472: Separating hunger cues & cravings | Functional medicine doctor Amy Shah, M.D.

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Order a copy of my new book The Joy Of Well-Being at thejoyofwellbeing.com! Amy Shah, M.D.: “The gut is a stronger driver of cravings than even our minds.” Amy, a double board-certified integrative medicine doctor, joins us to discuss everything you need to know about hunger hormones, plus: - Why our hunger cues have become so out of whack (~00:55) - The difference between hunger, cravings, & appetite (~02:19) - How to optimize your gut & control cravings (~08:41) - Why intuitive eating isn’t always the best move (~11:38) - How to avoid eating unhealthy after a night of poor sleep (~18:06) - The best exercise to control hunger hormones (~20:21) - The best dopamine-rich foods to start your day (~28:44) - How to know if you’re dehydrated or hungry (~30:31) - How to satisfy your body without giving in to cravings (~37:11) - Why coffee mixed with fat makes you less hungry (~41:37) - Amy’s go-to foods when she’s craving something sweet (~46:37) - How much fiber & protein Amy recommends per day (~50:00) - The powerful link between your gut & mental health (~53:29) Referenced in the episode: - Amy's new book, I'm So Effing Hungry. - mbg Podcast episode #286 and #153, with Amy. - A study on gut health & cravings. - A study on 6 minutes of exercise & BDNF. - Research on how the gut microbiome changes rapidly. - A study on gut bacteria & mental state. - mbg Podcast episode #457, with Courtney Peterson, Ph.D. - Sign up for The Long Game. Take 20% off metabolism+ with code BOOST20. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. 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.
0:07.1	How do I tell them? How do I tell them? How do I be the bills? How do I pay the bills?
0:14.5	I know what goes through your head when you're living with cancer. The questions, the fears,
0:20.0	the need to know. How do I know? Because I'm living with cancer too.
0:25.9	That's why I joined the McMillan Online Community, and we can help people like you,
0:31.6	whatever you need to ask. To join us, search McMillan Online Community.
0:37.2	Hey everyone, here's the thing. We're all about listening to your natural hunger cues. You
0:43.2	are the expert of your own body, and we won't pretend to know it better than you do. That being said,
0:49.0	sometimes those natural hunger cues can become hijacked by certain cravings. So how do you cut
0:54.3	through those cravings and navigate your true hunger hormones? That's where Dr. Amy Schott comes in.
0:59.7	She's a double board certified integrative medicine doc who specializes in food allergies, hormones
1:05.2	and gut health. It saves to say she is one of the leading experts on everything you need to know
1:11.3	about hunger hormones, and it's an honor to have her back on the show. Amy, how are you? So good to see
1:17.2	you. So great to see you, Jason. So it's been a while. I think it's been almost a year,
1:23.3	in addition to writing your new amazing book, I'm so effing hungry. What have you been up to?
1:28.1	Mostly, you know, the same, you know, where I know your parent, I'm parent, I have a practice still
1:36.0	that I work at, and I'm always working on new projects, new ways to get the message out.
1:44.2	I've really been loving the gut immune mind connection recently, especially as it pertains to
1:51.1	nutrition. So I've been doing a lot of education around that. But really, this book is the big thing.
1:58.0	So the title of the book, as I mentioned, is I'm so effing hungry. And at the highest level,
2:04.6	it has the big question, but what's wrong with our hunger and hunger cues? What are we getting
2:11.3	so wrong? What we're getting wrong is that we're really not nourishing our bodies, right? Where
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