Life After Sugar

072: "Intermittent fasting helped me to quit sugar": Lucie

May 29, 2022 11:00 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MB

Lucie found out that she's a Type 1 diabetic when she was 17. That means that the beta cells in her pancreas don't produce insulin. She had to go to the hospital where she was given insulin and told that she was insulin-dependent for the rest of her life. She felt scared and discouraged. Back when Lucie was diagnosed, the test strips to measure her blood sugars (A1C) weren't as sensitive as they are now. Every quarter she would get her A1C checked and pick up a new prescription. When she ...

071. 5 mistakes people make when they want to reduce sugar (Pt 2)

May 22, 2022 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MB

This is Part 2, continued from Episode 70, about the 5 mistakes people make when they want to reduce sugar. Mistake #3: Replacing sugar with other types of sweeteners, or recreating desserts and similar "treats". It's fine for a transition period, but in the long term it might prevent you from making a real, deep, lasting change. Mistake #4: Feeding your cravings. I get it: when you're in the middle of having a craving, it can feel so overwhelming! You may feel totally powerless. Your inte...

070: 5 mistakes people make when they want to reduce sugar (Pt 1)

May 15, 2022 11:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MB

In my experience, a lot of people make some or all of these 5 mistakes when they want to reduce sugar. In this episode, I talk about the first 2 mistakes: 1. Not respecting your natural personality. Here's the thing: If you respect who you are and how you already live your life, cutting sugar can be far more sustainable. You don't have to be like anyone else, and others don't need to be like you. And you certainly don't need to be like me! 2. Giving sugar a meaning. Sugar is an inanimat...

069: "Now I'm free from pain and inflammation": Kate

May 08, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.1 MB

When Kate's brother passed away in his 40s from cancer, Kate felt so powerless. The acute stress triggered a physical response in her body, and her work and lifestyle made it worse. She was eating more and more processed foods... and of course, sugar! Her joint pain, swelling and brain fog got so bad that she went to see her doctor. He sent her for some tests, but the symptoms continued. So Kate decided to do some research herself. She discovered the auto-immune protocol (AIP), which remov...

068: How to celebrate without sugar

May 01, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MB

A birthday without cake?? A dinner without dessert?! A celebration without traditional sweet dishes? Does that sound sad or dull to you? If you think that it's not possible to celebrate without sugar, this episode might help you see things differently. I've been celebrating without sugar and having plenty of fun and enjoyment since 2015! How? I'll tell you in this episode. P.S. This is the recording of a live broadcast I did on April 15 on the Life After Sugar Facebook page and the Life ...

067. "Now I can focus on the positive in my life": Alison

April 24, 2022 11:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MB

As a busy professional in New York, Alison followed all the healthy eating advice: she was vegetarian, ate lots of smoothie bowls and salads (all takeout!)... but she was still suffering from all kinds of symptoms and health issues. In her mid-20s, she felt like her life was crashing down on her. She was on medication for PCOS, her hair was falling out, she had dermatitis and food sensitivities, her hormones were a wreck and her periods were painful, her digestion was terrible... That was t...

066: Listener question: What do you eat in a day?

April 17, 2022 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20 MB

"Netta, what do you eat in a day?" In this episode, I give you the answer, as well as examples of my meals. When I first cut sugar and flour back in 2015, I was given a list of whole foods to help me. I realized that I didn't really know what "whole foods" were, and that my whole definition of "food" needed to change. So I started reading. I read dozens of books. Not just about sugar, but about how the food industry has got us consumers believing that their manufactured and engineered "pr...

065. "I thought my problem was food, but in fact it was sugar": Alicia

April 10, 2022 11:00 - 50 minutes - 35 MB

From a young age, food had always seduced Alicia. As an example, she remembers in the 80s looking forward to going out to a Chinese restaurant. She would fantasize all day about the food, then devour everything in sight until she felt sick. Now she realizes that it was specifically sugar that led her to overconsume. As a sporty child and teenager, Alicia began training as a competitive swimmer. She was able to eat vast quantities of food because she needed so much fuel. But this also per...

