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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Jason (aka. Carnivore JT) is a fitness and food influencer with a passion for helping people with their diet and fitness goals. He is an animal based content creator, podcast host, and author of The Carnivorous Cookbook. His podcast, The Inner Carnivore Podcast, is a deep dive into the world of carnivore and animal-based diets. In this conversation, Tro and Jason talk about eating carnivore on a budget, carnivore and cerebral palsy, carnivore grocery shopping hacks, why fast food is a rip off AND horrible for your health, Jason’s personal health history and how he found the carnivore diet, and gym bro nutrition versus carnivore. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!   Links:   Jason (Carnivore JT): Facebook Instagram The Inner Carnivore Website Linktree The Carnivorous Cookbook   Dr. Brian Lenzkes:  Website Twitter   Dr. Tro Kalayjian:  Website Twitter Instagram   Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together.  Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more.    Apple  Google  Learn more  

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Matt Codde is a licensed clinical social worker who helps people struggling with OCD & Anxiety take back control of their lives. He is the creator of the Triple-A Response—an approach to breaking out of the OCD & Anxiety Loop. He is the author of From Stuck to Unstuck and is the host of The OCD and Anxiety Show. In this conversation, Tro, Brain, and Matt talk about breaking the cycle of stress and anxiety, mastering the emotion of fear, learning to process and release emotions, the connections between body and brain, the effects of alcohol, sugar, and caffeine on mental health, associations between emotional patterns and certain diseases, how people justify/rationalize OCD and anxiety behaviors, the pluses and minuses of stoicism, the five things everyone can do to be healthier, and the Triple-A Response approach to breaking free from OCD/Anxiety. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Matt Codde: Restored Minds YouTube Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together. Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more. Apple Google Learn more

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Luc Hagenaars, Ph.D., M.Sc., is a policy advisor and researcher with a fascination for addressing the social and commercial determinants of health. His scientific expertise concerns the analysis of health policy innovations with case studies, system mapping and applied policy process theory. He has extensive experience in developing health policy through his previous work at the Dutch Ministry of Health. He is Assistant Professor Health Policy Analysis at Amsterdam UMC and a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Francisco. Hagenaars received his Ph.D. from the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, and his M.Sc. in global health from Maastricht University. In this conversation, Tro and Luc talk about how Luc’s interest in the social determinants of health came to be, a recent study looking at why the field of obesity prevention is stuck and how it could be unstuck, the issue of weight stigma and how it relates to the ‘health at every size’ movement, finding effective solutions to the obesity problem, how to influence government policy to embrace effective solutions, how companies try to influence your food buying decisions at the grocery store, how big food companies push back against positive health movements, and Dr. Luc’s current research projects. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Luc Hagenaars, Ph.D., M.Sc.: Research Paper Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together. Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more. Apple Google Learn more

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Ahmad Malik has been a doctor for 25 years and an orthopaedic consultant surgeon for 12 years. After his late father's illness, he became disillusioned with mainstream medicines’ inability to tackle the root cause of chronic illness and its infatuation with Big Pharma products. For Dr. Malik, the Covid years and the resulting destruction of medical ethics were a real eye-opener. Frustrated with the lack of truth and honesty in mainstream media, he decided to provide an alternative platform to have honest conversations with fascinating people. In this conversation, Tro and Ahmad talk about what makes a great podcast that people actually want to listen to, Ahmad’s journey from childhood to medical school to , Ahmad’s parents and how they motivated him to achieve what he has achieved, what are the qualities of a great surgeon, an inside look at hospital politics in the UK, Ahmad’s discovery of proper human nutrition and his transition to private practice, Ahmad’s response to the vaccine mandates, Brexit, and the inception and progress of Ahmad’s podcast and online presence. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!   Links:   Dr. Ahmad Malik: Twitter Substack Podcast Additional Links Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together. Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more. Apple Google Learn more

