Podcast appearances and mentions of Ethan J Weiss

Time-restricted eating is said to encourage weight loss and improve metabolic health. But how effective is it? In conversation with guest host Leslie Beck is Dr. Ethan Weiss, a cardiologist who studies human metabolism at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Weiss used to be a fan of intermittent fasting—until he conducted his own randomized controlled trial on humans. His findings may surprise you. LINKS AND HIGHLIGHTS: Dr. Ethan J. Weiss’s web page at UCSF, and his Twitter feed. Dr. Weiss’s randomized control trial on the 16:8 form of intermittent fasting is published in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study was featured in numerous different publications, including the New York Times and CNBC. Episode website: https://www.eatmovethinkpodcast.com/podcast/ep38-intermittent-fasting

Dr. Ethan J. Weiss has been passionate about health since a young child, growing up around a cardiologist father. He eventually went on to attend Vassar College before moving on to medical school and residency at John Hopkins. He came to UCSF in 1998 to complete his clinical and research fellowships in cardiology and has remained on the faculty since then. Dr. Weiss has maintained an active clinical practice with expertise in the emerging intersection between endocrine and metabolic disease and cardiovascular diseases. He is a leading authority on novel tools to predict and prevent cardiovascular disease and has special interest in using technology as a tool to enable lifestyle changes. When you look at the role of nutrition in cardiovascular health, you’ll find that there is imperfect information. So, we need to review the information that we have and take the best approach going forward. Dr. Ethan believes that cholesterol is causative in cardiovascular disease. In the past ten years, there has been an abundant amount of information that LDL is a massive risk factor. Dr. Ethan explains the effects of cholesterol. If you look at plaque in human arteries, there is definitely LDL cholesterol. How LDL contributes to the growth of plaque is still something we are learning about. We are hindered in this field because it is difficult to get ahold of the tissue. We don’t have the best or most refined understanding of how this happens. However, the latest theory is that cholesterol will cause problems by inducing an inflammatory response. Diet relates closely to lipid health. In the seventies, we told people to eat low fat; therefore, people started eating high carbs. However, Dr. Ethan doesn’t want to say that he has the answers prematurely. No one has the answers; there is still a lot to learn about nutrition. If you take a low carb and high-fat diet, the impact is an increase in LDL cholesterol. After digging deeper, Dr. Ethan felt more comfortable with the rise in LDL because it didn’t increase the risk of cardiovascular disease. Some individuals will have a much more significant change to their LDL when they start eating low carb. Dr. Ethan says people have five choices: -      Ignore it. -      Keep an eye on things by measuring calcium. -      Try a different diet by adding more carbs. -      Start taking a statin. -      Replace saturated fats with plant-based fats. Dr. Ethan is most excited about the last choice, replacing saturated fats with plant-based fats. When people have heart attacks, it’s important to treat things differently. So, Dr. Ethan does not recommend using diet to treat heart attacks alone. However, food should be part of the recovery. Then, Dr. Ethan explains the relationship between keto and diabetes. You don’t often see people coming into the doctor’s office with fewer and fewer drugs. However, people with diabetes are coming off of their diabetes medications and blood pressure medications once trying the ketogenic diet. Dr. Ethan has found publications on low carb diets and diabetes in 1795. So, the relationship between keto and diabetes is not a new phenomenon. Plus, keto offers an opportunity to track a biomarker; it changes the focus from stepping on the scale every day. Measuring weight is a terrible way to measure how well you are doing. When you’re eating keto, you’re eating fewer carbohydrates and less refined sugars. Stay tuned, as Dr. Ethan describes the inspiration behind Keyto. TimeStamps: [ 0:05 ] About today’s guest, Ethan Weiss  [ 1:15 ] How diet relates to lipid health   [ 8:20 ] The effects of cholesterol   [ 11:15 ] The ways that diet can cause high LDL   [ 21:15 ] How to improve lipid health   [ 25:10 ] The relationship between keto and diabetes [ 28:20 ] About Keyto [ 40:15 ] Recommendations from Dr. Ethan Mentioned in this episode: Ethan’s Profile: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/ethan.weiss Check out Keyto: https://keyeats.com Thinking, Fast and Slow: https://rb.gy/gb405q Follow Dr. Ethan: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ethanjweiss Follow Keyto: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetKeyto Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/getkeyeats/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/keyeats Enjoyed the Podcast? Subscribe on iTunes and leave a review! For more Dr. Mowll, check out his  website drmowll.com For more information on this week’s episode, visit: Mastering Blood Sugar Podcast

Jesse Horwitz, co-founder of e-commerce contact lens company Hubble Contacts joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about direct-to-consumer brands, social media marketing, and his path from film school to the world's biggest hedge fund.This episode is sponsored by Key Eats. Visit www.keyeats.com/bkm for a free sample pack of 3 Key Eats bars, shipping included.

