Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz - 10 Foods That Naturally Boost GLP-1 & Quiet Food Noise

Episode Date: September 2, 2026

If you’re constantly thinking about food, battling afternoon cravings, or struggling to feel satisfied after eating, your fullness hormones may be an important part of the conversation.In this solo episode, Dr. Mindy breaks down the foods that can support your body’s natural GLP-1 production and explains how fiber, protein, resistant starch, fermented foods, and omega-3-rich foods influence satiety. You’ll learn practical ways to build meals that help you feel fuller longer, support your gut microbiome, and work with your body’s natural appetite signals.Resources MentionedQualia Magnesium+, use code MINDY for 15% offReset AcademyWise Goat Organics Fermented Foods, use code MINDY for 20% offEat Like a GirlFor more resources related to today’s episode, visit the podcast episode page: drmindypelz.com/ep366Connect with Dr. Mindy:Join Reset AcademyWatch the episodes on YouTubeFollow Dr. Mindy on InstagramSubscribe to Dr. Mindy’s newsletterDisclaimer: This podcast is intended for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional before making changes to your diet, fasting routine, or lifestyle.

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I can't wait to see you there. 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. So many people have that mental chatter that is constantly reminding. them of the food in the refrigerator and in the pantry. I know it's many of us have this. We get the 3 p.m. crash where we go reaching for something to pick us up or maybe we're watching our friends

who are on the new weight loss drugs and we're contemplating spending $1,000 a month to get the result we see our friends having. I got a study to share with you. It's a 2026 study in the frontiers of endocrinology that looked at 10 foods that will do the same thing as these weight loss drugs do. And these foods are all under a dollar. So check this out. These were not rare biohacks. This is not expensive living. This is your own physiology. And in this video, I want to break down what this meta-analysis looked at, because they looked at over a thousand people and how these 10 foods interacted with these thousand people. And then they looked at how do we make our own GLP1 hormone so we can stop the food noise. So we don't have to waste our money

on expensive pharmaceuticals. So we don't have to lose muscle. This is, this is a what I want to teach you in this video. So grab a pet and paper because this is juicy information that will not only help you lose weight, not only stop the food noise, but is going to save you a tremendous amount of money. Let's dive in. So first, if you haven't heard this, I want to be the first one to tell you you make GLP1 hormone. So I'm assuming if you're watching this video, you may be having some of this food noise that has become such a popular statement for us all to talk about. And personally, I'm very excited that this is bubbling up to the surface, that we're really, when we bring things like the mental chatter around food to the surface and we make it culturally

acceptable, then we can actually start to heal it. You can't heal what is in silence. So when we first approach these foods, as I break them down for you, I want you to understand that you have cells inside your intestinal tract called L cells. And these cells respond to nutrients, they respond to bile acids, and they respond to microbial acids, and they respond to microbial byproducts. I know. That sounds like super high level,

but I'm going to make this very simple for you. When you eat specific foods, especially these 10, I'm about to unpack for you, you stimulate these L cells. You signal to these L cells to make more GLP1 hormone. It's equivalent to a shot. except it's coming in the form of food. Now, where those two separate, and I want to be very clear,

is that when you eat these foods, you're getting a small dose of GLP1 that will suppress hunger for a specific period of time. When you take the medication, you are leaving your GLP1 hormone going at a level all day long that physiologically we were not designed to endure. So knowing these foods when you get hungry, when the food noise kicks in, if you go to these foods, then what will happen is it will be like giving yourself a shot,

but you're not keeping the hormone at high levels in this unnatural state forever and ever. Okay, second thing that this meta-analysis found, is that dextrin type fibers, I'm going to explain this in a moment, raised GLP1 hormone in four out of the eight trials they looked at. And along with that, it raised the level of fullness. So you, when we eat food, this is going to blow your mind. When we eat food, we don't always get the signal of fullness. Why do we not always get the signal of fullness? because not every single food that you eat triggers these L cells to start to make GLP1 hormone.

