Episode 92: Dr. Bret Scher
Human Performance Outliers Podcast with Zach Bitter
Zach Bitter
4.8 • 622 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the Human Performance Outliers Podcast with hosts Dr. Shawn Baker and Zach Bitter. For this episode, Dr. Bret Scher joined the show. Bret is the "low carb cardiologist," and hosts the Diet Doctor Podcast and Website. Bret believes in a lifestyle intervention approach first to wellness.
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| 0:48.2 | You know, chit-chat. |
| 0:50.6 | Did the chit-chat? |
| 0:51.7 | All right. |
| 0:52.5 | Yeah, so, no, but I'm just saying that, so you're still in San Diego practicing cardiology. Is that correct? Right. Yeah. So I've got a part-time general cardiology practice and then part-time doing the health coaching and working with Diet Doctor. Yeah, I was wondering how you're transitioning. I think that's awesome. I bet you really, I bet you enjoy the diet doctor stuff. I don't know. Maybe not. I mean, that's... |
| 1:12.0 | No, I love those guys. I mean, the website and the company and the people are amazing and I really like the writing and, you know, it's all about getting information out there, right? Because you know, I mean, we've been led astray with the information. So we need a place we can turn to get reliable, |
| 1:29.9 | you know, dependable and what's really evidence-based information. And with the, |
| 1:35.2 | with the strength of the recommendation matching the strength of the evidence, and that's really |
| 1:38.6 | what Diet Doctor is. I mean, they want to get that information out there to help people |
| 1:42.0 | live low-carb in an easy way, but be up front |
| 1:45.9 | and be very transparent about what is the evidence say and how much can we rely on it? And there's, |
| 1:51.2 | I don't know, if we get let us stray so easily. I want to, I want to pick that because, you know, |
| 1:56.8 | you said evidence space and you put quotation marks. And, you know, and I, you know, it was all, it was maybe 10 years ago. |
| 2:04.2 | You know, medicine in general really wanted to practice evidence-based medicine. |
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