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Cabral concept where board certified naturopath and integrative health

practitioner Dr. Stephen Cabral shares how he was diagnosed at the age of 17 with a life-altering illness

and given no hope for recovery. It was only after studying and traveling all over the world

did he discover how to combine ancient iovitic healing practices with state-of-the-art

naturopathic and functional medicine to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life.

It's time to discover how to get well, lose weight, and finally feel alive again.

And now here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabral.

And today on our Weight loss Wednesday show.

We're going to be taking one of the most popular questions

that people ask in both my Boston practices,

but also all over the web.

And basically a lot of the questions that I get asked on a weekly basis are

around nutrition, calculating calories and how best to lose weight.

Now if you've been listening to me for a little while now you know I'm not a big

proponent of calculating or really counting calories total calories and the reason I

say that is because I don't want to set people up with this expectation that total calories in

equals weight loss if they're low enough because that has nothing to do with

inflammation it doesn't have to do with hormonal balance with thyroid with a lot of different things

So if you go back to my previous episode which is episode 83 it was said don't count calories

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