there's so many incredible biohacks that
we can apply in our life to radically
transform our body and many people think
getting in shape eating healthy
maintaining a a proper weight is
difficult it is not so what you're going
to learn in this video is a mind-blowing
idea from ben greenfield when i learned
this i kid you know it literally blew my
mind so have you ever had those days
when you are invited to go for an
elaborate dinner or you are going to a
restaurant with your family and you know
the food is going to be incredibly
delicious and you don't want to hold
yourself back from truly savoring that
food
but you feel guilty about the extra
calories about the potential increase in
sugar now what if there was a simple 30
second hack you could do literally 30
seconds that you could do before
starting your meal that would jack up
your metabolic rate so that meal burns
efficiently
that's what you're gonna learn in this
video from ben greenfield when i learned
this blew my mind
there are there are two things that
are the most important things to pay
attention to if you want to live a long
time and have the absence of disease and
a high quality of health during that
time
number one is controlling what's called
glycemic variability glycemic
variability is how often your blood
glucose goes up and down during the day
the other is to control your
inflammation
inflammation is something that builds up
in the body when
you eat a lot of vegetable oils when you
eat a lot of sugars and even when you
get exposed to high amounts of wi-fi
dirty electricity
poor air unclean water etc
the idea is if you can control glycemic
variability and inflammation you've
taken care of the two lowest hanging
fruits when it comes to your longevity
now this idea of the the tabata set that
enhances your fitness in a very short
period of time during a work day could
be brought to the next level when we
look at research on what it takes to
actually control blood glucose prior to
eating
now if you exercise before you eat
you'll actually enhance your body's
ability to be able to maintain a normal
blood glucose response after you eat but
do you know how long you would need to
exercise how long you need to do that
that explosive tabata type exercise in
order to to enhance your blood glucose
response
i was shocked when i saw this study
30 30 seconds
30 i mean you can drop and do whatever
20 burpees and do that prior to a meal
and you'll vastly improve your glucose
response to the meal furthermore the the
this is another research study in japan
if you walk for about 15 minutes after a
meal you also do a fantastic job at
supporting your glycemic variability so
the idea is for me when i know i'm going
to be eating a large meal or eating a
lot of carbohydrates or having dinner or
really having any meal at all i'll just
go out of my way to drop and do some
push-ups you know i have a rule when i'm
at a restaurant i'll slip into the
bathroom and do i i call them air squats
my friend jeff when he first saw me do
this i began to call them piss squats
because i'd say i was going to go to the
bathroom to take a pee and i'd come back
kind of red-faced because i'd done my 40
squats but the idea is you do something
that just gets the heart rate up a
little bit before you go eat a big meal
then you go on a quick walk afterwards
it's a very very good way to control
glycemic variability as are those tabata
sets
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