
non-diabetic.
If you're a pre-diabetic, itgoes to more like 220 or so.
If you're a type II diabetic,it goes 250 or 350.
In other words, foods likeoatmeal raise blood sugar to
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very extreme levels.
So quit it.
C.
When that happens, you induceinsulin resistance in the organs
of your body and muscle, liver,brain, etc.
And when you have insulinresistance, the pancreas
compensates by producing hugeamounts of insulin 10-fold more,
30-fold more, 100-fold more.
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So a person who's very insulinsensitive let's say a slender
premenopausal female who likesto long-distance run she's going
to have an insulin level of 1or 2, no higher than 4
microunits per liter.
How about somebody who'sinsulin resistant, who's been
experiencing repetitive highblood sugars and therefore high
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blood insulin?
Their level is 50, 90, 140,many times higher.
High levels of insulin causeweight gain, cause fat
deposition in the abdomen andblocks weight loss.
So we want to have no rises inblood glucose, no rises in
insulin.
So I have something called theblood glucose zero change rule.
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If you're checking blood glucose, for instance, with a finger
stick blood glucose, let's sayyou start at 90, you eat a meal
and 30 to 60 minutes after thestart of the meal, you want a
blood glucose of no higher than90, not 140, not 160.
Your doctor may say, oh, aslong as your blood glucose
doesn't exceed 200, you're okay.
Is that true?
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It absolutely is not true.
What the doctor is saying isthat you don't need drugs yet to
control your blood glucose.
You're not yet a diabetic.
That is not what we're afterhere.
We're after weight control,right and specifically targeting
abdominal visceral fat.
In order to do that, we permitno rises in blood glucose.
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Now we have to accept thatthese fingers, that blood
glucose devices, are accurate toplus and minus 10.
So if you start at 90 and youate something went to 100, that
is no change.
Okay so, but no change in bloodglucose.
You thereby do not provokeinsulin resistance.
If your blood glucose is above100, that is in the abnormal
range, either pre-diabetic oreven diabetic this will lead
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over time.
If you keep on maintaining ablood glucose of no change, 30
to 60 minutes in after the startof a meal, your fasting glucose
also dropped.
This is also a way to become anon-diabetic, non-pre-diabetic.
Now, if your blood glucose doesgo higher let's say you start
at 90 and it goes to 140, lookback at that meal and see what
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was responsible.
It'll be something that's acarbohydrate or a sugar.
Either cut that food out orreduce the portion size.
Repeat it again.
You want no change and this ishow you reverse insulin
resistance, because insulinresistance causes weight gain.
You're going to reverse insulinresistance or minimize it, and
you allow release of that weight.
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We also address nutrients thatare lacking in modern life, that
influence insulin resistanceand inflammation.
You're seeing that there's acommon theme here, right?
That insulin resistance, highlevels of insulin and
inflammation drive weight gain,block weight loss.
So let's address commonnutrient deficiencies that add
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to insulin resistance andinflammation.
What are those?
Well, vitamin D, because welive indoors, wear clothes and
we lose the capacity to activatevitamin D in the skin with sun
exposure after age 40.
So let's replace vitamin D andwe take a dose of vitamin D, an
oil-based gel cap to enhanceabsorption, to achieve a
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25-hydroxy vitamin D blood levelof 60 to 70 nanogram per
milliter the ideal level.
We restore magnesium because wedrink filtered water.
We have to because water sadlynow is filled with contaminants
and we don't drink from a riveror stream, right, that's flowing
over rocks and minerals.
So we have to supplementmagnesium.
We try to get about 500milligrams per day from such
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forms of magnesium as magnesiumglycinate, magnesium chelate,
magnesium malate.
Separate those doses into two,morning and night.
We also supplement iodinebecause iodine is in the ocean
and most people don't get enoughiodine, especially if you live
inland and don't get exposed tofoods that are grown coastly or
seafoods.
We supplement iodine to try toobtain about 350 micrograms not
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milligram micrograms Per day.
The best way to do this is toget some kelp tablets or kelp
capsules, dried seaweed andthat's a way to get many forms
of iodine to make sure you'regetting the kinds of iodine that
you need for all the organs inyour body that require iodine,
including the thyroid, so thatyour thyroid has the materials
to make thyroid hormones.
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Then we also get a obtainedomega-3 fatty acids, because
humans don't eat brain anymore,the most rich source of omega-3
fatty acids in animals.
So also, we can't eat all thefish we want, because seafood is
now contaminated heavily andit's getting worse and worse and
worse with industrializationand mercury mercury
contamination even shellfishcontend with cadmium.
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So these are heavy metals thathave adverse effects on health
as getting worse and worse asthere's more coal mining and
other factors that release theseheavy metals into the
atmosphere and thereby into theenvironment.
So we have to get this workaround.
We can't eat all the brain wewant.
