I'm 80 YO and I just started getting my food intake in order. I've lost nearly 30 pounds (without really trying) and my GbA1C went from 6.7 to 5.4 in four and a half months. Still working to improve my blood sugar readings. working hard and looking forward to reaching my 100th birthday!
Thank you for writing this comment, though I am majority of the time whole food plant based vegan, I think it reaches more to the human condition, that change is always possible. Kind of gives me some hope
Your blood sugar will only be high in the morning as your body will create glucose for breakfast. Text it when you get up and 4 hours later. You’ll see it’s resolved itself. It is just converting fat. 🙂
I grew up in the south in the 60s and 70s and we did intermittent fasting. We didn't know it at the time because we were dirt poor and didn't have any other choice. We also could play from sun up to sun down without food and had a ton of energy. Being overweight was virtually unheard of in adults and there wasn't one single kid in my school who was overweight. We also ate real unprocessed food at that time because no one had money for fast food. Also they didn't really exist in my very small town. Sugar was something we got on special occasions, which is probably why, when I saw a dentist from the first time at 12 years old he couldn't believe how perfect my teeth were, not one cavity.
I grew up in about the same time frame but in a wealthier area. Still, being overweight was unusual and really heavy, which is now almost a norm, was freakish. Maybe in my high school class there was one kid who was really heavy. I don't know what the specific difference is but back then people weren't taking oxycontin very often either.
There are still so many unknowns when it comes to the Nutritional part of our lives. If they have the answers we'd all be thin and they'd all be billionaires. The fact is we don't have the answers. You say you grew up in the South well I grew up in California in the Bay Area for fruits and fresh vegetables were there and plentiful and then 30 years later I moved to the Deep South where the diet of the average person was unlike what I grew up with. A lot depends on our genetics I strongly believe that and no personally I do better as a woman with a little higher protein and a lower simple carbohydrates. Again all I can say is we just don't have the answers but I do believe one thing and that is that our genes or genetics have memory and if we know what our ancestors feasted upon we do better in my case being mostly Italian heritage as far as my DNA shows we still eat that way and another thing I found was purchasing milk that has most of the lactose removed. It seems to be easier on me to not bother my stomach and I enjoy it that goes for adding a little bit of cream to my coffee that has most of the sugars removed
When I grew up in the 60's and 70's it was always 3 meals a day and if it wasn't eaten then there were no snacks and you went hungry. I think this snacking thing is just a marketing hype to sell more processed food, perhaps we all need to go back to basics. This interview has given my something to think about.
“You’ll ruin your appetite!” Remember that? We weren’t allowed to go in the kitchen and help ourselves. We were told what we could eat and when. We weren’t fat and we were healthy and we had all the energy we needed to get through the day.
I think it’s good for growing, active children too eat snacks. We definitely did as kids, maybe just an apple or a yoghurt. Of course I don’t do it as an adult, simply because I don’t get hungry that often anymore, as I have finished growing. If I ate a snack after breakfast I wouldn’t get hungry for lunch. I don’ even understand why someone is hungry at 10am when they had (a supposedly filling) breakfast at around 8am. Baffles me.
Thanks, you've confirmed what I've come to know. My advice to friends is try eating only when you're hungry, properly hungry. Then you will start to enjoy your food- forget fine dining, natural food eaten with a good appetite trumps that. I'm a fisherman and nothing sharpens your concentration more than catching your next meal with a rumbling stomach, and nothing will taste as good.
Forget fine dining? We frequent fine dining places that grow their own food, use local produce and even forage. However I should be avoiding the sweet course...........................
I want to read every book that this doctor has on his show. This one resonated with me so much. I lost 3 &1/2 stone in last the last year basically a wake up call from having prediabetes, tiredness, fatigue also fatty liver. I dropped sugar and lost a stone within a month just doing that alone and then went onto revising my diet. I basically stuck to whole foods cut out all the sugar foods and had much smaller meal in evening. I also took up exercise everyday. I feel 20 years younger, my tiredness has gone and energy levels shot right up to what they were in my 30s (I'm now 64) and more importantly my blood sugar is back to normal range...no prediabetes. I follow my bodies natural need for food, usually exercise first in morning before breakfast which usually ends up with me eating my first meal at mid day . My diet consist of fruit, nuts, veg, leafy greens meat and fish, brown rice and pasta but I focus on the size of my meals. I now look thin, feel great and can function at a much better rate...health is one of the most important gifts we can give ourselves and it IS possible to achieve, I was thrilled to discover my results after 6 months of changing my diet...it really does work.
I went sugar free three years ago and keep my carbs below 20 net per day and have lost 6 stone over three years. I was pre diabetic and now my HbA1C is in the non diabetic range. The carbs I eat are in salads and above ground vegetables. I do intermittent fasting and usually finish eating around 5pm and won’t eat again until 1-2 pm or later the next day. I now do an hours exercise a day as I have more energy but lost four stone before I did anything. You definitely can’t outrun a bad diet! By eliminating the bad carbs I have reduced my cravings and my hunger!
Are you eating fruit? Just hit me when he said prediabetic that I often crave to drink some sweet juice more often, not like before, amd the symtoms match, however it could be from other sources. I am starting with herbs and diet and cutting off in a new start as I lost my way before when bot getting better, but knowing more why now🌷
My daughter went to a birthday party in a hall about 24 years ago when she was about 4 or 5. As she was always reluctant to drink, I checked that she had had a drink. She said no, so I asked why not. She said they only had fizzy orange or coke. I said why didn't you have water. She replied 'they didn't have any'. Says it all!
Kids have a faster meta bolism & soon hungry. Out here they either bring their home tiffin-Obento or be served a hot meal for all by di school like its done here. It consists of a nutritious porridge soup of mixed Lentils & rice (+ veges....Or just hand rolled bread with mix Lentil soup + veges i.e ( just mix veges with chapati, or bread 'n milk, banana/apple). Sir how about... If Yr school cud serve yr kids 1banana (or apple), milk, 1boiled Egg+bread (toast), paid by their parent ❣️✌
@@sreeladevi1780 you didn't learn anything from the SCIENTIST! Children shouldn't eat starchy food or sugary sweets, most of the children in the UK. are overweight with health problems from TOO MANY CARBS!