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Mary Dugandzic is a Physician Assistant and former Medical Assistant at Tro’s clinic. She did her undergrad at Binghamton University and did her PA training at Marist College. She is now back at Tro’s clinic—this time as a Physician Assistant. In this conversation, Tro and Mary talk about why Mary chose to go into medicine, how her perspective on the traditional approach to medicine and medical care has changed over the years, all that is involved in going to PA school, a case report on a young man with Cushing’s Disease that both Tro and Mary worked on recently, and the experience of switching from PA school to working in a clinic or hospital. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Mary Dugandzic: Twitter Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together. Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more. Apple Google Learn more

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. William Cromwell is board-certified in Family Medicine and Clinical Lipidology with over 20 years of clinical research experience. Dr. Cromwell received his MD from Louisiana State University and completed his residency at the Trover Clinic Foundation in Madisonville, KY in 1990. Since completing residency, he has held numerous concurrent roles, practicing medicine, teaching at various universities, and serving as Medical Director, Chief Medical Officer, and Principal Investigator at organizations nationwide. Dr. Nick Norwitz completed his PhD at Oxford and is currently working on his MD at Harvard with the aim of becoming a physician scientist. His career goal is to help change the medical system to a patient-collaborative and metabolic-medicine first system. In this episode, Drs. Tro, William, and Nick talk about a recent meta analysis on the relationship between saturated fat intake, BMI, and LDL on a low carb diet, an overview on the history of knowledge about saturated fat and cholesterol, and Statins versus Oreos. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!   Links:   Dr. William Cromwell: Twitter Precision Health Reports   Dr. Nick Norwitz: Twitter YouTube Video Abstract Oreo Cookie Treatment Paper (**CALL TO ACTION** to Tweet the paper with the link in the tweet within the first 280 characters. Helps Altmetrics)   Dr. Brian Lenzkes:  Website Twitter   Dr. Tro Kalayjian:  Website Twitter Instagram   Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together.  Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more.    Apple  Google  Learn more  

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. R.D. Dikeman, PhD, is a theoretical physicist and loving husband of Roxanne Dikeman, PhD, a clinical psychologist. Their world was turned upside down when their young son David was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. After following conventional dietary advice for this condition led to uncontrollable blood sugar, dangerous “hypos,” and many sleepless nights, R.D. discovered the work of Dr. Richard Bernstein, MD, a medical doctor who has used a low-carbohydrate diet to control his own type 1 diabetes for more than fifty years and pioneered some of the most groundbreaking research on low-carbohydrate diets for diabetes in the modern era. Through working closely with Dr. Bernstein and as a founder of the Type One Grit online community, R.D. has helped provide thousands of other individuals and families living with type 1 diabetes with information to reduce the threat of complications and attain the truly normal blood sugars that all type 1 diabetics deserve. In this episode, Drs. Tro, Brian, and RD talk about what drew RD into the world of Type 1 Diabetes treatment, RD’s son’s Type 1 diagnosis, how the Type One Grit group came to be, why low carb is the optimal diet for diabetics, how to still eat what you want on a low-carb diet, big problems with the ADA, why Type One athletes do better on a low carb diet, the upcoming Low Carb Boca conference, and why having courage and integrity is needed in order to bring life saving information to Type One diabetics. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: RD Dikeman, PhD: Typeonegrit Facebook Page Twitter Diabetes University Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together. Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more. Apple Google Learn more

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Thomas Weimbs received his doctoral degree from the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1993. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Anatomy, University of California at San Francisco until 1999. In the same year, he joined the Department of Cell Biology in the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic as an Assistant Professor where he established his research laboratory focusing on investigating membrane trafficking and epithelial cell polarity as well as molecular mechanisms underlying polycystic kidney disease. In 2005, Dr. Weimbs was recruited to the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and moved his laboratory to UCSB. Dr. Weimbs is currently an Associate Professor in MCDB and in the Neuroscience Research Institute. In this episode, Drs. Tro and Thomas talk about how Dr. Thomas became interested in researching PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease), what PKD is, research that Dr. Thomas has done on the impact of ketosis on PKD, a recently published paper on the negative impact of the ketogenic diet on kidney health, how Dr. Thomas’ colleagues have reacted to his research, and lifestyle intervention programs using ketogenic metabolic therapy. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Thomas Weimbs: Weimbs Lab Twitter Research LinkedIn Facebook Group Santa Barbara Nutrients Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together. Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more. Apple Google Learn more

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Diljan Mansoor is an advocate for low-carb diets as a treatment for metabolic illnesses. He is an internal medicine doctor and is Nepal’s first low carb practitioner. His non-conventional low-carb approach to fixing chronic disease drew the attention of regulatory authorities and he was soon shut down. He was finally able to reopen his clinic, and he now conducts one-on-one sessions, helping metabolically ill patients improve their health through dietary intervention. In this episode, Drs. Tro, Brian, and Diljan talk about how Dr. Diljan discovered the low carb diet, how and why his clinic was shut down by the authorities, effectively progressing the low-carb message, the amazing work that Dr. Diljan has been doing with his patients, and the value of individualized care. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Diljan Mansoor: Facebook Instagram YouTube Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together. Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more. Apple Google Learn more

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Christopher Netzel is board certified in pain medicine and anesthesiology. He earned his doctorate degree with University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health in Madison in 2014. He wrote the guidelines for dorsal root ganglion stimulation as well as conducted research on preoperative opioid use and outcome after spinal surgery. His medical residency in anesthesiology was completed at University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics in Madison. Later, Dr. Netzel completed a fellowship in Pain Medicine at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. In this episode, Drs. Tro, Brian, and Christopher talk about how Dr. Christopher got into medicine, how to help overweight patients begin their health journey without overwhelming and discouraging them, the relationship between diet and chronic pain, putting diabetes into remission and treating peripheral neuropathy, heart disease and low carb dieting, why bariatric surgery, though sometimes necessary and useful, is not a permanent/comprehensive weight-loss solution, and other current pain treatment options and drugs. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Christopher Netzel: Coastal Health Instagram Facebook Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together. Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more.

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Christy Kesslering started out in conventional medicine as a Radiation Oncologist. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from UCLA and attended medical school at Loyola University Chicago-Stritch School of Medicine. She finished her Radiation Oncology Residency at the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2000 and has been treating patients in the Chicagoland area since that time. She realized that something was missing from conventional medicine and did additional studies to improve outcomes with cancer but also saw many other diseases improve. She has done additional studies in the fields of Functional Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and the Terrain-Theory of cancer. She is a Terrain Certified Practitioner trained by Dr. Nasha Winters and is a founding member of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners. She has been actively incorporating metabolic health practices into the care of oncology patients for many years. She has been named a Top Doctor multiple times by Castle Connelly and Chicago Magazine. In this conversation, Dr. Tro, Dr. Brian, and Dr. Christy talk about how Dr. Christy got into medicine and oncology specifically, helping patients understand cancer and the steps they can take to address it, taking a metabolic approach to cancer treatment, treating prostate cancer, the usage of metformin to treat disease, the various diets that are helpful for cancer prevention and the diets that are not helpful, how to address the root cause of cancer rather than merely applying bandaids, the proliferation of carcinogenic substances in every day products, how to optimize your life to beat cancer, chemo on keto, and the failure of modern medicine to successfully and adequately address chronic diseases. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Dr. Christy Kesslering: KessRx Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website Twitter Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website Twitter Instagram Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together. Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more. Apple Google Learn more

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. This is episode #8 of a special series on employee wellness. In this innovative series consisting of multiple episodes, Dr. Tro highlights the power of metabolic health, nutrition, and community in the employee wellness space. Each episode tells the story of a different individual whose metabolic health has been drastically improved for the better by Dr. Tro’s Employee Wellness Program. This episode tells the story of the founder and CEO of Captivated Health, Mark Gaunya. He has dedicated his entire career to helping other corporations become self-funded when it comes to health insurance. He uses innovative techniques to help companies save money and deliver cost-effective care while improving the health of their employees. For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!   Links:   Mark Gaunya: Email: mark@borislow.com Captivated Health NABIP   Dr. Brian Lenzkes:  Website Twitter   Dr. Tro Kalayjian:  Website Twitter Instagram   Doctor Tro App Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together.  Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more.    Apple  Google  Learn more