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00:00we've talked a lot in here today right about a lot of stuff a lot of stuff a lot of food
00:10and I hope we didn't step on any toes to say anything wrong because you're going to talk
00:15about plant-based diets and how they can help prevent disease right so prevention prevention
00:24is everything we have to talk about trying to you know live better so just give us a little intro
00:31give us about like what do you think is the most important thing when it comes to diet and what
00:39you have you tell your patients so I think it has to be simple I think food can get really really
00:47confusing do I eat meat do I not eat meat do I eat carbs do I not eat carbs it gets really really
00:53confusing so I think we have to make the diet simple and sustainable I think it can't be too
00:59restrictive because then people can't maintain it so I had a patient the other day before I left
01:05to come here tell me they did the vegan diet for 30 days and it was extremely extremely difficult
01:11and she's like I never want to do that again and I said well don't what can you do consistently
01:17because we're trying to make lifestyle decisions and so I love what the doc said about you know
01:22being able to simply identify your food I always tell people eat Jesus food what did Jesus make
01:28Jesus made fish he made broccoli he made kale he didn't make Twinkies man-made those and so we
01:34really have to be careful with the man-made food because that's the food is killing us so I say keep
01:39it simple make sure you can identify your food make sure you're getting at least seven servings of
01:45vegetables a day that doesn't happen by itself which means we have to be intentional we plan how we're
01:51going to spend our money we plan how we're going to spend our time off work so we need to plan what
01:56we're going to eat and what we're going to put in our body now it's very hard diet is very difficult
02:03to negotiate because it's the thing that makes us feel good we call I call COVID-19 they called it 19
02:09because that's the 19 pounds you gain for the help after going through it right and here in New Orleans
02:14after Katrina we call the Katrina 15 because the 15 pounds you gain when you were just so upset food
02:21comfort food these are things that tend not to be good for us but they can you tell us about them the
02:30way that that comfort food makes us feel good in our brain that why we're so addicted to it I mean it's
02:36true the you know these sugary foods they cause hormones to be released in our brain GABA the feel
02:44good hormone so we we crave them because they really do make us feel good we're not making it up women
02:50when we're on you know it's our cycle we crave those sugary comfort foods when we go through something
02:57hard and we're like man I just want to go home and I just want to grab something sweet we crave that for a
03:03reason because it gen it really does make our body feel good and so we have to really evaluate our
03:08relationship with food the purpose of food is to fuel our body it's not so it's not to ease an emotion
03:15because whether we address that emotional problem or not that that problem is still there so food is
03:20meant to sustain our bodies and that's how we have to look at it we have to look at other outlets to
03:26manage our emotions so so what are the foods that you think are like the worst things that you could
03:35possibly ever eat and I know it's a hard question it's a hard question hard question so I think the most popular
03:43foods that people eat that have the misconception that they might be good for them how about that the
03:48diet sodas okay people think because it's died it's okay but I can tell you diet soda is more addictive
03:55and it's and honestly the studies have shown that people that drink diet soda consume more soda than
04:01those who drink regular soda because they think it's diet they drink more of it and so you know it's
04:07very very very harmful the sweet teas another thing I was going to say is the drive-thru food it's so
04:14heavily processed but you have to think about it if you can get an entire meal for a dollar 99 cents
04:20something is something is wrong with that that is not that's not normal and so I feel like the drive
04:25through food where you have no control of what's in it the portion size is huge and we feel the need
04:32because we paid for it to eat the whole thing it's bad let me I heard and this is kind of what I kind of
04:40do so you could critique me so I only I don't I don't eat three meals a day because I'm not hungry
04:48three times a day I feel like the diet we made that we eat that we're so used to eating came out of
04:56slave and farmer meaning I wake up in the morning I eat grits and eggs and biscuits because I got to go
05:06and work and I'll burn all that off and then I come in for lunch and I gotta go eat something like
