Dr. Casey Means

And they gained about two pounds and then lost two pounds in the unprocessed group, which makes sense, of course, because a pound is about 3,500 calories.

And so we have to do these kind of crazy studies just to prove what we kind of know is true, which is that this ultra processed food environment that's cropped up for the past 50 years is

is an experiment that has failed.

It has failed.

Close to 45% of kids are overweight or obese now.

It's not working.

And that really is the root cause.

So I think a lot of food is about quality and how do we actually really meet the needs of the cells so that our satiety hormones get secreted and we naturally stop eating.

Because just telling people eat less calories but eat whatever you want, that just doesn't work.

we have to inspire the body to not want to eat excess calories which we do by stimulating satiety hormones you know helping the microbiome support that process and then change our reward circuitry which is done with nutrient-rich the most nutrient-rich food we can possibly get and that's why i mentioned the soil because our food is drastically depleted of nutrients so when we look at that 70 metric tons of food we're eating in the lifetime

It's just fascinating.

That's the information for our body, what it's going to be built from, how it's going to function.

Well, right now, 60% to 75% is ultra-processed.

So we slash the value because the ultra-processing just slashes the nutrients.

We slash the value of that 70 metric tons.

And then we have crappy soil because our industrial agriculture system, which means the food in some cases has 70% less of key micronutrients in it.

So that 70 metric tons, what's actually useful for our body becomes so much smaller.

So what we want to do is basically expand the value of that substrate we're putting in the body.

And that means real food, unprocessed from good soil, meet the needs of the cells, naturally don't be hungry, maintain a healthy weight.

and you know, something I talk about is that we could, I mean, we could talk about nutrition, the biochemistry of nutrition all day, but in my review of sort of the biology and the biochemistry, like there's five main things I think we can strive for in our food that can really help meet the needs of ourselves.