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howdy everyone Chuck here on a Saturday. bringing you another fine selection from. our back catalog is yogurt a miracle. food this is from November 2018 and uh. you know yogurt's pretty good for you. you guys it's something you should be. eating uh perhaps even a miracle food do. we answer that question is yogurt a. miracle food perhaps listen in and find. out right. [Music]. now welcome to stuff you should know a.

production of iHeart. [Music]. Radio hey and welcome to the podcast I'm. Josh Clark there's Charles W Chuck. Bryant Jerry and this is the smooth. creamy Tangy edition of stuff you should. know fruit on the. bottom you don't like yogurt or fruit on. the bottom yogurt I don't like fruit on. the bottom oh okay but you do like. yogurt yeah I don't like any of the the.

the fruity ones mhm I mean they taste. fine mhm but I think they're just like. loaded with sugar generally and. sweeteners and things well yeah it's not. fruit it's like jam on the bottom jelly. you know do you like yogurt compost yeah. I love yogurt as a matter of fact while. we were researching this I was like I I. can't I can't stand it any longer I got. up and got some yogurt do you eat it. regularly uh not as much as I should. although I recently did a blood test in. my protein was low strangely so I'm.

going to start eating. more. okay what SC like you sounded like y. believe that when I see. it no no no I was just curious what your. yogurt intake was what about you you eat. it every day no I should like I don't. eat yogurt much I'm constantly slapping. it on my kids's baby plate M and she. loves it and Emily eats it and I'm like. I need to eat more yogurt I mean I like. it I just don't think about it much.

yeah what I do is sometimes in a like a. hotel or anywhere where they have the. sort of build your own parfait thing yes. throw a little granola yeah or granula. in there gross maybe a little bit of. fresh fruit and mix that all up and I. love it and I'm like I should do this. every day because as we will find out uh. the benefits of eating yogurt which are. sort of up in the air as far as like. hard facts mhm but it seems like sort of.

regularly eating yogurt is kind of one. of the keys to getting the health. benefits that's that seems to be. generally agreed upon and not like uh oh. I ate yogurt today that means I'm 8%. healthier right yeah that's not that's. not how it works yeah although I think. it is like just temporarily you're doing. better for a second than you were before. but you know what El yeah let me give. you a little hint buddy find a local. beekeeper and I mean local like no more. than 5 six miles from your house okay.

got one okay great take a little that. honey drizzle it on some nice full fat. Greek yogurt MH sit back and enjoy you. will be that's all you need that's it if. you want to add some other stuff like. some sliced almonds or whatever on it. that's fine too or fruit and granola I. find really good raw local honey and and. Greek yogurt it's just like you're. eating health is what it feels like yeah. I mean I like the taste on its own yeah. but you get the you know health benefits.

from that honey too you do yeah I mean. throw some uh throw some broccoli in. there throw a little broccoli in there a. Tonka. truck anything you can find just put on. your yogurt and start eating and we. covered uh we covered some of the stuff. in our uh probiotics cast yeah a lot. from uh how many years ago is that four. 2014 okay four years ago but uh I I felt. like yogurt deserved to live on its own. I was incredulous at first but I I came.

around actually I I I was like Chuck's. right so uh let's get into it um I guess. we should talk history yes because. yogurt is one of those kind of great. accidental. discoveries uh that that came from many. many years ago kind of like a beer and. stuff like that because people you know. they they think it's pretty clear that. at some point many thousands of years. ago in the Middle East people were trans. Orting stuff like milk maybe like a.

goat's milk or whatever probably goat. and sheep first yeah and they were. transporting that and whatever. disgusting animal bladder or whatever. they used right to transport liquids and. things like that mhm they got there and. they were like ah this stuff has turned. it's it's it. stinks um but you know we're uh it's. it's a thousand years from being uh from. being civilized Humanity so let's just.

try this stuff all right like who's. going to who's going to care or no. somebody Clark me some honey yeah so. they clarked themselves a little honey. mhm they ate a little bit of it it was. you know thicker now and it had this. kind of sour Tangy taste yeah and one of. those ancient Middle Eastern people said. hey this is not bad. right and I think there's this guy named. um Adam masovic who wrote a post on the. salt um that who basically said it's not.