We can't eat all the seafood wewant, so we get omega-3 fatty
acids that are purified andthereby have minimal to no heavy
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metal contamination or othercontaminants.
Now put those four thingstogether vitamin D, magnesium,
omega-3, fatty acids, iodine andthey synergize to reduce or
minimize insulin resistance andinflammation.
So they help you lose weight,especially from abdominal
visceral fat, the form of fatthat drives insulin resistance
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and inflammation.
Let's go further with anothercounterintuitive key to
successful weight loss, and thatis because we've been told cut
your fat, cut your cholesterol,cut your saturated fat.
Most modern people haveabandoned the consumption of
organ meats of brain, of thyroid, stomach, intestines, liver,
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pancreas, tongue, heart.
People have abandoned thoseorgan meats, even though your
great grandmother and all thegenerations of humans preceding
her all consumed organ meats.
After all, you kill an animal.
It takes energy and time tokill something and you don't
throw away the organs.
You consume the organs and youthereby obtained plenty of
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collagen and hyaluronic acid.
We have good evidence that whenyou get collagen, there is a
reduction in abdominal visceralfat, there's a reduction in
waist circumference, there's anincrease in lean muscle mass.
Not a reduction lean muscle,but an increase in lean muscle
mass, giving you better controlover weight because you're in
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control of insulin resistanceand inflammation.
Likewise, you obtain hyaluronicacid richest in brain and in
skin.
So I cringe when I hear peoplebuying boneless, skinless
chicken breasts.
No, that's not how you eatchicken.
Get the whole animal.
Cook it, eat the skin, eat thedrumsticks, eat the meat, save
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the carcass, boil it.
Make broth or soups.
Do not make bone broth.
By the way, bone broth has beenshown to be rich in lead and
the heavy metal lead, especiallyif you use vinegar, as people
are often told.
If you make that bone broth andyou add some vinegar to help
mobilize some of the minerals,you now have a toxic amount of
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lead in your bone broth.
So don't make bone broth, don'tbuy bone broth.
Make it doesn't sound good.
Make carcass broth.
You bake that chicken.
You ate some of the meat andthe skin.
Save the carcass, boil it.
So you have some bones, yes,but you also have tendons and
ligaments and some of the meat.
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And if you have any of theorgans, throw those in.
That's what you do.
That has collagen and somehyaluronic acid.
So when you get hyaluronic acid, by the way, likewise you
decrease abdominal visceral fatand you increase lean muscle
mass.
And, by the way, when you getcollagen and hyaluronic acid two
factors missing in a dietthat's low in fat and saturated
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fat when you replace thosethings, not only do you get a
reduction in waist circumferenceand abdominal fat and increase
muscle.
You also get smoother skinBecause those two nutrients
increased dermal collagen anddermal moisture and you can
reduce the fine wrinkles aroundyour eyes and around your mouth.
You also improve joint healthBecause collagen and hyaluronic
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acid are important components ofyour joints, like your knees
and hips.
They rebuild joint cartilageand they increase the
lubricating fluid, the synovialfluid, in your joints.
So not only do you get betterbody composition, better body
shape because of the loss ofabdominal fat, increased lean
muscle mass, you also obtainhealth in other parts of the
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body.
Lastly, because the modern dietis low in carotenoids.
These are nutrients like betacarotene or lutein or Ziazanthin
.
We lack carotenoids.
That also plays a major role inbody composition, where fat is
distributed and muscle.
So we're going to choose thehighest and most potent
carotenoid of all Astaxanthin.
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If you get three to fourmilligrams per day of the
carotenoid, astaxanthin that issourced from foods like salmon.
If you have a six-ounce pieceof wild salmon, you get about
four or five milligrams ofastaxanthin.
So we're going to obtainastaxanthin In this case as a
supplement.
It's easier.
It's hard to eat salmon everyday and if you did, you're
exposed to mercury.
So we get an astaxanthinsupplement and that also adds to
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these effects.
It reduces abdominal visceralfat and astaxanthin is probably
the most potent thing of allthat encourages loss of
abdominal visceral fat andincrease in lean muscle mass,
and it synergizes with thoseother factors.
Now I titled this conversationthe Seven Counterintuitive Keys
to Successful Long-Term WeightLoss.
But I have a bonus strategy, aneighth key, an eighth method.
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That is to restore the microbeyou've lost from your Dastron
Testotrack called Lactobacillusruedii R-E-U-T-E-R-I, named
after the German microbiologistwho discovered this microbe from
the breast milk of a Germanwoman in 1962.
And he found in the 1960s.
That was easy to find.
He could recover it from breastmilk or from feces, from stool,
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and it was everywhere.
As his 40-year career unfolded,he found it harder and harder
to find this microbe in humanbody samples, human body fluids
and stool, and it became clearthat this microbe has virtually
disappeared.
Almost nobody has Lactobacillusruedii anymore because it's very
susceptible to commonantibiotics like ampicillin or
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amoxicillin.
