This information is a revelation to me. I have been on a low-carb diet for about three years but the reasons why it works has pretty much escaped me. Your podcast has describe the process so succinctly and clearly that even I, a non-medical person was able to follow with no problem This eases my mind about the dangers of sugar and fruit. thank you so much.
He's right, but it has been a chore trying to convince the low carb community that fructose is the actual cause of metabolic disease. Most low carb advocates believe insulin response causes disease. Johnson basically proves it's caused by fructose.
I don’t see my original comment, I’ll write it again. Your topic is so related to me and by understanding most of it I lost the obesity, high blood pressure,high triglycerides, lost 80 lbs just about 20lbs from my goal and don’t sleep 4 hrs mid day from exhaustion. Cutting out sugar is the number one thing I did to revive my 74 year old body. Love your coverage of how we get fat. Ps. Almost forgot that I completely lost my type #2 diabetes diagnosis. I’m 2 days into a 4 day fast.
I am 58 have changed my diet only eating salads and staying away from process foods . I have lost weight like 25 pounds from 280 started at 340 my blood pressure from 180 to 115 without medication though sometimes i do have to take it. My doctor said great job and do no let my blood pressure go under 100. I have change what i eat staying natural but eating protein too but most salad. Great job you did awesome insperation Don ...
@@MadMax-gc2vj Perhaps you are, but walking is a mighty powerful and natural thing for any animal to do. And Somehow we human don’t seem to think we have even an hour a day for it.
Following Dr.Johnson from Attia, Perlmutter, and some others. Learning more every time I listen to him. Thank you! (spoil alert- fructose, alcohol, overconsumption of glucose, dehydration, and umani taste)
wow. after 14 years of research and experimentation with different diets, 15 minutes of this presentation really just made things click. i never considered fructose being a switch for hibernation. i cant believe i never thought about that before or bothered studying the eating pattens of other species. thank you so much. this is coming from someone who has tried raw veganism all the way to keto. keto was the only diet that gave me energy, mental clarity, balanced my mood swings, and gave me regular menstrual cycles. i also lost a ton of weight. i believe intermittent fasting with low carb, not necessarily keto but maybe, foods (cause you are really not very hungry when eating an increased amount of fat anyways so the fasting comes easy. i really doubt there was enough food to eat 3 meals a day. how often do animals eat a day? gonna have to look into that more) is the way nature intended us to eat.
This issue of dehydration and the body’s use of the glycerol molecule from triglycerides for water is fascinating. This may be the real reason for high triglycerides and free fatty acids. Please do another talk on just this topic.
No animal or human ever ate fruit all year round until modern times. Now we're drowning in it and bananas are about five teaspoons of sugar each. Imagine what you're eating. And people think they're good for them.
UK government have been repeating the mantra of 5 A DAY of fuit and veg for many many years. People think snacking 5 times on fruit is therefore okay. Fruit is super sweet these days
Bananas, as we know them, bear very little resemblence to the wild banana they are derived from. Wild bananas are only 3 or 4 inches long and full of seeds. 99% of the plant food we eat bears only superficial resemblance to the plant as it appeared in nature just a century or two ago.
@@tohopes This is true, but you can't run all round the equator. There's a limit. Coconut's grow all year round but they're not always sweet and they're great for fat too.Which ever way you look at it, fruit grows on trees and vines. They have to grow flowers, they have to take months to mature fruit. They're only ripe anywhere in the world for a couple of months a year.
I was doing so well on both keto and carnivore when I did them in combination with OMAD and a long daily walk. But it takes a helluva lot of discipline to keep doing it month in month out. Eventually, the cravings for carbs got to me.
Try Intermittent Fasting ......eating window for 6 hours ...small lunch , ketto at 1pm ....evening meal at 6pm , no snacking inbetween.....works for me , no sugar no carbs , no bread or potatoes ...
Yes. I was able to do keto for close to 2 years but it's SOOOO HARD to keep at it. At some point I just didn't have the will power anymore. Then thanks to the insulin sensitivity I ballooned up like a whale within 3 months. :(
On a recent TV food programme I watched an agricultural scientist explain how they were engineering / developing sweeter and sweeter vegetables that will be sold at a premium price. The presenter went wild for the delicious taste of these vegetables. I’ll be growing my own!
They have already spoiled Brussels Sprouts. I used to love their bitter taste. A real foil for other things on the plate. But no, they had to make them sweeter, less bitter, more bland.As if this would somehow tempt kids to eat 'em. All it did was annoy the people who liked sprouts, trying to appease the ones that don't. Kind of a metaphor for many things these days...
I am 25 years old male, I have average BMI I look skinny but I have some belly fat. I have extremely little knowledge about nutrition and I was about to start reading lengthy nutrition books. This video series will definitely streamline my learning process
Love this doctor. The most important thing that he says is to "think outside the box". I see this is getting away from big pharma and the normal Primary Care Physician. These doctors are mostly controlled by BIG PHARMA and are on a mission to prescribe us something every time we have a visit with them. I have completely change my eating lifestyle to the Ketogenics plan which includes intermittent fasting 8\16 hour protocol. I am 58 years old and have been on KETO for the past two years and also work out 4-5 days a week which includes cycling, cross fit and weight training. My weight has went from 230 lbs to a consistent weight of around 180-185 lbs and even lower when fasting more. Again, like the doctor say "Think outside the BOX" and don't listen to the doctors who are totally controlled by BIG PHARMA etc.
Years ago, before I learned about keto, I was only able to lose weight by purposely keeping myself hungry all day for months on end. It worked but it was brutal. I always wondered *WHY* my body was working against me. *WHY* did it become so darned efficient with every erg of energy when I wanted it to frivolously waste energy. Now I know.
Thank you so much to all those for all the work that was put into this. I am on a Fodmap diet and have noticed the difference whenever I eat something that has sugar, or foods that ferment in my gut. This was interesting and a well presented lecture. I look forward for the part 2. "THANKYOU" This information is so very very important. Love and Light to all and be safe. 💜🤗👌
I'm glad the low carb community is finally starting to figure out the effects of fructose in weight gain. I have been unsuccessfully been trying to tell all my low carb channels I watch that fructose is the main cause of obesity after seeing Dr Johnson on Mercola's podcast around 10 years ago. I noticed that us low carbers tend to think that just eating all carbs is the cause. This idea comes mostly from Gary Taubes. The reason I'm certain Richard Johnson is correct is because his explanation is the one that makes he most evolutionary sense.
In the next session he will tell you that a glucose overload (coming from any carbs) will trigger fructoneogenesis and then you have the same problem as with HFCS.
