Episode 332: Dr. Caryn Zinn
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 April 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Caryn Zinn is an internationally-recognised leader and advocate of the whole food, low carbohydrate, healthy fat (LCHF) nutrition and lifestyle approach and its application to metabolic health and sports performance. Caryn is an academic, an author and a registered dietitian, with over 25 years of consulting experience. She obtained her qualification as a dietitian in 1995 from the University of Cape Town after studying a Bachelor of Science degree, followed by a Nutrition & Dietetics, Honours degree. Since moving to New Zealand in 1995, she has obtained her Masters degree in sports nutrition and her Doctorate in the area of weight loss. She works at AUT as a senior lecturer and nutrition researcher, and continues to maintain her private practice nutrition work.
In this episode, Tro, Brian, and Caryn talk about how Caryn found her way into the low carb philosophy, the host of benefits accompanying the low carb lifestyle, why the calories-in/calories-out model is insufficient to address the obesity epidemic on its own, why there is resistance to the low-carb message in the field nutrition and diet, Caryn’s current government-funded research project on the low carb diet and diabetes, why the medical world in general has been so slow to accept the low carb dietary therapy as a treatment for diabetes, and flaws in the patient care philosophy of the medical system in the West.
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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 |
| 0:27.5 | throw we punched way high today like we have a way way |
| 0:31.1 | hodge and like someone that we're just to have to absorb knowledge for the next hour hopefully way way high I am I'm so excited so we have Dr. |
| 0:41.5 | Karen Zin and she's just so amazing. In preparation for today's interview, |
| 0:48.0 | I've learned so much of what she's done. I already knew she was amazing. We've interacted, she's the editor-in-chief of maternal |
| 0:56.4 | metabolic health and I knew she was a dietician. I knew she's worked on many projects related to carbohydrates and athletics. |
| 1:06.5 | And then when I began to prepare for today, my jaw dropped further and further to see how much she's contributed to this field. |
| 1:16.4 | So just a little bit about Dr. Karen Zin. |
| 1:21.2 | She was a dietician. She got her bachelor's in Cape Town we know a couple people from Cape Town |
| 1:26.0 | and she went and got her PhD from a UT in New Zealand and she is an absolute powerhouse. |
| 1:34.0 | She's written about any topic you can imagine that involves metabolic health and low-carb space. |
| 1:40.0 | I saw work, I mean, certainly I'm familiar with her work on sports performance and |
| 1:44.7 | nutrition but then I found out she's written on diabetic cardiomyopathy she's |
| 1:49.2 | talking about you know creating protocols she's written a number of papers in this space and as I said |
| 1:59.1 | my jaw dropped further and further and further and I'm just so happy to have you here. |
| 2:04.0 | Can we do first names? |
| 2:05.0 | Karen, can we do that? |
| 2:07.0 | Can I be true? |
| 2:08.0 | I'm so happy to have you here and I know Brian |
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