I'm 57. For the last 15 years, I have played golf 4 times a week walking everytime the 18 holes. During winter, I have played badminton 2 times a week and volleyball once. All those years my weight was around 270 lbs. But I was a binge eater. In August, I had a shoulder injury and had to stop my sports. I went to intermittent fasting and keto and now, 7 months later, I'm 205 lbs. Exercice is important, but It's not everything. A balanced life is the key.
Why? Congrats! About exercise, please, take into account that even walking is exercising. Just find something that keeps you in movement :D (as opposite to sitting on the chair/coach, laying on bed all day).
@Jesús Pestana Puerta I didn't gain weight because I didn't exercise. And I don't lose weight through any exercise. If anything, I gain more! And I don't think everyone in the USA just became couch potatoes suddenly in the 70's and 80's. I'm thinking June Cleaver wasn't out jogging or at the gym to keep her slender figure! Did they even have gyms in the 50's?
@@jellybeanvinkler4878 We don't really know what June Cleaver did, but I was born in 1947. My family was mych like the Cleavers. Dad went to the office, Mother was home with the kids. In the summer, both my parents played golf, swam, water skied, biked, walked, boated, fished, camped, hiked, and coached us kids-- plus mowing, raking, gardening--most of that as a family and were just generally active. Winter was skating, walking skiing, tobogganing, snow hiking, playing in the snow, shovelling, cleaning gutters, ice fishing, and cacationing when they could. But you're right. There was no gym. People in the 40s 50s, 60s, 70s led really active lives.
Great interview, but I find that Dr. Gaesser downplays the problem of people who are physically fit but metabolically unhealthy. Two of my fellow colleagues died of heart attacks while exercising right near the end of my Army career. Both were extremely fit (one was a marathoner). Both were 36 or 37 years old. As a Special Forces Medic (and therefore with a traditional allopathic education) I was taught (and believed) that this kind of event was due to genetics. I now firmly believe (as Dr. Scher apparently does!) that genes have nothing to do with it. Ketogenic and Carnivore diets appear to be the only diets that truly promote metabolic health.
@The Religion of Rationality: Well said! I couldn't agree with you more. More people than not consume their daily food intake from processed foods. This unhealthy way of eating escalated and snowballed primarily from the late 1970s. And although we now have medications to keep us alive longer, people, in general, become sicker and sicker, largely due to obesity and its ripple effects. Personally, I've never been "fat" overweight, but for years I was very overly muscled which isn't healthy either. When I look back at the food I was eating, well, it's a head-shaker! For the past six years, I've followed: *Low-Carb, High animal proteins, medium/high saturated fats, OMAD 22/2* 3 or 4 times a year I undertake some multiday fasting also. To anyone who is interested in their own personal health, see my day-to-day in action with your own eyes. I've never been so healthy. Good luck - Leo Low-Carb Lion
He mentioned that is a tiny sliver of People . Most Americans aren’t out doing marathons lol they’re eating Cheetos watching tiger king and getting fatter now
There are many examples of fit but unhealthy. Look at Mark Cucuzella. Marathoner and was diabetic and he didn't know it. Scary to hear his story. He went low carb and is the exact same weight now but healthier.
I am so glad I have access to a 25 meter pool. No matter how fat/skinny I’ve gotten over the years, I can swim. Also swimming laps takes care of resistance training and aerobic exercise. Recently started HIIT swim sessions. All my vital signs and sleep have improved.
People won't keep with an exercise program if they don't change their diet. They will see few changes almost regardless of their effort. Thus, step one is *always* to change the diet to a Real Human Diet.
Yes, because for one thing, it hurts like the dickens to move when you're obese. I started low carb, high fat in June, after reading Dr. Fung's The Obesity Code, and the first month I could do very little, but I did gentle walking, as much as I could tolerate (which wasn't much, maybe a quarter mile to half mile a day total). But after a month and 20 lbs. of weight loss, I started feeling much better because of the proper diet, and now, after 5 months I am down 70 lbs. and averaging 4 miles a day of walking plus 1-2 times of weight training a week. For me, it's always about the diet first, because I simply can't move much while eating a crap diet.
The part where genetics was stated as predetermining whether you will be skinny or fat was very misleading in my opinion and concerns me that it can be an excuse for not doing anything to change health parameters. The role of genetics should not have been stated so definitively towards determining body composition as diet has a significant role. Many factors influence body composition.
yes, and how much of our diet is inherited? I mean we grow up in a family that eats a certain way, and we take that into our adulthood. Food we think of as treats, our favourite dishes mum / grandma used to make. Christmas pavlova, the type of snack foods that are convenient. I'm sure there is a genetic component. Most of our ancestors would have had to survive harsh winters, and famine. Those gene must be part of most of us.
Loved this perspective. One of the best things my doc did for me was to open my eyes to the mental health benefits of exercise. Absolutely life changing!
Yes, but that's not really his point is it? I didn't hear the message that it was about mental health. Admittedly i did fall back to sleep for 5 mins in the beginning o.O
@@jem30six no it's not the researcher's point. But having a doctor talk to me about how exercise could help me and encouraging me to try it made a difference for me. Docs need to talk to people about physical activity in a way that works for that individual.
From personal experience and as a personal trainer, sort answer is no. Exercises should not be for weight loss but for cardiovascular health and skeletal muscle health. I’ve seen many people exercise like crazy and made almost no difference or plateau after a few months, when these people finally change their diet they lose the weight.
