Just started a. Couple weeks in, no weight loss yet, but it's getting to be more of my thing Hope it becomes easier! 🙏 love all your podcasts!!very informative 😊
Great video! This absolutely works for me. I have been doing intermittent fasting for one year and I’m down 25 pounds. I’ve also added some nutritional supplements (turmeric, Provitalise and glucosamine) to help manage my menopause symptoms and I am feeling terrific again. I highly recommend intermittent fasting.
Hi Dr. Susan. I’ve been watching the food war between the plant-based team and the carnivores. I know you’ve mentioned that you are vegetarian. I’ve always been an omnivore. Recently I have seen the work of Valter Longo, PhD, a biogerontologist and cell biologist whose lab is at USC where he is the head of Longevity department. He is known for his studies on the role of fasting and nutrient response genes on cellular protection aging and diseases and for proposing that longevity is regulated by similar genes and mechanisms. His research has been focused on longevity, fasting, aging and nutrition. I’ve become convinced of his vegetarian pescatarian. I highly recommend the Rich Roll interview w Dr. Longo or his book, “The Longevity Diet”. He did a Ted Talk on fasting about 5 years. Future Nobel Prize Laureate!!
BTW, Dr. Longo advocates IF but eats 2 meals within a 12 hour period. Maybe it’s the Italian in him that recognizes how much food is to be enjoyed and that although people can push themselves to 16-8 or 20-4 or go on several weeks water fast. He seems to be of the opinion that most of us will not stick to very strict time regimens. Anyway, I’m plugging his books or at least to catch a UA-cam video.
Wonderful video, thank you for doing one on IF. I have read many books on this way of eating, and highly recommend Gin Stevens books, "Delay Don't Deny" and "Fast, Feast, Repeat". Also if you want to understand more of how our bodies deal with diets and IF, I would read "The Obesity Code" by Dr. Jason Fung. There are so many benefits from living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.
Great video! Thank you! The timing was incredible because my husband and i just started the 5:2 intermittent fasting plan. We eat normally 5 days a week and then fast for 24 hours twice a week (not consecutively). Do you have any thoughts on such a plan? I was told by another health professional that fasting for less then 24 hours can lead to kidney stones for many patients? Also, you mentioned that a couple of health benefits of fasting is lowered risk of Alzheimers and heart disease. Do you think it helps to reduce risk of osteoporosis as well? If so, could intermittent fasting replace the need for HRT? It would be so much cheaper to simply eat less! 😅 Alternatively, do you see any harm in doing both intermittent fasting and HRT pellet injections concurrently? I am 48 and peri-menopausal and my husband and i are getting our first HRT pellet injections tomorrow! And then next week I'm getting the endometrial ablasion 😬 ... all of it thanks to your wonderful advice (and my dr's concurrance)! One more question: my obgyn said the ablasion is only successful (i.e. no more bleeding) 40% of the time. Is that true? Thank you so much for everything!!! 💕😁
Definitely you still need hormone replacement. And I’m glad you’re getting the ablation! Statistics vary on how successful it is based on the provider and what type of procedure you are having
Hi Barbara, unfortunately that is misinformation given by someone who’s not educated about hormone pellets. The important thing is what your blood levels of hormones are, and the delivery method is less important.
