137: Dr. Sylvia Tara - Visceral Fat... The Dangerous Type Of Fat • Stop Eating Carbs And Fat Together • The Gut-Fat Connection
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Sylvia Tara holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California at San Diego and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She's the author of The Secret Life of Fat and blogs at Science to Live By.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Sylvia's story and how her body is really good at holding onto fat
- Why does fat stick more to some people compared to others?
- Bacteria can impact your waistline
- The functions of fat in our bodies
- Fat is an organ
- Gaining extra weight could permanently alter your metabolism
- Is body fat percentage a useful measurement?
- Women naturally store more fat then men do
- The 3 types of fat - brown, beige, and white fat
- Convert beige fat to brown fat through exercise and cold exposure
- Visceral fat... the dangerous type of fat
- Sumo wrestlers are fit but fat
- An easy way to test for visceral fat, at home
- We get fatter as we get older due to hormonal changes
- The gut-fat connection
- Change your microbiome for the better by eating more fruits and vegetables
- Boost your release of growth hormone with intermittent fasting
- How Sylvia eats throughout the day
- Women tie emotions to food more then men do
- Eating fat and carbs together will put more fat on your body
- Different people can have a different blood sugar response to the same food
- Building up your self control muscle
- Sylvia's message to the person out there who is struggling to maintain a healthy body weight
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Dr. Sylvia Tara - The Secret Life of Fat (book)
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Barry Sears - Enter The Zone (book)
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| 0:00.0 | And the Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 137. |
| 0:19.0 | Jesse Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman |
| 0:21.0 | and we are here each and every week to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:25.0 | Today our featured guest is Dr. Sylvia Tara who holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California |
| 0:31.9 | at San Diego and an MBA from the Wharton's the University of California of Pennsylvania. |
| 0:34.0 | She's the author of the University of Pennsylvania. |
| 0:38.0 | She's the author of The Secret Life of Fat |
| 0:40.0 | and blogs at Science to Live By. |
| 0:42.0 | Today we're getting really deep into her new book, |
| 0:44.5 | The Secret Life of Fat, |
| 0:46.0 | and we are gonna show you guys the other side of Fat |
| 0:48.2 | and how it's an actual vital organ |
| 0:50.4 | that we need to have thriving health. |
| 0:53.0 | So in this episode we don't just get into dietary fat. |
| 0:56.0 | What we're focusing on is the fat in our body. |
| 0:59.0 | And I think this is a really important subject matter because people fear fat and the fat that we that we have on our body. |
| 1:05.8 | So hopefully Dr Sylvia Terre will bring some light to the situation. |
| 1:09.3 | It was such a great conversation and we can't wait for you guys to hear it. |
| 1:13.0 | So in a few minutes here we're going to share some of the highlights from today's show, |
| 1:16.6 | but first we're going to get into a couple other things starting with an iTunes review. |
| 1:21.2 | This review is titled Fascinating Info, A Five Star Review. This review is titled Fascinating Info, A Five Star Review by She Let the Meat Cake. |
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