Fat & Gut Bacteria
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 3 April 2019
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Is there a difference between the fat found in an avocado and the fat found in a hamburger? What about the fat from nuts and the fat from bologna?
That's what we're going to find out on this episode of The Exam Room™ as Dr. Hana Kahleova sits down with the "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to discuss her groundbreaking research on both the quality and quantity of fat consumption in a vegan diet. What happened to the health and waistlines of participants over the course of a 16-week study was quite remarkable!
Then Dr. Steve Neabore travels back in time to when Chuck still weighed 420 pounds to perform an examination. At that point, his uncontrolled blood pressure was 190/110 and he was first given medication to treat hypertension in high school. Cholesterol and blood sugar were also trending in the wrong direction as was his waist, which had expanded to 66 inches around.
Dr. Neabore explains the metabolic damage being caused by the extreme high-fat diet and discusses exactly what is happening in the body as the chest begins to tighten and it becomes difficult to breathe even when taking just a few steps. What do the arteries look like at this point? How hard is the heart having to work?
Then the focus turns to gut bacteria as Dr. Leigh Frame joins the show to talk about the wildly popular research that's being done on microbiome. Scientists are finding that the link between health and the gut is even stronger than we thought thanks to advancements in DNA research. Fun fact: no two people have the exact same gut microbiome profile. So, what's in your gut is as unique as your fingerprint. But how will that fingerprint change if you drink green tea or red wine or switch to a plant-based diet? Find out!
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello there, and welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians |
| 0:10.0 | Committee. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:12.8 | I appreciate you being here, giving us a download of you, a list, and wherever it is |
| 0:16.2 | that you are, as always, appreciate it from the bottom of our hearts. |
| 0:22.3 | Question this week. |
| 0:24.1 | Does it really matter where we get our fat from? |
| 0:28.6 | Is there a difference between the fat that's found in an avocado versus the fat that's |
| 0:33.0 | found in a hamburger? |
| 0:34.0 | What about the fat that's found in nuts versus the fat, say, in a fried baloney sandwich? |
| 0:41.0 | In short, what we're going to find out on today's show is whether there is such a thing |
| 0:46.3 | as a healthy source of fat. |
| 0:49.5 | You know, eating too much fat is something that millions of us struggle with, and it's |
| 0:53.5 | so easy to do because those unhealthy, fat, heavy foods are literally everywhere. |
| 1:00.3 | They're in grocery stores, bending machines. |
| 1:03.1 | They're in your office, in your pantry, in your car. |
| 1:06.9 | They're on TV. |
| 1:07.9 | They're at the drive-thru. |
| 1:09.5 | We can't turn anywhere without seeing some sort of a high fat food. |
| 1:15.7 | So are some of those foods better than others? |
| 1:19.8 | We're going to find out as I sit down with Dr. Hanukaliyeva, who recently conducted |
| 1:24.1 | a study that examines the quality of fat versus the quantity of fat. |
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