So if you took, let's say,amoxicillin for an upper
respiratory infection 20 yearsago, you've lost all your
Lactobacillus ruedii.
And there's three reasons whyloss of Lactobacillus ruedii
causes weight gain in the mostunhealthy ways, that is, more
abdominal visceral fat and lossof muscle.
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So restore Lactobacillus ruedii.
And what happens?
Three things happen.
One Lactobacillus ruedii takesup resins in the entire length
of the GI tract, not just thecolon where most microbes live,
but the entire 30 feet ofgastrointestinal tract,
including the 24 feet of smallintestine, the duodenum, jejunum
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and ilium.
So Lactobacillus ruedii takesup resins in the 30 feet of the
GI tract and it sends a signalvia the my enteric nervous
system, the nervous system ofthe GI tract, up through the
vagus nerve.
That goes up through the chestneck to the brain and causes
your brain to produce more ofthe hormone oxytocin.
Oxytocin is the hormone of bodyshape and composition.
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So when you boost oxytocin viaLactobacillus ruedii you
increase lean muscle massdramatically and you don't lose
muscle as you're trying to loseweight.
So it blocks weight regainbecause it protects your basal
metabolic rate.
Lactobacillus ruedii also,because it colonizes small
intestine, it takes up residenceand produces what I call
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bactericins.
Bactericins are effectiveagainst the fecal microbes that
in about half the US population.
Fecal microbes have ascended upfrom the colon and they're in
the small intestine where theyrelease toxins, especially
something calledlipopolysaccharide endotoxin
that enters the bloodstream andcauses insulin resistance and
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inflammation.
So fecal microbes living in the24 feet of small intestine
small intestine very permeableand those endotoxins enter the
blood stream and cause weightgain.
So when Rutterite takes upresidence in the small intestine
it discourages those fecalmicrobes because it kills them.
Rutterite is very good atkilling fecal microbes and so it
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reduces endotoxin in thebloodstream, so-called
endotoxemia, and reduces insulinresistance and inflammation.
And that helps further inreleasing abdominal visceral fat
while preserving lean musclemass.
The boost in oxytocin thatRhetorize responsible for also
suppresses appetite, I shouldsay normalizes appetite.
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You lose the desire for what'scalled hedonic eating, snacking.
You're going to have breakfast.
Let's say you have two eggswith some sausage, with lots of
oil or butter, and then you'reprobably not hungry till 2 pm, 3
pm, 5 pm.
You are put in control.
Now recall we don't limit fatright.
Fat is satiating.
That boost in oxytocin turnsoff abnormal appetite triggers.
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We've banished glide and derivedopioid peptides from wheat
related grains.
You are put in magnificentcontrol over appetite and
impulse.
So there you have it, the sevenways, plus the bonus material
on Rhetoride on how to loseweight for good and not regain
weight.
So we're never going to limitcalories, we never limit fat.
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We banish all sources of glideand derived opioid peptide.
Appetite stimulants.
We avoid foods that triggerblood sugar and insulin and
thereby help unwind or undoinsulin resistance that releases
fat weight.
Re-restore common nutrients thatare lacking in modern life
vitamin D, iodine, omega-3 fattyacids and magnesium that
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synergize to reduce insulinresistance.
We replace the nutrients lostbecause of the silly low fat,
low cholesterol message.
We're going to replace collagenand hyaluronic acid.
You can do it from organ meatsor carcass broth, but I would
suggest you do it fromsupplements collagen peptide
powders, hyaluronic acid powders.
And then we also restore acarotenoid lacking in modern
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life.
Astaxanthin is the best choicethree or four milligrams per day
.
Put that all together, you haveincredible control over losing
abdominal visceral fat and, bythe way, subcutaneous fat below
the skin will follow, becauseit's abdominal visceral fat that
drives deposition ofsubcutaneous fat.
So put this all together youlose abdominal visceral fat
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while restoring or evenincreasing lean muscle mass.
That is the primary determinantof your basal metabolic rate.
Let's go even further andrestore lactobacillus rhodorite,
because lactobacillus rhodoritecauses oxytocin to be released,
which increases lean musclemass, accelerates loss of
abdominal visceral fat.
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It also takes up residence inthe small intestine, produces
bacteria, reduces thepopulations of invading fecal
microbes in the small intestineand it turns off snacking
behavior.
You now have a magnificentlyeffective way to lose weight and
keep it off, but this looksnothing right Like a GLP1
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agonist drug, it looks nothinglike a bariatric procedure and
it certainly does not involvereducing calorie intake or move
more, eat less.
So this is how you lose weight,because what you're doing is
you're restoring the naturalhuman situation.
Now, if you learned somethingfrom this episode of the Defined
Health Podcast, I encourage youto post a review, subscribe to
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your favorite podcast directory,tell your friends, because
we're trying to build thismovement of truth and
empowerment individualself-empowerment in health.
Thanks for listening.