True low carbers are not eating a lot of fruit or berries. Eating a cup of berries every day, for eg., is not going to make you fat. When you cut carbs to 20-25/day they are so low that all carbs virtually are the same at that level because they don't reach the threshold of triggering all the "bad" responses inherent in overconsumption of carbohydrates. The dose really is the poison.
This is great! But there's another huge reason why animals become overweight-it's the nuts, peanuts, and seeds that they also eat in autumn. The high amount of arginine in these foods increase appetite, and the high linoleic acid content, which turns into free radicals, causes weight gain, as a high amount of these free radicals is found with obesity and diabetes. So, if you want to lose weight, it's also important to avoid nuts, peanuts, and seeds, and the modern oils that they make from these foods.
How on earth can anyone know if the mouse can or can not taste anything ? I surmise the only thing you can determine is that a ' no taste mouse ' may have a less sensitive taste apparatus " than a normal mouse. I would like to see the experiment that shows a mouse has no taste at all.
The good news is, I don't eat fast foods- fries, burgers, hotdogs, soft drinks, salty foods, fruit juices or eat a tremendous amount of fruit. I go through periods though where I eat cake and cookies and have sugar cravings. (Have diabetes history on both sides of my family) I have always found that get hungry about a half hour afterwards no matter what I eat even after a big meal of mostly protein.I often stuff myself hoping that I won't experience it. (Was on Atkins diet for a couple of weeks and it didn't really help this need to eat more often). I'm not overweight. I just can't account for this hunger. Any thoughts? Your video was fascinating and informative. Thanks you for it!
This is why I only eat berries when they are in season (about 6 glorious weeks). After berries, I'll enjoy some local seasonal peaches with full-fat yogurt (a few more gluttonous weeks). Then it's back to Paleo/Carnivore for the rest of the year.
When you say that fruit has a lot of vitamins and minerals that block the effects of fructose, why does it matter then how much of it you eat? The balance would still be there, no? I think the weight gain only comes when you combine large amounts of fructose with fat (and inactivity).
Something to consider is that the HBA1c test only measures glycation damage to cells from glucose. Fructose is 8x more glycating than glucose but there is no clinical laboratory diagnostic test available. Glycated blood cells damage the endothelial lining of arteries leading to clotting and plaque formation.
Fruit trees are there year round but they still only harvest for a few months each year in the southern US. Is it different at the equator? Is there such a variety of plants that something is blooming year round for them to eat?
Loved this video and I am excited about Prof Richard Johnson's hypothesis. For the past 12 years I've been into Vegan/Vegetarian but changed to Paleo/ Carnivore/low carb healthy keto due to plant toxins. And before that I did Natural Hygiene, Macrobiotic, Fit for Life, SAD, then Atkins and PSMF and another long stint of SAD. I'm pretty sure processed Vegetable and Seed Oils is a factor in obesity and the disease of our civilization...Like the great presentation Dr. Chris Knobbe has on You Tube - 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?' th-cam.com/video/7kGnfXXIKZM/w-d-xo.html I am also very impressed with Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease--and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman I have questions about uric acid, fat , salt and hydration that I hope 'Nature Wants us to be Fat' will answer. I'm going to have to listen to this and II and III over and over plus will read the book and collect some more to think about. No matter I will always be asking questions. One day we have to have personalized medicine, better environments and the fuel of the mind-body connection to progress. Bless you and your work Richard Johnson.
When I went carnivore my 30 year history of fibromyalgia and bladder pain went away. I couldn't turn my neck without pain. All gone now. Also trigger fingers healed and chronic depression. I wish I had known before I spent a ton of money putting in raised garden beds!
this is interesting, but what if youve had diabetes, hypertension, and high triglycerides for about 15 years- but have uric acid levels too low for a meter to read?
I would say that you must stop hurting it first. When I was given a horrible metabolic diagnosis, it flipped a switch in me. I went home and cleaned out the sugar and anything related to it, the rest is a success story. Good luck.
Drink only water eat 80-20 hamburger sea salt eggs and a small amount of avocado for fiber for a month. Eat twice a day fast for 24hrs once a week. Its not as bad as it sounds eat till you are full. Good luck!
being fat maybe not even the problem... the wrong type of fat is the problem after all there are fat people that are perfectly healthy and thin people who are sick as f*** too much polyunsaturated fats are the problem seeds and seed oils are the problem
Eating 3 kg of big grapes per day loosened up muscles (now alkalanized?) and after 10 days reduced edemic swelling in the legs. No gout in the big toe; I just had gout in a few months ago. Felt less phlegmatic and a bit clearer. Glucose in blood rose to 190 initially, but later it dropped to
Your muscles are your biggest energy sink for utilizing carbohydrates/sugar/blood glucose. If you have been keto for a while those muscles became temporarily insulin resistant (down regulated number of insulin receptors, preferring ketones for fuel) and eating grapes restored your insulin levels to bring your blood sugar back down. That's why some people have said it's good for some folks on keto to do keto in cycles to retain metabolic flexibility. Doesn't seem to be necessary for people who did not have insulin resistance to begin with. Unfortunately, most of the population is insulin resistant (at least 80 percent). Insulin resistance happens before diabetes is formally diagnosed which means the body can no longer compensate. Some diabetics have tired or diminished islet cells in their pancreas from sheer exhaustion and are nearly a hybrid of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Bottom line: best not to overconsume fruits and carbs as that will slow down healing from insulin resistance.
in 1960 in New York Man was very slim, uric acid already higher, so probably bad fats PUFA,s, came and wowww we have obesity etc. . Probably thats the next Factor, together with Fructose. Thank you, super new information, Bravo
The 'obesity epidemic' should be renamed to 'the metabolic epidemic'. If obesity is a symptom of the underlying metabolic dysfunction, then it doesn't help to use such a stigmatized word in the public discourse, it will get everyone nowhere. Plus, it leaves out all the other conditions that can occur as a result without high bodyfat percentage. Policy will go nowhere as long as people curl up into the fetal position and stick their fingers in their ears when you use the word 'fat' or 'obese' or anything similar.
So if you have high uric acid, you are damaging mitochondria, so you have less energy and you get fatter more easier as instead of energy food goes to fat? OK, so just give Allopurinol to an obese patient and you'll improve his metabolic syndrome. I wonder if there are any succesful studies on this subject
Awesome! We, from low carb space, know most of those things. The problem is with the other people that are listening to the media lies that fructose is good, diet should be balanced and other blah blahs that does not make up since just profit for industries. Unfortunately, never ever, the whole planet will go to LCHF way of life to avoid those cascades of issues starting with metabolic syndrome and their subsequent illnesses, low immunity, low antioxidant levels....
