Fabulously Keto

Dr Laura Buchanan  Dr. Laura Buchanan is a double board-certified physician in family and obesity medicine with a passion for using lifestyle modification as the first-line standard of care. She is also a certified metabolic health practitioner (MHP), and a Board and founding member of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners. She completed her family medicine residency at Wake Forest in 2022...

  Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds In this episode Jackie and Louise look back on the nearly 5 years of friendship and 3 years of the podcast as they celebrate the podcast’s 3rd anniversary. For the first time since Louise left the UK 4 years ago they got to see each other and record this episode live. It is a first in the podcast’s history that an episode has been recorded live. What coul...

Dr Bret Scher  Dr. Bret Scher is a board-certified cardiologist, lipidologist and leading expert in metabolic and ketogenic therapies. He is the Director of Metabolic Mind, a non-profit initiative of Baszucki Group. Dr. Scher was the medical director at DietDoctor.com before becoming the director of Metabolic Mind. He also runs a preventive cardiology telemedicine practice at lowcarbcardiologist.c...

  Roxana Soetebeer  Roxana Soetebeer struggled with her health and weight issues since her mid-20s. She has been Keto since October 2019. She created a Facebook group in 2021 and worked to get certified. She has been attending low-carb events in person after watching Boca live. When she received private messages from the members of her Facebook group seeking advice she decided to create a coa...

Coach Bronson  Coach Bronson is over 50 and didn’t start his fitness journey until his late 30s. Being 70 pounds overweight with IBS and health issues, he transformed his life with fitness and proper nutrition.  Coach Bronson has spent over a decade coaching and helping people. Coach Bronson believes in an animal-based, low-carb nutritional approach. He emphasises that fitness goes beyond aestheti...

Casey Ruff  Casey Ruff has been a certified personal trainer since 2007. He successfully ran a metabolic testing program for a large gym and oversaw 13 programs in the west region. He has multiple certifications as a personal trainer, lifestyle coach, and performance enhancement specialist.  With his nutrition coaching certifications, he specializes in low-carbohydrate lifestyles, including ketoge...

Dr Helena Popovic  Dr Helena Popovic is a medical doctor, best-selling author and international speaker who shows people how to boost their brain at any age or stage of life so they can: perform at their peak throughout their career eliminate brain fog in menopause avoid Alzheimer’s and other dementias in retirement. She also provides a road map for living longer, stronger, healthier and happier....

  Claire Snowdon-Darling  Claire Snowdon-Darling is a menopause expert and coach. She is the creator of the clinic model The Triangle of Hormonal Health and the modality Functional Kinesiology. She is the Head of The College of Functional Wellness, an internationally accredited college offering professional training to practitioners on hormones and diet. She has been in clinical practice sinc...

Matthew Dowse  Matthew Dowse is a sports science nutritionist who specialises in nutritional therapy and dietary education. At Human Nutrition & Lifestyle we are committed to forming relationships with patients looking to lose or manage their weight, deal with chronic diseases, build bio-individual nutrition plans, reach personal goals and much much more. We are here to improve quality of life...

Dr Elizabeth Bright  Elizabeth Bright DO, ND, a graduate of Columbia University, is a highly respected American Osteopath and Naturopath living in Italy. She is former Chef-owner of Coppi’s Organic and The Vigorelli Restaurants in Washington, D.C.  She is a master in Chau Ka Kung Fu.  She has been eating a high-fat carnivore diet and has been using it as a treatment modality since 2016. She is 60...

Wendy Armstrong  Wendy Armstrong says: I have been qualified as a nurse for 26 years. The last 16 of those years has been as a practice nurse in the same practice specialising in the management of Type 2 diabetes. I had always questioned why we treat a disease of insulin resistance with drugs that increase insulin secretion or with insulin itself.  In 2015 I read the 8 week blood sugar diet book a...

Helen Gowers and Jon Furniss  Helen is passionate about improving the options for people with type 2 diabetes after seeing the destruction it caused her dad. She wants the NHS to support people to achieve remission using a real food, low carbohydrate approach. She is a registered dietitian and director of The Lifestyle Club (TLC) a health coaching service for adults with type 2 diabetes, developed...

Ellen Calteau  Ellen Calteau is the Food Addiction Resources (FAR) Operations Manager for the Public Health Collaboration (www.phcuk.org), where she delivers educational courses for those self-reporting food addiction and manages the other programmes offered by FAR, including providing education to Health Professionals, identifying, managing and signposting patients with food addiction, and delive...

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...