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Your Biggest Enemy (Diet-Wise)
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Introduction to Seed Oils and Health Risks
00:00:43
chrisyzen
Hi, it's Christian Jourdanoff, thanks for tuning in. Today I'm gonna talk to you about your biggest enemy diet-wise. And it might not come as a surprise, but it's the seed oils, the polyunsaturated fatty acid ah rich seed oils. They're your biggest enemy. And you might say, I don't buy seed, I don't use seed oils at home. Sure, you you you might not buy soybean oil or canola oil or corn oil or whatever other you know seed oil plant oil that um you may have been marketed that as heart healthy or good in for whatever other reason so you might not use those at home but if you eat out if you order takeout
Controlling Diet and Food Preparation
00:01:37
chrisyzen
if you buy processed foods, prepared foods, salad bars, even at whole foods and stuff like that, you were getting just an inordinate amount of seed oil exposure. Because if you look at it, 20-30 grams of seed of of oil, right? How tiny is that yeah of an amount? 30 grams. You could hide that in a, you know let's say, one take out meal you can hide 30 grams in there very easily right so it's extremely easy to get a ton of these throughout the day if you're not very discriminate about what you eat right and but by that I mean if you don't
00:02:19
chrisyzen
take full control over your diet. I just can't imagine um allowing other people to prepare my food for me that I haven't instructed on how I want my food prepared. just oh it just i couldn't I couldn't live like that.
History and Harms of Seed Oils
00:02:37
chrisyzen
um and Even if even if I instructed them how to prepare that I would like to supervise them at least for a while to make sure they're not doing dumb things like using all the cooking with olive oil or baking at high temperature with all you know just stuff like that there's a lot of
00:02:54
chrisyzen
A lot of restaurants and takeout places, they don't care about like all these like fringe things. like ah this ah the The seed oils have Omega-6s and they're highly inflammatory and they peroxidize when you cook with them. And those ah peroxidation or those breakdown products are toxic to the body and the cells and carcinogenic. They don't care. They don't care about any of the stuff. They care about it's cheap and it cooks the food well. Easy. That's the decision they make. So point the point I'm trying to get across, and I'll get into some of the mechanisms. Why? So you understand why I'm so i'm kind of like so militant about keeping seed oils out of the diet. You understand in a minute. And even if you understand a little bit, you'll be like, okay, this this is actually not just empty calories. It's not just empty calories.
00:03:42
chrisyzen
these seed oils contain these omega-6s and I'll go over some of the things quickly. So the first thing is that we have only been consuming these in great quantities for like maybe 130 years or so. I think it was like the late 1880s, 1890s they started Instead of using them to lubricate machines as varnishes and various other kind of more arts and crafty industrial purposes, ah they started to actually use them as food. So this stuff wasn't even food until it used to be called, I think grape seed oil used to be called machine oil. It was a freaking machine lubricant for like your bicycle or whatever else.
00:04:29
chrisyzen
So they only became food when what one of the first sort of things that happened was Crisco, which Procter & Gamble ah came out with, I think it was 1911, was cottonseed based shortening right and then what happened was the first world war happened so a lot of the good food was kind of I was gonna say flown out I don't think they were flying it out but it was shipped out ah of the US s for the soldiers and stuff like that
00:05:02
chrisyzen
And this was a great opportunity for this product to permeate permeate the the regular people's homes because there was a shortage of, you know, the good quality foods like butter and so lard and whatever else. So that was one way it kind of
Critique of Health Recommendations
00:05:18
chrisyzen
permeated. Then of course we're marketing it like crazy. Okay, and then around, nineteen I think 1948 or so, Procter & Gamble sponsored, they gave a bunch of money to the American Heart Association.
00:05:35
chrisyzen
no conflict of interest there I'm sure and then what happened in the 50s was the whole cholesterol hypothesis of heart disease and then the demon demonization of saturated fat cholesterol and and then these seed oils really became the replacement as theyre they're heart healthy, they lower your cholesterol and all that nonsense because it was it was really pseudoscientific nonsense that was already Back then there was a lot of research implicating them in in disease right um but of course marketing the AHA the American Heart Association there's a lot of money the seed oil industry had a lot of money so they were able to really. Catapult this stuff to the mainstream and then every doctor then would have told you you know up until i mean even now they'll tell you.
