us now mark possed is a professor for physiology at maastricht university in the netherlands and a co-founder of most certainly the dutch company that wants to bring the first lab grown beef burger to the market mark thank you very much for joining us this morning first things first what does it what does it taste like and don t say like chicken. now it tastes like beef actually. it did the first version was still pretty dry because there was no fat tissue in it but we are now also growing the tissue so the second one should be a lot better. if you actually like it to enjoy beef in general i love it yeah and so do a lot of people that s the problem. so when can we stop killing cows. well that first hamburger will be on the market in about three years all the companies that are working on this seem to think the center along the same lines
and it s really interesting what you re as you were explaining it, it makes a lot of sense. look at bears instead of bears or rats. just one more quick question more you, what have you found so far? well, we ve found several interesting things. typically, when humans become obese, a lot of things come along with that that probably your viewers have heard of, things like diabetes and heart disease. well, bears don t get that. one of the interesting things we found is that bears tune kind of like a dimmer switch on light the way they respond to a hormone called insulin, and insulin is the hormone that gets released by your body when you eat. so bears seem to live their whole lives with very low levels of insulin. they just tune how sensitive they are to that. the other thing that s very impressive about bears even though they put on all of this weight, they seem to selectively store all this weight in their fat tissue. now the human body is a very
and off the way they respond to insulin, the way that they d be able to turn on and off their massive appetites and the way that they can selectively store their fat storers in fat tissue, all of that makes it for a healthy obesity. and what i m beginning to wonder, actually, is obesity itself inherently bad? if you think about it from an evolutionary standpoint be, you would think being able to store fat would provide a survival advantage. jenna: you know i think the bears are jenna: i m sorry. please, jenna. jenna: we re going to get cut off, but that s a debate on our program a few times, can you be obese and still be healthy. dr. kevin, love to have you back and, bonnie, you re welcome back anytime as well. thank you so much. jon: i just like seeing the pictures of bears. this video sparked outrage a few years back, part of a multimillion dollar study to see if sick shrimp had the same
wise investor. you could say it likes to diversify its portfolio, it likes to store its fuel in fat tissue, muscle tissue and liver tissue. the problem is that some of those banks, if you want to call them back, deliver in the skeletal muscle. if your fat goes there, that tends to make you sick. the bears have gone with the safe investment, and they ve figured out somehow how to store all of that fuel in their fat tissue which i think collectively makes them very healthy even though they are massively obese. jenna: let me ask bonnie about this, a nutritionist, what do you think is the translation to humans, eat more fish maybe? humans are kind of anti-hiker nay to haves. we like to lay down in our dens like bears, especially during the winter months, but where the bears are not eating or drinking for months, we have a tendency to be surrounded by snacks. so the important takeaway message from the bears is that when they actually are filling up with food, they re filling up on nuts an
so, you can t really get rid of it because it hangs on in the fat tissue, and acts as what we call pseudo hormone. likees joe like estrogen, and when they did a study, researchers looked at obese children and found when the biopsied their fat they found the hormone. around here we get our water from one of those big bubblers and put it in a plastic container. that s the same thing. the chemical is in all of those. we re being exposed all the time and when you get a takeout meal in a plastic container and heat it up in the microwave of ven that can triple the amount of bpa in your body. mike row waving plastic. not a good idea. should we go back to drinking out of glasses and get water from the tap.