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Obesity is an ever-growing problem among us because of our general preference for low-protein, processed foods. Again, as we have always talked about in this podcast, diet is a major factor in obesity. 

But then, a lot of things that we talk about when it comes to diet and obesity are things that we actually already know. That’s why in this episode, we will focus on the whys instead of the whats of diet which will give us a clearer picture of what our eating habits do to our bodies and overall well-being.

In this episode, Dr. Adrienne discusses three studies that tackle the ways our eating habits impact our health and well-being.

What you will learn from this episode:

• Discover how consuming more protein helps manage our hunger;
• Learn about the relationship between the timing of food intake and your weight; and
• Find out why a high-fat diet makes you more susceptible to pain.

“It's not newsworthy that weight loss diets promote protein. But understanding the ‘why’ can be much more powerful than the ‘what’ in helping us do the right thing for our bodies.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Today’s Health Bite: Understanding the “why” can be much more powerful than the “what” in helping us do the right thing for our bodies.

Key Takeaways:

“We just don't eat less by eating less protein, but we replace it by eating more of the other stuff and have a greater desire for the other stuff like fat and carbs.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

“Number one, backloading calories by eating later in the day results in higher hunger hormones. Number two, back loading in calories also results in lower satiety or fullness hormones.”– Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Ways to Connect with Dr. Adrienne Youdim:

• Email: [email protected] 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/ 
• Website: https://www.dradrienneyoudim.com

How We Can Support Adrienne—and Each Other

Our community’s love and presence are powerful. Here’s how you can become a catalyst for this shared journey of transformation:

1. Share Your Voice with an Honest Review on Apple Podcasts. Your thoughtful reviews help spread Adrienne’s message to those who need it most. Take a moment to leave a genuine review and strengthen our community together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-bite/id1504295718  
2. Stay connected by following Health Bite on Spotify. Share your reflections in the comments and join the conversation. Your experiences and insights add richness to our collective growth. Follow and comment on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2jwdHPnWJaoBs2ZJe0nnP6 
3. Send #LoveNotes and Reach Out on Instagram. Let Adrienne know you’re walking this path with her by sending a #LoveNote or a direct message on Instagram. Your encouragement fuels her journey and fosters the connection that makes this community thrive. Adrienne’s Instagram handle here: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/  

Together, we’re creating a space where vulnerability is met with support, and transformation is celebrated as a courageous act. 

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It's Thanksgiving day again, and it's that time when most of us indulge in food and alcohol. It's that day when our Thanksgiving table seems to have an endless supply of food and beverages. Also, a time when overeating and weight issues arise.

This space is sometimes hard to navigate for someone conscious and watching over food and weight matters. And celebrations like this are never without food and beverages to feast on. Who can say no to that?

And that's where the struggle comes in.

But there's always a way to celebrate meaningfully without overeating. However, things can sometimes go wrong even with the best intentions at the start. But just the same, there's a way to let things go and start afresh and start to set your intentions right again.

In this episode, Dr. Adrienne discusses how you can manage the Thanksgiving holiday and the food and alcohol that go with it, including the best tips and steps to avoid overindulging in it. And she also shares how you can turn things around even if you fail at your attempt to stick to what you set out to do at the start. Because what matters is what you do to redeem yourself after the disappointment.

What you will learn from this episode:

• Learn about recommended tips you can do in order not to overeat on the Thanksgiving holiday.
• Find ways to avoid overindulging in alcohol to prevent more calorie and weight issues.
• Discover what you can do best when you fail despite all the good intentions you've set early on

"Foster more good things by celebrating the goodness already in you." – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Key Takeaways:

"We know we're going out to a decadent restaurant for dinner. We think the best strategy is not to eat all day, save up all the calories so that we can use them for that particular special meal. But that really is exactly what you should not do. Because when you go into a big meal, having fasted, you can't help but be hungry." – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

