10000 Calorie Challenge Healthy? Doctor Explains

Is the ten thousand calorie challenge healthy I'll explain

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So someone asked me on youtube if 10,000 calories a day was healthy and the short

answer is if you eat healthy food then it would be healthy if you eat 10,000

calories of bad food then it would be very unhealthy but there's a little bit

more to it than that we'll try to explain a few things here

the problem is calories first of all it's just a measure of energy so if you

burn more energy if you have an active lifestyle then you're gonna need more

energy you're gonna need more fuel but the thing is your body has a

self-regulation mechanism everyone has this but it's been sort of put out of

commission if you think about this are there any animals in the wild that don't

know how much to eat the the lion the gazelle and the chimpanzee and the

rabbit and the squirrel do they not know how much they're supposed to eat do they

know oh my god i'm do they get neuroses because I or maybe I'm eating too much

maybe I'm not eating enough no they know exactly how much to eat because their

bodies tell them it's a built in infinite intelligence and we have it too

but we screw it up with processed foods because processed foods are drugs they

screw up the body to bypass it puts this self-regulation mechanism out of order

and the problem is that food is supposed to sustain food

nutrition is that which sustains life but if you start putting in a lot of

other stuff for other reasons if you eat to change how you feel now

you are taking a drug and the problem is that most people most of what they eat

is to change how they feel so most people eat drugs all the time and white

sugar white flour processed oils food chemicals msg the list goes on and on

and on all of these are drugs they're designed to change how we feel to bypass

that mechanism so that we don't know when to stop eating the first step would

be to eat real food and that's not easy anymore because the food is depleted the

soil is depleted everything in the grocery store is processed so it's a

process of learning how to get back to eating real food and then once you eat

more real food you learn to self-regulate better and then you have

to repair all of the systems all the organ systems your endocrine systems

your insulin responses your pancreas your liver your entire pituitary thyroid

adrenal axis it's been it's been damaged from all this all these drugs so it'll

take some time and this is an ongoing process of repair real food self

regulation and once you get into that you'll find that your body gets really

really good at knowing how much to eat so going back to the first question is

10,000 calories healthy well if you eat real food if you eat things there are

nutrient-dense that are made by mother nature so that they're full of nutrition

you could possibly stuff yourself for one day with 10,000 calories and you

didn't really have to force it because your body quickly reaches a level of

satiety of satisfaction your all your content and if you try to do

that day after day after day your body would just say hey hey come to your

senses stop this foolishness because you'd have to violate your your body's

innate wisdom you'd have to do some things against your better judgment

because once you eat real food your body starts to self-regulate and now it knows

exactly how much to eat so could you eat 10,000 calories

probably but then again that's called overeating and you would also put

tremendous stress on your digestive system and you probably not feel so good

so I wouldn't recommend it some people are making a lot of fun with this

because they are trying to prove that if you eat a lot of fat if you stay away

from the sugars and the carbs then you can eat any number of calories and not

gain weight and and that's a good point but we don't really want to push it we

don't really want to try to make a game out of it that way learn to eat real

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