After bursting onto the scene with Good Calories Bad Calories in 2007, Gary Taubes has gone on to write many books that have managed to make it into the mainstream and not get pigeonholed in the Keto or Low Carb genre which, let's be honest, is still pretty small as communities go. It's because of this that I am particularly excited about this new book of his, 'The Case For Keto' (available on Amazon here ). Our main focus at LowCarb USA ® has always been to not preach to the choir but rather to...
Dec 29, 2020•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 63
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 which we have grown to despise in those who are very antagonistic towards a low carb diet." There has been quite lot of chatter around recently about what it means and whether or not Ins...
Dec 23, 2020•40 min•Ep. 62
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 of the Clinical Guidelines for therapeutic carbohydrate restriction. We published them on our LowCarbUSA® site at our Seattle event in May, 2019 and they have been embraced by the community. However it was ...
Dec 09, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 61
Pam talks to Dorian Greenow, Founder of Keto-Mojo which produces a meter to measure blood glucose and blood ketone levels. When they first launched, at our LowCarb USA ® San Diego Event in 2017, they had already managed to bring the cost of the test strips down to 25% of the cost of the other available strips at the time. But he has never been satisfied with that and is constantly striving to bring the cost down further and also to try to get it certified for use in many other countries around t...
Nov 17, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 60
I first came across André Obradovic while I was working my way through the Advisor Training Course from the Nutrition Network . What stood out immediately that it wasn't a doctor or scientist trying to teach me something about the benefits of carbohydrate restriction or the LCHF lifestyle but rather about coaching and teaching people and how to effectively help them to understand why they might need to make a change. André calls himself a performance coach so I guess performance, in this case, i...
Nov 03, 2020•44 min•Ep. 59
Adam Pike was one of the lawyers involved in the successful defence of the charge against Prof. Tim Noakes for replying to a lady on Twitter about the best way to wean a baby. Since then Adam has presented a talk on ethical behaviour of medical professionals on social media for the Nutrition Network, which is a spin-off from the Noakes Foundation. I had a fascinating chat with him about what constitutes ethical behaviour on social media and we discover how the behaviour of Prof. Noakes did not c...
Oct 20, 2020•36 min•Ep. 58
Vyvyane Loh is a board certified internal medicine nd obesity doctor who started out in obesity practice and found herself taking patients off medications which was very different from what she had been taught in her training. She feels she was very lucky to get exposed to it early. Down the road she measured her own A1c levels and found them to be high, around 6.4. Her doctor looked at her and seeing that she was not overweight, told her she could not explain it and told her not to worry about ...
Oct 06, 2020•19 min•Ep. 57
We have partnered with Restore Health to launch a comprehensive mentoring Program for embracing a low carb lifestyle. This program is available to everyone, but we are finding that it has become a very powerful tool for practitioners. Once they are able to get their patients to understand that they need to change their lifestyle in order to address their metabolic health issues, this proves to be a very helpful tool to help those patients to actually implement the changes. The program addresses ...
Sep 15, 2020•59 min•Ep. 56
We caught up with our friend Andrew Berger again after almost a year. Andrew suffers with Type 1 Diabetes and found himself with terrible blood glucose control, the onset of diabetic retinopathy and was about 75 lbs overweight. We met him for the first time at the LowCarbUSA®- San Diego 2019 event. At that point he had been on a keto diet for about 7 months and was down about 40 lbs and his blood sugar control was way better. He met Dr. Ben Bocchicchio at the event and learned about the metaboli...
Aug 11, 2020•25 min•Ep. 55
We caught up with Prof. Tim Noakes again recently and after asking him to describe briefly again how he got started with LCHF and a little about his successful defence against the malicious charges brought against him by the HPSCA, the conversation turned to the subject of Poly Unsaturated Fatty Acids (PUFAs). I had recently heard a fascinating talk at the the Low Carb Denver conference by Dr. Chris Knobbe about PUFAs. He presented a compelling case that PUFAs were at the root of all metabolic d...
Jul 28, 2020•35 min•Ep. 54
We sat down to talk to Janae Cywes, wife of Dr, Robert Cywes, about her pregnancy and the fact that she has been, and plans to remain, on a strict ketogenic diet throughout. In fact Janae and Rob are basically carnivore now. They had been trying for the longest time to get pregnant and then about a year and a half ago they went carnivore and, out the blue she suddenly fell pregnant, totally unexpectedly. She says that for a short while in the early stages of the pregnancy, even the sight of red ...
