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53. Reclaim Your Vitality, Ward off Disease with Delane Vaughn, M.D.
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Today I have the honor of sharing the wisdom and expertise of Dr. Delane Vaughn. She brings the invaluable combination of being both a family medicine practitioner and a certified life coach. From nurse to physician—including outpatient, inpatient and ER care, she developed a passion for disease prevention and now, in her life coaching practice Delane helps women ward off type 2 diabetes with a natural approach and today will share what you need to know to enhance your health, including such practicalities as shunning enticing processed foods. Whenever I meet a practicing physician who has added life coaching to round out her eminent qualifications with comprensive insights for the feelings and emotions of individuals, well, I can’t wait to hear more!
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Hi, and welcome to the Fire Up at 55 Plus Podcast, a show about how to put yourself first in your second act of life. I'm Certified Life and Weight Loss Coach Lori Adams, here to empower you to let go of guilt, take charge of your health, then find and fulfill your dreams. It's never too late, so let's get started. Today I have the honor of sharing the wisdom and expertise of Dr. Delane Vaughn. She brings the invaluable combination of being both a family medicine practitioner and a certified life coach. From nurse to physician, including outpatient, inpatient, and ER care, Delane developed a passion for disease prevention. And now in her life coaching practice, she helps women ward off type 2 diabetes with a natural approach. And today she's going to share with you what you need to know to enhance your health, including such practicalities as shunning enticing processed foods. You know, whenever I meet a practicing physician who has gone the extra steps of adding life coaching to round out their eminent qualifications with the comprehensive insights needed for the feelings and emotions of individuals, I feel so lucky and can't wait to hear more. So, welcome, welcome, Dr. Delaine Vaughn.
SPEAKER_01Hi there, Lori. Thank you so much for having me here. I'm so excited to get to talk to you. This is what I am super passionate about. And just any opportunity to talk about it and let others hear that there's a way to live naturally healthy is just really floats my boat. So I'm so glad to be here. Thank you.
SPEAKER_00Mm-hmm. Well, great. So you know that the audience here is largely midlife women, however they define that. I typically say 55 plus. That's kind of the baby boomer category, and the women that are evolving from bringing a lot of baggage and people pleasing and things they learned in the past to put themselves last into a more vitalized, feeling that they're younger than their moms and grandmothers were at this age, to really taking care of themselves so they can continue to have a long, happy life and maybe avoid the things that they have seen, including this prevalent diabetes, right? Into their own future and have an end of life that is not as wonderful as they would like. So, how did you get into this? And what made you so interested in diabetes after practicing family medicine?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, my personal story was I was pre-diabetic. I've had two pregnancies in my life, 10 years apart. The first one I was borderline diabetic, and the second one I was full-blown gestational diabetic. And I was in the middle of training with my first pregnancy, I was in my mid-20s and I was going through nursing school. And with my second pregnancy, I was in the middle of medical school. And so, yeah, I saw, you know, this pre-diabetes diagnosis and I knew the statistics. I knew the statistics were 50 to 90% of women with gestational diabetes will go on to develop type 2 diabetes. And in my late 30s, I realized my weight was spinning out of control and my A1C was starting to climb. And I felt so out of control with the food that I was eating. In my brain, the thought that kept going through my head was, who am I gonna go to? I am the doctor. I know what they're gonna say. I tell people this all the time. I am doing those things and it's not working. That was the most terrifying thing to me, and it's not working. I had been active, I had been a runner since I was 15 years old. The joke was I was like, I'm gonna have to choose between working out and keeping a job because I can't keep working out more to try to fix this. And so I started realizing like whatever we're preaching, whatever we're promoting, whatever we're peddling in the medical community is not working. This advice, this standard of care that we're giving isn't working. So I started to look around and I found a coach. And the coach really helped me fix my relationship with food, my relationship with myself and my relationship with food, so that I was the one in control. But I didn't feel like the food was controlling me, but I was the one in control. And I was still practicing medicine at that time, but I realized it became so very clear. It's like, oh, this is what we need to do to be fixing type two diabetes. Since that realization, you know, people want to believe, no, diabetes runs in my family. My parents have it, my grandparents have it, I got it from my family. And what I tell them is, no, we got our love for apple pie and pizza from our family. If we eat the way they eat, it makes sense we're gonna have the disease that they have.
SPEAKER_00Interesting.
