Carbs is literally the primary fuel of your body. If you're eating low-carb, you're effectively running your body on its backup power supply. And you see that in seemingly-healthy high-meat eaters suddenly dying in their 50s. Now sure, low-carb is better than the Standard American Diet. But better still is eating high-carb, low-fat, low-protein, low-processed foods, which is how our bodies are actually meant to run. For some reason, high-carb high-fat is the actual killer. And low-carb is one answer to that, but high-carb low-fat low-protein is the actual better answer to that. Just think to Asians, who are stereotypically able to work long hours on a bowl of rice, and who are slim and have pretty much zero heart disease and whose elders are shockingly healthy and capable. That's the high-carb low-fat low-protein lifestyle. Meanwhile, the average Westerner and all their unhealthiness? That's the high-fat high-protein lifestyle.
@@lightworker2956 not even close 1. we are meant to run on high-protein, medium fat, low carb. Just think back to 99% of our history, what foods were available? either fat or lean meat and low carb fruits and berries. Modern versions are bred to be as sweet as possible because thats what we like, because carbs were hard to come by. 2. If you had looked up any actual research, and not just blindly followed the environmentalist propaganda says, you would know that protein tells the cells to burn fat, while carbs tells the cells to store fat. Low fat, low protein, high carb food "works" because the body doesnt get enough energy to store much, while high protein, medium fat, low carb food works because then youre actually eating how the body expects you to eat (im not saying you have to eat below 20g carbs every day if youre not trying to lose excess weight). 3. Asians are, in general, not overweight because they dont stuff themselves til theyre beyond satisfied like we do here in the west (im also guilty of this) and they also dont eat like 18h of the day. Intermittent fasting is an improtant part of keeping your body healthy.
@@lightworker2956 not true, ketones concert 95% of the energy stored into bio available atp where as carbs conversion rate is more like 50%. You don’t know what you’re talking about, ketones are by far the superior fuel unless you need readily available energy that is quick burning, that’s why too athletes use gel packs.
Personal trainer and nutritionist of 17 years, also avid gamer of all genres. We should be injecting health/fitness stuff into gamer culture a LOT more than we are right now. The majority of gamer communities are extremely sedentary, don't exercise at all, and have absolute crap for diets. What's worse, is they actually promote the bad diets and how its all just fine, or promote not going outside and getting a little sun or even stretching regularly. 24 hour streams where they basically never leave the computer are also a bad part of "modern gamer culture". All of this SHOULD be addressed and I applaud you for doing so. I am going to mix some of this into my own channel as well since "fit gamer culture" is a very tiny niche still in the space and very much needs to be a large portion.
Sadly, my family has farmed for generations, and we all wound up with asymptomatic hypertension. mine, untreated is a mere 216/164. And it took 4 years to find a drug cocktail to treat it properly.
*I quit drinking soda in 2019, and only drink water with a dash of Pink salt.* *I have a treadmill so I can walk year-round, and I do DDPYoga with Kettlebell weights from walmart.*
Dr Burns farming Asmon! JK, I hit 36 this year, and it fkn sucks, but since I started working out and taking less sugar I'm feeling better than over 5 years ago when I lived the classic gamer life. Listen to the doctor guys, specially the ashes community, we're fucking old XD
Good content. You feel more trustworthy than internet doctors with milions of views acidentaly promoting their own products. Your advices are really on point and may help many others.
Been asking for this type of content. I would like to know more! Especially if you can do a video about wrist issues. I have found when I am gaming my wrist holding the mouse has been hurting.
This was pretty cool, applying some of your irl wisdom from your field of study is definitely worth doing. Anyone can cover a game, but how many of us have any type of medical degree lol. Definitely keep expanding / iterating from here 👏🏻
one thing i'd like to add in terms of exercise: the most important thing is to do them. simple as that. if you don't enjoy lifting weights, you don't do it. so, you need to find a type of exercise that suits you personally. for me personally it's cycling and (vinjasa) yoga. i really hate lifting weights. i think it's boring. with yoga i have my own bodyweight and gravity to work with. no tools, just myself. i am stronger, more flexible, more agile and have more stamina than when i was in my twenties. i'm 42 now. yoga has also great benefits for your mental health. it can absolutely help you alleviate stress and/or anxiety.
