With 6 years in the hospital trenches as an RN, Mike’s true passion has always been independent health research. Years before ever working in the hospital he had his head inside a Pubmed article or physiology textbook, and his heart in some type of crazy diet or supplement experiment. Mike has prolifically published on both his Youtube channel @MikeFaveScience and with friend and podcaster Jay Feldman on the Energy Balance Podcast.

In today’s interview we cover

- In most cases, peoples health issues can be fixed by eating micro-nutrient dense, balanced macro high calorie foods
- The way to construct your diet is to first figure out how many calories you need per day
- Then determine how many grams of protein you need
- Then determine how many grams of carbs you need to optimize the hormones and fill in the rest of the calories with fat
- Typically you want 20-30% of your calories from fat.
- Choose carbs that don’t have high fodmap content and 1:1 fructose to glucose ratio (not apples)
- If a person has hereditary fructose intolerance, they’ll need to rely on starches for their glucose
- If a person doesn’t do well with starches because of bacterial overgrowth or lack of amylase production, they’ll need to eat primarily fruit, maple syrup and honey.
- If moving from low carb to high carb you will gain 5-10 lbs of water weight and glycogen over 1-2 weeks and is healthy (because you were depleted). Every gram of glycogen stored comes with 3 grams of water
- Ideal body fat for men is 10-20%, for women 16-24%
- The Randle Cycle is a fuel source mechanism whereby the mitochondria can only burn one type of fuel at a time. If there is too much fat, metabolism will slow down and inhibit glucose oxidation, which then leads to a build up of sugar in the blood, decreased ATP production, increased ROS and decreased CO2. Check out Mike’s exhaustive video on the Randle Cycle here https://youtu.be/hpgt4WtFNJw?si=iiojjn78wtSaApmW
- You can eat both fat and carbs together so low as your fat is less than 30% of your total calories/day.
- PUFA, endotoxin, micronutrient deficiencies, xenoestrogens, heavy metals and plant defense chems are major inhibitors of metabolism
- Ray Peat called estrogen the hormone of new beginnings, it is a growth hormone. Too much leads to unchecked growth. Progesterone’s job is to stabilize and differentiate cells to keep. In today’s environment (stress, micro plastics and Xenoestrogen), women are losing progesterone to estrogen via aromatase. So supporting progesterone or supplementing are important.
- The entire hormonal system is linked to food macros, especially carbs. Too little and your body senses famine and scarcity adjusting appropriately.

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