Dr Karl Goldkamp - Keto Naturopath

This has always been a popular topic: does the protein you eat increase your blood glucose levels. "Spike your blood sugar levels" is what is used by those who want you to fear protein and become hyper vigilant your diet if not neurotic. The relative truth of that statement depends on just one variable, and that is the amount of carbohydrates you consume. Looking back on this 'debat...

Over a year ago I attended a lowcarb USA conference where Dr. Rob Cywes gave a talk. Can't remember what his talk was about but he a statement that the protein you eat turns to sugar. I thought that was incorrect an so waiting in the question line to ask if he would clarify that for me. That didn't change anything. I thought then, and still do that was an irresponsible and primarily untr...

Did you know that the 'auto-pilot' mechanism actually never indicates whether or not the plane is on the scheduled route. It only works by notifying the pilot that the plane is off course and needs to be corrected and gives the direction back to where it should be. but while it is on course, and everything is working fine, there is not indication that is the case. It is merely the lack o...

Seems like in life nothing is a straight line is it? Except possibly when looking back in hindsight and then you can see how things line up, how your experiences were additive and sequential in just the right magically difficult way. So it was for me, bankrupt, dying (certainly my wife thought I was 'passing on') grieving over family losses, and extremely in debt. Ouch!! I left medicine...

If you have had the privilege of ever seeing someone transform their physical appearance by doing a protein sparing modified fast, then you will be wondering, as I am. How can that be possible.  I talk about why and what happens to those people. What if they were finally getting the amount of protein they required, or was it due to all the things they were no longer consuming that were bad for the...

If there was one question that people ask me over and over it is how do I loose weight so I won't have to do it again ever.  People ask because everyone has a plan, a program, something you should do and believe it's the only way to achieve weight loss. In this pod cast listen to the outline of the 3 basic step that everyone needs to do metabolically and sequentially to arrive a place wh...

The misinformation and myths around dietary protein required for optimal health are everywhere. One claim meant to scare those on a ketogenic from having what they consider is too much protein, says that it will 'spike your blood glucose levels. Oh really! Such a claim is now relatively easy to put to bed merely by letting people decide for themselves by wearing a CGM (continual glucose monit...

When the scales of your life tip just a little too far and your health begins to unravel fast before  you realize what's happening you, it's seem like it's mere folly to even think there's a way out. This podcast is about what it took to come back from a near fatal health collapse in my life. Spoiler alert: The answer is work, persistance, and not loosing your sense of caring f...

As life leads us all in one direction only, getting older, some things happen to us metabolically whether we want or not and that is obvious aging. In terms of Muscle mass,  muscle synthesis, protein requirements some factors are becoming clearer about what it is we must do as we get older both individually and collectively. First , our protein requirement increases as we age (past 25) and especia...

Dr. Karl asks the question: How did we get here, a nation, a country, a culture, that is growing weaker at a younger and younger age. In the US., an estimated 53% of men and 43% of women over 80 are sarcopenic Most adults in the US achieve their peak muscle mass sometime in their 30s. People who are physically inactive can lose as much as 3 -5% of their muscle mass per decade after age 30 The fact...

Most of us understand what it means to be a carnivore, as a human or an animal. Being an obligate carnivore, however, requires something completely different.  If a cat does not get all its nutritional requirements met, it will become ill and die. Almost all cat food is processed, and that initiates a prolonged and gradual nutritional deficiency for cats. Understanding the protein requirements of...

It is simple enough to know that everyone needs protein. Yet, the protein that people are consuming has been decreasing over the years. It is particularly low in adults over the age of 50. To compensate, people are consuming more carbohydrates. Unfortunately, most of those carbohydrates are refined and processed.  A simple change that will create a long-lasting and sustainable change is to increas...

Something that nobody is talking about today is the mental health crisis in the US that was exacerbated by the COVID pandemic. A low-carb keto diet and genomic testing can do a lot to change that situation easily.  Now is the time to start! Today, Dr. Karl will be going over the serious issue of mental illness in the US (and worldwide) that appears to have worsened since the pandemic. Mental illne...

