Now, when you think of coffee, you might
think of a milky sugary of some sort. You might think latte or cappuccino,
they're everywhere these days. If you think that's normal, sorry folks, you're
wrong. In most other areas of the world cultures actually get the benefits of coffee because
they don't add anything to it, including milk. Now, there's two reasons you're actually
drinking coffee, caffeine that probably obvious. And the polyphenols in coffee,
which may not be obvious. Now, coffee because of the caffeine and because of
the polyphenols helps uncouple your mitochondria. And I've written an entire
book about how important it is for your health to uncouple your mitochondria. Basically make your
mitochondria work less hard and tell your mitochondria to divide and make
more of themselves to share the workload. That's what uncoupling does. And caffeine and the polyphenols in
coffee are both great ways to do that. The other recent evidence is that
polyphenols are actually some of the favorite food of your gut buddies. And the
more polyphenols that you add to your diet, the more diverse and happy
your gut buddies become. So polyphenols are actually a prebiotic. Now, unfortunately, when you add milk to
your coffee, the proteins in milk bind to those polyphenols and they're unfortunately
totally unavailable to feed your gut buddies. They basically become worthless. So, what do you do? Well, let me give you an
example of what not to do. That's actually staring us in front of our faces. There are several cultures that
add milk to tea, like the British. And I trained in London for a year or so. That is something they do. And there are several cultures that
do not like the Japanese and Chinese. Now, only the Japanese and Chinese
actually get a benefit from the tea because the milk proteins have
not bound up the polyphenols. Sadly, the British have lousy longevity and the
Japanese and Chinese have fantastic longevity and one of the factors is the fact that they're
not binding the polyphenols in their teeth. Sadly, it's even been shown that this affects
Binding. the blueberry polyphenols with the
yogurt makes them unfortunately useless. Now, some people will tell you that adding milk helps to prevent staining of their
teeth due to the polyphenol binding. Please do not listen to this. In this case, staining your teeth is a good
thing and if you're super concerned about it, just use a straw or brush your teeth or do an
oil pull after you drink your favorite beverage. Now, America loves coffee. If you must add a creamer to your coffee, use something like coconut milk
creamers or macadamia nut creamers. But buyer beware, macadamia nut
milk and I won't mention the brand now has added pea protein to make it more creamy. And as you probably know, pea
protein is loaded with lectins. However, there are some macadamia creamers, not
milks that don't have that pea protein added. So read the label carefully. Coconut milk is always a great idea because
it will not bind to those polyphenols. Now, I see far too many people trying to be dairy free and adding almond or
oat milk to their coffee. Quite frankly, they're destroying
their gut and their health. Now, why? Because almond milk unfortunately is made from
the peels with the peels and the whole almonds. The peel actually contains a lectin
and as I've written about before, and you'll see in the new upcoming book that
almonds and almond flour are some of the most food sensitive producing compounds
that my patients react to. Sorry about that. But what about oat milk? Well, oats and oat milk have become trendy. But I urge you to go on the internet
and look for a recent youtube posting of a young woman who was wearing
a continuous glucose monitor and went to Starbucks and had a oat
latte and traced her blood sugar levels. They shot through the roof and then a
half hour crash down into the forties or fifties and she literally
had to be woken up from her nap. So this stuff is just pure
unadulterated poison, sugar poison. And as I've released in previous videos,
oats, even organic oats in this country have levels of glyphosate round up and
another cancer causing chemical in them, according to consumer reports in the environmental
working group. It is not a healthy option. If you gotta have a creamer, use a coconut
milk or macadamia nut creamer that virtually has no protein. Or look for a number of
the popular MCT creamers out there, which don't use for the most
part, these problem makers. Now, interestingly enough, as you
know, I spend a lot of time in Italy and I've always been fascinated that the
Italians may have a cappuccino in the morning. But almost all baristas will cut you off from
cappuccinos about 10 o'clock in the morning and only agree to serve you espressos or if you
must have a little foam, a espresso macchiato. Now, a macchiato in Italy is just
a little dollop of foam on the top. It is not the crazy macchiato that
you get at a place like Starbucks, which is this sugary ridiculous drink. So even the Italians understand that they really don't want to mess with a
good thing for most of the day. Now, some of the world's longest living people, people with the longest longevity, actually boil
their coffee all day and then drink it black. Why are they so smart? It turns out that the longer the coffee
grounds are exposed to the water, the longer the polyphenols are taken up in
the beverage, in the coffee you're drinking. So boiling it all day, as strange as it seems, is
actually a really smart idea. Now, the other thing that surprises people
is you're drinking coffee for two purposes, caffeine and the polyphenols. The more dark you brew the coffee
like French roast or dark roast, the less polyphenols are in that coffee. So if you're going to buy coffee for roasting
or for drinking, try to buy the lightest roast. Surprisingly, everybody thinks that the
darker the coffee, the better it is, the more polyphenols, but
it's exactly the opposite. You want light roast. Worst case scenario, medium roast. Stay away from the extra dark roast like French
roast and you'll be doing yourself a favor by giving your gut buddies more of the polyphenols
that you're actually drinking coffee for. And for goodness' sakes, stop putting milk in your coffee. It does not do a body good and it
does not allow your gut buddies to get the benefits that they're looking
for and in turn, they'll help you. So have a cup of Joe but have it black folks. If you're really miserable, add my
new favorite sweetener allulose to it. Add a macadamia or coconut creamer
or add an MCT creamer and you'll get the smoothness you want with all the drawbacks. If you found this video helpful, I think you're
gonna love this one. Lo and behold, people who routinely donate blood, live about seven years
longer than people who don't donate blood.
