Dr. Shawn Baker Podcast

Dr David Cavan MD, FRCP is a Consultant Endocrinologist who worked for many years at the Bournemouth Diabetes and Endocrine centre, one of the leading diabetes centres in the UK.  During that time, he developed several self-management programmes for people with diabetes. In 2013, he moved to Brussels to work for three years as the Director of Policy and Programmes at the International Diabetes Fed...

Ashleigh is a health coach, speaker, podcast host, and author of one of the only nose-to-tail, organ-meat centric cookbooks in existence, called It Takes Guts. Her new book is called Carnivore-ish. She is the host of the Muscle Maven Radio podcast, downloaded more than 1.5 million times, where she interviews some of the leading minds in exercise and nutrition methodology and overall wellness. She'...

Kelly was diagnosed with Hashimotos and went on an elimination diet, then migrated to a paleo type diet. She now eats a ketovore diet. @ketovorelifestyle on Instagram and YouTube  Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 04:32 Hashimoto's and gut issues 09:14 Reducing exercise intensity 13:06 Protein, fat, and satiety 16:23 Meal frequency  19:10 Carnivore diet and family 21:58 Feeling good on supermarket be...

Joanne McCormack is a UK family doctor (qualified 1986) who worked as a safeguarding children's doctor for several years as well as a family GP. Her website, www.fatismyfriend.co.uk, helps people and their families change their lifestyles, particularly if they have diabetes, or are at risk of developing it. She uses low-carbohydrate, ketogenic, intermittent fasting, and time-restricted ways of eat...

Dr. Ryan Attar is a Naturopathic Physician & Nutritionist currently practicing in Fairfield, Connecticut. Dr. Attar has also been living with T1 diabetes since 2007. He was diagnosed while serving in the US Army, where he advanced to the rank of Captain.  After his diagnosis he was medically retired from the Army, and became frustrated with the way diabetes is managed by nearly all doctors. He beg...

Dr. Carlos Zumarraga is the founder and medical director at Clinica Keto at Merida, Yucatan, Mexico. His area of expertise is in therapeutic carbohydrate restriction, nutritional ketosis, insulin resistance/hyperinsulinemia and cellular repair using food as medicine.  In addition to his clinical practice, he collaborates as a Medical Consultant with Lipedema Simplified, where they help patients su...

Sam Apple is on the faculty of the MA in Science Writing and MA in Writing programs at Johns Hopkins. Prior to his arrival at Johns Hopkins, Apple taught creative writing and journalism at the University of Pennsylvania for ten years. He holds a BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Michigan and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Columbia University. Apple is the author of Rave...

Dr. Sean O'Mara grew up in Fairfax County, VA. After graduating from high school he attended a community college to study law enforcement and worked as a Police Officer and worked undercover in both narcotics and organized crime. He graduated High Honors from Penn State in 1985. He went onto attend and graduated from Villanova University School of Law in 1989.  He practiced for three years as a cr...

From Claire: I am 66 years young, and have 4 adult children, 11 grandchildren, and 2 great-grandchildren.  I am blessed!  I live in the Bay of Plenty Tauranga New Zealand. My health issues really began in my early years.  I grew up on a high carb/sugar diet and eventually learned to control my weight with calorie restriction sometimes as low as 700 calories a day.  My weight would fluctuate betwee...

PD Mangan is a writer and coach in health and fitness. He is the author of 6 books and lives in California. 00:00 Introduction 03:58 Taking up running 05:10 Vegetarianism, veganism 08:30 Weightlifting 09:41 No doctor asking about diet 12:59 Saturated fat and heart attacks 17:33 Cardio vs strength training 22:40 Putting on muscle 26:35 Overtraining, rest and recovery 28:10 High-protein diet; insuli...

Nicole Carter is a health educator and health coach of 20 years with a bachelors degree in psychology, masters degree in public health and advanced training in stress management and yoga. She currently works in population health management for a large healthcare company in California. Nicole has been health coaching for many years but for the last five years has been focused on ulcerative colitis...

Avi is a General Practitioner, or family doctor, working in Melbourne, Australia. She has been a GP for 20 years and worked in the same clinic for over 15 years. She loves her job and looks after families, coughs, colds, diabetes, metabolic diseases, cancers, basically anything that comes into the door.  Her journey started when her kids started to get older and she joined the gym to try to lose w...

Josephine (a.k.a. @theexplanteater) is a 27 year-old ex-vegan and has recently healed ulcerative colitis after transitioning to the carnivore diet after 14 years of veganism. She became vegan at the age of 13 and stubbornly continued with it for the following 14 years, dealing with continual and worsening digestive issues, mental health issues, premature aging, lack of energy, and hormonal imbalan...

