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and fat-soluble vitamins

and nutrients to our body.

Without that ability,

we wouldn't be able to absorb

all our fat-soluble vitamins

and nutrients.

A low-fat diet

makes that very difficult.

There are many ways

to lose weight.

And some people can lose weight

on a low-fat diet.

I was able to manage my weight

for a very long time

based on a low-fat diet,

but I wasn't healthy.

So, weight alone is not...

shouldn't be seen as the mark

of good health.

Though I was

on very low-fat diets,

you know,

your skin will deteriorate.

Your hair will be in, you know,

much worse condition.

In the world

of very low-fat diets being

fashionable to normal,

conventional wisdom telling us,

"That's the norm."

We tend to kind of avoid

dietary fat,

but it's extremely important.

For myself, as being male,

and suffering

from low testosterone

for much of my adult life,

part of that reason

was because I wasn't eating

any, any, any fat

that I could be aware of.

I was minimizing fat

at every single opportunity.

And it wasn't till I started

adding dietary fat to my diet,

that I started to have

healthy levels of testosterone.

If we did not eat fat,

we would die.

There's essential fatty acids.

There are essential amino acids.

If we do not eat protein,

we will die.

There are

no essential carbohydrates.

The fact that we're suffering

from a lot of diseases

in terms of mental degeneration.

A lot of this, again, is linked

to excess carbohydrates

and not enough...

And this following

a low-fat diet.

Most of our brain is fat.

Our cell membranes

are part of fat.

It provides structure

and integrity to every cell

in the body.

It's not just an energy source.

But as an energy source,

it is far superior

to glucose and carbohydrates

in every measure.

It's the preferred fuel

for our heart.

A lot of hormones are reliant

on access to dietary fat

and cholesterol,

dietary cholesterol.

My family is

one of those families

with "high cholesterol."

My grandma has been eating

margarine since the 50s

when one of her family members

had a heart attack

at a young age

and is still horrified

of an egg yolk.

[Farley]

Some people find a correlation

between dietary cholesterol

and heart disease.

That's wrong.

The problem with cholesterol

and heart disease is

oxidated cholesterol,

which is inflamed cholesterol.

Not dietary

or serum cholesterols.

When you have an inflammation

in the body,

you can oxidize

your cholesterol,

and that can cause problems.

So the issue is not to eliminate

or suppress cholesterol,

which is fundamental

to our health.

In fact, it's the most powerful

antioxidant in our body,

and now, we're suppressing it.

What we should be doing

is eliminating the cause

of the inflammation.

What's the cause

of the inflammation?

Bad dietary choices.

Our rush towards a diet

away from fat

towards carbohydrate-rich foods

could actually be fueling rates

of, for example, overweight

and obesity,

but also allied problems

including

cardiovascular disease,

heart disease, and stroke,

and what we call

type two diabetes.

One of the pervading theories

as to what it is

that actually causes illness,

be it type two diabetes,

or excess weight,

or cardiovascular disease,

relates

to a physiological process

known as inflammation.

So for example,

if I, you know, kick a table

hard enough with bare feet,

after an hour or two,

I'm gonna have a red,

swollen, tender toe.

That is inflammation.

But we're talking about here

a sort of

lower-grade inflammation

throughout the body.

What's called

systemic inflammation.

Basically, it's inflammation

that occurs in the body

that isn't easily detected

on a kind of microscopic level.

That's the kind of

starting point

for a lot of chronic

lifestyle diseases.

Now, systemic inflammation

appears to be a potent cause

of excess weight

and other chronic diseases.

One of the things

that causes inflammation

within the body

is spikes in blood sugar.

Now, that is another reason

for not eating a diet

replete with foods

that actually cause

spikes in blood sugar.

Some can be caused by exercise,

or stress, or injury,

but most of the negative

inflammatory responses

are from our modern diet,

and those are foods

that we're not designed to eat,

and that's grains, legumes,

processed foods,

pasteurized dairy.

Another thing we know

causes inflammation

is a sort of fat

called the omega-6 fats

that we find, for example,

in vegetable oils.

So you find it in sunflower oil,

or safflower oil,

or soy oil.

So very often,

we're advised to eat these

in preference to saturated fat.

But actually,

there's an argument

for saying that the inflammation

caused by omega-6 fats,

as I say, in vegetable oils,

is something that

we should probably avoid.

As our gut becomes

more permeable,

larger and larger molecules

can move through our gut

into the bloodstream.

The body doesn't recognize

these as me.

It recognizes them as not me,

so it develops

an antibody to attack it.

Now, these things,

these little structures,

tend to resemble

other parts of our body

that are me.

So as the antibodies go in

and attack that thing,

then they go...

They're moving

down the bloodstream,

and they go, "Oh!

That knee joint looks a lot like

that thing I just attacked."

And it attacks the knee,

or it attacks something else.

As the inflammation gets worse,

the assault

on the colon continues

through this excess of grain,

and legume, and processed food,

the junctions widen,

and widen, and widen,

and the problem gets

more and more exacerbated

and more and more serious.

There is significant evidence

that this type of inflammation

leads to a whole host

of modern lifestyle diseases

from heart disease, strokes,

diabetes, cancer...

The whole gamut

of modern lifestyle disease.

Whatever is weakest

in your body,

the inflammation will attack

and have the most damage to.

We see the symptoms manifest

perhaps uniquely

in different individuals,

but they share a common cause,

poor food choices in their diet.

Repeated exposure

to certain foodstuffs,

repeated exposure to toxins,

the inability

for the body to defend itself

in the long term

is what allows disease

to manifest itself,

and that takes

a significant period of time.

So this isn't about

a short-term exposure

to, say, gluten.

It's what happens

over repeated exposure

from years, to decades,

to a generation or so

of exposure to these foods

that becomes harmful

and affects us

in terms of long-term,

chronic lifestyle disease.

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[John]

There are some fats in the diet

that really should be avoided.

For example,

the industrially-produced fats,

so processed fats.

One example of that

are what we call

partially hydrogenated fats

that are used in the processing

of many processed foods,

including some margarines.

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