In this podcast episode, I uncover Jesus’ surprising message on fasting. This will blow your mind! In this episode of 5 min Fridays with Life coach Myrna Young, author and self-development coach, I share Jesus’ surprising message on fasting. This message will change the way you think about fasting, and may even inspire you to take start enjoying life.
My foundational scripture for this message today is Mark 2:19: When asked why he or his disciples did not fast like John the Baptist and the Pharisees Jesus replied:
Do wedding guests mourn while celebrating with the groom? Of course not. But someday the groom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.
The other two parables, which are similar, make the same point. The first one says you don’t put a new patch on an old garment, and the second says you don’t put new wine into an old wineskin.
In the first parable, if you put a new patch on an old garment, when the new patch shrinks due to washing, it will tear away from the older garment, making the tear worse. Similarly, new wine needs a new wineskin because as the new wine expands during the fermentation process, it stretches the wineskin. An old wineskin will burst under the pressure of new wine.
I have been talking a lot on the podcast about, intermittent fasting, but Jesus is talking about fasting by denying yourself food for longer periods of time. Jesus is saying that fasting and mourning go together.
Intermittent fasting, is not traditional fasting. Jesus is saying that when you are celebrating, when all is well, when your groom is with you, when your marriage is doing great, there is no need to fast in fact that is the time to eat because we eat at weddings we eat, drink and be merry.
He is also saying the day will come when (notice the language) he did not say if he said when the groom will be taken away and that is the time for mourning and fasting.
Today I want to change the word fasting out and replace it with feasting. What are you feasting on while your groom is with you, when all is well with your soul? How many people do not live life and have fun when everything is going well in life.
You are in a loving relationship, your groom is still with you, your children are with you, your health is with you, yet you deny yourself the pleasures of life. You work and go home, then one day you will no longer have your groom, you will no longer have your family, you will no longer have your health and that is the time for fasting and mourning; not when you should be celebrating life, when you should be feasting on the fruits of life.
Here are a few Pleasures of life you should be feasting on
1. That first sip of coffee in the morning.
2. Taking a bath.
3. Hearing the right song at the right moment.
4. The sunset.
5. A peaceful place to sit.
6. The smell of an aromatic candle.
7. Clothes fresh out of the dryer.
8. A Hot Fudge Sundae (or equally decadent dessert of your choice).
9. Receiving an unexpected compliment.
10. A hot shower after a long day.
11. Receiving a letter – yes, a handwritten letter – that’s not a bill.
Jesus also responded that we don’t put new wine in old skins because when the new wine ferments it will burst the old skin.
He is also telling us that we need to change our ways change our mindset, renew your mind.
If you try to put new information in an old mindset you are going to have a problem. So, take a look at your fruit. If you don’t have the fruit that you want, then you need to start changing your wineskin, your mindset.
That new mindset could be I am going to live until I die. I am going to start feasting on the abundance this life has to offer, because the day is going come to an end, then I will experience loss and mourning and thus the need for fasting, but not today.
Thanks for tuning into this weeks episode of 5 min Fridays with coach Myrna
Tina Anderson, Founder of Just Thrive stops by the show to talk about the role of probiotics in gut health and brain health. Probiotics is like the gardener, its job is to keep the good plants (good bacteria) and get rid of the weeds (bad bacteria). Just Thrive probiotics does this better than any other products on the market because our probiotics arrive alive in the intestine.
The difference with Just Thrive probiotics is that they have this endospore shell around them and that’s why we call them spore-based probiotics. This gives them the ability to get through that stomach acid, that gastric system alive. It is not until they hit the intestines, that the endospore shell comes off and that is when they go into their live vegetative cell state to promote gut and brain health.
Our product Just Calm is helping communication between the gut and the brain and helping those external stressors that we’re faced with by lowering our cortisol levels.
Tina Anderson’s journey into the world of health had a unique start and some unusual turns. She began her career as a trial lawyer who specialized in settling cases by bringing both sides together, a personal passion of hers. Once her second child arrived, Tina left that high-stress job behind so she could focus on her family.
