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today we're going to talk about before
you eat breakfast the truth about
oatmeal eggs bacon and
dairy now breakfast is the first meal of
the day but there are some truths and
myths about the foods that we all
associate with breakfast specifically
oatmeal eggs dairy and bacon I'm willing
to bet that all of you like me have had
at least one or combination of all of
these before whether it's your childhood
or whether it's uh the last Sunday that
you had you had Crunch and when I was a
kid I always Associated breakfast with
being the healthiest meal of the day and
I remember growing up we often had
instant oatmeal this came in a package
we cut it open we poured it into a bowl
and then just boiled hot water and
poured it in
Presto uh right away we had instant
oatmeal and then we actually put a
little milk in it Stir It Up and we
would eat it usually pretty fast it
wasn't too hot and then it would
actually get get us going for school I
often also grow grew up with eggs
scrambled eggs uh were pretty common and
then came this point where researchers
said uh don't eat eggs they're not good
for your heart and all of a sudden poof
eggs disappeared like a magic trick from
uh The Breakfast Table of my family
growing up bacon wasn't something that
my mom cooked often but it certainly was
something that was found every time we
went out to uh eat breakfast when I was
growing up whether it was a dining
our friend's house for brunch wherever
we were going for breakfast it was
always bacon or bacon or sausage man
bacon was always tasty but we always
knew that the fat of bacon was probably
something that we didn't want to have
too much of and so we always got the
warning even though it was hard to just
eat one slice of bacon don't eat too
much of it and of course when the bacon
was burned on the edge you know the
crispy bacon the real crispy stuff you
know maybe the black stuff wasn't so
tasty but if you broke that off and had
the other part man it was like really
tasty crunchy and juicy and it's got its
great um taste to it and then of course
Dairy right who hadn't heard depending
on your age that you know a glass of
milk is the healthiest thing you have
got a got milk uh you know need to have
milk if you want to have strong bones
this is the stuff that was on television
it was in advertisements even like the
uh the fette teacher talked about it um
and so milk was this idea that milk was
Dairy and dairy had um stuff in it that
would actually be very very healthy for
you had to have milk and of course as I
got older milk not only went into the
oatmeal or was drink drunk as a cup by
itself but milk went into coffee for
example or cream sometimes when we went
out we always said cream so what's the
truth about these breakfast foods are
they good are they not so good that's
what I actually want to talk about
because there's some really interesting
science that will help you before
breakfast understand what you're dealing
with so you can make the healthiest
choices um in order for you to get your
day started in the best possible way
before we begin let's talk about
breakfast itself now a lot of you will
um not realize that breakfast is two
words put together breaking your fast
that's right breakfast is breaking your
fast it's the first meal of the day in
which you you're breaking your fast now
a lot of people talk about intermittent
fasting and I always try to explain that
fasting is the most natural thing that
we all do because when we go to sleep at
night we're not eating and when we're
not eating we're fasting and so we're
always intermittently fasting because
we're intermittently sleeping and
therefore not eating so when we do
decide to eat after we wake up in the
morning all right after an overnight of
not eating we are breaking our fast and
that's where the whole concept of
breakfast actually came from now fasting
is actually really healthy all by itself
and I think this is an important thing
to point out when it before you eat
breakfast that you actually need to know
so if you rewind to the evening before
right you're having dinner you're
loading up for for the night okay let's
say that you have dinner at 7:00 for for
example and you finish dinner at 8 in
many places around the world you know
people eat about an hour or so uh and
then when you put your dishes
away uh uh you don't eat anymore all
right you're done eating that's it so
your blood glucose is going to go rise
while you're eating your food your
insulin is going to rise too to chase it
and then it's going to bring the glucose
into your muscles and into your fat to
store it as energy so eating food at any
time like dinner is actually filling up
at the gas station so to speak uh in
order to be able to have fuel for our
engine and that's the engine of our body
right so it's very natural so we're
fueled up and during the fueling part
which is happening at every time during
the day that we're actually eating
breakfast lunch dinner we're talking
about dinner right now your body is
sensing that you're going to actually
have food in it so the your metabolism
is hardwired so when you're actually
eating the the time you're eating
metabolism is set the switch is set so
that it is in fuel storage mode Come on
load them up let's fill up the tank all
right and it is not in fuel burning mode
let me repeat that during the day when
you're e eating meals breakfast lunch
and dinner your metabolism is set to
fuel storing mode not in fuel burning
mode think about this if your car is at
the gas station you're filling up you're
turning off the engine because you're
not you don't want it to be burning in
the gas while you're putting into your
tank right besides it's dangerous so um
when we're eating our metabolism is set
in fuel storing mode now what happens is
that after a while when after you've
eaten and the insulin has gone up and
glucose has gone up and insulin's taken
the glucose back down and stored
everything I don't like to use the words
glucose Spike or glucose crash because
actually for most people that's not what
happens we have a gradual Rising glucose
we and insulin is chasing it and then
insulin brings it right back down it's
like air traffic control Landing a plane