@@cq8822 not judging, just think it incredible that there was no water as well as fizzy drinks. After all, surely every restaurant provides water for the table
This is music to my ears, I am studying Naturopathy at the moment and funnily enough it's due to my own health journey, I find that once you see things declining in ourselves it gives us a wake up call.. I come from an NHS background as my mum has worked within that industry for 33yrs however i am only now taking this seriously. I absolutely love watching these interviews it helps me with studying x
@@devidia . Naturopathic Medicine saved my life (where pharmaceuticals had made me worse). Given it relates mainly to diet, herbs and supplements (natural methods), for you to say it is mumbo jumbo, either you are confusing it with something else.....or you are a representative of a pharmaceutical company 🤪
Thank you for this video. I am using food to heal from long term drug use for autoimmune disease in the US in a situation where I don't have health insurance. I don't have access to medical care, so food and intuitive eating have replaced drugs in my life. I had to do it for economic purposes, but the effects have been astounding. Hearing podcasts like this help me realize I'm doing better out of the main stream medical system regarding my health than I ever did in it. Please continue this work. People like myself need this information.
How ironically fortunate for you that pharmaceuticals are too expensive and you have been forced to address root cause to regain genuine health. Let’s imagine a world in that position. We can’t allow human appropriate food and supplements to be outlawed or monopolised. And we must ensure the sense becomes common.
@@dmackle3849 Yes!! Food is such good medicine. I am imagining a world were everyone has access to healthy, chemical free, GMO free, good, wonderful food and healthy, clean, clear water.
I watched this a year ago but thought it was time to revisit. Excellent talk. When I first heard Tim say 30 different plants a week I thought there’s no way I can manage that but it’s much easier than I thought. I include herbs & spices much more than I did before & that all counts towards 30. I now eat very little processed food & try to have 14+ hours without food. At 60 something my weight had crept up over the last few years but I’ve lost 10lbs over the last 6 months & my body seems to have settled around 9 stone. Knee pain I’ve had for 3 years has reduced probably due to the weight loss but also hopefully decreased inflammation. Regarding artificial sweeteners, my husband has used them for 30+ years & despite me trying to encourage him to cut them out he was always resistant! A few months ago he cut down from 2 to 1 which pleased me a lot, but said he didn’t really enjoy tea & coffee with just 1 so tried going without, which he preferred so now he doesn’t use sweeteners at all. Result! Our taste can adapt easily even in our 60’s. Spoon Fed is a great read. Thanks Dr Rangan & Prof Tim.
@@AndrewHelgeCox basically they’re a load of chemicals & research has shown they can alter the make up of the gut microbiome which can lead to poor blood sugar control so increasing the chance of T2 diabetes. Not good for other health issues either. Plus they just keep that “sweet tooth” thing going so it’s better all round if you can do without them!
@@16Elless Damn, hot drinks are one of my few treats, and the sugar+sweetener I've switched to has gotten me from two spoons of sugar per mug to half a spoon of sugar. I thought I was doing well there.
@@AndrewHelgeCox many years ago before sweeteners were even a thing I used to have 3 sugars in tea. A relative “shamed” me into cutting down which I did 1/2 teaspoon at a time, took about 6 weeks & I haven’t had any in drinks now for nearly 50 years. Never used sweeteners myself but OH finally stopped after over 30 years. You just get used to it & can still enjoy your hot drinks, with added smugness!!
Gosh. Two absolutely gorgeous men speaking my language. Amazing conversation. As an educator in the UK I’m soldiering on trying to spread the same message.
I (67) changed my lifestyle about 4 years ago to a low carb/ high fat, also started having a little more exercise. I lost 70 pound in the first 9 months. Finally, I reversed my diabetes II. Changed my sober HB1AC from 7.8mmol/l to 5.4 mmol/l and normalized my blood pressure. On the side, I got rid of many chronic inflammations and even had a cold or flu in the last 4 years. I never feel so good. This professor is so right about food and its effect. I fast for 18 hours a day.
This is how diabetics ate a century ago. Rachael Oppenheimers cook book back in 1918 was all about low carb high fat. No insulin then & obviously worked. Increase in diabetes, obesity & inflammatory conditions came with the push towards processed foods, high sugar, high carbs & low fat. Keto works yet NHS still pushes high proportion of carbs to diabetics. Keto - LCHF, intermittent fasting is effective. Weight comes off an blood results return to normal levels & can come off medication.
I think you have to adjust things for your own taste. I don’t like meat much. But I’m sure that if I cut down as much as I can on carbs it will improve my health. Maybe I can get to the point where I cut them out altogether.
💚💚💚yes, it is so hard to make sure my children are eating REAL food at school. I actually am appreciating the current school at home because we eat our meals and don't need snacks.
Dr Rangan Chatterjee is how a Dr is meant to be. He does his research on good health and then produces such a wealth Of knowledge on how we might, improve our lives to make our future bright. Thank you Dr C and Prof Tim.👏
Eating to lose weight and eating for health can be very different. I eat a whole food plant based diet, seasonal as often as possible and also spend many hours a week growing my own food using a no dig method. I'm buying veg at the moment because I'm not experienced enough to grow enough for winter but next year I'll improve. I've never liked breakfast. I gave up dairy 10 years ago after developing breast cancer. It was easy after that to become vegan. I'll be 67 on Christmas day and feel great. Home grown sprouts parsnip and squash will be on the table.
Great talk, so happy after 30 years in the NHS to hear Drs speaking to this - its always been so obvious to me and have been working at grass roots on this subject for a decade. Well done!
I enjoy being hungry - not necessarily feeling starving - as then I enjoy my food better and differently. I don’t wish to keep eating too much day after day.
Many confuse appetite as hunger. I now realize that I love to eat & food its a source of pleasure but I'm also able to do multiple day fasts without physical hunger. I've been mostly OMAD for 2 decades. Is that a factor for hunger tolerance?
