S1E4: Ben Azadi - Becoming Metabolically Flexible

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ben Azadi, a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner, speaker, and best-selling author, has become the go-to source for intermittent fasting and the ketogenic diet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He’s also known as ‘The Health Detective’ because he’s focused on investigating health dysfunction and educating, not medicating, people to bring the body back to its normal function.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ben comes on the show to share more about how to do just that and more.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He does this by diving into how to become metabolically flexible, why this matters, and why staying in ketosis long-term isn’t the right strategy and he shows you what to do instead.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ben also chats about who should flex in and out of ketosis, how to do this properly, what to do if you have thyroid or hormone issues on keto, and whether too much protein will kick you out of ketosis.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ll also learn more about leptin resistance and why this matters, the problem with the calories in versus calories out strategy, why veggie oils should be avoided at all costs, and how to optimize the methionine and glycine ratio when you tune in.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lastly, Ben also shows you how your oral health can impact your overall health and how this may be the missing piece of the puzzle for many people.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you don’t know Ben, he’s the best-selling author of</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Perfect Health Booklet, The Intermittent Fasting Cheat Sheet,</span></em> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">and</span> <em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Power of Sleep</span></em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He recently published his fourth book,</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Keto Flex</span></em><span sty