109. Why the Biggest Loser is the worst show ever and you’re not losing fat, with Herman Pontzer, PhD

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Paul Saladino, MD

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Herman Pontzer is an Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University and Associate Research Professor of Global Health at the Duke Global Health Institute. He is an internationally recognized researcher in human energetics and evolution.

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0:11:16 Podcast begins with Herman Pontzer

0:14:04 The skulls that Herman Pontzer has come across

0:16:34 Herman's experience hunting with the podcast

0:19:14 What is it like hunting big game with the Hadza

0:22:04 What else did the Hadza eat?

0:25:44 Why don't they give any honey to the honey guide?

0:26:54 How was the mental health of the Hadza?

0:28:44 How was the health of the Hadza?

0:29:54 Physical activity patterns and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in hunter-gatherers: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajhb.22919

0:31:54 Red meat and heart diesease with the Hadza

0:33:04 Tubers and how they are too fiberous to swallow

0:36:24 Metabolism and human evolution

0:39:14 The body burns roughly the same amount of calories every day

0:45:14 The "biggest loser" method to losing weight is not healthy nor sustainable

0:48:19 How humans are meant to move

0:49:44 Calories and food quality, each has it's own role

0:55:54 Obesity is associated with hypothalamic injury in rodents and humans: https://www.jci.org/articles/view/59660

1:03:14 Boston study: those who exercised maintained weight loss

1:07:04 Food quality matters for weight loss

1:40:54 Where to find Herman Pontzer

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Fundamental Health Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Paul Saladino. This podcast
0:10.3	is the result of my relentless search to understand and correct the roots of chronic
0:14.3	disease and illness. In this podcast, I will share with you everything I have learned
0:18.3	about how to live the most healthy and radical life possible. Thanks for joining me on this
0:22.7	journey.
0:25.9	What is up you guys? Welcome to the Fundamental Health Podcast. Another week is upon us
0:29.8	and I'm super excited about this one. I'm also super excited about this animal-based
0:34.3	gathering that we are hosting in Santa Teresa Costa Rica July 23rd to 26th, 2021 in the
0:43.7	year AD. If you guys saw my controversial thoughts video last week, you know that I'm living
0:47.9	in Costa Rica because this place is really an amazing spot to be a part of something
0:53.8	bigger, to be a part of what I would call the remembering, which is remembering where
0:58.0	we have come from as humans. Being in the sun, being in nature, grounding, lower levels
1:04.1	of VMH, lower levels of social media, and higher levels of community, sun exposure, and
1:09.7	amazing meat and organs. And so if you are interested in this, you can email us radicalhealth
1:15.2	at heartanswild.co. We're going to get people here. It's going to be amazing. There will
1:19.3	be other details forthcoming. But the remembering, I believe, is just my way of helping us
1:27.8	recall where we've come from as humans. And it's eating an animal-based diet with meat
1:32.4	and organs either fresh or desiccated like we make it hard in soil and at least toxic
1:37.2	plants. So if you need more organs in your diet and you're not getting organs in your
1:41.9	diet and really believe you will benefit from this, check us out at heartanswild.co.
1:47.5	Our mission is to help you reclaim your birthright to radical health. I believe that all of us
1:52.1	have a birthright to very radical health. The found health that we should not accept
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