Thanks for your work, Dr Chatterjee. Been a fan since Tom Bileu’s interview with you. Growing up in China in the 80s, my mom would not allow me to eat snacks before a meal. We also had very limited supplies of processed food. The “junk food” I can think of are cookies and cakes which were often made at local bakeries. Even then not many industrial chemicals were available. Regarding IF, I actually switched my fasting window from 8pm to to noon to around 5 pm to 9 am. I actually starve now at around 8 and I don’t crave food anymore at night. Going to bed stuffed would be the worst feeling and it will destroy my sleep. I changed my sleep schedule and I work out in the morning. So it shows the body can adapt. I have a hard time imagining doing the 5:2 splits because it wouldn’t work for my workout schedule and dealing with over 1,000 calorie difference between days would be hard. I like the daily IF a lot better.
It's a great and informative book. Pure science and solid research and some common sense. I wish I had read this book and the associated and referenced studies before I had weight loss surgery. I might have been able to reach my goals without it. However, now post-surgery, I'm fiercely dedicated to feeding my microbiome to ensure my weight loss is long term. I got some great feedback from Tim on Twitter and it was very motivating for the future. Please get him back on in the future as more research comes to light. Thanks!
I'm spanish, living in Portugal...sadly mediterranean diet which is a good concept, in X years will be just that, a concept. When you see how our kids and teens eat, they are already so into junk foods and bad habits. All EU countries need to invest in nutrition/food education at preschool already, their role is very important...South EU has overweight kids too, you see them everywhere..and statistics says number is increasing...Sorry if someone disagrees with my comment. Thanks for your generosity Dr. Chatterjee🙏
Tim Spector is right; you do need a slap in the face to wake up, as I found out myself. Like Tim, I had gradually been gaining weight. I thought it was just the expected middle aged spread. After an entire year of illness that began with a bad flu followed by bleeding in the stomach, muscle weakness, and rheumatoid factors that were very high, I was passed from one specialist to another, but no better. I finally went to a wholistic medical practitioner, who said she was considered a quack, but that she would restore me to better health. She did this by changing my diet, which had consisted of pasta, pizza, pies, pastries, and other convenience foods. The pernicious Ps and the convenience was killing me. I ditched the fast food for fast fat, and now cook from scratch, eating mainly fruit, vegetables, and grilled fish or chicken on some days, always using healthy fats rather than vegetable or seed oils. No sugar, low fat products, or processed foods come into my home, and that includes the highly processed, fake vegan meats. For drinks, it’s water, tea, and kombucha; definitely no softdrink. I do indulge in the occasional sweet tooth but don’t make a habit of it. I eat as much as I like at mealtime, and have kept the weight off easily. My health has also improved, but it took a major, health scare to get me onto, and to stay on the right track. It was during my time of illness that I came across Tim’s excellent books on diet and the microbiome. I would encourage people to get a copy of The Diet Myth and Spoon Fed, which are a great read. Thanks for this much needed and informative post. Change and better health will only come when people get the right information to make informed choices.
EVERYTHING you say here as well as the guest...has been known for MANY YEARS.....glad you finally were open to it...one thing more....if people would STOP all eating after 6pm....and start eating at 10am.....i believe it is impossible to be over weight
I would just add with all the respect that "it" was not killing you, you were killing yourself. It's a lack of self-care we are conditioned to often due to certain childhood experiences....it goes deeper than just eating healthily, it is the self-neglect resulting in taking our body for granted. That goes to our parents and their parents. It's a long chain and we have to get sick to break the chain. Congratulations to taking the opportunity and starting a self-care journey. Leafy greens are very important for a healthy microbiome. Sugar is, of course, vey bad which includes fruits if it's too much of it. Good luck on your journey to well-being.
@@h.a.s.42 Thanks, you are right about lack of self-care. It’s like the instructions given by flight crew to put your own oxygen mask on before you try to help others; or as someone said to me: if you put yourself last, you won’t last.
I remember, growing up, in the 60's there was very little choice in the realm of soft drinks. Coke/Lemonade was a once a week treat, our parents bought us, while we sat in the car outside the pub. We had lemon and orange squash, great on a hot summer's day. But, I can still remember my mother saying, when we said we were thirsty that "there's plenty of water in the tap!"
This reasonable approach is great. I love eating home-grown herbs, wild pineapple weed, stinging nettle, and lavendar growing in lots, woods, and gardens. I really enjoy the idea of feeding your microbiome. Like a garden, it can be very resilient. You just have to be patient, observe, learn, experiment, and avoid letting the "slugs of snacking" or the "aphids of indigestion" spoil your garden. Eat slow, fast a bit before bed, and upon waking. .
Very interesting. Confirmed a lot of what I’ve read in the last few years, but learned new stuff too. Thank you for making such good content and guests available for free on your channel. Really appreciate your ongoing efforts to help people’s health. I’ve been introduced to so many interesting doctors and researchers through your books and podcasts, keep up the good work.
Zoe, Dr Specktor's personalized food analysis, is working for me. I have had a largely plant based diet but I need to avoid starchy veggies, grain, dairy and most meat. With some changes of degree of use, and following the personalized recommendations in the app, it has been the most effective, easy change I have ever tried.
Thank you Doctors for being honest in trying to bring another approach to health. Luckily for me I was a kid of the 50s onwards so didn’t have fast food nor much sugar, probably because we were a working family with limited resources. My Mum would walk from shop to shop so stayed healthy and we ate little meat with lots of veg, all organic in those days ‘cos it was my job to pick off the bugs. This way of eating has stayed with me except I fast 18:6 and make my own kefir, butter, apple cider vinegar etc to improve my gut microbiology. Also I want to know what I am eating. Understand your food, it’s important.
61 years old - decent athlete in younger years - metabolism slowed - put on weight - discovered low carb and intermitent fasting - weight back to normal - killing it as "old guy"
Thank you Rangan, for bringing in such wonderful and knowledgeable guests. Your continued efforts to help and inform us is very much appreciated and you deliver everything is such an understandable and down to earth manner.
Thank you 🙏🏻 so much for this reasonable, logical, sane, intelligent information!!! I’ve experimented and experimented to try and be as healthy as possible. I’ve tried all diets and lifestyles, and it’s been a disaster!! Then I decided to start eating like my ancestors in Siena Italy, and I feel great. I was really amazed when you said that people from the mediterranean do better eating later in the day which I definitely do. When I eat in the morning, I feel tired and sluggish. All of these years I’ve been told by doctors what I needed to do, but they don’t account for individuality which has caused me years of distress!! SO THANK YOU!!🙏🏻
In Israel a new law has been forced on food companies. All foods that are high in sugar, Saturated fat and salt have to be labeled as such, with a big red warning label.