00:06:24
chrisyzen
Even now, the American Heart Association, the World Health Organization, and Harvard Health Press recommend that you get five to 10% of your calories in the form of omega-6s. Now that is straight up harmful, criminal. That is criminal behavior that they're doing that, okay? So if you do that, on a daily basis for decades, you absolutely will develop
Personal Anecdotes and Historical Context
00:06:52
chrisyzen
disease. might so And and here is hearing is the problem. The problem is not that you you You may have, you know, gotten these out of your diet at home, which is awesome. Amazing. If you haven't, Jesus Christ, please, please, for the love of God, take the step now to just throw them out, throw them out. Like when I found out about the stuff back in 2018, I was at my mother's house and I just took the the sunflower oil and I just threw it in the trash. I told her never, ever use this again. She had two bottles of sunflower oil. One was an open one was open. I was like,
00:07:33
chrisyzen
throw it in the trash it did like so cheap anyway that you're not even gonna what are you gonna lose a few bucks because you throw out your sunflower oil you know it's it's ridiculous but um
00:07:46
chrisyzen
Let me, but where do I start? Okay. yeah So here's what, ah before I continue about the seed oils, keep in mind something. The first recorded heart attack was in 1912. Okay. That was some time. There was a short time after these seed oils, maybe a couple of decades started being used as food. Okay. Before that, there were no recorded heart attacks. And what's interesting is that we have records for those that would say, oh, because we didn't have, we weren't keeping records and stuff like that. No, no, no. We have a lot of, if you go on pubmed.com or .org where all the scientific literature is published or rather archived, you can see, you can see there's records dating back like hundreds of years for cancer.
Seed Oils and Disease Correlation
00:08:43
chrisyzen
for diabetes, ah but for heart disease and atherosclerosis, there's very, very few records. There's like a few dozen records from ah the early 1900s to like 1940, 1950. So heart disease did not exist like it does today. And this is like one of our big scaleers one of our two main killers in the in the Western world, cancer and heart disease. So it didn't exist. All of this disease all around us did not exist 150 years ago. okay So I went to chat GPT and I told it, give me historical data year on year for heart disease. And you know what it did? It gave me a table with fake data, mock data. And then I asked it,
00:09:36
chrisyzen
And then he said, yeah, I used random ah randomly generated numbers. He did not want to give it to me. And then he gave me some links where I could go and like request the data and search for it. And there were just these horrible, very old government-style websites where it was bloody. You like have to like click a bunch of things. And no data was coming back. som like this they They're making it so hard for us to actually get year on year. Let's see that's it say in 1904, how many people died of heart disease? Because last in the last few years, it's like 650,000 Americans, right? For the last five years, they're about. So it's been like half a million plus for like a while now. But 100 years ago, it was nowhere near, even if the population had doubled, it was nowhere near 250,000. Those numbers were nowhere near the levels they are and cancer as well. So they don't want you to
00:10:35
chrisyzen
dig too deep. They they wanted to to make it very hard for most people. On Wikipedia you won't find. You might find the last five years because the numbers are similar. But these these things did not exist like they do now. The heart disease and the heart attacks and atherosclerosis. And of course obesity. And keep in mind, we've had sugar for hundreds and hundreds of years. Sugar built the industrial revolution, right? Carbohydrates in the form of grains have been around for like 10, 12,000 years. And I'm not saying that they did as good, but people weren't diseased like they are today in their 20s, 30s, children with diabetes, you know, young adults with ah cancer and um Alzheimer's disease, early onset Alzheimer's disease. These things did not happen until like the last 50, 60, 100 years.
00:11:32
chrisyzen
And then look at the Japanese. They eat a predominantly rice diet, high carb, but they're the longest lived people. So is it the carbs? Is it the sugar? No, no, it's only. And, and you know, they they they'll give you like a chart with look at sugar consumption and disease rates. Yeah. But if you look at seed oil consumption and disease rates, those that those two track a lot better than sugar and and disease rates, okay?
Cellular Damage and Immune Suppression
00:12:06
chrisyzen
So what's the problem with the Omega-6s? And just in general, polyunsaturated fats, because Omega-3s are not much better. In fact, they can be worse.
