Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast where we seek progress, not perfection.

Hello and thank you for joining us on our introductory episode of the

low-carb MD podcast. I'm Brian Lenskis and I'm joined today by a friend and

someone who I respect a great deal who's on this journey with me and

also happens to be an internal medicine doctor who struggle with his weight and is

also trying to figure out how to help his patients the best he can.

Tro Collasion.

Hey Tro, thank you so much for joining me and I'm excited about this journey we're going to have

together.

Very, very happy to be here.

Yeah, I think we're going to have a lot of fun and we're going to learn a lot and we're going to help a lot of people out.

Truro the thing I saw about you is seeing your your interactions on Twitter.

You're a guy who's lost 150 pounds changing your lifestyle, changing your life, saving your life, really, and you're sharing that with other people. And I see that you care about your patients, even though I'm on the West Coast and you're on the East Coast, we're both kind of practicing the same medicine.

So Trot, tell people your story for people who don't know you already.

Yeah, so really I'm here, just like you said, to help kind of get the message out

to talk about important things in nutrition and you know make

nutrition fun again. See if we can help people along the way and and have fun doing it.

So my story really starts, you know, I want to say about three years ago,

when I found myself 350 pounds and wondering why I was obese as in you know board certified internal medicine

position and you know my wife I remember she was pregnant with her third kid at the time

and she posed the question to me, you know, are you going to be around to play with these kids that were having and she did it in a completely safe and supporting way and it got me thinking, you know, and she asked me point in simple she's like you're a

smart doctor why can't you figure out why you're overweight and that really got me

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