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Carbohydrates DO NOT Cause Diabetes & Insulin Resistance
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Transcript
Introduction and Insulin Resistance
00:00:00
chrisyzen
Hi, Christian Yordanov here. Today, let's talk about insulin resistance, what causes it, why it's not carbs and why carbs don't cause diabetes. Okay. Once you understand these very basic, very, very basic mechanisms, it's all going to make a lot more sense to you. Um, so, okay, let's jump right in. No BSing around.
Carbohydrates Breakdown and Insulin Response
00:00:25
chrisyzen
So, carbo When you eat carbohydrates especially, but any food in general, but carbohydrates especially, what happens is these get broken down into their monosaccharides or the most basic sugar molecules, right? So whether you eat, quote unquote, healthy whole grains or honey or white rice or fruit,
00:00:51
chrisyzen
maple syrup juice what at the end what gets into your body quote-unquote is gonna be fructose glucose and in the case of um lactose we break that down into glucose and galactose and there's a few other simple sugars but These are the major constituents of our diet and then you know, they get into the blood they go into the liver getting to sort of ah They they first go into the liver the liver can use them for example fructose and glucose it can use them and to replenish its glycogen stores which is the liver's own storage of um carbohydrates basically glucose and then the liver will drip it into the
00:01:44
chrisyzen
bloodstream and obviously if there was a ah lot of carbs coming in that will the drip will be faster and then that will cause ah um an increase in blood sugar blood glucose levels and then that's what insulin is secreted by the pancreas in response to okay So what's clear is that the bigger the glycemic load or the more carbohydrates you get in one sort of bolus or sitting or let's say you drink a ah you know a big glass of juice or a but eat eat like 150 grams of car um ah white rice with your meal, the bigger that load of carbohydrate, generally,
00:02:32
chrisyzen
and the faster it's absorbed ah digested and absorbed, obviously, generally the bigger the insulin spike will be. But how big that spike is, it doesn't actually, it's not consequential to your health. So the what's most what's most important is how efficiently the body deals with that both ah you know that whatever amount of carbohydrate that you ingested. right It's how efficiently it's dealt with. So it doesn't really matter that your insulin spiked
00:03:12
chrisyzen
As long as soon-ish after that meal, is it kind of goes back to baseline. That's kind of the whole, the important part. So it's okay for your insulin to spike a bunch, your blood sugar to but ah to spike. after the meal but then if you check it two three hours later it should be approaching normal resting levels right so it's a ah big misnomer in the mainstream that blood sugar spikes are bad or dangerous right that's the whole point of having this you know
00:03:50
chrisyzen
insulin insulin pancreatic sort of the pancreas is there to help us dispose of this glucose right and then how do we dispose it well generally our cells uptake the glucose so insulin is that signal to the cells like the fat cells the muscle cells they When insulin ah interacts with the cell, the cell will kind of, quote unquote, open its doors and let some transport in some of that glucose. And then it will with that glucose, it will create energy. So the the glucose is fuel for your cells to make energy. And then with that energy, they can do cool stuff like repair, do their functions, make proteins,
00:04:38
chrisyzen
all that good stuff so
00:04:43
chrisyzen
Here is where, what you got to understand and please listen carefully just for like the next one minute, because if you just remember this once a couple of sentences next, uh, this is all you really need to know in, in terms of this
The Role of Fats in Insulin Resistance
00:04:58
chrisyzen
topic. So the biggest, the most major cause of insulin resistance is not excess carbohydrates. It's excessive circulating fats. Okay. It's actually fat that causes insulin resistance too much of it in the bloodstream. And that's what actually contributes to diabetes. And I'll explain why in ah in a few minutes, obviously. So to to just give you a ah quick one-liner, it's pretty, the term insulin resistance kind of explains what it means, but just to kind of elucciate elucidate it a little bit more. so
00:05:44
chrisyzen
our cells can use carbohydrates or glucose to make energy or they can also use fatty acids right so we have these two sources of fuel and there's a ah mechanism in the cell where it's I think what was the term it's um Basically, in in him I forget the exact term, but it's it's it's ah competitive inhibition or something like that. Basically, the if there's more of one substrate, it outcompetes or inhibits the use of the other one. A simple example. If there is a lot of glucose, the cell will preferentially use glucose and fat, sort of gets left to aside.
