Weight loss, Muscle Gain, Hormones, and Health with Dr. Aleksandra Gajer

Yaya Diamond TV

https://thegajerpractice.com Empowering health through compassionate care Dr. Aleksandra Gajer, originally from Poland and raised in the United States, is a dedicated medical professional focused on advancing healthcare. She graduated with top honors from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and completed her residency in academic emergency medicine at The George Washington University.  Dr. Gajer’s special interests include sustainable weight loss, balanced hormone health, and longevity. She emphasizes the importance of lifestyle adjustments to optimize patients’ biology, promoting health, vitality, and long-term wellness. Inspired by her experiences in emergency medicine working with communities facing health challenges, she shifted her focus to proactive, comprehensive healthcare. Establishing The Gajer Practice allows her to offer personalized care and empower individuals to lead healthier lives by intervening before illness takes hold.  Driven by her lifelong goal, she is enthusiastic about sharing her expertise and dedication to contribute to a healthier future for her community. https://podopshost.com/yayadiamond   ⚡ VidChapter AI generated these chapters, try it out https://vidchapter.com/?affiliate=yayadiamond Recommended podcast platform get 10% off: https://podopshost.com/register/?ref=yaya   Tools and Services I use: Appsumo has the best lifetime deals ever!!! I love this site.  appsumo.8odi.net/yayadiamond The easiest way to make your graphics: https://buff.ly/2RTQLn0 Best website for musicians. Try it for free on me: https://buff.ly/2GMYugG Make money with Fiverr.com: https://buff.ly/2KjTVvV   Our Amazon store: https://buff.ly/34RYNlm DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. My affiliate links usually provide either a free trial or discount so go try them out on me! Thank you for supporting DreamChasersRadio.com  so I can continue to provide you with free content each week! Privacy Policy: https://buff.ly/2XSrflS ™Yaya Diamond Red Hot Reality Ent. LLC

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00:00that's such a great point absolutely that our fat tissue holds on to toxins we we do absorb toxins

00:08the other really interesting thing about fat tissue that we've also learned in the last 10

00:13years of research or so is that fat tissue we used to think that it's sort of just this just

00:18fat that sits there but it's actually like an organ of its own and it sends out chemical messengers

00:24to other parts of your body that tend to be destructive and inflammatory

00:35your effort shines brighter than the stars lighting up the top no matter how far

00:46oh my gosh oh my god yes finally

00:50finally i want to thank you guys so much for tuning in don't forget to dare to be different

00:57and don't forget the likes comments subscribe follow wherever you're watching right now i

01:01really don't care at this moment that you watch it's very very important because health health

01:07now a lot of people are like yeah you know i'm just gonna go out and do my thing and i'm gonna you know

01:12i'm gonna drink and i'm gonna be married you only live once you only live once but health is so

01:19important to live once it's like okay so you want to have fun i got it got it you want to enjoy life

01:27got it got it but you can't enjoy life if you're sick health is very very important and you're gonna

01:34live as long as you live okay i always tell people if you're meant to die in an airplane crashing you're

01:39scared to fly the plane's gonna fall on you it's just the way it is okay but living life and health

01:45and and it just it's just it makes a big difference we're going to be talking about that today i have

01:52dr alexandra on the show and i hope i said that right welcome to the show girlfriend hi thank you

01:57so much good good good how are you i'm doing good i'm doing good man i'm telling you how important is it

02:05and i have to get right into this question because i'm going to tell you why in a second but it's like so

02:11important you know people oh i want to live life and i want to be you know want to go out and i don't

02:16want to be worried about this work okay i got it but how important is it to live that life in great

02:23health so that you can enjoy that life yeah that is such a great question and so well put you know

02:30people say you can have a hundred problems in life but when you have a health problem you have just one

02:35problem and you know if you're if you're not feeling well if you aren't comfortable in your

02:41body all those other things don't matter you know it's it's really hard to enjoy everything else so

