 So the really cool thing the really cool thing is you can Retrain the immune system. Mm-hmm, and you can Seal leaky gut so that you can have these foods back as long as you you know moderation some precautions. Yeah Okay, so what would be some of the alternative foods That we could eat and consume if we got rid of all these because it sounds to me I'm just eating broccoli and cauliflower all day. Yeah, so what are some of the alternatives that are also I mean there are great Postas out there made out of cassava flour. Mm-hmm. I make one at Gundry MD made out of sorghum flour Again have no relationship Jovial makes phenomenal pastas out of cassava flour cassava cassava Yeah, it's like taro root. Oh, and I Tell you I actually one of the restaurants Italian restaurants in mazito keeps, you know, cassava pasta for me And I just had a big bowl of penne pasta a couple nights ago. It doesn't affect your you don't feel like this No, this and it's got no moon hangover and it's got this mouth feel It's really good now. It's you know, I'll dent a so the idea that you have to You know suffer These things is is old school and I think one of them one of the big benefits of the plant paradox being so popular is that consumers Wanted alternatives and Companies rise to the occasion and they're making lots of stuff Okay, there's lots of now pasta sauces peeled and dc'd tomatoes, you know again There's lots of pressure cooked beans. So it's actually it's been exciting to watch These things come about right what about so what other foods we've got the cassava flour pasta. What about I mean so there's actually increasingly now a lot of fairly safe ice creams out there that can use alternative like Coconut milk as an example. There's actually some ice creams that use a sweetener called Al Jalos Which I'm very high on Al Jalos. Al Jalos is a rare actual sugar it was first discovered in figs, but it has no caloric value and They actually it's primarily produced from corn but before everybody has a fit by GMO Al Jalos Most corn in the United States is genetically modified and that's a whole another story in itself Most corn in the United States is sprayed with roundup as is all our wheat as is all of our Everything yeah, so That Al Jalos is actually a prebiotic So a prebiotic is fiber that feeds good gut bacteria So get non GMO Al Jalos and it's easy to find it's on the internet a lot of stores are getting it But it's starting to appear in Starting to appear in bars. It's starting to appear in ice creams and so protein bars and stuff. Yeah Okay, any other what about for like the nuts? What's a replacement for nuts? So number one nut and we'll talk about this in a little bit is pistachios. I love pistachios pistachios have so many crazy health benefits and their number one health benefit spoiler alert is They are the highest source of melatonin of any food really really and Everybody says well, wait a minute. I don't want to go to sleep after I eat pistachios It turns out that melatonin is only one of two actual Anti-oxidants that are used in mitochondria to protect mitochondria. The other one is glutathione All the other antioxidants that people talk about you know vitamin C vitamin E blah blah blah have absolutely no effect on oxidative stress in mitochondria, there's only two Melatonin and glutathione Okay, so melatonin is not a sleep hormone melatonin has a much higher purpose and that is to actually repair mitochondria to Uncouple mitochondria and that's what we're going to that for sure. Yeah so pistachios is the number one Great, can you have too many nuts of pistachio macadamia you can't so if you want to gain weight macadamia nuts are the way to do it and I've actually had some weight gaining challenges for some of my really skinny people and If you want to gain weight macadamia nuts are the way to do it Mac. What about pistachios? This actually has just pretty hard. I can get me nuts are so good. Oh, I know that's part of the problem That's why that's what anyway. Yeah, you really do gain weight with macadamia So you can have more that's a great hazelnuts are great Pine nuts are great. Okay. Yeah, so Pecans do have a lectin I wrote about in the plant paradox cookbook that we often see on food sensitivity Yes pecans pecans But you know, I just tell tell people go easy because you know, I went to medical school in Georgia and it's the state You know nut. Yes healthy economy What do you think is the best? Diet or food-eating plan to go on to help you reverse age Believe it or not my keto my new keto program. Really? Yeah, tell me reverse Wow, why do you think that what's the difference between that and the plant paradox diet? So this is the plant paradox taken to its kind of ultimate Conclusion, you know, I the plant paradox had a ketogenic program but people were shocked with the amount of carbohydrates that were available to them in My ketogenic program and nobody could quite figure out why but it was really effective particularly at losing weight and I didn't even realize why until I was writing the energy paradox and then It was like, oh my gosh Why this works has been sitting here in plain sight and I didn't see it and No keto expert has ever seen it because we've all been kind of led down the garden path that ketones and being in ketosis is you know, it's a miracle fuel and burns fire burns fat and make you an efficient fat burner and Let's look at it this way if you become an efficient fat burner Which is what every keto says that you will be Efficiency means you get more out of something You get more efficiency. In other words, if you want to save gas You buy a Toyota Prius, which is very efficient at Getting the most miles out of a gallon of gas On the other hand if you want to be fuel inefficient, then you buy a Ferrari, which is really good at Wasting gas, you know, there might be other reasons to have a Ferrari rather than Prius, but we won't go so Fat has nine grams nine calories per gram Amino acids and carbohydrates have four calories per gram So fat has more than twice the calories by weight of Carbohydrates or proteins. So if you become an efficient Fat burner and you're eating fat, then you ought to gain weight Why don't people gain weight? Believe it or not a ton of people gain weight on ketogenic diets Why is that because they're actually eating the wrong kinds of fats and the book shows why Eating the wrong kind of fats to do this you at most people eating a high Saturated fat diet, you