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what's another health system that you
want to talk about in the context of how
excess fat can damage it and how we can
start to unwind that and actually
activate that Health System all right
I'm going to tell you one that's uh not
very well known which is people um know
stem cells by mostly associating with
driving to the driving to the corner
strip mall and getting their knees
injected or the elbow injected right to
me as a researcher that kind of stuff is
not ready for prime time but our body
is ready for prime time we are primed
with stem cells from the time we're born
we got about 75 million stem cells that
are just left over from developing in
the womb and they get stored in our bone
marrow and in our other organs and our
skin and even inside our body fat these
stem cells are called out to help repair
us from the inside out throughout our
lives so we are actually continuously
renewed where we regenerate and this
whole idea that um humans don't
regenerate but salamanders and Starfish
can is wrong another myth that's being
overturned is that humans do regenerate
we just regenerate slowly we can't grow
back an arm or a leg or a tail but we
can actually grow back our liver we can
grow back our lungs we can even grow
back parts of our brain which is really
really amazing and definitely we reg
grow back our our nerves the thing about
our stem cells in our body fat that can
affect our metabolism is that the our
body fat does contain stem cells and
remember I told you if you have too much
energy too much fuel too much food uh
too many calories but but your body's
going to have to stuff the the fuel into
the into the fuel tanks so the fat if
you don't if that's completely loaded up
now you got to create more fat you know
what it creates it from stem cells all
right so so our stem cells and our fat
are there as reserves if we need to
actually create more fuel tank but it
turns out that you can do some good
things with those um fat atpo cells as
well I read about um some research that
is being done I took part in some of
this as well
uh cardiologists are working with
plastic surgeons in lipos suction to
remove fat and to identify and isolate
out the stem cells from body fat so
here's how it works do lipos suction you
get this jar of yellow stuff which is
fat and you put that pour that into a a
tube and you spin it in a centrifuge
makes it go around and around and around
and with and what happens when you spin
it like that is that the cells the stem
cells will Clump to the bottom the fat
will float to the top you stop the
machine it's not spinning anymore you
pour off the fat and the stem cells of
what you have left cardiologists are
taking those stem cells and they're
putting with a little saline a little
salt water and they're injecting it into
the heart okay and because it's not in
the fat it's now in the heart it will
create new heart tissue all right and
one of the remarkable things in my book
I talk about is that they're doing the
same thing with spinal cord injury now
it's research only but it actually is in
humans
um there was a really famous case of a
somebody who a young person who injured
his uh spinal cord at the neck level
became
quadriplegic and um what they did is
they actually took his body fat spun it
down exactly the same way got the stem
cells and then took his stem cells and
injected it into the spinal cord and he
was able to regain movement which is
really really amazing I'm telling you
this to show you how powerful stem cells
are and if you imagine them in the heart
or in the spinal cord that might be
something that the medical community is
going to be able to use in the future
that's very promising but that just
shows you how powerful the stem cells
can be inside the fat itself you don't
want to be triggering those stem cells
to grow new fat by eating more food and
overloading your system those guys can
really fuel up your fat really fast
which is why sometimes when we see
massive weight gain you know like it it
and quickly weight gain it's partly due
to these stem cells so what's really
important is that you can tame these
stem cells there are foods that can
actually you can eat that will actually
start to divert the stem cells by
telling the stem cells hey buddy don't
be making more fat let's let's stay
let's stay calm all right let's just
stay quiet don't act out don't make more
fat and that's really another example of
a health defense system that on one hand
could be really powerful to help uh
recharge renew certain body parts that
we might want to have but we have to
tame it body fat is not bad it's good
you but what we want to do is we want to
respect it but we do do need it to be
tamed we cannot allow it to actually go
uh Haywire let's just do a little teaser
here we're going to get into Foods in a
second but what are a couple of foods
you're talking about taming that body
fat and working with those stem cells
and helping them understand not to work
against us what are a couple foods that
you have found that are important there
so one of them actually is
tomatoes um the lopine in tomatoes so
there's a bioactive called lopen it's a
carotenoid um turns out that uh found in
Tom es
actually you know kind of uh do a lot of
things to harmful body fat to fight body
fat but one of the things it does it
actually uh tames the stem cells so it
basically tamps down the ability of fat
stem cells from going haywire that's
important that's like sending that that
that uh crazy kid in the classroom who
can't stop making noise and being
disruptive that's like sending him over
