The Microbiome and Metabolic Health | Dr. Brian and Dr. Tro - E429
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
When there is no guest to interview, Dr. Brian and Dr. Tro get to talk about whatever they want! Today, that's the microbiome and metabolic health. The conversation ranges from fasting to microplastics to inulin and beyond. You are not likely to walk away without hearing something about gut health that you've never heard before.
In this episode, Drs. Tro and Brian talk about…
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(00:00) Intro
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(03:24) How the peer review process works for scientific publications
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(10:50) How the SMHP is tackling the barriers to good science caused by the standard peer review process
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(17:04) Fasting, the microbiome, and metabolic health
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(33:47) Mold, food allergies, and gut health
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(40:36) IMP issues, low carb diets, and inulin
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(43:15) Microplastics
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(46:06) Stress and physical health
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(49:20) The recent SMHP Symposium for Metabolic Health (link below for CME)
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Resources Mentioned in this Episode:
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Dr. Jessica Rose interview on the Life's Best Medicine Podcast: https://lifesbestmedicine.com/podcast/episode-282-dr-jessica-rose/
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The SMHP Symposium for Metabolic Health CME: https://thesmhp.org/accreditation-process/#providers
Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
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Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Dr. Tro Kalayjian:
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Website: https://toward.health
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | No one is beyond help. |
| 0:04.9 | No one is beyond hope. |
| 0:07.2 | Nothing said on the low-carb-m-D podcast is medical advice. |
| 0:11.3 | Please consult your own doctor before making any lifestyle changes. |
| 0:23.4 | Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast. |
| 0:26.1 | We're going to torture you with me and Trow talking. |
| 0:29.8 | We had to reschedule our guests, so Trow and I were just hanging out. |
| 0:31.8 | You could be part of our conversation. |
| 0:33.6 | We said, where are we going to talk about? |
| 0:34.2 | We don't know. |
| 0:37.3 | And that's dangerous because who knows where it's going to go. Who knows where this is going to be dangerous? You know, actually I wanted to hear it. To be honest with you, Brian, it's so nice to be here and it's always a pleasure, man. It's always a pleasure. I just got to be honest to you. It's always a pleasure. I wanted to just give me a sneak peek at last week's podcast because I wasn't able to make that. |
| 0:56.2 | You don't have to give it up. |
| 0:57.2 | But, you know, afterwards, you texted me and you said, Trow, we may be banned again. |
| 1:03.1 | So I, I was like, you left us unshaperoned. |
| 1:08.1 | You know, I was, you know, I'm like, I'm just curious of, you know, what is, you know, what is going on? |
| 1:16.2 | Like what, you know, you don't have to spill the beans completely, but I. |
| 1:19.8 | Well, people will probably hear that before this, but so basically we just got, he was doing a lot of research and looking at, what he was he was focusing on was like positive |
| 1:29.7 | psychology like how do you like you know get a team together how did like instead of doing |
| 1:34.1 | psychology for like okay your whole life sucks how do we get you healthy again he's like |
| 1:38.2 | how do we keep people in a positive mindset and moving forward but he said the more he got through |
| 1:44.1 | looking at the studies, |
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