Episode 275: Dr. Rob Cywes
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Rob Cywes specializes in Weight Management and Bariatric Surgery for adults and adolescents in West Palm Beach, Florida. He has performed over 8,000 surgeries over the course of 18 years. His medical training began in Cape Town, South Africa where he received his medical degree from The University of Cape Town. In 1989, Dr. Cywes moved to North America and completed a year-long residency in Pediatric Surgery at Ohio State University's Columbus Children's Hospital. Then he moved to Canada where he completed his general surgery residency and specialized in Minimally Invasive Surgery at the University of Toronto. Also, Dr. Cywes earned a Ph.D. in Liver Carbohydrate Metabolism and the effect of glucose metabolism on liver transplant immunology.
In this conversation, Drs. Brian and Rob talk about the importance of exercising critical thinking when sifting through the massive amount of info and opinions about nutrition and diet out there, Dr. Cywes' foundational core concepts for metabolic health, how bariatric surgery fits into holistic health and how to view it in the context of long-term health, how to escape the vicious cycle of addiction to sugar and refined carbs through empowerment rather than deprivation, changing behavior and not just diet, the value fo knowing your 'why' for losing weight or improving health, learning to connect with and examine yourself when you feel the need to find gratification and relief in something unhealthy, dopamine fasting, and the benefits of using a CGM.
For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!
Links:
Dr. Rob Cywes:
- Obesity Understood
- Ketogenic Textbook
- YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook: @carbaddictiondoc
- Phone: 561-517-0642
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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. |
| 0:25.4 | Hello and welcome back to the Low-Carb MD and the Life's Best Medicine Podcast. |
| 0:29.7 | This guy is so great that he has to go on both. |
| 0:31.5 | I don't want to waste two hours of his life trying to get him an interview on both podcasts. |
| 0:35.9 | But I will tell you, he's had a massive, massive influence on me and my career choice of going |
| 0:40.6 | into direct primary care and self-help and really being able to help people from a metabolic |
| 0:46.4 | standpoint. |
| 0:47.4 | He's been a spearhead on this. |
| 0:50.3 | He was the first one I heard talking about food addiction and carbohydrate addiction. |
| 0:54.4 | He's trained with Tim Knokes. |
| 0:56.7 | He's the addiction doc. |
| 0:58.4 | Rob Sylv is welcome, doc. |
| 0:59.4 | Great to have you back. |
| 1:01.4 | You know that you are one of my heroes in the space and I know it sounds like mutual |
| 1:05.8 | accolades, but it's absolutely true. |
| 1:08.2 | Not only in the way you practice and the passion you bring and the knowledge you bring to |
| 1:12.2 | each individual patient, which we need to talk about, but also as a human being, your contribution. |
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