Episode Details

It can feel so frustrating trying to determine what will actually work when it comes to health and weight loss. Maybe you feel like you’ve tried everything, or you’ve been dieting for more than 10 years and still aren’t seeing the results you want. Tune in to understand why. 

This week, Jenn is joined by community pharmacist Dr. Kathy Campbell to discuss how our bodies are (or aren’t) adapting in this modern world. Dr. Campbell shares why people are experiencing metabolic dysfunction and what we can do to battle it, given that she calls obesity “modern-day famine.” She talks about what factors in the world are impacting our health, and what is going on at a chemical level that we may not even be aware of. Dr. Kathy Campbell shares how to identify our own health culture, and determine what tweaks we need to make to have the biggest impacts. Oh! And Jenn also asks about GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy! Tune in to learn more.

The Salad With a Side of Fries podcast is hosted by Jenn Trepeck, discussing wellness and weight loss for real life, clearing up the myths, misinformation, bad science & marketing surrounding our nutrition knowledge and the food industry. Let’s dive into wellness and weight loss for real life, including drinking, eating out, and skipping the grocery store. 

IN THIS EPISODE: 

• [3:55] Jenn shares what members are getting this week.
• [5:53] Dr. Kathy Campbell shares her personal experience with weight management.
• [8:11] What does Dr. Campbell do as a community pharmacist?
• [12:16] How does metabolic dysfunction work in our bodies?
• [14:37] What are some of the consequences or expressions of our primitive caveman biology living in conflict with our modern world?
• [20:02] Dr. Campbell talks about how we are being failed and how that impacts our health. 
• [23:25] How can you start to identify your own health culture and the tweaks you can make for big impacts?
• [27:55] What does culture mean to Dr. Campbell? 
• [31:16] What does Dr. Campbell think about GLP-1’s?
• [37:08] Rapid fire, off topic questions for Dr. Kathy Campbell. 

KEY TAKEAWAYS: 

• What the body is doing is a hundred percent of the time appropriate to the environment with which it is surviving. It’s not just the macro environment like the air around us, it’s also the internal environment of the body, what’s going on within the cellular level.
• You are the expert of your own body. Use yourself as a type of science experiment, try things and see if they work for you. If they don’t try something else. 
• There is a time and a place for medicine, but if you are taking pharmaceuticals and are not changing your habits and your lifestyle, you are doing your body a disservice. GLP-1’s can be a tool in your tool box, but you also have to put in the work to fix your gut and focus on your overall health. 

QUOTES: 

• [9:41] “The problem isn’t our genetics. The problem is we’ve had a catastrophic environmental change for our human self and we have not evolved. I don’t know that we will evolve to actually survive the current environment.” - Dr. Kathy Campbell
• “When people come to me, most are over-fed and under-nourished. That ends up in a place of metabolic dysfunction, insulin resistance, we observe it as obesity.” - Jenn Trepeck
• [12:54] “The critical chemistries I see in the body are nutrients, oxygen, sunlight, water, love and connection. When I speak to my peers, I call it pharmacology, food pharmacology, and the hardest one is stress pharmacology.” - Dr. Kathy Campbell
• [24:32] “You’re the only biochemical you, you’re a unique organism living in a unique life with a unique history. You have to create around you a team, and I call it a partner’s in health team. You need somebody that is a coach, you need a farmer, you need a doctor, you need a physical therapist, you need a mas