00:06:37
chrisyzen
similarly if there's a lot of fat in the bloodstream then
00:06:46
chrisyzen
It out-competes glucose for entry into the cells and for oxidation, which oxidation is basically the burning of the fat, quote unquote, as kind of the lay term. So then we oxidize the fat instead of the glucose, because again, it out-competes. There's a lot more of it. Therefore, the the cell is like, well, this is what I have to use as more of it, right? so If you understand that, and this was, this was, um this mechanism was understood in the 60s by a dude and his group of researchers called, John Randall was his name, the's so it's called the Randall cycle.
00:07:29
chrisyzen
or the glucose fatty acid cycle, I think was the other name. just its It's been a while since I kind of looked at this stuff. So some of the super technical stuff, I may not remember verbatim, but there this random cycle, this glucose fatty acid cycle, um or this mechanism is very well known. And you know doctors learned it in medical school and everything else, but they don't really They learn it for the sake of learning it to pass a test. they don't really They're not taught what is its significance in the human body. So if there's a lot of circulating fat,
00:08:12
chrisyzen
this can cause basically glucose to build up in the bloodstream because again, the cells are ah basically they're they're closing their doors to glucose because there's a lot of fat. So they're dealing with fat. So they're burning fat in the cell and they're taking up fat from from the the bloodstream right because of this random cycle mechanism. right So what does that do? Well, what that does in a healthy individual
Fat and Diabetes Development
00:08:44
chrisyzen
is that causes a buildup of blood glucose, right? Because it's not being utilized. And if you're healthy, your pancreas is working well still. All that happens really is your pancreas secretes more insulin than would normally be needed. So just just to ah to to make ah give an example, let's say one unit It doesn't even matter what the unit is. Let's say one unit of insulin was needed to put away, you know, a hundred grams of carbs. But because you have c so excess circulating fat in the bloodstream and you become insulin resistant, and I'll give you the the reasons why this can happen soon. But let's say in that case, your pancreas now needs to put out two units of insulin to deal with it. No problem.
00:09:42
chrisyzen
because your you're still healthy and your pancreas is working well. Let's say this program problem keeps compounding over the years and then the next year you need three units of insulin then four units of insulin and then ten you know 10-20 years down the line you might need you know 15 units of insulin to do the same job but then over time you're you know did this wear and tear on the body continues because the circulating fat can also be detrimental especially if it's polyunsaturated like the omega-6 type this can actually be detrimental to your pancreas and to many other pretty much to most tissues in the body so this damage over time
00:10:27
chrisyzen
accumulates and then you are no longer able to maintain your blood sugar in that normal range which is about you know 72 to 100 and then as this continues your Blood sugar starts to creep up. Let's say 110 115 and then at one point it will be high enough that your doctor will either label you as pre-diabetic or metabolic syndrome or straight-up diabetes and They will tell you you have to cut down the carbs and blah blah blah, you know, you're just
00:11:05
chrisyzen
Eating are you are you drinking coke every day this kind of stuff are you consuming a lot of sugary foods that's kind of the advice you given but the reason this happened was not because of your carbohydrate intake. Now, in this situation, if a person cuts out their car carbohydrate intake, it does alleviate the issue somewhat, but only only sort of from a very
Stress and Its Impact on Insulin Resistance
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chrisyzen
basic perspective. So you you are you basically just remove the dietary source of
00:11:45
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of blood glucose but there's other ways for blood glucose to increase which i'll i'll get into in a second and so this is one mechanism of how insulin resistance um can can occur right the other one that's very very prevalent in today's society is chronic stress now you think that sounds a little bit far fetched that stress can cause insulin resistance but not only that but stress can cause diabetes like literally there's a term stress induced diabetes stress induced diabetes
00:12:28
chrisyzen
And there's also another thing called steroid induced diabetes. And what kind of steroid? Glucocorticoid. So glucocorticoids are the anti-inflammatory, quote unquote, drugs that resemble cortisol, which is a glucocorticoid or corticosteroid type hormone. And so some people that are given these anti-inflammatory glucocorticoids for, let's say, eczema or some kind of allergic or um immune dysregulation type condition. Some of these people have been reported in the scientific literature to have developed what they termed steroid induced diabetes. And why does that happen? what does Why does that and why does stress cause an increase in blood sugar? It's because
00:13:22
chrisyzen
Stress causes an increase in certain hormones, cortisol is always one of those and cortisol's primary role is to raise the blood sugar of the person and it does that by signaling to our tissues like our ah bones, muscles, joints, skin, organs, basically our lean lean tissue. It's cortisol signals to our lean tissue to break down to its constituents, like amino acids and other bits and pieces. And then they're sent, those amino acids, they're sent to the to the liver and some of them get turned into glucose. So that's one of the ways this hormone
00:14:06
chrisyzen
of survival helps us to survive a threat because you know you might not have eaten today but if you have to run away from a lion you need to muster up that energy to do that and the easiest way to do that is to break off some of the tissue that you have on you turn it into glucose obviously it should be nice to have not super essential for survival stuff so your brain your heart you know vital organs they are left they are left alone at least at the outset but this is a very easy way to raise your blood sugar so someone that has insulin resistance diabetes or a lot of other diseases
00:14:47
chrisyzen
that having sudden resistance or and or not, but a lot of diseases in general, they have this component of high cortisol, um which means that a lot of these people will have a higher than normal blood sugar, right?
