A short conversational transcript between Vishen Lakhiani and Dave Asprey discussing dietary fats. The speakers debate that not all fats are equal—hydrogenated fats and seed oils (e.g., canola, corn) are presented as harmful, while certain fats provide more usable energy than sugar and can increase feelings of satiety and mental energy.
What is this about fats? There's this whole conversation right now where fats are good and sugar is bad.
I wish it was that easy. Some fats are bad. And that's why when you see these questionable things about fat, you can take hydrogenated fat, you can take the seed oils, canola oil and corn oil and things like that, and those are actually not good for you. So the idea that proteins good or bad or fats good or bad, it's a big question of which fats are good or bad. And what research is showing is that more of the right kinds of fat give you more energy. And when I say give you more energy, when you digest a gram of fat, it has more calories in it, right? Like compared to sugar. Guess what a calorie is. It's energy. Guess what happens when your brain has enough energy, you're happy and satisfied and.
Full and you want to go kick ass.
Guess what happens when you burn sugar? Well, you get less energy per gram and your body gets hungry very quickly. And it's not happy, it's not satisfied, and it's not full of energy. Instead, it's seeking more sugar. So the idea is actually calories are not bad for you. Calories do not by themselves make you fat. Calories actually give you energy. So when you're getting your calories from the right kinds of fat, you're less inflamed, you have less cravings, your hormones work much better, your cells are all made out of fat, your brain is made out of fat. You don't make testosterone or estrogen or progesterone without fat. So we need it. And we were lied to by some well meaning, but really pretty inexperienced researchers. Starting around the year I was born, around 1970 is when we started to just go off the rails nutritionally. A 28 year old nutritionist who had never treated one obese person made up the idea that fat makes you fat, gave it straight to the government. They spread the idea and ever since then, if you say anything to disagree with it, they just kill your career in academia. That's over. The Internet has changed things.