"Once you decide intentionally that you're not going to partake, it's really not such a big deal. Think about it. Think about going into the meal with a mindset of abstinence, it may surprise you how easy it actually is." – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

"So you overate, you didn't do what you intended despite your best intentions. It doesn't really matter at the end of the day. Do you know what matters? What matters is the moment after; what did you do the moment after?" – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Ways to Connect with Dr. Adrienne Youdim:

• Email: [email protected] 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/ 
• Website: https://www.dradrienneyoudim.com

How We Can Support Adrienne—and Each Other

Our community’s love and presence are powerful. Here’s how you can become a catalyst for this shared journey of transformation:

1. Share Your Voice with an Honest Review on Apple Podcasts. Your thoughtful reviews help spread Adrienne’s message to those who need it most. Take a moment to leave a genuine review and strengthen our community together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-bite/id1504295718  
2. Stay connected by following Health Bite on Spotify. Share your reflections in the comments and join the conversation. Your experiences and insights add richness to our collective growth. Follow and comment on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2jwdHPnWJaoBs2ZJe0nnP6 
3. Send #LoveNotes and Reach Out on Instagram. Let Adrienne know you’re walking this path with her by sending a #LoveNote or a direct message on Instagram. Your encouragement fuels her journey and fosters the connection that makes this community thrive. Adrienne’s Instagram handle here: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/  

Together, we’re creating a space where vulnerability is met with support, and transformation is celebrated as a courageous act. 

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Have you done something recently that you really wish you hadn't done? Did you get upset and hard on yourself over the thought that you could’ve done things differently? 

As humans, we are imperfect by nature. We are bound to make mistakes again and again. Setbacks are inevitable; insecurities are always around. But really, that doesn’t mean that it’s the end of your journey towards achieving your goal. 

Being hard on ourselves for things that we have no control over doesn’t really help at all; it only makes us feel worse. Thankfully, there is a certain evidence-based way to soothe our upset. Not only will it help us cope up with our imperfections, but it will also lead us to an overall better mental and physical well-being.

In this episode, Dr. Adrienne talks about the whole concept of self-compassion as she shares practices that would lead us into living a more fulfilling and productive life.

What you will learn from this episode:

• Acquire knowledge about an effective and more durable way to soothe that actually works;
• Recognize the worth of being self-compassionate; and
• Discover things that you can do to live a more fulfilling and productive life.

“I want you to now dare to imagine a different story… You are never too far, too old, or too unable or incapable of making a change. So, I want you to dare to imagine that you can do it a different way... Engage with yourself with a self-compassion approach and get out there and live out your dreams, your goals, and make those habits that will help you live a more fulfilling, productive life.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Key Takeaways:

“It [self-compassion] is actually an evidence-based strategy, not only towards better mental and emotional health and well-being, but also an evidence-based strategy to help achieve our goals and help effectively engineer habit change.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

“When we don’t approach our limitations and shortcomings with self-compassion, when we double down with the negative self-talk and self-hate, we are much more likely to fall off the wagon for good.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

“We are human, and humans, by definition, are imperfect and make mistakes. So, understanding our common humanity allows us to take a more self-compassionate approach to ourselves, and knowing that we're not alone.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

“Give yourself a roadmap to doing things a different way. Because the best way of getting out of a rut of insecurity is to provide yourself a roadmap towards doing it a different way and having a different outcome.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

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How We Can Support Adrienne—and Each Other

Our community’s love and presence are powerful. Here’s how you can become a catalyst for this shared journey of transformation:

1. Share Your Voice with an Honest Review on Apple Podcasts. Your thoughtful reviews help spread Adrienne’s message to those who need it most. Take a moment to leave a genuine review and strengthen our community together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-bite/id1504295718  
2. Stay connected by following Health Bite on Spotify. Share your reflections in the comments and join the conversation. Your experiences and insights add richness to our collective growth. Follow and comment on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2jwdHPnWJaoBs2ZJe0nnP6 
3. Send #LoveNotes and Reach Out on Instagram. Let Adrienne know you’re walking this path with her by sending a #LoveNote or a direct message on Instagram. Your encouragement fuels her journey and fosters the connection that makes this community thrive. Adrienne’s Instagram handle here: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/  

Together, we’re creating a space where vulnerability is met with support, and transformation is celebrated as a courageous act. 

