Episode 428: 5 ways to Enhance your Metabolic Flexibility

Naturally Nourished

Ali Miller RD

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness:nutrition

4.8 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Are you looking for ways to enhance your metabolic flexibility? Want to know how carb intake can vary based on your metabolic threshold? Tune in to hear us discuss metabolic flexibility--what it is, why it's important, and how you can improve it with simple diet and lifestyle changes. In this episode we will define what metabolic flexibility is, why it is important for your body composition, blood sugar, and overall disease risk, and most importantly how you can enhance your individual metabolic flexibility! Learn about using movement and exercise, fasting, berberine and other tools in your favor as well as important labs to run during your keto journey. Also in this episode: LIVE Food-as-Medicine Keto Reset What is Metabolic Flexibility? How carb intake varies based on metabolic flexibility Benefits of carbs Microbiome Nutrients and real food, especially important in keto space Phytocompounds/immune Emotional/mental/redefine relationship with food Hormone regulation Longevity How to know what carb threshold works for you Nutrisense CGM use code ALIMILLERRD Episode 269: Blood Sugar Variability and Understanding Your CGM Berberine Boost Labs for starting keto Keto Checkup CMP DHEA-s A1c Leptin Fasting Insulin Advanced Metabolic Panel All of the above, plus: hs-CRP TSH Free T3 Free T4 Vitamin D Cholesterol Panel CBC 5 ways to enhance your metabolic flexibility Movement Naturally Nourished Episode 424 How Daily Walking Can Transform Your Health Adjusting feeding frequency and fasting Naturally Nourished Episode 375 Clarifying Fasting Nourished your mitochondria & support detoxification Bone Broth Fast Detox Packs BroccoDetox CoQ10 Carnitine Complex Berberine Berberine Boost Episode 359 Oh-No Ozempic Updates Keto Essentials Bundle Targeted carb control and nutritional ketosis Sponsors for this episode: This episode is sponsored by Wild Foods, a company that puts quality, sustainability, and health first in all of their products. They have everything from coffee to turmeric to medicinal mushrooms, and every single product is painstakingly sourced from small farms around the globe. They take their mission seriously to fix the broken food system, and believe real food is medicine. They've partnered with us to give you guys an exclusive discount, so use the code ALIMILLERRD for 12% off your order at WildFoods.co!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Naturally Nourished Podcast that delivers cutting-edge food is medicine solutions for optimal health.
0:12.7	Ali Miller is a nutrition expert sought up by the media in America's top medical institutes for her revolutionary functional medicine interventions.
0:22.6	From disease treatment to prevention, every episode will empower you with ways to put yourself
0:28.3	back in control of your health. Please know, the topic is discussed are for educational purposes
0:35.1	only. Now welcome, Integrative Dietitians, Allie Miller, and her co-host Becky You.
0:43.3	Welcome to episode 428 of the Naturally Nourished Podcast.
0:48.4	You were joining us for five ways to enhance your metabolic flexibility.
0:53.2	In today's episode, we will define what metabolic flexibility
0:56.3	is, why it's important for your body composition, blood sugar, and just overall disease, risk,
1:03.7	in general, and most importantly, how you can harness and enhance your own body's metabolic flexibility.
1:11.7	Yes, I feel like this topic is something about five years ago that was a really hot
1:17.6	focus in the world of the keto space, where we were constantly explaining and re-explaining
1:24.9	how our low-carb collagen zucchini muffins were still keto, even though they
1:29.8	had a banana, or really discussing how the state of nutritional ketosis and the role of glycemic index
1:37.6	is so dependent on the individual consuming said foods and how generally I like to lean into whole real foods always
1:46.7	first before trying to make adjustments in recipes using non-colaric sweeteners or ingredients that
1:54.3	would have health depleting versus health supporting effects. So I think that this episode will be
1:59.9	really helpful for those of you
2:01.6	that have played with nutritional ketosis to really understand more about food freedom.
2:07.1	And then on the other end of the spectrum, for those of you that are maybe newly diagnosed
2:12.3	with insulin resistance or dysclycemia, type 2 diabetes, PCOS, or any mental health conditions, as we know,
2:19.7	blood sugar plays a huge role there.
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