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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Temple Stewart is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Personal Trainer and Health Behavior Change Specialist. She played D1 soccer at the University of Tennessee Martin, which is where she received her degree in Dietetics. She completed her internship at the VA Medical Center in Bay Pines, FL.
In this episode, Dr. Brian, Dr. Tro, and Temple talk about…
Temple's personal health journey and discovery of the low-carb/ketogenic diet
The reason for the establishment of The American Diabetes Society
Institutional problems in nutrition education
How to effectively introduce people to the idea that saturated fat is not bad for you and the standard American diet is not good for you
The importance of having integrity for the sake of those who don't have access to the best information on nutrition
Stress hormones and stress management
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Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope. Nothing said on the Low Carb MD Podcast is medical advice. Please consult your own doctor before making any lifestyle changes. Hello and welcome back to the Low Carb MD Podcast. Troy, we have a fellow Arizonaan here, so we have a West Coast Advantage. Finally, I've been waiting for this day. I feel like all the good people are going to Arizona. That's it. Maybe I got to come in this row. We got to pack up and go to Arizona. You know, who knows? We'll see. Can two of us fit in Arizona? I don't know. Yeah. There's some great people here, but there's a lot of need. I mean, I've been blown away seriously. You know, the need, there's not very, there's a doc who hopefully I can get on the podcast. He's doing some good stuff down south a little bit. Dr. Mussels down there, Dr. Nally. And so there, anyways, there's some good people. And I think we're trying to really get the word out from metabolic health and, and, you know, the low carb community. And, and, you know, so it's exciting to see so many good people. We have temple here to, to get everyone in shape. So temple, tell people your story at like how you kind of started going down this path from your traditional training. Like a lot of us had to kind of shift gears and reevaluate what we, what we thought we knew for sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know, it started when I was young. So I was adopted. So I don't know anything about my family history, the metabolic health on my, my mom side, anything. But I grew up in South Mississippi. And if you know anything about the south, the food is very indulgent. And so I always grew up as like the heavy kid. And I played a lot of sports, which I think mimicked some of the things that could have gone wrong. And, you know, childhood, but I was always the heavier kid in the group and that always kind of worked on my self esteem. But, you know, lots of fried food, lots of sugar. And so, you know, I didn't really realize stuff was going wrong with me until college. So I went to play college at a D one school soccer and I just wasn't, I didn't feel as good as, as my peers. And I also just never had a period. And I was always chalked up to like, Oh, you're really athletic, you run a lot, you lift weights like it's not a surprise. You're not having a period, but I just never felt good. I was dealing with like your typical mood issues and cystic acne, all of it. So I was, you know, typically put on birth control and I kind of rode out the birth control for, you know, four or five years and things didn't really start to get bad bad until my last year of college and I didn't never know I wanted to be a dietitian. I just knew something was kind of wrong with me and maybe I could address some of it with food. So in college was what piqued my interest in nutrition and I started changing things, but the problem was as I was changing things to conventional medicine, you know, lots of whole grains and what the dietitians were telling me eat more, you know, whole grain carbs, all that kind of stuff. And I just got worse and worse. And so I started studying nutrition in undergrad. And once I got through with college, I was still having all these problems. Still doing the conventional dietetics advice and it just never works for me. But when I left college is when it got really bad because I wasn't playing sports anymore. So I put on probably 60, 70 pounds within those next two years. All while being, you know, a resident diet dietitian and I just couldn't figure it out I was doing the calories in calories out model I was doing everything I could to lose weight in here I was this imposter I was overweight student dietitian I felt like a fraud. And it wasn't until then I officially got the diagnosis of PCOS and I was, I was now looking back I was, I was my insulin had to been way high because I was, you know, sugar everything was bad and that's, that's ultimately what pushed me into this realm is years and years of frustration with working and calories in versus calories out that wasn't working. And, you know, I was actually on true licity at 1.2 for the PCOS I haven't shared that before but nothing was working for me and that's when I read Dr. Beckman's book and then I got my hands on Dr.
