Ep. 14 Science Vs Bullsh*t - Resistant Starch, Berberine, Debunking Meal Timing Myths
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Emma Storey-Gordon
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🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today I've had quite a lot of questions, or this week I've had quite a lot of questions. |
| 0:03.9 | The two main ones I really want to cover, which I have had over the last couple of weeks in numerous ways, are resistance starch, which comes around every couple of years because there's obviously a claim that you can make, or maybe not obvious. |
| 0:17.4 | But you may have heard people make this claim that if you freeze bread |
| 0:22.8 | and then defrost it, it has less calories in it, or if you make some form of starchy carb like |
| 0:30.6 | pasta, rice, oats, potato, those kind of things. And then you allow them to cool that you form resistant starch and then less calories |
| 0:42.8 | are absorbed. |
| 0:43.5 | And this actually isn't a lie, like this is true. |
| 0:47.8 | But I'm going to come on to the most important part of that, which is like to what extent |
| 0:51.6 | is that true and should we actually care about it? |
| 0:54.0 | And then I've been asked quite a lot about Berberin as well, which is like to what extent is that true and should we actually care about it? |
| 0:57.7 | And then I've been asked quite a lot about Burbrain as well, which has now been coined Nature's a Zempic. And all of this stuff is kind of funny because it's been around for years |
| 1:03.1 | and years and years. And when you're as old lady in the fitness industry as I am, |
| 1:09.4 | you've seen it all before. And it just comes in these quite interesting |
| 1:13.6 | cycles. And then if anyone does have any questions or things that they've seen and they're |
| 1:19.1 | unsure of, feel free to fire away. And I will try and capture them on every single platform, |
| 1:24.3 | which is Facebook and Instagram and substack all at the same time if my computer |
| 1:31.2 | doesn't die. |
| 1:32.1 | So, resistant starch, I think is actually quite an interesting topic. |
| 1:38.9 | Someone sent me, I think it was a reel by Stacey Sims talking about not so much the caloric value of it actually, |
| 1:46.9 | but that it would improve the gut microbiome. And there's also like an element of truth in this as well. |
| 1:52.7 | So what does happen when you cook carbs and then cool them, I think she was talking about a sweet potato, |
| 1:59.0 | is some of the carbs, or some of the |
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