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Why Plant-Based Diets Are NOT Conducive To Longevity and Optimal Health
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Introduction to Plant-Based Diet Controversy
00:00:47
chrisyzen
I can't even believe this is still a conversation, but I guess people ask me often enough where I have to kind of create some content around it. So the, why is the plant based diet way, way suboptimal for, uh, human health? Uh, we'll get into that very quickly and we'll just use very basic grade eight biology to to explain and to show you why you need animal foods in your diet. And I'm not even going to do like a multi-faceted sort of breakdown of it. We'll just use one aspect of the very multi-pronged set of arguments that can be used to debunk any sort of
00:01:41
chrisyzen
notions that plant-based is the optimal anywhere near the optimal dietary humans because it damn well is not.
Historical and Personal Insights on Diets
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chrisyzen
If you read um Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Western A. Price, which I think was published in the 1930s, he went all around the world. He was a dentist. He went all around the world.
00:02:01
chrisyzen
and he did not want find one quote unquote primitive that's how they did that no people weren't as politically correct back in the day but he couldn't find one sort of set of indigenous peoples that were untouched by civilization that were solely plant-based and whatever Wherever you go, generally, it's the the the reason cultures are more plant-based or more animal ah food limited is simply out of lack. It's not that they do it willingly. right In Okinawa or wherever, in Japan, they were saying,
00:02:44
chrisyzen
they eat a lot of rice, well they eat a lot of rice because there's a damn load of people on ah on an island that's like three quarters forest and rice is like that you can grow a lot of rice but animal agriculture takes time and space and whatever else so it's generally lack of those animal foods that is the the biggest factor in people not eating them right not there's nothing healthy about excluding them and I'll tell you the plant-based diet
00:03:22
chrisyzen
how after having researched it and done it so I did it for the first time in 2013 for a while I did vegetarian and and plant-based for a few months and then in 2016 I did it for a year and a half into 2017 and so I was reading doctor what's the name dr. Michael Greger's how not to die I had a the the Kindle version and I bought three physical copies and I was gifting it to people because it's straight up a ah ah cult of ah indoctrination, right? So, and I remember with vegetarian and vegan friends, we would spend most of our time when we were together
00:04:03
chrisyzen
Giving each other more and more arguments for why this diet is so good, right? We'd spent like literally I remember one dude I was working and got started a new job in an office and one of the dudes was vegetarian thinking of going vegan and I was already vegan now for a few months and We were going to us taking him to lunch and I was just like brainwashing him like do this and then if someone tells you this just tell them that and it's really it's it's kind of pathetic and i am very very embarrassed by
The Hierarchy of Diets and Mitochondrial Health
00:04:37
chrisyzen
that foray into it and you know i learned a lot since then so with that minor preamble also what i was gonna say that the plant-based diet is after the western so the western diet standard american diet terrible obviously everybody knows that but after that the worst diet is plant-based right even keto is better definitely low carb paleo are much better even carnivore is better than a plant-based diet and we'll discuss why that is right now so the thing about it is we as humans have a lot of mitochondria which are
00:05:24
chrisyzen
organelles in our cells that are most people know them if they know or remember them from high school biology we know them as the powerhouse of the cell so they generate energy production or they produce energy so they're involved in energy production ATP to be more exact which is adenosine triphosphate which is kind of the energy currency of the cell the energy carrier as it's kind of known colloquially and and mitochondria produce most of our energy. And the thing about this is that cells that have higher energy demands have more mitochondria.
