In other words: nothing has changed since our grandparents' generation. It's what you eat that matters, not how much. If you try to convince your grandma that sweets and veggies are the same because of "calories" and that it justifies you eating more sweets because you're "counting" them, they will rightfully scold you and call you out on trying to use a stupid excuse to eat junk instead of healthy food.
LOVE the quirkyness...if course, the mini lecture is SUPER interesting and that's the best part. Bottom line? Thank you SO MUCH for making the videos you do. So different from everything else out there.
I get so excited when you post! I was already watching your podcast with Mike Mutzel on High intensity health and paused it to watch this and get back to it! love from Egypt
Martin Berkhan : “If someone says calories doesn’t matter, they have no credibility. If someone says that calories are all that matters, they have even less credibility.”
Since it is impossible (not an exaggeration) to know the exact metabolic rate of a given person in advance of the actual expenditure; and because it is impossible to know the exact caloric content of the food that will be ingested in advance (because that food goes into the mouth, not into the bomb calorimeter), and because even the slightest, unavoidable change in activity level will alter an expected calculated outcome; calories are in fact a mostly hypothetical measurement. Convince me that I’m wrong.
coffeemachtspass , actually calories as a measure is incredibly precise. You are correct about the human element. If you are measuring consistently over time, you will be close enough. While I don’t think people should obsess over calories, we should never state “calories don’t matter”.
Dennis Sparks Even if calories are a useful measurement (heat energy), I agree with Neiman that they are useless in the realm of nutrition. For example, the caloric content of a pure protein can be measured, but does the human metabolism actually utilize protein as a fuel? Not much. So what useful information does it provide to know that I can have 100 grams of a protein and 100 grams of a fat, when the actual metabolism of those two is utterly distinct. A precisely measured useless fact does not make it useful, it offers the illusion of knowledge when it merely provides a number that tells nothing about the amino acid profile or how a body is able, or unable, to utilize it.
coffeemachtspass , this is incredibly well known in the scientific literature...it is know as DIT (diet induced thermogenesis) or TEF (thermic effect of food). Protein has DIT of around 1.25 whereas fat is pretty close to 1. I love Dr. Ted and love what he has to say, but make no mistake about it the dude is a CICOpath! Do the math sometime on his recs and see how few calories it actually is, e.g. if you have 150 lbs of lean body mass, he wants you to eat 150gs of protein...600 calories. If you are at a P/E ratio of 2:1 and all energy was from fat (more calories per gram than carbs), you would eat 75 gs of fat or 675 calories...that’s only 1,275 calories.
This is such great explanation in its simplicity. If there is any video that I would send to those, who repeatedly try and fail at calorie counting approaches, like Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, it would be this one. Even with machines, simply calculating the energy value of fuel is not, in and of itself, a significant justification to recommend that fuel for that machine. If I were to measure a certain volume of diesel fuel and state it has X units of energy, and then measure out enough of unleaded fuel to equal the energy value in the diesel fuel, I can't therefore say that, since both fuels have equal energy value, that your car can take either one. No. Depending on how your car was engineered, whether it is designed to take diesel or regular unleaded, will determine which fuel you should put in your car. Similarly, certain types of food (i.e. fuel) are used by your body in such a way to where they are optimal from a standpoint of providing long term satiety, while other types of fuel are not optimal.
So is it safe to say that it’s not that calories don’t matter, it’s that the content of the calories is fat more important. Just want to clarify as some might read into this as CICO doesn’t matter and you can eat all you want if you eat keto/etc, especially when dealing with someone with Leptin resistance, eat out of boredom, or other similar situation.
Craig Emmerich The thing is that if you’re eating healthy keto and avoiding processed foods you can pretty much eat to satiety and still lose weight and get healthy. It’s just important to practice time restricted eating, which comes naturally once you break your glucose dependence. CICO is a horrible metric because it’s misleading and impractical. You ultimately have to be in a caloric deficit to lose fat, but what matters is how you get there.
Boon Doggle yes, that is exactly what I am saying. You can gain weight eating keto. You must be in a deficit. But the composition of the macros (and the satiety it gives you) is what is important.
Thank you. I stopped counting calories etc a couple of months ago and continue to lose weight. I have been on keto since mid November and have lost 65 pounds- another 15-20 to go. SW 224 CW 160 5’8” 68 years young. I have been working on upping my protein. I am halfway through the book- PE diet- seems like math must be involved. Haha. I will keep trying to do this without counting everything.
Congrats! Keep up the good effort. I do 18:6 intermittent fasting daily with keto. I have two well balanced meals daily over six hours. No snacks in between. I avoid fruit (except berries), starches, grains, sugar, soy, refined carbs and processed foods. I keep it simple so I do not have to over think it. Cheers!
Ken Jay. I also find 18/6 keto works well for me. I Alternate Day Fast with some form of bulletproof coffee first thing; otherwise I do green tea or a mushroom coffee and wait. All the best to you
"on paper, calories are awesome". I love how to you communicate. On some level this just flies in the face of all this craziness with watches, belts, all this nonsense. My own experience is I can exercise till the cows come in, even in a fasted state, and if the food isn't "RIGHT" neither is the scale the next day
Hello, love your content, what would you suggest a vegan do? Should I just eat a bunch of pea protein powder and beans? Or should I cut out either almost all fat or all carbs? Cutting out all carbs would be hard. Thanks so much, keep up the good work!
