Striving for metabolic flexibility with Robb Wolf - Diet Doctor Podcast

[@cassieb1860]

Robb Wolf is so super intelligent and so “matter of fact” type of person. I love listening to him. And as always, Dr. Sher is a great host.

[@MrsTabby1963]

33:31 "once you are aware, then that's where the accountability comes in". Yes! For all of my teenage and adult life I thought I was a failure because I could not successfully diet (low fat high carb natch) and never, ever maintained any loss. For forty years I struggled and suffered and failed. Until three years ago (1st March 2016 to be exact) and my life and health changed for ever. Why? I started LCHF which became keto. I had done my research "became aware" and became prepared to be accountable. That was 40 months ago and still I embrace this way of eating because it works for people like me like nothing else ever did. 100lbs of excess fat gone forever and this is maintained easily. A miracle. If anyone asks what I did, I tell them and their eyes widen with horror "oooh, I could never give up xxx (name some hyper-palatable carb)". I smile and move on. Maybe they, like me will eventually do their own research and decide to try it for themselves. Its the only way.

[@TheFrankHummer]

Thanks for sharing that. The improvement with LCHF/keto is very dramatic. When people ask me "how did you lose that weight", and I tell them "I make sure to get 75 to 80% of my calories from fat", they look at me like I'm claiming to have done real magic.

[@kimberlycooper4170]

Yes, this is why I think that, if anyone ever asks me what I did, I'll just tell them to read the book "The Obesity Code" by Dr. Jason Fung, MD. Maybe if they go through the research effort, they might join us in the LCHF eating.

[@nikitaonassis6090]

Many in the bodybuilding industry made many mistakes in the day. You can loose weight in high carb low fat but it involves lots of fat burners like Carnitine, Choline Picolinate, Inositol, etc. and many hours in the gym. There is a lot of corruption in USA and for lack of better word, organized crime but the people accept it. My culture used to be awe and looked up to USA 30 years ago, no longer. There are problems in Singapore in the HSA though as a significant proportion of sources come from USA, perhaps in aversion to UK, free trade issues and so on.

[@russellbrooks23able]

It w was April 24, 2017 when I made the change to low carb high fat, whole foods diet. Zero sugar, processed and junk food, seed oils, grains. 65 pounds down and easily maintained. Reversed type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, off all drugs. My focus now is low carb, high protein, the fat takes care of itself. When people ask me how I did it, I see the same horror in their eyes at potentially having to give up their beloved processed carb.

[@Puglover130]

Russell Brooks unfortunately what they don’t know (or refuse to believe) is that once in deep ketosis that beloved carby item doesn’t have a hold over them anymore/ I am a carb ADDICT. When not keto I binge on fresh donuts , tiramisu, cupcakes, candy, white bread, rice, cheesecake. I’d even eat homemade frosting out of the bowl. Knowing I’d have gut rot later. Once I get 4 days into ketosis it’s like magic. Yesterday I made homemade chewy chocolate chip cookies for the kids with homemade frosting smiles on them. The old me would have eaten half the batch by now. Not tempted in the slightest. It tames the tiger. Even when I am off keto it’s hard to get back on because the tiger is out of the cage. I have to “fool” myself by just saying I’ll go on for a week. Of course by then he’s in the cage and I can easily stay on keto. Unfortunately for those people who won’t try the plan (yet) I guess they just aren’t sick enough, or disgusted enough, or scared enough . Once you are you’d be willing to do just about anything to change your life.

[@ranger2316]

Man, I love these discussions. Having said that, the more I see/hear in these discussions and videos, the less I know. Thanks for doing this guys.

[@douglasx6915]

These videos are so incredibly well done. They are like ASMR for lifestyle and diet. Relaxing for the body, stimulating for the brain. Bravo!

[@albertvanderwalt7013]

Thought provoking. Dr Sher is a skillful interviewer. Thank, I enjoyed the discussion

[@ygillham]

Loved listening to this interview. Robb Wolf and Dr Scher..you are both so smart and you share so much info, Thank you both.

[@nikitaonassis6090]

My research a decade ago led me to Tim Noakes, Nina Teicholz, Lauren Cordain et al., Robb Wolf. He is a much more balanced person today in a positive way.

[@PGpenny6]

I've appreciated this talk because, after 9 months of LCHF lifestyle, gaining some metabolic benefits that I hope will continue in my "older age" (71), losing 40lbs (a side benefit), I feel like this is my optimal weight area, and am thinking of how to proceed with my eating style, as well as doing more physical movement (I tend to be a bit sedentary). Trying to keep up with the collections of science by doing a lot of listening to these amazing youtube talks, I am searching for perspective relating to our human individualities in responses to foods (natural and whole foods), as there is so much conflicting "science" out there. I've never been a "fad follower", so want to be sure I am hearing "facts" from a variety of perspectives. As the saying goes, I am "keeping on keeping on", with my ears and eyes alert.