00:06:13
chrisyzen
and what cells have the highest energy demands there will be things like the muscles because they can do a lot of work cells of the intestine the gastrointestinal tract and the brain all right so they're very energy hungry so they have a lot of ah energy production organelles mitochondria but that the thing is that mitochondria are also involved in a lot of other stuff they can produce heat they are involved in detoxification um they regulate various metabolic pathways they actually are involved in the synthesis of steroid hormones right so in the adrenal glands
00:06:59
chrisyzen
in the gonads we where we make you know like testosterone or um cortisol or dhea or progesterone and so on it's actually that process begins In the mitochondria, that's where we make pregnenolone, which is the precursor of the other steroid hormones. So mitochondria are involved in that. That's why people with mitochondrial dysfunction, they may have low hormone levels. That's why big
00:07:31
chrisyzen
Part of the work I do with my client is to make sure the energy production pathways are supported, the mitochondria, and we'll get into what the mitochondria need to do their jobs, of course. And there also factors that contribute to mitochondrial dysfunction, which will be a lot of stressful things.
00:07:49
chrisyzen
alcohol is one, toxins of various kinds, ah we have to obviously identify and mitigate any of those factors that are contributing or maybe contributing to mitochondrial dysfunction. And then there's a number of other different things, so amino acid metabolism,
00:08:07
chrisyzen
the urea cycle, autophagy, I mean um cellular programmed cell death, apoptosis or apoptosis. So the mitochondria don't just produce energy, they really have tons of different roles that ah have already been discovered. So the next thing to look at is what do mitochondria need to do their jobs? Things like energy production. Let's use energy production because that's really well um and elucidated. The steps, the co-factors, vitamins and minerals that are needed. So very quick list. The vitamins needed for mitochondria to produce energy and to function. Vitamin B1, thiamin,
00:08:55
chrisyzen
vitamin b2 riboflavin niacin b3 pentatonic acid b5 biotin b7 then Vitamin C and e they help to protect There could because they're antioxidants. They help to protect the mitochondria then we have magnesium. That's needed ah iron copper sulfur calcium Phosphorus because ATP that's phosphate adenosine triphosphate Potassium and there's a bunch of other co-factors. So we obviously ATP gets generated NAD FAD coins. I'm q Coenzyme a and coins. I'm q10. That's another that's an electron carrier also an antioxidant and and there's around the mitochondria there will be things like glutathione to protect them from oxidative stress and alpha lipoic acid is also involved. So what does that tell us?
Nutritional Value of Animal Foods
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chrisyzen
That tissues that have a lot of mitochondria
00:10:05
chrisyzen
are going to have all of these vitamins, minerals, and cofactors and bits and pieces that I just mentioned. All the B vitamins, EC, the magnesium, iron, copper, sulfur, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and a bunch of other stuff. Now, think about it this way. where well I already alluded to this. Where in which tissues do we have a lot of mitochondria? Muscles, the gut, um energy-hungry cells, cells that need a lot of energy, the brain, and the and but the key point here is muscle, right? So I remember we were back in Ireland when I was living in Dublin, we, no, no, actually we were visiting back
00:10:52
chrisyzen
We were living in Portugal already with my wife, we weren't married yet but we were visiting Ireland and we were meeting some friends and there were two sisters and they were vegan for a very long time since I know them, what one and then the other shortly after.
00:11:08
chrisyzen
and loved them to bits good very good friends and i just i'm seeing there has been seeing their health deteriorate since i know them which has been at this point close to 20 years and i was i had unbrainwashed myself from the plant-based propaganda the cult And i ah I was throwing arguments out and I remember that i I told one of the sisters, my friend, I told her that meat is more nutritious than vegetables has more nutrients in it. And she just laughed psychotically at me.
00:11:50
chrisyzen
right as if I said the stupidest most preposterous thing ever so ah uttered by a human and and then we we started going on ah saying things like oh but okay but where do you get your vitamin a and she at that point it kind of we were having drinks and stuff so obviously it's a little bit of um sort of banter but at that point she's like oh my god you like look at like what vitamins and minerals your food has and stuff like that and I'm like oh my god like there's no you there's no point in even like if people
00:12:29
chrisyzen
have usually make up their mind and it's very difficult to others it's fruitless to try to convince them. Now people coming to me on the podcast and clients, they they see that, you know, I've done the research, I've spent a lot of time kind of digging around. So when they come to me, they're open to to my sort of to my thoughts. That's why I'm putting this kind of on um in recorded format so I can share these things with with my clients, prospective clients and so on. So they see kind of the rationale
00:13:05
chrisyzen
So when you're open-minded, when you're in between diets, as I like to sometimes say it, let's say you've been plant-based and then you you go carnivore, and then you're like, oh, both of these sucked long-term. When you're in between diets, and you haven't found the thing that works for you, you're open-minded and ready to kind of find something that's a little bit
Balanced Diet vs. Extreme Diets
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chrisyzen
more balanced. I know it's kind of stupid thing to say, more what what does that even i mean, balanced?
