LowCarbUSA Podcast

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 train practitioners at the same time.

You can learn more about The Noakes Foundation at: https://thenoakesfoundation.org/ You can learn more about The Nutrition Network at: https://courses.nutrition-network.org/courses/?affcode=173323_7bl_2brm

Diane Beem read the book by Dr. Bernstein and put her own diabetes into remission and solved her PCOS issues by adopting an LCHF lifestyle. Then one day her daughter measured a BG level of 600 while messing around with her glucometer and was immediately admitted to the ER. She tolerated 2 days in the hospital of doctors and dietitians giving her rubbish advice knowing that when she would do it differently (the Bernstein way) when she got home. Her doctors were telling her that she needed to try to keep Kira's A1C between 7.5 and 8.5, yet by putting her on a ketogenic diet she got it easily down to 5.1. But the doctors got wind of what she was doing and wrote her a letter saying that if she persisted (in making her daughter healthy, I guess) then they would be forced to report her for child endangerment. She had to get legal help to finally get them off her back, but she persisted and Kira remains healthy.

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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 LowCarbUSA® has always been to not preach to the choir but rather to try to reach people who have not yet discovered the wonders of approaching metabolic health with lifestyle interventions instead of drugs.

What's also interesting to me is that for the first time, Gary has strayed a bit from pure science. Pretty much the second half of the book is practical insights and advice on how to be successful on this diet (we hate to call it that but let's leave it at that for now). His comment to me was that once we convince people that they need to consider this change, we need to make sure they do it right! Another deviation from the norm for him is that he has made it personal. He describes himself as one of those people who 'fatten easily' and so, for the first time, he is making himself vulnerable and putting it out there that he is not just preaching from his ivory tower but providing you with tools to come down and fight side by side with him in the trenches.

We discussed the purpose of his book at length and he says he is hoping to reach a bunch more physicians and hopefully persuade them to at least take a really hard look at this as an option. I really hope he achieves his dream!

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-Invasive Cardiac Lab. He continued to pursue his practice and research in the field of noninvasive cardiac diagnostics, specifically in the areas of echocardiography and transesophageal echo and began lecturing regularly and published articles in academic journals on topics such as aortic stenosis, pericarditis, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Arthur and his colleague Warren Janowitz, MD, a radiologist, did early work on quantifying calcium in the coronary arteries as a measure of arteriosclerosis (as a predictor of heart attack and stroke). He is one of the developers of the electron beam tomography scan, or EBT, a screening method used to detect coronary artery disease and other diseases. EBT scans for this purpose are given a score on the "Agatston Scale," to gauge the severity of the disease.

He talks here about the early days and how the Agatston Score came about and we look forward to seeing him in August,2021 at the LowCarbUSA - San Diego, 2021 event which will BE IN PERSON AGAIN!!

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, is about how effective a doctor might be in communicating with the patient. What I also found fascinating was that even though the talk was pitched at a practitioner with respect his or her patient or client, it applied equally well to anyone trying to get through to a friend or family member. For those of us struggling to get the message through to friends or family, there is so much here to help us.

During the talk he mentions the Wheel of Life Tool.

He also talks about his free app. You can find it in your app store under Andre Obradovic.