Recently, I interviewed Dr. Bindiya Gandhi, and we discuss leptin’s role in metabolism, what leptin resistance means, factors contributing to leptin resistance, how to test for leptin resistance, the connection between thyroid conditions and leptin resistance, dietary recommendations, the use of supplements, and more. If you would prefer to listen to the interview you can access it by Clicking Here.
Dr. Eric Osansky:
I am super excited to chat with Dr. Bindiya Gandhi, as we are going to talk about leptin. You will learn a lot about leptin. Let’s dive into Dr. Bindiya’s impressive bio here:
Dr. Bindiya Gandhi is a double board-certified integrative and functional medicine doctor who helps thousands transform their overall health. She is the medical director at Atlanta Functional and Integrative Medicine and Revive Atlanta MD, a comprehensive clinic focused on total body healing, including decreasing inflammation, improving hormonal balance, helping women get pregnant, weight loss resistance, chronic stress, gut health, and more.
After dealing with her own medical crisis and eventually improving her overall health to rebalance her hormones and conceive naturally, she has been focused on finding the cause of issues instead of treating the symptoms. She holds a special passion for female hormonal cases.
Dr. Bindiya has worked with A-listers, including professional singers and athletes, to reclaim their health. Her newest podcast Reset, Renew, Revive has gained tons of traction since its launch in April 2021. Bindiya regularly engages with her community of approximately 65,000 followers via Instagram, where she produces compelling content and educational material to continue to inspire people to live healthier lifestyles. Thank you so much for joining us, Dr. Bindya.
Dr. Bindiya Gandhi:
Thank you so much for having me on. I am so excited to talk about leptin.
Dr. Eric:
Really excited as well. Before we do that, of course, as is common with many podcasts, I’d like to talk a little bit more about your background. We got a brief history, but what led you to become a leptin specialist and focus on female hormone issues?
Dr. Bindiya:
I always share this story of my own personal journey. I thought I was the epitome of good health. In residency, I thought I ate well, exercised well, meditating, doing yoga all the time. I thought I was doing everything right.
It was my own health crisis. At the time, it was a skin rash on my face that really triggered something was going on internally. I had spent time, hours, money at all the dermatologists’ offices and was told that everything was normal. I had biopsies. I was on antifungals, steroids, antivirals, antibiotics. I took everything because I was desperate to get this rash off my face. Nothing worked.
I kept asking questions and digging deeper. Thinking it could be an autoimmune condition, I asked to get tested. After begging, I was allowed to see an allergist/immunologist who just told me I was a stressed-out resident. That was the turning point. There is something going on with me. You can’t figure it out. I will figure it out on my own.
Fortunately, I was working with an integrative and functional medicine doctor at the time. Long story short, I learned I had Celiac and a lot of food sensitivities. The minute I cut out gluten, the rash went away and never came back. That was just the beginning of the journey.
Once I realized it, I thought, I’m healthy now! I’m good! That was just the first part of the problem. Of course, I got married. Life was stressful. I was working as a full-time newly minted family medicine doctor at a really busy practice. I was working all hours. At that time, I was doing my integrative medicine fellowship and my Institute for Functional Medicine training. No kids at the time, but I was trying to get pregnant. And it wasn’t easy. I didn’t understand why.
I knew the data. If you have Celiac and eliminate gluten, you should be able to get pregnant. I was eating clean, or I thought I was. But my hormones were all off. I was maybe too healthy at the time. There is such a thing. It took me a while to play with things and realized exactly what it was that was going on and what I needed to do. Then I got pregnant and now have three kids, so it’s not an issue. Now, I’m trying not to get pregnant…
As far as leptin goes, because I was at a new practice, not so new anymore. In 2017, I was 7.5-8 months pregnant with my first child. I was seeing a lot of patients. People were coming to me for help getting pregnant. I saw a lot of menopausal women struggling to lose weight.
