Episode 300: Dr. Andrew Mente
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Andrew Mente received his doctoral degree in Epidemiology from the University of Toronto. He completed post-doctoral training in cardiovascular epidemiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, and is currently an Associate Professor in Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact at the Population Health Research Institute, McMaster University. Dr. Mente has studied the role of dietary sodium and cardiovascular diseases in the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology (PURE) study—a study whose findings call into question the dietary guidelines around fat, carbohydrates and salt.
In this conversation, Drs. Tro and Andrew talk about the impact of dietary salt intake and mortality, the methods used to study how much sodium people are consuming, the history of research on sodium intake and its relation to mortality, the optimal sodium intake range for humans, the history, methods, and findings of the PURE study, the risk to human health that arises from eating processed carbohydrates, the interesting issue of 'healthy user bias' in epidemiological studies, dairy intakes and health outcomes, and red meat and health outcomes.
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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. |
| 0:25.2 | Welcome to the Low-Carb MD Podcast. |
| 0:27.1 | We have an extra special guest today, Dr. Andrew Mente. |
| 0:31.7 | You've seen him in the New Malin Journal of Medicine. |
| 0:33.7 | You've seen him in JAMA. |
| 0:34.8 | You've seen him as publications on salt. |
| 0:37.8 | You've seen his work with the Pure Study on carbohydrates, on dairy, on meat, inclusionism |
| 0:47.2 | through the pure, after the findings from the Pure Study, the Pure Study is a study of |
| 0:51.5 | over 100,000 people in 18 different countries, in five continents. |
| 0:58.7 | One of the biggest epidemiologic studies ever done, and Dr. Andrew Mente has sort of |
| 1:04.1 | led the way they are with a amazing team and published in the findings. |
| 1:09.6 | So we're very, very excited to be discussing some of these topics today. |
| 1:14.8 | Just a little bit about Dr. Mente. |
| 1:17.8 | He did his doctoral degree in epidemiology at the University of Toronto. |
| 1:21.5 | He did post-doc training at McMaster, specifically around cardiovascular epidemiology, and |
| 1:29.9 | I am into now he's on the faculty at McMaster for a number of years. |
| 1:34.9 | And I am just excited, you know, I've watched you for social media. |
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