SPEAKER_01And I realized, oh, there needs to be an entirely different approach to improving insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Sometimes we do need meds. Or sometimes, you know what? I've had plenty of patients as a physician come through and be like, lady, listen, I'm not gonna stop eating chocolate cake. Can I just have those meds? Absolutely. We are graced to live in an age where there are meds. We can absolutely help you that way. But the medical community doesn't do a good job of at least informing patients about what's causing this. So, yeah, once I realized, like I completely normalized all of my numbers and my weight came under control and everything became real straightforward once I got off of the foods that were causing those issues. I just realized it was very clear that somebody needs to be telling folks this, somebody needs to be telling the American public though, somebody needs to be telling patients this, that there is another way, if you're interested.
SPEAKER_00So, what is a typical client as far as when they come to you? Do they seem as confused? Do they have that same kind of experience in having tried a lot of different things? Are they looking for something new? Or is it a matter of, or maybe both, that okay, I really want to take care of this now. I'm done, you know, fooling around. I'm really ready to get going.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I love my ladies. Such a powerful group of women that know that maybe they've been bamboozled to believe that medications are gonna just undo the Pop Tarts that they eat. They have such a power in them, a strength inside of them to be like, I don't know what's the answer, but I know that isn't the answer. And so they do sometimes need to have different strategies. I think that the diet industry in America promotes this whole a little bit is okay. And maybe a little bit is not going to make you sick, but a little bit is never healthy. I use the analogy of a cigarette. I don't smoke cigarettes on a regular basis. One cigarette is not going to give me COPD and unlikely to give me lung cancer. But if I smoke cigarettes every day, that's gonna be an issue. My body has the health right now to tolerate one cigarette, but cigarettes every day is likely an issue. And it's the same thing with that food. One Snickers bar is not gonna be the problem. It's the thing that we do every day that's gonna kind of create that disease. And so they understand that and they really do want to have that relationship with themselves and that relationship with food to create the health that they want. They want to be healthy, they want to feel good, they want to feel energized, and they haven't gotten that from medicines and they're willing to try something different.
SPEAKER_00And obviously, they haven't had the persistence that would be obvious in not smoking cigarettes, but you know, more essential than they think. So, what signs do they exhibit that might mean type 2 diabetes could be in their future? Assuming they should see a doctor, what do you advise them to tell or ask the doctor?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, so if you look at studies, there were two studies, one in 2019 and one in 2021, I believe. They were performed same study. It was a repeat study in 2021. But basically, the first one showed that when they looked at like 50,000 charts through the NIH, they saw 87% of those charts that they evaluated had evidence of insulin resistance. And insulin resistance is, of course, the cause of type 2 diabetes. That was in the 2019 study when they repeated it with a higher number of charts reviewed in 2021. That's when it was published, they actually found that 93% of those charts, those cases, those patients that were reviewed had evidence of insulin resistance in this kind of pre-diabetic setting. So if we're gonna go to the middle of that, that's nine out of 10 Americans are insulin resistant. Wow, that is alarming. Yeah, and you know, again, it's in my family. It runs about no, no, no, no, no, no. Nine out of 10 of us are not genetically destined to be ill in middle age. We're doing something and we need to realize that maybe this food environment that we live in is an issue. So for me, whenever anybody asks, should I be worried? I'm like, well, nine out of 10 of us should be, right? And then the second thing that I always promote with my clients, the numbers are not what make you healthy or not healthy. The things that you do, the actions you take on a day-to-day basis is what is health. If you're eating junk food and you've got a normal A1C, it doesn't make it healthy. And so for me, it's like you know what you eat. If you're eating foods that you know don't match human biology, then you probably need to be on a heightened alert. Yes, the human body will tolerate and compensate for health as long as it can. And there are some things. Typically, we see abnormalities in labs, we see liver enzymes go up, we see triglycerides go up, maybe we see LDL and bad cholesterol go up before we'll see the blood sugar or the A1C go up. The other thing that we see is that rapid weight gain. And that's what I certainly experienced also in my late 30s.
SPEAKER_00Wow. So, what can mature women do? Actually, it just says about actions, and it just resonates because that's so much what we learned with coaching anyway. You have to get into action to really see and feel the results that are going to keep you going because you'll be inspired. So, again, what can the mature woman do to live a life that can help them avoid diabetes and boost their overall health, specific things like best foods or limited or no alcohol, and then get into the loaded topic of processed foods.
