Keto Answers Podcast: Low Carb Lifestyle | Ketogenic Diet Nutrition | Holistic Health

Most people know just how important it is to check food labels to see if there are any chemical ingredients lurking inside. But, for some reason, many don’t carry this important step over to other areas of their life, especially when it comes to skincare products. As you’ll learn in this episode with Andy Hnilo, the founder of an all-natural skincare line, Alitura Naturals, this is a huge mistake. And we’re not talking about causing more wrinkles or creating crow’s feet twenty years too early. Rather, you’ll see that many skincare products out there contain carcinogenic ingredients, which means they have the potential to cause cancer. And that’s just the beginning sadly. Andy explains the real impact these fake ingredients have on your health, he shares the worst offenders to avoid starting immediately, and why expensive prescription skincare products aren’t any better. You’ll also discover the truth about retinol creams and how to find sunscreens that are toxin-free. If you’re wondering who Andy Hnilo is, he

Have you ever wondered what Dr. Anthony Gustin’s routines look like? Or how he powers down each night? Maybe you’re curious to learn how Dr. Gustin juggles running a business and working out while staying in ketosis. If questions like these have ever come up, today’s podcast episode is for you since Dr. Anthony Gustin, the founder of Perfect Keto, sits down to answer these and more. This is the fourth Q&A he’s done but it’s a little different than the last three. For the first half of the episode, you’ll get a peek into what a typical day looks like for him, including what he eats, and how he trains. You’ll also discover how long he’s followed keto, what he wishes he knew sooner, how to improve mental health, the truth about fiber, and so much more. As a special treat for tuning in, you’ll also get a sneak peek into the latest Perfect Keto products that are already in the pipeline. So if you’re curious to see how Dr. Gustin does it all and then some, you have some questions about keto, or you want the ins

You’ve been told that you need to eat less and exercise more. But, if you’ve already tried this route, then you know firsthand that it doesn’t work. Instead of throwing in the towel and feeling like weight loss is impossible for you, tune into this episode to discover strategies to fix this. As an investigative health and science journalist and researcher, Gary’s spent the last two decades studying the science of fat. He’s authored several books and made it his mission to uncover why people get fat, why it’s hard to lose fat, and what to do. And you’ll hear all about this and more in this podcast episode. Gary also shares the research behind these claims and why many refuse to accept it despite having a mountain of evidence to support it. You’ll also discover the real culprit behind the obesity epidemic and what it takes to fix this. So if you’ve ever struggled to lose weight, especially following the calories in vs calories out method, you don’t want to miss this episode. Check it out now to find out how you

While training to be a physician, he was taught that eating a diet packed with fruits and vegetables was the way to go. But, after practicing for several years, his patients weren’t getting any better despite following these orders and were dependent on a mix of prescriptions. Convinced there had to be a better solution for his patients, Dr. Paul Saladino started experimenting with the carnivore diet personally and found great success. After some time, he started testing how his patients responded to it and discovered it was a helpful tool for improving their health.. Since then, Dr. Paul Saladino has made it his mission to help people improve their quality of life by using the carnivore diet. And in this podcast episode, you’ll learn all about his science-based approach to carnivore and his opinion on whether or not you should eat plants.. Dr. Saladino also shares his hierarchy of meat, how most people on carnivore are not eating nose to tail right, his thoughts on pork and meat sustainability, and so much m

Over 20 years ago, Dr. Jeff Volek was taught that high-carb, low-fat diets were the key to optimal nutrition. But, as Dr. Volek soon realized, this diet had just the opposite effect on health. Instead of promoting a better quality of life, high-carb diets have led to incredibly high rates of type 2 diabetes and obesity. It’s even contributed to a national security crisis, as you’ll learn in this podcast episode. As a possible solution, Dr. Volek and his team of researchers started studying nutritional ketosis and they haven’t stopped two decades later. You’ll hear what the latest low-carb diet research supports, where the future is heading, and so much more in this episode. If you’re not familiar with Dr. Volek’s work, he’s a New York Times best-selling author, with five books under his belt. He also has over 300 peer-reviewed scientific manuscripts and has given 200 lectures across the globe on this topic. As a pioneer in this space, Dr. Volek is a wealth of knowledge and continues to study how nutritional k

