Losing 20lbs with fasting (the ugly truth)
Metabolic Health Recovery: Analyzing Personal DEXA Metrics and Baseline Factors
Learn how personal lifestyle baselines, not just diet adherence, dictate long-term metabolic success, even when short-term weight loss occurs through unhealthy means. Discover the critical body fat distribution metrics (AG Ratio) signaling underlying instability.
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- Review a doctor's personal struggle with weight regain despite rigorous fasting and keto adherence.
- Analyze DEXA scan data, focusing on the Android/Gynoid (AG) fat ratio as a key indicator of fat storage location.
- Identify seven critical lifestyle "baselines" (e.g., mental health, sleep, exercise) that determine resilience when life creates unavoidable stress.
- Understand why true course correction requires addressing these foundational factors rather than just fluctuating input metrics.
Dr. Boz shares intensely personal DEXA scan results tracking body composition changes over three years. She contrasts temporary weight loss achieved under severe mental duress with sustainable metabolic improvement driven by strengthening foundational life habits. This discussion teaches viewers how to monitor personal baselines to ensure true, lasting health recovery when facing unavoidable life stress.
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Top Comments (10)
Refreshing to see your vulnerability and that you’re actually a real human that isn’t perfect. That’s a compliment:)
Congrats on the breakthrough in self awareness and commitment to make the changes needed. I'm the only caregiver for a wife with severe Alzheimer's disease and feeling the health effects. High Cholesterol, blood glucose, and weight. I have to outlive my wife to take care of her and that is looking like more of a challenge every day. Trying to make changes. Diet, fasting, and limited opportunities for exercise and good relationships....but so many factors beyond my control
I for one appreciate your transparency, and the fact that you bring up the subject of your faith, WITHOUT preaching in any way that someone needs to believe as you do, is just a part of that transparency. If someone chooses to reject all the valuable truth you are sharing just because they don’t want to hear your acknowledgment of your faith, I find that unfathomable. I certainly do not share the same beliefs as many of those I follow in this health and wellness space…but I still appreciate what I can glean from their knowledge and experience, nonetheless. God bless you! ❤
I love your thorough videos. I’m in the 10-20% of 60 yr olds who didn’t lose weight on carnivore after 2 years. Without your intensive teaching style I couldn’t have ever started healing. Add a brain injury from a car crash and Covid 4 months later and no matter how much I worked at it, my brain could only process so much. Your teaching style rescued me. I can’t thank you enough. I’m finally on a healing journey. It’s long, it’s arduous, I have to soak in your pod casts but after decades of struggle you have given me, by the Grace of God, what I am needing. Please keep it up. Please keep teaching long form. Fast brained people can speed it up… I need the journey, the story, the examples and the practical resolutions. No one could help me. Drs didn’t want me as I’ve had no insurance. You’ve changed my life. God Bless you and your work.
Thank you for sharing your personal story so generously. Your sincerity and accountability makes you such a trustworthy source on youTube. Your patients are very lucky!
Dr Annette Boz 👍💯🇿🇦 watching from Johannesburg South Africa
Oh my goodness you don't look a day over 30. I appreciate you.
Thank you for your humble transparency, Dr. Boz. We met at the Keto Summit in Orlando.
Really appreciate you sharing your personal struggles. Very refreshing and inspiring!
I wish we had a dr Boz here in Brazil …we have sooo much to learn!
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Top Comments (10)
Refreshing to see your vulnerability and that you’re actually a real human that isn’t perfect. That’s a compliment:)
Congrats on the breakthrough in self awareness and commitment to make the changes needed. I'm the only caregiver for a wife with severe Alzheimer's disease and feeling the health effects. High Cholesterol, blood glucose, and weight. I have to outlive my wife to take care of her and that is looking like more of a challenge every day. Trying to make changes. Diet, fasting, and limited opportunities for exercise and good relationships....but so many factors beyond my control
I for one appreciate your transparency, and the fact that you bring up the subject of your faith, WITHOUT preaching in any way that someone needs to believe as you do, is just a part of that transparency. If someone chooses to reject all the valuable truth you are sharing just because they don’t want to hear your acknowledgment of your faith, I find that unfathomable. I certainly do not share the same beliefs as many of those I follow in this health and wellness space…but I still appreciate what I can glean from their knowledge and experience, nonetheless. God bless you! ❤
I love your thorough videos. I’m in the 10-20% of 60 yr olds who didn’t lose weight on carnivore after 2 years. Without your intensive teaching style I couldn’t have ever started healing. Add a brain injury from a car crash and Covid 4 months later and no matter how much I worked at it, my brain could only process so much. Your teaching style rescued me. I can’t thank you enough. I’m finally on a healing journey. It’s long, it’s arduous, I have to soak in your pod casts but after decades of struggle you have given me, by the Grace of God, what I am needing. Please keep it up. Please keep teaching long form. Fast brained people can speed it up… I need the journey, the story, the examples and the practical resolutions. No one could help me. Drs didn’t want me as I’ve had no insurance. You’ve changed my life. God Bless you and your work.
Thank you for sharing your personal story so generously. Your sincerity and accountability makes you such a trustworthy source on youTube. Your patients are very lucky!
Dr Annette Boz 👍💯🇿🇦 watching from Johannesburg South Africa
Oh my goodness you don't look a day over 30. I appreciate you.
Thank you for your humble transparency, Dr. Boz. We met at the Keto Summit in Orlando.
Really appreciate you sharing your personal struggles. Very refreshing and inspiring!
I wish we had a dr Boz here in Brazil …we have sooo much to learn!