The Livy Method Podcast - Hormones and Weight Loss - Part 1 with Dr. Olinca Trejo - Fall 2025

Episode Date: October 21, 2025

In this part 1 of 2, Gina sits down with Dr. Olinca Trejo to break down how hormones impact the weight loss journey, especially after years of dieting. They dig into why the body resists change, how chronic stress and under-eating can work against you, and why building trust through awareness and consistency helps bring things back into balance. From leptin resistance to hunger hormones like ghrelin and GLP-1, this conversation is packed with insights on how to work with your body—not against it. The conversation continues when Dr. Olinca returns on Thursday for Part 2. Tune in for real talk, practical takeaways, and a whole new perspective on why it’s not just about what you eat, but how your body responds.Dr. Olinca is a licensed, board-certified Naturopathic Doctor in the province of Ontario. She also holds an honours degree in Kinesiology and has achieved her certification and internship in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).You can contact Dr. Olinca at [e-mail] find her on Instagram: @dr.olincaYou can find the full video hosted at:https://www.facebook.com/groups/livymethodfall2025To learn more about The Livy Method, visit livymethod.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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We're focusing on sustainable habits, not quick-fixing. Is it an opportunity to get curious? We're here, help people get to their health goals. One piece of a time. You build and build and build. Oh, man, we're here to talk about hormones today, hormones and weight loss, and why that's such an important conversation with Dr. Alinka-Treyho. Should we start with stress?

them fucking blue days last night I don't even know I was asking a lot of questions listen I I love bandwagens I will jump on any bandwagon that you ask me to but like this one I legit I'm so excited about and I was just telling Jody backstage people need good news

and I think in a time where we feel so divided I cannot imagine a more beautiful way for people to come together in the most beautiful city like I'm just I'm so I'm so excited honestly I thought that night club party afterwards. Wait. I saw you live.

I mean, I was not up at that time. I was sleeping. But I saw your party that you were like, I have no idea what this is, but I'm into it. Like, it was amazing. So happy. Oh, my gosh.

It was stressful. It was stressful, though. Yes, but we're all excited. We do need good news. The world is heavy. We do need good news. Okay, so this is a big, massive, huge conversation. You and I have had it before.

We literally have taken an hour. on it. We don't have hours today. So what are the big takeaways? You're going to be joining us again on Thursday. So it's going to be a part tour. People are here to lose weight. What do they need about, need to know about hormones? What do you want to talk about? Go. Oh, wow. Okay. I'm going to get on the soapbox. You know that I love this. Okay. So listen. So I think that the most important thing for people to understand is that body fat and weight regulation is very complicated. And our weight is greatly affected by a number of things. It's not just about the calories and calories out, we know this, but it's impacted by

things like psychology, medical conditions, behaviors, genetics, gut bacteria, but mostly it's actually impacted by hormones. And a lot of this calorie in calorie out equation that for a really long time, we told people that that's exactly what we boss was about, it's actually driven by hormones, right? And so our hormones are this beautiful orchestra that we're. work together to make sure that we eat enough to survive and that we have a recent amount of fat storage and reserve so that we survive famine, right? And we prevent these extreme swings. However, whether or not your body tends to accumulate fat tissue or not, and whether or not

you have food cravings or not, and whether, you know, you're able to lose a lot of this weight that you've been trying to lose is actually determined so much more. by hormones and physiology, then willpower. And I think that this is actually the messaging that you and I have been trying to break down since we met. And it's the, this isn't about willpower and understanding how your hormones influence your weight can provide such deep insights into why it's actually really hard for you to lose weight and why sometimes when you lose the weight is actually really hard to keep it off, right?

And this is actually why I love this conversation because you know this, like for when you started this program, we were still getting the messaging of like, oh, they just, they just can't eat less and exercise more. And like, that's why they can't lose weight. And like, it's just that simple. And you came in being like, I'm going to break that shit down. And this is actually why I love this conversation. Yeah. It's not, it's not just eat less, exercise more. So your hormones are, it's like your chemical messengers that basically tell your body what to do. how much it tells you when you're hungry it tells you when you're full it's like it's so complicated but also very simple if you are open to understanding and also recognizing that there is a lot

that you can do you are not a prisoner to your hormones it's just a lot of things that we have done in the past to lose weight actually work against your hormones and so that's sort of where we're saying you we're working with your body not against it And that's why the first few weeks of the program all focused on making sure you're giving your body what it needs. So it can feel safe enough to start letting go of the fat. It sounds so ridiculous to say letting go of the fat. But that's, I mean, is there a better term to describe that? No, I think that that's a perfect term.

