The Metabolic Link

Join Dr. Norwitz for a Live Q&A on September 10th at 12pm PT/3pm ET on The Metabolic Initiative platform! Visit this link to register, and also watch his presentation Cookies & Cholesterol Controversy inside the platform (first 7-days are free): https://membership.metabolicinitiative.com/norwitz In this episode, Dr. Nick Norwitz returns to The Metabolic Link podcast to explore the future o...

Become a member of The Metabolic Initiative to access a robust bank of cutting edge metabolic health content, private ad-free podcast episodes, and earn CMEs here ! More than a billion people around the world suffer from mental and neurological disorders, and the numbers are escalating rapidly. Current treatments often fail to provide relief, resulting in many patients struggling with persistent s...

Become a member of The Metabolic Initiative to access exclusive ad-free episodes and earn CMEs here ! In this enlightening episode of The Metabolic Link, Dr. Dominic D'Agostino sits down with Dr. Mary Newport to delve into the world of Alzheimer's disease, discussing her pioneering work with ketogenic metabolic therapy. Dr. Newport shares her personal and inspiring journey with her husba...

Become a member of The Metabolic Initiative for ad-free episodes and CMEs In this episode of The Metabolic Link, host Victoria Field interviews Dr. Deanna Kelly, a distinguished professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Kelly is pioneering nutritional interventions to treat serious mental illness and led a groundbreaking trial on the ketogenic diet for schizophr...

Become a member of The Metabolic Initiative to access exclusive episodes and earn CMEs: https://membership.metabolicinitiative.com In this episode of the Metabolic Link Podcast, host Dr. Dom D'Agostino sits down with Dr. Robert Lustig to discuss groundbreaking research unifying different models of obesity. They dive deep into the flaws of the traditional energy balance and carbohydrate-insuli...

Become a member of The Metabolic Initiative to access exclusive episodes and earn CMEs: https://membership.metabolicinitiative.com In this interview, host Victoria Field sits down with Dr. Casey Means, a Stanford-trained physician, entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author of the new book Good Energy. Dr. Means shares her inspiring journey from being a head and neck surgeon to leaving tr...

Become a member of The Metabolic Initiative to access exclusive episodes and earn CMEs! Registered dietitian, Lily Nichols, RDN, CDE, is back on The Metabolic Link, this time in an intimate interview that dives into the critical links between metabolic health, perinatal nutrition, and long-term wellbeing. This episode dives deep into how nutrition during the childbearing years can affect not only...

Become a member of The Metabolic Initiative to access exclusive episodes and earn CMEs! Join us in this enlightening episode as we dive deep into the emerging research behind Urolithin A and its impact on mitochondrial health with Dr. Anurag Singh, a leading expert in the field and the Chief Medical Officer of Timeline. The discussion spans various facets of Urolithin A, from its origin in pomegra...

Become a member of The Metabolic Initiative for exclusive episodes and earn CMEs! Dive into the core of nutrition science with Dr. Dominic D'Agostino and Dr. Nina Teicholz, and uncover the remarkable benefits of saturated fats, unravel the complexities of LDL cholesterol, and dig into the heated debate surrounding food addiction and ethical meat consumption. Dr. Teicholz sheds light on the mi...

Become a member of The Metabolic Initiative for exclusive episodes and to earn CMEs In this episode, recorded at Metabolic Health Summit 2024, Dr. Richard Johnson dives into the groundbreaking research that has uncovered the central role of fructose in driving the epidemics of obesity, diabetes, and a wide range of other metabolic diseases. Dr. Johnson presents compelling evidence that fructose, a...

In this episode of The Metabolic Link, Victoria Field, Dr. Dominic D'Agostino, and Dr. Angela Poff dive into a fascinating new paper that compares the metabolic and immune impacts of ketogenic and vegan diets in humans. The study, titled “Differential Peripheral Immune Signatures Elicited by Vegan Versus Ketogenic Diets in Humans” takes a deep dive into the multi-omic effects of these two ver...

The following Metabolic Link episode was originally filmed at Metabolic Health Summit 2024 and we're excited to share it with you today in its entirety! In this presentation, Dr. Andy Galpin, a human performance scientist, shares his insights on utilizing scientific principles, specifically the 'Biomolecular Athlete' concept, to achieve athletic excellence. He emphasizes the importa...