At 50, after two years of COVID crisis, and as a gamer, I severely neglected exercise and did not move enough... and had a heart attack (a main artery of heart was blocked by cholesterol). I was not visibly overweight and I did some exercise once in a while: I had only gained a few pounds, but cholesterol had accumulated to a pretty much fatal level (without modern medical techniques, I would probably be dead, and even then I ended-up with a damaged heart). Food is of course one way of avoiding this, though exercise that makes the blood flow (such as walking at least 30 minutes a day) coverts bad cholesterol to good cholesterol. That said, eating too much fatty foods, such as cheap commercial pizzas in my case (which are the worst for your health), would require a huge amount of exercise to fix. Anyhow, now I eat very little meat nor fatty foods and walk 30 minutes a day minimum and so my bad cholesterol level is very low (-64% of what it was before: between 0.78 and 1.1, versus 3.07, on the international scale).
at almost 56 years of age, i have to take care of myself, fortunately for me, 20 years in the Army gave me good exercising habits, and i bike to work instead of driving . us MMO gamers need to take care of our bodies as we do sit a ton, gotta pay them Dues!
Very good video, i had a high stress job (police detective)that lead me to just grab whatever i could eat fast between cases, that coupled with existing health issues (alport syndrome) almost killed me. Wife convinced me to retire before i killed myself from the life style so i did. Two years out diet exercise and no stress, no longer on the verge of kidney transplant and no longer suffering from afib. Make wise decisions with both your health and finances and put yourself in a position that you can make a change for yourself if your current situation is killing you
I greatly appreciate this video. Your health is your wealth and tbh crushing 8+ hours on an mmo is nothing. We can get caught up doing literally nothing else. As a personao trainer/massage therapist/martial artist and someone with a few loves ashes is literally going to be the biggest challenge for me. But sacrifices must be made, but you can never sacrifice your health.
i'm going through something similar, i recently got covid, then pericarditis and now pots, it's turned my life upside down but i'm fighting through it. This video gave me more hope though, thank you.
Everyone needs to be healthy to be able to play Ashes of Creation ! On a more serious note, I haven't read anything on this but I'm willing to bet that STRESS is worst then sugar and that both are really bad.
great stuff. sometimes I'm shocked to see what some gamers do to their life. me personally i cut out meat as well and started meditating first to help me with stress issues, later for a number of different reasons.
Great video, it's super important to emphazise how benefitial for your health excercise (specially weight lifting and strenght training) and diet are. And as you said we wanna be gamers at 80 not bedridden.
Well done Burns. Good advice without being pushy. I would add a caveat though: if you are unfamiliar with weight lifting, make sure you have someone to instruct you on proper technique.
Great commentary, as always, doc. Even more respect for you now as any doctor who precribes being healthy before prescribing medication gets a big plus in my book.
I’ve been a lurker on your vids and on streams with other creators for a long time. This was cool honestly. Loved the vid. (Me and my wife workout together everyday and we are both gamers. I understand that’s not the norm)
This was a great video it made me think about my own health. Fun fact I served Tom Cruise and his family at a restaurant here in Tampa. He’s a very nice kind guy.
It's definitely interesting. You might need a separate channel though, if you dive into this. Keen to hear about the male pattern baldness- pretty over having to rock the bald head. Might lean in to it like Cecil Stedman from Invincible, just grow it out anyway.
I guess my question is are carbs and sugar bad for me if you are using them as fuel for workouts? Instead of just sitting at a desk after say a bowl of cereal
I can't tell you exactly what to do because I'm not your doctor, but I use other sources of fuel which don't have the negative side effects that sugar has.