So it becomes a game of strategy. I've talked about this so much here on my channel that weight loss is a strategy. It's not a discipline. It's not white-knuckling it. It's not calorie restriction. It's actually knowing which one of the foods to pull out. out to make your own GLP1 hormone. Next thing I want to say about this study is that certain fibers, specifically a fiber known

as beta-glucan fiber, which is found in oats. So here we go. Number one food of these 10 is oats can slow down digestion. So think about what a lot of people say with these GLP-1 drugs is they say that I'm just stay full all day and a large piece of that is not just because it's stimulated a hormone, but these weight loss drugs actually slow down gastric emptying. But when you eat oats, specifically for breakfast, we're going to talk about this in a moment, this has a beta-glucan fiber in it. It is a viscous gel-forming fiber and it will slow gastric emptying very

similar to the weight loss drugs. Another one, this is going to be my second food that I'm going to give you. It's kind of a bizarre food. It's called chia seeds. And I'm going to show you how you can mix all these foods together and put them in a meal. But if you look, you could even put chia seeds on top of oats. And now you have this beta-glucan fiber that slows gastric emptying. When you slow gastric emptying, what ends up happening is you stay full longer. So I can have a bowl of cereal in the morning that doesn't have beta-glucan fiber in it, or I could have a bowl of oatmeal that I maybe throw in some berries, extra fiber, I throw in some chia seeds. And those two breakfasts are going to have a vastly different experience on my hunger hormones. So I want you to start thinking about

eating to stimulate this fullness hormone, this hormone, this GLP1 hormone that has become the hero of the weight loss movement. And it doesn't have to just come in a shot. Next thing this study proved is that protein works on the same biological, pathway as the GLP1 injection. So when we look at a high-carb, high-fat breakfast, and we compare that to a high-protein breakfast, protein directly raises GLP-1 hormone, it goes right into that biological pathway. It also will raise a hormone called PYYY. which is your fullness hormone.

So think of your chemistry as you do one action and it stimulates another action, which stimulates another action. So when I eat protein, what it does is it starts to stimulate GLP1 hormone and it stimulates PYY, which then stimulates the brain and tells the brain it's full, or same time of breakfast. different qualities. One is high carbohydrates, high fat, so even like a donut or a pastry in the morning, that is not going to have any effect on your fullness hormones. Eggs in the morning can be an incredible, this is one of the 10. Eggs are incredible for stimulating the satiety fullness pathway. So when you're eating, there's such a tendency to eat for your taste buds. If you are this deep into my video here, I really want you to start eating for fullness.

Eat to tell your brain it's full. When you have that intention, protein becomes such a powerful way of approaching a meal because now you're going to get that long-term benefit. Okay. next thing I want to say is that why does this matter more than ever? Well, one of the dark sides of these weight loss drugs is that on average, when people get off the drugs, they are at, they gain back about a pound and they say 1.8 pounds in a month. That's 0.8 kilograms. So the minute you get off these drugs, you did not fix why your body isn't making enough of this hormone. So if you're

watching this video and you are on these weight loss drugs, these are the 10 foods that you want to be eating so that you can stimulate your own natural production of these hormones. It's going to be a beautiful way for you to get off the drugs so that you can start to feel full on your own. You're your own and the food noise goes down. The medication doesn't teach your body anything. These foods do. Now, mistakes that people make when they're approaching these 10 foods is they think fiber is just like something that you do to improve your digestion so you don't end up being constipated. I hope in this video, I hope in all the videos that I do on fiber that we are rebranding fiber for you. Fiber feeds microbes. Microbes make you hormones. They make you neurotransmitters.

They boost your immune system. These little bacteria in your gut are just screaming for you to eat more fiber. What the science says is it takes about, it's about 30 grams of fiber a day. So if you're like hearing this, me talk about fiber and you're like, well, my digestion is great. This is not a conversation about digestion. This is a conversation about are you giving these microbes what they want so that you can start to make these hormones that now Big Pharma is starting to supplement in? There is a large belief that the reason these drugs are working so well is because we have not been eating enough fiber.

So one check in your brain is, am I having 30 grams of fiber a day? Okay. Second mistake that people make in this day and age when it comes to weight loss is this idea that I can take a medication and I don't need to look at my lifestyle. Now, those of you who have been coming to my channel over and over again, I can't, I can't even fathom that that would be you because I have been teaching you lifestyle tools here for over 10 years. But I just want to make sure that if you are on this medication, that you understand that it was a pharmacological change that has happened in your body, not a physiological change.

Only food and other lifestyle tools can give you the physiological change. And I want again help you think for yourself because any medication, you go on is not meant to be a whole plan, whether it's blood pressure medication, cholesterol medication, weight loss medication, those are meant to be band-aids while you work on your lifestyle. And many people find that when they start working on their lifestyle, eventually they can get off those medications. Now, getting off medication is a relationship between you and your doctor. So I'm not telling you to get off of it. I'm telling you that if your doctor put you on a medication, the question I always used to ask my

patients is what's your lifestyle plan that goes along with that medication, which is why these 10 foods become really important. Now, the other thing I want to bring to your attention is that it's really expensive, $1,000 a month for these medications. So there are a lot of things that you can be doing that cost a lot less as I go through each one of these fids. And keep in mind those of you that are snackers, that when we snack all day long, we keep our blood sugar up. And this makes it very difficult for our bodies to go into a fasted state, which I teach a lot here. but snacking also keeps the food noise high.

