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GLP-1’s and Metabolic Health Optimization with Dr. Todd Cevene

Scott Mulvaney — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:45:00 +0000

The True Cost of Injectable GLP-1 Medications vs Natural Healthy Options:

Your host Scott Mulvaney and Dr. Todd Cevene discuss the benefits of natural weight loss approaches over pharmaceutical solutions. Dr. Cevene, who has helped over 75,000 people and has 74 providers in 38 states, emphasizes the importance of addressing metabolic issues and insulin resistance. He highlights the success of his program, which averages 32+ pounds and 20+ inches of weight loss in 90 days, without exercise. They also touch on the limitations of traditional healthcare, the role of personal accountability, and the potential of compounding pharmacies. Dr. Sabine advocates for a holistic approach to health, focusing on diet and lifestyle changes. Todd Cevene emphasizes that effective health strategies, such as weight loss and blood sugar management, must be consistently applied and monitored for results. He stresses the importance of setting a good example for children, as they learn more from observing actions than from words. Scott agrees, noting the influence of parents’ behaviors on their children’s habits. They both advocate for passing on positive health knowledge to future generations.

Your Co-Host Today:

Our guest today is revolutionizing the weight loss industry with a natural approach that’s helped over 75,000 people transform their lives. Dr. Todd Cevene pioneered a breakthrough metabolic optimization system that helps people lose weight without exercise, strict diets, or medications. His system is now used by over 140 healthcare providers nationwide and has led to more than 2 million pounds lost naturally and sustainably.

Today’s Top 3 Takeaways:

Natural healthy approaches vs “Pharmaceutical Band-Aids”.
Understanding Peptides vs GLP-1 Medications.
The role of Personal Accountability in our Health.

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Timestamped Show Notes:

05:00 – When you see commercials for semi glutides or GLP-1’s, they’re compounded, the feds have made those against the law out there and now illegal to compound, beginning next month, so you use a name brand prescription. The reason for that is because, when you’re doing the peptides, they aren’t regulated, so you don’t know. It could be a guy in a bathtub in China with his cat, and they’re making them, and you’re pumping that into your body hoping it’s going to make a difference.

28:40 – So without sounding too sarcastic with it, so in that same vein, if you say people want to be healthy, people that we talked about asking like the GLP compound of drugs, or the GLP weight loss drugs, people healthy will also start eating healthy. If you’re taking those medications and you’re just eating one piece of pizza instead of three, that’s not help.

31:20 – The metabolic ones, insulin, blood sugars, leptin, ghrelinn, adeno, pectin, etc. So when you start to control those metabolically, you start to burn more unhealthy fat than sugar, which is what people try to control on the Keto Diet, right? The Keto Diet is not bad as long as you can sustain it. But the average person can’t sustain it, unlike you’d mentioned, you’re able to do that. The average person can’t necessarily sustain that. So the way you keep weight off forever is you find a way for that particular patient so they can have the freedom to eat what they want, “within reason”, and still lose weight. So psychologically, if you feel like you’re not dieting and you’re losing inches of fat and weight, we’re on the home stretch.

52:55 – I was looking at again for a panel of like, 20 med spas that are starting this, and they’re getting rid of GLP1’s, they’re going for a program. The average patient loses 32.8 pounds. This is within a 90 day mark, and they lose up to 20.2 inches within 60 days. The average person loses two clothing sizes, or 10% of your body weight in 60 days is a very safe bet, like bet your house with a kid in it and take it to the bank.

58:45 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

The impact of children seeing mothers inject weight loss drugs to lose weight versus making healthy choices comes to them. Our own girls have told us over and over and over again, I can’t believe how bad everybody else eats, or I went to my friend’s house and the whole family is literally sitting around consuming bags of chips, and I couldn’t believe it. There wasn’t fruit, there wasn’t anything like natural veggies with the meal. They’re just astonished that not everybody does that, who needs that. So it’s, again, it was kind of an aha moment to me that you’re impacting families, and that how far that goes with kids and everything else as well. For all the women out there that have children or men that have children, that can become more aware, this is what they see and what they learn.

