About this episode

Craig Emmerich discusses the limitations of diet alone in achieving metabolic health with Dr. Ovadia.

Craig Emmerich spent a decade eating low-carb and feeling great — until he wasn't. What followed was a quarter-million dollars, a chronic Lyme diagnosis, and a hard-won education in what diet alone simply cannot do. In this conversation, Craig and Dr. Ovadia pull apart one of the most seductive myths in the metabolic health space: that the right food is always the right answer. They talk protein thresholds, personal fat limits, the case for bio-identical hormones, and the nuanced reality of G...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Philip Ovadia

Guest: Craig Emmerich

Topics covered

• metabolic health
• low-carb diet
• chronic illness
• bio-identical hormones
• nutrition myths

Keywords

• metabolic health
• low-carb
• chronic Lyme
• diet
• bio-identical hormones

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Lyme

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