Apple Cider Vinegar MYTHS & Potential Benefits

Next question is from George YRX, myths and facts on apple cider vinegar. I'll tell you the truth about that stuff. It's great for a baby back ribs. I used it last night, so I was, I was making ribs last night and I actually use that to hydrate the ribs. So that's all I use it for. You know what it's, you know what it is. It, is it got some health benefits? Yeah, but it's not, it's nothing special. Um, it's not like some miraculous. So for a second there, it was like super popular. It still kind of is. It's become, I don't know who started it. Was it a Tim Ferriss Ben Greenfield type of biohack thing to have one thing, the two tablespoons to start their day off every day, right. To, to set your gut right and balance it out or some bullshit. Like that's been like the trendy thing to do. Yeah, it's got some, I guess some antimicrobial properties. And, but you know what though, if you have, um, for some people I know who have gut issues, it's terrible. Like for me, if I, if I have apple cider vinegar on an empty stomach, it's going to, I'm going to kind of have a good time. Oh really? It messes you up. It does. It does feel good on me. So I have, I have taken it before like that where I, cause I'm trying to remember where I saw that first. Um, but it's not like it's not noticeable. Yeah. It's not like, Oh my God, that's all I had to do. There is, there is no fitness stuff. There is no miracle food. You know what? I'll use another example just to kind of illustrate this for a second there. Remember the acai berry? The grows in the Amazon or goji berries. Like, Oh my God, they're so incredible. They're chock full of antioxidant. It's like what? One degree different than a blueberry. It's literally exotic. It's literally like the same thing. Did you know that? You know, the truth is blueberries is bad. No, acai, acai berry was, became one of the case. They made, uh, it's cause we didn't know what it was. Nobody, there was like a few places in the world. You could find these acai berries or whatever. And you had companies like Mana V and some of these that they bottled it all up and talked and promoted all about Brazil or antioxidants and try to claim that cured cancer and all these people. And it's like, literally you could go have a half pound of blueberries and get the exact same benefits. You want to know what's funny here? Okay, this is true now. Again, there is no miracle food, but let's just say that all the common foods that we now we're not familiar with and we just discover them. So scientists just discovered all the common foods that we eat and they stumble upon the chicken egg and red meat. You know what those two foods would be labeled as superfoods. Red meat literally could sustain you and provide you with every single essential nutrient. Now I'm not saying it's ideal by the way. Okay, so let me back up for a second. I'm not saying you should just eat meat. I know there's people out there with the carnivore diet, whatever. No, that's not ideal. But what I am saying is red meat will, you will not, you'll probably not have a nutrient deficiency and you'll survive for a long time or maybe forever. Part of the essential macronutrient classification. Yeah. Same thing with eggs, like a perfect protein and the yolk is chock full of all these incredible things. But because we're so familiar with these foods, I couldn't come out and say, you know, steak, the super, like everybody's like, well I eat steak all the time. Just like I couldn't come out with blueberry juice and sell it like they did with acai juice. Doug, are you, aren't you an apple cider vinegar guy? I did a long time ago, but not recently. Is that what it is? It just, is it supposed to just promote good gut health? Isn't that like the big thing from, I mean, yeah, and they'd say it's anti-inflammatory and you know, you could boost like extend your life or something like that. I didn't know. I think people use it for dieting as well. Yeah. Oh really? Yeah. I mean, drink, I mean it's just, you're probably just drinking more is what you're doing. You put some in your water. Is it considered like a prebiotic or anything? Is it following a cat? No, it's got some antimicrobial properties, uh, so it could kill, you know, certain bacteria. Bad bacteria, right? Yeah. And it's supposed to populate good bacteria, kill bad bacteria. That's all it really is, right? Yeah. Yeah. But it's not, again, there's no, that much different than eating like fermented food. Is it that much? Uh, you know, regular vinegar I think is kind of similar. So regular vinegar, balsamic vinegar has got some health properties if we're going to compare the two. Right. But you know what it is is what they'll do is they'll take, and they'll do this often with foods is they'll, they'll take one thing and then they'll extrapolate and add like, Oh, okay. So the antioxidant capability of this is