an it's not entirely an understatement. to say like civilization was in part. built on yogurt that was pretty neat it. really was because so all of a sudden. you have milk and everybody at the time. was like uh I can feed this to my kid. but I can't I can't keep milk down I. poop all over my saddle basically while. we're out riding um because this is the. Mongolian steps right um but I have. found that this weird Tangy version the.

sour version of milk that you call. Yogurt like I that doesn't affect me at. all it's the weirdest thing and so as. more people were able to eat this stuff. which is full of nutrients lots of. calories and has a tantalizing. taste people kind of gathered around the. areas that had yogurt and other stuff. too he points out like cheese and things. like that and bread and beer it's. possible beer was the real reason that. civilization was started um but the the.

the yogurt played no small role in that. it in its fermentation it is transformed. for that's something from something that. people who are lactose intolerant can't. take to something that people who are. lactose intolerant can actually eat and. benefit from yeah so they had that. conversation and at the end of it one of. them said also is it weird that we're. humans and we're drinking animal milk as. adults and they I went don't worry about. that yeah they said stop thinking. yourself is more than an animal you're.

an animal animal. so um it really thrived uh in the Middle. East they they love the stuff like you. were talking about um it's actually a. Turkish word yogurt is MHM um and it. took a little bit longer to catch up to. uh Europe um I think at the end of the. 19th century is really when it started. to spread wide in Europe and then and. here in the United States it took to. like the middle half of the 20th century.

when it was mass marketed by Dannon for. and it's not like we didn't eat yogurt. at all but definitely not like it I mean. in the Middle East it was it's not like. oh we'll just eat some of this for. breakfast with fruit I mean it's in a. lot of great great dishes and dips and. sauces and is is kind of one of the. Staples of a lot of Middle Eastern food. so they're doing it right yeah and so. the Middle East seems to be the the home. of yogurt it was the home of. civilization and they think that. yogurt's as oldest civilization maybe a.

little older um and turkey seems to be. some sort of like kind of fulcrum for. the spread of yogurt throughout the. world yeah and in fact the word yogurt. is a Turkish word it comes from yogur. maach which is Turkish meaning to. thicken and turkey the fact that we in. the English-speaking World call it. yogurt suggests that it was the Turks. who introduced the the West to yogurt. but they're also pretty sure that um.

turkey was the ones who introduced. yogurt to India as well and the. neighbors the neighboring areas around. Turkey like Bulgaria Georgia um. usbekistan Kazakhstan Iran like all. these areas are pretty famous for eating. a lot of yogurt and even having their. own kind of yogurt um or their own. version of it but something about turkey. really seems to be the the like the. pivot point for the spread of yogurt in. the world yeah and I can't find oh yeah.

here it is uh even today it says that uh. Turkish people eat about and this was. like four or five years ago M uh 282. cups of yogurt per person per year which. is definitely more than in the United. States well it was at the time we've. since caught up quite quite a bit I. think yeah I think that stat for us is. poundage though right yes how many. pounds of yogurt do we eat so we ate 4.8.

billion pounds of yogurt in. 2017 what 4.8 billion pounds in the. United States alone and yeah we're not. like the the the highest yogurt eating. um civilization on the planet by far but. that's like. about 15 pounds per. person no 13.7 pounds per person um. which really it sounds like a lot but. yogurt weighs a lot so it's actually. just 30 six servings per person per year.

in the United States wow so that's yeah. in Turkey 282 cups yeah that's a lot. that's a lot yeah so Chuck like you were. saying like yogurt didn't really make. its way over to the states until the. 20th century right yes and I think it. was and you said it was Dannon that. brought it here that's right in the. Bronx yeah they moved their operations. from um Spain Barcelona I think to the. Bronx which is really weird because like. America was not not a yogurt eating.

culture at all no pun intended not not. really no but they brought yogurt to. they said where in the world would be. the hardest place to get a foothold. business-wise let's move our operations. there so they moved to the Bronx and. then just started slowly working on. America and it wasn't until they figured. out the fruit on the bottom thing that. America said oh okay we like this it's. sweet it's not some disgusting Tangy. sour milk we can put like compost and.

jam in it and it's good and that is when. it started to take off and basically you. have Dan and yogurt to thank for. bringing yogurt to America and it wasn't. until what maybe 2010 or 13 before we. finally started to shed like all the. extra Gunk and actually get into yogurt. the way that the rest of the world's. been eating it for thousands of years. with like what we call Greek yogurt the. way the good Lord intended that's right.