00:13:28
chrisyzen
but what that kind of taught me is to not waste my breath really trying to convince people that are very deep into like it's a religion and you know I don't mean any disrespect you know but this friend of mine her her child when she had a child she she was raising the freaking child vegan and to me that is that is straight up a crime right but When you look at it objectively, all of these compounds that I just mentioned, all all the minerals, the vitamins, the other stuff, the coenzyme Q10 and the other stuff, it has to exist in like a steak.
00:14:14
chrisyzen
all of that stuff including magnesium they say oh you know leafy greens magnesium blah blah well ATP the energy carrier ah that's bound to magnesium that's that's kind of how it it's um kind of stored if you want to say use that word so even muscle meat has magnesium and
00:14:41
chrisyzen
When you understand that, you're like, well, I have a lot of muscle. That muscle, all of my cells are constantly repairing, regenerating, new ones are being um created. So there's a lot of not just energy required to support this process, these processes, but all of these co-factors and
00:15:03
chrisyzen
um you know, nutrients that are required, right? Amino acids, which meat is a great source of, bit vitamins, minerals, coke, blah, blah, blah, all that all of that stuff. So eating muscle meat as part of your protein intake, I'm not saying all of your protein intake because there is a massive problem with just eating meat, right? Because it the the phosphate in the meat leeches calcium from the bones so you have to know what to do there. There's certain amino acids that are in excess and what that usually means is that they can
00:15:46
chrisyzen
they They can basically cause imbalances, for example, methionine that can deplete glycine and stuff like that. So there's there's a ah number of things that we do and I teach my clients to do when we when we are eating muscle meat.
00:16:02
chrisyzen
There's a couple of things that I always do personally, some I know some of my clients also do it quite, I don't want to say religiously, but regularly. But there's certain things we do to make sure that when you when you eat muscle meat, the potentially inflammatory amino acids are balanced, that the the phosphate is balanced, right? And stuff like that. Because they've done studies with animals where they restrict some of these amino acids that are high in meat. with they're also um the One of the methionine is also high in grains, so grains are can be another way to kind of cause this imbalance. But when they've done these um ah as studies where they restrict certain amino acids that are quite prevalent in meat, the
00:16:52
chrisyzen
ah animals did really a lot better like in terms of lifespan extension and stuff like that right so I'm not saying only eat meat absolutely not you really have to balance your your animal proteins But to say that meat it doesn't have nutrition is
Nutrient Bioavailability in Plant vs. Animal Foods
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chrisyzen
insane. I mean, there's things in meat that could be essential for our functioning that we haven't even discovered. We haven't even identified them yet. There's, God knows, hundreds hundreds or thousands of
00:17:30
chrisyzen
compounds in meat, especially when, of course, it the it has to be well-raised meat, naturally healthy animals, because you don't want to you don't want to eat um meat from a diseased animal. That's just obviously crazy.
00:17:50
chrisyzen
right But all of these, so when you look at all of the steps in the energy production process, so we have glycolysis where you know you're splitting glucose, that generates a little bit of energy, that that requires magnesium,
00:18:09
chrisyzen
um then you know you have the Krebs cycle that happens in the mitochondria right so in there we need the various B vitamins again magnesium iron sulfur copper for the cytochrome c then you have also oxidative phosphorylation requires magnesium ah We have the electron transport chain again in the mitochondria, so we have again B vitamins are required, coenzyme Q10, copper, iron, sulfur, and then beta oxidation is again that's when you are ah processing fats for energy, oxidizing fat.
