Huberman Lab Clips(@HLPClips):What you're getting wrong about counting calories: - Eat 160 calories of almonds and you absorb 130 - Soluble and insoluble fiber form a gel inside your intestine that blocks the other 30 - Those 30 travel down to your microbiome and your bacteria eat them - Your bacteria turn them into short-chain fatty acids: acetate, propionate, butyrate, valerate. Anti-inflammatory and protective against chronic metabolic disease Count the calories at your intestinal brush border, not at your lips. @RobertLustigMD on @hubermanlab

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2026.10.06 17:56

What you're getting wrong about counting calories: - Eat 160 calories of almonds and you absorb 130 - Soluble and insoluble fiber form a gel inside your intestine that blocks the other 30 - Those 30 travel down to your microbiome and your bacteria eat them - Your bacteria turn them into short-chain fatty acids: acetate, propionate, butyrate, valerate. Anti-inflammatory and protective against chronic metabolic disease Count the calories at your intestinal brush border, not at your lips. @RobertLustigMD on @hubermanlab