LowCarb USA ® Founder and CEO Doug Reynolds had a fascinating conversation about ketone dosing with BioSense Chief Medical Officer Naomi Parella, MD, and BioSense President and CEO Jim Howard. If you've ever been interested in easily measuring and tracking your level of nutritional ketosis over time, and in using these results to help you better manage your metabolic health and fat burning , you will be fascinated by Episode 93 of the LowCarb USA ® Podcast. The Biosense® device measures breath a...
Jun 04, 2022•39 min•Ep. 93
Ede Fox, aka. The Black Carnivore discusses how by 2015 she had reached an all time high weight of 246 lbs, she was in a lot of pain and decided she really need to do something about it. She had a go at the keto diet and found that even before she really lost a lot of weight, the pain was going away and the brain fog lifted and her life was improving immensely. She went on to lose about 80 lbs which she was really happy with but continued to suffer from certain health problems that she learned h...
May 07, 2022•47 min•Ep. 92
Today we talk with Brett Ender (aka @MrSollozzo) and hear how he reversed debilitating ulcerative colitis by adopting a carnivore diet. He had started to notice symptoms while at college but while serving an internship after that and commuting 4 hours a day by train to and from New York City. He started to notice more and more blood in his stool but was too embarrassed to mention it to anyone and just assumed it would heal on its own. But it just got worse and worse and at its peak he was going ...
Apr 14, 2022•41 min•Ep. 91
Doug Reynolds interviews Frank Llosa about his new concept of hard ketones. It comes in the form of R1,3-Butanediol, an alcohol without the toxicity and side effects of the ethanol contained in beer, wine, and hard liquor (visit This Page to enjoy a 15% discount at checkout). Frank, who competed as an elite Division 1 track athlete, is well known for his ketone ester product, KetoneAid KE4 Pro , a performance-enhancing drink used by many elite athletes and others. By splitting off the R1,3-Butan...
Mar 26, 2022•34 min•Ep. 90
At a time when nearly 90 percent of our human population is metabolically unhealthy, we were extremely interested to meet Jaron Lucas, who has devoted his career to helping dogs regain their health through proper nutrition. Jaron sat down with LowCarb USA® co-founder Doug Reynolds for an incredibly informative podcast interview. After personally discovering many of the health benefits after implementing a ketogenic diet for himself, Jaron wondered if he could use what he learned to improve the h...
Mar 12, 2022•31 min•Ep. 89
Ken Berry, MD, speaks with LowCarb USA® co-founder Doug Reynolds about the proper human diet, as well as the importance of getting to know the people behind the screen, by meeting others in person at live events. Dr. Berry was a presenter at the hugely successful Low Carb Boca Conference, and will be presenting at the upcoming Low Carb San Diego Conference to be held August 25-28. Tickets to the San Diego event are now available at a special early bird price. Use code 'EarlyBirdSD' to save 35% o...
Feb 19, 2022•49 min•Ep. 88
Martha Tettenborn is a Registered Dietitian and a Health Coach who was going through life quite 'smug with her health' as she puts it until one day she found an unexpected large lump in her abdomen and was diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer. It had ruptured and so she required surgery and then 6 rounds of chemo to take care of any cancer cells that might be floating around and seed new tumours. The thought of the side effects of chemotherapy terrified her so she started searching for what she...
Feb 04, 2022•38 min•Ep. 87
One month after Maggie Jones' 40th birthday, she was diagnosed with terminal, stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to her eye, liver, four tumors in her brain, and more than a dozen lymph nodes throughout her chest, neck and abdomen. Her prognosis of six to eight months with conventional treatment seemed optimistic. Her doctors were focused on making her comfortable. She was dying. After doing a bunch of research and adopting a whole new lifestyle and a ketogenic diet she found herself cancer fre...
Jan 07, 2022•51 min•Ep. 86
Dr. Philip Ovadia is a cardiothoracic surgeon who found himself becoming morbidly obese and running the risk of ending up on his own operating table. He came across the ketogenic diet and the concept of carbohydrate restriction initially at a conference where Gary Taubes was talking. "What he was saying made a lot of sense", Dr. Ovadia says and so he started researching more and reading Gary's books and in the end adopted the diet and lifestyle changes for himself. Now he has lost more than 100 ...
Dec 23, 2021•20 min•Ep. 85
This is such an amazing story! Bethany McKenzie is a mom on a mission to tell the story of how she manages her son's Type 1 Diabetes through diet and lifestyle in spite of the resistance from the doctors and supposed specialists. "I just tell my story in a very common way", she says and in doing so she is reaching so many people with the message that they don't have to accept the suffering and anguish experienced by most Type 1 families following the current Standard of Care. She bases her manag...
Dec 16, 2021•41 min•Ep. 84
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 and bananas. Maybe not on each one but at least at the display in the grocery store. If people saw how much sugar was in these fruits they might reconsider eating them. And that's another thing I didn't know and that is that ...
Dec 01, 2021•33 min•Ep. 83
Alison Gannett was an organic farmer and professional extreme skier travelling the world competing and 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 they found an orange sized tumour in her brain. It was a type of terminal brain cancer and they reckoned she had around 6 months to live. She refused to take this lying down and worked with Dr. Nasha Winters to reverse her in...
Nov 23, 2021•30 min•Ep. 82
r. 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 easily be able to get access to relevant lab tests that can help diagnose as well as track responses to interventions, she has created the concept of at-home testing. Once the kit arrives at your door a simple finger prick is all that is required to collect the samples which can then be mailed off to...