00:12:15
chrisyzen
because they're even more fragile, they're even more polyunsaturated. We'll cover that in a whole other episode. but So the first thing is that omega-6s are highly, in so like I said, they're very fragile. So they're polyunsaturated. So they have multiple double bonds. And anywhere there's a double bond, it' so it's unsaturated there. There's no hydrogen. if it if it had a so hydrogen atom, it would be saturated, but it doesn't. And that creates a ah double bond there, whatever, but not too important. But that's a place where it can be attacked, quote unquote, by oxygen, by some kind of insult, or a peroxide or um oxidation reaction. So the their polyunsaturated, so there's multiple places on them that can be, quote unquote, intact, where, and if they get attacked there and damaged,
00:13:08
chrisyzen
they break off into a little smaller pieces, right? So it kind of breaks the the fatty acid chain. And those byproducts, they're called breakdown products. um They are basically just toxic to our cells. It can be carcinogenic. They can mutagenic damage the DNA. And the the problem, the other thing is they it causes when one fatty acid is damaged, it causes a chain reaction. So the one next to it might get damaged. The one after that, And what that does is it requires an antioxidant to stop that reaction, like a terminal antioxidant or some kind of enzyme that's an antioxidant enzyme. And that depletes our antioxidants. That's why over time you age faster. If you ah guarantee you, if you have a lot of seed oil consumption, a lot of omega six polyunsaturated fat consumption, you are going to age faster.
00:14:04
chrisyzen
unless you take a lot of measures and you live a very low stress life, which a lot of most people aren't really. um Of course, we do have ways to protect against that. I work on that with my clients. The book has some information. There's a lot of good ways to protect ourselves whilst we're kind of are cleaning up our diet and these fatty acids are getting out of the body. It takes up to like seven years for these to get out of the body. So you can't just stop eating them today or last year and think you're all fine and dandy. You still have to protect the ones that are in your body from getting damaged because again, it causes chain reactions of damage that depletes your antioxidants and causes ah inflammation, oxidative stress, damage, further requirement for nutrients and energy to kind of repair that damage. And that that energy and nutrients, those nutrients could be used for better processes, you know, like
00:14:59
chrisyzen
maintaining your brain and just Repair and regeneration rather than putting out fires in the body. Okay. Now the other thing is that these um Omega-6 is for example, linoleic acid the most prevalent one like I think Sunflower oil was like 20% linoleic acid. So it's very predominant the most predominant in the environment They are actual molecular precursors to various molecules like acosanoids, which include prostaglandins, thromboxanes and leukotrienes. And these are signaling molecules and they can very basically they can be inflammatory, allergic, they can increase blood pressure, constrict blood vessels, increase pain perception, cause the blood to clot and other potentially pathological processes. So very simply put,
00:15:54
chrisyzen
The more of these Omega-6 you have in the body, the more precursors you have for inflammatory molecules. And especially if your if your body is stressed or there's some kind of physical or whatever other stress to the cells, which could be you know from the diet, toxins, etc., bacterial origin, then you have more of a potential for this inflammatory cascade. So your baseline or your ah your inflammatory tone in your body could be higher. then the other thing these polyunsaturated fats they suppress the immune system in fact you won't you might not believe this but um in the past polyunsaturated fatty acid oils
00:16:40
chrisyzen
were given to organ transplant patients to suppress their immune system and prevent their bodies from rejecting the organs they received. You can look it up, it's it's a thing. and um So like you get a kidney transplant or something and they give you a bunch of this oil to suppress your immune system. And this is where this really pisses me off now. We've been misled so badly. This is why Omega-3s are anti-inflammatory. Not because they're actually so magical in their anti-inflammatory effect, but because they suppress the immune system.
Metabolic and Thyroid Impact
00:17:16
chrisyzen
right so really like we we were pulled the fast one with the omega-3s we'll cover that in a whole separate episode like i said so a suppressed uh immune system is a bad thing because it can allow for cancer to proliferate it can allow for ah but of Candida, Thrash, Candida overgrowth, fungal overgrowth, bacteria sort of, um what do you call it? you It can just basically allow for dysbiosis to happen because the immune system is not doing its job fully as it should.
