Food Junkies Podcast

Dr. William Davis is a Milwaukee-based American cardiologist, low-carbohydrate diet advocate, and author of health books known for his stance against "modern wheat", which he labels a "perfect, chronic poison. He is the author of several books, including the notable Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight and Find Your Path Back to Health, along with its sister publications: Wheat Belly Cookbook, and 10 Day Grain Detox. He also wrote UnDoctored: Why Health Care Has Failed You and How You Can Become Smarter than Your Doctor and his most recent book Super Gut: Reprogram your Microbiome and Restore your Health, Lose weight and Curb back the Clock. All of these books have attempted to overturn our current health care practices, putting the power into the hands of the consumers. The driving theme in all of Dr. William Davis’ books is self-empowerment, providing readers with powerful tools that cut through the misinterpretations, misconceptions, misleading marketing, and bad science that passes as nutritional and health information. IN THIS EPISODE: Dr. Davis’ personal and professional journey The toxicity of wheat Addiction and wheat Oxytocin deficiency Probiotics, Vitamins, and Minerals Dr. Davis’ latest book: UnDoctored Surgery & medications Feed your bio flora! Pushback Signature Question FOLLOW DR. DAVIS: Books Website Facebook Twitter YouTube Defiant Health Radio (podcast) ANNOUNCEMENTS: There is still time to participate in our Food Addiction Research Clinical Study. We will get started with treatment groups in June 2022 and will begin screening shortly. 10 weeks + 24 months of follow-up for $100 USD. If you are interested in being screened or learning more – please fill out a Contact Form – details are in the show notes! Not sure if you want to join or if it is for you? Listen to episodes 64 and 72 to hear from past participants. CONTACT FORM The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

Julie M. Simon, MA, MBA, LMFT, is a licensed psychotherapist and life coach with twenty-seven+ years of experience helping overeaters and imbalanced eaters stop dieting, heal their relationships with themselves and their bodies, lose excess weight, and keep it off. A lifelong fitness enthusiast, she is also a certified personal trainer with over twenty-five years of experience designing exercise and nutrition programs for various populations. Julie Simon is also the founder and director of the popular Los Angeles-based Twelve-Week Emotional Eating Recovery Program, which offers an alternative to dieting by addressing the mind, body, and spirit imbalances underlying overeating. Her professional experience with and personal journey through childhood trauma, weight challenges, and body, brain, and spiritual imbalances led to the creation of the twelve-week program, which she has been running for twenty-five years. IN THIS EPISODE: Julie shares her personal and professional journey How she works with clients What is emotional eating and what it is NOT What drives emotional eating and if it is different from Food Addiction We talk about volume Soul-care practices and how they help slow down/stop emotional eating We talk about soothing without food and rewiring the brain The idea of Full Recovery Signature Question FOLLOW JULIE: Books: The Emotional Eater’s Repair Manual When Food is Comfort Web: Website Social Media: Facebook Twitter ANNOUNCEMENTS: There is still time to participate in our Food Addiction Research Clinical Study. We will get started with treatment groups in June 2022 and will begin screening shortly. 10 weeks + 24 months of follow-up for $100 USD. If you are interested in being screened or learning more – please fill out a Contact Form – details are in the show notes! Not sure if you want to join or if it is for you? Listen to episodes 64 and 72 to hear from past participants. CONTACT FORM The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

