Dr. Gabrielle Lyon

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Thank you again so much.

I'm doing great, except when I walk into your kitchen because there's no carbohydrates in here.

There are.

Two apples and half a pint of blueberries.

We've known each other for years, Max.

Every time I come, it's two apples, maybe one, and half a pint of blueberries.

I'm going to starve here.

You're right.

Bad cooking is the enemy.

Okay, carbohydrates.

How do we define carbohydrates?

You've got your carbohydrates like pasta and rice and potato and things that are white.

you have your anthocyanins like you're talking about vegetables and fruits and then you've got your we covered rice and then you know like your processed highly palatable ultra processed foods yeah now the first question is i think that we all want to know is how do we design a nutrition plan and a diet for a healthy metabolism we can agree upon that yeah of course we know that there's carbohydrates fats and proteins and that

Carbohydrates are not an essential nutrient, meaning your body can make all the carbohydrates it needs.

So if we were to think about something on the high end for every 100 grams of protein, your body will generate 60 grams of carbohydrates.

It's probably on the high end, but it's somewhere along the lines of that.

That's exactly right.

Gluconeogenesis.

But dietary protein is an essential macronutrient and you need more of it as you age.