Tekla Back Revolutionizing Food Labels – A Citizen Petition: Ep 83
Download Episode At our last in-person event in Boca Raton in January 2020, Tekla did a great presentation on food labels and all the ways she felt they came up short, not only in terms of content but also on what foods had labels on them. For instance, why shouldn’t we see labels on apples […]
Can a DNA Test Solve Your Keto Stall: Ep 82
Download Episode Alison Gannett was an organic farmer & professional extreme skier travelling the world competing, when one day she was cooking bacon at home and it caught on fire. Her husband walked in to see her admiring the flames and realised they were really in trouble. After a CT scan found an orange sized […]
Easy Insulin Test – At Home Metabolic Health Test Kits: Ep 81
Download Episode Dr. Alexandra Sowa is a dual board-certified physician of Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine, helping thousands of patients through her practice in New York. Seeing a growing need for patients to be able to easily gain access to relevant lab tests that can help diagnose as well as track responses to interventions, she […]
Keto Diet for Wound Care and Infectious Diseases – Dr. Ravi Kamepalli : Ep 80
Download Episode One of the things we have not really addressed before is the role of reduced carbohydrates in wound care and infectious diseases. As a physician trained in these areas as well as obesity medicine, Dr. Ravi Kamepalli is working to improve patient outcomes with keto(genic)-based nutrition. “Insulin Resistance is the core problem,” he […]
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 […]