388: Being Ketotarian with Dr. Will Cole
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
When you’re fasting, your body undergoes rapid healing that is very well-documented and exciting, but it’s also extremely impractical. When you spend a few days without eating, you’re weak, tired, hangry, and no good for much of anything except lying around the pool (hence the need for fasting resorts). But what if there was a way to get many of the same hormone-balancing and neuroprotective benefits of fasting while still eating and feeling good? This is where ketosis comes in, and while it’s turned into a fad diet, the real uses for the occasional reset are timeless and relatively simple to use.
Listen & Learn:
- Why ketosis is anti-inflammatory
- How it takes time to adapt to eating healthier fat
- Why the real exciting health changes are in the boring middle (not the extremes)
- How to think about food and nutrition from a balanced perspective
- Why inflammation can often be the deeper underlying issue with many fads in health
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About Our Guest
Dr. Will Cole promotes functional-medicine and specializes in clinically investigating underlying factors of chronic disease and customizing health programs for thyroid issues, autoimmune conditions, hormonal dysfunctions, digestive disorders, and brain problems.
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| 0:00.0 | When we look at a plate of food and we think about the macro nutrients, meaning the nutrients in that food that have calories, |
| 0:10.0 | we look at fats and proteins and carbs. Those are the three macros. |
| 0:13.4 | If you go talk to a bodybuilder and they say, |
| 0:15.1 | hey, bro, are you counting your macros? |
| 0:17.0 | That's what they're talking about. |
| 0:18.1 | Fat and protein and carbs. |
| 0:20.1 | And the reason the bodybuilder is counting their macros, the reason the bodybuilders counting their macros, |
| 0:22.6 | the reason the bodybuilders obsessed with macros, |
| 0:25.7 | because if you had to pick one thing that had the most leverage |
| 0:28.1 | in terms of your waistline, in terms of your muscle mass, |
| 0:30.4 | in terms of your metabolism, your hormones, the way you look and you feel, macros are definitely |
| 0:34.7 | very important. |
| 0:35.7 | So a lot more to diet than just macros, but if all you did was balance your macros, you can do a lot. |
| 0:40.8 | It can be really, really helpful. |
| 0:41.8 | It's a very high leverage place to start |
| 0:44.3 | and most people don't even get that far and so it's definitely a good place to take a look. |
| 0:48.3 | There is a fourth macronutrient aside from fats, proteins and, and it's called ketones. |
| 0:53.6 | Ketones are a macronutrient created by your body and they have very, very interesting effects. |
| 0:58.9 | They come out during periods of fasting, but there are also ways to induce ketosis through diets by |
| 1:06.0 | eating a specific way specifically really high fat and low-carb which we'll get |
| 1:09.3 | into in just a moment when you get these ketones in your system, they do some really interesting things. |
| 1:14.1 | They're neuroprotective, they reduce inflammation, they can improve your cognition, they can |
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