Real Doctor Reacts to Dr. Oz Videos on Belly Fat & Weight Loss

Hello health fans today we're going to talk about weight loss and belly fat as

presented on the Dr. Oz Show more people than ever are having problems with

obesity belly fat and weight loss more people than ever are trying but it's a

minority that are succeeding why is that so today I'm going to take a look at a

couple of videos that are presented to the masses and we're going to talk about

if the advice in there is correct and if it's useful coming right up

hey I'm dr. Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former Olympic decathlete and if

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anything at least in America probably everyone has heard of dr. oz he's got a

popular talk show on TV and he has a YouTube channel where he puts short

video clips so today I'm going to take a quick look at those clips and we're

starting with the owner's manual to weight loss let's take a look the number

one thing people ask me about is dieting and the problems with conventional diets

is that depending on willpower best question how many of you can hold your

breath indefinitely underwater pretty hard right possible why because your

biology will always beat your willpower no matter how much you want to die it

ain't going to work what you can do though is nudge the biology blubber in

the right direction so right off the bat he brings up one of the biggest problems

that people are interested in dieting but it's not really dieting they are

interested in they're interested in weight loss and they think that dieting

will lead to weight loss unfortunately that's not the case and dr. oz brings up

an excellent point here he says that between willpower and biology biology

will always win all right and then I'm a little curious because it says you can't

really use willpower to overcome biology but you can nudge it a little bit so I'm

curious to what he's gonna say about that the first thing I figure out is

what are you measuring what a success look like what

it's not your weight it shall waste sighs which is the best predictor of

health the ideal waist size measured at your belly button is about half your

height if you've got too much belly fat problems start to happen and here's the

big one let's look at the omentum this is an animation set yellow stuff there

that's the omentum and that pad wouldn't get rid of that per second there's a

liver up there the gall bladders the green stuff there's the stomach of the

food you ate earlier today and it's being pushed down to the small bowel

your bowel is gonna mix that was vile the green stuff from the gallbladder and

like a soap it'll wash it and help it absorb through this very thin wall - the

big portal vein this vein carries all the nutrients to the liver

no matter what you eat the livers gonna metabolize it and send it out to the

body feed healthy stuff the livers gonna love that if you´d unhealthy stop the

liver will turn fatty this fat liver afflicts a quart of the pie place and

then it's omentum starts to get pondrá steel arms if it pulls way across and

because that big beer belly that so many folks have a love is animations how

they're showing all this stuff happening and the food gets into the intestine and

the bile is added but that's a bit of an oversimplification because bile is only

to break down the fat and fat is only one of the food components there's other

enzyme stirs enzymes for carbohydrate and there's enzymes for protein and so

forth but then all of these foodstuffs they enter into the liver through the

portal vein and then he says that if you eat healthy stuff the liver is happy but

if you eat unhealthy stuff then the you get a fatty liver and that fat kind of

spreads out into the abdominal cavity and into the omentum so I'm curious to

see if we're gonna find out what this healthy and unhealthy stuff really is

the reason your belly gets big is not because you got a little fat beneath the

skin you get big fat under the muscle way inside where those organs are that I

showed you when you have this big pad of momentum here slapping up on side of

your intestines there's no way your body can keep up with it and it causes

coronary artery disease it causes diabetes it causes hypertension that's

why I'm focused on today because this belly fat poisons your liver causing

high cholesterol it squeezes the kidneys and the kidneys have to jack up your

blood pressure because the kidneys regulate your blood pressure

and it also poisons the ability of insulin to work this big fat yellow

piece was of course the omentum but this omentum when he goes on to

explain what it does he says it causes all these different problems it causes

coronary artery disease it says it causes diabetes it causes increased

blood pressure he says the omentum the fat the belly

fat poisons the liver to raise cholesterol it squeezes the kidneys that

was a new one to me and raises blood pressure and it poisons the ability of

insulin to do its job and therefore you get type-2 diabetes so most of that is

not only incorrect but it's backwards because the belly fat is not the cause

it might be slightly perpetuating the problem but it's not the cause it's the

result of an imbalance in the body and that imbalance is called insulin

resistance and it's caused by sugar glucose and fructose sugar consists of

equal parts glucose and fructose and it's the fructose that clogs up deliver

more than anything else because all other foods can be processed by a wide

variety of cells in the body but the fructose can only be processed by the

liver so even a small amount of fructose is gonna clog up that liver very very

quickly okay so he never talked about that he talked about the fat being

emulsified by the bile and I don't think that he was necessarily saying that it

was the fat clogging up the liver but the truth is that it's the fructose that

clogs up the liver so all of these things that he says was caused by the

belly fat are actually the result of insulin the belly fat is the result of

insulin and cortisol and all of these are also results so again he's falling

for an association that we observed two things together and we think that

there one is the cause of the other and we all hate fat we have a universal fat

phobia so everything gets blamed on fat it is not true that high blood pressure

is caused by fat squeezing on the kidneys while it is true that the

kidneys regulate blood pressure it's the nervous system it's the brain it's your

sympathetic nervous system and the endocrine system that releases the

appropriate signals and appropriate hormones to tell the kidneys how to

filter and how to regulate the fluid pressure all right and it's not the fat

squeezing on the kidneys causing anything belly fat does not poison the

ability of insulin belly fat is the result of insulin which is the result of

fructose right so most of it is incorrect and all of it is backward a

gun a victim full of observing things and associating rather than

understanding the mechanism that causes it what are the key five numbers you

gotta know your weight your waist size your blood pressure your cholesterol and

your fasting blood sugar all those are interrelated to your weight and the best

way to change these numbers therefore is to lose that weight even a small loss

can make a huge difference just lose the weight why didn't I think of that so now