BIO: Monica Anderson is a 43-year-old working mom of 2 who has spent her career working in the retail industry focusing primarily on product development.  She self describes herself as being gripped by eating disorders and addictive eating habits from adolescence until she had what she can only define as a divine intervention at the age of 42, that started her on her road to recovery.  Monica has spent the last year working intensely on reprogramming her mind and life with the objective of being free from obsession with body weight, shape, and size and to find freedom from harmful eating practices.  Monica has an extremely supportive husband who has encouraged her and pushed her to continue her journey, and she is motivated to do the hard work in the hopes of not passing on her disease to her children.  With determination, faith, extraordinary effort, and the supportive help of Molly Painschab and Clarissa Kennedy, and the Sweet Sobriety Group, she has made tremendous progress in healing her relationship with herself and food.   Monica has the ultimate goal of making a full recovery to live a life of freedom from disordered eating and to find love and acceptance for herself within herself. In this episode: What it was like for Monica before recovery What her turning point was What is life in food addiction recovery is like now What she does daily for her recovery What Monica is still working on What she needed to hear early on in her journey ANNOUNCEMENTS: There is still time to join us in Bristol, UK on Friday, May 20th for the first International Food Addiction Conference! Clarissa and I will be presenting (along with Dr. Jen Unwin and others) on our Food Addiction Research Clinical Trial and what we know so far! Check the show notes to purchase your tickets! If you can’t meet us in person in Bristol and you are interested in participating in our research, we are currently recruiting for our next groups that will begin treatment sessions in June 2022. Please fill out a contact form as soon as possible as we will be starting our screening process in early June. Check the show notes for the link! The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

Aileen Burford-Mason, Ph.D., is a biochemist, immunologist, and cell biologist and a widely recognized expert in the field of vitamins and their appropriate use in health maintenance, healthy aging, and the prevention and treatment of disease. Respected for her balanced and scientifically-based approach, Aileen is known for her ability to take the latest findings in diet and supplement research and translate them into practical evidence-based guidelines for both lay audiences and health professionals. Aileen graduated from University College, Dublin, Ireland, and received a Ph.D. in immunology in the UK. She is formerly an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and Director of a Cancer Research Laboratory at the Toronto General Hospital. Her many research papers have been published in leading medical and scientific journals and cover such diverse medical and scientific areas as immunology, pathology, gastroenterology, cancer, AIDS, microbiology, and nutrition. Aileen regularly gives talks to the public and to doctors and other health professionals at universities across Canada. She has a busy private practice where she specializes in personalized supplements and diet regimes. She teaches a popular continuing medical education course for medical doctors and other health care practitioners on the use of diet and nutritional supplements in clinical practice. A go-to person for radio, TV, and print journalists, Aileen is in regular demand for media commentary on the latest research and controversies in the field of dietary supplements. In this episode: What is orthomolecular medicine? We discuss sugar, carbs, and refined carbs and the roles they play in our health Aileen and Vera talk about Food Addiction Obstacles Aileen has faced And so much more! Follow Aileen: Website: https://aileenburfordmason.ca/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/AburfordMason Books: The Healthy Brain The War Against Viruses Eat Well, Age Better ANNOUNCEMENTS: You can still join us in Bristol, UK starting on Friday, May 20th for the International Food Addiction Conference. Stay for the weekend and enjoy the Public Health Collaboration Conference on May 21st and 22nd. Speakers on Friday include Dr. Paul Earley (Episode 29), Bitten Jonsson (Episodes 5 & 23) Dr. Jen Unwin (Episode 11), Clarissa, and myself, along with many colleagues! The PHC weekend includes Zoe Harcombe, Dr. David Unwin, Nina Teischolz, and so many more. BUY TICKETS HERE.  The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

Suzanne Colon has been meditating in the Insight (Vipassana) tradition since 1992. She completed the Barre Center for Buddhist Studies’ Integrated Study and Practice Program in 2014 and Spirit Rock Meditation Center’s Community Dharma Leader training program in 2017.  She is a co-founder of the Bozeman Dharma Center and shares leadership of the Insight Meditation Community. Suzanne has spent 12 years exploring modalities of western psychology (as a layperson) and how the tools of meditation can be used in psychological and emotional healing. She joined the Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) Course Teacher training in 2016 and the Somatic Experiencing (SE) training in 2017.  She is thrilled to join forces with others in the field to offer meditation and wellness practices in the Bozeman area. In today’s episode: Suzanne shares her story Why meditation is worth our time Misconceptions about Mindfulness and Meditation What Mindful Self-Compassion is Tools for your Backpack A Guided Practice on Shame Our Signature Question LINKS: Dave Smith Dharma https://www.davesmithdharma.com/ Center for Mindful Self-Compassion https://centerformsc.org/ Kristen Neff https://self-compassion.org/ Chris Germer https://chrisgermer.com/ ANNOUNCEMENT LINKS: Dr. Vera Tarman’s Food Addiction Course https://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/sugar-and-food-addiction/ Get your tickets for the International Food Addiction / PHC Conferences https://phcuk.org/phc-conference-2022/   The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