Gut health has been such a buzz lately that most people understand its importance on a basic level. This could mean adding in prebiotic-rich foods, taking probiotics, and drinking or eating things like Kombucha and Kefir to promote an optimal gut balance. But what if we told you that this approach could be making things worse if you’re not targeting it towards what your body specifically needs? It’s true. And if you’re continually doing this, it’s no wonder that your issues have only slightly improved. The good news is that this is a sign that you’re moving in the right direction and, with the help of this podcast episode with Dr. Michael Ruscio, you can keep moving that way. To do that, Dr. Ruscio shares the exact steps he uses in his clinical practice to help his patients improve their gut health. He’ll also jump into why probiotics may not be working for you and how to find ones that will, immunoglobulins on gut health, dietary histamines, the best diets for gut repair, sugar alcohols on the gut, and so mu

He was one of the first guys to dive head-first into paleo. He’s even dabbled on carnivore for six weeks. Now he prefers a paleo-keto approach. If you haven’t guessed it yet, this podcast episode features two-time New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of Paleo Solutions and Wired to Eat, Robb Wolf. Robb sits down with Dr. Anthony Gustin to chat about everything from mTOR activation, fasting, autophagy, electrolyte imbalances, and more. Robb even dives in deep to uncover the mechanisms at work with fasting and being on a low-carb diet and where he thinks things will evolve in the future. So if you’re someone who loves to geek out, this episode is perfect for you. And if you’re just interested in learning more about how to improve your health and quality of life, you’ll find something interesting in this episode too. Robb -- who has close to 300k social media followers -- also shares his best advice for choosing the right tool to reach your health goals. Check out this jam-packed episode no

While most people understand the benefits of fasting, few know the true power of reaching autophagy. But what exactly is autophagy and the benefits associated with it? We’ll briefly tackle the basics like these before moving on to more complex topics such as long-term fasting, muscle mass, mTOR, and protein synthesis. Don’t let the complexity of the topics deter you though -- Siim shares his knowledge in an easy to digest format that both beginners and seasoned pros alike can understand. In addition to that, you’ll also hear more about Siim’s tips for breaking a fast, prolonging a fast, carb refeeding, and whether or not you should workout while fasting. As a best-selling author with close to 100k social media followers, Siim Land is a wealth of knowledge on the topic of autophagy and fasting and he shares everything he knows in this episode. Whether you’re just dipping your toes in the water here or you’ve been fasting for years now, this episode has something for you. Tune in now to learn more!

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to improve your health in less time? While we’re not referring to quick weight loss strategies and detoxes that don’t work, we are saying that it’s possible to biohack your health, as you’ll learn in this podcast episode with Ben Greenfield, one of the world’s top influential people in the health and fitness world. Ben shares some of his best biohacking strategies, his morning rituals, and what moved the needle the most in terms of performance and health in this episode. You’ll also hear more about the specific type of water he swears by for better health, his race performance hacks for both before and during a race, and what he sees as the future in this space. If you’re not familiar with Ben Greenfield, he’s an obstacle course racer, best-selling author, biohacker, coach, relentless self-experimenter, father to twin boys and has over 400k social media followers. So he understands what it’s like to maintain a busy lifestyle while achieving incredible health feats. Fi

You may not have expected Dr. Anthony Gustin of Perfect Keto to sit down with Dr. Josh Axe since their companies are similar, but the reality is they share a similar background as well as some of the same health and nutritional philosophies. You’ll hear more about this and Dr. Axe’s background as a former chiropractor and how he uses a nutritional approach based on Chinese Medicine. Dr. Axe also shares how he helped his mom use keto during her cancer diagnosis, his thoughts on using keto both short-term and long-term, and whether he follows a keto diet or not. If you’re not familiar with Dr. Josh Axe, he’s a certified doctor of natural medicine and clinical nutritionist who has amassed close to 5.3 million followers on his social media channels. We also dive into a number of topics surrounding probiotics, collagen, CBD, and the best herbs and spices for better health. This episode is jam-packed with a ton of information -- it’s one you don’t want to miss. Tune in now to learn more!

