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The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

#044 - Cyrus Khambatta, PHD and Robby Barbaro MPH: The Benefits Of High Carb Low Fat, Mastering Diabetes, Blood Sugar And Insulin Regulation, Saturate...

The Melanie Avalon Biohacking Podcast

Melanie Avalon

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.5650 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Transcript

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0:00.0

When you zone in on one dietary style, it's easy to cherry pick evidence.

0:04.3

Don't pay attention to the information on the opposite side.

0:07.1

When you're constantly putting fatty acids inside of a cell, your liver and muscle absorb those fatty acids.

0:11.6

The cell goes into a sort of high energy fed state in a short period of time.

0:15.4

What the cell is actually trying to do is say, hey, look, I don't want more energy. How can I block more energy that says, okay, what if we were to block insulin from

0:23.6

signal, which then causes a traffic jam inside of your blood?

0:26.6

As you decrease fat intake and increased carbohydrate intake, you actually see an improvement

0:31.6

and insulin sensitivity.

0:32.8

Welcome to the Melanie Avalon biohacking podcast, where we meet the world's top experts to explore the

0:40.0

secrets of health, mindset, longevity, and so much more. Are you ready to take charge of your

0:46.7

existence and biohack your life? This show is for you. Please keep in mind, we're not dispensing

0:53.1

medical advice and are not responsible for any

0:55.9

outcomes you may experience from implementing the tactics lying here in. Are you ready? Let's do this.

1:05.1

Welcome back to the Melanie Avalon Biohacking podcast. How excited are you guys? This episode has been so long awaited. It is a

1:13.2

paradigm shifter for sure, at least for me personally, as well as a lot of my audience.

1:19.3

I get so many questions about high carb, low fat diets, and especially the potentially

1:23.4

controversial idea that they can actually help insulin and blood sugar regulation.

1:28.7

I knew I had to do an episode on it.

1:30.7

And the second I read the Instant New York Times bestseller, mastering diabetes, I knew who I had

1:36.3

to interview about it.

1:37.8

That is Cyrus and Robbie.

1:39.3

I love them so much because I truly get the sense that they aren't trying to cherry pick,

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