Luckily, she was still able to use her considerable legal skills to point her career in a new direction as the in-house counsel for a family pharmaceutical company. But what Tina saw there made her change direction again. Frustrated by the many abuses in the pharmaceutical industry,
Tina turned toward the field of natural health, and found her life’s work. She channeled her energy into learning all she could about disease prevention and good health maintenance. That led her to discover the importance of gut health and how connected and crucial it is for overall health and wellness. To share her discovery with the world, Tina along with her husband created a unique supplement that contains the superior probiotic strains of renowned researcher Dr. Simon Cutting. By promoting gut health and probiotics, Tina shares her passion for wellness, helping others live their best physical and emotional lives.
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Tina: I had a very interesting journey. I was I started out in litigation but I wasn’t fulfilled in my career. And so, I decided to leave that behind and go into a family pharmaceutical business and had a much better work life balance with my kids. I was able to walk them to school and have more time for prayer, meditation, all of those things. My husband started this company together, we were able to license, probiotic strains, from London University, Dr. Simon a cutting edge world renowned probiotic expert.
And we were able to go into a field that was so impactful, and it was actually impacting health and society and it was really exciting. We knew when you took care of your gut, that everything else starts to fall into place. There was so much research coming out of the Human Microbiome Project was launched by the National Institutes of Health told us more about the gut than we ever knew before, and really told us that the gut is responsible for virtually every aspect of our overall health.
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Myrna: Can we step back a little bit and talk about the gut, microbiome, and the blood brain barrier. I know that there are certain things that pass through your gut and cause a whole bunch of disease. What are, probiotics, and how do they help us in the gut?
Tina: It’s great to start with the fundamentals. Our, microbiome, is the totality of organisms that make up the gut. So, we’ve got, bacteria, viruses, fungi, you know, parasites, all these different things like make up our the totality of our microbiome. So, all of these microorganisms most of which are bacteria, we are 10 times more bacteria than we are human. We think bacteria is bad, but bacteria is so incredibly beneficial to us, so supportive of our health and our organs.
Less than 1% of bacteria is actually bad. And so, when we just realized that we have to support our microbiome, in our gut and not kill it off. Constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating, these are all signs that you have some imbalance going on in your, gut microbiome. But what people are just starting to understand is that it also dictates your, brain health.
It dictates your mood, how you’re feeling,
your sleep,
it’s dictating your hormone health,
it’s dictating autoimmune issues, your immune system 80% of our immune system is found in our gut.
Our, gut bacteria, sends signals to our immune cells and tells them okay, there’s something going on, you need to start fighting this infection. So, it’s really important that we understand that our immune system would cease to function if we don’t have the, gut microbiome, sending signals to our, immune cells. If you have an, autoimmune disease, it’s pretty much guaranteed you have imbalance in your gut, you have a, leaky gut.
We have a double-blind human clinical trial on, leaky gut, that is so profound. It’s important for everybody to understand that it is our gut is dictating all aspects of our overall health. And there is something called the, vagus nerve, that is sends signals from the gut to the brain, and then sends signals from the brain back down to the gut. We all know that feeling you’re excited about something and you have butterflies in your stomach, that’s the gut brain connection.
We know when we get nervous, you have to go to the bathroom. Same thing the brain is sending signals down to the gut. But what we’re also starting to understand is now the gut is sending signals to the brain. So, if you have a healthy balanced, microbiome, they send more calming signals to it. The opposite is also true, if you have an imbalanced gut, it sends signals to your brain that are not so healthy.
Understand that it is foundational for our health to focus on our gut. It is where we start. People take multivitamins and they take vitamin C and vitamin D, and those are all important things to be taking. But we need to focus on our, gut health, before we do anything else. And unfortunately, this world we live in is so offensive to the bacteria, we are 10 times more bacterial cells, but we use hand sanitizers and antibacterial soaps to kill off our bacteria.
When you go into the doctor and they say, you have an, autoimmune disease, you need to figure out what it is that’s causing this imbalance and this issue and getting to the root cause of it. So, probiotics, need to arrive alive in the intestines and make the garden better. So, if you kind of compare your intestinal tract to a garden, you get the weeds which are the bad bacteria and then you have the good plants that are the good bacteria in your gut.
So, the idea is to get those, probiotic strains, into the intestines. The problem with a lot of, probiotics, on the market the vast majority of, probiotics, that are out there have difficulty getting through your stomach acid. That stomach acid is meant to be the gastric barrier. It’s meant to keep out things that we don’t want in there. So as a result, most, probiotic strains, really have difficulty getting into the intestines and so they’re dying by the time they get to the intestines.