multiple times every single day you know
uh so that's the way the best way to
think about what happen s during a meal
you know for almost everyone who has
generally good health now when the
insulin is down and glucose is all
absorbed into your uh storage tanks into
your body fat and your muscles guess
what your body is sensing and it says
you know in the evening time I guess
we're not going to have food again for a
while now when the insulin is low for a
period of time your body senses that and
switches gears your metabolism switches
gears away from fuel storage into fuel
burning all right so in the evening
let's say that you don't eat anything
after dinner which is what I recommend
you don't eat anything after dinner you
don't want to keep you know having your
glucose going up and your insulin going
up after dinner when you put your dishes
away that's it don't eat again all right
no midnight snack no uh uh taking snacks
with you to sit in the couch to watch a
Netflix or a movie just you're done all
right now your uh glucose goes down your
insulin goes down now your body senses
that and switches gears like a race car
so think of your body like a Ferrari
when you're done eating and the insulin
goes down you switch gears like a race
car into guess what fuel burning mode so
you switch from fuel storing mode to
fuel burning mode and when you do that
your body actually starts to consume and
burn down the excess fuel that's stored
in your body fat the fuel that you
actually accumulated during the day and
if you overate at any time during the
day or the day before or the week before
now is your time to automatically start
to burn that extra fuel down so what
happens when you go to sleep and we're
going to get to breakfast in a second
but when you go to sleep and your body's
in this Ferrari mode burning down fuel
all right uh when you're sleeping you're
fasting you're not eating no more food
coming in your engine is really in that
metabolism is in that fuel burning State
all night all right this is why when
you're sleeping and you're fasting and
when you're fasting your metabolism and
fuel burning mode you are actually
getting rid of and burning extra body
fat while you sleep during fasting and
by the way this is why interent fasting
works because the longer you fast the
more fuel you burn so you will lose
weight you will Lo burn down some of
that visceral fat your blood sugars will
improve this is actually the principle
behind intermittent fasting but I'm
telling you this is something that's
actually completely natural for us and
it's not just a trend that came up
recently we've been doing this for as
long as humans been been around now
we're beginning to understand the
science behind it and why fasting is
actually good for us so first I
recommend uh you don't snack at night so
let's say you're sleeping all night and
you're fasting and your body's your
metabolism in fuel burning mode when you
get up you're going to break your fast
right what I'm telling you and the
reason I'm putting this part right at
the beginning of this uh video is that
if you get up and you actually don't eat
right away and extend the period of your
overnight fast a little bit let's say an
hour all right now you've given your
body a little extra leverage a little
extra time to burn down body fat this is
actually how to start moving to optimize
your metabolism and optimize the amount
of body fat you have so check it out I'm
going to give you the Ma I'm going to do
the math for you let's say the night
before you eat dinner at 7: :00 you put
your dishes away at 8:00 you don't eat
anything uh at all okay your insulin is
going to go down your metabolism is
going to shift into Ferrari mode okay
now your body's going to start burning
down fat let's say you go to bed at
11:00 now you've got from 8:00 let's say
you go to you put your dishes away at 8
to 11: that's 3 hours of getting into
fat burning mode that's 3 hours then
you're actually going to be sleeping
let's say that you go to bed at 11: all
right I never go to bed at 11:00 I
usually don't but let's say you do and
you sleep 8 hours we know that 8 hours
is approximately the optimal time for
most people to be able to get do all the
things that sleep does for us for
metabolism immune system brain detox all
the stuff that's good for you during
sleeping let's call it 8 hours it's
probably between 7 and N but let's call
it 8 and so during that 8 hours all
right from 11: to 7:00 in the morning
your metabolism in fuel burning mode so
it's 3 hours before you fall asleep or
you go to bed that's 8 hours of actually
sleeping for 8 hours that's 3 + 8 is 11
hours now 11 hours you're actually in
fuel burning mode okay you're optimizing
your metabolism now if you get up in the
morning and you don't do what our moms
all told us to do right this is what
happened when I got when I was a kid my
mom would say hurry up and get up and go
go down into the kitchen and uh get some
breakfast because you need food in your
system uh before you go to school so you
can learn and uh you know we'd have to
Wolf Down breakfast and you know go
hurry up and don't miss the school bus
kind of thing all right now what happens
if you don't actually roll out of bed
and go to eat breakfast right away
you're not breaking your fast right away
you're actually extending your fast all
right and this is what I do when I get
up I don't go to the kitchen table right
away I get up I'm going to take my time
getting ready brush my teeth take a
shower get dressed and then when I'm
done I might check my emails I might
open the door and go out for get some
fresh air go for a brief walk I might
open a book uh and read a book for a
little bit leave it a couple of pages I
going try to catch up with the news what
I'm telling you is that I should wait I
wait about an hour between the time I
get up before I eat anything minimum all
right so let's do the bath now 3 hours
after putting the dishes away Plus 8
hours over sleeping 3 + 8 is 11 now one
extra hour in the morning to extend my
fasting time now it's 3 + 8 + 1 Now it's
12 hours so just like that what I've
done is I've used half the day 50% of
the day 12 out of 24 hours with my body
in fat burning mode so before breakfast