you want to take a break yeah cool all. right well we're about to take a break. and we're going to come back with more. [Music]. yogurt all right so we talked about. about probiotics in the episode on.

probiotics yeah it was a good episode if. I remember correctly it was so uh as a. as a brief recap uh. probiotics uh in food uh they're like. culture concentrates in in some in some. foods uh sometimes they're in dietary. supplements uh sometimes they're in. things like uh yogurt and cheese uh. fermented dairy products MH and it's. they're usually bacteria uh sometimes. you can uh yeast canect as a probiotic.

but when you generally think probiotic. you think of good bacteria uh used to. ferment milk um and then sometimes with. things like yogurt they add in other. bacteria on top of that right which is. great just add some more bacteria as. long as it's the good kind basically. yeah but sometimes they add bacteria. that's not considered probiotic too. right I I looked that up I couldn't find. what they were talking about unless it's. actually a. probiotic bacteria that just hasn't been.

shown to be. probiotic right at this at this time. that's all that's all I could get from. it so and with probiotics just a kind of. a quick overview it's just basically. like it's beneficial bacteria that's in. your gut and when you're born you're not. born with your own microbiome I think. you get it from breast milk and you get. a coating of it as you exit your. mother's vagina okay so you you develop. it pretty quick but it's kind of like. gifted to you um very shortly after.

birth yeah you build it out exactly so. um as you're as you age and live like. some stuff dies some stuff gets pooped. out of you but it's constantly. reproducing but the point of probiotics. whether it's in pill form or whether it. is a Prebiotic like a banana something. that can feed probiotic bacteria or if. it's yogurt is to replenish the bacteria. this good healthy bacteria that lives in.

your gut and does all sorts of things. from help you produce serotonin that. that stabilizes your mood to um. digesting your food and moving poop. through your intestines faster all the. amazing thing I also want to direct. people we did a microbiome episode which. is one of the all-time Most Fascinating. episodes we ever did do you remember. that one the poop cast no no the one. that's our microbiome oh right. that it was just.

on how how completely made up I think. like 90% of our cells are actually not. ours they're they're part of the. microbiome of bacteria that live on us. and interact with us and that's what. what you're doing when you're eating. yogurt is bringing in some friends some. reinforcements to the good bacteria. that's the point of probiotics yeah so. in order to um and we'll get into the. the health effects here in a minute but. in in order to get that bacteria and.

have it survive uh through gastric acid. I mean it's a it's a inhospitable. environment down there in your gut and. in your. intestines uh well first of all they do. think that yogurt might be just a good. vehicle for that period because it's. thick and goopy and it acts like a. buffer against that acid but you also. have to have a lot of it uh because a. lot of it is going to die off so there's. uh there are organizations that say. minimum standards and one of them is the.

national yogurt Association of the. United States right you don't want to. mess with them trust me they'll break. your legs just for even looking at them. yeah they are they are tough tough. individuals they really are. collectively uh so I believe the. requirement is 100 million bacteria per. gram mhm uh if you want to have that. seal on it and this is if if you want to. eat yogurt I mean if you want to just go. get a stick of Gogurt and Shove It Down. down your throat and get a sugar rush.

sure have at it sure but if you actually. want that live and active culture seal. stamped on your yogurt uh then you're. going to have to have a 100 million. bacteria per gram right and it has to be. specific bacteria too the FDA decreed in. 1981 that if you're going to sell. something in the US as yogurt it has to. contain lactobacillus bulgaricus and. strap tockus thermophilus we'll talk a. little more about those later but you.

have to have those and then you have to. have them in amounts of at least 100. million individual bacterium of those. strains per gram of yogurt or else buddy. that ain't yogurt that ain't yogurt that. ain't your mom's yogurt that ain't your. dad's yogurt it's nobody's yogurt no not. as far as the fda's concerned if you. thought the national yogurt Association. was tough boy howdy the FDA will mess. you. up. uh so you want to talk a little bit.

about how they make yogurt yes but first. get this so you know you were talking. about how so how yogurt uh or bacteria. can some can survive in the gut which. can be inhospitable I was like how how. do they do that some are just coated in. like a polysaccharide that's fine that's. boring but some bacteria actually have. pumps that are designed to pump acid out. of the bacteria so when it's floating. around in this bath of stomach acid and.

