Docs Who Lift

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss how semaglutide impacts the heart with new trial data available.

Learn how semaglutide may reduce risks of heart attacks and also how it impacts your quality of life if you have heart failure.

Drs. Karl and Spencer chat with Dr. Andrea Love all about the microbiome. Find out if it really matters and if there are things to improve it.

Drs. Karl and Spencer chat with Amy Goekel about her history of her eating disorder.

Amy has her own podcast where she discusses it is more depth as well

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-eating-disorder-diaries/id1666122772

Drs. Karl and Spencer chat with Dr. Andrea Love, a cancer immunologist, about the recent headlines about the WHO listing aspartame as a possible carcinogen.

Drs. Karl and Spencer chat with Dr. Jesse Richards all about BBS (Bardet Biedl Syndrome), an unknown cause of genetic obesity.

Drs. Karl and Spencer sit with Dr. Nagra to discuss the recent WHO news headlines about artificial sweeteners.

Find out why you should still drink diet soda instead of regular soda.

Drs. Karl and Spencer chat with Dr. Salas-Whalen, an endocrinologist, about getting the appropriate clinician to prescribe you GLP-1 medicines.

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss with cardiologist Dr. Luke Laffin about his recent study looking at statins versus various supplements touted as cholesterol-lowering. We also discuss the claim about saunas being better than drugs at lowering mortality.

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss whether we should call lifestyle measures "medicine".

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss the drugs that help you pee out calories - SGLT2 inhibitors.

Learn how this type 2 diabetes medicine has turned into a great drug for other conditions.

Drs. Karl and Spencer go over the common myths of the GLP-1 agonists.

Is Ozempic face real?

Do people get pancreatic cancer or pancreatitis?

Find out by listening!

Drs. Karl and Spencer chat with Dr. Leslie Golden about the troubles with insurance covering obesity medicine.

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss the worry surrounding lean mass loss while using GLP-1 agonists.

Learn:

- The usual amount of lean mass loss during weight loss

- How much was lost in small subset using semaglutide and tirzepatide

- What is the clinical relevance

- and more!

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss the phenomena of those who believe cholesterol (and lipoproteins that carry cholesterol) doesn't cause heart disease.

Learn:

- How Dr. Spencer was also a skeptic when first starting medical school

- How the data are pretty overwhelming for cholesterol/apoB/LDL particles causing heart disease

Drs. Karl and Spencer chat with Dr. Zeena Al-Rufaie, a pediatric obesity specialist, about the new pediatric obesity guidelines.

She gives her own experience as a mother and also a pediatrician about the new guidelines that caused media headlines to spin out of control.

Drs. Karl and Spencer chat with Abby Langer and Amanda Thebe all about the various red flags you see with quacks online.

What are the top nutrition red flags?

What about those preying on women going through menopause?

and more!

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss a tweet from Steve Crowder.

Learn more about judging health by looks (and obesity)

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss with Dr. Guillermo Escalante all about the harmful effects of anabolic steroids.

Dr. Escalante published a study on autopsies done on bodybuilders who died young.

Learn:

How anabolic steroids affect the heart

Whether there are intrinsic factors beyond blood pressure and lipids

Dr. Spencer's patients who use steroids and how he tries to keep them as healthy as possible

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss diet zealots and evangelicals.

Learn:

What to look out for this New Year so you don't get duped into another diet cult

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss the false dichotomy of believing one needs to only do lifestyle OR take a medicine.

Drs. Karl and Spencer chat with trainer Dontae Burks about his experience with training young children all the way up to the elderly.

What's the best way to get kids to work out?

Should kids even lift weights?

and more!

Drs. Karl and Spencer go over the medicines that treat prediabetes and type 2 diabetes.

Learn:

- Whether you should even treat prediabetes

- If you should do medicine before lifestyle

- All about metformin

- and of course GLP-1s

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss the new trend of Hollywood stars using GLP-1 agonists for vanity weight loss and the new weight loss guidelines for medicine and surgery.

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Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss diabetes.

What are the different types?

What causes these different types?

How can you prevent and treat with lifestyle?

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss with Examine.com director Kamal Patel all about supplements.

Which ones should you take?

Which ones should you avoid?

Are fat burners worthwhile?

What about testosterone boosters?

Find out in this episode.

Drs. Karl and Spencer discuss with Dr. Kevin Klatt, an RD PhD, on whether or not to even pay attention to media headlines about nutrition science. 

Drs. Karl and Spencer sit down with bariatric surgeon Dr. Garth Davis to discuss the ins and outs of surgery for weight loss.

Learn:

The types of surgery

Whether it is safe or not

How well does it work

And whether Garth lifts or not.