A Life Transformation – Restored Health and Down 200 lbs: Ep 79
Download Episode Allen Green weighed in at 403 lbs at age 49 when he discovered the concept of carbohydrate restriction and the ketogenic diet. Now he has regained his health, is off all his medications, of which there were many, and he has lost almost 200 lbs to boot. He discusses how he got to […]
‘Ravenous’ – Otto Warburg the Nazis & the Search for the Cancer Diet Connection: Ep 78
Download Episode The other day, Tim Noakes tweeted the following: “Third truly iconic book in low-carb literature. All written by investigative journalists who’ve done as much for promoting low-carb science as anyone: ‘Good Calories Bad Calories’ by Gary Taubes; ‘Big Fat Surprise’ by Nina Teicholz and now ‘Ravenous’ by Sam Apple. We’re blessed!” Praise doesn’t […]
Surprising Insights from Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor (CGM): Ep 77
Download Episode Recently Pam and I were approached by Casey Means, MD who is the co-founder and Chief medical officer of a company called Levels which is creating an App to integrate with a CGM and provide a whole lot of added value to basic scan data available in the CGM dashboard. We go over […]
Fabulously Keto: Are You a Moderator or an Abstainer? – Ep 76
Download Episode Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds were both morbidly obese at one point but both follow a ketogenic lifestyle now and both have reversed that situation although they followed very different paths to get there. Louise is a university professor from Australia although currently she is resident in Bangkok. After trying everything to beat […]
Arthur Agatston, Inventor of the Coronary Artery Calcium Score & South Beach Diet: Ep 74
Download Episode Arthur Agatston, MD, attended New York University School of Medicine. He did his internal medicine training at Montefiore Medical Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and his cardiology fellowship at NYU. He spent a year on staff at NYU while training to best combine both academic medicine with clinical practice. He […]
Struggle Giving Up Bread And Chips? There May Be A Solution: Ep 73
Download Episode William Schumacher found when he adopted a keto diet that he was like me and did not miss bread at all but what he did miss was really good crunchy chips (or crisps as they are called in various other regions). Uprising Foods is on a mission to rebuild and reformulate the staple […]
Stress Less, Accomplish More – Emily Fletcher: Ep 72
Download Episode I was introduced to Emily Fletcher by Robb Wolf after I was talking with him about my issues with traumatic brain injury and he said the Ziva meditation method that Emily has developed totally changed his life. He describes it now as Life Before Ziva and Life After Ziva. Before actually talking to […]
Andrew Oswari, MD Becomes One Of the First To Be SMHP Accredited : Ep 67
Download Episode Two years ago, Dr. Andrew Oswari, a family medicine doctor practicing integrative medicine, was experiencing what most doctors are currently experiencing, depression and disillusionment due to their lack of ability to help any of their patients with chronic illnesses get better. Ongoing progression of the conditions and escalating medications are the order of […]
Ben Bikman – What is Insulin Resistance, Really? Ep 62
Download Episode What a fascinating discussion with Dr. Ben Bikman about what Insulin Resistance really means. He makes this statement towards the end but I would like to highlight it right here at the start, “We should be studiously avoiding dogmatic thinking and constantly be checking what we think we know, lest we become that […]
Nonprofit for Metabolic Health Practitioners is a Game Changer: Ep 61
Download Episode https://youtu.be/380n6htjsfk/ I sat down with Dr. Adele Hite to talk about the imminent launch of the nonprofit Society for Metabolic Health Practitioners (SMHP). She has been instrumental in helping us to get to this point. Back in 2018 she worked with the panel of advisors that we put together to oversee the development […]