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Hello and welcome back to The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!
Today Jimmy shares his interview with bestselling diet book author, Dr. Michael Aziz who released a book focusing on the ten hormones in your body that control weight loss and health entitled The Perfect 10 Diet. Tune in to hear Dr. Aziz share about his acceptance of healthy saturated fats, but then his odd reasons for having an aversion to red meat.
This interview will both reinforce and challenge what you believe about low-carb living!
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– Dr. Michael Aziz bio
– The Perfect 10 Diet: 10 Key Hormones That Hold the Secret to Losing Weight and Feeling Great-Fast!
– Official web site for The Perfect 10 Diet
Despite the fact that I disagree with some of his views, I still enjoyed this interview. You can tell Dr. Aziz is very passionate about what he does and truly cares about helping people.
I still disagree with these fears on eating red meat though. Personally, I try to limit my red meat consumption to 2-3 times a week, and I always drain/trim as much fat as I can.
Jimmy, I know you do a lot of research, have you ever seen any solid, credible studies that link red meat consumption with diseases? Thanks!
Hi,
I am a 62 year old male and I own an web-store selling dog crates, dog kennels, dog beds etc., so as you can imagine, there are plenty of dogs in my life. My exercise regime is not great, although I am out walking one or more of them several times a day. I don’t eat a lot, but I find I am getting rather heavy-set lately. So, having just found this site, and the really great information it contains, I was wondering if anyone here could give me some recommendations for keeping my weight down?
Many thanks,
Terence
Keep listening, Terence! You’ll find lots of education, inspiration, and encouragement about what to do on this show.
–Jimmy
April, none of the studies that supposedly look at red meat and disease focus on just cuts of beef, pork, etc. Generally, they throw processed meats into the mix and never use grass-fed ones. While Dr. Aziz gets it right on saturated fat, I think he’s doing people a great disservice by ignoring the health qualities of good saturated fat that comes from red meat, especially grass-fed.
Hi Jimmy,
Another great interview and his meals sound really tasty. The other day someone left a comment about only one omelet for a days protein (about 7g of protein in each egg). The minimum official recommendation to avoid malnutrition is 0.36g protein per pound of body weight per day which would be about 70g day for the average person as Dr. Eades says in his Protein Power book. If someone works out and wants to gain muscle they would want 1g protein per pound of body weight per day. It was a nice surprise to hear my email read on the Sally Fallon episode. The best part of the low carb lifestyle is not being hungry, and the food is more delicious.
Thanks again to you and all the great guests.
Andy
Excellent interview Jimmy! Dr Aziz is definitely one that really gets it! I still like my red meat though – pan fried in olive oil or unrefined coconut oil, that is!
Jimmy, do you know if stage 1 of his programme is low-carb?
I liked the part at the beginning about trying to live off of mostly protein as a cause of hypothyroid. In her latest book, Jillian Michaels writes that she started to have a problem with weight creep in the early seasons of the Biggest Loser. She went to an endocrinologist, and was diagnosed hypothyroid. I see an awful lot of lean meat and vegetables on that show.
I stumbled across the idea that rabbit starvation and the hypothyroid and other symptoms (diarrhea, lethargy, low mood) that some people complain about on a low carb diet might be the same problem while reading Richard Nikoley’s blog. A person who either has very low fat stores, or poor access to those fat stores might be expected to suffer rabbit starvation more easily (at higher levels of fat intake) than would otherwise be the case. This might explain anecdotal evidence where some people increase the carbs in their low carb diet and actually do better; it might not be so much a matter of more carbs as it is a matter of a higher non-protein/protein ratio. Even carbs are better than rabbit starvation. 🙂
It also offers an alternate explanation to excess neoglucogenesis being the thing that prevents weight loss in people who break through stalls by increasing fat intake and decreasing protein.
Not surprisingly, Emma at Plant Poisons and other Rotten Stuff got there five years before me.
http://blog.plantpoisonsandrottenstuff.info/2005/03/
Good interview Jimmy.
Some reinforcement of good idea’s but he really blew it with: “Eat some mashed potatoes that will be fine.” – NOT! Potatoes are about the worst thing you can eat. The Glycemic Index of potatoes is 82! Table sugar is 65. This would absolutely wreck the blood sugar and cause a huge spike in insulin.
Sue, stage one is basically a Paleo diet.
Great interview, but at points the advice was the opposite of what I expected.
Me too Ned. Especially the way he kept saying “extreme low-carb” as if being in a ketogenic state is somehow harmful.
Jimmy,
Hardly on the same page, red meat once every 3 weeks? Mashed potatoes? Like another commenter said, what is bad about ketosis? I still find it amazing that highly educated people don’t connect the dots between high insulin and eating carbohydrates. What will it take? Most of the information about his fear of “high” protein is due to the background interference of carbs in such a diet IMO, and like Jimmy said the quality of the meat. At least he gets it about processed foods, sugar, and fat. Maybe he will eventually see the whole picture.
Love the site and podcasts Jimmy!
I think Dr. Aziz got most of it wright, but it really bothers me that on his website he states that estrogen lowers bodyfat. That sounds very very wrong, from what I know.