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Low Carb MD Podcast

Episode 169: Dr. Sean O'Mara

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Medicine, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Sean O'Mara is a Performance and Longevity MD/Researcher, Speaker, and 2016 NSF Grant Recipient. He is founder and operator of MedCon Wellness—a medical practice dedicated to reversing & preventing chronic disease. Dr. O'Mara is determined to do more than simply treating disease symptoms, and, by innovatively exploiting both science and nature along with proprietary technology, he achieves amazing results with his patients.

In our discussion, we talk about Dr. O'Mara's personal experience with and discovery of the low carb/high fat way of eating, the structure of a hypothetical, future health care system built to serve a healthy population rather than a diseased population, financial conflicts of interest in the current insurance model of health care, why visceral fat works so well as a metric for measuring metabolic health, the relationship between visceral fat loss and insulin resistance, the relationship between the microbiome and metabolic health, and foods that help build a healthy microbiome.

Additionally, we converse about processed keto replacement foods that contain sugar alcohols and pre-biotic fibers and their effect on the gut microbiome, why visceral fat is a better marker than subcutaneous fat, high intensity exercise, the difference between exercise and activity, how to determine what is the right diet for you, how fermentation effects foods high in carbohydrates and makes them better food sources for humans, and a look at Dr. O'Mara's personal diet.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast.

0:03.8

No one is beyond help.

0:05.8

No one is beyond hope.

0:08.5

As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science,

0:12.7

but none of this is medical advice.

0:15.7

Please seek out input from your own doctor.

0:24.9

Hello and welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast.

0:26.9

We have a good one today.

0:28.4

I've been excited about this for a long time.

0:30.0

I'm telling you, this guy has stuff that's going to revolutionize medicine, I think,

0:34.4

and what we're doing, for sure.

0:37.0

He's been doing a lot of work behind the scenes, so, Troll, how are you doing, man?

0:41.7

I'm doing great.

0:42.7

I've been following this guy for a bit on Twitter, and I've seen some amazing imaging studies

0:49.3

just with reversal of vascular issues that have just really opened up my eyes.

0:57.0

I've seen some interesting data on visceral fat, and I'm really, really happy to finally

1:02.6

have the man, the good doctor, and lawyer on today, so yeah, I'm very excited, Brian.

1:08.8

Yeah, Dr. Sean O'Meara, welcome, welcome, tell people what you're doing and how you're

1:14.4

going to help us out with medicine to figure out these difficult patients.

1:18.0

Sure.

1:19.0

I'm formally trained as a emergency medicine doctor, but like a few of us now in this space,

1:24.8

I get involved in the low-carb dietary movement, and got interested in going paleo, probably

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