064. Listener question: What about monk fruit and stevia?

April 03, 2022 11:00 - 15 minutes - 10.4 MB

A listener recently asked me to talk about sweeteners, specifically monk fruit and stevia. Disclaimer: I don't use either of these sweeteners... but this isn't about me! ;-) In this episode I talk about my take on these two sweeteners. I invite you to ask yourself these questions (with no judgement, just gentle curiosity): why am I choosing products that are sweeter than sugar? why am I looking for sweet tastes? what is my relationship with sweet tastes? what other tastes can I learn t...

063. "If it's good for Netta, I'll give it a try": Marcia (my mum!)

March 27, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MB

Today's episode is a tribute to my lovely mum, Marcia, especially as it's Mother's Day in the UK (March 27, 2022). My mum's in her mid-70s and she tells how in 2015 when I first told her that I'd cut sugar and flour and how great I was feeling, it piqued her interest to try it too! She'd been struggling with several health issues, and even though she recognized that eating less sugar made sense, the idea of cutting flour-based foods like bread, pastries and muesli was amazing to her. She s...

062. "I feel better in my 40s than I did in my 20s": Dr. Diane

March 20, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MB

Dr. Diane Mueller is a functional doctor. She's passionate about helping others restore their health and passion for life. Just like many of her patients, Dr. Diane struggled with chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, migraines, extreme digestive dysfunction and chronic pain for many years. Conventional medicine, for her, was not enough. In this episode, Dr. Diane tells how she was lucky enough in naturopathic medical school to learn about the science of the long-term harmful effects of sugar. In ...

061. "I wanted to make food that could heal me": Chef AJ

March 13, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.5 MB

Chef AJ considers sugar was a drug for her. For the first 43 years of her life, she says that she was addicted to sugar and caffeine. She needed sugar to function. But in general, the medical profession doesn't really recognize sugar addiction, so her need for massive amounts of sugar was left unchecked. Not only was she overweight, but she also developed signs of pre-colon cancer. As a vegan, this wasn't being caused by animal products... but by the fact that she wasn't eating FOOD. When ...

060. "My fasts got easier the less sugar I ate": Emily

March 06, 2022 12:00 - 31 minutes - 21.8 MB

Emily Harveaux's childhood was filled with sugar and sweet treats. From a very young age, she associated comfort and warmth with candy (like most of us!). Over her lifetime Emily says that she has run the gamut of sizes as well as her relationship with food and disordered eating. Sugar was definitely part of it. Her weight has fluctuated a lot: as much as 300lbs at one point. Now she's about 150lbs. She always thought that sugar would always be part of her life. But it's only in the last...

059: "Now with fasting and real foods, I have an off switch!": Allison

February 27, 2022 12:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MB

Allison would eat to cope with all her emotions. Primarily highly processed foods made from flour and sugar (bread was her thing!), especially crunchy and salty. By the time she was in her 20s, she was morbidly obese. She tried and tried to control her weight, but she never really made the connection that it was because of certain types of foods (sugar + flour). She had a gastric bypass and lost some weight, but after a while it started creeping back up again. When Allison discovered interm...

058: "I just couldn't stop, I was so ashamed": Zippi

February 20, 2022 12:00 - 40 minutes - 28 MB

Zippi says that she was born with a "fatal attraction" to sugar. No amount of sugar was enough for her. When she moved to Israel and became a nurse, she knew all the theory and the caloric value of different foods. So, as a nurse, the problem wasn't the knowledge. She knew what to do. The problem was applying that knowledge. She felt so ashamed, like something was seriously wrong with her, because she wanted to eat healthy, she wanted to lose weight, but she was doing exactly the opposite. ...

057. Valentine's edition: So you think you LOVE sugar?

February 13, 2022 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB

Do you love sugar? I certainly used to! Sugar in all its forms: chocolate, desserts, ice cream, cookies, as well as bread and pasta. But then when I stopped eating sugar, I realized that... well, maybe it wasn't really love! In this special Valentine's edition, I encourage you to question whether the relationship you have with sugar is really "love". Maybe it is. Or maybe you do what I used to do, and you USE sugar for all sorts of reasons: to soothe your emotions, as a stress reliever, ...

