Episode 331: Luis Villasenor
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 March 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Luis Villasenor is the founder of Ketogains—a personal coaching and nutrition/fitneess education website. He is also an international speaker, nutritionist, personal trainer, teacher, and bootcamp coach. Luis is regarded as one of the most experienced and knowledgeable persons on Low-Carb / Ketogenic dieting and is the “go to guy”when applying a Low-Carb diet for Bodybuilding and Strength Training. Luis has a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration & Marketing and Nutrition & Sports Sciences, as well as numerous certifications in Nutrition, Powerlifting and Bodybuilding, and is a guest lecturer and teacher in several Universities.
In this conversation, Brian, Tro, and Luis talk about Louis’ personal health journey, Louis’ struggle with anorexia and general bad health, why muscle mass is one of the keys to longevity, why not all carbs are created equal, the impact that anxiety has on physical health, Binge Eating Disorder and food addiction, why stress, sleeplessness, and poor mental health are the root factors causing obesity, how a person can develop their will power “muscle,” why it is not too much protein but, rather, drugs and carb cycling that causes kidney problems in the body builder population, wether or not you need to eat lots of carbs to build muscle, the best whole food protein sources, the benefits of creatine, wether fasting plays well with muscle gains, and why protein shakes are not an ideal protein source.
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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-carb MD podcast. We're going to learn |
| 0:27.7 | something today man. Good to see it's been too long. We've had quite a |
| 0:30.2 | hiatus, you know. We worked so hard and we've been kind of crazy lately trying to save the world and now we got a great guest to get us back together. |
| 0:38.3 | Yeah, we, you know, we get to, you know, we have a lucky job, we to interview you know successful people people |
| 0:46.1 | who have you know claimed you know their own little corner of of metabolic |
| 0:51.6 | health you know from luminaries to entrepreneurs and we get a little bit of both today. |
| 0:57.1 | You know, if you don't know who Darth Luigi is or if you don't know who Louis Villasagnor is, you know, he's been in the ketogenic space for quite some time. |
| 1:10.0 | He's the CEO of keto gains, and I think he's also related to element T, the drink, and some other things. |
| 1:20.0 | He has been open about his own sort of bodybuilding career and his own struggles with |
| 1:27.8 | an eating disorder, which I think would make for great discussion. And you know, |
| 1:34.3 | keto gains is a very sort of specific approach |
| 1:37.9 | to implementing a ketogenic diet typically in conjunction with exercise and I'd love to hear more about it so I'm |
| 1:45.7 | excited about this Brian you know you know there's always a little controversy like |
| 1:50.1 | he said said they yeah the only the only thing throws it like if this was our job we'd be in trouble we'd be in trouble we don't have any |
| 1:57.8 | income from this right so but it's awesome it's awesome I mean that the payment |
| 2:01.8 | we get is we learn from everyone it's like a you know this morning I was thinking it's like a puzzle and we all have our little part of the puzzle. |
| 2:07.4 | Trot and I are only smart enough to put out the outside stuff and we have all you smart guys come and fill in all the hard middle part of that puzzle, right? |
| 2:13.7 | So it's cool to see applications too and not just theory, like you're working with real people. |
| 2:18.3 | It's not like you work out a mathematical equation somewhere you go, here's what's working |
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