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Anne Kennard, DO, is a Board Certified OBGYN, Fellowship trained in Integrative Medicine, an herbalist, and a registered yoga instructor.  

She completed a 2-year fellowship in integrative medicine through the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and has additional training in contemplative medicine, herbal medicine, and Ayurveda. 

She is passionate about women’s health in the body, mind, and spirit. She authored an Amazon bestselling cookbook: “Nourish: An Integrative Medicine Cookbook”, and speaks nationally on topics including women’s integrative medicine, nutrition, and physician wellness.

In this episode, she discusses how integrative medicine believes your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual needs affect your health

What You’ll Learn

• What Integrative medicine is all about
• How we can use food and herbs to nourish — our mind, body, and soul and how each relies on the other and affect your entire well-being.
• How integrative medicine “integrate” lifestyle and complementary science-based approaches to achieve optimal health and healing

“What I love to do with food is try to feel nourished. It is not just the food per se, but something that works in my life, my kids, and my family. You have to name what matters in terms of what works well to nourish your life. And for me, I love fresh local food that is prepared well and tastes good and something that my kids would eat .” - Anne Kennard

Valuable Resource

Recipe for Making a Hibiscus Mocktail/Cocktail

1. Dug the Hibiscus tea bags a hot cup, leave it on the counter for a couple of hours
2. It will make this deep red beautiful syrup, 
3. You can add a tablespoon to a glass of sparkling water.
4. Garnish it with a little mint, and it is summer perfection. 

For more recipes check-out her book: Nourish: An Integrative Medicine Cookbook

Teas and Natural Supplement Brand Recommendations

• https://www.traditionalmedicinals.com/
• https://yogiproducts.com
• https://www.gaiaherbs.com/ 
• https://www.naturesway.com/ 

Key Takeaways

“We digest certain emotions, and we digest food, also with attention. More Western and conventional studies show that in a meal that is eaten while distracted, the stomach does not have as low of a pH, and the digestion is not as crisp, perhaps as it could be, as opposed to mindfully taking a moment before a meal and focusing on the meal.” - Anne Kennard

Connect with Anne Kennard

• https://www.facebook.com/drannekennard/
• https://www.instagram.com/dr_anne_kennard 
• Nourish: An Integrative Medicine Cookbook

How We Can Support Adrienne—and Each Other

Our community’s love and presence are powerful. Here’s how you can become a catalyst for this shared journey of transformation:

1. Share Your Voice with an Honest Review on Apple Podcasts. Your thoughtful reviews help spread Adrienne’s message to those who need it most. Take a moment to leave a genuine review and strengthen our community together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-bite/id1504295718  
2. Stay connected by following Health Bite on Spotify. Share your reflections in the comments and join the conversation. Your experiences and insights add richness to our collective growth. Follow and comment on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2jwdHPnWJaoBs2ZJe0nnP6 
3. Send #LoveNotes and Reach Out on Instagram. Let Adrienne know you’re walking this path with her by sending a #LoveNote or a direct message on Instagram. Your encouragement fuels her journey and fosters the connection that makes this community thrive. Adrienne’s Instagram handle here: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/  

Together, we’re creating a space where vulnerability is met with support, and transformation is celebrated as a courageous act. 

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Why let ourselves get fooled by all the sensationalism out there when it comes to health and wellness when we can take simple steps towards our well-being’s betterment?

There’s been a lot of bias when it comes to obesity and obesity management, so much that it has already pushed people to shame themselves. Patients come in every now and then, saying they should be able to do things alone, just by themselves. 

