Low Carb MD Podcast

Latest Episodes:

Episode 190: Doug Reynolds Aug 23, 2021

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Joining Brian on the podcast this week is Low Carb USA founder and CEO, Doug Reynolds. He is also the founder of the recently formed non-profit organization, the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners, whose stated purpose is to "reverse the increasing prevalence of noncommunicable, lifestyle-related diseases, influenced by metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance."

Brian and Doug discuss the birth of Low Carb USA, the myriad benefits of low carb, the birth of the SMHP, and the speaker lineup for the Low Carb USA 2021 conference.

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Doug Reynolds:

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

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Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

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Episode 189: Brian and Tro Aug 16, 2021

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. This week's episode features your hosts, Dr. Brian Lenzkes and Dr. Tro Kalayjian. For the first time, these co-hosts have the opportunity to interview each other and ask many questions about upcoming projects, their respective medical practices, and topics/questions that have been on their minds.

Brian and Tro discuss lessons they have learned from the experience of starting their own private medical practices, the realization of what brings real joy in life, working to build something bigger than yourself, the top 4 co-morbidities associated with COVID related deaths, the effectiveness of the available COVID vaccines, and the importance of common sense and honest evaluation of available data.

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Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

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Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

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Episode 188: Dr. Elie Jarrouge Aug 06, 2021

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Elie Jarrouge is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Doctor based in Houston, Texas. He did his Internal Medicine Residency and Nephrology Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. He is also Board Certified in Nephrology.

In this episode, Brian, Tro, and Elie talk about the intimate relationship between poor metabolic health and a multitude of diseases, the COVID Delta Variant, what inspired them to become doctors, the many benefits of the direct primary care model of medical care, physician burnout, and the power of community when it comes to staying consistent with a diet.

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Dr. Elie Jarrouge:

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

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Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

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Episode 187: Daniel Wiseman Aug 02, 2021

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Daniel Wiseman (aka. @SteakAndIron on Twitter) has been practicing and promoting the Low Carb Diet for many years. As a young man, he encountered numerous health issues which caused him to begin exploring the world of dieting. This journey ultimately led him to the discovery of low-carb dieting and he has been going strong ever since.

In this episode, Brian, Tro, and Daniel talk about junk food, the struggle of living the keto life with a sweet tooth, getting dietary advice from 4Chan, the importance of dietary self-experimentation, the anthropological/historical perspective on the natural human diet, tribalism within dietary communities, dietary virtue signaling, and environmental vs genetic factors in obesity and diabetes.

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Daniel Wiseman:

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Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

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Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

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Episode 186: P.D. Mangan Jul 26, 2021

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. P.D. Mangan is a microbiologist, health and fitness coach, and anti-aging expert. He is the founder of Rogue Health and Fitness and is dedicated to teaching the science-based way to eat right, get fit, and live long. He is also a weightlifter and researcher.

In this discussion, Tro and P.D. talk about prevailing public opinion regarding the health consequences of consuming meat versus what studies reveal about eating meat, the presence of meat historically in the human diet, the need for a change in public perspective on dietary fats, the types of foods that actually cause metabolic disease, and why people don't need to work out as much as they may think to see gains.

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P.D. Mangan:

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

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Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

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Episode 185: Dr. Christine Najjar Jul 19, 2021

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Christine Najjar is a Board Certified Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine physician. She studied biochemistry at McGill University, earned a Masters in Nutrition at Columbia University while finishing medical school at the same time. She did her Internal Medicine residency at University of Connecticut.

In this episode, Tro and Christine talk about the Armenian and Lebanese diets, the severe lack of good nutritional information in medical education, why the calories-centric model of weight loss is not sufficient for dealing with weight loss, why the academic nutritional community is stuck in this old calories/energy way of thinking, the importance of paying attention to how you feel and getting your information from objective data, and what the ideal patient looks like.

For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!

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Dr. Christine Najjar:

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Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

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Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

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Episode 184: Kara Collier Jul 12, 2021

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Kara Collier is a Registered Dietician, Licensed Dietician/Nutritionist, and Certified Nutrition Support Clinician specializing in glucose control and metabolism. She is the Co-Founder and Director of Nutrition at NutriSense where she has been helping thousands of people achieve metabolic health and learn about their bodies.

In their discussion, Brian, Tro, and Kara talk about treatment versus prevention, deficiencies in medical education, the vision and goals of NutriSense, the value of putting a patient's health back into their own hands with technologies like the CGM, corporate wellness, the mental and environmental factors involved in metabolic health, and the hormonal versus the calories model of health.

For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!

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Kara Collier:

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

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Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

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Episode 183: Dr. Kevin Gendreau Jul 05, 2021

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Kevin Gendreau is a board certified physician, obesity medicine specialist, and primary care doctor. In order to cope with his father's cancer diagnosis, he turned to food and ended up weighing over 300lbs. After losing both his Father and his Sister to cancer, he decided to make a change in his eating habits. After living a low carb life and employing intermittent fasting for 18 months, he had lost 125lbs!

In this discussion, Brian and Kevin talk about eating clean, the mental health benefits of ditching processed junk food, the importance of satiety as a factor for success on your diet, the process of recovering from sugar and carb addiction, and why stress is a major component of weight gain.

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Dr. Kevin Gendreau:

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

Website

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

Website

Episode 182: Prof. Matthew Liao Jun 30, 2021

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Prof. Matthew Liao holds the Arthur Zitrin Chair of Bioethics as well as the Directorship for the Center for Bioethics at New York University.

He was Deputy Director and James Martin Senior Research Fellow in the Program on the Ethics of the New Biosciences in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. He was the Harold T. Shapiro Research Fellow in the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University in 2003–2004, and a Greenwall Research Fellow at Johns Hopkins University and a Visiting Researcher at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University from 2004–2006.

In May 2007, he founded Ethics Etc, a group blog for discussing contemporary philosophical issues in ethics and related areas. He is interested in a wide range of issues including ethics, epistemology, metaphysics, moral psychology, and bioethics.

In this discussion, Tro and Matthew talk about the diverse human activities which negatively impact the environment, whether or not the raising and consumption of livestock is one of those activities, which human behaviors contribute the most to human-caused damage to the environment, and the ethics of human engineering as a solution to environmental damage.

For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!

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Prof. Matthew Liao:

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

Website

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

Website

Episode 181: Dr. Paul Kolodzik Jun 28, 2021

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Paul Kolodzik is the Medical Director and Founder of East Indiana Recovery. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, the Wright State University College of Medicine, and did his Residency in Emergency Medicine at WSU.

In this episode, Brian, Tro, and Paul discuss the benefits of the direct primary care service model of healthcare, the inefficiencies of the medical system, the treatment of alcohol addiction, whether abstinence is the ultimate goal for every patient on the road to recovery, and the Sinclair Method.

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Dr. Paul Kolodzik:

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