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Ep. 14 Science Vs Bullsh*t - Resistant Starch, Berberine, Debunking Meal Timing Myths

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Emma Storey-Gordon

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.9669 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Understanding Resistant Starch

Exploring Berberine and Its Claims

Debunking Meal Timing Myths

Caloric Intake and Metabolism Insights
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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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