How To Lose Five Pounds By Memorial Day, with Dr. Cate Shanahan and Mark Sisson | Ep. 321

80 to 90% of the inflammation and inflammatory problems people are suffering from is coming from these seed oils ... They were released into the food supply without any studies showing that they were safe.

In the absence of a gym or in the absence of a trainer or the absence of access to weights, you can get a tremendous workout doing push-ups, pull-ups, planks, and air squats.

If you wake up in the morning and you're not hungry, there's no reason to eat breakfast. Breakfast is, you know, it's been sold as the most important meal of the day; it's not.

That is why I say there is no such thing as a healthy snack, because it's not a healthy habit ... The habit of snacking is not healthy, because snacking trains your metabolism to wait for you to get another snack instead of doing what it should do, which is burning your body fat.

If you have too much seed oils in your body fat—which everyone does, unless you've been avoiding them—your brain thinks that sugar equates to energy, because your brain does not trust your body fat.

This concept of metabolic flexibility really is the holy grail of not just weight loss but health. If you can develop metabolic flexibility, if you can train your body through the choices of food that you eat and types of exercise you choose to do, if you can train your body to become metabolically flexible, you can train it to derive energy from whatever substrate happens to be available.

Agave is a great example of something that was sold as a health food kind of thing. It's basically worse than high-fructose corn syrup.

Most American wines have a lot of sugar. Some wines in the US have more sugar than Coca-Cola.

Meat on the bone provides you something that's really good for your skin, for your hair, for your nails, and your joints.

I think collagen is critical for maintenance of the soft tissue, the connective tissue, the facia, the ligaments, the tendons, the skin, hair, and nails.

If you really want to get healthy, the goal is how you feel much more than, first and foremost, how you look.

If you get hungry between meals and you feel like you need to snack, that is a red flag. It's a red flag that you're not burning your body fat, because if you want to lose weight, then going between meals should be your best friend.

Snacking trains your metabolism for you to want more snacks. So, it's an incredibly dangerous habit, because people don't realize how many calories they actually consume.

When you take an animal and you boil its joint material or its skin, it releases these very special compounds that are basically missing from the American diet.

Walking is still the greatest thing ever invented for humans ... We should walk as often as we as we can.