juice and digestive enzymes it's just. pumping it out and keeping just happy as. a lark but it has like a a mechanism for. getting rid of the acid that that should. otherwise kill it I just thought that. was. fascinating man Life. Sciences what else what's your other big. one Earth Science Earth Science Life. Science just science basically yeah yeah. it all floats my boat what kind of. science do you hate h H.

psychology no I find it fascinating okay. I don't know man uh I don't think I hate. any. science yeah no I don't hate any science. see their kids no science is hate worthy. no don't hate science be like. Josh Clark yourself some Josh weird say. spun my head right around did you see. that I did that was strange uh but it is. October it is the month of exorcism. it's the dancing headstones best season.

what was the name of the band I can't. remember oh man we could have just buzz. marketed that guy so well all right when. you're making yogurt like you said it. was many many many years ago it was just. this curdled milk and they were like if. you hold your nose tight enough you can. still eat this stuff and it doesn't. really upset your stomach that much uh. but if you're going to manufacture. yogurt what you want to do is separate. the the milk uh into the cream and the.

skim and this is automatically going to. get a thicker texture going uh because. it's got a lot of fat and uh it's evapor. it's evaporating some of the liquid. anyway during this process right but. then they might say you know what let's. add some milk powder or some gelatin we. really need to get this to the good. yogurty consistent right uh consistency. that everybody loves so now it's pretty. thick at this. point and then they pasturize it and we. should do a show on pasteurization and.

maybe even. homogenization okay uh maybe they could. go together I think so because. homogenizing just basically means. stirring yeah pasteurization that's a. there's a lot to that a lot of history. and everything but homogenize I think. they've really churched that up it's. just stirring something yeah to make it. more homogeneous right it's pretty. amazing the word fits perfectly it. really does uh so these high high. temperatures that you get through.

pasteurization uh is going to help make. it even more thick but you don't need to. like blast it at 300° for 8 hours or. whatever no you don't want to do that. it's it's kind of amazing actually that. it only takes about 15 seconds at. 171° fahit and that'll kill off the. bacteria that you don't want there so. you know how both of our schedules are. just insane right now yes I was starting. to feel a little worn down like just the. tiniest tickle in my nose and I was like.

no I'm not having it so I busted out the. old nety pot yeah well I got the double. purified tap water out of my water. purifier and then I put it into a pot. and boiled it for 5 minutes and stuck. the nuty pot in and left it in for. another 5 minutes boiling then I took. that out boiled more water for 5 minutes. and then finally after it cooled I put.

it through my nose and I looked it up. I'm like is that Overkill is it not. enough it's Overkill it is overkill from. what I saw what you really need is to. once the water gets to a boil something. like. 99.9999% of any pathogen is dead yeah. but the I think I can't remember who. recommends it maybe the CDC somebody. recommends at least letting it boil for. a minute just to be safe. and then if you're above 2,000 ft over.

sea level you want to boil it for 3. minutes cuz there's a lower temperature. required for boiling at higher altitudes. right so really it's a a boil it for a. minute is even Overkill but I'm going to. stick with my five minute boiling thing. I still don't boil it at all dude do you. know what would happen if you got just. the off chance of a brain eating amoeba. in there no I know but I also don't like. get scared walking around during a. lightning storm I don't either and I. just feel like it's about as.

unlikely okay all right well then. promise me this uhhuh you will never. Netty Pot with water that you just got. out of a stagnant Creek okay all right. is that a deal at least sure but can I. still pour that into my open wounds no. okay just steer clear that water all. together all right fair enough all right. uh all right so at this point Josh has. boiled his water for 20 minutes my milk. let it cool for an hour. poured it through his nostril.

system this is how I make. yogurt uh no after they boil uh for 15. seconds or heat that milk up for 15. seconds M um you're your it's it's your. cream is separating at that point just. naturally from the milk because of the. temperature that's when they Stir It Or. homogenize the milk and create that. consistent consistency because you don't. want anything that has a consistency of. of cartil. no you don't so hom homogenization is.

just stirring it up so you're breaking. up the flat the fat globules so that. they're spread evenly throughout the. milk which it just means it's not lumpy. milk it's smooth textured milk and the. same thing I guess that translates to. the yogurt it makes the yogurt smoother. more consistently smooth because it's. homogenized milk that it's made from yes. okay bam homogeneization we just did the. homogenization episode that could have. been a short stuff it could have I don't. even know if I would have qualified for. that well we're going to start releasing.