Jul 23, 2020•52 min•Ep. 53
Nadia Pateguana is a Naturopathic Doctor focusing on PCOS at 'The Fasting Method' with Jason Fung and Megan Ramos. She has an amazing story of how she came to the realisation that diet and lifestyle could, and should, be the answer to PCOS and other metabolic conditions. Some of her more profound statements were: "Women with PCOS are not infertile, they are anovulatory, i.e. they are not ovulating. You can address this with drugs but if you don't address the underlying Insulin Resistance then th...
Jun 30, 2020•26 min•Ep. 52
After being vegetarian for over eight years, Dr. Tony Hampton started doing some research and started to see more and more data showing that the Low Carb diet had better outcomes for diabetes, obesity and many other chronic diseases than the diet he had been following. He says he learned more on YouTube than he did during his medical training. He started trying it out himself and one of the first things he noticed was a distinct improvement in his mental clarity. What is nice about his message i...
Jun 16, 2020•49 min•Ep. 51
Eric Reynolds was a cop with the Boynton Beach Police Department near West Palm and he got shot in the foot by an armed bank robber they were chasing and he ended up killing the suspect in the process. The whole incident left him in a pretty bad way and he started to display many signs of PTSD. He discovered the keto diet and, not only did his health improve drastically and all the excess weight melt away, but he found peace and tranquillity begin to return to his life and his symptoms of PTSD s...
Jun 09, 2020•48 min•Ep. 50
Dr Kristin Baier is a family medicine physician who recently became board certified in obesity medicine as well. Back about ten years ago she was diagnosed with Lupus and was experiencing all the usual symptoms. She started focusing on a nutritional solution since she did not want to remain on medications and steroids for the rest of her life. The first book she read suggested going vegan to solve auto immune problems and she decided to give it a try. Needless to say, after five years her sympto...
May 26, 2020•31 min•Ep. 49
When Adrianna Stephenson's son was just nineteen months old he was diagnosed with a golf ball-sized brain tumour in and around the hypothalamus. He immediately underwent a subtotal resection but about 3 months post-op the tumour had grown back to almost it's original size already. Adrianna and her husband, as well as the surgeon, did not want him to undergo another operation and so chemo was their only course of action. At the age of two, he started on a trio of chemotherapy drugs for what was s...
May 19, 2020•25 min•Ep. 48
Dr. Richard Margolis is psychiatrist who, together with his nurse wife, Lisa, have embraced the ketogenic lifestyle with great success. We spoke to them about how and why they got started and they really wanted to talk about the power of doing it together and how it's so much easier to be successful if couple support each other. That was a great talk but the conversation eventually migrated to the situation where one partner did not have the other's support and was even being sabotaged by that p...
May 05, 2020•27 min•Ep. 47
Dr. Lewis Cantley has made significant advances in cancer research stemming from his discovery of the signalling pathway phosphoinositide 3-kinase (Pi3K) in 1984. It is an enzyme that mediates pretty much everything that insulin does, in the liver, in the fat cells, and it mediates the lowering of serum glucose levels because it drives glucose into the muscle, AND into tumours. Since tumours thrive on glucose, they thought to develop a Pi3 Kinase inhibitor in order to try to treat tumours but th...
Apr 28, 2020•26 min•Ep. 46
Dr Paul Mason presents a detailed explanation of how poor metabolic health is the major contributing factor with complications and fatalities as a result of Coronavirus. He goes on to show how, just by changing their diet and cutting carbs and increasing saturated fat could start reducing the risks for those people almost immediately. Dr. Mason is a Sports and Exercise Medicine Physician who also holds degrees in Physiotherapy and Occupational Health. He is a believer of the scientific process a...
Apr 14, 2020•35 min•Ep. 45
LowCarbUSA® has partnered with Restore Health to provide a certified coaching program to support people adopting the Low Carb (or Ketogenic) Lifestyle. The program is brilliantly sequenced and rolled out in a manner that enables the client to make these behavioural changes in a methodical and sustainable fashion and you get paired with a real, live health coach and use Smart devices to make tracking a total breeze. Another unique feature of this program is that the exercise component incorporate...
Apr 07, 2020•37 min•Ep. 44
Captain Brian Gaudette was born to be a soldier. He joined the army at 18 and served initially as an infantryman and later trained for and became an Apache Pilot. However he started putting on a lot of weight and developing spatial disorientation in the cockpit. The doctors couldn't tell him what was wrong with him and immediately grounded him. After many months of desperate searching he finally discovered on his own that he had Hashimoto's Disease and he had also read that people were reversing...