02:48so absolutely life is meant to be enjoyed we need to get fulfillment as much as we can out of life but

02:55also invest in this vessel that we have and um try to create a life where where we can enjoy all the

03:03all the fruits of our labor definitely definitely you know i recently just went through a health

03:09crisis and a lot of people didn't know that i did this i i was going through this because i didn't

03:14i didn't show it i just i kept going you know so i had fibroids but i've had them for so long that

03:22i didn't realize that it was draining my body and putting extra uh work on my body so my hands are nice

03:30i don't know if you could see that nice and red now yeah yeah so um i had a hysterectomy wow yeah

03:39i had a hysterectomy that left my ovaries but i had a hysterectomy but i had a hysterectomy because

03:44it was just starting to bother me if i were starting to give me a bad quality of life

03:48um it was over 40 something ounces when the uterus is only two yeah and so mine's just like 40 something

03:57which is over a little bit over a pound um i just didn't realize how bad i was until they were gone

04:07i woke up after the surgery and i was like i feel different i felt i felt even though i was in pain

04:18even though i was coming out of the anesthesia i felt um better you know like better like wait a

04:25minute is is this the way i'm supposed to feel is this normal um a lot of people don't realize

04:31what normal is until after the one thing that they were struggling with has been removed from the

04:38picture um and i i can't believe i lived like that that long yeah absolutely you're saying that people

04:47shouldn't feel sluggish they shouldn't be carrying extra weight there's something going on maybe i mean

04:54explain that to me how how is that supposed to be uh the norm for people who don't understand what

05:01norm is right yeah and that's such a great question you know and i think we we get used to these little

05:08aches and pains we get used to the discomforts of life and and it starts to feel normal and and many

05:14people have the experience of going to a doctor and getting checked out and maybe they're complaining of

05:20being tired most of the time or not getting good sleep or not being able to really tolerate much

05:26exercise and um and they get labs done and they're told you're normal and then you sort of go along and

05:33and keep keep living life and um you know when it comes to weight something really changed in our world

05:42over the last 40 years you know there's some really staggering statistics um that now 70 plus of americans

05:51are overweight and um and that didn't used to be the case you know and and so something certainly

05:59changed and i don't think that our bodies fundamentally changed you know i think that this problem came up and

06:06um doctors very unfairly mostly blamed the victims you know where um people were told to

06:15move more and eat less but people still felt very stuck and and i think that's the case for most people

06:22because our metabolism isn't healthy and our hormones aren't healthy no and um most doctors aren't looking

06:29at that you know hormone health and metabolic health especially in women women have been forgotten by

06:35medicine in in many ways most medical studies were done on men um until very recently most of the

06:43research that informs how medicine is practiced was done on white men and um women and people of color

06:50have been largely excluded and while modern medicine has allowed us to live longer and we have amazing

06:56cures for cancer and we can cure infections and all these things we have not done a great job paying

07:02attention to quality of life over those years you know how can we help you look at the root causes of

07:10what's going on you know how can we help you not get diagnosed with diabetes at 60 when i we actually

07:16know that your body starts changing at 40 and i can tell a 40 year old if something doesn't change

07:24you're gonna have diabetes at 60 and let's work together and make some changes so that

07:30i don't have to give you this diagnosis in 20 years my goodness my goodness you know you've said

07:36some key things and a lot of people already kind of figured that out you know what i mean and it's

07:42like okay so we know that but the medical society the the professions that actually publicize this don't put

07:51it out they don't put it out and and like you said okay the biggest thing that i noticed that you just

07:57said was most studies are done done on white males that excludes white females it excludes black males

08:07hispanic it excludes uh because you have a different black you have african-american and then you have

08:14african males that are different metabolically than african americans because we're mixed um then you have

08:21european males they're more susceptible to the actual studies am i correct because european white

08:29male is bait is the basic principle but then you got all the other males i mean you and white males

08:38aren't predominantly the biggest factor on earth right what is it what is it indians filipinos um

