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Metabolic Matters with Dr. Tro Kalayjian – Episode 2675

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Episode 2675 – Vinnie Tortorich welcomes Dr. Tro Kalayjian, and they discuss metabolic matters related to GLP-1s, hormones, the keto lifestyle, and more.

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Metabolic Matters

  • Dr. Tro is an early contributor and guest on the show. (3:00)
    • Dr. Eric Westman’s work influenced him, and he has since collaborated with Dr. Westman.
    • Vinnie refers people to Dr. Tro all the time.
    • Dr. Tro is licensed in almost all states for telehealth services.
  • More than one-third of Americans are on a medication; the average for people over age 50 is on at least 4 medications. (10:30)
    • Many medications are helpful, but other ones are overprescribed. (12:00)
    • GLP-1s are an example of being overly prescribed.
    • People are often not counseled properly about lifestyle and just handed out the drug.
    • Most people can’t tolerate the side effects and are off of the drug within a year. (18:30)
    • Approximate 30-35% of the weight they lose on GLP-1s is muscle tissue; consequently, the heart is a muscle.
    • GLP-1s have a place in treatment, but their use is limited and restricted to certain situations. (26:00)
  • Vinnie asks Tro about taking hormones like testosterone. (31:30)
    • They discuss side effects of taking testosterone for both men and women. (38:00)
    • Boron and DHEA are involved in hormones. Are they good to use? (45:00)

Recent Research from Dr. Tro’s Team

  • Dr. Tro and his team have recently written papers about amazing results in metabolic treatments.
    • They even saw improved results in things like food addiction and binge eating.
    • A ketogenic diet can help some people with eating disorders.
  • The team also works with corporate health programs to help employees get healthy and help the company save money. (56:00)
  • They discuss some of the other benefits that happen with healthy employees—the positive effects spill over! (1:00)
  • You can find Dr. Tro and his team at https://toward.health
  • On Instagram, you can follow @gotowardhealth
  • If you are interested in the NSNG® VIP group, Vinnie plans to open it again soon! You can get on the wait list –https://vinnietortorich.com/vip/

More News

  • Don’t forget to check out Serena Scott Thomas on Days of Our Lives on the Peacock channel. 
  • “Dirty Keto” is available on Amazon!

 

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Upsides and Downsides with Dr. Nadir Ali – Episode 2471

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 2471 – On this Friday’s show Vinnie Tortorich welcomes Dr. Nadir Ali and they discuss a variety of upsides and downsides of GLP-1, autophagy, bingeing, seed oils, and more.

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Upsides and Downsides

  • Dr. Nadir Ali has been keeping a streak of riding his bike to work. (3:30)
    • He sees benefits through managing food addiction with streaks. (7:00)
    • They discuss overdoing exercise, with no rest.
    • Some people have a fear of not getting back into it if they miss a day.
    • Dr Nadir has a general rule that streaks can be beneficial as long as its not at the detriment of something else.
  • Vinnie asks Nadir’s opinion about Allulose & GLP-1 agonists. (13:00)
    • Naidir has a lot of clinical experience, so he sees things on a day-to-day basis.
    • Yes, there are benefits for some people, but there are a lot of downsides, too.
    • Vinnie challenges some aspects of using a GLP-1. (24:00)
    • Nadir agrees that it’s only effective if a person does low-carb and intermittent fasting, (which is something Vinnie recommends without having to use the drug anyway.) (28:00)

Additional Concerns

  • There are upsides and downsides at certain levels of autophagy. (31:00)
    • Too long of an extended fast can affect muscles.
  • Vinnie asks Nadir about a low-carb, high fat being effective for weight loss and other metabolic issues. (36:00)
    • There are instances where it may not be quite as effective.
  • Are seed oils a detriment to health?
    • They become a part of your cell membranes and do damage. (43:00)
    • He gives an example of how it affects the retina.
    • One single benefit you can do is to get seed oils out of your diet.
    • Seed oils are ubiquitous in restaurants and included in most packaged foods.
  • Binge eating – what can people do to help themselves? (53:00) 
    • Nadir has been looking into the pleasure centers of the brain in order to understand binge eating.
    • Dopamine is the driver for the craving or behavior—but it doesn’t really have much to do with the pleasure.
      • In fact, as dopamine goes up, pleasure can actually decrease.

Dr. Nadir Ali’s website is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/c/EatMostlyFats

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Carbohydrate Addiction & Food Freedom with Dr. Jen Unwin – Episode 2031

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 2031 – On this Friday show, Vinnie Tortorich and Dr. Jen Unwin talk her work as a clinical psychologist, finding a low carb diet, taking control of carbohydrate addiction, her book Fork in the Road: A Helpful Guide to Food Freedom, controlling hormones, and more.

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DR. JEN UNWIN

CARBOHYDRATE ADDICTION

  • Dr. Unwin has always felt a crazy draw to food.
  • She eventually began to see her food through an addiction lens.
  • When Jen found low carb, she got the science, and on day 8 she started to feel much better.
  • Only then did she understand — one bite is too many and one thousand is never enough.
  • She knew she had to abstain completely and treat it like any other addiction.
    • So for her, there is no life into living.
      • You should evaluate your relationship to carbs before you decide whether you want to put LIL or not.
  • For some people, this isn’t a problem, but for others, it absolutely changes your quality of life when you take control of the addiction.
  • As addicts, we might know carbs are bad for us, but we feel like we can’t help it.
  • This is why going all in from the beginning can be very important.
  • Food manufacturers know people have these addictions, and they play into it.
  • If you’re eating ‘keto’ things, it might still be feeding the addiction.
    • For Dr. Jen Unwin, peanut butter was something for her that continued to feed the addiction.
      • She had to cut it out completely.

