well hello illness warriors the word of the day misinformation so we are all confused
and the reason i'm saying that is that we want to know what diet actually works
and the question is what do we ask what diet actually works
what are we really asking like works for what and i think part of the problem that we have is that
we are all trying to use a diet to lose weight and having this goal
of a diet that's focused on losing weight is creating all kinds of chaos for most of us
and part of the problem is that wanting to be thin and wanting food to cause us to be thin then makes
us in the position where we're not actually remembering what food is supposed to be for
food is supposed to be there to fuel and build us right like that's the purpose of food so
you know i want to start this week with the comment of the week
which is coming from garbage man um if you'd like to be featured in the comment of the week
you just need to comment on my saturday video so i'm going to pull out a few lines out of garbage
man's comment because it was really long but the part i want to point out is that he says
there is a variety of foods you can eat on keto both plants and meats and he says in the end we
have to do a better job of explaining what makes a keto diet which is ketosis and what
and what that has to do with losing weight right and i feel like the interesting thing here is that
he's pointing us back to this very interesting idea that if we don't understand what we're
trying to accomplish so being in ketosis then we will struggle to have success in
doing a keto diet but the same thing is true of if i don't understand what my diet is supposed to
do for me fuel and give me the building blocks to build this then i'm going to struggle in trying to
use to use my diet correctly right to build a healthy body and what's frustrating
is that if we're asking what diet is best you're kind of already on that wrong path right
um you know if any of us were to go online and search what's the best diet
for an elephant we're going to find out that that diet is roots grasses fruit and bark if we go on
the internet and we search what's the best diet for a lion we're going to find out that blinds
eat medium-sized hoofed animals and occasionally they will eat larger sick or injured animals
so we know precisely what elephants lions and as a matter of fact a good number almost
all the animals on the planet we know what they eat including humans we we know what humans eat
right humans do best with protein and a side of edge and at some point in our in our evolution
we found the ability to cook our protein and then we found the ability to
spice our foods and we and and as a matter of fact cook and spice our veg too we found ways of making
food so our energy and our building blocks more palatable and all of a sudden we turned
what we were doing that was to keep our bodies healthy into something we were doing
for fun now i'm not exactly sure when that happened but i know that it was the beginning
of our vulnerability because now we have processed foods and these processed foods damage our health
instead of when we eat whole foods those prolong our life somehow we keep treating processed foods
and whole foods as if they're equivalent wellness words i need you all to understand
that they're not equivalent they're nowhere close to being equivalent they are
so far apart on the spectrum of what's healthy and unfortunately
unfortunately we keep chasing taste and we need to stop doing that please we need to stop doing that
because when we chase taste we're prioritizing a flavor i need every one of you to prioritize
health over taste because when we do that we'll eat the foods that help our
body to be strong we'll eat the foods that allow us to repair internal so it's such a
frustrating thing when i see people trying to find recipes so that they can bring foods back
into their diet that made them unhealthy but this comes about because we're chasing flavors
and tastes and fun foods rather than eating the thing that's going to help our body to be strong
when we prioritize health one of the things that we're going to focus on
is getting enough protein and getting enough fat to fuel our bodies and to build our bodies
because in fact fat and protein are what we need to build
us and we don't need carbohydrates so we don't need to eat carbohydrates to build us and i think
as soon as we start to understand that things look very different because when we know that we can
create our own carbohydrates like every person has that ability it's called gluconeogenesis
our body can make carbohydrates and as soon as we know that our body can do that then all of a
sudden again we don't have to chase these these fun foods that we want to have on the plate
so what would happen if we just go back to eating what our ancestors ate which would be
meat fish eggs and supplement vegetation when we can't get meat fish eggs what would happen we
would be actually eating the diet that worked works best
right so what diet is the best diet for humans the diet that we've always eaten
meat fish eggs protein sources with the fat that comes along with those protein sources
and vegetation if we can't get access to meat fish eggs or as a side dish for fun
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