Dr. Ashley Lucas
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard Feb 2025
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Right.
Yeah. That's true.
Yep.
Thanks, guys, for having me.
Yeah.
Yeah, the body changes for sure. So I think I was explaining to you, Al, about the belly fat and how the belly fat works against us. So my story, I was a professional ballet dancer. I know, Jace, I was ballet dancer. I saw that face.
What?
We do. Yeah, and I always fought my body. I was never at the body weight that I needed to be to get the roles that I wanted, but I went to boarding school for it. I had a fairly successful career just because I'm so disciplined and I had a passion around it. But I was told that I was fat no matter what I did. I counted calories. I avoided red meat.
I exercised after my eight-hour day of dancing and still was too fat for the sport. And I stepped away from dancing in my mid-20s. I landed in the ER. I was chosen to go perform in New York City, you know, every dancer's dream. And when I was up there, I thought I was having a heart attack. I had no idea what was going on. So I
They carted me off to the ER and told me that I was underfed and overexercised and I just couldn't do it anymore. And to me, that was 20 plus years of struggle and sacrifice. It was my identity. It was like Michael Phelps being ready to swim at the Olympics and being carted off to the ER saying, you can't swim again. So it was a huge deal for me.
I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, but I understood how significantly nutrition, I guess, impacted my own sport performance. So I decided I wanted to help other people so that they didn't have to have this chronic fight against their body.
And I believe that there was a way for us to be able to drop weight and be fit and not have to have a constant struggle around it or have to take medications or do crazy things. I knew there was a way to... get our body back to its natural state and to operate the way that it was meant to do. So I went on and earned my PhD in sports nutrition and chronic disease. And I studied energy metabolism.
I think 80% of any change comes from the mind. We have to focus on the mental, emotional, the habits, behaviors. And so I studied that. And then I went, after I finished my PhD, I thought, oh, I'm still not a true expert in the field of weight management. I need to become a registered dietitian. So I went back to school again to become a registered dietitian.
But everything I learned there was so inaccurate. You know, they say, eat less, move more. Well, I did that. Didn't work. And I was disciplined. They said, don't eat red meat and eat six to 11 servings of grains a day. And it just made no sense to me. So I ended up flipping everything upside down that I learned during my dietetic internship. And I did exactly the opposite.
took my research and created the PhD approach. I changed my life. And to date, we've served over 10,000 people. Collectively, we've dropped over 466,000 pounds nationwide. We reversed type 2 diabetes, chronic diseases. And I'm just so grateful for the struggles that I went through.
I was listening to you guys speak before this and talking about our challenges and how they helped to develop us and to the people we are and find our gifts. And I truly believe that my gift is helping people heal and come back to their optimal level of health.
Yes.
Yeah. So basically our belly fat keeps us fat. So what happens in our lives, generally speaking, is we have these triggers and they change the way that we tolerate our food. So for men, often a trigger is like something stressful, like a marriage or a relationship shift or a job change.
Or we work with a lot of like ex-collegiate athletes who are used to working out at a certain level and eating a lot of food. And then they stop that and they're like, oh, my gosh, the weight is just packing on. So we have these changes. And if we continue to eat the way we did before, we then go through this trigger. And now this food starts to accumulate as fat on the body.
And we think, what the heck's going on? I haven't done anything different. I haven't made a shift in my way of eating. It's not making sense. So what happens over time is we start to accumulate this belly fat. That's the visceral fat you were talking about. And this belly fat fills up the organs in our belly area, like our liver, our kidneys, all of them. But let's talk about the liver.
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