The growing trend of unconventional dietary habits includes the surprising concept of eating sticks of butter as a snack. The speaker breaks down the science behind saturated fats, emphasizing their benefits for individuals following keto or carnivore diets. He explains how these fats fuel the body, support brain function, and maintain cell membrane health, while cautioning against consuming butter in isolation. Instead, he advocates for pairing it with nutrient-rich foods like steak or eggs for optimal results.

This exploration delves into the role of cholesterol in the body and misconceptions around its link to heart health. Listeners are guided through the importance of tailoring diets to individual metabolic needs, balancing macros, and avoiding harmful trans fats. With practical advice on diet optimization and detoxification, the talk offers valuable insights for anyone seeking to improve their health and nutrition.

Highlights of the Podcast

00:04 – Introduction to Eating Butter as a Snack

01:03 – Saturated Fats and Their Benefits

02:53 – How the Body Processes Fats on Keto or Carnivore Diets

04:47 – Saturated Fats vs. Synthetic Fats

06:22 – Detoxification and Weight Loss Considerations

08:33 – Revisiting the Butter Trend

10:38 – Customizing Diets Based on Individual Needs

12:05 – Closing Remarks and Upcoming Series

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:04] I will tell you another radio interview I did today. So I’ve had like five of these. This is so funny. So apparently the thing now is not just carnivore, but eating sticks of butter as a snack. Like, that’s the thing. Like the entire stick of butter. I had not heard about this until they sent me the article on it and it told me that they were going to ask me questions about it. So, yeah, butter is great for you if you’re on a carnivore or keto diet, if you’re on a glucose fed diet, if you’re on a carbohydrate based diet, this is not obviously the metabolic function is totally different. And so it’s so good for you, but it’s not I wouldn’t be doing it. And I don’t eat a stick of butter as a snack regardless. But if you’re on a kito or carnivore diet, it can actually be pretty beneficial. So the fact that your body’s actually running on is. Is this saturated fats, saturated fats, a really great thing for the body to run on.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:03] So you can eat, you can eat the butter and get more energy from it. This is why they tell you, put it in butter, put it in coffee. It’s like that. But the the saturated fats that are in it are great for your lungs, are great for your brain. You know, they’re great for all the cell membranes. So you definitely need saturated fats. But you you need other things like butter has no protein. Butter has very little vitamins, minerals and things like that. So if you want to have butter on something like steak or whatever or on, you know, anything else that you’re consuming, right? If you want to be like, Hey, for a pick me up, I’ll do, you know, some butter, like a tablespoon of butter and a coffee and, you know, do it that way. Great. You know, that’s a great way of doing it. But just sitting around eating a stick of butter, not. Not a great idea.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:01:48] So the the reason I want to make sure we specify the differences here. When you’re on a kito or carnivore diet, the basic function that your body is using for production of ATP, which is the energy, right. It actually runs on calories. Your body is making it out of out of fat and proteins. And so your body makes takes proteins, breaks them down into the skeletal structure and uses that to create sugar for your bloods. Your blood can create ATP on its own, but because you have very low glucose intake, your body is only going to make enough glucose for your blood. And so what you’re going to need to do is run on a different fuel source, which is we use fat, whether it’s stored or whether we’re eating it. And so eating consuming more fat when you’re in a carbohydrate, carbohydrate starved state. So that’s why the keto or fasting, that’s what the Carnivore diet is as well. Now what ends up happening is that your body uses that for fuel, your body makes it into, you know, it is or directly into the system. It is directly used for fuel. It will raise your cholesterol.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:02:53] So don’t freak out about that. You need to look at blood cholesterol levels as metabolic functions, not cardiovascular functions. You know, we’ve known for a long time that the research that was done to prove that cholesterol levels were what the problem was, that research was really poorly done. They excluded, they excluded the countries. Well, the way they did it was there. They looked at a bunch of countries and they’re like, these countries have high cholesterol and these countries have heart attacks. So they two must be correlated. The problem was that they didn’t do they didn’t include any of the countries with high heart attacks and low cholesterol or high cholesterol and low heart attacks. And so the research was specifically chosen to show the link between cholesterol and heart attacks and. You know, as much as I’m a, you know, conspiracy guy, I don’t think that this was some big pharmaceutical conspiracy. It might have been, but I don’t think it was. I think it was just some researcher trying to publish his research.