before you even think about eating
anything I wanted to let you know
there's a way about you getting your
body into a good form right before
breakfast before you make any choices
which we're going to talk about in a
second but this is way the best way to
actually get ready for a great day when
it comes to your health is to extend
your fast a little little bit longer
okay so that's how I do it okay when
you're ready to break your fast in other
words have breakfast what do you want to
do to make healthy choices so let's talk
about uh some of the common foods
associated with breakfast and whether
they're good choices or not what are the
truths and what are the myths about them
so I promise you we talk about oatmeal
all right now oatmeal is good for you it
turns out that oatmeal which is made out
of Oats which is a whole grain is uh
something that actually helps your body
in all kinds of different ways so let's
go look at some of those details first
what's an an oat oats like other
plant-based foods contain natural
bioactives one of them is called
avenanthramide a v n a n t h r a m i d e
a avenanthramide I like to spell out
some of the complicated words because
sometimes people take notes so they
can't um and they need to actually write
it down and also beta glucan beta D
glucan bet d as in David glucan
glan so avenanthramide and beta glucan
are actually the some of the natural
bioactives two important natural
bioactives that are found in oats and in
oatmeal now I will also tell you that
the avenanthramide is also used in skin
cream there is a skin cream called aeno
it's very common uh if you are a parent
you probably use it to rub on your your
child's uh skin when they were young and
guess what not only is it moisturizing
but it's
anti-inflammatory all right and it's
anti-inflammatory even when you rub the
oatmeal bioactive aan aramide on top of
the skin so you might imagine what
happens when you actually have
avenanthramides inside your body so
we're going to talk about that in just
one second Now Beta de glucan the other
oat derived natural bioactive is known
as a soluble fiber and you've probably
already recognized that fibers are good
for gut health but I'll tell you beta de
glucan is also found in for example
mushrooms also found in barley also
found in Rye so think about rye bread
okay um but beta glucan is also found in
oats as I mentioned to you now
researchers in the lab have found that
beta glucan is super
anti-inflammatory and not only that beta
glucan also lowers cholesterol so it's
good for our blood lipids and it's a
source of dietary fiber from oats that
actually feeds our gut
microbiome now you know the gut
microbiome is the 39 trillion bacteria
that live in our body most of them are
actually inside our gut they're in the
tail end of the gut in the colon and the
part of the colon they live is called
the seeum C CU M it's the same area that
the appendix is actually located in fact
we're beginning to uh recognize the
appendix probably has an air Tropic
control like function with the gut
microbiome that's an area of research
that's being worked on right now but so
beta glucan good for the gut microbiome
now I've actually as a food as medicine
researcher been looking at these
bioactives from oats all right so one of
the things that we've done is to ask if
avenanthramide is anti-inflammatory and
beta glucan is actually good for healing
from the gut perspective what else can
avenanthramides and beta glucan do so
we've actually took oats and had
extracts made from them so we had pure
avenanthramide pure beta D glucan and we
tested it in a model for wound healing
now why did we do that well because I
can tell you as a doctor wounds
specifically chronic wounds I'm not
talking about the paper cut that heals
right up I'm talking about people who
are in a nursing home with bed sores I'm
talking about people with diabetes who
have diabetic foot ulcers that don't
heal U people with vascular disease you
know that got blockages in Our arteries
and so they develop wounds that just
don't heal now imagine if you had an
injury a cut that didn't heal and
eventually that could get infected and
get really nasty and in the case of
people with diabetes for example um
those wounds can become gangrenous and
it can lead to the amputation of an
entire leg so it's an area of research
I've been working on for androgenesis
because you need new blood vessels to
heal them it's a whole other story I'll
talk about in another video but I will
tell you that uh I'm one of the experts
out there uh in wound healing so um like
other ways that I've studied food as
medicine we've taken a model that's used
to test Pharmaceuticals or medical
devices in this case you get a lab
animal that has a punch biopsy and
you've got a little perfect circular
wound that's full thickness all right
and then you let the wound heal up by
itself and so we know exactly how fast
that wound is going to heal and in
another group of animals we made the
same full thickness wound and what we
did in that group is we injected
avenanthramide or beta d glucan right
into the corners of the wound to see
what would happen and I'll tell you what
was amazing that we found and this is
like where the light bulbs go off when
you as a scientist the Eureka moment is
we found that the oat extracts would
speed up
the time it took to heal the wound in
fact it doubled the rate of wound
healing we didn't think that was
actually possible but in fact we took
normal healthy wounds and we were able
to cut the healing in half when we
actually looked at under the microscope
of what was actually happening in the
tissue we found that the oats extracts
stimulated more
angiogenesis all right uh uh decreased
inflammation so there was much less
inflammation which is really good you
don't want wood WS to have inflammation
but the big surprise for us was that the
wounds that healed were wait for it
scarless amazing all right and so we
presented this at a wound healing
meeting uh with other researchers and
everybody was like super surprised that
we found this but this is actually the
nature of food is medicine research we
get to discover all kinds of cool things
that mother nature actually um uh has
already packed into uh foods that we're