[@aquamarine99911]

People whine about how things (music, politics) aren't as good "these days". But I'm up there in age, and youtube is an absolute game changer in terms self-empowerment. Yeah, you have to separate the wheat from the chaff (just an expression - DON"T eat wheat!), but once you find the good stuff, it's revolutionary.

[@whats_the_truth.]

Perfect timing with this podcast for me. Now that I reached my goal weight I've been thinking about metabolic flexibility. 👍

[@vannahhall915]

I love this guy's perspective on real change in healthcare.

[@rachaelcosta2387]

Alot of great info on IF? Challenging my thinking on autophragy! Loved this interview. Dr. Sher you are such an great teacher!!

[@jw-vx8im]

I'm glad sm one with common sense has said that parkinsons is a metabolic issue.

[@craigw4644]

Have a lot of respect for Rob; however, I would love to see Rob in a debate with Dr. Fung. Hunter gatherers fasted all the time, often days between meals, especially during winter months. What's unusual about pounding away a couple rib eyes and not being hungry the next day, skipping breakfast, lunch and maybe dinner?

[@dreamervanroom]

Do they have much distance between them? I think not. They have less a difference in opinions, than a difference in focus and the population their work more specifically applies to. Dr. Fung is clear about the limits of his focus. I remember when I started reading him, before the current website with more personalized interactions, he stated there were no studies - and gave cogent reasons. Now there are studies he can quote. Wolfe has a wider interest. I learned about Dr. Jason Fung from Rob Wolfe's book, Wired to Eat. Dr. Fung is specific about levels of sugar intolerance and that speaks to an area where my body is not "at ease". So now to me Dr. Dung's advice is primary. Dr. Wolfe spoke to my habits of constant feeding which attracted me first. I had heard of a very low carb plan but was repelled till Rob opened the door for me. What comes around goes around.

[@bluegrassgirl2972]

I had to smile when you said,"by the way, there is cake in the break room" nurses are sooo bad about that!

[@PropheticCoachTheresa]

What a refreshingly intelligent man. Could listen to Robb all day. Wonderful interview, gave me a lot of clarity regarding the relationship between metabolic factors and different diet styles. Thank you!

[@MrRocksteady77]

Absolutlely, just on of the best content and production value interviews I've seen in a long time. Thank you both!

[@truthseeker7211]

I still go back to one's blood type being a strong indicator on if people can do certain meal plans (Keto, Paleo, Carnivore)....

[@anitamoody7328]

Five star awesome interview!

[@Lauramagic18]

Really good video, as usual! Doc Sher is such a good interviewer - actually lets the interviewee speak! I learned so much and was validated by even more. God Bless

[@kimberlycooper4170]

Robb doesn't think that the yoga and fasting people seem to age well, but that the weight lifting people do age well. It appears to me that many (not all) yoga people tend to be vegans and vegetarians. However, most (not all) weight lifters tend to eat animal fats and animal proteins. We know that the sugar, carbohydrate, and human-invented seed-oil industries and the Seventh-Day Adventist Church have funded a lot of research in an attempt to get people to think that eating their products and following their religious dietary requirements of not eating animal proteins, not eating animal fats, and decreasing eating salt are healthful. However, many scientists are now saying that humans need the full range of nutrients found in animal fats and animal proteins and almost all people need to eat sufficient salt instead of restricting salt.

[@nikitaonassis6090]

Good observations..you need to do more research, especially fixing Context into everything and not falling into Western Science myopic double blind style approach. We can never know enough especially with stones thrown in the way.

[@kimberlycooper4170]

@@nikitaonassis6090 , I live in the USA, lived many years on minimum wage without health insurance, and lived many years on a good income with health insurance. I speak from the experience of living on both sides.

[@seanfrank4158]

This guy is on a whole nother level. If I ireintroduce carbs like that then I'd be right back to eating all the junk food again. I'm not sure he appreciates just how addictive carbohydrates are for some people.

[@seanfrank4158]

Well....I stand corrected. He really does get it.

[@Chenniem-i7g]

Brilliant discussion. Thank you so much 🙏

[@Rocketscientist66]

Or is it out already?? Anyone know 🙂

[@aquamarine99911]

I think it's imperative to get back down to a healthy weight as quickly as possible, and there's nothing like fasting to accomplish that. But sure, the person has to be ready to move to a sustainable, healthy diet. I find it hard to believe coffee is healthier than fasting. My personal bias - I don't like coffee, and I'm quite sure cavemen didn't drink coffee before going out on the hunt.