SPEAKER_01So for me, I keep a very simple philosophy. Our biology is not significantly different than it was 10,000 years ago. But the things we do and the way we live our life is significantly different today than it was 10,000 years ago. And frequently that difference just doesn't match our biology. So I always run my clients through this. You should always pass the food that you put into your mouth through a couple questions. The first question is, was this food available 10,000 years ago? That's the first question. And if the answer is no, then the second question is, could this make me diabetic? Could this make me sick? Is this a problem food? So if you're looking at an Oreo, it's real straightforward, right? Like, was an Oreo available? No. Is it a problem? Yeah, probably, right? Like, is that going to be a healthy food? No. But then you look at things like tea or coffee. Coffee wasn't available 10,000 years ago. But is coffee causing diabetes? Not one cup. No, not one cup a day. There's plenty of evidence that it's actually beneficial for glycemic control. Now, could it cause maybe out of control adrenaline and some other maybe that's true? But for the most part, when I work with my clients, was this food available 10,000 years ago? And if the answer is no, it wasn't, then the second question needs to be is does this cause type 2 diabetes? That's kind of, I think, a general philosophy that women can live by to kind of decide is what I'm about to do healthy.
SPEAKER_00And again, pretty consistently. We're not saying three days a week or you know, something like that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I mean, like you can only not smoke three days a week, too, and see how that works for you. But yeah, no, it's consistent. I think our food environment definitely does make it challenging because there is food constantly marketed to us. So I think though that that is a good philosophy to start with.
SPEAKER_00So when you start a life coaching relationship with someone, how do you identify or help a new client dive into that? Because it's a little daunting when you hear not only this food wasn't available 10,000 years ago, but okay, this could cause diabetes. That's a lot of change. And we know that change is doable, it's good, and it does require some discomfort, but it's also easy for people to grab onto, okay, I'm gonna be perfect in this, and we know that doesn't lead to anything good, or okay, I'm just gonna give up.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I like to start. Women know what's healthy. Inherently, they know what's worked for them. Inherently, they know how they've gotten results. You know, I don't need to ask a cigarette smoker, what's the best thing you can do for your COPD or your lung disease? They're gonna be like, Oh, I could stop smoking. I'm like, Yeah, how are we gonna do that? You know, let's talk about that. So usually I have them tell me, like, let's talk about what you're gonna eat this week, what's lunches that you like, what are dinners that you like? And we work through those. And then I just look at the science of their food and I say, okay, these things are gonna cause this biology in your body. Here are some other options. Where do you want to make some adjustments? Or do you want to just do this thing that you believe is healthy and see the results that you get? The ladies I work with are just amazing, strong. They find these ways, ingenuity. I don't know if that's the right word. And they have a desire, right? And they're smart. They do. They're smart and they're clever. And so I was very prescriptive and like what I would recommend for food. And these amazing women who are just so strong and just so clever, they have taught me that like there's a hundred ways to skin a cat. There's truly a million ways to do this. And so I let them do that. And usually the thing that they tell me, this is the healthy thing that I know has worked for me in the past, that I've liked this food. It makes me feel satisfied. We do that for a week, 10 days, 14 days, and see what results. And then we both see, okay, these are the results you got. How do you want to keep going? And again, I make recommendations based on how I understand the science and the biology. And they get to take or leave that however they want to do that. Some women want really fast results. So we're like, okay, these are the things that you can do to get really fast results. How willing are you to do it? Because if the answer is I'm not willing at all, let's not talk about that. Let's talk about what we are willing to do.
SPEAKER_00And the things that you talked about so far, we would be accepting of that. And it seems pretty straightforward, commonsensical. But what about some of the more fad things like intermittent fasting? I don't know if that's a fad or a trend. It seems like it works for a lot of people, but there's that and there's all the diets. And I know you want people to work with what works for them, but there's keto, there's things that are very much stay on this one path, eliminate everything else. What do you say to that?