Leptin fell in my lap. I was doing research, trying to figure out how I could help these women with all these hormonal imbalances not only get pregnant, but lose weight. I started seeing patterns. That’s when I started diving deep and learning everything I could about leptin, so I could help these women. Here we are today, talking about leptin.
Dr. Eric:
Thank you so much for sharing that story. For those who are listening who are unfamiliar with leptin, can you briefly describe what it is?
Dr. Bindiya:
It’s such an important hormone. Unfortunately, it’s not talked about. Leptin is a hormone produced by our fat cells that communicates with our brain. It lets us know we are hungry, if we need to eat more or less. It’s also known as our satiety hormone. Leptin is a big buzz right now because everyone is obsessed with GLP-1 medicine. I’m sure we’ll talk about that later.
Leptin is important because leptin does impact your metabolism. This is why I think we need to learn more about it.Oonce we are able to learn more about it, we’re able to identify how we can help our patients improve their leptin resistance, if that’s what they have.
Dr. Eric:
A lot of people are familiar with insulin resistance. There is also leptin resistance. There is some overlap. Essentially, with insulin resistance, you have too much insulin, not getting in the cell. Similar with leptin when you have leptin resistance?
Dr. Bindiya:
Correct. In a perfect world, we like our leptin levels to be between 7-10. Over time, because of the standard American diet, life, stressors, medication, our environment, so many different things, our microbiome is changing, different sicknesses, ailments, autoimmune conditions, our metabolism changes, and we can become leptin resistant.
I am going to use women moreso than men. I see women who have been on these restrictive diets, like keto or intermittent fasting, etc. It slows down their metabolism. The metabolism has something called a set point. The metabolism likes to be at a certain weight. Because of all of these different things that are happening simultaneously or over time, we tend to notice that our leptin hormone is now slowing down and starts accumulating. It doesn’t want to work as well.
What does this mean? For a lot of patients who are eating well and exercising but are still having trouble losing weight, they are doing things perfectly. They are following a calorie in, calorie out diet, but it’s not working. They are exercising, at the gym. They are still struggling. They probably have a leptin resistance issue. That’s what this means.
Dr. Eric:
What are some of the causes? Is it just diet-related then? Is it stress?
Dr. Bindiya:
There’s a lot of different things. There is definitely correlation between insulin resistance and leptin resistance. Other hormones interplay with leptin. Ghrelin, which is the opposite of leptin. Leptin is the satiety hormone. Ghrelin is your hunger hormone. They work synergistically together. If you’re hungry, you’re going to eat.
What happens with leptin is you are not getting the signaling that you’re full. An hour later, you’re going to want to eat again. Two hours later, I’m hungry. I’m not full. I need to eat more, even though you just ate. The receptors of ghrelin and leptin work together.
The other things that happens with leptin resistance is we tend to see a thyroid issue underlying that could be contributing to it. A lot of inflammation. Maybe there are some infections or other essential pathogens that could be causing changes in your microbiome or gut health. There are a lot of different things happening at the same time that could be contributing to your leptin resistance.
Sometimes, it’s all the things that cause leptin resistance. Sometimes, it’s because of the leptin being off, so other things could be triggered. They work together.
Dr. Eric:
You mentioned thyroid. Most of the listeners, if not all, are people with thyroid conditions, autoimmune thyroid conditions, like Hashimoto’s and Graves’. If someone has a thyroid imbalance, that could be a factor with leptin resistance. If so, then you would want to address that.
Dr. Bindiya:
For sure. Actually, sometimes it’s not the overt what we call hypothyroid condition. Sometimes, it’s a subclinical thyroid condition, which I often see. What happens, I’ll use this example, due to chronic stress, which is probably most of us unfortunately.
By the way, if you’re listening to this and have chronic stress, I want to talk to you. I want to know what you’re doing. I haven’t met anyone who is not dealing with some sort of chronic stress. With chronic stress over time, one thing that happens is it starts slowing down your thyroid hormone. Maybe not your TSH, but it does slow down your T3 and free T3 receptors, which makes it harder to convert T4 to T3. It slowly manifests as slower metabolism, dry skin, constipation, fatigue.
