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Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Episode 325: Doctors Karl & Spencer Nadolsky

Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter

Zach Bitter

Sports, Fitness, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Hybridathlete, Ultra, Endurance, Ultramarathon, Running, Run

4.7615 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2022

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Spencer Nadolsky is an Obesity and Lipid Specialist Physician, Medical Director of @joinsequence. Dr. Karl Nadolsky is an Endocrinologist, and diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. They are both former D1 wrestlers, co-hosts of the Docs Who Lift Podcast. Both use a low carbohydrate diet, at times, with their patients, but willingly push back when they believe advocates go beyond its value. We discuss this, as well as things to be mindful of when using continuous glucose monitors. 

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0:00.0

Thanks for tuning into this episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Zach Bitter.

0:10.0

All right, folks, welcome back to another episode of the Human Performance Outliers podcast.

0:14.4

I'm your host, Zach Bitter, and today I have a guest interview for you.

0:17.9

In fact, it's two guests, brothers, Dr. Carl and Spencer Nodulski.

0:23.9

So Dr. Spencer Nodgolski is an obesity and lipid specialist physician, medical director of

0:30.3

joint sequence. Dr. Carl Nodalski is an endocrinologist and diplomat of the American Board

0:36.2

of Obesity Medicine. They are both

0:38.0

former Division I wrestlers, co-hosts of the Docs Who Lift podcast. They both have used

0:44.0

low carbohydrate diets with their patients at times, but they are very open and willing to push

0:50.1

back when they feel advocates of this dietary approach reach beyond the evidence available.

0:57.1

And we do discuss that to some degree at the end of this podcast, as well as just being

1:02.2

mindful with some of the new tools that we see in kind of the health and fitness world,

1:08.1

like continuous glucose monitors.

1:10.2

So I've done a couple podcasts with continuous glucose monitors as the topic.

1:15.9

And we did touch on some of the potential downfalls with those on those.

1:18.7

But they were primarily kind of focused on the tech,

1:22.0

what it offers from an availability standpoint to the user and what that maybe means

1:25.8

and changing the way we view things

1:28.6

in regards to blood sugar control and stuff like that.

1:32.2

But, you know, as you'll learn when we kind of talk about this topic in this episode is,

1:36.5

it's sort of one of those things where it's not only imperfect in the sense that a

1:43.8

continuous glucose monitor isn't a guarantee 100% accurate

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