Is it really possible to detoxify the body? Or are those juice cleanses and detox kits just a marketing scam? As the title suggests, these quick-fixes don’t even scratch the surface when it comes to detoxification. But that doesn’t mean you can’t rid your body of toxins, including heavy metals. Rather, it’s just the opposite as you’ll learn in this podcast episode with Dr. Daniel Pompa, a former chiropractor who now practices cellular healing and teaches hundreds of doctors and professionals how to guide their patients through cellular detoxes. Find out what it takes to really detoxify your body, why you would want to do this in the first place, and how fasting and a low-carb diet are great tools to use here. You’ll also discover the one key ingredient missing in people who eat a healthy diet, why Dr. Pompa believes in diet variation, and how autophagy works. This is one eye-opening episode you don’t want to miss, especially if you’re dealing with unexplained chronic fatigue, headaches, anxiety, sleeplessness

She’s coached hundreds of clients throughout the years and believes in a dogma-free nutrition approach. Yet, after some persistent nudging, she decided to give keto a try for 90-days. Despite eating more calories, Adee Zukier Cazayoux, CEO and founder of a nutritional coaching program called Working Against Gravity, lost body fat and felt better than ever. Even with these positive results though, she doesn’t push keto on her clients. So what does she promote? Find out in this podcast episode as Adee shares her top nutrition tips from all of these years helping people make weight for competitions and lose body fat. These aren’t your typical diet and nutrition tips either. Rather, they’re focused on finding the right fit for you and how this may change over time. And if you’ve ever wanted a sneak peek into a nutritional coaching program to see if hiring a coach could help you reach your goals, this episode gives you exactly that. We’ll show you what a coach does and what they focus on specifically. Tune into th

If you’re following a ketogenic diet, you already know that carbs and sugar are bad for you. But you may not have realized that vegetable oils are just as detrimental to your health and should be eliminated right away too. And if you’re unknowingly consuming these, it could be why you’re struggling to reach your goals on keto. Fortunately, this podcast episode with board certified family medicine physician and author of Deep Nutrition, Dr. Cate Shanahan, can help. In it, we’ll share why vegetable oils are so bad for you, the exact ones to eliminate, and why we’ve had this wrong for so long. Dr. Shanahan also dives into a study that’s been overly and incorrectly used showing how a ketogenic diet causes weight gain and fatty liver. On top of that, we also discuss keto on athletic performance and Dr. Shanahan gives her best tips for how many carbs athletes should consume on keto. This is one episode you don’t want to miss. Tune in now to see what we mean.  

Are you a woman in perimenopause or menopause and have tried a low-carb ketogenic diet only to find that it made you irritable and gave you a case of the “keto crazies?” If this has happened to you, it doesn’t mean that keto is the wrong tool to use here. Rather, you may just be missing one huge component: alkalinity. Contrary to popular belief, becoming more alkaline doesn’t involve eliminating all acidic foods for alkaline-only ones. Instead, it means finding the right balance while striving to reach and maintain ketosis. Fortunately, thanks to this podcast episode with triple board certified physician Dr. Anna Cabeca that won’t be so hard to do since she’s sharing her top principles for becoming more alkaline on a ketogenic diet. This style of eating helped Dr. Cabeca reverse perimenopause so she could successfully have a child at age 41, and she continues to use these principles with success in thousands of women at her practice. Tune into the episode now to learn how to balance your hormones naturally so

To improve as an MMA fighter, Kyle Kingsbury turned to meditation and self-reflection, which helped to calm his mind and keep it quiet during fights. But he quickly realized that these tools were also helping him become a better person. Fast forward 10 years later and Kyle has moved on from being a professional athlete and works as the Director of Human Optimization at a popular supplement company. In this podcast episode, we chat about how Kyle still uses those tools to figure out what his next move in life is, why he experiments with nutrition -- including trying the carnivore diet for 17 days and taking part in an elimination challenge, his seasonal approach to carbs, and why he challenges things instead of just accepting them at face value. Kyle also dives into the life lessons that fighting taught him and why he doesn’t follow some of the traditional dieting advice. Check out the episode now to learn more!