SPEAKER_01You know, I think that people definitely have ideas about restriction. We have thoughts about restrictions. And as a coach, you know, we know that they're not required. Like they're optional. All of our thoughts are optional. We get to decide whether they serve us and whether we want to keep them. I always joke with folks, like I'm allergic to red meat. I got bit by that silly tick in one of my crazy outdoor adventures. And so I can't eat red meat. I love a burger and I really love bacon, man. I love those things. My life is not less than because I can't eat meat. Would it be nice if I could? Absolutely. It would be nice if I could have a burger, especially a bacon wrap burger. But I can't. It's just not available to me. And that's okay. Some people, you know, if I had a nickel for every time I had somebody tell me, oh my gosh, if I couldn't eat meat, I'd just die. And I'm just like, uh, you wouldn't, you wouldn't. You'd get through life because life is more than what we eat. So as far as restriction goes, if women feel like that's sincere and authentic to them, then I let them have that. But if sometimes they're feeling limited by these ideas of restriction, I do investigate that with them and see if there's any point or benefit to keeping that. As far as some of these fad diets, the fasting is definitely biologically beneficial for normalizing insulin resistance. So I definitely think that it's a tool. That's what I teach women. I give them a tool chest, I teach them how to use the tools. They get to put it together however they want. So fasting, some women love it. Some of them are like, I'm an absolutely no, thank you, not gonna do it. And that's fine too. I always think of fasting again. 10,000 years ago, we fasted. In fact, we populated the earth and became the dominant species on the planet fasting because food wasn't available like it is now. So for me, like fasting seems more like just a natural pattern of eating than what we do when we're quote unquote not fasting. As far as keto goes and paleo and the carnivore diet, again, the amazing women that I work with have taught me that there are a thousand ways to do this. You're probably not gonna get it done on Pop Tarts. So we may have to address that if that's the way you want to do it, right? But for the most part, if you're eating whole real food, we can find a way to make that work. And even for women who are really committed to their Pop Tarts and they want to have that in their life. My suspicion is if that was really a thing that we could find a way to keep that food that they love in their life and fix their type 2 diabetes.
SPEAKER_00Okay. A couple other specifics I want to ask you about is supplements. I mean, you know, you get this, okay, you need to have the probiotic, the prebiotic, then you need to add in D, and then you need to add this, and then before you know it, you've got a meal of supplements.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00You know, just an on balance, what do you say to people about the supplements?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think that if you have a known deficiency, vitamin D is a big one that we're almost all deficient in. I think that that one's probably one that you should be intentionally seeking out. I also feel that way about magnesium. Magnesium is probably something we should be intentionally seeking out. 10,000 years ago, the way our food was grown, so when our biology was set, our food was available to us from natural soil, meaning soil that is occasionally grown in. The food that we get, the grown food, even that natural food, like my red pepper, is grown on a farm, that their dirt has not had the opportunity to replenish itself with all the nutrients. So they probably are subpar to our needs. So I think that there is a benefit. There is definitely a benefit and a need for some of those supplements. And if you know that you're deficient in something, by all means, yes, take those. I feel like if you're eating a well-balanced diet, supplements should not be a daily requirement per se. You should probably take them when you feel like you need to take them. Even if, like, you think about it every other day, that's probably enough. Unless, like I said, you know that there's a deficiency. And then you treat the deficiency. Getting as many colors of natural foods in your diet is gonna ensure a wide variety of vitamins and minerals. I always tell women carbohydrates are unnecessary. We have essential fatty acids, we have essential amino acids, foods that we have to consume from our diet because our body cannot produce them. There is no essential carbohydrate. Our body can make all the carbohydrates we need. But what comes in on our carbohydrates are our vitamins and minerals, those micronutrients that we really do need. So they are important, but they are important to get that natural form of it. So I do believe that we ought to try to get as much as we can from natural food. But if you know you're deficient, definitely supplement that. And then to have just a general multivitamin supplement that's high quality, third-party verified. I think that again, you don't need to live or die by taking that, but taking it occasionally is probably smart.
SPEAKER_00You mentioned well-balanced diet. So are there things like you recommend a percentage of protein in your diet? Is that a first go-to? Or how do you feel about those macronut chants?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't recommend specific percentages to women. Definitely, studies show the best evidence is behind one gram per pound of protein. So we should be shooting for that, but that's a lot. Full disclosure. I very rarely meet one gram per pound of body weight of protein in my diet. It's a job in and of itself to do that. The more protein you eat and the more fat you eat, the more satisfied you feel. It stays in your gut longer and they just create the feeling of satisfaction. Carbohydrates, like certainly broccoli and whole vegetables, definitely also they stay in your gut longer. When you think about it, it's I guess it's common sense and it's also backed up by science that processed foods are meant to transit through your gut quicker so that you get hungry for it again quicker. So those processed foods, there's another doctor, her name is uh Shabani Sati Dali. I think she's at Stanford. She's board certed in both psychiatry and obesity medicine. She does a lot of really amazing work, but she calls it like illicit drugs or like recreational drugs, she calls it recreational food. That's a phrase that she's coined, which I think is brilliant. Oreos are recreational food. There's absolutely no requirement for it. So the recreational foods, yeah, those are meant to transit through your gut pretty quickly. I always do tell my clients, because we really should be getting a significant amount of protein in our diets, to really focus on that early on in your meals because you want to take up your gut real estate with that important part. And then bats and carbohydrates in the form of whole foods after that.
