Dr. Michael R. Eades received his BSCE degree in Civil Engineering from California Polytechnic University (Cal Poly), Pomona, California and his MD from the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences (UAMS).
After completing training in General Surgery as UAMS, Dr. Eades (along with his wife) founded Medi-Stat Medical Clinics, a chain of general family medicine outpatient care centers in central Arkansas, where he practiced general family medicine for over a decade.
In 1996, Dr. Eades co-authored (with Mary Dan Eades, MD), their first joint book project 'Protein Power', which became a national and international bestseller, selling over 3 million copies and spending 63 weeks on the NY Times Best Seller List.
The Drs. Eades have appeared as guest experts on hundreds of radio and television shows across America. Their work has been featured regionally and nationally on NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, CNN, MSNBC, and CNBC and seen in such publications as Newsweek, the NY Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, and USA Today.
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23 responses to “Dr. Michael Eades – ‘Weight Loss: Calories, Insulin, or a Third Alternative?’”
Excellent! I enjoyed that, thanks.
I love this guy 🙂
Another great talk by Dr Eades; the first person that connected prominent grain eaters to heart disease in the early Egyptians. Perhaps some of the early processed food eaters?
also, the Egyptians were known to consume seed oils as well i.e. sesame oil etc.
@Ky Brancaccio Umm, no. The ‘seed oils’ in question are ultra processed by modern industrial processes. Think 1900’s and later.
The idea that calories have no mass or weight is really fascinating to me. What I need to know is how did the researchers come up with the calories in a tsp of sugar to begin with???
Look up a man named Wilbur Olin Atwater.
20:19 Finally someone is paying attention to units and performing science rather than the hocuc pocus pseudo science of the calories in calories out crowd.
29:46 Yes! A correct diagram that makes perfect sense and has no mumbo jumbo nonsense added in to look “educated”.
Brilliant!!! 👍
Their book, Protein Power Life Plan was the first book I read on nutrition and helped me lose over 100lbs in 2007. I’ve managed to reverse type 2 Diabetes snd maintain a healthy weight and lifestyle due to their teachings.
Thanks for sharing this – fantastic!
Michael Eades is brilliant. Another superb presentation.
Doctors amuse me. I always thought you lose weight through your breathe. I mean, think about it. When you burn gas in a combustion engine, it comes out the exhaust, right? Docs overthink sometimes.
Wow…this was truly fascinating and clearly promising, for the dialog going forward.👍🏆 …made sense to me including question at end regarding the food intake cake carbs verses meat low carb fat….I see it. That was very thought provoking. 👍Great talk!🏆on what could be very foundational solid.
Brilliant!!!!!
There is one huge problem with this theory. We only have roughly 2500 calories of glycogen stores in our muscles and liver because glucose is primary used for fight or flight type activities. Basically anerobic activity. Most of our day to day activity is fueled by fat at around 75%. So we have a limited amount of glycogen stores in our body because glycogen is mostly water. Water is heavy hence why most of our fuel is derived from fat. So his whole diagram about the weight of flour being lighter than meat makes no sense in terms of how the body sees and stores glucose.
🤯🤯🤯 WoW!. Great perspective and message. Looking forward to how this will impact future thought and teachings in this space.
Loved this! Thank you!
Lower your carbs, you lower your insulin, fat can then come out of your fat cells. You’ll eat less because your body is using some of it’s own fat so you aren’t as hungry, and you may even exercise a bit because you have more available energy. You are not losing weight because you are eating less and exercising more, you are losing weight and exercising more because you are releasing/losing fat.
Great new food for thought! Thank you!
Wonderful intellectual discussion and presentation 👏
Great lecture. Appreciated.