27 Sep 2024 04:57
Episode 216: The Diabetes IBS Connection with Katherine Aitken Young and Sarah Aitken
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton.
Katherine Aitken Young is a registered nurse, nutritionist, metabolic health practitioner, entrepreneur, CEO, coach, wife, and mother. She is passionate about good food and digestive health and developed the IBS Game Changer program to apply her expertise and experience to helping people who have spent their lives feeling like they were at the mercy of Irritable Bowel Syndrome.
Sarah Aitken is a Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, as well as a Family Nurse Practitioner, a National Board Certified Coach, a functional nutritionist, an Accredited Metabolic Health Provider, a Lifestyle Medicine provider, a wife and a mother. She is passionate about health and has developed the Diabetes Game Changer program to apply her expertise and experience to helping people who have spent too much time trying to manage their metabolic health by following useless advice.
In this discussion, Dr. Tony, Katherine, and Sarah talk about:
- (04:50) How both Katherine and Sarah ended up in the nursing field
- (08:53) Why Katherine and Sarah chose to focus on helping people find relief from IBS and diabetes respectively
- (15:06) What IBS is and how it can be prevented
- (20:02) What insulin resistance is and how it effects metabolic health
- (24:49) The connection between IBS and insulin resistance
- (28:03) Why the treatment for IBS and insulin resistance is similar
- (32:28) Why typical treatments prescribed for IBS are ineffective
- (38:12) Why diets recommended by most doctors for diabetes patients are ineffective
- (43:07) Why so many people are still unaware that diabetes is reversible
- (48:21) The low FODMAP diet for those dealing with IBS
- (54:53) How diabetes is potentially a cause of IBS
- (01:00:03) Final words of wisdom for those suffering from diabetes and/or IBS
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