So when, if you are a snacker and put in the comments if you are, if you are a snacker, I just want to remind you that snacking on these 10 foods is a better choice than reaching for some chips. Okay, here are the five things I want you to think about when you are looking at creating a plan around these GLP1 hormone raising foods. First, I want you every time you snack to think about a snack that is built or has lots of fiber in it. So, apples and cabbage. These are two foods that have fermentable fibers. When we eat apples and cabbage and it goes down into our gut, our gut bacteria turns them into short-change fatty acids. You may have heard of those as SCFAs, and these short-chain fatty acids will talk directly to the L-cells and tell the L-Sos cells to make more GLP-1 hormone.

So this is the exact fermentation pathway that the study looked at. The study said which specific fibers is going to activate these L cells. And apples and cabbage are two of the most important. Now, why is that? So pectin is in the apples. And all kinds of apples are fine. I know in the low glycemic world, we got really obsessed with green apples,

but open up your apple brain and any kind of apple is really going to make an impact on your own GLP-1 production. And cabbage is the same process. I can tell you when I was a kid, my mom used to take red cabbage, and she would cut it up into little chunks and put some yummy salt and seasoning on the top. And when my sister and I were watching a TV show, she would put that in front of us. And we would eat red cabbage all day long. My mom was definitely a woman ahead of her time.

She didn't know about GLP1 hormone back then, but what we now know is that cabbage has this fermentable fiber in it that will stimulate the L cells. Step number two. Now, this one is really important because it's a fascinating new way to look at some starches like potatoes. So step number two is you want to cool your starch before you eat it. What that means is that you cook some potatoes, red potatoes, white potatoes, any potatoes, and you don't eat them warm. You put them in the refrigerator. I've heard some people cool them down in the freezer and then they serve them. But what happens with these cooled potatoes is it turns the starch inside that potato into a resistant starch. and resistant starch was one of the fibers that they tested in this study I have brought to you,

the very first study that I said to you, the Frontiers and Endocrinology Study. So when you cool potatoes, you create this digestive enzyme that goes into the small intestine and stimulates the L cells once again. So we've got our oats, we've got our chia seeds, we've got our apples, we've got our cabbage, and now we have our potatoes. I'm going to throw one other one in there with the resistant starch, and that is lentils. So I love to add lentils to my salads because lentils are incredible for making sure they're yummy for starters. They have tons of protein. They have a great amino acid. and profile, but they are a resistant starch that will feed your microbes and support more

GLP1 hormone production. Okay, step number three, I want you to start thinking about anchoring every breakfast with a protein. So I'm a huge, huge fan of eggs. Eggs are packed with so many nutrients. One of the greatest things that eggs have is that they have coline in it. And coline is incredible for the brain. So you could do eggs every morning. You could do Greek yogurt. It's another phenomenal protein. Protein with all the mac of all the macros is going to kill your hunger the most, even more than fat. So if you open up your eating when you in the morning and you don't have protein in there, you just have carbohydrates, you are going to be hungry within two hours.

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in the day, would be good, is a fermented food. The reason I love a fermented food is it has so many incredible things, but this could be something as easy as putting some sourcrow next to your scrambled eggs. Now, I'm a sauerkraut lover, and one of my favorite sourcrowts comes from Wise Goat. They're an artisan sauerkraut maker. I will leave discount codes and ways you can order this, but this one's called Crout Tea. And what I also know is that when we look at kimchi, that it has certain spices in it that speeds up your metabolism. So when you're going to make a breakfast, If we can put some scrambled eggs, I often will put a little bit of microgreens with it and then put some sourcrow. Again, we have now not only got our protein, but we have our fermented foods.

