Dr. Eric Westman joins Vinnie Tortorich on the Friday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast. Today, Dr. Westman and Vinnie discuss living a low carb diet and how those preaching low carb diets are slowly integrating into the system.
LOW CARB AND BOWEL MOVEMENTS
- Dr. Westman helps people get on low carb diets
- Low carb diets often gives new users constipation (ketoadaptation)
- Doesn’t matter how often you go, matters how hard it is to pass
- Squatty Potty is a good remedy
- Milk of magnesium pills and salts and fluids can help too
- Once you’re adapted to a low carb life, it all gets better
- You don’t have to be ketogenic
- >50-100g of carbs a day can cause changes
- Ketosis is >20g of carb
- Working with clinics outside the system to use low carb approach to treat diabetes and weight loss, etc.
- Heal Diabetes and Medical Weightloss
- “HEAL” Healthier Eating and Living
- Gut flora on low carb diets is different but NOT bad
KETOACIDOSIS
- Only really affects those without insulin
- Different levels of ketosis, this is the HIGHEST and previously unhealthy ketosis
THREE RULES OF NUTRITION
- Protein is most important
- You can choose: high fat or high carb
- Forget what everyone has told you before — don’t listen to them
SKEPTICISM AROUND LOW CARB DIETS
- Some people think that low carb diets are still bad for you
- Magazines, restaurants are moving toward low carb too
- Innovators like Dr. Westman and Vinnie are leading this charge
- William Banting — first to try low carb diet and write about it (mid 1800s)
- If you eat low carb, you are a “banter”
NEW WEBSITES
- Sweden led the movement where websites are being created to help with Low Carb lifestyles
- Occurring here now, too
- Westman is working on some of these projects
