Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast where we seek progress, not perfection.

Hello and welcome back to another episode of low-carb MD. We're really happy to have you.

This is a fun one for us. Trot, you're back and I'm Brian Lenskis. My patients get mad, I don't say that. I'm Brian Lenskis one of the cohorts here and

Trot. It's been a while man. How are you doing? Yeah, they can't keep us in

forever. I'm so happy today. I'm so giddy about our guests today, Dr. Horvitz, because he's the one who inspired me to go direct primary care. So I'm really, really excited to have him on today.

Yeah, me too. He's a great guy. We got to meet in low-carb Denver and spend time and you know it's tough

He's married to a psychiatrist. Could you imagine that you can't get away with anything, right? You can't play any

mental games that you get called out on that step. So yeah, today we have the real

Dr. Stephen Horvitz here, founder of Institute for Medical Wellness,

he's actually getting certified in functional medicine.

I didn't even know that until we were talking a little bit. And he's the first direct

primary care doc in New Jersey. And so if people don't know what that is, We're going to talk a little bit about that because I think it's really important. And Dr. Horvitz, thank you so much. Stephen, I'll go by Stephen because it's easier for me. But welcome, man. really glad to have you.

Thank you for joining us early in the morning, my West Coast time.

Thanks for waking up early in the morning, West Coast time.

Hey, for you, it's worth it, man.

For Trot, maybe not,. for you,

for you, absolutely.

So tell us about your journey, how you got to where you're at,

how do you start focusing more on the functional medicine, lifestyle medicine type stuff and and your roots.

Well my roots let's just say I've always wanted to work with prevention, wellness and

nutrition and back with prevention, wellness, and nutrition.

And back when I was actually in medical school,

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