Episode 74: Mark Cucuzzella
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today we are joined by Mark Cucuzzella, a Medical Director of low-carb diets at a hospital clinic in West Virginia. He has been a key participant in the discussion on de-prescribing medication and reversing disease via nutrition and has implemented a groundbreaking low-carb, no-sugar initiative at his hospital.
Contact Info:
Mark Cucuzzella:
- Website: drmarksdesk.com
- Book: Run for Your Life
- Book Website: runforyourlifebook.com
- Email: [email protected]
- http://eguideline.guidelinecentral.com/i/1180534-low-carb-nutritional-approaches-guidelines-advisory/0?
- Guidlines: 1. US version – http://eguideline.guidelinecentral.com/i/1180534-low-carb-nutritional-approaches-guidelines-advisory/0?
Brian Lenzkes:
- Website: http://www.lowcarbadvisor.com/
Tro Kalayjian:
- Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, where we seek progress, not perfection. |
| 0:06.0 | Hello and welcome back to the low-carb |
| 0:13.7 | MDE podcast thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:16.2 | Trot and I are really excited today. |
| 0:18.0 | We got another person smarter than us so we've kept the trend going. |
| 0:21.3 | Trot, how you doing man? |
| 0:22.7 | Listen, I'm doing so good. |
| 0:24.1 | Really excited today because we have a doc here |
| 0:27.1 | who is basically putting us to shame, Brian. |
| 0:30.7 | I gotta be honest, we're here talking on Twitter and and putting out our little |
| 0:34.8 | graphs of how great patients are doing in our little tweets and we're in the |
| 0:38.9 | company of somebody who's transformed the hospital okay who is transformed the hospital, okay, who is a medical director of low-carb diets in a hospital clinic. |
| 0:50.8 | His name is Dr. Mark Kuizella and all of you guys probably already know about him or have |
| 0:56.4 | had your lives affected by him because he's working behind the scenes. |
| 1:01.4 | He's a family medicine doctor over in West Virginia. behind the |
| 1:03.4 | over in West Virginia and do I have that right West Virginia? |
| 1:07.4 | Yes, the great state of West Virginia. |
| 1:09.2 | Yes, the great state of West, it's the other Virginia. |
| 1:12.2 | Yeah, yeah, the, basically the obesity capital of the United States, and one of the most amazing things that he did, and we're going to talk about is he made his, he brought an initiative in his hospital to go |
| 1:25.5 | reduce sugar and reduce sugar sweetened beverage. Not only that he is now the |
| 1:30.7 | director of low-carb in their medical nutrition clinic. |
| 1:34.1 | On top of that he's worked on setting up the guidelines for low-carbohydrate |
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