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Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the One Day at a Time podcast. Today's one, three weird things that's happened in the world of nutrition over the years. I'm gonna have to read some of it out because I don't memorize these things. Crazy, crazy.
Speaker 1:And I like going into these things. It makes you realize how far science has come and how we've learned certain things. Like, for example, one of the reasons we have GLP-one drugs now is because of the gila monster lizard. One scientist realized that this lizard could eat for a long time, could go without eating for a long time and wasn't hungry. Looked into it, la la la, one step next to the other, synthesized compound in the saliva of this lizard.
Speaker 1:Then all we know, everyone's on Ozempic. So these crazy things lead to kind of things that we know today, right? So this one was in 1822 Michigan. Basically, musket goes off, guy gets blown in the stomach by a musket, which is like a gun, right? They thought he was dead, but he survived.
Speaker 1:And basically what happened was his stomach had a hole in it, but weirdly, he recovered from this shot, but then he had like a flap on his stomach where he developed this kind of like stopped things leaking out, you could move the flap up and you could basically put your finger in there. So, this guy who was a scientist, this guy called Beaumont, was like, And this is cool. I've always wanted to know about digestion because at this time, I didn't know if it was a chemical reaction that happened, if it was like an engine in there, like how do we digest stuff? Basically, because this guy helped this guy recover, he basically made him say like, Hey, now that you recovered, can I use you in my experiments? Which are weird, but I want to put things in your stomach through the hole, put foods in with a string, a silk string in and out to see how digestion is in stomach, like taking some of the stomach acid out and seeing what that did.
Speaker 1:This guy was doing like seventeen hour fasts and he was like basically being in a weird way tortured if you think about it. So, he just wanted to go home, this man, but he was just this kind of crazy scientist experiment for like, I think, ten years. And basically, I'm going to read this outright. So, in one experiment, he hung beef, raw pork, bread, and cabbage, pulling them out every hour to see what was happening. In another, he used a piece of raw beef as a plug for the hole.
Speaker 1:And five hours later, it was completely digested off as smooth and even as if it had been cut with a knife. This guy, crazy. And so kind of a weird partnership, right? This kind of live in lab. But I learned a lot.
Speaker 1:Learned about gastric acid and how that breaks things down, knew when it was a chemical reaction. You learned certain foods were slower digesting than others, like vegetables and stuff were slower than other things. So learned a lot from this experiment, but definitely would not pass ethical standards today. One, thirty, you weigh in. 1600s, Italian physician Santorio built the weigh in chair.
Speaker 1:There are drawings of this as him sitting in a cage like a chair, dangling from a giant scale, in front of him a full dinner table. Santorio was obsessed with one question. He knew his food and drink weighed more than his, well, his output, his urine and feces. Where did the extra weight go? This guy was measuring his poop frantically, guys.
Speaker 1:His pee and his poo was being measured to the detail. He was on a weighing chair eating foods to see how much weight it was putting him to see if the same weight was coming out of him. So, this for thirty years, some people, the dedication to our knowledge base is insane, right? These people, he weighed everything. He weighed himself before and after sleep, before and after exercise, before and after sex, he weighed his food, he weighed his excretions.
Speaker 1:His conclusion, insensible perspiration, and he was right. We now know it was water lost through breath and skin as a byproduct of metabolism. So basically, he figured out when you do lose weight, when you do lose fat, you actually breathe it out. You sweat it out and breathe it out. It's kind of how it gets utilized.
Speaker 1:And he knew there was something else going on because he was measuring the food in and it wasn't the same way coming out. And then you realized, So well done him. Took him a crazy amount of time weighing himself and doing all that, but for science, well done. And the last one, this is by a guy called Antonin Laurent Lavoisier in the 1700s. Lavoisier wanted to know why we breathe.
Speaker 1:The common theory was to cool the heart in the 1700s. He thought it was more like a fire in the heart, right? So he built the first ever ice calorie meter, sticks a guinea pig in it, and measures the heat output. Basic stuff. Then he upgrades from the guinea pig to his assistant, seals him in a suit made of rubber, then glues a tube of Seguin's lips to pump in pure oxygen to all to measure his metabolic rate.
Speaker 1:My days. This guy is in a sealed rubber suit, breathing through a glue on tube for science. Think about that, his assistant. Anyway, his work was brilliant. In the report about AirPali, he proved the respiration was a slow combustion and advanced the field a bit, no one understanding why we breathe and how it works and the metabolic rate and stuff, so fair play to him.
Speaker 1:But fun well, it's not a fun end to his story. I was reading about it and basically he was also a tax collector and he was in France during the reign of terror, where they guillotined people all the time. In 1794, it was after his trial, he was beheaded by guillotine, and that's the end of his story. And one scientist reportedly said, It took but an instant to chop off his head, and a hundred years was not survived to produce one like it. Now, I don't know really the benefit of these stories are for living day to day, guys, but I just want us to maybe be a bit grateful for the era we live in because those three crazy stories are not that long ago.
Speaker 1:So we've advanced a lot in what we know in science. And I was reading another crazy study about in the sixties, Quaker Oates teamed up with one department of The US and fed autistic child radioactive alts to see whether they would go through the system and whether it was absorbing into them and stuff like that. It came out in the nineties. It was highly illegal, Obviously it was sued. But man, we've some crazy stuff to figure things out.
Speaker 1:The human mind, like how does this work? How does our work? And people didn't know. People didn't know it. The problem is now we're in a world where we know too much facts actually, and then people are just distorting everything on social medias.
