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Low Carb MD Podcast

Building Sustainable Strength and Fitness | Amelia Wood - E411

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Medicine, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 82 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Amelia Wood is an ACE-certified Personal Trainer dedicated to helping people feel strong, confident, and capable in their own bodies. Known for her approachable, no-gimmicks style, Amelia focuses on building sustainable fitness habits that fit real life. She's passionate about functional strength, movement that feels good, and empowering others to discover just how resilient they can be.

In this episode, Dr. Brian, Dr. Tro, and Amelia talk about…

  • (00:00) Intro
  • (04:04) Why Amelia started her podcast, The Magic of Metabolic Health, and became a personal trainer
  • (13:42) Learning delayed gratification and sustainably healthy living
  • (18:06) Learning to enjoy exercise
  • (25:04) Looking for the 'why' behind behaviors you want to change
  • (30:56) The five stages of achieving success
  • (35:18) Cultural considerations when building a sustainably healthy lifestyle
  • (47:39) Merging acting, entertainment, and wellness
  • (51:24) What it means to be a 'food first' personal trainer (and why CGMs are awesome!)
  • (01:06:53) Gut health and overall metabolic health
  • (01:11:50) A1C, fat, and butyrate
  • (01:18:32) Outro

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast.

0:03.2

No one is beyond help.

0:04.9

No one is beyond hope.

0:07.2

Nothing said on the Low Carb MD podcast is medical advice.

0:11.3

Please consult your own doctor before making any lifestyle changes.

0:20.8

Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast.

0:23.9

Trow, gosh, man, we've been so busy.

0:27.1

It's so great.

0:27.7

We have a fun guest today.

0:29.2

And we've been traveling the world.

0:31.9

I've been traveling the West Coast in a little circle doing nothing.

0:36.0

So tell people, whatever you've been, your adventures, you've been with the unwinds and doing like big talks and stuff. Yeah, a lot going on. A lot going on. Super, super excited. Had a great time in the UK with the food addiction conference. You had a food addiction. You had a whole conference on something that doesn't exist. That's amazing. You're being cheeky. Yeah, of course. It was, it was great. It was a great conference. Remember back in the day when we talked about that trope, people said these guys are nuts. And now we have whole conferences on it. Yeah, yeah. I think, you know, Brian, you've been ahead of your time, a lot of things. A microbiome, I don't know, you know, see more and more about it. Every time I see that, I'm like, see, true. I'm like, tip to Brian. I'll be crazy for a while and go, okay, let's see what the data shows. And then we know what we're seeing. So it's fun for me.

1:28.6

It's exciting to say, hey.

1:42.5

And that's what I love about our community is that we can be open mind and go, let me look in it. Because when we see something that violates what we believe, we have to say, why is this happening? Because it doesn't make sense. And if you go, you're doing everything right. Either you're lying.

1:44.9

Like we used to think everyone who did the ADA's diet,

1:45.6

they weren't lying.

1:47.0

They were following the commands and they were getting worse diabetes. But now we're saying, well, if you're really doing a carnivore diet, there's no way you can have insulin resistance. There's no way you can have high sugars, high triglystorides. It doesn't meet any of our expectations. And when we see it, we have to say, why is this happening? And you look at the gut and 100% of the time I'll say right now in my patients, that's the issue that we have to look at. So you go, okay, how do we fix that problem and see if it makes you better? If you get better, then I'm right. If you don't, then I'm wrong. And guess what? My patients are getting better. so I enjoy my job and I smile more. It's all about outcomes.

2:19.9

You know, it's all about outcomes. And guess what, my pieces are getting better, so I enjoy my job and I smile more.

2:21.0

It's all about outcomes. You know, it's all about outcomes.

2:26.5

Yeah, I'm just, it's, it's been great, man. It's been great tomorrow.

2:32.5

Well, this will be out by then. We have a big grand opening and a meet up here in New York.

2:36.1

So that's going to be exciting. I'm coming out to California, you know, not, not, not too far in October, flying back and forth to D.C., Brian,

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