Low Carb MD Podcast

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Nick Norwitz completed a PhD in neuro-metabolism at Oxford University in just two years and is now pursuing on MD at Harvard University. His research expertise is ketosis and brain aging; however, he has published scientific papers on topics ranging from neuroscience to heart disease to gastrointestinal health to genetics to bone health to diabetes. Dr. Adrian Soto Mota is an MD in internal medicine. He is currently a DPhil graduate student at the Departement of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics of the University of Oxford. His main area of interest is exogenous ketone metabolism in diabetic patients. In this conversation, Drs. Tro, Brian, Nick, and Adrian talk about the findings and methods of a recent study on the effects of erythritol on human health, thinking strategically and critically about how/when/if artificial sweeteners can be safely included in your diet, what exactly erythritol is and how it is made, and which sweeteners (if any) Drs. Nick and Adrian use personally. Links: Dr. Nick Norwitz: New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook YouTube Twitter Dr. Adrian Soto Mota: Twitter Linkedin YouTube Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Matt Baszucki had a psychotic break in the spring of 2016—sleeplessness and delusions of grandeur. He was diagnosed as bi-polar with psychotic features by a psychiatrist. Over the next two years, Matt experienced many hospitalizations, bi-polar episodes, and psychotic episodes. Even when he began changing his lifestyle habits for the better, his mental health was still a huge issue to say the least. It was not until he had an encounter with the keto diet that he found a lasting solution. Jan Baszucki, Matt's mother, is a former marketing executive, a best-selling author and essay-writer, and is the current president of the Baszucki Group. Jan is also a mental health advocate and aspiring citizen scientist. She is currently at work on a memoir about her son's recovery from bipolar disorder with a 100-year-old metabolic treatment for epilepsy. In this episode Dr. Tro, Matt, and Jan talk about Matt's mental health story up to this point, Matt's health protocol, the tragic lack of available treatment protocols for bi-polar that use diet as a therapy, how to safely and effectively come off of a medication, empowering patients with knowledge to be their own advocate and take their health into their own hands, the role that music played in Matt's recovery, and the founding of Metabolic Mind. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Jan and Matt Baszucki: Matt's Podcast, Bipolarcast Metabolic Mind YouTube Metabolic Mind Website Baszucki Group Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Laura Buchanan is board certified in Family Medicine and is on the board of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences from the University of South Florida and was a valedictorian of her class at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She is on staff at Dr. Tro's Medical Weight Loss & Direct Primary Care. In this episode of The Journal Club, Drs. Tro and Laura tear apart in great detail a couple of studies on fasting. In this conversation, Drs. Tro and Laura discuss the findings and methods of two articles… The Effects of Time-Restricted Eating on Weight Loss and Other Metabolic Parameters in Women and Men With Overweight and Obesity Timestamp: (00:02:52) Read it HERE! The Effects of Intermittent Fasting Combined with Resistance Training on Lean Body Mass: A Systematic Review of Human Studies Timestamp: (00:24:55) Read it HERE! For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Laura Buchanan: Addiction to Highly Processed Food Among Older Adults Treatment of Ultra-Processed Food Addiction Twitter The Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners Website Instagram Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Nick Norwitz completed a PhD in neuro-metabolism at Oxford University in just two years and is now pursuing on MD at Harvard University. His research expertise is ketosis and brain aging; however, he has published scientific papers on topics ranging from neuroscience to heart disease to gastrointestinal health to genetics to bone health to diabetes. Tucker Goodrich started out as a very successful technology executive on Wall Street and a largely self-taught computer scientist and systems engineer. But after getting sick, he became insisted in nutrition research and was able to discover the solution to his health problems. He put all of his chronic disease issues into remission. Since then he has been an avid researcher and writer in the field of nutrition—especially on the topic of seed oils. In this conversation, Brian, Tucker, and Nick talk about omega-3 and omega-6 PUFAS, the historical usage of industrial and non-industrial seed oils in the human diet, the sugar-spiking effects of seed oils versus the effects of olive and coconut oil, the manufacturing process of avocado oil, the higher oxidation levels in seed oils versus other oils, animal toxicology studies on various seed oils, to what extent keto diets are successful for weight loss because of PUFA reduction, wether supplementing with fish oils is a good idea or not, which foods you can safely avoid in general, the croissant diet, and the P:E diet. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Nick Norwitz: New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook YouTube Twitter Tucker Goodrich: Twitter Blog Instagram YouTube Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Jason Fung is a New York Times-bestselling author of many books including The Obesity Code and The Diabetes Code. He completed medical school at the University of Toronto and a fellowship in nephrology at UCLA. He is the co-founder of The Fasting Method, a program to help people lose weight and reverse type 2 diabetes naturally with intermittent fasting. An early proponent of the now-popular fasting lifestyle, Dr. Fung is often called the founder of intermittent fasting. Today, Dr. Fung has prescribed intermittent fasting and a low carb diet to thousands of patients who have seen results that include reversal of type 2 diabetes, weight loss, and overall higher quality of life and wellbeing. In this conversation, Drs. Brian and Jason talk about what intermittent fasting is and why people do it, how to marry knowledge with environmental factors for maximum success with fasting and weight loss, how to change habitual behavior and get started with new, beneficial habits, putting diabetes into remission and de-prescribing drugs with lifestyle changes, going beyond calories-in calories-out to the deeper level of knowledge about metabolic health and weight loss, and how stress factors into the weight loss equation. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Jason Fung: Website YouTube Twitter Linktree Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Sarkis Chahinian is a gym owner, trainer, and nutrition enthusiast from Montreal, Canada. With the help of his friend—and ours—Vic Basmadjian, he was introduced and converted to the low-carb and carnivore diet. In this conversation, Dr. Tro. Dr. Brian, Sarkis, and Vic talk about how Sarkis became interested in fitness and came to own a gym, Sarkis' experience opening a gym in Canada during the Covid pandemic, Sarkis' mental health journey, Sarkis' dietary journey from "bro dieting" to keto dieting following Vic's advice, regulatory capture and how it effects food and dietary advice, the primary ways in which Sarkis' diet has changed and, consequently, which aspects of his life have changed for the better, changing the way you think about and interact with food, the perfect partnership of eating right and exercising, the power of community and collaboration to effect positive change in people's lives, and why stress may be the biggest single factor determining dietary success or failure. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Sarkis Chahinian: Twitter Instagram Vic Basmadjian: Keto Coaching Website Vic's Low Carb Mix Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. David Saenger is an ultra-marathon runner, advocate of the low-carb diet, and practitioner of general invasive cardiology. He started his undergraduate education at Harvard, finished pre-med at Columbia, went to Stanford Medical School, and did his internal medicine residency at Mt. Sinai where he later returned to do his cardiology fellowship. In this conversation, Drs. Tro and David talk about how Dr. David, a New Yorker, found himself practicing medicine in Eugene, Oregon, how Dr. David found his way into medicine in the first place, how Dr. David incorporates diet and lifestyle into his practice, how Dr. David discovered authors like Gary Taubes even though he comes from a very traditional medical background, Nina Teicholz's book, The Big Fat Surprise, the four largest employers of physicians, inspiring and motivating patients, dietary philosophy, what Dr. David eats in a day when he is training for a run versus what he eats when he is not training, supplementing with magnesium, how to safely and effectively de-prescribe, and the role of cardiovascular imaging in cardiac prevention. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. David Saenger: Twitter Peace Health Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Jeffry N. Gerber, MD, FAAFP is a board certified family physician, speaker, author, conference organizer, husband, father and owner of South Suburban Family Medicine in Littleton, Colorado, where he is known as "Denver's Diet Doctor". Nutrition and its effects on health are areas of interest for Dr. Gerber. Frustrated with spiraling healthcare costs related to the treatment of conditions like overweight, obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis and heart disease just to name a few, Dr. Gerber has been focusing on prevention and treatment programs using low-carb high fat (LCHF), Ancestral, Paleo, Primal, Intermittent Fasting and Whole Foods diets along with healthy lifestyle to treat and prevent these chronic conditions. In this conversation, Drs. Brian, Tro, and Jeffery talk about what it means to be a good doctor, the very real impact of hope on physical health, where medication fails and where medication helps, prioritizing long term lifestyle solutions instead of pushing short term fixes, the speaker line-up at the upcoming LowCarb Denver Conference, preventative cardiac imaging, CME credits offered at the conference, and the hormone model versus the calories model for weight loss and metabolic health. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Jeffrey Gerber: South Suburban Family Medicine Eat Rich, Live Long Book Low Carb Denver 2023 Save 10% on registration for Low Carb Denver with code LCD2023MDPodcast Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Amy Berger is a Certified Nutrition Specialist, a U.S. Air Force veteran, a prolific author, and the host of a keto-oriented YouTube channel. She has a master's in human nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and has been eating a low carbohydrate diet and learning about this way of eating for over 15 years. In this conversation, Dr. Brian, Dr. Tro, and Amy talk about the many disorders that keto helps to solve or put into remission, how to know when to turn to medications to treat your ailment, the effect of keto on mood and depression, learning to change your negative inner monologue and adopt a healthier, more productive way of thinking, why the calories-in/calories-out model is not a helpful paradigm for those looking to lose weight and improve their metabolic health, how keto controls hunger, dealing with and recognizing addiction, the relationship between depression and thyroid disorder, and the subject of Amy's next book. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Amy Berger: Linktree Twitter Instagram Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Raphael Sirtoli is the chief scientific officer of Clínica Pêro, a medical clinic focused on root cause medicine in Lisbon, Portugal. Raphael has an MSc in molecular biology and was a PhD candidate in neuroscience. He also writes and consults for ZeroAcreFarms, a company selling a fermented oil low in omega-6 linoleic acid and high in oleic acid. He is the co-founder of Nutria, which makes a food-tracking app focused on diet quality. His interest in health and wellness has led him to the study of other fields such as paleoanthropology, clinical medicine, epidemiology, biochemistry, endocrinology, and immunology. In this conversation, Dr. Brian and Raphael talk about why seed oils are so unhealthy, how seed oil can be processed in such a way that it is less unhealthy, high levels of carcinogens and toxins in baby formula, how big food companies work hard to make people eat food that is not nourishing, why keeping your body's microbiome healthy is key to good health, the Wim Hof breathing technique, how temperature changes and other environmental factors can effect things like insulin resistance, incretin affecting drugs, the role that muscle mass plays in metabolic health, fasting and metabolic health, and the value of trying to understand some level of medical science to assist you on your health journey. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Raphael Sirtoli: Twitter YouTube Instagram Pero Medical Care Zero Acre Farms Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter