Nutrition Factors: Recent Episodes
Ulan Nutritional Systems
This episode of Nutrition Factors is an interview with Tara Collingwood- the Diet Diva. Tara talks about how to navigate the holidays and stay healthy. She also explains the process of nutrition coaching and why it is so important to have a nutrition coach when you are on a health and nutrition journey..
In this episode we talk with Dr Brad Kristiansen. Dr. Brad defines herbs, drugs, nutraceuticals, and whole food supplements and explains how they are used to help a body repair itself. He also explains that it's necessary to use some form of testing to establish which of these remedies should be used to best assist the body. His preferred method is Nutrition Response Testing(R) developed by Dr. Freddie Ulan. Find out more about this method at https://www.nutritionresponsetesting.com
Dr. Elizabeth Klodas is the founder of Step One Foods. As a practicing cardiologist she realized that pharmaceuticals and medications were not helping her patients heal.
Her research into the link between nutrition, real food, and health led Dr Klodas to develop some simple ways to swap out just two items of food a day. Her trials have been conducted in the same rigorous way that clinical trials get done and she has the result to show that it works!
A third of Americans have metabolic syndrome and 88 percent have at least one of the markers. The majority of people are metabolically unhealthy.
We know how to reverse metabolic syndrome and it is backed by scientific studies.
Any compound you put in your body, be it a food supplement or a powerful drug, is just input into our biological operating system. There is only one that we have multiple times a day, and that we need to have, that really determines what we are composed of.
That is food.
The elements that are crushing modern society are:
· Diabetes, which costs now $1 billion per day and by midcentury one in three Americans will have diabetes.
· Alzheimer's, which is increasing at a similar rate. By 2050 I think it’s predicted to cost $3 billion per day and the prevalence could triple in America.
These diseases are climbing without any effective treatment or reversal. The treatment for Diabetes is symptom management, but they're still considered progressive, irreversible conditions.
And when you think about their nature as metabolic diseases, it makes sense that we would need to treat them with nutrition.
If you pose the question, ‘Does nutrition have a positive effect on health?’ to any health care practitioner they would say, ‘Of course. 100%!’
There is a consensus there. But it’s what constitutes good nutrition that is the stumbling block.
A lot of practitioners just follow the standard guidelines. There is the perception that they're based on good evidence and that they're being supported by an expert panel who are going through a proper systematic review of the literature.
I believed that too. And I continued to believe it as I progressed through multiple metabolic conditions, until I really got to the point where I was hopeless. And even at that point, I kind of still believed it because it’s much easier to believe in this paternalistic system.
It's actually hard, quite honestly, to believe that the nutrition information being given to us by these mysterious bodies, like the USDA, about nutrition and health wouldn't be spot on.
Then, you realize it's not. And you often have to realize that through trial and error in your own life and experience by trying something else and realizing, Wow! This works!
What I do know is, in the end science will win. That means that metabolic medicine, low carbohydrate diets, and ketogenic options will come to be a part of conventional medicine.
It’s just going to take time.
I have concluded, or at least my interpretation is, that the most probable way forward, and it may be the only way forward, is to go through this unfortunate pattern of people getting sick and growing the low-carbohydrate community until we reach an inflection point. I don't know where that is.
I kind of sense that we're heading to that inflection point, where more and more people are starting to listen. Some open-minded practitioners are actually being curious about this and saying, maybe there's something here.
I think the idea that you prevent and reverse metabolic diseases, like Diabetes and Alzheimer's, with the right nutrition will take off in the next 5-10 years.
John Payne is a scientist who researches metabolic health issues, His major interest is in the plant-based nutrients we can use to stay healthy and avoid or reverse the symptoms of Metabolic Syndrome. (MetS)
John talks about the need to follow the diet our ancestors ate and points out that the World Health Organization has recommended this diet because it is the diet our bodies were genetically programmed to respond to.
The obesity epidemic is caused by eating processed food that is not the right food and our bodies don't recognize those molecules.
If your waist is 35 inches for a woman and 40 inches for a man, you probably have at least one symptom of MetS.
If you're struggling with metabolic health issues, such as weight, high blood pressure etc., and want to improve your nutrition as a way to improve your health, finding a nutrition coach could be the answer.
Dr. Julia Rucklidge is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She conducts research studies on the use of nutrition to handle mental illness. In this episode she explains how nutrition helps people with anxiety, bipolar disorder and other mental problems and gets better results than the psychotropic medication.
Joe Cross, known for his film Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead, went on a journey to heal his autoimmune disease and get off all medication by using nutrition.
Joe started with a 60 day juice fast and then did 90 days on a plant-based diet. Listen to his interview and hear his story of how he came to understand that good nutrition was the way to health and longevity.
You can watch the film at www.rebootwith joe.com or watch more of his videos on his YouTube channel.
In this episode Dr Ulan talks about the direct links between nutrition and health.
He covers Dr Pottenger's experiments with cats and how when processed food was introduced into their diets, after a few generations they started to show signs of degenerative disease and infertility.
When we started to eat a diet of highly processed food in the 50s and we're now seeing that same progression of degenerative disease, metabolic syndrome, and rising rates of infertility in the American population.
Dr. Ulan's top nutrition tip: Avoid sugar and highly processed carbohydrates.
Dr. Cori Stern practices in New York City. She's been doing mainly nutrition work for many years and has some excellent insights into how nutrition affects your health.
Jackie has a bachelor's of Science in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota and has studied many different nutrition programs becoming certified with the AFPA and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition as a Holistic Health Coach. Through working with patients, she found that most people were either unaware, confused, or misinformed as to what their eating habits should be to stay healthy and ward off illness and disease. She developed the Nutrition Coaching Course in partnership with Ulan Nutritional Systems in 2019. This is now being offered by hundred of practitioners in the US to help patients achieve greater health.
In this episode Jackie answers questions about nutrients, what are whole foods, and how does nutrition affect your immune system, She also gives tips about how parents can educate themselves and their kids on what to eat and how to stay healthy.