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Low Carb MD Podcast

The NEW Dietary Guidelines Have Arrived! - E426

Low Carb MD Podcast

Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian

Medicine, Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans have finally arrived! When this podcast first started approximately 8 years ago, a paradigm shift of this magnitude seemed like a nice but impossible dream. In this episode we discuss the content, creation, and future impacts of our new national guidelines.

In this episode, Drs. Brian and Tro talk about…

  • (00:00) Intro

  • (01:25) The top people involved in bringing about the recent changes to our dietary guidelines

  • (05:39) The content of the new dietary guidelines

  • (09:27) How the big food companies have been reacting to these guidelines

  • (12:20) The incredible success that common sense and real science have had in medicine/nutrition in recent years

  • (17:01) The new food pyramid

  • (18:40) Developments in HHS

  • (21:22) The microbiome as it relates to mental health, structural health, and metabolic health

  • (23:30) GMOs, pesticides, and the insane value of buying food from your local producers

  • (29:25) The mental health benefits of eating real, whole foods

  • (39:08) New recommendations for vegans

  • (41:16) The new vaccine schedule for kids

  • (43:27) New DPC and HSA policies

  • (44:43) The Low Carb MD Podcast is FREE because we don't take money from ANYONE. Please, consider supporting us on Patreon if you believe in what we are doing (link below 👇)

  • (50:41) Corruption and conflicts of interest in medicine

  • (01:00:04) Outro

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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.

0:20.7

Hello and welcome back to the low-carb MD podcast and the Life's Best Medicine podcast.

0:26.6

I'm going to put this on both because it's so important.

0:28.8

I want to get this information out.

0:30.4

I have a hero with me today, trocalation.

0:34.2

So we don't have a guess.

0:35.5

It's us just chit-chatting.

0:37.1

I think it'll be fun just to

0:38.8

reminisce a little bit, talk about Trows Day in D.C. yesterday with all the big wigs,

0:45.8

rubbing elbows. And man, it is just mind-blowing to me. I know we've talked about a lot on this

0:52.1

podcast. And, you know, I said it will never be from the top down. It will be from the bottom up. We'll just educate person by person and then, you know, make it supply and demand where people are demanding real food. So, Trow, you've done a lot of work on all this stuff. Tell, tell, update us all on the new food pyramid. Well, let's first start with thank yous.

1:12.8

And I know you feel the same way because we've talked about this so many times.

1:16.6

The thank yous to all the people who have, you know, over the decades made this happen.

1:23.5

Right.

1:23.9

And I know you feel the same way.

1:25.5

If you had to give me your top three and then I'll give you you my top three, and then we could talk about all the, like, our heroes that,

1:32.3

you know, made this dietary guideline change happen. So I'll let you go first with your top

1:38.8

three thank yous, and then maybe I'll go with my top three thank yous. You know.

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