Surely knowledge is power, so why wouldn’t an overweight/obese person once cognisant of this then change their diet? Furthermore, a “normal” size person knowing a trap has been set for them, avoid it?
Topic is very relevant, great information. Connects the dots via evolution to the modern shift in diet and its impact on creating so many health issues. Looking forward to part 2.
Thank you. Trying to get the Audible book with wisper sync. This is very interesting. Will get Kindle and Audible if I cannot work this out. Working now and listening, but reading helps me sort it out.
If this is THE explanation, why is sugar not prohibited from sale? Is "sugar industry" so strong that the the health of the world population doesn't matter? I am confused.
Governments of the world get mega bucks from big pharma, so no, you will never see a ban on something that is in reality a cash cow for them. They may introduce sugar "taxes", but that again is only so the governments can skim even more money off the people, imho.
I don't get this. If you look at fruitarians on TH-cam, they are all lean. Maybe not totally healthy, but they aren't fat by any means. How does this relate to the doctor's theory if all they eat is FRUIT and are lean??
In humans excess fructose consumption for extended periods of time causes fatty liver, which is why so many young people now have this problem; this poison is in practically everything they drink and eat. Remember, the liver is the only organ in the body that can metabolize fructose. But fructose only has a glycemic index of 23. Glucose has a glycemic index of 100. Almost all signs and symptoms of metabolic disorder (obesity, diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases) are caused by hyperinsulinemia, which is caused by years of chronically elevated levels of glucose in the bloodstream which, in turn, is caused by eating far to many carbohydrates, in particular processed sugar. All of this science is already well known. Sugar and carbohydrates cause an insulin spike. When insulin levels drop, it stimulates hormones that cause hunger, inducing a vicious cycle of overeating that will continue as long as high carb foods are available. Usually for life, in Westerners. Fructose is toxic, in much the same way ETOH is, but it is demonstrably not the cause of the obesity epidemic.
Wrong. Fructose IS the cause of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. If you were right, diabetes would historically track with glucose consumption. This is not reality. Societies have been eating glucose heavy diets for 10,000 years, and we only see diabetes when fructose is added to the food supply, true fact. Ancient Egyptians, got lots of metabolic disease, and ate lots of fructose. They ate tons of honey. Japanese, Native Americans, Central Americans, South East Asians and people on the island of Tukisenta ate high starch, low fructose diets without getting diabetes. Modern humans are eating tons of fructose, and diabetes is rampant. This is Dr. Johnson's idea. Fructose is the cause of metabolic syndrome, period.
Doc. I don't see your logic is saying we're supposed to be fat. We don't hyboernate, we don't sit on eggs. We rarely ever have to starve. In fact now it's a bit late to say we are designed to get fat. We could put on a pound or two for the winter when the fruit was on the trees but I can't say that's getting fat. It gives us a little warmth so we can go out and catch some meat in the snow.
The switch was not really meant to make us fat as much as it was to help protect us from starvation when food was less available. The problem is that now we are eating a lot of fructose that is present in sugar, and this is turning this biologic switch on chronically, so that we are in overdrive, and obesity is a result
How come most human frugivores present as anorexic? There must be more complexity than just fructose by itself. Sir Philip Randle published glucose fatty acid cycle, The Lancet, 1963. Later named the Randle Cycle. I almost thought presenter was going to mention it for a minute. It’s frustrating that low carbers are so close, yet so far away from the long published published mechanism. Mixing excess carbs and fats = chronic systemic inflammation, which underpins diabetes and most other modern chronic diseases. It’s only been 60 years, I suppose we’ll have to be a little more patient.
1) There's no such thing as "most" human frugivores; all humans are physiologically frugivorous great apes. That's as nonsensical as saying "most" bear omnivores or "most" lion carnivores. 2) It's absolute hogwash that the majority of humans who eat their species-specific diet of fresh and ripe fruit are anorexic; sounds like you've been watching cherry-picked propaganda videos of people with eating disorders. 3) Of course what's presented in this video is total rubbish. Sugar doesn't make you fat, never has, and never will. Eating fat is what makes you fat. Yes, you can avoid that by simultaneously starving your body of carbohydrate, its extremely strongly preferred fuel source, but then you'll be flooding your body with adrenal stress hormones and causing massive metabolic damage.
So, first, as I mentioned, a lot of whole fruits have other ingredients that block fructose. Nevertheless, one can trigger the switch if you eat a lot of fruit, and especially fruit juice. This can cause all of the features of metabolic syndrome, such as diabetes, fatty liver and hypertension. However, weight gain results when fructose causes hunger (from leptin resistance) that makes you eat a lot more than you normally do. So weight gain is tied to caloric intake. Carbs are only 4 calories/gm, so it takes a lot of carbs to cause substantial weight gain even if you are leptin resistance. However, if you are leptin resistant from fructose, then eating fatty foods causes rapid weight gain. So a person just eating fruit will likely activate the switch, develop diabetes, etc, but will not be that overweight. In Japan there are a lot of people with a smaller version of abdominal obesity but they also have activated the switch and are getting diabetes. However, they are not getting the high fat diet. So weight gain is best done by eating fructose to cause leptin resistance, and then eating a high fat diet to provide the caloric load. I hope this helps..
Probably because fruit is low in Protein, so frugivores have their bodies converting their own muscle tissue (and fat) to keep aminoacids available for anabolism and maintance of tissues.
@@richardjohnson3955 Hi Richard - I appreciate your reply. I try to eat close to zero grams of fructose as possible. I'm quite a strict carnivore. Most dietary fructose is converted into triacyl glycerides, by the liver, and this should be avoided. However, a diet high in sugars (including fructose) and very low in fat, does not result in Randle Cycle impairment. There's a myriad of other problems it causes and should be avoided like the plague. However, a high carb (and very low fat) OR a moderate (or high) fat (very low to no carb) macronutrient diet will both alleviate chronic systemic inflammation (chronic Randle Cycle impairment), associated with the buzz-phrases "insulin resistance" and "leptin resistance". The mixed macronutrient standard diets trigger Randle Cycle impairment, often, also, contains toxic seed oils, has plant originated anti-nutrients, pro-inflammatory chemicals and outright plant toxins (Oxalates, lectins, hormone analogues, goitrogens etc). With FRUCTOSE, like a toxic cherry, being on top of that pile. This is to toxically sweeten all of the other toxic plant based sludge. Fructose is bad. No question. It's the worst sugar. We can't ignore its partners' in crime. Humans, ultimately, require a species' specific and species' appropriate diet. Meat and associated fat from ruminants, some fish, some eggs, some salt, water, sunshine and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE. There's no need to get entangled into biochemistry and physiological mechanistic reductionism, for a mechanism du jour, like fructose or seed oils. It's all bad and the solution is simple simple - eat like our ancient ancestors (pre agrarian revolution). N14 and N15, C12 and C13 stable isotopes unequivocally back this.
