6 Myths About Carbs (Truth About Carbs)

Six myths about carbohydrates coming right up

Hey this is Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to truly master

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subscribe and hit that notification bell so that you don't miss anything. So I came

across an article I just had to comment on it was called Six Reasons Why You

Should Eat Carbs, so that turned into the title of course Six Myths. We're going to

look at the arguments that they presented in this article supposedly

supported by research and see if it has any validity so the first thing that

they said was that it can boost the mood because they seem to increase serotonin

levels which is a mood enhancer when you eat carbohydrates and that is absolutely

correct that the wheat and the carbohydrates many grains they bind to

the opiate receptors in the brain and they have a pleasure pleasurable effect

they stimulate pleasure in the brain and do you know what else

stimulates pleasure in the same way it's called heroin and it's way way better if

you really want to boost your serotonin levels then heroines the thing for you

so to claim that something can boost a neurotransmitter is not proof that it's

a good food it's something that has a drug like effect that's why it's so

addictive and that's why people get so hooked on it and have such a hard time

giving it up number two weight loss they said that people who eat carbohydrates

with more fiber they tend to lose more weight than people who eat carbohydrate

with less fiber so again they're not making a car an argument for eating

carbohydrates they're making an argument for fiber and then they're making it

sound as if grains which are high in carbohydrate is the

only or the best source of fiber this is not an argument for carbohydrate it's an

argument for fiber the best sources of fiber are vegetables and seeds many

leafy greens you can get eat some flaxseed and some chia seed and some

hemp seed and on and on and there you go number three it improves heart health

because people who eat more fiber has lower LDL and again LDL being beside the

point but they're making an argument for fiber not carbohydrate and they're

basically saying that people who eat a little bit more fiber probably don't eat

quite as crappy and a processed diet as the people who have no fiber so of

course they're gonna do a little bit better that's not an argument for

carbohydrates again number four they said that you can reduce body fat if you

swap refined grains for whole grains again it's not an argument for

carbohydrate it's an argument against the worst kind of carbohydrate for

something that's not quite so bad it's like saying if you eat a half a pack of

rat poison it's better than if you eat the whole package and I'm exaggerating a

little bit there because it isn't necessarily rat poison but you can't

claim that something's good because it's not as bad as something else

number five improved memory and this one just had me rolling on the floor they

took a group of people and they put them on what they called a low carb diet what

does that mean to most people well most people if they

follow the recommended guidelines or even doing higher carb intakes than that

they're eating somewhere around 400 grams of carbs a day so if you go

low-carb from that level that could be maybe half so if you're eating 200 grams

of carbs after you've been eating 400 that would seem like a low-carb and

I know a lot of studies they do that and they think oh well this is low-carb

because it's a lot less than the astronomical amounts that they were

eating and then they had them eat that for one week so physiologically

basically they didn't change the diet a whole lot because they just went from

astronomical carbs to high carbs so the body had no chance to adapt to anything

except carbohydrate for fuel and then they dropped them to zero carbs and then

they have them do memory tests so these poor people that have gone from a

carbohydrate fueled metabolism to zero carbs instantly they have no source of

fuel they have no source of glucose blood sugar their bodies have absolutely

no idea what happened they're probably passing out they have headaches they're

dizzy brain fog they're just happy to stand up and then they have them do

memory tests who comes up with this research and they call this research and

they quote this research amazing amazing lastly one more argument this says that

it blasts fat again so has to do with weight loss and body fat etc and now

they're saying that it relates to insulin and it's not Wow yeah it does I

know and they said if you work out after oatmeal three hours after eating oatmeal

versus eating white toast you burn more fat so again they compare a

halfway-decent carbohydrate in some cases to the absolute worst form of

refined grain that we can find so it's the same argument again over and over

they're saying that you do a little bit better if you don't eat the absolute

worst kind of carbon that again is not an argument to eat

more carbohydrates so I wanted to point these things out because this is what

shows up on a Google search if you look for if you want to eat carbohydrates if

you should eat carbohydrates if they're good for you this is the garbage that

shows up it has no coherent argument there has no logic it has no sound

research has no basis in Physiology so that is why we get so confused by that's

why I have patients come in every day who have absolutely no idea what to eat

so this channel is about teaching people enough of the big picture enough

physiology enough human history enough about what humans are supposed to eat

and the impact it has on the body so that you can make your decisions for

yourself so that you can sift through the hype and the lack of proper

arguments and the confusion so when I see this I I laugh first and then I get

really really mad because I realize that people actually read this this is what

shows up the most and then I think about the fact that 95% of people are gonna

die from a degenerative disease that could be prevented

that's 19 out of every 20 people that you know are gonna have a long period of

suffering and they're gonna die and suffer needlessly because someone fed

them bad information so even if they were willing to do something to change

they don't know where to get it because this is the stuff that shows up so I

urge you to share this with as many people as you can because think about

them every 19 out of 20 people you know you could potentially save them by

giving them some good information share this channel with them so that they can

learn and so that we can help people get a little healthier thanks for watching