Calories in/calories out is a horrible metric because it’s both misleading and impractical. It’s misleading because it leads people to believe that they can still eat inflammatory foods that spike your insulin and blood sugar and negatively effect your gut microbiome and still lose weight as long as the calories are low enough, and just eating that way regardless of the calorie count will cause you to be overweight and unhealthy. The quality of the food and the hormonal and physiological effects of the food are what’s most important. Making regular use of the metabolic switch by fasting is also critically important. It also prevents your body from simply adapting to the amount of energy that you’re taking in which is why most diets fail after a certain amount of time. It’s impractical because as he explained you really don’t know, and thinking that you’re in control of that and trying to bump up against a certain number is folly. The real issue is how much energy your body is willing to spend, and the only way to improve that is by getting healthy overall. I stopped counting calories about ten months ago and I’ve dramatically improved my health and body composition during that time by doing healthy keto and routinely practicing intermittent fasting to take advantage of that metabolic switch. Yes, you ultimately have to be in a caloric deficit to lose fat, but what matters is the process of how you get there.
Another awesome video. Eating the right food to satiety is the key. I don't count calories because my body does not have calorie receptors. However, it does respond to protein, fats and carbs.
For some people it can be helpful to show them the amount of calories in a food item as an incentive to get them to move to different foods, especially with processed foods. It's amazing how people will only look at the front of the box/bottle/container and not what's on the back. If it says "fat free" on it, they'll go all in despite the fact that it's loaded with sugar and carbs instead and will eat more of it because they feel it's healthy (or at the very least, not "all that bad"). It takes showing them how unhealthy something "healthy" really is to get them to switch. For example, I had a work friend who would always choose the Whole Wheat roll over the "regular" roll because it's "healthier". Using Subway's nutritional info, for a footlong, a footlong Whole Wheat roll has more carbs and calories than the regular bread option. It also has a bit more Protein and Fiber, so it probably balances out to effectively identical but with a slightly higher calorie count, so at the _very least_ it's equally as bad as the "regular" roll. It took me printing out the nutritional info and dropping it on his desk to him to even understand it...at that point if he continued with the bread, thats' fine, but instead he switched to salads when we ate there instead.
Hi Dr Naiman, love the content! My question is, does any of this take into account the stages of life or sex of the individual. I ask because I am a 47 year old female with plummeting estrogen and progesterone levels. I am having a lot of symptoms from these biological changes. Increasing my protein intake has been great for satiety, but does this skew the energy amounts?
Typically on board with you and I loved the book. But maybe you should do a video on PFT because I can see a lot of folks taking this and saying see Dr Ted said calories don't matter. That's not what you said. Most folks are so far over their PFT, often due to too much fat consumption and underconsuming protein and or whole foods, they think the only thing that matters is insulin. Nope
Hello Dr Ted my macros as per your guideline in the book leads to 140 gm of protein 70 gm of fat and 40 gm of carbs.But it lead up to only 1400-1500 calories.But my basal metabolic shows 1600 in such scenario what can I do?
@@steverg2 persons blessed with high-functioning thyroids can often (please dont) depress their thyroids with PUFAs mixed with 4 starches and iron (eg: enriched flour items fried in veg oil). Donuts eaten with french fries and beer ought to do it you keep at it for a couple weeks. Which I do not recommend. If by some miracle that doesnt work, just go on a 3-week long 500 calorie a day vegan "cleanse" diet first, be sure to exercise a lot, and quit sleeping... and then eat that way. Also not recommended. If that fails, you might secretly be an alien from another planet or a god... CICO doesnt work because humans are equipped with a variable-speed, highly sensitive, adaptive metabolic rate governors--thyroid and hormonal system. Lots of things can fubar this system. Fixing it is much harder than breaking it.
@@keralee Sounds like how I used to eat before my personal health revolution a few years ago. Bagels, pizza, beer/booze, candy, tons of PUFA. Body comp was considerably softer but my weight was actually lower then, around 180. Definitely had hypothyroid symptoms, but still never put on much weight. It did wreck my gut over time. Dysbiosis must have created a klebsiella overgrowth leading to a pseudo-AS condition at about 30. I can't even eat starches or much dairy anymore or my spine gets so stiff at night I can't sleep past about 4:30am. My set point now is about 185 lbs but if I train hard I can get about 10 extra lbs of muscle on and get to about 195. Beyond that I think there's just a hard limit based on fat cell architecture.
I noticed you didn't mention the slowing down of BMR after a period of calorie restriction, so that weight gain is inevitable. Is Jason Fung wrong about that?
