The Secret Life of Fat with Sylvia Tara

Fitness Confidential

Vinnie Tortorich

Nutrition, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Episode 695 -- Sylvia Tara, biochemist and author of The Secret Life of Fat, joins Vinnie today to talk about fat, an endocrine organ, that does so much good for puberty, for our immune systems, and for our brain. PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS Pure Vitamin Club Villa Cappelli Squatty Potty SYLVIA TARA Incredibly smart and beautiful! Holds a PhD in biochemistry from UCSD Also has an MBA from Wharton (U Penn) Worked with all of the big biotech companies SECRET LIFE OF FAT Check out her book here! The Secret Life of Fat: The Science Behind the Body's Least Understood Organ and What It Means for You Now focuses on popular misconceptions of fat, and how fat in reality does so much good for us People fear fat, but really it is just an endocrine organ ENDOCRINE ORGAN "Adipose Tissue", or fat, is an endocrine Organ Endocrine system controls all of the hormones in your body Therefore, fat is incredibly important for our development and homeostasis as well Our body tries to hold on to fat when we eat it for a reason Not just a great source of energy

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0:00.0	He's Hollywood's go-to guy for health and fitness.
0:12.2	It's Fitness Confidential with celebrity fitness trainer Vinny Tortridge.
0:16.8	Your good intentions have been stolen, and I'm here to help you get them back.
0:21.7	I am Vinny Torto, Rich, and folks, here we are again on the Friday show.
0:25.8	This is the one everyone waits for it.
0:27.5	Well, people love that Monday show.
0:29.6	They love when Anna's on.
0:31.4	Anna makes me mad.
0:32.5	She gives me all of those stories.
0:35.4	People tweet to us and everything else.
0:37.1	We love when you tweet us a good story.
0:39.5	Then Anna takes the story.
0:40.9	I never look at them.
0:41.6	When you guys tweet me those stories, I never look at those stories.
0:45.1	I give them straight to Anna so they could be fresh to me whenever I hear them.
0:50.1	And then I usually go nuts.
0:51.9	And somehow people like that show.
0:55.5	Anyway, the Friday show is also mega popular because it's when I go one-on-one with a
1:02.6	luminary in the field of health and fitness.
1:06.5	And we're going to do that today.
1:09.4	I always like to tell people who are we going to be talking to because, you know, when I talk to these people,
1:14.2	they go, why should I listen to that person? You know, there's so many naysayers out there. Oh, who's this person? And why am I listening to that person? What do they know? Well, you know what, folks? a lot of times, and I'm not talking about everyone,
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