one called shortest stuff it's just like. 45 seconds long that is our future uh so. here's the most important part you think. your yogurt's done but it's not because. if you want it to be yogurt you're going. to have to pour some good bacteria back. in there mhm and uh this is like it kind. of depends on which company you work for. what kind of yogurt they want but uh. they're going to select their bacteria. accordingly dump it in there yes that I. mean this is where the actual all you.

have is hot milk up to this point hot. homogenized milk it's when you add that. bacteria in to this warm milk that it. starts to happen and you want to let the. milk cool a little bit first because you. know if it's too hot it's going to. they're going to die but when it cools. to something like I think 115 degrees. Fahrenheit or lower then you can add. your bacteria and they're going to start. to go to work and all they're doing is. basically fermenting the milk into.

yogurt that's it yeah which is why if. you're lactose intolerant you can still. tolerate yogurt because that bacteria. gets in there metabolizes that milk. sugar the lactose and and poops out. lactic acid and you can lactic acid is. fine on the body yeah so not only this. is just amazing this is when I started. to get jazzed by the yogurt not only. does it break down lactic a or lactose. into um other kinds of sugars that are.

more digestible by the human body the. these these bacteria actually deposit in. your gut when you eat yogurt they. deposit an enzyme that helps you break. down the lactose that is found in there. so they break it down themselves and. then they help you break it down too. which is why people who are lactose. intolerant can still usually eat yogurt. yeah unless you have a severe lactose. allergy I think it's just intolerance. you can usually eat yogurt. yeah and remember I talked about myself.

in my lactose intolerance and like is it. am I lactose intolerant or should I just. not eat a pizza and a pint of ice cream. right uh it turns out it's. bee is that right yeah man if I if I eat. a reasonable amount of cheese and milk. I'm fine yeah less farty yeah a lot less. farty good the whole world is thanking. you buddy for coming to that doing that. experiment or at least everyone in this. room so so pretty amazing that that uh.

yogurt deposits an enzyme that helps you. break down lactose right yeah okay it. gets even more amazing one of the other. things one of the reasons why pro why um. people say you should eat yogurt if you. need protein is first of all it's from. milk so there's tons of protein yeah but. secondly the um the acids or the. bacteria in there actually break down. the protein so it becomes what's called. more um bioavailable it's easier your. body to take in which normally your body.

doesn't have trouble absorbing protein. anyway but if it does yogurt's your your. guy but then also it actually. synthesizes some vitamins out of whole. cloth like there there may not be a lot. of folate found in milk there's more of. it found in yogurt because these. bacteria during fermentation produce. folate which is something that you. really want and need especially if. you're pregnant so there's there's just. some amazing things going on during the. fermentation prog process from milk to. yogurt that makes it its own thing it's.

it's much more than just soured milk. it's something it's like a new thing. yeah and the fact that they they found. this accidentally from carrying sheep's. milk around in some animal skin or. animal. stomach 10,000 years ago is just makes. it even more fascinating yeah that's. awesome and the fact that you can add. fruit on the bottom is really the The. Ice Bo Americans love a gimmick and I. think that was all about the gimmick I'm.

sure then some boardroom they were like. it's interactive it's fun actually I. know the story behind that interactive. and fun is probably the words they used. it was uh it was actually was suggested. in. 1947 I think by a young guy named Juan. metzer whose dad was one of the. co-founders of Dannon and he was just a. lowly bottle washer at the time but he. suggested that as a way to get Americans. to eat it but at the time the USDA said. you can't mix anything with dairy. products it's against the law what.

somehow Dann convinced the USDA that no. no no the fruit's on the bottom so it's. not really mixing if they put it on the. top the USDA would have said that's. mixing if they had mixed it homogenized. it I guess they would have they would. have considered that mixing but the fact. that it was on the bottom that is why. they got away with it somehow doesn't. make any sense to me it's like the the. Jeopardy being somehow different from. the typical quiz show right you know. it's the same thing but they uh they USD.

