Welcome to the Dr. Gundry Podcast. The weekly podcast where Dr. G gives you the tools you need to boost your health and live your healthiest life.

I know we all have busy lives and you're tired of scouring the internet for real information on how to revolutionize your health.

That's why I'm here with a new series of short and sweet episodes that can save you time and even your life.

Stay tuned while I get straight to the point on some of the best life-changing health tips.

Does this really help melt the fat away?

I'm going to talk to you about four fat burning myths and my number one secret for melting fat fast.

Alright, myth number one, counting calories helps you lose weight.

Here's the bad news, a calorie isn't a calorie.

The idea that calories count came from a time when none of us knew about the existence of the human microbiome,

that huge collection of bacteria, fungi, parasites that live in our gut.

We didn't know how much food, how many calories the microbiome was potentially able to eat.

We, for themselves, we also didn't know that types of bacteria are really good at extracting calories from the food you eat and giving them to you.

We also didn't know that bacteria are really good at controlling your desire for certain foods, particularly high calorie sugars and concentrated sugars and fats like saturated fats.

So we didn't know any of this.

The fact is that if we have a proper microbiome and we give the microbiome the types of calories in fibers that they want to eat,

they can eat much of your food and actually control your appetite.

As you know from unlocking the keto code, there's a beautiful experiment that was done with Chinese where they were put on either a seven or 14 day water fast.

Half the group got 100 calories of prebiotic fiber.

If you listen prebiotic fiber, we cannot digest, but our gut buddies, our microbiome loves it and they eat it.

The group that was given the prebiotic fiber had no hunger despite a seven day or 14 day water fast.

That's because the bacteria said, hey, we got what we need to eat, you don't have to go looking for food.

It's called the gut centric theory of hunger and it's really empowering to know that you can give your bacteria control over what you eat.

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