05:13that heavy again because I gotta go back and work and then I come home and I gotta eat because I'm
05:17hungry because I'm burning all off I don't work in nobody's fields so I don't need all that and so I
05:24eat when I only eat when I'm hungry when I wake up in the morning I'm not hungry also I don't eat till
05:30I'm I don't eat until I'm full yeah I eat until I'm not hungry anymore tell me about that what do
05:39you think about critique me no I think that's perfectly right the average American is eating
05:4419 hours out of the day there's 19 hours there's only 24 hours in the day which means that we're
05:51eating up until we fall asleep and then we wake up and we eat again like you know so you're not giving
05:56your body enough time to digest the food that you consumed so in America we're just generally
06:01over consuming food in the length of time and the amount of time and you're right if you're not living
06:08if you're not having a physically active job you may not require that many calories you just really
06:14may not require it if you're sitting all day your body literally may not require that many calories and
06:19so you're right we should eat up until looking at a scale of one to ten ten being stuffed full
06:26uncomfortable one being starving we should be eating to about a level of six we don't need to eat until
06:34we feel like we can't do anything but go lay down that's not normal people in New Orleans we eat till we get
06:38tired yeah we sweat that's just what we do you know and and I think that that's a real issue you know New
06:46Orleans San Antonio uh Charleston West Virginia the three fattest cities in America okay and the thing
06:54is we own it because in New Orleans we love food yes we do but we but but at the same time there's
07:03got to be an option what is an option when I when I say that to you tell me about that well what do you
07:11think an option could be I mean like so I don't want to take away food right because food is something
07:15that we celebrate that's how we celebrate we gather holidays so I'm not saying don't enjoy your food
07:21don't go out to restaurants I'm not saying that but so something I do is anytime I go out to a
07:26restaurant I take the plate and I just say when you bring me my plate please bring me a to-go container and I
07:31have that thing because I know it's too much food so as soon as I get my plate I said half of the food on my
07:37plate and I put it in a to-go container because I already know it's too much food in that way I'm already
07:42eliminating part of that temptation to over consume that's a good idea now what about like at home what
07:49what are some tips you could give to like at home so at home I only eat out of a saucer because our
07:54brain likes to see a full plate and so if you use a big plate you're gonna fill it up and so if I eat
08:00out of a saucer I fill up my saucer okay okay okay all right so you didn't do a monkey wrench and
08:06everybody's playing now so she says she only eats out of a saucer this could I think this is a is a
08:14really good thing I never thought about that so think about the concept of eating until you feel
08:26not hungry what is there a difference in the color of the plate that I should use I heard about that too
08:34like the color of the plate would make a difference I don't know about the color of the plate I feel
08:37like I have colorful plates because it makes me feel good and I think presentation I enjoy how it
08:42looks another thing is I do is I take my plate and I divide it in half and half of that plate is all
08:47vegetables and so that way I'm not worrying about trying to measure because sometimes it's hard
08:52a cup what's a half a cup I just take half that plate and it's full of vegetables and then I take the
08:58other half and I divide I divide that in half quarter that makes that leaves two quarters left
09:02one quarters for my animal protein my fish my chicken my ground turkey and then the other quarters
09:07left for some kind of carbohydrate my beans my quinoa my brown rice so that so so that's what you
09:14recommend that because that's kind of like the healthy plate kind of thing so did y'all so let's
09:19wrap our minds around that so half the plate we want vegetables now what what do you think of the
09:25vegetable that gives you the most bang for your buck when you're trying to be healthier what's
09:29your favorite I mean I love all vegetables and I encourage people to eat seasonally you want to
09:34eat seasonally because uh you know you want to make sure things are growing local if possible
09:39and I encourage people to try new things don't always eat greens don't always eat you know your kale
09:44switch it up try different things so you make sure you get a diverse nutrient profile and I say there's
09:50also no limit on vegetables so if you want that half a plate to be three quarters of the plate
09:53that's fine I don't limit vegetables even if they're a starchy vegetable yeah and and of all