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033: The Secret Life of Fat Author Dr. Sylvia Tara PhD

Scott Mulvaney — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 17:00:00 +0000

Fat… Understand It, Know It, Beat It:

Knowledge is power and a lot of us certainly have not been educated when it comes to understanding Fat. On this episode, we talk with Dr. Sylvia Tara. Sylvia holds a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California at San Diego and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She was a consultant with McKinsey & Company and has worked at some of the world’s largest biotechnology companies. She lives in the Los Angeles, California area. Sylvia is now the author of The Secret Life of Fat. The book brings together years of research to reveal its’ true identity… as an endocrine organ. The right amount, is critical to our health.

On This Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”02:17″] What got Dr. Sylvia into Biochemistry and more specifically into Fat
[spp-timestamp time=”04:06″] We think of this as excess calories from overeating which triggers it to be stored for later use. We have too much and we must get it off right away. We actually need to stop living the “Low Fat’s” lifestyle and get back to Healthy Fats. It is actually an endocrine organ, meaning it is producing hormones that are releasing into our bloodstream. Our bodies depend on those hormones for so many things. These cells keep our immune system, along with our bones strong. Even our brain size is linked to healthy fats.
[spp-timestamp time=”05:54″] The hormone that your fat produces and distributes is called Adiponectin. It helps guide it back to your fat tissue through your blood stream. It helps clear the blood of Triglycerides and also toxins.
[spp-timestamp time=”07:41″] Visceral fats, Nutritional Cleansing, fasting and sending your organs on vacation
[spp-timestamp time=”12:53″] Intermittent fasting
[spp-timestamp time=”16:34″] What is a calorie
[spp-timestamp time=”19:43″] Know your fat and understand it
[spp-timestamp time=”21:44″] Fat is an obsession, it’s a dirty word. The four letter word “Diet”
[spp-timestamp time=”24:50″] Position on liposuction
[spp-timestamp time=”25:58″] We are all born with a certain amount of stable fat cells.
[spp-timestamp time=”26:45″] Obesity. Our bodies are good at adapting to the environment. Our stem cells can even create fat cells in the absence of food.
[spp-timestamp time=”28:16″] You are not just shrinking a reserve of calories, you are shrinking an organ. Leptin is a hormone that your fat cells produce. It’s the “Master Hormone” That Regulates Body Weight and is tied to a lot of your major organs including your brain.
[spp-timestamp time=”30:16″] #NSNG
[spp-timestamp time=”35:10″] Human Growth Hormone. The body creates it’s own HGH, Dr. Sylvia shares examples of when it is naturally produced.
[spp-timestamp time=”37:06″] The benefits of fasting, detoxing and your body cleaning itself out
[spp-timestamp time=”37:48″] The Grain Brain
[spp-timestamp time=”39:50″] Understanding your body vs diets
[spp-timestamp time=”41:34″] Looking to lose 10lb’s in the next 24 hours. A free give away on Dr. Sylvia’s website
[spp-timestamp time=”43:06″] Take the time to understand what this is and what it actually does for your body. Weight loss is really hard. There is not a quick fix, it’s about a new lifestyle.
[spp-timestamp time=”44:33″] Using chocolate as a reward during a fasting period.
[spp-timestamp time=”46:22″] Willpower. It’s like a battery, you have to put in the reps to keep it charged.
[spp-timestamp time=”48:07″] A traditional MD or the average everyday Doctor does not know anything about nutrition.
[spp-timestamp time=”52:24″] There is no cookie cutter solution. We are all different.
[spp-timestamp time=”53:42″] Your ab’s are not made in the gym, they are made in the kitchen
[spp-timestamp time=”57:02″] Put in the reps, hone your craft
[spp-timestamp time=”58:30″] Kristy Jo Hunt. Throwing out the scales. Using archaic BMI readings
[spp-timestamp time=”01:01:40″] Final Words

[spp-tweet tweet=”Work with your Fat not against it. @SylviaTaraPhD on LIVETHEFUEL”]

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Final Words

Empower yourself. Fat control may seem elusive, and it might seem like you have tried things but failed. The more you know, the more you can manage your fat. Knowledge is power. Fat is not what you think it is. It’s not just a reserve of excess calories. It’s not something you have to get rid of at all costs. You can have fat and be healthy. More importantly, you have to understand your fat. You have to understand it is an organ. It’s not just sitting there. You have to know how to work with it and not against it if you’re really want to manage your fat.

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