What a great episode and great podcast! I ended up on this video 'by mistake' thanks to KZclip's autoplay while I was cooking. So glad that I did! Subscribing and telling all my friends about it now... 🤠
Key Take aways: 16% of daily diet should contain proteins 30% Fiber 5% allowed for added sugars (not tied-up to fiber, e.g maple syrup, agave nectar) - Limit as much as you can. Exercise helps Maintain weightloss but not directly lead to weightloss. It is still important especially if protein intake is high (due to nitrogen build-up from protein metabolism injuring the kidneys). Don't overdo a specific diet or force it to someone because it can lead to Eating disorder. Fruit Juices are BAD as they are pure sugar and absorbed in the gut quickly, as opposed to eating fruits which triggers the whole process of digestion (chewing, swallowing, digesting and absorbing and so on). It's basically drinking high amount of Liquid sugar. FAT becomes dangerous when they start to leak out of the 'fat pockets' and reach the parts of the body where they're not supposed to be such as muscles and liver. His goal is to spread awareness about the importance of affordable healthy foods in curing obesity. He will not cancel Chocolates if he becomes a PM 😂
but again, it depends. people who lift weights and focus on building muscle, will increase that protein level, lower fats and keep high carbs. one diet is not for everyone.
You know he's a real one when he answers with a lot of "it depends." This world doesn't need any more oversimplified and twisted truth. It needs more of these who are willing to explain the nuances AND the ones that are willing to listen.
This is an amazing podcast. I’m 52 and was told by my doctor that I had to lose weight because of my liver and if I don’t lose weight she would put me on medication. So I have been walking on a treadmill to get me active since my job is sedentary. I’ve learned so much during this conversation and feel much less confused. Thank you both.
Hi Michelle, I hope you're doing well. Once the weather gets a bit nicer, I just wanted to encourage you to try a walk in the woods. Start with a nice flat trail and your favorite podcast, and I you might very well get addicted. 😉
Great episode. My biggest pet peeve when it comes to a dietician or a doctors approach to advice for me to lost weight (I am overweight), is ignoring the person and only seeing the problem which assumes the answer. I don’t eat much, truly, I don’t, but the first and usually only advice given by these professionals is “portion control” and “eat less”. I’ve tracked what I’ve eaten for a week and the “ideal caloric intake” for the average female of my age is more than what I would eat in a day unless I eat fast food. No one has listened when I’ve stated how little I eat and the foods I eat. It’s assumed I’m lying. I think this episode has opened my eyes to how my body may perform a bit differently than the average female of my age. Definitely going to look into the genetics and research the foods that MY body needs and craves to survive. Thank you for the eye opener.
Yes. I worked in a cardiometabolic clinic as a clinician. Some patients who were obese only ate 500 calories in a day. The restriction over te reset their metabolism to a lower set point in their basal metabolic rate. It’s complicated. Weight loss is better achieved over a longer, gradual span of time. It’s always down to diet. Exercise is for the brain, and the muscle built helps burn calories even at rest, however it is diet that makes a difference. Doctors don’t know much about nutrition. Heck, some dieticians don’t know your body can use ketones for fuel. Which blows my mind. But I digress. It sounds like you need professional guidance and support. Dr Rhonda Patrick’s channel has lots of info on lifestyle, diet etc. Same with Dr Ken Berry, Dr Steve Phinney and so on. And of course Andrew Huberman, neurologist, exercise researcher.
Now that I’m seventy my body holds onto excess fat like a miser.. very aggravating and frustrating! I have forty stubborn lbs to lose and it seems if all I consume is water my body STILL holds on to that blubber! That weight is enough to make my ankle, knee and hip kvetch about walking so I am finding it difficult to reset my body’s fat burning machinery. Rite now I’m mad at my body for its betrayal at this age!
@Berth he said that the metabolism can change / be different in different people, such that out of the calories you eat, the ratio of what your body chooses to burn and what it chooses to store can vary. It's a "hard pill to swallow", but that does mean that it's not as simple as calories in calories out. Some people eat and then have so much energy from it, ie a lot of it is available to burn. Others eat and still feel fatigued, and the calories go into building or maintaining fat (or muscle). It's a common and oversimplified assumption that 2 people eating the same meals but being different weights could only mean that one of them is having cheat meals.
I've spent years listening to people talk about food, diet, exercise, and everything else linked to losing weight. I realized that everyone is an expert in some way because people achieve their goals in different ways. I tried to chase calories and workout goals, but they were temporary. Nothing could last more than a year or two. This is insane, I realized; we're on the wrong boat. Then, for various reasons, I shifted gears and began studying Buddhism. Buddhism encouraged mindfulness, minimalism, and thoughts about detachment. It helped me in transforming my relationship with my emotions, appetites, attachments, and food. I left Instagram. Now I eat for nutrition rather than pleasure. I no longer take pictures of food and I no longer praise the food. It's only food. Since then, I've constantly reduced excess weight, and for the first time, I've shed man boobs. I'm also sleeping better now. I strongly advise everyone to modify their connection with eating and exercise, and everything will be different.
@El Harris You are forgiven but I don’t believe this has anything to do with ego I am just trying to be a better Christian I have nothing against meditation etc and I am trying to change my habits by meditation etc and I know Buddhism shares the same practices as Christianity but if I practice Buddhism instead of Christianity I am practically worshipping another God even if I denounce the God and I could probably do all the things that Buddhism has to offer without Buddhism although the Buddhism faith probably helps, don’t take me for a guy that would have burnt “witches” at a stake; I understand, I just don’t want to take part in anything pagan (don’t mention Halloween) and again I just want to try to be a better Christian for a change.
Lol, good is pleasurable and there's nothing wrong with enjoying it. Making that yet another thing that's joyless, if that's how you want to live awesome. But I prefer to enjoy my life and be present while enjoying things that make me happy and nourish body, mind and soul.
@Asiangoose90ti just because you study a religion doesn't mean that you are practicing or following it. It means you are loving and open enough to listen to what other fellow humans are saying. You don't have to follow it but you may realise something that will improve your understanding of Christianity. Mindfulness,minimalism and detachment are not alien thoughts to Christianity. Perhaps you should follow the Christian tradition of trying to understand your brothers and sisters instead of allowing your ego to take over and control what you can and can't do. Not to try and bully you. I really should keep my thoughts to myself however feel I I would be irresponsible to the whole of humanity if I didn't say anything. Forgive me if I am misunderstood and I can try to be better and beter everyday.
If you struggle with food, and can afford, please see a registered dietitian you like (a specialist for your problem). They will help you with personalised diet, lifestyle and behaviour changes after listening to your issues - and explain complex nutrition information based on evidence. Just like Giles did. He is actually a honorary president of British Dietetic Association (UK) and does a lot of events with BDA. Great interview! Very sad to hear about the awful comments others posted about how he looks like! Which was ironic as you discussed weight stigma! Thanks, - student dietitian
I am 100% agree with Dr Yeo. The quality of food matters. I looked at what people in the "Blue Zone" areas eat for ideas. Liked recipes from mediterranean countries. Ate more veg, oily fish, pulses, seeds and fermented food. Didn't restrict. I lost 50kg over a year. I walked, did yoga and weight training to get fitter. I changed how I viewed food. Didn't beat myself up if I had a slice of cake. Because my weight loss was not linear. I focused on what food made me feel better. What is sustainable for me. What people need to realise is how personalised weight loss and getting healthier is. There is no 1 solution. You have to make the effort to find out what works for you.
I loveeeeee the Mediterranean Diet. My culture is used to eating all of that unhealthy "soul food" known to cause all types of Health Issues, ESPECIALLY AT A YOUNG AGE. I got made fun of for wanting to eat healthily, and now it appears that Everyone that made fun of the way I ate, is eating healthier
@The Great Artventure you're in a caloric surplus. You cannot lose weight without being in a caloric deficit. Anyone that says otherwise doesn't know know. I lost 10 lbs eating only pizza & Ben and Jerry's ice cream in a month. Burned more calories than I consumed and my Rhr went down as well. These people usually know many things except doing it themselves
I‘m listening and I‘m just finishing a „calorie counting“ chapter. As someone who did it successfully, I have a couple of points to add. First to a Domino pizza thing: Yes, you can theoretically eat anything as long as your calorie intake is on point, BUT if you eat domino pizza, you’re probably going to have to skip a whole meal to even out so if you really want to manage a diet by calorie counting, you’ll have to eat better or starve. Since I cannot starve, I actually started eating better quality food that made me both full and satisfied without going over a calorie limit. It also ended up being most protein then fat and least carb diet by default. Second thing: I used and app to help and it actually offered options for how you food is prepared and adjusted calories for it. So 100g cooked or baked or fried potatoes didn’t have the same anount of calories. What I liked most about calorie counting the way I did it is focusing on weekly intake instead of daily so if I, for example, had a piece a cheesecake (basically a whole meal worth of calories) I would balance it over the rest of the week and wouldn’t have to starve at all or feel guilty. I didn’t have a cheat day or anything, just, if a “bad” meal happened cause I craved it, it got balanced out by the rest of my diet. Also, the longer I lasted, the less cravings I got cause sugar addiction goes away and I learned to judge calories on my plate just by looking at it so I stopped needing to measure everything all the time. It’s a learning curve, but once learned, it stuck with me.
I learned so much in this podcast! I have orthorexia because I research everything I don't know or understand. Now after years and years of doing that I just have an information overload. I couldn't see and think clear on what I can and can't eat. But after listening and making notes I can start an implement more things in my every day foods and stop using the scale every single day. Very grateful for this podcast!
@Shardee that is wonderful! Just be patient with yourself and form a good friendship with that amazing body of yours. It wants to be healthy and strong. :)
really good interview! Good job both of you! I really enjoyed listening/watching. Starting the video I was a bit scared that it will be one of those telling me that I am on the absolute wrong way of losing some weight, especially the calories counting part, but I just understood food a bit better. Everyone who is trying to lose some weight like me: Don't give up, don't destrict yourself too much and don't miss out on social events just because of your diet plan! Go, but make healthy choices, drink a lot of water and cut out sugary drinks! you can do this
Great interview!! My advice as a 64 year old woman. Do not ever slow down. All my life I was at a great weight. I had a job that was very physically taxing. I looked great untill I hit about 55. I was able to retire early and made the biggest mistake of my life. After being on my feet for so many years I decided to sit down in front of a computer for a year and do nothing. HUGE mistake. While sitting in front of computer I was snacking. Next thing I knew I was over weight and could hardly move. My doctor asked me what on earth happened to me? He told me then, that one of the worst things anyone could ever do is retire. He said more people have heart attacks the first year after retirement. So here I am now, very over weight. Take my advice. Never stop moving. If you must retire, find something to replace that activity with.