And I think that this is actually, I always go back to the fact that your body is hardwired for survival. and they will do anything it can to survive. And diet culture really feeds your body, the messaging of you're dying. Like, we are starving you. There's a famine in the land. And so a lot of what we're trying to undo, it legit is the trauma that we've been carrying.

And that's actually why sometimes we hold on to the weight, right? Because legitimately your hormones and all of the behaviors that we've engaged in, your hormones are like lock in it in being like, no, girl, like, I know what you're going to do to me. Like, you've done this in the past, like, n-uh. And so I think that this is actually why it's so important for people to understand, like, your hormones are your friends. There isn't a supplement out there that's going to balance them. Listen, medication is a powerful tool, but it doesn't balance them for you, right? It's a lot of these health behaviors and these positive changes that we're making that even when you are on amazing

medication that actually can help and be a breakthrough for so many people, It's actually the behaviors that actually help you maintain that weight loss and balance your hormones long term. Because we're going to talk about this. Yes. Well, Sandy Van's going to join us tomorrow. She's, you know Sandy Van. So Sandy Van's going to join us tomorrow. And we're going to talk about people who are taking GLP ones.

And it's not a quick fix. And it's not a magic pill. There's a lot of work that people need to do. It might be easier for them to lose weight simply because they are eating less. but you want to get off of those. You want to actually be healthier and be in tune and all of that. And that's the work. People ask me, well, what, like, you know, what do I have to do different?

I'm like, you don't get to do anything different if you are taking GLP ones. I hate to tell you that. You're still going to do all of the work, almost even more to get in tune to your body, especially if you are in finding that you're not really all that hungry. We're going to talk about that more with Sandy Van, but hormones are relevant to everybody, everybody. So where do you want to start? And I just want to break down balancing because you can't, your hormones aren't in a straight line.

They are meant to be in flux and change all the time. So, you know, people say balance. They're oversimplifying or we like to say you can, you can, we're trying to support your hormones. Do the things to help your body function best. Is that the best term for that? 100%. And there is not a subwoman out there that does it for you guys. I hate to break it to you.

And this is coming from a naturopath. I know. Let's make one. The Gina Livy, hormone balancing one. Yeah, I know. I mean, let's get Dr. Paul in on it. Okay, listen, but let's break it down into the form and how, because I think that it's important for us to empower people to understand also how a lot of the health behaviors that we're engaging in and like learning actually support your own body's ability to balance hormones, right? Because that's actually the premise of,

what we do, what Dr. Paul and I do, it's when you give your body the right tools, your body is the most perfect machine. It will actually balance out in, you know, achieve homeostasis, which is the state of balance. Your body will do it for you. It's not the medication. It is not the supplement.

It's the body. You just have to give it the tools. Oh, that was huge. Say that again. When you give the body the right tools, it's because our bodies are in a state of chaos. I know. Like we're, I mean, we're all tired today.

So, y'all, if you're, if you're tired from staying up and stressing out and watching the J's last night, watch how you are craving carbs and sugar and hungry all day because you are tired. Keep an eye on that. Get on your water early, right? Get on your water early and be aware. Okay, what hormone do you want to talk about first? Like, there's so many. Yeah.

You know what? I think that to make it simple on the interest of time, I would love to talk about two groups of hormones. There's going to be the hormones that kind of like regulate a lot of the nourishment for your body. And there's going to be a hormone neurotransmitter that's going to regulate more the pleasure for your body. But it's going to be more about food intake today and food choices. And then on Thursday, we can talk about metabolism and fat storage and then we can put it all together because they all interact with each other, right? But we're just going to talk about, so let's talk about food with nourishment. So the three main hormones, because there's a bunch of

them, but the three main hormones that regulate hunger and satiety are going to be your ghrelin, your leptin, and your GLP1, which I know Dr. Sandy's going to talk about tomorrow a little bit more of, but hunger and satiety. So this is actually really, really easy to understand. So your body, your body weight is actually very tightly controlled by a part in your brain that's called a hypothalamus, which is this like ancient part of your brain that regulates a lot of automatic processes like breathing and blood pressure and just like things that you don't have to think about and that's actually the part of your brain that regulates food intake for nourishment and there's the two main hormones that drive that are going to be your ghrelin which is actually