There are a variety of ways to lose weight Reduce
calories, pharmaceuticals,bariatric procedures among them
but these are successful only inthe beginning.
You lose, say, 40 pounds over ayear, only to gain it all back
Of that 40 pounds.
10 pounds lost is muscle, andwhen you gain it back, it's
nearly all fat, very littlemuscle.
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You are now less healthy thanyou were at the start of your
weight loss journey and ifrepeated as with yo-yo dieting,
where you lose, regain, thenlose and regain again your
metabolic health gets worse andworse, and not only are you
discouraged and demoralized, butyou are also setting yourself
up for some pretty serioushealth consequences that include
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type 2 diabetes, heart diseaseand increased potential for
cognitive decline and dementia.
So let's be smarter, let's notrepeat the mistakes of
conventional thinking in weightloss and let's instead discuss
seven counterintuitivestrategies that help you lose
weight, not lose muscle, andthereby not regain the weight or
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regain the fat, and thereby notonly enjoy your new shape and
body composition, but avoid allthe health complications of the
conventional path.
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As ubiquitous as this struggleis with overweight and obesity,
I'm just shocked that the realmessage is not getting out to
people.
That is, you can lose weightand you can do it successfully.
And you can do it rapidly andyou can do it with long-standing
, long-term success.
What happens with most peopleis they cut calories in some way
, and we'll talk about why I saythat.
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They cut calories, calorieintake in some way.
They lose weight and then, overtime, they regain all the
weight.
There's a reason for that.
There's a well-establishedexplanation for why people can
lose weight in the near term butregain the weight in the long
term, which is very demoralizingand disappointing, isn't it?
So let's talk about that.
So let's take, for instance,going on a GLP1 agonist, a drug
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like WeGovie or Osempig.
So you spend, say, $15,000 overa year to lose 40 pounds and
you can lose a lot of weight inthose drugs.
No question about that, that iswell-established.
So you lose 40 pounds, of which10 pounds, sometimes more, is
muscle.
And of that 30 pound of fat youlost about 50-50 spread between
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what's called subcutaneous fat,that's fat below the skin
distributed throughout the body,and the other 50% is abdominal
visceral fat, that is fat withinthe abdomen that encircles your
organs.
So there's loss of muscle about10 pounds of that 40 pounds.
Then of the 30 pounds of fat,it's a 50-50 spread of
subcutaneous to abdominalvisceral fat.
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Well, these are importantbecause when you lose muscle,
your basal metabolic rate drops.
What that means is basalmetabolic rate is the rate at
which your body burns caloriesto do the work of living, the
work of breathing, of digestingfood, of creating proteins to
replace lost cells in your heartand skin and brain.
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So when you lose muscle, yourbasal metabolic rate drops.
And what that means is thatafter you've lost the weight,
you lose muscle because you'reburning calories at a lower rate
.
You will regain weight even ifyou maintain a low calorie
intake.
So you lose 40 pounds.
You stop the drug.
Most people can't afford thosedrugs forever, right?
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So you stop the drug and youregain nearly all the weight,
and the weight you regain isnearly all fat, very little
muscle.
Now you're less healthy thanyou were at the start because
when you have more fat and lessmuscle, not only is your basal
metabolic rate lower, but youhave higher levels of insulin
resistance, higher blood sugar,higher risk for conditions like
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type 2 diabetes, heart disease,dementia, breast cancer.
Even though you spent all thatmoney and you lost all that
weight after stopping the drug,you are less healthy than you
were at the start and prone tomany common conditions.
Also, because the drugs do notspecifically target the most
problematic form of fat, whichis that abdominal fat.
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Abdominal fat is thedeterminant of a process called
insulin resistance andinflammation.
So in other words, if you don'tspecifically target abdominal
visceral fat, you don't get fullbenefit health benefit.
If you could specificallytarget abdominal visceral fat
that determines insulinresistance and inflammation, you
would lose weight faster,because it's insulin resistance
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and inflammation that causeweight gain and prevent weight
loss.
So that because these drugs andother methods do not
specifically target abdominalvisceral fat, you don't obtain
full benefit.
So someone taking these drugsat great cost lose weight only
to regain the weight, and youare less healthy than you were
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at the start.
Now this also applies to anymethod in which you cut calories
.
So how do those drugs work?
Where they reduce your appetite, you lose your taste for food,
so you take in less food andthat's how you lose weight.
We could also do it with cuttingcalories, just just reducing
calorie intake.
Let's say a diet where yourdoctor says move more, eat less,
or push the plate away, or adietitian tells you eat many
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small, small meals every twohours all throughout the day.
Whatever the method, you'recutting calories and that can
lead to weight loss.
Likewise, if you have abariatric procedure, it could be
lap band, where they put aconstricting band around your
stomach to reduce stomach volume, or it could be bypass gastric
bypass where they actuallyreduce the volume of the stomach
.
Those procedures are also allvariations on the same theme as
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reducing calories.