00:17:57
chrisyzen
So that's that's bad already, right? And you're like, okay, so what's the good news? Hold on a second. This list is way, way longer. The other thing is the polyunsaturated fats, they actually suppress the metabolism. Now, if you look at hypothyroidism and thyroid related disorders, they're huge. They're just another thing that's very, very prevalent. And what's known now is that these polyunsaturated fats, they block the production, the transport and the cellular action steps of thyroid hormone. Right. um Other things they they do is they look can lower the body temperature. In fact,
00:18:42
chrisyzen
ah Certain animals that hibernate, they use like no things like nuts and seeds because they have high polyunsaturated fatty acid content. They use those to enter what is known torpor. which is a a state of mental or physical and inactivity, lethargy, sluggishness, dormancy. So this allows them to kind of reach lower body temperature and metabolic rates. And this helps with um which call it with hibernation.
00:19:16
chrisyzen
And think about it this way. When do the tree nuts ah become available kind of late-ish autumn isn't that nifty mother nature because all then all the squirrels and whatever else they eat a bunch of these nuts and get all these Omega-6s they slow down their metabolism lower their body temperature and allow them to enter hibernation state and survive the winter. So great for them, but you know we are we are we need to be at this closer to 37 degrees ah Celsius 98.6 or whatever. So that's not good for us. you know We are not hibernating mammals.
00:20:03
chrisyzen
um Yeah, I really can't can't think of a reason why we would want to lower our body temperature anyone that's been hypothyroid and Feeling cold all the time. I've had clients tell me how horrible it is Not just cold hands and feet just being cold all the time and that's just a horrible way to live your life So I don't think we want to be doing that and talk talking about how? how ah much hypothyroidism has increased that's only based on the TSH marker that they use to diagnose it. But if you use the older method of measuring your basal body temperature, on you know, under armpit temperature upon waking and your ah heart rate, they estimate, and this is according to my textbook of natural medicine, volume five.
00:20:52
chrisyzen
They estimate that the the it would be about 25% of adults in the USA that would be diagnosed as hypothyroid based hypothyroid based on the basal body temperature underarm under armpit temperature and heart rate. So quarter of adults in the USA.
00:21:18
chrisyzen
And do you think the seed oil consumption increasing over the last hundred years has anything to do with that? I don't know. Correlation does not equal causation, they say. So then the other thing, oxidation. So the oxidation, or the when these things get damaged, that's like that that's called getting oxidized or peroxidized. When they get damaged like that, those breakdown products, there's hundreds of them that they have identified and and they're toxic. So you have aldehydes, malon, dialdehyde, which we can actually measure in urine, five, ah sorry, four hydroxide, non-anal, HNE. You know, these have been, ah so four HNE has been implicated in
00:22:05
chrisyzen
a bunch of different diseases, as has melanodialdehyde, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes, cancer, cataracts of the eye, atherosclerosis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a bunch of physical ailments, but also a bunch of psycho... What's the word I'm looking for?
00:22:33
chrisyzen
What's the freaking word? Psycho.
00:22:37
chrisyzen
psychological? Yeah, I guess there's not psychological, it's a different word I wanted to, ah but this is like my third episode of the day I'm recording in one day, so like a little bit starting to get tired. So the HNE, this um aldehyde toxic compound has been elevated, found to be elevated in patients with major depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. right So these things don't just damage your body. you Don't forget that your body is the hardware and your mind is the software. And what's the software? Your mood, your cognitive functions, how you can express yourself and all that stuff. right How you process information, how you kind of how you are in the world, your personal your behavior and stuff like that. That's part of the software.
Studies on Heart Disease and Cancer
00:23:29
chrisyzen
And if you damage the hardware, which these things do,
00:23:33
chrisyzen
then the software is not gonna work as well as it should um and you know that that's okay I was gonna go into a story about my grandma but I'll keep that for another day because this is gonna this is gonna be a little bit longer than I thought so what else what else
00:23:56
chrisyzen
What else do polyunsaturated fats say? They say that the Omega-6s are heart-healthy, and I think they've stopped marketing that propaganda now. right But the evidence, there's this paper that really summarizes it really well. There's a huge amount of evidence. that it's actually not saturated fat and cholesterol but it's her um omega-6 rich vegetable oils as a causative factor in atherosclerosis and coronary heart disease or coronary artery disease.