This was a short video on the quality (regarding nutrition) of the calories so he didn't probably mention that. When one is metabolically healthy and does not have hyperinsulinemia then their metabolic rate won't go down under caloric restriction. They will just lose weight by burning their fat stores. On the other hand, if one is metabolically unhealthy with hyperinsulinemia then when they go on caloric restriction their metabolic rate WILL go down. Why? Because the insulin blocks fat burning. Since there's not enough energy for bodily functions and the body can't access the fat stores, metabolism has no way to go but down... So, Dr Fung is not wrong. The context especially the insulin state of the person is important. In the end, hormons are everything. EDIT: One addition, so if you're metabolically unhealty/hyperinsulinemic then what you're doing must deal with the (hyper-)insulin first. For example, low carb dieting or especially powerful intermittent fasting. When combined these two are even more powerful in lowering your insulin.
Yeah. Until your thyroid tanks from cortisol overload... Then your metabolism lowers even further, your liver makes glucose like a candy factory, and ketosis becomes impossible even when fasting because your own liver has gone bonkers. Not everyone reaches this state of metabolic Hell. New research hints that it might be due to viral hijacking of hormonal signalling, as viruses like glucose.
Hi Ted, a great video once again. I recently discovered you, and have already watched a ton of your podcasts on all other channels; have thoroughly enjoyed learning. One suggestion - you are making videos on "fundamental knowledge" around health/wellbeing - great!..but can you also mix it up with occasional videos on "guidance". RUclips world require both! Some topics that RUclips doesn't answer "decisively" in general : - How to improve Gut health - Best Cooking Oil (also include, mustard oil, ghee, refined oil for comparisons - used heavily in Asia; natural olive oil is not suitable for high smoke point) - Vegetarian diets (I know you equate this with religion and therefore doesn't approve, but trust me there's more to it) - How does simple carb vs complex carb fit in your equation of PE diet (Rice vs Bread is the decision that many of us have to take daily..also white potato and other top foods) - Superfoods according to you (Veg and Non-veg) The list is long.. Thanks in advance:)
Not an engineer or physicist, but the concept of thermodynamics with regard to calories makes no sense. First, my understanding is that the the laws of thermodynamics assume a completely closed system, which the human body isn’t. We urinate. We poop. We sweat. We radiate heat. We exhale moisture. The other issue is a bit more esoteric. So as I understand it from reading, calorie is a measure of heat energy. It is the amount of energy needed to raise the temp of 1 mL of water by 1 degree. You put something in a bomb calorimeter, burn it, it produces heat, it heats the surrounding water bath, and you measure the increase in temp, and you have the calorie measurement. Now, food calories are actually kcal, so what is 1 calorie on a label is actually 1000 of these heat energy calories. So, one kcal is the heat energy needed to raise 1000 mL, or 1 liter, of water by 1 degree. Human bodies have about 3-4 liters of water depending on size of individual. So, if one at something with 200 calories, that would theoretically raise the temp of 200 liters of water by one degree. Since human body has about 3-4 liters of water, wouldn’t 200 kcal raise our body temp by 50-65 degrees or so? Wouldn’t a 1000 kcal meal raise our body temps by 250-300 degrees during the process of “burning”? Also, a piece of bark would probably produce “calorie” energy if burned in a calorimeter. Does that mean if one ate sufficient tree bark one would gain fat and weight? Makes no sense. Also, would seem as though SECOND law of thermodynamics would be more appropriate to the CICO argument. Hopefully an actual physicist can chime in
This seems like too sweeping a generalization. For example, consider the following: a 5'10'' 160lb male who is attempting to lose weight has a calculated TDEE of, say, 2,000cals. Theoretically, they could eat 1,500 cals per day to lose approx. 1lb per week. That said, let's assume this person eats 250g of protein, 20g of carbs, and 100g of fat per day. This results in a P:E ratio (Pg/(Fg+Cg)) of 2.08 and a total calories consumed of 1,980 (1,780 if factoring the TEF of protein; 3.2 cals per g instead of 4). According to your general message, this is an adequate level of protein given both the high P:E ratio and the 1-1.5g of P/lb you've recommended in the past. Now, this same individual could instead eat 250g of protein, 20g of Fat, and 100g of carbs (I just switched around the grams of fat and carbs). Despite the change, his P:E ratio would still be the same (2.08); however, total calories consumed is now 1,580 (1,380 factoring the TEF of protein), which is 400 cals less than the first scenario. Although, Protein is equal across both scenarios, the second should lose fat and maintain LBM at a faster rate given the lower total cals consumed. At the very least, it follows that calories DO matter when controlling for protein intake.
This is hilarious. 😂 For all those Fitbit-wearing, calorie counting, food measuring, weight-loss attempting people, this is a gift. Simplify. Make good choices. 🍖 🥗 🌱 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I counted calories and weigh food. It help me lose 35lbs with a consistent workout. Sure the counting wasn't exactly 100% accurate but it was close enough to give me some success and I've been able to keep the weight off.