Well they danger is that they have it wrong, as they have by saying saturated fat is evil. Now the cardiologists are recanting on this. See work of Nina Teicholz and look at the way Ancel Keyes was blindly followed in the 60s. That myth about saturated fat started there.
@@T-aka-T Firstly you do know that Nina Teicholz is funded by the Meat and Dairy industry, so its no surprise that she promotes a high fat intake. Secondly most Doctors and that includes Cardiologist, have absolutely no clue about nutrition, and those that do are not high Saturated fat fans, just the opposite Thirdly some Cardiologist are simply putting it out there for financial gain. Eg Dr Gundry and his BS about Lectins are bad for you in his book Plant Paradox. Have it known he sells a Lectin blocking supplement. But dont let science get in the way of your beliefs, and enjoy your high cholesterol.
@@mikemasail823 i am a MD and after studying the topic for many years i don`t think cholesterol is the cause of atherosclerosis .....so enjoy your saturated fats and forget about your cholesterol as long as your triglycerides are low and HDL high you will be fine.
Fascinating conversation, thanks. My partner and I have been tweaking our diet continually since around the middle of 2014 when we started to wean ourselves off sugar. These days we just eat real food, plenty of different veggies, eggs, chicken, pork and a bit of fish, plus plenty of nuts and seeds. It's all about how we feel. It was a revelation to me to discover that I become ravenously hungry less than an hour after eating regular potato (baked/mashed/whatever), so we just don't bother with them anymore. We'll have swede occasionally instead. I also found that my joints ached after having peppers, so I avoid them too. My partner doesn't react well to butter and cream, so if we have dairy, it's fermented (cheese or Greek yogurt). It's also been useful to acknowledge that in the past, I'd been fighting my biochemistry, not working with it. Now we know what works for us, it's easy, and willpower doesn't come into it when you know you'll feel rotten if you eat sugar or wheat or whatever. I look forward to reading Tim's book.
If your joints ache after peppers and you're hungry after potatoes you may need to avoid all nightshade plants (if you're not already). Raw peppers give me a rash and repeat on me but roasted ones don't.
@@SamStone1964 We avoid potatoes entirely, but we've reintroduced a bit of red pepper (half a pepper between us per meal, 3 meals per week cooked with other veggies in olive oil) and I seem to be tolerating that. No problems with tomato, and we only have them cooked too. We avoid aubergine too. much too sweet for us, strangely.
Really eye opening. I agree with Yvonne Coogan - I grew up at the same time and it was 3 meals a day and if you didn't eat dinner, there was nothing else offered. I am empowered to try some of the concepts that were stated here, as I am older now and I might be more in line with Mr. Spector's daily diet. Thank you for this Dr. Chatterjee.
Thankyou Professor Tim & Dr Rangan. I agree our children need to be Educated in the field of Nutrition from an early age! Also the importance of identifying real versus fake food. Learning to relax with food carefully chosen and lovingly prepared.
We need to teach the adults first. My 4 year old granddaughter eats ham sandwiches, fruit and snack type foods. That’s it! I’m deemed to be the food police when I try and point out the dangers of such a narrow diet.
THE BEST conversation I have seen online-or maybe anywhere-about food, our diets, and health. FINALLY someone recognizes how individual our choices need to be, and how we must listen to our bodies. I’m off to buy Dr. Spector’s book. Thank you both! Dr. Chatterjee; you are equally awesome!
Another great podcast and one we all need to listen to. Thanks for having Tim on as I am now halfway thought "Spoon Fed" wow! Love this guy as he's just not afraid of saying it as it is! Brilliant. It does however leave one left with the feeling of what and who can you really believe. The NHS :( probably not, the UK GOV, again probably not. Your GP if you could ever actually just ask a simple question, nope. Plus when you visit a GP, or NHS nowadays you wonder why they are not taking their own advice. Keep shouting out your message please. Love your books and podcasts and would love to take you course but I'm not a GP or medically trained.
What a great Interview! I’m a holistic therapist and a great number of my clients would benefit hugely from good science based dietary advice. But without a qualification I’m not in a position to give it, despite 3 years of extensive research. I decided to do a course to obtain a qualification but within a few hours I had come across so many myths that I would have to teach my case studies that I abandoned the course. I feel so sad and frustrated that even the NHS website is still stuck in the last century in terms of scientific research. If anyone knows of a qualification I can study for which is up to date, please let me know. Thanks.
Being a home school Mom, when my children ate 3 meals as day, they would dramatize being hungry two hours after eating which thoroughly perplexed me. I later learned of the "all gone" sensation which was the passing of food through the intestines. I put them on two meals a day, 9a and 3p. And if the meal was delayed for some reason, they neither showed nor expressed any hunger?!?!? I was then more urgent to feed them because they hadn't eaten in six hours, and I didn't want them falling out.
Since 2015 I have been excluding carbohydrates, have more energy without grains, cereal, bread, potatoes, cakes, sugar etc, no nightshade family veg, no legumes... Eat only good high fats, beef dripping, tallow, extra virgin olive oil, avocado, nuts not pecan, fermented foods, organic meats, pastured eggs. My health has improved, depression and autoimmune disorders, weight strength improved and not been to GP since September 2014. Incidentally, my adult identical twins are part of that study, and my mother was an identical twin they died 6 weeks apart. My mother had suffered ulcerative colitis, and other autoimmune problems but her sister did not.
I tried this... it was a disaster for me... felt terrible, gained so much weight ... Having read Tim's book spoon-fed the take home message was One size does NOT fit all.... I'm now Vegan, 64 years old back to a very nice healthy weight and feel amazing... However, I have never had a sweet tooth so that has never been a problem for me... I kick-started the new me following the starch solution ...but very quickly moved on to 50/50 plate ... now just Plantbased Vegan for myself and my husband... We've not been so healthy in over 20 years ... Even his Blood pressure now normal ... The important thing is... what works for one may not work for another....
