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Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Chris Keroack on Weight Loss Drugs and Shifting from Conventional to Functional Medicine

Dr. Ruscio Radio, DC: Health, Nutrition and Functional Healthcare

Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

Medical, Health, Functionalmedicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.5774 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2016

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

A great conversation with Dr. Chris Keroack, MD. Dr. Keroack shifted from a conventional weight loss doctor to functional medicine. We discuss some of the best medicines for weight loss and what type of person might be a “super responder.” We also cover new weight loss devices and surgeries, weighing the pros and the cons. We wrap up with how Dr. Keroack is currently integrating functional and conventional medicine.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:15.2

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0:22.9

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0:27.0

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0:32.2

any disease.

0:33.3

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0:37.1

Now let's head to the show.

0:41.7

Hey, everyone.

0:42.6

Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio.

0:44.9

This is Dr. Rucho.

0:46.4

I am here with Dr. Chris Kerouac, a good friend of mine.

0:51.0

And gosh, so many things I want to discuss with this gentleman.

0:54.9

But I guess short story of which will definitely elaborate, Dr. Kerouac, Chris is a classically trained medical doctor who is over the past several years transferred into functional medicine.

1:08.8

And he was actually a guy when I was just a snot-nosed college student, didn't know anything.

1:16.4

He was a guy I shadowed several times and kind of took me under his wing and showed me what it would be like to be a part of the conventional medicine system.

1:26.0

And I learned a lot from that.

1:27.7

And we've stayed in touch ever since over now what is maybe, gosh, over a little over 15 years.

1:34.6

I think that's right.

1:35.4

And, yeah.

1:36.7

Honestly, I think it was a lot of fun for me, too, because what you brought to the picture is really this aspect of healthy nutrition and activity, which in classically trained medicine, we get very little of.

1:49.2

I mean, I went to Tufts University, and we brag about the fact that we have four hours of nutrition and quite no activity.

1:57.1

So you brought something to my component that was really helpful.

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