today I want to talk about the fact that food gives us energy
I grew up with this idea that if you didn't eat properly
then you are going to be weak and unable to do the things in life that you want to do
I want to point out that this falls in line with that idea that what's important about food is the
calorie count I didn't understand that protein was not meant to be an energy source I was not aware
that fat had a double role so it's a building block and an energy source but more importantly
I thought that sugar was harmless sugar is in fact safe if controlled by the body directly
but very dangerous if we ignore or decide to override our body's natural control systems
and we do this all the time when my daughter was born and she was you know baby and I was
teaching her how to eat solids she hated fruit so sweet stuff but I forced the issue by tricking
her to eat that fruit because I would give her some meat and then slip it in beside the meat
as she got older when she was around four years old I started to allow her to eat ice cream and
candy and chocolate and cookies now again she didn't want it she refused I don't like it but
around six years old after years of being offered it she started to develop a taste for sweet things
unknowingly I was ignoring her internal safety systems that were telling her to reject sugar so
what happens if we bypass our safety mechanism and indulge in sugar sugar is an energy source
and the big argument that we get for why we should be eating fruits and vegetables and grains is that
our body uses sugar before it uses any other energy source but i want to point out our body
metabolizes alcohol before sugar so does that mean that alcohol is better for the body
than sugar is no what it actually means is that alcohol happens to be more toxic than sugar
so why does the body metabolize sugar before fat because in high doses sugar is toxic to the body
remember we're overriding our system and telling our body to have more sugar
than it would produce for itself oh that's right our body produces all the sugar that we ever need
the toxic nature of sugar is rarely talked about and if you aren't a type 1 diabetic
you likely have never been told that you shouldn't be eating rice and potatoes and
chocolate bars because they're toxic now is sugar only toxic to type 1 diabetics no but there's
this belief that because our body can manage the toxicity we don't need to worry about it
we use the same logic that if it's not toxic we don't have to worry about it to allow us to drink
alcohol the question is is that true have you ever encountered somebody who had too much alcohol
of course you have and have you ever encountered anyone who's had too much sugar of course you have
I would venture the guess that everybody that I'm talking to right now knows somebody who's diabetic
know somebody who's overweight know somebody who's having metabolic issues the difference is that you
can overdo alcohol in a few minutes to hours and we see it clearly because the person is tipsy or
drunk versus when I overdo sugar the weight that I'm gaining takes months to years to show itself
the metabolic issues that I'm producing take months to years to show themselves
my health issues will not show itself until it's years later but does that mean that sugar
then is safe for us to eat not at all slowly poisoning myself is still poisoning myself
and it's not because we love the idea of sweet things that love the idea of eating candy
love the idea of eating fruit and love the idea of French fries it's not because we love these things
then it means that they're healthy for us to eat we talk about the difference between
sugar versus fat for energy we need to keep in mind that fat causes the smallest insulin rise
that food can produce but sugar causes the maximum insulin rise that food can produce
insulin is the fat storage hormone that means that meals that are carb heavy are causing your body
to store fat so if you have weight to lose eating carb heavy meals is actually
slowing your weight loss progress the foods on the top are giving you building blocks they're giving
you clean energy and that's going to make you have the best possible body that you can have that's
going to lead to you being strong that's going to lead to you being able to live the life that
you want to live the sugar on the bottom is giving you energy while damaging your body I've given you
two good reasons to decrease the amount of sugar that you're eating now the ball's in your court
are you going to keep eating sugar and continue to damage your health or are you going to eat healthy
and live much longer far into the future today's comment is coming from northern Illinois sasquatch
research and yet I hope I'm saying that right and the part that I want us to pay attention to
is the fact that this person has been eating keto for over two years and lost 50 pounds but then in
a period of several months injured themselves was ill and it led to them not eating properly
and going back to their old habits and now they've restarted keto they feel dedicated
and they noticed already that some weight has come off wellness warrior I want you to think about
the fact that we often do this to ourselves where we'll we'll be seeking an answer and we'll find an
answer we'll apply the answer and get results but because we don't see our health in a long-term way
so we look at our health as something that we need to fix continuously rather than something
that we can know and answer and keep ourselves in the best possible position and this comes
from the fact that doctors present this model to us that medical is about solving a problem
that medical is not about creating the best sustainable scenario for yourself so I wanted
you to think about for example you buy a house and rather than cleaning it every week rather
than doing upgrades before anything breaks we wait for there to be repairs to be done we wait for the
the house to be so dirty that you you smell it and it's not it's not pleasant to be in before we do
anything about it if you keep your house in that kind of condition you will get mold you will have
repairs that cost much more to do than if you're constantly up keeping your house
and doing small fixes when the small fixes can be done at a reasonable cost we need to take good
care of our health and that means eating foods that give us protein and essential fatty acids
that can build us and repair us so that we can do those repairs before the damages you know deadly
and then we also need to be willing to see the things that we're doing as long-term solutions
I'm eating healthy means that I need to like this food because I need to eat it forever so invest in
learning how to make meals that you find delicious YouTube thinks you're gonna like this video I have
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