Doc Moe: There are only three foods. There are proteins; there are fats and carbohydrates. That’s all. Our entire food supply is made of that. Everything else is broken down into whatever. All people must realize when they eat something, is this a good protein? If you’re eating animals that are from confined animal feeding operations, or contained, where these animals are shot up with hormones and antibiotics and fed all the wrong kinds of food, then that’s going to make you real sick. Because all that toxicity is in that animal’s fat, and you’re eating it. Over a period of years, you’re going to get sick. The number one thing in my mind would be cancer because of hormones and antibiotics that they put in these animals. If you want to eat protein, buy only quality protein. Some people are vegans, vegetarians, fruitarians, whatever you are, at least find the best quality that you can get.
Phil Faris: What would be an example of best quality. Obviously, there’s a lot of people out there that don’t know what’s good quality and bad quality. I mean, you look at McDonald’s, and you say, “Hey, this has got 12 grams of protein, it must be good.”
Doc Moe: This is where you want to decide where you want to spend your money. Okay, so say if I’m eating 16 ounces of meat a week, or if it’s bison, or chicken, or whatever it is, if it is not from a good source, it’s going to make me sick. I go to the best source I can go. I go to a farmer’s market, and I know the guy there. Every month I go and spend about a hundred dollars on good protein and put it in my freezer. But people don’t know that. They think if they just go into their regular grocery store, they’re buying this stuff.
Once you have this kind of food, you can’t believe the difference in the way it tastes. It’s the same way with fats and carbohydrates. You’re either eating a good carbohydrate or a bad one. Most people are not active enough to eat a lot of carbohydrates because that’s sugar. And the same with fats. Fat’s important because we’ve all been lulled into this thing that’s fats are bad, and, “Don’t eat any fat, and sugar-free this, and fat-free this.” It’s not how the body works. If you go back even thousands of years, human beings were made to eat good fat, but it must be good fat, it can’t be trans-fat or fake fats, which is in all these processed foods.
This is what’s making us sick. The food is making us sick. Then, you go, and you get a symptom, and then you get poisoned by a drug that has nothing to do with making your food better.
Phil Faris: You haven’t fixed the underlying cause, but you make the symptom go away, at least temporarily. But you’re still sick!
Doc Moe: Yes, your symptom’s gone, but you’re still getting sicker. That cancer’s in there; it’s still growing. Or those bones are getting weak; they’re just going to keep getting weaker and weaker. You can’t fix something with poison. It’s impossible. You must fix it with nutrition. One thing I would like to tell people is that everybody should have a blood sugar monitor in their kitchen. Twice a week they should wake up in the morning; it takes 15 seconds to check your blood sugar. And it’s totally painless.
Phil Faris: Why would that help people?
Doc Moe: That would help people because big problems on my blood work panels are pre-diabetic and insulin resistance. In other words, the main fuel that your body is working on, which is glucose or sugar, is not working anymore. So, one of the main predictors of disease is how well your body handles sugar. Because down the line, there are so many things that are impacted by it. It’s just like eating the bad fats. If your body can’t handle sugar, then you’re going to become diabetic. And then, all the diseases that go along with that.
Phil Faris: By monitoring your blood sugar before you have diabetes will give you the red flag early to say, “Whoops, something’s going on in my body, and I’m not handling sugar very well. Maybe I should do something about it.” Is that right?
Doc Moe: Absolutely. That’s the bottom line right there. If your blood sugar, you wake up in the morning, your blood sugar’s 105, you better start getting sugar out of your house because you have a problem. And by the way, it’s so addicting, Phil, that most people that are sugar addicts, myself included, I can’t have sugar in my house because I’ll eat it. Not even if it’s a Kind Bar, with three grams of sugar. Most Americans are addicted to processed food and sugar.
Phil Faris: People get confused about how much sugar they’re putting in their body. There are so many ways sugar is listed on labels. The same can be said for as well as artificial sweeteners.
Doc Moe: If it tastes real sweet and has more than five grams of sugar in it, don’t eat it.
People eat yogurt, and they think it’s good for them. It’s like eating a Snickers bar. There’s like 25 grams of sugar in their yogurt. But they think because of the advertising that it’s okay, or they need a probiotic, or whatever. But sugar is insidious; it’s in everything.
