Addicted to Drugs, Alcohol, and Food, Now a Health Hero | Tim Kaufman
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 23 April 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Tim Kaufman was a triple addict. Alcohol and drug abuse combined with binge eating nearly claimed his life.
Of the three deadly vices, it was food that had its hooks in him the deepest. It is an addiction more powerful than the fentanyl he was abusing. Ditto for what was in the bottomless liquor bottles he consumed each night.
Tim was beaten raw by life until he fought back and clawed his way out of a self-made prison. His journey began at rock bottom, and he has soared to new heights as a leader in the plant-based world thanks to his Fat Man Rants.
In this episode, Tim joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll to talk about the personal hell he created for himself and how he was able to overcome his demons.
The two recovering food addicts discuss their take of "cheat days" and why they are the downfall of good health. Especially after weight loss.
Tim is the author of the book Escape: Breaking Free From a Self-Made Prison.
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Lotus Health Foundation Symposium - Rochester
Where: 125 LIVE and Rochester Golf and Country Club, Rochester, MN
Date: May 16-17, 2024
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Date: June 1-2, 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the exam room. I don't know if I was choosing life. I think I was choosing |
| 0:09.7 | delayed death. I had many rock bottoms but probably the final bottom. I was sitting by my dad's |
| 0:16.6 | grave site as he was getting lowered into the grave and and I had been trying to get cleaned up and then, you know, at when my dad died, you know, I went full on. Like I went on a huge binge and I was a mess at the |
| 0:31.5 | And that's how the book opens up at the side of his grave. So I was a mess at the fee. That's how the book opens up at the side of his grave. |
| 0:34.4 | So I would say that was the rock bottom. |
| 0:36.8 | After, you know, we buried my dad, Heather's mom, |
| 0:40.6 | you know, had leukemia, |
| 0:42.1 | they turned into lymphoma and ultimately a brain tumor |
| 0:45.0 | would end her life early so we we buried her and there was a moment where you know |
| 0:51.7 | Heather was getting me dressed in where she was put my socks and shoes on and I thought oh crap like two funerals pretty much in a row |
| 1:01.5 | she's got to do another one. |
| 1:03.7 | And I didn't want her to do another funeral this soon. |
| 1:06.6 | My idea was let's get some space in between these. |
| 1:10.0 | Just give her a break. |
| 1:11.5 | Let things get back to normal. |
| 1:13.0 | Let the kids get back into practice |
| 1:15.4 | and start the sports again, |
| 1:17.8 | kind of get back into a routine. |
| 1:19.3 | I mean, we've been running to cancer wards |
| 1:21.4 | and blood transfusions and you know picking out |
| 1:24.7 | caskets and putting obituaries in the paper things that I never knew we |
| 1:29.4 | had we would ever have to do and I just all I could think of is like I gotta space my death out, |
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