Real Doctor Reacts To Doctor Oz: Intermittent Fasting "Health Guru" Healthy?

Hey today I want to comment on a video by Dr. Oz where his guest was a health

guru who eats 5,000 calories of junk food and claims he's still healthy

coming right up hey I'm Dr. Sten Ekberg we're the Wellness For Life and if you'd

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miss anything so found a video on dr. oz channel that

was curious to say the least but quite disturbing actually and I I read some of

the comments and they were all saying that yeah this is how you lose weight

but no one really questioned the quality of food or if this was a healthy thing

so dr. oz asked two questions in the beginning asked how can you eat 5,000

calories a day and still lose weight and then he asked also is this even healthy

so we're gonna answer those two questions because they even though we

asked the questions he didn't really answer them in the video so weight is

about insulin resistance primarily there are multiple reasons why you could gain

weight but the primary reason is insulin resistance insulin is a hormone that

helps your body take sugar from the bloodstream and into the cells so when

you have when you eat sugar or carbohydrates your blood sugar goes up

and insulin is necessary to move that sugar into the bloodstream once we get

into a modern lifestyle and eat lots and lots of meals that are high in carb

now every time that we eat something it's a signal for the body to store fat

to take the sugar out of the bloodstream put it into the cell where the cell

converts it to fat and if we eat six times a day then we're reminding we're

telling the body six times a day to store fat what he does was this guy

called Blake what he does properly and this is kind of what this is all about

he does what does what's called intermittent fasting or one meal

day so this does a couple of things first of all if you only eat one meal a

day you're only telling the body to store fat once right instead of six

times that's a good thing and if you eat one huge meal then your body can only

absorb that so fast if you put in six to eight pounds of food like this guy does

the body can't absorb it all in 30 minutes and put it in the bloodstream

it's gonna kind of seep out gradually even if there's a lot of sugar and

carbohydrate in there because the body just can't get to it that fast that's

very different from eating sugar by itself or drinking something like a soda

because if you have a soda on an empty stomach there's nothing else to slow

down the absorption of that sugar the sugar is already liquefied it's ready

for absorption and it's in your bloodstream almost instantly if you eat

a huge meal it's gonna slow down absorption the other thing that happens

if you eat one meal is the body is really really good at adapting so if you

eat six meals a day your body gets dependent on six meals a day it gets

used to it it says okay it's been two three hours since you ate give me

something new again give me give me some more food I'm hungry again

but if you teach your body if you give it the expectation and it's only gonna

get food once a day now it actually doesn't expect food that often and all

of the food that you stored from last night your body can now retrieve it so

once your body gets used to that one meal a day that also reduces the insulin

resistance because the body learned how to retrieve that those calories that

energy from what you ate in that huge meal and as a consequence and he's

absolutely right in this is once you get used to one meal a day you don't get

hungry the rest of the time because the body learns how to deal with that it

learns how to pull from the stores the second thing that works in favor of this

guy is he is very active and activity does two things and the one that they

focus on here is that it burns energy that's

true but then one thing that it's even more important that activity does

physical activity reduces insulin resistance once you move then that cell

membrane the insulin receptor becomes more sensitive it's more likely to let

that sugar through with a very small amount of insulin so moving in itself

not the calories but the movement the fact that you're activating a muscle

you're increasing circulation in your body actually reduces instantly

resistance it increases insulin sensitivity it changes the properties of

those receptors so that's physiology and this these two things explain why

someone might be able to get away with eating a very large amount of food the

third thing that works in favor of him is he's young he started this when he

was about thirty so he wasn't broken yet okay

he hadn't lost his carbohydrate tolerance so if you think of all the

bone in the body organs as parts of a machine that has a job they do different

things and as long as they have a certain capacity to perform their work

let's say it's at least above 50% then you're not gonna have any symptoms the

work will go on they can keep up it's not broken yet and carbohydrate

tolerance it's like a machine that has to process and take care of these things

that you put in your body so carbohydrates are a stress on the body

it has to adapt it has to make insulin it has to store it it's an extra step

it's a little bit of a burden but if you're reasonably young and not broken

yet your body can get it can't can take care of it you can get by so that

explains the first question how can you eat 5,000 calories and still lose weight

and I myself is an example of this because when I was an Olympic athlete

and I was training 5/6 hours a day I ate probably five six seven thousand

calories a day and a lot of it was sugar and candy and cereal and ice cream and

bread and on and on and on and I had 3% body fat so sure there's lots and lots

of people especially young people who can get by with this so here's the next

question and this is where everyone misses the point is it healthy and we

really have to change our entire perspective on health because we're

getting really really sick as a nation and we're getting really really fat as a

nation and therefore we say Oh fat must cause the disease and that nothing could

be further from the truth even though a fat person is not healthy that doesn't

mean that it's the fat that caused the problem it's the other way around

there's all sorts of health issues there's all sorts of imbalances that

lead to the disease to various diseases and to the fat gain it doesn't mean

there's a causative relationship from the fat to the disease and this is where

we need to rethink these so some examples that can you have high blood

pressure and be lean absolutely can you have autoimmune disease and be lean of

course you can so obese people have more of these problems like blood pressure on

