Episode 105: Food Addiction with Dr. Frank Sabatino

April 10, 2023 Stacey Heiny

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Episode 105: Food Addiction with Dr. Frank Sabatino Stacey Heiny

Dr. Frank Sabatino is the past Health Director of the Shangri-La Natural Hygiene Institute, the Regency Health Spa in Hallandale, FL, the Ocean Jade Health Retreat in Lauderdale by the Sea, FL and the Balance for Life Health Retreat in Deerfield Beach, FL, where he cared for and inspired thousands of people over the past 40+ years on the benefits of a plant-based lifestyle including whole food plant nutrition (without added salt, oil or sugar), health rejuvenation, stress management, therapeutic fasting and detoxification.

Dr. Sabatino is a Chiropractic physician, from the Palmer College of Chiropractic, who also has a Ph.D. in cell biology and neuroendocrinology from the Emory University School of Medicine. The book of his original research on the effects of brain peptides on the regulation of reproductive hormones was published in 1988. While an Assistant Professor at the University of Texas School of Medicine, he did extensive landmark research on calorie restriction, stress and aging, and has published a number of major scientific papers in some of the most well-respected peer reviewed journals in the fields of cell biology, endocrinology, and neuroscience. He has also written numerous articles for lay magazines and journals in the areas of water-only fasting, clinical plant-based nutrition, healthy weight loss, women’s hormones, stress management, addiction, epigenetics, impact of plant nutrition on the gut microbiota and healthy aging.

What we talked about:

6:40- Intro to Dr Frank

15:40- Food addiction

30:00- Caffeine

35:30- Chocolate addiction

41:10- Breaking children’s addiction to sugar and oil 41:10

47:30- Protein in your diet

49:00- Talking to your friends and family about your lifestyle changes

51:40- Handling food addiction

57:30- Feeding babies and children

1:01:30- Breaking your food addiction

64:30- Wrap-up