Episode 128: Dr. Charlene Lichtash
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
We are happy to be joined on the show today by Dr. Charlene Lichtash who is the co-author (along with Drs. Megan Ramos and Jason Fung) of an amazing case report on diabetes reversal published in the BMJ. In this episode, we discuss the potential of fasting and a ketogenic diet practiced in conjunction to reverse diabetes. In discussing this topic, we delve deeply into the aforementioned case report as well as many relevant individual test cases. What types of people benefit from a marriage of keto and fasting? What types of people see benefits from just fasting or from just eating a ketogenic diet? What is the role of exercise in increasing insulin sensitivity? How does psychology factor into a patient's success? We discuss these questions and more with Dr. Lichtash in today's show.
To read Dr. Lichtash's case report, see the links below…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, where we seek progress, not perfection. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast |
| 0:14.8 | Trot today we have a cool person with us how are you doing man? |
| 0:18.8 | I'm doing great and very excited about today's show. We have a brilliant young doctor who's going off on her |
| 0:26.6 | own, becoming a physician entrepreneur, but besides that she published an amazing case report in the BMJ with two co-authors. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm not sure if you guys have all heard about them, Megan Ramos and Jason Funk. |
| 0:44.6 | Just an amazing case report of diabetes reversal |
| 0:49.7 | from a territory of A1C around 10, which is a place where we'd usually initiate |
| 0:56.4 | insulin, all the way down to 5.6, which is like beyond even you know |
| 1:01.8 | being pre-diabetic now basically normal. |
| 1:04.8 | So just an amazing case report. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm talking with her. |
| 1:09.1 | I know she's been doing this kind of work for a bit and very happy to have Dr. Lichthash on. |
| 1:17.0 | And Dr. Lichthash has a little bit of an interesting story. She went to |
| 1:22.0 | UCLA for medical school. She did |
| 1:24.7 | her residency training at Cedar Sinai and she had worked for a large medical group four bit and she is now going off and becoming a physician |
| 1:36.7 | entrepreneur. She's also obtained her certification in obesity medicine. Dr Likthash, can we go by first names? Of course. Okay, Charlene, |
| 1:46.2 | very nice to meet you. Very, very nice to meet you and have you on. So, thank you so |
| 1:50.9 | much for having me. Let's start. |
| 1:53.0 | I'm maybe we'll go into physician entrepreneurship later in the show, but can we start with this |
| 1:57.0 | amazing case report that was published in BMJ? |
| 2:00.9 | Yes, thank you. Thank you so much for having me and bringing me on to discuss this |
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