immunity diabetes IBS cancer dementia liver failure etc but there's lots and

lots to lean people who have these also so these are not the cause of the of the

obesity and vice versa the obesity is just one more consequence of having

deficiencies and imbalances what's the problem with the video because here's a

guy who was 60 pounds overweight and he started eating like this and he lost the

weight so because most people aren't don't understand the that lean is not

healthy that that's not necessarily synonymous they've give this

guy a lot of credibility I mean he's an example he did this he has life

experience so the problem is he basically did a case study with a sample

size of one that means there was one person himself and it worked for him

that doesn't mean it's a good idea or that it's a good idea for anybody else

so I went and looked at his website and/or his YouTube channel rather and

all the thumbnails I looked at a few I listened to one of his explanations that

really didn't have much common sense or or physiology or any sort of knowledge

in it but it was his experience I can't blame him and most of those videos most

of those meals he eats once a day or in a four hour window that he says he it's

four to five hundred grams of carbohydrates and most of the meals are

high in sugar a lot of the a lot of the video titles - about M&Ms and chocolates

and candy and and this and that at donuts cookies and most of those

they're very high in sugar they're mostly processed flours almost every

meal has bread and pizza and buns and donuts and cookies in them and I didn't

check a whole bunch of videos but one someone asked if the syrup on the

pancakes was sugar or sugar-free and he proudly said it was sugar-free and that

means it has aspartame and sucralose in it which which are neurotoxins so if you

want to learn more about artificial sweeteners and neurotoxins you can check

out this video right here the problem with this is that these are not healthy

foods you can get by your body can cope with a lot of things for years even

decades but it doesn't mean it's healthy it just hasn't caught up with you yet

and high sugar sugar and processed flours

do not have nutrients in them they say in the dr. Oz video that oh I make sure

I count all my calories and I count all my nutrients I make sure I get all of

them no you can't because the nutrients aren't in the sugar the nutrients aren't

in the processed flour you are depleting your body of nutrients if you eat that

way sure you can stay lean for many many years maybe forever can you be healthy

no because you're missing nutrients you're not eating real food the way that

nature made it and then he did this case study of one he includes his girlfriend

and says oh look were both lean and then he gets testimonials from people who

have success with his method and of course if you have if it's gonna work

for 50% and not work for 50% he's going to get the testimonials from the people

it works for and again the the key word is does it work well it helps people

lose weight does it help them get healthy of course not because he's not

basing this on clinical experience he doesn't have an office where thousands

of people come come through and he has to deal with autoimmunity and diabetes

and digestive problems and Crohn's disease and and trying to turn those

around if you tried this diet with any of those conditions then you would be

very likely to screw that person up very very seriously then you're saying but

wait dr. oz asked is this healthy and then he tested him they did blood work

they checked him out and dr. oz stated that all the values were in the optimal

range so glucose fasting glucose was 84 that's optimal that is what you're gonna

get pretty much if you're not terribly insulin resistant and you do

intermittent fasting for a good bit then you're going to end up around 80 to 85

that's a very good value that means it's not very insulin

resistant then they went on to cholesterol and they said drum roll and

normal a healthy cholesterol is less than 200 and then they had the drum roll

and they looked at it and going 118 and they both went like oh that's so amazing

that's so good because in mainstream medicine

cholesterol is seen as a problem and therefore less is always better if they

had found 3 they'd be even more impressed here's the problem cholesterol

is a necessary nutrient it is the second after fish oil after D H a cholesterol

is the main component of your brain it is the insulation of your nerves it's

what makes the nerves able to conduct signals it is what gives your cell

