Dr. Ravi Kumar is a board-certified neurosurgeon who left the operating room to explore the questions that matter most about your health.
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Most people have never heard of reactive hypoglycemia, and neither have a lot of physicians, yet it may affect up to half the population and it is one of the earliest warning signs on the road to prediabetes and diabetes. Dr. Ravi Kumar sits down with Dr. Keith Berkowitz, who worked alongside Dr. Robert Atkins in the late 1990s and carried that whole way of practicing medicine forward after Atkins died. They unpack what reactive hypoglycemia actually is, why a blood sugar crash a few hours after eating leaves you tired, foggy, anxious, and hangry, why it is the cortisol response and not the low glucose that produces the symptoms, and how insulin resistance builds for 20 years before a standard lab ever looks abnormal. Along the way: the low fat era, the sugar industry's role in villainizing fat and eggs, the gut microbiome, continuous glucose monitors, and why the tools to catch this early finally exist.
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Dr. Ravi Kumar is a board-certified neurosurgeon and assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of North Carolina. After years in the operating room, a transformative sabbatical in India changed how he saw medicine forever.
Now, through The Dr. Kumar Discovery, he explores the intersection of modern science, traditional wisdom, and the questions most doctors never think to ask.
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