Episode 322: Drs. William Cromwell and Nick Norwitz
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast.
Dr. William Cromwell is board-certified in Family Medicine and Clinical Lipidology with over 20 years of clinical research experience. Dr. Cromwell received his MD from Louisiana State University and completed his residency at the Trover Clinic Foundation in Madisonville, KY in 1990. Since completing residency, he has held numerous concurrent roles, practicing medicine, teaching at various universities, and serving as Medical Director, Chief Medical Officer, and Principal Investigator at organizations nationwide.
Dr. Nick Norwitz completed his PhD at Oxford and is currently working on his MD at Harvard with the aim of becoming a physician scientist. His career goal is to help change the medical system to a patient-collaborative and metabolic-medicine first system.
In this episode, Drs. Tro, William, and Nick talk about a recent meta analysis on the relationship between saturated fat intake, BMI, and LDL on a low carb diet, an overview on the history of knowledge about saturated fat and cholesterol, and Statins versus Oreos.
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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. Brian is going to be so upset that he missed this one. |
| 0:29.0 | I have an absolute luminary, well two absolute luminaries I should say. I have Dr. William Cromwell who, if you've been living under a rock, he is a well-known lipidologist and we'll do a formal introduction of him in a minute and we have Dr Nick Norwitz who you all know from our podcast now several times coming back and joining us. We're going to be |
| 0:54.7 | talking about two very interesting topics. We're going to be talking about |
| 0:58.7 | statins and aureaus and we're also going to be talking about the new meta analysis that just came out very recently, |
| 1:06.4 | which I think is relevant to this topic. |
| 1:08.8 | Just a bit about Dr Cromwell, he is a board certified family medicine doctor. |
| 1:15.3 | And he started his medical undergraduate medical education at LSU |
| 1:19.3 | and he did his family medicine residency in Kentucky, went on and did his lipid |
| 1:23.9 | fellowship in Washington, U. He is one of the co-inventors of the LPR |
| 1:29.5 | score or the NMR lipids that we order now every day. |
| 1:35.0 | He started a lab which was eventually acquired by Lab Corps |
| 1:39.0 | that had over 17 million samples. |
| 1:42.0 | So, and he's at 700 research papers. 17 million samples. |
| 1:49.0 | So and he's at 700 research papers and now he's the CMO of precision health reports. He has a clinic in Raleigh, North Carolina, and he has decided to bring his level down to the mere internist level |
| 1:58.4 | here at Locorme Pto Podcast and educate us about lipids. And coming back we have Dr Nick Norwitz who's a |
| 2:06.5 | PhD from Oxford and is now finishing his MD and if you've been living under Iraq, you know, now probably more publications |
| 2:17.0 | and the ketogenic diet in the past three years |
| 2:19.0 | and any other researcher I know. |
| 2:21.0 | Is that accurate, Nick? That's probably actually. You probably don't know a lot of |
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