Episode 260: Dr. David Saenger
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. David Saenger is an ultra-marathon runner, advocate of the low-carb diet, and practitioner of general invasive cardiology. He started his undergraduate education at Harvard, finished pre-med at Columbia, went to Stanford Medical School, and did his internal medicine residency at Mt. Sinai where he later returned to do his cardiology fellowship.
In this conversation, Drs. Tro and David talk about how Dr. David, a New Yorker, found himself practicing medicine in Eugene, Oregon, how Dr. David found his way into medicine in the first place, how Dr. David incorporates diet and lifestyle into his practice, how Dr. David discovered authors like Gary Taubes even though he comes from a very traditional medical background, Nina Teicholz's book, The Big Fat Surprise, the four largest employers of physicians, inspiring and motivating patients, dietary philosophy, what Dr. David eats in a day when he is training for a run versus what he eats when he is not training, supplementing with magnesium, how to safely and effectively de-prescribe, and the role of cardiovascular imaging in cardiac prevention.
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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. |
| 0:25.1 | Welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:27.3 | We have a pretty special guest here, somebody who I follow on social media for a bit, and |
| 0:33.1 | he peaked my interest not only because he's a cardiologist, not only because he's empathetic |
| 0:39.2 | to patients with obesity, not because he's probably has the most IV league names I've seen |
| 0:47.9 | on his resume, but honestly what peaked my interest about Dr. Sanger was the fact that |
| 0:55.0 | he's an ultra marathoner who's supportive of low-carb diets. |
| 1:00.2 | So I am very happy to have Dr. David Sanger here, and I'll just give a very brief intro. |
| 1:06.9 | He's actually a New Yorker, so we may curse in this podcast, but we're going to interrupt |
| 1:15.2 | a lot because New Yorker's interrupt a lot, but you guys will all be patient everywhere |
| 1:19.2 | else in the world, I guess. |
| 1:22.5 | So he started his undergraduate education at Harvard, brief stint with Newark City tour |
| 1:31.6 | guiding, which I want to hear a little bit about, but he ended up doing his pre-med at |
| 1:37.9 | finishing off at Columbia, went to Stanford Medical School, did his internal medicine |
| 1:41.8 | residency at Sinai, started working as an internal medicine doc and was called to do something |
| 1:48.3 | more, went back, did his cardiology fellowship at Sinai, and now he's here with us. |
| 1:55.4 | And somewhere along the way, you got inspired to do ultra marathons. |
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