The Metabolic Healthcare Revolution | Dr. Frank Dumont - E431
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Frank Dumont is Executive Medical Director at Virta Health, where he leads medical strategy to advance safe, scalable metabolic care. A longtime internal medicine physician at Estes Park Medical Center, he previously directed its Wellness Service Line. A Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Dumont has also served in leadership roles with the Colorado Medical Society and the American Medical Association.
In this episode, Drs. Brian and Frank talk about…
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(00:00) Intro
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(04:03) How Dr. Frank's personal health issues and professional experiences as a doctor led him to adopt a metabolic health approach to healing himself and his patients
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(10:41) Exercise, nutrition, and de-prescribing
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(14:22) Fat adaptation and fasting
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(24:09) Virta's peer-reviewed publications and long-term data
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(30:09) The positive cascading effect on holistic health of metabolic lifestyle interventions
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(36:25) Social support and mental health
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(44:41) Dr. Frank's experience leaving a standard medical practice and becoming a metabolic health practitioner
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(52:22) Moral injury and physician burnout in the standard medical care system
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(54:05) Employe wellness and metabolic health care
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(01:01:01) Outro/plugs
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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 |
| 0:13.2 | making any lifestyle changes. |
| 0:20.7 | Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast. |
| 0:23.7 | We're going to get in trouble today because we have two doctors talking. |
| 0:26.7 | Unfortunately, Dr. Trow had some stuff going on. |
| 0:30.2 | My patients always get mad because I never say my name, Brian Lenskis, internal medicine doc. |
| 0:35.0 | And we have another doc. |
| 0:36.2 | Dr. Frank Dumont joining us from verta the the godfather of |
| 0:41.3 | metabolic health doc welcome it's a pleasure to be here thank you yeah so good to have you so |
| 0:48.6 | tell us tell us let's just start at the beginning how do you start looking at metabolic health |
| 0:53.5 | you know low carb type stuff and ended up being from a standard internal medicine background, I assume? |
| 1:00.0 | Yeah. So I finished medical school back in 1997, finished my internal medicine residency in 2000 |
| 1:05.7 | and went out to work as a primary care doc at that point in time. You know, I felt like that was |
| 1:09.7 | really the best way of me to help for me to help the most people and to try to make the biggest difference for people across their entire health. You know, I really loved the idea of taking care of the full person as an internal medicine doc. So that's what I went out to do in 2000 with, I think, a fair amount of naivete. And you had your clean, you had your |
| 1:28.2 | clean white coat. You're ready to save the world. You get your stethoscope around your neck, and |
| 1:32.6 | here you go. Yeah. And there were a number of things that I found out pretty quickly that, you know, |
| 1:37.2 | eventually led me down this pathway that led me to what I'm doing right now. But a few things that |
| 1:42.9 | I will say happen fairly early on is that |
| 1:45.5 | I realized that this naive idea that I had, which was that if I could make the right diagnosis, |
| 1:51.0 | do the right testing, ask the right questions, and then get people on the appropriate treatment |
| 1:55.2 | that they would get better. What I pretty quickly found out was that that was not the case |
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