During this episode of Vital Metabolic Podcast, hosts James Wheeler and John Parker speak with Dr. Debbie Bright, a doctor of chiropractic who has shifted her passion to functional diagnostic nutrition. Dr. Debbie discusses how she determines the diets for particular patients, elimination diets, supplements, and the importance of having a nutrition coach.
Episode Highlights:
- 4:50: Dr. Debbie is also a certified kettlebell instructor.
- 5:25: Why did you get into chiropractic? What was your life like as a kid?
- 5:55: Dr. Debbie largely works with millennial-aged women, helping them lose their next 7-21 pounds in 21 days.
- 6:55: What did running track and field bring into your goal of becoming a chiropractor?
- 10:35: Dr. Debbie talks about her experience with exercise intolerance and adrenal burnout.
- 11:20: James, how do you structure training with your clients to help them deal with burnout?
- 13:25: James believes people need to do more focused training.
- 14:15: Can you tell us about your life between running track in college and deciding to get a doctor of chiropractic, and why you decided to switch to functional medicine?
- 15:40: After getting her doctor of chiropractic, Dr. Debbie got a master's in nutrition and human performance.
- 16:50: What is the reason you wanted to help people at this deeper level?
- 17:30: Dr. Debbie describes her experience with one particular patient and how her chiropractic knowledge alone wasn't enough to help him 100%.
- 23:07: What is your process like for determining what foods to eliminate with patients?
- 25:25: What would you say is the average timeline for someone to correct diet-related health issues?
- 29:00: Weight loss causes the entire body, such as the liver or the skin, to get healthier.
- 31:35: What's it like gaining compliance from your patients?
- 34:00: Dr. Debbie mentions how many millennials are eating inflammatory foods all day long.
- 35:45: When you eat some "crappy" meals and weigh more the next day, is it just the water weight?
- 36:15: Dr. Debbie talks about the importance of the liver in inflammation and weight loss.
- 38:25: When you take on clients, you are very specific on their dietary outline. Can you explain their specificity with this?
- 40:00: If people are too inflamed, lab testing is not the best practice. It is better to let their system cool down first.
- 44:02: Can you talk about how you use supplements and what works to heal the gut?
- 45:45: Dr. Debbie's 5R approach - remove, replace, re-inoculate, repair, rebalance.
- 52:10: What are some big things that you would tell pretty much everyone to do.
- 52:20: Sleep 7-9 hours every night, eat to support your hormones (healthy fats, fiber, protein), exercise, get stress under control, look at your inner circle.
3 Key Points:
- If you stick with the plan laid out for you, it takes 21 days to correct diet-related health issues.
- The elimination and reintroduction diet is the best way to determine what foods are inflammation triggers.
- Supplements are very important, but it is important to have a coach and testing so you know you are taking the right ones.
Tweetable Quotes:
- "Weight loss is just a symptom of a healthy body." -Dr. Debbie Bright
- "You can't exercise out a bad diet." -Dr. Debbie Bright
- "If you were to cheat on the weekends and on every major holiday, it ends up breaking down to being like 45-46% of the year." -Dr. Debbie Bright
- "The gold standard, even above lab testing, is the elimination diet." -Dr. Debbie Bright
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