If the ketogenic diet can help people who struggled with metabolic and mental illnesses, how come it was never taught in medical school? Dr. Bret Scher, a trained cardiologist, completed a combined preventive and general cardiology fellowship. As a certified cardiologist, he was hesitant when a health coach advised they try keto diets with their patients. Fat is bad. But after conducting extensive research on ketosis, he became an advocate for nutritional ketosis. Despite the evidence contradict...
Apr 04, 2023•54 min•Ep. 85
Andy Schoonover was frustrated that, despite paying $1,200 a month for coverage, his insurance refused to pay for his daughter's $8,000 ear infection procedure. Foregoing his insurance led him to develop a solution that could help those who are uninsured. He founded CrowdHealth. He shares that the idea behind CrowdHealth is medical health crowdfunding, which is a return to the notion of neighbors helping each other when someone is ill. Their goal is to build an alternative to the current healthc...
Mar 28, 2023•59 min•Ep. 84
Addiction is a primary chronic illness that can manifest in various forms, including food addiction. This is what Bitten Jonsson wants to emphasize. She was a nurse who struggled with smoking and alcoholism at the onset of her career. She was forced to enter rehab and during that time, she learned addiction medicine, which helped her overcome her drinking and smoking habits. Yet she continued to struggle with compulsive eating of ice cream and chocolate. That was when a doctor diagnosed her as a...
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 83
A yoga instructor and professional equestrian turned personal trainer, Kem Minnick noticed a decline in her physical and health after years of veganism. Her personal quest for health revealed the importance of tryptophan, which is necessary for the production of serotonin in the brain. She realized that insufficient serotonin was a root cause of her chronic physical ill-health and lack of mental clarity. Further personal experimentation proved to her that her vegan/vegetarian practice was the ca...
Mar 14, 2023•57 min•Ep. 82
One may assume that a socialized healthcare system, in which the government pays for the majority of medical expenses, would be more concerned to prevent illnesses in the first place. Nevertheless, Dr. Max Gulhane, a general practice registrar, describes the Australian healthcare system as one that operates more like the profit-driven healthcare system of the US. The change in the population's diet and nutrition - one that promotes eating more grains, more bread, and more carbohydrate consumptio...
Mar 07, 2023•55 min•Ep. 81
Almost 30 years after earning her bachelor’s degree in Nutrition and Dietetics as well as her master’s degree in Medical Science, Nutritionist Jen Cleveland continues to unlearn a lot of things she was taught about nutrition. She has spent 30 years in the same big academic children’s healthcare institution. In that time, she has observed what she describes as an alarming increase in the number of children presenting with type-2 diabetes. She has worked with kids with high triglyceride levels, hi...
Feb 28, 2023•56 min•Ep. 80
Dr. Ovadia was quoted in a Huffington Post article. The headlines were mostly accurate, but the body of the article was a comical mish-mash of misinformation, mal-information, and outright ignorance. In this recording from a live Twitter Spaces, Dr. O sets the record straight. He also takes questions from the audience. A few excerpts on The 5 Harmful Myths About Food's Effect on Heart Health: Myth 1. A low-fat diet is best for heart health. While trans fat and hydrogenated fats found in processe...
Feb 21, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 79
Chronic diseases are preventable. Dr. Paul Kolodzik has seen enough people losing their legs or needing dialysis in his emergency medicine career - all of which can be avoided. For the last 5 years, he focused on metabolic health practice. He knows there’s an opportunity to prevent the patients’ chronic illnesses and their potential side effects. And it begins with spending enough time with the patient and educating them. Something most primary care doctors lack the time to do. So in this episod...
Feb 14, 2023•59 min•Ep. 78
What started as a venture for better cash flow became a passion project for Hal Cranmer. From flipping houses and running rental properties, he switched to the assisted living industry. He has visited several homes, and he knew he didn’t want residents just laying down or watching TV as if waiting for their end to come. He wanted the residents to enjoy and live a quality life. To learn more, he researched exercises and low-carb diets. He hired doctors and personal trainers who share his goal. He...
Feb 07, 2023•59 min•Ep. 77
Al Danenberg thought he was a poster boy for a senior healthy living lifestyle and eating habits, but one sharp pain in the shoulder led to back pains, chest pains, and breathing difficulty. He found out he had incurable bone marrow cancer and had only a few months left to live. That was 2018. What helped him was a series of unconventional cancer protocols that he tweaked as he went along, but that doesn’t mean there were no setbacks. He fractured himself so many times. He was cleared with cance...
