438: How a PhD reversed her dairy intolerance & lost 100 pounds | metabolic health expert Alexis Cowan, Ph.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Alexis Cowan, Ph.D.: “Ultimately, the best diet is the one that's balanced and not overly restrictive." Alexis, a Princeton-trained metabolic health expert, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to optimize your gut health and maintain a healthy weight, plus: - Alexis’ personal weight loss journey (~00:31) - The link between gut health & metabolism (~12:33) - How to optimize metabolically healthy gut bacteria (~17:45) - Why you shouldn’t peel your apples (~18:50) - Why people struggle maintaining a healthy weight (~21:53) - How much strength training you need for a healthy metabolism (~27:05) - The role of leaky gut in weight management (~32:22) - How Alexis reversed her dairy intolerance (~36:06) - The best diet for a healthy metabolism (~40:02) - The best sources of plant-based protein (~46:00) - How to drink coffee without messing with your gut (~49:56) - Why you should always drink filtered coffee (~53:29) Referenced in the episode: - A study on Akkermansia muciniphila and longevity. - The Immunity Code, by Joel Greene - A study on 2'-FL and bifidobacteria. - A study on insulin resistance & muscle. - A study on unfiltered coffee & mortality. - Check out Danger Coffee. - Follow Alberto Perlman. Note: This episode briefly mentions eating disorders. If you are struggling with any of the signs and symptoms, you can call the National Eating Disorder Association hotline at (800) 931-2237. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the MyBuddyGreen podcast. I'm Jason Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of MyBuddyGreen and your host.
0:30.4	What's the way for Champions League and Europa League live an exclusive on TNT Sports.
0:37.4	Dr. Alexis Cowan is a Princeton trained PhD specializing in the metabolic physiology of
0:43.6	nutritional and exercise interventions. She's a deep passion for facilitating the development
0:49.6	and implementation of personalized holistic approaches to diet, exercise and medicine.
0:56.0	She also has an incredible personal weight loss story. Alexis, welcome.
1:02.0	Thanks for having me on. I'm really excited to be here. It's great to have you and we absolutely
1:06.6	must start with your personal story around illness and subsequent weight gain and then weight loss.
1:12.4	So let's start there. Yeah, sure. So there's a lot to unpack. I'll have to take it back probably to
1:18.5	when I was around six years old in first grade. So I was basically having chronic like recurring
1:25.2	strep throat for months at a time and would keep getting pulled out of school because I was sick
1:31.1	on antibiotics for you know several rounds for multiple months and you know at one point my
1:38.0	mom was like you know this is ridiculous. She keeps getting pulled out so I'm just going to keep
1:41.6	her at home and homeschool her. So I was homeschooled for like half of first grade and all of second
1:47.2	grade while I was you know trying to get well and during that time my weight kind of spiraled.
1:55.1	So you know now in retrospect we know that early use antibiotics early in life can lead to obesity
2:01.5	later in life but at the time you know antibiotics were given out basically like candy and so when I
2:08.2	went back to school in third grade I weighed probably double my classmates and from there it kind
2:13.3	of just continued to spiral up until about the early junior year I guess I peaked probably around
2:21.2	270 pounds and you know in addition to that I just kind of had a bunch of health issues like I
2:27.4	would have constant skin issues terrible acne always some upper respiratory thing at least you
2:33.2	know three four times a year and you know I was kind of just done living that way I had a lot of
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