coming from your gut and it's telling your brain like hey girl you haven't eaten in a while and so your body will actually pump out this hormone this like it will increase this grelin and tell your brain like, okay, I need you to like start craving food and I need to increase the food intake because we're hungry, right? And then what's going to oppose that is that the minute that you eat something and then your body starts sensing that, okay, she's eating we're good, like, okay, we need to slow this down. This is actually when your intestine, actually will start releasing gLP1, which is actually released by your, like a part of your testing that's like really close to your gut, about.

maybe like 30 to 60 minutes after you started eating. And GLP1 will tell your brain like, okay, you know what? Like I think that we're like full and we need to like slow down the eating and we're going to more activate this like satiety. Like, you know, I think that we need to slow it down. This was like enough food intake. So those are the two main drivers for how much you're eating. The ghrelin that's going to be your hunger hormone. And then the GLP one that's going to be the.

like, you know what? I think that I'm like, full. You don't need to be eating anymore. The cool thing about GLP1 is that GLP1 will also regulate a little bit of your blood sugar, which is actually why these medications that at target this hormone were originally created for people with diabetes, right, because it regulates a little bit of this blood sugar control. And it will actually slow down how quickly this food gets almost like emptied into your entire. intestinal tract so that then your then your stomach feels hungry again, right? And so that's actually why a lot of the medications that target this hormone make you feel fuller for longer and why it actually impacts things like alcohol consumption and make you feel drunk real quick, because it

actually slows down how quickly food moves through your intestinal tract. Are you still with me? I am. I just, you know, I'm sitting here. Gosh, you and I've had this conversation so many times as listening to that. I'm thinking about what is happening in my body when I'm deciding, I think we think everything is just in our brain and our brain is just driving everything. In a sense, it is, right? But it's like, okay, what is happening when your body is like, I'm hungry, like legit, hungry, right? You just pick up on that message. It's so instinctual, I'm hungry. And then you go and you think about, you know, what do I want to eat? This is where you have the power to actually, but what do I actually need right now, right? If you really

tune into that that's about going deeper into that because you have the ability to do that and then there are hormones that are being like okay we're we're sensing that we're getting enough and it's sending a message to you that we are getting to the point where we're having enough so what you're trying to tune in when you're asking those four sets of mindful eating questions and then then uh your leptic kicking when you've okay we're done now and so it's just you can sit outside yourself or back and be like, oh, these hormones are the ones that are not just telling my body, but they're telling me. And that's where the, how this isn't willpower.

They're telling me where I'm at and what I need right now. That's, you can kind of see more clearly what hormones are and their role in your body. Yeah. And I think the coolest thing about this too is that it also helps you understand how and why we make some of the food choices that we do. and honestly why your method works really well because if I just even take it back to these two hormones, right? So ghrelin is your hunger hormone. And so when you skip meals, and that's actually why snacks are so important and why feeding your body constantly is so important and why

often people come in, even patients of mind being like, I've never eaten so much food and I've never lost so much weight. And I'm like, ah, no, because you're finally creating the harmony and the balancing these hormones, right? So when you skip a meal, your body goes into like, oh, no, this is happening again. And so what it's going to do is that you're not just going to get like a small rise in that ghrelin or that hunger hormone. You're going to get this like giant output of this hormone being like, she's starving me. We got to eat and we got to eat a lot. And so when you meal skip and you get this astronomical rise in ghrelin, what's going to happen is that at your next meal, you're going to eat way more food. You're going to eat way faster.

And you're going to obviously, like, out-eat that satiety hormone, right? Because when your grilling is high, your GLP-1 has to be low because your body is like, girl, I'm hungry. I don't need you to tell me that I'm satisfied. I don't need you to move food quickly through my body. Like, I need to eat a lot. And so that's actually where a lot of the mixed messaging and the cross-wifes. wiring actually can happen and why often we lose that connection with our satiety and our hunger because we meal skin, we're starving ourselves, we're actually not feeding ourselves the proper, not just amount, but like macronutriotri balance, right? Because what you're eating is also impacting these hormones. And actually part of like this hunger signaling is really impacted

by things like carbohydrates, protein, and complex, like fibers. And so the first thing that's going to drive this ghrelin down to be like, okay, you've eaten is carbs, funnily enough. And that's actually why we don't cut up carbs. We don't say like carbs are bad here, right? No, no, no. You need the carb for your brain to be like, I'm getting your sugar. Don't worry.