@@richardjohnson3955 Perhaps this would explain the correlation of obesity with North American cheese consumption (- a chart that IIRC showed a stunning correlation)? If so, then the obesity epidemic may be a function of both fructose and fat consumption? Seems like a multifactorial problem.
Yes. For example, Bears consume fruit to prepare for their long hibernation not meat and fat. His example was the bear eating 10,000 grapes in one day to gain 8 pounds.
The Hazda ingest a lot of honey that contains fructose and they have a lot of caries. I believe they have actually activated the switch as they forage all day long but their daily energy is the same as a regular person because they have reduced their resting energy metabolism. This is similar to what we observed when the biologic switch is on. My guess is that they are not getting that much food so the switch is helping to protect them from starvation as opposed to making them fat.
I became obese but I never ate fruit in my life. I hate fruit. If you constantly eat pasta and bread you can get fat. I quit alcohol 30 years ago so that's not it. I have certainly NOT been fructose-free though.
alcohol metabolizes to fructose, so you had a LOT if you drank a lot. they add in fructose and sugar in most meat, e.g. deli meats. the food industry knows that sugar will make you eat more. it makes profit and it's cheap
It's a brilliant theory on fructose but the calories in calories out is archaic. Stop that nonsense. 2500 calories from steak is not the same as 2500 calories from carbs and suger. One diet will satisfy you and raise their metabolism, and build tissues and hormones and one will cause your metabolism to crash and create fat. One has a normaL ( lower) insulin response, the other cases high insulin, fat storage, hypoglycemia and hunger. A carnivore or keto diet will also result in mitochondrial uncoupling which beiges white fat and results in excess calorie burning like in brown fat. This raises metabolic rates. So calories are useless in the equation. Increased calories protien and fat can result in NO weight gain but increased calories from carbs or suger are guaranteed to cause fat accumulation. If you try to lower your calories by eating kess ( to lose weight) you are doomed to failure. You will lose weight at first but your netabolic set point will drop to equal the energy intake. The reality show " The biggest loser" is a tragic example of this. Those poor people wrecked their metabolism and have gained all the weight back. They are permanently doomed to a lower daily caloric set point. I read your book and thought it was brilliant, except you chickened out on promoting keto or carnivore. They are the ultimate suger elimination diet.
Nice faery tale about monkeys magically morphing into man; I must remember to share it with my future grandchildren... Thanks for the rest of the information though.
not nearly as psychotic as telling stories of the great Santa Claus who created everything from nothing and is in control of all things... sounds rather silly when say it with a name other than god....
What's the connection between intelligent design and the flat earth myth, @@Michel-Graillier-fanclub? I wonder if the flat earth thing was invented by creationists poking fun at microbe-to-man evolution. Do you know anything about proteins?
This information is a revelation to me. I have been on a low-carb diet for about three years but the reasons why it works has pretty much escaped me. Your podcast has describe the process so succinctly and clearly that even I, a non-medical person was able to follow with no problem This eases my mind about the dangers of sugar and fruit. thank you so much.
Thank you very much for your kind words!
Yep, that's a very accurate comment.
same. absolutely blown away by this presentation.
@@richardjohnson3955 thank you so much for this information
He's right, but it has been a chore trying to convince the low carb community that fructose is the actual cause of metabolic disease. Most low carb advocates believe insulin response causes disease. Johnson basically proves it's caused by fructose.
I don’t see my original comment, I’ll write it again. Your topic is so related to me and by understanding most of it I lost the obesity, high blood pressure,high triglycerides, lost 80 lbs just about 20lbs from my goal and don’t sleep 4 hrs mid day from exhaustion. Cutting out sugar is the number one thing I did to revive my 74 year old body. Love your coverage of how we get fat. Ps. Almost forgot that I completely lost my type #2 diabetes diagnosis. I’m 2 days into a 4 day fast.
I am 58 have changed my diet only eating salads and staying away from process foods . I have lost weight like 25 pounds from 280 started at 340 my blood pressure from 180 to 115 without medication though sometimes i do have to take it. My doctor said great job and do no let my blood pressure go under 100. I have change what i eat staying natural but eating protein too but most salad. Great job you did awesome insperation Don ...
Remove the SEED OILS too and you will feel even better. Great to hear you're making progress!
@@MadMax-gc2vj Perhaps you are, but walking is a mighty powerful and natural thing for any animal to do. And Somehow we human don’t seem to think we have even an hour a day for it.
That is awesome. What is your vitamin d level at? That could be what's preventing sleep.
@@yoso585 does walking to the fridge all day count?
Following Dr.Johnson from Attia, Perlmutter, and some others. Learning more every time I listen to him. Thank you! (spoil alert- fructose, alcohol, overconsumption of glucose, dehydration, and umani taste)
Right!
He's the best researcher in the world when it comes to fructose metabolism. I'm amazed Peter is consistently able to get him on his podcast
so really, no new info, just Ketogenics explained
wow. after 14 years of research and experimentation with different diets, 15 minutes of this presentation really just made things click. i never considered fructose being a switch for hibernation. i cant believe i never thought about that before or bothered studying the eating pattens of other species. thank you so much. this is coming from someone who has tried raw veganism all the way to keto. keto was the only diet that gave me energy, mental clarity, balanced my mood swings, and gave me regular menstrual cycles. i also lost a ton of weight. i believe intermittent fasting with low carb, not necessarily keto but maybe, foods (cause you are really not very hungry when eating an increased amount of fat anyways so the fasting comes easy. i really doubt there was enough food to eat 3 meals a day. how often do animals eat a day? gonna have to look into that more) is the way nature intended us to eat.
Vegetarian animals graze all day. Carnivorous ones only eat when they make a kill.
6:00 The popular Law of Thermodynamics applies only to a closed system.
The human physiology, with its multiple variations, is an open system.
This issue of dehydration and the body’s use of the glycerol molecule from triglycerides for water is fascinating. This may be the real reason for high triglycerides and free fatty acids. Please do another talk on just this topic.
Thanks- this is really a topic of the second talk!
No animal or human ever ate fruit all year round until modern times. Now we're drowning in it and bananas are about five teaspoons of sugar each. Imagine what you're eating. And people think they're good for them.
