The Biggest Lie You Were NEVER Meant To Find Out

0:00 You've been lied to not once, not twice, but for decades by the food industry, by public health officials, and yes, even by your own doctor. Today, I'm exposing the seven biggest health and nutrition myths that are keeping you sick, and I'm going to reveal what actually works to help you burn fat, skyrocket energy, and stay young. Let's start with the most dangerous lie of them all. Myth number one, the sun is dangerous and causes cancer. We've been taught to fear the sun. We lather on SPF 50. We avoid direct sunlight because we've been convinced that the sun equals skin cancer. But here's the truth. Sunlight in itself is one of the most healing free medicines available to us. Sunlight

0:45 triggers vitamin D production, which is a hormone, technically not even a vitamin, that regulates, get this, over 3,000 genes related to immune function, inflammation, and yes, fat metabolism. Low vitamin D levels are now linked to higher risk of cancer, obesity, autoimmune disease, depression, and metabolic dysfunction. And study after study shows this. I mean, are you testing your vitamin D levels? Because if you are, the report that comes back is between 30 and 90 typically. And if it comes back as 33, 44, 38, it's not being flagged by your doctor as having being in a a vitamin D deficiency. But I got to tell you, if your vitamin D levels are below 60, you are vitamin D deficient. And research has shown that

1:31 when you have low vitamin D, you will increase the chances of the following happening to you. Obesity and insulin resistance, autoimmune diseases, including MS and lupus, depression and seasonal effective disorder, cognitive decline and Alzheimer's, and several types of cancer including colon, breast, and prostate. And you might think, all right, I could still I should still avoid the sun, but I'll just take a whole bunch of vitamin D supplementation. But that is not as effective as getting quality sunshine. And what's super ironic is that vitamin D deficiency is actually a stronger predictor of cancer than moderate sun exposure. Yet, you've been lied to by dermatology groups who are funded by sunscreen companies who push the avoid the sun narrative, which is a whole

2:16 bunch of BS. The sunscreen industry is a $10 billion per year industry which is designed to make you afraid of the sunlight. Meanwhile, vitamin D deficiency has skyrocketed globally, especially in countries that avoid the sun. What does the science actually show? Well, a 20-year Swedish study found that women who avoided the sun had a mortality rate twice as high as those with regular sun exposure. Several studies report that low vitamin D levels because of lack of sunshine are linked to more severe COVID 19 outcomes, higher risk of metabolic syndrome, increased systemic inflammation, and poor blood sugar regulation. Sunlight does more than just vitamin D. Morning sunlight, especially without sunglasses, resets

3:02 your entire circadian rhythm. It boosts melatonin production at night for better sleep. And melatonin, by the way, is not just for sleep. It's one of the most important, probably the most powerful antioxidant for your mitochondria. You see, the near infrared rays you get from the sunshine promote mitochondrial health through a process called photobiomodulation, helping your cells produce more energy via ATP. So, the goal is to get sunshine, but don't get burned. I can tell you this, if you eliminate seed oils, eliminate fish oil supplementation, and eat a clean diet that's focused on meat, protein, whole food, it's pretty difficult to get burned from the sun. If you find that you're getting burned from the sun very easily, it's because number one, you have to adapt to the sun and slowly

3:47 build up tolerance to it. And number two, you're probably consuming seed oils and fish oil. Once you remove that, it's very difficult to burn. I could give you an analogy. I used to burn so easily from the sun when I was consuming seed oils and taking highdose fish oil. Now I could be in the sun for 3 4 hours. Heck on Sunday I live in Miami and on Sundays I play basketball with my my friends outside in Miami Beach for 2 to three hours and I do it during the summer. I don't burn. And by the way, if you play basketball and live in Miami, you want to play with me, let me know in the comment section of the YouTube video. So get sun, just don't get burned. There's something you can do that also is a supplement that prevents you from getting burned. So instead of taking sunscreen, which I don't recommend, you could take edible sunscreen. This is a nutrient proven through research and through anecdotal evidence of myself and