00:15:05
chrisyzen
now the stress cascade cortisol adrenaline and a few other hormones what they actually have a direct effect on
00:15:20
chrisyzen
the peripheral, ah the peripheries, um ah insulin sensitivity. what to To say it in plain English, cortisol, when cortisol and adrenaline increase because of some kind of stressful event that could be like a genuine emergency or it could be just you living a stressful lifestyle, you have to deal with some some stuff at work or in your business and that's causing a lot of stress and that causes the the increase in adrenaline and cortisol. and So wild cortisol increases your blood sugar by breaking down your precious muscles, bones and lean tissue. It and adrenaline also cause your muscles and your fat cells to become insulin resistant.
00:16:08
chrisyzen
So stress in and of itself can cause insulin resistance. And why does that happen? Well, it's very simply a survival mechanism because if let's say you are starving and cortisol was high and adrenaline was high because they're breaking breaking you down so you can consume yourself to survive. You don't want that glucose that is being created by the liver through the process of gluconeogenesis, you don't want that glucose to be sucked up by your muscles or your fat cells, right? You want that to be spared for your central nervous system, for your brain, for vital functions.
00:16:52
chrisyzen
right so cor So stress, so let' let's let's kind of take it a little bit full circle here. So stress, stressful states raise cortisol, which raises your blood sugar and cortisol and adrenaline make your periphery, your muscles and um your ah fat cells insulin resistant. Okay. But here's the other thing.
00:17:18
chrisyzen
adrenaline signals fat cells to break down, right? So when you're stressed and your adrenaline goes up, your fatty acids in your blood increase, right? So this is part of, I suppose, it I'm not sure if it's the the main the main sort of mechanism why we become glucose insulin resistance or glucose doesn't enter the the muscles and the fat cells, but this plays in part to this insulin resistance because it increases circulating fat, which means that glucose will
00:18:00
chrisyzen
Be out competed for to enter the cell and deoxidize for energy. So how does stress induced diabetes happen? well Because cortisol raises the blood sugar, that's one mechanism and then adrenaline Causes free fatty acids in the blood to to circulate right and then if the person if a person is overweight has a lot of fat stored and they will have more of this circulating free fatty acids. They will have more circulating fat contributing to the insulin resistance a phenomenon.