And so that was a big problem that we identified and solved with our, Just Thrive probiotics. So, that’s the point of a, probiotic, to make the ecosystem in your gut better and to make it more balanced. We don’t necessarily want to get rid of all the bad bacteria. We just want a better balance in the gut of our good and bad bacteria.
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The difference with, Just Thrive probiotics, is that they have this endospore shell around it and that’s why we call them, spore-based probiotics, and they have the ability to get through that stomach acid that gastric system alive. And it is not until they hit the intestines, that endospore shell comes off and that is when they go into their live vegetative cell state.
Myrna: I understand that because I am taking, Just Thrive probiotics, and I see the difference. I’m taking the, Just Thrive probiotics, and, Just Calm.
Tina: It is helping get rid of the weeds in the garden. It’s helping take those plants that have been stepped down and trampled on and help them thrive and flourish in your gut. And that’s why people see such profound results whether it’s, becoming more regular, whether it’s less gas and bloating, whether it’s better mood, better sleep or I’m able to manage my weight better because my gut bacteria is dictating all of those things.
Myrna: Well, yeah, I have noticed that I’m definitely more regular. What are your newest products? What is the difference between probiotics and prebiotics? Tell us about the newest, Just Thrive, product, Just Calm.
Tina: Yeah, so this is exciting. You know, one of our big core competencies in our company is that we do not produce anything unless it is missing or needed in the market. So, we do not want supplements like vitamin C and vitamin D. Those are all really important nutrients. But there’s lots of companies out there doing that great. We are only launching products that are truly missing and needed and researched in the market. So, we just discovered this, probiotic strain.
It is called, psychobiotic. Psychobiotic, is basically gut friendly probiotic that is supporting the gut brain access. So, it’s further supporting that communication between the gut and the brain. And so, we know that the gut this is important. I think people are just starting to understand this 90% of our serotonin, which is our happy hormone is produced in our gut for all these years. I feel like psychiatrists have had their hands tied by you know, prescribing, you know, anti-anxiety meds.
90% of our serotonin is produced in our gut. Dopamine is produced in our gut, GABA, which is our calming hormone is produced in our gut. And yet, nobody is talking about that when it comes to, brain health. And so, probiotics, are supporting your serotonin production and your GABA and dopamine but the key with those, psycho biotic, that is found in our product, Just Calm, is that it’s actually supporting that, gut brain access.
So, it is helping bring down cortisol levels. We know that cortisol is really disruptive to our gut, it’s bringing up we’re in that fight or flight response all the time. The problem isn’t when you have a, leaky gut, that toxins from your gut seep into your bloodstream and they start to create this inflammatory response and you have this chronic low-grade inflammation, that sending signals up to your brain and so now you have inflammation in your brain. That is the one cause of problems with your, brain health.
Brain inflammation is caused by external stressors
The other cause of brain inflammation are external stressors. So, we get cut off by traffic, you’ve gotten into a fight with a loved one, whatever it might be that’s causing this stress that also causes this inflammation. So, we want to stop both of those things as much as possible or halt as much as possible. We want to get rid of that, leaky gut, and that’s what the probiotic is doing. And then those external stressors, we want to be able to manage them better. and by lowering our cortisol. So, that’s what the, Just Calm, product is doing.
It is helping communication between the gut and the brain and helping those external stressors that we’re faced with. Intermittent fasting, is just another tool I have in my toolbox. We want to do meditation and deep breathing, whatever it is that calms you down. It’s really important whether even if it’s changing your lifestyle. There are studies that show that when you, intermittent fasting, it helps increase diversity in the microbiome.
So, the important thing in our gut is we want a diverse, microbiome. We just we don’t want one kind of good bacteria. We want lots of different kinds of good bacteria and we were born with a lot of diversity. And we know that, intermittent fasting, helps support diversity. By starving some of those bacteria it helps them proliferate, which seems counterintuitive, but it’s been shown to actually help with supporting your, gut bacteria.
Prebiotics, is the fertilizer and the probiotic is like the gardener. The gardener is getting rid of the weeds and helping those plants come back to life. The, prebiotic, is the fertilizer for that garden, so it is feeding the good bacteria in your gut. To really to be defined as a, prebiotic, it needs to only target the beneficial bacteria. So, the good plants in the garden, but the problem is a lot of, prebiotics, it that the actually make a problem worse, by fertilizing the weeds as well as the good plants.