4:33 clients that when you take about 6 to 10 milligs of it in the form of a supplement, it prevents you from getting burned. It's called aazanthin. Aazanthin is an antioxidant that's found in like wild caught salmon. But if you just take the supplement form of it with an olive oil or coconut oil base, and I'll drop a link for the one I use in the notes down below. On the days right before you go out into the sun, it will prevent you from getting burned. So, I recommend getting 30 to 60 minutes of sunshine every day. Best time is in the morning. Best time is right before the sunset. And if you can get it during the day, even on an overcast day, you're going to benefit. And do not use sunscreen. If you're going to use a sunscreen and want a healthy option, use the one from One Skin. They have the best sunscreen. It's non-toxic. It has um actually minerals in it and prevents you from getting

5:18 burned. And I'll drop a link for the One Skin sunscreen with a 15% coupon code which you can get over at onkin.co/freedom. And I'll drop that link down below. That's one o nekin.co/freedom which I'll drop down below. Bottom line with the first thing here, don't fear the sun. The sun is the source. The sun is your friend. Get sun and raise your vitamin D levels. Let's go to myth number two. Red meat causes cancer. H look, red meat has been demonized since the 1980s, but the science doesn't support the fear. The World Health Organization's red meat causes cancer claim was based on observational studies filled with co-founding factors. Let me ask you this. If someone eats a fast food burger with a bun, fries, soda, no

6:05 exercise, poor sleep, and stress, is it really the meat in that burger that was the problem? Well, the answer is of course not. That's that's silly. Well, grass-fed meat in particular is lo it's it's the most nutrientdense foods you could ever eat. There's not one vegetable, not kale, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, spinach, not one vegetable on this planet that compares to the amount of nutrients you find in red meat, especially grass-fed red meat. Here's what you're going to find in red meat. Hem iron, which is the bioavailable form of iron versus the non-heem iron you find in vegetables that are not available. Zinc, vitamin B12, carnosine, creatine, and conjugated linoic acid, which helps with fat loss. All of these nutrients are critical for energy, fat

6:50 metabolism, and brain function. So, you don't need to eat less meat, you need to eat more red meat. I would say 80% of my entire diet is red meat, and I'm just thriving, and I share my blood work with you all the time. And you can see my blood work looks phenomenal. Yours will too when you consume more red meat. Myth number three, snacking and grazing boosts your metabolism, helps you burn fat. Look, this tip that you probably got from a personal trainer, a dietitian, or a fitness coach, or a Tik Tok guru is one of the worst things you can do for your health. Eating every 2 to three hours is the fastest way to age yourself, create leaky gut, and weight loss resistance. Every time you eat, you raise glucose and insulin. When insulin is spiked, you store fat. you don't burn it. Even if it's the healthiest snack in

7:36 the world, you're going to store fat. The truth is, having an eating window and a fasting window is the best thing you could do for fat loss. Have two to three meals within an 8 hour window, and then fast outside of that window. Or if you don't want to fast, just have your three meals a day, breakfast, lunch, and dinner, let's say 8:00 a.m., noon, and let's say 8:00 p.m. No snacking in between. Every time you snack, you spike glucose and insulin. you disrupt your gut microbiome. It takes a lot of energy to process that food and you signal to your metabolism, store fat. So, this is nonsense when we think about the advice out there to snack and graze. There's not any research out there that shows it boosts your metabolism. And as a matter of fact, as I make the point in metabolic freedom, my latest book, you don't even want to boost your

8:22 metabolism. The metabolism doesn't even work in speed. It's either efficient or inefficient. And when you're constantly snacking and grazing, you have an inefficient metabolism that is burning sugar and it's aging you faster because you're reaching something called the hay flick limit much faster. Which means the hay flick limit is the amount of times your cells could duplicate until it can no longer duplicate. At this time, you damage your DNA and it creates a scesscent zombie cell. And you reach this limit every time you snack. It duplicates cells. Not good for your health, not good for longevity. And for sure, it's not good for fat loss. Myth number four, eat less, move more. It's the best way to burn fat. The only way to burn fat is to be in a calorie deficit. This is some of the most redundant, ridiculous, outdated advice