@@TheCopiumClinic On this topic, even though I just teach art. I can at least see the amount of different additives and changes and the amounts of different types of sugars and sweeteners are in my students food and what they are choosing to eat. However, I know when old people try and give advice I wouldn't have listened at their age. As you said, hope it hits someone who will be better for it.
Spot on. Unprocessed foods typically are much better, Sugar is more of a toxin than anything else. (I say that while I drink a coke lol) We need more healthy gamers! Also, there is very strong science stating that a strong brain, someone who is a high level intellectual, is only benefited from physical activities like weight training, minor cardio. hitting the gym and feeling a dopamine burst, looking better and feeling great is much better than "shortcuts" by a pill and feeling like depression is right around the corner. Great vid.
I understand sugar and carbs are not “good” for you but I do any hour of cardio a day. Idk how I could get through my workouts without fueling up with carbs and some sugars
He needs to get a blood test for cancer markers. There are people with high blood pressure in the 200s but their EKG is normal when tested. Then they find out they have cancer a couple of years later. Also, he needs to cut sodas. The meat is perfectly fine. Your body will naturally make you stop eating the more you have to chew and meat will make you chew a lot.
I mean... glad that you addressed & explain his health problems but imo since *red meat* has been proven to increase the risk of cancer among other chronic diseases like Diabetes type II or any other cardiovascular disease (caused by fat/cholesterol) I dont find it appropriate to keep saying that its actually benefical for our health when theres better ways to eat what we need in a healthier way. Cheers and liked the video!
@@insanedentistdota2 I appreciate the comment! Red meat’s link to cancer is tenuous at best. Previous articles primarily use a Dutch study which didn’t confound for smoking and was underpowered. More recent data hasn’t shown a correlation with increased red meat consumption and cancer.
@@andskimusic nah react is under fair use. If you don’t know who asmongold is I dont know what to tell ya.
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Why is weed illegal? Its bad for you? Why are sugar/beer/tobacco legal? It makes us a buttload of money and people are still able to be debt slaves because they're still willing to work the dumb little sheep HAHAHAHA Make it make sense please. Cause they cant and i cant.
oh shit.. a real cleric.
Putting my money on this being the top comment. Epic 😝
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Well played sir
bro beat the game before it launched
The doc is in!
That’s what she said
Man used his MMO skills in real life. Respect.
irl cleric
oh boy, this channel is about to grow very soon.
Need more people educating on how healthy real food is and how bad carbs etc is
Yea so true
Carbs is literally the primary fuel of your body. If you're eating low-carb, you're effectively running your body on its backup power supply. And you see that in seemingly-healthy high-meat eaters suddenly dying in their 50s.
Now sure, low-carb is better than the Standard American Diet. But better still is eating high-carb, low-fat, low-protein, low-processed foods, which is how our bodies are actually meant to run.
For some reason, high-carb high-fat is the actual killer. And low-carb is one answer to that, but high-carb low-fat low-protein is the actual better answer to that.
Just think to Asians, who are stereotypically able to work long hours on a bowl of rice, and who are slim and have pretty much zero heart disease and whose elders are shockingly healthy and capable. That's the high-carb low-fat low-protein lifestyle. Meanwhile, the average Westerner and all their unhealthiness? That's the high-fat high-protein lifestyle.
@@lightworker2956 not even close
1. we are meant to run on high-protein, medium fat, low carb. Just think back to 99% of our history, what foods were available? either fat or lean meat and low carb fruits and berries. Modern versions are bred to be as sweet as possible because thats what we like, because carbs were hard to come by.
2. If you had looked up any actual research, and not just blindly followed the environmentalist propaganda says, you would know that protein tells the cells to burn fat, while carbs tells the cells to store fat. Low fat, low protein, high carb food "works" because the body doesnt get enough energy to store much, while high protein, medium fat, low carb food works because then youre actually eating how the body expects you to eat (im not saying you have to eat below 20g carbs every day if youre not trying to lose excess weight).
3. Asians are, in general, not overweight because they dont stuff themselves til theyre beyond satisfied like we do here in the west (im also guilty of this) and they also dont eat like 18h of the day. Intermittent fasting is an improtant part of keeping your body healthy.
