087: Raphael Sirtoli - The Problem with Tracking Calories and What To Do Instead

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Dr. Anthony Gustin

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🗓️ 30 March 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever tried to lose weight by tracking your calories and struggled, you’re not alone.

This weight loss “tool” rarely works.

And oftentimes there’s a big discrepancy in how many calories you’re supposed to eat versus what you actually should be eating.

So the question is, is there a better way to track your food intake that actually gets results?

As you’ll hear about in this podcast episode with science writer and researcher Raphael Sirtoli, there is definitely a better, more effective approach here and it comes down to tracking a few metrics.

Instead of only focusing on calories, there’s other variables, such as a nutrient density score, keto score, and insulin index, which are far more effective.

When you tune into this episode, you’ll discover why this alternative works so much better for reaching your goals -- including fat loss -- and improving your overall health.

Raphael also explains why you don’t need to measure your food and what you can focus on instead so that you’re not tied to weighing what you eat or measuring every ounce you bite into.

Raphael Sirtoli is a super bright, well-educated researcher and science writer who’s currently pursuing his PhD in the Behavioral and Molecular Lab at the University of Minho.

There, his focus is on combining neuroscience and metabolism to understand the side-effects of antipsychotics and whether or not a keto diet can help mitigate them.

Raphael is also the co-founder of a food tracking app called Nutrita.

Unlike most of these apps on the market, Raphael’s focuses on rating foods based on their nutrition score, among other things, so that you can increase your overall nutrient intake instead of worrying about calories only.

Through his app, he’s helping people reach their health goals by focusing more on behavioral changes that will keep them feeling satisfied instead of hungry for junk foods.

Tune into the episode now to learn more.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Natural State podcast. I am your host Dr. Anthony Guston. It is my
0:10.7	belief that the natural state of any living organism's health and that our artificial
0:14.7	habitat has forced us into having artificial health problems. This show is my attempt to
0:19.0	dive deep and learn about using nutrition, sleep, movement, relationship to more, to help
0:24.2	you reclaim your natural state of health in a modern world and show you how to thrive
0:28.2	in an environment that's stacked against you. If you enjoyed today's show, you can find
0:32.0	out more details and information at Dr. AnthonyGuston.com. Joining me in the
0:37.1	podcast today is Rafi Sirtoly. Rafi is a super bright guy who is very educated in a
0:43.1	PhD program right now, already got as masters in local biology and he is also the founder of an
0:49.2	app called Nutrida. Nutrida is a phenomenal source where it's not like a lot of the
0:54.5	tracking apps like My Fitness Pal etc. They actually do a lot of different things that are
0:58.7	interesting. So for each food, they give it a nutrition score, a keto score and an insulin score. So
1:05.7	if you're looking to sort of fix your metabolism and also increase nutrition, I don't think there's
1:10.0	any better app for you. It has to be phenomenal. So we sort of talk about his background, his
1:14.8	experience with keto and his research and then we dive in deep into his app and how he sort of
1:20.9	come to the thought process and all the data behind coming with an insulin score, a keto score,
1:25.6	an nutrition score and why you should not be wearing what calories. So super smart guy, great
1:30.5	conversation and I hope you guys take a lot out of it. Before we get into today's episode, I wanted
1:34.7	to tell you about how you can directly support the show. It is not free to produce this podcast
1:39.4	and I don't want to use the typical model of selling your attention to sponsors to fund the show.
1:43.1	I want you to be able to take all of my health recommendations seriously without wondering if I'm
1:47.0	being paid to promote something to you. If you want to support the team that is behind this podcast,
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