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Lewis HowesThe TOP FOODS You Absolutely SHOULD NOT EAT To Live Longer! | Dr. Sten Ekberg & Lewis Howes
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WHAT IT’S REALLY ABOUT
Dr. Ekberg on Real Food, Insulin, Fasting and Lasting Health
- Dr. Ekberg says the foundation of eating is real food, and that 60 to 70 percent of calories today come from white flour, white sugar and processed seed oils.
- He argues that insulin resistance is widespread because people eat too many carbs too often, and that eating fewer carbs and fewer meals lowers insulin.
- He recommends meat, tubers, non-starchy vegetables, eggs and some dairy, and says sugar, seed oils and artificial sweeteners are the three things to cut, though the single worst food for anyone is the one they react to.
- He explains fasting, autophagy, growth hormone and brief high-intensity exercise as ways to challenge the body, and stresses that recovery rather than exercise itself creates strength.
- He frames health as chemical, structural and emotional, says chronic degenerative disease starts decades before it shows, and says healing is a law of nature once obstacles are removed.
IDEAS WORTH REMEMBERING
5 ideasEat real food, as close to nature as possible
Dr. Ekberg says that if the earth produced it and you don't ruin it, it is good food, and that the more we change food the more we screw it up.
Insulin resistance is an adaptation to too many carbs
He says the body resists insulin when it gets too much, using the analogy of a neighbor who brings you a pie every day. He says it can be measured through fasting insulin even when blood glucose looks normal.
The worst food for you is the one you react to
He says a food that triggers a hypersensitivity reaction creates inflammation no matter how healthy it is for others, which is why carnivore diets work for some people as an elimination diet but are not best for everyone.
Sugar, seed oils and artificial sweeteners are the top three to avoid
He calls refined sugar toxic, describes seed oils as heavily processed non-foods, and says sucralose is a chlorinated carbon like pesticides. He says stevia, monk fruit and erythritol are acceptable in moderation.
Fasting lowers insulin and triggers autophagy and growth hormone
He says autophagy barely starts at 16 to 18 hours and becomes significant after 24 to 48 hours, and that growth hormone helps spare muscle during fasting.
WORDS WORTH SAVING
5 quotesPeople say that we live so much longer today. It's like, no, we don't. We die longer.
— Dr. Sten Ekberg
It's not the exercise that does it, it's the recovery.
— Dr. Sten Ekberg
The world has changed more in the last 50 years than it has in the previous 50,000.
— Dr. Sten Ekberg
You don't have to teach the water to do what it does. It's built in. It's the only thing it knows how to do.
— Dr. Sten Ekberg
Health is like air. We don't value it until it's gone, right? But when it's gone, nothing is more important.
— Dr. Sten Ekberg
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SPEAKERS
Dr. Sten Ekberg
guestChiropractor and health educator known for content on nutrition, metabolism, and longevity.
Lewis Howes
hostHost of The School of Greatness podcast and interviewer.
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