As members of the Food Addiction Institute's International Advisory Board, we are passionate about supporting Food Addiction recovery for everyone, most especially children.  The Food Addiction Institute (FAI), founded in 2005, is an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to support the healing of all food addicts. To accomplish our mission FAI works towards the following: Advocating widespread acceptance of food addiction as a disease of substance abuse and the availability of effective, abstinence-based solutions. Helping to identify and expand knowledge about food addiction. Providing professional and public education about food addiction as a treatable chemical dependency to physicians, dietitians, therapists, counselors, and allied health professionals, internationally. Offering information about promising new practices for the treatment of food addiction. Supplying resources for those who may be food addicted. Creating a forum for the development and dissemination of innovative and effective public health strategies related to the prevention, mitigation, and treatment of food addiction. It is out of this passion to help individuals with Food Addiction find recovery that we are asking you to consider donating $100 during the "Giving Challenge," which takes place April 26 - 27, noon to noon ET.  During this time, the Food Addiction Institute can TRIPLE donations with the help of both the Community Foundation of Sarasota County (Florida) and the Patterson Foundation.  Any money you donate will provide individuals with Food Addiction with information about recovery.  This is a chance to help those who need it most. To be tripled, all donations must go through the Giving Challenge website on April 26-27 12p-12p ET. Mary Foushi holds a degree in Human Services with a specialization in Addiction Studies.  She is a certified relapse-prevention specialist, a certified food addiction professional, and facilitates groups, workshops, and weeklong food addiction recovery intensives in the United States and abroad.  Mary is co-founder of ACORN Food Dependency Recovery Services, currently SHiFT Recovery by Acorn (foodaddiction.com), and has helped thousands of late-stage food addicts move toward abstinence and recovery.  As a recovering food addict, she is maintaining a 195-pound weight loss for over 27 years.  Ms. Foushi is the coauthor of Food Addiction Recovery: A New Model of Professional Support—The ACORN Primary Intensive. Phil Werdell, MA, was a college teacher and innovator in liberal arts and graduate education for 25 years.  After finding recovery from late-stage food addiction, he became the lead counselor at Glenbeigh Psychiatric Hospital of Tampa’s residential food addiction program and Rader Institute of Washington’s outpatient eating disorders program.  Mr. Werdell is cofounder of ACORN Food Dependency Recovery Services and the Food Addiction Institute.  He has written eight books on food addiction including “Physical Craving and Food Addiction: A Review of the Science.”  Phil’s most recent writing is a second edition of the Disease Concept of Food Addiction.  He is currently working on a summary of outcome evaluations of food addiction treatment and a three-volume set of books on food addiction denial. Website: Food Addiction Institute Books: Food Plans for Food Addiction Recovery Treating Food Addiction: The Basics Inventorying Food Slips Bariatric Surgery and Food Addiction The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

On todays episode we are interviewing Amy Berger. She is the lead nutritionist for the Adapt your Life Academy where she helps create course content and has coached thousands of people through implementing low-carb keto diets safely and effectively. She is a 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 End Your Carb Confusion, written with Dr. Eric Westman. Today we are focusing on her book the Stall Slayer for any and all of you who are still so focused on that number on the scale. This episode is for you! Bio: Amy Berger, MS, CNS, is a U.S. Air Force veteran and Certified  Links: Blog: http://www.tuitnutrition.com/ YouTube: Tuit Nutrition - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmDz-SYYhoerycynsCm7L8g/videos Twitter: @Tuit Nutrition - https://twitter.com/TuitNutrition Online courses: http://adaptyourlifeacademy.com/ Books: End Your Carb Confusion: https://www.amazon.com/End-Your-Carb-Confusion-Reclaiming/dp/1628604298 The Stall Slayer: http://stallslayer.com/ The Alzheimer’s Antidote: https://www.amazon.com/Alzheimers-Antidote-Low-Carb-High-Fat-Cognitive/dp/1603587098 The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