da went along with it and that's why it. was fruit on the bottom interesting yeah. and there wasn't like some senator from. uh South Carolina that said you're. counting on the good people of America. to mix their own fruit it's pretty good. I don't even know who that was supposed. to be uh it sounded like Leonardo. Dicaprio and Jango and chain did like he. was the the senator man that movie that. that whole sister subplot wouldn't even. a subplot that was so strange in that.

movie which which his remember Leah de. caprio's like sister arrived or whatever. oh yeah and he was just like where's my. beautiful sister and it was just so over. the top and strange and it was never. explained like are they lovers is it. like what's going on yeah so weird I. love Quinton Tarantino stuff man I I. love hate it oh really don't hate any. bit of it I love it oh I I think he's.

far too indulgent these days but uh you. didn't like the hateful late. huh uh you know I like the first four. endings are you are you looking forward. to the Manson family one he's doing yeah. I mean I I go I go see all of them and I. think they're all worthwhile and they're. Tarantino movie so I kind of just put my. tongue in my cheek and laugh no matter. what but what was his best one in your. opinion oh well I mean probably.

Reservoir Dogs are Pulp Fiction for me. yeah yeah but so don't get me wrong I'm. not a hater but there's clearly no one. in his Camp that's like maybe edit some. down maybe don't be in the. movie that'll be the day that'll be the. day did you like True. Romance yeah but he just wrote that yeah. but it's obviously his work even though. he didn't direct it no I love it that's. one of my faves that a good one I mean. like. who cast Gary Oldman for that role Tony.

Scott I guess that's just so bizarre but. I think it was so cool sit down have a. egg. roll it's a good movie all right so. let's take a break and we will get to. the bottom the fruit on the bottom if. you will about uh nutrition and how if. that's real or not right after. this. [Music].

all right Chuck yogurt Nutrish or just. [Laughter]. delish all right so here's the deal uh. yogurt has really caught on in the. United States in the last like decade. more than ever largely because it's. being touted and sold as a Health Food.

Dude big time there are studies that are. coming in that says it helps with. everything from reducing obesity type 2. diabetes cardiovascular disease. respiratory diseases improves pregnancy. outcomes reduces. allergies um improves bone health and. dental health basically anything you can. think of there's been a study that has. found that but from what I'm gathering. either there's not enough studies which.

seems not the case to me or that there. are other studies that are finding. contradictory um evidence to what the. pro yogurt studies are finding there. doesn't seem to be any study that's like. no no put the yurt down it's going to. kill all of us nothing like that but. there's it just seems like the jury's. still out on whether it's actually. beneficial to you or not at least over. any kind of long term yeah so here's. what we know for sure I mean just. ingredient wise um especially if you're.

lactose intolerant you you can get a lot. of good calcium from yogurt um that you. wouldn't get if or that you would get if. you drank milk or whatever but if you're. lactose intolerant you can get it. through yogurt um vitamin D protein. pottassium. riboflavin these are all things that are. in yogurt that we know are good for you. but it's these it's like Health claims. that they're selling people now which is. what we're really talking about here uh. like you said like will it actually help.

you lose weight and there have been some. studies that indicate that it could but. it's uh there are a lot of like caveats. attached it feels like M like the. international Journal of obesity says. that lowfat yogurt could help you lose. weight uh but it's kind of like that's. because you're replacing a meal with. some yogurt as a substitution right uh. or for a snack and it's kind of filling. so you're going to be eating less and.

all these things are kind of true but. it's a little. misleading it is and actually you also. want to be careful like okay if you're. on a diet and you're using lowfat yogurt. to diet with but you're health conscious. you want to be careful because a lot of. the lowfat or no fat um yogurts replace. the fat with other stuff like artificial. sweeteners like aspartame and saccharine. there's usually a lot of sodium in there. to try to rep rep Place some of the fa. flavor that's lost when you take all the.

fat out so there's there's a lot of push. and pull and yeah it does seem to be. where if you are already healthy and you. eat yogurt regularly but a lot then. maybe you'll start to see some actual. health effects but there's never been a. study that showed yes yogurt is such a. Powerhouse that it can knock out. rheumatoid arthritis right and those are. kind of the claims that people are. making and there's like some there's. some basis there's some kernel of truth.

to it like one of the big things now. with dieting is um or not not dieting. but eating eating right or eating. healthy I guess whatever you want to. call it is this idea that when you eat. your body becomes inflamed as part of. the immune response like what did you. just eat what is that what is that and. it goes in kind of like defense mode to. sort things out well the idea is that. over time if you're if you're eating. stuff that sets off your immune response. your inflammatory response pretty much.

