You and Your Patients Can Have Lean Bodies for Life
2,700 calories a day over a three-week period, eating three meals a day. They took a two-week break and returned. They again ate the same 2,700 calories but divided those calories into 17 tiny meals a day. [Test hosts] didn’t change the food, the composition, or anything. The LDL (bad cholesterol) dropped 13.9%, and the insulin levels dropped 21%. That’s huge!” Watch the webinar for yourself by heading over to InsidersCircle.com. You’ll find “GICW 080 Sheats — You and Your Patients Can Have a Lean Body for Life” under “Gems Insiders’ Circle Webinars.” There is an incredible number of Gems that can benefit your personal life and establish you as a trusted resource for your patients. P.S. In science and in health, it’s critical to keep an open mind to varying points of view. Dr. Sheats is both a personal friend and health mentor. However, today I combine what I learned from Cliff and information I picked up from “Eat, Fast and Live Longer,” a BBC Documentary. Whereas Dr. Sheat’s guidance helped me get back on track, during the last two years the 5:2 fasting diet (watch the documentary) has helped me to keep the weight off and maintain excellent health.
So many of the Gems we unearth revolve around our dental practices and strategies to improve them. But the more we learn about the oral-systemic link, the more critical it becomes for us as dental practitioners to understand health on a broader scale. I had the pleasure of sitting down and speaking with Dr. Cliff Sheats, a bestselling author, personal trainer, and board certified clinical nutritionist. He has appeared on “CBS Evening News,” CNN, the Food Network, and other national television. Cliff has played a significant role in my health transformation. I found myself trying to play volleyball at 6-foot-2 and 212 pounds. I was happy about the height, but certainly not the weight. Cliff’s advice helped me get back to my high school weight of 175 pounds and into the best health of my life. Speaking to our members during a Gems Insiders’ Circle™ Webinar, Cliff detailed the science behind a healthy life. Throughout “GICW 080 Sheats — You and Your Patients Can Have a Lean Body for Life,” Dr. Sheats runs the gamut on nutrition, recovery, and your body’s natural physiological processes. One Gem he unearthed explained why you should care about muscle loss as you grow older. “Between the ages of 30 and 80, we lose 50% of our muscle. The average American is losing about a half-pound of muscle every year.” You may wonder why this is such a big deal. “We lose our ability to process calories,” Cliff explained. “That degradation of muscle is gradually happening year after year, and we’re losing our ability to burn fat, to burn sugars.” His presentation became really intriguing when he explained how losing muscle is related to Alzheimer’s. “[Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s] is 60% less in those with more muscle. Our muscles are the engine that pushes oxygen all over our body, and to our brains!” Nutrition is a pivotal part of oral health, but even more so to your overall systemic health. Dr. Sheats gave us a Gem on how to boost your metabolism by adjusting the frequency of meals. “Spread your calories through the day, five times per day. That means you’re going to have three major meals with a midmorning snack and an afternoon snack.” I think Dr. Sheats began to fit in with the Gems culture when he explained the math behind this tactic. “A study took a group of men that ate
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