Episode 320: Dr. Thomas Weimbs
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Thomas Weimbs received his doctoral degree from the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1993. He conducted postdoctoral research at the Department of Anatomy, University of California at San Francisco until 1999. In the same year, he joined the Department of Cell Biology in the Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic as an Assistant Professor where he established his research laboratory focusing on investigating membrane trafficking and epithelial cell polarity as well as molecular mechanisms underlying polycystic kidney disease. In 2005, Dr. Weimbs was recruited to the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and moved his laboratory to UCSB. Dr. Weimbs is currently an Associate Professor in MCDB and in the Neuroscience Research Institute.
In this episode, Drs. Tro and Thomas talk about how Dr. Thomas became interested in researching PKD (Polycystic Kidney Disease), what PKD is, research that Dr. Thomas has done on the impact of ketosis on PKD, a recently published paper on the negative impact of the ketogenic diet on kidney health, how Dr. Thomas' colleagues have reacted to his research, and lifestyle intervention programs using ketogenic metabolic therapy.
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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. Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. Today you guys are in for a very special treat |
| 0:29.4 | we're going to be talking about PKD, Polysistic kidney disease. We're going to be talking about kidney disease and we have a very special |
| 0:37.8 | guest, an esteemed professor from the University of California and Santa Barbara and who had quite an |
| 0:46.1 | interesting career and is leading the way I guess with a very interesting |
| 0:51.8 | clinical work that we'll hear more about. |
| 0:54.0 | Today we're joined by Thomas Wines, who basically started his career, PhD in Germany, and started in a lab in Cleveland Clinic, his own |
| 1:08.1 | lab looking at sort of cellular biology, and that's where he started his work on |
| 1:13.3 | PKD and for the last 18 years he's been at UCSB and there is a full |
| 1:21.1 | professor in the molecular and cellular biology department if I |
| 1:27.3 | remember correctly and most recently he's he started a company to focus on dietary interventions for PKD and is doing a lot of clinical work. I'd love to hear more about that. |
| 1:41.0 | What caught my attention was twofold, you know, how we sort of |
| 1:46.9 | interacted, I'd say we both you know criticized a serious paper you know, criticized a serious paper, you know, a paper from the journal, |
| 1:56.0 | Serious, or I don't know, I, I mean how they pronounce it serious. Is it serious? |
| 2:00.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 2:02.0 | So, um... So we saw a paper on a case report that we both felt similarly that the authors had inappropriately attributed the kidney disease to the dietary intervention. |
| 2:17.0 | And we have both sort of written comments about that on the paper. |
| 2:22.0 | And then he's been publishing on... about that on the paper. |
| 2:22.5 | And then he's been publishing on PKD for a long time. |
| 2:26.2 | I've seen his work from several years ago, |
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