he's coming full circle here first he's talking about weight loss and then he

says it's not really about the weight loss it's about the biology and the

waist you want to measure things is really the belly fat which is more

important to measure than the weight and then he says that these are the things

you want to measure you want to measure the weight the waist size blood pressure

cholesterol and fasting blood glucose but then it goes back and says these are

all related to weight so just lose the weight why didn't I think of that so

it's all circular reasoning here everyone who has tried to lose weight

obviously has thought of losing weight that's not really solving the problem so

again we're stuck in that thinking that weight is the problem but it's not

so he started off beautifully saying that it's biology willpower vs. biology

willpower will always lose because you can't go hungry you can't hold your

breath forever but let's see here if we can come up with a solution if he has a

way to nudge the biology into losing the weight and the belly fat how do you lose

weight well couple action steps that make sense

high fiber breakfast get started the right way it'll keep you going all day

long it'll keep you satiated you won't be foraging for food at 10:00 in the

morning like a rodent number two you can have your snacks I want you eating all

day long but keep the snacks smaller than a fist and always wash down the

snacks with water get that hedonistic desire to have more snacks out of your

system that will be satiated and comfortable for a couple hours don't eat

food within three hours of bedtime because that way you go to sleep without

the extra calories you wake up in the morning feeling nourished you sleep

better as well and you got to move 30 minutes a day okay I'm kind of

disappointed here because he said that willpower will never trump biology and

then he goes right back into the same usual advice of eat less and exercise

more eat small snacks drink lots of water and all that so there's there's

nothing there's nothing new here okay a high-fiber breakfast then that's not a

bad idea to eat more fiber but if you really want to lose weight then maybe

you want to eat some food so that eventually you don't need a breakfast at

all that's called intermittent fasting and then he says I want you to eat all

day but I want your snacks to be smaller than a fist and then wash them down with

plenty of water so that maybe you'll last a couple of hours that is called

carb dependence that means that your blood sugar operates like that of a

hummingbird that you have to top off your blood sugar every couple of hours

because you are carb dependent it's really really sad that our ancestors

they ate once a day twice a day every other day whenever food was

available and now we've become a species that have to wash things down with lots

of water so maybe will last a couple of hours it's really sad that we've come to

have that expectation that we don't understand that if you are truly

satiated if you eat real food then you can go a half a day or a day and not

really get hungry and even if you get a little hungry you still function

perfectly next one no food for three hours before bed that's a pretty good

one that's part of intermittent fasting of shrinking your feeding window

extending your fasting window he said it would help to keep the calories down

which is of course not the objective but it's still a good thing to do to shrink

your feeding window and last on its list of solutions is to move

30 minutes per day and I couldn't agree more but not to lose weight okay it's

not gonna hurt you if you do it aerobic ly but it's not gonna help a whole lot

either because the real problem is insulin resistance and this exercise can

reduce the insulin resistance of the muscles to some degree but it will have

a minimal or non-existent effect on the insulin resistance of the liver which is

what we're talking about in this video so move thirty-two minutes a day great

but not for the reasons of weight loss so while this list has a few items that

will help marginally the no food three hours will help a little bit with

insulin resistance the movement might help just a tiny tiny little bit none of

the others will really help you at all in terms of insulin resistance what they

are suggesting is just another diet in which you will require a lot of

willpower which will never work in the long run so again we have to get to the

root cause cut the carbs cut the frequency of meals he said he wants you

to eat all day but keep the snacks small well again we don't want to eat all day

we want to eat for a short as period as poss

able to allow that insulin to drop so we're trying to show what might happen

when when you start eating a lot of sugars and that that might make you fat

let's see let's find out what is this your body this will represent our belly

okay and this will represent whether or not eating lots of sugars can affect the

size of your belly we should be close to it far from it yeah I would step back a

little bit all right we're gonna add this in are we ready we go three two one

see that goes in that's not bad oh my goodness oh oh the fat literally

overthrows your body it's uncontrollable it overwhelms you taking over everything

and this time it again yeah yeah I probably wouldn't touch that yeah you

rub my brother's jacket if you look at this stuff this overwhelming bulge of

fat is what we experienced and it's the sugar the sugar the refined carbs that

causes the problem so now that we've established that's the problem the

question is what do you do about it and I actually think the solution is not

cutting out fats it's maybe cutting out bad fast but it's adding back the good

fats the right that's Bob show us yeah so we start doing that and we should

start seeing is our fats going down now look at that and melting that away it's

melting away just appearing as you does because the fat cells in your body

actually panic if they don't have the right fats around them if you can soothe

them by eating the facts that reduce inflammation in the body then guess what

your fat says oh it's okay and it begins to melt away

hilarious science experiment but the only thing it really tells me is that

you shouldn't drink those two chemicals that they mixed in that big bowl of

course they're finally making a good point here that it's the sugar now the

illustration really I'm not sure where they were going with that but it's

entertaining it's really cool and it's sugar and carbs refined carbs like

they're saying but then dr. Oz goes on to try to explain this and now he says

well how do we how do we get rid of this and then they start throwing some sand

or something on this foam and this is to illustrate the

is added good fats and if you add good fats then they'll melt the fat away dr.

