Episode 334: Dr. Robert Lufkin
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Robert Lufkin is a physician/medical school professor (UCLA and USC) focusing on the applied science of health, longevity, and consciousness. After reversing chronic disease and transforming his life he is making it his mission to help others do the same. In addition to being a practicing physician, he is author of over 200 peer reviewed scientific papers and 14 books that are available in six languages. Robert has given invited lectures/keynotes around the world, and was named one of the ‘100 Most Creative People in Los Angeles’ by Buzz Magazine. His latest book “Lies I Taught In Medical School” has just been released.
In this episode, Drs. Brian and Robert talk about how Dr. Robert discovered low-carb and began championing the diet as an intervention to treat chronic disease, Dr. Robert’s new book, “Lies I Taught In Medical School,” why drugs are not sufficient by themselves to properly treat metabolic disease, how processed-junk food negatively impacts our mental health, why seed oils are so unhealthy, how to deal with and walk through stress in a healthy way, why mindset and the spiritual aspect of life is a factor in physical well being, the mTOR molecule and how it relates to longevity, how muscle mass is connected to longevity, processed food addiction and how to begin the journey of recovery, and Dr. Robert’s current longevity/metabolic health related 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. Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast. Today we have a smart kid here. |
| 0:28.4 | A doc is he's written at least one book. I don't know if you have more than one book, |
| 0:33.8 | but a good USC guy like myself. |
| 0:37.2 | And so we have the West Coast guys here and Troj's chickened out |
| 0:40.1 | because he knew he'd be outnumbered. |
| 0:41.8 | No, he has a sinus infection. He's kind of he looked terrible today and so I'm like trow I got it. We'll do this thing. |
| 0:48.3 | So Dr. Lefkin. Welcome man. So great to have you. It's been a way too waiting for you to get here, but here we are. |
| 0:55.4 | Well, yeah, like I said before we went on recording Brian, I'm a huge fan of the work that you do and Trot does. I love your podcast. I follow all the stuff. So it's a great honor for me to be on the program today. This is this is going to be fun. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, it's fun and I love it like on |
| 1:14.2 | Twitter you're one of my favorite guys like you post up on like oh my gosh he's |
| 1:17.4 | saying what I'm thinking and I'm afraid to say sometimes. Yeah so so how let's go back like you're a classic classically trained doc like myself and what happened like how whatever along the line did you start saying hey wait a minute something is crazy here like we need to we need to start focusing on different outcomes or |
| 1:33.7 | different treatment plans. Yeah basically I'm just I'm sort of the medical |
| 1:39.0 | establishment I spent my whole career as a medical school professor initially a full time at |
| 1:47.1 | UCLA and now at USC on the volunteer side but basically I just my background was radiology so I |
| 1:56.7 | approached it from the medical imaging side but like so many of our colleagues |
| 2:01.1 | in this space you know Phil Lovadia and others, you know, they've been faced with a personal challenge that kind of woke him up to, you know, what was going on. And for me, me you know I was raised my mom was a dietician so I follow you know we |
| 2:18.1 | religiously follow the food pyramid you know we avoided the yolks in the eggs because of the cholesterol we you know we switched from |
| 2:26.8 | butter with saturated fat to what we thought was healthier margarine with trans fats and seed oils you know and we we ate low |
| 2:36.1 | fat food which of course is high carbon hydrate food and but I didn't know the |
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