About this episode

Kelsey Buchalter shares her journey through severe eating disorders and how a simple dietary change transformed her health.

For twenty years, Kelsey Buchalter cycled through hospitals, medications, and every conventional treatment psychiatry could offer for anorexia, bulimia, and anxiety. None of it touched the underlying problem. What finally did was a single instruction from a nutritionist: eat only red meat and eggs for ten days. Now a health coach at Ovadia Heart Health, Kelsey sits down with Dr. Philip Ovadia and Jack Heald to trace the biological mechanism behind that shift, and to challenge a premise most m...

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Philip Ovadia

Guest: Kelsey Buchalter

Topics covered

• eating disorders
• nutrition
• mental health
• anorexia
• bulimia
• health coaching

Keywords

• eating disorders
• anorexia
• bulimia
• nutrition
• health coaching
• red meat
• eggs

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ovadia Heart Health

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