UK government have been repeating the mantra of 5 A DAY of fuit and veg for many many years. People think snacking 5 times on fruit is therefore okay. Fruit is super sweet these days
Bananas, as we know them, bear very little resemblence to the wild banana they are derived from. Wild bananas are only 3 or 4 inches long and full of seeds. 99% of the plant food we eat bears only superficial resemblance to the plant as it appeared in nature just a century or two ago.
that's not true. there was fruit year-round in the tropics.
Bullseye, you got that right.
@@tohopes This is true, but you can't run all round the equator. There's a limit. Coconut's grow all year round but they're not always sweet and they're great for fat too.Which ever way you look at it, fruit grows on trees and vines. They have to grow flowers, they have to take months to mature fruit. They're only ripe anywhere in the world for a couple of months a year.
I sent a link to my doctor, sadly most do not know a thing about wellness.
I was doing so well on both keto and carnivore when I did them in combination with OMAD and a long daily walk. But it takes a helluva lot of discipline to keep doing it month in month out. Eventually, the cravings for carbs got to me.
Try Intermittent Fasting ......eating window for 6 hours ...small lunch , ketto at 1pm ....evening meal at 6pm , no snacking inbetween.....works for me , no sugar no carbs , no bread or potatoes ...
I know what you mean I can have meat for breakfast and meat for lunch but by the afternoon bring on the chocolate
Then you should be low carb. I couldn't do keto off the bat. It's very expensive where I am plus, I just don't enjoy big plates of meat..
Yes. I was able to do keto for close to 2 years but it's SOOOO HARD to keep at it. At some point I just didn't have the will power anymore. Then thanks to the insulin sensitivity I ballooned up like a whale within 3 months. :(
@@jennideans OMAD = One Meal A Day, that IS intermittent fasting (IF)!
On a recent TV food programme I watched an agricultural scientist explain how they were engineering / developing sweeter and sweeter vegetables that will be sold at a premium price. The presenter went wild for the delicious taste of these vegetables. I’ll be growing my own!
More sugar, fewer nutrients 🤦♀️
They have already spoiled Brussels Sprouts. I used to love their bitter taste. A real foil for other things on the plate. But no, they had to make them sweeter, less bitter, more bland.As if this would somehow tempt kids to eat 'em. All it did was annoy the people who liked sprouts, trying to appease the ones that don't. Kind of a metaphor for many things these days...
@@smooth_pursuit More sugar, less able to reason, less intellect.
@@dennisbauer3315 Exactly!
Disgusting Big Food Big Profit tactics.
I am 25 years old male, I have average BMI I look skinny but I have some belly fat. I have extremely little knowledge about nutrition and I was about to start reading lengthy nutrition books. This video series will definitely streamline my learning process
Wonderful lecture! Was looking for the part 2, but I suspect it is in the works.
It's out today, I had to listen to the first and saw your comment, thought I'd let you know.
Love this doctor. The most important thing that he says is to "think outside the box". I see this is getting away from big pharma and the normal Primary Care Physician. These doctors are mostly controlled by BIG PHARMA and are on a mission to prescribe us something every time we have a visit with them. I have completely change my eating lifestyle to the Ketogenics plan which includes intermittent fasting 8\16 hour protocol. I am 58 years old and have been on KETO for the past two years and also work out 4-5 days a week which includes cycling, cross fit and weight training. My weight has went from 230 lbs to a consistent weight of around 180-185 lbs and even lower when fasting more.
Again, like the doctor say "Think outside the BOX" and don't listen to the doctors who are totally controlled by BIG PHARMA etc.
Can’t wait for part 2! 😀
Couldn’t wait… bought the book. It’s fascinating!
same
Well it's out on TH-cam now.
Thank you!
Years ago, before I learned about keto, I was only able to lose weight by purposely keeping myself hungry all day for months on end. It worked but it was brutal. I always wondered *WHY* my body was working against me. *WHY* did it become so darned efficient with every erg of energy when I wanted it to frivolously waste energy. Now I know.
Thank you so much to all those for all the work that was put into this. I am on a Fodmap diet and have noticed the difference whenever I eat something that has sugar, or foods that ferment in my gut. This was interesting and a well presented lecture. I look forward for the part 2. "THANKYOU" This information is so very very important. Love and Light to all and be safe. 💜🤗👌
Fantastic, succinct delivery for certain!
I'm glad the low carb community is finally starting to figure out the effects of fructose in weight gain. I have been unsuccessfully been trying to tell all my low carb channels I watch that fructose is the main cause of obesity after seeing Dr Johnson on Mercola's podcast around 10 years ago. I noticed that us low carbers tend to think that just eating all carbs is the cause. This idea comes mostly from Gary Taubes.
The reason I'm certain Richard Johnson is correct is because his explanation is the one that makes he most evolutionary sense.
In the next session he will tell you that a glucose overload (coming from any carbs) will trigger fructoneogenesis and then you have the same problem as with HFCS.
True low carbers are not eating a lot of fruit or berries. Eating a cup of berries every day, for eg., is not going to make you fat. When you cut carbs to 20-25/day they are so low that all carbs virtually are the same at that level because they don't reach the threshold of triggering all the "bad" responses inherent in overconsumption of carbohydrates. The dose really is the poison.
@Dodo they're semi-starving so they don't gain weight
But it isn't lol calories are
@@skylermccloud6230 *Absolute rubbish. Weight gain is a hormonal issue NOT caloric*
Looking forward for part 2.
This is great! But there's another huge reason why animals become overweight-it's the nuts, peanuts, and seeds that they also eat in autumn. The high amount of arginine in these foods increase appetite, and the high linoleic acid content, which turns into free radicals, causes weight gain, as a high amount of these free radicals is found with obesity and diabetes. So, if you want to lose weight, it's also important to avoid nuts, peanuts, and seeds, and the modern oils that they make from these foods.
Another part of the puzzle. Thank you for Sharing your information. Kind regards from Germany, Robert
Beware! 1 Krug = many carbs & calories ! 😁😁😁
I love hearing about the biochemistry when I am having a hard time falling asleep
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Such an insightful presentation from the very doctor who unraveled the Uric Acid mystery. ❤
I can't have any fruit. I respond badly to any of it with gout and feeling terrible.
How on earth can anyone know if the mouse can or can not taste anything ? I surmise the only thing you can determine is that a ' no taste mouse ' may have a less sensitive taste apparatus " than a normal mouse. I would like to see the experiment that shows a mouse has no taste at all.
This area is worth your trouble. I was Obese 3 years ago but not I’m just over weight and without medication.