to the principal's office getting them
out of the space making sure he's not
causing trouble that's tomato is one of
them olive oil actually turns out um
which contain lots of bioactives and I
think that's what I'm so excited about
as a research scientist not only is it
the food but we're beginning to identify
the specific substance in the food that
can be beneficial so um hydroxy tyrosol
aloc canthon all these types of bi
bioactives uh in in olive oil for which
is also present in whole olives by the
way and and it's present in olive oil
but it's also present in Olive water
olives are mostly water not oil so when
you press Olive olive oil it turns out
that the the they they throw away the
water right now and they they collect
the oil but the water's got a lot of
these polyphenols one of them hydroxy
tyol which also makes into the oil a
little bit actually will tame your uh
stem cells in body fat so again this is
an example where uh the foods that we
eat actually uh not only surprisingly
actually can help us fight body fat I
that's one of the things that I was so
surprised at when I started to set out
to do this research you assume that when
you're eating food you're going to grow
fat eventually right here actually
there's actually substances in food that
can actually help you tame and even lose
fat you know in the premise of this book
and in the introduction you're basically
taking the reader on a journey that you
didn't set out to write a diet book and
it's obviously an anti-diet book right
that's why it's called Eat to beat your
diet click in the show notes by the way
pick up a copy it's an amazing read
everybody that listening on audio on
YouTube please pick up a copy and one of
the things you saw from your first book
Is that people were eating according to
the education that you put out there
which isn't about sure you get us
excited about individual Foods here's
what olives can do here's what
pomegranate juice can do but you are not
there to Advocate necessarily for any
one way of eating or any one food You're
just showing us the power of Whole Foods
and when we include them in a good
diversity inside of our diet now the
thing is that even though you didn't
think that you were writing a weight
loss book A lot of people went on that
eating program and style from the first
book and they were reporting and they
were writing into that hey like I'm not
trying to restrict calories I'm not
trying to lose weight but I'm noticing
that I am losing weight and that was
like that was really an amazing
experience for you to have big surprise
to me and in fact I I'll confess
something uh that uh most people don't
know is that when I
uh wrote my first book and I turned it
in and it became very successful New
York Times bestseller I had in the back
of my mind a little concern that people
would become so uh enamored with eating
all the foods that I talked about that
they might gain weight and you know I'm
I'm a medical doctor so I get concerned
about this obesity epidemic and I would
be receiving these emails you know um
thousands of emails tens of thousands of
emails people thanking me for writing
the book and then talking me about how
more empowered they feel and and how
much healthier they felt uh some people
said oh you know I was able to get off
of my medications you know like I got
lots of really good feedback uh and I
was I was but I was my radar was on for
people that might say but I was waiting
for the butt but I'm getting weight you
know because I'm eating so much of the
good food that you actually you're
talking about I never got that what I
got instead was I distinctly remember
somebody wrote in and said and you know
what the other the other benefit I got
from eating uh to be disease is that
unexpectedly I started to lose weight in
ways that I could never lose before and
I got that one letter and I thought well
thank God he didn't gain weight and then
I thought wait a minute that's a little
bit weird how could you be eating more
food and losing weight so I kind of
brushed it off and then I got more maybe
another dozen letters like that uh or
notes emails like that people reporting
that they were actually losing weight
and by the time I got to like 20 or 30
of these uh I thought wait a minute
there is actually something going on I'm
a researcher right so we pick up Clues
by observing it and I thought what the
most unusual thing is that by eating
food and these people are telling me
like now they're like really eating uh
you know foods to fight five Health
defense systems how is it that they
could be eating food and losing weight
um so that's what Lally triggered me to
begin looking more deeply into this it
was really just the next part of my
research um actually I was doing
research on metabolism but I now I
wanted to dive in to see what the heck
was going on and so when we started take
a look at the bioactives in these Foods
because as a researcher a scientist
that's what I'm wondering is there a
mechanism like what could possibly be in
these Foods the lycopene the hydroxy
tyol in olive oil lopine and tomatoes uh
the ELC acid in chestnuts you know um I
started to discover that in fact all of
these
bioactives started to also make sense to
me because they were fighting body fat
they were taming the stem cells they
were preventing fat cells from loading
up with extra fuel they were actually um
uh igniting the brown fat uh turning on
that space heater to burn down energy
and increasing metabolism and then when
you actually really took a look at the
uh studies that were uh looking at
specific Foods studied in clinical trial
