Episode 215: Cynthia Thurlow, NP
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Cynthia Thurlow, NP is an author, speaker, nurse, intermittent fasting guru, health coach, and functional nutritionist who has cared for patients for more than twenty years. She has over 10 million views for her second TEDx talk (Intermittent Fasting: Transformational Technique). Cynthia is a globally recognized expert in intermittent fasting and nutritional health, and has been featured on ABC, FOX5, KTLA, CW, Medium, Entrepreneur, and The Megyn Kelly Show.
In this discussion, Tro, Brian, and Cynthia talk about the way people ate before the era of processed food, moderating versus eliminating certain foods, the impact of weight stigma on how people negatively perceive intermittent fasting, the difference between disordered eating and fasting, the damage that dietary dogma can have and the importance of staying open-minded, the challenge of doing a low-carb diet as a vegetarian, the idea that "comfort is a cage," and hormone replacement therapy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:03.7 | No one is beyond help. |
| 0:05.8 | No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:08.5 | As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.7 | but none of this is medical advice. |
| 0:15.7 | Please seek out input from your own doctor. |
| 0:24.9 | Hello and welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:27.8 | We have a really, really important, great one today, Troll. |
| 0:30.6 | Good to see you, man. |
| 0:31.6 | How are you? |
| 0:32.6 | I'm so happy to be here. |
| 0:34.0 | An amazing author, a two-time TEDx speaker, the Intermittent Fasting Guru. |
| 0:39.9 | I'm so excited to have Cynthia Thurlow on. |
| 0:43.1 | Absolutely. |
| 0:44.1 | Years of clinical experience and now helping people educating them on Intermittent Fasting. |
| 0:50.8 | You are a cardiac nurse practitioner for how many years? |
| 0:53.7 | 16. |
| 0:54.7 | 16 years. |
| 0:55.7 | So I'm still licensed. |
| 0:57.4 | I just choose not to do a lot of prescriptions. |
| 1:00.4 | I always say I play well with others. |
| 1:02.1 | So when people need scripts, I send them back to their respective primary care providers |
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