Wow my granny also retired but quickly picked up a job being a cross-guard for schools. We asked why did she go back into the workforce, and chose that job out of all jobs, she said it will help her remain active and fit.
@Kat Ashley I know that it isn’t inevitable but unfortunately I have been diagnosed as having it. I do keep it to minimum pain by being careful what I eat . I dont like taking painkillers or anti inflammatory drugs so try my best to handle it in other ways.
This is the second interview I have watched on your channel, and I subscribed on this one. The great radio broadcaster, Hugh Hewitt, said, "Good interviewers ask short questions, and let their subjects speak." You're a natural. Well done. Looking forward to more from your channel.
Incredible interview! You ask such thoughtful questions. You’re very intuitive, inquisitive and engaged as an interviewer. It didn’t even feel like an interview, which is a hard skill to master. I would love to hear more conversations like this. Just gained a new follower!
I found this so interesting. Im a recovered anorexic/bulimic. I had severe anorexia i was basically at deaths door i had refeeding syndrome and i did finally recover but only by ..sleep walking 😅 i started sleep walking to the fridge and eating during the night. I do that to this day if i've eaten in a deficit i find evidence of sometimes up to 4 trips to the fridge a night. Ive also eaten things like toothpaste 😅I also noticed my hunger signals are now unberable if im in a deficit...sometimes i've cried from how hard they are to ignore which i NEVER had before the anorexia or even during it! Im at a healthy weight but it's like an entire bulletproof systems been created by my brain to make sure it never happens again! I think our bodies are smarter then we give them credit for.
Glad you've recovered, but wow I love the fact that your body took the opportunity to go to the fridge while you were asleep 😅 That's a very interesting survival technique lol!
As an ''all or nothing'' kinda person, who struggles to find balance in anything, I find that fasting is the best diet for me. If I try starting the day with a large breakfast? Then I've opened the door to overeating before the end of the day, and increase my chances of craving sugar or binging. Fasting, to me anyways, is just a much easier way to control my caloric intakes.
@Question Everything no it isn’t I feel full of energy and the healthiest and have never felt hungry in the morning even as a child my mum confirms this that even as a baby I was not a morning eater and I feel my healthiest when I listen to my body eating only when I feel hungry which is between 2-4 in the afternoon. I eat quality food drink lots of water healthy with lots of energy and sleep well I rarely get sick. But get labelled all the time with medical terms that don’t reflect my good health
Me too…. My stupid body holds on to calories and fat like a miser now that I’m in my seventies. The forty extra pounds make my knee, ankle and hip hurt so that exercise is not pleasant. It then becomes a vicious cycle.
this podcast was perfect for me right now. My weight is ideal, but at the age of 52 and sedentary, I've been losing lean mass. My doctor asked me to start some kind of resistance training, but I wasn't convinced... now I am
I love this platform. I learned so much about different topics. I'm a person who struggles with health issues and body image, and this has been very much a good thing for me ❤🙏🏽
I just love love love how he speaks and delivers an explanation or answers a question and the careful choice of words … I’m so entertained and lit up ..he is so funny , dynamic and brilliant ! I love it when scientists have a sense of humor ! Great combo!
What a privilege to have such information within a few taps of a phone screen. Thanks for putting this interview out. I’ve got a new book to read and apply selfishly and spread selflessly.
I lost 70 lbs before. I couldn’t lose one pound working out to P90X and eating salads with no dressing. But after I lost the weight through extreme dieting, exercise helped keep it off. This guy is spot on.
As a drug & alcohol counselor in recovery myself, I remind my clients that our substances of choice help us cope until they start to kill us. That’s where addiction starts. When Dr. Yeo said “this has kept us alive until it is killing us” about our access to food in general and also poor quality food, I heard that! Thank you for the excellent content!
@Audrey Delacour you don’t grow out of addiction you stop the use or action of the substance or action and manage the addiction you are still predisposed to any addiction in all forms for your entire life where some people can use and do any action without ever having the risk of addiction. Addiction is your brain not you using a substance. A type 2 diabetic can change the way they eat and manage their diabetes and treat it to the point they are in remission you still have diabetes for life you are just in remission so it isn’t effecting your blood sugar levels at that point. If you choose to eat sugar everyday it may not effect you for a month it may not for a year but your diabetes will come out of remission and it will effect your blood sugars again. If you have ITP from an illness or a vaccine. Your platelets drop and will make you start to bleed to death internally externally. When they successfully treat it with immunoglobulin, transfusions, medications to the point that your platelets are level without anything you are in remission for the disease but every time you get sick, hormone fluctuation, vaccines, etc. you have the chance of coming out of remission because you still have the life long disease it just isn’t active at the time. When you have cancer and it gets treated you are in remission so that’s when they say “cancer free” but you are never actually cancer free you are in remission and have to get checked for life because your disease can become active again at any time. Addiction when you find sobriety and abstinence you can put yourself into remission as in the disease isn’t effecting your body currently but can come back in any form of addiction because it is the disease in your brain. It is life long but you can be in remission for the rest of your life so it’s not a disease you have to die from. So the sugar, the illness/vaccine/hormones, whatever caused the cancer, the drugs/alcohol/sex/shopping/exercise/eating/porn/etc. isn’t the disease itself it is a contributing factor to the illness showing itself. So you saying an addict can just use normally the rest of their life is false the could learn to function with their addiction (but that addiction is still there) but then you have to ask yourself if they were doing fine and not an addict anymore why did they go back to using drugs to begin with? If you don’t think they are an addict ask them to quit again. It shouldn’t change their mood, behaviour at all, there should be no resistance, excessive thoughts, cravings, there should be no hesitation from them … but there will be… I’m sorry if you honestly believe it is something that can be cured and not put into remission because of someone first hand in your life. Like genuinely actually sorry not condescendingly.
Nuance is the takeaway word of this podcast. Nutrition has so many variables and so many combinations of what’s “right” it’s absolutely all about finding what’s right for you.
Even though this is almost 2 hours I ate this up (pun intended 😊). The balanced, non-exclusionary approach of Dr.Yao is a breath of fresh air in a polarized space. I had a similar experience to the host - a few years back my body lost the ability to digest wheat-based products. I only realized the cause through an elimination diet, after a year of inconclusive doctor visits and torturing my co-workers with seriously stinky farts (and other unpalatable side effects which I will not mention here). I was shocked because I was eating bread etc. All my life. I eventually built my tolerance up with the help of probiotics and slowly increasing wheat consumption. I would love to find out the cause of this mysterious, though thankfully temporary, intolerance. Regardless, the moral of my story is, understand your diet and try natural solutions. They may lead to better results than doctors and pills.
Ty so much for this segment! I've been saying literally all of this for years!!!!! I'm so glad geneticist Yo is saying the same stuff too. Hopefully the world will begin listening more. ✅💜
I went from 15 stone to 12.5 stone in about 4-5 months, training 3-5 times a week. I focused firstly on high protein low carbs and had good results. Then I did Keto and lost the bulk of my goal weight FAST. Keto was also easy apart from going to the toilet so I had to add carbs back in. What worked for me: Skip breakfast Eat loads of chicken and veggies for lunch / a decent egg omelette dinner - No rubbish but chili con carne as an example. I did it all on a budget.
I developed a severe case of GERD, and it took nearly 2 years for me to figure out I needed to stop eating spicy food. We get into denial of how food influences how we physically feel.
The way a physician described it to me - your body’s current weight (whatever it is) is your base weight. When you lose weight - let’s say 50lbs - in order for your brain to accept that new weight as its base weight, you would need to maintain it for about 2 - 3yrs for the reason Dr. Yeo described in this discussion. Loved this dialogue, his spirit of teaching shows❤
I can vouch that my set point seems to have permanently (unless I do something intentional to force weight gain) lowered once I kept my weight stable at a lower weight for a few years. Granted, I did suffer while my body was adapting.
@kskskskks Hi, thanks for thinking of this. I had my thyroid checked a few years ago and there is a nodule on it but my blood work seems okay and they didn't think it would be having an impact. I do have pcos and fibromyalgia which certainly don't help weight loss but shouldn't be this much of a match for determination. I've recently found out that a clinic near me does metabolic testing but it's expensive, however it is my intention to see them and hopefully understand what is happening and what I can do about it. I honestly believe I've just slowly adapted because I was morbidly obese to start with and keep ending up eating far too little if I stop tracking every single day. I'm currently eating 1500kcal a day. Any more and I gain, any less and I start having skin and gut issues and muscle pain and I still don't lose weight. I've seen a PT a few times recently and I'm just working towards additional fitness and reducing stress. I haven't mentioned this hear yet but my weight problem became really bad in my 20s due to not being able to walk for about 10 months after having my son. I was told I should never ride a bike again but recently that's something I've started doing to add variety. I'm at least finding that I can do a lot more than I ever used to, regardless of girth. SOME of my plateau may be muscle gain.
What a marvelous man. And what a great interview. Lots of accessible and assessable information given to us with humour, intelligence and obvious kindness. I will now go hunting for Dr. Yeo's books............. Thank you both , so very much.
I have been exercising and trying to control my eating, with no results in weight loss. Then I stopped working out for a couple of weeks, and finally my weight started dropping. I was really surprised, but it became way easier to control my food intake. I did not expect Dr Yeo to validate that!
Do you know that weight loss is not the best way to track your progress? Because there is fat and muscle. Trough working out you may be burning fat and incresing your muscle mass which weights more.
1:48:11 YES! When my uncle died of a massive heart attack, and then a few years later my dad had to have a quintuple bypass (both at the age of 56), I started to reassess my eating habits and improve them. Their dad also died of heart disease...at 56. I'm 56 now. Whew!
At 60, I have been reborn!! I literally cleaned my house listening to this whole podcast! LOL!! I have never heard anything more practical, non-preachy and sensible in my life regarding the food we eat. Thank you so much Dr. Yeo for helping me enter my third chapter. I DO want to walk those damn stairs for the next 20 years of my life. Resistance training it is and here is to a happier and non punishing relationship with food. I would, however like to mention that exercise can improve mental health and increase endorphins, so, just as you mentioned, exercise alone may not make huge differences on the scale (if you do not eat in a more healthy way), it can improve mental health and ones outlook on life.
I was on a vegan diet and dealing with orthorexia in 2013 and the feeling I remember having the most was fear. I was afraid of "chemicals" and all the "bad" stuff in my food and trying to eat "clean" so I wouldn't get sick. I also had significant body dysmorphia and thought I was overweight even though I was at a normal healthy weight.
Great guest on the podcast indeed! This is the first time I come across your podcast and Dr. Yeo. I enjoyed his intelligent and articulate delivery! I look forward to other episodes of your podcast. Thank you!