But if you look at our, prebiotic, it’s called a precision prebiotic. We didn’t launch a prebiotic for a long time because we could not find prebiotic fibers that only targeted the beneficial bacteria. And so yeah, so our, prebiotic, is only fertilizing the good bacteria in the gut.
We have a product called gut fortified that is helping the mucosal barrier of our gut. We have a health coach on our team, that if anyone have any questions about which products to start with, especially if you have some severe gut dysbiosis and gut issues that you want to deal with, she can help you with a plan of what to do or which products to use.
But I always suggest that people start with a, probiotic, it is foundational for anything else you’re doing. You’re eating all these really healthy foods, but if your gut is inflamed, it’s not absorbing nutrients. You’re taking all these other supplements but if your gut is inflamed, it’s not absorbing those nutrients. So, I always suggest people start with the probiotic. It’s our number one selling product. It’s important to stay on it for a couple of months to actually start to notice the difference.
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Myrna: How can readers get ahold of your products and also follow you on social media?
Tina: So the best place to find us would be at our website, which is www.just thrivehealth.com. If you use the coupon code TRANSFORM podcast listeners will get 15% off. They can follow us on Instagram, @justthrivehealth. And then if you go to our website, www.justthrivehealth.com you could email us, our one 800 numbers are there, you could contact make an appointment with our product Health coach and she can help you through anything as far as what products you want to start with.
Emotional eating, can be challenging to break, but here are 3 tips to help you break the cycle. In this blog, Dr Katrina Ubell, author of “How to Lose Weight For the Last Time” talks about how to escape the cycle of, emotional eating. Emotional eating, is a habit that can be hard to break, but with the right strategies, you can conquer it.
To break the cycle of, emotional eating, you first have to recognize when you’re eating for emotional reasons. Once you’ve identified your triggers, you need to find strategies to stop yourself from eating. In this post, we’re going to share with you three simple tips that can help you overcome, emotional eating, and start feeling healthier and happier!
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Dr Katrina Ubell’s book “How to Lose Weight for the Last Time” offers brain-based solutions for dropping pounds and keeping them off without suffering or sacrifice. As a pediatrician Dr Katrina Ubell MD always struggled with her weight she was either 40 pounds overweight or struggling to use lose that weight although she’d regularly counseled parents on the importance of keeping their kids healthy and fostering good eating habits.
Dr Ubell as a busy professional was never able to do the same for herself. Like everyone else she tried many different diets and programs, but would always regain that weight. In 2015 Dr Ubell cracked the code for making, weight loss permanent, and developed the program targeted at busy professionals like herself who often deprioritized their own wellness. As a, weight loss coach, Dr Ubell has signed and helped over a thousand busy Physicians and professionals find and stay at a healthy weight with her brain based program and she’s now ready to bring this program to the general public like you.
Dr Ubell’s program doesn’t involve any unrealistic diets plans, special Foods supplements or even rigorous exercise protocols; instead she uses a deep understanding of the brain and behavior patterns to get results. Through her work she’s been able to uncover and speak into Universal obstacles that stand in her way of losing and keeping the weight off.
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I struggled with my weight for so long, when I was younger I can identify that I definitely did some, emotional eating, which I define as just eating food when you’re not physically hungry. Your body is not asking for food, yet you’re eating anyway. I mean I might have fluctuated a little bit, but I was relatively active as a kid.
But it was never really too big of a problem, it was when I went to medical school that things really started to become a problem for me. There just was no time for anything but studying working in the hospital, and hospital food that’s not particularly nutritious. I mean there was even a Wendy’s fast food restaurant in our Hospital. So I started struggling in medical school so I went to Weight Watchers for the first time.
I’m a high achiever you give me a list of rules and I’m like I can do this. I will suffer follow it. I will totally sit here starving. That’s when I started drinking diet soda, because I think the bubbles and the carbonation filled me up. Some of the stuff that I would do all in the effort to get the weight off, but then what I found was that I got the weight off but I knew I couldn’t keep it off.
I really didn’t have any kind of meaningful plan for maintaining at all and so of course, I regained the weight back and then I repeated that cycle I mean literally at least 10 times over the course of my training in residency and then out in practice.
