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.

And now here are your host, clinical health psychologist Dr Kelly Donahue and nurse practitioner Cynthia

Thurlow. Good morning we have Dr Brian lenses who is a internal medicine doctor in San Diego who has been focusing on clinical nutrition.

He is also the co-host of low-carb MD, which is one of our favorite podcasts that we listen to.

He went to UC Irvine and received a

BS in biology before attending USC medical school, clearly a lifelong

California man. After graduating in 1999 he started his residency program at Scripps in San Diego and extended his residency for an extra year as chief resident before starting his private practice career at Internal Medicine Associates in 2004.

Dr. Lensgus has been voted one of the top doctors

in San Diego for 11 years.

Even with gaining the respect of the medical community

and his patients, he still felt a void as many patients with chronic conditions became more sick and required more medication.

At the same time, he battled his own weight game while following standard medical advice. After numerous hours of research,

conferences and implementation, he now loves to share his knowledge and personal experiences with you.

He is currently down nearly 50 pounds after making some quote-unquote evidence-based lifestyle changes

Welcome. Oh, thank you so much for having me. It's great to have to be on your podcast

It's fun when we had you on we to be on your podcast. This is fun.

We're so excited.

We had you on, we appreciate it.

I appreciate the opportunity to come on.

You do have some great work over here.

Well, we'd like to start at the beginning,

and I think your story is probably fairly compelling.

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