This interview has made me a subscriber! I love how in depth it is & covers all the current trends. It was funny too, great talk and very interesting guest. I wasn’t expecting to get a celiac breakdown too as someone who is very sensitive to gluten (& most dairy) but I’m pretty sure I’m not actually celiac. It’s such a pain but I feel so much better being GF & DF.
Such a gr8 podcast. Although I’m pretty clued up on my diet and exercise, I learnt a lot from this gr8 speaker. I agree that not every diet will suit everyone. As a busy professional, I try and manage 14-18 hours IF no breakfast and consume mostly a healthy plant based diet..having had weight issues for years and following this plan in the last 3.5 years have dropped my weight from 210 to 150 lbs and bmi from 30 to 20 and maintained this now..I do a full gym workout once a week..if I have time I’ll do long walks in the week..but I didn’t know b4 this podcast that one’s metabolic rate lowers end of the day…now, either I’ll have to finish eating earlier or do exercise at this time to keep topped up..also, I agree that calories are BS and it’s about the quality of macros I’m consuming..I’m exploring more veg based protein now and I enjoy learning more about nutrition even at 54 I think I have lots to learn..😊 I think variety and moderation is key but don’t restrict things you like!? I love sweet and fried snacks ..food is the joy of life..but I need to counter that with more exercise or IF hours if I choose to consume such items..because I know my body well enough to know that I’ll pile on the pounds..don’t want that as extra weight makes me feel sluggish, ruins all previous weight loss work and prevents me from fitting into smaller clothes!? No chance..my IF plant based diet is working a treat and I’ll carry on for the rest of my life now ✅ ..feel much better no longer consuming animal protein..we should eat without fear but be more conscious about what we are consuming..my gut health is much more improved compared to 3-4 years ago..diet is a never ending conundrum thanks Stephen for gr8 content and speakers 🙏👏☑️
I am normally not a podcast listener, but your style of interviewing as well as the quality of the guest and your questions really shows how prepared and engaged you are. I truly enjoyed watching/listening to the entire thing. It was overall very well done as well as very informative
I am diagnosed gluten intolerant (but not coeliac) by a doctor specialised in gastroenterology. And yes, I did lost 25 lbs over a year after banning gluten, without exercices, the most notable change in my food was replacing pizza by steak and French fries (but I have been working to adopt some Mediterranean diet dishes and ingredients even before that, it's not like my eating habits were catastrophic). What did I take from the experience? Three years after, I still haven't taken the weight back yet. My theory is when your metabolism is stressed with food that doesn't work for it, it will store fat in pure panic. If your diet is too nutriment poor, it will store fat in pure panic. Obesity is always a symptom. Then, I have been experimenting with Mediterranean diet for over 10 years, but it's hard to do without gluten, so I mixed and matched with Japanese traditional meal. I turned out, both have about the same basics even thought they are not structured the same. Other traditional cuisine are probably working about the same, but I'm not familiar enough to tell. Although traditional Indian cuisine looked promising when I checked for a vegetarian friend. About exercice, there were moments in my life when doing 2 to 3 hours of exercice a week were enough to lose 2 to 3 lbs a month without any change to the diet, but other time when enforced 3 hours exercice plus walking would barely keep my weight steady (I started about the same weight both time). If you need to work out like a olympic athlete to lose any weight, it's because your metabolism is in panic fat storing mode. Something in your diet is either missing or messing with the rest, you need to find what it is. It would be handy to have a list and protocole of what could be responsible and how to test it out, but no such a thing exist.
I really enjoyed this. Absolutely wonderfully engaging, educational and delivered with such a passion in his field. Thank you Dr Yeo. You deliver it all in an unbiased non judgmental way and I agree with the evangelical eaters. I have/had a friend who basically tried to force me to be vegan but it doesn’t suit my body. I reduced the amount of meat products and generally try and eat fresh foods and cook from raw as much as possible. The 10/20% reduction is more than reasonable.
OMG I wrongly thought this was a other useless self-help book. It is an amazing science research book. So detailed. Loved learning about the history of calories.
I am surprised by how accurate this scientist is. Virtually all nutrition advice on the internet is wrong or misleading but this guy really nails so many issues accurately. I have a PhD in nutrition and have a real difficult time finding anything that is not misleading- but this guy is very informed and provides useful information. Anyone who wants to learn nutrition should follow this scientist.
The only reason why I've stayed on keto for years, intermittently since I alternate with paleo, is because I developed food intolerances. The fact that I can't eat certain foods and I had to adjust my macros to stay functional is what made keto sustainable, I have no other way of eating at the moment. It took time to stop having cravings, mood swings, to start understanding if I was or not hungry or just tired, but I just got used to it. I would love to binge on a pizza and I would do it if it wasn't because it makes me horribly sick.
I watched this twice and shared with so many friends...I just love the transparency between Yeo and Steven. This was a healthy interview. Well done! Stevens accent just makes you fall in love with everything he says whether you agree or not..😘.Thank you for this interview,. Keep up the great work!
I appreciate this conversation! Everything this doctor has said has confirmed and validated my philosophy. I have my Masters in Applied Exercise Science my specialty is human movement. I have certifications in personal training, group fitness instructor, corrective exercise specialist, performance enhancement specialist, behavioral change specialist and a few others. I always council my clients similarly. I have told them to front load calories because they’re more active in the day. I have advised them on changing food preparation. And improving lifestyles instead of following diet fads. Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I have never stayed watching for two hours on any video on youtube ever. This is was a very mind opening talk and Giles has been been a wonderful guest. The back and forth was also both funny and entertaining. There were many things discussed that were so expertly but simply discussed that my muggle brain just ate it up. Thank you Dr Yeo for doing what you do. You will save a lot of lives. And also many thanks for not cancelling chocolate altogether. 😅
Another revealing and insightful conversation. Nutrition is now a first world problem. Authorexia is very real. I say each to their own but people with this particular condition are also determined to make their anxieties yours too. If you have ever had to make your kitchen 'cross-contamination' safe because 1 of the the 6 other people you share with is vege, you will understand. As a student i felt this was our responsibe. I wouldnt bother now though had to
Wow!!! Orthorexia!!! You hit the “Hammer on the Nail”, I was a Bulimarexia patientas a teenager, and im 63 years old today and thought i had an obsession with foot but it makes perfect sense what you are saying!!! thank you, i will be looking into this❤I don’t know how to thank you enough for identifying this for me! Totally!!! makes sense!!!
34:55 "I don't really get hungry at breakfast." Same. Hearing that it's better to flip it make my heart sank, but I am grateful to be more inform. So I really relate, but at the same time, I hope interview doesn't continue too feel to bad about it. I think we have all been mislead on various topics and that hurts thought that is life's journey. Changing with better and update information is how we grow. It's growing pains.
Doing ADF and it has been the easiest diet I’ve ever done in my life. I get to eat whatever I want and as a person that tends towards stress eating and impulsive so that says something.
Okay….so how do we nominate Steven Bartlett for a Podcast award??? This episode was superb in every way! SB asked ALL the questions we needed answers for and Giles’s scientific and realistic modelling was extremely relatable. I am grateful for this impartation of wisdom and knowledge at this point in my life! 🎉🙏🏾👌🏾🙌🏾
So glad I came across this podcast. Dr Giles had been saying the same thing as my doctor friend who taught me the proper way to lose weight through proper food eating & correct resistance exercising. I'm from Malaysia. Basically Dr Giles's expertize had reinforced 100% of what I was told to do. I can vouch what Dr Giles's method/advice/warning is legit and achievable. There was a point, I was trying to be smartarse, modifying diet program and got me end up a bad medical report. lol... Keto diet is not sustainable, High protein diet is dangerous as it put stress on the kidneys (just as Dr Giles warned). Weight ratio should be 1:2 [meat: fiber] is a general rule of thumb. P/s: 1) An apple a day keeps a doctor away, whereas a bottle of juice a day keeps medicine close to your heart. 😂🤣 2) Veganism is for the rich, cause you need suppliment added into your meal; when meat has vitamins & trace elements the body needed. Besides we don't have cow stomach. Our digestive system is designed to break down meat items, not fiber. 3) Dr Giles, reducing meat eating is easily achievable. Instead of suggesting take 1 day off eating meat, you can suggest them to reduce the amount per meal. That way, it's also inline with healthy weight loss dieting.
Finally someone with real nutritional knowledge that avoids giving us the ‘one fits all’ types of answers and urges us to have some common sense and take a bird eye view on our personal health and weight. I wish the policy makers, that have the real power to change the environment in which we live for the better and therefore our health, would think more like him instead of prioritising the pockets of the big corporations. Great listening. Thank you, Steve 👍
not everyone has or has learned how to. That's part of your own responsibility. But you clearly under estimate the marketing for certain products. It's hard for some people to even get any not overprocessed foods. Some shops only have the A-label foods and barely fruit or fresh vegetables. Or it's very expensive.
@Edwina Mendelssohn you're wrong. Most of us are addicted to sugar without even realising it. But it's not about politics and prohibit certain foods, it's about a more regulated marketing for such foods.
@Love I was Dr Berg’s body work BRT NAET JMT etc patient. It costs tons of money & time & carefulness etc. it didn’t seem to do anything for my body according to any perception except i passed levels in the applied kinesiology. He’s a pleasant man. It took like avyear with him & then more years of trying before i found something that started visibly & sensibly start reversing my dxed illnesses. And i still like chiropractic. Some things will never be enough, when what the individual needs is something else. In my case nutrition beyond Dr Berg’s scope was a big part of it.
Giles Yeo is fabulous. He’s able to explain complex processes into more easily understandable bits, motivating me to understand what’s really going on with my body, the science and biology of it all. Excellent podcast!
I totally had orthorexia! Now I'm paying the consequences for that. I'm slowly coming out of it. Thankfully. YES! there is TMI! And I totally came to the point of saying exactly that! I cannot eat anything! Low sugar yes. Less meat yes. More veggies yes! Was the weight you gained muscle? I think front loading is more beneficial bc it helps metabolically especially for your blood sugar stabilization, which triggers other hormones, one being melatonin, if I remember correctly, potentially causing sleep issues. We always find a way to ruin things, like keto. TYPES of calories matter, IMHO. A 1K cal salad is better than 1K cal from a sleeve of Oreos. I think that it depends on what we are eating to trigger issues with gluten, and the gut issues.Thank you for speaking on body positivity... you nailed it. Thank you so much for being so neutral and just stating facts on most topics.