09:58the starches what do you think is the is the the most healthy starch that one can eat as opposed
10:05to the most unhealthy starch because see we like starch here we like starch so if you and let me tell
10:11you something when you go to a a supper you know what a supper is yes I know what a supper is okay all
10:18right I feel like a supper is made ordained at a church by the lord to kill me sometimes because
10:27a supper is gonna have some type of fried meat macaroni and cheese uh cornbread potato salad peas
10:39and some type of cake that's like that's like the sugar of like a thousand dollars
10:45overload it's our overload it is so well so what do you think the best carbs could be you mentioned
10:50something like you mentioned quinoa tell tell us about what is quinoa what is all that so it's it's
10:55a grain um you can cook it similarly to rice um you can spice stuff with different herbs and spices you
11:00could cook it in a little chicken bone broth if you want and that'll give it a little bit more flavor
11:04that's more of our healthier grains and it's full of fiber like we talked about earlier fiber is
11:08really important it's great for your gut it's also going to help you feel full it's going to help blunt
11:13that increase in blood sugar so we want to do the quinoa you know some brown rice is okay I mean brown
11:18rice still gets broken up into sugar uh sweet potatoes if you had to pick a potato but I think it's also
11:24important is you don't you don't feel like you have to have carbs to be honest you're going to get sugar
11:29from your vegetables and other things like that so you don't feel like you have to load your
11:33you're played up with rice or potatoes or things like that so when you look at um the the starch
11:40right this is something that uh we look at these labels total carbohydrate versus fiber let's go
11:47through it like a label so tell me about like the labels and how are you what you're supposed to look
11:52for so I think an important thing to look for in the labels first you want to look at the ingredients
11:57because generally if something has more than five ingredients it's probably something that's super
12:01processed and has a lot of additives so definitely start by looking at the nutrient profile and make
12:06sure it doesn't have more than five things you want to look at the fat you want to look at the total fat
12:11saturated fat and trans fat if it has trans fat you don't want it trans fat is very inflammatory it's
12:17not good for you so anything so what is trans fat what's the difference trans fat is it's basically
12:24how it's been processed so if it's been processed it has trans fat and that's what helps it
12:28you know be preserved and stay for a long time so we don't want trans fat that means it's got a bunch
12:33of man-made stuff that's been added to it and it's been highly processed fiber if it's got fiber
12:39that's great carbs you want to look at how many carbs there are generally you know i like people to
12:44stay around 20 to 30 carbs total in a day if possible okay so that's clear 20 to 30 carbs in a day
12:52which is hard that's that's hard that's hard and that's grams that's grams that's great so when we
12:58look at this um this uh the box of food you you can look at the total carbs and then how does that
13:07relate to the total fiber so if it has fiber you can subtract that so if that's fiber you can subtract
13:13it so say it has 25 total carbs but five grams of fiber you subtract the 25 five from 25 so now you're at
13:2020 total carbs okay now that makes no fiber do you that's why you like oh yes give me more fiber
13:27because it's going to subtract from your total carbs right and those are the micro changes that you kind
13:31of got to think about meaning uh white rice versus brown rice rice is not a bad thing i've been talking
13:39about rice all day like that's bad white rice is kind of harsh brown rice has less carbohydrates
13:46because it adds more fiber okay so when you're looking at these things you've got to be able
13:51to subtract and know what you're talking about know what you're looking at okay so once you look at
13:57the at the at the um the carbs what do you look at next you look at the carbs the fats is there anything
14:03else i like to look at the protein too okay let's talk about protein now what tell me what are you looking
14:09at as far as protein when you how much should you have what's enough what's not so i mean it's protein
14:16is going to let you know if that can be a good complete meal for you or not so some things don't
14:20have any protein and so that's not going to probably sustain you or fill you up enough to be a complete
14:25meal and so you may have to add something so a lot of people ask me about different smoothies and green
14:30smoothies those are great but a lot of times they don't have any protein so you're going to need to add
14:34some protein maybe have a boiled egg with it to make you full to help sustain you as a complete meal
