The #1 Cause of Visceral Fat and Fatty Liver is NOT Sugar? - Doctor Reacts

Whoa! No wonder people give up on diets! You’d need a PHD in metabolism to understand all that!! Thank you for keeping it simple, Dr. Westman.

Seed oils weren't mentioned, which was very surprising because of the amount of damage they do to the body through inflamation.

I used to listen to Mr.DeLauer, but it’s videos like this that proves… Knowledge does not equal wisdom!

Thank you, Dr. Westman! I have completed two months of Lion Diet, and my triglycerides have decreased by half! Down to fifty three! I am also LMHR, so I am very happy with this decrease!

Thomas is not a reliable source of information.... stopped listening to his confusion long ago.

Typical problem with many "influencers" is talking authoritatively about things they just found out about, and barely understand. Thanks for going over all these claims!

I used to follow Thomas's channel, but he has flip-floped so many times, and now he makes no sense to me so I dropped his channel. Nick Norwitz is a WAY better follow.

I have listened to RD for 10 years and he has gone round in circles at least ten times. Thank you Dr Westman

Thomas DeLauer is saying "Don't mix Fats and Carbs" but he doesn't realize what he is saying. Because you can't burn the fat while your insulin is spiked from the carbs(sugars). You are then in fat storage mode.

I appreciate how kind you are to him I am neither trainer nor Dr, but I have been able to follow many people and many studies that indicate that if you remove the carbohydrates and sugars from your diet, your insulin will go down so what on earth is he talking about? He simply is wrong.

I took my then 70 yr old mom to her long time doctor. He did a full blood work up and I took her back for her results. He told mom of her fatty liver and screamed at her to stop drinking!! he made her cry while she an I kept on telling him she has 2 glasses of wine at Christmas ond 2 beer for her birthday! he said we were lying!! because this fatty liver is caused by alcoholism!! I fired him on the spot! needless to say...

I did Keto and Intermittent fasting. No longer have NAFLD and my Type 2 is gone. All before I lost any weight. I am still fat. But I am working on it.

He’s basically saying a doughnut deep fried in an oxidised seed oil is the same saturated fat in a ribeye 😂😂😂😂. He needs to stop.

I completed 1 year of carnivore yesterday. I have never felt better in my life and I'm 71. I've been low-carb/keto off and on for 30 years but carnivore took me to a whole new level. There is an old Huey Lewis song called "I Want a New Drug". I feel like I got that new drug that the song describes. I was having itchy rash problems a year ago and could pin some of it on vegetables so I thought I would do a one-month elimination diet. At the time I was fasting and eating keto and weighed 132 lbs. I took a few days to titrate my coffee consumption and then went for it. I ate a TON of fat. I ate fatty ribeye covered in ghee for months. I don't know how much I'm supposed to weigh but I decided to let my body figure it out. I have weighed 132 for the majority of this last year. I had surgery last week so I lost a few pounds but otherwise 132(there were a couple of cheese incidents causing gains of 5 lbs but it went away quickly as soon as I stopped eating the cheese). THIS IS A MIRACLE!!! I have never in my life maintained my weight for a whole year, not even close. I described myself as a human yo-yo. I've learned not to say always and never but I hope I always stay carnivore and I never eat carbs again.

Some Docs say that seed oils are worse than sugar. 🤷🏽‍♀️

People make this too complicated. Cut the carbs as low as possible. Avoid sweets, alcohol, grains and ultra processed junk marketed as food and eat animal products within as short an eating window as you can manage to get 1500 to 2000 calories a day and exercise. Some low starch vegetables are Ok in moderation but not really necessary. You will be healthier and lose weight. Lose the idea you need three meals a day. Start by skipping breakfast and either lunch or dinner after a month or so. Looked at a picture of myself a year ago and 60 lbs lighter today looks and feels a lot better!

Excellent point to consider is that these foods, especially saturated fats, can rarely be consumed in isolation. Unless you are swallowing sticks of butter or gulping down glasses of melted bacon fat, the saturated fats are consumed along with carbs. Just as all studies that test people eating a McDonald's diet and then say that eating meat promotes heart disease. The meat in a McDonald's meal is probably 5-10% of the calories. The rest are vegetarian and carbs, including the fries, coke and bun. Yet the heart attack is attributed to the burger patty. Go figure.

Hey, Thomas ... cut the Carbs, problem solved!!

One of the big mistakes that Thomas makes is confusing saturated fat in the blood vs saturated fat that you eat. When you EAT saturated fat, it breaks down substantially into different components before getting to your blood. Some of the highly cited studies showing saturated fat causing insulin resistance were done by injecting saturated fat directly into the blood of mice (eating carbohydrates). See Dr. Ben Bikman's video on saturated fat for more details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifmeiWoVRo0

It took me a long time too to realize a lot of foods with saturated fats are healthy in the context of low carb