08:47asians are the basically asians yeah thank you we're excluding the biggest population even without

08:54adding blacks hispanics what is that right yeah that's a great question and you know one of the

09:02issues is that medicine moves so slowly so it takes an average of about 15 years for for research to

09:11actually be incorporated into practice so so now we are seeing more studies of course including other

09:18populations but it's taking so long for that to become meaningful in medical practice the other

09:25thing is that women are complicated women have women have hormones you know men have hormones too but men

09:33it's pretty much just that one hormone it's testosterone and it's important but women we're we're hormonally

09:40complex and for that reason we were left out of a lot of medical studies and especially when it comes

09:46to heart disease and and what we've found more recently is that things really happen differently

09:51in women's bodies and our hormones which uh have also historically largely been ignored um and you know

10:00we've been called hysterical and all these other things but the hormones are are really important and um

10:08and you know and and this whole idea of kind of losing starting to feel like your body isn't yours you

10:15know and being told you're fine but you don't feel fine you don't have energy you don't have drive you

10:20don't enjoy things like you used to and especially at midlife this happens significantly for women and

10:28and there are changes happening to the metabolism to your hormone landscape that um that are bringing about

10:36those changes and and although that's not addressed by a lot of doctors we we do have the science now

10:43to help both men and women live healthier live with more balanced hormones with healthier metabolism

10:51where you can enjoy life where you can have treats when you want them but you feel comfortable in your body

10:56yeah treats treats we can have treats who told you this

11:05yes

11:06yes yeah so i i think you know when it comes when it comes to to weight uh i'll tell you just um

11:18some of the most powerful things that i've seen help my patients and my clients and i think

11:25having a good routine 85 of the time having sort of a routine that includes mostly whole foods

11:35so we talked about how this change happened where you know all of a sudden most of america is

11:41overweight where we weren't before and and most of that i think is related to the fact that

11:47we are no longer eating real food there are chemicals in our foods that that make them

11:54what's called extra palatable hyper palatable so basically they're so good you really can't stop

11:59eating them and we've been convinced that that's okay you know dorita doritos has the commercial

12:04you can't have just one i think it's doritos and um that's not a good thing that's tricking our brains

12:12uh to have hormonal responses where you really you can't stop eating and um just trying to focus

12:21on eating whole foods real food that comes from the earth 85 of the time can change your metabolism in

12:28just two weeks oh and can change the way your body processes fat and sugar and all those things

12:35you know i i love what you're saying because i mean even though i'm a thick girl and and and i mean

12:42you know my whole family is kind of on the thick side so my normal weight is 150 i'm at 189 right now

12:48because of the hysterectomy i'm not able to work out because of the core and this and you can't

12:52re-injure yourself you can't open the wounds and stuff like that so i'm like i'm gaining weight by the

12:57day but i will be able to lose weight as soon as i'm able to kind of walk and and you know more and

13:04get but i think that a lot of people don't realize that we are set on a pattern that is self-destructive

13:15um you know people used to back in the 50s we used to go to the garden and pick food right now

13:22store and we pick boxes you're gonna pick something you know um when i go to the grocery

13:29store most of like 90 of my stuff that i have in my basket are fruits and vegetables and then the rest

13:37might be um a bottle something or something else you know what i mean i might have like a veggie burger

13:44just for the time where you know but it's like okay i've researched the ingredients they're all

13:50real ingredients you know so yes but people don't realize that you're right we are picking boxes

13:58pre-made boxes with sodium that is way beyond the amount with sugar which is going to deplete your

14:06insulin levels in a drastic measure people are known to be eating two bags of sugar a year

14:13yeah you know what i use for sugar i actually dissolve dates in water oh wow that's awesome

14:23you take a date you take a few dates you put it in boiling water you stir it it dissolves

14:29the date itself dissolves and you can use that to sweeten any of your stuff right um to me that's

14:37healthier i know i ate two dates today which is not even a tablespoon of sugar but because it's in water

