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certain foods can stop fat cells from
expanding other foods cause bad fat
cells to become good fat cells still
other foods can even redirect a fat stem
cell so it can't create more dangerous
fat some foods even crank up your brown
fat space heater and I could go on but
essentially I'm not not sure that is
common knowledge that actually the foods
you can eat specific foods can actually
go in and Target fat so we're all
waiting what are some of these foods
that we can start bringing into our diet
to do all these magical things all right
I want to tell you a little background
story of how I got into this area of
research to begin with um I wrote about
Foods in my first book that activate
your health defenses your circulation
androgenesis stem cells your microbiome
your DNA defenses as well as your immune
system that also lowers
inflammation and one of the things and I
G and I wrote actually about 300 plus
Foods in that book uh and I really loved
them the book became very popular and
one of and as it became more and more
popular one of the things in the back of
my mind uh that I was a little um uh
afraid to hear actually I was worried
about is whether or not people would be
writing me to say Dr Lee you wrote about
so many tasty food I'm eating so much
that I'm actually starting to become uh
I'm gaining too much weight and I'm
becoming obese like that as a physician
as you described as well I'm in the same
page as you like I have a responsibility
to actually make sure that people use
foods and respect Foods in a way that um
that is within a normal physiological
balance and so I was a little afraid of
this but you know what happened I would
get emails from people who were thanking
me for feeling better more energy coming
off medications you know just being more
empowered in general um but then I
started to start started to receive the
first signs that in fact that quite the
opposite of what I was hearing was I was
afraid of was coming true people were
saying you know Dr Lee in addition to
all these other good things that you
write about I'm starting to actually
lose weight in a way that I haven't been
able to lose before first time I sort of
thought you know somebody's just overly
kind but then I started to hear it over
and over and over again and I thought
wait a minute this doesn't make sense
I'm a scientist so I'm I'm really
attuned when I observe something that
doesn't fit with the obvious Paradigm
what eating food causes you to lose
weight how could that be eating Foods
you enjoy eating more Foods you enjoy
cause you to lose weight that didn't
compute for me and so I had already been
studying metabolism in my own research
and so I started to probe into this
could it be that in many foods there are
bioactive certain substances that
actually Target fat and cause the
behavior of the fat in your body to do
something completely different than you
would have thought which is just to get
bigger and accumulate maybe there is
some hidden mechanism within nature that
that is just lying hidden in plain sight
that we need to know about and that's
really kind of the Beating Heart of this
book which is not only is there a new
science of the metabolism but in fact is
within the realm of food is medicine
there's this new discovery that the
bioactives that are present the mother
nature is laced into our foods can
activate the healthy fat to reshape
itself not grow so big redirect itself
so we're creating more beneficial fat
than harmful fat um and literally get
rid of visceral fat and as I dove into
this deeper and deeper the discoveries
were getting more and more exciting to
me because not only was the lab research
there showing identifying what these
compounds are they could be the pakin
and tea they could be the Elric acid and
strawberries and chestnuts they could
actually be the sophanes and Brasa the
broccoli and bok choy and gyon or or
turmeric or it could actually um their
clinical studies were also being done to
show that eating these Foods
specifically uh could actually shrink
your waist line your waist circumference
making your body tube a little bit
smaller because it is knocking down the
visceral fat weight loss is sort of one
overall weight loss is sort of a side
effect as you pointed out to actually
rightsizing your body in ways that
eating foods can actually generate and
so what I did I spent about two years
cataloging these Foods I spent about 10
years doing a metabolism research but
two years really cataloging these foods
and I finally write about them again as
as if as if I were taking the reader
into my grocery cart and pushing them
around and telling them what to actually
put into the cart from section to
section in the grocery store yeah it's
it's really an incredible reads now a
couple of things there you you've
