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…

• (00:00) Intro

• (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

• (10:41) Exercise, nutrition, and de-prescribing

• (14:22) Fat adaptation and fasting

• (24:09) Virta's peer-reviewed publications and long-term data

• (30:09) The positive cascading effect on holistic health of metabolic lifestyle interventions

• (36:25) Social support and mental health

• (44:41) Dr. Frank's experience leaving a standard medical practice and becoming a metabolic health practitioner

• (52:22) Moral injury and physician burnout in the standard medical care system

• (54:05) Employe wellness and metabolic health care

• (01:01:01) Outro/plugs

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Dr. Brian Lenzkes:

• Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

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