So whether it's a GOP oneagonist drug like we gov, or as
ozempic, or a low calorie dietor bariatric procedure, they're
all variations on the same themereducing calories.
And when you reduce calorieslong term, not near term you can
lose weight near term and nothave these effects, but then you
only have limited success andlosing weight.
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Right If you only do it for,say, for a week, but if you do
it more than that, you reduceyour basal metabolic rate
because of the loss of muscleand you do not selectively
target the most problematic formof fat.
So let's talk about some of thecounterintuitive rules to be
aware of.
That can help you.
One more specifically targetabdominal visceral fat, thereby
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reduce insulin resistance andinflammation at drive weight
gain.
And two, preserve muscle oreven increase muscle so that you
don't regain the weight.
In other words, you can losethe weight, you don't lose
muscle, you don't regain theweight and you specifically
target the most problematic formof fat abdominal visceral fat,
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the fat that drives risk for allthose health conditions like
diabetes and heart disease.
The first rule to follow isnever limit calories.
So don't cut calories, don'tpush the pletaway, ignore, move
more, eat less, never limitcalories.
You can do it for a short term,for a few days, but don't do it
for long term.
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That's counterintuitive, isn'tit?
People think, oh, the morecalories you take in, the more
you're going to gain weight.
Cutting calories leads toweight loss?
It does in the near term, butthen you regain the weight
because of the impact, becauseof the effect on your basal
metabolic rate.
So we do not limit calories.
Another counterintuitive key tosuccess.
A long term weight loss isnever limit fat.
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We've been told to reduce ourintake of cholesterol and
saturated fat to reducecardiovascular risk.
There never was evidence tosupport that argument in the
first place.
And of course, for the firstthree million years our species
has been on this planet nounlimited fat and there was
almost no heart disease, by theway.
So if your great grandmotherwas here, a woman who loved
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bacon, fat and butter and wholemilk and cream, there was almost
no heart disease in her time.
Yet we have lots of heartdisease now.
It's the number one moneymakerfor hospitals in the healthcare
system during a time when we'velimited intake of saturated fat
and cholesterol.
So not limiting fat, notlimiting cholesterol, does not
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increase your cardiovascularrisk.
There are real ways to identifyyour risk for heart disease,
but it has nothing to do withfat intake or cholesterol intake
.
So we do not limit fat.
So if you're going to have somepork chops, say, buy a fatty cut
, eat the fat.
Use more butter.
Use more extra virgin olive oil.
When you make some bacon, savethe oil for cooking.
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It's delicious.
Fat makes food taste better.
Fat is satiating.
You're much more likely to besatisfied with your meal If you
had, let's say, two or threeeggs with some bacon or some
sausage and butter.
You're satisfied for many hours, unlike, say, a bowl of
breakfast cereal rich in bran,rich in fiber.
That's nonsense.
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How difficult is it to loseweight if you are being exposed
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to an appetite stimulant.
Well, very difficult, right?
You try to cut calories, youtry to walk away from food and
you're miserable because you'reobsessed with food.
You're being exposed to anappetite stimulant.
Well, anything made of wheatand related grains, like rye and
barley and corn, yields opioidpeptides.
That is, humans are notequipped to break down the
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protein.
Some of the proteins in wheatand grains, such as the glydein
protein in wheat, the ceclineprotein in rye, the hordein
protein in barley, the zianprotein in corn.
We don't have the enzymes tobreak those proteins down into
single amino acids as we do withother proteins, like the
protein in an egg or the proteinin beef.
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So we break those proteins fromwheat and grains down into
peptides, that is, four or fiveamino acid long peptides.
These peptides are very unique.
They cross into the brain andstimulate opioid receptors.
They don't make you high,though they stimulate appetite.
They're very powerful appetitestimulants.
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So anyone who includes wheat andgrains in their diet takes in
many hundreds of calories moreper day and often exposed to
incessant hunger.
You see this in its mostextreme form in people with
bulimia and binge eatingdisorder.
These are people who can't stopthinking about food.
They're obsessed with food.
They're always thinking aboutfood and eating.
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When they stop wheat and othergrains, and thereby the opioid
peptides they drive appetite,they're miraculously freed of
those food obsessions.
So those people who sit infront of the refrigerator at 3
am in the morning and binge andthen go to the toilet to purge
by throwing up all that goesaway when you banish all wheat
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and grains that drive appetite.
Another counterintuitive way toobtain long term success and
losing weight is to avoid foodsthat trigger blood sugar and
insulin, because every time youtrigger blood sugar, insulin has
to accompany that blood sugar,because it requires insulin to
allow that sugar, those sugarsin the blood, to enter the cells
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of your body muscle, brain,liver, elsewhere.
Now, every time you raise bloodsugar let's say you eat a bowl
of oatmeal and your blood sugargoes from 100 milligrams per
deciliter to 160, which is verytypical, by the way, in a
non-diabetic.