I literally had zebras all over the place and I could have easily turned down the exposure and chose not to. 🤣 for some reason I kind of like the overexposed thing stylistically. 🤷🏽♂️
Ted... while what you’re saying about calories being an estimation is true, you’ve created a false dichotomy here. It doesn’t have to be all lean protein vs donuts and pizza. Eating only protein is not sustainable for most ppl, that’s why ppl “fall off the wagon” and rebound so hard. Flexible dieting supporters DO recommend eating mostly whole foods, because you can get so much more out of your budget. But all or nothing thinking can be dangerous and lead to binging. What if I could have lean protein and veggies for my first two meals, and then be able to enjoy a small treat in moderation after dinner? That way, it’s not forbidden so I don’t need to binge off the rails because I’ll “never be allowed to eat it again”
If one eats to satiety, meaning meeting body's energy needs and micronutrient needs, there is absolutely no need for 'treats', processed foods, falling off the wagon etc. Wanting those foods suggests two things: body is screaming for the right foods, and emotional crutch on the opiate effect of treats. Since starting carnivore five months ago, I do not crave a single food I would have once left the house for in my pjs at 8 pm to go buy. If anything, I crave eggs, liver and mineral water occassionally. I meet and exceed my RDAs for all micronutrients and I never ever feel deprived, hungry or missing out. Bed time comes and I am not scouring the cupboards for treats. I can walk by a bakery and feel absolutely nothing for the pretty cakes. Get me past a butcher and I am going inside to see if they sell ribs! I used to think the carnivore diet was a whacko cliche with all the claims of satiety etc. Folks were right! Hitting my micros has been key to better health in a way that being vegetarian for 25 yrs wasn't. Complete game changer (pun intended).
@@kateaye3506 Roger that Kate Apted. I don’t expect that Fred and Wilma spent much time hunting and gathering a bowl of ice cream, or a couple of donuts after the hunt. I have trouble envisioning that our “evolutionary ancestors” actually suffered all those years craving a fix, so I’m guessing that the take home here is remembering the root word in dopamine is dope-both the chemical and animal varieties.
Am I the only one here who could easily consume about 5,000 calories a day of steak and things here if they didn't monitor things? 😂🙈 I tracked a 'heavy eating' day recently, and I hit almost 4,000 calories of mostly meat, and I genuinely could've eaten more. Okay, maybe 20% wrong or whatever going by the video, but you get the idea. Admittedly it's better than 5,000 calories of donuts, but I still feel like I can easily over eat my calories on protein, especially with things like steak and eggs. They add up SO quickly.
bildotunechi I lost weight for the first 12 months pretty much every week then I started eating more and have stalled for the last 8 months but I at least have been maintaining
bildotunechi I haven’t cheated yet in the sense of like pizza or cake but I eat some things that aren’t carnivore like blue cheese and slices I’ve had macadamia nuts on occasion also
This was pretty shit tbh. You don't need to know EXACT caloric amounts. And also I don't know a single person counting calories that don't take macronutrients in account.
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Great video! Another nail in the coffin of the CICO-corpse!
Thanks for weighing in Dr Berry. Glad to see you appreciate Dr Naiman too.
i realize it is pretty randomly asking but does anybody know of a good site to watch new movies online ?
@Aries Gregory i would suggest Flixzone. Just google for it :)
@Rocco Declan definitely, have been watching on flixzone for months myself =)
@Rocco Declan thank you, I signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :) I really appreciate it !!
I love the mix of high quality nutrition content and high quality cat content.
Dominik Weber I thought you had a typo in your comment. THEN I saw the video! I liked the cat intermissions too! 😄
Two of my favorite subjects lol
Ted Naiman! An engineer and doctor combination.... wow. Love his analytical approach. Quality over quantity.
Cat intermissions were hilarious 😂
That cat is totally leaned out I'm gonna say %8 body fat
In other words: nothing has changed since our grandparents' generation. It's what you eat that matters, not how much.
If you try to convince your grandma that sweets and veggies are the same because of "calories" and that it justifies you eating more sweets because you're "counting" them, they will rightfully scold you and call you out on trying to use a stupid excuse to eat junk instead of healthy food.
Ted your videos couldn't be any better. You were born to explain these things to the masses!
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LOVE the quirkyness...if course, the mini lecture is SUPER interesting and that's the best part. Bottom line? Thank you SO MUCH for making the videos you do. So different from everything else out there.
I get so excited when you post! I was already watching your podcast with Mike Mutzel on High intensity health and paused it to watch this and get back to it!
love from Egypt
Awesome information!! Thank you.
Martin Berkhan : “If someone says calories doesn’t matter, they have no credibility. If someone says that calories are all that matters, they have even less credibility.”
Calories may matter, but trying to count them is a whole other issue
Since it is impossible (not an exaggeration) to know the exact metabolic rate of a given person in advance of the actual expenditure; and because it is impossible to know the exact caloric content of the food that will be ingested in advance (because that food goes into the mouth, not into the bomb calorimeter), and because even the slightest, unavoidable change in activity level will alter an expected calculated outcome; calories are in fact a mostly hypothetical measurement.
Convince me that I’m wrong.
coffeemachtspass , actually calories as a measure is incredibly precise. You are correct about the human element. If you are measuring consistently over time, you will be close enough. While I don’t think people should obsess over calories, we should never state “calories don’t matter”.
