Real Doctor Reacts To Dr. Sam Robbins Intermittent Fasting: Weight Loss, Get Fat & Get Diabetes

Intermittent Fasting lose weight gain belly fat and get type-2 diabetes

that was the title of a video that someone asked me to comment on, so that's

coming right up. I am Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to

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of my viewers tipped me off to a video and I watched it and was by a doctor (not sure he is a doctor)

called Sam Robbins and I looked at it and felt compelled to comment on it

because there's so many blatant mistakes and erroneous rationalizations in there

so there's a lot of interest in intermittent fasting and I think that

people really need we need to get the true message out there so first of all

intermittent fasting it's just the logical conclusion of a continuum of

carbohydrate consumption so what this is all about it's about insulin resistance

caused insulin resistance is responsible it's linked to just about every

degenerative disease that we have and the standard American diet consisting of

three to four hundred grams of carbohydrate drives up insulin

resistance and is the problem so in improving health the most important

thing that we can do is to reduce carbohydrates so low carb ketogenic

intermittent fasting leading to auto Fujii in incremental steps here this is

what humans have done since for as long as we've been around and this is what

your body is adapted to and this is the natural way to stay healthy I'll come

back to that a little bit so the first complaint the first objection that he

had to intermittent fasting was that it's a sales pitch they say oh you can

eat anything you want you can eat all your favorite foods as long as you do it

in a short window of feeding which is what intermittent fasting is and of

course he called that a sales pitch as if it was pitched by all those people

who stand to gain from you not eating of course that's ludicrous it no one stands

to gain anything if you don't eat there's no money to be made there and

just because an idea is promoted by someone ignorant if someone makes that

claim oh you can eat anything that's ignorant but just because it's promoted

by something ignorant doesn't make it a bad idea it's still a very very sound

principle and we just have to understand you cannot eat anything you want you

have to eat real food you have to eat food that nature made and not the stuff

that we have been mass producing and processing and refining and nuking and

bleaching for the last 50 years that's not food it doesn't sustain life so it's

not gonna sustain life just because you eat it in a shorter period of time

second thing was he brought up research and he said there was some very

important recent research with damaging conclusions and he said that the

subjects would lose weight and he showed a picture of a of a man with a big belly

bursting at the shirt bursting at the seams and that said that the subject

would lose weight but gained belly fat and then the conclusion by the

researcher was that this was the first study that showed that individuals could

get damaged they could get insulin markers for insulin resistance they

could develop diabetes etc the problem with this study was that it was

performed on rodents and even though there's some research we can maybe draw

some conclusions from certain pieces of research like the function of a certain

receptor or something we cannot draw any conclusions of nutrition across species

have you ever noticed how different animals

eat different things they are innately designed to eat certain things so you

can't feed a species a certain way and draw conclusions for another species you

just can't do that that is completely invalid and that

makes that garbage science another portion though that I want to bring up

separately is in that study they said that intermittent fasting increased free

radicals true but then he called the free radicals cancer-causing and he

called them age accelerating so the thing that we need to understand about

free radicals and there's a lot of research in this area that free radicals

were without due cause they were given a bad rap in the 1950s and we just jumped

on the bandwagon me included until I learned about recent research

and we call the free radicals the bad guys and we said that they were causing

all these diseases they were causing oxidative damage and so on well recent

research shows that they are not the bad guys

they are signaling molecules they are messengers that are part of a clean up

crew called autophagy your immune system

your lysosomes your macrophages your

white blood cells they release free radicals as part of their immune defense

so the free radicals don't cause the problem they're just like cholesterol

they show up on the crime scene because they're trying to help they're part of

the good guys just like cholesterol is a good guy free radicals are the good guys

and what they allow the body to do is a toff adji which in recent research and

was awarded a Nobel price is shown to be cancer preventing and anti aging so we

need to rethink this completely I know this is a big bomb to drop for a lot of

people that we've been told so long that free radicals are the bad guy

I should do a google search and there's page after page after page but if you

read some read some of those in between the lines you'll find that there's some

good research showing you that it's a signaling molecule actually doing good

so I'll do a separate video on that in the very near future to talk about free

radicals and antioxidants what they actually do then he went on to say that

intermittent fasting doesn't really work and I thought that was kind of humorous

and I just have to say sorry guys for all those tens of thousands of you who

have lost the weight you feel better you have more energy your blood work is

better your cholesterol is better your A1c and your hormone levels are better

you've just been mistaken all along none of that really happened because

intermittent fasting doesn't really work so of course this is nonsense the proof

is in the pudding but we have to look at physiology first is this a natural thing

because if it's natural then it can sustain long-term health and if it works

for you it works for you as long as it's based on health not short-term results

and then he went goes on to say that it's a fad diet and all these fad diets

they always they seem to work for a while etc well it's not a fad diet

because it's been around as long as humans have been around how you

implement it is a matter of trial and error so not one way of doing it is not

gonna work for everybody some people can go a week some people want to do it in a

six hour feeding window or eight hour feeding window and then stretch it and

change it the important part though is that you work your way down the scale if

you are highly carbohydrate dependent you will probably not do so well to

start fasting because your body isn't trained

to get energy from the stores so work your way down the scale gradually toward

low-carb into ketogenic and then you try some intermittent fasting and you do it

gradually as well so if you want to really talk fads then you want to talk

about the ultimate fads the things that have only been around for a couple of

generations so how about pharmaceuticals nutraceuticals and processed foods and

processed grains those are the fads those are the things and how have they

stood the test of time well they have just about killed humanity in the short

time that they've been around so understand that it's not a fad just

because people start talking about it and get excited in recent times if the

principal if the physiology has been around there it's not a fad the stuff

that we do in in our modern lives that's the fad hope that this has been

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