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:03:49] And so he did What a lot of researchers do is they made the data fit their preconceived notion, which is against all science. But that’s what a lot of people end up doing, whether it’s whether they do it consciously or subconsciously, they do it. And so what we have to understand is that the this leads us into a whole different place of, you know, yeah, saturated fats are good for you. The more research we’ve done and actually consumption of set of saturated fats and what they’re used for in the body, we’re starting to learn that, you know, the structure of a saturated fat is really beneficial for cell membranes. So like 50% of all your cells in your body are put together with saturated fat or we’re trying to put them together with saturated fats. A lot of the neurons in your brain are substantially more than 50% of the fats in the outer shell or saturated fats. The coating of your lungs, the surfactant, the reason that your lungs don’t stick together is based on saturated fat as a lot of saturated fat.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:04:47] So saturated fats are extremely important to the person, to your body. And this is just another example of how. Consuming animal products is good for your body because our bodies run in a similar fashion chemically. So the idea that we should start owning it now, if it comes from animals, it’s bad. We need to man is so smart. Man needs to make a completely different synthetic alternative function for your body. That’s be your margin this be your your seed oils to be your hydrogenated oils, you know, things like that. The industrial lubricants that we now uses as fats and the trans fats, that type of thing, those are what’s actually breaking down the body When we talk about bad fats, that’s what we’re talking about. The other problem is, is that if you’re eating a lot of bad fats, trans fats, let’s just use trans fats as the is the kind of arc for bad fats, synthetic fats.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:05:39] So we’re eating these bad fats. You’re going to store bad fats. And the problem is, is that when you store fat, it’s not just pure fat. It has all sorts of things cut up in it, heavy metals, toxic chemicals, metabolic waste, all sorts of things are bound up in that fat. Think of it like this. Your fat, your body kind of uses fat like bubble wrap to bind some of these bad chemicals to keep them away from the rest of the body. So this is the problem, like when we start losing lots of weight really quickly. This is one of the things that if you’re going to use GLP ones, I go to them because Semaglutide, you need to work with somebody who understands detoxification because one of the primary things that happens is people start to get sick. They feel like they’ve got the flu, they start having skin issues.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:06:22] Well, the reason is because if you release a lot of these chemicals from this fat, then you’re going to process them. And so if you’re already burdening your liver by having it process all this fat, it’s not going to process these chemicals out very well. You’re going to have secondary issues. So recognize that the things that we put in our body have short and long term consequences to them. So the more processed foods we eat, more die as we consume, the more chemical trash we allow in the body, the more things we breathe then from our industrialized system that we can’t process out, the more of those things get stored and concentrated inside of us. And so that’s one of those issues, was why over time, especially people gain weight, they start their metabolic system, start shutting down.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:07] So this is one of those things as we start walking back through, you need to take those into account. So lots of nutrients for your liver’s methylated B vitamins in a C is a great one to add in for this the good so it basically helps make your body helps your body make glutathione. I like adding that okay. And I assume just because it allows the blood to flow a little bit faster, opens the blood vessels a little bit and allows for that to clean out and then obviously coffee enemas. But that’s to me one of those things that people who are just really serious about it. So like I do a lot of them, I have a lot of patients I recommend to my patients a lot because coffee enemas are probably the fastest, cheapest, easiest way to clean not only the colon, the hepatic portal system and the liver all in one sitting.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:07:55] And so it’s a really, really great way to do it. Really, the only issue is it takes a little while, like you take you for close to an hour or more to do and properly so. But those are the things we’ve got to try to start focusing on if we’re looking at cleaning the body up. But you know, back to the whole eating a stick of butter thing, you know, don’t eat the whole stick of butter. It’s silly. You know, if you’re if you’re on a carnivore diet and you haven’t eaten anything, let’s say you’re doing A68 fast and you’re like, I’m going to have a stick of butter in the middle of the day. I mean, it’s probably not going to make you fat because your body will thin run on a lot of that stuff, but it’s not going to have you lose the fat and it’s not going to add anything else beneficial.