Dr. Stacy Sims

I think what we all don't love is the access without oversight, meaning nobody's helping you say, how are you not –

Losing muscle.

How are you doing this in a safe fashion?

You can just text somebody on an app and suddenly have the medication shipped to your house.

No, no, no.

You can't lipo the viscera.

They're inside.

That fat that's really inside the abdominal cavity is what we're talking about, that visceral fat, which is the worst kind.

It's very much what we're saying right here, that plants have fiber that's going to feed your gut microbiome that's going to decrease inflammation.

So fruits and vegetables, getting enough fiber is the number one change that most people need to make.

From there, we want to, of course, decrease all your ultra-processed foods, healthy fats.

Fat is the backbone of cholesterol, is the backbone of your steroid hormones.

So if you want to make hormones, we've got to have some cholesterol, some healthy fats coming in to provide the backbone for that.

So things like olive oil, nuts, your avocados, seeds, these are going to provide some of those healthier fats that are easier to use for you.

And when it comes to protein, there's a lot of different protein sources.

We know that the data is so hard on nutrition because I can quote a study that says for every serving of

plant protein that you take over animal protein, you have a higher chance of ovulating regularly.

And that's true.

A lot of that, though, is nuanced by the fact that people who eat plant-based sources of proteins tend to eat other plants in general and less ultra-processed foods than people who have the highest quartile of meat intake.

If we go to a micro level, though, not all meat, animal meat, is created equal.