187: Why you’re stressed about stress & making keto heart-healthy with Ethan Weiss, M.D.

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🗓️ 18 February 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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“Ask somebody what keto is, and the foods that pop up would be bacon and butter and steak and lard. Most of us don’t appreciate that you can do keto without that." Preventative cardiologist, Ethan Weiss, M.D., joins Jason Wachob to discuss the small tweaks that make keto more heart-healthy, plus: *The egg-cholesterol debate* *Food rules vegans and carnivores can agree on* *Broken heart syndrome* *How to not be anxious about your anxiety* *The peaks and valleys of hunger* Enjoy this episode sponsored by Yogi Tea, and don't forget to subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, or your preferred platform! Comments: [email protected] Sponsorship inquiries: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green and your host.
0:07.0	Dr. Ethan Weiss is an associate professor of cardiovascular research at UCSF.
0:15.0	He received his MD from Johns Hopkins and his special interests include preventive
0:19.2	cardiology, genetics of coronary disease, risk assessment, and heart disease in the young.
0:25.0	He's also the co-founder of K-E-Y-T-O, a plant-based approach to keto and weight loss.
0:32.0	When it comes to all things heart health, he's one of the best.
0:35.8	Ethan, welcome. Thank you. It is so great to have you here. I'm a huge fan of all your work,
0:40.4	so it's about time. Well, I appreciate it. thank you I know I we had a couple I had a couple
0:46.5	misfires trying to get here it took me I think this is our third time I felt it felt bad
0:51.6	third time's a charm it is well so let's start you have a really
0:55.1	incredible personal health journey so let's start there and talk about that yeah I mean I
0:59.5	I want to start off by saying that I've been blessed in my health. I've been healthy. I think we're at the margins of sort of what, it's not that it's not important. I just want to acknowledge that there are a lot of people out there who have legitimate real health problems.
1:16.0	But I had as a middle-aged man put on weight, it's easier to see it in retrospect looking back on photographs, but I had gained 20 or 25
1:27.8	pounds since college probably.
1:30.7	And you know, you don't really notice it it like you don't feel it
1:35.2	other than like when clothes don't fit and so it bothered me
1:40.0	it bothered me enough that I think you know five or six years ago I started trying to play around with
1:46.0	a form of intermittent fasting so I started time restricted eating and I think I lost about 10 pounds
1:50.8	over at that time and I've continued to do that mostly because I was just never hungry in the morning and so it was easy for me to do.
1:57.3	And so probably about two years ago I was playing around, so I actually, three or four years ago I joined the advisory
2:06.2	board of a company based in San Francisco called Verda Health and they use the ketogenic diet
2:10.5	to help people with type 2 diabetes.
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