eating and when we looked even closer we
found that the beta glucan actually
stimulated stem cells as part of the
healing process stem cells are part of
our regenerative Health defense system
so not surprisingly if you're
stimulating stem cells that's more
likely you're going to actually get
scarless healing so this is about
oatmeal this is an extract they just
told you about a study a research study
that we've done in the lab but now I
want to talk to you about oatmeal that
you would eat for breakfast okay oatmeal
is a complex carb it's a good source of
protein and it's got the dietary fiber
as I said that actually is good for your
gut microbiome so I'm just telling you
oatmeal is actually good for you but you
want to actually get a good oatmeal so
let's talk about the different kinds of
oatmeal that are out there so you
probably have seen steel cut oatmeal
steel cut oats or oatmeal meal from
steel cut oats and this is probably the
best kind of oatmeal to have you know
why because it has the least amount of
processing as we know when you actually
have whole foods that are not very
processed and definitely not Ultra
processed that's the best form for your
actually health so what are actually
steel cut oats well you know oats are
from the plant they're these little
kernels and what uh to get steel cut
steel cut oats what they do is they
toast the oat kernels and then they cut
them into pieces with a steel blade all
right chop chop chop and uh and then
when you buy them uh they're just ready
to be soaking in water like hot water
boiling water and you can cook them it
takes in water maybe 30 to 40 minutes to
actually cook them when you're stirring
them all right um but then they actually
hydrate in other words they get they
soak up the water and they're nice and
soft and you've got some nice oatmeal
this is something you can actually do by
the way the night before with steel cut
oats something easy to prepare for the
next day so then you just open up the
fridge and heat some up all right so
steel cut oats are probably the best
next you have rolled oats you probably
seen rolled oats and if you didn't I
know now I want to tell you rolled oats
are a little chewier than steel cut oats
and these are actually really good if
you're making oatmeal cookies because of
the texture the chewy texture so what's
a rolled oat all right it's actually a
the whole oat kernels that are steamed
and it softens them up steams them up uh
and and and steaming them gives the oats
a creamier texture then they're
flattened out and rolled flat okay kind
of like pizza dough so to speak and that
changes the texture you get this creamy
texture and then they dry those rolled
oats in an oven as you can tell uh it's
a little bit more processed than the
steel cut oats it's still okay not too
processed and but doing that actually
changes the nature of the oats a little
bit which is why it starts to get into
Ultra processed but it's got a lot of
fast faster cooking time because it's
already steamed all right it's basically
already cooked and all you got to do is
to heat that in water for maybe five
maybe 10 minutes max quick cooking
because it's basically already cooked
oats and then finally you've got instant
oatmeal and this is what I told you I
grew up with all right these are super
ultra processed you know I would never
feed it to a family today it's the least
desirable uh if you actually have a
choice of rolled oats or steel cut oats
and the reason is that's Ultra processed
and these oats are convenient I got to
tell you this oatmeal is very convenient
they come in packages um you know and
they're labeled in boxes and they've got
um you know cinnamon they've got mball
flavor they come with apple pieces
because they're often packaged in
plastic watch out this Ultra Ultra
processed food packaging can actually
contain microplastics that get shed in
there so this is another reason I'm um
giving you the caution that the ultra
processed version of oatmeals are not
the most desirable one now these oat
instant oats are pre-cooked all right
they're rolled flat they're cut in the
small flakes all right they're super
fast to prepare because they're
basically cooked and they're tiny so
they actually cook quickly and they
actually then are portioned out
pre-portioned out into servings and then
additives are put into the package all
right they might add sugar they might
might add artificial flavoring they
might add preservatives they might add
artificial coloring that's definitely
not for the healthiest uh form of
oatmeal and sometimes they've got little
bits of fruit uh that might be in there
like dried apples and again that's dried
apples is ultra processed from someone
else some other company that put them
and they're mixing well together and if
you look at the um side of the package
you'll see all those ingredients that
are in there so definitely check the
ingredients and make sure that you're
comfortable with everything that you're
actually eating now instant oatmeal
Cooks super fast like you know just a
couple of minutes boom you're done
they're kind of mushy because they're
already pre-cooked and pretty massaged
uh and so that's not really the ideal
way but they're super convenient and
that's really what led us down this path
of eating a lot of ultra Convenient Food
cheap and fast but now we know cheap and
fast may not be the best way to actually
have your breakfast you'd rather like
every other meal have a little bit of
the less processed food have the whole
food that version is best now how about
making oatmeal I told you if you can get
steel cut oats you could just prepare
them the light night before so what I do
is I boil some water on the stove top
all right I add steel cut oats the
directions are on the box or the package
bring it to a boil here's a little Pro
tip add a pinch of salt because a pinch
of salt not a lot a pinch actually that
brings out the flavor of the oats it
makes it a little bit more sophisticated
more little tastier actually and then
lower the heat to a simmer okay and
simmer it for 20 30 40 minutes like
check it around 20 30 minutes taste it
got stir it every now and then so it
doesn't burn on the bottom but that's
why you want to simmer um and then cook
