The Worst Ingredient in the World: Interview with Dr. Chris Knobbe

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Dr. Eric Berg

Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Please join me in welcoming Dr. Chris Knobbe! Dr. Knobbe is an ophthalmologist who has been working on seed oil research for the past 13 years. His research investigates industrial seed oils and their connection to obesity, diabetes, and almost all the chronic diseases that plague us today.

Sugar consumption levels did not change much between 1922 and 1987; however, obesity increased by 600%! During this time frame, vegetable oil consumption went from 78 calories per person per day to 497 calories, respectively! The average American gets around ⅓ of their calories from seed oils.

In 1890, diabetes was incredibly rare, affecting around 0.0028% of the population. By 2016, 13% of the population had diabetes.

How do seed oils contribute to diabetes? Simply put, seed oils drive mitochondrial dysfunction, inhibiting the body's ability to burn fuel properly.

Seed oils are rich in omega-6 fatty acids that accumulate in our body fat, cell membranes, and mitochondrial membranes. These polyunsaturated fats cause oxidation and inflammation in the body. They are also nutrient deficient. When you consume nutrient-deficient foods like seed oils or sugar, your body has to pull from nutrient reserves, creating deficiencies.

Cottonseed oil was the first seed oil introduced into the food supply. It was initially manufactured as machine oil and lamp oil. It was also used as fertilizer and cattle feed. The goal was to make money and outsell butter and lard, and the manufacturers were very successful. By 2010, the average American consumed 80 grams of seed oils daily.

One of the easiest ways to eliminate seed oils from your diet is to stop purchasing food with a label! Focus on whole foods like meat, eggs, dairy, and produce, and avoid processed foods.

Check out Dr. Chris Knobbe YouTube Channel and Website: / @chrisknobbemd

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0:00.0	Today we have Dr. Chris Kanoi, he's an ophthalmologist and we are going to talk about some fascinating
0:05.8	information relating to seed oils.
0:09.5	We have this trend of omega-6 fatty acid seed oils and it's been trending like crazy high
0:16.3	can you tell us the relationship between the trend of the consumption of seed oils
0:22.4	compared to sugar because people think that no
0:25.8	sugar is trending going up and that's the culprit but I don't think that's true
0:30.0	first of all thanks for having me on, Eric. And yes, so this is the work that I've been
0:37.8	doing for the last about 13 years, deeply investigating the industrial seed oils in their connection to overweight,
0:47.9	obesity, diabetes, and almost all this chronic disease. And this is what you just mentioned. I'm so glad you brought
0:56.4	this up first. I'm looking here because I'm going to try to give you the exact data on
1:02.1	this to answer this question. So people say yes, they think sugar is the driver of all of this and I am entirely convinced that the opposite is true, not that sugar is healthy.
1:17.4	It's definitely a nutrient deficient food, but we get right to this data so I don't waste anybody's time.
1:24.4	So I want to give you the most compelling evidence right off the bat is so most of our sugar
1:30.6	consumption and everything I will say or mention will be will come from published
1:35.8	evidence. So most all of our sugar consumption in the United States which we've published
1:40.8	and Stephen Guillene has published, the increase came before 1922.
1:46.8	So by 1922, we were already at 473 calories worth of sugar and up to 1987 that barely changed it went up to
1:57.8	497 calories so right 24 calories difference I think that from 1920 to 19
2:04.0	1922 to 1987 yeah sugar consumption was a flat line and we'll you'll see the
2:11.9	data if you bring this in this graph that I'll send you.
2:15.0	But during that time, so we've looked at obesity and obesity was 1.1% in men age 18 to 80 in the late 19th century.
2:25.1	That's Scott Allen Carson's work.
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