I'm a Paramedic in a large urban area. If you need motivation to exercise, go visit your local retirement communities. When you fall down, and cannot get up, you should have exercised more. Pick up heavy things and put them down, don't forget to carry them around.
It is very difficult to do vigorous exercise when you're obese, the extra weight puts strain on your joints and blood circulation is very poor. So to exercise readily an overweight person needs to lose weight. Also eating a proper human diet is essential to heal the body and avoid inflammation: avoid processed foods (flour, vegetable seed oils, sugar) and eat highly nutritious real foods like eggs, sardines, liver, fatty red meat and butter.
Mark Twain said "64 is the age of discretion" and so it is with me. I've always been pretty active, but this year I took it up to new levels. I started resistance training and began challenging myself with endurance swimming (I could barely last a couple laps just last year, but soon I'll be hitting 10!). I'm finding that IF and low carb work really well on my new exercise regimen. I feel great!
At 63 I started to take health seriously, losing 25 lbs on a k-diet, then started to Strength train 3 d/wk, walking 2 or 3mi most other days. 3yrs later from 222LBS (BMI 31) to 182 w under 15% bf All markers but LDL dn, BP from 140/75 to 115/65, TRIGS 150 to 50, RHR from 65 to 50. Fasting glucose 100 to 85. In retrospect though, getting dogs starting @ 48 might have saved my life. Despite then being well over 230lbs w a +40" waist (obese), I'm grateful to them for getting me walking a couple of miles every day.
ive been into exercise for goin on 11 years now doing every type of exercise its great for fitness and almost useless for health and losing fat. diet alone can do more for both health ad fat loss than exercise. that said diet is useless for fitness level. nothing works better then both together.
He says it’s the lifestyle. True. But the lifestyle leads to the weight gain. When the lifestyle changes you’ll start to see health improvements without weight loss but eventually that weight will come off. It’s just like someone who is obese and diabetic. When they cut the carbs their blood sugar drops in a short amount of time, and through this the weight automatically comes off
Well I've read through the 59 comments after 4,044 views 8 hrs or so after this vid was posted, and the comments are mostly that people don't agree with what he has to say. I suspect the people who follow Diet Doctor pod casts are highly educated in low carb diets and find holes in what he is saying. But not only that, I bet a lot of us have "been there, done that".
Interesting interview and thought provoking ...but he referenced dietary guidelines and BMI too much for me...seems like he needs to catch up on the latest.
This dude seemed kind of old school. With obese people I think weight loss via diet needs to come first because it's damn hard to exercise when you're fat. I speak from experience.
I just finished my 50 minute jog on my treadmill listening to my favourite music. I don't need to lose any weight but my mental health PDST and Major Depressive Disorder is helped a great deal from either my jog or lifting very light weights. Thanks for this video. And yes when I was in the military people who weighted much more than me were in a lot better shape than me. They could run rings around me and do the military fitness training a lot faster than me.
Comparing weight loss and exercise from when I was 40 vs 52, I have found that some hidden exercise (walking in a big factory), appears to have aided in dropping high blood pressure back at 40. I think I will add some consistent elliptical exercise to my daily routine. I had been doing a little elliptical work when my blood sugar was higher than I wanted after a meal (age 52). Perhaps a little exercise will get me off this plateau of 20 pounds of weight loss I am stuck on.
I understand the importance of exercise, but just focus on exercise doesn’t do much in the long run because people nowadays are busier and sometimes in life you just don’t have time for it. People usually don’t skip meal, so diet is more important. But if you can do exercise and healthy diet, then you are golden.
I primarily agree with Dr. Gaesser, and I enjoyed the interview. But I think a lot more emphasis should be put on *"personal responsibility"* Until that is recognized and acted on, then our kids are going to continue to be addicted to sugar/processed foods. If the cycle cannot be broken by the parents, then what chance do our children have? It's a vicious cycle. It's about CHOICES! More kids than not (through no fault of their own) are growing up as ADDICTS! and into a future of ill health and early death. I'm being dramatic because this is the reality and is the most serious problem concerning what we hold most precious in our whole world, which is, of course, our children. More people than not consume their daily food intake from processed foods. This unhealthy way of eating escalated and snowballed primarily from the late 1970s. And although we now have medications to keep us alive longer, people, in general, become sicker and sicker, largely due to obesity and its ripple effects. Personally, I've never been "fat" overweight, but for years I was very overly muscled which isn't healthy either. When I look back at the food I was eating, well, it's a head-shaker! For the past six years, I've followed: *Low-Carb, High animal proteins, medium/high saturated fats, OMAD 22/2* 3 or 4 times a year I undertake some multiday fasting also. To anyone who is interested in their own personal health, see my day-to-day in action with your own eyes. I've never been so healthy. Good luck and HEALTH - Leo Low-Carb Lion
I have to say thank you for bringing us this alternative view. I'm not a believer of this mans view in some regards. There are too many big holes that do not have reasonable explanations, for example the Professor Tim Noakes situation, elite athletes with metabolic problems. Its not good enough to say maybe you can overdose on exercise, but its just such a small % that we don't need to worry about that. The thing is Professor Tim Noakes did extreme carbs back in the day. But also the theory about fat transplants on mice, and those mice becoming fit... how????????? I'd like to see who else can replicate those results. Where is the science in that? And the BS about people not following the food guidelines. hmm. We know the truth about the guidelines. Yes I believe that overweight people can be fit, but I would be interested to see how long they have been overweight, how old they are. I think that is probably a better indicator of why they are still fit. Also I'm very concerned about overweight people doing a lot of exercise, due to the wear and tear on the body parts, but how hard it is to do even basic exercise when you are overweight; how much of a deterrence to exercise that is. Its is way easier to exercise when you aren't carrying weight. Ask anyone who gets in and out of a car, or jumps up to get a glass of water, and has been both sizes. It's not about being lazy, it's about being exhausted. As far as I'm concerned its about diet diet diet diet, and exercise for mental heath first, but I don't believe fitness comes first. Once you have lost it, its not the first thing that should be regained.
