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

Ethan Weiss, and I've got to be honest, this is an interview I've been looking forward to

because as a preventive cardiologist, I can't help it. I like talking to other preventive

cardiologists, especially when they're low-carb-friendly preventive cardiologistsologists because let's be honest we're kind of a rare breed but before we get

into all the details first dr weiss he has got his medical degree and internal medicine residency from

johns hopkins he did his cardiology fellowship at ucsf where he is now on staff um both in a clinical

role and in a research role and i think that's something's something that makes him uniquely positioned to give

great advice and think about things from a wonderful perspective because he has that one-on-one

interaction with patients. What can I do to help this patient in front of me today and now

with what I know? And he has an understanding of what it takes to design these trials and run trials

and do good science. And that's a big part of his message is sort of doing good science

means separating the emotion from science. And we talk about that. We also talk about the article

he wrote with Nicola Gess about low carb tribalism and sort of he has some interesting

perspectives about reflecting on how he wroteism and sort of he has some interesting perspectives about

reflecting on how he wrote that and sort of the reception he got and how he would do

things differently. I think that's very interesting. And as you'll notice, as we start

discussing things, this thread or this topic of LDL, of course comes up multiple times.

I tried to drag it out and save it for the end

to get through a lot of the stuff first before we opened up what can be a can of worms.

Let's face it, LDL can be very controversial. But I do appreciate his approach to it.

And even though everybody listening isn't going to agree with his approach or agree with his

conclusions,

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