Fermented foods feeds those same bacteria that help the whole process of making more GLP1. So we've got oats, we've got chia seeds, we've got apples, we've got cabbage, we've got cooled potatoes, we've got eggs, we've got plain Greek yogurt, now we have sauerkraut. Within this same step, I want you also to think about omega-3s, increasing your omega-3s. I recently here on this channel, we did a sardine fast. We also did it in my reset academy, and I was blown away at the results people got. Why do they get such great results? And a large reason was because sardines are high in omega-3s. So many of us need to bring our omega-3 intake up. Ultra-processed foods are going to increase omega-6s. In order to stop gaining weight, we need omega-3s

and omega-6s to be in a one-to-one ratio. So what sardines do is they have protein, which we already discussed here why protein's so good, but they also are rich in omega-3s. So when we went through this sardine fast, the food noise went down, people's energy went up, their mental clarity went through the roof, and they lost weight just from going into a sardine fast for three days. There are videos I've done on this. I will leave them linked in the below so you can look at that, but there is something magic about the sardine when it comes to the food noise because of what it does to these hormones that we are talking about. Okay, number five is the fifth step I want you to think about doing is I want you to start making oatmeal. Now, I got to tell you a funny story because

when I was in clinical practice and I would have people do food logs, I didn't understand at that point why everybody had oatmeal for breakfast. And I know oatmeal as instant oatmeal. And I want to tell you that we're not talking about instant oatmeal. We're not talking about sugar-laden oatmeal. We're not talking about that oatmeal that you break open out of a little packet and pour it in and add hot water. We are talking about oats that you have that don't have any sugar in it, that you have to make on your stove. That is the best type of oatmeal. So in this fifth step, I want you to really think about making oatmeal for breakfast. Remember, it's got that gel-like substance in it that is going to help slow down gastric emptying.

So we want to bring that in. Maybe make a challenge to yourself that three days a week you're going to eat oatmeal. Put in the comments if that's going to be you. Are you going to be eating oatmeal three days a week? but you may need to practice a little bit, see how quickly you can make oatmeal. If you're an oatmeal lover, you have a great recipe, put in the comments too. The other food I want you to incorporate on a regular basis and start making are beans. So every bean has a little different profile.

So black beans are actually the ones that will increase the fermentation pathway the best. I think beans are having a comeback. Legumes are having a comeback. I'm so excited because they are inexpensive and they can help with this production of the GLP1 hormone. So get yourself some beans, put them in water. So you get all any, if you have a reaction, you get bloated with beans. One of the tricks for that is just to put them in water for 24 hours and get all of those fibers that are harmful to the gut off and then cook them and have them ready in your refrigerator to go so you don't have to think about it,

you can just start to reach for it. But of the six out of the nine trials that this original study looked at, it was oats and beans that had the most impact on the GLP1 pathway. Again, you're eating, you've heard that, you've heard that concept, food is medicine, that's what you're doing is that you're eating to create the effect that the weight loss drugs are creating. Now, one interesting side note is that there is a difference of these foods in men versus women. So one of the studies that was analyzed in this big meta-analysis review included what we call an anchor review that showed that the viscous fiber, the ones in oats, raised GLP1 hormone more in women than in men.

Now, I think this is fascinating because when it comes to weight loss, how many of us have been so frustrated that men lose weight quicker than women? Well, women, here's something really cool, that that viscous fiber, that gelatinous component to oatmeal, has a stronger GLP1 hormone. hormone effect in women than in men. And men, I didn't leave you out. You do better with the foods that increase the fermentation pathway like beans and lentils and cabbage. So there is a little bit of a sex difference. It doesn't mean you don't eat all those foods. The lentils, women shouldn't eat

lentils and beans. And it doesn't mean that men shouldn't have oats. It's just the science is showing that there are different ways in which our guts relate to these foods. Here are three things I want you to do immediately. You can do them right now after this video. One, I want you when the next snack you have, I want it to be an apple. Just go get a bunch of apples. You know the old apple a day keeps the doctor away? Yes, that is still a consistently profound and helpful statement.

Action number two. Tomorrow, I want you to either eat eggs or Greek yogurt. I want you to take that cereal that you love. I used to love it too. Throw it out. And I want you to start thinking of eggs, Greek yogurt, or maybe oatmeal in the morning. Just a thought. Action number three.

One meal tomorrow. I want you to have black beans or lentils. Put in the comments what you're going to do. If you've made it this far through the video, I thank you. and I want you, I want to know what you're going to do. I, you're accountable to me now. I'm here to help you get the result you deserve to get with your body and to not spend $1,000 on a medication for a hormone you can make yourself.

So don't be fooled by the results your friends are getting that look effortless. We ought to think long term on this weight loss drugs. and you have so much more power than that. You were built so much more efficiently than that. You didn't miss out on the GLP1 hormone cells. You have those. You just missed out on the foods that you should be eating in order to get that hormone.

So now you have the information. If you found this helpful, share it out into the world. Let me know what foods you're going to eat and how you're going to change your habits. but most importantly, do not give up on yourself. You were born a miracle, and I want you to see that, and these 10 foods will help you do that. As always, I hope this helps.