Episode 172: The Keys to Restoring Your Health with Dr. Funmmy Awoyomi

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Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Funmmy Awoyomi is a PGY3 Internal Medicine Resident at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center in New Jersey specializing in the field of integrative medicine. Her work involves metabolic support for heart failure, LVAD, ECMO, heart transplant, lung transplant, wound care, and bariatric surgery. She is interested in metabolic strategies for restoring health and reversing obesity, metabolic mapping, chronic disease management, and pathways toward eliminating food deserts and health disparities.

In this discussion, Drs. Tony and Funmmy talk about:

(02:56) Favorite travel destinations
(04:38) Gastronomy
(06:16) LVAD and ECMO
(09:17) The Metabolic Health education landscape
(12:47) How Dr. Funmmy discovered the keto diet and became interested in metabolic health
(17:01) Nigerian culture, food, and beauty standards
(20:58) Things that Dr. Funmmy wishes she could see changed with regard to her patients and her practice
(23:47) The growing appreciation for and acceptance of the keto diet among doctors
(27:14) Intermittent fasting
(30:10) Grains and enriched foods
(33:16) Sleep hygiene
(38:53) Dealing with stress
(43:18) Health equity and inclusion
(48:15) Spreading the metabolic health message

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