696: Dietitian Blows the Whistle on Why People Stay Sick — And How to Fix It | Michelle Hurn
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🗓️ 17 March 2026
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Michelle Hurn is a registered dietitian, ultrarunner, and author who advocates for low-carbohydrate nutrition to reverse metabolic disease and improve mental health.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on today's show. |
| 0:02.0 | We are not going to medicate or moderate out of this. We have great data. Plens of clinical published trials on people reversing Hague 2 diabetes with lower carbohydrate diets. But if you're very sick, you need to be focusing on what does your body need. If your body has extremely high glucose, your body doesn't need more glucose. And it doesn't matter if it's from an orange or from Snickers bar. It breaks down to the same thing. I was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. I was five feet tall and 57 and a half pounds. I ended up passing out at school. I just always felt like my brain was constantly running. I couldn't calm it down. And it was my hope that becoming a dietitian, learning more about food, I was like there has to be something that can give my brain some chill. You go through the traditional dietetics program and this current system just was so wrong. So my preceptor would be like, okay, we're going to teach them to eat carbohydrates throughout the day so we can dose them with insulin throughout the day. Even just asking questions like, hey, should we teach some be less carbohydrates since our blood glucose is like 400? |
| 0:55.5 | No, that's not how we do things. |
| 0:57.0 | These processed foods are sponsoring the Academy. |
| 0:59.6 | So the Academy is telling people it's okay to eat these processed foods, especially if you have pre-diabetes. |
| 1:04.1 | You have an opportunity to completely reverse this. |
| 1:06.7 | But if you keep this going, it doesn't end well. |
| 1:10.5 | Michelle, as a dietitian, what are your thoughts around the new changes to the dietary guidelines? |
| 1:17.0 | Wow. |
| 1:18.5 | I have mixed thoughts, you know, of course, and for as long as I can remember, that I thought |
| 1:25.0 | the old dietary guidelines were flawed, you know, and you didn't have |
| 1:29.1 | to be like a rocket scientist to know, like, oh, maybe I shouldn't be eating 11 slices of bread a day. |
| 1:34.1 | Um, I love, I love the image. You know, there's been a lot of memes kind of comparing it back |
| 1:40.3 | to when, you know, South Park did the parody many years ago having, you know, fat on the |
| 1:45.1 | bottom. Um, my, my concern is it's, the image doesn't necessarily match up with what's written. |
| 1:54.8 | You know, what's written, unfortunately, still says limit saturated fat to 10% or less. And then at |
| 1:59.7 | this base, you have a steak, which |
| 2:01.6 | is very high in saturated fat. |
| 2:03.7 | So I guess it's a good start. |
| 2:07.5 | Just, I mean, having people just have a basic visual of like, |
| 2:10.2 | hey, you need to be eating a lot more protein. |
| 2:12.9 | You need to chill out on a lot of these, you know, |
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