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KetoCon 2020 & Unhealthy Obsessions with Weight – Episode 1431

by Vinnie Tortorich

Episode 1431 – Robin Switzer, COO of Ketovangelist, joins Vinnie this Friday to discuss KetoCon 2020, her journey to her current employment, overcoming unhealthy obsessions with weight, and more!

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FAT DOC IS OUT

KETOCON

  • Ketovangelist is the company that puts on KetoCon every year.
  • Vinnie attended this year.
  • He and Anna will be there next year as well!
    • Visit KetoCon.org , click the ticket button and enter promo code “Vinnie”  on the ticket popup page at the top and special pricing will appear!
    • Vinnie will bring the coffee and the whole deal.
    • Anna will also be doing some cooking demos.
  • KetoCon is growing a great deal each year!
  • Buy tickets soon because the prices will go up over time.

UNHEALTHY OBSESSIONS WITH WEIGHT

  • She is the COO for Ketovangelist.
  • Before working for this great company, she worked for a large bank.
  • She and Vinnie very fortunately met.
  • When Robin was young, she was unhealthily obsessed with looking tiny.
    • At 11 years old, she was at Weight Watchers.
      • She was NOT overweight.
  • She binged, starved herself, and did other scary things.
  • In 2008 or 2009 she discovered low carb and things changed for her.

Overcoming Eating Disorders with Dietary Ketosis – Episode 1382

by Vinnie Tortorich

 : Episode 1382 – Listener Jill Rieder and her mother, Judy, join Vinnie on this Saturday edition of the podcast to discuss Jill’s weight loss and health journey, overcoming eating disorders with dietary ketosis, food obsessions, cold-turkey, and more.

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OVERCOMING EATING DISORDERS

  • Jill has been on the show before here
  • Her mother, Judy, joins her
  • The three met at KetoCon
  • Jill has lost a lot of weight via NSNG®
    • She had tried everything
      • Eating disorders, CICO, exercise, etc.
        • None of it helped her with sustainable weight loss
  • Judy watched her daughter living life morbidly obese
    • Didn’t feel like there was anything she could do
    • Judy had done an Atkins type diet previously
      • Never gained weight like her daughter, could lose weight easily
  • Jill married young, didn’t feel like she was living up to who she should have been
    • Binge ate, struggled with bulimia
      • Continued this until she was 38
  • She still has issues, but now that she’s deep in dietary ketosis, her brain function remains normal
  • Jill attests that she’s seen the reversal of her T2 diabetes through NSNG®
  • Food has been a big part of their family’s life
    • Judy did not have the addiction in the same way
      • Felt she could walk away from unhealthy food – many people struggle with this
  • Jill believes going cold turkey and not using subs is the way to go
  • She’s lost tons of weight, no longer has health issues
    • Changed her life completely

Angriest Trainer 301: 1-on-1 with Isabel Foxen Duke

by Vinnie Tortorich

Isabel Foxen Duke is a Brooklyn-based Life Coach who teaches a master class called “Stop Fighting Food” that focuses on food and our mindset around food.  She discusses the physical and emotional reasons that diets and calorie restriction actually encourages binge eating.  Join Anna and Isabel and learn how to cultivate a new attitude toward dieting and food.

We Live in a Diet Culture

  • Look at diet from the evidence-based standpoint that “the degree to which we have restriction in our lives is the degree to which we tend to lean on food for emotional comfort”
  • Emotional eating is impulsive and a craving that is out of our control 
  • We are taught to use willpower to actively fight our body’s needs

Why People Fail at Diets

  • Dieting is deciding what your body needs by some external plan rather than our individual needs
  • In “calorie deprivation”, the need for food now – our biology – will win in the attempt of getting our blood sugar back up
  • There are two parts:  The physical aspect and the emotional aspect

Emotional Aspect

  • There is guilt, shame and moral judgement for making “bad” food choices
  • This is a precursor to spiraling binge-eating…we’re either off the wagon or on the wagon
  • Need to get to a place of peace around food…taking our power back from food
  • We give food so much power – as if eating a cupcake makes us a “disgusting fatty”

“Stop Fighting Fat” Course

  • Learn new coping mechanisms
  • If I do eat emotionally, how do I do I keep from binging
  • Develop an ease and sanity around food
  • Learn to finally drop the fight and make food about instinct and biology

One of Anna’s fave quotes from this episode: “How can we finally drop the fight and make food about our instincts and our biology?” –Isabel Foxen Duke

Stop Fighting Food teaches women how to “stop feeling crazy around food.” That means, get off the diet-binge cycle, stop feeling “out of control around food,” and finally have a life that doesn’t revolve around trying to lose the last 10 (or 50) lbs. This program addresses the thinking that underlies compulsive eating and obsession with food, rather than giving specific behavioral instructions or nutrition information. The Free Video Training Series (an introduction to the work) covers topics like: 

-Why trying to control yourself around food always backfires

-The two primary reasons people eat outside of physical need (The difference between Emotional Eating & Binge-Eating)

-Why having a “normal” relationship with food requires liking your body first

The Master Class goes into extensive depth on topics like “intuitive eating,” “emotional/binge eating,” “body positivity” and will leave women with all of the mental tools they need to take their power back from food.

Stop Fighting Food (affiliate link) and Stop Fighting Food (non-affiliate link).  We offer you guys both links so you can choose what you’d like to use.