But this isn’t supposed to happen, that’s why we’re here with another episode of the Nutrition and Obesity in the News segment. Make sure to tune in as Dr. Adrienne discusses anxiety screening, use of weight loss drugs, using food to soothe, and prioritizing sleep.

In this episode, Dr. Adrienne shares her take on recent news released in the past month about anxiety screening, use of weight loss drugs, using food to soothe, and prioritizing sleep as she gives actionable bites you can use to take action towards better health and well-being.

What you will learn from this episode:

• Understand why our teenagers need to get more sleep, in line with the reason on why they should prioritize it;
• Recognize the role that we play when it comes to our hunger for highly palatable food and why we shouldn’t use food to soothe difficult emotions; and
• Why you should be prepared for an anxiety screening during your annual visit and learn whether or not you’re a candidate for drugs on anti-obesity

“As always, this is not about an expert telling you, you know, prompting fear. This is not about the nocebo effect and what we can't do. This podcast is all about empowering you and what we can do.”– Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Recommended Episodes For You

• Finding Balance and Optimizing Sleep with Dr. Nishi Bhopal
• Why Sleep is a Vitamin with Adrienne Youdim
• #Healthbiteinthenews: 10K Steps, Injectables for Weightloss, Obesogens, and Risk of Colon Cancer for the Food You Eat…and More
• Obesity, Nutrition, and Food in the News
• How We Hurt Ourselves, Mind, and Body When We Use Food to Soothe
• Broadening What It Means to Nourish, Mind and Body with There 5 Pillars of Health and Wellbeing

Ways to Connect with Dr. Adrienne Youdim:

• Email: [email protected] 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/ 
• Website: https://www.dradrienneyoudim.com

If you love it and you think it is of benefit, please share this podcast with one person that you love. You can also go to http://www.dradrienneyoudim.com and sign up for my newsletter. If you prefer to get information in written form, you can get these tips via newsletter every week. 

How We Can Support Adrienne—and Each Other

Our community’s love and presence are powerful. Here’s how you can become a catalyst for this shared journey of transformation:

1. Share Your Voice with an Honest Review on Apple Podcasts. Your thoughtful reviews help spread Adrienne’s message to those who need it most. Take a moment to leave a genuine review and strengthen our community together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-bite/id1504295718  
2. Stay connected by following Health Bite on Spotify. Share your reflections in the comments and join the conversation. Your experiences and insights add richness to our collective growth. Follow and comment on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2jwdHPnWJaoBs2ZJe0nnP6 
3. Send #LoveNotes and Reach Out on Instagram. Let Adrienne know you’re walking this path with her by sending a #LoveNote or a direct message on Instagram. Your encouragement fuels her journey and fosters the connection that makes this community thrive. Adrienne’s Instagram handle here: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/  

Together, we’re creating a space where vulnerability is met with support, and transformation is celebrated as a courageous act. 

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Have you been struggling to remain healthy while maintaining a good, well-balanced diet? Have you ever felt that no matter how you restrict yourself to only eating ‘healthy foods’, you still end up feeling tired, anxious, or even depressed?

Dr. Adrienne Youdim is a board-certified Internist and is the host of the podcast Health Bite. She specializes in medical weight loss and nutrition, and she is aiming to transform the weight loss narrative into one that is both empowering and compassionate – inspiring people to live more physically and emotionally fulfilling lives through evidence-based strategies that actually show results.

Through her podcast, Dr. Adrienne debunks all myths in the current weight loss culture and supports people in living the life they deserve as they work on becoming the best version of themselves.

In this episode, Dr. Adrienne talks about the five (5) pillars of health, mind, and body. She also explains why just eating the right food is not enough as she shares simple, doable tips on how to achieve that state of holistic well-being.