One thing that patients complain about when they go to their GP who just checks their TSH. Their GP says their TSH is fine. Keep going, you have a good life. You and I do more digging and research and realize we need to check more than just TSH. When we look at the whole picture, you can see, “You have a subclinical thyroid issue that we need to treat.” That does impact your metabolism. That does impact not just stress, but chronic T3/free T3 being low really does impact how your leptin is talking to your hormones.
Dr. Eric:
You’re right. A lot of people do have that conversion problem of T4 to T3. There is a time and place for taking T3, but you ultimately want to correct that conversion problem.
You mentioned the gut microbiome. So many people have gut microbiome issues, not just people with thyroid autoimmunity although there are certainly people with Graves’/Hashimoto’s. Most if not all have disrupted gut microbiomes. You said that can also play a role in leptin resistance.
Dr. Bindiya:
Again, many of us have had what we call gut dysbiosis. Or an imbalance of bad bacteria. What happens over time is we develop a little bit of inflammation in our lining of our stomach. Foods that we eat are supposed to bounce off of the lining of the stomach, but now they are getting absorbed due to inflammation due to an imbalance of microbiome or an infection or something else.
When this happens, we develop something called food sensitivity. The foods we enjoy eating, like blueberries. Now we are sensitive to it. We are having some bloating, some gas, some malabsorption. Those are one of the big things I tend to see with leptin resistance over time: having a change in gut microbiome.
If you have taken antibiotics for a sinus infection, it changes your gut microbiome. I hate saying this again, but if you have been under a lot of chronic stress- I just saw a patient prior to coming here who is under a lot of chronic stress. It changes the gut microbiome. Gut microbiome is so important for overall health.
Specifically for leptin resistance, because that change is really where for example, ghrelin is housed in the stomach. This is your hunger hormone. Leptin is usually housed in your hypothalamus, which is part of your brain. Ghrelin is housed in your stomach. When your microbiome is off, the communication of everything else is going to be off, too.
Dr. Eric:
Let’s talk about testing and how people could determine if they have a problem such as leptin resistance. I’m guessing you test leptin. There are other markers, I’m sure; it’s not just leptin. We spoke about thyroid. Maybe you look at some other blood sugar markers like insulin. You don’t have to cover everything you test for, but maybe some of the more important markers that might be related as well.
Dr. Bindiya:
If you’re listening to this, “Oh my god, that sounds like me,” the first thing I want you to do is go to my website and take the free quiz, DrBindiya.com/quiz. It’s an 11-question quiz. It asks you a series of questions, like, “Do you have trouble losing weight? Are you doing everything you need to do to lose weight? Do you have high cholesterol? Do you have high blood pressure? Do you have high blood sugar? Do you have a lot of sugar cravings?” These questions will give you a guide if you are leptin-resistant.
If you take that little quiz and are definitely coming up with leptin resistance, then what I’d like you to do is maybe ask your doctor, I don’t know if your doctor is going to do this. I’ve had patients ask endocrinologists, and even they won’t check this hormone because it’s newer. We’re still learning about it. I do test it on all my patients to see what your metabolism is doing and what is going on there, especially if weight is an issue.
This is not always going to be the case, but in a perfect world, leptin is measured based on your height and weight, or something called your body mass index (BMI). Our BMI is different based on muscle mass and how much fat we have. I’m not usually a big fan of BMIs personally. I like to do body composition in our office, and we get a more personalized approach as to what is going on with your metabolism and composition.
But leptin should be between 7-10. People who have a higher BMI tend to have higher leptin levels. When your leptin levels are higher, it usually indicates that it’s harder to lose weight. Your body is slowed down. Your body is in reserve and wants to hold onto that weight. It wants to protect you. It’s like a protective mechanism.
