The 7 Pillars of Optimal Health: Nutrition — Your Diet Doesn't Need a Name

Nutrition is probably the least agreed upon areas in health and longevity.

You can find convincing people telling you to go vegan, eat Mediterranean, eat carnivore, eat keto, that meat causes cancer.

And then others saying meat is the healthiest food you can eat.

Fat is bad.

Fat is good.

Carbohydrates are killing us.

Whole grains should be a major part of our diet.

You need to fast or you need to eat six times a day.

So if you're confused about nutrition, I don't blame you.

So I've been studying this nutrition as it pertains to longevity for years, as well as changes to my own kind of nutritional regimen.

And I would say my my thinking has changed over the years.

And that's OK.

And I'll talk about that.

Science evolves and my clinical experience changes and just how we interpret things.

So today we're going to talk about.

kind of where I've landed personally what I recommend most healthy people do as far as nutrition why protein is so important should we eat carbohydrates should we not where the fats fit in why I still do sometimes use low carb diets therapeutically I'll talk briefly about vegan keto carnivore diets and why I think we're making nutrition much more complicated than it needs to be So first principle I want to discuss is calories do matter.

This is probably one way my thinking has changed over the years.

you know, we were always taught that in school.

And then I was to a point where I didn't really think calories matter as long as what you were ingesting were good calories.

But I do think calories matter.

You know, there was a time when I focused much more on food quality, on hormones, and all those things matter.

But in it, Energy balance also matters.

So if you are chronically consuming more energy than you're using, you are likely to gain weight.

If you're carrying excess body fat, particularly visceral fat, that affects metabolic health.

Don't turn this into a calorie is a calorie because that's too simplistic.

Nutrition is probably the least agreed upon areas in health and longevity.

You can find convincing people telling you to go vegan, eat Mediterranean, eat carnivore, eat keto, that meat causes cancer.

And then others saying meat is the healthiest food you can eat.

Fat is bad.

Fat is good.

Carbohydrates are killing us.

Whole grains should be a major part of our diet.

You need to fast or you need to eat six times a day.

So if you're confused about nutrition, I don't blame you.

So I've been studying this nutrition as it pertains to longevity for years, as well as changes to my own kind of nutritional regimen.

And I would say my my thinking has changed over the years.

And that's OK.

And I'll talk about that.

Science evolves and my clinical experience changes and just how we interpret things.

So today we're going to talk about.

kind of where I've landed personally what I recommend most healthy people do as far as nutrition why protein is so important should we eat carbohydrates should we not where the fats fit in why I still do sometimes use low carb diets therapeutically I'll talk briefly about vegan keto carnivore diets and why I think we're making nutrition much more complicated than it needs to be So first principle I want to discuss is calories do matter.

This is probably one way my thinking has changed over the years.

you know, we were always taught that in school.

And then I was to a point where I didn't really think calories matter as long as what you were ingesting were good calories.

But I do think calories matter.

You know, there was a time when I focused much more on food quality, on hormones, and all those things matter.

But in it, Energy balance also matters.

So if you are chronically consuming more energy than you're using, you are likely to gain weight.

If you're carrying excess body fat, particularly visceral fat, that affects metabolic health.

Don't turn this into a calorie is a calorie because that's too simplistic.