What you will learn from this episode:

• Redefine "nutrition," to include the many ways in which we nourish ourselves, mind and body.
• Understand what it really means to have and live by proper “nutrition”;
• Find out what the five pillars of health, mind, and body are; and
• Discover how to use these pillars to promote the health of one’s mind and body

“I want to broaden how we approach nutrition as a whole and define it as the many ways in which we can fuel ourselves, the many ways in which we can nourish ourselves. And that not only includes food, but includes movement, sleep, nature and mental hygiene, or as I like to call it – the mind's diet.”

– Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Key Takeaways:

“Let's bring back the art of cooking. We don't have to be super fancy about it, but let's think about being more intentional about what we eat and how we eat.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

“Don't spend your time staying up all night, cramming for an exam, and then missing out on the kind of sleep that's necessary to consolidate that learning and memory. Turn off the lights a little bit earlier and use that time for the rest and relaxation that your brain needs in order to retain that information.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Ways to Connect with Dr. Adrienne Youdim:

• Email: [email protected] 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/ 
• Website: https://www.dradrienneyoudim.com

If you love it and you think it is of benefit, please share this podcast with one person that you love. You can also go to http://www.dradrienneyoudim.com and sign up for my newsletter. If you prefer to get information in written form, you can get these tips via newsletter every week.

How We Can Support Adrienne—and Each Other

Our community’s love and presence are powerful. Here’s how you can become a catalyst for this shared journey of transformation:

1. Share Your Voice with an Honest Review on Apple Podcasts. Your thoughtful reviews help spread Adrienne’s message to those who need it most. Take a moment to leave a genuine review and strengthen our community together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-bite/id1504295718  
2. Stay connected by following Health Bite on Spotify. Share your reflections in the comments and join the conversation. Your experiences and insights add richness to our collective growth. Follow and comment on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2jwdHPnWJaoBs2ZJe0nnP6 
3. Send #LoveNotes and Reach Out on Instagram. Let Adrienne know you’re walking this path with her by sending a #LoveNote or a direct message on Instagram. Your encouragement fuels her journey and fosters the connection that makes this community thrive. Adrienne’s Instagram handle here: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/  

Together, we’re creating a space where vulnerability is met with support, and transformation is celebrated as a courageous act. 

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Why soothe your hunger with highly palatable foods that harm your mind and your body when you can turn that hunger into an opportunity to address your unmet needs?

Dr. Adrienne Youdim is a board-certified Internist and is the host of the podcast Health Bite. She specializes in medical weight loss and nutrition, and she is aiming to transform the weight loss narrative into one that is both empowering and compassionate – inspiring people to live more physically and emotionally fulfilling lives through evidence-based strategies that actually show results.

Through her podcast, Dr. Adrienne debunks all myths in the current weight loss culture and supports people in living the life they deserve as they work on becoming the best version of themselves.

In this episode, Dr. Adrienne enumerates reasons why soothing with food – especially yummy, highly palatable foods – is not good and healthy for our mind, our health, and our body. Here, she explains how our hunger is an opportunity to recognize what we truly need.

What you will learn from this episode:

• Find out how food and emotion are hardwired in our physiology;
• Understand why using food to soothe is a maladaptive practice; and
• Discover the reason why you should not soothe your hunger, especially with food

“Don’t soothe your hunger with food… but more importantly, do not soothe your hunger because your hunger is a gift. It's an invitation to open up to what you need, and an opportunity to fulfill that need. And my friends, that is powerful.”

– Dr. Adrienne Youdim


Key Takeaways:

“When we come to terms with the trigger, as I like to say, the hunger that motivates us to soothe, then not only are we able to choose a different path, but more importantly, we can use our hunger to identify our needs, to learn what that desire for food is signaling, and as a result, to fulfill that need for ourselves.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

“There is no shame. This is about understanding; understanding why we do things we do so that we can do better for ourselves.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

“What's good for the body is good for the mind, and what's good for the mind is good for our bodies. And when we use food to soothe, we hurt ourselves – mind and body.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Ways to Connect with Dr. Adrienne Youdim:

• Email: [email protected] 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/ 
• Website: https://www.dradrienneyoudim.com 

If you're looking for more compassionate mindset hacks around your relationship with your body and your weight, I really encourage you to check out my book, Hungry for More: Stories and Science to Inspire Weight loss from the Inside Out on my website, www.dradrienneyoudim.com. I know that this book is resonating.