My wife was a lifelong migraine sufferer....talking 5 or 6 days a week, every week. Based on what I learned about gluten from Wheat Belly and Grain Brain, she decided to cut out gluten to see if there were any noticable effects. She almost never gets a migraine or any headache for that matter anymore. My point, not all gluten issues are solely digestion related. There can be a lot of other issues that you won't know about unless you try cutting gluten out of your diet.
It can easily be the products itself that were the problem not specifically the gluten. Like when he was saying the alkaline diet those people lose weight though meat isn't harmful in moderate doses.
Yep. My dad is a Celiac (didn't find out until he was 62, emaciated, anemic, and had cancer) and I have a definite intolerance. One of the weird symptoms I had was painful, bloody, scabby sores deep inside my nose. They are gone after quitting gluten years ago. I'm NOT a fan of gluten for anyone, actually.
Quotes and notes from the podcast: 1. Most non-infectious diseases are caused by a bad diet! (Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, some cancers) 2. There is no single right diet, you need to find the right diet for yourself. It has to fit biologically, psychologically and lifestyle-wise. Otherwise, you will never stick to it and make it worth it!
@Inspector Count Mortis Winship Klaw A fruit-based diet would be suicide for me. I have T2 diabetes (family history) and was diagnosed in 2020. The most effective diet to lower my A1C was a low carb diet. Went from 6.5 to 5.7 in 3 months with diet and daily walking. I believe more doctors are wising up to the idea of low carb for their diabetic patients.
@Logan Media ooops Then go and listen to your scientists and their research (just don't follow the money and don't check who sponsored) and eat their new recommended Food Compass! I, with my family and friends will stick to carnivore, ketavore, keto. Wishing you lots of health on that diet. If ever want to learn check my previous comments, many names to learn from. Just gave you enough time of my life, will not engage anymore.
@Logan Media Yes, caloric intake has increasesd because calories somewhat correlate with mass intake, but calories are far too inaccurate for the avg. person to calculate. It forces them to significantly under eat, resulting in more problems. That's the issue from the onset, they are inaccurate, it's very simple. Packaging can be out by some 20% either way. That's only the start of the problems. You also have the thermic effect of food, that adds another confounding factor. Even your own poo has calories in it. Nutrients. Nutrients matter more than anything for people in developed countries, energy is easy to come by, and this means high quality foods.
So much great information in this thanks to diary of a ceo and Giles yeo. Well don't both of you for takeling this subject and doing a great job with it also. Covering a lot of key points we'll done!
So basically my takeaway is you have to eat foods that take more processing to extract sugars, and it's pretty hopeless to think of losing a ton of weight with any type of 'diet' and should shift your entire eating and shopping habits to being healthier and keeping less food readily available.
Keto with IF worked for me. Moderate exercise with Tai Chi (resistance) Six years ago, I went from 155 lbs down to 119 lbs. I'm 5'5. I went back to low-carb, and maintain right around 125 lbs. I am 5'5" tall and will be 60 in two months. I have low blood pressure and zero health issues. I'm working on building/maintaining muscle mass. Going keto and IF took away asthma, allergies, and swelling in my fingers. I've successfully kept the weight off for six years. I was thin for most of my adult life, but my weight slowly crept up, like a pound a year. So at 53, I went IF first and added in keto (both worked) because other ways of eating had failed. I love the fact on keto that because ghrelin doesn't seem to be produced in me, I never get hungry so eating a balanced healthy way is easy.
I am really appreciating listening to the increasing frequency of relatively popular male podcasters talking openly about their concerns with weight gain and the dietary restrictions they impose on themselves as a means to address these concerns. This has largely been depicted as a female disposition, but I am learning that is far from reality. At least for the modern man (well represented by those who would be considered successful). This was fantastic nuanced discussion that underscores the importance of quality over quantity when it comes to nutrition, as well as the diversity of the types of food that can provide quality nutrition.
Very informative. My approach is quite simple for my own life which works for me as I know because I am myself, living in mine own reality. I eat simply, mainly because of the observed discomforts of bloat, and various other responses I have to delicious meals like fried foods and such, or like a delicious piece of chocolate cake, or donut. My daily diet usually consists of a breakfast cereal which is called THREE WISHES, which is made from 6 ingredients in order listed below. 1. Chickpea 2.tapioca 3.pea protein 4.organic can sugar 5. Natural flavors 6. Monk fruit 1 serving of reduced fat milk, or even a water mixture along with a delicious coffee creamer which I love which uses coconut fat as it’s thickener. I eat 2 servings after working out for 2 hours 1 hour lifting 1 hour outdoor distance slow jog. That’s about 260-400 calories not that calories really matter. I feel fantastic after eating this after workout meal, and I don’t necessarily feel full or stuffed. Then I eat my delicious lunch which comprises of 1 chicken breast seasoned with pepper, soy sauce, and some minced garlic cooked in 1.5 servings of olive oil. I’ll usually eat 3-4 servings of peas cause I just love peas, and I’ll also eat a banana too. Dinner is usually a LARGE salad which I pour basic balsamic vinegar on top of and usually eat with 2 servings of croutons. I put 1 boiled egg and sliced carrots, onions, and whatever other vegetable I feel like on top of it. I workout EVERYDAY and my career has me working on my feet Sunday-Wednesday. So Wednesday night I like to have a delicious meal that I usually go out and buy, like at an Italian restaurant or something like that. Thursday I like to have some ice cream from DQ, and then Friday I enjoy eating at home until dinner and I’ll usually have a meal outside of home along with some Oreos before bed. Saturday I reset my diet and eat at home Saturday-Wednesday. I do this for 2 reasons, I ENJOY not being bloated all the time, and I also enjoy having healthy, regular bowel movements which makes my career that much more enjoyable! I’m a healthy weight, I feel healthy, and I love the way I look because of it. I enjoy an active lifestyle as it is such a GIFT and I don’t want to take my abilities to be active for granted because I know there are people who cannot be active due to disease or other issues.. I enjoy foods. I hope people can just enjoy their bodies and foods and just keep in mind that the biggest takeaway with food is to eat moderately and enjoy your life. Don’t eat out alllll the time. I usually only eat 2 meals out a week, and my meals that I prepare at home for myself only take about 30 minutes Total out of my day. Just be happy and build your relationship with healthy food options like vegetable, high fiber options and normal meats, alongside berrries, banana which are also large berries lol and stuff like that. I don’t smoke, or drink alcohol only because it makes me feel terrible the next day when I want to enjoy the outdoors, so I listen to my body and my doctor on these things. Good luck everyone :)
This was in incredible interview. The part on exercise ties right into my own war on weight loss. The more intensity I would have in exercise, the harder the relationship with food. I learned to balance the effort and focus more on a healthy food relationship in terms of volume and nutrition and the weight started dropping far faster than working harder in the gym.
@Sabine Tsamtsukakis For me your point is also not my point and I agree people are different, so if you are happy with that im happy for you too, lets live and let live 👍
@James C. I did not say it is easy to DO, but it is easy to understand. And recognizing the problem, and the goal, is really important and then you're already nearly halfway there. The other half is actually doing it, and it isn't easy. But there's no way around it if you want to live healthily.
This video makes me want to join Dr. Yeo's lab. I love studying genetics and nutritions so I'm very grateful that I stumbled on this video. Thank you for this one, Steven! :)
IF YOU COULD DO US A MASSIVE FAVOUR AND LIKE the video 👍🏽 By doing that, you’re helping us out more than you know 🙏🏽 thank you
Darn. I wish candidas diet was addressed.
What a great episode and great podcast! I ended up on this video 'by mistake' thanks to KZclip's autoplay while I was cooking. So glad that I did! Subscribing and telling all my friends about it now... 🤠
Lol, I live a simple life: If Gwyneth Paltrow does it, do the opposite. 😆 So far, it's worked out great for me.
Key Take aways:
16% of daily diet should contain proteins
30% Fiber
5% allowed for added sugars (not tied-up to fiber, e.g maple syrup, agave nectar) - Limit as much as you can.
Exercise helps Maintain weightloss but not directly lead to weightloss. It is still important especially if protein intake is high (due to nitrogen build-up from protein metabolism injuring the kidneys).
Don't overdo a specific diet or force it to someone because it can lead to Eating disorder.
Fruit Juices are BAD as they are pure sugar and absorbed in the gut quickly, as opposed to eating fruits which triggers the whole process of digestion (chewing, swallowing, digesting and absorbing and so on). It's basically drinking high amount of Liquid sugar.
FAT becomes dangerous when they start to leak out of the 'fat pockets' and reach the parts of the body where they're not supposed to be such as muscles and liver.
His goal is to spread awareness about the importance of affordable healthy foods in curing obesity.
He will not cancel Chocolates if he becomes a PM 😂
16% Maybe if you work a desk job and never exercise
but again,
it depends.
people who lift weights and focus on building muscle, will increase that protein level, lower fats and keep high carbs.
one diet is not for everyone.
@Imago DeiRed meat. 😊
Fat is fuel, our brains need it. I'm talking healthy fats. 💪
@Broke My Crayon oh sry. thought fiber = carbs.. now i know what fiber means
You know he's a real one when he answers with a lot of "it depends."
This world doesn't need any more oversimplified and twisted truth. It needs more of these who are willing to explain the nuances AND the ones that are willing to listen.
This is an amazing podcast. I’m 52 and was told by my doctor that I had to lose weight because of my liver and if I don’t lose weight she would put me on medication. So I have been walking on a treadmill to get me active since my job is sedentary. I’ve learned so much during this conversation and feel much less confused. Thank you both.
Hi Michelle, I hope you're doing well. Once the weather gets a bit nicer, I just wanted to encourage you to try a walk in the woods. Start with a nice flat trail and your favorite podcast, and I you might very well get addicted. 😉
Great episode. My biggest pet peeve when it comes to a dietician or a doctors approach to advice for me to lost weight (I am overweight), is ignoring the person and only seeing the problem which assumes the answer. I don’t eat much, truly, I don’t, but the first and usually only advice given by these professionals is “portion control” and “eat less”. I’ve tracked what I’ve eaten for a week and the “ideal caloric intake” for the average female of my age is more than what I would eat in a day unless I eat fast food. No one has listened when I’ve stated how little I eat and the foods I eat. It’s assumed I’m lying. I think this episode has opened my eyes to how my body may perform a bit differently than the average female of my age. Definitely going to look into the genetics and research the foods that MY body needs and craves to survive. Thank you for the eye opener.