Speaker 1:The truth is there, if there's anything you want to know about the body, probably the answer's there now, but it's been distorted by a lot of useless stuff. I saw a video by Doctor. Ids, who's got a master's in nutritional research, he's a doctor, he knows his stuff. Someone rated him the worst person on TikTok for science and some other guy at the top because he says things that sound right, scienceism. And that's where we're at now.
Speaker 1:We're at the place where we think that everything's a lie about science and that all the experts are lying and they want to harm you more than anything. But if you just go back a few hundred years, we didn't even have the answers. And these scientists who wanted to find out and put in these experiments on to advance the field, all of the work being done by all of the generations to build on the body of knowledge is being thrown in the bin because some people are just thinking, no, they don't want you to live. They want to kill you. Don't listen to them.
Speaker 1:And they listen to crazy stuff now. I mean, obviously there was crazy experiments back in the day, but we really have to be happy that we've got so much research and so many topics we're to know about and they're at your fingertips. And I think that's really something to be grateful for today. I was reading more stuff. I remember on the weekend I was talking to a friend about how powerful some marketing campaigns are and how easy it is to really ingrain in our brains certain marketing campaigns.
Speaker 1:We know Kellogg's, I've mentioned it before, Kellogg's, the most important meal of the day is breakfast. That's a marketing campaign by Kellogg's cereal to sell more cereal, which work to treat because we all say breakfast is the most important meal of the day, don't we? We all eat cereal and tie that into breakfast. I always find it weird when I eat the food that's not a traditional breakfast meal, people are like, that's a weird thing, well, you don't have enough breakfast. I'm like, you're having cereal for breakfast.
Speaker 1:Care Logs, Mr. Care Logs, few hundred years ago told you to do it, basically. There's no crazy that I'm deciding to eat something different to what you've just been passed on with by a man in an office one day thinking of a clever slogan to get more people to buy cereal. You know, you start looking to question any things. Diamonds, De Boyers, or whatever the name is, had 60% of the earth's diamonds.
Speaker 1:They had a lot of it. They wanted to sell more diamonds. In 1930s, only 10% of engagement ring were diamonds. Now, percent of engagement ring are diamonds. Why?
Speaker 1:Because of their marketing campaigns. They came up with a marketing campaign, diamonds are forever. And then on top that you should spend two to three months of salary on an engagement ring and diamond one. And now every girl wants an engagement ring made of diamond, 80% purchased engagement rings of diamonds, and men are willing to spend a fortune, even though they were actually abundant and they weren't RF. So easy, so, so easy to fool us, to misdirect us with clever, clever marketing.
Speaker 1:So, yeah, you look into these things. They're very, very interesting, I think. And that's why there's a clip I got sent on, I think some woman was on maybe the, I can't remember what podcast she was on, and she was saying like, Listen, it's not sexy to sell the basics. And it's really hard to tell people the basics because they just turn off, they're not listening, like whatever. And especially when you've got all these marketing geniuses working on different products.
Speaker 1:You've got to remember, you're not up against a product that is just like friendly product. Product has had so much psychological warfare built into it for you to want to buy it. And I've gone through these courses because I've got to build businesses and understand marketing, and I want to use it for the force of good, you know what I mean? But it's very hard and they're like, I've got to find this. I'm like, it's very, very hard to find someone that punches a big punch like some of the things these other people have come up with.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so I'll leave you with that to ponder with today. We run-in information abundance. We've had amazing people over many, many years do a lot of amazing work in science for us to take advantage of it today and take advantage of how we know the human body works, take advantage of we know digestion works and how stress impacts. We know all of this stuff. You are more educated on many of these topics than the most intelligent geniuses hundreds of years ago, because we've had all the humanity help build this body of knowledge, and we can understand it and apply it.
Speaker 1:It's magic. It is magic. This knowledge is magic, and we should utilize it and try not to fall for the gimmicks. I'm going leave you with that. So just to leave you on whatever your goal is, if you're looking to lose weight right now, And actually on this topic, like some people need to be reminded, you don't always have to be losing weight every week of the year.
Speaker 1:You can lose weight for 50% of the weeks of the year, 25% of the weeks of the year you might be maintaining and even 25% slightly gaining. It's kind of normal, right? So don't always feel pressure to always need to lose weight, lose fat. I see one member doing very well at higher ups and competing and stuff and worried about gaining some weight. Gaining fat when you lean isn't a bad thing.
Speaker 1:You know, the body, especially women, you have predisposition to have more fat than men, and it's biological. And this fat helps a lot of things. It's not necessarily like the lower the fat, there's certain levels where it's not better. And sometimes the body just wants a bit more fat on it, and it gets too lean. And it helps normalize a lot of hormonal functions.
Speaker 1:A lot of our systems are stressed, and we're always from a deficit, always high training and stuff. It's not just about like, can we just push up ourselves and get fitter and fitter? We need time to recover and then adapt to the stresses we're putting on. But if we're constantly overwhelming with a lot of stress all the time, it's going to break down, especially psychologically. We shouldn't be afraid of gaining a few pounds.
Speaker 1:Especially now, between now to Christmas, it's like, you can either start like tracking your food and being aware of what you're eating, which is fine, and not put pressure on losing weight, but just track to be aware like a scientist to see, you know, be like that guy. He did thirty years, thirty years measuring his own shit, thirty years sitting on a chair eating and measuring his own shit to figure things out for science, and you don't want to measure some calorie intake by Christmas. Come on, guys. Come on now, advance science a bit. Take some of his oomph and measure what you are consuming until Christmas.
Speaker 1:It's fascinating actually to understand, wow, well, if I'm