00:24:31
chrisyzen
So ah this partial list I had in my book, the the the study is like really interesting, you can you can look it up. um But ah basically, James D. Nickel Antonio is the is the the author on that one, the lead author. So basically, linoleic acid, which is the most abundant fat found in atherosclerotic plaques, um sorry it has been known since at least the 1960s that lino lake is the most abundant fat found in atherosclerotic plaques okay um
00:25:12
chrisyzen
What else? I'm actually, I'm starting to think I should do a separate whole separate episode on this. You know what? that That's what I'll do. Sorry. So just know that there's a lot of evidence implicating polyunsaturated fats and heart disease. so Then there's polyunsaturated seed oils and cancer. um For example, a paper published in 1996, diet and disease, the Israeli paradox, possible dangers of a high omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid diet. 1996, they stated that despite Israel having one of the highest dietary polyunsaturated to saturated fat ratios in the world, at the time being about 8% higher than the USA and 10 to 12% higher than in most
00:25:57
chrisyzen
ah European countries, there was little to show for it in terms of public health. The researchers stated that despite such national habits, there is paradoxically a high prevalence of cardiovascular diseases hypertension which is high blood pressure, non-insulin dependent diabetes, ah love saying that diabetes mellitus and obesity. All diseases that are associated with hyperinsulinemia and insulin resistance
00:26:28
chrisyzen
and group together as the insulin resistance syndrome or syndrome X there is also an increased cancer incidence and mortality rate especially in women compared with Western countries so they he started eating a lot of omega-6 rich vegetable or seed oils and they had they had a paradoxically high prevalence of a bunch of stuff cardiovascular disease high blood pressure diabetes um obesity ah Cancer incidence and mortality especially in women Compared with Western countries now the woman part is interesting because actually polyunsaturated fats they are estrogenic in nature due to the just due to the the structure of the molecule and comparing it to the estrogen its structure and the fact that both so when there's a high
00:27:26
chrisyzen
um When the cell is made up ah of a lot of these pog and saturated fats, it becomes more, I guess porous is the word, so it lets more water in. And when more when a lot of water gets into the cell, it can signal ah ah the cell to divide, right? so And that's how you know cancer can can proliferate by division. So there was another paper published much much later, well, 10 years or so later, in 2007 titled Israeli Cancer Shift Over Heart Disease Mortality may be led by a greater risk in women with high intake of omega-6 fatty acids. So the first paper, the guy called it out in 1996 and in 2008, I think it was a lady that that was lead author in this paper,
00:28:21
chrisyzen
So 11 years later, this late so cancer had taken over heart disease as the as the main um is the number one killer in Israel. And um so they postulated in that paper that it may be led by a greater risk in women with high intake of omega-6 fatty acids. And the the author stated, population studies of Israeli Jews, Arabs,
00:28:52
chrisyzen
and women support the association of high omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids intake with increased cancer risk and higher female sensitivity. Research findings suggest that gender and sex hormones may influence ah omega-6 polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism and carcinogenesis. So women are at a higher risk.
00:29:21
chrisyzen
um And by the way, this evidence was around, it appeared as as early as and as in the 1970s. So there's a well-known paper published in The Lancet in 1971 that detailed an eight-year controlled clinical trial of a high PUFA diet, rich in seed oils and and um low in saturated fat and cholesterol. There was 846 men. They were randomly assigned. And here you get this, right? The, at the end of it, basically they have a similar amount of deaths. It's just that the seed oil group, they had less heart disease deaths, but more cancer deaths. Okay.
00:30:02
chrisyzen
so i personally personally i think heart disease is probably a better way to go but that depends on i guess everybody has their opinion on what's a better way to go but how about neither god damn it you know how about neither so um The thing is that the way some media outlets reported that study was they said they just focused on the heart disease. So they were saying like, oh, the seed oil diet, the high omega six diet had a significantly less cardiovascular disease disease related deaths. Right. And that is true that they did do that.
