Jonny Bowden: The Great Cholesterol Myth and How to Avoid Insulin Resistance

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

What is cholesterol? Is it beneficial or is it harmful to our body? How is it related to insulin resistance (and what the heck is insulin resistance in the first place)?

Looking back over the past few decades, the benefits and dangers of cholesterol have been constantly shifting – triggering a war on fat and popularizing both high and low-fat diets. It’s confusing, frustrating, and even more overwhelming. So what’s the truth?

In this episode of the Align Podcast, author of The Great Cholesterol Myth, Jonny Bowden, gives us the answers. Jonny explains why we have demonized cholesterol and why HDL cholesterol isn’t what we should be looking at as a predetermining factor for heart disease. And, he breaks down what the heck is cholesterol in the first place, the values of it in our body, blood, and brain, and how it actually gets produced in our body.

Plus, he dives into the close relationship between cholesterol and insulin resistance, which is one of the most leading factors of inflammation and heart disease. Essentially, if we are insulin resistance, our hormones and metabolism are all out of whack. But don’t worry, the good news is that it can be treated, prevented, and reversed by diet alone.

Jonny Bowden, PhD, C.N.S. is a nationally known expert on weight loss and nutrition and author of twelve books, including multiple best-sellers. Johny offers inspiring advice on weight, health and nutrition have been read by millions and he has contributed material to over 50 national magazines and newspapers.

What we discuss:

6:29: Why cholesterol was the wrong target for measuring the risk of heart disease

9:33: What it means to be insulin resistant

13:15: Issues associated with high blood sugar

17:53: Where did the low-fat diet evolve from?

20:54

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Lion Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement.
0:11.0	I want to start today off with a quote,
0:14.4	all of humanity's problems stem for man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.
0:20.4	That is French philosopher Pascal.
0:23.0	I think his first name is Blaze, Blaise, Blaise?
0:26.0	Blaise?
0:27.0	Oh God.
0:30.0	This is a rocky introduction, but that's okay. The guest of today is much less rocky than my introduction. It's Johnny Bowden. He is a fantastic evening. He's someone who I've followed for a very long time and like literally since I was 15 years old or something.
0:47.8	I got his first, I think the first book that I got from Johnny was a hundred most effective. It was either natural cures or
0:56.1	healthiest foods. I was done personal training stuff. I wanted to learn about nutrition and
1:00.1	Johnny was my guru back in the day.
1:02.6	So it was very interesting to get to reconnect with him today
1:06.2	in the modern world and call him a friend
1:08.2	and be able to reach out to him.
1:09.8	He's also here in LA, so we recorded here in Venice,
1:13.5	and really fun conversation.
1:15.5	We get into the reproduction of his book,
1:19.8	The Great Cholesterol Myth.
1:21.8	And so we break down what the freak cholesterol is in the first
1:24.4	place the values of it in our body in our blood and our brain and the way that it gets
1:30.1	produced in our body is it from nutrition nutrition? Is it from movement? Is there,
1:34.5	could there potentially be some emotional component to it? We get into all that stuff
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