Episode 154: Gary Taubes
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
We are very happy to have Gary Taubes on the show with us today. Gary is an investigative science and health journalist, author of several books, co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative, and a legend in the low-carb world. He has won multiple awards for his journalism over the course of his career. He graduated from Harvard College with an S.B. degree in applied physics, and received an M.S. degree in engineering from Stanford University and in journalism from Columbia University.
In our discussion with Gary, we talk about the cognitive dissonance between those who follow conventional wisdom and people who adhere to and advocate for diets like low-carb or other "fad" diets, the history of the development of the standard American dietary philosophy, we discuss different theories on the cause of obesity, studies in obesity research, the possible harms/advantages of artificial sweeteners, whether or not there are any good long-term studies on the ketogenic diet and other diets, regenerative agriculture, and to what degree anecdotal evidence is valuable in medical research.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.0 | As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.0 | but none of this is medical advice. |
| 0:15.3 | Please seek out input from your own doctor. Hello and |
| 0:25.0 | welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | This is a real honor for myself and Troi. |
| 0:29.0 | I know this is a person who's had a huge impact on us |
| 0:32.0 | and we were just musing over, you know, |
| 0:34.3 | in the few minutes we had before starting recording. |
| 0:36.9 | How much of an impact this journalist has had on so many doctors? |
| 0:41.0 | And the impact of, you know, one of my first books was why we get |
| 0:45.0 | fat right and what to do about it and in all these things and so the impact and of |
| 0:50.9 | a guy I'm it it's not just this story about keto and low-carb and all |
| 0:54.6 | this stuff it's a story of perseverance and putting up with a bunch of BS man I mean |
| 0:59.2 | I mean I good really honestly a good friend of mine is a master sports nutritionist and his I was looking at his previous |
| 1:07.2 | stuff and he put you as an example of what not to do nutritionally and he was carbloting |
| 1:12.2 | all the people as people are getting |
| 1:13.3 | sicker and getting worse and I say hey look you got to look at this guy now you're an example of how to use |
| 1:19.0 | nutrition so in just a couple years you went from a villain to a hero right and I think |
| 1:23.6 | but he actually changed what he wrote that's what I want he not only that he |
| 1:28.5 | changed his entire his name is Jeff Coterman at Tris System Nutrition in |
| 1:31.8 | San Diego and he changed his entire approach based on |
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