The Pegan Diet: Have Fats With Every Meal
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
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🗓️ 12 February 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this episode of the doctor's pharmacy. |
| 0:02.8 | Do not eat saturated fat and combo with starch and sugar, which is mostly how people consume them. |
| 0:09.2 | That causes weight gain, inflammation, diabetes, dementia, heart disease, you name it. |
| 0:17.2 | Welcome to the doctor's pharmacy. I'm Dr. Mark Heimann. That's Pharmacy Lenef, F-A-R-M-A-C-Y. |
| 0:22.0 | And this is a special episode. A little part of a mini episode series on my new book, |
| 0:26.4 | The Peecan Diet, 21 Practical Principles for reclaiming your health in a nutritionally confusing world. |
| 0:32.7 | You can order right now, go to pegan diet.com, check it out. I'm super excited about it. |
| 0:37.2 | It breaks down all the nonsense and the wars around diet. Peecan is kind of paleo vegan, |
| 0:43.6 | it's sort of a joke, but it talks about what are the things we all agree on and how are we |
| 0:48.0 | far more alike in our perspective and principles than we are with the traditional American diet, |
| 0:54.0 | or the sad standard American diet. Today's episode, we're going to discuss a principle seven, |
| 1:00.5 | which is have fats with every meal. All right, well, fat, you know, I've written a lot about and |
| 1:07.0 | eat fat, get thin, and fat has been unfairly vilified for decades. It clogs your arteries. It |
| 1:12.1 | makes you fat, they said. It has more than choice to calories, program, compared to carbs and protein, |
| 1:16.8 | we were warned. We followed a low fat advice. We did. And the government told us to, the experts |
| 1:22.7 | told us to, and we did it for 40 years. And guess what? We got fat and diabetic big time. |
| 1:29.2 | Obesity rates went from 5% when I was born to 42%. That's an 800% increase. |
| 1:38.0 | Now, when I started eating fats with every meal, I became happier, stronger, I got more energy. See, |
| 1:42.8 | the right fats can make you lean and healthy. It can fuel your brain. And the wrong fats can be |
| 1:48.4 | deadly. Unlike sugar, which is pretty much all bad, fats are complicated. The peag-and-diet |
| 1:55.5 | respects and honors that we are all different, metabolically, genetically, culturally, and what is |
| 2:01.9 | medicine to one may be poison to another. Some people thrive on a high fat diet. Their cholesterol |
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