Ketogenic Diets and Insulin Resistance
00:18:40
chrisyzen
And that is why a lot of folks with type 2 diabetes are overweight and why a lot of folks
00:18:48
chrisyzen
that lose weight their indicators for insulin resistance improve and a lot of those people can actually reverse their diabetes by losing weight okay now let's throw in some some kind of other curve not curveballs but without other factors into the equation what other things do we know of that cause either stress or Excess circulating fat in the bloodstream Well low carb diets especially ketogenic diets because they're high fat diets, right a high fat diet means a lot of fat circulating or more than normal fat circulating in the bloodstream Okay, easy peasy. In fact when I was doing keto and low carb I was measuring ketones
00:19:48
chrisyzen
ah with those kind of the little strips i was measuring blood glucose for a while when i was doing more of the biohacking stuff around 2018 you know all this crazy stuff uh it was fun it was fun i didn't have a kid then so me and my my wife she was my girlfriend at the time still so we could do a lot of cool stuff and i was listening to all these biohacker guys and uh it was fun but the keto diet I remember very well um in the morning I'd wake up and my blood sugar would be pretty damn high. like I can't remember now but it would be 95, 100, 105, this kind of range. that's That's pretty damn high especially if you're not eating glucose or not consuming carbohydrates. So why is it so high whereas people that get off of the ketogenic diet
00:20:46
chrisyzen
they're studying a lot of carbs, their morning blood glucose would be like 80, you know, 85, nowhere near 100. So why the hell does that happen? It's because low carb ketogenic diets, they anyway you try to kind of paint it they actually increase cortisol they stress the body but the the fact is also that if you are which this ah list alone will make you insulin resistant resistant but you if you're consuming a lot of fat
00:21:23
chrisyzen
you have a lot of fat circulating in your body um that is that is how insulin resistance develops and that means that your blood sugar will build up build up in the bloodstream right and the more unhealthy a person is the more this blood sugar will be evident as high right again like if it's so if like it was me in my early 30s my um my pancreas working fine everything working pretty pretty okay um that these kind of problems that don't really like they don't show up on blood work too much so people can very easily shrug them off i i'm within range my glucose is within range my thyroid is within range and whatever else right my triglycerides are they're a bit high but whatever you know i'm eating a lot of fat
00:22:12
chrisyzen
My cholesterol is high, oh, but I'm eating a lot of fat, but actually cho high cholesterol is indicative of hypothyroidism, which is what low-carb but and keto diets will cause, but that's an episode in and of itself, right? um So that low-carb keto diet, keto diets are another way to make yourself insulin resist resistant, okay? The other one, is so think it just kind of from the lens of stress is just doing stuff that is plain old stressful right so if you're doing a lot of exercise but and maybe you might be fasting right you do fasted cardio like a lot of people are doing nowadays or you might skip breakfast and go to the gym or
00:23:03
chrisyzen
You just burn the candle at both ends, maybe you're very busy, you have a family, you have a job or a business and you also want a crowbar in a workout. Whatever the reason is, anything that increases stress is very likely to cause insulin resistance because again, it's insulin resistance in the periphery, this physiological insulin resistance is a survival mechanism. It spares glucose for the brain, the central nervous system and so on, vital functions. So think of this scenario, someone still healthy, still crushing it in you know in their job or their business, has a family, they might
00:23:50
chrisyzen
maybe do intermittent fasting or some fasting here and there. They might be doing a low carb keto diets because their favorite in influencer told them it's super awesome and great. um They might the do, like I said, fasted exercise or just low exercise whilst on a low-carb but ah diet. They might be working really hard. they might not They might feel like they don't need more than seven hours of sleep. So they might only sleep like six, seven hours per day. So all of these things conspired together to create this environment of insulin resistance.
00:24:34
chrisyzen
Nowhere in this scenario did carbohydrates, even sugars, simple carbohydrates, nowhere did they play any role here. A person can make themselves entirely insulin resistant and diabetic without touching a carbohydrate. In fact, it if they don't touch any carbohydrates, they will they are likely to make themselves insulin resistant diabetic diabetic and most likely hypothyroid hypometabolic so carbohydrates don't play a role here and ill I'll give you one example when I talk about this in my how to actually live longer volume one book and
High-Fat Diets in Diabetes Research
00:25:21
chrisyzen
Make sure you get the hardcover if you get it. It's much nicer in hardcover format. It's only five bucks extra that all go to Jeff Bezos. But I would prefer to for people to see this much more impressive book than the much smaller paperback. And the reason the book is short is so that you You can read it in a week and begin applying the stuff. right I don't need to you know go super deep and scientific and impress you with all this knowledge that you do nothing with. I'm giving you practical advice with some some kind of a few mechanisms, basic stuff so you understand why the hell um why the hell I'm recommending what I'm recommending. you um
00:26:06
chrisyzen
but um interesting oh yes what sorry we just to finish this thought so in my book i talk about this i cite a study which discusses the protocol on how to make experimental animals, lab animals like rats and whatever, how to make them diabetic. So they have protocols how to make animals diabetic in research studies, right? And this was when this was last year when I was kind of researching still the book and talking to people and whatever else. And I tell you, every single, every single person that I asked this trick question answered
00:26:55
chrisyzen
Carbohydrates is what researchers use to make animals diabetic. So the question was, how do researchers make animals diabetic? Do they use a low carb diet or do they use a low fat diet? or rather, wait, sorry, getting convoluted here. So the question was, and it's a trick question, so you probably know the answer after listening to this. When researchers want to make, let's say, a rat diabetic, do they use a high fat diet or a high carb diet? And absolutely every single person that I ask this question,
00:27:36
chrisyzen
Would just think for like a ah moment or two and be like yeah, I'd say a high carb diet Right not one person said a high fat diet and I myself would have said yeah, I mean obviously that's gotta be a high carb diet because I I got into the biohacking and this space in 2018 and keto and low carb and paleo were like Ah, huge, you know? And only only now in the mainstream these things are becoming ah more and more prevalent. So we were doing the stuff back in, you know, so six, seven years ago. So I was indoctrinated into that camp for a while. I'm lucky that I can bounce in and out quickly and kind of make mistakes, learn the lessons and get the hell out before too much damage was caused. Like similarly with the vegan thing, I did vegan for like a year and a half.