it and basically once it's done let's
say it's in 30 minutes okay take it off
the heat let it cool for about 10
minutes and then you can actually put it
into a bowl or a jar or container
hopefully a glass container don't use
plastic okay you don't want
microplastics in your oatmeal and then
you can cool it overnight and chill it
overnight and the water will get
absorbed and the oatmeal will be pretty
fluffy the next morning all right right
after you you've cooked it you've rested
it now you're storing it the water will
get even more absorbed in the morning
you got already C pre-cooked oatmeal add
a little bit of water to it put it on
the stove and heat it up okay please
don't heat it in a microwave uh it's a
carbohydrate you know and the water's
mostly been absorbed you you don't want
to be um creating uh chemical byproducts
of heating carbs so just add some water
put it on the stove Stir It Up Now
you've made your Frank you've made your
own instant oatmeal but you've actually
done it from scratch the night before
doesn't take a long time and it really
is great okay now uh the other thing is
if you wanted to add a splash of dairy
to it um that's fine we're going to talk
about dairy in just a little bit but I
also suggest that you can this is a good
opportunity to use a plant-based milk
soy milk works well almond milk works
well oat milks work well cashew uh milk
all great options if you want to
actually create a little bit of that um
creaminess to your steel cut oatmeal
that you made the night before then
toppings all right I love adding healthy
things to my healthy oatmeal so here's
some suggestions berries strawberries
blueberries strawberries have allergic
acid anti-inflammatory good for your
metabolism blueberries have anthocyanins
anti-inflammatory good for your
metabolism they both cut off the blood
supply feeding cancers what's not to
like about that they're also good for
our stem cells to help us heal and you
can actually add some crushed nuts if
you want to use this as an opportunity
to add some tree nuts to your oatmeal
pistachios walnuts hazelnuts those are
all great way things to add to oatmeal
and you can add some cut fruit now what
I do is I sort of think about cut fruits
like kiwi or mango or peaches whatever
is actually seasonal you can actually um
add that on on top of the oatmeal if you
want it a little sweet okay um I do not
put added cane sugar um don't put Stevia
don't put these artificial sweeteners
fruit actually is a great way of
sweetening and if you want to sweeten
just a little bit more add just touch of
maple syrup all right like gr a Amber
maple syrup just a little bit stir it in
there you'll get a little bit of that
sweet hit um and it'll actually work
really nicely with the oatmeal and
that's the way to actually have oatmeal
so
oatmeal check good for you but you want
to choose carefully and prepare the
right way for health let's talk about
eggs for breakfast here's what you need
to know about eggs eggs are a breakfast
staple eggs are healthy thumbs up on
eggs they're great source of protein
they're also a great source of something
called choline c h o l i n e choline is
something that your brain needs to
signal if your brain cell wants to
signal other cell it needs choline to do
that text messaging and uh and eggs are
also a great source of bioactives called
lutein and
zanthin all right lutein and zanthin
these are great for aging eyes they
protect your vision against a condition
called wet macular degeneration wet AMD
age related macular degeneration most
common cause of vision loss over the age
of 60 so if you're watching this and
you're over the age of 60 you should be
having uh lutein and zanthin and AMD
macul degeneration is something that
happens because the back of the eye
called the retina has a nerve carpet
that's the retinal nerves and underneath
that are blood vessels that are feeding
those nerves right now what happens is
that you need the retina the nerve layer
the carpet it's like an oriental carpet
of beautiful oriental carpet of nerves
that are receiving light so light
outside enters the eye through your
cornea goes right through all the clear
stuff right through the lens and gets
focused onto the retin now you're seeing
what I'm seeing uh the lights coming
right in and that nerve layer gets
turned on and it sends the electrical
signal right to your brain all right so
your eyes your retina is kind of a an
extension of your brain it's part of
your brain the blood vessels underneath
it are nourishing that nerve layer the
retinol blood supply now in age related
Immaculate
degeneration the wet form wet AMD those
blood vessels get really really leaky
and you know what happens when blood
vessels start leaking well just like a
pipe that's bursting underneath your
carpet you get water loged so the water
seeps out it starts to swell up that
carpet that carpet of nerve layers I not
what you want and then if the pipe
really bursts okay we're not talking
about blood vessel bursting we're just
talking about leakage now you've got a
pool of water and that pool of water
underneath the carpet of the nerves of
the retina in your eye actually causes
vision loss and macular degeneration
occurs right in the center part of your
vision all right so if I were to
actually block your vision just like
this all right now you can't actually
see uh what's in front of you you can
only see the sides that is what actually
happens with age related macular
Generations completely black in the
middle you can see in the sides it's a
not a good thing to have happen now I
work in an area called angiogenic
Genesis how the body grows and controls
blood vessels so out of the work that
I've done many years ago we helped to
figure out how do you block those leaky
bad blood vessels that are growing that
cause vision loss so there if you have
AMD there are treatments called anti vef
treatments or anti-angiogenic treatments
and we're treating VF is just one of the
growth factors there are M multiple
growth factors there's vegf vegf there's
placental growth factor plgf and there's
also another growth called an 2 a um
hyphen 2 these are all the things that
uh the retinol Specialists the eye
doctors are now using as tools after
