Part 211 - The #1 Trick To Not Get Fat - From Acclaimed Scientists Raubenheimer & Simpson
Peak Human - Unbiased Nutrition Info for Optimum Health, Fitness & Living
Brian Sanders
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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Stephen J. Simpson and Dr. David Raubenheimer are renowned scientists known for their work in the field of nutritional ecology. Their research primarily focuses on understanding how organisms, including humans, regulate their intake of nutrients and how this affects their health and behavior.
Dr. Stephen Simpson is an Academic Director of the Charles Perkins Centre and a Professor in the School of Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Sydney. His research has spanned several disciplines, from studying locusts to human obesity, and he has been influential in developing the field of nutritional ecology.
Dr. David Raubenheimer, also affiliated with the University of Sydney, holds the Leonard P. Ullmann Chair in Nutritional Ecology. His research involves the study of nutrition and its effects across a wide range of species, including humans. He has worked extensively on the concept of nutritional geometry, which is a framework for understanding how animals and humans make decisions about what and how much to eat.
Together, Simpson and Raubenheimer developed the "Protein Leverage Hypothesis," which suggests that the protein content of the diet can strongly influence total energy intake and thus has significant implications for understanding obesity. Their collaborative work has been pivotal in highlighting the complex interactions between diet composition, appetite, and health, making significant contributions to both basic biology and implications for human health and nutrition.
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(08:00) Every species studied in their natural, undisturbed environments thrive in their nutritional balance.
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(16:32) The protein leverage hypothesis (see study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22022472/#:~:text=The%20'protein%20leverage%20hypothesis'%20proposes,promote%20the%20development%20of%20obesity.) posits that we have a preference for protein over other macronutrients, and that the amount of protein we consume influences our appetite for carbs and fats afterwards.
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(28:07) Eating more, per se, isn't the problem. It's when that food is higher in energy density than fiber that leads to overeating and, by extension, obesity.
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(38:58) Much of the fruit we eat is not entirely natural due to the modification they go through in farms.
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(46:02) Over time, our bodies have adapted to thrive in the environment in which human beings find themselves. Today, we continue to adapt, but not necessarily for the better.
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(54:18) Even our circadian biology has been shaken up through modern sleep patterns and our supplementation with sleep pills and caffeine.
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| 0:20.0 | Hello everyone. Wow, it's been a while. Sorry for the long break. Had to take some time off for the holidays. Finished Food Lives episode one, we're now showing privately to production companies, studios, and some other key people. |
| 0:27.5 | So let me know if you know anyone in the industry, we need to get this on Netflix. |
| 0:31.5 | We need to get to the big players. |
| 0:33.0 | DM me on Instagram or email me. |
| 0:35.0 | That would be really appreciated. We need as much help as we can get. |
| 0:38.4 | Funding as well, Food Lives.org. |
| 0:40.9 | Thanks for that. And we're back for another season of Peak Human. |
| 0:45.0 | We're starting off with a bang with Dr Stephen Simpson and Dr David Robinheimer. |
| 0:50.0 | These guys came up with a protein leverage hypothesis. They've been doing amazing |
| 0:55.0 | work for 37 years together and I really love their book, Eat Like the Animals, |
| 1:00.0 | and I read it twice, and I just think they are amazing when you zoom out to really |
| 1:04.7 | understand nutrition not getting caught up in any diet of the day but looking at |
| 1:09.4 | it from an ecological perspective beyond any dietary camp this framework rings true. This is |
| 1:16.0 | everything and I've been talking about it for years and I finally got to |
| 1:19.6 | interview them. Everything makes sense when you think about it, how they do, and they've studied |
| 1:24.5 | over 40 animal species and they get the same result. |
| 1:28.1 | It comes back to protein leverage, it comes back to real foods, it comes back to having the natural environment that the animal evolved in. |
| 1:36.2 | And simply put, humans have left that natural environment and processed foods have taken over. |
| 1:41.5 | But this is the why. this is the why behind it. |
| 1:43.8 | Why do people overeat when no one wants to? |
| 1:46.1 | You'll get your answers in this episode. |
| 1:48.2 | Also, check out Back to Human Retreats.com. |
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