Dr Gregor explains keto and weight loss. The carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity, the underlying theory that ketogenic diets have some sort of metabolic advantage, has been experimentally falsified. The keto diet’s proponents’ own studies showed the exact opposite: ketogenic diets actually put you at a metabolic disadvantage and slow the loss of body fat. How much does fat loss slow down on a low-carb diet? If you cut about 800 calories a day of carbohydrates from your diet, you lose 53 grams of body fat a day, but if you cut the same number of fat calories, you lose 89 grams a day. Same number of calories, but nine pats of butter worth of extra fat melting off your body every day on a low-fat diet, compared to a low-carb diet. Same number of calories, but about 80 percent more fat loss when you cut down on fat instead of carbs. Here’s the graph. Cut 800 calories from your diet by cutting carbs, and you do lose body fat. But cut out the same number of calories by cutting fat, and you lose even more body fat-80 percent more body fat lost. The title of the study speaks for itself: “Calorie for Calorie, Dietary Fat Restriction Results in More Body Fat Loss than Carbohydrate Restriction in People with Obesity.” But just looking at the bathroom scale, though, would mislead you into thinking the opposite. After six days on the low-carb diet, study subjects lost four pounds. On the low-fat diet, they lost less than three. So, step on the scale and it looks like the low-carb diet wins, hands down. So, you can see why low-carb diets are so popular. But what was happening inside their bodies tells the real story. The low-carb group was losing mostly lean mass-water and protein. This loss of water weight helps explain why low-carb diets have been “such ‘cash cows’ for publishers” over the last 150 years. That’s their secret. As one weight loss expert noted, “Rapid water loss is the $33-billion diet gimmick.” When you eat carbohydrates, your body bulks your muscles up with glycogen for quick energy. Eat a high-carbohydrate diet for three days, and you may add about three pounds of muscle mass onto your arms and legs. Those glycogen stores drain away on a low-carb diet, and pull water out with it. (And, the ketones also need to be flushed out of the kidneys, pulling out even more water.) On the scale, that can manifest as four more pounds coming off within 10 days, but that all can be accounted for in water loss. The bottom line: keto diets just don’t hold water. But the thrill of seeing the pounds come off so quickly on the scale keeps many coming back. When the diet fails, the dieters often blame themselves. But the intoxication of that initial rapid weight loss may tempt them back, like getting drunk again after forgetting how terrible the last hangover was. This has been dubbed “the false hope syndrome.” The diet industry thrives off of “repeat customers,” something low-carb diets were built for, given that rapid initial water loss. But what we care about is body fat. In six days, the low-fat diet extracted a total of 80 percent more fat from the body than the low-carb diet. And it’s not just one study. If you look at all the controlled feeding trials where researchers compared low-carb diets to low-fat diets, swapping the same number of carb calories for fat calories or vice versa. If a calorie is just a calorie, then all the studies should have crossed this zero line in the middle, and indeed, six did. One study showed more fat loss on a low-carb diet, but every other study favored the low-fat diet: more loss of body fat eating the same number of calories. Put all the studies together…and we’re talking 16 grams more daily body fat loss on the low-fat diets. That’s four more pats of butter melting off your body on a daily basis. Less fat in the mouth means less fat on the hips, even taking in the same number of calories.
Excellent presentation!
Just started a. Couple weeks in, no weight loss yet, but it's getting to be more of my thing
Hope it becomes easier! 🙏 love all your podcasts!!very informative 😊
Great video! This absolutely works for me. I have been doing intermittent fasting for one year and I’m down 25 pounds. I’ve also added some nutritional supplements (turmeric, Provitalise and glucosamine) to help manage my menopause symptoms and I am feeling terrific again. I highly recommend intermittent fasting.
Those are great results! Keep up the good work
Hi Dr. Susan. I’ve been watching the food war between the plant-based team and the carnivores. I know you’ve mentioned that you are vegetarian. I’ve always been an omnivore. Recently I have seen the work of Valter Longo, PhD, a biogerontologist and cell biologist whose lab is at USC where he is the head of Longevity department. He is known for his studies on the role of fasting and nutrient response genes on cellular protection aging and diseases and for proposing that longevity is regulated by similar genes and mechanisms. His research has been focused on longevity, fasting, aging and nutrition. I’ve become convinced of his vegetarian pescatarian. I highly recommend the Rich Roll interview w Dr. Longo or his book, “The Longevity Diet”. He did a Ted Talk on fasting about 5 years. Future Nobel Prize Laureate!!
I love your Channel Thank you!
Thank you, you may have just talked me into intermittent fasting 🤔.
BTW, Dr. Longo advocates IF but eats 2 meals within a 12 hour period. Maybe it’s the Italian in him that recognizes how much food is to be enjoyed and that although people can push themselves to 16-8 or 20-4 or go on several weeks water fast. He seems to be of the opinion that most of us will not stick to very strict time regimens. Anyway, I’m plugging his books or at least to catch a UA-cam video.
Wonderful video, thank you for doing one on IF. I have read many books on this way of eating, and highly recommend Gin Stevens books, "Delay Don't Deny" and "Fast, Feast, Repeat". Also if you want to understand more of how our bodies deal with diets and IF, I would read "The Obesity Code" by Dr. Jason Fung. There are so many benefits from living an Intermittent Fasting Lifestyle.
Great suggestions! Thanks for watching :)
I am really going to try this!