This happened many years ago when we were hunter-gatherers. What that meant was we weren’t sure when we were going to eat again. Our body would store food for us as a protective mechanism. That is essentially what happens with leptin resistance. It’s storing the food, so you get frustrated. “I’m eating well, and I cut my calories. I’m doing all the things that all the books and experts are telling me to do,” but it’s not working. I will check leptin hormone and get an idea.
Leptin hormone can rapidly come down with lifestyle changes, with supplements and prescriptions. Every individualized approach is different because we have to look at the whole picture.
In my case, I’m looking at making sure there is no underlying autoimmune conditions leading to inflammation. I’m looking at the thyroid picture, making sure there is no Hashimoto’s or subclinical active thyroid going on. I am looking at toxins to make sure the liver is optimally working like it should. Making sure there is no underlying infections. It is a very comprehensive approach.
Yes, the leptin number itself will give me an indicator of what’s going on.
Dr. Eric:
Like with insulin resistance, it’s not always easy. It’s just cleaning up your diet and exercising. You certainly want to do that, but many times, there is an underlying inflammatory component. It sounds like it’s similar with leptin resistance.
Dr. Bindiya:
I hate saying this. Most of the time, it’s probably something lifestyle-related. It’s probably something that if we just gave it a little TLC, it would improve. For example, stress. We learn how to manage stress a little bit better. Or just focus on getting good quality sleep. If that means going to bed earlier, or maybe that means we are not going to do work an hour before bed. Everybody’s different.
I promise, I’ve been doing this for many years now. It’s usually something lifestyle that we’re doing or don’t realize we’re doing or things we could improve on that will fix them. We don’t always need a prescription or supplement.
Dr. Eric:
If I heard you correctly, I think you said optimal levels are 7-10. It also is dependent on your BMI. If you do a leptin test, they will be all these values. If someone has a leptin of 25, but they’re within that BMI that is on the lab, they’re considered to be normal. Their BMI might be higher than it should be. Can you expand on that a little bit, so people don’t get alarmed? Or maybe they should be alarmed if they see a leptin of 15 or 20.
Dr. Bindiya:
When I first started testing leptin when I first got into this world 10 years ago, I was reliant on the BMI as a tool for leptin. These women are all within normal ranges; their leptin levels are fine. Then I am looking at them, “It looks a little overweight.”
By the way, I am using the Lab Quick Chart, so I am talking about LabCorps specifically. I am using the LabCorps reference, and I didn’t have that. That’s when I started doing a lot of research on leptin. Something wasn’t adding up.
According to the labs, which I always mention this because I think it’s really important that we talk about this. When they came up with lab results or averages of lab results, they take healthy individuals and unhealthy individuals and put them in a pot and take the average. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be compared to someone who is unhealthy, overweight, older, etc. I want to be compared to the cream of the crop, healthiest people of my age, stature, etc.
That’s not what’s happening when it comes to LabCorps data. This is why I was doing some more research. It’s BS; it doesn’t make sense. It’s not appropriate. You can’t compare someone who has a BMI of 20 because you could put 10 women who have a BMI of 20, and they’re all physically different. It does not make sense.
That’s when I started doing my own work. The integral range is 7-10. That is more of an accurate range than 20 or 25 or something that may look normal. When you realize that, especially with the work I do, you see the number go down. You see they are able to lose weight on their own by doing the things they should be doing.
Dr. Eric:
With insulin resistance, what do you use to determine that? Is it hemoglobin A1C? Do you look at fasting insulin as well?
Dr. Bindiya:
Lots of different things. Leptin, fasting insulin, hemoglobin A1C, fasting blood glucose. Sometimes, I’ll have people use continuous glucose monitors. Not a big fan. Sometimes, it works, and sometimes, it doesn’t. We can get false readings on those.
The other one I do is insulin resistant panel score. That is one of the tests we do get. It gives us an idea of if someone is insulin resistant or not. We do use tests like that.
