Episode 11: Amy Berger
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2019
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
The voice of reason in nutrition, Amy Berger, joins Low Carb MD to give some clarity to the Low Carb community. Amy has extensive clinical experience and has an amazing blog, YouTube channel, and her book The Alzheimers Antidote is helping many people. Fasten your seat belt as Amy takes us on a grand tour of nutrition. Thank you for continuing to educate us all.
Amy's blog: http://www.tuitnutrition.com/
Amy's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmDz-SYYhoerycynsCm7L8g/videos
Amy's book: https://www.amazon.com/Alzheimers-Antidote-Low-Carb-High-Fat-Cognitive/dp/1603587098/
Visit Dr. Brian Lenzkes website: https://www.LowCarbAdvisor.com
Visit Dr. Tro Kalayjian website: https://www.doctortro.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast where we seek progress, not perfection. |
| 0:06.0 | Thank you for joining us again for another episode of the low-carb MD podcast. |
| 0:16.0 | Super excited today, we, uh, the heavens opened and Amy Berger fell into our labs here and we're super excited about it. |
| 0:24.0 | Amy's a certified nutrition specialist, certified in nutritional therapy, |
| 0:30.0 | all the stuff that us docs don't know much about. |
| 0:32.0 | We got about 45 minutes in med school learning about it. |
| 0:35.6 | Amy's with two at nutrition and she's making a lot of impact in the community and just helping a ton of people. |
| 0:42.4 | So we're super excited to have |
| 0:43.6 | her on Amy welcome. Hey thanks so much for having me. Well Amy tell us about your |
| 0:49.6 | journey how you go through the standard education that you got and how did you get to where you are now? |
| 0:55.6 | Yeah actually I was fortunate in that I did it backwards. |
| 1:00.4 | I started low-carbing myself a while back mainly for weight loss. I was in my mid-20s. I mean I discovered |
| 1:08.6 | low-carb when I was in college and I tried it but I wasn't quite ready to commit for the long haul you know I just wasn't that |
| 1:16.0 | ready to do it and um several years later I did it and I've been low-carb ever since and I I was young enough that I didn't really have any health |
| 1:24.7 | problems but I do have a family history of type 2 diabetes, cancer, stroke and obesity. |
| 1:30.2 | So the family's all stocked up and there's no doubt in my mind that had I |
| 1:35.5 | continued to eat the way I was eating despite the fact that I was doing a ton of |
| 1:40.0 | exercise I've run marathoms, you know, despite all that, I probably would have ended up with some very serious metabolic illnesses, but at the time I went low-carb, it was really just for weight loss for myself. |
| 1:52.0 | And it wasn't until a few years after that, |
| 1:54.3 | after I had already been eating low-carb, that I changed careers and I went to |
| 1:58.8 | school for nutrition. So I didn't really have to unlearn a lot of formal nutrition education and I when I learned |
| 2:08.0 | the biochemistry and the physiology and the anatomy like so many light bulbs went off for me because it was like, oh, that's how my cell works. |
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