Episode 325: Luc Hagenaars, Ph.D., M.Sc
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Luc Hagenaars, Ph.D., M.Sc., is a policy advisor and researcher with a fascination for addressing the social and commercial determinants of health. His scientific expertise concerns the analysis of health policy innovations with case studies, system mapping and applied policy process theory. He has extensive experience in developing health policy through his previous work at the Dutch Ministry of Health. He is Assistant Professor Health Policy Analysis at Amsterdam UMC and a visiting scholar at the University of California, San Francisco. Hagenaars received his Ph.D. from the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, and his M.Sc. in global health from Maastricht University.
In this conversation, Tro and Luc talk about how Luc's interest in the social determinants of health came to be, a recent study looking at why the field of obesity prevention is stuck and how it could be unstuck, the issue of weight stigma and how it relates to the 'health at every size' movement, finding effective solutions to the obesity problem, how to influence government policy to embrace effective solutions, how companies try to influence your food buying decisions at the grocery store, how big food companies push back against positive health movements, and Dr. Luc's current research projects.
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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 back to the low-carb MD podcast. We are commercial free in the five |
| 0:30.2 | years we have been doing this we have not taken any outside funds |
| 0:34.4 | uh... completely self-funded and funded by listeners i'm just proud |
| 0:38.8 | to be here today actually somebody i met at obesity week, which was an incredibly large but dark conference on obesity, looking to tackle obesity, a couple of areas of bright light and that, you know, I always think deserve to be sort of highlighted and we love to tease out more. |
| 1:00.0 | Today we have Luke Hagenars. That pronounced that right Dr. Hagener. |
| 1:05.0 | You did that very well. |
| 1:07.0 | So let me tell you a little bit about him just so you know. |
| 1:10.0 | He's he considers himself a policy walk and an academic and he certainly is. |
| 1:17.0 | He did his PhD at Redbound University and then he did his master's in global health, he's focused on obesity. |
| 1:28.8 | And he recently did a, he went with a grant, a pretty prestigious grant to UCSF to study some of the social determinants of obesity and some interesting projects that I got to see firsthand at Obesity Week. |
| 1:43.4 | And currently he's an assistant professor at Amsterdam University |
| 1:48.1 | and it was just nice to meet you and it's nice to have you here. |
| 1:51.6 | You're taking your Friday night and spending it here, so I want to thank you. |
| 1:55.7 | Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah, one of the things I was talking about off air before we sort of like hit the record button was you know was the story and I and I would |
| 2:07.9 | love it if you could tell the listeners a little bit about it of just growing up in your |
| 2:12.1 | hometown and you got to see industry sort of work |
| 2:16.3 | firsthand and I just loved that story it left such an impact on me I mean even now |
| 2:21.3 | months later I still lift an impact on me. I mean even now months later I still lift an impact on me. Do you mind telling that story? |
| 2:27.4 | Sure. I must admit that it's sort of a story that I invented a couple of years after I already moved from the town where I grew up. |
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