00:18:44
chrisyzen
You need again, B2, B3, B5, and that happens in the mitochondria again. So we have a lot of mitochondria that are again, constantly, there's a constant flux or turnover of these. So you just have to understand objectively, ethics aside, what's the best source of all of these nutrients and ah building blocks and co-factors required for the creation, ah not just the sort of the the synthesis and whatever of the mitochondria, but then for them to ah ah carry out their functions.
00:19:29
chrisyzen
And if you just look at it objectively, the best source of that is something that has all of these things in it, saturated in it, right? Containing in it. And what is that? Well, animal animal ah tissue, right? So muscle meat. And again, I'm not saying that's all you need because there's a not you have a lot of collagen in your bones, in your skin, in your joints, and that's a different type of thing, right? So we have to also get that kind of protein.
00:19:58
chrisyzen
um and most of us don't get enough. right But again, going back to all of these B vitamins and stuff like that, just try and find these in abundance in ah um in plant foods. You just will not be able to.
00:20:15
chrisyzen
Often they may be there to an extent, but with the minerals, they're oftentimes bound up to like phytic acid or oxalate, or they're just in the fibrous sort of cells, in the cellulose sort of portion.
00:20:32
chrisyzen
and You don't absorb a lot of that a lot of that fi fibrous sort of stuff in the ah plant food, whatever that may be, like a vegetable or not, grain seed. A lot of that is not bioavailable to us. And we can make it more bioavailable with like soaking and sprouting and cooking and whatever else. And that does improve it a little bit. But I recently did an episode where we look at the BV the biological value of proteins from animal sources compared to proteins from like ah Legumes beans and stuff like that and they're way way lower the biological value value or the bioavailability or the quality of plant proteins are way way lower than from animal sources, so
00:21:24
chrisyzen
Is it any surprise that the other things like the the mineral bioavailability and the you know the the amount of vitamins are going to be sub-optimal? Of course, because cells of plants have a very, but I don't want to say very, very, but they have quite a different metabolism, right? there They're freaking plants.
Energy Production and Nutrient Sources
00:21:48
chrisyzen
We're mammals. So they have a very different quite a different metabolism in terms of the co-factors and the nutrients that are required and how they build the structure. So because plants have to be able to grow upward and be balanced and and resilient, um the they have a lot of this fibrous tissue that is indigestible for us. And remember,
00:22:15
chrisyzen
a cow can eat grass and grass is actually got a lot of stuff in it apparently because it can grow a freaking cow right this massive beast like a thousand pounds i don't know four five hundred kilogram cow can grow just by eating ah grass however if you're so and not you, but just a hypothetical person, if we are so short sighted and sort of kindergarten in our ah childish in our thinking, well, look at and I remember this, the the the vegan sort of zealots, priests would say, look at a gorilla, it will beat the crap out of you. And all it does is eat like bananas and and fruits and chew on things all day long. But
00:23:07
chrisyzen
you know look at how long ah how much of the day the gorilla spends eating those things, right? um And then sometimes it will like poop it out and then eat it again and stuff like that just to get more out of it. And then going back to the cow, a cow has multiple stomachs.
00:23:24
chrisyzen
So there's a lot of other processes that these herbi herbivorous animals, are um they're just they're more adapted for for chewing on the stuff and then it ferments and goes to other stomachs and then bacteria in there transform it. We don't have that. Our digestive system is fairly small. And if you look at the acidity,
00:23:54
chrisyzen
of the stomach of a human it's quite close it's quite acid kind of like a almost like a scavengers acidity level so these are all clues right we have we have um the hydrochloric acid in the stomach right potentially to kill bacteria to to help break the bonds in between the the proteinaceous tissues we have bile that we kind of keep, ah yeah we produce a lot of it like a quart a day or whatever.