Thank you to all of those who have read it, shared it, and messaged me about it. If you are one of those people, DM me on Instagram, @dradrienneyoudim. I love hearing your stories, but I know that this book resonates because the stories are universal. 

And so I hope you use those stories to have a little bit more compassionate kindness towards yourself and to use them as an engine for positive change.

How We Can Support Adrienne—and Each Other

Our community’s love and presence are powerful. Here’s how you can become a catalyst for this shared journey of transformation:

1. Share Your Voice with an Honest Review on Apple Podcasts. Your thoughtful reviews help spread Adrienne’s message to those who need it most. Take a moment to leave a genuine review and strengthen our community together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-bite/id1504295718  
2. Stay connected by following Health Bite on Spotify. Share your reflections in the comments and join the conversation. Your experiences and insights add richness to our collective growth. Follow and comment on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2jwdHPnWJaoBs2ZJe0nnP6 
3. Send #LoveNotes and Reach Out on Instagram. Let Adrienne know you’re walking this path with her by sending a #LoveNote or a direct message on Instagram. Your encouragement fuels her journey and fosters the connection that makes this community thrive. Adrienne’s Instagram handle here: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/  

Together, we’re creating a space where vulnerability is met with support, and transformation is celebrated as a courageous act. 

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We all have a food story of our own. Be that something our parents have dawned on us or something we have created for ourselves, our food story plays a huge role in how we see ourselves, especially in relation to weight.

 But how do we write the best possible story that can be written if we still see weight loss as taboo? How do we go after our goals towards a healthier mind, body, and soul if we don’t really listen to ourselves, or worse, don’t even know our truth?

Elise Museles is a Certified Eating Psychology and Nutrition Expert, creator of the Food Story platform, and the wildly popular blog Kale & Chocolate. As an author, speaker, health coach, and podcast host, Elise’s mission are to empower women to create a healthier relationship with food and their bodies by changing what’s on their plate and what’s in their minds.

In this episode, Elise engages in a conversation with Dr. Adrienne with regards to food, weight loss, and the culture around these two, as they discuss mindset’s role in line with our own food story.

What will you learn from this episode:

• Dig deep and reset the Food Story themes you might have buried long ago 
• Learn how to turn down the food noise 
• Epic storytelling, food for mood, and hot topics to inspire you to shift your habits + mindset around food

“The way that we talk to ourselves and the way that we frame things will completely change the experience. Those mindset shifts make all the difference.”

– Elise Museles

Key Takeaways:

“The psychology part is really of the most interest to me, because I think, oftentimes, that's the missing piece of the nutrition puzzle.” – Elise Museles

“It’s so much less about the food than it is about being together.” – Elise Museles

“With cooking, if you have that chore mentality, it's a chore. But if it's like this is an opportunity to have fun or to learn new things or to show love or whatever you want to say, that's the energy that's going to go into it.” – Elise Museles

Ways to Connect with Elise Museles

• Website: https://elisemuseles.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elisemuseles/

Ways to Connect with Dr. Adrienne Youdim:

• Email: [email protected] 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/ 
• Website: https://www.dradrienneyoudim.com 

How We Can Support Adrienne—and Each Other

Our community’s love and presence are powerful. Here’s how you can become a catalyst for this shared journey of transformation:

1. Share Your Voice with an Honest Review on Apple Podcasts. Your thoughtful reviews help spread Adrienne’s message to those who need it most. Take a moment to leave a genuine review and strengthen our community together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-bite/id1504295718  
2. Stay connected by following Health Bite on Spotify. Share your reflections in the comments and join the conversation. Your experiences and insights add richness to our collective growth. Follow and comment on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2jwdHPnWJaoBs2ZJe0nnP6 
3. Send #LoveNotes and Reach Out on Instagram. Let Adrienne know you’re walking this path with her by sending a #LoveNote or a direct message on Instagram. Your encouragement fuels her journey and fosters the connection that makes this community thrive. Adrienne’s Instagram handle here: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/  

Together, we’re creating a space where vulnerability is met with support, and transformation is celebrated as a courageous act. 

