Quality, Accessible, Sustainable Medical Care | Dr. Marion Mass - E433

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Medicine, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Marion Mass is a pediatrician, educator, and fierce advocate for restoring integrity to American medicine. A co-founder of the nonprofit Practicing Physicians of America, she has been a leading voice calling out the corporate forces reshaping health care and their impact on doctors and patients alike.

In this episode, Dr. Brian, Dr. Tro, and Dr. Marion talk about…

(00:00) Intro
(02:29) Systemic problems in medicine over the last few decades and how we can solve them
(05:27) Perverse incentives in health insurance and how health care can be made cheaper
(14:40) Conflicts of interest in health insurance
(19:52) What brought Dr. Marion to medicine and inspired her to work to reform the healthcare system
(25:37) Conflicts of interest in the AMA and other medical organizations
(35:23) The path forward to a more transparent medical care system
(41:19) Remdesivir and Covid
(46:53) Perverse incentives in gender change procedures and drugs
(51:48) Governmental and political interference in the practice of medicine
(01:02:35) Outro

For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!

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Dr. Marion Mass:

Free 2 Care: https://t.co/cdcldrTMEM
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Practicing Physicians of America: https://practicingphysician.org

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://toward.health
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
IG: 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
0:13.7	lifestyle changes.
0:24.0	Hello and welcome back to the low carb MD podcast.
0:27.8	Trow, this is going to be an easy one because we're going to fix medicine in about five minutes and then we'll just talk about other step after that.
0:30.3	Simple thing.
0:32.1	The next 40 minutes is going to be important to listen.
0:36.7	If you're a doc out there who's tired of the conflicts
0:39.4	of interest in medicine, if you're tired of the conflicts in pediatrics, if you're tired of
0:46.5	the perverse incentives in medicine, starting from the hospital networks and the facility
0:53.7	fees and the bloat all the way to the hospital networks and the facility fees and the bloat,
0:55.0	all the way to the insurance companies and the PBMs and the regulations that are really binding
1:01.0	medicine and ruining medicine, like we all know. You're going to love this guest. If you're a young
1:07.0	doc, you're going to love this guest. If you're in a whole doc, you're going to love this guest. you're in a hold doc you're going to love this guest
1:11.8	and if you're somebody who wants to sort of break free from uh the corporate and hospital system
1:20.1	monopolies that are strangleholding medicine you're going to love this guest today we have dr marion
1:25.7	mass am i pronouncing that right?
1:28.1	I just, I, yeah.
1:29.9	Yeah, just like Catholic Church.
1:31.8	Yeah, Marianne Mass.
1:32.9	Perfect.
1:33.5	Love it, you know.
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