Episode 384: Dr. Austin Dudzinski

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Diet, Mental Health, Lowcarb, Nutrition, Keto, Brianlenzkes, Health & Fitness, Jasonfung, Doctortro, Intermittentfasting, Trokalayjian, Medicine, Meganramos

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Austin Dudzinski is Board Certified clinical pharmacist with special interest in nutrition and lifestyle modification to address the root cause of chronic, cardiometabolic disease. He is a Board Certified ambulatory care clinical pharmacist at Think Whole Person Healthcare - an integrated medical home - where he works primarily with patients with chronic cardiometabolic disease with the main focus of de-prescribing and getting to the root cause of illness.

In this episode, Drs. Tro, Brian, and Austin talk about…

(00:00) Intro
(05:02) De-prescribing and addressing the root cause of disease with diet/lifestyle
(16:38) How Austin first became interested in nutrition and lifestyle interventions
(19:16) Pushback from other medical professionals against Austin’s new low carb ideas
(21:28) GLP-1 drugs
(25:30) Bringing the perspective of food addiction into the conversation with obese, metabolically unwell patients
(28:19) How the average person should view GLP-1 use and compounding pharmacies
(35:29) LDL Cholesterol and A1C
(40:16) Cardiovascular risk assessment
(44:42) What we know and what we suspect is true of cardiovascular disease
(48:52) Rheumatological disease and cardiovascular risk
(52:20) The gut microbiome and ketosis
(59:12) Plaque reduction and coronary calcium reduction
(01:07:34) An overview of drugs and supplements that reduce plaque and, in some cases, all cause mortality
(01:11:19) Outro

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Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

Nutrition and mental health: A review of current knowledge about the impact of diet on mental health: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/nutrition/articles/10.3389/fnut.2022.943998/full
The role of diet and nutrition on mental health and wellbeing: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/proceedings-of-the-nutrition-society/article/role-of-diet-and-nutrition-on-mental-healthandwellbeing/372284768DB78DB02EB199E277AABF79
Bottle of Lies (book by Katherine Eban): https://www.amazon.com/Bottle-Lies-Inside-Story-Generic/dp/0062338781
MESA Study: https://www.mesa-nhlbi.org/MESA_508TextOnly.htm

Dr. Austin Dudzinski:

Think Health Care: https://thinkhealthcare.org/providers/austin-dudzinski/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/austin-dudzinski-pharmd-bcacp-b1635098/

Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Dr. Tro Kalayjian:

Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctortro/

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast. No one is beyond help. No one is beyond hope.
0:07.2	Nothing said on the Low Carb MD podcast is medical advice. Please consult your own doctor before making any lifestyle changes.
0:20.8	Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast.
0:23.6	Trow, we're united again.
0:25.8	You know how I say I told you so, but remember Trow when those doctors were attacking us
0:29.4	for saying that we're seeing our patients, mental health getting better, depression, bipolar
0:34.6	disorder, and this big study just comes out and says, oh my gosh, that was five
0:38.4	years ago. Remember, it was the doctor that's a pediatrician that was attacking me for like four
0:43.1	days? I don't hold grudges, but maybe I'll send it to them. What do you think?
0:48.2	So if you're a listener right now and you want to get clued into what Brian is alluding to.
0:55.0	You know, Brian six years ago, seven years ago was talking about mental health and the
0:59.4	improvements in addiction that we saw.
1:01.6	And he was attacked for mentioning that diet can have an impact on mental health.
1:07.2	And the field of mental health is just boomed.
1:13.6	Maybe Jack will put in some of the show notes on those new studies that have been out. Yeah, we'll put some links in there. Brian has been vindicated.
1:19.3	Brian has been vindicated. Brian, I'm happy. I'm happy you've been vindicated with a lot more than that.
1:25.2	A lot more. Yeah. So it's just an observation, you know, Troy, that's what we do. We do observation. You see stuff. You go, look, why am I seeing this? And then you start looking into why you're saying. As a matter of fact, interestingly enough, just yesterday, I saw my fourth case of Lada in a 65-plus-year-old female that's thin and healthy. had sugar problems before four in a row i mean
1:45.4	not four in the last two years i've never seen in my career before they go huh i wonder why if i look at the
1:50.5	literature guess what there's case studies of of the same thing of people seeing the same thing
1:55.0	and we have the same causative agent so anyways you know those kind of things you start observing it go
2:00.4	this is weird you know that's what we do. And so. Well, I think everybody's got to recognize
2:06.4	what you're alluding to right now, which is we know that there are sort of infectious precursors
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