Spine Surgery Preparation, Recovery, and Metal Allergy Testing w/ Dr. Mitch Reiter, Anders Varner, Doug Larson, and Travis Mash #804

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Doug Larson

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Mitchell Reiter is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with fellowship training in spinal surgery who has been in practice in New Jersey managing patients with spinal disorders for more than 20 years.

Dr. Reiter is one of those rare individuals that always knew that he wanted to be a physician. Straight out of high school he entered the prestigious accelerated six-year combined B.S./M.D. Honors Program in Medical Education at the University of Miami. He then underwent five years of residency training in Orthopedic Surgery at The University of Miami – Jackson Memorial Hospital followed by a year of fellowship training in spinal surgery at Emory University in Atlanta which are two of the busiest spine centers in the country.

Dr. Reiter spent his first ten years in practice at the Rutgers School of Medicine where he remains an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery. Dr. Reiter has been elected to Alpha Omega Alpha (the U.S. national medical honor society), has won numerous teaching awards, and has consistently been named as a New Jersey Top Doctor by New Jersey Monthly Magazine for more than 10 years. Dr. Reiter has published numerous journal articles and book chapters in the field of spine surgery.

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0:00.0	Shrug family this week on Barb El Shrug Dr. Mitch Ryder is coming on the podcast.
0:05.0	And he is a spine surgeon up in New Jersey and also has a very cool company that is testing for heavy metals called Sintzaband.
0:14.0	And if you have any surgeries or scheduled for any surgeries, I highly recommend listening to this show so you can understand
0:22.4	preparation, recovery, and if there are any irritations or potential allergies that you have to
0:28.7	heavy metals, there's a big deep dive into that and how you can arm yourself, advocate for
0:33.8	yourself before that surgery. As always, friends, make sure you get over to rapid
0:37.8	health report.com. That is where Dan Garner and Dr. Andy Galpin are doing a free lab, lifestyle,
0:42.7	and performance analysis, and you can access that free report over at rapid health report.com.
0:47.8	Friends, let's get into the show.
0:51.2	Welcome to Barbels Shug. I'm Anders Warner. Doug Larson, Dr. Mitch Ryder. Guys, this happened in real life. We shook hands. That's incredible in 2025.
1:01.6	Telling a story. I was asking my kids the other day what they thought I did. And my son, my now four-year-oldold goes, you talk to the to the computer and went,
1:13.1	thanks.
1:13.6	That's great.
1:14.3	That's how he looks up to me.
1:15.9	Your dad's a real hero just yelling at this screen here.
1:19.8	So we got to shake hands in New Jersey and that is special.
1:23.9	This is actually how we met through a couple mutual friends.
1:27.4	And then I'm excited to dig in. You're a spine surgeon. This is actually how we met through a couple mutual friends.
1:30.2	And then I'm excited to dig in.
1:32.5	You're a spine surgeon up in New Jersey.
1:37.4	And first off, that seems like a very complex thing.
1:49.0	Anytime the spine is involved seems very, very important to, one, have that working. Two, surgery around that area. If I have too much coffee, I disqualify myself for that. So I'd love to dig in just on a little bit of like,
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