I disagree. I was always quite active in my life yet I was suffering from metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. Never managed to fend of that 20 lbs of excess weight no matter the exercise level. Until I discovered IF, which almost magically made me lose weight and dramatically increase performance at running and cycling. Physical activity is absolutely necessary, but also not sufficient to fight insulin resistance. YMMV.
@markotrieste: Where does he say that physical activity alone is a protector against insulin resistance? He knows better than any of us that we have to drastically decrease our sugars and processed foods and resist encouraging our pancreas to release insulin several times a day. He has a PhD!
From my personal experience and 3 cycles of weight gain and loss, I can say exercise is primarily for feeling good and staying healthy. For weight loss, food contributes a whole lot than exercise. Staying away from sugar, ultra-processed foods and liquid calories along with IF has done wonders for me. Of course, I continue to work out for 1 hour 5X per week in addition to sensible eating habits.
the problem with tis guys idea is that your not going to get an obese person to exercise regularly if you could yes they would improve health slightly but not dramatically. if they get on a proper human diet their health will improve dramatical in the first weeks. obese people o a bad diet even if they exercise they just eat more bad foods. im a proponent for get the diet right o that for a couple of months then start to exercise.
This guy is the balls. TY for having him on. I’m a Master trainer and have been training people for 45 years. I am a lifelong learner and keep up with studies on both the exercise and nutrition sides. His commentary on the distinction between exercise fat versus sedentary fat is enlightening! TY Doc for having high grade guests and content.
It's a timely interview, to put our faith back on exercise, but we see lot of youths these days, dieing post exercise who are physically fit... Maybe they don't warm-up and straightway hit the gym, or something else, needs thorough understanding, also as rightly pointed out, it's the overall lifestyle, all components of it equally important...
I have always been heavier, and have always exercised. I am 67 and pretty healthy. Except for my hips. Probably all my exercise wore out my hips. But they were replaced. I do have high blood pressure, but controlled with medicine. I love keeping my muscles up . I go to the gym, walk, sail, swim and bike ride in warmer weather.
Does going for a brisk walk up and down the grocery store aisle picking up some "heart healthy" UPF count as exercise too? Some people are unwilling to change their diet?? I am unwilling to be a runner. Oh Bret, your facial expressions speak volumes.
While exercise is important, it is NUTRITION that impacts your health more. Genetics plays a much smaller role. OMG the longer I listen the more upset I get! The dietary guidelines people clearly ARE following eating fruits and grains and it is getting Americans sicker! Get your nutrients right and you will have more energy to exercise which is important, but not the number 1 factor in metabolic health. Please do not listen to this guy as you will still be sick on the I side. Good luck. Need to turn him off now. Sorry dr. Brett.
i agree with exercise has a positive influence on the body, but if after you go pond carbs, sugars ad plant oils you negate the positive and increases the bad.
I'm operating off the exercise philosophy of "Just a little bit each and every day." Tools, 10#, 15# and 20# Amazon Basics Neoprene Coated Dumbbell Hand Weight Sets. They're on the floor of my living room. I periodically pick them up and do a set throughout my day. Basic pushups. Living at the beach, I take several beach walks each week (cardio and sunshine). Diet - high-protein (predominately meat and eggs) and intermittent faster - a cross between OMAD and One Meal Every Other Day. WYZE Smart Scale and naked in front of the mirror first thing in the morning. 62.
Interesting video but it doesn’t sound too good for some of us folk who don’t just want to get fit but also want to permanently lose the excess weight. Did Dr Sher actually agree with him on almost all research showing “that hardly anyone can lose weight and keep it off long term”
hmm. My GP said the other day that people who lose weight on low carb have the same regain rate as those who do it on low calorie. I wonder how true that is? That's not the message I'm getting from the groups I'm in, or the people I follow.
@Jem Thirtysix I have "dieted" my entire adult life. Yoyoyoyo. I'm 66 now and finally found low-carb 3 years ago. It is the longest I have been able to maintain. The whole low fat, high carb starvation diets I followed up to now have been epic failures. I've never been a real exercise person with gym memberships. I had a somewhat physical job for 45 years but easily gained regardless. Maybe it kept me from being obese, but I still managed to be a full 60lbs overweight by 60's. Now that I am healthier, I have joined a sport and feel really good doing it. Clean up diet first, then you'll feel like being active. "You can't outrun a bad diet." I believe Dr Scher feels that way, too. He danced around a lot of the points the other Dr made. But all in all, exercise is encouraged, of course. I wish Bret would interview Dr Sean Omara. Fascinating guy!