Like, you're going to get fed. Now, the thing about the carb thing, right, with the grelin, is that this lowering of ghrelin or that hunger hormone with carbs is very short-lived. And so while it drives it down really quickly, what's actually going to help drive it down for longer is going to be the protein and that like really complex fiber, which is actually why you always talk about like, you guys, you need to have the fiber in. This is why veggies are the star of the show. This is why every meal we focus on protein. Because if you just eat carbs, yeah, your grilling can come down. But within an hour, you're going to be like, I need to eat something. I need to eat something. I need to eat something.

And so that's actually with the food combination that we're actually focusing on on this plan is also so important. This is also why going long and not talking fasting. I'm not talking like focused time fasting and then eating good nutrient rich foods. I'm talking like long periods of time without eating, starving, depriving yourself, going all day long without eating, over. eating when you do eating do you you do eat starving the next day i mean that's the recipe for weight gain like that's and that's like that's what diets were built on i know and this is why you'll have a little bit of a hormonal mess that we're trying to fix yeah don't mind right here right right right here it's so fucking true it is so true we are so fucked up because of our years and

years of dieting or hormones of we're just trying to figure out how to keep you alive Gina right and you think about dieting it's so chaotic and we never factored in stress we never factored in sleep we if we moved to our body it was to pound the shit out of our bodies to try to like burn calories right a hundred percent a hundred percent is and you know what and I think that that's also where like our next hormone comes in right because it even with a lot of like the diet culture the messaging was like you got to lose like five pounds a week like we're going to get you you know and a lot of i don't i don't want to name names but you know a lot of like you know the 80s and the 90s glorified diets were like you know

we do like quick weight loss and so the problem is that yeah for sure that would really screw up your hunger signals but the one hormone that it really screwed up was actually leptin and leptin is the most interesting one i know that you love leptin and so grellin and gilp1 have to do with like hunger right like for sure and like regulating food intake leptin is really interesting and leptin is probably the hardest one that we have in medicine to control and leptin is actually created by your fat cells and it your fat cells are constantly communicating to your brain saying like you know what i have enough fat like i don't need you to be taking in a lot of food like you know we have like enough like we're we're good and so leptin is actually released in your blood in direct proportion to

how much fat you carry in your body, which really means in theory that if you have a lot of adipose tissue or you gain weight, your leptin increases and it tells you your brain like, you know what? You probably don't need to eat that much because like we have enough fat to survive the famine. Like we're totally good.

And the opposite should be true that if you have really little fat on your body, your leptin should be really, really low and you should be like hungry all the time, all the time all day long. however because your brain is you know things are very very complex and really really complicated there's disruptions that happen all the time all day long in these pathways and a lot of it honestly has to do with i'm going to say the trauma there's big there's big t's and little teas but the big tea that happens when we starve ourselves when we lose a lot of weight really really fast because of like our genetics because of whatever

But what can happen is something, a condition in medicine that's called leptin resistance. And leptin resistance is when your body actually does not respond appropriately to this leptin signaling that's saying like, you know, I have enough fat, like I don't eat any more food. Or you know what? I have too little fat. I need more food. And so your leptin actually can be really, really, really high. But your body doesn't understand it as like you should stop eating. It's like your brain just doesn't really understand the messaging.

And that's actually where, like, things get really, really complicated because following weight loss and, like, really, really rapid weight loss, we're not talking about sustainable weight loss that, like, comes from, like, lifestyle changes and a lot of the stuff that we're doing, right? Like, we're talking about, like, you know, things like a doctor that used to eject things that, you know, started with a bee and then it's time. And, you know, like, things like that was, like, really, really, like, rapid weight loss. what can happen is that actually legitimately you have it that like massive drop in leptin really really quickly you're it sends this alarm signal to your brain being like oh my god we're dying of starvation and it increases a lot of the other hormones to compensate right like decreasing fullness increasing like hunger levels decreasing your metabolism and then what happens is that then your set point gets screwed and so this is actually where a lot of like we talk about the set point right and we talk about the

