Dopamine, Serotonin, and the Keto Diet | Dr. Rubén Ancona Bolaños - E410
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Drs. Tro and Rubén talk about…
- (00:00) Intro
- (02:02) How Dr. Rubén first became interested in metabolic health
- (22:07) How addiction plays into metabolic dysfunction
- (27:07) How Dr. Rubén helps his patients reclaim their metabolic health
- (29:05) Dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin, and insulin resistance
- (53:39) Gut health and antibiotics
- (56:47) Dopamine detoxing
- (01:03:29) Dr. Rubén's clinical approach
- (01:08:50) How to keep patients motivated
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | No one is beyond help. |
| 0:05.0 | No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.0 | Nothing said on the Low Carb MD podcast is medical advice. |
| 0:11.0 | Please consult your own doctor before making any lifestyle changes. |
| 0:20.0 | You know, Brian got to this amazing guest before I had a chance to, and we struggled to connect. |
| 0:28.8 | But finally, you know, fate has put us together. |
| 0:32.3 | We have Dr. Rubin and Konak Bologna, who is a MD and also a researcher in Mexico. |
| 0:42.0 | We've met several times, I think at least once, once at Boka, maybe twice at Boka. |
| 0:48.1 | And it's, you know, I heard him a couple months back on, I thought it was a little bit further back, |
| 0:55.3 | but he told me three months ago on the Life's Best Medicine podcast, and we're excited to have him on today. |
| 1:04.1 | We were just talking about some of his thesis work, looking at exogenous ketones versus ketosis. |
| 1:11.4 | So I'm excited to talk about that. |
| 1:13.5 | And I'm certainly excited to talk about the fact that we need to, |
| 1:17.2 | and I know this is something our mutual friend, |
| 1:21.1 | Dr. Adrian Sotomoto has been working on, |
| 1:23.1 | but sort of revitalizing the or vitalizing the metabolic movement in South America, Central America. |
| 1:33.3 | They revitalize the movement because there's so many brilliant lines in Central Mexico, first and foremost, |
| 1:43.3 | but all throughout Central and South America. |
| 1:48.3 | So how can we amazing conferences that happen that people don't even know about with |
| 1:54.3 | thousands of people in Chile? |
| 1:57.5 | And so how can we unite these continents a little bit? So I'm excited to talk about that. |
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