clinical studies isolating the food all
right and just giving the food to people
you started seeing that they it was
shrinking waste size so was
circumference and they were losing body
weight as well and so all of a sudden
became clear to me that there was this
whole other field of foods that actually
can activate your metabolism burn down
harmful body fat and against what we I
told we talked about at the very
beginning of this which is this new
science of the metabolism these four
phases and the harms of exra body fat I
realized that there was something that
people had to read about which is what
are those foods that if you eat that we
know what's inside them can burn harmful
body fat and Unleash Your Inner
metabolism that was worthy of a book so
that's why I she wrote this to beat your
diet and I'm so glad you did because
there's so many things that we forget
about or we don't take it advantage of
that are there in front of us in our
cabinet or easy to pick up in the store
that can be a part of our health system
and really this goes towards a larger
idea and the larger idea which again you
write about so eloquently inside the
book which is that it steps us into the
love of food
there's so much fear around food and
listen I'm going to be the first person
to call myself out and even maybe past
guests because we live in such a
complicated world and nutrition science
is very difficult to do there sometimes
are foods that people isolate or
categories and there
are maybe sometimes legitimate and maybe
sometimes sensationalized concerns
around those Foods you know could be
gluten or could be this thing or that
and yes go back to the Goldilocks idea
too much of something you know not
enough of it you know the right fit in
the middle but really A lot of that has
contributed to this fear of food right
and people constantly feel like they're
going to make the wrong decision right
and this book is about stepping back
into the love of food and backing it up
with some of the science you know you
just mentioned something which you were
talking about foods that help you uh
your your fat not get overactive
and one of the ones you talked about was
green tea so what are one of the
compounds or molecules that are part of
green tea that make it become one of
these Foods all right well you know who
hasn't heard of the benefits of green
tea right it's been sensationalized
right and to your point I think that uh
in the modern world uh because of all
this complexity human nature tends to
either create a hero or a demon uh
that's demonization or heroization right
green tea tends to be in the hero side
but for me what I really try to bring to
the Forefront and into focus is that the
science is actually trying to teach us
exactly what it is that's in the tea so
we know tea has polyphenols they're
called kakin we know one of the kakin is
called egcg it's epig Gallo caken 3
gallate but don't worry about the fancy
Latin scientific names let the
scientists kind of deal with it but
there's a polyphenol in Te kakin that's
actually really really good for you not
only does it cut off the blood supply Iz
to help starve cancers not only is it
anti-inflammatory not only do it help
protect your stem cells so you can
regenerate From the Inside Out the the
the fiber in green tea and some of the
kakin kakin itself is actually a
Prebiotic helps to nourish your nourish
your gut microbiome take your gut
bacteria make it happy it's antioxidant
good for your DNA stimulate your immune
system so again you know these are the
attributes of one of the only one of the
substances that we know about in green
tea that actually helps our body stay
healthier it turns out when it comes to
your body fat the kaken the same
substance actually fights white fat so
it actually helps you um actually lose
some of the subcutaneous jiggly stuff
but more importantly it actually helps
you lose visceral fat the harmful
baseball glove fat that can be trapped
even inside a skinny body that's a stuff
that chokes your organs that grows fast
that's on the fat in the back of your
tongue that we talked about earlier uh
so the bottom line is that um green tea
drinkers just metabolically are
healthier and here's the other thing
about green tea not only has a cakin but
it's actually just brewed in water
whether it's hot water or ice tea ice
green tea you end up hydrating yourself
as well and so again you get multiple
benefits and hydration also by the way a
lot of people don't know this but um a
cup of iced tea glass of iced tea has
got water not got the cakin but it's got
water in it turns out water itself
turns on your metabolism turns on your
brown fat and it's and basically when
you drink iced tea cold or or a glass
cup of cold water it actually gets into
your stomach and there's a temperature
gauge in your stomach that senses that's
cold and because it's your core body
temperature what we think happens is it
triggers this this gauge to turn on your
metabolism to try to warm up the water
it's kind of like a like a like a hot
water thermos it wants to warm it up and
it turns up your metabolism to turn up
your metabolism and activates your brown
fat your brown fat needs that fuel to
create to be the space heater it draws
down energy from your harmful fat Burns
away some of your harmful fat so again
you know like this this is this is how
this is a new way of thinking about our
food it's actually working our inner the
food is working our inner workings on
our behalf of our metabolism and by
making really really smart choices we
can actually allow ourselves to unleash
our inner metabolism