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The Model Health Show

TMHS 825: How Your BRAIN and GUT Control Calories in Your Body

The Model Health Show

Shawn Stevenson

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Motivation, Wellness, Nutrition, Health, Sex, Selfhelp

4.8 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

For decades, counting calories has been revered as the number one way to control your weight. But what’s missing from this conversation is all of the other important factors that can influence the way your metabolism assimilates nutrients and calories. On today’s show, you’re going to learn about some of these powerful epicaloric controllers and how they impact your health, metabolism, and weight.

This episode of The Model Health Show is my interview with friend of the show, Dr. Michael Beckwith, on his new podcast, Take Back Your Mind. You’re going to learn the truth about calories, what’s going on with the widespread epidemics of neuroinflammation and diabetes, and how your brain and your gut can directly impact the way your body processes calories.

This conversation also covers important topics like the top inputs for better brain health, the critical role your psychology and your perception play when it comes to diet, and the truth about saturated fat. So just click play to learn all of this, and more!

In this episode you’ll discover:

  • The truth about calories.

  • How metabolism can vary person to person

  • What epicaloric controllers are.

  • How the human body processes whole food vs. processed food.

  • Why the invention of calorie counting is tied to food morality.

  • The fascinating science behind the epidemic of neuroinflammation.

  • How insulin resistance is connected to inflammation in the brain.

  • The relationship between your microbiome and your metabolism.

  • How our psychology impacts our food choices.

  • What the fields of psychiatry and psychology are overlooking.

  • How your perception can affect your hormones and metabolism.

  • Why insulin resistance is tied to Alzheimer’s disease.

  • How your hydration levels impact your brain.

  • The #1 thing we can learn about the human diet from babies.

  • How hydration can increase your metabolic rate.

  • The role that dietary fat plays in brain health.

  • What you need to know about omega 3 fatty acids.

Items mentioned in this episode include:

  • Eat Smarter -- Read my national bestselling book for more nutrition tips!

  • Sleep Smarter -- Upgrade your sleep habits with my national bestselling book!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

You are now listening to the model health show with Sean Stevenson.

0:04.0

For more visit the model health show.

0:07.0

Today you're going to discover how your brain and your gut are controlling what calories actually do in your body.

0:20.0

Contrary to popular belief, we do not absorb all the calories we consume.

0:24.6

The human body is not a glorified calculator.

0:27.4

It is more like a very dynamic chemistry lab with all kinds of moving parts and there are powerful

0:34.3

epi caloric controllers that are determining what our bodies do with the

0:40.3

calories we consume. So we're going to be covering this and much more. And this is from an incredible moment for me.

0:48.0

This is from me being interviewed by one of my greatest mentors. This was actually his very first show, the launching of his new show that is now one of the top shows in the country, but I was invited on as the very first guest and as a matter of fact we actually had a hand in the launching of the show

1:07.8

My amazing wife and helped Michael Beckwith and his team to launch their podcast in a big way.

1:14.6

And she's really a big mastermind behind the Model Health Show and all of our impact.

1:19.8

And I'm so grateful.

1:20.9

We recently crossed 100 million listener downloads, which is crazy pants, crazy.

1:26.8

And I'm so grateful for that, but being able to help one of my mentors to start his

1:32.2

amazing show, and he's actually been doing this long before me.

1:36.2

He was interviewing experts and doing shows.

1:39.9

Before I even had a show I was dialing in.

1:42.0

There was like a hotline. This is back in the day when you

1:44.8

call in and join a live broadcast and I would listen to Michael Beck with Teach and

1:50.0

interview people again this had to be like 15 years ago and now he's a really good friend and these

1:56.2

are just those really special moments that remind me of how powerful we are to affect change

2:01.9

in our lives and how what we focus on tends to show up in our lives.

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