I followed every "healthy" eating rule the experts gave us: I cut back on red meat, limited my salt, and swapped butter for margarine. The result? My energy crashed, my hormones were all over the place, and I looked as horrible as I felt.

Today, I’m walking you through why traditional nutrition advice often leads to chronic fatigue and insulin resistance. We are moving beyond the "low-fat" propaganda of the 80s to look at why your body actually needs saturated fat, the technical truth about dietary cholesterol, and why a "whole foods" framework beats a rigid diet every time.

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Timestamps

0:00 Why I Stopped Following Mainstream Health Advice

1:18 Redefining What it Means to be "Healthy"

2:49 Why Standard Diet Advice Often Fails

6:56 The Truth About Fat: How it Became Public Enemy #1

11:12 The Protein Lie: Why Plant-Based Isn't Always Better

14:50 Why Women Specifically Struggle on Plant-Based Diets

16:48 Do Frequent Meals Actually Speed Up Metabolism?

19:55 Salt & Hypertension: Clearing the Confusion

24:29 The 3 Specific Changes I Made to Fix My Health

25:16 Should We Actually Be Afraid of Saturated Fat?

28:17 "Health Foods" I Stopped Eating

29:22 My 2026 Framework for Healthy Eating

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