macul degeneration has begun wet AMD has
begun you can treat the eye uh to try to
prevent that uh the leakiness that
causes the vision loss but I will tell
you that huge Studies have been done on
humans and found that lutein and zanthin
those two bioactives I told you are
present in eggs that they actually can
lower the risk of macular degeneration
so you don't need to have those
injections to treat the disease for
vision loss right nobody wants to have
this now imagine my fists were blurry
that's AMD so you can prevent that
that's a that's a damn good thing so a
clinical study actually showed that
eating just one egg a day can raise your
blood levels of lutein one of those
beneficial bioactives by 26% and one a
day can raise your level blood level of
zanthin by
38% in older adults so eggs work to
raise these two compounds that are
actually been shown have been shown in
large clinical studies to lower the risk
the chances of actually having wet AMD
that's what makes eggs really good as we
get older now the other thing is that
eggs are a good source of vitamin A A is
an atom and that's important for good
Vision we need Vitamin A in order to
protect our eyes as well so this is one
of the reasons why eggs are actually
healthy I'm going to talk about the myth
behind egg uh eggs being not healthy in
a second the other thing is that eggs
are not bad for the heart they're
actually good for the heart and I've got
to explain this because you know when I
was growing up I like I mentioned to you
I used to eat scrambled eggs or
hard-boiled eggs U my mom would serve
those to me and then all of a sudden
research came out uh and it was
everywhere and doctors were saying don't
eat eggs eggs are hot in cholesterol
eggs actually are bad for your heart
this started coming out in the 1970s and
continued through the 80s and I'll tell
you way back then in the scientific
stone age compared to where we are today
we didn't know that there was good
cholesterol and bad cholesterol we just
thought there was one kind of
cholesterol all right so that's one of
the things um we didn't know and the
second thing is that we didn't know how
to design clinical trials quite as well
as we do now so back then what where the
myth of eggs being bad for your heart
and having high cholesterol and
connecting those two happened in
clinical studies where they were take
studying people eating eggs for
breakfast and they were studying whether
or not it was connected to or associated
with the development of heart disease
right that's a that's a good thing to
study and what they found when they did
sort of a fly by of the results of these
studies are that oops people who were
eating eggs had higher levels of heart
disease so therefore don't eat eggs eggs
are bad right that's where this initial
scientific finding actually came from in
fact the American Heart Association said
don't eat eggs all right eggs um are
loaded with cholesterol well here's a
couple of things I need know number one
first of all the people who are in this
clinical trial sure they were eating
eggs but you know what they were also
eating for breakfast the egg eaters they
were eating bacon they were eating
sausage they were eating chicken fried
steak they were using butter they're
putting cream in their coffee they were
eating all kind of other forms of
saturated fat so and those things did
cause heart disease but they actually
singled out the eating of the egg as
being the culprit so it wasn't the eggs
it was the bacon it was a sausage it was
a chicken fried steak all right it was
the butter and so here's the thing eggs
don't actually raise high cholesterol in
fact most people eggs don't raise bad
cholesterol at all and in fact some
people eating eggs raises your good
cholesterol as well maybe up to about
15% if you eat eggs on a regular basis
so let me recap eggs are good for you um
eggs are a great source of protein eggs
have those bioactives that's good for
our vision key to saving our vision and
preventing um a disease called
Immaculate degeneration eggs even though
do have cholesterol they don't actually
increase our bad cholesterol in fact in
some people it increases our good
cholestrol in those old studies that
suggested that eggs are not good for
your heart the problem is that they were
studying people who are eating eggs but
they were also eating bacon and sausage
and all kinds of other forms of
saturated fat and they ignor that but
they they pinned the tail on the donkey
of the egg and that was just not uh the
right thing they they caught the wrong
guy all right and so now we know that
eggs in fact are a healthy breakfast
choice now like everything that I talk
about there's not black and white good
or bad good versus evil the goddess in
the details so let me kind of give you
some of those details if you want to eat
egg eggs be moderate about them I would
say eat eggs about five times a week
about five eggs a week you don't need to
eat them every day if you want the best
eggs that are going to have the best um
bio axis in them try eating pasture
raised eggs all right if you got a
neighbor or a friend who has hens
chickens um get it from them you're
going to actually um have a higher
levels of ltin and zanthin if they're
raised in a p pasture and that and
chickens are eating what they should
normally be eating in nature the plants
that they're eating the little seeds
that they're eating they actually
contain those bioactives altine and
zanthin and they're also going to have
higher levels in pasture raised chickens
who lay eggs in other words the eggs
from Freer range chickens that are
eating normally things in the pasture
they're also going to be higher in
Omega-3s now you know that omega-3 fatty
acids are a healthy acid uh fatty acid
we normally think about Omega-3s coming
from Seafood they do come from Seafood
but there's a plant-based source of
Omega-3s as well and chickens who are
eating them actually put those Omega-3s
in their eggs now here's the benefit
heart healthy benefit omega-3 eggs can
lower the level of triglycerides in your
blood now in the lipids that your doctor
is going to measure during a doctor's
visit they're going to look for blood
cholesterol and blood lipids so
cholesterol we talked about there's good