Lots of great info from Dr. Gaesser. Exercise induced autophagy also includes lipophagy, Exercise, Autophagy, and Chronic Diseases, by Chen 2021 is a great dissection of how exercise effects health
weight loss by any means is not the same as weight loss on a human proper diet, because of this weight loss alone is not healthy. losing body fat o a proper human diet outweighs all exercise for health.
As always, no studies have been performed on - for instance - people who have been eating a carnivore or ketogenic diet for years to see what benefits them the most. How come that animals who strive to preserve as much energy as possible don't get fat, sick or metabolically unhealthy? This information is actually useless, sorry!
Super interesting stuff. Exercise is key, for sure, but I wonder if we are taking for granted just how many people are, due to high-carb, insulin resistant these days, whether diabetic or pre-diabetic -- not sure of the numbers exactly, but it's something like 120 million Americans are either diabetic or pre-diabetic, and 90 percent of the pre-diabetics don't even know it. So if those numbers are correct that would mean nearly 1 out of 3 people cannot follow, say, the DASH Dietary Guidelines, which is heavy on carbs. It wouldn't matter, then, how fit one is or how much they exercise, if they are constantly undergoing insulin spikes they are going to be metabolically ill (and likely won't feel good enough to exercise in the first place). Not sure exercise could therefore ever be an end in itself, but more like something that is in constant relation to nutrition and diet.
Exercise is great. Duh. However, as soon as this guy said DASH diet and meds I checked out. Then he proceeds to promote the food pyramid. No wonder people are so confused. This guy has a PHD but he doesn't eat a PHD.
I first got pain then started to gain weight. I was very active. So I don't agree with this concept. At least for me weight was not the cause, lack of exercise was not the cause, carbohydrate intolerance was the cause.
Thank Richard Nixon for getting his administration looks for ways to make food cheap to get inflation of the table and thereby approving Japanese invented fructose for entering all of our food products and other artificial methods. Thereby having mother whom now had this in their system and will now have a baby who will be fat ( not everyone) but the pre condition to crave high carb fructose foods.
Wow, yet another example of the relative unfairness found in the universe: the gift of more life, pretty much free, and yet I’d guess your bank account aligns similarly with that of most folks- couch potato ish. Personally, I find that really frustrating, even in the crassest of considerations, money. Be that as it is, your message could not be more clear and timely, thank you both.
this stupid dash diet for sure did not free me from asthma when running or doing sport. A low carb diet does and it is also very beneficial for low blood pressure, i would say more than a dash diet. So i belong actually to the people for whom diet really counts in connection with exercise. Except i want to be depended on an inhaler.
I was never overweight btw and never had low blood pressure. Just heard very often how well people respond to low carb that have the condition. I really miss in the low carb talks experts talking about asthma which has so greatly improved after 34 years of inhaling at least 2 a day. Lots of folks on reddit with asthma sharing the same experience!! Where are the experts talking about it, where is the improvement coming from, i would love to get some science about it. Every little bit of information i found is from stephen phinney's talk and some trial from the 1920 with 30 children greatly reducing their symptoms with a ketogenic diet i can not find anymore.
and the best! i do not have to be keto all the time to be almost cured and not needing an inhaler. Although sometimes i just stick to it because it is not that hard to do or in times almost easier.
I'm 57. For the last 15 years, I have played golf 4 times a week walking everytime the 18 holes. During winter, I have played badminton 2 times a week and volleyball once. All those years my weight was around 270 lbs. But I was a binge eater. In August, I had a shoulder injury and had to stop my sports. I went to intermittent fasting and keto and now, 7 months later, I'm 205 lbs. Exercice is important, but It's not everything. A balanced life is the key.
I went from nearly 300lbs to 150lbs doing Keto and IF, without exercising at all. I guess I shouldn't be feeling so healthy. Good to know.
Hi craig.good job! I'm in same position as you started.also doing the same as you. How long did it take?
Why? Congrats!
About exercise, please, take into account that even walking is exercising. Just find something that keeps you in movement :D (as opposite to sitting on the chair/coach, laying on bed all day).
@Jesús Pestana Puerta I didn't gain weight because I didn't exercise. And I don't lose weight through any exercise. If anything, I gain more!
And I don't think everyone in the USA just became couch potatoes suddenly in the 70's and 80's.
I'm thinking June Cleaver wasn't out jogging or at the gym to keep her slender figure! Did they even have gyms in the 50's?
@@jellybeanvinkler4878 We don't really know what June Cleaver did, but I was born in 1947. My family was mych like the Cleavers. Dad went to the office, Mother was home with the kids. In the summer, both my parents played golf, swam, water skied, biked, walked, boated, fished, camped, hiked, and coached us kids-- plus mowing, raking, gardening--most of that as a family and were just generally active.
Winter was skating, walking skiing, tobogganing, snow hiking, playing in the snow, shovelling, cleaning gutters, ice fishing, and cacationing when they could.
But you're right. There was no gym.
People in the 40s 50s, 60s, 70s led really active lives.
Walking & cycling has helped my mental attitude which has helped me stay on a healthy low carb plan & losing 74lbs.