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 76
Dr. Tro Kalayjian - a formerly 350-pound doctor - had to unlearn much of what he'd been taught in medical school to get his health back. Dr. Laura Buchanan - a former athlete - had the same sort of experience. She learned early on that she wanted to integrate metabolic health into her medical practice. Despite having different backgrounds in both personal health and medicine, Dr. Tro and Dr. Laura now collaborate to give their patients the best care possible. To address the underlying reason for...
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 75
For some people, being healthy is always associated with weight loss. Krisna Hanks never had that problem. Having spent 30 years of her life as a professional dancer, she was a vegetarian, did Pilates and swimming to strengthen herself, and took care of her body as her topmost priority. But at one point in her life, a bad joint pain made her struggle to stand up or sit down. For 2 years, doctors can't diagnose what was wrong with her. With all tests exhausted, her physical therapist friend recom...
Jan 17, 2023•55 min•Ep. 74
With 15 years of professional experience in health and fitness, Michael Stanwyck probably finds maintaining a healthy lifestyle easy. Yet he admits he still struggles just like everyone else who gets tempted to eat a small piece of cookie or skip a workout for the day. He also recalls how they struggled during the early days of creating a program for the CrossFit community. As self-improvement junkies, they combined what works in the self-improvement world and apply it to their community. That w...
Jan 10, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 73
Immediately putting a patient on medication has been normalized. Dr. Efrat Lamandre (Dr. E) maintains that it should not be. In this episode, she shares her story of how she started her functional medicine practice, how she has taken more time to listen to her patients than before, and why she'd check nutrition and sleep first before any exercise recommendation. Healthcare professionals frequently overlook the initial course of treatment recommended by pharmacological guidelines — dietary lifest...
Jan 03, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 72
Not everyone would readily agree to do an ice bath and endure the uncomfortable sensations of being submerged in the cold. But Scott Carney, who personally experienced it, found the benefits of doing so. As a journalist and anthropologist, he has investigated organ trafficking, experienced war zones, and met Wim Hof, the Iceman, himself. Wim Hof’s known for his ability to endure cold temperatures as his meditation technique and alter the immune system's response. Our mind tends to come up with w...
Dec 27, 2022•59 min•Ep. 71
As a cop, Eric Reynolds maintained an active lifestyle, playing basketball and carrying weights. Nevertheless, he dealt with continual injuries. When he saw himself in the documentary Cops and Cabins , he was shocked. He looked heavy and sick. He knew he had to make a change. A friend who'd lost 50 pounds mentioned the ketogenic diet. He'd never heard of it. So, he researched what it was and how it worked, including meal planning and macros tracking. It made sense to him, so he decided to try it...
Dec 20, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 70
A first on the show: a board-certified OB-GYN and nutrition specialist who practices integrative medicine. To ensure the health of women and mothers, Jamie Seeman treats lifestyle as first-line therapy. She optimizes the controllable factors like diet, exercise, and sleep, before prescribing any medicine to the patient. She was motivated to modify her outlook and lifestyle after being diagnosed with pre-diabetes and taking thyroid medication during her pregnancies. With a large following on soci...
Dec 13, 2022•56 min•Ep. 69
Diet is the most neglected part of oral health. It is also the cause of why we have crooked teeth and many other oral problems. Kevin Stock, the first dentist to guest on the show, shares relevant information about the co-relation of food and diet to our teeth, with historical evidence, and how it also affects our metabolic health. He was once an overweight kid so, at an early age, he was already interested in health and fitness. As a student, he joined physique competitions, but he knew he wasn...
Dec 06, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 68
As an ex-professional heavyweight boxer with a physics degree, Ed Latimore can surely explain how lipolysis works for the audience to understand. Not all healthcare professionals can do that. He’s also not the type who would buy any information just thrown at him without digging and understanding especially if it’s his health that’s on the line. The creator of “Coffee So Black” memes, he offers so much knowledge in this episode, sharing his personal experiences on losing weight as a professional...
Nov 29, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 67
Indirect calorimetry. A tongue twister of a word, but a game changer to metabolic health. Kirsty Woods of Metabolic Health Solutions from Perth, Australia has observed how valuable it is for research, particularly for polycystic ovarian syndrome, fatty liver, diabetes - basically anything associated with metabolism, but it's not just that. A technology usually confined to laboratory and study purposes, she is determined to show its greater use beyond research. Experiences with different patients...