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How can we stop acting in a way that is oppressive to ourselves, and finally live the best life we’ve always dreamt to live?

There are studies that have shown that this kind of internalization of negative stigma and bias not only affects our emotional and mental health, for they also carry physical health consequences. What’s worse is we can even pass it down to our children and their soon-to-be kids!

This act of labeling not only harms us and those whom we love; it's also ineffective to what we’re trying to accomplish in life. So join us today as we talk about the power words have. Be kind and be grateful for your life.

In this episode, Dr. Adrienne discusses cases of self-oppression as she reminds us to be mindful of the words we associate ourselves with for each has the power to either make or break us.

What you will learn from this episode:

• How powerful words are, especially in helping us move towards positive change or dragging us down away from our goals;
• Why we need to be more kind and more compassionate towards ourselves, especially with the “labels” we associate ourselves with; and
• What we can do to be mindful of these words’ power, especially as we aim to have better health and well-being

“Stop acting in a way that is oppressive to yourself. You don’t need it and you don’t deserve it.”

– Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Topics Covered:

00:00 – In My Mother’s Home Country: What happened to the 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini?

01:53 – Important Disclaimer: “In no way do I mean to minimize the life and death experience that our sisters across the globe are facing”

02:26 – Oppression from Within: The negative labels that we associate ourselves with are a form of self-oppression and these have consequences on our health

06:37 – Too Powerful to Not Reshare: Talking about that mind-blowing study that speaks to this issue of labeling

08:21 – What Can Be Done: Today’s health bites from Dr. Adrienne

14:03 – Parting Tip: “Stop acting in a way that is oppressive to yourself. You don’t need it and you don’t deserve it.”

Key Takeaways:

“The labels are a form of self-oppression because they limit our freedom from trying something new, or the opportunity to potentially succeed because we’ve never let ourselves try.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

“People who label themselves and don't have positive self-acceptance are less likely to make substantive and sustainable change, and less likely, as a result, to reach their health goals.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Ways to Connect with Dr. Adrienne Youdim:

• Email: [email protected] 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/ 
• Website: https://www.dradrienneyoudim.com 

If you're looking for more compassionate mindset hacks around your relationship with your body and your weight, I really encourage you to check out my book, Hungry for More: Stories and Science to Inspire Weight loss from the Inside Out on my website, www.dradrienneyoudim.com. I know that this book is resonating.

Thank you to all of those who have read it, shared it, and messaged me about it. If you are one of those people, DM me on Instagram, @dradrienneyoudim. I love hearing your stories, but I know that this book resonates because the stories are universal. 

And so I hope you use those stories to have a little bit more compassionate kindness towards yourself and to use them as an engine for positive change.

How We Can Support Adrienne—and Each Other

Our community’s love and presence are powerful. Here’s how you can become a catalyst for this shared journey of transformation:

1. Share Your Voice with an Honest Review on Apple Podcasts. Your thoughtful reviews help spread Adrienne’s message to those who need it most. Take a moment to leave a genuine review and strengthen our community together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-bite/id1504295718  
2. Stay connected by following Health Bite on Spotify. Share your reflections in the comments and join the conversation. Your experiences and insights add richness to our collective growth. Follow and comment on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2jwdHPnWJaoBs2ZJe0nnP6 
3. Send #LoveNotes and Reach Out on Instagram. Let Adrienne know you’re walking this path with her by sending a #LoveNote or a direct message on Instagram. Your encouragement fuels her journey and fosters the connection that makes this community thrive. Adrienne’s Instagram handle here: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/  

Together, we’re creating a space where vulnerability is met with support, and transformation is celebrated as a courageous act. 