9:07 you could ever come across. Yeah, calories matter, but they're not important. Hormones, inflammation, that's important, my friend. The eat less, move more model ignores insulin. It ignores hormones. It ignores inflammation. You see, the human body, the metabolism does not operate this way. If you're overweight right now, guess what? You don't have a weight problem. I used to be obese, 80 lbs overweight. I never had a weight problem. Nobody in the history of humankind has ever had a weight problem. It is a weight symptom. When you focus on just cutting calories, you're treating the symptom. You don't lose weight to get healthy. You get healthy, you lose weight. That's why the premise is flawed because they're teaching you to lose weight to get healthy. That is not how your metabolism works. And over

9:54 time, you destroy and wreck the metabolism because you could only cut your calories so much until your metabolism adapts to the energy coming in. And at this point, you've dramatically destroyed and disrupted your metabolism. There is a better way. You could actually eat more calories and actually burn more fat by focusing on quality over quantity. getting high quality protein, the red meat we spoke about, stopping the snacking and the grazing, practicing intermittent fasting. Your body and metabolism is not a math equation. It's not a calculator. It is not a bank account. Your metabolism is a very complex chemistry lab. So, stop focusing on calories. Start focusing on hormones. Myth number

10:41 five, carbohydrates are essential for energy production. They're the number one nutrient or the number one energy source for your body, for your brain. Carbohydrates are optional. Glucose is essential. There's a big difference here. When we look at all medical textbooks, I don't know if you knew this, but there's no such thing as essential carbohydrates. Did you know that? There are essential fats. They're called essential fatty acids. There are essential proteins called essential amino acids. Meaning, your body cannot make essential fats. Your body cannot make essential proteins. you need to consume that through diet or supplementation. But with carbohydrates, there's no such thing. Meaning, you don't need carbohydrates to survive. You need glucose, but you don't have to eat the carbohydrates to get the glucose. Your metabolism and human body is so

11:27 sophisticated and so smart. You could take protein, you could take cortisol, you could take fat and turn that into glucose for the body. Your body's very smart. When glucose is low, you start producing ketones, which is anti-inflammatory, fat burning, anti-aging, great for brain fog, great for the brain in general. We become carb dependent zombies. We don't need the carbohydrates. Now, does that mean we should avoid carbs altogether and void it forever? No, that's not what I'm saying. But the personal trainer or dietitian telling you that carbohydrates are the number one source of energy for your body, your metabolism, and your brain. Ask them the question, hey, is there anything in the literature or anything in the medical textbooks that show that carbohydrates are essential? And they're going to look at you dumbfounded because there's not one

12:12 thing that shows that your body needs glucose, but you don't need carbs to make the glucose. I hope that makes sense. Myth number six, eating fat makes you fat. You know, fat has a bad PR person because we hear the word dietary fat and it it kind of makes sense. When we eat fat, it'll make us fat. But it's not fat that makes us fat. It's insulin. And when we just look at the three macronutrients, carbohydrates, protein, and fat. I'm going to show a chart here for those watching on on YouTube, and I put this chart in chapter 1 of metabolic freedom. It is carbohydrates that will spike your blood insulin levels way more than protein. You can see protein is moderate and fat barely even moves the needle on insulin which means when you actually eat fat, you burn fat because there's not going to be an insulin spike. It's when you introduce the

12:59 protein and especially the carbs that you get the insulin spike. So eating eggs with the yolk, avocados, butter, ghee, olive oil, coconut oil, these all lower inflammation, lower insulin, help you burn fat. So if you want to burn fat, eat more protein and fat, lower your carbs. That is the fastest way to tap into stored body fat, especially the fat around your belly. This brings us to myth number seven. Your genes determine your health fate. Look, your genes are not your destiny. You might have heard this statement before. Genes load the gun, but your lifestyle pulls the trigger. This is one of the most disempowering beliefs that we have in our society. I I remember a couple years ago there was a representative from the United States government on the TV show 60 Minutes and they were talking the

