#379: Obesity & Chronic Disease Risk with Dr. Spencer Nadolsky

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Danny Lennon

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🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Danny and Alan are joined by Dr. Spencer Nadolsky. Dr. Nadolsky is a board-certified obesity specialist, lipidologist, and family physician.

In this episode we discuss the strengths and limitations of BMI, adipose tissue type and relevance to risk, hypertrophic vs. hyperplastic adipocytes, 'Metabolically Healthy Obesity', and weight stigma.

Show notes available at sigmanutrition.com/episode379

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 379 of Sigma Nutrition Radio. As always, I am Danny Lennon, and as usual, I'm here with
0:24.5	Alan Flanagan. Alan, how are you today, sir? I'm good. I'm looking forward to this discussion.
0:30.6	We're delighted this week to be joined by a special guest on this week's episode, Dr. Spencer
0:35.8	Adolsky, and we're going to be talking about a large
0:39.2	area with a lot of context and nuance to get through. We're going to be discussing obesity and
0:44.2	chronic disease risk and a number of subtopics that relate to that. But first, Dr. Spencer
0:50.8	Odolsky, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks. I think it's been five years or something
0:56.0	like that. I don't know. It's been a while. It's been a while. So can you maybe just give some
1:00.6	people who might be unfamiliar with your background, just a quick overview of expertise and how
1:06.9	that kind of fits in with today's topic? So I got in undergrad, I exercised science degree,
1:13.4	then went to medical school. That's pretty general for everybody. And then you specialized.
1:18.4	I decided to do family medicine, which is like the broadest. So I did family medicine,
1:22.7	then specialized in further into obesity medicine and then added in lipids as well, lipidology. So the difference with
1:30.7	me was a very strong background in sports, nutrition, and exercise, and kind of the idea of
1:36.8	using lifestyle as medicine as much as possible. But I have a very keen interest in pharmacology,
1:42.8	too. But basically, there's no such thing as a cardiometabolic medicine specialist.
1:47.1	They're talking about making this type of specialist, which would be a combination of endocrinology and cardiology.
1:53.3	And leaving out, like in the endocrine part, like thyroid cancer and other pituitary type of disorders,
2:02.8	probably like Cushings and things like that.
2:10.1	And then in cardiology, you would leave out more of the electrophysiology and more go to cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment without being an intervention type of thing.
2:15.3	So you'd combine those two things and come up with
2:19.3	cardiometabolic medicine. I kind of carved it out for myself doing kind of broad medicine
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