cholesterol and bad cholesterol how much
good cholesterol do you have you want to
have more than the bad cholesterol you
want good cholesterol be high you want
bad cholesterol be low but there's
triglycerides another T another form of
blood lipid or blood fat and and eating
omega-3 fatty acids can actually lower
those triglycerides that's really really
important another benefit of eggs so the
other thing that about eggs I'll just
tell you is how you cook them right that
matters if you're going to scramble eggs
don't scramble them in butter use extra
virgin olive oil now you actually get
the benefit of the polyphenols from the
extra virgin olive oil oil you can even
better yet just boil the eggs all right
boiled eggs are are something that I
really really love um one of the things
that uh I love to do is uh I love
hardboiled eggs so you can use a timer
and figure out how long it takes to get
the egg white solid and the egg yolk
solid crack it okay and peel it and then
you can add a little bit of salt uh to
the top of it and you can just eat it
take little bites it's a perfect way to
actually have
protein bioactives and healthy fats uh
for uh breakfast now if you want a
culinary twist a lot of people don't
know this but if you actually peel your
egg your hard-boiled egg all right bite
the top off just like the the little tip
the the cap now you got a little egg y
shook now guess what take some low
sodium soy sauce you know the kind you'd
find in the grocery store and add a
little soy sauce to it now eat that now
try that it's salty it's got the umam
from soy sauce it's a amazing tasty way
of making an egg uh really really
delicious so whether you're boiling the
egg or scrambling the egg if you're
actually going to add a little bit of
salt don't add too much salt if you're
going to use soy sauce don't use too
much soy sauce all right so eggs on my
checklist of good just make sure you're
preparing them in a healthy way and
don't eat too many of them eat five a
week is is just fine and get the good
kind of eggs all right Next Food we're
going to talk about bacon now Bacon's a
big topic because we all love bacon
almost everyone loves bacon I mean
unless you're a vegan or a vegetarian
but let's admit it even if you're a
vegetarian or you're vegan today when
you were a kid you probably ate bacon
and you probably loved it because bacon
tastes great so let's talk about bacon
what is bacon bacon is salt cured pork
and that says it all curing okay is
processing the meat and using salt
actually puts a lot of sodium in it and
that's really what makes it taste good
it's salty it's cured and bacon can be
made with different cuts of meat from
different parts of the pig all right the
most common uh cut of the pig uh for
bacon is the belly all right but you can
make bacon from using different types of
the pig as well for example in Italy uh
bacon can be made from the cheek the jow
inside of the jow of the pig it's called
Guan chal all right absolutely uh tasty
super tasty you've ever made bacon with
Guan chal like it's it's wayer thin um
that's very very tasty it tastes a
little bit different because it's the
gel not the belly then there's Panetta
another type of bacon made from the
belly petta actually goes through this
intensive time intensive curing process
it's also used in a lot of Italian meals
and you'll find it on the recipe then
there's pruto which also is not cooked
generally um but it's uh cured uh and
pretty much every meat eater likes this
pruto often served with melons and figs
um uh and you eat it cure room
temperature not cooked and then in Spain
there's also kind of a a Spanish version
called hamon all right made from a
special kind of pig that is also eaten
cured not cooked then there's Lardo
which is actually just the cured fat on
the back of the pig back fat all right
so these are different versions of a
very similar thing um that we associate
with bacon and I just wanted to walk you
through that so that you know that bacon
isn't just whatever you'd find in the uh
uh the packaged meat section uh of your
grocery store all right but let's go
back to be breakfast bacon the kind You'
get at the diner or maybe at a Sunday
brunch uh that you might go to uh the
kind is really tasty but not healthy all
right so I got to break it to you you
but something that you probably already
know bacon is tasty but not healthy and
let me tell you why bacon is high in
saturated fat it's about 40% saturated
fat that's a huge amount of saturated
fat all right and just three slices of
bacon has 5 gram of saturated fat that's
about half of what's considered
advisable by the American Heart
Association for the whole day all right
bacon is also super high in salt now too
much salt in your body leads to high
blood pressure all right also called
hypertension uh you put a lot of salt in
your uh blood BL a lot of liquid gets
drawn into your blood vessels now your
you've got your blood volume is high and
that actually causes wear and tear on
your circulation and then your arteries
can get hardened and then the blood
pressure is going to be high because you
can't relax the blood vessels quite as
easily and that's hypertension very
common uh in women as well as in men and
it is a silent killer hypertension high
blood pressure is a silent killer
because you don't always feel it all
right most people don't feel when
they're hypertensive some people do but
most people don't and being hypertensive
which is actually putting strain on your
circulation the lining of your blood
vessels is um uh increases your risk of
stroke and heart attack all right it is
really really bad for your heart and for
your brain and again when you have high
blood pressure and you got a lot of salt
it damages the endothelial lining that
that's that smooth lining that is inside
your blood vessels here's your blood
vessel it's it's got a it's Hollow in
the middle blood goes through it it's
lined by a layer called endothelium
think about like a Saran wrap a plastic
layer inside and it's really slippery
when it's healthy it's slippery because
it allows everything to flow right
through like an ice skating rink you
know after the Zamboni the ice cleaning
machine runs over it it's so smooth on
an ice skating you can throw a sweater