13:45 whole segment was about obesity and Ozmpic. The lady who represented the public health in the United States at that time said, "If you're obese right now, it's not your fault. There's nothing you can do about it. It's the genes you were dealt. It's just bad luck. But hey, we have OMIC. We have these medications that could help." It's such a victim mentality. And I'm not just referring to obesity. Look, if you have cancer that runs in your family, diabetes, autoimmune disease, or even obesity, it's true you have those genes. You cannot change the genes you were born with. Those were the cards you were dealt. That's the bad news. The good news is that you have control over the expression of those genes. One of the most empowering things I've ever learned in my life was this. The lifestyle decisions you make determine whether you turn on genes or turn off genes. That is

14:33 one of the most profound statements that you have. have the ability, I have the ability, we have the ability to turn off genes, bad genes and good genes. And I would argue that 95% minimally of your genes are going to be expressed through your lifestyle decisions. Meaning less than 5% of all disease out there, including different things like obesity and diabetes, less than 5% are strictly genetics. That should empower you and inspire you because it's all the things you eat, you think, your movement, your lifestyle that will turn on genes and turn off genes. You are not your genes. You are the CEO of your health and you have more power than you've ever been told. With that being said, I'm going to get to some of your commonly asked questions here. I want to encourage you to go get Metabolic Freedom, my latest book. There's a 30-day plan to help you

15:19 lose 20 lbs in 30 days. The book is available on hardcover, Kindle, Audible, Spotify. I narrated the audles myself and you'll get an entire course on the metabolism for free when you go to metabolicfreedombook.com today or scan the QR code on the screen or go to the notes of this podcast episode or YouTube notes down below. Let's get to your questions. How can I improve my insulin sensitivity naturally? Uh everything I shared here, eating more red meat, eating more protein and fat, less carbs will help. Getting quality sleep really helps with that. That's chapter six of metabolic freedom. building lean muscle mass. So, strength training, eating uh high quality protein, uh eating enough protein, one gram of protein per pound of your ideal body weight and strength training, quality sleep. All of this makes you more insulin sensitive. U so

16:06 make sure you are following these tips and and the 30-day plan of metabolic freedom gives you the whole outline. By the way, what's the difference between healthy fats and unhealthy fats? Great question. So, not all fats are created equal. We want to consume saturated fats and monounsaturated fats. So, I'll give you an entire list of healthy fats to consume. We have coconut oil, butter, ghee, beef tallow, olive oil, duck fat, and avocado oil. Any of those fats are healthy. Those are going to be more for cooking salad dressings and dips. If we're thinking about meat sources of fat, that's going to be eggs. Um, that's going to be avocados, which is a fruit technically. Uh that's going to be uh red meat including beef and lamb, wild caught, small fatty fish like salmon uh and even organ meats are also great and

16:53 healthy for you. Bad fats are going to be the vegetable oils and seed oils. You want to avoid canola, corn, cotton seed, sunflower, soybean, safflower, rice brand, and grape seed oil. You also want to avoid fish oil, which is inflammatory. There you have it. We just busted those seven myths. Hey, share this with somebody you know. Thank you for watching. Thank you for listening. And if you're listening on the podcast, please leave the show a rating and review. and I'll see you next time. Oh, hey, if you love this lesson, I just published a recent video because I just mentioned that strength training and exercise is one of the best ways to become more insulin sensitive, burn fat, and extend your lifespan. Well, there's a uh the number one exercise that you could perform each week that targets belly fat. And I just published a video outlining this exercise. Check out the clip from that lesson, then click the video on the screen, and I'll see you in that next lesson. The best part about

17:40 what I'm going to share with you today, it does not require willpower. You don't have to count calories. And as a matter of fact, one of the worst ways to lose weight and belly fat is to focus on calories. It's the biggest mistake people make. Focusing on calories is a huge mistake. For example, you