Food For Humans Pt3 1/3 User Manual 4 Humans

good evening and welcome everybody i am Dr. Sten Ekberg and i'm excited to have

you here we're going to talk about user manual for humans part three and today

is the first and if possibly be some more talks on food for humans so i call

it food for humans so that it's kind of a little funny but we want to start

thinking about about humans how many people here realize that you are an

animal hands up okay so basically if you're not an animal then you must be

either mineral or plant and we tend to forget that we are humans and that we

are animals and that's why i phrase it that way that we're part of nature we're

part of biology and the food that we therefore also has to be fitting for us

so when we talk about food there's two aspects of it and most people focus only

on the physical matter of food they talk about the components and what the food

can do for us in terms of fuel and what the food can do for us in terms of

building blocks and the building blocks of protein and carbohydrates and fat and

then there's some minerals and vitamins as catalysts

and it's well enough if we put it into the body but there is also the other

aspect of food is the act of incorporation we have to bring it into

the body somehow and there are several steps involved there in the first is

mastication that's chewing we have to start preparing we have to make smaller

pieces of the foods our bodies can start using it the second part is digestion

where we continue to break the food apart and then we start attacking it and

making it smaller smaller pieces with secretions of digestive enzymes and then

we move it around with peristalsis that's the movement of the intestines

that move the food forward and they kind of turn it around and once all that is

done we have to absorb the food and after that we have chemical processes of

building things up called anabolism and that's simply another word for building

up and then whatever part of the food that we can't use we have to get rid of

and excrete and if we don't excrete it properly then we get toxic so excretion

is also the first form of detoxification so we want to talk about everybody here

knows that you're supposed to eat more vegetables and you're supposed to eat

less sugar and don't drink too many beers everybody knows that but we want

to focus on are the wise we want to ask the question why don't we want to do

that or do we want to do that what is the process in the body what happens

when we eat certain foods so next we we put food in to our mouths and then it

enters the digestive tract so what is the digestive tract and the simplest way

of looking at it is that it's a long tube it has a hole in one end and it has

a hole in the other end that's what the digestive system is and it's important

to understand that because just because you've put something in your mouth does

not strictly mean that it is inside your body and when I say that I mean that the

functional tissue of your body is inside the cell the machinery and the decisions

and all of the regeneration and the DNA everything that that it has is part of

that complex machinery is inside the cells and unless we can get the food

stuffs inside the cell it's not really going to do anything so we put the food

in one end of the tube and it comes out the other end of the tube and whatever

we extract of the food to make use of is an active process and that's very

important to understand because if we don't have that active process if that

active process isn't working properly then we're not going to absorb a whole

lot of nutrients theoretically it's possible to put things in one end and

have every piece of useful thing come out the other end and eating was

basically useless what we also need to understand is we talked a lot about

sympathetic and parasympathetic where the stress fires off the sympathetic

and the parasympathetic nervous system handles the processes of digestion so

what this means is when we are in a state of stress we are sacrificing our

parasympathetic nervous system and we are not able to absorb very much

nutrients from the food so you can be stressed and eat the perfect diet and

not absorb very much useful nutrients so that's crucial to understand because

everybody talks about Oh eat this eat this eat this nobody talks about take a

five-minute siesta take a five minute breathing session relax before during

and after your meal so you can actually use the food weight gain there is we're

going to touch very quickly on a few misconceptions and we're open to

questions and then we're going to expand on them in future sessions but weight

gain is when your food is absorbed faster than it's used so it's not so

much how much the quantity of food or calories that you eat that will make you

gain weight but there needs to be a balance between how quickly the food

enters your bloodstream relative to how quickly your body will use it so any

excess portion anything that you absorb faster than you burn the excess has to

be stored and the human body is very limited in storing energy it can

basically do it in two forms and one is as glycogen that's a carbohydrate

storage and the muscles and the liver but you can only store maybe a hundred

to two hundred grams that's about four five six seven hundred calories worth

anything more than that you have to store as fat your body has no other way

of doing it so the excess typically gets can

to that and you have an unlimited ability to store fat if you store a

couple of million calories of fats very very easily but only a few hundred

calories of carbohydrates and that's why the excess so quickly gets turned into

fat also we know us we must understand that the only thing that can store fat

on your body the only thing that can store it energy is called insulin

insulin is a hormone that takes sugar from the blood and takes it out of the

blood and into the cells so without insulin you cannot store anything and

that means unless you trigger an insulin response you cannot have a fat gain the

weight gain is caused by foods that trigger insulin and which ones are those

there anything that raises blood sugar anything that gets absorbed into the

bloodstream quickly and this is primarily sugar starch and alcohol so

anytime that we eat those three we jack up our blood sugar very quickly anytime

we stay away from those three we're going to have a much more level blood

sugar so weight gain is not caused by the number of calories it's caused by

how quickly those calories are absorbed and therefore weight gain is not caused

by eating fat because fat and protein do not trigger an insulin response they're

absorbed so slowly into the body that you do not evoke an insulin response and

therefore those two foodstuffs fat and protein are not very much

responsible for weight gain I have to read when I I look for a food pyramid

and I found this article on the champion of champion breakfast and breakfast

number one skim milk half a banana one serving of oatmeal with no calorie

butter spray Splenda and a dash of cinnamon so right away we have skim milk

we've taken away the fat that gives us a sense of satiety we're talking about

pasteurized milk probably which is very very unsuitable for human consumption

half a banana is a sugary fruit that will raise your blood sugar one serving

of oatmeal will raise your blood sugar splenda is a pesticide so you're eating

all this processed altered food that is no good for humans that jack up the

blood sugar and then you dash some pesticides on it and this is in most

people's eyes a very suitable and healthy good diet breakfast breakfast

number two two egg whites plus 1 egg yolk and egg yolk and a dash of skim

milk scramble no calorie cooking spray add a half a cup of skim milk and a

slice of whole grain bread with no calorie butter so all the way through

they're talking about take away everything that gets you satiety take

away all the fat that makes you feel full and instead everything that they

suggest is low-fat altered milk and grains all of which will raise your

blood sugar get converted into fat so it doesn't

matter how much or little fat you eat your body is going to make what it needs

and the more carbs that you eat the more fat you're going to make the food

pyramid and the classic view is at the bottom is the foundation we have bread

we have pasta we have grains cereals so forth and they're telling us to eat 6 to

11 servings per day of this stuff and the more that you study this stuff and

the more you talk to people who really know they're going to tell you this

stuff