Metabolic Freedom is the Key to Longevity and Healing Chronic Inflammation with Ben Azadi
Dr. Jockers Functional Nutrition
Dr. Jockers
4.8 • 688 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Dr. Jockers and Ben Azadi discuss metabolic freedom and its impact on longevity and inflammation. You'll learn why staying in sugar-burning mode harms your health and how fat-burning mode promotes healing.
Ben shares his journey from obesity to metabolic health and explains why metabolic flexibility is key to disease prevention. He highlights how fasting resets your metabolism and activates autophagy for cellular repair.
Discover how insulin affects fat burning and why lowering its levels boosts energy. Ben also covers how the right foods support metabolic health and the importance of reducing constant snacking.
In This Episode:
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00:00 The Shocking Truth About French Fries and Cigarettes
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03:08 Metabolic Freedom: Key to Longevity
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05:18 Understanding Metabolic Health
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06:35 The State of Metabolic Health in America
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11:01 The Importance of Insulin in Metabolic Health
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17:56 Calories vs. Hormones: The Real Debate
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20:46 Feast and Famine: Ancestral Eating Patterns
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26:06 The Dangers of Seed Oils
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29:40 Healthy Fats vs. Seed Oils
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30:07 The Hidden Dangers of Canola Oil
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30:27 Avoiding Seed Oils When Dining Out
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30:50 The Impact of Seed Oils on Your Body
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31:09 Understanding Stomach Acid and Digestion
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32:19 The Benefits of Digestive Bitters
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32:58 Autophagy: The Body's Cleanup Process
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33:33 The Role of Phosphatidylcholine
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33:55 Autophagy and Fasting
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34:03 The Refrigerator Analogy for Autophagy
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35:17 The Process of Apoptosis
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35:29 Fasting and Exercise
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36:31 The Importance of Metabolic Flexibility
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37:53 Preparing for Fasting
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41:15 The Concept of Hormesis
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43:34 Balancing Cortisol and Growth Hormone
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48:02 Daily Routines for Optimal Health
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52:56 The Wolverine Stack for Recovery
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Website: https://www.benazadi.com/
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| 0:00.0 | So essentially, one French fry cooked in vegetable oil is equivalent to one tobacco cigarette smoked |
| 0:06.5 | in terms of the aldehyde content. |
| 0:09.0 | It's crazy. |
| 0:10.0 | I mean, you think about it. |
| 0:11.7 | That means you may have never smoked a cigarette in your life, but if you've eaten 10,000 |
| 0:17.1 | french fries cooked in vegetable oil, which I have when I was younger. You've essentially smoked 10,000 cigarettes. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello and welcome to the Dr. Jockers functional nutrition podcast, the show designed to give you |
| 0:31.4 | science-based solutions to improve your health and life. I'm Dr. David Jockers, doctor of natural medicine, and creator of Dr.jockers.com, and I'm the host of |
| 0:42.6 | this podcast. |
| 0:43.8 | I'm here to tell you that your body was created to heal itself. |
| 0:47.6 | And on this show, we focus on strategies you can apply today to heal and function at your best. |
| 0:54.0 | Thanks for spending time with me me and let's go into the |
| 0:56.8 | show. If you're into good nutrition, you've probably purchased a protein bar or energy bar before |
| 1:04.9 | and there are some really big problems with these bars. Number one, the bars that taste good |
| 1:10.3 | are typically not good for you. In fact, |
| 1:12.0 | many protein bars have as much sugar as a candy bar. They have junk ingredients like artificial |
| 1:17.3 | flavors and sweeteners and really low quality toxic protein like soy protein. Some have barely |
| 1:25.2 | any protein and they should really be called carb bars because they |
| 1:28.4 | are just so full of sugar. And they also have lots of scary additives you don't want in your |
| 1:32.7 | body. Honestly, you're probably better off eating a candy bar than most mainstream health bars. |
| 1:38.0 | The second big problem is that the bars that are better for you typically taste terrible. You know what I'm talking about? |
| 1:45.9 | They're chalky, chewy. Many of them have a really strong artificial sweetener flavor that you just |
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