This is very informative.. I am a teacher and what you both have said about meals in schools is an eye opener.. I've even encouraged children to have their snack when they didn't want to, thinking I was helping them 😲 Also, I've always found the different diets for different folks to be true in my ongoing search to find what works for me. Do you have any videos/content on how we can deal with thyroid issues? Things out there are so contradictory and frustrating to say the least. Thanks again for this conversation.
In Croatia we had amazing school meals till mid 2000 but after 2008 till 2020 food became horrible, but in last 2 years we are on the way to serve only organic food and meals are becoming way better. No candy machines in school etc.But in kindergartens food is truly amazing They need to prepare amazing meals that are from veggie and sugar is reduced to fruit and pudding nothing more if only. So im happy with that.
What a great conversation. It was a pleasure to feast on this science backed, brilliantly prepared and freshly served common sense. While advising me about the best food for my body I also received a delicious portion of food for thought. Thank you!
Great information, and advice from Tim Spector which I would dearly love to follow. However, after months of suffering from microscopic colitis and being unable to digest the simplest of foods like plain rice, broccoli or eggs, I had to do something to heal the problem. I did not want to take steroids usually recommended by mainstream medicine as research showed steroids did not usually heal microscopic colitis. I realised my microbiome was in serious need of something it did not have. I had even tried good quality pro-biotics without success. Nothing worked until I tried the carnivore diet, and within 24 hours my symptoms stopped. I have now been on this diet for 2 months and have only had one flareup when I introduced egg yolk into my diet. Previous to getting microscopic colitis I considered my diet very healthy, especially as I had cut out all sugars over 7 years prior, then all gluten foods, so my diet was made up of natural whole foods. It appears that I could not digest plant food at all which was a real shock to me. The carnivore diet rather than being a 'fad' has resulted in some surprising and unexpected healing for many people, something worth looking into. I am looking forward to the day when I can add more variety and my gut is healed, but in the meantime I am the' experiment', enjoying the benefits of relief.
Great information. Gluten seems to be a big issue (negatively impacting) for many people. Terrible for the gut I know. Practically every processed food seems to contain it. Either as an ingredient or a filler
Yes. There seems to be a small substrata of folks who simply cannot take vegetables in the gut. Carnivore is *not* a fad but has cured some people of chronic disease. Let your body tell you what it needs.
Interesting Claire..thank you for sharing. I have had a similar journey. My physical and mental health were atrocious. Cutting out gluten, sugar, A1 dairy, seed oils all helped...especially on the mental health side...but autoimmune illness wise, I still have a way to go. I was intrigued by the success of Jordan Petersen and his daughter (and others) with severe autoimmune issues, who have massively improved them on a carnivore diet. I am easing myself in...as someone who didn't eat any meat for 23 years...(I wonder if that's significant?) anyway, I used up my veggies up first..moving to just fruit and animal products for a few days now. Already seen some improvement...may move to full carnivore soon....!!!!
I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and dealing with severe chronic pain, I stumbled upon keto wanting to lose weight, did dirty keto, then clean keto and now carnivore. My health improved immensely with each step. I eat beef, bacon, butter and eggs. I eat when hungry, until I’m full. No more cravings and my pain is GONE, labs are great! I will eventually start testing other foods as my gut heals. My health better than has ever been, I’m 58
I’m fat adapted. Fasting is super easy. Honestly I forget to eat so often that I need to get my wife to remind me when I last ate. I’m in a 48 hour fast right now which I do once a month.
its very hard at first. The first time I skipped breakfast intentionally my body almost had a panic attack :) The first time I tried 2day fasting I felt like I was almost dying in the end of the second day.
@@hineko_ haha, yep. In high school I used to eat very little, often only dinner, and I learned then that if you ignore the hunger it will pass, but I remember talking w an overweight friend about it and he was like wtf na man I've never done that that's crazy lol. Like I couldn't believe he'd never ignored his hunger it was so normal for me I assumed everyone knew what it was like. But yea now I'm older I know how difficult it can be if your bodies used to regular food intake, definitely an adjustment especially depending on what food you're used to. Amazing how the body adapts.
It may or may not adapt… I’ve heard of people attracting a rare form of TB with not following the age old rules of nutrition. They ignore food as a habit and yes, give wives a tough time😊
I've only recently discovered Tim's stuff. Until now the best general dietary advice I'd come across was (from Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food): eat food, mostly plants, not too much. Including Tim's stuff (at least until it can be easily individualised); I modify it to: eat food, mostly lots of different plants, not too much.
Plants can NOT run away so they produce a host of toxic chemicals such as glutens , phytates , lectins and others . Humans are essential carnivores with no essential need of dietary carbohydrates! All necessary nutrients are contained in animal produces( Plant nutrients are less available and contain anti nutrients too) m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eEfAmhJxu34.html&t=24m20s 25:36 Graph of reduced (nearly zero) absorption due to plant toxins m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eEfAmhJxu34.html&t=25m36s Solomons NW, Jacob RA, Pineda O, Viteri FE. Studies on the bioavailability of zinc in man. III. Effects of ascorbic acid on zinc absorption. Am J Clin Nutr. 1979 Dec;32(12):2495-9. doi: doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/32.12.2495. PMID: 506973. 28:15 Vegans deficient in B-12 affects cognition m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eEfAmhJxu34.html&t=28m15s British Journal of Nutrition ( 2012 ) , 108 1948-1961 The Authors 2012 doi : doi.org/10.1017/S000714512001175 Systematic Review Vitamin B12 status , cognitive decline and dementia : a systematic review of prospective cohort studies and Samir Samman
Rangan …. I absolutely LOVE your videos, but when I look at the length of them I often end up giving them a miss because I just can’t fit it into my evening. Is there anyway you can condense the message into a more manageable chunk ? After all you are most EXCELLENT at breaking things down into manageable chunks !!!😂
Good to have someone from the UK , thank you very much , I enjoyed your talk , if only they were to teach children this information it would help them to grow much healthier
Our schools need to teach our children to grow food and learn to access food from the garden 🥬 cook it and enjoy their food. Balanced with exercise, other ways of enjoying life and nurturing nature.
@@JulieTasker the school I worked in did have a small allotment. There was a science course for non-academic children called Rural Science. Then the 1986 National Curriculum came along and all children had to do the same course. The majority of the timetable was taken by the Foundation subjects; there was very little space left for practical subjects such as cooking.