056: "Sugar brought out my negative emotions": Paula

February 06, 2022 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MB

Paula Yolles grew up like most people: eating sugar. Sugar was part of her daily life. Throughout her childhood and into adulthood and parenthood, she had stomach aches, and she was constipated, with gas and bloating. Plus she put on weight, even though her family ate relatively healthy. After an emotional divorce, Paula needed a change. But she never intended to stop eating sugar. (Who does?!) Slowly, gradually, she changed her way of eating and started doing the emotional work that she...

055. "Just get started": 1 year later

January 30, 2022 12:00 - 44 minutes - 30.5 MB

On January 31, 2021 I hit "publish" and the Life After Sugar podcast was born! In this 1st birthday edition, I'm talking about the highlights over the last year with my special guest Dan Greef from the UK Low Carb podcast. As we were recording this podcast, it got me thinking: Making a podcast, or reducing / cutting sugar, as with anything in life, requires one thing of us: Just get started! It may be easier said than done (which is why I'm here - to help you take action)... You may nee...

054. From almost blind to no more diabetes meds: Gord

January 23, 2022 12:00 - 41 minutes - 28.3 MB

Before January 2021, Gord Isman used food to alleviate stress, isolation, and tough emotions. He would turn to food to find solace. Over the course of the pandemic, Gord says he started to get lazy with his eating, and would turn to pizza, Chinese food, sweets, soda, and late-night snacking. And of course, he started to gain weight. On January 18 2021, Gord had to be taken to the hospital in an emergency. He thought that his recent rapid weight loss was a good thing. But he was also not sl...

053. "I wanted to get to the heart of my problem with sugar": Debbie

January 16, 2022 12:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MB

This week's episode is a sneak peek into our regular support calls, which I call "check-in calls". These calls allows participants to share their challenges, their wins and their aha! moments and get all the empathetic support, encouragement and accountability they need. This is where we have real, personal interactions in a safe environment. We go way deeper than just talking about food and sugar. Debbie joined the Life After Sugar Program after she'd tried keto, and she knew that she ha...

052. "The benefits go far beyond weight loss": Laura

January 09, 2022 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MB

Laura Bonicelli grew up with Italian food in Minnesota. With home-cooked meals and surrounded by a close community, she became a chef. She created a meal delivery service to bring fresh, organic meals to people. Her business allowed her to learn about all kinds of different needs and eating habits, and this led her to develop a meal plan for weight loss. After she closed her own restaurant, she opened her cooking club in order to teach people home cooking. Laura realized that her own diet...

051. "I just can't have sugar in the house": Jen

January 02, 2022 12:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MB

Dr. Jen Unwin is a clinical psychologist and a self-confessed lifelong carbohydrate addict. She's the author of Fork in the Road. In this episode, she tells her own personal story about her addiction to sugar and all processed carbs. From her early childhood, through her teens and into adulthood, Jen had a love-hate relationship with food, especially sugar. Her mother was always on a diet and Jen herself started dieting at about age 16. She tried all the fad diets - all of them! That set o...

050. "You can heal yourself with food": Vikki

December 26, 2021 12:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MB

Vikki Jones is a former competitive athlete. She moved from the UK to the US in the 1980s and excelled in the pentathlon. She had a coach for every sport she did, as well as being supported by the US Olympic Committee. In this episode, Vikki tells how as an athlete, she wasn't taught how to eat. Because she was so active, she would pick herself up with sugar to get quick energy. She would "carb load" before any sporting event. When she retired from professional sports, she realized that ...

049. Hormones, menopause, cancer, and sugar: Megan

December 19, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MB

Megan Lifto is a nurse who's had her own health issues, including having her ovaries removed. She knew that the decrease in estrogen would affect her metabolism, and indeed her weight went up 60lbs, mostly around her belly, even though she was still active. With the extra weight, she started to have joint pain when she bent down, as well as in her hands. Some hormone therapy (low dose estrogen) helped her lose 10lbs right away. What does this have to do with sugar? Well, the hormone fl...

048: Special holiday edition: Happy Gut, Happy Holidays!

