034: How To Fix Your Metabolism For Good with Dr. Alan Christianson

Energized with Dr. Mariza

Dr. Mariza Snyder

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 974 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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What we're talking about it this episode! Key indicators to recognizing your metabolism isn't functioning properly How to support your liver functions on a day to day basis The importance of fiber diversity and butyrate: the breakout resistant starch How to stabilize your blood sugar levels Foods that Dr. C recommends to his patients Episode Summary: Most of us are aware that our experience in life is conditional on how we feel and how well our bodies function and that food play a big role in that. However, it’s more than just good food vs bad food. Dr. Alan Christianson joins us to explain how your body is burning the fuel you give it so that you can become your most optimal functioning self through the food you eat. Dr. Christianson, or ‘Dr. C’ for short, has cracked the code on how to fix your metabolism and is here today to help share his knowledge on how to heal from the inside out. He is a New York Times best-selling author and naturopathic physician, inspired to get into medicine after his own health struggles with cerebral palsy and obesity. Dr. C helps his clients understand what is happening inside the body and regain their lives back by understanding protein, fuel, and nutrients. We are diving into how to get your body into fat burning mode, why carbs might not actually be the devil, and how some surprising resistant starches can help your body function at a higher metabolic rate. Do you follow Dr. C’s advice on amino acids and maintaining fiber? Let us know your thoughts about his metabolism boosters in the comments on the show notes page! Resources Mentioned: Dr. Christianson’s Free Gift: The Definitive Fiber Guide Dr. Christianson’s Website Follow Dr. Christianson on Facebook | Twitter | YouTube | Pinterest | Instagram Other Resources: Check out the full show notes page Keep up with everything Dr. Mariza Follow Dr. Mariza on Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Youtube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	My experience was that doctors seemed to mean well but really didn't give me things that helped as far as input or medications were all full of side effects.
0:11.0	And it was health books that turned my life around and from the
0:15.1	whole experience I learned that your experience in life is so so conditional upon
0:20.9	just how you feel and how your body's functioning and how you
0:24.1	feel about how you look and these are big things and that improving that can
0:29.2	happen through just information that's applied well and oftentimes not from things that people
0:34.8	are receiving from the conventional world.
0:37.6	Welcome back to the Essentially You Podcast, all about reinventing your health with safer, cheaper, more effective natural
0:46.1	solutions and powerful lifestyle changes so that you become the CEO of your health.
0:53.4	I am your host Dr. Marissa Snyder.
0:56.6	Today we are talking to Dr. Alan Christensen
1:00.4	about resetting your metabolism
1:02.3	and the benefits of resistance starch.
1:05.0	Now if you've never heard of resistance starch, I want to tell you a little bit about it before we jump on in.
1:10.0	So do you ever feel like you're constantly running low on energy?
1:14.0	Well, the good bacteria in our body live on good food, just like us.
1:19.0	So we have to treat our bodies the right way in order to get that energy that we need to live our
1:24.8	life to the fullest.
1:26.5	And that is where resistance starch comes into play.
1:30.0	See in order to understand the full impact of resistant starch in our life, we need to prioritize
1:34.6	the importance of our gut health.
1:36.6	See, as you know, our gut health plays a major role in our overall health, including
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