Homelessness, CrossFit, and the Search for Truth | Sevan Matossian - E402

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Medicine, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Sevan Matossian is the son of Armenian immigrants. After spending two years homeless, he filmed movies in one hundred countries, seven continents, and forty-nine American states. As the Executive Director of CrossFit Media, he was a vital part of growing CrossFit from a movement with three-hundred gyms to an organization with fifteen-thousand gyms and an international footprint. During that time, he became educated on health in the United States and now believes that added sugar and refined carbohydrates are at the center of today's health crisis.

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

(00:00) Intro
(02:41) Getting de-platformed and shadow-banned
(07:27) How Sevan's beliefs and values were shaped as a kid and how they changed over time
(13:53) The fundamental differences between Liberalism and Conservatism
(22:00) Capitalism
(24:54) Tolerance
(27:15) The founding of Crossfit
(30:05) Sevan's homelessness experience and search for truth
(35:43) God, prayer, and miracles
(39:00) Rules for being homeless
(43:36) How Sevan began working for Crossfit
(51:45) Reaching people through media
(55:34) Truth and integrity
(01:01:26) Regulatory capture, authoritarianism, and free-markets
(01:12:23) Sevan's kids and how to raise good kids
(01:17:14) Sevan's podcast

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Resources Mentioned in this Episode:

MetFix: https://brokenscience.org/metfix/
Joel Salatin: https://polyfacefarms.com

Sevan Matossian:

The Sevan Podcast: https://thesevanpodcast.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/therealsevanpodcast/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheSevanPodcast/featured
X: https://x.com/sevanmatossian?lang=en

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.
0:15.4	We appreciate the value that different perspectives bring to the conversation, especially when it comes to metabolic health.
0:22.0	We believe that challenging our thinking and expanding our understanding moves the discussion forward.
0:27.3	Our goal is to learn from every guest, ask thoughtful questions, and grow our insight together.
0:41.3	Welcome to the Low Carb MD Podcast. I have an amazing guest today.
0:43.3	He's allowed me to come on his podcast and sort of talk about my own story and my issues with the medical complex.
0:53.3	And today I have the pleasure of having Sivan Matosian on our podcast.
0:59.6	He is a fellow countryman, and his career is pretty damn interesting.
1:04.2	Forget the fact that he helped, you know, really get CrossFit into the mainstream as the executive director of media. He's also done 10
1:14.9	documentaries, many of which were top 100 on iTunes. And he's got a badass daily morning show at 7 a.m.
1:23.7	The Savon podcast on all platforms. I think YouTube being the main one. He's got three
1:30.1	awesome kids and you can follow them on Instagram like I do, seeing all the crazy workouts that
1:36.7	he has his kids do. It's really awesome, really testament. You know what? We got to get your
1:42.1	workout program up to Bobby at RFK. That's what we got to do
1:45.6	and get these kids all across the United States doing that workout program. Bottom line is I'm
1:51.6	happy to have Sivan here. And I'm happy to shoot the shit with you, Sivan. So thanks for coming on.
1:59.0	Two corrections I'd like to make in the introduction first um
2:02.2	we were honored to have you not on the podcast once but twice uh you are a truth teller and i
2:09.7	appreciate it man i just anyone who's telling the truth uh in in a time when there's just so much
2:15.0	noise and so many word salads, I appreciate it.
2:23.5	And maybe this isn't a correction, but also Twitter has become, YouTube is very big for us.
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