Ep. 233 How to Optimize Your Hormones & Metabolism For Vitality

Everyday Wellness with Cynthia Thurlow ™

Cynthia Thurlow

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

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

I am excited to interview Dr. Kyle Gillett today! He is an integrative and precision medicine physician who focuses on bio-individuality. He is active in obesity medicine and hormonal methodologies. His approach is evidence-based, and it involves shared decision-making. As a physician, Dr. Gillett wanted to treat people holistically. Hormone pathologies, menopause, and metabolic syndrome are common, so he decided to become proficient in those areas to serve his patients in the best way possible. Dr. Gillett and I dive into his background, his six pillars of health, the value of evidence-based medicine, how our modern-day lifestyles impact our hormonal health, nutritional dogma, and the importance of sleep. We discuss adrenopause, perimenopause, menopause, changes in body composition, and broken metabolisms. We also talk about weight loss resistance, lab work, muscle-centric medicine, and valuable supplements. I’ve waited months to interview Dr. Kyle Gillett! I hope you enjoy listening to today’s conversation with him! Stay tuned to learn about hormones, weight-loss resistance, and more! IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: Dr. Gillett dives into his 6 pillars of health. How our modern-day lifestyles impact our hormonal health. What is food intelligence? Dr. Gillett unpacks the concept of evidence-based medicine. How providers can prevent a breakdown of the patient-provider relationship. The challenges women tend to face in menopause. How Dr. Gillett helps women cope with changes in their body composition. What happens in our bodies when we are stressed or lack sleep? What is adrenopause? The benefits and effects of using melatonin. Dr. Gillett’s take on oral contraceptives and HRT. How Dr. Gillett addresses a broken metabolism. Bio: Kyle Gillett MD: University of Kansas School of Medicine. Dual board Certified Obesity Medicine and Family Medicine. An undergraduate dual major in Critical Thinking and Biology. Dr. Gillett enjoys providing holistic individualized care to his patients. His practice includes preventative medicine, aesthetics, sports medicine, hormone optimization, obstetrics and infertility, integrative medicine, and precision medicine including genomics. He believes that each human is a unique creation that requires attention to their body, mind, and soul. He uses shared decision-making and an evidence-based approach. He firmly believes “food is medicine” and “exercise is medicine”. Dr. Gillett describes the “7 pillars of health”: exercise, diet, sleep, stress, social, sunlight, and spirit. These are more powerful than any medication or supplement. He enjoys spending time outdoors on the farm with his wife, two sons, and two wolfhounds. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Connect with Dr. Kyle Gillett On Instagram On all social media platforms: Gillett Health

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0:00.0	Welcome to Everyday Wellness Podcast. I'm your host, Nurse Practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.
0:07.0	This podcast is designed to educate, empower, and inspire you to achieve your health and wellness goals.
0:14.0	My goal and intent is to provide you with the best content and conversations from leaders in the
0:19.2	health and wellness industry each week and impact over a million lives.
0:23.3	Today I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Kyle Gillette. He is an integrative medicine and
0:35.4	precision medicine physician focused on bio-individuality as well as using
0:40.4	shared decision-making and evidence-based patient-centered approach. He is active in obesity medicine as well as hormonal
0:48.0	methodologies. Today we dove deep into his background with set him up for a holistic focus, the role of six pillars of health, the value of evidence-based medicine, the impact of our modern-day lifestyles on hormonal health, nutritional dogma, the importance of sleep.
1:05.2	We spent a great deal of time talking about adrenopause as well as peri menopause and menopause,
1:11.8	changes in body composition, broken metabolisms and weight loss
1:15.2	resistance, lab work, the value of muscle-centric medicine, as well as supplements
1:22.3	that he finds valuable in this particular patient
1:25.0	population. I hope you will enjoy our conversation as much as I did. I've been
1:29.0	waiting months to interview him and I'm so glad that I did and I can bring this information to the audience.
1:34.3	Well, thank you, Dr Gillette.
1:39.6	I'm so excited to have you here today diving deep into hormones and weight loss resistance and
1:44.9	topics that I know you are very well familiarized with.
1:48.0	Thanks, yeah, a pleasure to be on.
1:50.0	Now I know that your training is actually very lifestyle medicine focused and I would imagine at least for those of us that trained in the 90s before kind of lifestyle medicine started become a larger focus of traditional allopathic medicine and functional
2:04.2	integrated medicine was that a choice of yours were you looking for a medical
2:08.6	program that had a unique lens or unique slant or is that just serendipitous?
2:13.4	Yeah, I've known that I wanted to be a physician for a while and I wanted to be able to
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