14:45it's gonna sweeten the entire thing um right you know the choices we make are just um and they're

14:52thrown at us and yeah you know it's it's marketing it is it's marketing and you know that we have more

14:59and more evidence that food scientists and the food industry um have used a lot of the similar techniques

15:07that the cigarette companies use you know and and there's been you know there's been so much pressure

15:15and lobbying that um chemicals have been allowed into our food here in the us that are not allowed

15:21in other countries not allowed in europe people often notice you know when i go to europe i lose weight

15:26or i don't gain weight eating the same things and um and there are just non-food chemicals that change

15:33our metabolism that change our metabolic landscape and change our hormones you know we have a number of

15:40studies now that show that men who are in their 20s now have an average testosterone that's the same as

15:4870 year old men 20 30 years ago oh yeah so you know so it's it's the level of dysfunction and most

15:59doctors don't know how to look at hormones necessarily or don't find it valuable to take the time but

16:05but but when i look at hormones for both men and women most of us living in this modern food environment

16:11with the amount of stress that we're under with the chemical exposures that we're exposed to um

16:17there's quite a number of people who have major hormonal disruptions um and that's premenopausal

16:24women postmenopausal women that's um men of course and you know i'm seeing people who are younger and

16:33younger and um and these disruptions are happening on a pretty large scale you know i i agree with you

16:40they said that now uh young younger people are getting colon cancer uh yeah and it's in and it's

16:47in the food i'm sorry 100 i i i mean what has changed to make younger people get colon cancer

16:57what is it that has changed it's the diet right the environment it's always been conducive to all

17:03kinds of different things it depends on where you live if you live in a big city you've always been

17:07subjugated to higher toxin levels if you live in the country lower toxic but there's always been

17:13those toxins that are going to be in the air that are going to you know be you're going to be

17:18susceptible to but what has changed internally that we normally would do that we don't we didn't do 50

17:25years ago that we didn't do in even in the 1980s in the 1980s i was like i was walking down the street i

17:32was like where can i get my next piece of fruit i just wanted to go to one of those stores that had

17:37the fruit baskets outside in new york and pick up a pomegranate and just like okay this is my lunch

17:43um it's changed now now people go inside of the store and they get these ready-made bags that have

17:51this thin plastic and it's it's under heat lamps and chicken that's been sitting heating in plastic

17:59for hours right i think we're just starting to learn all the damage that the microplastics are

18:06doing you know there's so much of our food is is made in plastics and and we know you know we're

18:14seeing microplastics in people's brains and and we have it it's causing our metabolism to slow down

18:22it's causing hormonal disruption so you know i i think that there are this this kind of paints a

18:29bleak picture but i think that there are things that we can do to kind of to protect ourselves to

18:35some extent and um you know i think the the whole notion that you're talking about you know trying to

18:43fill up your cart with fruits and vegetables it is very hard to overeat real food it's not impossible

18:49some people will still do it and most people i know won't sit down and eat six apples in a row

18:58with peanut butter with peanut butter yeah and then that's a meal that's exactly yes yes and and i

19:06think we we don't understand and and you know i think it's very unfair what happened to most of us

19:12in the last 30 years where um a lot of men and women came to doctors saying i've gained weight i don't

19:18know what to do and and they were told eat less move more and i think that is so limited that's so

19:25limited the thing is that your brain and your body is being hijacked by chemicals and you and and it just

19:31causes this cycle of shame you know where um i see people all the time who want to eat less who want to

19:38move more but they don't have the energy and they are eating foods that cause cravings that are

19:46biochemically almost impossible to overcome you know and once the those reactions are set off in

19:51the body something changes and and it's not your fault it's it's really um

20:00we have to have strategies that kind of counteract those things yeah definitely i think that i think

20:05what what really you know and we're going to be getting into like hormones and specific questions on

20:09that a little in about two minutes but i think that one thing that actually helped me to actually get