mentioned Brown fats during this
conversation about you know Brown fat
being different from white fat and we
actually want Brown fat and it has a lot
of properties that can help us lose
weight lose the excess fat on our bodies
that many of us are trying to do now a
few months ago I had Dr Susanna soberg
on this podcast and she's done a lot of
research to cold immersion and what
happens when you spend periods of time
in cold water in cold showers and cold
plunges and what that does to Brown fat
but immersing yourself in cold water to
increase your am of brown fat on your
body is frankly something that a lot of
people are not going to do right nor do
I think everyone should do cold water
emotion having said that I think it's
going to be very very individual who
benefits from something like that but
you are beautifully making the case in
your book that you don't need to
actually do that there are certain foods
that will do that for you so help us
unpick that and help us understand what
some of these Foods might be and how
they're able to do
this okay this is where my background in
biotechnology and looking at the
mechanisms like what is the domino
effect of of of a trigger to the a
beneficial effect would be an
understanding turns out that cold
immersion uh uh eating Foods uh or and
there's a few Pharmaceuticals that have
been tested uh can actually activate
Brown fat and largely in the same way so
let me let's I just want to make one
point to say brown fat was originally
discovered in animals that are subjected
to the cold hence uh you may have talked
about this before um it was discovered
actually in hibernating animals plucked
out of their burrow
in in the the winter time it's the
Alpine Marmet actually in Europe where
they discovered this little brown mass
and it really was the space heater it
actually created heat for the animal and
to to fuel up that engine to create heat
it was drawing down on the fuel that it
accumulated by stuffing its cheeks uh as
it was preparing for hibernation so this
is an evolutionary process that has been
conserved meaning that it's actually
passed on to humans but for humans we
didn't really think that you know
because we are born in warm hospital
rooms or in incubators we our homes have
thermostats we don't hibernate we don't
we're not born in caves anymore um cold
caves that you know it's a vdual kind of
thing it turns out not to be it turns
out that brown fat is actually an
incredibly important thing but here's
how it works cold temperature and you've
talked I'm sure you've talked about this
um causes a shock to the body that
releases uh epinephrine and and
norepinephrine these hormones that
actually are produced by our brains and
they coarse through our nerves and they
uh turn on they trigger uh Brown fat and
and really start the engine of the brown
fat literally like the clicker on your
gas range on your oven to start to
before you put boil some water whoosh
all right and so cold will actually do
that it turns out that the one of the
receptors is called the beta3 adrenergic
receptor beta3 adrenergic receptor is a
receptor for adrenaline which is a shock
hormone a stress hormone a fight ORF
flight hormone uh so Brown fat actually
lights up when you actually have a shock
to your system like a cold plunge for
those who want to do it go for it
because it's it that's actually how it
works it turns out that there's a
bladder medicine bladder SP medicine
called mirab
begron because that also does the same
thing because the beta adrenergic
receptor can actually be found on your
bladder all over your bladder as well
and in the bladder does something
different than your brown fed it
actually helps your bladder contract
which you need to contract your bladder
to pee all right but some people have a
spasmodic bladder it's Contracting all
the time you get leakage and all this
other unpleasant stuff and so there have
been medicines that have been discovered
to actually hit the beta receptor in
your bladder to calm the bladder down it
hits the beta adrig receptor
interestingly researchers at the US
National Institutes of Health have
studied that bladder medicine to see if
they can Target Brown fed and when they
do
boom it lights up the brown fat
beautifully and I and I show pictures of
this I've got permission from the
researchers to show how this this
mechanism can light up brown fat now I
don't recommend anybody to use medicines
to light up their Brown fat because the
doses of the medicines that were tested
were way higher than you you would
normally use U for blados spasm so don't
do that but that's a setup to say well
what else can light up brown fat by with
the beta adren receptor Well turns out
it's not the beta ader receptor but once
you click that once you tip that switch
after that the next dot that gets
checked um in this uh Cascade is
