Real Reasons We Gain Weight- with Gary Taubes | The Empowering Neurologist EP. 3

[@travelmatte]

Perlmutter interviewing Taubes?! Does it get any better? Two contrarian (although less so with each passing year) critical thinkers who are doing more to positively advance health and nutrition than anyone else in the field. They both deserve far more recognition than they get. And they do this--particularly Taubes--in a hostile climate of angry dogmatic opposition. These guys are very inspiring. A very enjoyable interview.

[@KenDBerryMD]

Great info about the damage done by Dr Ancel Keys and his cherry-picked research! One day his study and the subsequent "threw the looking glass" practice of medicine will be studied in medical schools as how Not to do it. Gary Taubes is right on and should be heeded...

[@IgnoreMeImWrong]

What in the heck, I know you from twitter xD. I came here because someone linked this video as being evidence that Taubes is full of shit. I'm so confused.

[@vcoonrod]

People dont realize the positive effect Gary Taubes has had on society at large. Ive lost 35 pounds over five years following info from his books. This gentleman deserves a Nobel Peace Prize, and my hope is that he gets proper acknowledgement for his outstanding contributions to humanity.

[@shannonblok658]

Forward five years and he was spot on.

[@MichaelSalo]

I appreciate the citing of the A to Z weight loss trial, which does show positive results for Atkins diet vs Ornish and Zone diets.

[@_Dublin_Girl_]

I am listening to this in 2023...so prescient! 😮

[@VSS1]

Awesome video. Would have been better with some video over Skype so we could see you guys chatting. Just easier to watch.

[@seanericanderson3666]

The stigmatization of German scientists after WW2 is what caused us to embrace low fat.

[@pharmclare]

Thanks for the amazing insights

[@Htrevor100]

I would like this information in Spanish, I need to explain it to my doctor who believe in the Low fat diet

[@joeschmo5699]

yeah, I tend to agree with Taubes in his caution or reluctance to get too excited about the microbiome and its impact metabolically. I see it as another potential distraction down the road whereby people can make a lot of money complicating something when the problem is, in large part, relatively simple - dysregulation of metabolism and the endocrine system through hyperinsulinemia. Get that straightened out and the gut microbiome will come back into line. Manipulation of the microbiome should only be reserved for extreme cases and particularly when there has been some sort of neurological damage, perhaps. Getting healthy simply by eating a sensible diet consisting of real foods is just not as, uh, "attractive" or as interesting as tinkering with 100 trillion bacteria and all that DNA, is it?

[@joeschmo5699]

+joe schmo Well, today is October 19, 2015 and I watched a lot of videos on gut bacteria yesterday. Mike Mutzel and Taz Bhatia both said things that are very compelling and I find my mind is changing on this. Perhaps the modern industrialized diet is more damaging than can even be imagined. Perhaps the microbiome is being impacted from birth and precipitating poor outcomes from early life. This might be where we can make a strong case against GMOs (in addition to the glyphosate contamination). It turns out that genetic modification can happen to the bacteria that lives on plants (unintentionally). I think there could be many unintended consequences of GM down the road. And once again, western medicine hasn't helped because of excessive use of antibiotics, C-section births and cutting the umbilical cord too soon after birth.

[@joeschmo5699]

+joe schmo Yeah, but Taubes discussion of Peter Cleave, the Naval surgeon, around 38:00 is also very compelling. So I'm oscillating. I think Taubes is still right. For some reason, the powers that be (and most everyone else) want to ignore the most obvious first choice, that hyperinsulinemia through carb intolerance is the best and most simple thing to thoroughly investigate. It's like no one wants to look at that. It's like a bunch kids with ADHD, that can't focus on the primary subject. Everything else is more interesting. How do we explain this? One obvious explanation is that it is just too unpleasant to think that sugar and flour, and other refined carbohydrates are as potentially deadly as we imagined saturated fat to be. Another is, well, repeat the above.

[@pabloisuarez]

Why are you answering yourself?.

[@joeschmo5699]

@Pablo, I was thinking out loud, like as a blog. In fact, I just found this thread again as I'm in the process of writing a book based on my YT research over the last 6 years/

[@pabloisuarez]

:P do it.

