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The ZDoggMD Show

How Can We Be Less Fat? w/Dr. Michael Jensen

The ZDoggMD Show

ZDoggMD LLC

Spirituality, Medicine, Religion & Spirituality, Health & Fitness

4.83K Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2018

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Mayo Clinic obesity specialist Dr. Michael Jensen joins us to talk fat. We cover "Fat and Fit", wearable devices, exercise vs. diet vs. surgery vs. pills, The Biggest Loser, sugary drinks vs. diet drinks, the impact of EHRs + salaried positions on medical peeps, and much more. Video at zdoggmd.com/against-medical-advice-034 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What up Z-Fam? It's your boy Z-Dog MD. I got a real doctor here, not just a real doctor,

1:07.4

but a professor of medicine and endocrinology at the male clinic in Minnesota.

1:13.2

So I'm kind of fancy pants clinic that is a specialist in obesity and is going to share

1:20.1

his con knowledge with us. He's done amazing things, sits on the national panel for

1:26.2

recommendations for evaluation management of obesity. In other words, the government telling you,

1:31.9

you're fat. Dr. Michael Jensen. Thank you. Good to see you, man. Good to see you. You're in town for

1:38.3

what sounded to me like the most boring conference I've ever heard of the American Society of Perennial

1:44.1

and Interol Nutrition. Is it really boring? You have to have a taste for it. Once you have

1:50.6

the taste for it, it's no longer boring. I'm going to be honest with you, Mike, I have a taste

1:54.1

for TPN that cannot be sated. I used to call it total perennial nougat when I was a resident,

2:00.5

and nobody got it at all. They were like, I don't understand what you're saying, especially the

2:03.4

pharmacist. But you got into obesity as a sort of subspecialty in your endocrine field. Why were

2:12.0

you interested in that? It's hard to know because I thought when I was a medicine resident that

2:19.1

there was probably nothing more boring than diabetes. I got to be an endocrinology fellow and I thought,

2:25.0

oh, there can't be anything more boring than obesity. But then my division chair said, really,

2:31.8

if you don't know a lot about it, everything is boring. You need to learn about it. I think you'll

2:37.3

find that it's interesting. The other thing is, it's a really common problem that nobody knows

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