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Honest Discussion About Food Processing & Why Calories in Nuts is Wrong
This was our live stream from Facebook and YouTube where we talked about food processing, why the calories in nuts is wrong and have a backstage conversation on how we can merge both the health and food industry. Our YouTube camera stream messed up so we had to upload using Facebook video so we apologize for the terrible quality on this one!
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Cholesterol, Statins, Philosophy, Science, Processed Foods & a Huge Bag of Wisdom || Nick Mailer
A VERY long awaited special 50th episode where we delve into the bigger picture while discussing many topics including the biochemistry of cholesterol & statins, the scientific method, philosophy, processed foods and top it off with a dose of what we can learn from evolution and how to lead a fulfilling life. This one is a GREAT episode!
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Fruits Are Basically Selectively Bred Fructose Grenades
Recently, this article came out which stated that Zookeepers in Melbourne had started weaning off their animals away from fruits as they now contain so much sugar that the animals have started becoming fat and their teeth have started to rot away. They are now changing their diet to contain more vegetables while the red pandas are given pellets fortified with minerals and nutrients. They started noticing that the animals...
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The Bottom-Up Approach Towards Health & Nutrition || Gabor Erdosi
While the mainstream news is focused primarily on a top-down approach towards food and health aimlessly tossing around observational studies, Gabor Erdosi and even us at Ketogeek are more focused on a bottom up approach starting from mechanistic ways in which food is metabolized and impacts the body as a whole.
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Finding Resources & Inspiration While Battling Cancer || Miriam Kalamian
Miriam encountered cancer when her son was diagnosed in 2007 and now uses her experience and knowledge through this tough time to help others while providing inspiration and guidance to find what works for them individually in this battle.
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New Studies Challenge the Benefits of Probiotics
Probiotics are the big talk in the health and nutrition industry. Do they help populate the gut bacteria after a round of antibiotics? Do they even colonize the microbiome? There are now countless supplements and claims being made about their benefits and efficacy while the evidence still remains very controversial. Two new studies came out which challenge the benefits obtained by probiotic consumption. For more reading you can check out...
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Supplementation, Understanding Research & Filtering Good From Bad in Nutritional Science || Alex Leaf
There is so much noise about food, health and nutrition but how do you consolidate and learn from it? Above all, what kind of information is relevant and what is just clickbait fodder? In this episode, we go beyond the headlines and behind the scientific abstracts into the depth of nutritional and health science especially since we now have so many dietary protocols ranging from carnivory to veganism. This is...
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What is Nutritional Bioavailability & Why Most Health Claims are Misleading
There are countless health and nutrition claims online but many of them are rather junk, especially since the beneficial nutrients being claimed might not even get absorbed in the body for any benefit to take place. This is called "Bioavailability" which means, "the percentage of nutrients absorbed by your body from the food consumed." This is a very important consideration since you could be eating a whole plate of food...
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Metabolism, Chronobiology & Improving Long Term Health & Performance || Alessandro Ferretti
This one is a must listen and LOADED with everything you need to know about metabolism and long term health, enhancing and troubleshooting your performance as an athlete and understanding the significance of heart rate variability and glucose levels.
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Does Both low- and high-carb diets raise risk of early death? Study Response
Bollocks! The study actually says "Dietary carbohydrate intake and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta-analysis" (1). The study does suggest that carbohydrate intake below 40% intake or above 70% increases all cause mortality in the study's observation. Mortality also seemed to have increased when plant derived carbohydrates were replaced by animal derived proteins and fats. They also removed folks who had extreme caloric overload and caloric restrictions. All, right,...
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The Inspirational Journey of Overcoming Depression & Bipolar Disorder || Carrie Brown
The story of Carrie Brown who overcame her Bipolar II disorder by taking her health in her own hands.
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Why Do You Crave Ice-Cream or Cake After Eating Dinner?
Behind this question is even a bigger question: How does short term overconsumption of food translate into long term obesity, especially when it comes to real life and NOT inside a metabolic ward study? Also, what are the behavioral dynamics that play into our daily routines that cause us to overconsume foods? Here's a study that sheds light into this matter. THE HUMAN STUDY OF LIKING AND WANTING In...
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