Welcome back to the Diet Doctor Podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Brett Schur. Today, I'm joined by Dr.

Quadro Caramentang. Now, he is a pretty remarkable guy. He's an ICU, an intensive care

unit doctor in Ottawa, Canada. But he's also got a master's of health administration. He's a podcast host.

He runs the Resource Optimization Network, which is a research institute,

with the goal of transforming health care

and optimizing the use of health care resources.

And he is a really passionate and powerful voice

that I think really deserves to be listened

to.

We talk about a number of different things in this episode, including COVID.

I mean, he is the epitome of a frontline COVID worker and his take on metabolic health

and prevention of severe COVID infections and the importance of metabolic health is an important

message that I think we all need to hear. And also Ottawa is doing something really well with

COVID because he actually mentions that he hasn't seen many cases lately because they've done a good

job of preventing it. But also, we talk about so much more than that. I mean, we talk about low

carb. He's sort of new to the low carb space, but what he sees as the benefit of it and how sort

of his eyes were opened by it. And we talk a lot about, um, about race and ethnicity and

socioeconomic class and how that impacts health care and sort of the steps that need to be taken

to break that down to reach more people and really spread the message of health promotion

to prevent disease and promote health for all of us, not just those who can afford it,

not just Caucasians and upper socioeconomic classes,

but for everybody.

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