14:40so the smoothie the smoothie sometimes is the bane of my existence okay because what i see is when
14:47a woman or a man says you know what i gotta get on it i gotta get my life back i want to get healthy
14:53so i'm gonna walk around the track so they start doing the walks which only burns probably 100 calories
14:59let's be honest right walking is not a it's not a a bad thing but you gotta walk like you
15:04walking and you gotta walk a long long way for it to really make a big difference as opposed to
15:10just walking around a couple times and then what i see you're walking and you're drinking something
15:18and when you're walking you're drinking something it's not water this is probably a problem okay unless
15:23you're in new order you can have some gatorade or something with low sugar but when you finish you go
15:28straight to the smoothie shop and get a smoothie and that smoothie's gonna have so much sugar yeah you
15:35have to be really careful oh my god so much sugar tell me what should my smoothie have in it what am i
15:42what am i going for with yes listen i you know it makes it convenient to stop at these smoothie stores
15:47but you really should be making your own smoothies when i was in residency i used to get a smoothie from
15:52the smoothie king right before my call and it was a great smoothie and it was so good it was so good
15:58i used to get one every week and then one day i said i wonder what's in this smoothie and i looked
16:02it up online and there was almost 1500 calories in the smoothie 1500 this is a great smoothie what could
16:09they were putting coconut cream in it so it's basically like having ice cream i was basically having
16:14ice cream every day so we need to be careful that because it's easy to get a lot of calories and a lot of
16:19sugar in a smoothie so with my smoothies i like just a base of either water or unsweetened almond milk
16:27loaded with veggies you have to have vegetables in it i like to put spinach or kale some kind of green
16:33vegetable no limit as much spinach as you want if i'm going to put a banana for sweetness or texture
16:39it's a half a banana you're never going to use a whole banana in a smoothie because there's so much
16:43sugar in bananas but they're great for adding a little bit of natural sweetness and a little bit of
16:47texture and then whatever fruit i love berries berries have a low glycemic index meaning when i
16:53when i consume a berry my blood sugar is not going to spike up super high so berries are a great fruit
16:58to put in your smoothie um anything else if i want to do an apple or an orange it's always half you're
17:03never going to use the whole thing again because you want to it it's great to drink these things but
17:09you still have to be mindful of all the sugar that you're getting and i will tell you what i do
17:13the only thing i don't like in a smoothie is celery because celery makes it taste like a celery smoothie
17:19to me i don't like that but you can if you put a half a banana and some strawberries in it you can
17:26put anything else and it's going to taste good anything else i swear but i mean many vegetables any
17:31vegetables but you've got to the heart doctor kind of push back on me a little bit on this one
17:38i want people to get over that everything has to taste good at the beginning and i know that you
17:45might push back on me in this too because we not everything is going to taste good not everything
17:52is going to feel good that you have to do when you work out you know your muscles don't feel good the
17:56same day they hurt so when you have to eat this i mean when we grew up kale was a garnish nobody ate kale
18:03that was something they put on something to make it look right right so i have to come to grips with
18:09the fact that i don't really like the way kale tastes i really don't but i still eat it because
18:15i know it's good for me what do you say to that i think we have to change our mindset about food we
18:21really have to change the purpose food is supposed to serve our bodies so before you eat something you
18:26need to ask yourself how is this going to serve me because if you eat a donut it's going to taste
18:32good a donut can be consumed probably in about five or six minutes it tastes good but once that five
18:38six minutes you need five or six seconds after you eat that donut that's it like it does nothing good
18:43for your body nothing good your blood sugar goes up you're going to feel crummy about 10 minutes later
18:49so you need to look at your food in terms of how it's going to serve me and again your
18:52your palate can be trained so if you eat something and you don't like it keep eating it because your
19:00palate can be trained to enjoy these things and again if you're saying how it's just serving me
19:05you're more open to trying it yes um i think what's very important that she mentioned that the doctor
