This Nutrition Expert Is FED UP With Dietary Dogma & Knows What You Should REALLY Eat (Including The 2-Day Eating Plan That Will Change Your Gut For More Fullness!) With Joel Greene

Ben Greenfield

Sep 28, 2024

Episode description

In this episode with repeat guest Joel Greene, you’ll get to explore a unique dietary pattern inspired by nature's rhythms—foraging, fasting, and feasting. Joel introduces a powerful two-day cycle that mirrors ancient eating habits, alternating between foraging and an "amplified fast" to optimize body renewal. Along the way, you'll discover how this method boosts GLP-1 for appetite control and balances nutrient intake with smart food pairings. Plus, Joel shares tips on using pre-dinner shakes, resistant starches, and even cold plunges to enhance satiety, fitness, and overall health, while highlighting the crucial role of nitric oxide and a healthy microbiome.

Joel is the creator of Veep Nutrition, the world's first commercially available program based on targeting gut communities to affect health and body composition. His system has been used by some of the nation's largest employers, including major cities and hospitals and featured on Dr. Phil Show storylines.

He is the author of The Immunity Code: The New Paradigm for Real Health and Radical Anti-Aging. Joel has devoted over 50 years to the pursuit of health, nutrition and anti-aging. He was training with intervals in the 1970s, taking MCTs in the late '80s, following keto in the early '90s, and targeting AMPK by 2009. At age 55, he is a 100 percent natural athlete and uses no ergogenic aids while working out (on average once per week) and eats whatever whenever.

Get ready for a rich and informative episode that rethinks modern dietary practices by embracing ancestral wisdom and cutting-edge science. Whether you're interested in diet hacks, longevity, or groundbreaking nutrition insights, you won't want to miss this episode!

Full Show notes: https://bengreenfieldlife.com/immunitycode

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Mindsip insights from this episode:

Mimic natural dietary rhythms with foraging and feasting days

Mimic natural dietary rhythms by having a 'foraging' day of lower-calorie plant foods followed by a 'feasting' day with higher-calorie animal proteins and intense exercise.

#exercise

#nutrition

Avoid carnivore diets to maintain gut diversity

Carnivore diets can reduce the diversity of Bifidobacteria, which are needed to control Akkermansia levels and prevent potential gut lining issues.

#carnivore

#gut

Optimize gut microbiome to handle oxalate-rich foods

There are over 500 species of bacteria in the gut that can break down oxalates, meaning an optimized microbiome can handle oxalate-rich foods like leafy greens.

#microbiome

#oxalate

Limit saturated fat intake to reduce cardiovascular risk with age

As we age, hyperactive NOX enzymes in our blood vessels can turn saturated fats into harmful oxysterols, which the body struggles to clear, increasing cardiovascular risk.

#saturated-fat

Embrace vilified foods to balance your diet

The food group vilified by one diet camp is exactly what you need to offset the toxicities of your own 'hero' food.

#nutrition

Monitor neurotensin levels to prevent weight regain

The hormone neurotensin, which throttles food reward, drops after fat loss and is the number one predictor of regaining weight.

#hormones

#weight-loss

Stimulate satiety with a pre-dinner GLP-1 shake

A pre-dinner shake with whey protein, honey, and 200mg of stevia can stimulate the satiety hormone GLP-1, as stevia's effect is enhanced when combined with sugar.

#GLP1

#satiety

Utilize palatinose for effective weight loss

Palatinose is a sugar with a very slow glycemic yield similar to raw oats that has been shown in research to help with weight loss.

#sugar

#weight-loss

Take a cold plunge before workouts to boost endorphins and testosterone

Doing a cold plunge before exercise is preferable as it can boost endorphins and testosterone without the potential anti-inflammatory drop seen with post-exercise cold exposure.