Real Food for Pregnancy author Lily Nichols, RDN
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
4.6 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Lily Nichols is a Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Educator, researcher, and author with a passion for evidence-based prenatal nutrition. Drawing from the current scientific literature and the wisdom of traditional cultures, her work is known for being research-focused, thorough, and sensible.
Her bestselling book, Real Food for Gestational Diabetes (and online course of the same name), presents a revolutionary nutrient-dense, lower carb approach for managing gestational diabetes. Her work has not only helped tens of thousands of women manage their gestational diabetes (most without the need for blood sugar-lowering medication), but has also influenced nutrition policies internationally. Lily's clinical expertise and extensive background in prenatal nutrition have made her a highly sought after consultant and speaker in the field.
Lily's second book, Real Food for Pregnancy, is an evidence-based look at the gap between conventional prenatal nutrition guidelines and what's optimal for mother and baby. With over 930 citations, this is the most comprehensive text on prenatal nutrition to date.
www.LilyNicholsRDN.com explores a variety of topics related to real food, mindful eating, and pregnancy nutrition.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Fast Keto. I'm your host, Ketogenic Girl. |
| 0:05.7 | Did you know that your body can actually be either a sugar burner or a fat burner? |
| 0:12.0 | On this podcast, we talk all about how to make your body a fat burning fat-fueled machine |
| 0:18.0 | and engaging your full metabolic flexibility. I'm Vanessa Spina. I am a |
| 0:23.4 | sport nutrition specialist, a biomedical science student at U of T, and I am the author of the |
| 0:31.5 | best-selling cookbook keto essentials available on Amazon and creator of the Ketogenic Girl Challenge |
| 0:37.0 | program. And I am obsessed with |
| 0:38.9 | optimizing our health through all these different biohacks, ketogenesis, intermittent fasting, |
| 0:45.2 | all of these amazing tools that center around making the body a fat-adapted, fat-fueled machine. |
| 0:52.8 | With this in mind, I present interviews to you with biomedical scientists, physicians, |
| 0:57.0 | and people from all around the world who have experienced remarkable results from following |
| 1:02.2 | a low-carb or ketogenic diet and getting their body into ketogenesis. |
| 1:07.3 | So I hope you guys enjoy these interviews with this goal in mind. |
| 1:11.6 | Hey guys, I am so pumped for this episode. I've been looking forward to recording it for a while now. |
| 1:17.7 | I have author Lily Nichols, RDN, on the podcast today. She is an expert in pregnancy nutrition. |
| 1:27.1 | And this episode is going to be fantastic for you if you're |
| 1:29.8 | pregnant or you're thinking about getting pregnant but even if you're not we really talk a lot |
| 1:34.6 | about nutrient density and the overall importance for that for your metabolic health |
| 1:39.1 | and also food safety if you like to eat raw foods like I do especially raw salmon, sashimi, all that delicious sushi. |
| 1:48.8 | I like to eat my steak pretty rare and I love raw tartar. |
| 1:53.2 | So we talk a lot about that on this podcast and about the importance of quality sourcing and weighing out the risks of that with the risks |
| 2:04.2 | of missing out on important nutrients that you may be craving. |
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