The End of Carb Confusion: Dr. Eric Westman & Amy Berger
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
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🗓️ 23 November 2020
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
This episode is with Dr. Eric Westman & Amy Berger! It's a great episode talking all about keto, carbs, carnivore, fasting and more with two long term ketogenic experts, including all about their brand new book!
Eric C. Westman, MD, MHS is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Duke University. He is Board Certified in Obesity Medicine and Internal Medicine and founded the Duke Keto Medicine Clinic in 2006 after 8 years of clinical research regarding low carbohydrate ketogenic diets. He is Past-President and Master Fellow of the Obesity Medicine Association and Fellow of The Obesity Society. He is an editor of the textbook: Obesity: Evaluation & Treatment Essentials, and author of the New York Times Bestseller The New Atkins for a New You, Cholesterol Clarity, and Keto Clarity. He is co-founder of Adapt Your Life, an education and product company based on low carbohydrate concepts.
Amy Berger, MS, CNS, is a U.S. Air Force veteran and Certified Nutrition Specialist who specializes in helping people do "Keto Without the Crazy."™ She has a master's degree in human nutrition and writes about a wide range of health and nutrition-related topics, such as insulin, metabolism, weight loss, diabetes, thyroid function, and more. She has presented internationally on these issues and is the author of The Alzheimer's Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer's Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline, and The Stall Slayer: Seven Roadblocks to Keto Fat Loss and What to Do About Them.
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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, |
| 0:56.6 | physicians, and people from all around the world who have experienced remarkable results from |
| 1:01.7 | following a low carb or ketogenic diet and getting their body into ketogenesis. So I hope you guys |
| 1:08.6 | enjoy these interviews with this goal in mind. |
| 1:17.8 | Hey guys, welcome back to Fast Keto. I'm so excited for this episode. I have two of my friends joining me today, Dr. Eric Westman and Amy Berger. And we are talking all about the biggest |
| 1:23.9 | mistakes that people make on keto, how to end your low carb confusion, which is a brand |
| 1:29.7 | new book that they just co-wrote together. And I was really thrilled to have them both on. |
| 1:35.1 | We talk all about carnivore, their opinion on the carnivore diet, on fasting and extended fasting |
| 1:41.5 | and so much more. I really enjoy speaking with both of them. |
| 1:45.5 | They both have decades of experience working one-on-one with people. And that is a big |
| 1:52.5 | difference in the keto space. If you are working one-on-one with people and you're really |
| 1:56.8 | seeing them progress and you're seeing what their struggles are and what their wins are |
| 2:00.7 | and what makes wins are and what |
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