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How can we make ourselves lean even more towards prevention, and not always on the treatment we need to get back to living in good health?

So many of our drugs nowadays that are geared toward diabetes are all about treatment and almost nothing on prevention. But as the saying goes, prevention is always better than cure.

So as promised, Dr. Adrienne’s back to – again – offer you food and nutrition news as she gives you tips you can take into action to be in good health as you keep living. Tune in and take home the health bites she’s prepared for you today! Remember, you don’t need to be perfect to be effective.

In this episode, Dr. Adrienne goes back to her once-a-month discussion of her take on the recent news around food, nutrition, and obesity. Here, she talks about step count and dementia, semaglutide and diabetes, obesogens and hormonal systems, and ultra-processed foods and colon cancer.

What you will learn from this episode:

• Discover how step count reduces the risk of dementia, as seen in a study;
• Find out how semaglutide helps lowers people’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes;
• Understand how obesogens affect the hormonal systems in our bodies; and
• Recognize the effects of ultra-processed foods on one’s likelihood to have colon cancer

“We know that once people go on to develop diabetes, it is very hard to put those individuals in remission, so this is a major woohoo for prevention.”

– Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Topics Covered:

00:32 – First News Story: The good in the 10,000 steps per day concept, and the study about the relationship between step count and dementia

05:05 – Second News Story: The recent release of the injectables for weight loss, and how semaglutide helps lowers people’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes

09:58 – Third News Story: Do plastics make you gain weight? What are these obesogens, and how do these affect the hormonal systems in our bodies?

13:59 – Fourth News Story: The effects of ultra-processed foods on one’s likelihood to have colon cancer, and the potential reasons on why this happens

21:23 – A Quick Recap: Your news and health bites this September

Key Takeaways

“Here is a medication that can actually help with prevention. In this study, we have a medication that potentially can help stem the tide of developing diabetes. We know that once people go on to develop diabetes, it is very hard to put those individuals in remission, so this is a major wohoo for prevention.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

“Do not freak people out or leave them with inactionable information, because the truth of the matter is until our government and our policies begin to regulate these things and these chemicals, we're going to be exposed.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

“Colon cancer tends to be one of those cancers that's very much lifestyle driven. So, lifestyle factors including our diet, including our activity level, and including our degree of excess weight tends to be contributory.” – Dr. Adrienne Youdim

Ways to Connect with Dr. Adrienne Youdim:

• Email: [email protected] 
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/ 
• Website: https://www.dradrienneyoudim.com 

Shoot me an email at [email protected].  I'd love to know how you feel, and what you're learning, and even if there are topics out there that you wish for us to touch upon, tell me about that, too.

How We Can Support Adrienne—and Each Other

Our community’s love and presence are powerful. Here’s how you can become a catalyst for this shared journey of transformation:

1. Share Your Voice with an Honest Review on Apple Podcasts. Your thoughtful reviews help spread Adrienne’s message to those who need it most. Take a moment to leave a genuine review and strengthen our community together. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/health-bite/id1504295718  
2. Stay connected by following Health Bite on Spotify. Share your reflections in the comments and join the conversation. Your experiences and insights add richness to our collective growth. Follow and comment on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2jwdHPnWJaoBs2ZJe0nnP6 
3. Send #LoveNotes and Reach Out on Instagram. Let Adrienne know you’re walking this path with her by sending a #LoveNote or a direct message on Instagram. Your encouragement fuels her journey and fosters the connection that makes this community thrive. Adrienne’s Instagram handle here: https://www.instagram.com/dradrienneyoudim/  

Together, we’re creating a space where vulnerability is met with support, and transformation is celebrated as a courageous act.