This is absolutely where I am at. They don't listen. Just assume and lump
Yes. I worked in a cardiometabolic clinic as a clinician. Some patients who were obese only ate 500 calories in a day. The restriction over te reset their metabolism to a lower set point in their basal metabolic rate. It’s complicated. Weight loss is better achieved over a longer, gradual span of time. It’s always down to diet. Exercise is for the brain, and the muscle built helps burn calories even at rest, however it is diet that makes a difference. Doctors don’t know much about nutrition. Heck, some dieticians don’t know your body can use ketones for fuel. Which blows my mind. But I digress. It sounds like you need professional guidance and support. Dr Rhonda Patrick’s channel has lots of info on lifestyle, diet etc. Same with Dr Ken Berry, Dr Steve Phinney and so on. And of course Andrew Huberman, neurologist, exercise researcher.
Now that I’m seventy my body holds onto excess fat like a miser.. very aggravating and frustrating! I have forty stubborn lbs to lose and it seems if all I consume is water my body STILL holds on to that blubber! That weight is enough to make my ankle, knee and hip kvetch about walking so I am finding it difficult to reset my body’s fat burning machinery. Rite now I’m mad at my body for its betrayal at this age!
@Berth he said that the metabolism can change / be different in different people, such that out of the calories you eat, the ratio of what your body chooses to burn and what it chooses to store can vary. It's a "hard pill to swallow", but that does mean that it's not as simple as calories in calories out. Some people eat and then have so much energy from it, ie a lot of it is available to burn. Others eat and still feel fatigued, and the calories go into building or maintaining fat (or muscle). It's a common and oversimplified assumption that 2 people eating the same meals but being different weights could only mean that one of them is having cheat meals.
I've spent years listening to people talk about food, diet, exercise, and everything else linked to losing weight. I realized that everyone is an expert in some way because people achieve their goals in different ways. I tried to chase calories and workout goals, but they were temporary. Nothing could last more than a year or two. This is insane, I realized; we're on the wrong boat.
Then, for various reasons, I shifted gears and began studying Buddhism. Buddhism encouraged mindfulness, minimalism, and thoughts about detachment. It helped me in transforming my relationship with my emotions, appetites, attachments, and food. I left Instagram.
Now I eat for nutrition rather than pleasure. I no longer take pictures of food and I no longer praise the food. It's only food.
Since then, I've constantly reduced excess weight, and for the first time, I've shed man boobs. I'm also sleeping better now. I strongly advise everyone to modify their connection with eating and exercise, and everything will be different.
If you cannot find pleasure from food, why do you live?
Good on you!
One thing that stood out was "It's only food".
That's a strange thought given the importance of food...
@El Harris You are forgiven but I don’t believe this has anything to do with ego I am just trying to be a better Christian I have nothing against meditation etc and I am trying to change my habits by meditation etc and I know Buddhism shares the same practices as Christianity but if I practice Buddhism instead of Christianity I am practically worshipping another God even if I denounce the God and I could probably do all the things that Buddhism has to offer without Buddhism although the Buddhism faith probably helps, don’t take me for a guy that would have burnt “witches” at a stake; I understand, I just don’t want to take part in anything pagan (don’t mention Halloween) and again I just want to try to be a better Christian for a change.
Lol, good is pleasurable and there's nothing wrong with enjoying it. Making that yet another thing that's joyless, if that's how you want to live awesome. But I prefer to enjoy my life and be present while enjoying things that make me happy and nourish body, mind and soul.
@Asiangoose90ti just because you study a religion doesn't mean that you are practicing or following it. It means you are loving and open enough to listen to what other fellow humans are saying. You don't have to follow it but you may realise something that will improve your understanding of Christianity. Mindfulness,minimalism and detachment are not alien thoughts to Christianity. Perhaps you should follow the Christian tradition of trying to understand your brothers and sisters instead of allowing your ego to take over and control what you can and can't do. Not to try and bully you. I really should keep my thoughts to myself however feel I I would be irresponsible to the whole of humanity if I didn't say anything. Forgive me if I am misunderstood and I can try to be better and beter everyday.
If you struggle with food, and can afford, please see a registered dietitian you like (a specialist for your problem). They will help you with personalised diet, lifestyle and behaviour changes after listening to your issues - and explain complex nutrition information based on evidence. Just like Giles did. He is actually a honorary president of British Dietetic Association (UK) and does a lot of events with BDA. Great interview! Very sad to hear about the awful comments others posted about how he looks like! Which was ironic as you discussed weight stigma! Thanks,
- student dietitian
I am 100% agree with Dr Yeo. The quality of food matters. I looked at what people in the "Blue Zone" areas eat for ideas. Liked recipes from mediterranean countries. Ate more veg, oily fish, pulses, seeds and fermented food. Didn't restrict. I lost 50kg over a year. I walked, did yoga and weight training to get fitter. I changed how I viewed food. Didn't beat myself up if I had a slice of cake. Because my weight loss was not linear. I focused on what food made me feel better. What is sustainable for me. What people need to realise is how personalised weight loss and getting healthier is. There is no 1 solution. You have to make the effort to find out what works for you.
@Panankan12 ouch 😅
I loveeeeee the Mediterranean Diet. My culture is used to eating all of that unhealthy "soul food" known to cause all types of Health Issues, ESPECIALLY AT A YOUNG AGE. I got made fun of for wanting to eat healthily, and now it appears that Everyone that made fun of the way I ate, is eating healthier
Same I'm also a strong believer that if I can't have a big plate of whatever that is I won't touch it
@The Great Artventure you're in a caloric surplus. You cannot lose weight without being in a caloric deficit. Anyone that says otherwise doesn't know know. I lost 10 lbs eating only pizza & Ben and Jerry's ice cream in a month. Burned more calories than I consumed and my Rhr went down as well. These people usually know many things except doing it themselves
Yet he has over 30% Body Fat? A celery gets more than 30 calories after being heated 😂😂😂 thats the most uneducated thing I've ever heard
I‘m listening and I‘m just finishing a „calorie counting“ chapter. As someone who did it successfully, I have a couple of points to add. First to a Domino pizza thing: Yes, you can theoretically eat anything as long as your calorie intake is on point, BUT if you eat domino pizza, you’re probably going to have to skip a whole meal to even out so if you really want to manage a diet by calorie counting, you’ll have to eat better or starve. Since I cannot starve, I actually started eating better quality food that made me both full and satisfied without going over a calorie limit. It also ended up being most protein then fat and least carb diet by default. Second thing: I used and app to help and it actually offered options for how you food is prepared and adjusted calories for it. So 100g cooked or baked or fried potatoes didn’t have the same anount of calories. What I liked most about calorie counting the way I did it is focusing on weekly intake instead of daily so if I, for example, had a piece a cheesecake (basically a whole meal worth of calories) I would balance it over the rest of the week and wouldn’t have to starve at all or feel guilty. I didn’t have a cheat day or anything, just, if a “bad” meal happened cause I craved it, it got balanced out by the rest of my diet. Also, the longer I lasted, the less cravings I got cause sugar addiction goes away and I learned to judge calories on my plate just by looking at it so I stopped needing to measure everything all the time. It’s a learning curve, but once learned, it stuck with me.
This man has an amazing vibe and spirit! 😊 He had me laughing and smiling throughout this interview!!
Me too! I really enjoyed listening to him.
I learned so much in this podcast! I have orthorexia because I research everything I don't know or understand. Now after years and years of doing that I just have an information overload. I couldn't see and think clear on what I can and can't eat. But after listening and making notes I can start an implement more things in my every day foods and stop using the scale every single day. Very grateful for this podcast!
@Shardee very true! Life's a marathon, not a sprint.
@Kat Ashley Thank you so much for your kind words 🥰 I always say: slow and steady wins the race 💪🏽
@Shardee that is wonderful! Just be patient with yourself and form a good friendship with that amazing body of yours. It wants to be healthy and strong. :)
@Kat Ashley Yes that's very important! I'm progressing every single day 🙌🏽
It's all true, and it's all not true. Try to let it go and start to eat what you actually want.
An actual REASONABLE AND SCIENTIFIC AND COMPASSIONATE talk about food, diet, health and weight! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🔥🔥🔥🔥
really good interview! Good job both of you! I really enjoyed listening/watching. Starting the video I was a bit scared that it will be one of those telling me that I am on the absolute wrong way of losing some weight, especially the calories counting part, but I just understood food a bit better. Everyone who is trying to lose some weight like me: Don't give up, don't destrict yourself too much and don't miss out on social events just because of your diet plan! Go, but make healthy choices, drink a lot of water and cut out sugary drinks! you can do this
Great interview!! My advice as a 64 year old woman. Do not ever slow down. All my life I was at a great weight. I had a job that was very physically taxing. I looked great untill I hit about 55. I was able to retire early and made the biggest mistake of my life. After being on my feet for so many years I decided to sit down in front of a computer for a year and do nothing. HUGE mistake. While sitting in front of computer I was snacking. Next thing I knew I was over weight and could hardly move. My doctor asked me what on earth happened to me? He told me then, that one of the worst things anyone could ever do is retire. He said more people have heart attacks the first year after retirement. So here I am now, very over weight. Take my advice. Never stop moving. If you must retire, find something to replace that activity with.
How does that happen? After 3 months and 1/4 of your one year weight gain, why didn't you notice and change your habits?
Wow my granny also retired but quickly picked up a job being a cross-guard for schools. We asked why did she go back into the workforce, and chose that job out of all jobs, she said it will help her remain active and fit.
@Sidney Bristow 💯
@Nanny Oggins there's always a way to reverse or avoid that and I hope you find it. Life in pain is misery.
@Kat Ashley I know that it isn’t inevitable but unfortunately I have been diagnosed as having it. I do keep it to minimum pain by being careful what I eat . I dont like taking painkillers or anti inflammatory drugs so try my best to handle it in other ways.
This is the second interview I have watched on your channel, and I subscribed on this one. The great radio broadcaster, Hugh Hewitt, said, "Good interviewers ask short questions, and let their subjects speak." You're a natural. Well done. Looking forward to more from your channel.
I concur
Dr. Yeo is such an incredible orator. I genuinely could listen to him explain these things all day long, he speaks in such an engaging manner.
Dr. Giles Yeo is a legend. This interview was fantastic and truly so informative. Thank you for sharing.
Incredible interview! You ask such thoughtful questions. You’re very intuitive, inquisitive and engaged as an interviewer. It didn’t even feel like an interview, which is a hard skill to master. I would love to hear more conversations like this. Just gained a new follower!
I found this so interesting. Im a recovered anorexic/bulimic. I had severe anorexia i was basically at deaths door i had refeeding syndrome and i did finally recover but only by ..sleep walking 😅 i started sleep walking to the fridge and eating during the night. I do that to this day if i've eaten in a deficit i find evidence of sometimes up to 4 trips to the fridge a night. Ive also eaten things like toothpaste 😅I also noticed my hunger signals are now unberable if im in a deficit...sometimes i've cried from how hard they are to ignore which i NEVER had before the anorexia or even during it! Im at a healthy weight but it's like an entire bulletproof systems been created by my brain to make sure it never happens again! I think our bodies are smarter then we give them credit for.
