Episode 103: Dr. Ariel Ortiz

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Diet, Mental Health, Lowcarb, Nutrition, Keto, Brianlenzkes, Health & Fitness, Jasonfung, Doctortro, Intermittentfasting, Trokalayjian, Medicine, Meganramos

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

We are joined on the show today by Dr. Ariel Ortiz—a weight-loss surgeon and the founder of the Obesity Control Center in Tijuana, Mexico. We discuss the connection between preexisting metabolic disease and the risk of death from COVID-19. Dr. Ortiz tells the story of how he, as a result of his search for a pre-operative diet for his patients that would shrink their livers, discovered that low-carb dietary intervention could be used as a treatment for metabolic disease. Eventually our conversation turned toward doctor-patient interaction and the importance of making health easy for the patient. How can we utilize new technological/social platforms to make health easier and more sustainable for more and more people? Dr. Ortiz is hopeful that the advancement of telemedicine and remote monitoring will continue to grow, bringing real, effective health care that reverses disease to the whole world. Check out the info in the show notes to explore what Dr. Ortiz is up to right now!

Contact Info:

Dr. Ariel Ortiz:

Website: obesitycontrolcenter.com

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

Website: LowCarbMDSanDiego.com

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

Website: https://www.doctortro.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, where we seek progress, not perfection.
0:07.0	Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast I'm Brian Lenskis with my
0:16.1	Trustee partner here Trill collagean Trill how are you doing man? I'm doing great. I'm excited today. We have somebody who's got their act together. A surgeon, you know, not like us lowly internists here, you know, somebody's got his act together. So very happy. And there's the guy who trained some guy named Rob Saibis,
0:34.4	their friends, their buddies.
0:35.5	And you know, I got to meet him and he's a local San Diego guy.
0:38.8	So we get to hang out a little bit and have had dinner together
0:42.1	and got the chit- and man he's doing some
0:43.9	awesome stuff and he brings a lot of this step to the forefront so aerial
0:47.8	welcome man Dr Ortiz great to have you thanks for joining us and and stepping
0:52.4	down to this guy's got a studio at his place that it's just
0:55.2	unbelievable he could produce movies there.
0:57.2	So Ariel, how are you doing man?
0:58.8	Welcome.
0:59.8	Hey Brian Trot, thank you.
1:01.5	Thank you for the invitation.
1:02.4	We're doing great as much as we can with this staying at home and trying to stay healthy, right?
1:08.0	Yes, tough. You know, we were talking about being a surgeon now, your surgery centers down you're not allowed to do what they consider routine surgeries and yours are life saving surgeries.
1:18.7	Yeah, it's kind of a tough thing and so you're kind of branching out and reaching out doing a lot more education and so tell people
1:25.6	what you've been doing. I've been really impressed with everything you've been doing.
1:29.7	Well it started early March when well first of all I mean I'm a weight loss surgeon for the past 25 years
1:37.1	kind of started at the right time right place I was basically coming out of the residency program and I was invited and trained to do one of the first weight loss surgery procedures back in the early 90s and it kind of caught on but it's
1:58.9	interesting to to go back and see that the global epidemic of obesity and diabetes wasn't as prevalent as it is today.
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