Great interview, but I find that Dr. Gaesser downplays the problem of people who are physically fit but metabolically unhealthy. Two of my fellow colleagues died of heart attacks while exercising right near the end of my Army career. Both were extremely fit (one was a marathoner). Both were 36 or 37 years old. As a Special Forces Medic (and therefore with a traditional allopathic education) I was taught (and believed) that this kind of event was due to genetics. I now firmly believe (as Dr. Scher apparently does!) that genes have nothing to do with it. Ketogenic and Carnivore diets appear to be the only diets that truly promote metabolic health.
Yes, he sure did down play it. He didn't have a real answer for it, and therefore I don't believe he has a realistic theory happening.
@The Religion of Rationality: Well said! I couldn't agree with you more. More people than not consume their daily food intake from processed foods. This unhealthy way of eating escalated and snowballed primarily from the late 1970s. And although we now have medications to keep us alive longer, people, in general, become sicker and sicker, largely due to obesity and its ripple effects.
Personally, I've never been "fat" overweight, but for years I was very overly muscled which isn't healthy either. When I look back at the food I was eating, well, it's a head-shaker!
For the past six years, I've followed: *Low-Carb, High animal proteins, medium/high saturated fats, OMAD 22/2*
3 or 4 times a year I undertake some multiday fasting also.
To anyone who is interested in their own personal health, see my day-to-day in action with your own eyes. I've never been so healthy. Good luck - Leo Low-Carb Lion
He mentioned that is a tiny sliver of
People . Most Americans aren’t out doing marathons lol they’re eating Cheetos watching tiger king and getting fatter now
There are many examples of fit but unhealthy. Look at Mark Cucuzella. Marathoner and was diabetic and he didn't know it. Scary to hear his story. He went low carb and is the exact same weight now but healthier.
Endurance athletes do tend to over consumer refined carbs. There’s a lot of mythology and religion in endurance sports.
I am so glad I have access to a 25 meter pool. No matter how fat/skinny I’ve gotten over the years, I can swim. Also swimming laps takes care of resistance training and aerobic exercise. Recently started HIIT swim sessions. All my vital signs and sleep have improved.
People won't keep with an exercise program if they don't change their diet. They will see few changes almost regardless of their effort.
Thus, step one is *always* to change the diet to a Real Human Diet.
What do you mean by a Real Human Diet?
@@terry2346 ancestral diet, leaning heavy to carnivore. Look up Dr. Ken Berry.
Yes, because for one thing, it hurts like the dickens to move when you're obese. I started low carb, high fat in June, after reading Dr. Fung's The Obesity Code, and the first month I could do very little, but I did gentle walking, as much as I could tolerate (which wasn't much, maybe a quarter mile to half mile a day total). But after a month and 20 lbs. of weight loss, I started feeling much better because of the proper diet, and now, after 5 months I am down 70 lbs. and averaging 4 miles a day of walking plus 1-2 times of weight training a week. For me, it's always about the diet first, because I simply can't move much while eating a crap diet.
@@terry2346 Definitely not processed foods. No vegetable oils from seeds like corn or canola, no sugar.
The part where genetics was stated as predetermining whether you will be skinny or fat was very misleading in my opinion and concerns me that it can be an excuse for not doing anything to change health parameters. The role of genetics should not have been stated so definitively towards determining body composition as diet has a significant role. Many factors influence body composition.
yes, and how much of our diet is inherited? I mean we grow up in a family that eats a certain way, and we take that into our adulthood. Food we think of as treats, our favourite dishes mum / grandma used to make. Christmas pavlova, the type of snack foods that are convenient.
I'm sure there is a genetic component. Most of our ancestors would have had to survive harsh winters, and famine. Those gene must be part of most of us.
Loved this perspective. One of the best things my doc did for me was to open my eyes to the mental health benefits of exercise. Absolutely life changing!
Yes, but that's not really his point is it? I didn't hear the message that it was about mental health. Admittedly i did fall back to sleep for 5 mins in the beginning o.O
@@jem30six no it's not the researcher's point. But having a doctor talk to me about how exercise could help me and encouraging me to try it made a difference for me. Docs need to talk to people about physical activity in a way that works for that individual.
From personal experience and as a personal trainer, sort answer is no. Exercises should not be for weight loss but for cardiovascular health and skeletal muscle health. I’ve seen many people exercise like crazy and made almost no difference or plateau after a few months, when these people finally change their diet they lose the weight.
I'm a Paramedic in a large urban area. If you need motivation to exercise, go visit your local retirement communities. When you fall down, and cannot get up, you should have exercised more. Pick up heavy things and put them down, don't forget to carry them around.
Absolutely! Deadlifts and/or Farmer's Walk are a must.
It is very difficult to do vigorous exercise when you're obese, the extra weight puts strain on your joints and blood circulation is very poor. So to exercise readily an overweight person needs to lose weight. Also eating a proper human diet is essential to heal the body and avoid inflammation: avoid processed foods (flour, vegetable seed oils, sugar) and eat highly nutritious real foods like eggs, sardines, liver, fatty red meat and butter.
yes yes yes
Mark Twain said "64 is the age of discretion" and so it is with me. I've always been pretty active, but this year I took it up to new levels. I started resistance training and began challenging myself with endurance swimming (I could barely last a couple laps just last year, but soon I'll be hitting 10!). I'm finding that IF and low carb work really well on my new exercise regimen. I feel great!