oz tries to explain and he says will you know the fat cells panic if they don't

have good fat around them then they panic but if they have good fat then

they shrink and a core I don't know what their what he's trying to accomplish

with that explanation if they just sort of the scriptwriters just made that up

to have something to say but of course the mechanism is absurd that is has

nothing to do with it because the belly fat it's true it's caused by sugar and

especially fructose but it's not the good fats that's going to melt the fat

away it's the removing of the glucose and the fructose so wait what are the

best fats to fight belly fat in other words and we want to have one serving of

them at every meal and snack throughout the day and this is going to shut down

those fat cells and help stabilize the blood sugar which as we know is what's

really behind the belly fat and MUFAs are olive oils nuts nut butters avocado

and a little piece of dark chocolate so these healthy fats are called MUFAs

monounsaturated fatty acids and then where they got that idea from is that

the Mediterranean diet is generally considered healthy and olive oil is the

predominant staple in the Mediterranean diet and if they're healthy then it must

be the monounsaturated fatty acids in the olive oil that is causing the good

health no it's the absence of sugar in the Mediterranean diet olive oil and

monounsaturated fats are just another good fat and the reason they're good is

that they are minimally processed right we've gotten this idea that

monounsaturated is good and polyunsaturated is good maybe and

saturated is bad for sure but it's got nothing to do with that it has to do

with how natural and how processed is the oil

and the reason olive oil is healthy is because it's minimally processed

avocados are minimally processed nuts are minimally processed so these all get

a check mark because they are good fats now what they also say is you should eat

them one serving with every meal and that's a great idea as long as every

meal isn't six times a day all right it's still about reducing insulin and

then we want to reduce the number of meals but here's the problem with this

they think that that olive oil will do something that the the healthy fats will

do something it's not that they're doing anything it's that they're replacing the

sugar that is harming you all right they're allowing you to eat less of the

bad stuff and still be full these have nothing to do with it other than that

they're an alternative another interesting point is that they think

it's about the monounsaturated fatty acids yet they exclude beef I didn't see

her mentioning beef or meat fat or pork or tallow or lard the beef fats are much

higher in monounsaturated fats than chocolate they've accepted for some

peculiar reason I mean I agree that chocolate is an okay fat but if they

think that saturated fat is bad then I don't see how they can accept chocolate

kiss chocolate is super high in saturated fat and quite low in

monounsaturated fat beef is much better in that regard and yet they think that

beef is bad and chocolates good so there's no rhyme or reason we're just

picking these factoids these loosely placed items and if everyone agrees on

olive oil and let's call that a good one if everyone agrees that beef is bad then

let's skip that one alright so we still have to start understanding why these

fats are good they're good because they're

minimally processed they're good because they're replacing the bad stuff the

sugar and the carbs and the fructose and while she was saying that she also

managed to get in some more false statements in there that we really have

to start understanding that the monounsaturated fatty acids will not

shut down fat cells okay that is wrong it's the reduced insulin

that allows the body to burn that fat the blood sugar is not behind the belly

fat there are two things that are behind belly fat and one is insulin and the

other is fructose insulin indirectly if it's high enough long enough it will

create insulin resistance fructose will create a direct insulin resistance by

clogging up the liver so the blood sugar is not really the thing it has a small

part behind it in that it triggers insulin but fructose is the big thing

and fat has basically nothing to do with that so the single biggest problem with

whole line of reasoning is that they're always going after the symptom and not

the cause and they're thinking that the healthy fat is going to do something

take this for that they're finally realizing that it's not the saturated

fat that's causing the belly fat it's the sugar but now they think that it's

the good fats that's going to burn the fat and they're disconnecting the

mechanisms and now people are all confused again because if you just add

more fats without reducing the carbs now they did say the sugar and refined carbs

are the cause but they never tell you to actually reduce them I don't know if

that's implied or if they just tell you that we'll eat more fats that's not a

good idea because if you keep eating the same level of carbs then you're still

going to have the same amount of insulin and you will not burn off any belly fat

and in fact it will probably make it worse if you maintain the same

level of sugar and carbohydrates so I do like that the dr. Oz Show is trying to

raise the awareness it is bringing up a conversation on a national level about

health awareness about issues that we need to do something I don't like so

much may be that it tends to be a bit shallow and I don't think people leave

with a whole lot more information than they came with if you enjoyed this video

then make sure you check out that one thank you so much for watching I'll see

you in the next video