The BIGGEST LIE about Food

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1:01that saturated fat in cholesterol is really bad for our hearts. So in fact, it's going to kill us, right? So when you eat large, red meat, butter, it's going to clog your arteries. But actually, what is cholesterol? What's saturated fat? It's very confusing. Are they the same? Are they different? I'm going to make this so simple for you. First, let's just cover cholesterol. What is it? It's a type of fat that your liver makes. And the reason why your liver makes this type of fat is to make cell membranes, this stuff around your cells. It's to help make hormones. It's to help make even vitamin D. You can't make vitamin D without cholesterol. So now let's tackle saturated fat. Very simply, it's a type of fat that will stay solid at room temperature versus another type of fat, which is liquid at room temperature. And that's called unsaturated fat. For example, if we take coconut oil, right? And we compare that to lard. Both of them are solid at room temperature. Both of them have saturated fat.

2:02And interestingly enough, coconut oil has 87% saturated fat compared to lard, which only has 47, not even 50% of it is saturated fat. Out of all the different types of saturated fat, the one that has the biggest so-called bad influence on your cholesterol is something called meristic acid. Meristic acid has been studied and found that it can increase your bad cholesterol. Meristic acid by itself is very high in coconut oil. But only 2% of the saturated fat in red meat is this meristic acid. So tell me what saturated fat is bad if it's in coconut oil. If we have two concepts. One is that consuming cholesterol increases your cholesterol. The truth about that is it has a very, very small impact if anything. Most of the cholesterol is made by your body. And people have the confusion that the cholesterol is coming in the body and creating a problem. If we're saying that cholesterol is the worst in the eat, then why does your body make 80%?

3:04Is it trying to kill you? No, it's trying to help you. It's trying to get you to survive. If your body makes 80% of your cholesterol, if you add a little bit more, guess what? Your body makes less. There's a little bit of a thermostat there adjusting. If you eat more, it makes less. If you eat less, it makes a little bit more. But if you eat sugar, that will definitely increase your cholesterol. If you're eating all this sugar, the average person consumes way too much. So the motor can't handle it. So it has to put it in storage. So it starts to convert it as fat and cholesterol. So again, you've been told a lie that these foods are bad. It's okay to consume steak, lard, butter. There's not much of a difference between those and coconut oil. So now that we've covered the greatest lie, let's talk about the biggest truth. Colesterol only becomes bad when you combine it with sugar, smoking, trans fats, seed oils. One of the problems with these is how they're made.

4:05They go through an industrial assembly line of chemical solvents like hexane. That's in gasoline. And this is highly inflammatory oil. So when you combine all these things with cholesterol, as this rusting effect starts creating holes, just like a car, is your body has to heal it. So it's going to heal it with various things. Colesterol, calcium, protein, and that's basically your body's way of putting together a bandaid. The problem with that is it clogs the artery. So it's funny that people think that cholesterol is bad because it makes it part of your bandaid. But they don't consider protein bad. They don't consider calcium bad. And that's really what we should be teaching people. On any journey using Uber, it helps to know you're getting into the right car. Pin verification adds an extra step to make sure your ride is your ride. Before the trip begins, your app gives you a unique pin. Just tell it to your driver and they'll enter it in their app before the ride can start. Hey, what'd you pin? Mm-hmm.

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