The Truth About Carbs, Fat, Insulin and Fat Loss with Obesity Researcher Dr. Stephan Guyenet
The Energy Blueprint Podcast
Ari Whitten
4.6 • 782 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I am speaking with obesity researcher Dr. Stephan Guyenet – who has spent many years in the neuroscience research world studying neurodegenerative disease and the neuroscience of body fatness and obesity– about the truth about carbs, fat, insulin, and fat loss.
In this podcast, Dr. Guyenet will cover:
- Are carbs bad for you? (What science says about carbs’ influence on health)
- Why the low-carb philosophy has become so popular in the health and diet sphere
- Guyenet’s advice on how to eat for leanness
- Does fat make you gain weight?
- Why calories really do matter (And why macronutrients are secondary)
- What science says about carbs and fats causing a spike in insulin
- What Guyenet has found to be the key drivers of fat gain
- Why counting calories is usually inaccurate
- Guyenet’s take on Gary Taubes’ carbohydrate and insulin hypothesis
Transcript
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| 0:05.1 | I have an incredibly important announcement. This is something that I really haven't been more |
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