00:24:31
chrisyzen
but we also store it so that digests animal fats really well. So there's a lot of other clues, but if you just go back to the fact that we all most of our cells have mitochondria, some of our most important cells in the nervous nervous system, including the brain, have a lot of mitochondria, proportionally speaking, relatively relatively to other cells in the body.
00:24:57
chrisyzen
And what those those mitochondria need, the best source to give all of those nutrients to our mitochondria, to our body, is really, really just very simply put steak, plenty of, my my personal favorite is organic beef. And because it's cheaper to get it as mints and there's more collagen in it, I buy that stock the freeze the freezer with it.
00:25:27
chrisyzen
and it's super versatile you can make so many different dishes from India and Italian today um well today we didn't use beef but i sometimes I make spaghetti sort of bolognese style my wife will make like burgers and various cool meatballs in the oven and we can there's so much you can do with it and to it just the In summary here, you just look objectively at this sort of energy production process in the cell, look at what is what is required, look how important mitochondria are in there, and then just understand that muscle cells are very abundant in mitochondria.
00:26:16
chrisyzen
therefore steak is gonna have a lot of all of these nutrients and then stuff we don't even know about yet right so there you go well what do you how can you really argue against that this this is just objective sort of stuff from very mainstream you know biology kind of stuff we all learn in school I don't really see how you really have to have a religious belief at this point to say that ah plant foods are going to be as good of a source for all of these nutrients that are required to then you know run your brain, your your nervous system, your muscles and stuff like that and all the other functions that are they are required for.
00:27:04
chrisyzen
right so that's again just one very basic argument that personally because I'm not attached to any diet ideology really um i I look at this and just objectively to me at least objectively that really straight up debunks any validity of a plant-based diet being anywhere close to optimal for a human being, right?
Transitioning from Plant-Based to Balanced Diets
00:27:33
chrisyzen
Because we're not, again, we're not ruminant. We don't have the three stomachs. We don't spend 18 hours a day chewing on grass and coughing it up and or whatever they do and kind of re-chewing it and fermenting it and all that stuff. We don't do that.
00:27:48
chrisyzen
we Have a small our large intestine is very short. I don't know like three feet So it's very short. And that's where all this sort of fermentation stuff happens. So we don't have this massive facility in our you know our digestive tract to be doing a lot of fermentation and stuff like that. So um there you go. That's, again, one small aspect. I'm not ah not like a super against ah you know whoever wants to do this plant-based stuff.
00:28:25
chrisyzen
As long as they they truly understand The risks of it they can do whatever the heck the heck they want, but I personally don't work with people like that um I've I've had to refuse clients that are um vegetarian because of religious reasons and actually working with a family at the moment that were helping their son and They are also kind of vegetarian because of religious reasons but that they are taking a lot of steps to start introducing meat and other animal ah foods into into the diet. and I told them i told him from the start, you know we we need to do this otherwise I'm not i'm not taking you on as a client. and
00:29:12
chrisyzen
he agreed it was difficult to get there you know it took a few months to actually kind of it's it's not easy if if you've not lived with eating meat and stuff like that and preparing meat um all your life but i'm just confident that that's just the absolutely necessary to for most people i really think it's necessary to survive not just survive but thrive right because a lot of honestly i can see a lot of these um
00:29:45
chrisyzen
vegan folks I check in to kind of people I used to follow and people that bash them so i I followed the some of the carnivore guys and stuff like that and the keto whatever people and um a lot of those guys are doing pretty damn good even on the low carb diets and stuff but a lot of these plant-based folks they They're just degenerating a lot faster for the most part, you know so That's I think that's all I'll say on the topic today. It's a big one in in my In the next volume of the how to actually live longer series. I'm going to cover diet in more depth because one one thing that really kind of annoys me is certain
00:30:35
chrisyzen
certain ah mainstream sort of doctors. they they don't focus on that and longevity sort of experts, quote unquote, you know, they kind of don't really cover some of these dietary issues because they want to appeal to everybody and they they don't want to ruffle any feathers. But to me, it's a little bit like, look, if we know some aspects of our diet are harming us, and they're going to shorten people's lives and predispose them to disease sooner, we should be calling that out.
