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0:00A lot of people seem to think that
0:01insulin causes fat gain. Over here we
0:03have team pro carbs, team anticarbs.
0:06That's the amount of protein they're
0:08consuming. It's the amount of
0:09carbohydrates they're consuming. Now,
0:10team anti-carbs that think even looking
0:12at a bagel will make you obese. They
0:14need to consume more fats because they
0:15need to get their remaining calories
0:17from somewhere else. So, all the people
0:18that hate carbohydrates and think
0:19insulin is the devil will look over at
0:21this and say, "This is really unhealthy
0:22and you shouldn't eat carbohydrates."
0:23But if we ignore all of that for a
0:25second, if you were to ask someone from
0:26this camp how someone on a low carb diet
0:28was gaining fat, they'd probably say to
0:29you because they're over consuming the
0:30amount of calories that they need. So
0:31why can't they apply that same logic to
0:33both? Now the current theory from these
0:35guys is that here when carbohydrates are
0:37high, insulin is high and insulin will
0:39then take those carbohydrates and
0:41convert them into fat. A process that's
0:42called denovo lipogenesis. However, in
0:45the low carbohydrate group, you would
0:47consume more dietary fats, which are
0:49actually easier to convert to fat than
0:52converting carbohydrates into fat.
0:54Turning fat into fat doesn't even
0:55require a conversion. But what about
0:57glycemic index? We've all seen some
0:58fitness influencers must be struggling
1:00financially this time of year because
1:02they're going out there promoting little
1:03blood glucose monitors, which is always
1:05very interesting because I thought that
1:07counting calories was obsessive and bad
1:08for your mental health and it was going
1:09to send you over the edge. But putting a
1:11continuous blood glucose monitor in your
1:12arm to track every little fluctuation in
1:14blood glucose levels after every single
1:16food that you consume and then judging
1:18that food on merit consuming what's good
1:19and what's bad is completely fine. But
1:21even if you are someone that thinks
1:22glycemic index is really important when
1:24we look at the foods that we know are
1:26making people obese, pizza, burgers,
1:28those foods aren't even that high on a
1:29glycemic index. And the majority of
1:31people that can't really understand
1:33evidence, data, meta analysis, or
1:35studies on human trials, also the exact
1:37same people to point the finger at
1:38things like seed oils as being the very
1:40thing that started the obesity epidemic.
1:44The seed oils don't have a high GI
1:45effect. Seed oils don't make us produce
1:48loads of insulin. Seed oils actually
1:49back up my point that consuming too many
1:51fats would make it easier to gain
1:53weight. as a theory of thinking that
1:56carbohydrates are bad and that insulin
1:58makes you fat can make sense, but only
2:00in theory. There have been dozens of
2:02studies that have compared people eating
2:04high carbohydrate diets and highfat
2:06diets. And when calories were the same
2:08and you match protein, there was no
2:10difference or incredibly negligible
2:12differences in fat loss between the two.
2:14It is impossible to gain fat unless you
2:18are in a calorie surplus. Unless you are
2:20over consuming the amount of calories
2:21that you need on a daily basis. Insulin
2:24cannot create calories out of thin air.