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Food Junkies Podcast Episode 74: Dr. William Davis

Dr. William Davis

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 today’s episode of “The Food Junkies Podcast”

  • 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
  • Pushback
  • Signature Question

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 73: Julie M. Simon, LMFT

Julie M. Simon, LMFTJulie 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, and 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 today’s episode of “The Food Junkies Podcast”

  • 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 volum
  • 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

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 72: Monica Anderson

Monica AndersonMonica 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 the 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 today’s episode of “The Food Junkies Podcast”

  • 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

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 71: Aileen Burford-Mason, Ph.D.

Aileen Burford-Mason, Ph.D.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.

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 today’s episode of “The Food Junkies Podcast”

  • 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!

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 70: Suzane Colon

Suzane Colon

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 of “The Food Junkies Podcast”

  • 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

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 69: Phil Werdell & Mary Foushi

Phil Werdell

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

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 68: Amy Berger

Amy Berger

Before we jump into the show, we want to announce that Vera has joined Amy & Dr. Westman in the Adapt Your Life Academy and is doing a FULL solo course on food addiction. This will include 18 video lessons, 3 interactive zoom meetings, PDFs, and more for $167 USD. The course starts on May 2nd and you can enroll at adaptyourlifeacademy.com and get on the waitlist because enrollment opens between April 25 to May 1. Join the waitlist now! 

In today’s 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 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. She is the lead nutritionist for 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.

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 67: Summer Innanen

Summer Innanen

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. 

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 66: Nancy Kaley (COR Retreat)

Nancy Kaley (COR Retreat)

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!

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 65: Dr. Tracy Burrows & Mark Leary

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.

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 64: Kathryn Kearsey

Kathryn Kearsey

In today’s episode, we are sharing a personal story of recovery from our 1st Food Addiction Research Clinical Study groups. Today you will meet Kathryn Kearsey. I met Kathryn two years when I began exploring the world of Crossfit. Her and her husband DK opened a Crossfit gym in Muskoka and I was pumped to check it out as I had been watching the Crossfit games for years and was always inspired by their strength and level of fitness. However, I was also super intimated by the weight lifting and learning these new movements.

Food Junkies Podcast Episode 63: Dr. Timothy Brewerton

Dr. Timothy Brewerton

Dr. Brewerton is an Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) in Charleston, where he has a private practice and conducts research. He has achieved board certifications in general, child/adolescent & forensic psychiatry, & addiction medicine.

He is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association; Distinguished Fellow of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry; Founding Fellow of the Academy of Eating Disorders; and Founding member/former president of the Eating Disorders Research Society.

Dr. Brewerton has authored more than 170 articles/book chapters on many topics in psychiatry, including eating and related disorders, psychopharmacology, neurobiology, posttraumatic stress, dissociation & the effects of childhood sexual/physical abuse; is Editor of the Clinical Handbook of Eating Disorders: An Integrated Approach (2004), and Co-editor of Eating Disorders, Addictions, and Substance Use Disorders: Research, Clinical & Treatment Perspectives (2014).

He has reviewed for more than 50 scientific journals; served on Editorial Boards of: the International Journal of Eating Disorders, Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention, and Eating & Weight Disorders; and has received numerous awards (e.g., 2013 Craig Johnson Award for Clinical Practice & Training by the National Eating Disorders Association, Honorary Certified Eating Disorder Specialist award by the International Association for Eating Disorders Professionals; Best Doctors in America).

In today’s episode with Michele:

  • His professional path
  • Where does Food Addiction fit in with eating disorders
  • Neuroimaging and differences in the brain
  • Differences in eating disorders and Food Addiction
  • How to move forward with the Food Addiction diagnosis proposal
  • Volume Addiction
  • How his textbook: Eating Disorders, Addictions, & Substance Use Disorders has been received
  • Treating co-morbid conditions and the roadblocks to helping our clients
  • Our signature question with a twist!
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