Dennis Sparks
Even if calories are a useful measurement (heat energy), I agree with Neiman that they are useless in the realm of nutrition.
For example, the caloric content of a pure protein can be measured, but does the human metabolism actually utilize protein as a fuel? Not much. So what useful information does it provide to know that I can have 100 grams of a protein and 100 grams of a fat, when the actual metabolism of those two is utterly distinct. A precisely measured useless fact does not make it useful, it offers the illusion of knowledge when it merely provides a number that tells nothing about the amino acid profile or how a body is able, or unable, to utilize it.
coffeemachtspass , this is incredibly well known in the scientific literature...it is know as DIT (diet induced thermogenesis) or TEF (thermic effect of food). Protein has DIT of around 1.25 whereas fat is pretty close to 1.
I love Dr. Ted and love what he has to say, but make no mistake about it the dude is a CICOpath! Do the math sometime on his recs and see how few calories it actually is, e.g. if you have 150 lbs of lean body mass, he wants you to eat 150gs of protein...600 calories. If you are at a P/E ratio of 2:1 and all energy was from fat (more calories per gram than carbs), you would eat 75 gs of fat or 675 calories...that’s only 1,275 calories.
This is such great explanation in its simplicity. If there is any video that I would send to those, who repeatedly try and fail at calorie counting approaches, like Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig, it would be this one. Even with machines, simply calculating the energy value of fuel is not, in and of itself, a significant justification to recommend that fuel for that machine. If I were to measure a certain volume of diesel fuel and state it has X units of energy, and then measure out enough of unleaded fuel to equal the energy value in the diesel fuel, I can't therefore say that, since both fuels have equal energy value, that your car can take either one. No. Depending on how your car was engineered, whether it is designed to take diesel or regular unleaded, will determine which fuel you should put in your car. Similarly, certain types of food (i.e. fuel) are used by your body in such a way to where they are optimal from a standpoint of providing long term satiety, while other types of fuel are not optimal.
Great cat video, with a side of diet advice. Thanks Dr. Naiman!
loving these little gems. Can't wait for my book to arrive. I will be showing folks just how easy eating real food can be
Loving Ted’s cat 😻 just as much as the great information! 😂👍
So is it safe to say that it’s not that calories don’t matter, it’s that the content of the calories is fat more important. Just want to clarify as some might read into this as CICO doesn’t matter and you can eat all you want if you eat keto/etc, especially when dealing with someone with Leptin resistance, eat out of boredom, or other similar situation.
P.S. Love the videos! Keep them coming!
Craig Emmerich The thing is that if you’re eating healthy keto and avoiding processed foods you can pretty much eat to satiety and still lose weight and get healthy. It’s just important to practice time restricted eating, which comes naturally once you break your glucose dependence. CICO is a horrible metric because it’s misleading and impractical. You ultimately have to be in a caloric deficit to lose fat, but what matters is how you get there.
Boon Doggle yes, that is exactly what I am saying. You can gain weight eating keto. You must be in a deficit. But the composition of the macros (and the satiety it gives you) is what is important.
No you absolutely need to be in a deficit. Calories are king. But there are ways to do it without COUNTING them.
Thank you. I stopped counting calories etc a couple of months ago and continue to lose weight. I have been on keto since mid November and have lost 65 pounds- another 15-20 to go. SW 224 CW 160 5’8” 68 years young. I have been working on upping my protein. I am halfway through the book- PE diet- seems like math must be involved. Haha. I will keep trying to do this without counting everything.
Congrats! Keep up the good effort. I do 18:6 intermittent fasting daily with keto. I have two well balanced meals daily over six hours. No snacks in between. I avoid fruit (except berries), starches, grains, sugar, soy, refined carbs and processed foods. I keep it simple so I do not have to over think it. Cheers!
Ken Jay. I also find 18/6 keto works well for me. I Alternate Day Fast with some form of bulletproof coffee first thing; otherwise I do green tea or a mushroom coffee and wait. All the best to you
Great video Dr Ted!
This is the best diet advice I’ve ever heard
"on paper, calories are awesome". I love how to you communicate. On some level this just flies in the face of all this craziness with watches, belts, all this nonsense. My own experience is I can exercise till the cows come in, even in a fasted state, and if the food isn't "RIGHT" neither is the scale the next day
Thank you...and love your cat.
Hello, love your content, what would you suggest a vegan do? Should I just eat a bunch of pea protein powder and beans? Or should I cut out either almost all fat or all carbs? Cutting out all carbs would be hard. Thanks so much, keep up the good work!
Well...I know I'm making progress when the the pic of the salmon looked completely delicious and the donut just looked so unappetizing. :)
Same feels for me too.
@@kateaye3506 Same here and I'm a donut junkie... or a recovering one... STILL.
Thanks doc.
