Dr. Tro & Team: a New, Patient-Centric Model for Healthcare

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Dr. Tro & Team: a New, Patient-Centric Model for Healthcare

Dr. Philip Ovadia

Jan 24, 2023

Dr. Tro Kalayjian - a formerly 350-pound doctor - had to unlearn much of what he'd been taught in medical school to get his health back.

Dr. Laura Buchanan - a former athlete - had the same sort of experience. She learned early on that she wanted to integrate metabolic health into her medical practice.

Despite having different backgrounds in both personal health and medicine, Dr. Tro and Dr. Laura now collaborate to give their patients the best care possible. To address the underlying reason for a patient's health issues, the healthcare team considers the patient’s strengths, weaknesses, failures, and even appetites. They call this "patient bonding." It's a way to establish trust and rapport with the patient.

In this episode, these two doctors share their perspectives on what drives the messaging for nutrition, their passion for establishing rapport and connection with patients, and the future of health tech.

Listen until the end to know their fantastic announcement to help your health improve.

Quick Guide
01:23 Introduction
12:08 Nutrition messaging and results dictated by funding, religion, dogma
22:12 Deep diving into research
24:32 Lessons from the CGM about nutrition
27:14 What sugar does to blood vessels
31:40 The importance and ways to make patient bonding happen
44:01 Scaling the health tech, culture, empathy, and critical thinking
48:20 Insights on intermittent fasting and metabolism
52:27 Questions you want somebody to ask you
54:00 Closing statements and contacts

Get to know our guest
Dr. Tro Kalayjian, MD and Dr. Laura Buchanan work together to make a difference in patient care. With their Doctor Tro app, they aim to build accountability and a community addressing metabolic health.

"I can tell you that we have CGMs and scales and coughs and ketone meters, and if you don't use them, it will nudge you into using them. And, yeah, there's all this fancy stuff. But I think, I almost don't, like the fancy stuff is helpful because eating is something we want to be subconscious about and we have to rip it out of the subconscious. So, the tools like the CGM are so irreplaceable, but it's the act of what's really replaceable is the act of taking something subconscious, and sparking change."

Connect with them:
Website: https://doctortro.com
Aging Successfully: https://agingsuccessfully.substack.com

Episode snippets
11:04 - 12:00 - Low-carb always does better
13:45 - 14:06 - The epicenter of misinformation
25:31 - 26:16 - What the CGM taught Laura about her health
29:20 - 29:42 - Sugars are attacking blood vessels
33:49 - 34:24 - The need to establish rapport and motivate the patient
45:04 - 45:49 - It's not easy to scale the tech and culture
50:16 - 51:04 - Factors that affect metabolism