The Last 20 Pounds: Keto, High Protein, Carbs & Cutting Through the Fat Loss Plateau: Dr. Latt Mansor

Optimal Protein Podcast with Vanessa Spina

Vanessa Spina

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.5 • 758 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

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In this insightful and practical episode, Vanessa sits down with Dr. Latt Mansor—metabolism researcher and Scientific Director at Ketone-IQ—to talk about what it really takes to shed the last 20 pounds of body fat. Dr. Mansor shares his current fat loss journey, including how he’s incorporating strategic carbs to break through a plateau after already making incredible progress.

Together, they explore the science behind using ketones for fat loss, and debate the merits of strategic carbs vs. high-protein keto—which is the exact approach Vanessa used to achieve her own transformation. This episode brings a perfect blend of real-world experience, nuanced science, and actionable tools to help you navigate the final stretch of fat loss or simply optimize your metabolic health.

🔥 Topics Covered:

• Dr. Latt Mansor’s fat loss journey & working on the final 20 lbs

• Strategic carbs: How he’s using them to stay lean while losing fat

• High-protein keto: Why Vanessa prefers this approach and how it compares

• Breaking through a fat loss plateau with metabolic flexibility

• Using ketones to support energy, brain function, and appetite control

• The role of exogenous ketones like Ketone-IQ in performance & fasting

• Ketones and women’s health: metabolism, hormones, and menopause

• Cognitive performance, mitochondrial health & longevity benefits

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The content provided in this podcast is for informational purposes only and should not be construed as medical advice. Consult with a healthcare professional before making significant changes to your diet or exercise regimen.

🧠 Featured Guest:

Dr. Latt Mansor is the Scientific Director at Ketone-IQ and one of the world’s leading experts in human metabolism and ketone science. With a PhD in Physiology from Oxford, his work spans elite athletic performance, military research, and health optimization. In this episode, he shares a more personal side of the science—his own body recomposition strategy and the biohacks he’s testing along the way.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Optimal Protein Podcast. I'm Vanessa Spina.
0:05.5	Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the podcast. I'm your host, Vanessa, and I am so excited for today's episode. We have Dr. Latmanzor joining us today. He has a PhD in physiology, anatomy, and genetics from the University of Oxford, where his research focused on the metabolism of the type 2 diabetic heart in hypoxia.
0:26.8	He is an expert on all things about chemistry and ketones, a world expert in physiology and metabolism, and also the research lead at ketone IQ, which is a ketone, exogenous
0:42.7	ketone that I have started taking before I podcast and before I do any speaking or important
0:49.1	tasks. And it has been a game changer for me with my sleep deprived era that I've been in.
0:55.2	So on the episode today, we're talking all about achieving successful fat loss, utilizing
1:01.4	ketones, and the research showing how ketones generate appetite suppression, which is one of
1:06.9	my favorite topics.
1:08.4	We talk a lot about how high protein diets and ketones together
1:13.1	can have an amazing effect on appetite suppression. We actually start off the episode talking
1:18.7	about Dr. Manzer's personal fat loss journey and how he utilized ketones to help with his
1:25.9	appetite suppression and also to optimize his workouts and
1:29.8	how he's had incredible body recomposition from doing this. And we also do a deep dive into all
1:37.6	the mechanisms of action behind how ketones actually work on cognition, on the brain, on the heart, on improving virtually
1:49.3	everything in the body, which ketones really can do. We also talk about metabolic flexibility
1:55.0	and how ketones can also support the mitochondria and mitochondrial health and even potentially reverse biological aging.
2:03.8	So what is it that ketones can't do? You're not going to be able to answer that question after
2:09.0	the end of this episode because we really cover it all. Everything you wanted to know about ketones
2:15.6	and all of the scientific studies and research
2:19.1	behind it all. So I truly loved this episode with Dr. Latmanzer and I know you're going to get
2:25.2	a ton of takeaways from it as well. Friends, I have to tell you about something that's been
2:31.1	having a big impact on how I've been looking and feeling recently.
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