How to Eat Like a Doctor and Feel Amazing in 2025 | Dr. Colin Zhu
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
4.9 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Ever feel like your body just isn’t working the way it used to? Low energy. Stubborn weight. Chronic conditions that won’t budge.
Dr. Colin Zhu is a board-certified physician who realized that prescriptions weren’t enough — so he went to culinary school to help people heal through everyday food.
In this conversation with Chuck Carroll of The Exam Room podcast, Dr. Zhu shares the simple shifts that make a big difference: from what to eat when you’re dealing with fatigue or high blood pressure, to how to grocery shop without falling into the processed food trap.
You’ll learn:
- How to rethink your grocery cart
- Why fiber—not protein—is the missing piece in most diets
- How small, consistent changes really work
Whether you’re already on a health journey or just thinking about it, this episode offers real advice from someone who understands how hard change can be—and how worth it it really is.
This episode of The Exam Room is sponsored by Plants Over Animals with Dr. Brooke Bussard. Explore Dr. Bussard’s favorite recipes, her books, and take her course called Eat and Feel Good! that is helping people achieve optimal health and wellness.
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Dr. Colin Zhu
Website: https://www.thechefdoc.app
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Podcast: https://www.thechefdoc.app/thrive-bites-podcast
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Lotus Health Summit
Where: Rochester, MN
When: April 17-18, 2025
Who: Drs. Ayesha & Dean Sherzai, Brenda Davis, Chuck Carroll
Tickets: https://www.lotushealthfoundation.org/2025-symposium-and-gala
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| 0:00.0 | Today, on the exam room. |
| 0:04.8 | Iceberg lettuce actually has more antioxidants than chicken. |
| 0:09.6 | You just think that iceberg lettuce is just like water. |
| 0:12.3 | And generally, plants have 64 times more antioxidants than animal foods. |
| 0:22.1 | Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:26.3 | Hi, I am the weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world. |
| 0:32.6 | Hi to the exam room. He's listening in Lubbock, Texas, Chico, California, and Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. |
| 0:40.7 | Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 0:44.6 | This is episode 33 of Season 8, number 632 overall. |
| 0:50.7 | And our guest today defines the term culinary medicine, Dr. Colin Zhu, better known as |
| 0:59.6 | the chef doc. This man is bridging the gray divide that exists between treating the problem |
| 1:06.6 | and just treating the symptom. It's like, why put a band-aid on something when you can truly heal the wound? |
| 1:14.1 | And not just that, you can treat the very thing that caused the wound in the first place. |
| 1:20.3 | And I caught up with Dr. Zhu as he was speaking at a conference in Palm Springs |
| 1:24.7 | to talk about his metamorphosis from doctor to chef to |
| 1:28.8 | merging those superpowers together to become the chef doc and also how his practice is proving |
| 1:35.2 | to be a game changer in California and why this was a calling that he felt from a very early |
| 1:42.7 | age. And plus, if you've ever wondered what the |
| 1:46.4 | difference is between a DO and an MD, well, he's going to explain that to us as well. And then |
| 1:53.4 | after the interview, I'm going to give you exciting news in the nutrition world, big time findings |
| 2:00.0 | for the link between cholesterol and your risk |
| 2:03.2 | of dementia. We are talking about a study of tens of thousands of people with findings that |
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