00:30:45
chrisyzen
but overall mortality across the two groups was very similar but you can very if you're crafty with your message you could very easily skip that part right and that's that's how you can shape public opinion so i think that more details are obviously in my book and i'll be doing other stuff on i'll do a whole separate episode on the heart disease because i had I had about I guess a dozen of the the bullet points or so yeah or so from that study about linoleic acid and high omega-6 fatty acids being actually much more implicated as the cause of factor behind heart disease. So I'm going to pull up the study again and I'm going to cover more of those points just to show you how much actual like
Avoiding Seed Oils in Daily Life
00:31:38
chrisyzen
evidence has surfaced over the last few decades about that. But the cancer side of things, there's quite a few studies that also have correlated, which is obviously not as strong evidence as mechanistic data and stuff like that, and actual trials, which can't be done with humans, but only with animals and this kind of thing. But the evidence base is strong. And when you look at All the different ways these things can cause us harm. um All I'll say is, would you want to allow someone else to have control over how much of these things you're reading every day? And by that, i mean what I mean is, um what um what i mean if you if you eat out once a day, or twelve or two, three times a week,
00:32:38
chrisyzen
or more I think you really have to what I'll just tell you what I'm not gonna say what I'm telling you what to do or anything but it would behoove you and here's what I'll do that I'll explain what I do I just tell the the person serving us I say look we're all like allergic to the seed oils blah blah I'm gonna sue you you know I'll find out where you live you make sure you tell the chef or whoever's preparing the food I don't want any of this stuff and for example we we're in Spain I guess a month ago or so and with my horrendously
00:33:15
chrisyzen
pathetic Spanish. I was like, oh, Montague, this that know what you call I've got, get a soul I think is sunflower oil. So just kind of, you know, and then they tell you, no, no, don't worry, you we we cook everything with olive oil. I'm like, I'm thinking it's better to cook it with olive oil but you don't want to fry, you don't want to heat olive oil because it's still monounsaturated so it can still peroxidize much more than um what you call it butter for example but the thing is that butter on a high heat it has monounsaturated fats too so it can also peroxidize but the the thing is just you want to not get orthorexic about it but what's the least risk right so it's going to be like coconut oil most saturated then butter
00:34:01
chrisyzen
then olive oil and then obviously the the the other stuff you you want to avoid ideally. um Animal fats as well are pretty good if you can get them but they're they're a bit harder to get. Not lard, not chicken fat because for for for reasons we're covering in separate episodes but um that's that's kind of what I do I just tell them look I use so if it's a salad make sure it's olive oil if it's gonna be fried make sure it's butter or maybe coconut oil in some cases ah stuff like that or if it's on a grill that's obviously just just tell them I don't want any oils and then they can tell the people nowadays especially in the west more and more people have these kind of
00:34:42
chrisyzen
gluten-free or whatever other ah dietary restrictions so places are much more most places will be much better at ah dealing with requests like that so that's one way to do it when you're at a restaurant and you can you your food is being prepared for you ah if it's a takeout place like home delivery i just personally we don't do that not not because i'm so we're so high and mighty or whatever but because where we live in the south of portugal there's like 10 20 places doing takeout and they're all shit like just beyond terrible so we don't have we don't have much choice but um and then furthermore it's it's more expensive whereas you could just buy i i can order let's say if you're going to eat out once a day or or five times a week and it's i don't know 100 bucks or 200 bucks for that 200 bucks i could get
00:35:36
chrisyzen
kilograms of organic chicken and organic beef and and organic rice and organic fruit and organic veg. It's just a matter of habit of throwing throwing a dish together like a quick soup or a quick stir fry, stuff like that. ah So we we're going to have to wait for the thing to come. So in those 20 minutes, you're waiting 30 minutes, we just whip up a quick dish. And that's that's how we do it. So um the point is that i I don't want to be at the mercy of whatever that restaurant or takeout place decides to do. And then if you're buying processed foods that has seed oils,
00:36:15
chrisyzen
you just have to reevaluate why are you buying that? Is it out of is it out of convenience? Are you really stuck? Is it at work? Are you traveling a lot? Well, there's always better ways and better choices to be made.
