Fabulously Keto

Jean Kotterman-Mumau  Jean Kotterman-Mumau says: I am a working single mom of three children. One is married, one is finishing up college, and one is in high school and home full-time with me. I have always been a teacher, and most recently have been working as a Reading Specialist, helping children with reading delays due to Covid, learning disabilities or other reasons. Early on in my 30s, I bec...

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Tia Reid Tia Reid says: Having been diagnosed with T2D, Metabolic Syndrome, Hypertension, Obesity, Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver, Sleep Apnea as well as Adrenal Insufficiency and carbohydrate addiction. I realized it was high time I engaged in Self-Management of my chronic illness. I needed to, in effect, take action to improve my health to save my own life. I adapted to the mindset through the guidan...

Ben Azadi  In 2008, Ben Azadi went through a personal health transformation of shredding 80 pounds of pure fat. Ever since, Ben Azadi, FDN-P, has been on a mission to help 1 billion people live a healthier lifestyle.   Ben is the author of four best-selling books, including his latest Keto Flex. Ben has been the go-to source for intermittent fasting and the ketogenic diet since 2013.  He is known...

Vic Basmadjian  Vic Basmadjian is an advocate of low carbohydrate and ketogenic diets after recovering his own poor health. At 55, he was obese, weighing in at almost 300 lbs., and had high blood pressure and sleep apnea.  Over the past few decades, Vic had repeatedly attempted to lose weight through calorie restriction, and although he had often lost significant amounts, he had never been able to...

Dr Helena Popovic  Dr Helena Popovic is an Australian medical practitioner who shows people how to live longer, stronger, healthier and happier through education rather than medication. She’s a leading authority on improving brain function and is unique in bringing the latest discoveries in brain science to weight management. She graduated from the University of Sydney and is the author of the bes...

Geraint Hole  I’m 57 and I am a husband to Louise, my rock and sweetheart. I’m a dad to our 2 grown ups kids, and a grandad (Grampy) to my daughters’ 4 beautiful children. I work as an Employment Specialist for a mental health charity supporting people with serious and long term mental health issues to find meaningful paid employment. Having been following a keto / low carb lifestyle since October...

Stephen Thomas  Hi there, I’m Coach Stephen, and I’m here to help you on your journey to optimal health. With a BSc (Hons) in physiology and health sciences, as well as a background in sport and conditioning science and the psychological aspects of athletic development, I’ve got the knowledge and skills to give you the tools you need to succeed. Also, as a specialist practitioner...

Jenny Phillips  Jenny Phillips is a quaified nutritionist and yoga teacher, and part of the team writing five diabetes and weightloss cookbooks with Katie Caldesi and Dr David Unwin. These books really help to change lives as they provide the ‘why” – the science- plus delicious recipes. She has worked with food since her own recovery from breast cancer in 2003 (20 years ago!) whe...

Viv Hamilton  Prior to switching to a low carb way of eating, Viv Hamilton had been obese for about twenty years and had had the usual experience of yoyo dieting. After a serious car accident in 2019, she was told by the surgeon that she would develop severe arthritis and need a knee replacement within about 3 years. After about 9 months of rehabilitation, the arthritis symptoms developed and bega...

Members of the Fabulously Keto Facebook Group  This week’s episode is with the following members of the Fabulously Keto Facebook Group  Eranda Wickramasinghe Heidi Cuthbertson Janet JoAnn McManamy Matthew Dowse Nicola Lock Rich Smith Stephanie Hewitt Su Bailey Lois Butterfield   We discuss what we enjoyed from the PHC Conference. The speakers we enjoyed and some of the points that were import...

Steve Bennett  The current decline in our nation’s health makes me frustrated, furious and fired up to create change! I am driven by a feeling of duty, to pass on the knowledge I have gained in turning my own health around (I was obese for over 25 years) to others. To do this, I spend most of my working days on several different approaches to health education. I am passionate about preventing and...

Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds  Louise returns to the podcast to share with you details of her new role. We also have a general catch up. She also shares how she manages to stay keto with two jobs to maintain. Jackie and Louise’s Top Tips Be kind to myself. Check in – Are you ok? Planning – Plan for Success / Meal Planning.   Resources Mentioned PHC Conference PHC Lives...

