Ep. 196 Alternative Tools to Optimize Your Health

Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Menopause, and Science for Women 35+

Cynthia Thurlow

Nutrition, Life Sciences, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Science

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

I am delighted to have Dr. Bret Scher joining me on the podcast today! Dr. Bret is a board-certified cardiologist and lipidologist in San Diego who is helping to change the narrative around health and prevention. He is the host of the Diet Doctor Podcast, and he also does telemedicine cardiology. Dr. Bret is a forward-thinking cardiologist who is very well-versed in the medical literature. I have the greatest respect for him and believe he is changing the future of medicine moving forward. I feel fortunate to have interacted with him on social media and to have had the opportunity to be a guest on his podcast. In this episode, Dr. Bret shares his background and talks about how he started in preventative cardiology with a low-fat veganism approach and later evolved to focusing more on low-carb ketogenic diets and lifestyle medicine. We discuss the broken medical system, the contributors to it, and the outdated dogma that continues to be perpetuated. We dive into the cholesterol paradigm and what you need to be aware of that could help you figure out whether or not you need to be concerned about your lipid values. Dr. Bret shares his views on biohacking, and we also discuss metabolic flexibility and the future development of preventative cardiology and metabolic flexibility. I hope you enjoy listening to this helpful and informative podcast. Stay tuned for more! IN THIS EPISODE YOU WILL LEARN: Dr. Bret talks about his evolution as a cardiologist, and how his practice was initially influenced by the perspective of Dr. Dean Ornish. Why is it so hard for health care professionals in the U.S. to shift their focus and change the dogma around metabolic health? The perspectives of hospital-based physicians are slowly starting to shift towards lifestyle and prevention. Dr. Bret talks about the valuable pieces of technology he utilizes with his patients. There is a benefit to using tech devices, but it is easy to take things too far and assign too much importance to them. Why is it helpful to count net carbs with whole foods and total carbs with packaged and processed foods? Dr. Bret shares his take on seed oils. Dr. Bret unpacks cholesterol and the different types of LDL. Looking at Coronary CT angiograms for those who want to quantify whether or not they have any plaque in their arteries. Dr. Bret unpacks the issue with saturated fat. Connect with Cynthia Thurlow Follow on Twitter, Instagram & LinkedIn Check out Cynthia’s website Connect with Dr. Bret Scher On the Low Carb Cardiologist and DietDoctor websites The Diet Doctor Podcast The Diet Doctor YouTube channel Book mentioned: The Unhealthy Truth, by Robyn O’Brien

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0:00.0	This is everyday wellness, a podcast dedicated to helping you achieve your health and wellness goals and provide practical strategies that you can use in your real life.
0:11.0	And now, here is your host, Nurse Practition practitioner Cynthia Thurlow.
0:18.2	Today I had an opportunity to connect
0:20.0	with Dr. Brett Schur.
0:22.3	He is a board certified cardiologist and lipidologist in San Diego.
0:26.5	He's helping to really change the narrative in terms of looking at health and prevention and it's head of the podcast Diet Doctor.com and also does telemedicine cardiology.
0:39.0	He's someone that I've been fortunate to have interacted with on social media. I've had the opportunity
0:45.3	on his podcast. I respect him enormously. He's so well versed in the medical literature and on so many levels he's the kind of
0:54.2	cardiologist that I wish I had had an opportunity to work with when I was in
0:59.6	cardiology as an MP. Today we really dove into his background, how we started in preventative
1:05.8	cardiology with a Dean Ornish type approach, which is low-fat veganism, how we evolved
1:12.4	into being more focused on low-carb ketogenic diets, as well as lifestyle medicine.
1:19.4	We talked a bit about the kind of broken medical system and the contributors to that, as well as
1:24.8	antiquated dog lab that's been perpetuated like that is bad and that
1:29.8	saturated fat in particular meat or unhealthy. We did deep dive into the
1:34.9	cholesterol paradigm and things that you need to look out for beyond just
1:39.0	LDL specific more advanced lipid analysis that can be very helpful to tease out whether or not you need to be concerned about your lipid values.
1:48.4	We talked a lot about metabolic flexibility. We dove into a bit of biohacking and his personal philosophies on how these can be helpful for many patients and perhaps create anxiety and stress and others.
2:02.0	And then really wrapped it up talking about where we see
2:05.7	preventative cardiology and metabolic flexibility going in the future and so I hope that
2:11.1	you enjoy this podcast this is one that I found particularly joyful to record because it
2:17.8	hearkens me back to my cardiology days, but also demonstrates and really focuses in on someone that I look to as really
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