Summary: ----------------------------------------------------<br> ♦︎ Gut Health and Fitness with Dr. Angie Sadeghi ♦︎<br> ----------------------------------------------------<br> Gastroenterologist Angie Sadeghi, MD, joins Scott to talk about gut health and fitness-related topics ranging from digestive and metabolic consequences of physique competition, fad diets, body image, to strategies for getting and staying lean.<br> <br> Angie Sadeghi, MD, is a practicing gastroenterologist who advocates Whole Food Plant Based diet, and exercise, for overall health.<br> <br> ♦︎♦︎ “Wellness starts in your gut” ♦︎♦︎<br> <br> • Angie used a plant-based diet to recover from her own health and weight problems. She began by not consuming meat and compensated for what she thought was a lack of protein by consuming more dairy. She got worse.<br> <br> • Sadeghi then tried keto and other nonsense fad diets, which didn’t work.<br> <br> • Keto, Paleo, Atkins…all names for the same thing.<br> <br> • Forks Over Knives changed her life forever. After watching it, she began eating a Whole Food Plant Based diet, immediately dropping dairy, oils and sugar from her diet.<br> <br> • To add a compelling vision for her weight loss goal, she signed up and competed in a fitness competition.<br> <br> • The bodybuilding industry traditionally promotes a type aesthetic that’s seen on stage for "2 seconds", but is unhealthy in the longer term.<br> <br> • You can lose weight, and build muscle using certain types of diets, but it doesn’t mean they’re healthy. Bodybuilders often go for months with little or no fiber.<br> <br> • Animal protein, when consumed, doesn’t go to muscle as commonly thought.<br> <br> • Depression, heart problems, exhaustion and impacted bowels are all things Dr. Angie has seen in her gastroenterology practice as side effects of bodybuilding diets.<br> <br> ♦︎♦︎ "The human alimentary (digestive) tract is similar to that of an herbivore, not a carnivore." ♦︎♦︎<br> <br> • The right [healthy] way to eat is for the gut microbiome. The gut microbiome live in a symbiotic relationship with us; they eat what we eat.<br> <br> • Short chain fatty acids are produced as the result of eating fiber, which has a healing effect on the gut. The microbiome “eat” and ferment it.<br> <br> • To have great microbiome diversity, you have to eat fibrous vegetables of different colors.<br> <br> • Gluten sensitivity and gluten intolerance: people want evidence that they’re nutritional victims.<br> <br> • Most people are not gluten intolerant. There are people who have celiac disease, an autoimmune condition, but it’s more like one out of 100 who have a problem with gluten.<br> <br> • Women face a tremendous amount of social pressure related to body image.<br> <br> • Self-love—a positive self-image—is often what a physique client truly wants, and not primarily the transformed physique.<br> <br> • Women often don’t take care of themselves because they spend all their effort nurturing others.<br> <br> • Fitness should be used as part of self-care and keep us grounded.<br> <br> • A healthy diet can help treat depression because over 90% of serotonin is made in the gut.<br> <br> • Angie recommends bio-identical hormone optimization to post-menopausal women for treatment of related symptoms.<br> <br> • Portion control is a thing of the past. It’s almost impossible to get fat if eating a Whole Food Plant Based diet with no refined sugars or oils.<br> <br> • The job of a coach is to free people from coaching. A coach empowers the client to do for themselves.<br> <br> -----------------------<br> More about Dr. Angie<br> -----------------------<br> • Sadeghi is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and a diplomate of the American Board of Gastroenterology.