Myrna: I was about to turn 40 old when my battle with, weight loss, began. I you know a lot of people around those Milestone birthdays we start to just kind of reevaluate everything and one of the things I was was thinking about was my body my weight.
Dr Ubell: I was just trying a bunch of different things and through a very circuitous path, I tried more things that didn’t work, but through that path I was introduced to the concept of, emotional eating, before then people would talk a lot about, compulsive eating, and that term did not resonate with me. When I found out that, emotional eating, is eating for any reason other than fuel for your body, I was like oh yeah no sign me up.
I would overeat when I didn’t know any of other way to deal with my emotions and you know have a busy life. I have three kids, I have a husband who is a surgeon, so he’s got a busy as well. As a doctor there’s a lot of ups and downs and I had no other tools, no other skills so of course I would use food to cope. Some people use alcohol, but for me it was food.
Myrna: That was a great intro on, emotionally eating. Right now I am doing intermittent fasting and I’m supposed to eat my dinner between six and seven and I’m not supposed to eat again for the night, and it’s incredibly hard not to eat. My brain is is telling me that I need to go eat something and I’m not hungry. I might get hungry 10 30 or 11 o’clock when I go to bed, but at 8 o’clock I’m not hungry, but I want to eat. How are you teaching in the book and your clients how to stop that desire to eat when they are not hungry?
Emotional Eating when you are not hungry leads to weight gain
Dr Ubell: I am so glad you brought it up because so many people struggle with this. Nighttime eating for people is so hard. So the first thing we want to do though is, we want to zoom out and look at the big picture a little bit and for everybody it’s going to be a little bit different but there’s often some common themes.
For a lot of us, this is just habit. It’s just what we do and so our brains are like hey it’s eight o’clock it’s time for a snack. Some eat for comfort in the evening. A lot of people struggle with, nighttime eating, which is why, intermittent fasting, is blowing up.
Myrna: You said that when you were in medical school you had no time to eat right and you found out that you were not alone, that all Doctors ate bad because they had to time to eat healthy. But a lot of women and mothers have a busy life, they get up in the morning they got kids, they go to work, they come home, they gotta do dinner, sometimes it is much earlier to stop and pick up fast foods.
Dr Ubell: I think the thing that we have to recognize is that a lot of busy women in particular think about things in the extreme swings of the pendulum. Either they need to be cooking this home-cooked meal with all these fresh vegetables bowls that takes a long time and is pretty involved with lots of ingredients. Nobody got time for that right, we’re not doing that. So then I guess we’re just eating burgers at Wendy’s.
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Myrna: Tell us about your book “How To Lose Weight For the Last Time” I understand the main message of the book is, emotional eating, and the conversation you have in your mind about the food, but what is the predominant message that you want to put out?
Dr UBell: The main message of the book is that if you’ve struggled with overeating/your weight and you’re feeling like your relationship with food is not where you want it to be, there’s a solution. What I talk about is what I call Peace and Freedom around food. I described before which is you are just around all the foods it’s Thanksgiving and all your favorite foods are there and you’re gonna enjoy the heck out of them, but you’re not gonna overeat them. You’re not obsessed, you’re not sitting there asking when’s the time for pie, because I can’t think of anything else. I can’t even hold this conversation because all I’m thinking about is pie!
What we’re doing is we’re using our brains to re-regulate that so that we listen to the call of hunger, answer to the satiety signals when we’ve had enough. We have an appropriate amount of desire for food, meaning when we start getting hungry we want to eat that makes sense, but not in the middle of the day all the time. So that’s really the message in the book is that you have way more control over this than you think. You’re not broken, it’s not hopeless and you can’t fix.
Myrna: So where can they get a copy of your book? Tell us about your website and social media handles.
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Dr Ubell: So the book is available anywhere books are sold. It’s also available on audible. My website is www.KatrinaUbellMd.com and my podcast even though it’s called “Weight Loss for Busy Physicians” I have a lot of non-physician listeners, people have gotten a lot of help out of it. On my website there’s several free resources that people can download and get started. If you buy the book and then put in your order number on our special website which is KatrinaUbell.com/book you’ll get a whole Workshop that I did called guarantee your weight loss success.
This is a lot about getting yourself ready to start the process so that you can really follow through and make sure that you get the results that you want. So no matter how you buy it, you can go to that website and go get those free resources. My social media handles are coachKatrinaUbellMD mostly on Facebook Instagram.
