084: Dr. Mark Hyman - Saturated Fat Isn't The Enemy | Eat Fat, Get Thin | Stop Fearing Cholesterol
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2016
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week, we have Dr. Mark Hyman back on the show for round 2. We talk about the subject of his new book, Eat Fat, Get Thin. This book shatters the old paradigm that had us fearing the consumption of saturated fat and cholesterol. It's time we stop fearing fat.
Mark is a 9 time #1 New York Times bestselling author who is on a mission to transform healthcare. He tackles the root causes of chronic illness through functional medicine. Mark is a practicing family physician and an internationally recognized leader in his field.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The only 2 cholesterol tests that matter
- Saturated fat isn't the enemy
- Saturated fat mixed with sugar or refined carbs is the problem... sweet fat
- We need to start using statin drugs intelligently
- Eating fat speeds up your metabolism
- Mark's evolution from being chubby in his early thirties to fit at 56
- How can we get people to stop fearing fat?
- Your body is the best doctor in the room
- Curb your cravings with fat
- Sugar is more addictive than cocaine
- Carbohydrate intolerance, what is it?
- FLC Syndrome, do you feel like crap?
- Nutritionism has gotten us into a lot of trouble
- Be smart about buying packaged foods
- A low-fat vegan diet isn't the answer
- Meat should be eaten as a condiment
- Yes vegans and vegetarians can get enough fat from their diets
- We've been brainwashed by doctors and the media to think that cholesterol is bad
- Should we consider butter, coconut oil, and palm oil health foods?
- There are two types of LDL, the so-called bad cholesterol
- Boost your brain and metabolism with MCT oil
- Coconut oil vs. palm oil
- Vegan and paleo diets are very similar, overall
Related links:
Dr. Mark Hyman - Eat Fat, Get Thin (book) and Q&A video
Follow Dr. Mark Hyman on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Dr. Mark Hyman - The Blood Sugar Solution 10-Day Detox Diet (book)
Dr. Mark Hyman - Got Proof? Lack of Evidence for Milk's Benefits (blog post)
The Fat Summit hosted by Dr. Mark Hyman
Listen to Dr. Mark Hyman previously on TUHP (episode #074)
Quest Diagnostics - The Cardio IQ Report
Dr. Assem Malhotra - Saturated fat is not the major issue (BMJ)
Dr. David Ludwig - Always Hungry (book)
Listen to Dave Asprey previously on TUHP (episode #061)
Artisana Organics - Coconut Butter
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174: Leanne Vogel – Get Fat-Adapted • What’s A Carb Up? • Vegans Can Go Keto, Too
196: Sarah Wilson – I Quit Sugar • Living As A Nomad • A New Way To Look At Balance
244: Dr. Will Cole – Plant-Based Keto Diet • Women & Ketosis • Fats For Brain Health
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the 84th episode of the Ultimate Health Podcast |
| 0:14.0 | Jesse Chappas here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:16.0 | and we are here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:19.0 | Today we have a return guest |
| 0:22.0 | and one of our favorite guests of the past 83 shows |
| 0:26.0 | Dr Mark Hyman and he was on episode 74 if you want to listen to that one you don't need to before listening to |
| 0:34.4 | this but you would go to ultimate health podcast dot com slash zero seven four |
| 0:39.4 | Dr Hyman has a new book out right now called Eat Fat Get Thin and we just had a fabulous conversation. |
| 0:47.0 | So Jesse and I are just at the tail end of our vacation in Florida. |
| 0:51.0 | We're in sunny Sarasota and we got very lucky this week because the weather wasn't great. in to have been able to get away for a little bit over the winter in Toronto and you know I think just the point to make here is just how important it is to stop and take a break. |
| 1:10.3 | I literally had to pull Jesse away from from Toronto to get on this vacation and I think just as a message to all you guys if you have a chance |
| 1:17.4 | Whether it's one day one week however amount of time you can get away for it to take a break and if you can get |
| 1:23.1 | summer sunny even better but if not just the stopping the relaxing of course we |
| 1:26.8 | still did work but we had a chance to rest relax sleep a little bit we don't |
| 1:31.5 | really sleep in but when we were sleeping it was definitely more restful |
| 1:35.0 | because we're not in our same normal routine. |
| 1:37.0 | So yeah, I just want to kind of close on that |
| 1:40.0 | as we're sad to be leaving Florida, |
| 1:42.0 | but we're also excited because we're a week out |
| 1:43.4 | from getting our doggy goji which will be next weekend this time so lots to |
| 1:47.3 | look forward to back at home. Yeah I definitely feel really rested rejuvenated |
| 1:51.5 | we were here about a week and a half total and we got a |
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