Stay off My Operating Table: A Heart Surgeon’s Metabolic Health Guide to Lose Weight, Prevent Disease, and Feel Your Best Every Day
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A person can be skinny on the outside and still have overweight symptoms on the inside. It’s called “skinny fat.”
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A slow metabolism could be a sign of insufficient muscle density to warrant a high level of energy burn, so your body doesn’t bother stoking the furnace any hotter than it has to.
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Your natural metabolism will return once you build muscle and clean the toxins out of your diet.
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only about 5 percent of metabolic syndrome cases are genetic. That means 95 percent are environmental, i.e., your diet and fitness choices.
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Shopping for carnivores is easier and cheaper than for people eating the Standard American Diet.
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go to meatrx.com to look up local ranchers.
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eating a proper carnivore diet that gives you the full nutritional balance a human body requires, there is absolutely zero evidence of long-term harm.
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Historical and modern populations throughout the world, like the Inuit tribes, have lived on carnivore diets.
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a mostly carnivore diet was good enough for the human race during our...
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do not tell people to focus on calories. I tell them to eat high-quality foods until they are full and to eat only when they are hungry.
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Protein overconsumption studies show that if you eat excessive protein without excess carb intake, you will not get fat.
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You can’t really eat excessive amounts of unprocessed proteins, particularly animal proteins.
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If your ancestors ate it, it’s probably good for you. If scientists invented it in the twentieth century or later, it’s probably poison.
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the damage caused by blood sugar that creates the cholesterol problem.
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there is adequate research to suggest that a high protein intake improves kidney function.
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A product called UltraFat works great for runners. It fuels your body with fat instead of carbs,
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Children do not need carbs to grow.
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Magnesium sulfate and citrate are used as bowel-cleansing agents. In high doses, they cause unpleasant side effects.
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Magnesium glycinate is the best tolerated in your body, or you can use full-spectrum magnesium.
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It’s not clear that elevated cholesterol causes heart attacks. It’s the blood clotting.
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High LDL cholesterol is not the root cause of heart disease. In the setting of poor metabolic health,
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LDL cholesterol may become oxidized (damaged) and contribute to the process that leads to heart disease.
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Many people that develop heart disease do not have hig...
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Fix your metabolic health, and cholesterol ceases to be a problem.
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seven of the ten top causes of death are poor metabolic health,
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real fat doesn’t cause heart attacks.
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type 2 diabetes is not a lifelong condition, and it can be reversed.
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You should eat in the way that allows you to best achieve your goals. Other people’s opinions should have no bearing on this decision.
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If you are improving your health and feeling and looking better, then who cares what anyone who doesn’t support your eating choices thinks?
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Don’t let people with terrible metabolic health tell you what’s healthy for you.
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your enjoyment in life shouldn’t be focused on food.
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Spending time with your friends and family should be what’s important.
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It’s incredibly hard to make people care.
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It’s also difficult to convince them they’ve been living inside a medical system that secretly keeps them sick to farm them for money.
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The most heavily promoted message is not necessarily true. Often, heavy promotion means it’s not true.
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The only regret people have about improving their metabolic health is waiting to do so.
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Why are doctors fed so many lies, and why are they still teaching those same lies to their patients?
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Seven of the ten top causes of death in the United States are metabolic. Take an active role in your metabolic health, and you can largely reduce the risk of them all.
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