Dr William Li, author of Eat To beat Your Diet, shares the fat burning foods we should add to our diet, to be able to burn away harmful, body fat. The fat that is wrapping around your blood vessels serves as fuel tanks for the energy that we eat in our food. You do not have to go on a restrictive elimination deprivation diet, all you have to do is to add certain foods to your diet, to be able to burn away harmful, body fat.
Brown fat, burns down, white fat, it fights bad fat. Eating food can help your good fat, fight bad fat. That’s kind of a mind-blowing concept. You can eat foods to, burn fat.
Dr. William Li is an internationally renowned physician, scientist, and author of the New York Times bestseller, Eat to Beat Disease: The New Science of How Your Body Can Heal Itself. His groundbreaking research has led to the development of more than 30 new medical treatments that impact care for more than 70 diseases, including diabetes, blindness, heart disease, and obesity.
Myrna: Dr Li, I heard that our digestive system is unique, like our fingerprints so is that why each person responds differently to food?
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Dr Li: What a great question Myrna, so basically, here’s what we know from the latest research. Our bodies are hardwired to work in a certain way, our heart beats in a certain way, our digestive systems work in a certain way, our brains, our eyes, our fingers and toes were all engineered to work in a specific way, it’s largely the same for everyone. Our fat cells all function a certain way. And I’ll give you an example of what I mean by largely the same.
If you and I went to our own respective computer stores to buy a laptop, the same laptop. All right, and we pulled it out of the box in our own homes, and we plugged it in booted it up. Okay the operating system of that laptop, if you’ve got the same model, should work exactly the same way as mine. But over time, I’m slaving away at my computer or you’re slaving away at yours. The way that our laptop functions, how efficiently and the speed is going to change.
I download a lot of stuff. I have a lot of documents, so I’m sure my computer is going to be slower than yours. But my point is that we all come out of the box the same way. But then individually we develop our own thing. So, our, digestive system, is hardwired to digest the food we put into our mouth. Our brain senses the food, our pancreas, one of our endocrine organs releases insulin. Insulin helps us draw energy out of our food. The energy is packed into our cells, including our, fat cells, and then the food trickles down through our small intestines.
We absorb all the nutrients; it keeps on tumbling further down. And guess what, it feeds our healthy gut bacteria, in our gut. Healthy gut bacteria are very important for overall health. And then finally, you know, we eliminate everything else, we put the poop everything else out. And that’s really how we’re generally hardwired. So, any deviation from that general pathway winds up being largely the result of who we are, how we live, things we are exposed to. And that’s the individualization. So, I’m telling you that we all actually are designed to work the same way, but we are all also individuals.
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Are tomatoes good for us
Myrna: In your book summary, you list probably about a dozen, fat burning foods, that we’re supposed to eat to burn fat, Eat to beat our diet. And right at the top there you’ve got, tomatoes, but Dr. Stephen Gundry says that tomatoes is not a vegetable. It’s a fruit and it is bad for us because it’s a lectin. So, tell us why did you put tomatoes at the top of your list?
Dr Li: Listen, I love tomatoes. First of all, my work is really focused on what are the foods that we should Add to our lifestyle to enhance our health. There’s a lot of people out there who are very well intentioned and very smart, but they focus on things to cut out of your life. Tomatoes are not one of them. That is why I wrote the book “Eat to Beat Your Diet.”
There was a study called the Harvard health professional study that looked at 35,000 men over 25 years. And what they found when they measured tomatoes that people were eating, they found that men who he ate cooked tomatoes, two to three times a week, lowered the risk of, prostate cancer, by about 30%. So, tomatoes are one of the, foods that prevent cancer.
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The reason is because tomatoes contain a natural chemical found in nature called, lycopene. Lycopene, naturally, is very beneficial because when we eat it, it goes into our body. And one of the things that lycopene does in our body is it prevents cancer cells from being able to get its own blood supply. So, it literally cuts off the blood flow that might be feeding a cancer. So, you’d starve the cancer by eating tomatoes.
Okay. Lots of plants have hundreds of, lectins. And it’s true, some that are extremely poisonous, but none of those poisonous ones are in, tomatoes.
Myrna: Wow, that is why tomatoes are at the top of your list. It is one of the, foods that prevent cancer. I have sautéed tomatoes with onions and chickpeas in my fridge right now!
