Nutrition
Why beans?
Kelsey Marksteiner: Especially for someone with blood sugar issues, I like to use beans because a) if someone is going...
Any thoughts about the Feingold diet, which eliminates artificial colors, flavors, preservatives, and foods high in salicylates for ADHD kids? If patient is already on Paleo and not eating grains or dairy, to eliminate salicylates makes the diet very restrictive and hard for a child to follow. Do you think salicylates are a problem for ADHD kids and worth removing to find out?
Chris Kresser: In some cases we have patients with salicylate intolerance, and they do benefit from reducing salicylates. But I...
I really don’t get how that works to normalize things once the diet is completed.
Chris Kresser: Well, you can refer to studies like I’m sure you saw a few years ago a study on...
I did Cyrex Array 3 and 4. If you had antibodies to TTG6 and chocolate milk only, would you advise avoiding gluten?
Chris Kresser: In that situation, there’s no evidence that the patient is gluten intolerant. There’s evidence they’re producing some TTG6...
How to reduce nausea from anesthesia after surgery without using a blood thinner like ginger if patient has been advised not to use blood thinners post-surgery?
Chris Kresser: That can be, B6 can sometimes be helpful. As it is for morning sickness, there’s an acupuncture point,...
What do you think about using genomic reports to help determine the best macronutrient ratio for an individual such as the GX Slim Report from Genetic Direction?
Chris Kresser: I don’t really think we’re there yet. I think it’s much better to just base those on individual...
In week 32’s content where you talk about potato diet, you mentioned that there are tricks and variations that can be helpful. Can you please share some of these tricks?
Chris Kresser: The main thing is timing and timing related to compliance. So it’s a hard thing to just eat...
How are you distinguishing to do potato hack versus protein-sparing modified fast?
Chris Kresser: Which is another more aggressive weight loss strategy that I’ve talked about elsewhere and also in this course....
Speaking of weight loss, so many of my patients struggle with overweight and obesity, and so many are unable to successfully lose weight or maintain weight loss. And since excess weight is associated with or causes so many health problems, it’s a real vicious cycle. Everyone wants to lose weight and needs to lose weight, and yet it seems to be a losing battle for so many. You recommend decreasing calories but doesn’t research indicate a calorie reduction itself is a stress on the body and decreasing calories trigger mechanisms that fight against weight loss and work to bring the weight loss back? It’s hard to offer hope to keep going. It seems like everything is working against them.
Chris Kresser: Yeah, good question and people, I think I mentioned this before, people sometimes ask me what’s the hardest...
Are the potato hack or PSM recommended if there is HPA axis dysfunction?
Chris Kresser: It always has to be balanced with the patient and the need for weight loss and what’s going...
