214: Dr. Mark Hyman - What The Heck Should I Eat? • Ketogenic Diet Hype • Meat As A Condiment
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
4.6 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Mark Hyman is a practicing family physician, a ten-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, & advocate in his field. He is the director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. Mark is also the founder and medical director of the UltraWellness Center.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Why we're so confused about what to eat
- Why do health experts often have such contrasting opinions?
- What's the science say about consuming meat?
- Blood avocados?!?
- There's never been a voluntary vegan society in the history of humanity
- Why grass-fed meat is better
- Animals have to be part of the agriculture cycle to restore the soil
- You might be a vegetarian but your broccoli is actually a carnivore
- Thinking of meat as a condiment
- Organ meats are a great health food
- How we cook really matters
- Cholesterol is no longer a bad guy
- "What The Health" is a flawed documentary
- What to look for on the label of eggs
- Milk can lead to acne
- Fish are being intentionally mislabelled (scary!)
- The benefits of frozen fruit vs fresh
- Pick the fruits that are lower in sugar
- What are the fat fruits?
- Veggies you should always buy organic
- The hype around the ketogenic diet
- An MCT/coconut oil biohack that creates low-level ketosis
- Are beans a good protein solution?
- There's no such thing as essential carbohydrates
- Eating oatmeal creates a stress response in the body
- Stop drinking liquid calories, except...
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Related links:
Dr. Mark Hyman - Food: What The Heck Should I Eat? (book)
Follow Dr. Mark Hyman on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Dr. Mark Hyman - Eat Fat, Get Thin (book)
Listen to Dr. Mark Hyman previously on TUHP (episode #84, & #74)
Got Proof? Lack of Evidence for Milk's Benefits (Mark's blog post)
Listen to Dr. Neal Barnard previously on TUHP (episode #121)
Environmental Working Group (EWG)
Listen to Dr. Dom D'Agostino previously on TUHP (episode #133)
Listen to Leanne Vogel previously on TUHP (episode #174)
Listen to Mark Sisson previously on TUHP (episode #178)
Related episodes:
316: Dr. William Li – Is Your Diet Feeding Or Defeating Disease?
273: Dr. David Perlmutter – Grain Brain • Cholesterol Is Your Friend • What Is Keto Cycling?
223: Max Lugavere – Alzheimer's And The Ketogenic Diet • Genius Foods • Stop Skimping On Sleep
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| 0:00.0 | liver, for example, is one of the most nutrient-dense foods. |
| 0:03.0 | It's, you know, got far more vitamin C than, for example, even oranges or orange juice. Hello and |
| 0:15.0 | Jessie Chapp is here with Marnie Wasserman and we are here on a weekly basis to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:24.0 | This week we have a return guest on the show. |
| 0:26.0 | It's actually his third time on, Dr. Mark Hyman. |
| 0:29.0 | He's a practicing family physician, a 10-time number one New York Times best-selling |
| 0:34.4 | author, and an internationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in |
| 0:39.6 | his field. He's the director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine. |
| 0:44.0 | Mark is also the founder and medical director of the Ultra Wellness Center. |
| 0:47.0 | We are so thrilled to have Mark back on the show again, and yeah, as Jesse said, I can't believe it's |
| 0:51.5 | been three times. |
| 0:52.7 | And today we are featuring his new book, Food, What the Heck Should I Eat. |
| 0:56.5 | And this is a great book. |
| 0:58.3 | And I'm sure you guys are just as confused as we are |
| 1:01.0 | with all the varying health messages, food messages, diet philosophies |
| 1:04.9 | that are out there and what the heck should you eat? So what Mark does is he breaks down |
| 1:09.5 | food into different sections and really uses science to tell the reader what they should eat or at least have the options to choose from. |
| 1:17.0 | So here's some of the specifics of what we get into. |
| 1:20.0 | We get into why cholesterol is not the bad guy, what to look for when it comes to buying eggs, |
| 1:25.2 | why beans aren't a good protein solution, why organ meats are health food, and what are the fat fruits. |
| 1:32.4 | There are so much good information in this episode. |
| 1:34.0 | We're excited for you guys to figure out what the heck to eat. |
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