What podcasts say about Chris Cote

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What Chris Cote has said on podcasts

273 statements · 188 positive · 66 negative · 7 mixed · 12 neutral

on Dietary fiberNegativeSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Insufficient fiber causes microbes to consume the intestinal mucus layer.
“if you're not feeding them fiber, they'll eat your mucus layer”
Listen at 0:12
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Colon-cancer screeningPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Colon-cancer screening programs improve survival rates.
“The survival rates are definitely improving due to screening programs”
Listen at 9:33
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Colon-cancer screeningPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Starting colon-cancer screening at 45 is better than starting at 50.
“starting at 45 is better than many people who started at 50”
Listen at 9:42
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Zenker’s diverticulaPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Zenker’s diverticula should be medically evaluated seriously.
“it is something that should probably be taken seriously and looked at”
Listen at 16:02
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Bowel movementsNeutralSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Healthy bowel frequency is no more than three daily and no more than three days apart.
“you don't want to have more than 3 a day, and you don't want to go longer than 3 days without having a bowel movement”
Listen at 17:11
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Resistant starchPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Resistant starch supplementation improves fatty liver.
“when they did that, they actually saw a significant improvement in fatty liver”
Listen at 19:12
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on RS2 resistant starchPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
RS2 resistant starch improves insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity.
“they were able to improve insulin resistance and insulin sensitivity as well”
Listen at 19:42
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Dietary fiberNegativeSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Low fiber intake is associated with poorer microbiome health and diversity.
“if you don't have a lot of fiber, your microbiome's not healthy”
Listen at 19:57
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on restricted eatingPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Time-restricted eating benefits outweigh its potential microbiome risk.
“the benefit of, of, of the, the time-restricted eating definitely outweighs that, that potential risk”
Listen at 23:03
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Cultured foodPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Fermented foods increase microbiome diversity and reduce inflammatory markers.
“with the fermented foods, you had, uh, reclaimed some diversity in, in the microbiome”
Listen at 24:22
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Cultured foodPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Fermented foods benefit gut health through prebiotic and probiotic effects.
“they're beneficial for a variety of reasons”
Listen at 24:43
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Cultured foodPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
People should consume fermented foods such as kefir, kimchi, and yogurt.
“I think it's, it's important to, to, to, to recommend that the folks do”
Listen at 27:07
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on StressNegativeSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Stress can increase gastric acid production and contribute to ulcers.
“if you're stressed, you can produce more acid”
Listen at 29:56
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on GLP-1 receptor agonistPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
GLP-1 medications are highly beneficial for treating obesity-related metabolic problems.
“GLP-1s are fantastic from that standpoint”
Listen at 31:10
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on GLP-1 receptor agonistNegativeSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Stopping GLP-1 medications can cause problems, including weight regain.
“for maintenance, rather than just stopping it— because if you stop the GLP-1, GLP-1s, there's problems”
Listen at 35:34
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on GLP-1 receptor agonistMixedSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
GLP-1 medications generally need to be continued lifelong to maintain benefits.
“these are kind of lifelong medicines”
Listen at 35:41
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on GLP-1 receptor agonistNegativeSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Approximately one-third of semaglutide-associated weight loss is lean mass.
“when you lose weight, about a third of the weight you lose would be lean mass”
Listen at 36:02
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on strength trainingPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Resistance training helps preserve muscle during weight loss.
“resistance training, definitely”
Listen at 36:56
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on DEXAPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Patients at risk of muscle loss should obtain a DEXA scan before GLP-1 treatment.
“it's good to get a DEXA scan beforehand”
Listen at 39:09
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on GIP agonismPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
GIP activity may reduce nausea from higher GLP-1 doses.
“It does help. I think it helps with nausea”
Listen at 50:37
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on RetatrutidePositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Glucagon activity in retatrutide may preserve muscle during weight loss.
“glucagon is potential muscle sparing there”
Listen at 50:54
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Processed FoodsNegativeSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Processed-food diets cause people to consume roughly 500 additional daily calories.
“the people that were eating the processed foods, they could eat at will, they're eating like 500 calories more a day”
Listen at 53:13
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Obesity drugsNegativeSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Leptin-based obesity drugs failed largely because obesity causes leptin resistance.
“leptin never panned out in large part because of leptin resistance”
Listen at 55:05
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Continuous glucose monitorNegativeSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Meal glucose spikes to 200 indicate sensitivity to those foods.
“if your glucose is shooting up to 200 with certain meals, You know you're sensitive to that”
Listen at 1:08:27
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Fasting insulinNegativeSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
High fasting insulin predicts greater long-term diabetes risk.
“if someone had high fasting insulin, they're more likely to get diabetes long-term”
Listen at 1:08:59
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Respiratory exchange ratioNeutralSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
A respiratory exchange ratio near 0.7 indicates predominant fat burning.
“if that ratio is like 0.7, uh, so it's, it's volume of carbon dioxide over oxygen, that means you're using more oxygen. That means you're burning fats”
Listen at 1:15:08
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Early metabolic interventionPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Early metabolic intervention produces better treatment outcomes than delayed intervention.
“if you don't act early, you're much less likely to have a good treatment effect”
Listen at 1:20:45
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Continuous glucose monitorPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
CGM-guided dietary changes can help prevent insulin spikes.
“you got to learn how to eat to not spike your insulin”
Listen at 1:21:31
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on Diagnostic testingPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
More diagnostic information is generally better, provided follow-up risks are managed.
“more information is better almost in all circumstances with diagnostic stuff”
Listen at 1:23:05
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson
on AI-assisted surgeryPositiveSep 21, 2026· Huberman Lab Essentials
Real-time surgical AI can guide anatomy recognition and stitch placement.
“It can actually highlight certain structures you want to work on. It can actually point to something where you want to put your stitch, right? And it can count the stitches as you're placing them and tell you if they're close enough together.”
Listen at 1:27:04
Open the episode · Best Tools for Gut Health & Weight Loss | Dr. Chris Thompson

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