The End of Overeating with the Protein Leverage Hypothesis
Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina
Vanessa Spina
4.6 • 795 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
This episode is about my personal experience in recovering from processed food addiction and understanding that it was my physiology and not personal failings that caused me to be continuously preoccupied with food. This realization came from Dr. Ted Naiman's work in highlighting the work on the protein leverage hypothesis by Simpson et al - which describes how we will overeat energy in order to meet our essential protein needs.
Once I started prioritizing protein with a modified keto diet it really helped me finally feel satisfied as my essential protein needs were met, which meant the end of overeating but it also meant being able to let go of shame I had about my inability to stop thinking about food all of the time and I thought you might find it insightful or helpful too! Much love to you all and thank you so much for listening! Dr. Ted Naiman has a fantastic book called the PE Diet available, and has been on the podcast as well if you want more content with him! https://pedietbook.com/
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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. |
| 0:37.8 | And I am obsessed with optimizing our health through all these different biohacks, |
| 0:42.8 | ketogenesis, intermittent fasting, all of these amazing tools that center around making the body |
| 0:49.0 | 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. |
| 1:16.0 | Hey friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm so happy to have you here with me today. |
| 1:27.2 | We're going to talk all about food addiction and recovery from that and how to trust food again and be able to eat food in a way that you know that you can trust it |
| 1:30.9 | to nourish you without feeling out of control around it. And I want to talk about one aspect |
| 1:37.3 | in particular that really shifted things for me and really helped me in my journey in |
| 1:43.2 | overcoming food addiction and just being able to trust |
| 1:46.8 | food and love food for what it is. It's our friend. It's our ally. It makes our body strong. |
| 1:52.0 | And it keeps our bodies really well fueled. And there was one really huge, huge shift for me. |
| 1:58.5 | And I want to talk about that on today's episode. |
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