[@Rocketscientist66]

What a wealth of knowledge! Awesome interview 👏🏻 I’m ready to preorder the book 🤓

[@timflorance4544]

Such a great conversation with incredible information.

[@sjurea]

Finally a doctor who knows the difference between socialism and economics.

[@sjurea]

@Jono Holmes Four times the population of the US, still a smaller economy, and some of their doctors harvest organs from unwilling people. Down you went.

[@sjurea]

@Jono Holmes Yes, 5% of the US debt is to China, according to Investopedia

[@jimconnell8994]

A brilliant interview. Bravo!

[@swimfit57]

Great podcast

[@azurehippo5361]

Great Interview. Robb Wold knows his stuff an i love his flexiblity and openess

[@swimfit57]

People are so addicted to the seed oils and carbs and salt.

[@kimberlycooper4170]

Yes, salt contains sodium and chloride. Sodium is an electrolyte that the body requires for dealing with hot weather, communicating messages via nerve cells, etc. The body uses chloride to make hydrochloric acid for the stomach. The stomach uses pepsin and hydrochloric acid to digest proteins. (Notice the "chloric" in "hydrochloric".) Read the book "The Salt Fix" by Dr. James DiNicolantonio, PharmD, for further review. In the USA, the anti-salt teaching was started in the 1800s by a religious group. Search online for < "belinda fettke" AND "temperance movement" >. The USA sugar and carbohydrate corporations paid scientists to do bogus research to blame salt, animal fats, and animal proteins for the health problems that sugar, grains, and other high-carbohydrate foods were causing. Read the books: (1) "The Big Fat Surprise" by Nina Teicholz. (2) "The Case Against Sugar" by Gary Taubes.

[@lynlawley8903]

We know that too many carbs,,,are not good and sugar, is not the way to go ,,,I want to eat veg and 1/4meat oils fats from cold pressed area,s and all helps us survive healthily so how and what is true ,,, I'm totally confused

[@lynlawley8903]

And doctors don't want to get involved ,,as I don't think they know,, either, what's realy true ,,,or if they don't turn over products,, they aren't profitable,,as a business is health care a business now,,,,and we can't get healthy that way,,,,as health won't be promoted, as strong as it could

[@lynlawley8903]

As is it profit driven,,not health at all cost In the past,, we had doctors controled ,,by their own choice,,,,not now it seems their freedom of choice has been taken,,

[@sgarchetier]

Love what u have to say Rob! Would u like to move to Singapore? 😉

[@JasonBuberel]

This was all kinds of awesome. Loved the section on response to saturated fats and how it modulates LDL-P. I'm in the middle of an experiment to bring my LDL-P down from 2200 by swapping out saturated fats for mono/poly.

[@aquamarine99911]

Are you APOE4?

[@contrarian717]

My LDL came down a lot when I replaced coconut oil with olive oil. Or...has my body simply better adjusted to keto....🤔

[@christopheausruff]

Umm so in US there's so much competition between health care providers and drug companies that care and drugs are at rock bottom prices?

[@cord11ful]

"Speaking from the perspective of a tool..." Bret, don't put yourself down like that (sorry, couldn't resist, made me laugh...) Great episode; especially the caution re the fasting craze...I've noticed people getting overly focused to the point of compulsive about it, and pushing the limits for the sake of it.

[@sjurea]

Dr. Scher looks devilish when filmed from the front in this episode.

[@greendeane1]

I like crossfit but I can't stand the loud muzak so I avoid said. Loud increases cortisol and that is not healthy. (By the way, all HR departments can be replaced by a rubber stamp that says "NO."

[@floydald]

Robb is just too reasonable :-)

[@greendeane1]

I like crossfit but I can't stand the loud muzak so I avoid said. Loud increases cortisol and that is not healthy.

[@Hollyvball05]

Okay I just watched another Robb video from 2019 Paleo Down under I believe and he was wearing the same shirt and a headset awkwardly on his face. This video he has the mark from said headset. Thought that was a funny observation. Nothing of value in my comment. On with your day

[@kimberlycooper4170]

Robb calls for health savings accounts to pay for medical needs instead of Medicare For All. That's just it...a huge number of people don't have money to even go to the dentist or medical doctor one time per year. In the year 2005, the USA Census Bureau found that 28.22% of American *households* were living on less than $25,000 per year. Robb thinks that these people have money for a health savings account?!? Robb is clueless. Also, Robb says that health care should be in the capitalist realm instead of the social services realm. Robb says that companies competing with each other will being down medical costs and will see which one is the winner. Robb needs to see farther ahead. Eventually, the losers sell out to the winner. Then, the winner has a monopoly on all medical fields, can charge as much money as the winner wants since there is no longer any competition, and, with all that money, can buy all the politicians to keep the monopoly going.

