Break Through Your Fat Loss Plateau with Carb Refeeds & Ketones: Dr. Latt Mansor
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
4.5 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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In this powerful second interview, Dr. Latt Mansor returns to the podcast to share his personal 20+ lb fat loss transformation—and how he used ketones and strategic carb re-feeds to break through stubborn plateaus, curb hunger, and preserve lean muscle mass.
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We dive into:
- How to use ketones to improve fat loss quality (not just scale weight)
- Why Dr. Mansor says ketones helped him "lose fat without losing muscle"
- How carb re-feeds helped him overcome plateaus and support metabolic flexibility
- How ketones support appetite control, recovery, and training performance
- A new study showing ketones boost sprint output and reduce fatigue
- Ketones vs. GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic—how they compare for appetite suppression
- Dosing protocols for fat loss, fasting, and late-night cravings
- How ketones improve oxygen delivery, red blood cell production, and reduce cortisol
- The science behind ketones reducing muscle protein breakdown and supporting performance
- Ketones and the brain: supporting focus, anxiety, ADHD, and GABA signaling
If you've hit a fat loss plateau—or want to preserve muscle while losing fat—this episode is packed with cutting-edge science and tools on how to use exogenous ketones and strategic carbs to support metabolic health, performance, and sustainable results.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the optimal protein podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the optimal protein podcast. I'm your host Vanessa. And today I'm |
| 0:09.6 | thrilled to welcome back, Dr. Latmanzer, a scientist and expert in human metabolism performance |
| 0:16.1 | and the lead researcher behind ketone IQ, my favorite ketones. |
| 0:21.3 | In this episode, we dive into how to improve the quality of weight loss, not just the number |
| 0:28.0 | on the scale. |
| 0:29.4 | Dr. Manzer shares how he lost over 25 pounds of fat to date without losing muscle and how |
| 0:36.3 | he broke through multiple fat loss stalls. Now, this is a topic |
| 0:40.8 | that so many people deal with. You're on a weight loss journey and you hit a stall and you don't |
| 0:46.0 | know how to break through. We dive into these specific strategies that he used, including strategic |
| 0:52.5 | carbs or carbups, improving and optimizing his sleep and different approaches that he used, including strategic carbs or carb-ups, improving and optimizing his sleep, |
| 0:57.1 | and different approaches that he took with his activity levels and more to really break through |
| 1:02.3 | some fat loss stalls and achieve the incredible level of leanness and fitness without losing |
| 1:08.7 | muscle that he's been able to achieve so far on his fat loss journey. |
| 1:12.9 | We also dive deep into the science behind ketones and how using ketones strategically helped |
| 1:19.4 | him stick to a caloric deficit to achieve his fat loss, helped boost his recovery, |
| 1:25.1 | suppress appetite in a sustainable way, and actually helped him preserve |
| 1:29.7 | as much lean body mass and muscle as possible during his weight loss. We explore the science |
| 1:37.6 | behind ketone supplementation, how it can produce similar effects to GLP1 drugs like OZempeg when it comes to appetite regulation, |
| 1:46.7 | how ketones may actually naturally blunt ghrelin, increase fat oxidation, and improve metabolic |
| 1:53.9 | flexibility. We also talk about his latest studies on performance that came out in the last |
| 2:00.2 | year, which are really exciting and |
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