Calories in/calories out is a horrible metric because it’s both misleading and impractical. It’s misleading because it leads people to believe that they can still eat inflammatory foods that spike your insulin and blood sugar and negatively effect your gut microbiome and still lose weight as long as the calories are low enough, and just eating that way regardless of the calorie count will cause you to be overweight and unhealthy. The quality of the food and the hormonal and physiological effects of the food are what’s most important. Making regular use of the metabolic switch by fasting is also critically important. It also prevents your body from simply adapting to the amount of energy that you’re taking in which is why most diets fail after a certain amount of time. It’s impractical because as he explained you really don’t know, and thinking that you’re in control of that and trying to bump up against a certain number is folly. The real issue is how much energy your body is willing to spend, and the only way to improve that is by getting healthy overall. I stopped counting calories about ten months ago and I’ve dramatically improved my health and body composition during that time by doing healthy keto and routinely practicing intermittent fasting to take advantage of that metabolic switch. Yes, you ultimately have to be in a caloric deficit to lose fat, but what matters is the process of how you get there.
Another awesome video. Eating the right food to satiety is the key. I don't count calories because my body does not have calorie receptors. However, it does respond to protein, fats and carbs.
Great content extremely insightful, please keep them coming !
This should have millions of views ..
For some people it can be helpful to show them the amount of calories in a food item as an incentive to get them to move to different foods, especially with processed foods. It's amazing how people will only look at the front of the box/bottle/container and not what's on the back. If it says "fat free" on it, they'll go all in despite the fact that it's loaded with sugar and carbs instead and will eat more of it because they feel it's healthy (or at the very least, not "all that bad"). It takes showing them how unhealthy something "healthy" really is to get them to switch.
For example, I had a work friend who would always choose the Whole Wheat roll over the "regular" roll because it's "healthier". Using Subway's nutritional info, for a footlong, a footlong Whole Wheat roll has more carbs and calories than the regular bread option. It also has a bit more Protein and Fiber, so it probably balances out to effectively identical but with a slightly higher calorie count, so at the _very least_ it's equally as bad as the "regular" roll. It took me printing out the nutritional info and dropping it on his desk to him to even understand it...at that point if he continued with the bread, thats' fine, but instead he switched to salads when we ate there instead.
Excesso of protein (3g by kg weight body) is dangerous for kidneys?
Great video Ted. Thanks for breaking that down. Love your content.
great video. im doing the maximum protein animal diet with the body building cut hacks. feels sustainable maybe
Great video, thanks! And love the cat!
ROFL...LOVE, LOVE , LOVE the cat breakaway
What do you think about incorporating oatmeal in the P:E diet? Because 1 serving has around 25-30g of carbs. What's your opinion on this type of carb?
The animal breaks crack me up!!!
Hi Dr Naiman, love the content! My question is, does any of this take into account the stages of life or sex of the individual. I ask because I am a 47 year old female with plummeting estrogen and progesterone levels. I am having a lot of symptoms from these biological changes. Increasing my protein intake has been great for satiety, but does this skew the energy amounts?
Ted love your content.. can you please release your book on audible?
Dear Ted, If I just want to gain muscle, should I just aim for Protein and ignore carbs and fats? Much obliged!
Great content, please keep it up ❤️
Typically on board with you and I loved the book. But maybe you should do a video on PFT because I can see a lot of folks taking this and saying see Dr Ted said calories don't matter. That's not what you said. Most folks are so far over their PFT, often due to too much fat consumption and underconsuming protein and or whole foods, they think the only thing that matters is insulin. Nope
I love the content doctor, but your cat drinking from the faucet is #1 on RUclips.
My wish came true! Regular truth bombs from Ted Naiman! 🤯
Same, honestly!
What are the macros recommended for gaining muscle
Hello Dr Ted my macros as per your guideline in the book leads to 140 gm of protein 70 gm of fat and 40 gm of carbs.But it lead up to only 1400-1500 calories.But my basal metabolic shows 1600 in such scenario what can I do?
I've never been able to get over about 195 lbs even in what should be major caloric surplus so the calorie game has always been BS to me.
Eat lots of carbs and your dream will come true.
@@Kevinbbadd-c3n Tried it, doesn't work for me.
@@steverg2 persons blessed with high-functioning thyroids can often (please dont) depress their thyroids with PUFAs mixed with 4 starches and iron (eg: enriched flour items fried in veg oil). Donuts eaten with french fries and beer ought to do it you keep at it for a couple weeks. Which I do not recommend.
If by some miracle that doesnt work, just go on a 3-week long 500 calorie a day vegan "cleanse" diet first, be sure to exercise a lot, and quit sleeping... and then eat that way. Also not recommended. If that fails, you might secretly be an alien from another planet or a god...
CICO doesnt work because humans are equipped with a variable-speed, highly sensitive, adaptive metabolic rate governors--thyroid and hormonal system. Lots of things can fubar this system. Fixing it is much harder than breaking it.
@@keralee Sounds like how I used to eat before my personal health revolution a few years ago. Bagels, pizza, beer/booze, candy, tons of PUFA. Body comp was considerably softer but my weight was actually lower then, around 180. Definitely had hypothyroid symptoms, but still never put on much weight. It did wreck my gut over time. Dysbiosis must have created a klebsiella overgrowth leading to a pseudo-AS condition at about 30. I can't even eat starches or much dairy anymore or my spine gets so stiff at night I can't sleep past about 4:30am. My set point now is about 185 lbs but if I train hard I can get about 10 extra lbs of muscle on and get to about 195. Beyond that I think there's just a hard limit based on fat cell architecture.
