622. From Hops to Hormones: How Calocurb Gives You Freedom from Food Cravings w/ Sarah Kennedy

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Luke Storey

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Meet Sarah Kennedy, CEO and founder of Calocurb, a revolutionary weight management product born from 15 years and $30 million of New Zealand government-backed science. If you’ve ever struggled with your relationship to food, including overeating, yo-yo dieting, or the constant battle with your willpower, this conversation will give you a refreshing new perspective.

We explore the fascinating science of appetite suppression, from the evolutionary role of hunger and the “hindbrain” to the discovery that bitter compounds in hops can naturally stimulate GLP-1 and other satiety hormones. We also get into the history of how Scottish highlanders and Kalahari tribes used bitter plants for appetite control, how modern agriculture stripped bitters from our diet, and why restoring this missing piece could be a game-changer.

If you’ve been looking for a natural, science-backed way to modernize your eating habits and find peace with food, this episode is for you. Visit calocurb.com/lukestorey and use code LUKE10 for 10% off your first order.

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MORE ABOUT THIS EPISODE:

(00:00:00) The Science Behind Appetite Suppression

(00:21:45) Clinical Trials, Hunger Science, & Alternatives to Injectables

(00:38:37) Bitters, Dosing Protocols, & What’s Actually in Calocurb

(00:57:27) GLP-1 Side Effects, Vagus Nerve, & Fasting Use Cases

(01:09:34) Sarah’s Journey, Innovation, & Life Lessons

Resources:

• Website: calocurb.com

• Instagram: instagram.com/calocurb

• Facebook: facebook.com/calocurbGLOBAL

• X: x.com/Calocurb

• TikTok: tiktok.com/@calocurb

• YouTube: youtube.com/@calocurb

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0:00.0	So Sarah, tell me how you got interested in helping people with weight loss and calorie control and things like that, because so many of us struggle with that particular issue.
0:13.5	What was your personal motivation?
0:16.4	Yeah, it has always been, I grew up in a family of four girls, and I've had this love, hate relationship with food.
0:26.0	My whole life, you know, I love it, but I hate it.
0:29.5	You know, the binging, the dieting, and so on.
0:32.3	So you'd eat a lot, you'd hate yourself.
0:34.5	This has been for years.
0:36.4	So I obviously always fascinated. And when I
0:39.0	was presented this science in 2017, I had never seen that amount of science behind an ingredient
0:48.6	in a category as large as weight management. And you've got to remember, this was 2017.
0:55.5	This was long before Wagovi and OZMPIC.
0:59.6	So no one really understood this whole mechanism of action
1:03.2	with these appetite suppressing hormones.
1:06.5	So I was presented it and immediately fell in love with it.
1:10.5	And then started taking the test capsules.
1:13.7	And I can honestly say it has changed my relationship with food.
1:20.1	Well, of course I'm going to say that because I'm the founder.
1:23.0	But over the last seven years, I'm at peace with food.
1:27.2	I really enjoy it. I just don't eat as much.
1:30.6	I no longer have this love hate. So it's been really special for me. Did you ever struggle with
1:36.6	being overweight or was it just more of a mental struggle with feeling like you were eating
1:41.8	more than you should or more than you wanted to.
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