19:11earlier mentioned this too when you first try whiskey when you first try crown you didn't say oh this
19:18tastes great you thought it was nasty when you first tried wine you thought the wine was nasty
19:24but the wine served a purpose for you because it relaxed you and that's why you drink it let's be
19:30honest i mean we know we might like it now but there's no way that you think that that crown royal
19:36tastes better than grape juice there's no way there's no way but grape juice does not do the same
19:42thing to you as crown royal so not that i don't know if kind of wants to sponsor there's nothing
19:48wrong with crown royal right however um we've got to get out of this mindset we've got to get out of
19:54this mindset that everything is supposed to feel good or taste good sometimes you have to sacrifice to
20:02get to the next level and it's not going to be an easy ride what do you think as far as uh food versus
20:10working out how do you play that into balance when you were talking to your patient i feel like they
20:16go hand in hand and i find that if you're eating healthy or if you're exercising you're going to
20:21want to do both you don't want to go run three miles and then come home and ruin your run by eating
20:26something horrible i feel like they go hand in hand so coming up with the exercise routine that you can
20:32stick to and then coming up with a way of eating your diet that you can stick to those two things are going to
20:37work together so your patients how many calories do you i know it's patient to patient let's just say
20:48a 200 pound man what do you recommend for their kind of their profile or what they need to eat if
20:56they're perfectly healthy and what does the blood type have to do with it if you believe in that that
21:04method of eat for your blood type because people do people think about that a lot and there's a lot
21:08of books out there so so i'll address the eat for your blood type you know uh diet first so
21:15eat for your blood type diet for anyone that's unfamiliar with it is being knowing what your blood
21:19type is and then there are specific diets that have been prescribed based on that blood type now i would
21:25say no matter what your blood type is any of those diets that you pick to that you that you select or do
21:33you're going to lose weight you're going to feel better because all of those diets are eliminating
21:38twinkies processed foods fast foods they're all eliminating those things wait twinkies no twinkies no
21:43twinkies on any of those diets so the the data has shown no matter which one you stick to
21:50you're going to do better because it's eliminating all the bad stuff from that we consume over in
21:55abundance now for most men i'm generally you know a general healthy man who's active you know he can
22:01have 2 000 calories maybe a little bit more if he's more active um a day i think would be okay okay so
22:08now since guys i said men first because i want to spend a little more time on the women because when you
22:13talk about 2 000 calories a day let's do the math if you wake up and just don't do anything in a day
22:20you'll burn 1500 calories just being a human being right so that means you start off negative 15. so
22:27that means if you eat 1500 you'll be even you'll be even so if you do 500 and you work out every day
22:33you burn out 500 you're even so you'll never gain a pound does that make sense that makes sense to
22:38everybody but eating 2000 calories is very hard what do you suggest to a woman who is 45 who put
22:49on some weight after she had a baby and when men tell you need to lose weight you ain't never had no
22:55baby man so don't be saying that and and what do you suggest and i know every woman's different but
23:01let's just say a woman with no health conditions 230 pounds 45 years old what should she be trying
23:09to do so first i need to know where she's at but in general i'm gonna push her to restrict to 1200
23:15to 1500 max in a day okay everybody was like you had me up until then 1200 to 1500 calories a day
23:26what does that look like in a do you need it's gonna be hard to do that with three meals do you
23:34cut back a meal or do you add another small meal it can be a small meal i think if you eat something
23:39raw like for me one of my meals that i eat a day is a large salad that's nutrient dense and low calorie
23:46um so i think it's very possible i am a big proponent of fasting again the average american is
23:52eating 19 hours out of the day we in america we don't fast we slow we don't we don't fast and so
23:59i think kind of restricting and in consuming you know just eating within an eight hour window i think
24:06already you're going to cut back on your calories and i also think that means we have to watch the
24:09beverages we have to watch the beverages because our sugary beverages from starbucks the smoothies the
24:15alcohol all those things have calories that we still have to account for that aren't food so what
