Adapting to a Low Carb Life with Dr. Westman

Sep 11, 2015

Dr. Eric Westman joins Vinnie Tortorich on the Friday edition of the Angriest Trainer podcast.  Today, Dr. Westman and Vinnie discuss living a low carb diet and how those preaching low carb diets are slowly integrating into the system. 

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LOW CARB AND BOWEL MOVEMENTS

• Dr. Westman helps people get on low carb diets
• Low carb diets often gives new users constipation (ketoadaptation)
  • Doesn't matter how often you go, matters how hard it is to pass 
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• Milk of magnesium pills and salts and fluids can help too 
• Once you're adapted to a low carb life, it all gets better 

DR. WESTMAN'S WORK

• You don't have to be ketogenic
• >50-100g of carbs a day can cause changes
• Ketosis is >20g of carb 
• Working with clinics outside the system to use low carb approach to treat diabetes and weight loss, etc. 
  • Heal Diabetes and Medical Weightloss 
  • "HEAL" Healthier Eating and Living
• Gut flora on low carb diets is different but NOT bad 

KETOACIDOSIS 

• Only really affects those without insulin
• Different levels of ketosis, this is the HIGHEST and previously unhealthy ketosis 

THREE RULES OF NUTRITION

1. Protein is most important
2. You can choose: high fat or high carb 
3. Forget what everyone has told you before -- don't listen to them 

SKEPTICISM AROUND LOW CARB DIETS

• Some people think that low carb diets are still bad for you
• Magazines, restaurants are moving toward low carb too
• Innovators like Dr. Westman and Vinnie are leading this charge 
• William Banting -- first to try low carb diet and write about it (mid 1800s) 
  • If you eat low carb, you are a "banter" 

NEW WEBSITES

• Sweden led the movement where websites are being created to help with Low Carb lifestyles
• Occurring here now, too
• Westman is working on some of these projects