Dr Li: By the way, chickpeas, which are also incredibly nutritious, a good source of protein, good source of dietary fibers, that’s a good polyphenol in it are another metabolism activating food that is really healthy. So, when you talk about you know putting tomatoes with chickpeas and onions, that is really healthy. Onions have a natural substance in it called quercetin. Quercetin activates your metabolism it helps burn harmful body fat as well.
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Myrna; I absolutely love it. I heard you talk about Fat. Should we fear fat?
Dr Li: So, all of us have stepped out of the shower in the morning, looked out of the corner of our eye in the mirror and you see a lump of fat or a bump that you don’t want to be there, right. So, what do you do immediately? You’re like, Oh, I gotta work out. I gotta eat better. I got to do it. The next thing you do you step on a scale. Right? And if that number isn’t the exact number you’re hoping for, it makes you mad. Now, it’s not just in the shower, but in the grocery store at the meat counter. If you see a big thick rind of fat around a steak or something you go I am not going to eat that.
Myrna: So even if you buy it, you cut it out.
Dr Li: But here’s the bottom line. This is our adult reaction effect, but you know there’s another adult reaction effect. What happens when we see a baby we smile, we love seeing fat babies.
Myrna: That is exactly where I am right now. My daughter just had a preemie baby. And I would love for her to be fat!
Dr Li: Well, wait a minute, obviously fat cannot be all bad, maybe the adult reaction is just the wrong instinct. It turns out, our, body fat, was created when we were still in our mom’s womb. One of the first tissues that form is our blood vessels, and that’s what I studied blood vessels. Why? Because every organ and every cell in the body requires blood flow, needs nutrients. Okay, that makes a lot of sense the next tissue that forms is our nerves, and the reason is that every organ ultimately would need instructions and nerves. The next tissue is our, Fat cells, called, adipose tissue, or adipose cells.
Fat cells, that form in the womb resemble a piece of bubble wrap. Every little bubble in bubble wrap is a, fat cell, and this fat is around blood vessels. The fat is wrapping around because it serves as fuel tanks for the energy that we eat in our food. So, let’s park the fuel tanks of fat right next to where the fuel is coming from and our blood.
Here’s exactly how our body works. This is a simple way for everyone to understand, metabolism. Our metabolism is how our body that gets fuel from into our, fat cells. And the fuel that we have comes from food. We eat the food there’s fuel our metabolism picks up fuel puts it into the fuel tank and when our fuel tank starts running on empty, we pull over to the dinner table.
We pull over to the refrigerator or to the restaurant or the pantry. Okay, and what we’re doing like choosing the food that we eat, we’re actually giving ourselves energy and filling up our tanks. Now two things. Know that you can actually fill your car your engine with better quality gas versus really poor-quality gas.
When you use high quality gas, you know that your car is going to run longer and better more efficiently over a long haul. That is basically the same analogy as food when we choose a good quality fuel food. It’s good quality fuel for our body, our engine is going to run better, if you deliberately choose poor quality foods our body will not run as good. So again, the quality of the of the fuel of the food that we eat makes a big difference.
Your metabolism is derived from the quality of your food
You’ve also got to make sure you don’t overeat. You’re filling up your fuel tank and there is no clicker like at the gas station. When you overeat, inflammation sets in and now you’ve got inflamed fat that’s on the fire and that inflammation leaks out and it’s all over your body. Now your whole body’s inflamed and that’s what sets us up for chronic disease.
So, the good news, I kind of just giving you some bad news, fat burning foods, will help us burn down the extra fuel stored in our fuel tank. And that is really why I call my latest book “Eat to Beat your diet.” You do not have to go on a restrictive elimination deprivation diet to add to your diet to be able to, burn fat, away harmful, Right? It’s more joyful to know what are the foods that, burn fat, that you should add to your diet?
Myrna: How does, intermittent fasting, play into this fat burning system? I had two or three guests on the show, talk about, intermittent fasting. I am doing it myself right now. And I’m working with a 15-hour, intermittent fast. My question is that I heard you say a 12 hour fast is almost as beneficial as a 15,16, 24 hours fast. Can you explain why that is?