SPEAKER_00Okay. So one more specific. Food I want to ask about because a lot of people ask me about this. Dairy. Any feelings one way or the other about dairy and whether it should be full fat, low fat, non-fat, all the fats.
SPEAKER_01If you're gonna do dairy, I you know, any kind of fat reduction technique is just a form of processing foods. I don't think that necessarily that's beneficial or serving us in any way. Certainly getting into the saturated fat, unsaturated fat. That's a very nuanced field of information. So I always feel like we should just make sure that the foods that we're eating are raised on the diet they're meant to be raised on. So cows are not meant to be fed soybean and corn. They are grass eaters by nature. When we feed them, you know, grains instead of grass, it changes the fat that they put down in their body. And then that fat then makes us sick. So then the saturated, okay, fine. But as far as dairy goes, you know, if you tolerate dairy fine, I'm always like, is it what's causing diabetes? Probably not. So for me, it's like if you tolerate it okay, that's fine. I will say it's interesting. Carbohydrates bind a receptor in our brain. It's the mu receptor. It's a feel-good receptor, it releases dopamine, dopamine makes us feel good. Dopamine also heavily influences us to repeat that food behavior, whatever behavior led to it. So mu is also the receptor that drugs like heroin and lore tab and the narcotics, they also bind this receptor. I always joke, nobody's stealing from grandma to get MMs, but it is using the same pathway, right? So when we eat cheese, cheese makes a casomorphin protein. That's what it's called, and it binds that same receptor. So we eat this cheese and we love it and we want it. Like we don't want to stop eating it, even though it maybe makes our stomachs so upset or whatever, we keep eating it. I do okay with cheeses. Sometimes yogurt doesn't set well with me. And having this beef allergy, sometimes those proteins really set me off. I do okay, but certainly I think that if you do okay with it, it's probably not an issue. If you've got horrible high, you know, your LDLs are 300 or something, you probably need to consider that. So yeah, I don't think it's inherently bad, dairy.
SPEAKER_00You made me laugh because I always think about, you know, I've worked with Corinne Crabtree in business and in weight loss. And she always used to make me laugh because people do get so attached to tell me what to do, tell me what to do, and give me all the things. And she would, honest to God, she still gets all these questions about people saying, Well, what kind of salad dressing should I? And she said, You didn't get fat by eating salad. I just love it when she says that. Because it's like, let's not worry about the salad, maybe the Oreos.
SPEAKER_01Right. Or women will be like, Can I have berries? Can I have apples? Can I like, listen, nobody got diabetic because of the banana problem? Stop it. That's not the issue, right?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You know, it is all common sense, but at the same time, when you enter something like this, it's so easy to be confused. And that's why I'm so glad that you're coaching because just don't have time in your doctor's office to get the same kind of information. Everything we've talked about now would be maybe three doctor's appointments. You know, you've got to get in and out and address, yeah, the important health issues. But that's what's so nice about having a coach. You get someone who's going to be compassionate to this goofy way I've been thinking and talking to you about today. Yeah, absolutely. So I know that you have a program, I think you called it 14 Days to Better Blood Sugars. How does that work in your coaching program?
SPEAKER_01Basically, it's a starter. And actually, I just got an email from a woman this morning. She's like, oh my gosh, I'm 10 days in. It's the first time I've seen blood sugars under a hundred in years. She's like so over the moon for it. So yeah, basically, it's three meals a day that are laid out, 14 days worth three meals a day telling you what to eat, how many carbs are in it? Straightforward. There are some vegetarian options. There's, of course, all sorts of meat options, a variety of different things. Why I love that 14-day program is because it proves to women who truly believe that no matter what they eat, that their blood sugars don't change.
SPEAKER_00Isn't that interesting? Yeah, they're at the point where they're like, I've tried everything.
