Neurobiologist, obesity researcher, author and lecturer Dr. Stephan Guyenet, PhD is our guest today for this LLVLC Show Classic from our golden archives in Episode 801 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”
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In today’s LLVLC Show Classic episode, we’re so happy to present to you one of the great unsung heroes in the Paleo community in University of Washington neurobiologist and nutritional health expert Dr. Stephan Guyenet from the “Whole Health Source” blog. He has been one of the leading voices of the science supporting the consumption of healthy fats and traditional Paleolithic types of diets. Since the original airing of this interview with Jimmy, Dr. Guyenet has become most famous for promoting the idea of “food reward” in obesity and in 2013 joined forces with Dan Pardi from “Dan’s Plan” on a weight and health effort called the Ideal Weight Program.
Listen in to hear Jimmy and Dr. Guyenet discuss how and why he got interested in the subject of health, where he sees the Paleo and low-carb movement going in the future, his thinking about the perception of sugar versus fat in American culture, how MSG mimics sugar in the body, why grains respond different in some people than others, why grinding, soaking, and fermenting grains is so important if you are going to consume them, why eating a 100% whole grain bread is unnatural, why the calorie theory is not as relevant to body fat regulation as we’ve been led to believe, how your body will defend a “set point” where it wants to keep your body weight at, the role of leptin resistance in growing fat mass, producing hunger, and slowing calorie-burning, why insulin is not as critical as leptin, the positive role of gut flora and bacteria in the body, why the polymer oligofructose (a form of inulin) promotes fat loss, the exercise component in fat loss and a healthy lifestyle, why sprints and circuit training is most effective for increasing insulin sensitivity and reducing body fat, the impact of Gary Taubes’ Good Calories Bad Calories, the distinction between a heart attack, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease, the rise and fall in cigarette smoking correlating with heart disease, the public confusion about what living healthy is all about, and so much more. As you can tell from this LLVLC Show Classic interview, Dr. Stephan Guyenet is a very intelligent voice of reason in the pursuit of weight loss and optimizing health.
Dr. Guyenet’s January 2014 Lecture:
Why Do We Overeat? A Neurobiological Perspective
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– Dr. Stephan Guyenet bio
– Dr. Guyenet’s “Whole Health Source” blog
– Dr. Stephan Guyenet on Twitter
– Dr. Stephan Guyenet on Facebook
– Dr. Stephan Guyenet on LinkedIn
– Slides from AHS13 Lecture: Insulin and Obesity: Reconciling Conflicting Evidence
– VIDEO: Why Do We Overeat? A Neurobiological Perspective
– VIDEO: AHS11 Lecture – Obesity: Old Solutions for a New Problem
– VIDEO: TEDxHarvardLaw – Stephan Guyenet – The American Diet
– GUEST ARTICLE by Dr. Guyenet in February 2012 in PCC Natural Markets: Paleolithic diets: Should we eat like our ancestors?
Guyenet talks out of both sides of his mouth at once. He talks Paleo and ostensibly “low carb.” But he really believes more that a calorie is a calorie and the key to weight reduction is cutting total calories and exercise. In the above talk he argues that the obesity epidemic is due to increased “calorie” consumption, rather than sugar and carbohydrate consumption as Taubes and low carb advocates support. His Twitter posts repeatedly site exercise and reduced total calorie consumption as the keys to wwight loss. He has written an essay (see below) criticizing the carbohydrate, insulin, increased fat storage theory Taubes meticulously details in Good Calories Bad Calories. Rather believes in “set point” theory of leptin etc. as the reason weight reduction is so difficult, which is true on “balanced” low calorie, not carb restricted diets. However this doesn’t explain why people lose weight so easily on very low carb high fat Atkins type diets without hunger. Where is leptin trying to defend a set point of obesity in those cases. He ignores that fact. Taubes explains how lack of carbs leads to lowered insulin which allows free flow of fat supplies from fat stores which meets nutrition requirements and hence allows for lack of hunger. Add carbohydrates, insulin goes up, flow of fat and nutrition from fat stores ceases and hunger ensues. Leptin has nothing to do with it other than being a hunger messenger to the brain to signal the brain when the supply of fat nutrition from stores has been cut off and it’s time to eat again. Taubes addresses this in the last chapter of his book. I think the set point idea is nonsense as any successful low carb dieter can attest. Guyenet is getting way more credit than he deserves as a “low carber” which he clearly is not. Read his writings and you will see he of the old academic obesity school ala George Bray, that believes a calorie is a calorie and still refuses to accept the carbohydrates drive insulin drives fat hypothesis. See his essay below basically dissing Gary Taubes and the thesis that carbohydrates raising insulin is the cause of obesity.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-hypothesis-of-obesity.html
Right, he’s no fan of low-carb or the insulin hypothesis.