The GLP-1 Foods I Want Every Woman Eating

Dr. Mindy Pelz (0:00)

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Hey, Dr. Mindy here, and welcome to the Live Like a Girl podcast, where I bring you icons, disruptors, educators, scientists, and doctors that show you what can be possible when you love and celebrate the female body you are blessed to live in. Let's dive in.

I've got great news for you. There is a study out of the frontiers of endocrinology that states, you can make your own GLP-1 hormone with 10 specific foods that all involve certain fibers. I know a lot of you are really concerned about the food noise, and you're a little timid to go on the weight loss drugs because of cost or because of the side effects. So I really want to dive into these 10 foods in this video, show you how to make them, show you how easy they are and cheap, so that you can start making your own natural ozempic. So by the end of the video, you're going to know these 10 I'm going to show you some of my favorite ways to make them. I pulled some of these just right out of my refrigerator. And we're going to walk through why weight loss, food noise, all of it is chemistry. And when you understand the chemistry and you understand the foods that provide you that chemistry, you will start to drop weight. Ready? Let's dive in. First, I do realize that some of you are new to my channel, so know that I have a Food and Fasting Fundamentals course. It's free to you. I'll leave that in a link in the notes below. Here's what this study said.

First, it said you make your own GLP-1 hormone. I don't put in the comments if you know this, because I feel like somehow we lost our way in understanding we make this hormone that so many people are purchasing in a shot. The interesting thing on making this hormone that I do want to point out is research shows that there are certain foods that will kill the production of these hormones in your body, and they are all built into the ultra-processed foods. So these are your toxic oils, your canola oil, your cottonseed oil, your vegetable oil.

I've done lots of videos on all the different bad oils, but it is the bad oils that start to destroy the inner lining of your gut and make it so that your body stops making GLP-1 hormone. There's two sides to this conversation. You make it and you destroy it based off of the foods that you've been eating. So a lot of you have come to this realization that you want to start re-growing these microbes and making this hormone. I also want to help you understand, you also destroy it with these highly inflammatory fats. Second finding that this study had in this one is really important because I want to have a continual discussion with you all about it. Oat fiber is the strongest fiber for stopping the food noise. And the reason for that is if we look at oat fiber in something like oatmeal. Now, I'll tell you another way I used oat fiber recently, but let's put it in the terms of oatmeal. What happens is it has this gelatinous texture to it. And so it's harder for your gut to digest that fiber. And so what ends up happening is that it slows down gastric emptying. This is also what the weight loss drugs do, is they slow down gastric emptying. Recently, a friend gave me a recipe for a olive oil lemon cake. It was amazing, gluten free, and it had oat flour in it. I'd never cooked with oat flour. I had just tested it to see what I thought of it. I'll leave the recipe. It's super easy. I'll leave the recipe in the notes for you. But it was really fascinating because I loved me some good bread. And when I went to go eat this bread, I didn't find that I kept having that insatiable desire to go back for more because the oat fiber is an incredible way to create your own GLP-1 hormone production and slow down gastric emptying. Second thing that this study found is that if eating the whole food of these 10 I'm going to show you, is best, but you also can do some fiber supplementation. So a lot of you have asked me about psyllium husks. Yeah, I think it's not like the end all, like it's not like the miracle cure, but I do think it's really helpful in the food noise. I think it's really helpful in balancing your blood sugar. But let's put it in combination with the 10 foods that I'm going to map out for you here. Third thing that this study found is that it is resistant starch that we are really looking for. And as I go through these 10 foods, you're going to see that many of them have resistant starch in it. For example, I have a potato here.