Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Doug Reynolds is the Founder and CEO of LowCarbUSA—a platform offering a variety of educational tools and resources to medical practitioners and laypeople alike. He is also the President of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners—an organization founded to represent all researchers and practitioners working to improve metabolic health around the world through education, training, and support of evidence-based nutritional approaches, including carbohydrate restriction, as a valid therapeutic option or intervention.

In this episode, Dr. Brian and Doug talk about how the SMHP (Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners) came to be, the purpose and vision of the SMHP, new developments in the SMHP such as the recently established Journal of Metabolic Health, the upcoming Symposium for Metabolic Health in San Diego, California (see show notes for details), and the benefits/dangers of sugar-free alternatives.

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Doug Reynolds:

• SMHP
• LowCarbUSA
• Twitter
• Symposium for Metabolic Health – San Diego 2024 (Aug 15 – 18)
• Discount Code for Symposium for Metabolic Health: LOWCARBMD

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

• Website
• Twitter

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

• Website
• Twitter
• Instagram

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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.

Dr. Matt Calkins is board certified in family medicine and loves studying the science of longevity, the optimization of all phases of health, and applying his knowledge to physician and patient wellness. Matt earned his M.D. from the University of Florida and holds a B.Sc. in physics. He has published papers on food addiction, CGMs, and diabetes.

In this episode, Tro, Brian, Matt, and Laura talk about the American Academy of Pediatrics’ recent recommendations with regard to children and low-carb diets, the AAP’s recommendations for children with regard to GLP1s and bariatric surgery, the differences between a low-carb diet that treats epilepsy and a low-carb diet tailored to treat metabolic disease, and why simply getting away from processed foods drastically improves health.

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AAP Publications referenced in this episode:

• Low-Carbohydrate Diets in Children and Adolescents With or at Risk for Diabetes

• Clinical Practice Guideline for the Evaluation and Treatment of Children and Adolescents With Obesity

• Management of Type 1 Diabetes With a Very Low–Carbohydrate Diet

Dr. Matt Calkins:

• Twitter

• Aging Successfully

• Carbohydrate reduction for metabolic disease is distinct from the ketogenic diet for epilepsy

Dr. Laura Buchanan:

• Twitter
• The Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

• Website
• Twitter

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

• Website

• Twitter

• Instagram

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. By the time Scott hit his late 40s/early 50s he weighed over 550 pounds thanks to his adherence to the standard American dietary/exercise advice. It was not until Scott began walking, fasting, and reading the work of Jason Fung and others that he was able to start dropping weight and getting healthy. Similarly, Scott’s wife, Camille has been able to radically improve her personal health following the same dietary principles that her husband discovered. Together they run the website Improvisational Keto Kitchen—a site which provides a number of dietary tools, hacks, techniques, and recipes that Scott and Camille have adapted or developed to make the very low carbohydrate lifestyle not only sustainable, but enjoyable.

In this episode, Tro, Brian, Scott, and Camille talk about the power of fasting, the work of Vinnie Tortorich and Jason Fung, the spiritual impetus for the beginning of Scott’s weight loss journey, why abstinence is often better than moderation for those struggling to lose weight and/or stick with their diet, how Camille’s arthritis, anxiety, asthma, fibromyalgia, and allergies have improved, how Scott and Camille support and help each other to continue down the path of health, the importance of having a ‘why’ motivating your health journey, avoiding the ‘reformed smoker’s mentality’ after you discover a health lifestyle that works for you, and the power of consistent effort.

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Scott and Camille:

• Improvisational Keto Kitchen

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

• Website

• Twitter

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

• Website

• Twitter

• Instagram

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Judy Kohlheim and Erika Bell met on the Clubhouse app in a keto community club created by Judy. They became fast friends and began talking/communicating outside of the app. Together, they are the brains and braun behind the Keto Orlando Summit.

In this episode, Tro, Judy, and Erika talk about their keto origin stories, the inception of the Keto Orlando Summit, the damage done by the ADA to innocent people and families and why no one should trust the ADA for nutritional information, pregnancy and trying to get pregnant on the keto diet, and the lineup of the upcoming Keto Orlando Summit.