There's simply no space in the curriculum for adding in all the things that people suggest schools should teach ! This week I have seen British sign language , gardening,relationships (and now nutrition) . These are all things that need specialists to teach them properly ,rather like Latin and computer programming that was dumped in primary teachers ' laps with no specialist knowledge and no training - they already teach 10 subjects . Teachers agree with you though ,we agree cookery and BSE and gardening and computing and first aid and swimming should be taught - but teachers can't do it in school .
Processed foods, fast food, restaurant food have one thing in common, adulterated cooking oils which are processed by using high heat, additives and deodorizers. Adulterated oils in the grocery store used by many for cooking. As the use of these oils have increased so has all disease. Bad fats entering the cell.
Exactly. Seed oils are the number one toxin in the modern diet. Eliminate all processed food and use healthy animal fat - render your own tallow or lard.
@@tobyo105 it’s a fruit oil so is heavy in omega 9 and not omega 6 like the seed oils. It’s considered good, but extra virgin is deemed the best version for health.
I have made Kimchi a couple of times, I do a fermented root Kraut, red sauerkraut, and am venturing into other fermented recipes now... Taste very good, good for the gut.
This has been a very interesting talk but it is too long for me to recommend to the people I would like to recommend it to. A quarter of the way through the discussion I was so impressed that I went and ordered the book.I am into my 92nd year and I have been doing a moderate keto diet for nearly 4 years and having one meal a day. In my old age I have found that it is better to have a meal between three and four in the afternoon. I don’t suffer from indigestion but I am aware of my body digesting things in the night if I eat later, and that wakes me up. Been feeling lately that my diet lacks diversity, and also worrying that I am missing out on the social aspect of eating with others. I will try to introduce more diversity, but it is quite difficult. I look forward to reading the book and hope it may give me some ideas.
I find the same. If I eat after 4pm I always wake up at least once that night and have ridiculous convoluted dreams. If I've eaten carbs I invariably awake around 4am and don't go back to sleep.
The gut biome is fascinating and some complex, but in a beautiful way. The Mind-Gut Connection- by Emerson Mayer started a new level of education as to how my body really works and things I really need to do to improve my gut microbes... which are fundamental to all aspects of our health and well being. Then I discovered Why We Sleep by Professor Mathew Walker... all of this was pre-COVID 19... and then The Circadian Code by Satchin Panda... and now Breathe by James Nestor and The Oxygen Advantage by Patrick McKeown... the combination of this pillars of my own Heath and healing have been so positively transformative for my family. My family has been healthier and happier then ever before. Your interviews are wonderful and I love listening. Thank you so much!!!❤️🌱
Very sensible and eye openning topic…..I think good nutritions starts from kindergarten and school too…..I‘m from Germany and in Kindergarten where my daughter went kids made thier own breakfast, like milling thier own Mueli and semonila pudding….Bread are baked from a traditional baker and no softdrinks just tea, water or an apple juice which is locally produce……My daughter (14) until now do not eat chocolate and ice cream coz I gave her first time at the age of 6….. I do eat all kinds of food but I am doing an intermittent fasting 16/8 and for 5years now doing the lentin season of 40days fasting 16/8 OMAD ( One meal a day ) and on Keto diet…..
1:55:50 what he says here is so true. You don't realize how off you actually are until you start functioning optimally, until you finally give your body and brain(and microbiome) what it wants/needs to work properly. My whole being changed when I started eating to please my body. Lifelong anxiety virtually gone, moodiness gone, brain began firing optimally, energy and great mood all day everyday. I went from an off-centered mess to feeling like I was in a state of peak performance. Really eye opening experience seeing how what you put in your body does to your brain. Give it what it wants and it will reward you.
One other problem which is never raised is that from primary school onwards all meals have to be rushed eg for the next sitting, clear up! So some schools may think they've done their bit to improve children's health by providing a healthy lunch but they're teaching them to hurry, race through their food, not savour and given a token eating experience...for life!
On the age thing, I’m over 60 and do 14-16 hour IF, I know 2 other women over 60 and one in her early 50’s who have done similar things, and we have all had remarkable results. If one is older, there are a lot of little things that are less than perfect, and many of them improve very quickly on the IF.
This is a brilliant interview thanks for bringing this to us so interesting & informative... this needs to be shown on main TV so many more can benefit from this information... not enough information has been given to nutrition & how it heals us ...
@@DrChatterjeeRangan I’ve ordered the book, I’ll share with my daughters there’s not enough about nutrition & health ... I’m so surprised there’s been no real info with COVID-19 virus & how what we eat effect us in so many ways
When I was on sabbatical in LA many years ago I was always trying to buy the same food I'm used to here in France, like raw meat and fish, butter, vegetables, wine etc. But most often I was the only one, most people would just take a whole bunch of those cardboard boxes and bottles of sodas. Funny thing, sometimes I was approached by a lady asking for advice on how to cook the things I was buying.
My son had hypoglycemia, and he would have total meltdowns several times a week. So we went to high protein meals 3x/day and 2 high protein snacks in midmorning and mid-afternoon. His meltdowns went to once or twice a month and school became much easier. I would never have given him a sugary high carb snack! 😱 There madness lies!
This is a brilliant video; such an inspiring exchange between two hugely knowledgeable and empathetic people both who look the picture of health and intelligence, and whose ideas open a new vista of living. You just know they are offering such valuable insights so sensitively explained. LIFE CHANGING!
Great interview! Some good information from both doctors, and some key questions Rangan. A no nonsense approach. Needed to hear this today! Have been looking at different diets to help with RA. Absolutely agree that it is key to avoid processed foods and see how your body reacts to particular foods. Thank you 🙂
my whole understanding of healthy eating waa turned inside out when I learned I had a g6pd deficiency. all the years of lentil soup and tofu dud terrible things to my body. facing ugly consequences. genetics do matter.
Thank you so much for this brilliant dialogue!!! As a 53 yo female who is beginning to have metabolic issues (border line hypertensive, borderline diabetic, high cholesterol, mild osteoarthritis and gut issues (had two bleeding bought a) - this all makes sense!!! Would you recommend obtaining the assistance of a nutritionist?
