Science-based Tips on Weight loss, Fitness, Health, and Nutrition from a Ph.D. Scientist
Today I’m sharing studies on how diet affects your mood, through tryptophan and serotonin. Specifically, I’m talking about how eating a high protein vs high carb diet affects your serotonin levels, and therefore mood, depression, and anxiety! (This is a follow up to my last video on dietary tryptophan & mood)
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After years of yo-yo dieting & weight gain, I figured out how to stop the cycle, lose the fat, and gain muscle!
So I’m here to share advice on how to eat without rules or restriction and reach your goal body, using scientific research from nutrition & psychology.
It’s about eating differently.
Losing weight, and especially maintaining it, is about what you eat, and how you go about eating it.
I know, this completely runs against conventional wisdom. But hear me out.
Conventional wisdom doesn’t consider the actual scientific research on how weight loss works.
I got my PhD in 2021, and I run studies at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, and nutrition–and apply science to my daily life!
There is a lot of great research out there on how to lose weight, and be happier & healthier… but most people don’t know about it, because it’s hard to access & understand.
So I break it down by writing posts & filming videos so you can apply scientific findings to your life!
Vitamin D is obviously important for our health, but recent research is suggesting it may also affect our weight too. In today’s video, I’m going over a study looking at how vitamin D supplementation affects weight loss, and who it works for!
Here are the two supplements I’ve used & liked, both are vegan vitamin D3:
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You probably already know that cruciferous veggies like broccoli, kale, and cabbage are especially healthy, but did you know that not all crucifers are created equal? Some of them are better at fighting cancer (and have more antioxidants) than others!
In today’s video I go over a study comparing the cytotoxic (aka, cancer fighting) activity, sulforaphane levels (aka, a super cancer-fighting compound), and antioxidant levels between different types of cruciferous vegetables.
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People who diet, have food rules, or count calories may be lying to themselves. In today’s video, I go over a study looking at how much dieters vs nondieters eat during a “taste test”, and how they compare at estimating how much they ate.
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Today I’m going over a study showing how a psychological strategy can stop binge eating and stress eating, and help prevent future binging too!
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Feeling too lazy, sore, or sick to work out? Well there’s something else you can do instead: mental training! In today’s video I go over the highlights from studies showing how just imagining exercising can make you fitter.
And bonus, these findings apply to other motor skills as well, like dancing and playing instruments!
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Are your cravings getting in the way of you losing weight (or eating healthier) while eating intuitively? In my latest video I’m giving you 6 pieces of advice for how to figure out when to give into your cravings, and when to go for the healthier option instead.
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I often hear people say that exercising (especially cardio) is no better for weight loss than just cutting the equivalent number of calories from your diet. In fact, I’ve even had people tell me that cardio is a waste of time because they just eat all the calories back anyway.
There are a lot of reasons that’s wrong, but today I’m focusing on one: how exercise influences your appetite. Plus, how it influences your hormones, and how much you actually end up eating in the long term.
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Stress is a major cause of overeating–especially if you’re an emotional eater. In today’s video, I’m going over studies on how stress affects our hunger hormones, and how your hunger hormones actually act very differently if you’re an emotional eater… and science-based advice for what you can do to help with emotional overeating!
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Miche, Ph.D. 