I experienced the exact same thing
Glad you've recovered, but wow I love the fact that your body took the opportunity to go to the fridge while you were asleep 😅 That's a very interesting survival technique lol!
As an ''all or nothing'' kinda person, who struggles to find balance in anything, I find that fasting is the best diet for me. If I try starting the day with a large breakfast? Then I've opened the door to overeating before the end of the day, and increase my chances of craving sugar or binging. Fasting, to me anyways, is just a much easier way to control my caloric intakes.
What are you referring to fasting?
@Question Everything no it isn’t I feel full of energy and the healthiest and have never felt hungry in the morning even as a child my mum confirms this that even as a baby I was not a morning eater and I feel my healthiest when I listen to my body eating only when I feel hungry which is between 2-4 in the afternoon. I eat quality food drink lots of water healthy with lots of energy and sleep well I rarely get sick. But get labelled all the time with medical terms that don’t reflect my good health
Me too…. My stupid body holds on to calories and fat like a miser now that I’m in my seventies. The forty extra pounds make my knee, ankle and hip hurt so that exercise is not pleasant. It then becomes a vicious cycle.
Whatever works for you my nigga
same here!
this podcast was perfect for me right now. My weight is ideal, but at the age of 52 and sedentary, I've been losing lean mass. My doctor asked me to start some kind of resistance training, but I wasn't convinced... now I am
I love this platform. I learned so much about different topics. I'm a person who struggles with health issues and body image, and this has been very much a good thing for me ❤🙏🏽
I just love love love how he speaks and delivers an explanation or answers a question and the careful choice of words … I’m so entertained and lit up ..he is so funny , dynamic and brilliant ! I love it when scientists have a sense of humor ! Great combo!
Yes. He seems fun. Very engaging. A pleasure to listen to.
What a privilege to have such information within a few taps of a phone screen. Thanks for putting this interview out. I’ve got a new book to read and apply selfishly and spread selflessly.
I lost 70 lbs before. I couldn’t lose one pound working out to P90X and eating salads with no dressing. But after I lost the weight through extreme dieting, exercise helped keep it off. This guy is spot on.
As a drug & alcohol counselor in recovery myself, I remind my clients that our substances of choice help us cope until they start to kill us. That’s where addiction starts. When Dr. Yeo said “this has kept us alive until it is killing us” about our access to food in general and also poor quality food, I heard that! Thank you for the excellent content!
@Audrey Delacour you don’t grow out of addiction you stop the use or action of the substance or action and manage the addiction you are still predisposed to any addiction in all forms for your entire life where some people can use and do any action without ever having the risk of addiction. Addiction is your brain not you using a substance. A type 2 diabetic can change the way they eat and manage their diabetes and treat it to the point they are in remission you still have diabetes for life you are just in remission so it isn’t effecting your blood sugar levels at that point. If you choose to eat sugar everyday it may not effect you for a month it may not for a year but your diabetes will come out of remission and it will effect your blood sugars again. If you have ITP from an illness or a vaccine. Your platelets drop and will make you start to bleed to death internally externally. When they successfully treat it with immunoglobulin, transfusions, medications to the point that your platelets are level without anything you are in remission for the disease but every time you get sick, hormone fluctuation, vaccines, etc. you have the chance of coming out of remission because you still have the life long disease it just isn’t active at the time. When you have cancer and it gets treated you are in remission so that’s when they say “cancer free” but you are never actually cancer free you are in remission and have to get checked for life because your disease can become active again at any time. Addiction when you find sobriety and abstinence you can put yourself into remission as in the disease isn’t effecting your body currently but can come back in any form of addiction because it is the disease in your brain. It is life long but you can be in remission for the rest of your life so it’s not a disease you have to die from. So the sugar, the illness/vaccine/hormones, whatever caused the cancer, the drugs/alcohol/sex/shopping/exercise/eating/porn/etc. isn’t the disease itself it is a contributing factor to the illness showing itself. So you saying an addict can just use normally the rest of their life is false the could learn to function with their addiction (but that addiction is still there) but then you have to ask yourself if they were doing fine and not an addict anymore why did they go back to using drugs to begin with? If you don’t think they are an addict ask them to quit again. It shouldn’t change their mood, behaviour at all, there should be no resistance, excessive thoughts, cravings, there should be no hesitation from them … but there will be… I’m sorry if you honestly believe it is something that can be cured and not put into remission because of someone first hand in your life. Like genuinely actually sorry not condescendingly.
' counsellor ' don't talk about themselves to ' clients' yes ?
Frauds then
Nuance is the takeaway word of this podcast. Nutrition has so many variables and so many combinations of what’s “right” it’s absolutely all about finding what’s right for you.
Even though this is almost 2 hours I ate this up (pun intended 😊). The balanced, non-exclusionary approach of Dr.Yao is a breath of fresh air in a polarized space.
I had a similar experience to the host - a few years back my body lost the ability to digest wheat-based products. I only realized the cause through an elimination diet, after a year of inconclusive doctor visits and torturing my co-workers with seriously stinky farts (and other unpalatable side effects which I will not mention here). I was shocked because I was eating bread etc. All my life. I eventually built my tolerance up with the help of probiotics and slowly increasing wheat consumption. I would love to find out the cause of this mysterious, though thankfully temporary, intolerance. Regardless, the moral of my story is, understand your diet and try natural solutions. They may lead to better results than doctors and pills.
Ty so much for this segment! I've been saying literally all of this for years!!!!! I'm so glad geneticist Yo is saying the same stuff too. Hopefully the world will begin listening more. ✅💜
I went from 15 stone to 12.5 stone in about 4-5 months, training 3-5 times a week. I focused firstly on high protein low carbs and had good results. Then I did Keto and lost the bulk of my goal weight FAST. Keto was also easy apart from going to the toilet so I had to add carbs back in.
What worked for me:
Skip breakfast
Eat loads of chicken and veggies for lunch / a decent egg omelette
dinner - No rubbish but chili con carne as an example.
I did it all on a budget.
I developed a severe case of GERD, and it took nearly 2 years for me to figure out I needed to stop eating spicy food. We get into denial of how food influences how we physically feel.
The way a physician described it to me - your body’s current weight (whatever it is) is your base weight. When you lose weight - let’s say 50lbs - in order for your brain to accept that new weight as its base weight, you would need to maintain it for about 2 - 3yrs for the reason Dr. Yeo described in this discussion.
Loved this dialogue, his spirit of teaching shows❤
I can vouch that my set point seems to have permanently (unless I do something intentional to force weight gain) lowered once I kept my weight stable at a lower weight for a few years. Granted, I did suffer while my body was adapting.
@kskskskks Hi, thanks for thinking of this. I had my thyroid checked a few years ago and there is a nodule on it but my blood work seems okay and they didn't think it would be having an impact. I do have pcos and fibromyalgia which certainly don't help weight loss but shouldn't be this much of a match for determination. I've recently found out that a clinic near me does metabolic testing but it's expensive, however it is my intention to see them and hopefully understand what is happening and what I can do about it. I honestly believe I've just slowly adapted because I was morbidly obese to start with and keep ending up eating far too little if I stop tracking every single day. I'm currently eating 1500kcal a day. Any more and I gain, any less and I start having skin and gut issues and muscle pain and I still don't lose weight. I've seen a PT a few times recently and I'm just working towards additional fitness and reducing stress. I haven't mentioned this hear yet but my weight problem became really bad in my 20s due to not being able to walk for about 10 months after having my son. I was told I should never ride a bike again but recently that's something I've started doing to add variety. I'm at least finding that I can do a lot more than I ever used to, regardless of girth. SOME of my plateau may be muscle gain.
@Emma is your thyroid ok? it might be the one that's causing the problem.
@Mas-ud Al-hassan You can eat less and not being hungry. When you stop being gluteness. Meaning all the Garbage at the store you don't need on demand.
What a marvelous man. And what a great interview. Lots of accessible and assessable information given to us with humour, intelligence and obvious kindness. I will now go hunting for Dr. Yeo's books............. Thank you both , so very much.
Brilliant interview! So much balanced info as how to life and deal with food ❤
I have been exercising and trying to control my eating, with no results in weight loss. Then I stopped working out for a couple of weeks, and finally my weight started dropping. I was really surprised, but it became way easier to control my food intake. I did not expect Dr Yeo to validate that!
Do you know that weight loss is not the best way to track your progress? Because there is fat and muscle. Trough working out you may be burning fat and incresing your muscle mass which weights more.
1:48:11 YES! When my uncle died of a massive heart attack, and then a few years later my dad had to have a quintuple bypass (both at the age of 56), I started to reassess my eating habits and improve them. Their dad also died of heart disease...at 56. I'm 56 now. Whew!
Gl I hope you find your best nutritional journey soon.
At 60, I have been reborn!! I literally cleaned my house listening to this whole podcast! LOL!! I have never heard anything more practical, non-preachy and sensible in my life regarding the food we eat. Thank you so much Dr. Yeo for helping me enter my third chapter. I DO want to walk those damn stairs for the next 20 years of my life. Resistance training it is and here is to a happier and non punishing relationship with food. I would, however like to mention that exercise can improve mental health and increase endorphins, so, just as you mentioned, exercise alone may not make huge differences on the scale (if you do not eat in a more healthy way), it can improve mental health and ones outlook on life.
Check out Pahla B. here on KZclip, she is uplifting and has great exercises targeting 50+ ages.
@@Jay, that is fabulous!!! 🙌🏻 Wishing you the best on your new journey and next “healthy” chapter, Sir!! 🙏🏻💚
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I was on a vegan diet and dealing with orthorexia in 2013 and the feeling I remember having the most was fear. I was afraid of "chemicals" and all the "bad" stuff in my food and trying to eat "clean" so I wouldn't get sick. I also had significant body dysmorphia and thought I was overweight even though I was at a normal healthy weight.
Great guest on the podcast indeed! This is the first time I come across your podcast and Dr. Yeo. I enjoyed his intelligent and articulate delivery! I look forward to other episodes of your podcast. Thank you!
That was a brilliant interview. Absolutely loved Giles - what a wonderful human and such an informative, vibrant, nuanced communicator.
This interview has made me a subscriber! I love how in depth it is
& covers all the current trends. It was funny too, great talk and very interesting guest. I wasn’t expecting to get a celiac breakdown too as someone who is very sensitive to gluten (& most dairy) but I’m pretty sure I’m not actually celiac. It’s such a pain but I feel so much better being GF & DF.