Hello. l have always found nutritionists to be unhelpful, as they stick to the government pyramid guidelines. Naturopaths are better in my experience. Janella Purcell and Teresa Cutter have some excellent recipes online for nutritional medicine
I found teaching my kids how to read nutrition labels and understanding what 6..10...28..grams of sugar looks like helped a lot. We also have watched documentaries on sugar as a family. It's certainly helped them understand why parents have a stance on not having too much sugar in the diet. Are we angels? No, I'll bake to treat us but we do our utmost best to stay away from processed foods out of the household so we are not tempted by them.
We live in Canada on the prairies. So we can’t get many local foods in winter as it’s too cold. But we can buy lots of local food and I think that’s the way to go. We seldom eat processed food. It’s like my son told my granddaughter - “eat food. Food is one ingredient. A carrot. A lettuce. A potato. It doesn’t come in a box.” My husband loves meat. I don’t. So he will cook a pork chop and I have a vegetable stew with eggplant and lentils and he doesn’t like that. So it works out fine. We never eat in front of the tv. We never have. I gained weight because I love bread and pasta. But during the pandemic I decided I should get healthy. I have lost about 23lbs. I bought an exercise bike and I rode 10-20k every single day all winter. I am 81. My mom died when she was 94. I am hoping to beat that.
Having a vegetable garden helps to eat more naturally. Getting kids involved in the growing of food should be encouraged. Food you grow yourself tastes so good!
Such a fascinating interview. Thanks for this. I've just heard of Dr Spector after his Spectator interview about the C19 ZOE app. He's utterly brilliant. I'm going to start a new way of eating based on his suggestions and listen to my body. Also, I've been exercising I'm mornings on no food, and find this to be the best time and way for me to exercise. If I eat first, or exercise I'm afternoon/evening, just doesn't feel as good and I am more tired. Want to read more about his microbiome work next :) 👌🏻💪🏻🙏
I work in a kindergarten in one of the big cities in Germany. Our kids love drinking water or herbal tea, they eat dark bread like there is no tomorrow, love broccoli soup and snack on raw red pepper and cucumbers. They still enjoy sweets, but they eat limited amounts and it is a regular thing to see a kid not finish their piece of birthday cake or opt for a piece of apple instead. A four year old is capable of explaining to you very clearly which foods are healthy and which are bad for you and they feel proud if they don't eat too many sweets. This is a combination of the types of food they're exposed to from infancy on (e.g. you will see little kids in buggies with a German pretzel or piece of apple in their hand rather than a biscuit) and the education they get from the parents, kindergarten teachers and dental hygienists (who regularly visit kindergartens). A lot of kids cook with their parents, take active part in shopping and are given chances to make good food choices very early on. There is also a strong sport culture here, you will often see 3-4 year olds riding their bikes while parents jog, or parents commuting on a bike with a two year old on a balance bike riding parallel to them on the pavement. I'm not saying there are no problems with obesity in Germany, the oversweet fast-food marketing exists here as well, but at least there are places that show that a different way of living is possible and that kids can live and love it. We have not a single overweight child in our kindergarten of 70 kids.
I think if you're all giving the same message it's very helpful. I brought my son up on fruit, vegetables, home cooked meals, water, herb teas, pretty much no refined sugars (occasionally an ice cream that we would share on a sunny day out, or a small Easter egg at Easter, Advent Calendar in December), seeded breads etc. He loved them all. He went to nursery at 3 and they regularly gave them sweets, only gave them white bread etc. All the effort I'd put in to the first 3 years was very quickly undone as sugar no longer being the occasional treat and being seen as a daily thing, especially coming from somewhere that was pushing that they were right and this is how things should be done rather than being a united front with the parents definitely caused a lot of damage. It put sugar on his radar and it became almost like a drug addiction. We'd have so many meltdowns when the constant craving for sugar wasn't allowed to be met and was limited. He went from grateful of the occasional sugary treat (and like you mentioned, he'd often not finish it or opt for something healthier instead), to all he seemed to be able to think about was when could he next have a sugary treat. This was supposedly an "outstanding" nursery. It must be wonderful to have educational settings that support healthy eating rather than push unhealthy options on the children. It has been impossible, inspite of a lot of effort, to get him back to eating as healthily as he once did. He won't touch anything other than white bread now and would always choose a biscuit or chocolate over a piece of fruit. With those greatly limited in the house, after years, he is a lot better with the amount of sugary things he wants to have. You have a wonderful system if the parents and the educational professionals all want to put child health first. Hopefully one day, that will be the case in the UK.
@@purplephoenix4969 That's insanity and child abuse. And then those same educators probably want to medicate those children for ADHD that they induced.
Intermittent fasting 2 meals a day, has worked for me. What Dr Tim said, the 5-2, for me would not work. I do low carb/ almost no carb, and no breakfast, and it os my preferred standard. My mom’s diet was not good, and she suffers from IBS, have been trying to teach her about better nutrition. Hopefully, I’ll be that grandma who teaches along with my children, my grands good nutrition!
I have been going on road trips with my grandchildren for the last decade. I have noticed the food quality and reusable packaging has improved. The snaking time out was so shocking to me.
Another excellent episode and so deeply healing and affirming. So much confusing information out there in the States that it is challenging to keep yourself well. I also notice much of the same evidence in my aging parents regarding how food impacts their health challenges and the confusing directives provided by their physicians (which so far, have not helped - very frustrating) Thank you both!
Thank you soooo much for giving me the validation to do what I've been doing (dietwise) and have always believed, where my own body is concerned. Have been a great fan of both of you for ages. I love doctors like you, you restore my faith in the medical profession. Jackie Leake
No one is talking about the nutritional benefit of breast feeding over bottle feeding of ANY milk…there is a biofeedback loop from baby’s saliva to mother’s milk glands that changes the composition of the milk during a feeding, and from feeding to feeding. Feeding from the breast also allows the baby to learn to respond properly to leptin and grehlin.
Thank you so much for sharing such an important subject. I have hyperactive thyroid for last few years and now I have developed a skin problems which call vitiligo. Currently I am not using any medication but In my research I have found out different food choice . One of your quotes always comes in my mind, you said "people know what to eat but they don't know how to". That's exactly happening in my daily life, I know which food will help me but some how I don't see much benefits of it. I wish I knew how to.