know cream cheese and bacon Actually become insulin resistant and insulin and they actually develop high blood sugar and that insulin Goes up and insulin is actually the fat storage hormone So when you're eating a lot of fat you actually can get fatter and fatter And I profile a patient of mine who I call Miranda in the book who had been doing a true Supervised ketogenic diet for two years and she had gained 30 pounds in two years really and was a really pissed And she's like all the experts say that you're supposed to follow this Yeah, and I mean she was doing it. She showed me her food diaries and yet when we measured her She was insulin resistant. She had high insulin levels. She was pre-diabetic And she I mean she was apoplectic and she's literally What are you talking about? You know, I'm a saint on this diet. So, yeah, this is you know what we see That's why 60% of people who try a ketogenic diet Give it up quickly because they don't see the results that are promised hmm and It's clear after I wrote unlocking the keto code why People aren't getting the results that were promised because what are people doing wrong on the old way of doing the keto diet? And how should they approach it now with the new information? So One of the big problems is that and this is shocking information You look at normal weight individuals in the United States 50% of normal weight individuals are Metabolically inflexible and I've used those terms before but let's let's define it again. Okay, what is that normally? you and I Can burn glucose to make ATP in our mitochondria But we can also if glucose runs out burn free fatty acids fat as a fuel and Normally the second glucose runs out We should be able to switch over to burning fat as a fuel just very much like a hybrid car When you're running on gasoline the battery which we'll call fat is being charged when the gasoline runs out the battery can Discharge and power the vehicle 50% of normal weight people are Metabolically inflexible they can't do that. I can't switch on again fat. They can't switch to bring that interesting now You look at overweight people 88% of overweight people are metabolically inflexible. They cannot Switch over to burning fat. So how do you switch over then and get this? 98.5% of obese people are Metabolically inflexible they cannot make the switch. Is that meaning they can't make the switch on a day-to-day basis On a 24-hour basis. They can't switch and burn. They can't but if you but in a minute fast for a couple days Have you been reading up? Yeah, so it turns out that when when we have and Metabolically inflexible people have normally high insulin levels Simplistically insulin is a fat storage hormone. That's why back in the old days when we gave people insulin who were diabetics They got fatter and fatter because we were injecting them with the hormone that stores fat So when we eat insulin comes up insulin knocks on your muscle cells and says hey Louis just had a great meal here. I want to sell you this stuff open the door Your muscles say, oh, yeah. Yeah, good. I'm hungry. Give it to me. So you're you're insulin sensitive now Unfortunately, most people Insulin levels are high almost all the time because your muscles are full. They don't want anything to eat They go go away Don't come back, but insulin keeps trying so it keeps pushing When insulin is high it has a second effect. It Blocks the release of fat from fat cells, okay now think about if you and I just killed a bison and we were gorging on bison We would want to store Most of what we ate as fat For because probably we weren't gonna kill a bison for a while so insulin when it's high is storing fat but Insulin you wouldn't want to burn fat while you're doing that so insulin says no, no, no It's staying here in the storage tanks So there was a very good purpose for that, but normally if you and I stopped eating after about eight hours Your blood sugar levels would pretty much be used up Insulin would fall and then fat would come rolling out of your fat cells out of your hybrid battery And you'd start burning fat as a fuel and everything's fine But if you go on a ketogenic diet when you're metabolically inflexible and all your eating is fat What happens then you don't you can't get to that fat and you crash and burn And that gives you the keto blue the keto flu the Adkins blues Your athletic performance plummets energy goes down your energy goes down you get that Headachey feeling you say give me some carbs. Yeah, and yeah, yeah, and your brains go. What the heck, you know I got nothing here. I got nothing and that's what's really cool So normally all of your cells all of my cells are Delighted to burn free fatty acids. It's a great fuel The problem is free fatty acids are actually big molecules and they can't get through the blood-brain barrier And they're too big So that's a problem everybody else and you can do fine, but if your your brain Can't burn free fatty acids because they can't get there it could do it if they could get there so we have this Clever system that when free fatty acids are outflowing Some of them go to the liver and the liver converts them into water-soluble short-chain fatty acids called ketones or ketone bodies The liver can't use ketone bodies so it throws them out into the bloodstream and Ketone bodies can get past the blood-brain barrier So they can serve as a backup fuel for the brain During the time you're sleeping During the time you're starving or during the time you're eating a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet but Everybody got the idea Thanks to some research out of Harvard and the NIH years ago by Kay Hill and V that Because ketones Could provide an alternative fuel That it must be a super fuel and that we should always try to be starving in fact giving the ketosis, right? He's the key to ketosis get into ketosis well, one of the protégés of Dr. Kale Dr. Owens in 2004 You know fairly recently showed that even at a full ketogenic output a full ketogenic diet Only 30% of our power could come from ketones 70% still had to come from free fatty acids and glucose and even at full ketosis your brain Still has to have 30 to 40 percent of its energy met by glucose Not ketones If you found this video helpful, I think you're gonna love this one one Avocado a day is shown in human clinical trials to make you lose weight Part of the reason is that avocados have a lot of fiber that your gut buddies love and they'll take care of you