Ep. 181 Insulin Resistance, Explained with Dr. Morgan Nolte

Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Health, and Science for Women 35+

Cynthia Thurlow

Alternative Health, Nutrition, Science, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

I am delighted to have Dr. Morgan Nolte joining me today! Dr. Morgan is a passionate board-certified clinical specialist in geriatric physical therapy. She is the founder of Weight Loss for Health, an online course, community, and coaching program to help women in c and postmenopause reduce insulin resistance for sustainable weight loss and disease prevention. Dr. Morgan is dedicated to helping women feel empowered, confident, and in control of their health. She teaches women how food, fasting, stress, sleep, exercise, and mindset all play a role in reducing insulin resistance. The key to maintaining long-term weight loss and health is living a low insulin lifestyle. That requires unlearning old weight loss beliefs and overcoming self-limiting thoughts. Thoughts determine emotions. Emotions determine actions. Actions determine results. In this episode, we dive into maintaining weight loss, the role of insulin in the body, understanding macros, overcoming insulin resistance, and keeping your brain healthy after mid-life. Dr. Morgan also shares some actionable tips for overcoming limiting beliefs and maintaining weight loss. Stay tuned to learn what Dr. Morgan has to share in our interesting and informative conversation today! IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: Dr. Morgan unpacks the false dogmatic dieting principles with which many women struggle. Why do we need to change from the caloric model of obesity to the insulin model? What we need to understand about macros. Which macros are the most satiating? Why do you need to forget about the food groups? Lifestyle changes can help reverse insulin resistance. Some key roles insulin plays in the body. What happens in the body when cells cannot communicate with the insulin hormone? The benefits of a low-carb diet and intermittent fasting. Why it is vital to get enough sleep. How stress causes weight gain. What will happen to you if you fail to manage your blood sugar dysregulation? What women in their forties and fifties need to do to maintain their brain health. Understanding the limiting beliefs that could impact weight loss and some tips for overcoming those beliefs. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Connect with Dr. Morgan Nolte On her website On Instagram and YouTube Reshape Your Health Podcast Books mentioned: The Big Fat Surprise by Nina Teicholz The Obesity Code by Jason Fung Why We Get Sick by Benjamin Bikman The XX Brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi

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0:00.0	This is everyday wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.
0:11.0	And now, here is your host, Nurse Practition practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.
0:18.8	Today I'm delighted to have Dr. Morgan
0:21.0	Nolte who is a passionate board certified clinical specialist and geriatric physical therapy.
0:27.0	She's the founder of Weight Loss for Health, an online course, community, and coaching program to help women in pary menopause and post menopause
0:35.6	reduce insulin resistance for sustainable weight loss and disease prevention.
0:40.5	She's dedicated to helping women feel empowered, confident, and in control of their health.
0:45.4	She teaches women how food, fasting, stress, sleep, exercise, and mindset all play a role in
0:51.8	reducing insulin resistance.
0:53.7	Welcome Morgan, it's so good to connect with you.
0:56.2	Thank you, Cynthia.
0:57.2	Always nice to connect with you too.
0:59.2	Yeah, and so, you know, as I was kind of thinking about our conversation this morning, the thing that really stood out is the amount of diet dogma, nutrition dogma that has really worked against us in many ways.
1:15.2	Not only as clinicians, because we're both trained licensed clinicians,
1:19.6	but what we learned in school and what we very likely taught our patients in the beginning of
1:24.4	our career is largely disproven and actually wrong. So let's unpack diet dogma.
1:29.6	What are some of the dogmatic principles that you feel like women struggle with the most?
1:36.7	Okay, well I think the first one is calories.
1:39.4	Obviously I think that we have an obsession with calories and depending on which quote unquote diet, women go on that can be translated as points.
1:47.6	So that's the first thing that we have to overcome is that, you know, weight loss is not about lowering your
1:53.4	calories it's really about lowering your insulin and you can lose weight by
1:58.2	cutting calories but you're gonna be hard-pressed to keep it off and I think that's
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