20:15off of those things like the crackers and the this and the that and all that stuff was i don't call that

20:20food i call those chemicals because it's it to me my body's not responding as if it's food it's responding

20:31as if it's a foreign thing and fat is developing to protect me from the chemicals that are in that

20:40food so the chemicals are being inserted into that fat and the fat is protecting my body and me from

20:47actually absorbing those chemicals to make any of my other or major organs go bad but eventually

20:53you know that's why you have to be careful losing weight i think because of the chemicals that

20:57are stored inside the fat to protect the body and i think that's kind of like a and and please help

21:02me if i'm wrong but fat in itself is not just fat it's more of a self-defense against things that maybe

21:10in your body that your body's trying to kind of hide from you or protect you from i mean that's what

21:17yeah no that that's such a great that's such a great point absolutely that our fat tissue holds on

21:24the toxins we we do absorb toxins the other really interesting thing about fat tissue that we've also

21:32learned in the last 10 years of research or so is that fat tissue we used to think that it's sort of

21:38just this just fat that sits there but it's actually like an organ of its own and it sends out chemical

21:43messengers to other people parts of your body that tend to be destructive and inflammatory so we know now

21:51that both fat and muscle sends out chemicals to other parts of your body um regulatory chemicals peptides

22:00communication chemicals that um have different impacts on what your body is doing so um the biochemical

22:11signals that come from muscle are really protective so muscles send out signals that help you stay lean

22:17that protects your heart that protects your kidneys your brain so the more lean healthy muscle you have

22:23the more of these chemicals called cytokines that those muscles are producing and fat tissue stores those

22:30toxins just like you said and um fat tissue will send out toxic chemicals that it causes inflammation and

22:40um and as people lose weight sometimes they do feel a little worse and i i always say that gradual weight

22:47loss is best you know if you're going to do some kind of crash diet if you want to lose 20 pounds in

22:53two weeks that is not a good idea that's not sustainable that's not healthy um slow and steady

23:01one to three pounds a week i think is fairly healthy half a pound a week is okay you know um

23:09it is better i think usually when people get to the point where they want to lose weight they really

23:13want it to happen fast they want to see results but but um slow is good because those chemicals are in

23:21your fat tissue my god i thought i was just hearing you know how you hear something like yeah i'm gonna ask

23:27a doctor one day but you got to be careful who you go to too you know okay so you know i'm that's just

23:34like crazy for me that's like fat tells i you gotta go hello hello telly the talking tummy you okay

23:45but i mean just things like that it's like oh my gosh no way so let's talk okay so i think the biggest

23:53thing for me would be like i said i feel so much better i don't have to take iron i'm not anemic

24:01not anemic anymore there are certain things that have happened to my body that i'm like

24:07wait a minute was that the fibroids my back doesn't hurt anymore

24:13my i can bring my knees up now

24:16i feel um i feel better i mean there's just so many i mean it's hard to explain

24:23how much better i feel at like it's not a it's not a it's physical don't get me wrong it is it's

24:30physical but it's it's more like me like i feel like i felt when i was a teenager when i was in my 20s

24:38where i felt healthy and you know feeling healthy doesn't mean that you're sluggish doesn't mean that

24:44you're this doesn't mean that you're that and and everybody has let me ask your question does

24:49everybody have a certain weight that they kind of plateau at can they get lower than that or is that

24:55their ideal weight because everybody you know when i go to the doctor they're like well 150 shouldn't be

25:02your goal weight well at 150 i'm a size five what you want me to be a two i don't want to be a two

25:09a five is skinny okay at at because i'm muscular so i have a lot of muscle and i have you know so i

25:18i'm heavy i'm not light you know 180 i'm 189 i'm like 30 to 40 pounds overweight right now because of

25:27the fibroids that weren't making me i wasn't able to digest i wasn't there was a lot of things going on

25:32with this body right yeah you know tell me hormonally speaking like if you were to get your hormones in

25:40check like number one thing forget exercise forget everything else just try to get try to get healthy