Such a gr8 podcast. Although I’m pretty clued up on my diet and exercise, I learnt a lot from this gr8 speaker. I agree that not every diet will suit everyone. As a busy professional, I try and manage 14-18 hours IF no breakfast and consume mostly a healthy plant based diet..having had weight issues for years and following this plan in the last 3.5 years have dropped my weight from 210 to 150 lbs and bmi from 30 to 20 and maintained this now..I do a full gym workout once a week..if I have time I’ll do long walks in the week..but I didn’t know b4 this podcast that one’s metabolic rate lowers end of the day…now, either I’ll have to finish eating earlier or do exercise at this time to keep topped up..also, I agree that calories are BS and it’s about the quality of macros I’m consuming..I’m exploring more veg based protein now and I enjoy learning more about nutrition even at 54 I think I have lots to learn..😊 I think variety and moderation is key but don’t restrict things you like!? I love sweet and fried snacks ..food is the joy of life..but I need to counter that with more exercise or IF hours if I choose to consume such items..because I know my body well enough to know that I’ll pile on the pounds..don’t want that as extra weight makes me feel sluggish, ruins all previous weight loss work and prevents me from fitting into smaller clothes!? No chance..my IF plant based diet is working a treat and I’ll carry on for the rest of my life now ✅ ..feel much better no longer consuming animal protein..we should eat without fear but be more conscious about what we are consuming..my gut health is much more improved compared to 3-4 years ago..diet is a never ending conundrum thanks Stephen for gr8 content and speakers 🙏👏☑️
I am normally not a podcast listener, but your style of interviewing as well as the quality of the guest and your questions really shows how prepared and engaged you are. I truly enjoyed watching/listening to the entire thing. It was overall very well done as well as very informative
Yes, me too, the guest was great, very informative and presented in a funny and interesting way ☺️
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I am diagnosed gluten intolerant (but not coeliac) by a doctor specialised in gastroenterology. And yes, I did lost 25 lbs over a year after banning gluten, without exercices, the most notable change in my food was replacing pizza by steak and French fries (but I have been working to adopt some Mediterranean diet dishes and ingredients even before that, it's not like my eating habits were catastrophic). What did I take from the experience? Three years after, I still haven't taken the weight back yet.
My theory is when your metabolism is stressed with food that doesn't work for it, it will store fat in pure panic. If your diet is too nutriment poor, it will store fat in pure panic. Obesity is always a symptom. Then, I have been experimenting with Mediterranean diet for over 10 years, but it's hard to do without gluten, so I mixed and matched with Japanese traditional meal. I turned out, both have about the same basics even thought they are not structured the same. Other traditional cuisine are probably working about the same, but I'm not familiar enough to tell. Although traditional Indian cuisine looked promising when I checked for a vegetarian friend.
About exercice, there were moments in my life when doing 2 to 3 hours of exercice a week were enough to lose 2 to 3 lbs a month without any change to the diet, but other time when enforced 3 hours exercice plus walking would barely keep my weight steady (I started about the same weight both time). If you need to work out like a olympic athlete to lose any weight, it's because your metabolism is in panic fat storing mode. Something in your diet is either missing or messing with the rest, you need to find what it is. It would be handy to have a list and protocole of what could be responsible and how to test it out, but no such a thing exist.
What a fun podcast! First time meeting both of you and im so happy to have crossed with this channel and specially this topic. Thank you so much .
I really enjoyed this. Absolutely wonderfully engaging, educational and delivered with such a passion in his field. Thank you Dr Yeo. You deliver it all in an unbiased non judgmental way and I agree with the evangelical eaters. I have/had a friend who basically tried to force me to be vegan but it doesn’t suit my body. I reduced the amount of meat products and generally try and eat fresh foods and cook from raw as much as possible. The 10/20% reduction is more than reasonable.
This was a wonderful discussion. Wonderful interview. Well done my dude.
OMG I wrongly thought this was a other useless self-help book. It is an amazing science research book. So detailed. Loved learning about the history of calories.
I am surprised by how accurate this scientist is. Virtually all nutrition advice on the internet is wrong or misleading but this guy really nails so many issues accurately. I have a PhD in nutrition and have a real difficult time finding anything that is not misleading- but this guy is very informed and provides useful information. Anyone who wants to learn nutrition should follow this scientist.
@John Martinsen the majority of people struggle with weight loss because they eat 24/7 fast food (USA).
@John Martinsen they have extremely minor implications for weight management. CICO is the pillar of all pillars
@Oanna C 🤣
The only reason why I've stayed on keto for years, intermittently since I alternate with paleo, is because I developed food intolerances. The fact that I can't eat certain foods and I had to adjust my macros to stay functional is what made keto sustainable, I have no other way of eating at the moment. It took time to stop having cravings, mood swings, to start understanding if I was or not hungry or just tired, but I just got used to it. I would love to binge on a pizza and I would do it if it wasn't because it makes me horribly sick.
Fascinating discussion! Loved it. I will be listening to more of your discussions on this channel. Thanks 😊
I watched this twice and shared with so many friends...I just love the transparency between Yeo and Steven. This was a healthy interview. Well done! Stevens accent just makes you fall in love with everything he says whether you agree or not..😘.Thank you for this interview,. Keep up the great work!
I appreciate this conversation! Everything this doctor has said has confirmed and validated my philosophy. I have my Masters in Applied Exercise Science my specialty is human movement. I have certifications in personal training, group fitness instructor, corrective exercise specialist, performance enhancement specialist, behavioral change specialist and a few others. I always council my clients similarly. I have told them to front load calories because they’re more active in the day. I have advised them on changing food preparation. And improving lifestyles instead of following diet fads. Thank you!!! Thank you!!! Thank you!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I appreciated the reason brought to nutrition in this discussion. Thanks, Steven and Dr. Yeo!
I have never stayed watching for two hours on any video on youtube ever.
This is was a very mind opening talk and Giles has been been a wonderful guest.
The back and forth was also both funny and entertaining.
There were many things discussed that were so expertly but simply discussed that my muggle brain just ate it up.
Thank you Dr Yeo for doing what you do. You will save a lot of lives.
And also many thanks for not cancelling chocolate altogether. 😅
Me too
What's the gists of it, I haven't got time to watch it all.
Agreed....
Another revealing and insightful conversation. Nutrition is now a first world problem. Authorexia is very real. I say each to their own but people with this particular condition are also determined to make their anxieties yours too. If you have ever had to make your kitchen 'cross-contamination' safe because 1 of the the 6 other people you share with is vege, you will understand. As a student i felt this was our responsibe. I wouldnt bother now though
had to
This is beyond good. Such useful information. Everyone should watch this interview.
What a great guy and what a great interview. Thank you! I really enjoyed it and will probably watch it again.
I love how excited he gets when you talk about the diets you have or are trying. He clearly loves what he does.
Brilliant podcast - incredibly informative and insightful about food and calories.
Wow!!! Orthorexia!!! You hit the “Hammer on the Nail”, I was a Bulimarexia patientas a teenager, and im 63 years old today and thought i had an obsession with foot but it makes perfect sense what you are saying!!! thank you, i will be looking into this❤I don’t know how to thank you enough for identifying this for me! Totally!!! makes sense!!!
I really enjoyed this conversation with Dr. Yeo, a responsible and ethical scientist. Thumb Up & Subscribed!!!
34:55 "I don't really get hungry at breakfast." Same.
Hearing that it's better to flip it make my heart sank, but I am grateful to be more inform. So I really relate, but at the same time, I hope interview doesn't continue too feel to bad about it. I think we have all been mislead on various topics and that hurts thought that is life's journey. Changing with better and update information is how we grow. It's growing pains.
Doing ADF and it has been the easiest diet I’ve ever done in my life. I get to eat whatever I want and as a person that tends towards stress eating and impulsive so that says something.
Okay….so how do we nominate Steven Bartlett for a Podcast award??? This episode was superb in every way! SB asked ALL the questions we needed answers for and Giles’s scientific and realistic modelling was extremely relatable. I am grateful for this impartation of wisdom and knowledge at this point in my life! 🎉🙏🏾👌🏾🙌🏾
TOTALLY AGREE! There were questions that I had and then boom he asked them!!!! He is an amazing interviewer as well.
The BEST I've seen!🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥰🥰🥰🥰
So glad I came across this podcast. Dr Giles had been saying the same thing as my doctor friend who taught me the proper way to lose weight through proper food eating & correct resistance exercising. I'm from Malaysia.
Basically Dr Giles's expertize had reinforced 100% of what I was told to do. I can vouch what Dr Giles's method/advice/warning is legit and achievable. There was a point, I was trying to be smartarse, modifying diet program and got me end up a bad medical report. lol... Keto diet is not sustainable, High protein diet is dangerous as it put stress on the kidneys (just as Dr Giles warned). Weight ratio should be 1:2 [meat: fiber] is a general rule of thumb.
P/s: 1) An apple a day keeps a doctor away, whereas a bottle of juice a day keeps medicine close to your heart. 😂🤣
2) Veganism is for the rich, cause you need suppliment added into your meal; when meat has vitamins & trace elements the body needed. Besides we don't have cow stomach. Our digestive system is designed to break down meat items, not fiber.
3) Dr Giles, reducing meat eating is easily achievable. Instead of suggesting take 1 day off eating meat, you can suggest them to reduce the amount per meal. That way, it's also inline with healthy weight loss dieting.
One of the best podcast I’ve listened to. Thank you for sharing this. This episode speaks volumes 🎉
Thanks! This is an eye-opening information to me who have been struggling to loose weight for decades (and gain even more and more weight each year)!!
What is that blue thing?
What a captivating interview, I listened to this straight through. Thank you for such an informative show 👍😀
I love the way this doctor thinks! Great discussion.
Finally someone with real nutritional knowledge that avoids giving us the ‘one fits all’ types of answers and urges us to have some common sense and take a bird eye view on our personal health and weight.
I wish the policy makers, that have the real power to change the environment in which we live for the better and therefore our health, would think more like him instead of prioritising the pockets of the big corporations.
Great listening. Thank you, Steve 👍
not everyone has or has learned how to. That's part of your own responsibility. But you clearly under estimate the marketing for certain products. It's hard for some people to even get any not overprocessed foods. Some shops only have the A-label foods and barely fruit or fresh vegetables. Or it's very expensive.
@chiitra271 who's making anyone eat anything? I've been reading labels for forty years.
@Edwina Mendelssohn you're wrong. Most of us are addicted to sugar without even realising it. But it's not about politics and prohibit certain foods, it's about a more regulated marketing for such foods.