00:31:07
chrisyzen
You know, we shouldn't be shouldn't be freaking. What's the word? I'm looking for cowards. That's cowardly to not say if you let's say seed oils, right? um Or if you think plant based is a bad idea. ah What I'm hearing a lot is like.
00:31:26
chrisyzen
you know, everybody's different. If you feel it's it's right for you, you go ahead and do it. But to me, that's like, you've you've done the research, you've been on the journey. In my case, I've i've tried all of these diets, you know, carnivore, keto, low carb, um ah ve vegetarian, vegan, or plant-based, whatever you want to call it. And I've tried them, and I've done the research, and then I've seen people ah how quickly they quit the diet because they start deteriorating, and I'm i'm working with clients, and I have worked with other clients,
00:31:55
chrisyzen
where they did all of this stuff like long-term low-carb, ah carnivore, plant-based, and it it made their health problems worse, right? So if I'm seeing that, I'm not gonna be a coward and not call out the plant-based bullshit and propaganda,
00:32:17
chrisyzen
If I see it as that because that's how I see it and a lot of people Would be in agreement a lot of people that have actually done some research because I again like going going back to my friend She had no freaking idea where her what's what are sources of vitamin a and then is that is a person like that? Going to make good choices for their child where they decide by through a religious belief because clearly it was just a religious belief that this was the the optimal diet because she didn't know ah where the fuck vitamin A comes from in the diet, right? And she kind of was almost mocking us with my with my wife that we go to that depth like a bunch of nerds. um But this is the most important thing. If you don't figure this out, this is like the most important thing because this can make or break you.
00:33:09
chrisyzen
can shorten your life by 20 years, 30 years. And um so if, what was I talking about?
Critique of Mainstream Dietary Advice
00:33:18
chrisyzen
forgot i forgot my I forgot my train of thought, that's my train of thought. But the um yeah, it's if you if you have no friggin idea,
00:33:30
chrisyzen
And you know most people out there have no friggin idea about nutrition and health because it's such a such a complicated mess. and so many vested interests sort of confusing everybody. So most people don't have a freaking foggiest about health and nutrition. And to me, it's really disingenuous if you are an expert or you know some stuff to then say, oh, you know, just do whatever feels right for you. Well, a lot of people out there are smoking crack and it feels right to them.
00:34:05
chrisyzen
So should we tell them you know we if you if you feel like it's the right thing for your body, you know hit that pipe a couple of times a week. just do it in moderation or or something like that. it's No, that's terrible. That's terrible. If you're putting yourself out there, if you're influencing people, I think, yeah, I know people wanna get rich out of all of this stuff. That's great. But I think we should be we should not be doing a disservice like that, right? And there's one, and ah I'm thinking about one guy in specific, he's a very prominent sort of longevity guy.
00:34:44
chrisyzen
and I perused his book which is a big bestseller and he was on and on about exercise and all these other nonsense and flowery bullshit stories and he just tiptoed around the most important damn things about the diet, about the seed oil, about the quality of the diet very little was said about that and it's the most important thing like 500 page book and you're there like telling us you know how you whatever met this guy noble laureate all these amazing experiences you you've done and all this impressive stuff and you're so amazing and then you don't freaking tell the millions of people you were influencing that they're doing
00:35:35
chrisyzen
things on a daily basis with their diet and so on that are hurting them and they're hurting their longevity. And is that is that a longevity book? Is that a longevity expert? Or is that someone that is now a celebrity? And what's more important is moving a lot of these copies, making a lot of money, brand ah sort of sponsorship deals. you know That to me, it's kind of sickening to do that because
00:36:03
chrisyzen
that particular individual and I should have talked about this on the fasting episode was fasting for years and years and was doing a lot of blood work on themselves and stuff like that and in the meantime influenced potentially millions and millions of people to start doing that and then after a while he said he gave up on all of that because he was doing sort of these DEXA scans that most people aren't even gonna do And he's checking his blood work and stuff like that. And he noticed he lost a ton of lean body mass. And he gained fat. And he stopped doing that. And think of how many millions of people that didn't get get the memo, maybe they didn't read his book or didn't stop tuning into his podcast. Think of how many people are are continuing to hurt themselves. And that's what another thing I hate about the plant-based bullshit.
