3711: Overweight vs. BMI, Garlic Benefits, Mycobacterium Avium Complex, Using Metavolve & GLP-Tone Long Term, Walking & Swelling Hands (HouseCall)

The Cabral Concept

Dr. Stephen Cabral

Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Welcome back to our weekend Cabral HouseCall shows!

This is where we answer our community's wellness, weight loss, and anti-aging questions to help people get back on track!

Check out today's questions:

Darem: Hey, Dr Cabral. I recently did a health assessment where everything went well except my practioner telling me I'm overweight according to BMI which was 26.0. She then went off textbookedly (sic) saying to exercise more, eat more fruits & veggies etc. I already do all that for years. I'm 5'6, 161lbs, lean, muscular, 6 pack abs. Around 10% BF. How can I still be overweight

Jenny: Hi Dr. Cabral - I have a question about garlic. In a recent podcast you talked about the many benefits of garlic and of consuming at least a clove a day. Do we get the same great benefits of garlic (including cancer prevention) if it is cooked, roasted, baked as part of a recipe, etc., or does it need to be raw? (I know you talked about smashing it and letting it sit for 5 minutes.) Thank you!

Julie: Hi Dr. Cabral, My daughter (age 3 at the time) was diagnosed with Mycobacterium Avium Complex (MAC). It took awhile to properly diagnose and be treated since it is so rare in children. She was put on multiple medications including antibiotics for about 2 years (ethambutol, rifampin & azithromycin). She is now 9 and doing great, but we recently noticed symptoms of Raynaud's Syndrome. While I am waiting for an endocrinologist appointment I was hoping to see if you had any insight as to what would put her in a compromised state to begin with to be able to contract MAC. And now should I be testing and treating her with protocols to make sure her rain barrel isn't overfilling and if so what do you suggest at this young age?

Tricia: Hi Dr Cabral - hope you and the family are doing well! I have a quick question regarding the GLP Tone and Metavolve systems. I've done both and love them both! I am currently on Metavolve and have been for the last few months. I don't follow the diet plan it comes with strictly, but I do follow your baseline of a Mediterranean diet. I feel really good and am losing weight just more slowly. I'm 56 post-menopausal and am healing on the inside out. My question is can both of these systems be used long term? Are they safe to do so and when I do transition off of Metavolve do I need to do it slowly? Thank you for creating such amazing supplements to assist us in this life long journey of health!

Bob: Hello dr Cabral I wanted to ask for your thoughts on what might cause and what to do with this issue. I normally walk about 10k steps a day and either at mornings or nights have a longer walk about 5 to 6000 and make up the remaining steps throughout the day. But when taking the longer walk I have notice it seems my hands start to swell while walking. I have even noticed it in my wrist as my watch band gets very tight. I don't pump my arms very much when walking and feels harder to make a fist when this happens. Any advise on this for me. It does seem to go back to normal after stopping in few hours

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Cabral Concept, where board certified doctor of naturopathy, Dr. Stephen Cabral,
0:05.8	shares with you exactly how you can reverse aging, take back your health, and live a life
0:10.9	full of energy and passion with new 20-minute episodes every single day to keep you healthy and
0:16.7	engaged. Now, here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral.
0:22.0	Welcome back, everybody. First Cabral host call of the weekend. Can't wait to share this next 20 minutes or so with you,
0:29.2	answering all of our community's questions, or at least five every Saturday, another five every Sunday.
0:34.4	I appreciate you joining me here today. If you want to read along with the questions, you can do so at stephencabral.com slash 3711. Let's dive right in answering every single
0:44.7	weekend, old things wellness, weight loss, weight gain, anti-aging, high performance health.
0:49.4	If it has to do with health and wellness, it is fair game. And of course, I don't do any prep work for these,
1:10.9	and we don't edit your questions in anyway. So feel free to write in at stephencabral.com slash ask cabral. And I would answer it just like as if we bumped into each other at a cafe or the reimagining health summit, which is the live event we do every year in October, November timeframe. All right.
1:12.3	Darum is up next.
1:13.9	Darum says, or Darren's up first.
1:14.9	Hey, Dr. Rawl.
1:19.6	I recently did a health assessment where everything went well except my practitioner telling me I'm overweight according to my BMI, which is 26.
1:22.6	She then went off textbook at Lee, saying to exercise more, eat fruits and veggies, et cetera. I already do
1:29.1	all that for years. I'm 5-6, 161 pounds, lean, muscular, six-pack abs, around 10% body fat. How can I
1:35.8	still be overweight? Yeah. And so it's true. I talk about BMI all the time. Because BMI is a real
1:41.9	thing. In the health and fitness field, we like to look down upon it,
1:47.3	and I get it. But that's because if you're in the shape that you are, Darren, you're in the 1% of the
1:54.6	population. Like, that's the truth. Like, way lower than 1% of the population, right? I mean,
1:59.5	does 1 out of 10 people have six-pack abs?
2:02.6	Of course not. It's more like 0.01%, right? So it's like a very small amount. But BMI applies
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