Nov 22, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 66
As a former professional athlete with an Economics degree, Alex Feinberg went on to work in a global macro hedge fund and later became a Google employee, so he is more than just a ripped health and fitness enthusiast. In 2014, when he decided to change his training by running faster in just a short distance, he unexpectedly lost fat without much effort. He seemed to do everything against the book, yet he saw desirable results. Running faster at a shorter distance, lifting weights, but with fewer...
Nov 15, 2022•59 min•Ep. 65
The ketogenic diet was developed in the 1920s as a cure for epilepsy, but when epilepsy medications hit the market, the diet was entirely forgotten. Thomas Seyfried remembers that 35 years ago at Yale University, the challenge was to do something about epilepsy. At that time, it was a prime area of research in neurology. From mapping epilepsy genes, he studied ketogenic diets and how lowering blood sugar and elevating ketones could help manage epilepsy and even cancer. For years, there has been ...
Nov 08, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 64
Siobhan Huggins grew up with a negative self-image. At 18, she was obese and developed depression. Whenever she tried a new diet, her depression symptoms would get worse. Later on, she was diagnosed with lipedema. Her mom encouraged her to learn more about the ketogenic diet. She decided to do keto strictly for 2 months. The changes she experienced - from losing weight to improving her mental health - made her stick with it. This gave her the drive to research more about its benefits. Siobhan kn...
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 63
Animals fed with food they don't eat in the wild get sick. The same thing happens to humans. We get sick with obesity, diabetes & autoimmune diseases. Dr. Anthony Chaffee dives into the medical literature & current studies to learn what applies in real life. His personal practice as a carnivore combined with his research makes him uniquely qualified to counter arguments against the carnivore lifestyle. As a medical doctor currently training in neurosurgery, he witnesses the benefits of c...
Oct 25, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 62
May your actions always align with your values and goals. That’s how Ryan Munsey signs his book, F*ck Your Feelings: Master Your Mind, Accomplish Anything and Become a More Significant Human His background is in Food Science and Human Nutrition, but he skipped the clinical route in favor of personal training. He opted to work with those eager to achieve optimal performance. As he saw people fail with their workout plans, he wondered, "Why do their actions not align with their goals? That questio...
Oct 18, 2022•56 min•Ep. 61
Keto without the crazy. Low-carb and keto-oriented nutritionist Amy Berger's goal is to provide information about the keto diet without the fuss of different apps, spending too much, or weighing every molecule of food. Her knowledge of low-carb diet started during her college years, thanks to Dr. Atkins and his book New Diet Revolution. She was already practicing low-carb diet when she took her master's degree in human nutrition. Already aware of its effects and benefits, it prompted her to delv...
Oct 11, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 60
Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng wants you not to end up in the ICU. An ICU doctor and a department head at the Ottawa Hospital, Dr. Kwadwo knows metabolic disease is a massive driver of poor outcomes. Studies even established the link between poor metabolic health and COVID outcomes. But what do we do to treat that? When doctors focus primarily on sick care, they hardly ask anymore why the patient landed there in the first place. And that's what we need. We have to talk about the root cause to find the ...
Oct 04, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 59
The year was 2004. It was the year Kevin Pho - a board-certified internal medicine physician - launched his blog. Blogging physicians are still uncommon. Sometimes in the exam room, patients would tell him how helpful his blog posts are. As doctors only get to spend 10-15 minutes with their patients, their questions remain unanswered. Kevin knows there's a need for more medical professionals to influence the online space, provide reliable sources of information, and at the same time clear up a l...
Sep 27, 2022•43 min•Ep. 58
Is a vegan diet sustainable? Is the body’s fuel of choice fat or carbohydrates? Is sugar the real root of the problem? Vinnie Tortorich - the trainer to the stars - gives answers and isn’t apologetic when it comes to stating facts. Even as a student back at Tulane, he knew to ask questions when something did not seem right. With an educational background in physiology and nutrition, this fitness coach knows how valuable providing proper nutrition is for his clients. He's published book, three do...
Sep 20, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 57
Nick Norwitz was diagnosed with osteoporosis in his late teens. Not long after, he developed gut problems and ulcerative colitis. At one point in his early 20's, he ended up in the ICU with a heart rate the same as his age. Who would have thought that this young man used to be a healthy, active guy who ran three-hour marathons? While lying in ICU, he realized he had 3 options: live a horrible life die figure things out for himself. He chose to take responsibility for his own health. He experimen...
Sep 13, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 56