Summer Innanen is a professionally trained coach specializing in body image, self-worth, and confidence. She helps people all over the world to stop living behind the numbers on their scales through her private and group coaching at summerinnanen.com. She is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix: Embrace your body and unleash the fierce confident woman within and the creator of the flagship You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people break out of the diet culture cage, get free from body shame and live life on their own terms so they can wear, say and do what they want. She is the host of Eat The Rules, a podcast dedicated to anti-dieting, body image, intersectional feminism, and empowering people to live life on their own terms, where she has interviewed leading body image and anti-diet experts and activists such as Isabel Foxen Duke, Virgie Tovar, Chrissy King, and Ragen Chastain. She has been featured in Refinery29, FabUplus Magazine, The Huffington Post, Beautiful Magazine, and featured on several chart-topping podcasts including, Food Psych, Listen to Your Body, and The F*ck It Diet Podcast. She lives in Vancouver, BC Canada with her husband and toddler son. On this episode of the Food Junkies podcast, we bring you Clarissa’s BEST FRIEND from high school, Summer Innanen, to talk about all things body image, body neutrality, and healing from body dissatisfaction. Summer is the best-selling author of Body Image Remix, host of the podcast Eat The Rules, and creator of You, On Fire – an online group coaching program dedicated to helping people get free from body shame. She also co-runs the Body Image Coach Certification program helping anti-diet professionals learn to work with clients around body image.  Growing up, and in high school, Clarissa and Summer both had body image issues but Clarissa doesn’t remember talking about it or sharing any deep conversations about what they thought of themselves. After high school, we both began an unhealthy and disordered relationship with food where we struggled with weight, diets, and the societal pressures to be thin. Even at their thinnest they still hated our bodies.  Today Summer shares her personal journey to body image recovery and healing. She shares how body image develops, how diet trauma affects us, perfectionism, why we are always comparing ourselves to others, and how we must let go of the relentless pursuit of thinness and free ourselves by rejecting the rules and reclaiming our power. How changing the way you feel about your body isn’t actually about liking the way you look.  Clarissa and Summer have different stories of healing and recovery with food. While Clarissa’s includes being abstinent from addictive foods, Summer’s lead her to an intuitive eating approach where she stopped trying to makeover her plate and start making over what was going on inside her head. Just because we don’t eat the same way doesn’t mean we can’t heal the same way when it comes to transforming the way we see ourselves and igniting our hope, our power, and shifting our outlook on life. So in this episode, we don’t talk about the food, we talk about the thoughts and feelings about ourselves that often lead us to EAT THE DRUG FOODS to drown out the noise and numb out.  Follow Summer: Website Podcast: Eat the Rules Instagram: @summerinnanen Facebook Twitter The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

In episode 64 we introduced you to Kathryn Kearsey from our 1st Food Addiction Research Clinical Study Group. Clarissa and I “represent Team North America” and have facilitated 3 total groups so far. We will be presenting our results concerning this level of Food Addiction Treatment in Bristol, England on Friday, May 20th at the International Food Addiction Conference. We have been pleased with the results thus far and are looking forward to this opportunity to bring more awareness about the NEED for the treatment of this disease. We are also excited to connect with the world's leading experts in Food Addiction and if you get the chance, you should join us as well. We would love to meet YOU! There is just nothing like in person after zooming our brains out for the last two years. If you are interested in attending – Be sure to check the show notes OR google PHC Food Addiction Conference….The Public Health Collaboration is the one funding our study which is still ongoing. If you are looking to be a future participant, we are looking at starting two more study groups in June. Reach out and let us know if you are interested! Check the show notes for one way to connect! Today we have Nancy Kaley from the COR Retreat in Minnesota. We had the chance to talk about: Nancy’s personal and professional path The COR Retreat Program Residential Treatment needs What the COR Retreat entails Finding your “We” Relapse, Recovery, and Spirituality How to avoid professional burnout Aftercare How COR addresses Cross-Addiction Challenges the program faces Signature Question Follow COR Retreat Website: https://cormn.org/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/retreatcor/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cormn International Food Addiction Conference Website: https://phcuk.org/phc-conference-2022/ Research Group Participation Contact Info: https://forms.gle/KZAguiVDmc2YNpCo6 The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.

