Every Cells In Your Body Will Be Immediately Fixed | William Li

Summary

The script discusses how certain surprising foods can actually help turn on our metabolisms to burn fat in a healthy way. It focuses on foods like beans, chili peppers, pears, and pomegranates and how they contain beneficial compounds that can convert harmful white fat into helpful brown fat, boost gut health to improve metabolism, and trigger fat-fighting hormones. The goal is to rethink weight loss from deprivation toward embracing the joy of eating metabolism-boosting foods.

Takeaways

• 😊 Frustrated that many diet plans involve deprivation and elimination which makes them hard to stick to long-term
• 👍 Wants to use new science of metabolism, food and practical tips to rediscover joy of eating instead of fearing food
• 🌶 Surprising foods like beans, chili peppers and pears can turn on fat-burning, metabolism-boosting processes in the body
• 😋 Beans have fiber that improves gut health and ups metabolism; human studies show waist size shrinks in a month
• 🔥 Capsaicin in chili peppers binds to receptors on the tongue, releasing fat-burning hormones like norepinephrine
• 🥑 Norepinephrine activates brown fat which burns calories without exercise unlike jiggly white fat
• 🍐 Pears have fiber and chlorogenic acid which improves metabolism and converts white fat to brown fat
• ❤️ Pomegranate juice with skin pressed has ellagitannins that fight white fat and inflamation and activates brown fat
• 💪 Mechanisms that fight fat and inflammation are redundant so variety of foods triggers them
• 🙌 New science shows we can eat foods strategically to burn fat in a healthy, sustainable way long-term

Q & A

What is the main idea of the script?

The main idea is that there are foods that can turn on our metabolism to burn fat in a healthy way, rather than eliminating foods or depriving ourselves.

Why do diets often fail?

Diets often fail because they rely on elimination, deprivation and scarcity which goes against human nature. This causes people to rebound and regain weight.

What are the 3 key components for rethinking how to lose weight?

The 3 key components are: 1) the new science of metabolism, 2) the new science of food, and 3) the practical aspect of putting it together in a way that helps us rediscover the joy of eating.

How can beans help with weight loss?

Beans contain dietary fiber that improves gut health and microbiome. This upregulates metabolism to burn fat better. Studies show eating 1 cup, 5 days a week shrank waist size by 1 inch in a month.

How do chili peppers help turn on brown fat?

The capsaicin in chili peppers binds to receptors on the tongue, signaling the brain to release norepinephrine. This courses down nerves by brown fat, activating it to burn more calories.

What do pears contain that helps with fat loss?

Pears contain dietary fiber for gut health and chlorogenic acid which activates brown fat and converts white fat into brown fat.

How does pomegranate juice fight body fat?

Pomegranate juice contains ellagitannins that activate brown fat, lower inflammation in fat, and affect stem cells to create more brown fat rather than white fat.

Why is brown fat better than white fat?

Brown fat burns calories rather than storing them. It's not jiggly like white fat and it's thinner and not visible under the skin, but it helps burn calories and fat.

What causes the spicy sensation from chili peppers?

The capsaicin in chili peppers binds to receptors on the tongue called TRPV1, triggering the spicy sensation. This also signals the brain to release fat-burning hormones.

How can we lose weight in a healthy, sustainable way?

By understanding foods that turn on metabolism and brown fat, we can lose weight through a healthy diet rather than deprivation. This creates joy around eating and is sustainable.

Outlines

00:00

😊 How our metabolism can help burn fat

The paragraph explains that we can use our body's metabolism to burn fat in a healthy way. It states that there are certain surprise foods like beans, chili peppers, pears etc. that can turn on our metabolism to burn more fat. These foods contain beneficial compounds that help convert bad white fat into good brown fat, lower inflammation, and improve gut health.

05:01

🌶 How chili peppers can activate brown fat

The paragraph discusses how capsaicin in chili peppers binds to receptors in our tongue, releasing feel-good endorphins and fat-burning norepinephrine. This triggers brown fat in our neck area which is a healthy 'hero' fat that helps burn calories. So eating spicy foods like chili peppers can stimulate brown fat to burn more white fat.

Keywords

💡metabolism

The metabolism refers to all the chemical processes in the body that convert food and oxygen into energy that the body needs. The video discusses how certain foods can help turn on and elevate our metabolism to help burn fat. The script mentions how we can "elevate our health by elevating our metabolism" using specific foods.

💡intermittent fasting

Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern that cycles between periods of fasting and eating. It is mentioned in the script as one way to help turn on our metabolism, along with strategically choosing certain foods.

💡beans

Beans are suggested in the video as a surprising food that can turn on fat fighting processes and shrink waist size. Studies show beans have fiber that improves gut health and levels up metabolism to burn fat better.

💡chili peppers

Chili peppers contain capsaicin which binds receptors in the mouth that signal the brain to release fat-burning hormones like norepinephrine. This activates brown fat tissue which burns energy and helps reduce white fat.

