Episode #112
Diabetes Nurse Turned Patient | Lisa Maks
About the Episode In today'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. About the Guest 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. About The Path Podcast 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. Learn More About LifestyleRx: https://lifestylerx.io/ Ask us a video question! https://ask-a-question.lifestylerx.ca Episode 112 | The Path Podcast Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:03 Welcome & Lisa's background 3:12 Obesity and weight cycling 5:12 How she discovered LifestyleRx 7:01 – First impressions of the program 10:52 – Consistency over intensity 14:49 – How physiology shapes behavior 15:59 – All-or-nothing mindset and food noise 18:19 – Outcome-based vs. process-based goals 20:08 – Measuring success beyond the scale 23:59 – Listening to your physiology 26:06 – The Amundsen vs. Scott metaphor 28:17 – Deciding to start a GLP-1 32:06 – How GLP-1 quieted food noise 34:26 – Obesity as a dysregulated system 36:26 – Facing the "cheating" stigma 37:53 – Willpower and hedonistic behavior 41:03 – Our evolutionary food mismatch 44:49 – LifestyleRx's prevention mission 46:22 – Food quality and social determinants 50:07 – Dopamine and engineered foods 50:55 – "Lifestyle first" vs. "lifestyle next" 51:03 – Weight management as an ongoing practice 54:19 – Closing thoughts 54:45 - Outro
