3718: Body Composition & Muscle Definition, Unknown Virus, Support Healthy Blood Pressure, Hammer Toe, Vata Body Type & Fasting (HouseCall)

The Cabral Concept

Dr. Stephen Cabral

Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health

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🗓️ 11 April 2026

⏱️ 17 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:

Selena: Hi doctor Cabral, I'm looking for some insight into my body composition. I'm a 47-year-old female currently strength training 6 days/week (30-min Upper/Lower split) and averaging 20K steps daily. My intake is ~2200 kcal (150-180g Protein / 200g Carbs). While I'm lean and can feel the muscle underneath, I'm lacking visible definition. Am I potentially over-training, or do I need to adjust my intensity/recovery to see better hypertrophy? Thanks so much in advance for your answer!

Jen: Any advice! Sick w/something middle of December (maybe subclade K as it was the week that was apparently the pinnacle week in UK) , GP prescribed Penicillin as sent a pic of throat & he said maybe Strep. Didn't work so Clarathromycin which made me better but then Oral Thrush which went on weeks treated with Daktarin/Fluconazole (had to beg for it) but had 3 ever increasing doses. Now I have been told it's Burning Mouth Syndrome. Tested for Full Bloods, Diabetes & even HIV (all normal or Negative for the latter). This has been 2.5 months of hell. Saw a Oral Maxillofacial specialist on Friday who said I needed to brush HARD TOOTHBRUSH with Kingfisher (Inc Sodium Lauroul Sarconsinate) & that I'm just having Menopause! I lost my @#*& ! Bloods due for Vits/Mins. Taking vit A-Z , alpha Lapoic.

Mohamed: Hello Dr.Cabral. I enjoy watching your weekend house calls and your in-depth responses are fantastic. My question is 2 part.. if you could do 3-4 things to support healthy blood pressure (Dad's on higher side, 160/80s). What would the 4 things be? For a late 60s man. 2nd question is regarding Intracellular nutrient analysis lab? It states " The INA (Intracellular Nutrient Analysis) directly measures the effect of specific micronutrients on the ability of T and B lymphocytes to reproduce when stimulated with a mitogen (i.e., mitosis generator)". Thoughts on this? Thanks!

Maria: Dr. Cabral, thank you for all you do for everyone. Your amazing! Can you talk a little bit about hammer toe, curl toes, etc Is this curable. I didn't find anything in your podcast. again thank! Have an amazing blessed day.

Sonny: Hi Dr. Cabral, thank you for everything you do. I'm an IHP2 and had a question about my morning routine. I wake at 4:45am and do tongue scraping, oil pulling, meditation, breathwork, and drink ~500ml lemon water with sea salt. I strength train from 6:00am–7:00am (about 30 min mobility + 30 min strength), then walk outside 35–40 minutes, followed by ~25 minutes in an infrared sauna and a shower. By then it's around 9am and I'm still fasted. I usually finish dinner around 6–6:30pm, so it's a long overnight fast. As a Vata body type, is this too long given the morning activity? Would drinking my protein smoothie around 8am during the sauna blunt the sauna benefits? Also, would drinking essential amino acids before my workout be helpful, or would that break the overnight fast?

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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.
0:23.2	Welcome back, everybody. Appreciate you being here to start on our Cabral host calls, the first host call of the weekend,
0:27.4	answering our community's questions like we do every Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully you've been
0:31.9	along for the ride for a few years now, but every single weekend, we answer about 10 questions
0:37.4	from the community.
0:38.9	My way have been able to connect with everyone out there, and you can simply ask your question
0:43.0	at stephencabral.com slash ask cabral. All right, let's dive in. This is episode 3718.
0:49.1	If you want to follow along with the amazing questions, head on over to stephencabral.com
0:53.6	slash 3718.
0:55.8	All right, Selena is up first.
0:57.4	Selina says, hi, Dr. Ball.
0:58.8	I'm looking for some insight into my body composition.
1:02.0	I'm a 47-year-old female, currently strained training six days a week, 30 minutes upper
1:06.3	and lower split, an averaging 20,000 steps daily.
1:10.4	My intake is 2200 calories, 150 to 180 grams of protein,
1:13.9	200 carbs. While I'm lean and can feel the muscle underneath, I'm lacking visible definition.
1:19.2	I'm potentially over, am I potentially over-training, or do I need to adjust my intensity of recovery
1:23.6	to see better hypertrophy? Thanks so much in advance for your answer. Okay. So I would say if you're
1:28.4	doing six days a week of strength training, you are over training, without a doubt. So especially at
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