[@nikitaonassis6090]

In USA, you have a lot of choice but a lot of misapplication as well. Over a decade ago, many americans migrated to especially Thailand, etc. for medical treatment and cost control.

[@kimberlycooper4170]

@@nikitaonassis6090 , only people who have enough money can afford to go to another country. At least half of USA residents can't afford to go to another country. Instead, they just do without or they go bankrupt paying for healthcare.

[@SaturatedCat]

@@kimberlycooper4170 As a European I really struggle to understand this. Americans pay peanuts in taxes when compared to Europeans, and usually make more money. How can people NOT afford health care over there? It blows my mind. Cost of living is cheaper in the US and you have higher disposable income. Like I really don't understand how you can't afford $250 monthly. I think a lot of Americans would faint if they came to live in Western Europe and realized how little money people have left at the end of the month.

[@kimberlycooper4170]

@@SaturatedCat , thank you for asking. A lot of the reason why Americans can't afford health Care is because of income and expenses. After the Civil Warm (1860-1864), many of the USA wealthy people and government have long used low wages to maintain de facto slavery. After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other laws to end segregation, share cropping, prison chain gangs, and other things that were keeping African-Americans financially down and to end prejudices and other things that were keeping women financially down, the USA's powers-that-be because bad-mouthing low-income people. Psychologists, politicians, news journalists, and other prominent people began talking about "welfare queens", saying that "poverty breeds crime", and saying that research shows low-income people are psychologically, educationally, socially, and otherwise defective. They were setting up Americans to treat low-income people as de facto slaves. So in the 1970s, politicians began not voting to keep minimum wage going up with the cost of living. In 1975 on minimum wage, a single person could afford meat, milk, fruits, vegetables, and bread; could afford to go to the dentist at least once a year; and could afford an inexpensive used car and to rent an inexpensive apartment. By 1980, the cost of living had skyrocketed so high that the minimum-wage person could no longer afford a car or to go to the dentist, much less a medical doctor or the hospital. Now, minimum wage is even worse. Rent takes almost all your money, which leaves almost nothing for food. So, there is no money for insurance, transportation, dentists, medical doctors, optometrists, etc. For example in Florida: (1) Florida State minimum wage is$8.46 per hour for people paid hourly and $5.44 per hour for wait staff at restaurants. ($5.44 is why everyone needs to generously tip wait staff when they eat at restaurants. Feel free to ask your American wait staff how much per hour they earn so you know who these wait staff people are and you can top generously.) (2) [($8.46 per hour X 40 hours per week X 52 weeks per year) - 15% for FICA and other taxes] ÷ 12 months = $1,246.44 per month. (3) In our area, rent costs at least $900 per month, but many places at least $1,000 per month. A few apartments rent for $750 to $900, but the supply if those rentals are quickly snapped up because of so few rentals and so many minimum-wage and low-income people. (4) So, $1246 monthly income minus $900 rent leaves $346 per month for food. For food, that's $86.50 per week in months that have 4 Saturdays to shop and $69.20 per week in months that have 5 Saturdays. (5) Cars cost about $10,000 to own and operate in our area because of car prices, car insurance, etc. A monthly mass transit pass costs $70. Until about 10 years ago, low-cost options of bicycling, skateboarding, and electric scooter were very hard to use. But, we citizens started insisting on using those low-cost options. Now, our county and local cities are repairing and installing sidewalks, wheelchair ramps on sidewalks, bicycle lanes, etc. In addition to destroying people's ability to survive on minimum wage, politicians started a "war on poverty" which was really a war on poor people. Politicians reduced the number of people who could get financial aid from the government. Also, the politicians closed a lot of mental health institutions and hospitals, where chronically mentally ill people were locked up 24/7, because there were facilities abusing patients. The patients were turned out on the streets, with only community outpatient clinics available and very little support to help them buy or take their medications so that they are mentally sound enough to be able to get a job, even a minimum-wage job. www.thebalance.com/deinstitutionalization-3306067 In 2005, the USA Census Bureau found that 28.22% of American *households* were living on less than $25,000 per year. When you take away 15% for FICA and other taxes, consider how high rent is, consider how few inexpensive apartments there are, consider how many Americans feel forced into buying cars (that they can't afford) because mass transit and other inexpensive options don't or almost don't exist, you've got a lot of people who can't afford health insurance or to go to the dentist, optometrist, or medical doctor. Oh, and then there are the publicly-traded pharmaceutical corporations that inflate drug prices so high that only the wealthy can afford them.

[@willywonka077]

Interviewer guy we don't care who robbed wolf is people on KZbin care about information my friend bye

[@lynlawley8903]

And true info so we can get back to healthy

[@heenanyou]

Folks.

[@lynlawley8903]

what does that mean,,I'm not sure