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Discover how you can live without constant hunger and fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep, and other low-energy symptoms. The Energy Balance Podcast will teach you how to maximize your cellular energy so you can take back your health and finally experience clear-headed focus, restful sleep, and all-day energy you didn’t think was possible.
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Monday Dec 14, 2020
EB. 38: The Physiology of Fat Loss Without a Caloric Deficit
Monday Dec 14, 2020
Monday Dec 14, 2020
- The physiology of fat loss without a calorie deficit or cutting carbs or fat
- Why insulin doesn’t cause fat gain
- Where excess calories go if they aren’t stored as fat
- Why increasing “fat-burning” doesn’t increase fat loss
- Why it’s nearly impossible to accurately measure “calories in” and “calories out”
- How an energy surplus can lead to healthy fat loss
1:01:48 – how an energy surplus can support fat loss

Monday Dec 07, 2020
Monday Dec 07, 2020
- The pro-metabolic effects of coffee that lead to cancer prevention, improved liver health, neurological protection, increased insulin sensitivity, and reduced all-cause mortality
- How to drink coffee so that it improves your health instead of causing stress
- Whether it’s okay to drink coffee every day or even drink multiple cups per day
- How we can attain the benefits of fasting without the stress and without starving ourselves
- Whether fasting is actually protective against cancer and longevity-promoting
- Why fasting decreases muscle mass and drives hormonal imbalances
15:43 – how much coffee is ideal and whether it’s okay to have coffee every day
21:32 – when to use supplements to protect against a suboptimal environment and the importance of context
31:20 – whether fasting can have benefits
36:20 – whether fasting protects against and/or destroys cancer
45:21 – the harmful effects of fasting and alternative strategies to achieve the same benefits

Monday Nov 30, 2020
Monday Nov 30, 2020
- The process of removing judgement and morality from health and nutrition
- Why ice cream can be considered a health food
- Why losing weight through the mainstream model often comes at the cost of our health
- How the diet and nutrition industries have caused us to develop a dysfunctional relationship with food
- How to transition away from the “eat less and exercise more” paradigm of fat loss

Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
- How to get through the holidays without binges and weight gain without resorting to restriction
- Why eating more, not less, is often the answer for healthy fat loss
- How to prevent binging by ensuring you have enough cellular energy
- Why weight gain and a lack of energy often go hand-in-hand
- How to stop cravings and hunger without restriction and dieting

Monday Nov 23, 2020
Monday Nov 23, 2020
- How to adjust macronutrient ratios for insulin resistance and diabetes
- Factors that affect insulin sensitivity outside of macronutrient ratios
- The problem with the vast majority of melatonin supplements
- Whether GABA plays a role in sleep and how to support healthy GABA production
- Why we may want to reconsider melatonin supplementation for better sleep and what we can do instead

Monday Nov 09, 2020
Monday Nov 09, 2020
- How improving thyroid health will improve blood pressure regulation
- The best supplements for managing blood pressure and vascular health
- The role of vitamins A, D, E, and K in heart health and blood pressure regulation
- How stress can cause elevated blood pressure
- How to ensure that you have enough cellular energy to optimize vascular health and blood pressure

Monday Nov 02, 2020
Monday Nov 02, 2020
- What actually causes high blood pressure and why the mainstream guidelines do little to address these causes
- Why hypertension is a protective, adaptive response
- The physiology of a dysfunctional vascular system and the involvement of swelling/edema, fibrosis, and calcification
- Whether the blood pressure medications address the causes of hypertension and are the best option for its treatment
- Nutrients that improve hypertension and foods to avoid that worsen vascular health

Monday Oct 26, 2020
Monday Oct 26, 2020
- Why low-sodium diets and drinking lots of water aren’t the solution for hypertension
- How blood pressure medications work and why they don’t solve the underlying causes of high blood pressure
- How much salt someone should be consuming if they have high blood pressure (it’s probably more than you think)
- The relationships between the various electrolytes (sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium)
- How salt opposes stress
- Why the heart may not function as a pump and how energy can drive circulation and oxygenation

Monday Oct 19, 2020
Monday Oct 19, 2020
- What actually causes plaque buildup (and why cholesterol isn’t the culprit)
- Why omega-3s and omega-6s aren’t the heart-healthy fats
- How you can lower cholesterol levels in a healthy way
- Why eating lots of whole grains, nuts and seeds, vegetable oils, and fatty fish like salmon isn’t the way to go for heart health
- The importance of gut and thyroid health for lowering cholesterol

Monday Oct 12, 2020
Monday Oct 12, 2020
- Where the mainstream view that high cholesterol levels cause heart disease went wrong
- Why we may want to reconsider statin use for the vast majority of cases
- Why we don’t need to avoid high-cholesterol foods, even if we have high cholesterol levels
- The protective, beneficial effects of cholesterol
- What actually increases cholesterol levels and why statins don’t effectively address these factors
- Why the cholesterol-lowering drugs are often more harmful than helpful