December 12, 2021 12:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

This is our special holiday edition of the Life After Sugar podcast! This week I'm talking to Holly Howe, a Fermentation Educator, a cookbook author, photographer, and blogger. Holly's goal is to have sauerkraut fermenting in 100,000 homes... including yours! If you're anything like I was a few years ago, you may not know much about fermented foods. Maybe you know that yogurt is fermented? Or maybe you've tasted kombucha? That's fermented too. Or sauerkraut? These are all fermented (or c...

047. "Low carb and fasting were real game-changers": Jackie and Louise

December 05, 2021 12:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MB

Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds are the hosts of the Fabulously Keto podcast. After starting on her low carb eating journey in May 2017 and then moving to a ketogenic way of eating in January 2018, Jackie discovered a passion for everything low carb and keto. Jackie tells about her childhood, when she always felt left out and overweight. She tried yo-yo dieting, but she couldn't sustain it. Eventually, in her 40s, she was at her heaviest, she felt like a failure, but she didn't even g...

046. The food addict behind the white coat: Dr. Vera Tarman

November 28, 2021 12:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MB

Dr. Vera Tarman is the author of the book Food Junkies: Recovery from Food Addiction. Her book (as well as the podcast Food Junkies) tackles the complex and often poorly understood issue of food addiction. It's so poignant because it's written from her own clinical experience with dozens of her patients who suffer from overeating, binge eating, obesity, anorexia, and bulimia. But Vera is also the person behind the white coat. In this episode, she tells her own touching personal story abou...

045: "Consuming sugar can be a form of self-sabotage": Colli

November 21, 2021 12:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MB

Colli Christante grew up eating whole foods and very little sugar, and she brought up her daughter that way too. She doesn't remember her daughter being sick as a child. Naturally, as she grew up, Colli's daughter experimented with sugar and other types of processed foods, but then when she herself became a mother, she reverted back to whole foods. Colli tells about her experience with alcoholism, first with her father and then with her ex-husband. Their consumption of alcohol affected the...

044. "My comfort food has changed completely": Nikola

November 14, 2021 12:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB

When Nikola Howard was still eating sugar, she had no energy, she was in pain, she had skin issues, and she was often moody and "hangry" (which is when you're so hungry that you're angry). She had to eat every two hours or so, otherwise she would become impatient and bad-tempered. It wasn't until she was in her 40s that she realized how sugar was affecting her brain and her whole life and relationships. Like many of us, she had spend her teens and her twenties following low fat diets. But...

043. "I feel free when I don't eat sugar and when I fast": Janine

November 07, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MB

Janine knew all the facts about sugar: what it does to your health, how it can feed cancer and cause inflammation... but she still ate it because she liked the taste, and it made her happy to eat it. When she'd tried other diets, like keto, she realized that the fake sugars and the recreations of desserts that she was making were just causing her to miss the "real thing". And when she stopped trying to replace sugar, she found that real food just tastes better. Although she might sometimes...

042. "As a dietitian, I realized that my advice was hurting people": Michelle

October 31, 2021 11:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MB

Michelle Hurn is the author of the book "The Dietitian's Dilemma". As a health professional, the oath she took was to "do no harm". And yet, after several years in the profession, and after several challenges with her own health, she realized that as a dietitian, she was actually hurting people more than helping them. That was her dilemma: Do I continue to repeat the official guidelines that include having diabetic patients consume up to 75g of carbs per meal, or do I step out of that well...

041. "I used sugar to calm my anxiety": Jennifer

October 24, 2021 11:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MB

Like many of us, Jennifer's sugar story goes way back. Her health-conscious mom had the family try all kinds of diets, and her dad and her grandparents had a huge sweet tooth. And this solidified Jennifer's sweet tooth. She experimented with different ways of eating and various diets in order to control her weight and her health. And now she works as a coach to help people eat healthier. During Covid, she realized that she and her husband were having a dessert after every meal. It was du...

040. "When I stopped eating sugar, my sleep got better": Denice

October 17, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MB

Denice Whiteley always had a problem with sleep. She'd fall asleep, but then she'd always wake up during the night and not be able to fall back asleep. She also had two young kids at the time. She stopped eating sugar because she was having yeast infections, but then she noticed that she also began to sleep through the night. That was over 25 years ago. Since then, she's only had sugar on rare occasions, and she can feel the difference right away. She bounces off the walls, her anxiety i...

