Nutrition with Judy | Carnivore Diet

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  403. Why You're Still Sick, Sensitive and Reacting after Removing the Trigger 17.09.2026 37min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Why can mast cell symptoms, histamine reactions, brain fog, fatigue, food sensitivities, and inflammation continue even when your labs look normal or the original trigger is gone? In this episode, I break down the connection between stress, CRH, cortisol, mast cell activation, histamine, the nervous system, and chronic illness, including why mast cells can react before cortisol ris...
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  402. The Real Reason We Fear Supplemental Iodine for Thyroid Health 10.09.2026 18min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Iodine supplementation remains one of the most debated topics in thyroid health. Some practitioners warn that iodine, especially higher-dose forms such as Lugol’s iodine, may trigger thyroid dysfunction, Hashimoto’s, or hyperthyroidism, while others argue that iodine deficiency is widespread and often overlooked. In this episode, Judy Cho examines the Wolff–Chaikoff effect, iodine’...
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  401. What Every Pet Owner Should Know About Food, Vaccines, Medications & Vet Care 03.09.2026 2h 13min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Dr. Judi Keller is a veterinarian who spent roughly two decades practicing conventional veterinary medicine before shifting toward a more holistic approach. After becoming increasingly uncomfortable with how heavily veterinary care could rely on pharmaceuticals and symptom management, she pursued additional training in acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutrition, and integrative care. ...
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  400. Can You Really Eat Carnivore for Years? 4 Concerns You Should Know 27.08.2026 37min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Can a carnivore diet actually be healthy long term? It’s one of the biggest questions around carnivore, especially when the conversation turns to nutrient deficiencies, vitamin C, magnesium and potassium, fiber, gut health, the microbiome, and whether an all-meat diet is simply too restrictive to sustain. In this 400th episode of the Nutrition with Judy podcast, I break down four o...
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  399. He Ate Only Sardines for 5 Days. Then We Tested His Blood 20.08.2026 55min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Robert Sikes put the viral sardine fast to a controlled test: five days of eating approximately 18 cans of sardines per day while maintaining roughly 3,000 calories. In this interview, Judy Cho and Robert examine what happened to his weight, blood glucose, ketones, energy, inflammation, hunger, and overall performance—and why his experience differed from the dramatic weight-loss re...
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  398. Why Perfectionism and Control Can Quietly Work Against Chronic Illness Recovery 13.08.2026 43min

