What Do You Recommend for Energy-Boosting Foods and Suggest Avoiding That Are Energy-Depleting Foods?

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What do you recommend for energy boosting foods and suggest avoiding that are depleting foods foreign? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times bestselling author, celebrity nutrition expert, and fitness hall of famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. Inez on Facebook asks, what do you recommend for energy boosting foods and suggest avoiding that are depleting foods. Hey, it's JJ and today I have Dr. Steven Gundry with me to answer this question. Now, you may know him from his New York Times bestselling books, the Plant Paradox and the Longevity Paradox. And next up, the Energy Paradox. He's a cardiothoracic surgeon who retired to focus on helping patients not not need him by using nutrition and lifestyle strategies. Plus, he loves dogs. A man after my own heart. And swears that owning a dog and walking a dog is one of the key aspects to longevity. We'll be right back with the answer, so stay with me.

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Well, maybe we'll do it backwards. First of all, processed foods, simple sugars, simple energy drinks, protein energy drinks that you see advertised on tv and saturated fats are the best ways to deplete your energy. These number one, do not contain any prebiotic fibers that feed your gut buddies exactly what they need to produce energy. And we'll get into that in a second. But they also absolutely wham the energy producing factories, your mitochondria with rush hour traffic 16 hours a day. And you actually are overfed but underpowered now in terms of energy boosting food. Exciting new research about postbiotics shows that postbiotics are how gut buddies when you give them what they like to eat, which are called prebiotics, postbiotics actually tell your mitochondria to make energy, to make ATP. And they're a communication system that's recently been discovered that's one of the most exciting discoveries of all time. That gases that our gut bacteria make diffuse through our gut wall and travel to our brain, to all of our cells, to all of our mitochondria that tell mitochondria to make more energy and also do a very good job of protecting themselves from harm. Additionally, we now know that brain fog and the feed feeling of fatigue is also driven by neuroinflammation caused by a leaky brain. And that these postbiotic compounds are actually essential for allowing neurons and the mitochondria within neurons to also boost their energy and to stop literally killing themselves. So I have a whole chapter in the energy paradox about postbiotics, how to get your bacteria to produce postbiotics. And some of the best ways to do that is prebiotic fiber in for instance, leafy greens. Inulin is one of the best prebiotic fibers. It's present in chicory vegetables like chicory, like Belgian endive, like radicchio, which some people think is an Italian red lettuce and you can even get inulin powder that you can cook with and use as a sweetener. So that's a great way. The second thing I point out is that melatonin, which many people think of as a sleep hormone, is actually the most important antioxidant and energy producing compound that you can give to mitochondria. And I have a whole list of foods that are rich in melatonin. And it may surprise you that pistachios have by far the most melatonin of any food that exists. And interestingly enough, red wine and olive oil may have their health promoting properties. Not so much from polyphenols like resveratrol, but from the melek melatonin content in these two beverages and oils. So melatonin containing foods are one of the new in superfoods in the Energy Paradox.

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