It’s looking at the whole picture. Sometimes, I will look at hemoglobin A1C, and it’s 5.5. But when I do the insulin resistance- It’s the HOMIR score, and it will be like 69. They are definitely insulin resistant because that number should be below 40. There are different markers I look at. I will get a fasting glucose of 83, but their A1C is 5.7. You have to look at the whole picture sometimes.
Dr. Eric:
Sometimes, I look at hemoglobin A1C, and it might be 5.5-5.6. Within the range. On the higher side. Then sometimes, insulin will be on the higher side. I don’t know what you consider optimal for insulin.
Dr. Bindiya:
I could talk about this all day, mainly because there is also- I hate this. There is a reference integral. I talk to lab companies about all this. It can technically be .2, up or down, either direction. Sometimes, A1C is 5.5. It could technically be 5.7 or 5.3. Which one is it? It could be really frustrating.
The way you and I look at ranges is looking at the whole picture and assessing all these other markers as well. If you look at “Oh, this person is insulin resistant,” but if you dig a little deeper, maybe a little underlying smidgeon starting. Let’s nip this in the bud with some lifestyle changes.
Dr. Eric:
One question I almost forgot to ask you with leptin is if leptin can be too low. Are there concerns there?
Dr. Bindiya:
Yes. I’m so glad we’re talking about this. We don’t want leptin to be high, but we don’t want leptin to be too low. If leptin actually falls below 3, it’s slightly problematic, especially in women who notice they are trying to conceive.
Leptin is also correlated with estrogen. A lot of times, in my post-menopausal females who end up having osteoporosis, sometimes it’s because their leptin levels are too low. There are a lot of different things we tend to see when leptin levels are too low, so I’ll highlight that. When leptin levels are low, it can impact pregnancy, and you are more likely to be osteoporotic.
Dr. Eric:
When it comes to addressing leptin resistance, some of it you already spoke about. If someone is chronically stressed, which describes most of us, you want to do things to block out time for stress management, and of course, getting sufficient sleep. When it comes to diet, there is no perfect diet that fits everyone, like intermittent fasting. What is your approach from a dietary perspective?
Dr. Bindiya:
Diet is always so confusing. It’s eat this, don’t eat this. If you eat too much of this, it will cause this. It’s all over the place.
I can give you generalized guidelines. What I will highly recommend is to actually eat three times a day. As much as I love intermittent fasting, I think there is a time and place for it. I think it’s great for insulin resistance. It does sometimes improve leptin resistance.
However, sometimes, extreme intermittent fasting can trigger leptin resistance. The body doesn’t want to starve, and it doesn’t know when you’re going to feed it again, so it will hold onto fat. It will store every time you eat because it’s unsure when you’re going to get fed. Sometimes, it’s a protective measure. Intermittent fasting is plus or minus.
However, one of the things I highly recommend is forcing people, not forcing, but encouraging people to eat. Eating is good. We should eat three meals a day. Physiologically, this is what we should be doing. The meals should be about 4-6 hours apart. We should be eating three meals a day.
And we should make sure that the meal is protein-rich, so eating a lot of protein, 20-30g of protein a meal. After that, you’re probably not really absorbing it. Maybe you are if it’s true animal-based protein. If it’s a lot of processed protein or plant-based protein, some studies show you’re probably not absorbing all the protein.
20-30g is safe for everybody depending on what’s going on with you. Most people tend to do really well with that. Not only does it balance your blood sugars, by eating three meals a day spread apart, you will also get a good amount of protein in, which is perfect. That is the first thing I will have people do.
I didn’t really say this, but hopefully it means you’re also eliminating all the sugars, processed crap, seed oils, and I don’t even know what exists these days. All the crap. You want to make sure everything you put in your body is organic, clean, non-GMO.
Dr. Eric:
With protein, did you say 20-30g per meal?
Dr. Bindiya:
Yes, approximately.
Dr. Eric:
Yes, 60-90g per day, if you’re recommending 3 meals per day. You would try to avoid snacking because you mentioned 4-6 hours between meals.
