Fabulously Keto

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...

Varina Emblen  I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes 24 years ago. The prospect for me was very bleak indeed: a failing pancreas, high blood pressure or even toe or possibly foot amputation. The only treatment was medication or weight loss. So I chose weight loss and embarked upon a very long and dispiriting battle with my weight over the next few years.  At each annual review to check my blood sug...

Angela Stanton  Angela A Stanton, PhD has earned her doctorate in NeuroEconomics (experimental neuroscience using economic models) and is also fMRI certified, having earned the following degrees: PhD Claremont Graduate University in Economics with dissertation in neuroscience; fMRI certification at Harvard University, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging; MS in Management Science &a...

Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds  In this episode Jackie and Louise talked about how to keep yourself accountable and answered a question from the Fabulously Keto Facebook group about gut microbiome.   Resources Mentioned Research article linking gut microbiome and exercise participation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05525-z Public Health Collaboration presentation on gut mic...

Peter Ballerstedt  Peter Ballerstedt (also known as Don Pedro, the Sodfather of the Ruminati) earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Georgia and his doctorate at the University of Kentucky. He was the forage extension specialist at Oregon State University from 1986 to 1992. He currently works in the forage seed industry. Peter’s personal experience has led him to re-examin...

Ian Lake  Dr. Ian Lake is a GP in the UK. Having Type 1 Diabetes himself, he adopted a ketogenic lifestyle 7 years ago, which he feels positively transformed his daily diabetes control to near non-diabetes levels. He runs a website dedicated to providing information about ketogenic lifestyles in Type 1 diabetes and this month is launching a comprehensive course for healthcare professionals. He sel...

Mark Hancock  I recently featured in a book written in the UK by Dr David Cavan. This was the piece which covered quite a bit of my background. In 2005, Mark left his job at a bank to become a self-employed financial adviser. He feels that the stress of the job combined with his already unhealthy lifestyle, contributed to the diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes in 2010 when he was just 39. At that time,...

Dave Feldman  Dave Feldman is an Senior Software Engineer turned Citizen Scientist. After seeing his cholesterol skyrocket on keto, he began obsessively researching lipidology and through a series of experiments have demonstrated unprecedented data which is now building toward the larger Lipid Energy Model. This concept is now being explored with collaborating researchers and may potentially help...

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...

Graham Philips  Graham Phillips BPharm FRPharmS is a second generation community pharmacist. He describes himself as “The Pharmacist who Gave Up Drugs! “ Having played a very senior leadership role in the pharmacy profession he became disillusioned with the NHS one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare with its emphasis on waiting for symptoms to arise before treating (suppressing?) them with drugs...

Ede Fox  Seven years ago, Ede Fox turned her life around with a ketogenic/carnivore diet. Decades of compulsive consumption of refined carbs and junk food led to obesity, joint pain, rising blood pressure & blood sugar, plus out of control asthma, allergies and eczema.  Now at 50, she has reversed all those conditions, has tons of energy, lost 80 pounds and most importantly has a healthy way o...

Dr David Oliver & Dr Kim Adrews  Dr Kim Andrews has been a GP at the Freshwell Health Centre in Essex since 2003. She has also previously worked as a GP with a special interest in Diabetes alongside diabetes consultants in Mid Essex. She has been promoting low carb dietary advice to her patients for the last 4 years since her own father lost over 4 stone using low carb after a lifetime of obes...

Katie Caldesi  Katie and her Italian husband Giancarlo first came to public attention when they featured in the BBC2 series Return to Tuscany in 2006. The series, which was broadcast worldwide, followed the pair as they set up and launched a residential cookery school in Tuscany. The show climaxed with them getting married in a dreamlike Tuscan wedding. Since then they have both been frequent visi...