Jeff and Michelle grew up in sunny Southern California and moved their family to the mountains of beautiful Bozeman, Montana in 2019. Jeff worked in the food service distribution industry for over 10 years. Michelle worked as a Vet Tech part time and stayed home with our 2 amazing boys, Grayson (9) and Hudson (8). They desired a change for their lives but didn't know what that looked like for thei...

Adam is the Head Coach and Owner of CrossFit North Port, a girl Dad, and Athlete. He has been in the Fitness Industry for the last 12 years. He has a Bachelor's of Science in Management and Marketing, and a Master's Degree in Business and Administration. He is a CrossFit Level 2 Trainer and a USA Weightlifting Sport Performance Coach. Outside of coaching, he enjoys spending time with his wife and...

Ray was formerly athletic, became morbidly obese, peaking at least 365 pounds. He actually doesn't know how high his final weight was because the scale died beneath him one morning. Within half a year of the dietary change to meat-heavy ketovore, he was down to 332 pounds and feeling great. 00:00 Knee injury 03:15 Friend tells about keto 06:30 HbA1C lowered 09:49 CAC score 12:30 Blood pressure and...

From Tabitha:  My name is Tabitha Myers and I reside in the Lake Norman area, a suburb of Charlotte, NC.  I'm 47 and I've been married for 25 years, this month, to my best friend and biggest supporter.  We have three fur babies.  I work full time as a real estate asset manager.  I self discovered I was pre-diabetic in 2014 at a "normal" weight after juicing and eating vegetarian.  At the same time...

Marty Kendall is an engineer who seeks to optimise nutrition using a data-driven approach.    His interest in nutrition began over twenty years ago in an effort to help his wife Monica gain control of her Type 1 Diabetes.   Since then he has worked to develop a systematised approach to nutrition, tailored for a wide range of goals. Marty shares his learnings at OptimisingNutrition.com and his Opti...

Jennifer is a 45-year-old nurse & bodybuilder that has experienced significant healing effects on carnivore for auto immune diseases. She has rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis along with IBS-C, severe SPK in both eyes resulting from the diseases. She has 4 kids, ages 25-22-21-16. She trains fasted, and eating this way has put dense muscle on with zero supplements. Find her on IG: @jenbu...

From Lauri: From the time I was very young, I remember my extremities  hurting if someone would grab me by the arm or jump on my legs.  I believe now, from what I've learned that I have primary lipedema and possibly mild lymphedema.  I was a normal weight in high school (somewhat plump preadolescent), weighing 127 or so, having a very skinny waist and rib cage, though somewhat heavy legs but not a...

00:00 Paleo before carnivore diet 03:50 Mastitis, UTIs, kidney stones 07:54 Close to end-stage kidney failure 10:55 Recovering from surgery, eczema, Hashimoto's 14:54 Food waste 18:27 Coaching as a team and the importance of community 22:36 MBO diagnosis 27:22 Eating when hungry 30:40 Sustainability of carnivore diet See open positions at Revero: https://jobs.lever.co/Revero/ Join Carnivore Diet f...

Antonio immigrated to California in 1985 seeking a better life with his mother and sister. In 1996, after completing all the necessary steps, he became a United States citizen – a moment he calls "the proudest moment of my life." As a young man, Antonio went on to establish a successful career as a model and actor starring in numerous successful television shows and movies, including "General Hosp...

Emily Harveaux is a passionate Health Coach who loves to inspire people and see her clients transform their minds and bodies by helping them discover and implement their best individual nutrition and lifestyle choices.  Her highest weight was 300 pounds reached many times during her 30's and 40's.  At age 46, Emily lost 150 pounds over 4 years by implementing an intermittent fasting lifestyle, a c...

Dr Caryn Zinn is a dietitian and an Associate Professor at AUT, based in Auckland, New Zealand. She has 27 years of experience in the nutrition industry. She started off her career as a public health dietitian, and then entered academia, maintaining her clinical practice as a dietitian throughout. Her research and clinical practice focus on the application of an integrative dietary approach to met...

Kevin is a lifelong juggler whose world was turned upside-down when he was disabled with Multiple Sclerosis. He has spent the last decade finding his way back to health. With a treatment protocol that has the Carnivore Diet at its base, Kevin is experiencing healing, remission of symptoms, and has started coaching others in this way of eating/way of life. As a Certified Hypnotherapist, Kevin helps...