If you're a pre-diabetic, itgoes to more like 220 or so.
If you're a type II diabetic,it goes 250 or 350.
In other words, foods likeoatmeal raise blood sugar to
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very extreme levels.
So quit it.
C.
When that happens, you induceinsulin resistance in the organs
of your body and muscle, liver,brain, etc.
And when you have insulinresistance, the pancreas
compensates by producing hugeamounts of insulin 10-fold more,
30-fold more, 100-fold more.
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So a person who's very insulinsensitive let's say a slender
premenopausal female who likesto long-distance run she's going
to have an insulin level of 1or 2, no higher than 4
microunits per liter.
How about somebody who'sinsulin resistant, who's been
experiencing repetitive highblood sugars and therefore high
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blood insulin?
Their level is 50, 90, 140,many times higher.
High levels of insulin causeweight gain, cause fat
deposition in the abdomen andblocks weight loss.
So we want to have no rises inblood glucose, no rises in
insulin.
So I have something called theblood glucose zero change rule.
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If you're checking blood glucose, for instance, with a finger
stick blood glucose, let's sayyou start at 90, you eat a meal
and 30 to 60 minutes after thestart of the meal, you want a
blood glucose of no higher than90, not 140, not 160.
Your doctor may say, oh, aslong as your blood glucose
doesn't exceed 200, you're okay.
Is that true?
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It absolutely is not true.
What the doctor is saying isthat you don't need drugs yet to
control your blood glucose.
You're not yet a diabetic.
That is not what we're afterhere.
We're after weight control,right and specifically targeting
abdominal visceral fat.
In order to do that, we permitno rises in blood glucose.
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Now we have to accept thatthese fingers, that blood
glucose devices, are accurate toplus and minus 10.
So if you start at 90 and youate something went to 100, that
is no change.
Okay so, but no change in bloodglucose.
You thereby do not provokeinsulin resistance.
If your blood glucose is above100, that is in the abnormal
range, either pre-diabetic oreven diabetic this will lead
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over time.
If you keep on maintaining ablood glucose of no change, 30
to 60 minutes in after the startof a meal, your fasting glucose
also dropped.
This is also a way to become anon-diabetic, non-pre-diabetic.
Now, if your blood glucose doesgo higher let's say you start
at 90 and it goes to 140, lookback at that meal and see what
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was responsible.
It'll be something that's acarbohydrate or a sugar.
Either cut that food out orreduce the portion size.
Repeat it again.
You want no change and this ishow you reverse insulin
resistance, because insulinresistance causes weight gain.
You're going to reverse insulinresistance or minimize it, and
you allow release of that weight.
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We also address nutrients thatare lacking in modern life, that
influence insulin resistanceand inflammation.
You're seeing that there's acommon theme here, right?
That insulin resistance, highlevels of insulin and
inflammation drive weight gain,block weight loss.
So let's address commonnutrient deficiencies that add
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to insulin resistance andinflammation.
What are those?
Well, vitamin D, because welive indoors, wear clothes and
we lose the capacity to activatevitamin D in the skin with sun
exposure after age 40.
So let's replace vitamin D andwe take a dose of vitamin D, an
oil-based gel cap to enhanceabsorption, to achieve a
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25-hydroxy vitamin D blood levelof 60 to 70 nanogram per
milliter the ideal level.
We restore magnesium because wedrink filtered water.
We have to because water sadlynow is filled with contaminants
and we don't drink from a riveror stream, right, that's flowing
over rocks and minerals.
So we have to supplementmagnesium.
We try to get about 500milligrams per day from such
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forms of magnesium as magnesiumglycinate, magnesium chelate,
magnesium malate.
Separate those doses into two,morning and night.
We also supplement iodinebecause iodine is in the ocean
and most people don't get enoughiodine, especially if you live
inland and don't get exposed tofoods that are grown coastly or
seafoods.
We supplement iodine to try toobtain about 350 micrograms not
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milligram micrograms Per day.
The best way to do this is toget some kelp tablets or kelp
capsules, dried seaweed andthat's a way to get many forms
of iodine to make sure you'regetting the kinds of iodine that
you need for all the organs inyour body that require iodine,
including the thyroid, so thatyour thyroid has the materials
to make thyroid hormones.
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Then we also get a obtainedomega-3 fatty acids, because
humans don't eat brain anymore,the most rich source of omega-3
fatty acids in animals.
So also, we can't eat all thefish we want, because seafood is
now contaminated heavily andit's getting worse and worse and
worse with industrializationand mercury mercury
contamination even shellfishcontend with cadmium.
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So these are heavy metals thathave adverse effects on health
as getting worse and worse asthere's more coal mining and
other factors that release theseheavy metals into the
atmosphere and thereby into theenvironment.
So we have to get this workaround.
We can't eat all the brain wewant.