Is it possible to build muscle on keto? Or do you need carbs to do this? And if it’s not carbs, then what is it? Should you just increase your fat intake? Or protein? Or both? Instead of being overwhelmed by what to do, tune into this podcast episode with the self-proclaimed Keto King, Brandon Carter, who has made it his mission to help people pack on muscle while following a low-carb high fat-diet, to find out the exact strategy you need to do this. We’ll show you how to adjust your macros and maintain a lean physique without having to add carbs into the mix. Brandon also shares his experience with cyclical keto and protein-sparing modified fasts. Check out the podcast episode now to learn more about building muscle on keto.

On the surface, you see a chiseled Navy SEAL that’s clearly in shape and has his life together. But that wasn’t always the case thanks to his hard upbringing. At one point David Goggins had just 3 months to lose over 100 pounds in order to try out to become a Navy SEAL, which would help him escape his abusive, alcoholic father and help to support his mom who worked 3 jobs. Determined to prove he could, David changed his mindset and put in the hard work necessary to achieve that goal and so many more. And he continues to implement these same strategies -- which he shares in his latest book and this podcast episode -- to consistently improve his situation. Join David and Dr. Anthony Gustin as they discuss David’s top tools for changing your mindset, overcoming a bad mentality, and finally making progress in your life. Tune into the episode now to learn more!

You may have heard of Diane Sanfilippo from one of her best selling books, Practical Paleo or The 21-Day Sugar Detox, but did you know she’s been using ketosis as a tool the entire time? Does that mean she’s switched from her paleo roots to full-time keto? As you’ll learn in this podcast episode, Diane’s approach is different. For one, it removes diet labels and encourages flexibility and finding the right diet to support your lifestyle at this stage in your life, even if this changes over time. She also uses a SAVVY way of eating and tracks her food in another more effective format instead of subtracting from an arbitrary budget of 1,200 calories per day. Diane shares her knowledge on these topics in an easy-to-digest format in this episode, where we also discuss why ketosis is not about fat loss and what else people get wrong about a keto diet. Check out the episode now to learn more about Diane’s concise approach and simple framework.

If you’ve ever tried the calories in versus calories out approach to losing weight, then you probably know firsthand how this doesn’t work. But is that a universal truth or is it just not the right approach for your body? In this episode with guest Jonathan Bailer, a New York Times Bestselling Author of The Calorie Myth and other notable books such as The Smarter Science of Slim and The Set Point Diet, Dr. Anthony Gustin explores what’s really going on with calorie counting, including what Harvard Medical research supports. We’ll also dive into why calories have become such a fixation, the best nutrient-dense foods to reach for, and the exact step-by-step strategy to implement today to improve both your overall health and weight (hint: you won’t have to ever count a single calorie again). So if you’re tired of logging every bite and killing yourself at the gym, and you’re still not seeing results, the good news is there’s a better approach and we’ll share it in this podcast episode. Tune in now to learn more!

Think you’re too young to worry about cognitive decline and issues like Alzheimer’s and dementia? As Dr. David Perlmutter, best-selling author of Grain Brain mentions, “the lifestyle choices you are making today are either going to pave the way for health or disability.” But what exactly are the specific lifestyle choices you should focus on to ensure your risk for developing metabolic diseases and early cognitive decline are as low as possible? Are gluten, carbs, and sugar the only thing you need to worry about? And what does the research support 5 years after Grain Brain was published? Tune into this podcast episode to find out and to see what Dr. Perlmutter, a board certified neurologist, has to say about how to ensure your brain health is in peak condition now and well into your future.