on it and it let the sweater will Glide
all the way to the other end of the rink
all right hypertension chops up the ice
it really damages that smooth layer uh
like Ling inside it and now your blood
vessels are not only hardened but they
actually um can stick to things things
can stick to your blood vessels a lot
easier and that damaged endothelium is a
setup for stroke and heart attack as
well so double damage when you have high
salt and you have high saturated fats
now the lipids from your bacon that you
will likely stick to the side of the
blood vessels now your blood vessels
begin to narrow all right the other
thing about high salt you need to know
about it is that high salt stuns your
stem cells your stem cells are naturally
present in your bone marrow they repair
us from the inside out normally if you
got damage to that lining inside the
blood vessels guess what your stem cells
get called out of your bone marrow like
bees out of a hive and they go and fix
your damaged areas of your blood vessels
all right um they regenerate that lining
high salt stuns the uh stem cells all
right it's like budges them knocks them
on the head brass knuckles now your stem
cells groggy not really sure what to do
and you're not actually repairing your
blood vessels quite as well that's not
what you want you're damaging one your
body's Health defense systems for your
circulation here's the other thing about
bacon not only is it high fat saturated
fat not only is high salt it's also a
processed meat processed Meats I got to
tell you I have a bad and deservedly bad
reputation because they are classified
by the World Health Organization as a
class one carcinogen a carcinogen is a
substance that causes cancer all right
right um class one carcinogens um
tobacco which we know causes lung cancer
and throat cancer asbestos which we know
causes a type of lung cancer in your
chest or chest cancer called
mesothelioma and guess what processed
Meats also cause different types of
cancer like esophageal cancer stomach
cancer pancreatic cancer you do not want
to get pancreatic cancer very difficult
almost impossible to treat today colon
cancer prostate cancer breast cancer all
right now what are some of the processed
Meats besides bacon hot dogs sausages
commercial pepperoni salami basically
deli meats the stuff we grew up with you
know lunch meat the lunch lady used to
give it to us in a sandwich all right
those are all processed Meats now we
don't understand exactly why they
actually cause cancer some people say
it's because of the nitrates or nitrites
that are made from a factory that are
poured in there for preservatives for
for tastiness but whatever it is I can
tell you that uh eating processed Meats
actually is not good for uh your health
and actually increases your cancer risk
so in fact a clinical study of
470,000 people looked at the intake of
processed Meats including bacon and
found that for every 20 grams of
increased processed meat that you eat
for every 20 grams that's not a lot of
meat the 20 G is about two bacon slices
all right it increased the Chance by 18%
so two bacon slices 20 gr increases um
your chance of developing colon cancer
by 18% now that's not oneof like just
eating two slices of bacon but that's a
habit continuously eating that much uh
bacon compared to people who don't eat
bacon that's actually what you need to
be able to understand how to how to
interpret that data so compared to
people who don't eat bacon eating 20
gram of bacon and then another 20 gram
of bacon then another 20 gram of bacon
increases your chance of developing C
cancer by 18% all right that is not
something that you want to have happened
to you and it's completely avoidable by
avoiding bacon now here's another thing
about bacon um uh that that makes it a
problem is that when you cook bacon
you're frying it because so much oil
comes out you're essentially frying the
bacon and when you fry foods like bacon
you're you're um it's generating the
chemical reaction from frying generates
um something called polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons poly cyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons these are P's all right um
it's carcinogenic and another carcinogen
is called heterocyclic amines
heterocyclic amines are hcas and they're
generating ages Advanced glycation and
products and I'm just spelling these out
to you because we know exactly what
these chemicals are and they are cancer
causing chemicals that in the lab when
you expose animals to polycyclic
aromatic hydrocarbons okay um to
heterocyclic amines or to Advan
glycation end products they actually
spark development of cancer in animals
so when you fry bacon you're causing
some of these chemicals to be generated
and the darker and crispier you fry the
bacon the more of these heterocyclic
amines you're actually generating into
the bacon itself right so that's what
I'm telling you those that that dark
bacon you might even break off the the
burnt parts of it and eat the rest of it
but the rest of it also has these um car
that occur just by frying all right so
people ask me so Dr Lee should we avoid
bacon at all costs like just totally cut
it out here's my answer all right uh and
again like I I practice reasonableness
all right if you want to avoid all
harmful foods for your health then yeah
stay away from bacon but like most
things in life some of the pleasures in
life aren't so good for us so if you
really really love bacon and you really
feeling sneaking in a few slices for
your breakfast what you need to do is
just approach it uh with eyes wide open
you know that eating processed Meats
like bacon is damaging to your health
you know that it actually increases uh
your chances for diseases like
cardiovascular disease and cancer but if
you actually are generally healthy and
you generally eat to improve your body's
Health defense systems a couple of
slices of bacon aren't going to hurt you
but just recognize do it with eyes wide
open it is not healthy for you okay so
let me give you a couple of tips that if
you are going to eat bacon um uh what
you might want to do to make it a little
bit less unhealthy number one if you
cook the bacon cook it so it's lighter
in color don't make it reall