💡brown fat

Brown fat is a type of fat tissue that burns calories and helps regulate body weight and glucose metabolism. The video explains how certain foods can activate brown fat to convert white fat into brown fat.

💡white fat

White fat is the jiggly fat that accumulates under the skin. The video discusses ways to reduce white fat, which is less healthy than brown fat, through dietary and lifestyle changes that can activate brown fat processes.

💡pears

Pears contain dietary fiber to improve gut health and chlorogenic acid which helps turn on brown fat and convert white fat into brown fat. This makes pears a recommended food for healthy fat burning.

💡pomegranate

Pomegranate contains antioxidants called ellagitannins that help fight white fat, activate brown fat and lower inflammation. This can support healthy fat metabolism.

💡gut microbiome

The gut microbiome refers to the bacteria in the digestive system. The video explains how improving the gut microbiome through diet upgrades fat burning processes and makes the body more insulin sensitive.

💡capsaicin

Capsaicin is the compound in chili peppers that gives them the spicy flavor. The video describes how capsaicin binds receptors in the mouth that activate fat-burning hormones like norepinephrine.

Highlights

Foods like beans, chili peppers, pears and pomegranates can turn on metabolism to burn fat

Beans have fiber to improve gut health and upregulate metabolism to burn fat better

Capsaicin in chili peppers binds to receptors on the tongue, releasing hormones like endorphins and norepinephrine

Norepinephrine activates brown fat which is a useful fat that helps burn energy

Pears contain chlorogenic acid which helps convert white fat into brown fat

Pomegranate skin contains polyphenols that fight white fat, activate brown fat and lower inflammation

Elimination diets lead to deprivation, making them hard to stick to long-term

Human nature opposes deprivation, leading to resentment and weight cycling

New science of metabolism and food can help achieve health goals without deprivation

Surprise fat-burning foods include beans, chili peppers, pears and pomegranates

Spicy foods release endorphins, explaining why some love and get addicted to them

Brown fat is a hero fat that burns energy unlike white fat which is mostly stored

Visceral fat is dangerous because it can inflame and strangle internal organs

Fiber in pears helps streamline metabolism and improve insulin sensitivity

Redundant fat burning mechanisms allow flexibility in foods that can be eaten

Transcripts

but the real surprise is that there are

actually foods that can actually turn on

our metabolism and use our fat so we can

eat foods to trigger our good fat to

burn down our bad fat at the level of

the harmful

fat most people think about weight loss

from the perspective of what they can

see with their eyes and you know

influenced by Vanity which I think is

important people need to feel good they

look good they feel good but that's not

the real reason to combat body fat and

that's really where the new science of

the metabolism teaches us that there are

ways that we can actually use the hard

wirring systems in our body around our

metabolism this is our operating system

in order to be able to achieve the goal

of Inner Health so we can fight body fat

on the inside as well as the outside and

you know there's ways of doing it that

leverage you know when to eat and how to

eat you know intermittent fasting is

part of that story but the real surprise

is that there are actually foods that

can actually turn on on our metabolism

and use our fat so we can eat foods to

trigger our fat our good fat to burn

down our bad fat at the level of the

harmful fat that's really the new angle

on this which is that we can Elevate our

health by elevating our metabolism and

to do that we can actually eat food I've

personally been as a doctor and as a

scientist been very frustrated with the

fact that many of my patients are on

diets and they ask me which diet they

should I should be on and you know

regardless it's almost like no matter

what diet you choose they are all about

elimination deprivation scarcity

removing things from your diet and it

becomes very difficult the more extreme

it is the more difficult it is for

people to stick to so then they rebound

and they wind up weight cycling up and

down and up and down and at the end of

the day they gain back everything they

wanted to lose sometimes more and then

they're very frustrated because they

feel like they've been deprived here's

the deal human nature uphor deprivation

right so when somebody tells you not to

do something you can't do something or

something is bad to do our brains are

hardwired to go maybe just a a little

bit or let me see if I can sneak around

the side or you know you just kind of

build up that resentment of actually

having something taken away from you

that's our I think that's part of our

natur is to really have that freedom of

choice well so what I try to do is to

use the new science of the metabolism to

upend this idea that you have to use

elimination in order to be able to

achieve health goals related to your

metabolism so this there's three

components by the way that allow us to

actually reexamine reconceptualize how

foods can be used to lose weight in a

healthy way all right this is the key

healthy way so there's the new science

of the metabolism there is the new

science of food and then there is

actually the Practical aspect of how we

actually put it all together in a way

that allows us to embrace and find

ReDiscover The Joy of Eating as opposed

to the fear of food because of what it

can actually do to our body weight let

me just throw a couple of foods out

there that might be surprising as foods

that can turn on our fuel burning fat

fighting processes that are hardwired in

our bod things that you may not expect

number one beans canned beans pre-cooked

beans ready to eat beans dried beans you

want to soak it turns out that beans

have been studied for their ability to

actually help fight body fat and not is

it not only does it work in the

laboratory but it works in people as

well so human Studies have been done to

show that people who eat as little as a

cup of precooked ready to eat beans like

the stuff you get the can in the grocery

store does not have to be expensive 5

days of the week 5 days out of seven

okay is enough to actually shrink your

waist size that's how round your the

tube of your body is we're not talking

about the muffin we're talking about

actually how big your body

circumferences by about an inch after a

month and the reason that works is

because beans have dietary fiber that

actually make our gut healthier and as

our gut health our microbiome improves

it actually upregulates it it levels up

our metabolism to burn fat better so

that's one example of a surprise food

another one which by the way you could

find in the middle aisle like beans are

chili flakes the stuff that you put on

pizza all right or dried chili the dried

anre chili papano chilies you can find

by the dried section in the grocery

store or of course fresh chilies you

want to actually you know eat some Thai

food with some nice you know Serrano

chilies that also works and here's

actually what's been found Chili Peppers

give some Zing to your body that's the

spiciness and we now know that that Zing

is caused by this natural compound

natural chemical in Peppers called capin

and also capsinoids it's kind of a class

of natural chemicals one of the things

that you know people have loved spicy

food for is that it actually creates

this nice flavor sensory reaction the

capsacin is what does it binds to a

special taste receptor kind of receptor

on your tongue the spicy receptor

there's a name for it it's called trip

V1 don't worry about memorizing that

just know that natural chemical and

peppers is like a key and and on your

tongue is a lock and it goes Key and

Lock turn bam you actually have that

spicy Zing right now the key thing that

is really exciting is that when the key

goes into the lock that hot spicy flavor

of chili touches your tongue you do feel

that spicy flavor what your tongue does

that receptor that lock does this text

messages your brain and it tells your

brain to release hormones one of the

hormones that it actually releases is

endorphins so that's the Feelgood

hormone that's why some people are

really addicted to spicy food by the way

the other hormone it actually releases

is norepinephrine norepinephrine is

special hormone that we use when we want

to get pumped up like fight or flight

you know you want to square off against

somebody all right you got your

norepinephrine like right and the other

thing that happens and next time you eat

chili hot peppers anything spicy do this

kind of go into your meditative Zone and

like close your eyes and feel after the

thinging you will actually feel this

wave going down from your head down the

side of your neck like literally it's

like a little tingling sensation that is

the norepinephrine coarsing down the

nerves around your neck and this is

where a special kind of fat good fat

useful fat hero fat called Brown fat is

located now brown fat isn't jiggly

that's called white fat white fat is

what you have out of the arm under the

chin it's the muffin top it's around

your thighs and your butt that's what

actually most people are trying to get

rid of white fat is unsightly but not as

dangerous as visceral fat which is

packed around our guts inside our body

cavity that's dangerous because it's

like a baseball glove that like

strangles our organs and becomes

inflamed all right so what brown fat is

which is the other kind of fat is a hero

fat is not wiggly and jiggly it's not

lumpy bumpy and it's not under the skin

so you can't see it it's paper thin all

right let's talk about a pair I actually

Love Pears you know especially in the

fall and winter there's nothing I love

more than like a really ripe pear when

it's in season and what do pears have

pairs have a lot of dietary fiber

dietary fiber helps your gut microbiome

help feed your gut bacteria you're

healthy gut bacteria helps to streamline

your metabolism helps make your body

more sensitive to insulin so your

glucose your fuels absorb more

efficiently but also it's got

chlorogenic acid which is different than

acetic acid it's a different acid

chlorogenic acid by the way also turns

on your brown fat but chlorogenic acid

also takes your white fat the harmful

wiggly jiggly stuff and says hey by the

way Taps on your shoulders hey by the

way here's what we'd like you to do we'd

like you to start turning more into

Brown fat healthy fat helpful fat useful

fat and literally your wiggly jiggly

stuff you know what okay I'll do that

and so you can actually use pairs the

chlorogenic acid and pairs to help to

convert some of your harmful white fat

towards Brown fat and in fact it will

also tell your stem cells that might

turn they create another fuel tank and

rather than making more white fat it

might say hey hey buddy over that the

other direction don't make more fuel

tank for white fat go ahead and make

some brown fat it can actually have stem

cells make more Brown fat a fairly

complicated food but it's very tasty and

that's pomegranates all right now

pomegranates are they've got seeds with

a little Rim a little layer of juice

around it and pomegranate juice is

really pressed from those seeds some

kinds of pomegranate juice actually is

pressed through the skin of the

pomegranate and most of the polyphenols

are actually found in the skin and so

how the juice get gets pressed can make

a big difference you get a lot more

polyphenol with juice that's pressed

through the skin all right now

pomegranate juice we know contains a

natural bioactive called elij tannin

elij tannins actually do some pretty

amazing things one of the things that it

does is it actually fights harmful body

fat white fat it activates Brown fat

lowers inflammation in fat so all these

good things that we actually know it

also affects the stem cells of fat as

well these mechanisms are redundant okay

so that way you can swap and switch and

it's not like you got to eat the one

thing all the time thank goodness that

we can actually have diversity