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and given no hope for recovery. It was only after studying and traveling all over the world

did he discover how to combine ancient iovitic healing practices with state-of-the-art

naturopathic and functional medicine to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life.

It's time to discover how to get well, lose weight, and finally feel alive again.

And now here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral.

And today on our Total Wellness Tuesday show, I'm looking forward to bringing you a principle that I've

used for over a decade in my nutrition-based practice and even more so now as

I'm working with really hard to treat wellness-based issues. So let's

get into it. It's part psychology, part nutrition, and I would say part overall wellness well-being and how that works with not only the brain but also how the gut affects the brain.

So it's a principle called crowding out or front loading.

And I'll tell you how I originally used it and how I now use it today.

So originally when I was helping clients lose weight,

this literally goes back 20 years now. So years ago I say okay people are used to

eating more calories than they should so I don't want them to necessarily cut down

on the amount of food that they're eating because then they'd be starving or

they'd at least feel like they're starving right? So I say how can I get the same

quantity of food in but less calories so I just need to find more nutrient-dense, low caloric-based foods.

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