328: Dr. Michael Aziz Introduces ‘The Perfect 10 Diet’

Despite the fact that I disagree with some of his views, I still enjoyed this interview. You can tell Dr. Aziz is very passionate about what he does and truly cares about helping people.

I still disagree with these fears on eating red meat though. Personally, I try to limit my red meat consumption to 2-3 times a week, and I always drain/trim as much fat as I can.

Jimmy, I know you do a lot of research, have you ever seen any solid, credible studies that link red meat consumption with diseases? Thanks!

April, none of the studies that supposedly look at red meat and disease focus on just cuts of beef, pork, etc. Generally, they throw processed meats into the mix and never use grass-fed ones. While Dr. Aziz gets it right on saturated fat, I think he’s doing people a great disservice by ignoring the health qualities of good saturated fat that comes from red meat, especially grass-fed.

Excellent interview Jimmy! Dr Aziz is definitely one that really gets it! I still like my red meat though – pan fried in olive oil or unrefined coconut oil, that is!

I liked the part at the beginning about trying to live off of mostly protein as a cause of hypothyroid. In her latest book, Jillian Michaels writes that she started to have a problem with weight creep in the early seasons of the Biggest Loser. She went to an endocrinologist, and was diagnosed hypothyroid. I see an awful lot of lean meat and vegetables on that show.

I stumbled across the idea that rabbit starvation and the hypothyroid and other symptoms (diarrhea, lethargy, low mood) that some people complain about on a low carb diet might be the same problem while reading Richard Nikoley’s blog. A person who either has very low fat stores, or poor access to those fat stores might be expected to suffer rabbit starvation more easily (at higher levels of fat intake) than would otherwise be the case. This might explain anecdotal evidence where some people increase the carbs in their low carb diet and actually do better; it might not be so much a matter of more carbs as it is a matter of a higher non-protein/protein ratio. Even carbs are better than rabbit starvation.

It also offers an alternate explanation to excess neoglucogenesis being the thing that prevents weight loss in people who break through stalls by increasing fat intake and decreasing protein.

Not surprisingly, Emma at Plant Poisons and other Rotten Stuff got there five years before me.

http://blog.plantpoisonsandrottenstuff.info/2005/03/

Sue, stage one is basically a Paleo diet.

Me too Ned. Especially the way he kept saying “extreme low-carb” as if being in a ketogenic state is somehow harmful.

I think Dr. Aziz got most of it wright, but it really bothers me that on his website he states that estrogen lowers bodyfat. That sounds very very wrong, from what I know.