The
Daily
Fix
5 rounds for time:
Sushi Bowl
How Sugar and Seed Oils Break Cellular Satiety
4 snatches
4 overhead squats
4 overhead walking lung steps
20 GHD sit-ups
A deconstructed sushi bowl with salmon, avocado, cucumber, nori, and sesame-scented cauliflower rice.
Clip from the MetFix Foundations Seminar
Use a barbell loaded to ½ your bodyweight.
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Ingredients
8 oz salmon, cooked or raw, cut into bite-sized pieces
1 ripe avocado, diced
1 cup cucumber, diced
2 cups cauliflower rice
2 tsp unseasoned rice vinegar
1 sheet nori, cut into thin strips
1 Tbsp toasted sesame oil (for finishing)
1 Tbsp butter or beef tallow (optional, for cooking cauliflower rice)
½ tsp coarse sea salt
½ tsp cracked black pepper
1 tsp toasted sesame seeds (optional, for garnish)
Macronutrients (per serving, yields 2 servings)
Protein: 38g
Fat: 42g
Carbs: 6g
Preparation
Heat butter or tallow (1 Tbsp, optional) in a skillet over medium heat. Add cauliflower rice (2 cups) and sauté for 4–5 minutes until tender. Remove from heat.
Stir in unseasoned rice vinegar (2 tsp), salt (½ tsp), and pepper (½ tsp) into the warm cauliflower rice. Set aside.
In serving bowls, layer cauliflower rice, then top with salmon pieces (8 oz), diced avocado (1), and diced cucumber (1 cup).
Sprinkle nori strips and toasted sesame seeds (1 tsp, optional) over the bowl.
Drizzle toasted sesame oil (1 Tbsp) evenly over the bowls just before serving.
This clip from the MetFix Foundations Seminar uses a nightclub analogy to explain how diet drives insulin resistance and chronic disease. In the analogy, insulin is a promoter, encouraging nutrients into the club (the cell), while Ross the bouncer (ROS) regulates entry. Normally, the system works, but excess refined carbs and seed oils trick the bouncer into letting in too much, overcrowding the cell. This leads to leakage (free fatty acids spilling into the bloodstream), rigid cell walls, and eventually systemic insulin resistance.
The resulting hyperinsulinemia—the body pumping out more insulin to compensate—sets off a vicious cycle of fat storage, reduced fat burning, and accumulation of triglycerides. Excess fat then gets stored in and around organs (ectopic and visceral fat), causing fatty liver, fatty pancreas, and widespread inflammation. These changes impair organ function and further worsen insulin resistance.
Key markers like hemoglobin A1C reveal the damage through glycation, where sugar binds to proteins and accelerates aging and disease. The progression from insulin resistance to hyperinsulinemia to organ damage underlies obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and more.
The takeaway: processed carbs and seed oils disrupt cellular balance. Avoiding these foods, supporting mitochondrial health, and monitoring blood sugar can help prevent insulin resistance and its cascade of chronic conditions.
Learn more about the course here.
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