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: Episode 1041 – Tech and finance expert Tucker Goodrich joins Vinnie this Friday, and the two chat Tucker’s experience in tech and finance, his weird ailments and adoption of a LCHF diet, studies with seed oils, the bad effects of Omega 6’s, and more!
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TUCKER GOODRICH
- Tucker spent 30+ on Wall Street
- Last 20 years, chief tech officer for a NYC hedgefund
- Largely self taught
- Doesn’t have a degree in this stuff!
- Ran billions of dollars through systems he built himself
- “We’re all wingin’ it” on Wall Street
- A barefoot runner
- Has looked into the unhealthiness of seed oils and other omega 6 fats
- Check out his blog on Low Carb, Omega 6’s, and more here
LOW-CARB CURE
- Tucker had a stroke-like thing years ago
- Was 38 years old at the time
- He is now 50
- Things started coming back
- All the stroke tests came back negative
- Nobody knew what happened!
- Had a few attacks after that, as well
- He had good genetics so he was confused
- Ate to the food pyramid
- Ditched sugar at 18 or 19
- At that point, he tried to change his lifestyle
- Exercised a bunch, but didn’t lose weight
- Committed himself to no carb
- He had no appetite for it
- After 5 or 6 days, after he had a sandwich with whole-wheat grains, he thought he was having a heart attack
- He lost 20 lbs from doing this for 2 months
- 185 to 168
- He de-aged, too!
- Why did he stop craving carbs when he stopped using seed oils?
- There is a series of studies that fed mice varied amounts of seed oils
- More seed oils, fatter mice got
- Fats in seed oils convert to 2 AG which is like THC
- Literally gives you the munchies
- There is a series of studies that fed mice varied amounts of seed oils
- He wanted to reconcile how some countries are high carb but still thin (Japan)
- Seed oils were a big answer
- Omega 6 fats are a concern