00:28:32
chrisyzen
ah plant Fully plant-based. I did a Thai boxing fight. I trained for that on a fully plant-based diet. It was disgusting. I was drinking soy protein shakes. um It was disgusting, right? And so I made a lot of mistakes along the way, so you don't have to. by listening to the podcast or reading my book or if you're a client of mine you will know I've made the mistakes for you so you don't have to make the mistakes and I've done the research so you don't have to spend tens of thousands of hours doing that um so we're super indoctrinated so I was also like Jesus of course of course um it's gotta be a high carb diet that will make the animal diabetic however
00:29:18
chrisyzen
In the study, they recommend the use of a, six so a 60% fat diet is all that is needed, right, to make an animal, like a rat, insulin resistant and then diabetic. And then they use a special, well, special, if they use a drug streptosotolsin, I think it was called, which actually targets the the beta cells of the pancreas and destroys them. So that can actually more mimic type 1 diabetes where the pans are and with the pancreas. The pancreas doesn't produce insulin.
00:29:52
chrisyzen
um But the type 2 diabetes type her sort of phenotype, they say a 60% fat diet is really all that is needed. Now, having said that, having looked at what the the the type of chow, what's in the chow, these rats, lab rats eat, in fact all all experimental animals eat pretty much the same diet in terms of ah how much corn oil fish meal ground up grains and a bunch of other disgusting basically toxic slop right so that 60 fat diet quite a lot of that is polyunsaturated omega-6 type fat which is obviously horrible for your health
00:30:39
chrisyzen
so that definitely plays a role I'm sure but the fact is that they don't use a high carb diet to give animals diabetes they use a high fat diet because the hi fat diet the high fat content in the bloodstream outcompetes glucose that's what gets um into the cells that's what is preferentially oxidized and and the glucose builds up in the blood and you know that thats kind of this cascade over time just leads to to this diabetic phenotype right so it was a lot of fun telling people nope they don't use high carb diet because i you know i have a lot of clients coming to me that are like
00:31:32
chrisyzen
But carbs the devil and whatnot, no? Aren't carbs the devil? So this is partly why I wrote the book, how to actually live longer volume than one. I have a whole chapter on why low carb diets are bad for longevity. But, um, and this is why I kind of started this podcast just to kind of, so i I don't wear myself out and go blue in the face, repeating the same things over and over and over again. Um, so a lot of my clients at at the start, they were like, what? Like carbs are okay. And it's not.
00:32:08
chrisyzen
all carbs the clean carbs not the shitty grains and all this other crap right the processed stuff and the pasta and bread no not those carbs we don't eat those carbs smart people don't eat those carbs people that care about their longevity don't eat grains okay that people that know a thing or two about longevity and an optimal health don't eat grains and if anyone is telling you This grains are required because no legumes are part of the Blue Zone's diet and these long-lived peoples ate grains, blah, blah, blah. that there They're just not very friggin' well-informed. So we're not talking about the the garbage, glyphosate-laden cereals, grains, ah or beans, fart-inducing lentils, soy, and all this other nonsense.
00:33:03
chrisyzen
we're talking about the clean carbohydrates and if you don't know what clean carbohydrates you're obviously not a client of mine and you obviously haven't got the book so I'm gonna like leave a cliffhanger get the book or listen to other episodes I'm sure I'll i'll be talking about it there Um, so yeah, so clients will be like So Carbs aren't the devil.
