Episode 286: Dr. Laura Buchanan and Nick Norwitz
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast.
Dr. Laura Buchanan is board certified in Family Medicine and is on the board of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences from the University of South Florida and was a valedictorian of her class at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She is on staff at Dr. Tro's Medical Weight Loss & Direct Primary Care.
Nick Norwitz completed a PhD in neuro-metabolism at Oxford University in just two years and is now pursuing on MD at Harvard University. His research expertise is ketosis and brain aging; however, he has published scientific papers on topics ranging from neuroscience to heart disease to gastrointestinal health to genetics to bone health to diabetes.
In this conversation, Tro, Laura, and Nick talk about a paper that Nick Norwitz co-authored with dietician Michelle Hurn. The paper is titled, "Animal-based ketogenic diet puts severe anorexia nervosa into multi-year remission: A case series," and was published in the Journal of Insulin Resistance in June of 2023.
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The Paper: https://insulinresistance.org/index.php/jir/article/view/84
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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. |
| 0:25.0 | Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm joined today with Dr. Laura Buchanan and Dr. Nick Norowitz, and I'll make their introductions |
| 0:32.9 | in a bit. |
| 0:33.9 | Today, we're going to be talking about anorexia, which is something very important to me. |
| 0:40.0 | In fact, I've been very open and vocal about me having anorexia as an adolescent. |
| 0:47.8 | And it's something that I think many people take for granted, the impact of relationship |
| 0:57.6 | to food on particularly young men and women, the associated weight stigma, the restricting |
| 1:04.4 | of diet, the deep involvement of mental health. |
| 1:08.9 | And so this is a very vulnerable population. |
| 1:11.9 | There are very few eating disordered licensed social workers and therapists, and it's a very |
| 1:21.1 | vulnerable group of people. |
| 1:23.9 | And so I'm, this is something very important to me, something very meaningful to me. |
| 1:30.8 | And this podcast is very special, a little bit about Nick Norowitz. |
| 1:36.6 | We've had him on several times. |
| 1:37.8 | I think he's the most recurring guest at this point. |
| 1:42.2 | He did his undergraduate at Dartmouth. |
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