Watch Tro Kalayjian, DO, at Low Carb Denver 2023, with historical context from related clinician-education announcements.
At Low Carb Denver 2023, Tro Kalayjian, DO, delivered a presentation titled “The Clinical Approach to Food Addiction, Informed Consent & Hunger.” The full 37-minute recording was published by Low Carb Conferences.
This page brings the recording together with relevant context from two Toward Health announcements first published in late 2022. It preserves the speakers’ original framing and patient perspective without creating new diagnostic criteria or treatment guidance.
What the presentation addressed
The presentation title brings together three subjects: a clinical approach to food addiction, informed consent, and hunger.
The original Low Carb Denver announcement did not summarize Dr. Tro’s complete clinical framework or explain each topic in detail. For that reason, the full recording remains the primary source for his presentation.
Trust, rapport, and patient experience
Before the 2023 Symposium for Metabolic Health in Boca, Toward Health previewed a food-addiction workshop and lecture that Dr. Tro planned to lead.
“There is a lot of emotion involved. How do we get it out of them and build that trust and rapport?”
The preview said the sessions would discuss assessment and diagnostic tools intended to help clinicians better understand what their patients were experiencing. It also attributed to Dr. Tro a discussion of hopelessness, self-blame, shame, guilt, and other emotional or psychological factors that may be present for some people struggling with food addiction.
These points are preserved as his remarks from the historical event preview, not as newly authored Toward Health conclusions.
Including the patient perspective
The Boca workshop also included Amy Eiges, then a Toward Health health coach and program director. Her planned presentation was titled “Top 10 Things NEVER to Say to a Patient with Food Addiction or Obesity.”
Amy described her own experiences with clinicians and reported losing more than 220 pounds after finding clinicians who were a better fit for her. Her account was presented as a personal experience, not a result readers should expect.
“Helping people heal their relationship to food is as important as what that food is.”
The original announcement used her perspective to emphasize that clinician language, trust, and a patient’s experience were part of the broader discussion.
Professional education and training
The Boca event preview described a workshop for doctors, trainers, dietitians, and other practitioners. Its planned format included short lectures, handouts, and a question-and-answer session.
A separate Toward Health announcement said Dr. Tro had been invited to teach “The Clinical Approach to Food Addiction” in Nutrition Network’s Addictive Eating online training. The current Nutrition Network course page continues to list his module.
What this page does and does not cover
This page preserves the full presentation and the most relevant historical context that had been spread across three short announcements.
It does not independently:
- Define food addiction.
- Establish diagnostic criteria.
- Recommend a treatment protocol.
- Reconstruct parts of the presentation that were not described in the original posts.
- Replace individualized medical or mental-health care.
For related Toward Health material, see Understanding Hunger: Why Your Hunger Has Nothing to Do with Willpower, the 2025 TOWARD food-addiction and binge-eating study summary, and the 2020 case-series summary.
If you are looking for structured care, explore the Toward Health Food Addiction Program.
This material is educational and is not individualized medical advice.
