027: Paddy Spence - Cutting Out Sugar and Making Healthier Food Choices
The Natural State with Dr. Anthony Gustin
Dr. Anthony Gustin
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
If you want to live a healthier life, cutting out sugar from your diet is an impactful first step.
Not only is sugar harmful to your metabolism and energy levels, it's also highly addictive, so kicking the habit is necessary to retrain your taste buds and food preferences.
In today's episode, Zevia CEO, father, and athlete Paddy Spence shares his own journey of going sugar-free and explains how you can get started too.
Paddy Spence has been in the health food business for 26 years and has been sugar-free for almost 18 years. During this time, he has grown his low-calorie, sugar-free beverage company and overhauled his family's eating habits.
Tune in to learn why sugar is so detrimental to your health, how to get off it, which sugar substitutes are better, and what going sugar-free can do for your health.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you find yourself again, listening to the Keto answers podcasts. |
| 0:09.8 | Good work. |
| 0:10.8 | I am your host, Dr. Anthony Gustin, and this week we have Patty Spence joining us. |
| 0:15.8 | Patty is a CEO and owner of the company Zivia, which has zero sugar beverages that you can |
| 0:21.0 | pretty much find anywhere on the planet. |
| 0:23.2 | Just doing phenomenal work. |
| 0:24.8 | This might sound kind of like a paid sponsorship at times, and this in this podcast, it is |
| 0:29.1 | not the case. |
| 0:30.1 | I just love Patty's enthusiasm for reducing the world from sugar and replacing it with |
| 0:35.3 | something else so that people can stare a step from high calorie beverages to making healthier |
| 0:39.5 | choices. |
| 0:40.5 | We chat about how he gets his kids and family off of sugar, how he creates products, and |
| 0:46.2 | why they're doing what they're doing. |
| 0:47.4 | Just a phenomenal chat, a great guy, and you guys are going to love this episode. |
| 0:52.2 | Before we get to the episode, I wanted to chat about a sponsor, Perfect Keto. |
| 0:55.7 | Perfect Keto is all about making a ketogenic diet healthy and accessible. |
| 0:59.0 | Whether you're reading all of our online guides or articles or enjoying Perfect Keto's |
| 1:01.6 | exaginist ketones or any other keto-friendly products, everything you need to make |
| 1:05.7 | keto work for you is at Perfect Keto.com. |
| 1:07.3 | I know what you're thinking. |
| 1:08.7 | Hey, aren't you the founder of Perfect Keto? |
| 1:10.7 | Yep, that's right. |
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