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5 Foods You Should NOT Eat This Thanksgiving (Doctor Explains)

Name: 5 Foods You Should NOT Eat This Thanksgiving (Doctor Explains)
Uploaded: 2025-11-26T19:15:34.000Z
Duration: 35 min 12 s
Channel: Sean OMara, MD JD, Health & Performance Optimizing

Sean OMara, MD JD, Health & Performance OptimizingNovember 26, 202535m

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Introduction to Thanksgiving Food Choices0:00 #1: Avoid Carbohydrates (Sugars and Refined Starches)4:00 #2: Avoid Processed Foods11:31 #3: Avoid Unfermented Fruits and Vegetables15:00 #4: Avoid Meat or Fat Without Fermented Foods19:00 #5: Avoid Bad Liquids25:00 Recap and Final Advice28:30 Practicing Healthy Eating in Social Settings31:01 Engagement and Sharing31:32 Working with the Doctor32:00 Closing Thanks33:02 Physician Introduction and Expertise33:32 Client Transformations34:02 Invitation to Join34:30

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Dr. Sean addresses requests for guidance on holidays and family gatherings with food confrontations. Focuses on five things to avoid eating on Thanksgiving and anytime, contrasting with advice on what to eat. Typical American Thanksgiving meal includes turkey with many carbohydrates, processed foods, macaroni and cheese, baked goods, breads, sodas, and punch—foods to avoid for a fantastic body.

Your most important asset, physical asset that you got is your body. Your most important asset that you really have is your soul, your eternity, but your body is your most important physical asset.

People protect homes from spills on couches or carpets more than their bodies, yet consume junk. Thanksgiving is a wonderful occasion, not for celebrating bad food. Holidays are when people indulge in turkey, carbohydrates—a minefield for microbiome and metabolism.

Dr. Sean has optimized people for 15 years. Offers free course at growingbetternotolder.com revealing what medical establishment doesn't teach because they're incentivized to keep you sick.

Avoid carbohydrates, especially sugars and refined starches: pastas, potatoes, bread, pies, cookies, desserts, sweet beverages—all concentrated sugars.

Carbs feed wrong gut microbes (candida, klebsiella, streptococcus, anaerobati), causing pathogenicity, chronic inflammation, leaky gut, disrupting epithelial cells. Leads to cravings for more sugar/carbs, visceral fat, fat around heart (epicardial fat), fat in muscle (marbling like ribeye or Wagyu beef), poor oral health (gums, oral pharynx).

Every carb feeds microbes that cause fat storage, pathogenicity, tissue inflammation.

Carbs drive glycation: sugars bind to proteins, stiffening tissue, damaging collagen, mitochondria, creating advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) that age and disease the body.

Aging is a great thing if you're living correctly. You should be getting better. You should look better. You should be living better, performing better.

Fructose (from fruit, beverages) glycates/diseases tissue 10-20 times faster than glucose or sucrose. Leads to more visceral fat, muscle fat, epicardial fat (contributes to heart attacks, atrial fibrillation—cardiologists unaware due to omission in medical school).

Modern constant carb intake (fruit year-round, sweet drinks, desserts, processed grains) differs from seasonal, active ancestral patterns. Lost microbiome that fermented fruit; now overwhelmed by pathogenic microbes from grains/sugars.

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5 Foods You Should NOT Eat This Thanksgiving (Doctor Explains)

Introduction to Thanksgiving Food Choices00:00

#1: Avoid Carbohydrates (Sugars and Refined Starches)04:00

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