step point and like oh my god i'm not delort most of it is actually driven by leptin and a little bit by ghrelin and it's actually this disruption in these hormones that get people stuck in like i'm doing all of the right things and i just can't shed the weight it's actually this disruption of these signaling i wish it was the thyroid guys i legitimately do it would be so simple if it was just like go on their medication and we'll fix it a lot of it a lot of the metabolic disruption that actually happens because of that chronic over dieting has to do with leptin and with some of the hormones that we're going to talk about on Thursday so you have to come back on Thursday but that's honestly these changes are part of the reason as to why after years of dieting 8 out of 10 people regain

the weight right it's actually because of the leptin component yeah that makes because the way your body's wired there. Your set point, your body, like your set point is the range of weight that your body adjust to it, that it feels like it needs to function at. Not where it's happy, y'all. It's not where it's happy. So, you know, your blood flow, body temperature hormones. And we say hormones, like your hunger hormones are tied into that range, which is why it's so harder takes work to not just lose the weight, but these are hormones that also need to adjust. These are why plateaus are so important. This is why if you've gone and lost a chunk of weight and you've been sitting on a plateau for a month or two months, good, great. It doesn't mean that you stop working

towards moving the down on the scale, but the longer you can sit at that plateau and help your body adjust to your new weight, this is beyond just the amount of fat that your body carries. These are your hormones that are adjusting in there as well. Oh my God, this is why, again, the living method works so well. This hormones are for everyone. And someone was asking, is this, is this, is this, is this is this, is this is for men to yet? These hormones were talking about everybody. Everybody has it. This is, this is, these are hormones that everybody has.

I mean, you know, even estrogen and progester men have to. But these are, this actually drives the food choices for everybody. But babies for seniors, for menopause, for paramedopause, for everybody across the board. And, and, you know, and I think it's, I think that the step point conversation is actually really important. I'm just going to touch on it really quickly before we go into dopamine. But this is why I always tell patients, you have to be patient with this. This is a process. This is undoing so much of the damage that we've actually done.

And your body needs to trust the process. And this is actually in a set point when you actually stop losing, when you get stuck in a little bit of a weight, what your body's trying to do legitimately is like, are we safe here? Are we okay? Like, do we trust that she's going to keep us here? Like, are these changes here to stay? is she going to start me like what is she going to do is she over exercising that are we eating

protein are you here for and so often what we see and you see it with you know like thousands of patients that you also that you know that that go through your method it's like you can get to your i'm stuck and then all of a sudden without changing anything you start losing weight and you're like oh i don't know what happened it's like something just flipped and i'm like yeah that's actually why some of those plateaus are important and why it's so important that you stick with it and you don't just get like throwing the towel back well this isn't working it's like nah it's actually working it's just working for sustainable weight loss that's going to change your set point forever and if you throw in the towel you're going to go

back exactly to where we started yes and this is what i mean it sucks if it's taking your body a little bit longer you got to trust though if you're really doing all the things here your body's going to get there, someone's like I lost 15 pounds in less than four weeks. Should I need to be concerned? No, because you are losing weight in a healthy way, but also you don't need to be concerned if you go like three weeks without any weight loss. That doesn't mean that things aren't working. That means, hey, the body was like, all right, let's drop this weight. Now it needs like a hot minute. I have to be lost to that. Yeah. What is going on here? And so you're losing weight in only a healthy way and people can lose a lot of weight what seems like with the living method equal

and opposite reaction at some point you will have a plateau and the problem is people get so frustrated this isn't working this isn't working when your body's like bitch i need a minute like you i need a minute i need time to adjust so i can like maintain this there's a lot going on okay i'm going to get into dopamine i just want to make sure that we don't go in too long today Because there's so many factors that affect your choices and why you are eating, right? People are talking food noise. So GLP1 can help calm the food noise, but that doesn't stop you from eating when you're stressed, right? Or when you're triggered or anything like that.

Can you, before we move on a dopamine real quick, can you test for these hormones? I mean, can we just assume our body's carrying excess fat that we're, and we've done any dieting at all? Our hormones are messed up. It's just the way we live. Is it commonplace? Or can we test? You know what? So you can. There's, you, you can actually test, for example, like leptin levels. And the problem is that we don't, honestly, like we don't really understand why leptin resistance can happen at a leptin level that's within normal range.