Dr. Bindiya:
Ideally, no snacking. Everybody is on a different path to their health fitness journey. If you’re someone who is heavily working out, you will probably need to eat snacks and get more calories in. Every single person is different.
On average, the goal is to have larger meals at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and let your body rest. Also, that rest is important for your gut health. You’re not stressing your microbiome and your gut but also letting it rest, which is important.
Dr. Eric:
You also mentioned something interesting: Fasting potentially can cause insulin resistance. Extreme fasting especially.
Dr. Bindiya:
Leptin resistance, not insulin resistance.
Dr. Eric:
Oh okay.
Dr. Bindiya:
Fasting is excellent for insulin resistance. Extreme fasting can sometimes be the culprit for leptin resistance. I hope I explained that properly.
Dr. Eric:
Okay. I misunderstood. I’ll be honest. When you say “extreme,” maybe it helps with insulin resistance, but I don’t know if extreme fasting is good, period. Of course, there is the 16-8 fast. I think for a lot of people, that’s okay. Even that depends on the person. I’ll speak with people who are doing 20-hour fasts every day and only have a four-hour eating window.
Dr. Bindiya:
No. I can talk about fasting all day, too. It needs to be done supervised, properly. You can’t fast when you’re stressed. You can’t fast when you’re going through a divorce or whatever is going on in your life. It has to be done very strategically.
The biggest mistake I tend to see in my patients, why I don’t think they do well with intermittent fasting, is they are cutting their calories while intermittent fasting, which causes a slew of other problems.
I love/hate intermittent fasting. I think if you do it right and do it very appropriately, it works really well. If you’re not doing it right at the wrong time- For females, unfortunately, we have a hormone cycle that we should consider for when and when not to fast. Or it could be helpful or problematic.
Insulin resistance tends to improve. But if you’re doing extreme fasting, like 36 hours or 48 hours, I am not a huge fan of that. Even when I recommend fasting for some patients, I’m also breaking it up. You’re not doing 12-8s every day; maybe it’s a couple of times a week. Maybe it’s 14-10s a couple times a week. It needs to be realistic and make sense. You don’t want to add additional stress.
Dr. Eric:
How about supplements? Are there supplements that can help with leptin resistance? GLP1 meds. Peptides.
Dr. Bindiya:
I am a huge fan of supplements. I personally take a billion of them myself. I don’t know about you, but I do. I try not to age these days, let’s be honest.
Supplements really do help. There are a lot of good things. We tend to notice that if your thyroid needs some help, maybe we support your thyroid with a supplement. For example, I know that because if I am checking your iodine, selenium, ferritin, then we supplement you with that. If we need to support your leptin, because we tend to notice your leptin is a little off, there are a couple I like.
One is Akkermansia. I never know if I’m saying it right. It tends to work well. It’s a natural GLP1 agonist. The data is promising on it.
The other one I really like is berberine, which I am sure everyone has heard of. It’s great for blood sugar and insulin resistance, but it can also help with leptin resistance. It can also help with your microbiome.
The problem I will caution is people who are taking it unsupervised on their own, and you take it for an extended period of time. I want you to be aware berberine is an antimicrobial. It can also change for the better in a good way your microbiome, but if you take too much of it, it can cause diarrhea.
Right now, one of my favorites is Ortho Molecular HiPhenolic. It is a supplement that is targeted toward leptin resistance. It has a green tea extract in it, which works up the metabolism. It is decaffeinated, but it tends to decrease appetite and cause early satiety, like the GLP1 agonist does. A lot of my patients do really well with it.
Sometimes, these supplements help, and sometimes, they don’t. Every person is different. It also depends on how consistently and appropriately they are taking it.
One thing I have probably said multiple times is most of my results are from lifestyle changes versus supplements. I’ll be honest. Of course, GLP1 agonists work amazing. I do prescribe them in our practice, especially when I see patients who have leptin levels over 100 or really high. There is a place for GLP1 medication. They do work fabulously. Sometimes, they have side effects, and sometimes, they don’t. It works really well on that leptin hormone. I see it directly in my lab results.