@Love
I was Dr Berg’s body work BRT NAET JMT etc patient. It costs tons of money & time & carefulness etc. it didn’t seem to do anything for my body according to any perception except i passed levels in the applied kinesiology. He’s a pleasant man. It took like avyear with him & then more years of trying before i found something that started visibly & sensibly start reversing my dxed illnesses. And i still like chiropractic. Some things will never be enough, when what the individual needs is something else. In my case nutrition beyond Dr Berg’s scope was a big part of it.
This is absolutely fascinating!! I am so glad I found this video and it all makes perfect sense when he explains it.
I love his energy he feels very genuine
Thank you, thank you. This was so informative and helped me to understand my weight and my relationship with food, amongst other things.
This was an amazing video! I so appreciate both of you - your questions, your insights - the whole discussion. Thank you so much! :)
What a brilliant conversation! I can’t stop watching! ❤️❤️❤️
Giles Yeo is fabulous. He’s able to explain complex processes into more easily understandable bits, motivating me to understand what’s really going on with my body, the science and biology of it all. Excellent podcast!
Watch Fat Fiction for better,, clearer information.
I totally had orthorexia! Now I'm paying the consequences for that. I'm slowly coming out of it. Thankfully. YES! there is TMI! And I totally came to the point of saying exactly that! I cannot eat anything! Low sugar yes. Less meat yes. More veggies yes! Was the weight you gained muscle? I think front loading is more beneficial bc it helps metabolically especially for your blood sugar stabilization, which triggers other hormones, one being melatonin, if I remember correctly, potentially causing sleep issues. We always find a way to ruin things, like keto. TYPES of calories matter, IMHO. A 1K cal salad is better than 1K cal from a sleeve of Oreos. I think that it depends on what we are eating to trigger issues with gluten, and the gut issues.Thank you for speaking on body positivity... you nailed it. Thank you so much for being so neutral and just stating facts on most topics.
Am a third of the way through this interview and Giles is a joyous guest. What a lovely chap. Loving this one 😊
My wife was a lifelong migraine sufferer....talking 5 or 6 days a week, every week. Based on what I learned about gluten from Wheat Belly and Grain Brain, she decided to cut out gluten to see if there were any noticable effects. She almost never gets a migraine or any headache for that matter anymore. My point, not all gluten issues are solely digestion related. There can be a lot of other issues that you won't know about unless you try cutting gluten out of your diet.
It can easily be the products itself that were the problem not specifically the gluten. Like when he was saying the alkaline diet those people lose weight though meat isn't harmful in moderate doses.
Yep. My dad is a Celiac (didn't find out until he was 62, emaciated, anemic, and had cancer) and I have a definite intolerance. One of the weird symptoms I had was painful, bloody, scabby sores deep inside my nose. They are gone after quitting gluten years ago. I'm NOT a fan of gluten for anyone, actually.
Thanks so much for the interview! Ive learned lots! Keep up the good work!
The entire podcast was ao relatable, thank you!
Quotes and notes from the podcast:
1. Most non-infectious diseases are caused by a bad diet! (Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, some cancers)
2. There is no single right diet, you need to find the right diet for yourself. It has to fit biologically, psychologically and lifestyle-wise. Otherwise, you will never stick to it and make it worth it!
@Inspector Count Mortis Winship Klaw A fruit-based diet would be suicide for me. I have T2 diabetes (family history) and was diagnosed in 2020. The most effective diet to lower my A1C was a low carb diet. Went from 6.5 to 5.7 in 3 months with diet and daily walking. I believe more doctors are wising up to the idea of low carb for their diabetic patients.
@Infini_Ryu True. There are roughly 22 countries that could be classified as "Mediterranean countries".
@Logan Media ooops
Then go and listen to your scientists and their research (just don't follow the money and don't check who sponsored) and eat their new recommended Food Compass!
I, with my family and friends will stick to carnivore, ketavore, keto.
Wishing you lots of health on that diet.
If ever want to learn check my previous comments, many names to learn from.
Just gave you enough time of my life, will not engage anymore.
@Logan Media Yes, caloric intake has increasesd because calories somewhat correlate with mass intake, but calories are far too inaccurate for the avg. person to calculate. It forces them to significantly under eat, resulting in more problems. That's the issue from the onset, they are inaccurate, it's very simple.
Packaging can be out by some 20% either way. That's only the start of the problems. You also have the thermic effect of food, that adds another confounding factor. Even your own poo has calories in it.
Nutrients. Nutrients matter more than anything for people in developed countries, energy is easy to come by, and this means high quality foods.
@Logan Media Not everyone who disagrees with you is in a cult, bro.
A Great Interview, the Doc had some very valid points backed by science , I learnt a lot and ill be tweaking my diet for a better future , many thanks
So much great information in this thanks to diary of a ceo and Giles yeo. Well don't both of you for takeling this subject and doing a great job with it also. Covering a lot of key points we'll done!
So basically my takeaway is you have to eat foods that take more processing to extract sugars, and it's pretty hopeless to think of losing a ton of weight with any type of 'diet' and should shift your entire eating and shopping habits to being healthier and keeping less food readily available.
I loved this podcast. ❤️ it has made me look at my ingrained biases in a different light.
Keto with IF worked for me. Moderate exercise with Tai Chi (resistance) Six years ago, I went from 155 lbs down to 119 lbs. I'm 5'5. I went back to low-carb, and maintain right around 125 lbs. I am 5'5" tall and will be 60 in two months. I have low blood pressure and zero health issues. I'm working on building/maintaining muscle mass. Going keto and IF took away asthma, allergies, and swelling in my fingers. I've successfully kept the weight off for six years. I was thin for most of my adult life, but my weight slowly crept up, like a pound a year. So at 53, I went IF first and added in keto (both worked) because other ways of eating had failed. I love the fact on keto that because ghrelin doesn't seem to be produced in me, I never get hungry so eating a balanced healthy way is easy.
Keto with IF will work for everyone but people who aren’t fit can deny it all they want. i’m laughing all the way to the scale.
I am really appreciating listening to the increasing frequency of relatively popular male podcasters talking openly about their concerns with weight gain and the dietary restrictions they impose on themselves as a means to address these concerns. This has largely been depicted as a female disposition, but I am learning that is far from reality. At least for the modern man (well represented by those who would be considered successful). This was fantastic nuanced discussion that underscores the importance of quality over quantity when it comes to nutrition, as well as the diversity of the types of food that can provide quality nutrition.
Very informative. My approach is quite simple for my own life which works for me as I know because I am myself, living in mine own reality.
I eat simply, mainly because of the observed discomforts of bloat, and various other responses I have to delicious meals like fried foods and such, or like a delicious piece of chocolate cake, or donut.
My daily diet usually consists of a breakfast cereal which is called THREE WISHES, which is made from 6 ingredients in order listed below.
1. Chickpea
2.tapioca
3.pea protein
4.organic can sugar
5. Natural flavors
6. Monk fruit
1 serving of reduced fat milk, or even a water mixture along with a delicious coffee creamer which I love which uses coconut fat as it’s thickener.
I eat 2 servings after working out for 2 hours 1 hour lifting 1 hour outdoor distance slow jog.
That’s about 260-400 calories not that calories really matter.
I feel fantastic after eating this after workout meal, and I don’t necessarily feel full or stuffed.
Then I eat my delicious lunch which comprises of 1 chicken breast seasoned with pepper, soy sauce, and some minced garlic cooked in 1.5 servings of olive oil. I’ll usually eat 3-4 servings of peas cause I just love peas, and I’ll also eat a banana too.
Dinner is usually a LARGE salad which I pour basic balsamic vinegar on top of and usually eat with 2 servings of croutons. I put 1 boiled egg and sliced carrots, onions, and whatever other vegetable I feel like on top of it.
I workout EVERYDAY and my career has me working on my feet Sunday-Wednesday. So Wednesday night I like to have a delicious meal that I usually go out and buy, like at an Italian restaurant or something like that. Thursday I like to have some ice cream from DQ, and then Friday I enjoy eating at home until dinner and I’ll usually have a meal outside of home along with some Oreos before bed. Saturday I reset my diet and eat at home Saturday-Wednesday.
I do this for 2 reasons, I ENJOY not being bloated all the time, and I also enjoy having healthy, regular bowel movements which makes my career that much more enjoyable!
I’m a healthy weight, I feel healthy, and I love the way I look because of it. I enjoy an active lifestyle as it is such a GIFT and I don’t want to take my abilities to be active for granted because I know there are people who cannot be active due to disease or other issues.. I enjoy foods. I hope people can just enjoy their bodies and foods and just keep in mind that the biggest takeaway with food is to eat moderately and enjoy your life. Don’t eat out alllll the time. I usually only eat 2 meals out a week, and my meals that I prepare at home for myself only take about 30 minutes Total out of my day.
Just be happy and build your relationship with healthy food options like vegetable, high fiber options and normal meats, alongside berrries, banana which are also large berries lol and stuff like that.
I don’t smoke, or drink alcohol only because it makes me feel terrible the next day when I want to enjoy the outdoors, so I listen to my body and my doctor on these things. Good luck everyone :)
Learned a lot! Very interesting information! I have respect and admiration for Dr. Giles Yeo.
Dr Yeo is an absolute gem. Thoroughly enjoyed this video
Thank you to both of you! Great video and discussion. :)
Thank you - such great insights! Actually we already know so much about this topic but listening to Giles was so eye opening!
This was in incredible interview. The part on exercise ties right into my own war on weight loss. The more intensity I would have in exercise, the harder the relationship with food. I learned to balance the effort and focus more on a healthy food relationship in terms of volume and nutrition and the weight started dropping far faster than working harder in the gym.
@Sabine Tsamtsukakis For me your point is also not my point and I agree people are different, so if you are happy with that im happy for you too, lets live and let live 👍
@CrazyGaming For me this is not the point,people are different.If you like the excerpt, I'm happy for you. Please live and let live.✨
@CrazyGaming Just the one lip? What happened to the other one?
@CrazyGaming Thanks - but the podcast was much more interesting than your (albeit brilliant) summary.
@James C. I did not say it is easy to DO, but it is easy to understand. And recognizing the problem, and the goal, is really important and then you're already nearly halfway there. The other half is actually doing it, and it isn't easy. But there's no way around it if you want to live healthily.
Thank you for this video! I've found a lot of the champions of good health, but this is my first time hearing about Giles Yeo! Great stuff!
Can you address the glycosphate factor in all the gluten? Fascinating convo, wonderful guest, really respect what you’re doing.
I wish I could give this more likes - especially the levity and balance in regard to all of the strict diets.
Fantastic interview! Very valuable content and great questions. Thank you🙂
This video makes me want to join Dr. Yeo's lab. I love studying genetics and nutritions so I'm very grateful that I stumbled on this video. Thank you for this one, Steven! :)