Episode 343: Jan Ellison Baszucki
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Jan Ellison Baszucki is president of Baszucki Group and founder of Metabolic Mind. A former Silicon Valley fintech marketing executive, Jan is a writer, parent, mental health advocate and aspiring citizen scientist. She is the author of the national bestselling debut novel, A Small Indiscretion, which was a San Francisco Chronicle recommended book of 2015. Her essays have appeared in publications like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Writer’s Digest, and her short fiction has received numerous awards, including an O. Henry Prize for her first published story. Jan holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford, and an MFA from San Francisco State University. She is currently at work on a memoir about her son’s recovery from bipolar disorder with a 100-year-old metabolic treatment for epilepsy.
In this episode, Dr. Brian and Jan talk about…
- How Jan’s son found relief from bipolar disorder, addiction issues, and obesity by following a ketogenic diet
- The connection between following a ketogenic diet and improvement in sleep quality
- Why metabolic health and mental health are so interrelated
- The work and mission of the Baszucki Group and Metabolic Mind
- Why getting stress under control and getting social/family support are also essential for improving mental and metabolic health
- The physiological effects of psychological phenomena
- Lessons that nature teach us about human health
- Metabolic health at the cellular level
- The power of getting morning sunlight exposure
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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 Life's Best Medicine and Low Crime |
| 0:28.0 | MD Podcast. Yes, we're doing it again because when I have a great guess that's |
| 0:31.6 | like you know I don't want to happen to have to do two |
| 0:34.4 | hours of interviews we could do one and hopefully get it out to all of our |
| 0:37.3 | listeners so Jan Ellison Bazuki your name always kills me. |
| 0:43.0 | That's it. |
| 0:44.0 | Thank you so much. |
| 0:45.0 | I know, I mean, I knew and I practice and I go, gosh, it's going to be hard. |
| 0:48.0 | My name is brutal for everyone too, so Brian's easier, so that that's the way we do it here. |
| 0:52.0 | But tell people your story |
| 0:54.2 | I mean you're doing amazing stuff I'll tell you you know doing low-carbon |
| 0:59.4 | keto I did it for my own health because you know pre-diabetic all my mom's side of the family |
| 1:04.7 | mental illness diabetes cardiac disease sudden cardiac death in their 50s all that kind of |
| 1:10.4 | stuff and I I kind of felt like I was going down that road and then I came across people |
| 1:14.1 | like Jason Fung and Ben Bickman and all these people that you know I started oh we can we |
| 1:20.1 | don't all have to get diabetes we can do something about it because I was doing |
| 1:23.1 | the ADA's recommended diet and getting worse every year I'm thinking it's just |
| 1:26.6 | inevitable for me but then I started seeing my patients not only coming |
| 1:30.5 | off insulin but the mental health stuff and it shocked me that people |
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