00:36:59
chrisyzen
is because back in around 2018 when I was still kind of keeping my ear to the ground on that movement because I was, you know, ah watching a lot of those influence are and influencers on YouTube before that. So at that point they had this um sort of massive exodus. It was a big trend of why I'm no longer vegan videos.
00:37:22
chrisyzen
And um the backlash from their own people was huge. yeah But the to me, what yeah i'm I'm happy that they some of them came out about it. But um the thing is that many didn't and many haven't, right? So many are ah probably, and there's a lot of these vegan bodybuilder guys and stuff like that where some of some of them are clearly on steroids right or on performance enhancing drugs and um Some of them have been outed as Eating animal foods on the sly whilst because you know, they have brand sponsors like pea protein companies and stuff like so they are
00:38:14
chrisyzen
kind of an act at that point then it's theater then it's wrestling right so there I'll check this out look what I eat in a day look at all my awesome old oatmeal with blueberries in the morning with my pea protein then look at this amazing tofu salad I made for lunch and then after my workout I have this check this out link in the description get this product you know um And a lot of these guys have like hundreds of thousands, millions of followers, and those poor schmoles that don't know anything about nutrition and health, they're just being influenced. And unfortunately, they're hurting themselves.
Risks of Extreme Diets
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chrisyzen
And is it any wonder between the low-carb keto community,
00:39:02
chrisyzen
and the plant-based sort of community, is it any wonder that young people right now are so infertile and the guys have caught up to the to the women? I think it's 50-50 now in terms of infertility. Is it any wonder?
00:39:20
chrisyzen
because none of these diets are in any way shape or form optimal for human health yes there is other factors the the toxins in the environment and stuff like that But um diet is one of the biggest factors ah when it comes to health. So it really kind of pisses me off when big influencers are just hurting people. they straight up Look, if you're out there promoting plant-based diets as mecca, you are hurting people, a lot of people. Luckily, most people that try a plant-based diet
00:40:00
chrisyzen
break within within a year, within two, three, five four, five years, so because they're unsustainable. And many of them cite just health deterioration as the reason that they they stopped it. Luckily, people are still wise enough to listen to their body right and my I remember when I met my wife back in 2016 I had but I'm very sort of when I when I say I'm gonna do something I'm gonna do it so I was about to turn 30 said I'm gonna do vegan diet this year and I'm gonna do a tight boxing fight on a vegan diet to prove a point to nobody who gives a shit right so we
00:40:47
chrisyzen
We are both like from the Eastern part of Europe, so meat eating was big in our culture and all that good stuff. So she was influenced by me, like a lot of other things. She did a lot of other things that I've done over the years, keto and stuff like that. ah not not Not anymore, now I'm just kind of like experimenting on myself and left I'm leaving her alone.