At 63 I started to take health seriously, losing 25 lbs on a k-diet, then started to Strength train 3 d/wk, walking 2 or 3mi most other days. 3yrs later from 222LBS (BMI 31) to 182 w under 15% bf All markers but LDL dn, BP from 140/75 to 115/65, TRIGS 150 to 50, RHR from 65 to 50. Fasting glucose 100 to 85.
In retrospect though, getting dogs starting @ 48 might have saved my life. Despite then being well over 230lbs w a +40" waist (obese), I'm grateful to them for getting me walking a couple of miles every day.
ive been into exercise for goin on 11 years now doing every type of exercise its great for fitness and almost useless for health and losing fat. diet alone can do more for both health ad fat loss than exercise. that said diet is useless for fitness level. nothing works better then both together.
He says it’s the lifestyle. True. But the lifestyle leads to the weight gain. When the lifestyle changes you’ll start to see health improvements without weight loss but eventually that weight will come off. It’s just like someone who is obese and diabetic. When they cut the carbs their blood sugar drops in a short amount of time, and through this the weight automatically comes off
Well I've read through the 59 comments after 4,044 views 8 hrs or so after this vid was posted, and the comments are mostly that people don't agree with what he has to say. I suspect the people who follow Diet Doctor pod casts are highly educated in low carb diets and find holes in what he is saying. But not only that, I bet a lot of us have "been there, done that".
Also biases
I would love to know more about excercise and liver fat. This has been an excellent podcast episode
yes I'd like to know how that works too.
Always love listening to someone who has 10% fat or less (anorexic comes to mind) talk about people who are obese and what they are doing wrong.
I think he probably knows what to do to get to a lean weight. Im sure as hell not gonna take advice from an obese person
@@NikaBanana Exactly! If I want to know how to get lean, I'm talking to this guy. Not some fat dude.
Nice, I walk on my two 15 min breaks during the week. It always makes me feel better, and sleep better.
Interesting interview and thought provoking ...but he referenced dietary guidelines and BMI too much for me...seems like he needs to catch up on the latest.
Taking notes and applying this, besides Humberman, great to get this kind of information for free, thx all the way from Netherlands:)
Since when is exercise targeting visceral fat?
This dude seemed kind of old school. With obese people I think weight loss via diet needs to come first because it's damn hard to exercise when you're fat. I speak from experience.
He said even just a 10 minute walk was a great start. Something pretty much anyone could probably do?
I just finished my 50 minute jog on my treadmill listening to my favourite music. I don't need to lose any weight but my mental health PDST and Major Depressive Disorder is helped a great deal from either my jog or lifting very light weights. Thanks for this video. And yes when I was in the military people who weighted much more than me were in a lot better shape than me. They could run rings around me and do the military fitness training a lot faster than me.
I think we should concentrate on getting our health straight before we look to adding exercise.
Very interesting. I love exercise for my mental health.
Comparing weight loss and exercise from when I was 40 vs 52, I have found that some hidden exercise (walking in a big factory), appears to have aided in dropping high blood pressure back at 40. I think I will add some consistent elliptical exercise to my daily routine. I had been doing a little elliptical work when my blood sugar was higher than I wanted after a meal (age 52). Perhaps a little exercise will get me off this plateau of 20 pounds of weight loss I am stuck on.
I understand the importance of exercise, but just focus on exercise doesn’t do much in the long run because people nowadays are busier and sometimes in life you just don’t have time for it. People usually don’t skip meal, so diet is more important. But if you can do exercise and healthy diet, then you are golden.
Is Weight Cycling bad if it's small change between 22BMI and 24BMI?
I've been gaining/losing 7kg/15lb but still in the "normal BMI" territory.
I primarily agree with Dr. Gaesser, and I enjoyed the interview.
But I think a lot more emphasis should be put on *"personal responsibility"* Until that is recognized and acted on, then our kids are going to continue to be addicted to sugar/processed foods. If the cycle cannot be broken by the parents, then what chance do our children have? It's a vicious cycle. It's about CHOICES! More kids than not (through no fault of their own) are growing up as ADDICTS! and into a future of ill health and early death. I'm being dramatic because this is the reality and is the most serious problem concerning what we hold most precious in our whole world, which is, of course, our children.
More people than not consume their daily food intake from processed foods. This unhealthy way of eating escalated and snowballed primarily from the late 1970s. And although we now have medications to keep us alive longer, people, in general, become sicker and sicker, largely due to obesity and its ripple effects.
Personally, I've never been "fat" overweight, but for years I was very overly muscled which isn't healthy either. When I look back at the food I was eating, well, it's a head-shaker!
For the past six years, I've followed: *Low-Carb, High animal proteins, medium/high saturated fats, OMAD 22/2*
3 or 4 times a year I undertake some multiday fasting also.
To anyone who is interested in their own personal health, see my day-to-day in action with your own eyes. I've never been so healthy. Good luck and HEALTH - Leo Low-Carb Lion
I have to say thank you for bringing us this alternative view. I'm not a believer of this mans view in some regards. There are too many big holes that do not have reasonable explanations, for example the Professor Tim Noakes situation, elite athletes with metabolic problems. Its not good enough to say maybe you can overdose on exercise, but its just such a small % that we don't need to worry about that. The thing is Professor Tim Noakes did extreme carbs back in the day.
But also the theory about fat transplants on mice, and those mice becoming fit... how????????? I'd like to see who else can replicate those results. Where is the science in that?
And the BS about people not following the food guidelines. hmm. We know the truth about the guidelines.
