
Episode 356: Jessica Apple
09/16/24 • 48 min
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Jessica Apple is a writer, editor, and co-founder of a nonprofit magazine focusing on metabolic health and low-carb diabetes management. Her personal health journey involves personal experiences, including her mother's illness, her own struggle with autoimmune diabetes, and her family's health challenges. Jessica's quest for understanding led her to question traditional dietary advice and explore the ketogenic diet.
In this episode, Dr. Tro, and Jessica talk about...
- What inspired Jessica to begin learning about why people get sick and unhealthy
- Why the human body would ever attack itself
- How Jessica’s gestational diabetes diagnosis changed her life and her perspective on human health
- The struggle of Type 1 diabetics
- The effect of animal fat on brain health and mental health
- The Metabolic Revolution movement
For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!
Links:
Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.lowcarbmd.com/
Jessica Apple:
- From Suffering to Science: Fixing LADA with Jessica Apple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1sgY4iuycc
- Donate to the Metabolic Revolution Rally: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-metabolic-revolution-rally?attribution_id=sl:bd0eb451-f846-455f-82b5-670f294c24fb&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash_ai&utm_content=amp9v1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link
- The Metabolic Revolution: https://www.metabolicrevolution.org
Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
- Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Dr. Tro Kalayjian:
- Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctortro/
Toward Health App
Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together.
Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more.
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doctor-tro/id1588693888
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.disciplemedia.doctortro&hl=en_US&gl=US
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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Jessica Apple is a writer, editor, and co-founder of a nonprofit magazine focusing on metabolic health and low-carb diabetes management. Her personal health journey involves personal experiences, including her mother's illness, her own struggle with autoimmune diabetes, and her family's health challenges. Jessica's quest for understanding led her to question traditional dietary advice and explore the ketogenic diet.
In this episode, Dr. Tro, and Jessica talk about...
- What inspired Jessica to begin learning about why people get sick and unhealthy
- Why the human body would ever attack itself
- How Jessica’s gestational diabetes diagnosis changed her life and her perspective on human health
- The struggle of Type 1 diabetics
- The effect of animal fat on brain health and mental health
- The Metabolic Revolution movement
For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!
Links:
Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.lowcarbmd.com/
Jessica Apple:
- From Suffering to Science: Fixing LADA with Jessica Apple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1sgY4iuycc
- Donate to the Metabolic Revolution Rally: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-the-metabolic-revolution-rally?attribution_id=sl:bd0eb451-f846-455f-82b5-670f294c24fb&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash_ai&utm_content=amp9v1&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link
- The Metabolic Revolution: https://www.metabolicrevolution.org
Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
- Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Dr. Tro Kalayjian:
- Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctortro/
Toward Health App
Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together.
Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more.
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doctor-tro/id1588693888
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.disciplemedia.doctortro&hl=en_US&gl=US
Learn more: https://doctortro.com/community/
Previous Episode

Episode 355: Dr. Mariela Glandt
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Mariela Glandt, a Harvard and Columbia-educated endocrinologist, has extensive experience in treating diabetes. She is the founder and director of Glandt Center for Diabetes Care, which uses the ketogenic diet as its main therapeutic tool. Dr. Glandt has worked in New York, both in a private clinic and at Mount Sinai Hospital. In Israel, she worked as the director of the Clinical Research Unit for Diabetes at Hadassah Ein Kerem University Medical Center. Dr. Glandt publishes articles in international journals, is involved in clinical trials, and continues to mentor interns at Bronx Hospital in New York. She is a co-founder of Eatsane, which produces low-carb food with no artificial sweeteners. In addition, she is a co-founder of Metabolix, a non-profit organization that aims to educate people to help them achieve optimal metabolic health.
In this episode, Dr. Brian, Dr. Tro, and Dr. Mariela talk about...
- The power of lifestyle intervention for metabolic health
- The concept of food/nutrition elitism and wether there is any merit to the idea that we shouldn’t tell poor people to eat real food
- How to reach the hardest to reach communities with nutritional education
- The merits and disadvantages of various models of healthcare
- Battling food addiction
- Fixing the standard medical care model
For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!
Links:
Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.lowcarbmd.com/
Dr. Mariela Glandt:
- Glandt Center for Diabetes Care: https://www.glandt.co.il/en/home
- Eatsane: https://eatsane.com
- Metabolix: https://www.glandt.co.il/en/resources
Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
- Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Dr. Tro Kalayjian:
- Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctortro/
Additional Links:
- For Better, For Poorer: Low-Carb Diets Work for All Incomes (Article by Nina Teicholz): https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/richer-poorer-low-carb-diets-work-all-incomes-2024a1000cw5
- Journal of Metabolic Health article by Dr. Mariela: https://journalofmetabolichealth.org/index.php/jmh/article/view/87
- The Metabolic Revolution: https://www.metabolicrevolution.org
Toward Health App
Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together.
Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more.
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doctor-tro/id1588693888
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.disciplemedia.doctortro&hl=en_US&gl=US
Learn more: https://doctortro.com/community/
Next Episode

Episode 357: Florence Christophers
Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Florence Christophers is a trauma-informed certified health coach with expertise in sugar addiction and emotional eating recovery. Florence has been researching, coaching and walking the path of recovery in the sugar/food addiction space for over 30 years. Her private and group coaching programs teach a unique and holistic approach to sugar addiction recovery that comes out of the drug and alcohol recovery field.
In this episode, Dr. Tro and Florence talk about...
- How metabolic health is starting to go mainstream and why it is happening now
- Florence’s personal health journey and discovery of real nutrition
- The true nature of the path that leads to health
- Eliminating the everyday poisons from our modern lives
- Florence’s work over the years trying to bring awareness to the harm that sugar causes to the human body
For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening!
Links:
Please consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.lowcarbmd.com/
Florence Christophers:
- Kick Sugar Summit: https://www.kicksugarsummit.com
- Website: https://www.florencechristophers.com
Dr. Brian Lenzkes:
- Website: https://arizonametabolichealth.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrianLenzkes?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author
Dr. Tro Kalayjian:
- Website: https://www.doctortro.com/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/DoctorTro
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doctortro/
Toward Health App
Join a growing community of individuals who are improving their metabolic health; together.
Get started at your own pace with a self-guided curriculum developed by Dr. Tro and his care team, community chat, weekly meetings, courses, challenges, message boards and more.
Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/doctor-tro/id1588693888
Google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.disciplemedia.doctortro&hl=en_US&gl=US
Learn more: https://doctortro.com/community/
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