Interestingly narrated with some passion. Great. Thank you
The good news is, I don't eat fast foods- fries, burgers, hotdogs, soft drinks, salty foods, fruit juices or eat a tremendous amount of fruit. I go through periods though where I eat cake and cookies and have sugar cravings. (Have diabetes history on both sides of my family) I have always found that get hungry about a half hour afterwards no matter what I eat even after a big meal of mostly protein.I often stuff myself hoping that I won't experience it. (Was on Atkins diet for a couple of weeks and it didn't really help this need to eat more often). I'm not overweight. I just can't account for this hunger. Any thoughts? Your video was fascinating and informative. Thanks you for it!
This is why I only eat berries when they are in season (about 6 glorious weeks). After berries, I'll enjoy some local seasonal peaches with full-fat yogurt (a few more gluttonous weeks). Then it's back to Paleo/Carnivore for the rest of the year.
Sounds like you've hit your own personal motherlode there!
Did you know that a banana is a berry ? And strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are not berries at all.
Cant wait for the next part!!!!
Excellent presentation
Please add links to the other two videos in your future show notes. Thanks
Very enjoyable presentation, thank you
When you say that fruit has a lot of vitamins and minerals that block the effects of fructose, why does it matter then how much of it you eat? The balance would still be there, no?
I think the weight gain only comes when you combine large amounts of fructose with fat (and inactivity).
Something to consider is that the HBA1c test only measures glycation damage to cells from glucose. Fructose is 8x more glycating than glucose but there is no clinical laboratory diagnostic test available. Glycated blood cells damage the endothelial lining of arteries leading to clotting and plaque formation.
Fantastic presentation.Wealth of information and its translation into real life. I will share the information with all my patients. GRATITUDE.
Fascinating talk. First I've heard of uric acid contributor to obesity.
I haven't yet finished the video but I now know how to fix my gout ... yay!
Thank you so much, this really helps
Fruit trees are there year round but they still only harvest for a few months each year in the southern US. Is it different at the equator? Is there such a variety of plants that something is blooming year round for them to eat?
Loved this video and I am excited about Prof Richard Johnson's hypothesis. For the past 12 years I've been into Vegan/Vegetarian but changed to Paleo/ Carnivore/low carb healthy keto due to plant toxins. And before that I did Natural Hygiene, Macrobiotic, Fit for Life, SAD, then Atkins and PSMF and another long stint of SAD.
I'm pretty sure processed Vegetable and Seed Oils is a factor in obesity and the disease of our civilization...Like the great presentation Dr. Chris Knobbe has on You Tube - 'Diseases of Civilization: Are Seed Oil Excesses the Unifying Mechanism?' th-cam.com/video/7kGnfXXIKZM/w-d-xo.html
I am also very impressed with Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease--and How to Fight It by Benjamin Bikman
I have questions about uric acid, fat , salt and hydration that I hope 'Nature Wants us to be Fat' will answer. I'm going to have to listen to this and II and III over and over plus will read the book and collect some more to think about. No matter I will always be asking questions. One day we have to have personalized medicine, better environments and the fuel of the mind-body connection to progress.
Bless you and your work Richard Johnson.
When I went carnivore my 30 year history of fibromyalgia and bladder pain went away. I couldn't turn my neck without pain. All gone now. Also trigger fingers healed and chronic depression. I wish I had known before I spent a ton of money putting in raised garden beds!
Brilliant, excellent work ! I also have purchased the book.
So incredibly interesting, thank you!
please part 2 as fast as possible pls im hyped
this is interesting, but what if youve had diabetes, hypertension, and high triglycerides for about 15 years- but have uric acid levels too low for a meter to read?
We should all be pedaling bikes to power the grid that powers the robots that run the system that feeds us to pedal the bikes. It's quite simple. 🚲
Goddam, today i learned why I am overweight, have uric acid and gout, and why I can't lose weight. THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!
Dr. Johnson, does lactose becomes fructose after consuming?
The experiment in the mice without taste still preferring sugar water is fascinating and to me is a strong point in favor of fat drive.
See my question. How do they know the mouse can't taste ?
I'm not a science person but I was able to understand this, thank you.
That is wonderful
Beautiful presentation....Very revealing...Thanks Doc......
Thank you, that was awesome
Eating low carb, watched the MANY low-carb videos, I have *NEVER* 🚨 heard anyone say why I/we feel great when eat sugar.
Part 2 please :)
What is the fastes way to heal the gut?
Take glutamine. Also drink cabbage juice.
Probably fast for two weeks. Hell IDK don't listen to me man.
I would say that you must stop hurting it first. When I was given a horrible metabolic diagnosis, it flipped a switch in me. I went home and cleaned out the sugar and anything related to it, the rest is a success story. Good luck.
Drink only water eat 80-20 hamburger sea salt eggs and a small amount of avocado for fiber for a month. Eat twice a day fast for 24hrs once a week. Its not as bad as it sounds eat till you are full. Good luck!
Get on a carnivore diet.
Great lecture! 👍
Thank you 🙏❤️❤️❤️
thank you!
being fat maybe not even the problem... the wrong type of fat is the problem after all there are fat people that are perfectly healthy and thin people who are sick as f*** too much polyunsaturated fats are the problem seeds and seed oils are the problem
Eating 3 kg of big grapes per day loosened up muscles (now alkalanized?) and after 10 days reduced edemic swelling in the legs. No gout in the big toe; I just had gout in a few months ago. Felt less phlegmatic and a bit clearer.
Glucose in blood rose to 190 initially, but later it dropped to
Your muscles are your biggest energy sink for utilizing carbohydrates/sugar/blood glucose. If you have been keto for a while those muscles became temporarily insulin resistant (down regulated number of insulin receptors, preferring ketones for fuel) and eating grapes restored your insulin levels to bring your blood sugar back down. That's why some people have said it's good for some folks on keto to do keto in cycles to retain metabolic flexibility. Doesn't seem to be necessary for people who did not have insulin resistance to begin with. Unfortunately, most of the population is insulin resistant (at least 80 percent). Insulin resistance happens before diabetes is formally diagnosed which means the body can no longer compensate. Some diabetics have tired or diminished islet cells in their pancreas from sheer exhaustion and are nearly a hybrid of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Bottom line: best not to overconsume fruits and carbs as that will slow down healing from insulin resistance.
I grew up on the land eating 100% organic from the land. Ate grass fed animal products. No body was fat.
Is there a part 2?
Out today
@@jdw5889 would you be able to point out where I can find it please? (The second part of Dr. Johnson’s talk ). Much!
When is the next part airing? Next week?