And leptin resistance can also happen when your leptin is like a skyrocket high. And so I would see that this, the one that you can really test for is like leptin, but there's so much more research that actually needs to be done to. understand what's like normal what's like not normal and even honestly how to address it right because leptin and i'm sure that dr sandy will talk about it tomorrow um glp1 medication actually does at impact leptin levels and it's one of the only things that will lower leptin to try to give your brain a break so that it doesn't see it all the time and it starts responding to it a little bit better but we don't actually have great ways to treat leptin resistance which is actually honestly i think that glp1 agonist right now are like it's like their time and they're taking a hot minute but I really do

think that the next thing that that medicine is going to try to target is going to be leptin and then another gut hormone that it's called neuropeptide why which actually drives a lot of the food choices when you're stressed out just like dopamine yeah there's I also want to take a hot minute because that can make you feel like oh my god there's nothing we can do here or you can also work really hard to be in tune to your body's needs give it what it needs address its needs help it focus on fat loss

what does that mean understand you have got to do things to help manage your stress you have got to work on getting a better night's sleep because those two things affect your hormones

you've got to take time to eat your food in a state that you are calm not scroll on your phone raging about this or that to actually reconnect with your body you have a lot of control

over this in terms of addressing your hormone I mean, I've seen this because I guess I've been doing it long enough. I know you want to say something in a second. But there's a comment here from Kim. How do we break this? I've been on the livy since 2023.

I've had a lot of years of dieting, but I'm really doing all the things. I'm a rock star. This program has kicked my ass forward to be the healthiest ever, but I plateaued for six months. What the heck? Recently on HRT, eight weeks now, do I keep moving forward? I've had so many women who sign up. successful lose the weight and then period menopause smacks them in the face more like throat

punches them and then they're all like ah what that's a lot it is a lot honestly it is a lot and i know it's so hard i feel like the series honestly should be a week's worth and i should like every day i should just like talk about one hormone it's so hard because this is an orchestra like we're talking about this and when you're when you're going through big transitions right right, like puberty or pregnancy or postpartum or perimenopause, that change in hormones can also impact all of the other hormones, right? And so it's not for some people, for sure, it can be like, okay, let me like help you with paramedopause with the symptoms, but it's also like when you're going through

these transitions, a lot of the choices that you make are going to be impacted, right? Because like your sleep goes out the window and we know that sleep, all of these hormones, right? You might move in a different way because you're tired and you might not move at all. Your food choices are going to be impacted because of the way that these hormones also impact your brain and the food choices that you make as a result of it.

Your hunger hormones are going to be impacted. And so that's actually why I talk about how these are all, like, an orchestra that are supposed to be playing the same song at the same time in the same key. And when the trombone starts like playing reggaeton, when like the other guys are playing Bach, like guess what? Like it's not going to sound like Bach.

It's going to sound like, you know, like Dr. Linka's version of, you know, classical music, because she's got a little Latin beat to it. And so that's actually where things can get really, really messy and why the foundation that we're working on is exceptionally important because that's actually what brings your body back to like, no, I'm going to just bring you back to like the balance, right? This is also where, of course, like medication or supplements are working with a practitioner is really great to help you through that transition. but there's the thing that's the most important is pretending to these hormones is that

nothing dramatic that you do legitimately and I really mean this this is actually why dramatic weight loss can like throw you into a spin if you do things that are like really dramatic your body's reaction often is just like freeze and be like I don't know what to do I don't know what to do I don't know what to do which is actually why a lot of the small sustainable changes that you cannot let go of right the things. things that we talk about is the foundation, it's your sleep, it's feeding yourself, the water, it's a stress management. That is actually the key to once things go off, bringing it back to balance so that your

body feels like, oh, this is my safe place, this is my home. Okay, I'm going to stop right there because I think that was a lot for us. I know that's what dopamine. In the best way. I know you want to talk dopamine because dopamine is like, If you take into effect the hormones you're talking about right now, this is where the layers of complication come because then there's dopamine that you're feeding into and that you are like, okay, but that's a big conversation.

So what I want is to pause right there. And then you're going to come back on Thursday and we'll talk about it. Just give me like a one minute or on why you want to talk about dopamine next in relation to what we just talked about. Because I think, so we talked about the hormones that kind of help eat, or make you eat for nourishment, but dopamine is the neurotransmitter that kind of acts like a hormone that makes you eat for pleasure.

