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The Dr. Hyman Show

The Pegan Diet: Have Fats With Every Meal

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.59.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Fat has been unfairly vilified for decades. The truth is that the right fats can make you healthy and lean, and can fuel your brain, while the wrong fats can be deadly. Unlike sugar, which is pretty much all bad, fats are complicated. Some people thrive on a high-fat diet, while others gain weight and struggle with abnormal cholesterol. However, even though fats are complicated, eating a fat-free diet is not good for your health. We need fats to survive. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman discusses why we should be eating fats with every meal, the seventh principle in his new book, “The Pegan Diet: 21 Practical Principles for Reclaiming Your Health in a Nutritionally Confusing World” out February 23, 2021. Learn more and pre-order the book at pegandiet.com The Pegan Diet is Dr. Hyman’s definitive guide to using food as medicine and understanding how food impacts every system of our body. It has 21 easy to follow principles for anyone, regardless of where they are on their health journey. It also contains 30 delicious Pegan-approved recipes. Get Dr. Hyman’s discount bundle which includes discounts to all of his favorite brands when you pre-order The Pegan Diet today.

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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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