📣 A family medicine physician who built her career on evidence found herself facing things she couldn't measure. Dr. Laura Buchanan shares how low-carb medicine, menopause care, and a series of unexplainable events reshaped both her practice and her faith.
📋 Dr. Laura Buchanan practices low-carb, metabolic health medicine at Toward Health alongside Dr. Tro Kalayjian, after her own frustration with standard nutrition training led her to ketogenic and low-carb approaches during residency. She talks with Robyn about using CGMs to catch hidden blood sugar spikes, the pushback she faced early in her career for recommending low-carb over insulin, and the gaps she found in how menopause is treated in women's healthcare. The conversation then turns personal, as Dr. Buchanan describes a string of events she couldn't explain away — leading her to write her new memoir, Make It Be So, about the collision between an evidence-trained mind and faith.
🔑 What You'll Learn
- How Dr. Buchanan transitioned from standard medical training into a low-carb, metabolic health-focused practice
- Why continuous glucose monitors can reveal hidden blood sugar spikes from "healthy" processed foods
- The overlooked role of menopause and hormone therapy in anxiety, joint pain, and other misdiagnosed symptoms
- What genitourinary syndrome of menopause is and why so few women get treated for it
- The series of unexplainable events that led Dr. Buchanan to write her new memoir on faith and medicine
💡 Key Insight
"Stay open, be less stubborn, stop dismissing whatever it is that you don't initially understand." — Dr. Laura Buchanan
🌐 Connect with Dr. Laura Buchanan
https://toward.health/providers/dr-laura-buchanan/
https://x.com/LauraBuchananMD
https://www.instagram.com/laurabuchananmd/
Book, Make It Be So: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1972582003
⚕️ This podcast is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice; always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health decisions.
⏳ Chapters
0:47 Introduction
2:44 Growing Up and Watching Her Grandparents Age
4:30 Discovering Low Carb in Medical School
6:22 Practicing Low Carb Through Residency
9:46 Pushback From the Hospital System
16:12 Joining Dr. Tro at Toward Health
20:26 Why Metabolic Health Is Mental Health
25:01 The Gap in Menopause Care
34:10 Genitourinary Syndrome and Overlooked Symptoms
42:04 Introducing the New Book, Make It Be So
44:48 The Guardian Angel Dream and God Incidents
58:12 How Faith Has Changed Her Practice
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