25:47like i did try to get like what is the root cause of the the digestion being off the hormones being off

25:56and gaining weight i mean you eat you eat a cone of ice cream and tomorrow you are a pound heavier what

26:04is this what is yeah right that that's such a great question and you said a few things there that um

26:12that i just want to comment on so you first you said health you know you feel like you're healthy

26:18and i think we underestimate how important that is and um you know i went to medical school i had a

26:26very conventional medical education and i learned a lot about disease and most of medical education is

26:34based on disease that should be solved with pills or surgery which is super useful and it's very important

26:42but um and i trained in emergency medicine i worked in emergency medicine for 10 years and

26:47i saw a lot of disease and i helped a lot of people continue living life where they might not have

26:53been able to beforehand and that was very meaningful for me but i eventually shifted my practice in

27:01something that interested me more which is health how do we bring about a state of health you know

27:09sure dealing with disease is really important but but what is health and how do we bring the body

27:15into balance to actually create a conditions where health can happen because i think intuitively most

27:21of us know what that feels like to feel really healthy and we know when we don't have it too so um and and

27:29you asked about the set point which is also such a great question and i think most people do have

27:34a set point and your body once it's been at a certain weight for a while it does protect that set point

27:41to some extent and i think that weight is a very um confusing number and i don't think it's a very

27:48good number weight and bmi they're kind of throwaway numbers we what we do is we test body composition in

27:55my office so we use an in-body scan to look at your percent body fat percent muscle mass and how much water

28:05you're retaining and my goal for my patients when they come to me for body composition is to

28:11maintain or increase muscle mass and decrease your percent body fat i don't really care what the

28:16overall number is it doesn't matter you know like you talked about you are very healthy at 155 if that's

28:24if that's your number you know and and usually we look at that i look at that body scan with my patients

28:31and we say what i'd like is to get your muscle mass to here and to get your fat mass to here

28:38and sometimes the overall weight doesn't change that much you know but i see that they've gained

28:43five pounds of muscle and lost 10 pounds of fat and they are looking and feeling the best that they

28:49ever have so so i think that looking at body composition rather than that number on the scale

28:56and that number on the scale can do a real number on our heads you know sucks yeah that sucks that sucks

29:04so don't believe the hype about the scale yeah it could be misleading it can it can and body composition

29:14is um it's much more important and um and yeah and especially i think for women too i i you talked about

29:23you know not being skinny and i and i don't think we shouldn't try to be skinny but i feel like women

29:30have been conditioned to be less to make themselves smaller and and i really try to encourage people

29:38you know eat for nutrients build yourself up get stronger you know this whole era of breaking us down

29:46and getting smaller and getting thinner forget all that none of that is healthy um that's not what

29:52you want for health and like you said yeah you know most women and men feel like they know what weight

30:00they felt healthy at or they know what their clothes fit like or what their strength was like and and

30:06making um a plan together and getting people to that weight quality of life really improves so i think i

30:15didn't answer any of your hormone questions okay so it's it's you know the one thing that i found and

30:24i know that i want to talk about this is the weight loss um weight loss is big but weight loss is not just

30:29weight loss and a lot of times people don't realize that there's something in something going on

30:34individually inside of you um you know there might be that you're eating too much sugar too many carbs it

30:40might be that you're eating too much salt your body's retaining water it could be that your kidneys

30:45you're not drinking enough water because your kidneys are at 60 function and you didn't even know

30:50it because they don't hurt kidneys don't hurt you can't tell when you're at 60 you just know that you're

30:56not you know the doctor will tell you you're not drinking enough water you know um you have too many

31:01ketones you don't have enough ketones you know it's like it's it's a it's it's a balance that's like

31:07crazy balance but what i what i figured is um everyone's individually going through something

31:15and so you can't really diagnose people because oh i'm not losing weight what's going on there is no

31:22set anything like oh here it is right it's it's individual like i said when i got the hysterectomy

