Ep. 1170: Amy Shah Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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Michael Covel
4.6 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Amy Shah. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University's school of nutrition. She helps busy people transform their health using cutting-edge nutritional and medical science. Her proven techniques to heal inflammation utilize the power of the microbiome to help digestion, obtain natural hormone balance and heal food sensitivities. She is a well-known expert on intermittent fasting.
The topic is her book I'm So Effing Hungry: Why We Crave What We Crave - and What to Do about It.
In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:
- Obesity epidemic
- Eating disorders and body image
- Finding the next miracle drug
- Circadian rhythm
- Dopamine explosion
- Fasting plans
Jump in!
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I'm MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I'm proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.
To start? I'd like to give you a great piece of advice you can use in your life and trading journey… cut your losses! You will find much more about that philosophy here: https://www.trendfollowing.com/trend/
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Hope you enjoy my never-ending podcast conversation!
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| 0:00.0 | This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive. |
| 0:10.9 | Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings. |
| 0:21.2 | I am your host, Michael Cobell, not filtered, raw, honest. |
| 0:27.4 | That's my passion. |
| 0:33.4 | My guest today is Amy Shaw. |
| 0:35.5 | She is a double board certified medical doctor and nutrition expert. |
| 0:40.8 | She has trained at Cornell, Columbia, and Harvard. |
| 0:43.4 | Her background, internal medicine and allergy work. |
| 0:46.8 | Her book today that we jump into and discuss, |
| 0:50.1 | I'm so effing hungry, why we crave what we crave and what to do about it. |
| 0:55.7 | I love having these conversations on this podcast with smart people, anyone that can give us |
| 1:00.6 | a sliver of information to push back the obesity epidemic, to bring people more in line with |
| 1:07.2 | where they should be physically, because they would be a heck of a lot happier. I welcome |
| 1:12.1 | those conversations. Without any further delay from me, let's jump right in and get some of that |
| 1:17.3 | wisdom from Amy Shaw. I hope you enjoy this conversation. |
| 1:36.9 | Amy, you know, I'm currently in Saigon, Vietnam, and this by World Health Organization metrics is the least obese country in the world. My home country, the country that you happen to be in, |
| 1:43.1 | is the most obese country in the world. |
| 1:45.6 | There are some South Pacific islands that are heavier than America, but in terms of big population, |
| 1:51.0 | America is the winner for sure. |
| 1:52.9 | And so this has been an interesting observation for me for 10 years to see the difference. |
| 1:59.6 | As a Gen X guy, it reminds me of going to high school in America. |
| 2:02.9 | I'm just going to lay out a couple things here for you. |
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