Mark Cucuzzella, MD

Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Colonel (ret), now practices in rural Northern Maine. As a professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine, Mark developed and adopted an inpatient protocol using a low-carb diet for patients with obesity, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes. Practicing what they preach, the hospital eliminated all sugar-sweetened beverages. Mark was also instrumental in bringing MEDCHEFS to the WVU School of Medicine in 2014, with a focus on understanding insulin resistance.

An advocate for evidence-based policy and education, Mark is a founding member of The Nutrition Coalition, a board member of The Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners and The Hypoglycemia Foundation and serves on the advisory committee for Coalition for Metabolic Health.

Mark’s current research interests are diabetes remission, the use of continuous glucose monitors, and carbohydrate reduction for severe pediatric obesity. He also leads a clinical group called the “International Multidisciplinary Diabetes Remission Working Group,” which recently completed a textbook chapter for Ketogenic on medication reduction in Type 2 diabetes adapted from the article “Adapting Medication for Type 2 Diabetes to a Low Carbohydrate Diet.”

Mark also experienced a personal health transformation after being diagnosed with maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY) and became an early adopter of continuous glucose monitors and dietary modification for disease remission. His book Run For Your Life summarizes the science and the soul of running, nutrition, and physical activity to help you maintain a vigorous life. Visit Mark’s site at www.DrMarksdesk.com.

For some of Mark’s views on food policy you can read his two-part article on children here and here, the future of our national security, and what no one was talking about during the pandemic.