31:30that's when i felt normal again and i forgot what normal felt like and i went i went and ate ice cream

31:37and i didn't gain a pound i was like wait a minute i mean i can't eat ice cream every day

31:44because obviously you will gain a pound right absolutely day yes you see that's the difference

31:50and i'm like okay i had ice cream i can have ice cream all the time and i really don't like ice

31:55cream all the time but this is big for me and i went out testing everything i couldn't eat before

32:01that i liked that i knew that was healthy and it didn't bother me the same so i was like hmm

32:07you know and so i started i started realizing that it was not only the fibroids but it was blocking a

32:14lot of things so what do you tell people generally like okay you know there is no one size fits all

32:24when it comes to this but what do you tell people generally um because i know that you have your own

32:29practice i know that you help people to you know get that health get that optimal help for themselves

32:35and i really really want that for people yeah absolutely and that's such a great question

32:41and that is so true that everybody is different everybody is an individual and i think um part of

32:49the approach that makes my practice a little different is that we don't have a one size fits all

32:54approach you know we i want to get to know every single person that comes through our doors i want

32:59to know your history your struggles and we can generally figure out what's gone wrong and but i think

33:08an overarching principle like we talked about that everyone can benefit from is trying to prioritize

33:14full foods and um you know there are five major reasons that cause people to become overweight and obese

33:23they are um having too many calories then you burn that's sort of the overly simplistic um

33:31that's the paradigm that we've had for a very long time it falls short in a lot of ways but if you sit

33:37down and eat 4 000 calories a day and you're um five foot three you will probably gain weight so uh that

33:44that law holds true then second is your hormone balance and that's what we've been talking about to some

33:50extent and when we talk about hormones there are sex hormones like estrogen progesterone testosterone

33:57but you also mentioned insulin which is one of the most important um metabolic hormones yeah and again

34:05because of our food environment and the food that's available most of the time now a lot of people become

34:10insulin resistant which means that your body has to make more insulin in order to have it do its job

34:20and insulin sends a signal to your body saying hold on to fat so there are strategies to become more

34:27insulin sensitive and um building muscle is very important for that too that's one of the signals that

34:34muscle sends out it makes you more insulin sensitive so so there's a hormone balance and and then also

34:41your thyroid hormones your stress hormones all those hormones make a difference and then one other area

34:46that we don't think about very often is the gut microbiome and you mentioned your gut also and gut

34:55health has really you know this is also kind of an emerging science we're starting to understand more

35:00and more about it but there are more microbes living in the colon than we have cells in our entire body

35:09so there's this whole community and again they're sending out messages they're sending out chemical

35:14messages to other parts of the body uh regulating our metabolism regulating our mood regulating our energy

35:23and it's a very very sensitive system and again non-food chemicals in our food you know

35:30i people don't like me for this but i um talk about diet coke a lot a lot of people like diet coke

35:38there is stuff and diet coke that will kill the good bugs and create bad bugs in your in your in your

35:46your gut you can clean your toilet bowl with coke you can yeah i mean that doesn't belong

35:52yeah and and you know we we do gut health testing and and rehab with with some of my clients too and

35:58sometimes sometimes what happens is all of a sudden the bloating goes away the energy comes up and

36:04all of a sudden you're able to burn fat because there are some and i'm i'm gonna say women because

36:10this happens more to women than to men but there i see women who are literally doing everything right

36:16they are exercising they're eating clean they're going to the gym they're um making sure that their diet is

36:23not taking in too many calories or you're eating healthy foods and still the weight's not budging

36:28and then we look and then we want to look at hormones is there something going on there that's

36:33telling your body to store fat and um and then we want to look at the gut microbiome too yeah because

36:40that can also send signals for your body to store fat and then the last two things are um stress and sleep

36:48yeah and you know we've also seen studies that show that we are sleeping on average

36:54two hours less than our ancestors were 30 40 years ago you know sleep is getting pushed by the wayside

