Episode 185: Dr. Christine Najjar
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Christine Najjar is a Board Certified Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine physician. She studied biochemistry at McGill University, earned a Masters in Nutrition at Columbia University while finishing medical school at the same time. She did her Internal Medicine residency at University of Connecticut.
In this episode, Tro and Christine talk about the Armenian and Lebanese diets, the severe lack of good nutritional information in medical education, why the calories-centric model of weight loss is not sufficient for dealing with weight loss, why the academic nutritional community is stuck in this old calories/energy way of thinking, the importance of paying attention to how you feel and getting your information from objective data, and what the ideal patient looks like.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.4 | As we've always said we're bringing you medical information and cutting-edge |
| 0:11.5 | science, but none of this is medical advice. Please seek out input from your own |
| 0:18.1 | doctor. |
| 0:20.3 | All right guys, welcome to the newest episode of the low-carb MD podcast. Brian is going to be so upset that he missed this one. |
| 0:31.8 | Okay, because I've seen this guest talk in front of the DGA and it really moves me. |
| 0:41.2 | Today we have Dr. Christine Najar with us. She is a board certified internal medicine and obesity |
| 0:50.2 | medicine physician. She did her undergraduate career at McGill where she studied biochemistry. |
| 0:57.6 | She did her masters in nutrition at Columbia while she was finishing medical school. |
| 1:03.6 | She went on to do an internal medicine residency in Yukon where she graduated in 2019 and then |
| 1:09.6 | subsequently got her ABOM obesity medicine certification. So Dr. Christine Najar and she has an |
| 1:17.3 | amazing health story. She's on Instagram at Dr. Stish. So I would check that out. But Dr. Christine Najar, |
| 1:26.0 | thank you. Can I just call you Christine or what do you want me to call you? Christine is fine, |
| 1:30.8 | Dr. Christine. Okay, so yeah, I'm just curious. I know a little about your story and I know our |
| 1:37.9 | listeners are going to be eager to kind of hear about it. But I want to go back. I want to understand, |
| 1:46.0 | okay, what makes Dr. Christine Najar a tick? And so I know you were you were |
| 1:54.3 | have I mean look, you when got a master's in nutrition, you were you know into lifestyle for a long |
| 2:00.0 | time. You probably so how to understand when did you first know you wanted to go into lifestyle |
| 2:06.7 | medicine and when were you interested in diet? When did this all manifest and then how did that |
| 2:12.5 | change over time? So when did it all start? It all really started in childhood. I you know born |
| 2:21.0 | and raised in New York, but both of my parents or first generation came to America. They were both |
| 2:27.0 | born and raised in Lebanon during the Civil War. And so in the summer times rather than sending me |
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