We can't eat all the seafood wewant, so we get omega-3 fatty
acids that are purified andthereby have minimal to no heavy
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metal contamination or othercontaminants.
Now put those four thingstogether vitamin D, magnesium,
omega-3, fatty acids, iodine andthey synergize to reduce or
minimize insulin resistance andinflammation.
So they help you lose weight,especially from abdominal
visceral fat, the form of fatthat drives insulin resistance
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and inflammation.
Let's go further with anothercounterintuitive key to
successful weight loss, and thatis because we've been told cut
your fat, cut your cholesterol,cut your saturated fat.
Most modern people haveabandoned the consumption of
organ meats of brain, of thyroid, stomach, intestines, liver,
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pancreas, tongue, heart.
People have abandoned thoseorgan meats, even though your
great grandmother and all thegenerations of humans preceding
her all consumed organ meats.
After all, you kill an animal.
It takes energy and time tokill something and you don't
throw away the organs.
You consume the organs and youthereby obtained plenty of
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collagen and hyaluronic acid.
We have good evidence that whenyou get collagen, there is a
reduction in abdominal visceralfat, there's a reduction in
waist circumference, there's anincrease in lean muscle mass.
Not a reduction lean muscle,but an increase in lean muscle
mass, giving you better controlover weight because you're in
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control of insulin resistanceand inflammation.
Likewise, you obtain hyaluronicacid richest in brain and in
skin.
So I cringe when I hear peoplebuying boneless, skinless
chicken breasts.
No, that's not how you eatchicken.
Get the whole animal.
Cook it, eat the skin, eat thedrumsticks, eat the meat, save
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the carcass, boil it.
Make broth or soups.
Do not make bone broth.
By the way, bone broth has beenshown to be rich in lead and
the heavy metal lead, especiallyif you use vinegar, as people
are often told.
If you make that bone broth andyou add some vinegar to help
mobilize some of the minerals,you now have a toxic amount of
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lead in your bone broth.
So don't make bone broth, don'tbuy bone broth.
Make it doesn't sound good.
Make carcass broth.
You bake that chicken.
You ate some of the meat andthe skin.
Save the carcass, boil it.
So you have some bones, yes,but you also have tendons and
ligaments and some of the meat.
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And if you have any of theorgans, throw those in.
That's what you do.
That has collagen and somehyaluronic acid.
So when you get hyaluronic acid, by the way, likewise you
decrease abdominal visceral fatand you increase lean muscle
mass.
And, by the way, when you getcollagen and hyaluronic acid two
factors missing in a dietthat's low in fat and saturated
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fat when you replace thosethings, not only do you get a
reduction in waist circumferenceand abdominal fat and increase
muscle.
You also get smoother skinBecause those two nutrients
increased dermal collagen anddermal moisture and you can
reduce the fine wrinkles aroundyour eyes and around your mouth.
You also improve joint healthBecause collagen and hyaluronic
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acid are important components ofyour joints, like your knees
and hips.
They rebuild joint cartilageand they increase the
lubricating fluid, the synovialfluid, in your joints.
So not only do you get betterbody composition, better body
shape because of the loss ofabdominal fat, increased lean
muscle mass, you also obtainhealth in other parts of the
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body.
Lastly, because the modern dietis low in carotenoids.
These are nutrients like betacarotene or lutein or Ziazanthin
.
We lack carotenoids.
That also plays a major role inbody composition, where fat is
distributed and muscle.
So we're going to choose thehighest and most potent
carotenoid of all Astaxanthin.
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If you get three to fourmilligrams per day of the
carotenoid, astaxanthin that issourced from foods like salmon.
If you have a six-ounce pieceof wild salmon, you get about
four or five milligrams ofastaxanthin.
So we're going to obtainastaxanthin In this case as a
supplement.
It's easier.
It's hard to eat salmon everyday and if you did, you're
exposed to mercury.
So we get an astaxanthinsupplement and that also adds to
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these effects.
It reduces abdominal visceralfat and astaxanthin is probably
the most potent thing of allthat encourages loss of
abdominal visceral fat andincrease in lean muscle mass,
and it synergizes with thoseother factors.
Now I titled this conversationthe Seven Counterintuitive Keys
to Successful Long-Term WeightLoss.
But I have a bonus strategy, aneighth key, an eighth method.
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That is to restore the microbeyou've lost from your Dastron
Testotrack called Lactobacillusruedii R-E-U-T-E-R-I, named
after the German microbiologistwho discovered this microbe from
the breast milk of a Germanwoman in 1962.
And he found in the 1960s.
That was easy to find.
He could recover it from breastmilk or from feces, from stool,
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and it was everywhere.
As his 40-year career unfolded,he found it harder and harder
to find this microbe in humanbody samples, human body fluids
and stool, and it became clearthat this microbe has virtually
disappeared.
Almost nobody has Lactobacillusruedii anymore because it's very
susceptible to commonantibiotics like ampicillin or
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amoxicillin.