Yes I believe that overweight people can be fit, but I would be interested to see how long they have been overweight, how old they are. I think that is probably a better indicator of why they are still fit.
Also I'm very concerned about overweight people doing a lot of exercise, due to the wear and tear on the body parts, but how hard it is to do even basic exercise when you are overweight; how much of a deterrence to exercise that is. Its is way easier to exercise when you aren't carrying weight. Ask anyone who gets in and out of a car, or jumps up to get a glass of water, and has been both sizes. It's not about being lazy, it's about being exhausted.
As far as I'm concerned its about diet diet diet diet, and exercise for mental heath first, but I don't believe fitness comes first. Once you have lost it, its not the first thing that should be regained.
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I disagree. I was always quite active in my life yet I was suffering from metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance. Never managed to fend of that 20 lbs of excess weight no matter the exercise level. Until I discovered IF, which almost magically made me lose weight and dramatically increase performance at running and cycling. Physical activity is absolutely necessary, but also not sufficient to fight insulin resistance. YMMV.
@markotrieste: Where does he say that physical activity alone is a protector against insulin resistance? He knows better than any of us that we have to drastically decrease our sugars and processed foods and resist encouraging our pancreas to release insulin several times a day. He has a PhD!
From my personal experience and 3 cycles of weight gain and loss, I can say exercise is primarily for feeling good and staying healthy.
For weight loss, food contributes a whole lot than exercise.
Staying away from sugar, ultra-processed foods and liquid calories along with IF has done wonders for me. Of course, I continue to work out for 1 hour 5X per week in addition to sensible eating habits.
Thank God they don't give any advice for exercise as they do for dieatery advice every five year... 'SAD' is the gretest testimony
This guy seems uneducated on proper eating. References government guidelines????
the problem with tis guys idea is that your not going to get an obese person to exercise regularly if you could yes they would improve health slightly but not dramatically. if they get on a proper human diet their health will improve dramatical in the first weeks. obese people o a bad diet even if they exercise they just eat more bad foods. im a proponent for get the diet right o that for a couple of months then start to exercise.
This guy is the balls. TY for having him on. I’m a Master trainer and have been training people for 45 years. I am a lifelong learner and keep up with studies on both the exercise and nutrition sides. His commentary on the distinction between exercise fat versus sedentary fat is enlightening! TY Doc for having high grade guests and content.
It's a timely interview, to put our faith back on exercise, but we see lot of youths these days, dieing post exercise who are physically fit... Maybe they don't warm-up and straightway hit the gym, or something else, needs thorough understanding, also as rightly pointed out, it's the overall lifestyle, all components of it equally important...
Many are on diet pills and crap ton on energy drinks not to mention recreational weekend drugs .
Dr. Gessner is affiliated with the Grain Foundation.
I have always been heavier, and have always exercised. I am 67 and pretty healthy. Except for my hips. Probably all my exercise wore out my hips. But they were replaced. I do have high blood pressure, but controlled with medicine. I love keeping my muscles up . I go to the gym, walk, sail, swim and bike ride in warmer weather.
Why does he look a bit like Clint Eastwood and also sound a bit like Christopher Walken?
I love rounding out my information, hearing ideas in ways new to me. Thank you for this excellent interview.
Does going for a brisk walk up and down the grocery store aisle picking up some "heart healthy" UPF count as exercise too? Some people are unwilling to change their diet?? I am unwilling to be a runner. Oh Bret, your facial expressions speak volumes.
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Yes, it does
So refreshing! I would love to hear him discuss with Herman Ponzer and relate to his research!
This was great. Thanks
I think dr. Gaesser is right on!
thank you
Really enjoyed this one! I'm learning to love exercise.
While exercise is important, it is NUTRITION that impacts your health more. Genetics plays a much smaller role. OMG the longer I listen the more upset I get! The dietary guidelines people clearly ARE following eating fruits and grains and it is getting Americans sicker! Get your nutrients right and you will have more energy to exercise which is important, but not the number 1 factor in metabolic health. Please do not listen to this guy as you will still be sick on the I side. Good luck. Need to turn him off now. Sorry dr. Brett.
I agree.
DASH diet? Seriously!?!
i agree with exercise has a positive influence on the body, but if after you go pond carbs, sugars ad plant oils you negate the positive and increases the bad.
I'm operating off the exercise philosophy of "Just a little bit each and every day." Tools, 10#, 15# and 20# Amazon Basics Neoprene Coated Dumbbell Hand Weight Sets. They're on the floor of my living room. I periodically pick them up and do a set throughout my day. Basic pushups. Living at the beach, I take several beach walks each week (cardio and sunshine). Diet - high-protein (predominately meat and eggs) and intermittent faster - a cross between OMAD and One Meal Every Other Day. WYZE Smart Scale and naked in front of the mirror first thing in the morning. 62.
brave man... re the mirror!
Wow, you two are smart! Really compelling discussion. Ty
Very enjoyable.
Thank You.
Interesting video but it doesn’t sound too good for some of us folk who don’t just want to get fit but also want to permanently lose the excess weight. Did Dr Sher actually agree with him on almost all research showing “that hardly anyone can lose weight and keep it off long term”
hmm. My GP said the other day that people who lose weight on low carb have the same regain rate as those who do it on low calorie. I wonder how true that is? That's not the message I'm getting from the groups I'm in, or the people I follow.