Out today at diet doctor on TH-cam
Sorry at low carb down under
in 1960 in New York Man was very slim, uric acid already higher, so probably bad fats PUFA,s, came and wowww we have obesity etc. . Probably thats the next Factor, together with Fructose. Thank you, super new information, Bravo
Excellent talk
The 'obesity epidemic' should be renamed to 'the metabolic epidemic'. If obesity is a symptom of the underlying metabolic dysfunction, then it doesn't help to use such a stigmatized word in the public discourse, it will get everyone nowhere. Plus, it leaves out all the other conditions that can occur as a result without high bodyfat percentage. Policy will go nowhere as long as people curl up into the fetal position and stick their fingers in their ears when you use the word 'fat' or 'obese' or anything similar.
So if you have high uric acid, you are damaging mitochondria, so you have less energy and you get fatter more easier as instead of energy food goes to fat? OK, so just give Allopurinol to an obese patient and you'll improve his metabolic syndrome. I wonder if there are any succesful studies on this subject
That is an interesting suggestion for those who refuse to cut the cause from their diet.
Awesome! We, from low carb space, know most of those things. The problem is with the other people that are listening to the media lies that fructose is good, diet should be balanced and other blah blahs that does not make up since just profit for industries. Unfortunately, never ever, the whole planet will go to LCHF way of life to avoid those cascades of issues starting with metabolic syndrome and their subsequent illnesses, low immunity, low antioxidant levels....
Congrats professor, nice job..
When is the next talk published? cant wait!
Thank you! It's tremendous
When is part 2 coming?
Surely knowledge is power, so why wouldn’t an overweight/obese person once cognisant of this then change their diet? Furthermore, a “normal” size person knowing a trap has been set for them, avoid it?
How can I get that stuff stop sugar metabolism....???I'd like it....acv...blocks the receptor... I have to remember to take it first
Topic is very relevant, great information. Connects the dots via evolution to the modern shift in diet and its impact on creating so many health issues. Looking forward to part 2.
Thank you!
Thank you. Trying to get the Audible book with wisper sync. This is very interesting. Will get Kindle and Audible if I cannot work this out. Working now and listening, but reading helps me sort it out.
Any one have any idea, please, when Part 2 will be available?
If this is THE explanation, why is sugar not prohibited from sale? Is "sugar industry" so strong that the the health of the world population doesn't matter? I am confused.
have you heard of lobbies?
That’s exactly why!!! Lmao 🤣
Governments of the world get mega bucks from big pharma, so no, you will never see a ban on something that is in reality a cash cow for them. They may introduce sugar "taxes", but that again is only so the governments can skim even more money off the people, imho.
The sugar industry is this strong.
The science is strong, but so are politics. I believe we are slowly making headway, though.
My last blood test said that my Uric acid was 10, yikes, time to go low carb
tart cherry reduces uric acid, at least that's common knowledge in Germany. nobody knows why as far as I know
@@Julia_Berrrlin Yes, and eating them drives up the glucose in your blood to 200.
I don't get this. If you look at fruitarians on TH-cam, they are all lean. Maybe not totally healthy, but they aren't fat by any means. How does this relate to the doctor's theory if all they eat is FRUIT and are lean??
Very interesting. It's great to see lateral, critical, creative thinking combined with commitment to sound scientific methods.
Thank you for your kind words
If what you say is true, why then are fruitarians the thinnest people around?
In humans excess fructose consumption for extended periods of time causes fatty liver, which is why so many young people now have this problem; this poison is in practically everything they drink and eat. Remember, the liver is the only organ in the body that can metabolize fructose. But fructose only has a glycemic index of 23. Glucose has a glycemic index of 100. Almost all signs and symptoms of metabolic disorder (obesity, diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases) are caused by hyperinsulinemia, which is caused by years of chronically elevated levels of glucose in the bloodstream which, in turn, is caused by eating far to many carbohydrates, in particular processed sugar. All of this science is already well known. Sugar and carbohydrates cause an insulin spike. When insulin levels drop, it stimulates hormones that cause hunger, inducing a vicious cycle of overeating that will continue as long as high carb foods are available. Usually for life, in Westerners. Fructose is toxic, in much the same way ETOH is, but it is demonstrably not the cause of the obesity epidemic.
Wrong. Fructose IS the cause of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and diabetes.
If you were right, diabetes would historically track with glucose consumption. This is not reality. Societies have been eating glucose heavy diets for 10,000 years, and we only see diabetes when fructose is added to the food supply, true fact.
Ancient Egyptians, got lots of metabolic disease, and ate lots of fructose. They ate tons of honey.
Japanese, Native Americans, Central Americans, South East Asians and people on the island of Tukisenta ate high starch, low fructose diets without getting diabetes.
Modern humans are eating tons of fructose, and diabetes is rampant.
This is Dr. Johnson's idea. Fructose is the cause of metabolic syndrome, period.
Fantastic xx
Don’t travel down the obesity Iles in the grocery, fresh and meat and walk if possible to get those items.
thanks you very much
Fabulous book: The Fat Switch! Nature Wants Us to Be Fat up next!
Doc. I don't see your logic is saying we're supposed to be fat. We don't hyboernate, we don't sit on eggs. We rarely ever have to starve. In fact now it's a bit late to say we are designed to get fat. We could put on a pound or two for the winter when the fruit was on the trees but I can't say that's getting fat. It gives us a little warmth so we can go out and catch some meat in the snow.
The switch was not really meant to make us fat as much as it was to help protect us from starvation when food was less available. The problem is that now we are eating a lot of fructose that is present in sugar, and this is turning this biologic switch on chronically, so that we are in overdrive, and obesity is a result
You forgot about the water recycling potential of fat.
15:23 is it Taste or metabolism Driving obesity?
can anyone summarize it for me?
How come most human frugivores present as anorexic? There must be more complexity than just fructose by itself. Sir Philip Randle published glucose fatty acid cycle, The Lancet, 1963. Later named the Randle Cycle. I almost thought presenter was going to mention it for a minute. It’s frustrating that low carbers are so close, yet so far away from the long published published mechanism. Mixing excess carbs and fats = chronic systemic inflammation, which underpins diabetes and most other modern chronic diseases. It’s only been 60 years, I suppose we’ll have to be a little more patient.
1) There's no such thing as "most" human frugivores; all humans are physiologically frugivorous great apes. That's as nonsensical as saying "most" bear omnivores or "most" lion carnivores.
2) It's absolute hogwash that the majority of humans who eat their species-specific diet of fresh and ripe fruit are anorexic; sounds like you've been watching cherry-picked propaganda videos of people with eating disorders.
3) Of course what's presented in this video is total rubbish. Sugar doesn't make you fat, never has, and never will. Eating fat is what makes you fat. Yes, you can avoid that by simultaneously starving your body of carbohydrate, its extremely strongly preferred fuel source, but then you'll be flooding your body with adrenal stress hormones and causing massive metabolic damage.