membranes you have a hundred trillion cells they do a job they decide what

goes in and out of a cell that's how the body organizes itself cholesterol is a

crucial component in making this work in preserving the signal properties of that

membrane in functional medicine they say that a healthy and optimal cholesterol

and functional medicine our medical doctors and and holistically minded

people who look at the blood work a little differently and they say that a

healthy cholesterol is between 200 and 140 and a cholesterol of 118 would be a

red flag that means we think there may be something seriously wrong here and I

would be very very concerned they have found that of people above age 80 the

ones who have the best mental function have cholesterol zuv to hunt 220 to 240

so higher cholesterol reduces the risk or is the so

it is correlated with a reduced risk of dementia and people in higher ages with

lower cholesterol have a dramatically increased rate of dementia and when you

get as low as 118 I'd be seriously concerned so I'm not going to diagnose

the guy with anything cuz that's not what we do

but this would worry me tremendously so we have to change how we think about

health when they ask healthy that just means it hasn't developed into a disease

yet in in their frame of mind we want to think about health more like a dimmer

switch so you can have a light on at a hundred percent and then if you turn the

dimmer down let's say you're reading something and you're reading it fine at

a hundred percent and then you turn the dimmer down to fifty and now you start

squinting a little bit but you can still make it out but then you turn it down to

twenty five and now you can't read the thing anymore that's how your health is

as well so think about health as a dimmer switch think about it as an

amount of function as an amount of resources in the body that make

everything balanced that make everything function and let's say that you're

starting at a hundred percent at your optimum point in life then if the dimmer

goes down which it will with age but it goes down so slowly that you don't get

down to 40 50 percent where disease typically develops and these are not

absolute numbers these are just sort of examples to give you an idea how this

this works you could get to the end of your life without developing diseases

you could live to a hundred or beyond and not develop a disease if you have

enough functional capacity if your dimmer switch hasn't gone solo yet

someone else could be less lucky they may not ever get 200 their genetic

makeup their development in utero may not have

in that favorable so they may have started out at a lower level but if they

take care of themselves if they step continuously provide nutrients they take

care of themselves they get exercise they low stress then they can also make

it to the end of their life without developing a disease whereas someone who

really abuses their body and has a steep decline someone who wastes resources

someone who eats high sugar processed flour chemical Laden food neurotoxin

someone who has a cholesterol of 118 they might be going at this rate and

they might get sick and and die long before their their natural lifespan and

yet they could be at age 30 35 40 and have no symptoms and be very fit and get

get away with all kinds of things so we got to look at this from a bigger

perspective we have to start understanding instead of asking the

question how do we lose weight we have to start asking questions how do we

obtain the optimum health how do we maintain the balance what is required

for a healthy body how do we live in balance with nature and our environment

what is our natural environment if we start asking questions like this will

get much better answers than if we just ask how do I lose weight okay I hope

this was informative and helpful I made this video because I want to straighten

out these misconceptions when people think that it's all about weight they're

they're mistaken because there's lots and lots of ways to lose weight and be

unhealthy please share this video with as many people as you can because we

have to get this real there's scientific information out there the information

that's based on physiology and clinical experience not on symptom treatment and

anecdotal evidence so share your comments below and let any questions let

me know if there's anything else on these

topics that you'd like to know more about or if there's anything else you'd

like to explain in in more detail and I'd be more than happy to try to do that

so thanks for watching