@@lightworker2956 not true, ketones concert 95% of the energy stored into bio available atp where as carbs conversion rate is more like 50%. You don’t know what you’re talking about, ketones are by far the superior fuel unless you need readily available energy that is quick burning, that’s why too athletes use gel packs.
@@lightworker2956 low fat Asian diet, that’s ridiculous every thing in Chinese culture is covered in fats from cooking, you may be ret@rdedz
I don’t know why people complain about the American healthcare system. You can literally get your annual checkups in TH-cam format now.
Great video
Lol thanks dude
You can expect your bill in the mail I guess. Here in Canada we get to watch this video for free if you can believe it.
Cleric Burns is in the room.
Bend over .
Personal trainer and nutritionist of 17 years, also avid gamer of all genres. We should be injecting health/fitness stuff into gamer culture a LOT more than we are right now.
The majority of gamer communities are extremely sedentary, don't exercise at all, and have absolute crap for diets. What's worse, is they actually promote the bad diets and how its all just fine, or promote not going outside and getting a little sun or even stretching regularly. 24 hour streams where they basically never leave the computer are also a bad part of "modern gamer culture".
All of this SHOULD be addressed and I applaud you for doing so. I am going to mix some of this into my own channel as well since "fit gamer culture" is a very tiny niche still in the space and very much needs to be a large portion.
Love it dude!
Yo how has Asmon not seen this yet
Sadly, my family has farmed for generations, and we all wound up with asymptomatic hypertension. mine, untreated is a mere 216/164. And it took 4 years to find a drug cocktail to treat it properly.
The doc said it, healthy is the new meta. Everyone put your min/max pants on, we're going to the gym!
*I quit drinking soda in 2019, and only drink water with a dash of Pink salt.*
*I have a treadmill so I can walk year-round, and I do DDPYoga with Kettlebell weights from walmart.*
Diamond Dallas Page Yoga?
Dr Burns farming Asmon!
JK, I hit 36 this year, and it fkn sucks, but since I started working out and taking less sugar I'm feeling better than over 5 years ago when I lived the classic gamer life. Listen to the doctor guys, specially the ashes community, we're fucking old XD
Good stuff. Health is wealth brother.
Congrats on your achievements becoming a physician. Well done
Such a swell guy.
Good content. You feel more trustworthy than internet doctors with milions of views acidentaly promoting their own products.
Your advices are really on point and may help many others.
This video was super enlightening good shit man 🙏
great video with a great perspective (also love the editing additions ;)
Been asking for this type of content. I would like to know more! Especially if you can do a video about wrist issues. I have found when I am gaming my wrist holding the mouse has been hurting.
Used this video as motivation to clean up the trash that was piling up. Figured if health is meta cleaning the house is end game loop-
This was pretty cool, applying some of your irl wisdom from your field of study is definitely worth doing. Anyone can cover a game, but how many of us have any type of medical degree lol.
Definitely keep expanding / iterating from here 👏🏻
This video raised my heart rate when you looked into the camera 😘
one thing i'd like to add in terms of exercise: the most important thing is to do them. simple as that. if you don't enjoy lifting weights, you don't do it. so, you need to find a type of exercise that suits you personally. for me personally it's cycling and (vinjasa) yoga. i really hate lifting weights. i think it's boring. with yoga i have my own bodyweight and gravity to work with. no tools, just myself. i am stronger, more flexible, more agile and have more stamina than when i was in my twenties. i'm 42 now. yoga has also great benefits for your mental health. it can absolutely help you alleviate stress and/or anxiety.