constantly that has a terrible effect on. your body and can manifest itself in. things like inflammatory diseases like. rheumatoid arthritis so the the logic is. and they've shown that yes yogurt can. actually possibly maybe reduce your. inflammatory response so it's going from. yogurt might be able to lessen your. inflammatory response to some really. really bad food to Yogurt can cure. rheumatoid arthritis and that's the. problem yeah especially in women uh it.

seems to have a little bit better chance. at reducing inflammation they did this. one study at the University of Wisconsin. Madison go Badgers right Wolverines boy. I think it's got to be Badgers right it. is the Badgers I'm just giving them a. hard time I didn't know if that was yeah. that's Madison of course uh we need to. do a show there by the way we do or we. could just make everybody you drive to. Milwaukee it's an hour away I did like. Milwaukee it was a great show that was.

that was a cool Town mhm so they did a. study where they had 60 women um half uh. of whom were obese and they had them eat. 12 ounces of low-fat yogurt every day. for nine weeks then a control group of. course uh with eating uh non-dairy. pudding MH so they have which is like. what what is that like snack packs I. don't know um and they measured levels. of protein means uh it says excreted by. immune cells to determine how much.

inflammation was in their body so. they're they're trying to measure the uh. uh inflam inflammatory response that. you're talking about and they did find. that the yogurt uh yogurt Ladies as they. like to be called saw improvements in. some markers of. inflammation but again that's that's a. long way from saying it can help your. rheumatoid arthritis right that's part. of the problem I think people just just. want it's just such a great idea this. this natural thing that's been with.

Humanity since the dawn of civilization. can actually help help cure some of. these modern ailments from our modern. world people want that to be the truth. so bad I don't see anything wrong with. that but it's it's it's not necessarily. the case I think yes and it was also. this study was funded by the national. Dairy. Council um and again the guy uh the. doctor who performed it of of course he. was like it doesn't matter where the. money came from same conclusion MH so.

you know you can take him at his word I. guess I'm not saying he's like in the. pocket of big Dairy right but uh which. we laugh but I'm sure that's a thing. well the nation yogurt Association. they're the front they're the they're. the the leg breakers for the dairy. Association uh but like I said earlier. because there's a lot of protein and. yogurt it will make you feel more full. and you might have fewer unhealthy. snacks so it's one of those you know. things like is it uh really making that.

difference or is just causing you to. change patterns right which is fine yeah. oh yeah again there's nobody who's. saying no eating yogurt's bad for you. you do want to watch it if you are. trying to lose weight um eating full fat. yogurt too much full fat yogurt. especially if you're eating it in. addition to other stuff rather than. using it to replace something you can. gain weight the the um the I think the. average weight gain in that one study.

you were talking about from both the. yogurt and the pudding cohorts was like. a a kilogram I think yeah a couple of. pounds yeah over like nine weeks or. something like that so that's that's a. significant amount of weight cane but. they were eating like 12 ounces it's two. full servings of yogurt every day that's. a lot of yogurt I mean that's a lot I. like yogurt but it's not the kind of. food you sit down and eat a bowl of you. know no no you definitely you want it in. its own little amount it's it's like a.

grape nuts Bowl you know yeah and for. parents you know Go-Gurt uh not to pick. on them but they definitely Market that. I used to do I did a couple of GoGurt. commercials back in the day as a PA oh. yeah and uh you know they definitely. mark it towards kids it's packaged in a. little kid-friendly uh fun way to eat um. and we're not saying yogurt's bad for. kids but that stuff is loaded with uh. sugar and calories from sugar yeah so. just know that going in from what I. understand the closest thing to actual.

yogurt that you can get in the United. States is something like Greek yogurt. that's the only kind of eat I think it. tastes best it is it's fantastic like. plain Greek yogurt and then you just add. a little honey don't forget the honey. cheuck I know I got to I got to call my. beekeeper there's also something called. there's B traditional Bulgarian yogurt. bulgar is very well known for its yogurt. love they have something called celo. Milo which it means soured milk and I. just think of balky bamos saying it was.