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Links:

Judy Kohlheim and Erika Bell:

• Keto Orlando Summit

• Erika’s Instagram

• Judy’s Instagram

• Keto Orlando Summit Discount Code: DRTRO

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

• Website

• Twitter

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

• Website

• Twitter

• Instagram

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Judy Wolfe, a Certified Food Addiction Professional, SUGAR and HMA Certified through Bitten Jonsson, is a trailblazer in battling sugar and food addiction. She's a Co-founder of SUGARxGlobal.com, a 24/7 one-stop-shop recovery platform based on their unique C.A.R.E. System (Connection-Action Steps-Recovery Protection™-Education) for crushing cravings and sparking transformations. With a personal recovery journey spanning 33 years and impressively maintaining a 125-pound weight loss, Judy's practical, action-driven approach has positively impacted hundreds on their path to sugar/food addiction recovery.

In this episode, Tro, Brian, and Judy talk about the genetic aspect of food/sugar addiction, the behavioral signs of a person struggling with food addiction, the time period for addiction recovery, philosophical issues with public policies that try to tax an addictive food substance into obscurity and disuse, why stress is the number one killer of the addiction recovery process, why moderation is emphatically NOT the answer for those who are truly sugar/food addicted, how diets don’t work but good nutrition does, the beauty and power of community in the addiction recovery process, and the difference between an addict and a harmful user.

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Judy Wolfe:

• SUGARx Global
• YouTube
• Instagram

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

• Website
• Twitter

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

• Website
• Twitter
• Instagram

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Robert Lustig is Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Lustig has become a leading public health authority on the impact sugar has on fueling the diabetes, obesity and metabolic syndrome epidemics, and on addressing changes in the food environment to reverse these chronic diseases. He is also the author of many popular and influential books on the topics of nutrition and metabolic health (see links below). His qualifications, education, and full list of accomplishments are too extensive to list in their entirety here (see link below for his full bio).

In this episode, Tro, Brian, and Rob talk about how Rob first discovered that fructose was so unhealthy, why suppressing insulin is key to metabolic health, why Western people in general are still opposed to or wary of the message that ‘sugar is bad’, why whole food diets are the ideal for human health, reasons why fiber in the diet is beneficial, why processed food may be a necessary evil in our modern food landscape and how we can make ultra-processed foods healthier in light of that possibility, the basic principles of making ultra-processed food healthier and what makes food healthy for humans in general, mitochondrial toxins (what they are, and where they come from), and the amygdala’s role in psychiatric disease.

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Dr. Robert Lustig:

• Website

• International Food Addiction Consensus Conference

• Books

• Full Bio

• Monch Monch

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

• Website

• Twitter

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

• Website

• Twitter

• Instagram

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Paul Kolodzik is a double board-certified emergency and metabolic-health physician with thirty years of experience. As a private-practice metabolic MD, Dr. Kolodzik has used continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to help thousands of patients lose weight and prevent and reverse disease. In his first book, The Continuous Glucose Monitoring Revolution, Dr. Kolodzik presents a comprehensive program for metabolic-health success using CGM. He is also the Medical Director and Owner of Metabolic MD and is a founding member of the Society of Metabolic Health Physicians. In addition to holding a B.S. in Molecular Biology from Notre Dame and a Doctor of Medicine from Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, he has a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Dallas.

In this episode, Tro and Paul talk about how the medical landscape and, specifically, the diabetes treatment landscape is changing, why CGMs are a huge part of this change in the landscape, why CGMs are so effective for weight-loss and diabetes reversal, how the changing landscape is a movement toward the democratization of health, whether the term ‘reversed’ is appropriate when speaking of diabetes and metabolic disease, a few key problems in the standard Western healthcare education model, and the benefits of smaller private medical practices that are owned by doctors.

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Links:

Dr. Paul Kolodzik:

• Metabolic MD

• The Continuous Glucose Monitor Revolution

• TikTok

• Twitter

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

• Website

• Twitter

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

• Website

• Twitter

• Instagram

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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Grace Price is an 18 year old who has spent the past two years chasing after a cure for cancer. This chase led her ultimately to write, edit, produce, and direct the documentary film, Cancer: A Food-Borne Illness. The film follows Grace across the country as she searches for the lifestyle factors that are putting people at high risk for cancer. It turns out that one of the best ways to prevent cancer is simple: avoid sugar.

In this episode, Brian and Grace talk about how Grace first became interested in nutrition and cancer prevention, how AI can be implemented in educational settings for more efficient learning, the importance of keeping an open mind and staying unbiased in the pursuit of truth, how to effectively promote the message of good nutrition, processed food and mental health issues, Grace’s future plans with regard to cancer-prevention research and filmmaking.

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Links:

Grace Price:

• Twitter

• Cancer: A Food-Borne Illness (Documentary)

• Instagram

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

• Website

• Twitter

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

• Website

• Twitter

• Instagram

Doctor Tro App

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