this. And then they'll, you know, and then they'll say, Oh, that's what they do with the acai berries. They took out that like, Oh, these super antioxidants. And they go, well, what are antioxidants good for? Antioxidants are good for X, Y, and Z. Therefore this juice helps cure X, Y, and Z. Exactly. Like, Whoa. Yeah. You want to know what this, you don't want to know what the shitty truth is. And this is backed by lots of studies. Here's the shitty truth. And I know it's a lot more complex than this, but if you're eating in a calorie deficit, a lot of what you eat doesn't really make that big of a difference. Now I know that people are going to hammer me for this. And there's, I totally admit it's a lot more complex than this. And what you eat determines how you feel. And there's essential nutrients and essential macronutrients. I get all that. So I'm not saying that that's not true, but like sugar is a good example. High sugar diet where your calories are below maintenance. You're at a weight loss diet. That's high in sugar. Guess what that sugar does to your body? Nothing. It doesn't do to your body what a high sugar, high calorie diet does to your body where you see less inflammation and, you know, increased, you know, cancer risk and all that stuff. So this is true for a lot of things. That's like lanes. Number one mission is to get that message across to people was that in, in the context of low calorie, all this bullshit that people try and say about doesn't make that big of raises insulin. And this is the cause of obesity epidemic and Coke will make you fat and sugar will make you fat is like, dude, in if show me a study that shows you in a calorie deficit, all those adverse effects that you're talking about. It doesn't. And the, and the, and the there's scientists that will do this on themselves. I ate a fast food diet and I lost 30 pounds and improved all my blood, you know, markers or whatever. Now here's why it's more complex. It's going to make your appetite. You're going to be hungrier. You're probably going to feel like ----. You're going to crave more food. It's not sustainable. So there's a lot more to what I'm saying. And you can't tell me that. Okay. Let's say you have a, your calorie maintenance is 2000 calories, right? So calorie deficit would be 1500. Okay. So if you're eating 1500 calories, so to eat 1500 calories of a balanced diet, proteins, carbs, fats from whole foods versus someone eats 1500 calories from mint chip ice cream, right? You can't tell me that the person that is eating the whole food diet is not going to have other health markers or other benefits that the person in the calorie deficit, of course, where this, you got to still have your essential nutrients and all that, of course. But I'm saying, let's say you have two lower, you know, two diets that are below maintenance and calories. Okay. One of them is 150 grams of carbohydrates. The other one is 150 grams of sugar, which is also carbohydrates, right? So both carbs are the same. One sugar, one isn't. If they stay that way, you're not going to see that much of a difference in terms of the person's health and stuff. Now, how they feel, I will argue is different. You eat 150 grams of sugar. Yeah. Your appetite's probably going to be a little bit different up and down. Your energy might be a little different and that's important. We should consider all that. But my point is cravings too, right? That's what I mean. My point though, is that there's this whole superfood thing. Now there's definitely foods that don't have tons of value except for maybe the palatability. Like I can argue that watermelon versus avocado. Yeah. Or a Twinkie, you know, like it doesn't have, it's got calories, but I mean, what other value, but these, this whole superfood argument, um, a lot of it is just, they'll take something that a lot of people don't use that seems exotic and then they'll spin it and market it and sell it to you. And because you've never used it before, because it sounds weird, you know, it's the goji berry, it's noni juice, it's whatever. Now you're going to want to try it. Now that all being said, I don't see, there's any, there's any, no harm no foul in you taking two tablespoons of apple cider vinegar in the morning. If it makes you feel good and you notice it makes your gut feel good, it's a very inexpensive product. Or you can just hydrate your ribs like I do with it. So what do you do? You soak them in it and then? Well, yeah. Like when you do a long smoke like that, like every hour, couple hours I'll go in there and I'll hydrate the meat so it doesn't dry out completely. And apple cider vinegar is really good for that. Just the apple and the flavor mix really well with it. That's all. Aside from gaining 20 pounds of muscle, I don't, I didn't notice anything on it. Anyway, uh, just kidding. Hey, if you enjoyed that clip, you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe.