David Ghiyam

that is treating the fire by preventing the fire correct yeah what a notion i mean people don't talk about it but alzheimer's prevention i mean we are led to believe to get back to the various commercials that you watch when you're watching the evening news pretty much and look at the people in those commercials just look at the actors and who they are designed to target

that is treating the fire by preventing the fire correct yeah what a notion i mean people don't talk about it but alzheimer's prevention i mean we are led to believe to get back to the various commercials that you watch when you're watching the evening news pretty much and look at the people in those commercials just look at the actors and who they are designed to target

So we're kind of led to believe that we should live our lives however we want, come what may, and that modern medical science will fix our ails.

So we're kind of led to believe that we should live our lives however we want, come what may, and that modern medical science will fix our ails.

Yeah. And I'm not being disparaging. I'm simply saying this is a marketing ploy. But again, I want to get to the belief part of it that we believe that, hey, modern science is going to fix my fill in the blank. Take a drug and it's fixed. My ozempic for my obesity, my Alzheimer's. Now that we've heard this new exciting research. So what the heck? Why should I worry?

Yeah. And I'm not being disparaging. I'm simply saying this is a marketing ploy. But again, I want to get to the belief part of it that we believe that, hey, modern science is going to fix my fill in the blank. Take a drug and it's fixed. My ozempic for my obesity, my Alzheimer's. Now that we've heard this new exciting research. So what the heck? Why should I worry?

I'm going to do whatever I want, eat whatever I want. Stay up late. I don't really like to exercise. Do all the things that feel good. Truthfully, they're called comfort foods for a reason because we all love them. They taste great. Our brains are programmed to seek out sweet and fat and salt. And these are things that threaten metabolic health.

I'm going to do whatever I want, eat whatever I want. Stay up late. I don't really like to exercise. Do all the things that feel good. Truthfully, they're called comfort foods for a reason because we all love them. They taste great. Our brains are programmed to seek out sweet and fat and salt. And these are things that threaten metabolic health.

As it relates to fat, we know there are good fats and bad fats. But by and large, we're programmed to seek out foods that are fatty. Why? Because they're calorie dense. They are survival mechanistic that causes us to seek them out. Sweet. What does it mean? It means that food is ripe. It means it is safe. And when does fruit ripen?

As it relates to fat, we know there are good fats and bad fats. But by and large, we're programmed to seek out foods that are fatty. Why? Because they're calorie dense. They are survival mechanistic that causes us to seek them out. Sweet. What does it mean? It means that food is ripe. It means it is safe. And when does fruit ripen?

It ripens at the end of the summer and the early fall as a clue to our physiology to make our body make more fat to allow us to survive winter, a time of caloric scarcity when we were hunter-gatherers. So we are deeply programmed to love sweet. You know, when I lecture, I say, and I ask the audience, how many of you think you have a sweet tooth? Don't raise your hands. Answer is every one of you.

It ripens at the end of the summer and the early fall as a clue to our physiology to make our body make more fat to allow us to survive winter, a time of caloric scarcity when we were hunter-gatherers. So we are deeply programmed to love sweet. You know, when I lecture, I say, and I ask the audience, how many of you think you have a sweet tooth? Don't raise your hands. Answer is every one of you.

We do. We all have a sweet tooth. So, but these are, you know, deeply seated mechanisms that did us good, allowed us to survive so we could have a conversation today. The issue, though, is that when we gravitate now to those foods in excess, there's hell to pay.

We do. We all have a sweet tooth. So, but these are, you know, deeply seated mechanisms that did us good, allowed us to survive so we could have a conversation today. The issue, though, is that when we gravitate now to those foods in excess, there's hell to pay.

There's a downside, and that's what is leading to these metabolic challenges that are really quite central to not only what you described at the opening of our time together, these incredible rates of increase of neurodegenerative conditions well beyond Alzheimer's, but the other metabolic conditions as well. Rates of diabetes soaring well beyond what was predicted in 1990.

There's a downside, and that's what is leading to these metabolic challenges that are really quite central to not only what you described at the opening of our time together, these incredible rates of increase of neurodegenerative conditions well beyond Alzheimer's, but the other metabolic conditions as well. Rates of diabetes soaring well beyond what was predicted in 1990.

Obesity becoming a global problem. As the global diet, as we used to say, people adopt the American diet, it became then the Western diet, faces now the global diet. Even in the Mediterranean, we talk about the Mediterranean diet. People around the Mediterranean basin are eating this same stuff. They're getting bigger, right? They're getting bigger.

Obesity becoming a global problem. As the global diet, as we used to say, people adopt the American diet, it became then the Western diet, faces now the global diet. Even in the Mediterranean, we talk about the Mediterranean diet. People around the Mediterranean basin are eating this same stuff. They're getting bigger, right? They're getting bigger.

They're getting diabetes at ever-increasing rates. It's happening globally.

They're getting diabetes at ever-increasing rates. It's happening globally.