Nov 12, 2021•42 min•Ep. 81
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 said, "and I've found that cutting carbs really helps a patient to heal." He says that while clinical trials are important, we also need to do n=1 trials. We need to ...
Oct 29, 2021•25 min•Ep. 80
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 that point in the first place and what it was that made him decide that it was imperative that he correct the situation. He talks for not being able to go on theme park rides with his kids and not wanting to play basketb...
Oct 15, 2021•49 min•Ep. 79
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 come much higher than that. This is a fascinating journey where he explores how the life and work of Otto Warburg is intricately woven into the story of t...
Aug 19, 2021•33 min•Ep. 78
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 all the features, like Metabolic Score, that they have implemented in the App to help people understand the implications of what they eat, as well as other lifestyle factors like sleep and stress, on their blood glucose l...
Aug 06, 2021•53 min•Ep. 77
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 it she finally made the decision to have weight loss surgery. Determined to use the surgery as a tool, she went through ongoing therapy to help her refrain from ...
Jul 23, 2021•54 min
Dubbed the "Sherlock Holmes of Health," Mary Ruddick is an internationally acclaimed nutritionist currently based in Africa, where she is studying traditional tribal diets and their impact on health. She is the Director of Nutrition for CaptainSoup.com, Enable Your Healing, The REIGNS Method, and the Back to Joy Program. She has been featured with the book, "Beat Autoimmune" and she can be found on several productions from GundryMD, the Food Lies, MeatRx, and the LowCarb USA Podcasts. Mary speci...
Jul 02, 2021•27 min•Ep. 75
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 then moved to the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, associated with the University of Miami School of Medicine, and later became the director of the Mt. Sinai Non...
Jun 17, 2021•45 min•Ep. 74
William Schumacher Found when he adopted a keto diet 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 categories of food that are so fundamental to many, if not most, people's perception of core foods. They set out to develop something that was made from quality clean ingredients and vey low in carbs that had a high nutrition...
Jun 03, 2021•24 min•Ep. 73
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 her, I got her book, Stress Less, Accomplish More and immediately became aware of the fact that although we are always talking these days about the fact that it is not just a diet, but rather a lifesty...
May 20, 2021•35 min•Ep. 72
This was such a good chat!! Michelle Hurn was a Registered Dietitian working in a hospital setting and trying to get ready to qualify for the Olympic Marathon team. As she started to increase her training everything started to shut down. She was breaking out in cold sweats and developing severe muscle pains and it got to a point where she couldn't even run 2 or 3 miles. Eventually she came to the conclusion that she just couldn't run anymore which was devastating for her. Then she came across th...
May 06, 2021•38 min•Ep. 71
It's always such a pleasure to catch up with Robb Wolf. He's such a humble, wise man. This time we got to speak about the latest project he finished up working on recently, 'Sacred Cow', the book and movie project he helped on enormously. We spoke to Diana Rodgers in a podcast a couple of episodes back and the project was her brain child but Robb got very involved right from the start as he is so passionate about it. They went to great pains and have done such a magnificent job at representing t...
Apr 16, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 70
Dr. James Muecke is an ophthalmologist who was nominated as Australian of the Year in 2020 for his ongoing humanitarian work in helping to prevent blindness in impoverished communities in many places around the world. About a year ago, however, he became aware of the potential of reversing type 2 diabetes by restricting carbohydrates in the diet. Suddenly there was a way to prevent people going blind from diabetes complications instead of having to do surgery to try to save the sight afterwards....
Mar 30, 2021•1 hr 19 min•Ep. 69
Diana Rodgers is a Registered Dietitian, a farmer, an author, a filmmaker and a mom! We talk to her about her new book, and movie, Sacred Cow. The book goes into great detail about the science behind her rigorous defense of the beef industry with respect to the animal cruelty argument, the fear mongering around red meat causing cancer, cow farts (well belches, actually) destroying the environment and also the sustainability aspect. The movie could never cover most of what is covered in the book ...
Mar 09, 2021•39 min•Ep. 68
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 the day. In the January of 2019 he was tested and the results came back with an HgA1c of 7.4 and he says we was devastated. He felt there ...
Feb 25, 2021•29 min•Ep. 67
Andrés Rosales and Mauricio Moel are two youngsters from Mexico, studying at Harvard, who decided that there was a huge gap in the meal replacement market for a very strict, clean, keto version. They wanted medical practitioners who were using therapeutic carbohydrate deduction as an intervention in their practice to feel comfortable recommending it to their patients to use as a convenient replacement to take to work, or to somewhere where they did not think a keto option would be available, or ...
Feb 09, 2021•15 min•Ep. 66
Edit: an apology form Nick - "Apologies to everyone. At 34:30 I made a false statement when I said HMG-CoA reductase inhibition could inhibit ketone production directly. It is not the RLE in ketogenesis. There are indirect mechanisms potentially at play, but that enzyme is downstream of the divergence point in ketone and cholesterol metabolism. I was questioning the thought as it came to mind and regret the impulsive speculation. My sincerest apologies. That's embarrassing." What a treat to spen...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 65
I have wanted to sit down and chat with David and Jen Unwin for the longest time so this was a real treat. We start out by hearing briefly how he first came to learn about Low Carb, and that was through a patient who went off and reversed her diabetes on her own. When she saw him again she literally scolded him for not every telling her that starch was really just sugar in the body and she basically asked if he was even qualified! When I pointed out that he was never taught that stuff during his...
Jan 11, 2021•48 min•Ep. 64