At 50, after two years of COVID crisis, and as a gamer, I severely neglected exercise and did not move enough... and had a heart attack (a main artery of heart was blocked by cholesterol). I was not visibly overweight and I did some exercise once in a while: I had only gained a few pounds, but cholesterol had accumulated to a pretty much fatal level (without modern medical techniques, I would probably be dead, and even then I ended-up with a damaged heart). Food is of course one way of avoiding this, though exercise that makes the blood flow (such as walking at least 30 minutes a day) coverts bad cholesterol to good cholesterol. That said, eating too much fatty foods, such as cheap commercial pizzas in my case (which are the worst for your health), would require a huge amount of exercise to fix. Anyhow, now I eat very little meat nor fatty foods and walk 30 minutes a day minimum and so my bad cholesterol level is very low (-64% of what it was before: between 0.78 and 1.1, versus 3.07, on the international scale).
But my cardiologist doesn't get the all expense payed trips to Hawaii when he isn't pushing Lipitor on his patients.
brother thank you, i needed this also
at almost 56 years of age, i have to take care of myself, fortunately for me, 20 years in the Army gave me good exercising habits, and i bike to work instead of driving . us MMO gamers need to take care of our bodies as we do sit a ton, gotta pay them Dues!
Very important talk. Thanks!
More content like this Dr. Burns!!
I've always focused on pull-ups, push-ups, crunches and lunges. Think that's enough or I should go for weights?
Body weight is still a weight!
Great video doc!
Dude I love seeing the passion for both gaming and healing come together here. Awesome video
Thanks dude! Congrats on having a Verran Chef dish named after you.
If you're not familiar with muscle pain it can be easy to mistake pectoral fatigue from bad posture with a cardiac problem.
Wow so refreshing to hear a physician that is not just pushing patients out the door with medications, love your work doc
Very good video, i had a high stress job (police detective)that lead me to just grab whatever i could eat fast between cases, that coupled with existing health issues (alport syndrome) almost killed me. Wife convinced me to retire before i killed myself from the life style so i did. Two years out diet exercise and no stress, no longer on the verge of kidney transplant and no longer suffering from afib. Make wise decisions with both your health and finances and put yourself in a position that you can make a change for yourself if your current situation is killing you
@@ceebet good for you! Wise words!
I greatly appreciate this video. Your health is your wealth and tbh crushing 8+ hours on an mmo is nothing. We can get caught up doing literally nothing else. As a personao trainer/massage therapist/martial artist and someone with a few loves ashes is literally going to be the biggest challenge for me. But sacrifices must be made, but you can never sacrifice your health.
i'm going through something similar, i recently got covid, then pericarditis and now pots, it's turned my life upside down but i'm fighting through it. This video gave me more hope though, thank you.
Everyone needs to be healthy to be able to play Ashes of Creation ! On a more serious note, I haven't read anything on this but I'm willing to bet that STRESS is worst then sugar and that both are really bad.
great stuff. sometimes I'm shocked to see what some gamers do to their life. me personally i cut out meat as well and started meditating first to help me with stress issues, later for a number of different reasons.
Great video, it's super important to emphazise how benefitial for your health excercise (specially weight lifting and strenght training) and diet are. And as you said we wanna be gamers at 80 not bedridden.
Well done Burns. Good advice without being pushy.
I would add a caveat though: if you are unfamiliar with weight lifting, make sure you have someone to instruct you on proper technique.
Great commentary, as always, doc. Even more respect for you now as any doctor who precribes being healthy before prescribing medication gets a big plus in my book.
Thanks Splincir!
Very good video. This is such an important topic. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us sir.
You think I’m pausing the ranked grind for a little heart attack?
hahaha
I’ve been a lurker on your vids and on streams with other creators for a long time.
This was cool honestly. Loved the vid.
(Me and my wife workout together everyday and we are both gamers. I understand that’s not the norm)
@@AuxxiliaryATC glad you liked it man. That’s awesome you guys work out together!
This was a great video it made me think about my own health.
Fun fact I served Tom Cruise and his family at a restaurant here in Tampa. He’s a very nice kind guy.
Doc i am out on my 2nd walk. Picked up some weights for the first time in months
@@Razdasoldier good for you man!
Do you have an open discord? Loving your content.
I appreciate it. I don't. Maybe in the future, but I wouldn't be able to give a discord the attention required.