Becoming Diabetic Without Carbohydrates
00:33:27
chrisyzen
No, no carbs are actually good. And this earlier scenario I painted over this person that could get diabetic without any carbs just by doing low carb keto a lot of exercise a lot of stress from like family like the uh work business Whatever exercise they're doing or their sport. They might compete in something
00:33:49
chrisyzen
then might not get a lot of sleep they might and yeah again not not eating any carbs so in that scenario probably one of the best damn things for that person to do is take a bunch of cars because what they'll do that what the carbs will do that's clean carbs I just want to reiterate once more what the carbs will do is they will reduce
00:34:16
chrisyzen
cortisol first thing because when cortisol remember is increased when the blood sugar is low to raise it or when there's stress to raise the blood sugar so you have energy to do stuff fight flee climb etc hunt so the cars will increase the insulin which opposes cortisol so cortisol will go down so adrenaline will go down so the person will first of all probably feel better they might not They might not feel great, they might feel tired because they've been running on stress hormones for a very long time probably, but they will um they will physiologically be in a much better state. They will probably sleep better and so and whatever else. And this is actually going to be beneficial for them. However, if a person is, let's say on the unhealthier spectrum in this example,
00:35:13
chrisyzen
Let's say they've been eating a lot of seed oils for a very long time and they have, ah like let's say, gained some fat on their body. There's probably a lot of omega-6 type polyunsaturated fat in on their body. So they need a lot more than just carbohydrates. So carbohydrates will probably make, if they start incorporating them very quickly, they'll probably gain some weight. the Physiologically, they might be healthier, but they will probably gain some weight, which will probably, it is probably something they don't want. um but But yeah, in those cases, you want stronger ways to reduce this excessive circulating fat. So there are certain ah supplements that we can use to block this excessive circulating fat. One of the ways to do that is to block excessive lipolysis, which is lipolysis when you break down fatty tissue and send the fatty acids into the
00:36:06
chrisyzen
ah lipolysis is breaking down the fatty tissue and then they get sent into the um bloodstream so there's certain ways we can block that process the excessive one and then obviously lowering stress hormones that will have a beneficial effect on a lot of things including a peripheral insulin resistance and so on then adding the carbs adding a bunch of good stuff so there's a lot of things that can be done to reverse this pathological process but um I think the the main point of today's episode is that carbohydrates, whilst implicated in insulin resistance and diabetes because they can raise blood sugar when you eat them, they do raise the blood sugar. They are not the reason the the blood sugar is high. And if you take carbohydrates away from a person that has high blood sugar, you are taking away one source of carbohydrates from the diet
00:37:04
chrisyzen
But they are if they're stressed or they have some other pathological processes going on, like high cortisol, high adrenaline, they will their liver will continue to crank out this glucose glucose through gluconeogenesis. Like I said, there's stress-induced diabetes where it's got nothing to do with with food. It's stress that raises the blood sugar. Cortisol raises the blood sugar. so it's they're kind of kind of um to me at least carb carbs and sugar they're just a very very convenient scapegoat let's blame diabetes and all this disease that we're seeing today on sugar because the seed oil industry is government subsidized and they have a massive lobby if not the the most massive one
00:38:00
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and they just their products have permeated especially in the States and North America the food supply to just an unbelievable level so there's so much money at stake right so it sugar the sugar industry had to take the hit had to be the scapegoat because the the seed oil industry it doesn't just make a lot of money but it also it also feeds other industries like the sick care industry, which um is very tightly tightly interlinked with the insurance health insurance industry.
Industry Myths About Carbs and Disease
00:38:41
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So these are massive businesses, the most massive businesses really. So if you take away if you take away the seed oil industry,
00:38:52
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Also, people will be like, wait, the government's been telling us since the 60s to eat these damn things, and and they they they're causing disease left, right, and center. So it's not really going to work out too well for the parties involved if they just kind of reverted their stance on seed oils. so
00:39:15
chrisyzen
remember this just remember this it's fat that circulating fat that is causing the insulin resistance right now you sit in there calmly if you drink a cup of oil you and you start measuring your blood sugar every 10 minutes with a blood glucose measuring strip your blood sugar will will start rising after a cup of oil, okay? Or while you're sitting there, start thinking really negative thoughts and like picturing like a scenario where you're being chased or something like that, something scary and measure your blood glucose along the way and you will see that's the stress of those thoughts, psychological sort of this psychological stuff was enough to raise your blood sugar.
Conclusion and Thanks
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So
00:40:06
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that there's a lot of ways for our blood sugar to rise that has nothing to do with what we eat or carbohydrates okay so hopefully hope you found this useful i think i'll stop there just to not go too long because brevity is not my strong point as you probably know by now but uh thank you for tuning in and i'll see you on the on the next episode