And I think that it's so important for us to understand that you need to love food because your body is hardwired for survival. And when something tastes good or when something feels good, your body's going to be like, I like that. But part of the research. as to why understanding the role that dopamine plays into your food choices in understanding why whole foods and a diet that is very Mediterranean-like like yours, right?

It's like lots of color, whole food, protein, rich like that, is actually giving you this like adequate amount of dopamine in your brain that makes you feel like, well, that tastes good. That made me feel good. Like, all right, girl. and why a lot of the food industry, right, is developing products constantly to make you seek as much dopamine as they can

so that they play into that part of your brain that drives that food choice and it tells you like, no, you don't want an apple because an apple gives you a tiny little bit of dopamine. What you want is a super sugary fried donut because that gives you a lot of dopamine. And guess what? A lot of dopamine feels real good.

And so it's not your fault that you're like, oh, yeah, I for sure would eat like a donut instead of an apple. I would too. But and that's also why a lot of the times you stop craving the donuts when you actually just have full foods because your brain is like, oh, I remember I like dopamine, but I don't need these like huge jumps of dopamine, right? Because when there's a high, there's going to be a crash as well. And it's that crash in dopamine that keeps on making you crave all of those high dopamine foods that then lead you to make the food choices that the food industry is, you know,

giving you the messaging and feeding you all the time because they make money from you. They profit from you. They profit from your dopamine highs and your dopamine homes. Yeah, you know, yes. And this is all mainstream now, right? This is not woo hooey. Even the Canadian Obesity Society, they were talking, but this is all very real. This is why it can seem like a lot because it is.

And this is why the routine and structure on the monotony at sometimes of the living method is so important because it helps your body really calm down and helps you get a handle and be able to address all of these things. Oh, man, I love you. I love this conversation. We could have it every day. We could have it every day for 91 days. Let's be real. I'll just talk about 91 hormones, you guys. Like buckle up.

It's going to be like a biology project. No, but I love this my favorite, it's my favorite conversation, honestly. So I'm like super excited that we have a part two because we have so much more to chat about. Yeah, I mean, Dr. Lincoln, we've had so many podcast sessions together. So you can go to go to Livy Method, search them all up, listen to them. So many are the same conversation in different ways that are so right. It's important to understand this. This is this foundational knowledge.

Once you can kind of get it and I hope that you're kind of stepping back and seeing, if not this is worthy of watching again, especially before. And I don't want to put a lot of work on anybody, but once you know this and you get this, it helps you approach weight loss from a whole different angle. It helps empower you to make you realize there is a lot that you can do here. It's just everything we've been taught about trying to lose our weight has just fucked up everything else and made it all worse for lack of a scientific explanation at the end of the day. I, yeah, struggling with nighttime eating the last few nights, very disappointed. what should I do I drink tea whatever listen to this conversation again which will help you understand why you're doing that there's stress there's triggering there's all of that give

your body what it needs throughout the day that's that's that's that's the fix take time to stress out work on your sleep this is why it's not just any one thing that I'm going to tell you right I know and this is why I think the boring not sexy things like sleep routine your snacks, the protein, the greens, the fiber, that, like, all of this, it's legitimately is the unsexy things that are going to give you the best clinical impact. Legitimately. This is, we're so sexy, though. We're so sexy. We are sexy. But it's the, the unsexy, like, you know, I, I always have my snacks. I do this. Like, this is also why there's no magic pill, you guys. Because it is in the doing, and it's in the routine, and it's in the basics that actually

that is a magic potion to your program. Oh my goodness. Dopamine, insulin, thyroid, sex hormones, growth hormones, adrenaline, cortisol, all of that. We've got a lot of stuff to still talk about. Join us on Thursday, everyone. I hope you enjoyed this conversation. Remember, there's no work here. You're already doing the work.

This is just help you to see it from a different angle, which I hope is leaving you feeling inspired and hopeful because you absolutely should be, especially if you're still here. Week 6. Dr. Linketrejo, follow her over on Instagram. at doctor dot olinka also reach out to her her team her clinic info at dr alenka dot com okay i'm i'm going to see you thursday yeah i'll see if they say i love you okay thank you thanks everyone have a great day yay jay jay Thank you.