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:08:33] So eating saturated fats, good, but eat it with some stuff, like eat it with a steak. It just means it’s going to steak is a great option to do it. Like I’ll let people put like a slab of butter on top of the steak or with eggs and like that phenomenal idea. Phenomenal idea, especially because you’re eating a lean steak that doesn’t have a lot of fat in it, you know, And you’re happy with where your body fat levels are. You’re throwing extra butter on. There’s a phenomenal idea because butter will help fuel your body. It’ll help structurally rebuild your entire body. It’s a great option. And it’ll it’ll add a lot of good flavor, especially using good stuff like curdle. However, you’re eating a bunch of carbohydrates will end up happening, is that your body will turn to the carbohydrate first to make the takes that glucose and makes ATP out of that. And then when it’s set, once it’s done with that, if it still needs more, then it can kind of shift over and start burning the butter.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:23] The problem you get into is that a lot of people are eating enough carbohydrate function that the body is like, cool, we are way good with the amount of energy we’ve got. Like we’ve got plenty of glycogen stored when the carbohydrate you just gave us was a ton of sugar. And so, you know, we got to process that and so we’re just going to store the butter as fat. So if you’re trying to think of healthy things to do, but you’re not running akito or carnivore diet, don’t be throwing a lot of butter at it. Eat some butter like you’re eating, you know, mostly vegetables and stuff like that. You know, butter would be a great thing to add in. A low glycemic function. But I wouldn’t added if you’re if you’re eating the standard amount of carbohydrates.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:09:59] So this is one of those reasons where you need to kind of sit down with some maybe like what’s the best diet for me, you know, because like I’ve had so many people who’ve tried Carnivore and diners, phenomenal job. Like you look at their diet and like that’s the cleanest carnivore I’ve seen. You’re eating plenty of stuff. And then I feel terrible and like, well, your body, like, we will put a CGM on a continuous glucose monitor and their glucose is in the 60s and 70s and like, well your body doesn’t convert proteins to sugar as quickly as it should. And so that’s just where you’re at. And so we’ll add in low glycemic carbohydrates back right back where they need to be. So like I said, there is no diet for people. There’s a diet for a person.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:10:38] And you can really dial those macros and you’re going to have to completely abandon the calories issue because that’s just silly dial in the macros because each macro corresponds to a hormone and that hormone is actually what runs the body. So really get those dialed in your work resume. You can now learn how to figure that out because if you guys need that dialed in and then clean that up, man, you want to talk about feeling great and being super healthy, Like that’s the way to do it. Yeah, there’s been a lot of people because they’re smarter type. We’ve got to figure out how your glycemic range is, you know, 30 to 50. So stay within this glycine range, eat you know, this many grams a day, you know, spread out like this with these this type of fats and proteins. And that sounds really, really difficult, but it’s not it’s really, really easy to kind of put those things together once you understand where you’re supposed to be.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:11:25] So, you know, getting with something to do that, you know, and usually that takes if we really work at it, we can get it really dialed in in six weeks, you know, meet with, you know, I meet with about 3 or 4 times and we get really dialed in that you should be able to do that if you’re working at it. Sometimes things get in the way and it takes longer. But we’ve been able to dial in pretty much everybody who’s wanted to get those things really, really turned in. But but yeah, so butter’s great. Pretty good coffee. It’s fantastic, especially if you’re only if you’re on the Keto and Carnivore diet. But yeah, you can add it. Just don’t eat the whole stick. That’s not, that’s that’s way silly but you know extremes are usually sleep so.

Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:12:05] All right you guys have a yeah from the 16th to the 31st. We’re doing a podcast here and they’re going to do a bunch of I’m interviewing a bunch of my my professional bodies, dentists, mental health therapists and pediatricians and people like that. And we’re doing a series on how to choose your health care provider health care team for the new year. So check that out. I share that around some of that. We’re going to go deeper on X because I can talk about things like vaccines and old products like anything else. But yeah, tune into that Doctor Chalmers one on X as well and we’ll see you guys there. Thanks for your time.

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