Today, Caloriegate is excited to welcome Jonathan Bailor, a nutrition and exercise expert and author of The Smarter Science of Slim and The Calorie Myth. After collaborating with top scientists for over 10 years, analyzing over 1,300 studies, and garnering endorsements by top doctors from Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins, Yale, and UCLA, Jonathan is helping people around the world slim down and enjoy more wellness by teaching them how to eat high-quality food and exercise more effectively.

• Jonathan was a naturally thin person - a good thing! He wanted to gain weight to be big like his brother. He became a trainer and learned traditional calorie counting methods to get body composition results. He worked with clients on 1200 k/cal day diets who struggled to lose weight... while he meanwhile struggled to GAIN weight eating 6000 k/cal/day.
• people were paying him thousands -- they weren't getting the results they wanted. He was tremendously frustrated. What was going on?
• This frustration sent him on a 10 year journey, digging into academic journal articles and talking to experts, to figure out what the truth was. He came to ID the fundamental problem: we've been told to focus on QUANTITY of exercise and food we eat. But the reality is that science shows that QUALITY > QUANTITY
• Core paradigm shift for him = homeostatic regulation of weight, a.k.a. the "set point" -- just like your body automatically regulates your blood sugar, blood pressure, etc, it automatically regulates body composition.
• living organisms attempt to remain in balance - but system can break when you put stuff into it that the body wasn't designed to handle.
• what if we counted every vitamin and mineral in addition to calories? It would be absurd. Why, then, are "calories" the one thing we must manually count? And why when we do count them, we still don't fix our problems - the body fights against us?

• The key is to fix broken homeostasis

• Jonathan's analogy of a "clogged sink" -- brilliant idea. The only time water in a sink will rise and STAY high is when it gets clogged. The focus should be on what's causing clogs (like hair and paper towels), not on the volume of water poured down the sink.

• "standing water" = "standing fat"
• eating less = turning down water; exercising more = bailing more water.
• key is to clear the clog, to fix the black box -- and you do that by eating the right foods and doing the right exercise.
• distinction between SANE and inSANE foods -- how does the body actually work? Satiety; Aggression; Nutrition; Efficiency
• 3 factors determine a food's "SANE-ity"
• "biology isn't a matter of opinion" -- make it simple and tested, so we can be objective about what really works.
• Until you understand the premises that we use to solve our problems, there will be discord. We need common language.
• Our goals are all the same, and most people aren't malicious
• We've tried harder than any other country in the history of the world to get healthier, but instead we've gotten sicker and fatter -- we have to do something different.
• What we've been told is healthy, isn't healthy.
• No mother gives cigarettes to her child, thinking she's making her child healthier.
• We can sell processed garbage, because it's a free country. But people should give their informed consent - that they're not being lied to...
• We're going to see a shift like we have seen with smoking. You can't sell candy cigarettes to children today.
• Everything that happens in your body happens b/c hormonal signals are communicating. The answer to obesity is to "change the hormonal conversation" in your body.
• How can we use exercise to change our hormonal balance? Higher QUALITY exercise is the answer.
• Intensity of exercise -- amount and type of muscle fibers your recruit
• Focus on the deeper Type 2B muscle fibers by doing safe by heavy resistance training. You're actually working more and different muscle fibers to generate lon...