  **Our final Wholeness Method cohort of 2026 is open now.** Can you follow a carnivore diet, improve your environment, take the right supplements, and still feel stuck in chronic illness? Judy Cho sits down with licensed clinical social worker and Wholeness Method practitioner Lauren Cogan to examine nervous system dysregulation, trauma responses, anxiety, people-pleasing, boundaries, CIRS, mold illness, and the mind-body patterns that can remain after the physical foundations are addressed. T...
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  397. Can Eating Too Much Fat Make You Gain Weight on Carnivore? 06.08.2026 1h 5min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Can eating more fat stall weight loss, even on a zero-carb carnivore diet? In this episode, Judy Cho sits down with Craig Emmerich to examine why some people lose weight effortlessly on carnivore or keto while others gain weight, struggle with hunger, or see their metabolic health worsen. They discuss dietary fat, protein intake, calories, leptin resistance, muscle loss, fasting, t...
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  396. Heart Surgeon Performed 3,400 Heart Surgeries. Here’s What Actually Causes Heart Disease 30.07.2026 43min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Heart surgeon Dr. Philip Ovadia joins Judy Cho to discuss what may actually drive heart disease beyond a single focus on LDL cholesterol. Drawing from 25 years in cardiac surgery and more than 3,400 operations, he explains why insulin resistance, inflammation, metabolic dysfunction, diet, and vascular damage deserve more attention in heart disease prevention. The conversation also...
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  395. Before You Try Peptides, Listen to This 23.07.2026 33min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Peptides are everywhere right now: VIP, KPV, BPC-157, TB-500, Thymosin Alpha 1, GHK-Cu, GLP-1s, and more. They are being talked about for inflammation, gut repair, immune support, tissue healing, weight loss, recovery, and chronic illness—but they are not automatically safe just because they sound “natural.” In this episode, Judy Cho breaks down what peptides are, why context matt...
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  394. UCLA Stress Expert: Your Body Is Still Stuck in Survival 16.07.2026 1h 3min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ What if chronic stress is the real reason chronically ill patients fail to heal, no matter what protocol they follow? Dr. Stephen Sideroff has spent decades researching exactly what happens to the nervous system under prolonged stress, and what he's found challenges how most practitioners think about root-cause healing. In this episode, he reveals what conventional medicine gets wr...
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  393. Why Eating Fatty Meat Can Improve Anxiety 09.07.2026 17min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Anxiety is not just “in your head.” Sometimes the body is giving signals through blood sugar, caffeine tolerance, and how well your nervous system is being fueled. In this episode, we talk about a simple shift that may help some people feel calmer and more stable, and why eating too lean may backfire. Anxiety, blood sugar dysregulationFatty meats benefitAnadamideCaffeineEgg yolks,...
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  392. How Much Sugar Is Actually in Your Blood? 02.07.2026 15min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Most people hear “blood sugar” and think the body has a lot of sugar floating around at any given moment. But the actual amount is much smaller than most people realize. In this episode, I use a simple visual demo to show what normal, prediabetic and diabetic blood sugar levels look like. We also talk about insulin, the pancreas, and why repeatedly high blood sugar can create real...
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  391. Plant-Based Researcher: Blue Zones Were Never What You Were Told - Belinda Fettke 25.06.2026 1h 36min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Belinda and I dive into the hidden history behind our dietary guidelines, tracing how a 19th-century religious health movement helped shape the modern demonization of meat and the rise of fiber, breakfast cereal, and plant-based dogma. She breaks down how the Seventh Day Adventist Church, John Harvey Kellogg, and powerful food and academic institutions worked together to manufactur...
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  390. PCOS Just Got Renamed. What Is It and Here's Why. 18.06.2026 15min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ PCOS has a new name: PMOS, or Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. The shift matters because PCOS was never really just about “cysts” on the ovaries. It has always been a broader endocrine and metabolic condition that can affect periods, ovulation, androgen hormones, insulin signaling, skin, mood, and long-term cardiometabolic risk. In this short solo episode, I break down why...
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  389. Why Your Body Reacts to Everything: MCAS Explained Simply 11.06.2026 31min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ MCAS is often treated like a food problem. But if your “safe food” list keeps getting smaller, restriction may no longer be the solution. In this episode, Judy Cho explains why mast cell activation syndrome is not just about histamine, why food reactions can be a sign of a deeper immune threshold problem, and why the goal is not to fear more foods. The goal is to understand why the...
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  388. WHY People Quit the Carnivore Diet - 6 Real Talk Reasons and Troubleshooting 04.06.2026 38min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Why do people quit the carnivore diet even after it helped them at first? In this episode, Judy Cho breaks down the most common reasons the carnivore diet stops working for some people, from undereating and poor fat tolerance to electrolyte issues, thyroid and hormone changes, food boredom, cholesterol fears, and the pressure to do “perfect carnivore.” A carnivore diet can be a po...
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  387. A Doctor Admits: "I Taught Lies in Medical School" - Dr. Robert Lufkin 28.05.2026 53min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Dr. Robert and I discuss why metabolic dysfunction may be the root cause behind many chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, and even mental illness. We dive into how modern medicine often treats symptoms instead of root causes, why lifestyle and metabolic therapies can reverse disease progression, and how low-carb and ketogenic diets may i...
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  386. Sugar vs. Seed Oils vs. Carbs: Which One Is Actually Making You Sick? - Dr. Gary Fettke 21.05.2026 1h 41min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Dr. Gary Fettke and I dive into the real drivers of modern disease: sugar, processed carbohydrates, and seed oils, and which of the three is doing the most damage. We break down the biochemistry of fructose, the polyol pathway, and how LDL particles are affected by diet. We also get into the origins of fat shaming, how pharmaceutical companies shaped public language around obesity,...
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  385. Truth about LMHRs, Heart Disease, and Chronic Illness 14.05.2026 16min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Lean Mass Hyper-Responder (LMHR) is often framed as a cholesterol story. That framing is incomplete. This video defines the LMHR pattern at a high level, then expands beyond cardiovascular markers into broader physiology—energy balance, thyroid signaling, stress response, nutrient status, and environmental inputs. The pattern may reflect adaptation, but it can also signal tradeoffs...
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  384. Why Chronic Stress Wrecks Sleep, HRV, and Healing - Dr. Deborah Rozman 07.05.2026 59min

  Get personalized root-cause care with Empower Functional Health. Learn more at empowerfunctionalhealth.com _____ Deborah and I discuss how chronic stress disrupts the nervous system, impacts hormones, sleep, and overall health, and why regulating the heart–brain connection is foundational for healing. We dive into HeartMath techniques like heart rate variability and coherence, showing how simple tools like breathing and gratitude can shift the body from fight-or-flight into rest, repair, and ...