Episode 297: Dr. John Schoonbee
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr John Schoonbee is a medical doctor who has been working in the insurance field for over 20 years, and directly for reinsurers since 2005. Currently he is the Chief Medical Officer at Swiss Re for Europe, the UK and Ireland, Middle East, and Africa. Dr. Schoonbee is involved in many aspects of life insurance, including product development, risk and claims assessment, as well as helping with pricing some of the more complex medical life and health products.
In this conversation, Drs. Tro and John talk about what made John initially interested in medicine, learning from the great Tim Noakes, why changing health outcomes is dependent upon changing diet and lifestyle, how it became clear through an analysis of the data that the American Medical Association's dietary guidelines are wrong, how Dr. John and his company work to make people healthier, the goal of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners, and the mental/emotional health improvements linked to low-carb diets.
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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 | Welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:26.8 | I am here today by myself. |
| 0:28.9 | Dr. Brian could not be here today, and I am here with a special guest, Dr. John Stunbi, |
| 0:37.0 | who is a very interesting fellow. |
| 0:39.3 | He's been putting on an amazing conference for a number of years now, and he's a physician. |
| 0:47.2 | He graduated from the University of Cape Town. |
| 0:49.8 | He was trained by the great Tim Noakes, and he was in family practice for four years |
| 0:56.2 | before joining Swiss Rhee as their medical director, and I believe he's the global chief |
| 1:03.0 | medical officer now, Swiss Rhee. |
| 1:06.0 | He also helps put on two conferences yearly. |
| 1:10.4 | One is the Food for Thought Conference, which is a collaboration with the British Medical |
| 1:15.0 | Journal, and that will be in October 10th in 11th, and another conference with just |
| 1:22.2 | produced by him in Swiss Rhee, which is fixing metabolic health, and that's on October |
| 1:27.3 | 9th. |
| 1:28.3 | So, October 9th, 10th, and 11th, he's part of setting up an education series to really |
| 1:37.6 | spread the message of nutrition that food is medicine, and that metabolic health matters. |
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