It's definitely interesting. You might need a separate channel though, if you dive into this. Keen to hear about the male pattern baldness- pretty over having to rock the bald head. Might lean in to it like Cecil Stedman from Invincible, just grow it out anyway.
I guess my question is are carbs and sugar bad for me if you are using them as fuel for workouts? Instead of just sitting at a desk after say a bowl of cereal
I can't tell you exactly what to do because I'm not your doctor, but I use other sources of fuel which don't have the negative side effects that sugar has.
I would love to see some content on bone density, I know I get fed the glass of milk everyday lie.
Who is sitting inside all the time
@@PawketsArt thanks Pawkets!
@@TheCopiumClinic On this topic, even though I just teach art. I can at least see the amount of different additives and changes and the amounts of different types of sugars and sweeteners are in my students food and what they are choosing to eat. However, I know when old people try and give advice I wouldn't have listened at their age. As you said, hope it hits someone who will be better for it.
Glad you are spreading the good word, sugar is bad, red meat is good for your health!
Spot on. Unprocessed foods typically are much better, Sugar is more of a toxin than anything else. (I say that while I drink a coke lol) We need more healthy gamers! Also, there is very strong science stating that a strong brain, someone who is a high level intellectual, is only benefited from physical activities like weight training, minor cardio. hitting the gym and feeling a dopamine burst, looking better and feeling great is much better than "shortcuts" by a pill and feeling like depression is right around the corner.
Great vid.
Agree 100%, great advice, Doc. Thanks! (And I’d keep lifting weights even if it were unhealthy :)
More! Give me more! Llama!
I understand sugar and carbs are not “good” for you but I do any hour of cardio a day. Idk how I could get through my workouts without fueling up with carbs and some sugars
@@appachie not all carbs are created equally. Sugar is the bad beyond the fact that it’s a carb.
He needs to get a blood test for cancer markers. There are people with high blood pressure in the 200s but their EKG is normal when tested. Then they find out they have cancer a couple of years later. Also, he needs to cut sodas. The meat is perfectly fine. Your body will naturally make you stop eating the more you have to chew and meat will make you chew a lot.
Loved this one! If you coverd energy drinks id have to stop drinking them..... 😢 but hell, yeah, nothing feels better than lifting weights!
I mean... glad that you addressed & explain his health problems but imo since *red meat* has been proven to increase the risk of cancer among other chronic diseases like Diabetes type II or any other cardiovascular disease (caused by fat/cholesterol) I dont find it appropriate to keep saying that its actually benefical for our health when theres better ways to eat what we need in a healthier way.
Cheers and liked the video!
@@insanedentistdota2 I appreciate the comment! Red meat’s link to cancer is tenuous at best. Previous articles primarily use a Dutch study which didn’t confound for smoking and was underpowered. More recent data hasn’t shown a correlation with increased red meat consumption and cancer.
Don't tell me how to eat, you're not my real Dad!
@@Xillin you tell me where the Dr Pepper hurt you.
Badass video!!
mmo doctor. how fun!
Health and Gaming are a great combination. Need to pair you up with Dr K. From Healthy Gammer
He's great! He seems to focus on the mental health aspect because he's a psychiatrist.
@@TheCopiumClinic Right! The Mentals and The Physical. The perfect combo 🤜🏼🤛🏼
would you be more sad Tom passed away because he's so short? because of scientology? or because he's so in need of a doctor? :D
Joe Rogan Podcast isn't a very stellar achievement...
@@MeatyZeeg it’s pretty stellar when your research has broad reach to the masses. Joe Rogan’s audience is huge.
At least link the original video if you're putting out plagiarized content "reacting"
@@andskimusic nah react is under fair use. If you don’t know who asmongold is I dont know what to tell ya.
Why is weed illegal?
Its bad for you?
Why are sugar/beer/tobacco legal?
It makes us a buttload of money and people are still able to be debt slaves because they're still willing to work the dumb little sheep HAHAHAHA
Make it make sense please. Cause they cant and i cant.