Dr. Nicola Guess, Head of the Nutrition Unit at Dasman Diabetes Institute (DDI) in Kuwait, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about her career path, using low-carb diets to combat disease, and nutritional epidemiology.This episode is sponsored by Key Eats. Visit http://www.keyeats.com/bkm for a free sample pack of 3 Key Eats bars, shipping included.

Margaret Johnson, Chief Creative Officer at Goodby Silverstein & Partners, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about why becoming a mother "...was the best thing that ever happened..." to her career, the philosophy of 'mass intimacy', and her view on Influencer Marketing.This episode is sponsored by Key Eats. Visit www.keyeats.com/bkm for a free sample pack of 3 Key Eats bars, shipping included.

Ann Miura-Ko, co-founding partner at Floodgate, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about her remarkable path to venture capital, her belief that closing doors creates opportunities, and her investing philosophy.This episode is sponsored by Key Eats. Visit www.keyeats.com/bkm for a free sample pack of 3 Key Eats bars, shipping included.

Dr. Kevin Hall, Senior Investigator at the National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about designing mathematical models of various diseases, and how he jumped on the unexpected opportunity to test those models through a clinical trial.This episode is sponsored by Key Eats. Visit www.keyeats.com/bkm for a free sample pack of 3 Key Eats bars, shipping included.

Dr. David Ludwig, co-director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about his groundbreaking research on the role of sugar and carbohydrates in metabolic disease, the obesity epidemic, his perspective on nutritional research methods, and best practices for a healthy diet.

Emily Oster, Professor of Economics at Brown University and bestselling author, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about her most recent book, "Cribsheet, A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool", her best known method for parenting, and her thoughts on the nature of evidence in the internet age, behavior change and weight loss.

Dr. Sek Kathiresan, CEO of Verve Therapeutics, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about his experiments to map the areas of our genome that are associated with different levels of blood cholesterol, the genetic basis underlying risk of heart attack, and his decision to step away from his roles as Director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Director of the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute, and Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, to put all of his efforts into Verve.

Dr. Lisa Rosenbaum, cardiologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women's hospital, and National Correspondent for New England Journal of Medicine, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about her storied career, split between the roles of physician and writer.

Dr. Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology at UCSF and author, joins the Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about how he shifted his research focus from the sex differentiation of the brain, to how the brain controls eating. Through this work, Rob became an outspoken researcher and activist on the obesity epidemic, and a strong critic of processed sugars.

Roger McNamee, philanthropist, investor, venture capitalist and musician, joins the Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about his great success as an early investor in tech startups such as Facebook and Yelp, and what led to him writing Zucked: The Education of an Unlikely Activist, a book warning about the dangers consumers face from many of these same companies.

Jessica Mega, Chief Medical and Scientific Officer at Verily, joins the Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about the influence of the Yale system on her leadership ethos, a career switch from Harvard to Google, and how she approaches medical research as part of the world's largest search engine.

Dr. Eric Jeffrey Topol, cardiologist, geneticist, digital medicine researcher, author, and the Founder and Director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, joins Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about his innovative career, and the promise he sees in artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies to make medicine more humanistic.

Dr. Ron Krauss, Senior Scientist and Director of Atherosclerosis Research at Children's Hospital Oakland Research Institute, joins the Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about his life-long interest in cardiovascular disease, writing and subsequently re-writing the nutrition guidelines for the American Heart Association, and the relationship between diet and nutrition, and risk of cardiovascular disease.

Dr. Sid Mukherjee, Indian-American physician, biologist, oncologist, and best-selling author, joins the Best Known Method to speak with host Ethan J. Weiss about his journey to studying at Stanford, Oxford and Harvard, becoming one of the great physician-writers of this time, and his recent research into the effect of the ketogenic diet on cancer.

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