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The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin

061: Gary Taubes - Why We Get Fat, What Calories In vs Calories Out Gets Wrong, and How to Lose Weight Using a High-Fat Keto Diet

The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin

Dr. Anthony Gustin

Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.72.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

You’ve been told that you need to eat less and exercise more.

But, if you’ve already tried this route, then you know firsthand that it doesn’t work.

Instead of throwing in the towel and feeling like weight loss is impossible for you, tune into this episode to discover strategies to fix this.

As an investigative health and science journalist and researcher, Gary’s spent the last two decades studying the science of fat.

He’s authored several books and made it his mission to uncover why people get fat, why it’s hard to lose fat, and what to do.

And you’ll hear all about this and more in this podcast episode.

Gary also shares the research behind these claims and why many refuse to accept it despite having a mountain of evidence to support it.

You’ll also discover the real culprit behind the obesity epidemic and what it takes to fix this.

So if you’ve ever struggled to lose weight, especially following the calories in vs calories out method, you don’t want to miss this episode.

Check it out now to find out how you can finally tap into your own fat burning potential.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and thank you for tuning into the Keto Answers podcast.

0:08.4

I'm your host Dr. Anthony Guston and joining me this week is journalist Gary Talbz.

0:13.6

Gary has been a very controversial figure in the health and nutrition space for a very

0:17.5

long time.

0:18.5

He's one of the first guys to come out and say, hey, I don't think that eating carbs makes

0:23.6

a lot of sense and I think I have another reason why people are fat and a solution to

0:28.1

get you guys out of that.

0:29.5

And so he's been sort of this internet figure and he's written a lot of great books,

0:33.2

good calories, bad calories, why we get fat in his latest, the case against sugar.

0:38.1

And so Gary Dibz and super, super deep.

0:40.5

He has a very interesting background and we get into the weeds here.

0:44.1

So starts a little slow but ramps up and we get into his opinion on really what makes

0:49.1

people fat and how to lose weight in a lot of different ways he thinks about it.

0:52.9

Super, super useful.

0:53.9

So if you're somebody who is an interested in what makes people fat, how do you say fat

0:58.2

and how to get rid of fat?

0:59.2

It's a really great science on all things fat accumulation.

1:03.7

And if you disagree with them, that I think this is an amazing chat.

1:06.2

So without further ado, I bring you my conversation with Gary Taubes.

1:10.8

Before we get to the episode, I wanted to chat about a sponsor, Perfect Keto.

1:14.5

Perfect Keto is all about making a ketogenic diet healthy and accessible.

1:17.2

Whether you're reading all of our online guides or articles or enjoying Perfect Keto's

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