How Fat Can Disrupt Your Gut | Live Q&A with Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
What effect does a high-fat diet like keto have on gut health? A pretty big one!
Dr. Will Bulsiewicz joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room™ to explore what loading up on a menu full of meat and fat can do to the microbiome and your health!
They also chew the fat about plenty of other health issues during this live Q&A!
- How the body processes trans fat and saturated fat compared to unsaturated fat
- Whether any fats are beneficial to gut health
- How to reset gut microbiome after taking antibiotics
- The effect of intermittent fasting on gut health
- And many more!
Plus, Chuck reports on a study of more than 15,000 people that shows the significant effect that replacing red meat with mushrooms can have on your health.
If you have a question you'd like to ask the experts on the show, tweet it to @ChuckCarrollWLC using #ExamRoomLive.
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Dr. Will Bulsiewicz
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IG: @theguthealthmd
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Mushroom Study
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Chuck Carroll
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Twitter: @ChuckCarrollWLC
Facebook: http://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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Barnard Medical Center Telemedicine
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Physicians Committee
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| 0:00.0 | Remember a few years ago when Time Magazine had a cover that said, |
| 0:03.6 | butter is back. |
| 0:05.4 | Is butter back? Really? Butter is back? |
| 0:08.4 | Butter is back when you compare it to Crisco. |
| 0:11.8 | Butter is back if you compare it to trans fats. |
| 0:15.4 | Because the least healthy fat that exists are trans fats. |
| 0:20.1 | And it's like raw sewage. There is nothing redeeming about trans fats. |
| 0:24.0 | There's very little that's redeeming about saturated fats. |
| 0:26.9 | Science suggests that saturated fats cause damage to the gut microbiome. |
| 0:31.6 | Disrupt the microbiome into a pattern that we describe as dysbiosis. |
| 0:40.6 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:44.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:47.8 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us. |
| 0:51.8 | This is episode 39 of season 4, number 234 overall. |
| 0:58.3 | And today we are starting with a focus on fat. |
| 1:02.6 | And what fat does to your gut. |
| 1:05.6 | And no, we're not talking about a little bit of flap here. |
| 1:09.6 | We are talking about doing a deeper dive on the inside, |
| 1:14.4 | taking a closer look at gut health overall. |
| 1:17.4 | Specifically, how can a high fat diet? |
| 1:20.8 | One that's loaded with meat. |
| 1:23.1 | What effect does that have on your microbiome? |
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