Real Health and Weight Loss Podcast

We discuss the simple, yet powerful changes you can make to improve your gut health today. Dr Lucy and Dr Mary discuss the key lifestyle changes we can all make to improve the health of this most vital of organs, our gut. Our gut affects the health of every other organ in our body. The modern lifestyle of processed food, stress, and poor sleep damage our gut and microbiome. Intestinal permeability...

You can be healthy if you are carrying extra weight, provided your metabolic hormones are healthy and in balance. Medical doctors, Dr Lucy and Dr Mary, discuss what it is to be metabolically healthy. Elevated insulin and insulin resistance are at the heart of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, strokes, and heart attacks. It is all about your insulin levels. You may well be heal...

Get great habits for great health and weight loss. Medical doctors and weight-management experts, Dr Mary Barson and Dr Lucy Burns show you how to work with your natural human psychology to make healthy habits fun, attractive and achievable. https://www.rlmedicine.com/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It takes 21 days to form a new habit, right? Actually, there is no science proving this. It takes a lot longer than 21 days. Applying the 4 C’s – courage, commitment, consistency and compassion – are the keys to forming and maintaining new habits. Dr Lucy Burns and Dr Mary Barson take a deeper dive into habits and give you some practical tips. https://www.rlmedicine.com/   S...

Dr Lucy Burns and Dr Mary Barson discuss why setting new year’s resolutions often fail. Wishing, wanting and waiting are not weight loss plans.  Setting intentions with clarity, commitment, courage and compassion is the real way to lose weight and improve your health. https://www.rlmedicine.com/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fasting, combined with a proper diet, is a liberating and purposeful strategy to lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. But don’t confuse fasting with starving! You don’t want to starve yourself. Dr Lucy and Dr Mary discuss what fasting means and examine research undertaken from cell biologist, Yoshinori Ohsumi, who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his disc...

Do you get a good night’s sleep? Many people don’t – and that affects the way they function, and it can also affect their craving for food. Dr Mary and Dr Lucy discuss what you can do to ensure you receive the restorative health benefits of proper sleep. https://www.rlmedicine.com/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Long-term, low-grade stress is one of the mechanisms of fat storage. Dr Mary Barson breaks down this concept in an easy-to-understand way and discusses fright and flight as well as rest and digest. https://www.rlmedicine.com/     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Lucy and Dr Mary discuss non hungry eating and explain how our emotions can drive the desire to eat. Understanding the thought model is the first step to conquering emotional eating  https://www.rlmedicine.com/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Lucy and Dr Mary discuss the tools necessary to unlock your mind around weight loss. Weight loss requires managing the physiology and the psychology for permanent results. They unpack the thought model and show you that mindset is more than will power. https://www.rlmedicine.com/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Calorie-counting in all its forms is the backbone of the dieting industry, and does not work for long term weight loss. Be ready to unlearn everything you were taught – weight loss is chemistry, not maths! https://www.rlmedicine.com/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dr Lucy Burns and Dr Mary Barson discuss the red list and green list. These are the foods they recommend for long term sustainable weight loss. They are Low Carb Real Food which will help you lose weight, reduce inflammation. They also discuss the health benefits of good fats and why we fear fat. https://www.rlmedicine.com/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The lynchpin to good health and weight loss is insulin reduction. Dr Lucy Burns and Dr Mary Barson discuss the macronutrients carbohydrates, protein and fats and how the dietary guidelines have contributed to the current obesity crisis. https://www.rlmedicine.com/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Permanent weight loss involves addressing both physiology and psychology. Understanding that dysregulated metabolic hormones are the driver to overweight and obesity and that high Insulin is the major player in fat storage. Dr Lucy gives a beautiful analogy, and yes, it involves a woodshed. For more information about Real Life Medicine and our programs and special offers: https://www.rlmedicine.co...

Meet Dr Mary Barson and Dr Lucy Burns, who have both been overweight and metabolically unhealthy. Listen to their stories of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome and Insulin Resistance. Dr Mary and Dr Lucy share their insights on their individual paths to lose weight and reclaim their health. For more information about Real Life Medicine and our programs and special offers: https://www.rlmedicine.com/   Se...

Dr Lucy Burns and Dr Mary Barson are weight loss doctors who embrace real food and real health strategies to weight loss. They share their insights and words of wisdom in this new podcast series launching on November 17. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favourite podcasts. https://www.rlmedicine.com/   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...