https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFY0iPmzNqU

Gary Taubes is a rock star in the keto community.  this  video is a pretty good representation of most of his talks

The linked video is titled:

The Quality of Calories

Here are my notes:

• make no mistake, we are in an obesity and diabetes epidemic
• you would want experts to assess the underlying assumptions
• but they weren’t
• what causes obesity?
• is it calories in vs calories out?
• so Gary and Nina Tiecholtz and others are assessing for us
• in the early 1900s everyone was studying calories
• if you can only measure 1 thing, all your hypotheses are around that 1 thing
• so they fat shame obesity saying it is ignorance, self-indulgency, gluttony, and sloth
• the math says if every day, you store 20 calories more than you burn, that means you gain 20 pounds in 10 years
• but why do adoption studies show twins look the same even though the eat differently?
• why do men gain weight above the waist and women gain weight below the waist?
• why do women going through puberty gain 50% more fat than boys do?
• the energy balance hypothesis is circular logic, there’s no explanation
• what if I told you the fundamental cause of wealth is earning more money than you spend?
• that’s the same logic
• in economics you’re laughed out of the room, in health, that’s the norm
• lets take a step back to first principles: obesity is the accumulation of fat
• there is something about tissue that allows it to accumulate fat, we call it lipophilic
• so what regulates fat accumulation
• in 1965, Yalow and Berson identified insulin as the agent that makes fat cells accumulate fat
• when insulin drops fat depots shrink
• we secrete insulin when we eat carbohydrates
• this is textbook science
• in 1963 everyone knew that carbohydrates are fattening
• why keto? why intermittent fasting?
• keep insulin low for as long as we can

Let’s figure it out!  The Fasting Motivation podcast is not medical advice.

the third comment on this youtube is the reason I started this podcast

Hazzard0 says I could listen to Gary Tuabes repeating himself 2 hours a week

My notes are a couple of minutes, that I can do whenever I need to remember why fasting works

Watch: Gary Taubes

for the rest of the story

Repeat after me:

if I’m predisposed to get fat, don’t eat carbs

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