Dr. Brian Lenzkes
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Total health encompasses more than just physical wellbeing; it includes factors like family life, the health of our relationships, spirituality, and the way we see our relationship to the rest of the world and to others. In this show, Dr. Lenzkes and his guests discuss these factors and share stories of heroism, compassion, and healing along the way. Being a medical doctor, Dr. Lenzkes has made a commitment to helping people, and he firmly believes that this commitment extends into every aspect of life.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · June 2026
A clinically flavored health show where diet, markers, stress, and medical skepticism feel connected instead of abstract.
Life's Best Medicine Podcast is a Health & Fitness conversation show with a clear medical frame, then room for clinical experience, patient stories, and the harder choices around food, medicine, and belief.
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A blunt argument about masks, misinformation, and who gets to define medical truth.
The episode takes a blunt run at masks, misinformation, and the question of who gets to define evidence. It keeps circling back to the claim that weak studies were treated as settled science, and it treats cloth masks and fact checking as flash points in a larger fight over…
A practical rucking guide with clear gear advice and a direct focus on technique.
Episode 286 with Kayla Girgen, RD, keeps its focus on rucking as a low impact way to train. The best section is the gear talk: how to keep a pack high and tight, why a hip belt or weight belt helps, and how small tweaks can shift some load off the shoulders and toward the lower…
A blunt COVID-era doctor conversation about data, treatment, risk, and the fallout from speaking up.
This is a doctor trying to explain how his COVID-era objections turned into healthcare fraud charges, and the discussion keeps coming back to the same plain questions: what data was used, how treatment was judged, and where caution ends and defiance begins.
An opinionated food-systems conversation that makes everyday food choices feel immediate and practical.
This episode opens with a new-year setup and then widens into a pointed argument about how food is produced, shipped, stored, and sold. It reads less like a neat recap and more like a clear-eyed take on what reaches the plate and why local food keeps returning as the contrast.
A plainspoken nutrition conversation about when a helpful plan starts needing adjustment.
The episode makes a steady, conversational case that the first diet that helps someone is not always the one that keeps helping. It is at its best when it keeps the focus on food, fiber, and metabolic change as ordinary, lived questions, especially in the examples of people who…
A blunt, compassionate talk about abuse, gaslighting, and the road back to voice.
This is a blunt, compassionate conversation about abuse, gaslighting, and faith. It works best when it names the fear directly and shows how being told not to speak about a wound can make someone doubt their own experience.
A blunt, high conviction health conversation about food sourcing, diet, and everyday tradeoffs.
Life's Best Medicine stays loose and opinionated, moving from family habits and work to keto, carnivore eating, and the question of where meat comes from. It is at its best when it turns big health anxieties into everyday choices, instead of pretending the answers are neat.
A reflective transplant story about endurance, faith, and holding onto hope.
The episode follows a guest reflecting on dialysis, transplant hope, and how to keep a sense of calm when the future feels narrow. Dr. Justin Marchegiani leaves room for medical reality, faith, and plain survival to sit together, while the guest speaks about learning to hold…
Herbal medicine mapped through stars and plants.
The host talks with a guest about memory, stress, and why the brain can still change.
Josh Wageman and the host frame cholesterol as a question of context, not binary good-versus-bad thinking, and Josh uses a 'home security system' plus 'lipid neighborhood' model to explain ApoB particles, LDL, LP(a), and coronary risk.
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Veronica Thompson, a licensed clinical social worker, talks with the host of Life's Best Medicine Podcast about childhood sexual abuse, the ACE study, and how trauma shows up later in life.
Jason Fung and the host center the conversation on The Hunger Code, a follow-up to The Obesity Code that argues weight gain is better understood by asking why people overeat.
Dave Schmitz describes reaching 278 pounds, reading about low-carb eating, and then building a keto bakery that also served carnivore food cooked in butter and tallow.
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Martha Carlin says the human body is about two-thirds microbial, and she argues that the microbiome functions like an internal pharmacy that makes vitamins, hormones, and neurotransmitters.
The host opens with the familiar entertainment-only warning and a quick sponsor mention before bringing in a guest for a long, pointed conversation.
Brian Lenskis ties the holiday season to gut health, arguing that sugar, alcohol, stress, and processed food can disrupt the microbiome and leave people hungrier, short-tempered, and more inflamed.
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Peter Ballerstedt, the "Sodfather," links ruminant agriculture to metabolic health and argues that animal-source foods are central to both human nutrition and sustainable food systems.
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Mike drops in for a loose, talk-heavy catch-up.
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Laura Cheadle says her husband had been cheating on her for 15 years of their 23-year marriage, and she ties that betrayal to writing her books and building a framework for burnout.
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Joe Duarte says NIH still funds ideologically loaded grants, including a San Francisco telomere project he says has spent more than $3 million without publishing results.
The host opens with the show's usual reminder that the conversation is for entertainment and education, and that it is not medical advice, then brings on the guest.
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When I stepped on that scale and saw the number 278 pounds, it was like a punch in the gut.
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Michelle Hurn talks through the idea that a diet can help at first and then stop helping later.
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Jill Ongle says her path into subconscious-root work started after her father’s pancreatic cancer diagnosis in 2007, when she found "The Secret," later worked for Joe Dispenza, and then rethought her approach after her brother’s suicide in late 2019.
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