Reversing Prediabetes with Dr. Robert Oh PH182

Pursuing Health

Julie Foucher MD, MS

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Seemingly healthy and in his late thirties, Robert Oh was shocked when routine blood work showed that he was prediabetic. Instead of adding another pill to his daily routine, Dr. Oh decided to drop the statin and experiment with his nutrition. He ultimately adopted a Paleo/low carb diet and saw dramatic improvements in the way he felt, his waist circumference, and his blood markers. Not only did this approach help Dr. Oh reverse his prediabetes, the changes inspired him to pursue a fellowship in Sports Medicine so that he could help others like himself- in the military and unknowingly having insulin resistance- heal through lifestyle medicine as well.

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0:00.0	When I asked my other docs, like, you know, I'm a physician. I ran a program over in
0:04.7	family medicine as a program director and I had all these great faculty. So I asked, hey,
0:09.7	what would you do with a guy like me, right? I'm 5, 7, 145 pounds. I do cross like three to four
0:15.9	times a week, right? I don't eat Twinkies and donuts all day long, right? I have my occasional
0:20.8	die-cog habit, but that gets me through the day. So what would you do with a guy like me?
0:25.7	And they're like, well, you're dieting, you're doing exercise. Maybe she's going to a foreman.
0:31.0	And I was like, what? Why would you give me a pill, right? It's like, I don't want to get
0:35.2	in a pill. Right. There's got to be a better way. You still have, you know, just to think that,
0:40.5	okay, you take my foreman now, what happens? Five years from now, 10 years from now. Exactly.
0:45.2	And we had initial studies at the diabetic prevention trial of use and pre-diameteries, but it wasn't
0:50.8	a thing. It wasn't very common. And so, look, I want to fix this myself. I want to take care of my
0:55.5	own life. And I want to find out why, number one, and number two, is how did I get this,
1:00.4	and how can I fix it?
1:06.4	Hello, and welcome to Pursuing Health. I'm Dr. Julie Fouche, family physician and former
1:10.8	CrossFit Games athlete. Here, I bring you information and inspiration to help bridge the gap
1:15.8	between fitness and medicine and support your journey toward your healthiest self.
1:19.9	This episode is one of a series of Pursuing Health stories. Here, I feature the inspiring stories
1:25.3	of regular everyday people who use lifestyle to overcome some incredible health challenges.
1:30.2	This week's story features Dr. Rob O who shares his experience of being surprised by a
1:35.1	pre-diabetes diagnosis and how that changed the way he thought about nutrition and health for
1:39.2	himself as well as for all of his patients. Before I dive into the episode, I do want to make it
1:44.2	clear that this podcast is for general information only and does not provide medical advice.
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