SPEAKER_01Everything. And I'm like, just do this and just do it for 14 days. Just do it for 14 days. If it doesn't change anything, you call me, we'll talk. But what they find out is like, oh my gosh, this is amazing. I can see better blood sugars. And so, yeah, it's 14 days. It's basically a jump starter. I think most people, most women understand that there's an element of stick to it-ness that goes with any kind of health change, whether you're starting exercise, whether you're starting a meditation practice, whatever it is, we all know that there are going to be ebbs and flows with motivation. And I think that when women aren't seeing the results that they want, it's very easy to lose that motivation. And so I think this 14 days is really powerful because it shows them that it's possible. And then if they lose the motivation, they realize what they have to fix is the motivation. It's not the food. Like I know what to eat now. How do I fix this motivation component?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, very interesting. So before we close out, I wanted to ask you if there's anything that we've missed today that you think would be helpful for the listeners to know about getting going in something like this.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I think the one thing that you said about meeting with the doctors, and the doctors don't have time. They don't have time. That is absolutely true. In addition, it's just not the way the medical system is set up in America. I say frequently, and I really do not mean it to pick a fight with my colleagues. I have yet to meet the doctor that is truly malicious in nature. I believe they exist out there. I just don't know them in 20, 30 years of working in medicine. I have yet to meet that person. But the system is set up. I mean, the standard of care in medicine, why doctors don't do this, is because the standard of care in medicine is to match a medication with your lab values or your condition. That's just the standard of care. So I think it is a tragedy that we call it the healthcare system because it's a system that won't really ever produce health. They will maybe mitigate some of your symptoms. And again, we live in a world where that's an option for us. And that's awesome. But I think that the name, the healthcare industry, kind of is misleading to people. Again, if we're eating Pop Tarts, I don't care how many meds we throw on that, it doesn't make it healthy. If we're smoking cigarettes, I don't care how many inhalers we throw on that. We're not fixing the cause of that disease. So I do think that it's important for women to know. And that's the women who come to me. They're like, no, I want to be assured in my health. I don't want to be surprised one day when I have a stroke or a heart attack because I wasn't doing, you know, I believed that bamboozling story that it was okay. And now I've found out the hard way that it's not.
SPEAKER_00Well, and that said, I do want to say to my listeners here that I am certainly not a doctor. And that's why I came to Dr. Vaughn because she is a doctor and a coach. And I would never want to discourage anyone from seeing their practitioner. I mean, I do have a couple of doctors I absolutely love. We talk about an awful lot of things, and we don't always have time to address weight less the way I would like. But yeah, please do see your practitioner and get a green light.
SPEAKER_01Yes. Yes, yes, yes.
SPEAKER_00Just have a conversation with Dr. Vaughn so that she can advise you the best way to get going. So I always ask my podcasts a few things. One is because I am a reader and I just love to hear what people are interested in reading, whether it has to do with your practice, your coaching, your science, or whether you just have a fiction book that you recommend right now that you think is great, or a couple.
SPEAKER_01Oh girl, I got so many books. I will say the one thing that the more I learn, the more I know I don't know everything. But also the more learning that I do about kind of our food environment, the more I realize that really the processed foods are really where the problem lies. And so there's a couple of books. One is called Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss M, as in Michael O S S, as in Sam. The byline is How the Food Giants Hooked Us. It's a brilliant book. He's a very blever author. I really liked that book. And then there's a similar one. That one's kind of old. There's a similar one called Ultra Processed People by Chris Van Tuliken. He's a doctor in England. Okay, I'm gonna ask you his name again. Yeah, it's Van, it's V-A-N, and then T-U-L-L-E-K-E-N. Chris Van Tulliken. That's a fun name, isn't it? What I loved, and this is one thing that I really I hope. If you're still listening, ladies, pay attention. Stop shopping for shoes, come back to me. One of the things that he says in that book, and he kind of uses it as that gate to pass your food through, is this food made by a human being who thinks about you specifically and your needs and your health and what's good for you? Or was this food made by somebody who just wants to make a buck off of you? And if you can let your food pass through that gate, you're gonna improve your health 80, 90% of the way, just by that one question.