So if you took, let's say,amoxicillin for an upper
respiratory infection 20 yearsago, you've lost all your
Lactobacillus ruedii.
And there's three reasons whyloss of Lactobacillus ruedii
causes weight gain in the mostunhealthy ways, that is, more
abdominal visceral fat and lossof muscle.
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So restore Lactobacillus ruedii.
And what happens?
Three things happen.
One Lactobacillus ruedii takesup resins in the entire length
of the GI tract, not just thecolon where most microbes live,
but the entire 30 feet ofgastrointestinal tract,
including the 24 feet of smallintestine, the duodenum, jejunum
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and ilium.
So Lactobacillus ruedii takesup resins in the 30 feet of the
GI tract and it sends a signalvia the my enteric nervous
system, the nervous system ofthe GI tract, up through the
vagus nerve.
That goes up through the chestneck to the brain and causes
your brain to produce more ofthe hormone oxytocin.
Oxytocin is the hormone of bodyshape and composition.
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So when you boost oxytocin viaLactobacillus ruedii you
increase lean muscle massdramatically and you don't lose
muscle as you're trying to loseweight.
So it blocks weight regainbecause it protects your basal
metabolic rate.
Lactobacillus ruedii also,because it colonizes small
intestine, it takes up residenceand produces what I call
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bactericins.
Bactericins are effectiveagainst the fecal microbes that
in about half the US population.
Fecal microbes have ascended upfrom the colon and they're in
the small intestine where theyrelease toxins, especially
something calledlipopolysaccharide endotoxin
that enters the bloodstream andcauses insulin resistance and
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inflammation.
So fecal microbes living in the24 feet of small intestine
small intestine very permeableand those endotoxins enter the
blood stream and cause weightgain.
So when Rutterite takes upresidence in the small intestine
it discourages those fecalmicrobes because it kills them.
Rutterite is very good atkilling fecal microbes and so it
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reduces endotoxin in thebloodstream, so-called
endotoxemia, and reduces insulinresistance and inflammation.
And that helps further inreleasing abdominal visceral fat
while preserving lean musclemass.
The boost in oxytocin thatRhetorize responsible for also
suppresses appetite, I shouldsay normalizes appetite.
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You lose the desire for what'scalled hedonic eating, snacking.
You're going to have breakfast.
Let's say you have two eggswith some sausage, with lots of
oil or butter, and then you'reprobably not hungry till 2 pm, 3
pm, 5 pm.
You are put in control.
Now recall we don't limit fatright.
Fat is satiating.
That boost in oxytocin turnsoff abnormal appetite triggers.
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We've banished glide and derivedopioid peptides from wheat
related grains.
You are put in magnificentcontrol over appetite and
impulse.
So there you have it, the sevenways, plus the bonus material
on Rhetoride on how to loseweight for good and not regain
weight.
So we're never going to limitcalories, we never limit fat.
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We banish all sources of glideand derived opioid peptide.
Appetite stimulants.
We avoid foods that triggerblood sugar and insulin and
thereby help unwind or undoinsulin resistance that releases
fat weight.
Re-restore common nutrients thatare lacking in modern life
vitamin D, iodine, omega-3 fattyacids and magnesium that
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synergize to reduce insulinresistance.
We replace the nutrients lostbecause of the silly low fat,
low cholesterol message.
We're going to replace collagenand hyaluronic acid.
You can do it from organ meatsor carcass broth, but I would
suggest you do it fromsupplements collagen peptide
powders, hyaluronic acid powders.
And then we also restore acarotenoid lacking in modern
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life.
Astaxanthin is the best choicethree or four milligrams per day
.
Put that all together, you haveincredible control over losing
abdominal visceral fat and, bythe way, subcutaneous fat below
the skin will follow, becauseit's abdominal visceral fat that
drives deposition ofsubcutaneous fat.
So put this all together youlose abdominal visceral fat
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while restoring or evenincreasing lean muscle mass.
That is the primary determinantof your basal metabolic rate.
Let's go even further andrestore lactobacillus rhodorite,
because lactobacillus rhodoritecauses oxytocin to be released,
which increases lean musclemass, accelerates loss of
abdominal visceral fat.
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It also takes up residence inthe small intestine, produces
bacteria, reduces thepopulations of invading fecal
microbes in the small intestineand it turns off snacking
behavior.
You now have a magnificentlyeffective way to lose weight and
keep it off, but this looksnothing right Like a GLP1
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agonist drug, it looks nothinglike a bariatric procedure and
it certainly does not involvereducing calorie intake or move
more, eat less.
So this is how you lose weight,because what you're doing is
you're restoring the naturalhuman situation.
Now, if you learned somethingfrom this episode of the Defined
Health Podcast, I encourage youto post a review, subscribe to
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your favorite podcast directory,tell your friends, because
we're trying to build thismovement of truth and
empowerment individualself-empowerment in health.
Thanks for listening.
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