This week’s episode of The Metabolic Link features an illuminating sit-down interview with Dr. Jeff Volek, a professor at The Ohio State University. With a PhD in Kinesiology specializing in exercise and nutrition science from Penn State University, Dr. Volek has performed cutting edge research on how humans adapt to diets restricted in carbohydrates with a dual focus on clinical and performance a...

This week's episode of The Metabolic Link features a full presentation from Metabolic Health Summit 2024. Dr. Ben Bikman, professor at Brigham Young University, dives deep into the intricacies of fat and its relationship to metabolic health. This is the full presentation he delivered at Metabolic Health Summit 2024 in Clearwater Beach, Florida. In it he shares his expertise on the link betwee...

This week’s episode of The Metabolic Link features an illuminating sit-down interview with Dr. Georgia Ede, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist specializing in nutrition science and brain metabolism. With over 25 years of clinical experience, including 12 years as a college psychiatrist and nutrition consultant at Smith College and Harvard University Health Services, Dr. Ede was the first to offer stud...

In this episode of The Metabolic Link, Dr. Dominic D’Agostino, Dr. Angela Poff, and Victoria Field recap Metabolic Health Summit 2024, the world’s leading medical and scientific conference on metabolic health. Listen to this episode to get an inside look at the top scientific highlights and surprising moments from the perspective of the hosts who made it happen. Want to learn about all the cutting...

We’ve just launched an extra and exciting episode of The Metabolic Link podcast! It features an eye-opening conversation between our host Dominic D’Agostino PhD, and guests Dave Feldman and Dr. Nick Norwitz, two researchers and MHS 2024 speakers spearheading investigations into the lean mass hyperresponder (LMHR) phenotype. Dave Feldman is a software engineer who became deeply interested in lipido...

This week’s episode of The Metabolic Link features an illuminating conversation between our host Dr. Dominic D’Agostino and Dr. Jonathan Jun, a pulmonary critical care and sleep medicine physician at Johns Hopkins. He is an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of sleep-disordered breathing, and in the care of critically ill patients in the Medical ICU. He is a member of the Sleep Fellowship Progr...

In this episode, our co-hosts Dr. Dominic D’Agostino, Dr. Angela Poff, and Victoria Field discuss two recent scientific papers on the metabolic effects of allulose and how blocking fructose intake may help fight cancer. The first paper examines how allulose consumption influences metabolic factors like appetite, blood sugar, and insulin sensitivity through the release of key gut hormones and effec...

This week’s episode of The Metabolic Link features an illuminating conversation between our host Dr. Dom D’Agostino and Chad Vanags, a successful entrepreneur who is navigating a stage 4 cancer diagnosis with courage and purpose. After being diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer in 2022 at just 39 years old, Chad has been documenting his journey to becoming “metabolically, physically, and mentally el...

This week’s episode of The Metabolic Link features an illuminating conversation between our host Dominic D'Agostino, PhD, and Franziska Spritzler, RD, CDE. Franziska is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator who specializes in low-carb and ketogenic diets. She has been following a low-carb approach for over a decade. In this episode, we cover: 💡 The essential tools Franziska...

In this episode, our co-hosts Victoria Field, Dr. Dominic D'Agostino, and Dr. Angela Poff discuss two recent scientific papers on the potential metabolic connections to psychiatric disorders and mindfulness-based interventions. The first paper is a systematic review on the efficacy of low-carb and ketogenic diets for treating mood and anxiety disorders. They discuss the importance in defining...

This week’s episode of The Metabolic Link features an illuminating conversation between our host Dr. Dominic D'Agostino and Dr. Kyle Gillett, a board-certified physician in family and obesity medicine who provides holistic care to his patients. He earned his medical degree at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, practices at the Gillett Health Clinic in Olathe, Kansas, and is the host...

This week's episode of The Metabolic Link features an eye-opening discussion between Metabolic Health Summit organizer Victoria Field and prenatal nutrition expert Lily Nichols , RDN, CDE. Lily is the author of two bestselling books - Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes. Her work focuses on evidence-based, critical analysis of conventional pregnancy nutrition recomm...

In this week’s episode of The Metabolic Link, double board certified psychiatrist and obesity medicine physician, Dr. Shebani Sethi, takes us on a deep dive into the emerging field of metabolic psychiatry. Dr. Shebani Sethi is a psychiatrist and obesity medicine physician at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the founding director of the Stanford Metabolic Psychiatry Clinic, where she...