#36 - Eric Westman, MD

Diet Doctor Podcast

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4.8 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2019

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Few people on the planet have as much experience with helping patients using low carb lifestyle as Dr. Westman. He has been doing this for over 20 years, and he approaches this from both a research and clinical perspective. Through the years he has gained valuable insight about the clinical utility of low-carb lifestyles and the culture of low-carb academia. With this knowledge he has helped thousands of patients revitalize their heath and he wants to spread his message through satellite clinics across the country to reach as many people as possible. We should all jump at any chance to listen to Dr. Westman to gain a fragment of his vast knowledge and experience.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Diet Doctor podcast with Dr. Brett Schur.
0:06.0	Today I'm joined by Dr. Eric Westman.
0:08.0	Now Dr. Westman is a true pioneer in the world of low-card medicine.
0:13.0	He's been involved for over 20 years, having started basically by reaching out to Dr. Atkins himself
0:19.0	and then taking sort of the anecdotal approach
0:22.0	and trying to apply it to science
0:23.6	and starting to really further the research in low carb.
0:27.0	And this was over 20 years ago.
0:28.9	And now he has experience as an associate professor of medicine at Duke.
0:32.6	He's board certified in internal medicine and obesity medicine
0:36.2	and he's the founder of the Duke
0:37.9	Lifestyle and Medicine Clinic. Now he's trying to bring his approach all over the country
0:44.4	rather than just being in one setting, and he's doing that through the heel clinics. He's a true
0:48.3	pioneer in the field of low-carb medicines, so much so that he's even proposing maybe that we need a keto
0:54.7	specialty in medicine.
0:57.0	And that's part of what I really enjoy about this interview is just getting a little bit
1:01.5	of a little picture of his experience because he's probably has more singular experience
1:06.6	than any provider out there.
1:07.9	So to hear from his clinical perspective and also how he bridges the gap between his
1:12.6	clinical perspective, clinical understanding and knowledge and experience and research
1:18.2	and bringing that together to further this movement of low carb, who it's good for, what it can do,
1:24.0	maybe where you have to be careful, some of the roadblocks. He knows all of this.
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