The Metabolic Healthcare Revolution Dr. Frank Dumont - E431

Dr. Frank Dumont is Executive Medical Director at Virta Health, where he leads medical strategy to advance safe, scalable metabolic care. A longtime internal medicine physician at Estes Park Medical Center, he previously directed its Wellness Service Line. A Fellow of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Dumont has also served in leadership roles with the Colorado Medical Society and the American Medical Association. In this episode, Drs. Brian and Frank talk about… (00:00) Intro (04:03) How Dr. Frank's personal health issues and professional experiences as a doctor led him to adopt a metabolic health approach to healing himself and his patients (10:41) Exercise, nutrition, and de-prescribing (14:22) Fat adaptation and fasting (24:09) Virta's peer-reviewed publications and long-term data (30:09) The positive cascading effect on holistic health of metabolic lifestyle interventions (36:25) Social support and mental health (44:41) Dr. Frank's experience leaving a standard medical practice and becoming a metabolic health practitioner (52:22) Moral injury and physician burnout in the standard medical care system (54:05) Employe wellness and metabolic health care (01:01:01) Outro/plugs For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for listening! Links: Please consider supporting us on Patreon : Dr. Frank Dumont: Virta Health: X: Linkedin: Dr. Brian Lenzkes: Website: Twitter: Dr. Tro Kalayjian: Website: Twitter: IG: 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: Google: Learn more:

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The Metabolic Healthcare Revolution Dr. Frank Dumont - E431 is an episode from Low Carb MD Podcast by Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian.

This episode is 01:04:39 long.

This episode was published on Feb 23, 2026.

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