I'm appalled at the amount of junk food so many people eat in my circle. And I'm not talking about just snacks. Whole foods rarely ever cross their path. Eating a piece of fruit or having more than one vegetable at a meal, let alone in a day, is foreign to them. The other thing I see is constant grazing...we don't need to eat between meals and we do not need 3 meals a day either..AND the volume of food people eat amazes me. I grew up never eating until lunch time..that is when I broke the fast..no snacks before or after supper, and no treats like cookies, soda, etc daily..the were rare. And our portions of meat/animal were minuscule. We ate this way out of necessity b/c money was in short supply. AND none of us had excess weight. I abandoned most of that when I got dumb and began listening to the experts who told me I MUST eat breakfast, I must eat several times a day, I MUST avoid almost all fat, and I must have a minimum of 5 to 7 servings of fruits/veggies a day. No way could I eat what is 'required' per the experts. I got fat doing what they promoted. And I got sick..I finally woke up and realized the way I grew up eating was much better. In 2020 I had lost my appetite due to some sad things that happened and my food intake no longer driven by hunger resulted in me losing 20 pounds w/o trying. Prior I struggled to lose weight, it seemed nigh impossible. What I do now is prob. considered intermittent fasting b/c I eat twice a day and I only eat IF I'm hungry. I no longer feel like a slave to my appetite that was driven by too much sugar and too few nourishing foods.
Wim Hof, Tim Spector 👍🏼👊🏼 Two of my heroes with regard to well-being and you introduced me to a new addition to that list jenna macciochi whose book I'm reading. Keep up the good work man
@@lordnelsonmc.billionberg9166 Fair enough. Different breathing techniques have different benefits in different situations. I also am a fan of Butyeko breathing
Regarding snack breaks for school kids to keep them "topped up" -- I think there's something to that. They're probably eating a high sugar breakfast like pre-sweetened cereals and high-fructose-filled toaster tarts instead of bacon and eggs or some other higher fat breakfast. The sugars don't provide sustenance and satiety all morning so they run out of fuel mid-morning.
Excellent take on the real issues of Eating and Drinking right and looking at the Blue Zones of Longevity and considering all factors including indigenous living factors. Holistic Chef Barry is a former person living with extreme obesity more than 30 years ago and now today living in good health with a flat stomach and enjoying his new lease on life live on the pearl island of Phuket Thailand of the Garden Villa Phuket Retirement Vacation Nature Retreat.
I'm a HEc Foods/Nutrition Cooking teacher of grade 7/8's (11-13 year olds in central Canada) and primarily buy/use natural ingredients in my recipes. I try my best to avoid packaged ingredients in all my recipes (at home and at school). I teach themes that emphasize the enjoyment of unprocessed foods, limiting feedings (no need for snacks + breakfast is NOT the most important meal of the day - if you do have to eat breakfast, eat unpackaged foods), the importance of sleep and to enjoy moving every day. I really do believe in the value of unprocessed, natural whole foods without packaging (and if I have to use packaged ingredients, I use ingredients with a very short list). I hope this will have an impact on health in the next generation. I always joke that I'm teaching myself out of a job! Because if we only ate natural foods, we wouldn't need to spend so much time with food prep!!! The best meals take the least amount of effort!!!! Sadly, I'm a rare breed and most Foods/Nutrition teachers have been taught, at uni or at PD conferences, the exact opposite. I'm always having to defend myself and its exhausting. But, I'll keep doing what I'm doing and carry on because I really believe in it.
Very interesting podcast!!! I m from india and i am also on the same page when u discuss the harmfu effects of all day snacking esp in children. In india, children copy junk food like burgers, pizza, french fries from western countries. They do not understand the problems associated because that does not come on the internet. They watch western serials and want to eat what fashionable people eat. This is a great cause of concern.
It is not the burgers. It is the sweets that customers are persuaded to eat and drink along with the burgers, chicken, fish, or whatever healthy part of the meal.
Did Keto for a few months, Carnivore for a few weeks, and relatively loose IF since more than a year now. Even tho I do eat a lot carbs at the moment my hunger is very manageable. The problem is just getting people to start experimenting.
@@Phoenix-ov7vb There is a lot of signs. You will be able to better listen to your body. You will feel less hungry, have better mental clarity and your body will feel different. A lot of the fat adaption will happen quite quickly, meaning within a few weeks. But it can still improve over a long timespan. Just trust your body. Even if you aren't in Ketosis 100% of the time you will still have a lot of the benefits. If that isn't enough then you need to do blood tests.
My girls are exactly the same age as yours, Dr Rang. They mostly drink water at home, but their school is also really good about encouraging them to drink water. They have to bring a full bottle to school every day. I assumed this was a nationwide thing, but maybe not? (We're in Brighton.) Cool convo, btw.
I live in Cornwall & one day in 2021 I was at the Plymouth Dental college. One of the Dental supervisors told drinking milk is actually not good for our teeth.. He then went on to tell me about his friend Tim Spector. I bought his books & try & follow what he says.. I've lost about 3 stone & feel much better...
Spot on Spector! Mirrors my drug free experience since 2016- body weight drop 94kgs to 77kgs, athletic improvement, energy, libido, immune system MILES better - no frills healthy keto diet, most calories from fat, little processed food, intermittent fasting 2 days a week now even MORE improvement in year 4 - blessings from nz Aotearoa land of the long white cloud ♡ kia kaha kia toa- stand strong ♡
At last! Someone whose not trying to sell us a specific diet. Good quality meat, fish, 30 different fruit/veg a day and dine fermented food. Fabulous. Thank you for such an informative video. 😊
Regardless of your dietary choices - ethical vegan, ordinary vegan, vegetarian, vegan-arian, kinetic et.al. a growing cross-section of consumers are excluding factory farmed livestock and endangered/contaminated species of fish completely from their diet. Many consumers cannot afford the high price of ethically produced livestock or 'clean' fish such as wild Alaskan sockeye salmon. Have you seen the price of Certified Organic chickens lately? I have never found a restaurant that serves Organic chicken... that tells you everything.
i noticed that carbs make me sluggish while not eating gives me more energy. .after I lost my appetite. Have no idea why I lost it, I also lost 20 pounds without trying.