37:01and and there's so much repair and upkeep that happens when we sleep yeah it's almost impossible to

37:09lose weight if you are not sleeping at night oh let me tell you i am i'm sleeping okay i got a new mattress

37:16i got a mattress called dream life i think it is and when you you get in there it like holds you like

37:22this and you're like i gotta get out of bed you don't want to get out of bed it's like you get in

37:27the pen and it's like when did you fall asleep dolly i have no idea but it was so good and no problem

37:34sleeping um and that did make a big difference too yeah big difference too yeah because you're not

37:41eating during sleep it's like right but don't eat too close is it okay is it true because i don't

37:47want to say this because i'm not a doctor of of medicine i'm just you know but is it true that if

37:52you eat too close to bedtime it's not good for you like your body has to process that before it can get

37:58into healing yeah so that's another great question so i think when we talk about what works for

38:05everybody the low-hanging fruit i say start with whole foods and in the summertime don't eat after

38:12dark and that's really really powerful giving your body a break um from metabolizing food from all

38:21those biochemical reactions is really important and you know we again i think snacking that has that's

38:30somewhat of a new phenomenon like 50 years ago people were not eating popcorn and watching tv half

38:35the evening you know um and and your body needs that rest to not be producing hormones related to

38:44digestion um and when you're you know when when you're sleeping we produce growth hormone everybody

38:50produces growth hormone which is responsible for some fat burning and muscle and just repair of any

38:58anything that happened during the day and that is not released well if you're eating too close to

39:04bedtime so so in the summertime it's a little easier but i try to encourage people don't eat after dark

39:11have dinner be your last meal have dinner be the last food that you ate and you can drink tea there's

39:18some wonderful herbal teas that uh taste really good that you don't have to add any sweeteners to

39:22too but um it's really powerful to end with dinner i gotcha i gotcha don't feed them after midnight

39:32that's right for all of us who know what i'm talking about we already know don't feed them

39:37after midnight they're cute and cuddly but after midnight don't do it wow well well doctor thank you

39:44so much for being on the show is there anything that we missed is there anything that we've missed

39:48that you would like to say before we finish today i think just encouraging people to look for solutions

39:56to find a partner a physician who can partner with you in your health and if you are feeling like you

40:05don't have enough energy to go through the day if you're feeling like you're doing everything right

40:09but weight is not coming off if you're trying to have a good sleep schedule but still are unable to sleep

40:17that's not necessarily normal and we have the tools now to figure some of that out and um

40:25and if you're thinking about losing weight remember it's not the number of the scale

40:28we want to lose fat gain muscle and build you up rather than break you down awesome awesome well thank

40:36you doctor so much i know we so much no problem i know we didn't answer all you of your questions and

40:42that's on purpose because you need to go to her and figure this out for yourself again this is not

40:46a one-size-fits-all thing you just can't put it over your head and go okay it is done all right yay

40:52no it doesn't work like that there is extra small small small medium large extra large extra

41:00large extra large that means that there is something for everybody out there that may be a

41:05bigger thing that you have to deal with like me i had to go into surgery so i had an extra extra large

41:10issue and now i figured it out it's gone now if there's anything else in there i know what it

41:17feels like to be normal and so you know that's a big deal and so if you have an issue if you need

41:23a consultation i have the website there i'm going to put it in the description box wherever you may be

41:28watching it's also under her name so the guyer but with a j so g a j e r practice.com we're going to put

41:36that in the description box below so that it'll be easy for you guys to find it and you know get

41:42a consultation and you know get your blood work done do something you know because again if i didn't

41:47do that i would not have ever known what was really really going on with my body and sometimes

41:53you know you're in your body you just don't know what's going on and the communication apparently

41:58going on between the fat and the muscles is totally opposite of each other and we need to figure this

42:04out all right i want to thank you guys so much for tuning in don't forget to dare to be different

42:09and until next time guys i hope everything goes well for you bye

42:27thank you for watching

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