that his last name yeah from perfect. strangers yeah what was it balky bakamus. bakamus bakamus I don't think I ever. heard that yeah I didn't watch that show. though oh you were missing out I know. the episode where they were moving a. piano up up like a couple of flights of. stairs is that a real episode yes it was. Chuck and I am I would put my money on. this it is one of the greatest examples. of phys IAL comedy in television history. I mean that's an old thing like friends.

had an episode of moving a couch. upstairs these guys make friends look. like piles of walking. poop that's how good that's how good. this perfect strangers episode was like. friend doesn't even want to talk about. it oh. man but I mean That's a classic bit like. the uh Mark Brothers or you know or. something or Buster Keaton probably. first came up with it yeah he moved to. piano or two in his day you want to uh. talk about the in Soviet Georgia um.

yogurt campaign real quick yeah I. actually did not get to see that so you. can teach me okay so in 1977 Dannon who. really is almost single-handedly. responsible for bringing yogurt and. making it popular in America in in the. 70s they came out with an act campaign. called in Soviet Georgia where they went. to Georgia one of the Soviet Union's. republics at the time and found like 100. plus year old people who were still.

vital and active and said hey can we. film you like bailing hay and then. afterward you'll eat like a nice cup of. Dan and yogurt and people will say hey. that's great I want to beat bailing hay. at 105 like this person and it was kind. of risky at the time because this is the. Cold War the late '70s the Soviet Union. and the United States were not friends. but to advertise to the United States. they sent their ad people to the Soviet. Union and it just went off it was total.

hit like Dan and their sales were in the. gutter and all of a sudden they're just. back on top and it's actually credited. with kicking off this what we think of. now is like normal but the yogurt craze. that started in late 70s early 80s and. continued on and has finally gotten to. the point where we're actually starting. to eat healthy yogurt that was that. commercial in Soviet Georgia crazy yeah. it's crazy they found one guy who was 89. and they said his mother was 114 and.

they filmed them in one of the. commercials and they said he at he ate. two cups and it made his mother very. proud but he's 89 that was the big joke. 114 man yeah all from eating yogurt I. need to get on it you got anything else. if I want to live to be 114 you got to. start eating some yogurt and don't. forget the honey God could you imagine. me at. 114. yeah actually I can now that you mention. it nobody wants that I could totally see.

it you'd be like I'm back to the whole. pizza and whole thing of ice cream thing. so you might want to stand. back wow this one had a lot of fart and. poop jokes yeah well that happens well. if you want to know more about yogurt go. eat some yogurt eat the good stuff learn. to love it and your stomach will be. happy whether science can prove that it. is or not uh and since I said that it's. time for listener. mail. all right I'm going to call this. self-professed. medievalist this guy uh Steven greay.

wrote in MH and uh he's from melin. Australia but living in London now nice. and he says I'm writing uh for some. extra info to give you extra info for uh. the Robin Hood episode uh first of all. Josh talks about uh Rich Johnny. sit and says that Richard was uh King of. England for 2 years and that John was. the natural Heir uh Richie was actually. King for 10 years years but spent only. uh 6 months of his reign in England. while he was off on the Third Crusade he.

left his Chancellor William of Longchamp. as Regent but his brother John was. cranky about it and schemed against him. in siding a rebellion when Rich. eventually got back he forgave Johnny. named him heir to the throne so the bad. King John good King Richard bit uh of. the RH Cannon is actually based in fact. wow that's interesting uh perhaps more. interesting he says nice set up by the. way thank you uh when the Robin Hood. story started coming out during the. reign of Henry III was during a period.

where uh Henry was Waging War for his. lands in gasy France Henry was not a. very strong W or charismatic King so he. didn't get along super well with his. Nobles and as a result to raise funds. for the war effort he had to rely more. heavily on his Foresters and sheriffs to. raise some Mega taxes so the Robin Hood. Stories pit our hero against these uh. extortionate representatives of a nasty. villainous King but of course you can't. directly suggest that's the current King.

so you have to be not so subtle and. point to a recent but previous scenario. uh which everyone will draw the. parallels from wow this guy's not just a. self-proclaimed medievalist I officially. confirm him as a medievalist he says. hopes this helps uh hope this helps your. insatiable appetite to keep learning as. your podcast does mine nice I love you. guys that is Steven Gray thanks a lot. stepen that a great email we love you. too let hug yeah there you go Stephen uh.

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