The Path from LifestyleRx

About the Episode

In this Q&A episode of The Path, Dr. Brendan Byrne answers real questions from LifestyleRx patients on some of the trickiest parts of the program: eating enough protein with reduced kidney function, understanding confusing bloodwork, deciding if liver supplements are worth the money, and knowing when GLP-1 medications make sense for a stubborn weight loss plateau. You'll also hear why better sleep and better eating feed off each other, and how to work through an after-dinner sugar craving without feeling like you're failing.

About The Path Podcast

The Path is about simple strategies for better metabolic health. We break down metabolic disease, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes through patient FAQs, better health decisions, and honest interviews with patients and the physicians who treat them.

Learn More About LifestyleRx: https://lifestylerx.io/

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Episode 113 | The Path Podcast

About the Episode
In today's episode, Dr. Brendan Byrne is interviewing Lisa Maks, a Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist at Providence Health Care with 38 years in nursing, 22 of them in diabetes care. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and serves on the Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines committee. She is also a LifestyleRx patient, which gives her a rare view from both sides of the clinic.

About the Guest
Lisa Maks is a Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist at Providence Health Care with 38 years in nursing, 22 of them in diabetes care. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and serves on the Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines committee. She is also a LifestyleRx patient, which gives her a rare view from both sides of the clinic.

About The Path Podcast

The Path is about simple strategies for better metabolic health. We break down metabolic disease, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes through patient FAQs, better health decisions, and honest interviews with patients and the physicians who treat them.

Learn More About LifestyleRx: https://lifestylerx.io/

Ask us a video question! https://ask-a-question.lifestylerx.ca

Episode 112 | The Path Podcast

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
1:03 Welcome & Lisa's background
3:12 Obesity and weight cycling
5:12 How she discovered LifestyleRx
7:01 – First impressions of the program
10:52 – Consistency over intensity
14:49 – How physiology shapes behavior
15:59 – All-or-nothing mindset and food noise
18:19 – Outcome-based vs. process-based goals
20:08 – Measuring success beyond the scale
23:59 – Listening to your physiology
26:06 – The Amundsen vs. Scott metaphor
28:17 – Deciding to start a GLP-1
32:06 – How GLP-1 quieted food noise
34:26 – Obesity as a dysregulated system
36:26 – Facing the "cheating" stigma
37:53 – Willpower and hedonistic behavior
41:03 – Our evolutionary food mismatch
44:49 – LifestyleRx's prevention mission
46:22 – Food quality and social determinants
50:07 – Dopamine and engineered foods
50:55 – "Lifestyle first" vs. "lifestyle next"
51:03 – Weight management as an ongoing practice
54:19 – Closing thoughts
54:45 - Outro

In this episode, Brendan and Dan use The Tortoise and the Hare to explore the central paradox: behaviour changes physiology, but physiology also shapes behaviour through reinforcing loops that determine whether change becomes easier or harder over time.

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In this episode, Brendan and Dan answer more of your questions!

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In this episode, Brendan interviews Dawn Froste, a patient from the LifestyleRx program.

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