: 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.
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
