Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Health, and Science for Women 35+ Ep. 240 Fear-Free Keto with Amy Berger
I am honored to reconnect with Amy Berger today! (She was with me before, in Episode 108, in 2020.) Amy has a Master’s degree in human nutrition. She is also a certified nutrition specialist and a US Air Force veteran. She is the author of many books, including a co-authored book with Dr. Eric Westman, called End Your Carb Confusion.
Amy is a wealth of information! She specializes in helping people do “Keto Without the Crazy”, and keeping things sane and simple- a message that is sadly under-represented in our post-pandemic time frame.
Amy joins me today to dive into reducing nutrition-related fear, worry, and anxiety. We speak about food addiction, binge eating, and orthorexia, the emerging trend in medicine of metabolic psychiatry, brain health, blood sugar, different types of fuel substrates, and weight-loss resistance. We also get into bio-hacking gadgets, the scale, and the value of food budgets.
Amy’s YouTube channel is one of my favorites, and her brand and business are full of down-to-earth messaging. I hope you enjoy listening to my conversation with her as much as I did recording it! Stay tuned for more!
IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN:
- How Amy came up with her methodology of “keto without the crazy”.
- What can we do to overcome nutrition-related fear and anxiety?
- How Amy helps people navigate food addiction, binge eating, and orthorexia.
- The most effective way to overcome metabolic syndrome, obesity, type-2 diabetes, or PCOS.
- The importance of understanding the extent to which blood sugar and insulin problems affect cognition and the brain.
- How common mental health disorders associated with metabolic health, like depression, anxiety, or bipolar, can be easily corrected by changing one’s diet.
- How ketones can help improve mental health and clarity.
- Some less common reasons for weight loss resistance.
- Why do we sometimes need to step back and slow down?
- The pros and cons of bio-hacking devices.
- Why it is best not to weigh ourselves every day.
- Nutrients essential for mitochondrial health.
Bio:
Amy Berger, MS, CNS, is a U.S. Air Force veteran and Certified Nutrition Specialist who helps people do “Keto Without the Crazy.”™ She writes about a wide range of health and nutrition-related topics, such as insulin, weight loss, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, thyroid function, and more. She has presented internationally on these issues and is the author of The Alzheimer's Antidote, The Stall Slayer, and co-author of End Your Carb Confusion, written with Eric Westman, MD. She is the Lead Nutritionist for Adapt Your Life Academy, where she helps create course content and coaches people through implementing low-carb keto diets safely and effectively.
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