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that there had to be

a dietary component

to what was going on,

even though I couldn't really

guide her at that point.

But she tried vegetarianism

and veganism.

None of those

were healthy for her either.

She ended up in the hospital

several times actually.

At the time, my mom was

a very conventional physician

of Western medicine,

and she did not agree at all

with what I was doing.

I mean, at the point,

her belief system was

that supplements and medication

could really help cure

chronic conditions.

It was a relief to me

to see her improving finally.

I did feel badly

I didn't have the knowledge base

years earlier

that I could have helped her.

You know, I grew up

living off of these foods

that were in the middle

of these alleys

of the grocery stores

when nothing I was eating

was ever alive.

And that's what we're taught,

and it's just so broken to me.

As a kid,

when I ate stuff like this,

I drained half the box.

-[Woman] A big bowl?

-A big bowl.

So there's 18 servings.

Let's just round it off

and say 20.

So let's say when, you know,

the kid goes to town on this,

you've got 10 servings.

That's like 270 grams of carbs

in a sitting,

which is a piece of cake to do.

-Absolutely no problem

with that.

-That's huge.

Yeah, same serving size.

Even a little more

carbohydrate-dense.

And, you know, honestly,

this stuff would be so sweet

that I might even

at less than that

in a way even as a kid.

So, then you've got the Kashi.

It's whole-grain,

and, you know,

it looks like hurt seals

are being saved on this thing,

and all that stuff.

So their serving

is a little bit larger.

It's a full cup.

It's 41 grams of carbs.

So, really, I think this one

is even more carb-dense than...

-[Woman] Than the other.

-Than the Frosted Flakes are.

So, yeah, this stuff

is so damn yummy,

and it's really

just not very good for you,

just given

the carbohydrate content.

And, again,

nobody is gonna sit down

and eat a cup of this.

Well, you know, I think

it's probably easy

in the morning

for kids to get up

and eat cereal

and have some milk.

But what we're seeing

is an epidemic

of obesity

and insulin resistance

with children today.

-Right.

-Which is... And diabetes,

which is a huge problem.

And these boxes

and bags of food

that are prepared

with high carbohydrates

and high sugar

-are definitely causing that.

-Right.

And the soda at lunch

and the Gatorade

at the soccer game

before dinner. Yeah.

And pretty soon,

they have a carbohydrate load

-that far exceeds anything that

any human should ever consume.

-Right.

So sugar comes, obviously,

from sugar in the diet,

but it also comes from starch.

Starch is sugar.

It's just chains

of glucose molecules.

When we eat starchy foods,

like bread, potatoes, rice,

pasta, and breakfast cereals,

generally,

we get considerable amounts

of sugar liberated

into the bloodstream.

It will obviously lead

to considerable surges

in the hormone insulin.

The purpose of insulin

in that stage is

to force the blood glucose

into muscle tissue,

into the cells

to be utilized as energy.

Any the excess

is stored in the liver.

Longer-term storage is glycogen.

And then beyond that,

it's stored as fat.

Elevated insulin basically means

we have a constant supply

of energy,

and so, there is no need

for your body to break down

further energy stores,

i.e. fat stores,

to provide energy.

So, what insulin does is

facilitate the uptake of fat

into the fat cells.

The fat can get out again,

but unfortunately,

insulin reduces

the body's ability to do that.

It impairs

what we call "lipolysis",

which is fancy language

for release of fat basically.

Eating little and often,

which is what

conventional wisdom tells us

to manage blood glucose,

is far less effective

than eating a larger meal.

We're always digesting

and never building.

It's the wrong system.

We need to eat,

absorb what we're eating,

digest it,

build an anabolic environment.

Go hours without eating.

Then eat again.

So, we're not grazers.

We're not ruminants.

There's just something wrong

with that whole concept,

evolutionary,

dietary health-wise.

If you're eating a diet

based on foods

that help basically

bring insulin levels down,

stabilize blood sugar levels,

then you're going

to facilitate fat loss.

You can effectively then

use that fat as a fuel,

a bit like a hibernating bear.

Once I cut out the grains

and the really high-carby stuff,

I was able to go

hours and hours without eating,

and I might feel hungry.

I might feel like I need to eat.

I'm getting to the point

where I'm hungry.

But it wasn't an emergency.

I could go without eating,

which I found really strange,

and not feel really hungry.

And then eat dinner,

and then be fine,

and then continue eating

the next day as normal.

Essentially, feeding off

your own fat

coupled with the fact

that you've probably stabilized

blood sugar levels

and are gonna be less prone

to low blood sugar levels

that can trigger hunger

is going to leave people

fundamentally less hungry.

If you take individuals

off their supposedly healthy

high-carb diet

and put them on something

a bit lower-carb,

a bit more Paleo,

then they automatically

eat less.

And I've seen this

time and again in practice.

Typically, people will eat

several hundred calories less

each day eating this way.

So now, you have a diet

that facilitates fat loss,

that is fundamentally healthy,

that does not

leave people hungry.

[Boris] I went through

a very significant stage

of a classic

body builder's diet

in the sense

of many small meals a day

with a decline in carbohydrates

throughout the day.

Absolutely no fat.

And so, this lead

to several crash diets even

because I wasn't able

to shed fat.

I actually invented

a diet of my own

at a certain point,

which was a bar of chocolate

and many liters of water a day.

Just to say how far it went.

It led to a very unnatural

and disturbed take on diet

and relation with food.

From the age of 16

until the age of about 25...

That's almost 10 years.

I was obsessed

with eating low-fat food.

It was drilled into me

through magazine articles

and TV ads,

and everything

had to be low-fat.

Who knows

how much damage I've done

by cutting out

all the actual goodness

of saturated fats in the foods.

That just kind of stuck with me.

That was

the hardest thing to shift

when I started eating Paleo.

To shift my thinking

from saturated fat is bad

to actually, saturated fat

is not the enemy.

It's the high-processed sugars

and carbohydrates that's causing

a lot of the problems.

Reality is

if you look at the evidence,

there isn't really

much to be feared in fat.

It doesn't appear

to be inherently fattening.

And that's possibly

because of its impact

or lack of impact

on certain hormones,

including insulin.

It helps transport

essential fatty acids

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