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Low Carb MD Podcast

Health Freedom Defense | Leslie Manookian - E417

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Medicine, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Leslie Manookian, MBA, M.L.C. Hom, is the president and founder of the Health Freedom Defense Fund and a former Wall Street executive. Her finance career took her from New York to London with Goldman Sachs before she became Director at Alliance Capital, overseeing European Growth Portfolio Management and Research.

Leslie is also an award-winning documentary filmmaker. In 2011, she wrote and produced The Greater Good, a critically acclaimed film exploring the vaccine debate and sparking wider conversation about medical choice and personal liberty.

Motivated by years of watching Americans' constitutionally protected rights erode, Leslie founded HFDF to defend medical and health freedoms nationwide. She believes bodily autonomy is a fundamental human right and works tirelessly to advance and protect it through public awareness and legal action.

 

In this episode, Dr. Tro and Leslie talk about…

  • (00:00) Intro
  • (02:05) Why she left Wall Street to advocate for medical freedom
  • (10:40) Deaths in clinical trials for pharmaceuticals
  • (14:45) Industry trade groups that are a huge part of the chronic disease epidemic
  • (19:40) How more of the public can be woken up to the realities of the corruption taking place in the medical and pharmaceutical industries
  • (32:21) The work of the Weston A. Price Foundation
  • (39:55) The responsibilities of doctors and patients
  • (45:51) Leslie's recent work with the Health Freedom Defense Fund fighting for peoples' rights
  • (01:01:04) The Greater Good

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast.

0:03.1

No one is beyond help.

0:04.9

No one is beyond hope.

0:07.2

Nothing said on the Low Carb MD podcast is medical advice.

0:11.3

Please consult your own doctor before making any lifestyle changes.

0:20.8

Welcome to the Low Carb MD podcast.

0:23.9

My co-host, Dr. Brian Linskis, is not here today, and he's going to be hating on himself

0:29.8

because we have an amazing advocate in the health freedom space.

0:34.7

I know he's a big fan ever since he saw her documentary,

0:40.7

you know, a couple of years back that really changed the way he started looking at things.

0:46.2

We are so happy to have Leslie Manukyan here today.

0:50.6

She is a fierce advocate for medical and health freedom.

0:55.0

She left her career in Wall Street.

0:59.0

She made an amazing documentary, and now she is the head of a not-for-profit

1:06.0

and is spearheading some of the most important legal cases in medical freedom right now.

1:14.1

So I am super, super excited to have her join us today.

1:19.3

And we're going to have in the show notes how you can support her,

1:23.4

how you can sort of stay informed about what's going on and the future of the cases.

1:31.1

She's had an impact in Idaho.

1:33.1

She's had an impact for all of us.

1:34.9

And we were talking about this before the air on us as physicians and the medical community at large

1:41.3

and just the lay public at large and how we're going to

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