690: 9 Out of 10 Americans Are Metabolically Unhealthy — Here's How to Fix It | Dr. Andrew Koutnik
The Jesse Chappus Show
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 120 minutes
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Dr. Andrew Koutnik is an award-winning scientist committed to producing and translating cutting-edge research into real world solutions for health, disease management and performance optimization.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on today's show. |
| 0:01.9 | I was a fat kid growing up. |
| 0:04.2 | I had obesity as a kid. |
| 0:06.0 | I failed for over half a decade on all these various diet strategies, and I eventually |
| 0:10.8 | found success with reliably and sustainably changing my diet. |
| 0:14.8 | All these things that happen to people, who cares if it's unfair? |
| 0:17.5 | You can use it as a tool on your journey to improve your health and use it |
| 0:22.8 | to empower yourself when people think, well, what should the healthy person do? Well, that's |
| 0:26.9 | an odd question to ask nowadays because that's actually the exception. Nine out of ten |
| 0:30.3 | Americans have some type of metabolic dysfunction. Nine out of ten of them would have either |
| 0:35.3 | an elevation in blood glucose levels, adverse changes in elevation in lipids like triglycerides, or one of these other biological biomarkers that we know are associated with health that are going in the wrong direction. I hope the sports nutrition industry will pay attention to this. These heavy amounts of carbohydrates that are being pushed onto athletes are not for free. |
| 0:53.3 | Lionel Sanders, a world champion iron |
| 0:55.3 | man competitor he went on to develop following the sports nutrition guidelines super lean exercising |
| 1:01.2 | sometimes four plus hours per day pre diabetes with the doctor got his blood work back everything |
| 1:05.8 | looked good except for his glucose levels we're going into the pre diabetes range i'm going to give you |
| 1:09.7 | the three free tips |
| 1:11.4 | anyone could have to try to improve their health. No one's making money off this. This is just what |
| 1:16.3 | works. Number one. Andrew, when it comes to the keto diet, who would you say it's right for |
| 1:25.9 | and who would you say it's not? I think the first thing we |
| 1:29.3 | should talk about is what it's not good for, right? I think that's a term that we typically use |
| 1:34.5 | in medical science or clinical work called contraindications. And so contraindications are |
| 1:41.1 | examples of what you would not use something for, right, where it could be |
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