Seven years ago, Dr. Karl started looking into how to purchase C8 MCT Oil in liquid form because it was not available anywhere. He thought it could help to heal his gut from Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis and render his impending surgery unnecessary. And it did! That made him look even deeper into why it worked so well. He learned all about ketones and how they were anti-inflammatory....

Did you know that many blood sugar problems (dysglycemia) are closely related to psychological conditions, like bipolar, schizophrenia, and major depressive disorder? It is also almost unbelievable that approximately 60% of people with diabetes have some type of mental disorder, and some people have known genetic SNPs that predispose them to schizophrenia. That also makes one wonder about the conn...

In Dr. Karl’s view, Dr. Gaby is singularly the most authoritative person when it comes down to what we know about supplements and their specific applications for various conditions. Dr. Gaby spent almost 40 years studying, accumulating, and applying various supplements. He has become the definitive source for determining what we know about supplements and how to use them to benefit us and improve...

This is the final part of the interview that Dr. Karl did with Dr. Alan Gaby, an internationally renowned researcher and physician who has focused on nutritional medicine. Dr. Gaby has been called the “Father of Nutritional Medicine”. In this episode, they talk about DHEA and the results it has when used appropriately. They explain what labs generally do, and they talk about iron and why it is imp...

People who have accomplished much in their lives have often said that they stood on the shoulders of the giants who laid the groundwork for their discoveries and accomplishments. Dr. Karl unequivocally states that Dr. Gaby dramatically changed his interest in and his ability to practice nutritional medicine. Dr. Gaby’s life work is his Nutritional Medicine . It represents about 40 years of researc...

Welcome to another episode of The Keto Naturopath! If you want to know what is true and accurate, well-researched, and effective in terms of supplements for a given condition, there is only one reference that can offer you that. It is the eight-and-a-half pound book, Nutritional Medicine , and stands as a definitive resource second to none.  Nutritional Medicine is a science-based textbook, the re...

The Överkalix study could be one of the most important studies ever done to show that some of the changes passed down to the next generation have little to do with one’s parents’ DNA. Those changes are more about the stresses that one’s parents’ grandparents (including the grandfathers and great-grandfathers of the fathers) experienced pre-puberty. That study changed everything in terms of how the...

40,000 babies were born during the Dutch winter famine of 1944-1945. It was the first time in documented history that all the details of the effects of famine could get followed for generations to come. For those pregnancies that survived, the results were unexpected in many ways. This episode is about what we learned. Today, Dr. Karl continues to explain the value of the Dutch Winter Famine of 19...

Never before in history has there ever been such a well-documented, yet devastating, famine that affected so many people. In the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945, food got shut off for 4.5 million people of all classes for seven months. The caloric intake dropped to 450 calories per person. Then, almost instantaneously after the war ended, everyone had all the food they needed.  The effects of tha...

It’s unbelievable to think that there’s a method to assess your genetic mutations and to support your aberrant mutations that are hypo-functioning and hyper-functioning to create a better metabolic life. That has to do with learning ‘what you are made of’, in terms of your genetic (genome) report, and seeing what areas of your genes contribute to everything from a sense of holding you back to cont...

Whether you refer to the teenagers in your family, your children, or possibly even yourself, everyone’s lives have become very restricted during COVID, and that creates the risk of severe depression.  This podcast connects the dots of some things you can do to change that for everybody. Today, Dr. Karl will continue with the idea of GABA versus glutamate. He will explain how ketosis or ketones aff...

The increasing rates of suicide and addiction are serious issues that seldom get discussed publicly, and most people tend to think that there is nothing that can be done about them. Contrary to that is the use of ketones and ketosis to change one’s emotional disposition. That information is serious and important, and it is not difficult to understand it or carry it out. We hope you will agree with...