Overcoming Metabolic Damage with Dr. William Yancy – Episode 1341

 : Episode 1341 – Diet Doctor Dr. William Yancy joins Vinnie this Friday and the two talk his work with the Duke Diet and Fitness Center, programs the Center offers, life-threatening metabolic damage, recent studies to do with low carb diets, and more.

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DR. WILLIAM YANCY

• Vinnie found Dr. Yancy through Dr. Eric Westman
• Dr. Yancy is an associate professor at Duke Medical School
• Internal medical doctor and obesity specialist
• Runs Duke Diet and Fitness Center
  • Teach people nutrition and behavioral techniques, medical help
  • A residential-style program
    • 4 week program
    • Meals and lectures, gyms with personal training, etc.
      • Lectures include things like how to eat in restaurants
  • People come to focus on their weight and health
  • A lot of people will use vacation time to do this
    • Worth it to turn around your health and change your life and lifestyle
  • They see people coming off of medications, feeling so much better when they ‘graduate’ from the Center
    • When people come off of meds, many of them have more success with weight loss
      • Many medications limit ability to lose weight or even facilitate weight gain
  • Starts with evaluation, know what the resting metabolic rate is, try to figure out pain, emotional evaluation
  • Has moderate carb, low carb and keto diet options
• Metabolic damage can be incredibly harmful
  • Type II Diabetes, high blood pressure linked to obesity can kill people
  • In Vinnie’s opinion, we should be comparing these diseases to cancer so people realize their severity
• Concerns around low carb high fat diet causing heart issues are dissipating
• A lot of kidney specialists are no longer restricting protein intake for those with kidney diseases
• Keep carbohydrate levels low and you have to use less insulin