Great video! Thank you! The timing was incredible because my husband and i just started the 5:2 intermittent fasting plan. We eat normally 5 days a week and then fast for 24 hours twice a week (not consecutively). Do you have any thoughts on such a plan? I was told by another health professional that fasting for less then 24 hours can lead to kidney stones for many patients? Also, you mentioned that a couple of health benefits of fasting is lowered risk of Alzheimers and heart disease. Do you think it helps to reduce risk of osteoporosis as well? If so, could intermittent fasting replace the need for HRT? It would be so much cheaper to simply eat less! 😅 Alternatively, do you see any harm in doing both intermittent fasting and HRT pellet injections concurrently? I am 48 and peri-menopausal and my husband and i are getting our first HRT pellet injections tomorrow! And then next week I'm getting the endometrial ablasion 😬 ... all of it thanks to your wonderful advice (and my dr's concurrance)! One more question: my obgyn said the ablasion is only successful (i.e. no more bleeding) 40% of the time. Is that true? Thank you so much for everything!!! 💕😁
Definitely you still need hormone replacement. And I’m glad you’re getting the ablation! Statistics vary on how successful it is based on the provider and what type of procedure you are having
IF should not be done
every day, correct?
I have been told by another dr.that the pellet HRT doesn't gave me are you the health benefits of the other HRT. Who's right you or the other dr.?
Hi Barbara, unfortunately that is misinformation given by someone who’s not educated about hormone pellets. The important thing is what your blood levels of hormones are, and the delivery method is less important.
Dr Gregor explains keto and weight loss.
The carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity, the underlying theory that ketogenic diets have some sort of metabolic advantage, has been experimentally falsified. The keto diet’s proponents’ own studies showed the exact opposite: ketogenic diets actually put you at a metabolic disadvantage and slow the loss of body fat. How much does fat loss slow down on a low-carb diet?
If you cut about 800 calories a day of carbohydrates from your diet, you lose 53 grams of body fat a day, but if you cut the same number of fat calories, you lose 89 grams a day. Same number of calories, but nine pats of butter worth of extra fat melting off your body every day on a low-fat diet, compared to a low-carb diet. Same number of calories, but about 80 percent more fat loss when you cut down on fat instead of carbs. Here’s the graph. Cut 800 calories from your diet by cutting carbs, and you do lose body fat. But cut out the same number of calories by cutting fat, and you lose even more body fat-80 percent more body fat lost. The title of the study speaks for itself: “Calorie for Calorie, Dietary Fat Restriction Results in More Body Fat Loss than Carbohydrate Restriction in People with Obesity.”
But just looking at the bathroom scale, though, would mislead you into thinking the opposite. After six days on the low-carb diet, study subjects lost four pounds. On the low-fat diet, they lost less than three. So, step on the scale and it looks like the low-carb diet wins, hands down. So, you can see why low-carb diets are so popular.
But what was happening inside their bodies tells the real story. The low-carb group was losing mostly lean mass-water and protein. This loss of water weight helps explain why low-carb diets have been “such ‘cash cows’ for publishers” over the last 150 years. That’s their secret. As one weight loss expert noted, “Rapid water loss is the $33-billion diet gimmick.”
When you eat carbohydrates, your body bulks your muscles up with glycogen for quick energy. Eat a high-carbohydrate diet for three days, and you may add about three pounds of muscle mass onto your arms and legs. Those glycogen stores drain away on a low-carb diet, and pull water out with it. (And, the ketones also need to be flushed out of the kidneys, pulling out even more water.) On the scale, that can manifest as four more pounds coming off within 10 days, but that all can be accounted for in water loss.
The bottom line: keto diets just don’t hold water.
But the thrill of seeing the pounds come off so quickly on the scale keeps many coming back. When the diet fails, the dieters often blame themselves. But the intoxication of that initial rapid weight loss may tempt them back, like getting drunk again after forgetting how terrible the last hangover was. This has been dubbed “the false hope syndrome.” The diet industry thrives off of “repeat customers,” something low-carb diets were built for, given that rapid initial water loss.
But what we care about is body fat. In six days, the low-fat diet extracted a total of 80 percent more fat from the body than the low-carb diet. And it’s not just one study. If you look at all the controlled feeding trials where researchers compared low-carb diets to low-fat diets, swapping the same number of carb calories for fat calories or vice versa. If a calorie is just a calorie, then all the studies should have crossed this zero line in the middle, and indeed, six did. One study showed more fat loss on a low-carb diet, but every other study favored the low-fat diet: more loss of body fat eating the same number of calories. Put all the studies together…and we’re talking 16 grams more daily body fat loss on the low-fat diets. That’s four more pats of butter melting off your body on a daily basis. Less fat in the mouth means less fat on the hips, even taking in the same number of calories.
the more important points are that fats (good fats) are far healthier for you.