Dr. Eric:
You mentioned Akkermansia. I don’t know if you do a GI Map.
Dr. Bindiya:
Yeah.
Dr. Eric:
If there are less than detectable limits, that’s when you recommend an Akkermansia supplement.
Dr. Bindiya:
Yeah, exactly. I am a big tester. Depending on what their stool test shows, I will treat them accordingly. If I am suspicious of it, then I will. It’s usually based on a stool test.
Dr. Eric:
Okay. I have had this conversation about berberine before. I don’t know if you’re familiar with Dr. Jason Hawrelak; I had him on the podcast. We had a conversation about berberine. He is not a big fan of it because of the potential antimicrobial effects. it can help in cases like SIBO. There are also a lot of updated studies, which are really interesting, showing that berberine can benefit the gut microbiome.
You mentioned you don’t know how it’s going to affect the gut microbiome. If you are experiencing diarrhea, maybe listen to your body, and either don’t take it, or if you are taking a high dose-
Dr. Bindiya:
You and I probably know berberine just got a big buzz recently because of the GLP1 medications. You and I have been using it for the last 15 years, right?
I was using berberine before for a lot of my insulin resistant patients. It has similar properties to metformin. Sometimes, it’s so funny because now everyone loves GLP1 medication. Berberine is a natural GLP1. No, it’s more like metformin. I don’t know where you are getting this information from.
Yes, it does. It does work the same. The concept is the same, including blood sugar improving. Yeah, it’s interesting. I agree, it does help with infections. It does help with SIBO. It does help with yeast overgrowth. Berberine is not necessarily going to hurt anybody. However, long periods and extensive- A year on berberine is not a good idea. Short-term berberine use, you will get some great results probably. It will help you at the right doses. If you are taking it for an extended period of time, not good.
Also, if anyone is listening to this and trying to get pregnant on berberine, you won’t. If you’re breast-feeding, probably not a great option for you. There are certain populations it works really well for. Please talk to your provider. Think twice about starting prescriptions without talking to a doctor.
Dr. Eric:
Well said. Anything else I didn’t ask you that I should have asked you or that you want to talk about regarding leptin resistance?
Dr. Bindiya:
No. I think it’s a fascinating topic. I’m excited, as new data is going to emerge over the next few years, what we’re going to learn about it and how to optimize our health. I am hoping this is going to empower us to be consistent with some really good lifestyle changes, where we can- I joke, age backwards, but more importantly, biohack your metabolism so it’s working for us. We’re gaining muscle, not fat, as we age.
Dr. Eric:
All right. This was a wonderful conversation. Dr. Bindiya, where can people find out more about you? Feel free to mention your quiz again.
Dr. Bindiya:
You’re more than welcome to follow me on Instagram, social media, Facebook, @DrBindiyaMD. Everything’s there, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube. I don’t know what else there is these days social-media-wise.
My website is DrBindiyaMD.com.
Our practice is in Atlanta or Decatur, GA.
Our quiz, you’re more than welcome to check it out. It’s free. DrBindiyaMD.com/quiz.
I do have an amazing Metabolism Takeover course. For people who are not able to work with me and want to jumpstart their metabolism, it’s an amazing 28-day course that you can start and finish at your own time. It’s great because it really takes you to all these things I do one-on-one with my patients without doing all the bloodwork.
I obviously love working with my patients one-on-one. That is the type of doctor I am. However, people who live all over the country and the world, I honor and recognize that. That course jumpstarts your metabolism. We’ve had some amazing results on it. It’s a great way to literally start making the right healthful or lifestyle changes to biohack and get you to where you need to be.
Dr. Eric:
Thank you so much. This was an amazing conversation. Really enjoyed chatting with you. I’m sure the listeners learned a lot about leptin. I learned a few good things as well.
Dr. Bindiya:
Perfect, thanks so much again for having me on.
Dr. Eric:
Thank you. Have a great day!
Dr. Bindiya:
You, too.
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