564: These “Healthy” Foods Cause Weight Gain, Insulin Resistance & Diabetes (Avoid Them) | Prof. Tim Noakes
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2023
⏱️ 107 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/564proftimnoakes
Prof. Tim Noakes is a researcher, educator and author. He is well known for challenging common and old paradigms in the discipline of exercise physiology.
Prof. Noakes has published more than 750 scientific books and articles. He has been cited more than 16,000 times in scientific literature.
Prof. Noakes has won numerous awards over the years and is the author of several books on exercise & diet.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Insulin resistance is the root cause of chronic disease
- The development of insulin resistance
- How genetics impact insulin resistance
- Classic signs you have insulin resistance
- Why do doctors treat diabetes with insulin?
- A high carbohydrate diet leads to diabetes
- Fat burners are metabolically healthier than carb burners
- Exercise during a fasted state
- Do carbs actually make you run faster?
- Your metabolism functions better on lower carbs
- Are you sugar addicted?
- A low-carb diet treats hunger cues
- What Prof. Noakes eats
- Berberine vs. Metformin
- Does berberine impact the microbiome?
- Supplement recommendations for low-carb eaters
- Prof. Noakes' experience with the carnivore diet
- His thoughts on fish oil supplements
- Intermittent fasting is a marker of metabolic flexibility
- Diabetes causes arterial disease
- Is a low-carb plant-based diet realistic?
- Dementia is linked to a low-fat diet
- Resistance training improves metabolic health
- Prof. Noakes on trial
- The pharmaceutical industry's control over medicine
- Change your metabolic health today!
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Related links:
Prof. Tim Noakes' website (The Noakes Foundation)
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Prof. Tim Noakes, Marika Sboros - Real Food on Trial (book)
Prof. Tim Noakes, Jonno Proudfoot, Sally-Ann Creed - The Real Meal Revolution (book)
Listen or watch Dr. William Davis previously on TUHP (episodes #153, #455, and #559)
Listen or watch Dr. Jason Fung previously on TUHP (episodes #369, #380, #467, #496, #510, and #523)
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Avoid These Foods to Fix Insulin Resistance (You Can Still Eat Carbs) | Dr. Paul Saladino (#554)
Heart Surgeon Reveals What to Eat to Lose Weight & Prevent Disease | Dr. Philip Ovadia (#540)
Scientist Reveals the Weight Loss Diet That Never Fails! | Dr. Eric Westman (#531)
Follow This Diet to Reverse Insulin Resistance & Type 2 Diabetes | Dr. Ahmet Ergin (SugarMD) #526
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | So for 33 years, I promoted the carbohydrate diet and it took me to get sick and when I got sick |
| 0:09.0 | and felt fat and lazy and couldn't run properly, I was ready for change. |
| 0:14.0 | And that's the moment, the moment you're ready for change, then all this information suddenly makes sense. |
| 0:20.0 | Type 2 diabetes and these other chronic disease are reversible if you catch them early enough. |
| 0:25.0 | If you are telling diabetic patients to eat anything but a low carbohydrate diet, that is no practice. That is gross malpractice. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast Episode 564. |
| 0:44.0 | I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:47.0 | Each week I'll bring you a long form conversations with health and wellness leaders from around the world. |
| 0:52.0 | This week I'm chatting with Prof Tim Knokes. |
| 0:55.0 | Prof Knokes is a researcher, educator and author. |
| 0:58.0 | He is well known for challenging common and old paradigms and the discipline of exercise physiology. |
| 1:04.0 | Prof Knokes has published more than 750 scientific books and articles. He's been cited more than 16,000 times in scientific literature. |
| 1:13.0 | Prof Knokes has won numerous awards over the years and is the author of several books on exercise and diet. |
| 1:20.0 | Highlights of our conversation include what is the root cause of chronic disease, a high carb diet leads to diabetes, the carbs actually make you run faster, |
| 1:30.0 | does burbring impact the microbiome, and the pharmaceutical industries control over medicine. |
| 1:36.0 | As always, if you'd prefer to watch versus listen, this full conversation is available over on YouTube. |
| 1:42.0 | You can get there by going to ultimatehealthpodcast.com slash YouTube. |
| 1:46.0 | After you're done watching, be sure and subscribe you don't want to miss any of the action. |
| 1:50.0 | If as you're listening to this you can think of somebody right now that could benefit from the information, please share the episode with them and help them out. |
| 1:57.0 | Thank you so much. Without further ado, here we go with Prof Tim Knokes. |
| 2:02.0 | In your opinion right now, the most important medical condition is insulin resistance. |
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