In episode 64 we introduced you to Kathryn Kearsey from our 1st Food Addiction Research Clinical Study Group. Clarissa and I “represent Team North America” and have facilitated 3 total groups so far. We will be presenting our results concerning this level of Food Addiction Treatment in Bristol, England on Friday, May 20th at the International Food Addiction Conference. We have been pleased with the results thus far and are looking forward to this opportunity to bring more awareness about the NEED for the treatment of this disease. We are also excited to connect with the world’s leading experts in Food Addiction and if you get the chance, you should join us as well. We would love to meet YOU! There is just nothing like in person after zooming our brains out for the last two years. If you are interested in attending – Be sure to check the show notes OR google PHC Food Addiction Conference….The Public Health Collaboration is the one funding our study which is still ongoing. If you are looking to be a future participant, we are looking at starting two more study groups in June. Reach out and let us know if you are interested! Check the show notes for one way to connect! In this episode, Clarissa and I interviewed Mark Leary and Tracy Burrows of the Targeted Research on Addictive and Compulsive Eating (TRACE) Program. Mark Leary Mark Leary is a Ph.D. student at the University of Newcastle. He is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian (APD) who has been working in private practice for the last 9 years. He is interested in how addictive eating behaviors can impact the health of individuals and his research focuses on improving these eating behaviors to help improve health outcomes. Professor Tracy Burrows Professor Tracy Burrows is the team leader of TRACE Dietetics at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and a researcher at Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI). She is a skilled clinician and researcher, recognized as a Fellow of Dietitians Australia. She is passionate about nutrition and mental health to enable individuals to achieve a healthier quality of life. She is a highly published author, conference presenter, and recipient of numerous awards for her research. ABOUT THE PROGRAM: The TRACE Program has been built over years of research in the field of addictive eating. It is based on current scientific evidence, including input from individuals with lived experience with addictive eating. The TRACE Program is designed for individuals with symptoms of addictive eating. The aim is to increase an individual’s awareness of how food is often used or consumed with mood and equip individuals with strategies to improve their addictive eating behaviors. HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS: The first step is an initial assessment to find out about each individual's personality, addictive eating, and lifestyle behaviors. This information is used to tailor the program. The program includes five modules:  Module 1: Personality Module 2: Food Module 3: Skills Module 4: Confidence Module 5: Moving forwards The program includes a workbook to assist individuals in working through each of the modules. What to Expect in this Episode: How Mark and Tracy became involved in studying Addictive and Compulsive Eating Clearing up some confusion on terminology being used in research What personal characteristics TRACE Program has found about individuals seeking treatment The best hopes for outcomes based on the research and how might this help get Food Addiction recognized by the World Health Organization and American Psychiatric Association The importance of thorough screening Tracy and Mark answer our question about “Best” strategies and confirm what we know – there is NO ONE SIZE FITS ALL when it comes to recovery tools We find out their findings on fasting vs feeding, the brain, and those with Food Addiction/Addictive Eating Oxytocin and how it relates to addiction/addictive eating Volume eating What’s next for the TRACE Program Signature question Follow TRACE Program: Website: https://www.tracedietetics.com.au/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfTBurrows LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracy-burrows-306b531a5/                https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-leary-871b6b53/ International Food Addiction Conference Website: https://phcuk.org/phc-conference-2022/ Research Group Participation Contact Info: https://forms.gle/KZAguiVDmc2YNpCo6 The content of our show is educational only. It does not supplement or supersede the professional relationship and direction of your healthcare provider. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified mental health providers with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition, substance use disorder, or mental health concern.