something called uncoupling protein one
ucp1 and that that trigger lives on the
M mitochondria which is a little organ
in your cells especially in your brown
fat that is packed our our Brown fat is
packed with mitochondria these little um
sub organs in our cells the mitochondria
is the it's a fuel cell I remember when
I was in medical school and I had to
memorize everything I I thought of it as
mighty condrea because it's small But
Mighty it actually Burns fuel creates a
lot of energy it actually processes
creates ATP Burns ATP to create energy
well it turns out mitochondria have a
lot of iron in it naturally iron when
it's oxidized it's naturally brown lots
of mitochondria lots of iron lots of
oxidation and guess what that's why
Brown fed is brown so just for people
wondering to know why is brown fat Brown
that's the reason it's packed with this
mondria mitochondria that is actually
fuel cell so anything that can activate
the beta adrenic receptor anything that
can actually turn on uncoupling protein
one anything that can activate the
mitochondria will turn on your space
heater and this is where Foods actually
come in because beyond the cold beyond
the bladder spasm drugs is a
whole collection of foods produce dried
canned jar foods Seafoods and beverages
that can actually turn on one or more of
these processes yeah I mean it's
incredible because I I wonder here on
this right some of the foods there I
know are I think Chili Peppers uh and
chili in general are one of these
specific foods that Target Brown fats is
that right can you speak to that a
little bit Yeah well listen I want I
want to show you so this is a chili
pepper it's a dried chili pepper and you
know you might see this dried and sold
in a grocery store you might use it to
cook different types of dishes whether
it's a East Asian dish or a South
American dish or an Italian or Spanish
dish a lot of people like chili peppers
and by the way here's another example of
chili this is what you put on your pizza
right so chili flakes so lots chilies
come in a lot of different forms that we
actually cook with it turns out that
inside chili pepper is something called
capsacin
capsacin it gives us the burn that Zing
the fire in our mouth uh and it actually
and the reason it does it is because we
have receptors in our tongue taste
receptors for capsacin they're called
capsacin receptors so in addition to
sweet sour salty we you know we can
actually we can activate we can feel the
the Zin uh the the receptor just for
people who are interested because I know
some people who watch your podcast are
you know really into the details it's
called the um trip V1
um receptor and capsacin tackle the trip
V turn on the trip V1 and then it's on
on your tongue you feel the burn all
right and what happens is that that
receptor text messages your brain and
and two and your brain releases two
different kinds of hormones one is
endorphins endorphins make you feel good
which is why some people are in love
with eating hot spicy food you've heard
about that right I can't wait till I get
some hot spicy food for those people
they have they they had their their
reaction to to this endorphin from
spices caused by this receptor for the
Caps B receptor is one of pleasure all
right now the other hormone that your
brain releases is norrine norrine
actually is released from your brain and
it goes down your nerves and I and this
is what I tell you next time you eat
something really spicy if you if you if
this is if you're inclined to do this do
it in a quiet room and close your eyes
and just feel your body you you you'll
feel the burn you'll literally feel your
brain activated you'll feel it I kid you
not and then you'll feel a rush of
nerves being activated down your neck
those nerves down your neck light up
your brown fat and it'll turn on your
brown fat so the noar from your brain
from Chili Peppers actually turns on
that that that hormone it goes down your
neck activates a beta3 androgenic
receptor in your brown fat that turns on
the ucp1 turns on the mitochondria and
starts the space heater function you can
actually feel that and by the way nor
nor adrenaline that forms that's also
why people get sweaty and red and
flushed when they're eating hot food as
well so this is just another dimension
uh of how foods that we eat can actually
activate this and so that's what we're
that's what one of the things that you
alluded to earlier I've been doing the
research to figure out what exact
substance in a food what's in a caper
what's actually in green tea what's in
coffee what's in a pear that can what's
in a bean that can actually
light up our fat not only our Brown fat
but it can also change and shape shift
our white fat in order to be able to
burn down and and slim down the harmful
fat so we can be more physiologically
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