SPEAKER_00And even in 14 days' time, you're gonna be able to see a difference. That's so interesting, isn't it?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. So I always say, you know, I make my kids chocolate chip cookies with, you know, whatever eight ingredients that go into the chocolate chip cookies that I make versus the 30 that go into Chips Ahoy or whatever at the grocery store. And I am like absolutely. I think about them with every, you know, chocolate chip cookie that I roll between my hands. Everything goes around like love and thinking about what am I making for them? And I think that it's not so important. Is it a chocolate chip cookie or is it an apple? It's like, who made this for me? And were they thinking about me or were they thinking about making a buck off of me? So he promotes that. And ultra-processed people, I think it's a great book. Right. Yeah, that's a good one. And then you and I spoke earlier about uh lessons in chemistry, and I just read that a few weeks ago and I've just started watching the show now that you mentioned it. But that was a really great, great, great book. I loved it.
SPEAKER_00And it's so much about women empowerment too, which this podcast is all about. So also I wanted to ask you do you have a morning routine or a habit or anything that you do on the regular that helps ground you? Because people like to hear that, especially when they're looking to make a change in their life and you know, looking to be supported by some kind of habit.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I love mornings. Anybody who hasn't read the 5 a.m. Club, it's a little aggressive and it's a little squirrely, but man, some of it in there was just so powerful. I definitely read that book and started a morning ritual. I do journal most mornings and I love the journaling practice. It's twofold. It's working on my thoughts or things that are bothering me, going through thought modeling and that kind of self-coaching stuff. But I also five things. One, I look at the food I'm gonna eat, I look the way I'm gonna move my body, I have a gratitude practice, I review my goals. And the last thing that I do is I define and label and acknowledge something that I am doing for me every day.
SPEAKER_00Oh, that's great. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I think that when we stop eating foods that are quote unquote treats, when we stop eating foods that give us that dopamine buzz, we suddenly don't have anything that's about us. Right. And so I like pointing that out. Sometimes it's just sitting at the coffee shop for a cup of coffee in the morning. Sometimes it's a cup of coffee with my daughter before school. Sometimes it's getting into bed early. Whatever it is, what is it that I'm defining today that's something I'm doing for me? And it's all about me, that one thing. I think that's really important for women.
SPEAKER_00And it just occurs to me that your whole morning routine is like a metaphor for the well-balanced diet. Yeah. Okay. Well, thank you so much. I know people are going to get a lot out of this. I took notes while we were talking. Hope nobody heard that pen scratching too much. And we will be glad in the future if you come back sometime. We can talk about this again. So great.
SPEAKER_01Absolutely, Lori. I would love to. And if your listeners have anything specific as far as health goes, I am a general practitioner. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_00I don't know if I asked you your contact information. I know I've got links to get them to your website, to get them to Calyn Lee in case they want to schedule a call with you. Your Instagram handle is at Delane MD. That's correct. Your Facebook name is Delane MD. And I know you told me earlier you were on YouTube. You still doing that?
SPEAKER_01I am. And it's Delane MD. Yeah, the YouTube channel. My mom gave me a squirrelly name. And so, like it fits for everything.
SPEAKER_00There's just one. No, it's a good name. It's a good name. I named my daughter something unusual, and she just hated it until she started loving it. And then she would go places and she'd say, Someone else in that class had my name, you know.
SPEAKER_01I feel like I found like some serendipitous fallen star when I find somebody with it. Absolutely. We're the same. No, I appreciate being here, Lori. And if there's ever anything that I can do information-wise, I'm always happy to research something new and to learn about it and help people out. I really truly believe as human beings, we can live naturally healthy lives if we can just get out of our own way. And I'm really passionate about spreading that, however, it needs to be done.
SPEAKER_00Okay, listeners, you heard that. This is a doctor you can reach. Woop whoop, that's okay. All right. Thanks everybody, and I will see you next time. PS, your new free fireup three steps for do it yourself weight loss coaching like a boss is now available as a one page only checklist. To get it, just email me at hello at laurieadamscoaching.com. And you can use the same email address to suggest topics, ask questions, or book an easy phone conversation about the possibility of working with me as your life coach. That's hello at laurieadamscoaching.com. And to keep the transformational information coming each week, please follow, fire up at 55 Plus, wherever you download your podcasts, and if on Apple, share a review and a star-worthy rating. It's much appreciated. Hey, thanks for listening. To contact me directly, please reach out via email to hello at laurieadamscoaching.com. And I invite you to take a look at my flaming hot webpage, fireup at fiftyfiveplus.com. That's fireup at the word at 55plus.com. And until next week, make the most of your sizzling second act.
