Episode 160: Dr. David Tusek
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. David Tusek is a Board Certified Family Physician, a member of the Academy of Sports Medicine, a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine, and a member the Institute of Functional Medicine. He has been a direct primary care physician for over a decade.
After sharing a brief overview of his history as a physician, Dr. Tusek discusses the development of his philosophy of medicine and his thinking on the optimization and reformation of the medical care system.
Additionally, we talk about the need for the elimination of vested financial interests in medicine, the necessity of reforming the medical system in a more patient-focused direction, the epidemic of metabolic sickness and general unhealthiness in the United States, how individual health relates to community health and environmental health, and the direct monetary and potential indirect health benefits of the combination of DPC + healthshare.
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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 welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:28.0 | Trot man I miss you it's been too long. Happy 2021 Here we go. |
| 0:33.0 | Yes, a new year. |
| 0:34.0 | It's a new year. |
| 0:35.0 | We have a very exciting guest today, guys. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm very excited to have Dr. David Toussak on with us. |
| 0:41.0 | He is a board certified family physician who's a member of the Academy of |
| 0:48.9 | Sports Medicine, the American Academy of Anti-Aaging Medicine, and the Institute of Functional |
| 0:54.2 | Medicine. But besides all that, he's an absolutely great guy and he is truly a pioneer. |
| 1:04.0 | We've had, you know, Steve Horwitz has been doing direct primary care for a long time on |
| 1:09.0 | in one of the past episodes and really we have the great pleasure of having Dr. Dusak who's |
| 1:14.4 | been doing direct primary care for over a decade and so we are very happy to |
| 1:21.8 | have you here to talk about, well, first, you know, how you got |
| 1:26.0 | started in direct primary care and how that's affected your relationship with your patients and how it's giving you the time |
| 1:38.0 | and the energy to kind of look into things that maybe you wouldn't have been able to look into |
| 1:42.3 | had you stuck to the conventional |
| 1:44.2 | approach to insurance-based medicine. So thank you for having, thank you for |
| 1:48.1 | coming on. Well, guys, thanks so much for having me on. It's a real honor. Love your show. You know, I have to also thank my amazing beautiful humans that are patients of our practice that are also prominent members of the |
| 2:06.1 | Carnivore community that they actually put on the Carnivore Conference here a few years back in Boulder, which is where I'm based, Boulder County, Colorado. |
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