Andrew Huberman· PhD
Like you look at the label. I read the labels. You look at it, do I recognize this? Would I have this in my kitchen? Do I have butylated hydroxytoluene in my kitchen or red dye number 3? Probably not.
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Like you look at the label. I read the labels. You look at it, do I recognize this? Would I have this in my kitchen? Do I have butylated hydroxytoluene in my kitchen or red dye number 3? Probably not.
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Eat like a human (single ingredient foods and foods with ingredients your great grandmother would recognize) and move like a human.
Eat only food for humans: single ingredient foods and foods with ingredients your great grandmother would recognize. You will lose weight.
Eat only food for humans: single ingredient foods and foods with ingredients your great grandmother would recognize. You will lose weight, full stop.
There's a much simpler solution if you want to lose weight: improve food quality, focus on single ingredient foods and foods with ingredients your great-grandmother would recognize.
Eat single ingredient foods or foods with ingredients your grandmother would recognize.
Single ingredient foods and ingredients your great grandmother would recognize = food for humans.
90-95% of your diet as single ingredient foods.
Eat meat, eat plants - preferably as foods without an ingredient label = single ingredient foods. If eat a food with a label, don't eat anything with ingredients your great grandmother would not recognize.
if you don't understand what's on the label if your great- grandmother wouldn't recognize what's on that label don't eat it
read the labels on your Foods look for single ingredient Foods or ingredients that your great grandmother would recognize and you will be healthier
So, what would you tell people who are kind of feeling discouraged like what is the best way to maintain a healthy weight long term? I say it's simple, but it's not easy, right? So, it's simple. Single ingredient foods and foods that your great-grandmother would recognize if they have a label.
If it fails the great grandmother rule, don't eat it, guys. Don't eat it.
If you're going to eat something with a label, would your great-grandmother recognize everything on that label? Your great-grandmother doesn't have any idea what most of what's in this bun is, you don't want to eat it. It's not food for humans.
If you want to be healthier, you guys know this, but I got to tell you, stop eating this garbage. Eat single ingredient foods and eat food with ingredients your great grandmother would recognize.