Dr Li: Well, look I mean the there’s a new scientific metabolism that helps explain why, intermittent fasting, is beneficial. Intermittent fasting, isn’t just sort of this newfangled fad or trend that somebody came up with that lots of people are following now. It’s the most natural thing and who we are as a people. If we fast for 16 hours and eat for 8 hours, we will lose weight, our body will reset, our metabolic markers will improve. All of that, but since 16 hours without food is so hard for everyone to do, I say a 12 hour fast is more manageable and give you the same benefits.
Myrna: Tell us about your book “Eat to Beat your You Diet: Burn Fat, Heal Your Metabolism, and Live Longer. We talked about everything except living longer. But we know that when we put good fuel in our body, then we live longer. So why did you write the book? Tell us what you want readers to walk away with after reading, your website, your social media handles, etc.
Di Li: Thank you very much for that for allowing me talk about my book. So, we already talked a lot about the things that are in my book, but I’ll explain. When you get my book, It’s in three parts. The first part tells you these amazing jaw dropping things, that caused my jaw to drop, and my eyes to open about our metabolism. So, here’s just a couple of teasers for you. We are not born with different metabolisms; we’re not born with a faster or slower metabolism. Turns out our metabolism doesn’t automatically slow when we hit our 40s and 50s and 60s. Amazingly, our metabolism from the age of 20 to 60 is rock able.
That’s how we’re designed, our operating system is designed in our adult life to be completely stable. And so, what happens is that not that a slow metabolism causes us to gain weight. It’s gaining weight and growing extra, body fat, slows down our metabolism. You’re not cursed with this. You have a tendency to make a decision to use food, use fasting, use your lifestyle to, burn fat. When you burn away the extra fat, you lighten up your body. What happens is your natural operating system your metabolism naturally rises to the surface.
You are in charge of your metabolism because it’s hardwired. It’s like putting an anti-virus program into your computer so that your operating system can work again. That’s powerful. That’s very, empowering. And that’s a section in my book and then talking about some really interesting parts of that.
Did you know that fat comes in different colors? Fat is brown or fat is white. Those are the two colors. White fat, is lumpy, bumpy, wiggly, jiggly. It’s the stuff on your arms, under your chin. White fat is the muffin top. Okay, it’s on your thighs. It’s on your butt. That’s the stuff that most people see. Because it’s under the skin, subcutaneous tissue.
But the stuff you can’t see, that’s also, white fat, and some stuff that’s packed into your body. This fat is called, visceral fat, visceral meaning gut, gut fat. And that’s why when you actually gain weight, your waist size increases. That’s a lot of, gut fat, but you can burn it off it with foods I talk about in my book.
The other kind of fat, the good kind of fat is not lumpy, bumpy wiggly, generally. It’s called, brown fat. And in this case, Brown fat, is the kind that you want because it is paper thin. And you’re like, What? What are you talking about? Fat is thin? Yes, It is like a piece of paper and it’s not close to the skin. It is close to the bone. All right, and where is it located? It is plastered on the side of your neck. It’s underneath your breastbone. It’s around under your arms like a girdle and a little bit behind your back, and a little bit in your belly. And what, brown fat, does is ignites; it lights up fat like a space heater.
But so will foods like, chili peppers, tomatoes, pomegranate juice, avocados, beans, chickpeas, all these foods I talk about in my book. Brown fat, burns down, white fat, it fights bad fat. Eating food can help your good fat fight bad fat. That is that’s kind of a mind-blowing concept. You can eat foods to fight fat. So, this is why I called my book “Eat to Beat Your Diet.
Now the middle of the book is actually me taking you grocery shopping. And the way that I wrote is, I imagined you the reader sitting in my grocery cart, the way you used to sit in your mom’s grocery cart as a kid. In this case, I’m pushing you in my grocery cart and I’m whispering in your ear as we go around the grocery store. What’s good for your metabolism, what, foods burn fat. We go through to the produce section. We pick up the avocados, and bell peppers we pick up the Bok choy, we pick up the onions etc. I write about 150 foods you can find in the grocery store at any budget.
The last section of my book, the third part is really me coaching you how to adapt this to your everyday life. I give you kind of guidelines and some tips on how to do it and the most important thing is to personalize it for yourself make it work for you.
You can pick up a copy of my book in any book store or on my web site www.drwilliamli.com all my social media handles is @drwilliamli. If you head to my website, you can sign up for my free newsletter where I give you tips about food and recipes and any research that I’m doing.
