One Small Bite
Food Therapist and Nutritionist David Orozco brings you a non-diet approach that will optimize your physical, emotional, and mental health One Small Bite at a time. David will help you chop harmful diet myths by providing thought provoking conversations grounded in sound nutritional science. From hot topics like fasting, fad diets, sleep, and chronic illnesses, to emotional health, David will help you create body positivity, build healthy relationships with eating, make peace with food, and work on your internal weight. David will cover proven methods to fuel your body and nourish your soul so that you thrive and evolve your internal mindset about health and wellness. The One Small Bite Podcast is where you come to challenge vulnerabilities in order to transform your life, small bites at a time. Subscribe today and take the first bite!
One Small Bite
EP 194: Why Knowing Everything About Nutrition Isn’t Saving Your Heart
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What happens when a man who knows everything about nutrition still can’t change? In this episode, David Orozco, MS, RDN, uses the Alimentar persona Raj — a 43-year-old PhD and self-proclaimed Food Philosopher, to explore the hidden connection between high-saturated-fat diets, HPA axis dysregulation, chronic cortisol elevation, sedentary behavior, and cardiovascular disease risk. Drawing on eight peer-reviewed studies, David shows how these systems form a feedback loop that knowledge alone can’t break — and makes the case that the bridge between knowing and doing isn’t more data, it’s curiosity, joy, and one small bite.
- 2:00 — Meet Raj: The Food Philosopher
- 5:00 — The HPA Axis: Your Body’s Stress Command Center
- 9:00 — When Saturated Fat Becomes a Stressor
- 12:30 — The Sedentary Multiplier
- 15:00 — The Knowing-Doing Gap
- 18:30 — Curiosity: The 5C That Opens the Door
- 21:00 — Joy as Nourishment
- 23:00 — One Small Bite: Practical Takeaways
- 25:30 — Teaser: Next Episode — Noah and the Mind-Body Disconnect
- 27:00 — Wrap-Up & Call to Action