Ally Houston and Rachel Brown  Ally Houston is a former physicist who fixed his brain with food. After adopting a ketogenic diet seven years ago he changed career to empower others to turn their health around like he did.  Dr Rachel Brown is a Consultant Psychiatrist and certified functional medicine practitioner. Dr Brown is an advocate for metabolic psychiatry and the use of nutritional ketosis...

Richard Smith  Richard Smith was 33 when he learned he was Type II diabetic with a body fat percentage just under 60%. He suffered with other ailments that impacted his life. After a ‘Well Man’ test with my doctor the found out his blood glucose levels were through the roof, blood pressure was high, kidneys were in bad shape and Pattern B LDL cholesterol was high.  Richard hated his li...

Jackie Fletcher  There are two parts to this week’s podcast. The first part is a request from Dave Feldman to find Lean Mass Hyper Responders in the UK who would be willing to be filmed in a documentary they are producing and filming in London next week.  The second part walks through my TaeKwonDo journey and reflects on how the journey has parallels with making a diet and lifestyle change. ...

Contact Details For Dave Twitter: https://twitter.com/realDaveFeldman Facebook Groups: https://www.facebook.com/groups/LeanMassHyperResponder/ https://www.facebook.com/groups/291666201422607 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/realdavefeldman/ Email: info@citizensciencefoundation.org    

Danielle Eagle  I am Danielle Eagle. I live in Sawbridgeworth. I help run the open water swimming at Redricks Lake in Sawbridgewoth, Hertfordshire UK, and have done so for a few years. Redricks Lake is my happy place and it could be yours too. I enjoy helping out to see how open-water swimming can change lives. At the Lake, we are open all year around for swimming, in the winter we are only open a...

Zippi Livneh  Zippi Livneh is a registered nurse, an INFACT certified food addiction counselor and licensed in the SUGAR® assessment tool. She is the co-creator and co-chair of the first international sugar and food addiction professionals’ network, and she helps clients recover from sugar and food addiction through her GPS Program. Zippi struggled herself for many years with sugar addiction...

Episode 002 What is Keto  This week, Jackie and Louise wanted to present a stand alone episode of an overview of ‘what is keto’.     Science for low carbohydrate  Carbohydrate Insulin model scientific explanation    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6082688/   Virta studies  https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fendo.2019.00348/full?utm_source=F-NTF&utm_medium=EMLX...

Dr David Unwin Dr David Unwin FRCGP works at the Norwood NHS Surgery in Southport near Liverpool, UK where he has cared for the same population since 1986 as a family doctor. To date 102 out of 201 of his patients with Type 2 diabetes have achieved drug-free remission. This gives a remission rate of 50% at 30 months duration of a lower carb diet, one of the best results for any clinic in the world...

Belinda Fettke For more than half a century we’ve been told to eat a diet high in grains and low in saturated fat and instead of improving health outcomes the incidence of non-communicable disease has escalated.    Discovering Belinda’s husband, Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Gary Fettke, had been targeted for ‘active defence’ by the cereal industry in 2014 and subsequently became the on...

Kathy Watson Kathy Watson says the Summer of 1976 was a scorcher and we had a drought. I was then twelve and it was a summer of pure freedom. Freedom as a child running around without a care in the world, camping in the garden, swimming, beach days, etc etc   That was before adolescence hit and my then my lifetime became a trip of going on a diet , not dieting, pigging out, going on a diet ,...

Dr Karen Malone  Dr Karen Malone is a GP in Southampton. She has worked as a GP for 13 years. She has a passion for Lifestyle Medicine and LCH. She aims to support patients to make a difference to their life and health without the need to always take medication.  She believes that lifestyle comes first and medicine second. She believes that we need to promote healthy living at every opportunity. ...

Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds   Resources Mentioned We have been listened to in 107 countries Had 85,000 downloads We are considered in the top 10% of podcasts   The Fabulously Keto Diet & Lifestyle Journal: A 12-week journal to support new habits – Jackie Fletcher If you have enjoyed listening to this episode – Leave us a review By leaving us a review on your favourite p...