Diabetes Nurse Turned Patient | Lisa Maks

<p>About the Episode </p><p>In today&#39;s episode, Dr. Brendan Byrne is interviewing Lisa Maks, a Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist at Providence Health Care with 38 years in nursing, 22 of them in diabetes care. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and serves on the Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines committee. She is also a LifestyleRx patient, which gives her a rare view from both sides of the clinic.</p><p><br></p><p>About the Guest</p><p>Lisa Maks is a Diabetes Clinical Nurse Specialist at Providence Health Care with 38 years in nursing, 22 of them in diabetes care. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of British Columbia and serves on the Diabetes Canada Clinical Practice Guidelines committee. She is also a LifestyleRx patient, which gives her a rare view from both sides of the clinic.</p><p><br></p><p>About The Path Podcast</p><p><br></p><p>The Path is about simple strategies for better metabolic health. We break down metabolic disease, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes through patient FAQs, better health decisions, and honest interviews with patients and the physicians who treat them.</p><p><br></p><p>Learn More About LifestyleRx: https://lifestylerx.io/</p><p><br></p><p>Ask us a video question! https://ask-a-question.lifestylerx.ca</p><p><br></p><p>Episode 112 | The Path Podcast</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps </p><p>0:00 Intro</p><p>1:03 Welcome &amp; Lisa&#39;s background</p><p>3:12 Obesity and weight cycling</p><p>5:12 How she discovered LifestyleRx</p><p>7:01 – First impressions of the program</p><p>10:52 – Consistency over intensity</p><p>14:49 – How physiology shapes behavior</p><p>15:59 – All-or-nothing mindset and food noise</p><p>18:19 – Outcome-based vs. process-based goals</p><p>20:08 – Measuring success beyond the scale</p><p>23:59 – Listening to your physiology</p><p>26:06 – The Amundsen vs. Scott metaphor</p><p>28:17 – Deciding to start a GLP-1</p><p>32:06 – How GLP-1 quieted food noise</p><p>34:26 – Obesity as a dysregulated system</p><p>36:26 – Facing the &quot;cheating&quot; stigma</p><p>37:53 – Willpower and hedonistic behavior</p><p>41:03 – Our evolutionary food mismatch</p><p>44:49 – LifestyleRx&#39;s prevention mission</p><p>46:22 – Food quality and social determinants</p><p>50:07 – Dopamine and engineered foods</p><p>50:55 – &quot;Lifestyle first&quot; vs. &quot;lifestyle next&quot;</p><p>51:03 – Weight management as an ongoing practice</p><p>54:19 – Closing thoughts</p><p>54:45 - Outro</p>