Low Carb MD Podcast

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Laura and Chris Spath have lost 250 pounds combined due to their joint adoption of the carnivore diet. After years of yo-yo dieting and struggling with their weight, these two were able to turn the tides. Today they are here to share their inspirational story with us and let us know how they achieved such remarkable weight loss. In this discussion, Tro, Laura, and Chris talk about carb and sugar addiction, the 'learned helplessness' that can keep one trapped in a vicious cycle of eating processed food, how to stop failing at failing to stick with your diet, low carb replacements for sugary foods, how stress eating can still effect a person following the carnivore diet, the power of a supportive community for achieving weight loss goals, and tips for setting up an effective defense against the impulse to eat processed, sugary foods. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: The Spaths: Laura's Instagram Laura's YouTube Channel Link Tree Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Joining us today is Dr. George Condrut who is a Family Medicine doctor practicing in Ottawa. He completed his Family Medicine Residency at the University of Ottawa in 2006 and earned a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. George shares the story of how he discovered that fasting and low-carb dieting could be used to treat patients with obesity and metabolic disease. Dr. Condrut and Dr. Tro also discuss some of the older studies and research they had to uncover in order to discover the low-carb path to health. In their discussion, George and Tro talk about time restricted eating, the work of Jason Fung, why women have a harder time losing weight than men, incredible improvement of symptoms from idiopathic afflictions while on a low-carb/fasting treatment plan, the relative difficulty of getting CGMs to patients in Canada, and weight loss drugs, For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Jason Jodway is a man who has been on a wild journey of weight loss, having lost over 315 pounds! At one point, he weighed over 500 pounds. Due to his resolve and determination to regain his health and achieve a healthy weight, he was able to overcome the bad nutrition advice, lifelong obesity, and lack of good information that was holding him back. In this episode, Tro and Jason discuss growing up as the fat kid in school, coping mechanisms used to deal with the stress of being overweight, the shame and guilt involved in being an overweight person with food addiction, how Jason discovered the low carb diet by examining the research for himself, the power of satiety, controlling your food environment for success, stress induced binge eating and tips for avoiding it. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Jason Jodway: Twitter Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Joining the show today are Drs. Jason Fung and Doug Gwinn. Dr. Gwinn is a Family Medicine doctor who practiced for thirty-five years until his retirement. He found himself with kidney disease, hypertension, and metabolic disease. Due to his discovery of Dr. Fung, he has been able to improve his kidney function and overall health by implementing fasting and the ketogenic/carnivore diet. In this discussion, we discuss the potential benefits of a carnivore diet for back pain and kidney function, the relationship between lifestyle decisions and likelihood of developing kidney disease, ways in which the current medical system is broken, and Dr. Gwinn's personal experiments and experiments with the keto and carnivore diets. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Jason Fung: Twitter Website Dr. Doug Gwinn: Twitter Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. We are very excited to bring you this interview with Dr. Layne Norton—a bodybuilding coach, pro bodybuilder, pro powerlifter, and founder of Carbon and BioLayne—David Mathas—a health coach and former army medic—and Randy—a man with an amazing health journey who is currently working on his Masters in Psychology. In the first hour of this interview, Randy shares the story of his incredible health journey from weighing, at one point, 500lbs, to today, having lost 285lbs and being in the best shape of his life. He talks about the different types of diets he tried along the way, the psychology behind his successes and failures, and how he utilized psychology to motivate himself into re-dedicating himself to health after re-gaining a lot of weight. Additionally, David Mathas talks about how he worked with Randy as his health coach to tailor a way to help him lose all of the weight he had put back on. He shares about how to not only achieve weight loss, but how to achieve weight loss sustainability, and the importance of building muscle for weight loss. In the second hour, Layne, Brian, and Tro discuss flexible dieting, the psychology behind binge eating and different perspectives on how to address it, and the importance of weight loss for achieving metabolic health. Listen to the end for a special guest appearance from a mystery guest! For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Layne Norton: Website David Mathas: Website Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. David Avram Wolfe MS, RD, LDN, FAC, SUGAR is a Food Addiction Counselor, Sugar Addiction Coach and a Registered Dietitian. He has degrees in Culinary Arts and Culinary Nutrition as well as a Masters degree in Nutrition. In our discussion with David, we discuss the nature and signs of food addiction, the shame that comes from being addicted and feeling powerless, how addiction tends to 'transfer' from one substance to another when a person is making an effort to recover, treating the addictive tendency itself versus treating addiction to a particular substance, the relationship between stress, anxiety, and falling off the wagon, and the importance of community and family support in recovery. Additionally, we discuss the brain's amazing ability to rationalize any self-destructive decision, the power of hope and feeling free, the idea of hunger versus desire, and how LowCarb works wonders for recovering from food addiction. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: David Avram Wolfe: Twitter Website Fork in the Road Book 5 Day Crush Your Cravings Challenge Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Katherine Eban is an investigative journalist with contributions to Vanity Fair and the New York Times, is a best-selling author of two books, and has received much praise and numerous awards for her journalism. She was educated at Brown University and Oxford—at which school she was a Rhodes Scholar. In our discussion with Katherine, we talk about her work investigating the FDA and Big Pharma, the corruption she discovered during her investigation, conditions under which many of the low-cost drugs in the market are made overseas, how companies would go to amazing lengths to falsify data, the level of fraud discovered in drug manufacturing plants in India and China, and strategies for how the FDA could better enforce compliance to their standards. Additionally, Katherine shares some practical advice for how doctors can take in and use the information from her investigations to help their patients. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Katherine Eban: Website Books Guide to Investigating Your Own Drugs Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Sean O'Mara is a Performance and Longevity MD/Researcher, Speaker, and 2016 NSF Grant Recipient. He is founder and operator of MedCon Wellness—a medical practice dedicated to reversing & preventing chronic disease. Dr. O'Mara is determined to do more than simply treating disease symptoms, and, by innovatively exploiting both science and nature along with proprietary technology, he achieves amazing results with his patients. In our discussion, we talk about Dr. O'Mara's personal experience with and discovery of the low carb/high fat way of eating, the structure of a hypothetical, future health care system built to serve a healthy population rather than a diseased population, financial conflicts of interest in the current insurance model of health care, why visceral fat works so well as a metric for measuring metabolic health, the relationship between visceral fat loss and insulin resistance, the relationship between the microbiome and metabolic health, and foods that help build a healthy microbiome. Additionally, we converse about processed keto replacement foods that contain sugar alcohols and pre-biotic fibers and their effect on the gut microbiome, why visceral fat is a better marker than subcutaneous fat, high intensity exercise, the difference between exercise and activity, how to determine what is the right diet for you, how fermentation effects foods high in carbohydrates and makes them better food sources for humans, and a look at Dr. O'Mara's personal diet. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Sean O'Mara: Website Twitter Instagram YouTube Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Trey Suntrup is a researcher and product engineer with over 13 years of experience working on the development of new device technologies. He holds a PhD in physics and electrical engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and has previously worked at Washington University Medical School as a Translational Sciences and Entrepreneurship fellow. He is currently the Head of Product at Readout—creators of the Biosense Breath Ketone Meter. In our discussion with Dr. Suntrup, we talk about the effectiveness of different methods for measuring ketones, the three different types of ketone bodies, at what stages in a given patient's weight loss/metabolic health journey different ketone measuring devices are useful, how the Biosense breath ketone meter works and what makes it so effective, and the clinical studies involved in the development of the Biosense meter. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Biosense Discount Code (good for $30 off the Biosense Breath Ketone Meter): Lowcarb30 Dr. Trey Suntrup: Biosense Website Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Nicholas Norwitz is a researcher and scientist with expertise and scientific papers published on ketosis, brain aging, neuroscience, heart disease, gastrointestinal health, genetics, bone health, diabetes, and other subjects. He has his PhD from Oxford and is currently working on his MD at Harvard. In our discussion, we talk about osteoporosis, gut health, anorexia, how LowCarb could potentially be a dietary intervention for treating colitis, the amazing diversity of gut microbiome makeup from individual to individual, the relationship between lifestyle and the likelihood of developing Alzheimers later in life, whether or not living a keto or Low Carb lifestyle could improve your chances of avoiding Alzheimers, how ketosis may be able to reduce inflammation in the brain, how to prevent the breakdown of the blood/brain barrier in the brain, and the non-food, lifestyle factors that contribute to wellness. Additionally, Nicholas shares a bit about his crazy health journey dealing with osteoporosis and gut problems which he was ultimately able to resolve and/or improve using Low Carb. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Nicholas Norwitz: New MediKeto Twitter The New Mediterranean Diet Cookbook YouTube Channel Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website LBM_NN.pdf