039. "I used emotional eating to avoid my feelings": Lynn Louise

October 10, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MB

Lynn Louise knows all about emotional eating. In fact, she did all kinds of activities in order to distract herself from her feelings: drugs drinking running eating She freely admits that she had lots of distractive habits. The trigger was a traumatic experience that she had when she was a teenager, but she didn't know that at the time. She first drank alcohol socially, but it soon turned to drinking for comfort. Then came emotional eating. Lynn Louise tried therapy, but she always wen...

038. "My migraines were triggered by sugar": Florence

October 03, 2021 11:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MB

Ever since she was a small child, Florence Christophers suffered from debilitating, blinding migraines. She grew up on sugary and processed foods and never thought that what she was eating had anything to do with her suffering. In her teens, Florence started dieting, restriction, and bingeing. And she put on weight, she had brutal PMS with cramps and moodiness, and her migraines continued and got worse. Nobody had ever talked to her about what she was eating and what could be triggering h...

037. "With sugar, pasta and bread, I always want more": Judy

September 26, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MB

Judy Wolfe describes herself as "a person of more". In other words, after that first bite, she always wants more. In this episode, Judy talks candidly about her journey to freedom from sugar, grains, starches, sweeteners, and alcohol. She's been living that freedom for 16 years, maintaining a 130 lb weight loss. How Judy eats can be perceived as restrictive by many, but as she says, it's freedom for her. She was always on a diet since she was young, and admits that she dieted her way to 28...

036. "Sugar affects the brain like an addictive drug": Daneen

September 19, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 31.5 MB

Daneen West began getting interested in brain health after the birth of her third child. She saw specialist after specialist to try to get some clarity on the symptoms her oldest son was experiencing in pre-school. Daneen learned more about the brain through research and therapy. And that genetics "loads the gun, but doesn't pull the trigger". Environment and eating habits play a big role in brain health. When she changed her family's diet to mainly whole foods, with less sugar, colouring...

035. "You don't need to be perfect": Gin

September 12, 2021 11:00 - 57 minutes - 39.6 MB

Gin Stephens is well-known for her books about intermittent fasting: Delay, Don't Deny, Feast Without Fear, and Fast, Feast, Repeat. Now she's written a new book called Cleanish, which is more about how to live and eat in today's modern world. Listen as Gin and I talk about: how food labels can fool us (if we let them!) the concept of "eating clean" orthorexia, and not needing to be perfect the foods that work best for your body and why we're all different making homemade kombucha ...

034. "Our whole family feels better now": Jen

September 05, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MB

Jen found that reducing sugar and gluten has been good for all her family. Back in 2007, when her 3-year-old son began showing signs of a speech delay, a friend suggested that she try taking gluten out of his diet. At first she thought it was weird, but then Jen started researching it. So she decided to take all of the products with gluten out of the house, and the whole family started eating gluten free. Six weeks later, her son said his first complete sentence. With gluten out of his di...

033. "I was compensating by stress eating": Lauren

August 29, 2021 11:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MB

Even with her active lifestyle and background in nutrition and science and eating behaviours, Lauren knew that she needed help with her exhaustion, stress eating and cravings. She knew she needed to listen to her body more, especially during lockdown. She had a healthy lifestyle on paper, she says, but she felt like trash: she was tired, couldn't focus, her work quality was suffering, and she wasn't as productive. She realized that she was compensating by eating junk food. She tried Whole...

032. "I feel more alive without sugar": Véronique

August 22, 2021 11:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MB

In this episode Véronique Morissette talks about her life after sugar over the last 3 years, and how her relationship with herself has been transformed since she cut out sugar. Gone is the toxic relationship she had with sugar... and with herself. Just before her decision to cut sugar, she quit cigarettes and alcohol because she wanted to feel more connected to the people she loves... including herself! Véronique realized that sugar was getting in the way of her having a clear mind and bei...

031. "Are you keto?" "No, I'm Netta!"

August 15, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MB

So what's the difference between Life After Sugar and keto? And why does it annoy me when people ask me: "Netta, are you keto?" In this episode I explain what keto is and its history, and how it's become so popular today. Yes, it's understandable that people confuse how I eat with the keto way of eating, because both approaches cut out sugar. But I also rant a little about why I don't like to be identified with what I eat. I'm me, I'm not my food! Keto is great, but it doesn't fit my pe...

030. "I was stuck in the diet mentality": Kathy

August 08, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MB

Kathy had followed every diet out there. Sure, she was able to follow the rules for a while, but then she "fell off the wagon". She was used to tracking and following a meal plan, but what she wasn't used to was thinking for herself. But when she joined the Life After Sugar Program, she started looking at things completely differently. Yes, there's a food list and recipes, but at first, she wasn't ready to look at them. When Kathy first signed up, she was uncomfortable with this new way ...

029. "I used sugar to numb my feelings": Melissa

August 01, 2021 11:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MB

When she was still consuming sugar, Melissa was very anxious, overwhelmed, exhausted, and angry. As a young child, she used to hide sweet foods in her room, and she continued to eat lots of sugar into her adult years. Then when she became a mother and had her second child who wasn't sleeping, and her first child who had sensory challenges and food allergies, it was her chiropractor who asked her: What are you eating? And she started learning about food and its impact on her energy, her moods...

028. "I don't have a fatty liver any more!" - Mario

July 25, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MB

In this episode, Mario tells me about how he grew up in Québec, Canada. At home, his parents naturally ate what would now be considered a keto way of eating: low in carbs and starches, no snacks, plenty of meat. When he got together with his then-girlfriend, he started eating a "normal" diet like she'd grown up with. Despite his active lifestyle and "healthy" diet, he kept gaining weight. When he started getting back pain, he went to see the doctor. X-rays showed nothing, even though his pa...

028. "I don't have a fatty liver any more!" - Mario

July 25, 2021 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MB

In this episode, Mario tells me about how he grew up in Québec, Canada. At home, his parents naturally ate what would now be considered a keto way of eating: low in carbs and starches, no snacks, plenty of meat. When he got together with his then-girlfriend, he started eating a "normal" diet like she'd grown up with. Despite his active lifestyle and "healthy" diet, he kept gaining weight. When he started getting back pain, he went to see the doctor. X-rays showed nothing, even though his pa...

027. "I tried to be healthy in ways that were unhealthy": Meghan

July 18, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MB

Meghan had always been interested in health, but she didn't know that all those "healthy" products like shakes and bars actually contain a lot of hidden sugars. She ran marathons, but she also suffered from allergies, bloating, breathing troubles, and many other health issues. Then she started to experiment: organic sugar, fat-free, diets, food combining. But everybody's body is bio-individual, and even though she was being health-conscious, she felt terrible. She eliminated certain foods ...

026. Is sugar addictive?

July 11, 2021 11:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MB

In this solo episode, I talk about different points of view on whether sugar is an addictive substance. I have my opinion, but what do other sources say about the addictive nature of sugar? In my opinion, it's not the plant itself that's the problem. It's what's been done to it: the refining and processing and concentrating of the original plant to make its essence into a potent powder, sugar and flour alike. Scientific studies have shown that rats and mice choose sugar over cocaine. Do we ...

025. "I feel like I'm getting younger!": Dorothy

July 04, 2021 11:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MB

Dorothy Holtermann had so many health issues that her doctor told her he'd taken out all the organs he could and that she would have to make serious changes. Her doctor genuinely tried to help her, but she kept gaining weight. She didn't eat a lot of white sugar, but she did eat quite a lot of pasta, bread and fruit, didn't exercise much, and had a stressful life as a lawyer and parent. Then she hired a health coach who was from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. She changed her life. D...

024. "My body craves more fasting hours": Laurie

June 27, 2021 11:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MB

Laurie Lewis is a certified health and intermittent fasting coach. She uses the fasting principles of Gin Stephens, Dr. Jason Fung, and Dr. Bert Herring. We chat about her childhood in the 70s, her mom's attitude to diets, and her love for diet soda at college. All through her 20s, Laurie says, she felt like she was in a fog. She just didn't feel good... and she listened to her intuition. And stopped. She wasn't aware of how foods and drinks made her feel at the time, but then in her mid-thi...

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