@Jem Thirtysix I have "dieted" my entire adult life. Yoyoyoyo.
I'm 66 now and finally found low-carb 3 years ago. It is the longest I have been able to maintain. The whole low fat, high carb starvation diets I followed up to now have been epic failures.
I've never been a real exercise person with gym memberships. I had a somewhat physical job for 45 years but easily gained regardless. Maybe it kept me from being obese, but I still managed to be a full 60lbs overweight by 60's.
Now that I am healthier, I have joined a sport and feel really good doing it.
Clean up diet first, then you'll feel like being active.
"You can't outrun a bad diet."
I believe Dr Scher feels that way, too. He danced around a lot of the points the other Dr made.
But all in all, exercise is encouraged, of course.
I wish Bret would interview Dr Sean Omara. Fascinating guy!
Taking walks & cycling has helped my intellectual mindset which has helped me.
Excellent interview, Dr Scher, with Dr Gaesser, I truly enjoyed Dr G's message and manner of presentation, thank you 😊
Omg my border collie have guided me in same way. My suggestion is cut your carb, get a active dog and listen to her. You’re good to go. 😍
Excellent! Thank you .
My doctor asks me about my exercise routine. Then, I'm slender and look fit. I wonder if they don't ask obese people because fear they would lie.
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Lots of great info from Dr. Gaesser. Exercise induced autophagy also includes lipophagy, Exercise, Autophagy, and Chronic Diseases, by Chen 2021 is a great dissection of how exercise effects health
weight loss by any means is not the same as weight loss on a human proper diet, because of this weight loss alone is not healthy. losing body fat o a proper human diet outweighs all exercise for health.
As always, no studies have been performed on - for instance - people who have been eating a carnivore or ketogenic diet for years to see what benefits them the most. How come that animals who strive to preserve as much energy as possible don't get fat, sick or metabolically unhealthy? This information is actually useless, sorry!
he compared weight loss vs fitness, why not include a proper human diet as a third and see which fairs best.
Super interesting stuff. Exercise is key, for sure, but I wonder if we are taking for granted just how many people are, due to high-carb, insulin resistant these days, whether diabetic or pre-diabetic -- not sure of the numbers exactly, but it's something like 120 million Americans are either diabetic or pre-diabetic, and 90 percent of the pre-diabetics don't even know it. So if those numbers are correct that would mean nearly 1 out of 3 people cannot follow, say, the DASH Dietary Guidelines, which is heavy on carbs. It wouldn't matter, then, how fit one is or how much they exercise, if they are constantly undergoing insulin spikes they are going to be metabolically ill (and likely won't feel good enough to exercise in the first place). Not sure exercise could therefore ever be an end in itself, but more like something that is in constant relation to nutrition and diet.
No whole grains and fruits for me. Nor Dash diet. I can do exercise.
Glad that I have a job that requires to essentially to exercise for 8 hours.
Yeah my husband has had a very physical job for 50 years, and now his body is worn out. But hes been very fit up till his old age.
Circle Back 45:45 LOL
39:00 I'm cooking some Bison.
Exercise is great. Duh. However, as soon as this guy said DASH diet and meds I checked out. Then he proceeds to promote the food pyramid. No wonder people are so confused. This guy has a PHD but he doesn't eat a PHD.
Ski every day. Ski out every door. Ski 90 minutes every day and everything will be better for you and for the society. Skiing is skiing.
The DASH diet is horrible for people as are whole grains.
It's the more whole grain thi g that really ruined my health. Weight, inflammation, cravings, yo yo dieting
I first got pain then started to gain weight. I was very active. So I don't agree with this concept. At least for me weight was not the cause, lack of exercise was not the cause, carbohydrate intolerance was the cause.
The “Guidelines” are high carb BS!
Thank Richard Nixon for getting his administration looks for ways to make food cheap to get inflation of the table and thereby approving Japanese invented fructose for entering all of our food products and other artificial methods. Thereby having mother whom now had this in their system and will now have a baby who will be fat ( not everyone) but the pre condition to crave high carb fructose foods.
Get off my lawn! (Clint Eastwood exercise program)
Wow, yet another example of the relative unfairness found in the universe: the gift of more life, pretty much free, and yet I’d guess your bank account aligns similarly with that of most folks- couch potato ish. Personally, I find that really frustrating, even in the crassest of considerations, money. Be that as it is, your message could not be more clear and timely, thank you both.
this stupid dash diet for sure did not free me from asthma when running or doing sport. A low carb diet does and it is also very beneficial for low blood pressure, i would say more than a dash diet. So i belong actually to the people for whom diet really counts in connection with exercise. Except i want to be depended on an inhaler.
I was never overweight btw and never had low blood pressure. Just heard very often how well people respond to low carb that have the condition. I really miss in the low carb talks experts talking about asthma which has so greatly improved after 34 years of inhaling at least 2 a day. Lots of folks on reddit with asthma sharing the same experience!! Where are the experts talking about it, where is the improvement coming from, i would love to get some science about it. Every little bit of information i found is from stephen phinney's talk and some trial from the 1920 with 30 children greatly reducing their symptoms with a ketogenic diet i can not find anymore.
and the best! i do not have to be keto all the time to be almost cured and not needing an inhaler. Although sometimes i just stick to it because it is not that hard to do or in times almost easier.