Episode 148: Bitten Jonsson
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. We are very happy to have a brand new, first time guest on the show—Bitten Jonsson, RN. Bitten is a Swedish food addiction expert who has developed her own treatment method called Holistic Addiction Medicine. She was introduced to addiction medicine in California at a treatment facility. Since then, she has been dedicated to studying addiction and working with people to overcome their addictions.
In our discussion with Bitten, we discuss sugar/food addiction as well as addiction generally. Step by step, Bitten walks us through the steps to recovery from food addiction. She explains how to properly conduct a diagnostic interview with a patient, the difference between 'harmful use' and 'addiction', and the benefits of group therapy for a patient in recovery. We discuss techniques for reducing stress as well as techniques for staying motivated to continue to fight your addiction. Finally, Bitten explains how sugar addiction is, often times, the gateway to other addictions.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.0 | As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.0 | but none of this is medical advice. |
| 0:15.3 | Please seek out input from your own doctor. Hello and welcome to the low-carved MD podcast. Today we're going to have a first |
| 0:28.8 | for our podcast and we have a very special guest trot. I mean, it's, I'm like in a little bit in awe right now and excited. |
| 0:36.6 | Yeah, this is gonna be great. |
| 0:40.0 | I mean, this is somebody I've been looking forward to have for a very long time who's |
| 0:44.3 | essentially pioneered the concept of you know along with Joan Iflin and so many other |
| 0:50.3 | people's pioneered the concept of sugar and food addiction, something that I |
| 0:54.4 | feel very strongly about. If you feel safer calling it binge eating, that's fine. I think the reality |
| 1:01.6 | what we're talking about here is that it's food addiction and this is really a pioneer |
| 1:05.7 | She's gone on to train several dieticians on kind of the tools that she's developed and |
| 1:17.5 | her screening tools which are which I've seen and thankfully I've been exposed to and are incredibly valuable so very happy to have you on, Bitten Johnson. This is an amazing pleasure and such an honor. |
| 1:29.0 | Thank you. I can't think of any better way to spend a Friday evening than with you guys. |
| 1:34.0 | All the way from Sweden too. |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, all the way from Sweden in the middle of Sweden actually, north of Stockholm, way north. |
| 1:41.0 | Yeah, we're trying to help this little Diet Doctor |
| 1:44.0 | program get off the ground so we're doing our best to help out. Oh yeah the kind |
| 1:48.2 | little Diet Doctor yeah yeah yeah yeah you're you're doing amazing work so so and you have a PowerPoint for us, so let's start. |
| 1:55.0 | And Trot and I, we get the first dibs on this |
| 1:57.4 | and we're going to make this available on video. |
| 2:00.0 | You know, I'm a recurring alcoholic for 35 years just a few days ago. |
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