24:20happens is i see a lot of people that are drinking these macchiatos and these lattes and those have
24:25500 calories and so you you're cutting into the count i'd rather eat my calories than drink my calories
24:31so we have to kind of watch those and that's why we talk so much about water and really consuming
24:36water as your main beverage because otherwise you'll drink all your calories who wants to drink all your
24:40calories i'd rather you know have a slice of pie if i'm out you know if i'm gonna have six seven hundred
24:44calories i'm really on that if how is this how will this serve me if i'm going to eat something
24:52it's gonna have to taste really really good to me if i'm gonna invest in that i mentioned earlier the
24:58things that we drink if you go to outback steakhouse i mentioned this earlier and drink a margarita
25:06an outback steakhouse a frozen margarita let alone the daiquiris here in the in this city that we love
25:11it has the sugar equivalent of 13 crispy cream donuts 13 donuts 13 donuts in one drink 13 so we
25:21got to think about these things they're giving us our time so this is this is a lot of pressure
25:29you have all these beautiful people out here and they're going to walk away because you are the
25:34culinary doctor this is your specialty this is what you do what three things can they walk away with
25:42from you to say i'm going to start on my path okay so i want you to start being more conscientious of
25:48the food that you're putting in your body just to begin with no more mindless eating no more just
25:52eating out of convenience or eating because because it's there eating because you're bored just being
25:57mindful anytime you sit down eat ask myself am i really hungry am i really hungry i want us to think
26:02about eating jesus food can i identify what it is that i'm eating if i look at a piece of food and
26:07i can't say what it is then maybe i shouldn't be eating it and then lastly i want us to think about
26:12making our food at home making our food at home that's the only way we can control what we're going
26:16to be putting in our food that's the only way we control the salt the fat the protein is by cooking
26:21our own food and doing it in our home is how our children learn the schools are not teaching our kids
26:26what to eat the cafeterias that feed our children are not good so the only way children are going to learn how to
26:31eat well and how to cook is in our own homes and so i'm doing a cooking class it's three days it's
26:37a three-day cooking class we're going to cook three different meals a vegan caesar salad a chickpea curry
26:42and a cake made with olive oil and fresh fruit so join me eating with dr lauren um we'll do we'll
26:48cook together i'll teach i'll talk to you more about you know using food as your medicine and let's all get
26:53healthier together and i can't echo that more keep an open mind when she said chickpea curry i saw
27:00everybody they were like please keep an open mind because you have no idea how good this stuff tastes
27:07and my one thing i want you to know is what i need you to do is before you get the second saucer because
27:15we're gonna all start eating out of saucers like cats we're gonna all start eating out of saucers when we
27:23finish that that first plate i want you to wait 20 minutes before you eat something else and i guarantee
27:35you you won't be hungry to have that second plate and the reason why is because our stomach doesn't
27:41really have receptors to to make us feel satisfied our intestines do because we were people that had to
27:47hunt and gather to eat so your stomach is never going to to stretch enough to tell you to stop
27:52eating but your intestine does and so when you start to digest your food after 20 minutes your
27:57intestine is going to stretch and that sends the message to your brain to not to that you're full
28:03so in the first 20 minutes you're going to keep eating so just don't eat the second plate before 20
28:08minutes and let's see how that works for you thank you dr long to give her hands up
28:12all right and she i'm sure she running around for a minute to have some questions but i think we have
28:20to move forward so i think i think so five minutes for questions okay good we'll have five minutes for
28:27questions you might have any questions oh good one i love it and they tell my knee to go on a weight loss
28:39diet because my knee is hurting real bad this i don't need surgery but if i can lose the weight
28:47and take the medicine and get back you know i can kind of be bored to having surgery so
28:54i'm supposed to be going to a weight loss program to mark you know to get a program so i'm just trying to
29:00ask about that that that that is the most poignant question that we will get all day something personal
29:08something real i have to have surgery if i don't lose this weight what am i to do doctor so i mean
29:15i think i think that's great thank you for the question and you're right it's a vicious cycle
