CARBS: Toxic or Necessary? A Top 10 Episode with Dr. David Perlmutter
The Human Upgrade: Biohacking for Longevity & Performance
Dave Asprey
4.6 • 7.4K Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to Your Upgraded Summer!
This new series revisits the Top 10 Bulletproof Radio episodes of all time. The topics cover essentials like nutrition, energy, hormones, sleep and autophagy, as well as gut, brain, autoimmune and women's health.
You'll get the main points in a shortened version so you can get the good stuff and get on with your summer plans. And if you want to listen to more, tune in to the original episode.
First up is Dr. David Perlmutter with the No. 1 show: Why You Desperately Need Carbs – Dr. David Perlmutter #553.
Dr. Perlmutter focuses critical attention on brain health, lifestyle, and nutrition that maintains health and prevents diseases. He's a board-certified neurologist and five-time New York Times bestselling author. No. 1 was "Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth About Wheat, Carbs and Sugar–Your Brain's Silent Killers." This landmark book made the connection between grains and brain health.
Here's what Dr. Perlmutter says:
- "This is very important. It is carbohydrate confusion because we desperately, desperately need carbs. So many people adopt a ketogenic program and totally abandon their carbohydrate intake and what happens? They feel crappy, they become constipated, they get brain fog, they don't sleep well, they're agitated and it's all because they fail to understand that we have to be quite specific when we talk about carbohydrates."
- "We are desperately in need of fiber in the diet, which is by definition a complex carbohydrate that we don't metabolize, but is yet metabolized by our gut bacteria."
- "When we throw that baby out with the bathwater, we set the stage for not nurturing the 100 billion organisms that live within us that really depend on your food choices, 100 trillion, depend on your food choices to nurture them to allow you to not just be healthy, but be healthier, to be able to combat risk of illness moving forward."
His other bestsellers include "Brain Maker," "The Grain Brain Cookbook", "The Grain Brain Whole Life Plan," and "Brain Wash," co-written with Austin Perlmutter, M.D.
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| 0:00.0 | This summer, we get to set down our fear and anxiety and open up to travel and gathering and |
| 0:05.3 | hugging again. So I know that you and I are going to be spending time outside and getting back to |
| 0:10.0 | all the activities that make us better versions of ourselves. That's why I've put together a new |
| 0:15.5 | podcast series for you called Your Upgraded Summer. These are top 10 all-time bulletproof radio |
| 0:21.8 | episodes edited for you in a new way to be only 30 minutes so they work for you when you're |
| 0:27.3 | spending your time outside. You're going to learn how to improve your nutrition, your sleep, |
| 0:30.9 | your brain, your hormones, your immune system, and your energy. And these are the things that people |
| 0:36.0 | most wanted to hear, the most popular topics. Listen to one, listen to handful, listen to all 10 |
| 0:41.8 | but know that you'll be joining millions of people who enjoyed this content the most and ask for more. |
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