So, first, as I mentioned, a lot of whole fruits have other ingredients that block fructose. Nevertheless, one can trigger the switch if you eat a lot of fruit, and especially fruit juice. This can cause all of the features of metabolic syndrome, such as diabetes, fatty liver and hypertension. However, weight gain results when fructose causes hunger (from leptin resistance) that makes you eat a lot more than you normally do. So weight gain is tied to caloric intake. Carbs are only 4 calories/gm, so it takes a lot of carbs to cause substantial weight gain even if you are leptin resistance. However, if you are leptin resistant from fructose, then eating fatty foods causes rapid weight gain. So a person just eating fruit will likely activate the switch, develop diabetes, etc, but will not be that overweight. In Japan there are a lot of people with a smaller version of abdominal obesity but they also have activated the switch and are getting diabetes. However, they are not getting the high fat diet. So weight gain is best done by eating fructose to cause leptin resistance, and then eating a high fat diet to provide the caloric load. I hope this helps..
Probably because fruit is low in Protein, so frugivores have their bodies converting their own muscle tissue (and fat) to keep aminoacids available for anabolism and maintance of tissues.
@@richardjohnson3955 Hi Richard - I appreciate your reply. I try to eat close to zero grams of fructose as possible. I'm quite a strict carnivore. Most dietary fructose is converted into triacyl glycerides, by the liver, and this should be avoided. However, a diet high in sugars (including fructose) and very low in fat, does not result in Randle Cycle impairment. There's a myriad of other problems it causes and should be avoided like the plague. However, a high carb (and very low fat) OR a moderate (or high) fat (very low to no carb) macronutrient diet will both alleviate chronic systemic inflammation (chronic Randle Cycle impairment), associated with the buzz-phrases "insulin resistance" and "leptin resistance". The mixed macronutrient standard diets trigger Randle Cycle impairment, often, also, contains toxic seed oils, has plant originated anti-nutrients, pro-inflammatory chemicals and outright plant toxins (Oxalates, lectins, hormone analogues, goitrogens etc). With FRUCTOSE, like a toxic cherry, being on top of that pile. This is to toxically sweeten all of the other toxic plant based sludge.
Fructose is bad. No question. It's the worst sugar. We can't ignore its partners' in crime.
Humans, ultimately, require a species' specific and species' appropriate diet. Meat and associated fat from ruminants, some fish, some eggs, some salt, water, sunshine and ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ELSE. There's no need to get entangled into biochemistry and physiological mechanistic reductionism, for a mechanism du jour, like fructose or seed oils. It's all bad and the solution is simple simple - eat like our ancient ancestors (pre agrarian revolution). N14 and N15, C12 and C13 stable isotopes unequivocally back this.
@@richardjohnson3955 Perhaps this would explain the correlation of obesity with North American cheese consumption (- a chart that IIRC showed a stunning correlation)? If so, then the obesity epidemic may be a function of both fructose and fat consumption? Seems like a multifactorial problem.
Any1 read the book, curious to hear your thoughts and if it's any good for the layman?
Not yet but I will.
I live what he’s talking about. I bet the book makes great sense. Good luck.
Fruits are not a problem. The processed foods are
i am what nature planned me to be
I've got my food storage right here..
Lol I got a few weeks stored here too
Have you ever seen a youtuber who eats only fruit????? They are NOT fat, but very thin!!!!
Can someone explain what he said in a nutshell please, is it fruit makes you fat ?
Yes. For example, Bears consume fruit to prepare for their long hibernation not meat and fat. His example was the bear eating 10,000 grapes in one day to gain 8 pounds.
Yes.. avoid Fructose... we have a mutation that makes us store more fat in response to it.
he said individual fruits are fine, dont eat a bowl of grapes and expect to stay, stay away from processed fructose like fruit juices and sugar
He might be a biochemist but he is a piss poor archaeologist. 17 million yBP is too early for Out of Africa. He should look for a later exodus.
I am wondering if this fits with the Haza communities: is it possible that they eat a lot more sugary foods but have a difference in genes?
The Hazda ingest a lot of honey that contains fructose and they have a lot of caries. I believe they have actually activated the switch as they forage all day long but their daily energy is the same as a regular person because they have reduced their resting energy metabolism. This is similar to what we observed when the biologic switch is on. My guess is that they are not getting that much food so the switch is helping to protect them from starvation as opposed to making them fat.
I thought Gary Taubes pretty much had all this sewn up back in 2007 with Good Calories, Bad Calories.
I need my KHK knocked out!!
I became obese but I never ate fruit in my life. I hate fruit. If you constantly eat pasta and bread you can get fat. I quit alcohol 30 years ago so that's not it. I have certainly NOT been fructose-free though.
Fructose is in candy.. ate that for sure.
alcohol metabolizes to fructose, so you had a LOT if you drank a lot.
they add in fructose and sugar in most meat, e.g. deli meats. the food industry knows that sugar will make you eat more. it makes profit and it's cheap
It's a brilliant theory on fructose but the calories in calories out is archaic. Stop that nonsense. 2500 calories from steak is not the same as 2500 calories from carbs and suger. One diet will satisfy you and raise their metabolism, and build tissues and hormones and one will cause your metabolism to crash and create fat. One has a normaL ( lower) insulin response, the other cases high insulin, fat storage, hypoglycemia and hunger. A carnivore or keto diet will also result in mitochondrial uncoupling which beiges white fat and results in excess calorie burning like in brown fat. This raises metabolic rates. So calories are useless in the equation. Increased calories protien and fat can result in NO weight gain but increased calories from carbs or suger are guaranteed to cause fat accumulation. If you try to lower your calories by eating kess ( to lose weight) you are doomed to failure. You will lose weight at first but your netabolic set point will drop to equal the energy intake. The reality show " The biggest loser" is a tragic example of this. Those poor people wrecked their metabolism and have gained all the weight back. They are permanently doomed to a lower daily caloric set point. I read your book and thought it was brilliant, except you chickened out on promoting keto or carnivore. They are the ultimate suger elimination diet.
Nice faery tale about monkeys magically morphing into man; I must remember to share it with my future grandchildren... Thanks for the rest of the information though.
flat earther too? Aleluia.
not nearly as psychotic as telling stories of the great Santa Claus who created everything from nothing and is in control of all things... sounds rather silly when say it with a name other than god....
What's the connection between intelligent design and the flat earth myth, @@Michel-Graillier-fanclub? I wonder if the flat earth thing was invented by creationists poking fun at microbe-to-man evolution. Do you know anything about proteins?
What's the connection between intelligent design and _"Santa Claus",_ @@kapower06?
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