Podcast Episode 167: Inflammation, Obesity & Food Politics

Have you ever wondered why most diets don’t work? Scientist, functional nutritionist and health coach Matty Lansdown joins the show as we talk about all things involving food and their impact on our health.

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Topics Discussed in This Episode:

The history of our food system and why the rates of obesity and disease are so high
The impact of processed foods on our health
Inflammation
The optimal diet
Why fad diets don’t work
Intermittent fasting
Water fasting
Sustainable weight loss

Key Takeaways:

We’re living in a world where there’s so much sexualized marketing, where everybody feels like they’re not enough, and a lot of people have childhood trauma, which left them with a belief of not being enough and not being worthy of love, and they use sugar and carbohydrates as a coping mechanism.
Depending on your heritage and your genetic background, you have predispositions to liking or disliking some food or some food being used really well in your body.
In the last 100 years, we have taken a giant leap in social evolution — of the way we consume food, the types of food that we eat, the way that we find things palatable — that we’ve hijacked the dopamine centers of our brain in a way that we think we’re in control of, but we’re really all addicts because we didn’t evolve with this to be able to regulate that response.
Inflammation is an indication from the body to the immune system that something is wrong. However, in a lot of the situations that we see, inflammation leads to disease.
Combining the fad diet culture psychologically with Western medicine’s “a pill for an ill” creates this idea that the human biology is like a light switch — that you can flick the switch and now you’re a healthy person and you can just take a pill. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works.

Action Steps:

To find the diet that works best for you, consider these questions:

Are you an emotional eater, or are you a sugar addict?
Do you have excess body fat that you want to get rid of, or do you just want to be healthier?

JERF: Just eat real food. And then try to figure out, “How does that food affect my hormones?”

Matty said:

“Almost everything, for most people, comes back to not eating right. Whether that be your gut issues, whether that be your brain fog, whether that be the way you respond to stress, the thing that we do every single day is fuel the system.”

“Willpower runs out. Self-respect, when you nail it, doesn’t.”

Thanks for listening!

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