11 Oct 2024 05:29
Episode 218: Doctors Don't Know What They Don't Know with Dr. Nelson Vazquez
Welcome to Protecting Your Nest with Dr. Tony Hampton. Dr. Nelson Vazquez is a Family Medicine doctor with over 40 years of clinical experience. By reducing the carbs in his diet he has been able to improve his diabetes and other chronic illnesses. He has restored his health and is sharing the means by which he achieved this restoration with others through his YouTube channel (see links).
In this discussion, Drs. Tony and Nelson talk about:
- (03:21) Why and when Dr. Nelson decided to become a doctor
- (08:58) Keys to success in marriage
- (11:59) Other diets that Dr. Nelson has tried over the years and why they didn’t work for him
- (18:15) How Dr. Nelson discovered the keto diet
- (24:38) Why Dr. Nelson decided to become a carnivore
- (35:38) How much weight Dr. Nelson has lost
- (36:59) Why Dr. Nelson had a stroke and how his diet change safeguards against further strokes
- (45:41) How Dr. Nelson’s neuropathy affected his work as a doctor
- (51:26) Coming off of insulin and other medications
- (55:53) Dr. Nelson’s ‘why’ for his decision to adopt the keto/carnivore lifestyle
- (59:27) Dr. Nelson’s final words of wisdom for those who need to make a change and improve their health
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