On this episode of “Death in The Garden”, Jake and Maren share their interview with Dr. Tro Kalayjian, a board certified Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine Physician. He co-hosts the podcast Low Carb MD. Dr. Tro had a long journey of obesity throughout his life and career as a physician, and was finally able to tackle obesity and lose 150 lbs with a low-carb diet. Now he treats patients using an incredibly holistic model, remotely monitoring his patients biometrics with CGMs and other technologies that allow him to see clearly the complexity of each individual’s needs. Find out more about his practice here.

We talk with Tro about the journey he took from following all of the nutritional guidelines, yet failing to manage his obesity, where he decided to get into the weeds of the research himself and found that a low-carb animal based diet was the most effective diet in reversing diabetes and obesity – even though that didn’t conform with the mainstream narratives of “eat less, move more” or being plant-based. We talk about the importance of animal foods in diet, the fallacy of “calories in, calories out”, the true culprit of obesity and diabetes - processed foods with high amounts of sugar and vegetable oils (not meat and eggs like animal rights activists want us to believe), and why the medical industry so often fails at helping people lose weight.

Please follow Dr. Tro on Instagram and Twitter for more information, and check out his website.

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Editing: Parker Burningham
Outro music: “Truth” by Alex Ebert

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