[@Garseraph]

Excellent- thank you!

[@HIGHLANDER_ONLY_ONE]

How canANYONE think, that eating a variety of natural foods like fresh vegetables, and untainted meats can be wrong, and at the sane time, believe, that refined, GMO, and processed foods are good?! I just doubt get it. My goodness, humans need to learn to STOP believing the WRONG people, and use their common sense... Eat the foods as close as nature made them... Eat 80% watery foods, and 20% good meats and you'll be ok. Every time one has an issue, study primal people, and you'll very the answers... even things like, why do most women talk more than men, why should we not eat breakfast, and that fastings natural, that we need to walk everyday, why we shouldn't eat sweets all the time, etc.

[@IgnoreMeImWrong]

What common sense? Humans are raised to do as they are told and that the authority above them is always correct.

[@5Alenka]

Hello Dr. Perlmutter. Thank you for another interesting interview. Can you please provide me with a name of Dr. Max whose last name I am not sure how to spell in Amsterdam? I would love to follow his work as well.

[@moemrik]

I am pretty sure it is Max Nieuwdorp.

[@5Alenka]

Got it, thank you moemrik.

[@donaldjackson4551]

Good Info!!

[@allamakee1397]

Nice interview, Thanks for posting. Sounds like Gary's new book on Sugar will not be on anyone's Christmas Gift list. LMAO:

[@Tam438]

but exercise and meditation are not going to reverse heart disease...(Gary Taubes is always saying that exercise is useless for weight loss) and, as he pointed out, most diets, if not all, restrict refined grains and sugar, however most diets are not having the dramatic success that the very low fat diets of Dean Ornish (and Caldwell Esselstyn) have had in reversing heart disease...

[@BX138]

But poor people ARE poor because they spend more money than they make

[@cyndimanka]

I realize this is seven years old and it’s 2023, but I wouldn’t look to peter Attia for much on anything useful. He’s wrong in so many areas. You watch his videos and you go no. No. No. I neither Dr. nurse or medical person and I know after all my research that he is way off.

[@broznar1019]

willhem Dafoe

[@proudchristian77]

Get attached to Almighty God, cause everything else will fall away, He's serious, but sweet , 🍯💝 y I'm not heavy, I won't miss I didn't get attached too ! Maybe coffee ☕️ 🍯🍶 but it sapresses the appetite, hmmmmmmm, !

[@andrewclancy2511]

People lose weight eating high fat/low carb. People also lose weight eating high carb/low fat. I can't believe these "experts" either don't consider this reality or don't admit that they privately do. For me, the question is which is healthier, and hands down the research points to a whole food plant-based diet, which is high carb by default.

[@FrankieZG]

what is better for you that you have to figure out yourself.. for me HF VLC works the best

[@crikeymos22]

Most plant base particularly vegetables high in fibre are not high carb. They mean refined carbs sugar, bread and pasta etc.

[@andrewclancy2511]

Taubs, for example, blames obesity on high processed carbs, but then concludes that "an Atkins-type diet" is the answer. For whatever reason he wants to ignore the billions of people who have lived long, disease free lives eating mostly carbs in the form of rice, potatoes, beans, and grains. Even today the longest lived people in the world eat diets high in carbs and very low or no saturated fat. Are there any long lived populations that eat "ketogenic" diets like the one his business partner promotes? Nope. None. Not a single one in all of recorded history.

[@zoltangaal1842]

+Andrew Clancy Hi Andrew, I don't see your point. An Atkins-type diet is devoid of carbs let alone the fact that there're at least three phases to it. Talking about disease free lives of billions of people is a bit of a stretch, really. Who told you that? What about the prevalence of diabetes in India? What about the evidence that grains cause a plethora of diseases? Where do you get your data of the longest lived people? Just to wrap it up: Have you read his books? Have you looked up the references in the Bibliography in his books?

[@andrewclancy2511]

***** I'm sorry you missed my point. I thought it was clear. Do you not know who the longest-lived groups of people in the world are, and what they eat? I thought that was common knowledge at this point. I'm sure this information is easy enough for you to Google, and there is plenty of research on these groups that you can read on Google Scholar. I know it's publicly available because I have read it.