29:19right because uh you know we're overweight and it makes our joints hurt our joints hurt and then we
29:24can't exercise if we can't exercise and we can't get the weight off so then it just becomes this vicious
29:29cycle and so really working on our nutrition is going to be really important any kind of organized
29:35nutrition plan you can get on i heard you say one i don't know if it was weight watchers or or what
29:42it's at the doctor's office i think those are great anything that you can get that's organized
29:46and just makes it easy for you where you just kind of have to follow i think it's great
29:53yes
29:53yes
30:02oh it's it's tough it's tough and this this is but this is if i could give you some advice because i
30:06think her bike is perfect if i can give you some advice i need you to cut back on the sugar i got because
30:16you probably have no idea how much sugar you're eating every day you've got to cut back on the
30:23sugar because sugar
30:27it's the drink yeah it is a drink so and i will tell you and look we as as americans i'm gonna give you
30:34just one little sweet little thing that you need to hear when we were evolving okay we were evolving
30:43we ate and glucose glucose still till this day is the sole thing that our body must use for our brains
30:51glucose okay so we eat glucose and then we would save the glucose because our bodies need to save
31:00the only fuel that we can use we're not going to pee it out you're not going to poop it out that's how
31:06we used to know you had diabetes because we would actually taste the urine of someone not not recently
31:13this was a long time ago but they would taste the urine and if you spilled your spill sugar in the
31:18urine your sugar your urine would taste sweet that's how we knew you had diabetes something was wrong
31:23because you'd pee it out but what we did as human beings we eat a lot of sugar and we don't want to
31:30pee it out because we need it for our brains so we save it we save in the form of fatty acid which
31:36is fat and so in america we save it here here and here okay just in case that we get to the point
31:47where we don't have any more sugar so our brains won't die but what happens in america is that we're
31:53constantly storing it we're constantly storing it and our bodies never ever get to the point where
31:58we say wait a minute there's no more sugar i need to burn this this the sugar that i saved and that's
32:04why keto diets which i'm not the biggest fan that's why they make you lose so much weight so fast because
32:11once you stop eating the sugar your body says it's okay we saved up all this sugar and then your body
32:20has to go through a pathway called gluconeogenesis which turns the fat into glucose for your brain
32:26and as soon as that happens you start losing weight really quickly the problem is you've not your body's
32:32never done that so it doesn't have the enzymes to make that happen so you have to almost starve yourself
32:39so your body will recognize that to induce the enzyme so you break it down and how long does that take
32:44a couple of weeks and if you don't eat sugar for a couple of weeks you're going to want to kill somebody
32:49because your brain is starving but once your brain starts to starve and then that fat starts
32:56to turn into glucose your brain won't starve and you'll lose that weight very quickly but it's very
33:01dangerous sometimes if you don't have the right chemistry that you're taking in so that's why if
33:10you do the keto you still need to give yourself some glucose because you're not the first thing is you're
33:16going you're not going to you're not going to stay on the diet because you're going to be so irritable
33:19and mad or you're going to stay on it and then you're going to pass out somewhere because you're
33:25not eating glucose okay so i don't mean to yell at you but what i need you to understand is that sugar
33:31you got to get your brain into thinking that there's no more sugar available in this world
33:37and then take a little bit of it and get you to the better place okay the culinary doctor thank you
33:45very much oh yeah i'm sorry you got one more question one more question yes
33:54carbonated waters versus diet soda so i mean obviously the carbonated waters are going to
33:59probably be better than the soda if you just look at the nutrient profile usually that usually there's no
34:04added sugars and the calories are still low they're not absorbed the same way as free water
34:09so i don't want you saying i drink sparkling water carbonated water so i don't need to drink regular
34:14water we're still going to be drinking half of our weight in water and what i want you to know is
34:19please it may not taste good it's okay everything can't taste good i know it's tough i know it's tough
34:27all right thank you doctor i appreciate you give it up for Dr. Roy
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