Can I borrow your tape worm when you're done with it please?
I noticed you didn't mention the slowing down of BMR after a period of calorie restriction, so that weight gain is inevitable.
Is Jason Fung wrong about that?
This was a short video on the quality (regarding nutrition) of the calories so he didn't probably mention that.
When one is metabolically healthy and does not have hyperinsulinemia then their metabolic rate won't go down under caloric restriction. They will just lose weight by burning their fat stores.
On the other hand, if one is metabolically unhealthy with hyperinsulinemia then when they go on caloric restriction their metabolic rate WILL go down. Why? Because the insulin blocks fat burning. Since there's not enough energy for bodily functions and the body can't access the fat stores, metabolism has no way to go but down... So, Dr Fung is not wrong. The context especially the insulin state of the person is important. In the end, hormons are everything.
EDIT: One addition, so if you're metabolically unhealty/hyperinsulinemic then what you're doing must deal with the (hyper-)insulin first. For example, low carb dieting or especially powerful intermittent fasting. When combined these two are even more powerful in lowering your insulin.
Yeah. Until your thyroid tanks from cortisol overload... Then your metabolism lowers even further, your liver makes glucose like a candy factory, and ketosis becomes impossible even when fasting because your own liver has gone bonkers.
Not everyone reaches this state of metabolic Hell. New research hints that it might be due to viral hijacking of hormonal signalling, as viruses like glucose.
Thank you great video, I have lost 75KG without counting a single calorie
Amazing video as always
You should do a full day of eating video!
Great no nonsense straight truth doc. But the cat is drinking empty cal, oops no cal drink 😂
Wear that engineering degree proudly Doc!
If you had an economics degree you'd have written a book on the 'donuts and candy bars' diet.
The cat 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Love your videos. Cute cat 🐈 btw.
Hello from Denver
Hi Ted, a great video once again. I recently discovered you, and have already watched a ton of your podcasts on all other channels; have thoroughly enjoyed learning. One suggestion - you are making videos on "fundamental knowledge" around health/wellbeing - great!..but can you also mix it up with occasional videos on "guidance". RUclips world require both!
Some topics that RUclips doesn't answer "decisively" in general :
- How to improve Gut health
- Best Cooking Oil (also include, mustard oil, ghee, refined oil for comparisons - used heavily in Asia; natural olive oil is not suitable for high smoke point)
- Vegetarian diets (I know you equate this with religion and therefore doesn't approve, but trust me there's more to it)
- How does simple carb vs complex carb fit in your equation of PE diet (Rice vs Bread is the decision that many of us have to take daily..also white potato and other top foods)
- Superfoods according to you (Veg and Non-veg)
The list is long.. Thanks in advance:)
Honestly I'd like to know what your cats eat because ours definitely needs to slim down :|
BEST INTRO EVER!!!!!
The difference is between Open and Closed systems.
Thus, Nature is unpredictable.
More videos, PLEASE!!!
Not an engineer or physicist, but the concept of thermodynamics with regard to calories makes no sense. First, my understanding is that the the laws of thermodynamics assume a completely closed system, which the human body isn’t. We urinate. We poop. We sweat. We radiate heat. We exhale moisture.
The other issue is a bit more esoteric. So as I understand it from reading, calorie is a measure of heat energy. It is the amount of energy needed to raise the temp of 1 mL of water by 1 degree. You put something in a bomb calorimeter, burn it, it produces heat, it heats the surrounding water bath, and you measure the increase in temp, and you have the calorie measurement.
Now, food calories are actually kcal, so what is 1 calorie on a label is actually 1000 of these heat energy calories. So, one kcal is the heat energy needed to raise 1000 mL, or 1 liter, of water by 1 degree.
Human bodies have about 3-4 liters of water depending on size of individual.
So, if one at something with 200 calories, that would theoretically raise the temp of 200 liters of water by one degree. Since human body has about 3-4 liters of water, wouldn’t 200 kcal raise our body temp by 50-65 degrees or so? Wouldn’t a 1000 kcal meal raise our body temps by 250-300 degrees during the process of “burning”?
Also, a piece of bark would probably produce “calorie” energy if burned in a calorimeter. Does that mean if one ate sufficient tree bark one would gain fat and weight?
Makes no sense.
Also, would seem as though SECOND law of thermodynamics would be more appropriate to the CICO argument.
