Sean OMara, MD JD, Health & Performance Optimizing is live!

Introduction and Topic Overview00:01

Good morning everybody. We're discussing fruit and honey: whether to start including them, eliminate them from your diet, or be aware of insights for future consideration. Sharing personal perspective objectively using MRI data, as individual responses vary (N of 1 experiments). What happens to one person may not happen to another. Track your own body with MRI at baseline and after changes. Enlightened individuals get an MRI to capture baseline and monitor impacts. Use MRI over CT due to no radiation (MRI uses magnetic fields). If you love your current diet, get an MRI to confirm if it's beneficial.

Key MRI Biomarkers to Track03:33

Fat is not all the same: some is super bad (avoid), some super good (want). Focus on these fats, not just cholesterol. Tell your doctor: "I work for you, make me as healthy as possible." Pay cash for MRI if needed; Dr. Sean is an option.

• Back muscles: Should be dark on MRI; white streaks indicate marbling or myosteatosis (fat in muscles), leading to weakness (e.g., unable to get out of chair at 80).
• Visceral fat: Bad, inflammatory.
• Love handles: Subcutaneous fat with two compartments separated by Scarpa's fascia:
  • Superficial subcutaneous fat: Good (like a white-hat horseman, releases adiponectin - protective against inflammation, heart attacks, strokes, obesity, diabetes, neurodegeneration).
  • Deep subcutaneous fat: Bad (behaves like visceral fat and myosteatosis, releases inflammatory molecules; three black-hat horsemen with guns).