00:41:11
chrisyzen
but um
00:41:14
chrisyzen
she she was starting to obviously because I was she was visiting me and I was cooking lentil soups and all this bullshit vegan garbage um and she was not feeling great not not eating animal products and she told me later That um yeah, she would be like she would like be you know going home or coming on the way She'd like get something with meat Just speak it in so that she could be supportive of me but still I feel like she's well fed well nourished and I just so Pigheaded and when I like I said when I have a goal, it's it's happening. I don't care what I what gets in the way so I was ignoring a lot of signs and um when I resumed the next year when I resumed eating meat you know it definitely felt just a little better in hindsight but it was the same story after keto low-carbon carnivore when I started eating the right
00:42:19
chrisyzen
amount of carbohydrates for my, at the time I was into metabolic typing. That was pretty amazing. Um, when I started eating just the right amount of carbs for my body type, for my facts, fast oxide, uh, facts, facts, oxidizer type, that was amazing. Um, so you may feel good. Let's say if you cut out, let's say you're on the standard American or Western diet, you cut out all that crap and you go plant based or keto or carnivore because you've remove a bunch of this toxic crap you will feel better
00:42:53
chrisyzen
question is how sustainable is it and plant-based diets are probably the least sustainable and then keto is probably after that and then after that probably something like low car ah low-carb carnivore this kind of stuff they're just not sustainable um and i ah I'll cover in another episode why low-carb and keto and um yeah these other carnivore diets they are fine for a while especially when you're younger but they're not longevity diet.
Finding the Right Balance and Longevity Goals
00:43:24
chrisyzen
right and in Like I said, in in the next volume of the How to actually Live Longer series, I've planned it out exactly pretty much what I'm going to talk about in terms of the optimal longevity diet.
00:43:40
chrisyzen
um And I use that with my clients now and we're getting great success like sometimes after after a week on the the diet ah guidelines I recommend people are like oh my god feel good sleeping like people like some quite a few people I work with they're not sleeping well and like damn I just started sleeping well and the the supplements haven't even arrived yet that I ordered for the protocol so it's a good it's it's really good it's really good and I've noticed when I stray from some of the stuff I i normally recommend to my clients and I follow when I stray um I just don't feel as good a simple example and just because I'm very very busy the last few weeks with some projects today
00:44:28
chrisyzen
I didn't have like a proper meal until maybe three o'clock in the afternoon. Before that, i was I was getting calories in, but it wasn't balanced in terms of like fat, carbs, protein, and stuff. And at one point, I was like, three o'clock, I'm like, screw this. I feel my blood sugar dropping. I feel my cortisol kicking in. I'm going downstairs. Luckily, my wife was making a late lunch.
00:44:52
chrisyzen
um and I ate that meal I felt a little bit off for half an hour because <unk>ve I've mentioned this before if you're running on cortisol and it increases if the stress hormones increase when you have the meal the carbs will bump up your insulin that will cause cortisol to lower and then you will feel a little bit less jazzed because you're getting jazzed by the stress hormones right so I felt a little bit for a while, but then obviously I started metabolizing that glucose my um glucose burning metabolism took over the stress hormone side of ah kind of equation and Now a couple of hours later. I feel pretty damn good, you know 45 minutes into this episode. I'm probably gonna stop and
00:45:43
chrisyzen
And then I'm going to record another 30-40 minute episode so I feel really damn good. And then I'll have one more meal and this is it. When when I stick to it, the what I recommend to my clients, I just feel so much better. I feel amazing. And when I don't, I notice it quickly. So there's so much to be said for diet about how we feel.
00:46:04
chrisyzen
How we um even just like this people that are like cranky hangry Irritable big part of that is the blood sugar balance and then the subsequent counter regulatory hormones the the cortisol adrenaline stuff like that that are Kicking in to manage that blood sugar, right? So the key is to maintain your blood sugar level and and not allow these stress hormones to have to kick in. But this is getting way besides the initial point of this podcast. So I'll end it here. I hope you found this interesting and informative.
00:46:47
chrisyzen
and check out the link in the description if you're interested in my longevity program and learning more about that if you want to take your longevity to the next level we can use advanced lab testing to truly zero in on the imbalances that you had no idea you have right you have no idea you have these and a lot of these imbalances they're minor but they over a long enough timeline, they they will move the needle in the wrong direction. So we want to find those, put out those tiny little fires now before they become raging infernos. That's kind of, I ah should use that again. I just came up with that on the spot. So check out the link in the description if you want to learn more about that. And I'll see you on the next episode.