Hopefully an actual physicist can chime in
Yeah,I got a big laugh when the cat came on
Liked the cat LOL
This seems like too sweeping a generalization. For example, consider the following: a 5'10'' 160lb male who is attempting to lose weight has a calculated TDEE of, say, 2,000cals. Theoretically, they could eat 1,500 cals per day to lose approx. 1lb per week. That said, let's assume this person eats 250g of protein, 20g of carbs, and 100g of fat per day. This results in a P:E ratio (Pg/(Fg+Cg)) of 2.08 and a total calories consumed of 1,980 (1,780 if factoring the TEF of protein; 3.2 cals per g instead of 4). According to your general message, this is an adequate level of protein given both the high P:E ratio and the 1-1.5g of P/lb you've recommended in the past. Now, this same individual could instead eat 250g of protein, 20g of Fat, and 100g of carbs (I just switched around the grams of fat and carbs). Despite the change, his P:E ratio would still be the same (2.08); however, total calories consumed is now 1,580 (1,380 factoring the TEF of protein), which is 400 cals less than the first scenario.
Although, Protein is equal across both scenarios, the second should lose fat and maintain LBM at a faster rate given the lower total cals consumed. At the very least, it follows that calories DO matter when controlling for protein intake.
Calories definitely count. But you don’t necessarily have to count calories.
I don't get how much food i'm supposed to eat
Perfect
You kill me!
Anyone wanting a concise summary of the first three minutes:
'We don't know' :-D
This is hilarious. 😂 For all those Fitbit-wearing, calorie counting, food measuring, weight-loss attempting people, this is a gift. Simplify. Make good choices. 🍖 🥗 🌱 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Amen!
I counted calories and weigh food. It help me lose 35lbs with a consistent workout. Sure the counting wasn't exactly 100% accurate but it was close enough to give me some success and I've been able to keep the weight off.
His point is that you wont know exactly how much, not that you shouldnt use it at all.
What's with the cat?
I'm on board with 95% of your advice, but please learn something about blowout and video lighting.
I literally had zebras all over the place and I could have easily turned down the exposure and chose not to. 🤣 for some reason I kind of like the overexposed thing stylistically. 🤷🏽♂️
@@tednaiman De gustibus non disputandis.
@3:30
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Cat win.🤩🤩
Ted... while what you’re saying about calories being an estimation is true, you’ve created a false dichotomy here. It doesn’t have to be all lean protein vs donuts and pizza. Eating only protein is not sustainable for most ppl, that’s why ppl “fall off the wagon” and rebound so hard. Flexible dieting supporters DO recommend eating mostly whole foods, because you can get so much more out of your budget. But all or nothing thinking can be dangerous and lead to binging. What if I could have lean protein and veggies for my first two meals, and then be able to enjoy a small treat in moderation after dinner? That way, it’s not forbidden so I don’t need to binge off the rails because I’ll “never be allowed to eat it again”
If one eats to satiety, meaning meeting body's energy needs and micronutrient needs, there is absolutely no need for 'treats', processed foods, falling off the wagon etc. Wanting those foods suggests two things: body is screaming for the right foods, and emotional crutch on the opiate effect of treats.
Since starting carnivore five months ago, I do not crave a single food I would have once left the house for in my pjs at 8 pm to go buy. If anything, I crave eggs, liver and mineral water occassionally. I meet and exceed my RDAs for all micronutrients and I never ever feel deprived, hungry or missing out. Bed time comes and I am not scouring the cupboards for treats. I can walk by a bakery and feel absolutely nothing for the pretty cakes. Get me past a butcher and I am going inside to see if they sell ribs!
I used to think the carnivore diet was a whacko cliche with all the claims of satiety etc. Folks were right! Hitting my micros has been key to better health in a way that being vegetarian for 25 yrs wasn't. Complete game changer (pun intended).
@@kateaye3506 Roger that Kate Apted. I don’t expect that Fred and Wilma spent much time hunting and gathering a bowl of ice cream, or a couple of donuts after the hunt. I have trouble envisioning that our “evolutionary ancestors” actually suffered all those years craving a fix, so I’m guessing that the take home here is remembering the root word in dopamine is dope-both the chemical and animal varieties.
Am I the only one here who could easily consume about 5,000 calories a day of steak and things here if they didn't monitor things? 😂🙈
I tracked a 'heavy eating' day recently, and I hit almost 4,000 calories of mostly meat, and I genuinely could've eaten more.
Okay, maybe 20% wrong or whatever going by the video, but you get the idea.
Admittedly it's better than 5,000 calories of donuts, but I still feel like I can easily over eat my calories on protein, especially with things like steak and eggs. They add up SO quickly.
Same here I’ve been Carnivore 20 months and I can gain fat without adding carbs just by over eating
@@Cdawg1871980 glad I'm not the only one! How has carnivore been going for you? I've never managed to be that strict, but it does always tempt me.
bildotunechi I lost weight for the first 12 months pretty much every week then I started eating more and have stalled for the last 8 months but I at least have been maintaining
@@Cdawg1871980 good to hear man thanks. Do you have 'cheat days' or are you 100%?
bildotunechi I haven’t cheated yet in the sense of like pizza or cake but I eat some things that aren’t carnivore like blue cheese and slices I’ve had macadamia nuts on occasion also
This was pretty shit tbh. You don't need to know EXACT caloric amounts. And also I don't know a single person counting calories that don't take macronutrients in account.
Can you tell me more about counting calories
I’m a beginner