Mar 31, 2020•28 min•Ep. 43
Jayne Bullen is the leader of The Noakes Foundation and works closely with Prof Noakes and a team of visionary scientists in Cape Town, addressing the escalating obesity and diabetes crisis in South Africa and the world through research and community education interventions. She talks here about how she found the Low Carb Lifestyle to solve her own metabolic issues and then walked away from her corporate job to join the Noakes Foundation and help them to find ways to fund their research and help...
Mar 24, 2020•26 min•Ep. 42
The movie "Fat Fiction" was supposed to be coming out in a number of Movie Houses around the world but due to the COVID-19 crisis, the producers have opted for a number of online premiers instead. I discuss when and how this will work with producer Jennifer Isenhart. If you are up to a small donation for one of the Foundations mentioned: https://thenoakesfoundation.org/donate https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/donate Ketogenic Foundation is very new and doesn't have a a donate page yet. We will p...
Mar 20, 2020•7 min•Ep. 41
It's here at last!! 'Fat Fiction' premiers in Los Angeles on March 13 and after that it will show in numerous theatres around the world. How do you get to see it?? Go to the 'Fat Fiction' movie page on FanForce (https://fan-force.com/films/fat-fiction/) Don't see a screening in your town or city?? Register to host a viewing in your area. It's so easy!! Select the movie house you want to have it in and choose a date and time and they do the rest. Once it is approved you get a bunch of promotional...
Mar 10, 2020•28 min•Ep. 40
Dr Jodi Nishida is a Pharm D, based in Honolulu, Hawaii. She has a great personal keto story and has gone on to establish a sustainable keto lifestyle practice in partnership with a physician which is proving to be extremely successful. What's incredible is that Blue Shield Blue Cross is watching how they are doing very closely to see how they can help all their employer groups get healthier and save themselves a ton of money. This initiative is also creating jobs for pharmacists outside of the ...
Mar 03, 2020•17 min•Ep. 39
Rarely will you come across a kinder and more empathetic physician. Dr. Hassina Kajee was running a High Care Emergency Unit in Cape Town, South Africa. After seeing so many people die she started looking at the stats and worked out that most deaths were from chronic diseases. So she opened a Low Carb Clinic and saw results really quickly and decided this is what she wanted to do. "This is Actually Real Medicine", she says. She reached out to Professor Noakes to ask what the Noakes Foundation wa...
Feb 24, 2020•38 min•Ep. 38
What an amazing couple. Dorian Greenow and Gemma Kochis, the founders of Keto-Mojo, talk about the establishment of a non-profit called the Ketogenic Foundation to fund further research into the keto diet and it’s many health benefits. They are utilizing Keto-Mojo profits as well as all affiliate link monies raised by Keto-Mojo to fund the foundation. Not only that but they have huge plans to encourage other businesses in the keto space to contribute to the effort as well.
Feb 17, 2020•39 min•Ep. 37
At the super successful Boca 2020 event we had a moment where Dr. Robert Cywes was at the Q&A mic and made a blanket comment that protein just turns to sugar. Dr Goldkamp voiced his disagreement with that but the Q&A session did not allow the time for either to elaborate further on the issue. I decided to take a chance and get the two of them on at the same time and discuss the issue further. Both of them were extremely respectful and a brilliant discussion ensued. This is one of the bes...
Feb 10, 2020•1 hr•Ep. 36
Pam talks today with Karen Parrott. She has been an awesome supporter of ours and has volunteered at almost all our San Diego events. We learned about her amazing personal story and have been meaning to get her on the podcast for a long time. So glad we have finally managed to do so. Karen has struggled with her weight and binge eating since she can remember and was morbidly obese for much of her life. She had turned to every conceivable diet, without success. When she finally discovered the ket...
Feb 03, 2020•22 min•Ep. 35
When we were in the foyer of the Marriott hotel the night before our Boca 2020 event, we bumped into Gaby Ondrasek and Loly Trujillo and they were bouncing around like crazy things. They were just so excited and when we sat down to speak with them they told us of how they had attended our event in West Palm Beach the previous year and how they had been inspired so much that they both went back and started finding ways to reach more people. Gaby's following has grown from 6,000 to 36,000 in this ...
Jan 27, 2020•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 34
