Episode 305: Larry Sharpe
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Larry Sharpe is a business consultant, podcaster, and entrepreneur. Previously, he was a gubernatorial candidate in the state of New York. He is also a veteran of the USMC, a husband, a father, and an advocate of the keto diet.
In this conversation, Dr. Tro, Dr. Brian, and Larry talk about how Larry discovered the keto diet, emotional eating and self-consciousness, carbohydrate addiction and its ill-effects, the psychology of addiction, social pressure to conform to the standard American diet, New York politics with regard to nutrition and agriculture, why carbs are non-essential in the human diet, philosophical issues in federal patent law, counter productive government programs, why the medical establishment is not optimized to make people healthy, and why Libertarianism has not caught on en masse in the United States.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.0 | As we have always said, we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.0 | but none of this is medical advice. |
| 0:15.3 | Please seek out input from your own doctor. Hello and welcome back to the low-car MD podcast. Oh no Tro. I'm outnumber. I got two New Yorkers. I'm the sole West Coast representative here |
| 0:34.0 | Southeast Southwest guy so I might need a translator but I think I think we'll be able figure out most of this stuff |
| 0:40.4 | Listen we're gonna turn us and we're, and we're loud. |
| 0:43.2 | Yeah, go ahead, sorry Larry. |
| 0:44.8 | We'll talk slower for you, it's fine, we'll slow down. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah, I'm just going to hit mute now and just not even try. |
| 0:49.6 | Listen, today we have Larry Sharp, okay, he's a business consultant, entrepreneur, |
| 0:55.3 | podcaster, okay, he's a host of a podcast, a sharp way. |
| 0:59.2 | I've been on the show, if you haven't, go back and watch it on YouTube. The other thing he is a prior |
| 1:06.3 | governor candidate in 2002 22 and hopefully he will be running again in 2026. |
| 1:14.8 | We definitely need him here in New York. |
| 1:16.6 | I'm just happy to meet you one. |
| 1:19.9 | And then I find out he's been low-carb longer than I have. |
| 1:24.0 | He's been low-carb. |
| 1:24.6 | So Larry, awesome to have you here. |
| 1:27.8 | Help us understand how you got started |
| 1:31.0 | in sort of your own health journey your own health space maybe you could even |
| 1:33.9 | talk us how you got into politics and then maybe mix the two and see what |
| 1:39.7 | happens. Well let's see it's hope it's exciting. The, me getting into Kido is actually a sad story that ends well. |
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