Personal Responsibility and Dietary Choices
00:36:27
chrisyzen
This is like the probably the worst choice for your health, something that has seed oils and ground up grains and stuff like that. So these are choices that you have to decide on your own that you want to make. but but you ah truly So information is important because to truly understand this, why it's important and to have the strength of character to make that decision day in day out, even if you might eat more bland foods at the restaurant or
00:36:55
chrisyzen
You're a little bit more limited in your choices. It's because it's for a much higher purpose, which is your long-term health and your optimal health and longevity, or restoring your health and ah and achieving that good health and then maintaining it. So it it becomes a habit, it becomes part of who you are, and it can be a little bit more difficult at the outset. but it's like any any other habit once you build the habit you build that muscle then it's second nature so i don't care now that oh when i go to a restaurant i can mostly have like steak or maybe fish once in a while something very simple maybe yeah if i can get them to do like baked potatoes or something oven baked stuff or they can do like stir fry some vegetables in
Adapting to Healthy Eating Habits
00:37:41
chrisyzen
butter
00:37:41
chrisyzen
ah I'm a little bit more limited, but I don't give a damn. I love steak and um I don't care for vegetables anyway. so um but But if you are more of a foodie, it yeah it can be a little bit of ah an adaptive thing. But then if you are a foodie, you may want to then, instead of spending that that money on the restaurants or whatever, maybe be learn to cook. I'm just throwing options out there, maybe learn to cook and then you can buy high super high quality ingredients and then create these things yourself and then then you're learning a skill that will serve you for life. Just saying, I know most people cook nowadays but in case that is the case, there's always a way. Where there's a will, there's a way. You can eat with a kid on holidays, we can still eat pretty damn clean and if we can do it,
00:38:33
chrisyzen
I'm sure almost everybody in in almost every place in the West can do it. Unless you're in a food desert, then you're screwed. and Well, then you can you can probably order it online still. So um there again, there's always there's always a way. There's ah absolutely always a
Long-term Health and Daily Choices
00:38:49
chrisyzen
way. So I hope you found this informative, interesting, and you understand the risks and the benefits ah of you know the risks of the seed oils and the benefits of making some changes and you know getting those micro habits that you need in place to
00:39:09
chrisyzen
to really safeguard your health because this is it's not the kind of thing you get benefits immediately these benefits will accrue over a lifetime and you at the end you will kind of see the benefits if if if you ever see them you know not not that you won't see them but it's you can't really there's no comparison you can make you can't clone yourself and I'm gonna eat like a lot of seed oils in this version of me and then the other version will eat super clean. you will never You will never kind of be able to run that experiment. You just have to, once you understand the basic physiology and all that good stuff, then it's it's you have to trust that you're making, even though you're making sacrifices in the shorter term, it's for a much bigger cause, which is what? In case I have to spell it out, it's your most precious asset, which is your health.
00:40:05
chrisyzen
That is it. There's nothing more precious. So to me, at least to me personally, and maybe this is why I do this work, is to influence other people. It's no skin off my ass that I can't eat whatever bullshit dessert they have a that's very tasty at the restaurant. And, you know, I have to make my own or, you know, harangue my wife to make something nice that I like. I'd rather how ah not get all those different tastes and textures and whatever that that are out there, the processed foods and the chocolates and the other stuff. um And I'd rather not have that than have that and then have that in influence my physiology negatively because it will do that. And these things compound and they're very slow and insidious.
00:40:57
chrisyzen
And then why do people wake up suddenly one day in their 50s or 60s and they have heart disease or cancer or whatever else? And why do people in their 70s and 80s just deteriorate precipitously and become a burden on their loved ones or their partner? Why? It's because of these micro choices we make day in, day out. That's why like sometimes my wife would be like, oh, let's just let our hair down here. And you know, of course, I'm um not like some crazy freaking orthorexic guy. but I sometimes notice it then it's like okay we let our hair down yesterday and now we're gonna let our hair down now and oh I'm the kind of person unfortunately where it could lead down a bad path so I like to keep on the straight and narrow on the Jesus path um of eating clean because I remember like a while ago it was
00:41:49
chrisyzen
a December thing someone bought a Christmas cake and I was doing super well diet wise this was a while ago I was doing well diet wise that cake then led to like six months of like very little less than optimal choices so I'm sure you're not like that some some of us are some ah some aren't but the the more strict we are just about this one thing I think the better off we will be just no shadow of a doubt no shadow of a doubt anyway before I start rambling on another different different topic hope you hope you found this one useful and um thanks for tuning in we'll see you on the next one