Food as Chemistry with Belldon Colme

[AI assisted show notes:]On Sept 17th 2024 I talk with Belldon Colme, a scientist who transitioned from a career in home building to studying the relationship between food and the body. Belldon shares his personal journey of overcoming heart disease, diabetes, and obesity by understanding how food interacts with the body's chemistry. He offers insights into how specific food choices can heal the body and maintain long-term health.Former home builder turned scientist after health scares, including three heart attacks between ages 39 and 40.Transformation journey began when traditional medical advice didn’t work, leading him to study cellular biology and food science.The Power of Food:Shifted from viewing food as fuel to recognizing it as building blocks for the body’s cells.His dietary changes reversed his diabetes within three months and heart disease within two years.Misconceptions in Health and Nutrition:Many people fall for "new" diet fads, like blood type diets or processed food supplements.Emphasizes that there is a human diet that works universally, just like animals have specific diets that sustain them.The Four Key Food Groups:Leafy Greens: Provides 85% of essential building blocks for the body.Fibrous Vegetables: Crucial for gut health and act as the body's natural cleaner.Unprocessed Carbohydrates: Supplies phytonutrients vital for body function.Unprocessed Proteins: Includes plant-based and meat-based proteins essential for health.Emotional Eating and Its Triggers:Emotional eating is often a programmed response, likened to Pavlov’s conditioned reflex experiment.Negative emotions can trigger a hunger response even when not physically hungry.Breaking this cycle is key to long-term dietary success and can be reprogrammed within a week.Practical Steps for Breaking Emotional Eating:Focus on what triggers emotional eating and consciously replace negative habits with positive activities.Techniques such as simple meditations and creative activities (e.g., origami, photography) help refocus the mind.Doctors and Nutrition:Doctors are important for keeping patients alive, but true healing comes from understanding food’s role in bodily health.It’s the individual’s responsibility to maintain and improve their health by making the right dietary choices.Resources MentionedBelldon’s Food Freedom Breakthrough: A free event designed to help people break emotional eating habits and find clarity in their relationship with food. Available at foodfreedombreakthrough.com.Assess stumbling blocks, especially emotional eating, and focus on getting the wrong things out of their diet.Links: https://foodfreedombreakthrough.comhttps://belldoncolme.nethttps://www.youtube.com/@BelldonColmehttps://www.instagram.com/belldoncolmehttps://www.facebook.com/belldoncolmeofficialWant to be a guest on Inner Skilled? Send Josh Dippold a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/innerskilled Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.