LowCarbUSA Podcast

We talk with Shashikant Iyengar who recently became the first First Metabolic Health Practitioner (MHP) in India. A Mumbai native, Shashi  reversed his type 2 diabetes in less than 4 months. After more than 2 decades as a pharma rep, he adopted low-carb diet and launched a health coaching business. Shashi is the first in India to receive accreditation from the Society of Metabolic Health Practitio...

LowCarbUSA® and Society of Metabolic Health founder Doug Reynolds has often talked about the importance of making therapeutic carbohydrate restriction available to as wide an audience as possible, in spite of any cultural, religious, ethical, or other differences.  "We don't want to exclude anyone from reaping the benefits of a low-carb, ketogenic lifestyle, regardless of their differences," Doug...

As they were gearing up for the Symposium for Metabolic Health in Boca Raton (https://www.lowcarbusa.org/smhp-symposiums/) - their 18th conference over the past eight incredible years - they decided to celebrate their 100th episode of the LowCarbUSA® Podcast with a look back at how they got here. In Episode 100, they talk about how they first learned about the low-carb/ketogenic lifestyle, and how...

Annette Bosworth, MD (Dr. Boz) shares her 'accidental' discovery of ketosis while helping her mom battle cancer.  "In my best prayers, we were hoping for a 50% reduction of her cancer & it went down 70%", she said.  "I thought I was giving her the best care possible & what I was missing was something cheap, easy, safe & effective." Dr. Boz explains that in the addiction world, the single biggest p...

LowCarbUSA®  co-founders Doug Reynolds and Pam Devine recently interviewed Tia Reid, who used a low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) way of eating to overcome type 2 diabetes, NAFLD, hypertension, obesity, GERD, and more. Tia sustainably lost 85 pounds and came off 20 medications, after finding Dr. Robert Cywes, MD, PhD, who advised her to end her "love affair with carbs." "I really did think I was going to...

LowCarbUSA co-founders Doug Reynolds and Pam Devine interviewed Tracey McBeath, The Health & Healing Coach who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Tracey totally changed her lifestyle at age 40 after a fatty liver and prediabetes diagnosis and is now a Nutrition Network lecturer, qualified personal trainer, and the founder of the Low Carb Lifestyle Hub.  She is also is the author of the book, 'You Have...

We speak with Pete Delannoy, PhD, a highly trained biochemist, certified Primal Health Coach, and Nutrition Network Advisor in the application of the keto lifestyle to put gout in remission, reverse diabetes, and help clients lose weight. In this compelling interview, Pete discusses many issues, including: the relationship between the glucose-centric model of insulin resistance and fructose/uric a...

LowCarbUSA®  Founder and CEO Doug Reynolds recently had an encouraging conversation with Tro Kalayjian, DO and Laura Buchanan, MD, MHP, about developing low-carb/keto resources for practitioners and patients. The interview is now available as Episode 95 of the LowCarbUSA® podcast. Dr. Tro is on the Board of Directors of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners (The SMHP) and a well-known prac...

James and Doug discuss the health benefits of organ meats, and the fact that their consumption, particularly in the U.S., has declined over the past several decades. This is unfortunate, according to James, and is due in part to several misconceptions people have about organ meat. "Organ meats are the most nutrient dense foods on the planet, and we're not eating them," He said. "In essence, organ...

LowCarb USA ®   Founder and CEO Doug Reynolds had a fascinating conversation about ketone dosing with BioSense Chief Medical Officer Naomi Parella, MD, and BioSense President and CEO Jim Howard. If you've ever been interested in easily measuring and tracking your level of nutritional ketosis over time, and in using these results to help you better manage your metabolic health and fat burning , you...

Ede Fox, aka. The Black Carnivore discusses how by 2015 she had reached an all time high weight of 246 lbs, she was in a lot of pain and decided she really need to do something about it.  She had a go at the keto diet and found that even before she really lost a lot of weight, the pain was going away and the brain fog lifted and her life was improving immensely.  She went on to lose about 80 lbs w...

Today we talk with Brett Ender (aka @MrSollozzo) and hear how he reversed debilitating ulcerative colitis by adopting a carnivore diet.  He had started to notice symptoms while at college but while serving an internship after that and commuting 4 hours a day by train to and from New York City.  He started to notice more and more blood in his stool but was too embarrassed to mention it to anyone an...

Doug Reynolds interviews Frank Llosa about his new concept of hard ketones.  It comes in the form of R1,3-Butanediol, an alcohol without the toxicity and side effects of the ethanol contained in beer, wine, and hard liquor (visit This Page to enjoy a 15% discount at checkout). Frank, who competed as an elite Division 1 track athlete, is well known for his ketone ester product, KetoneAid KE4 Pro ,...

At a time when nearly 90 percent of our human population is metabolically unhealthy, we were extremely interested to meet Jaron Lucas, who has devoted his career to helping dogs regain their health through proper nutrition.  Jaron sat down with LowCarb USA ® co-founder Doug Reynolds for an incredibly informative podcast interview. After personally discovering many of the health benefits after impl...

Ken Berry, MD, speaks with LowCarb USA ®  co-founder Doug Reynolds about the proper human diet, as well as the importance of getting to know the people behind the screen, by meeting others in person at live events. Dr. Berry was a presenter at the hugely successful Low Carb Boca Conference, and will be presenting at the upcoming Low Carb San Diego Conference to be held August 25-28. Tickets to the...

Martha Tettenborn is a Registered Dietitian and a Health Coach who was going through life quite 'smug with her health' as she puts it until one day she found an unexpected large lump in her abdomen and was diagnosed with stage 1 ovarian cancer.  It had ruptured and so she required surgery and then 6 rounds of chemo to take care of any cancer cells that might be floating around and seed new tumours...

One month after Maggie Jones' 40th birthday, she was diagnosed with terminal, stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to her eye, liver, four tumors in her brain, and more than a dozen lymph nodes throughout her chest, neck and abdomen. Her prognosis of six to eight months with conventional treatment seemed optimistic.  Her doctors were focused on making her comfortable.  She was dying. After doing a...

Dr. Philip Ovadia is a cardiothoracic surgeon who found himself becoming morbidly obese and running the risk of ending up on his own operating table. He came across the ketogenic diet and the concept of carbohydrate restriction initially at a conference where Gary Taubes was talking.  "What he was saying made a lot of sense", Dr. Ovadia says and so he started researching more and reading Gary's bo...

This is such an amazing story!  Bethany McKenzie is a mom on a mission to tell the story of how she manages her son's Type 1 Diabetes through diet and lifestyle in spite of the resistance from the doctors and supposed specialists.  "I just tell my story in a very common way", she says and in doing so she is reaching so many people with the message that they don't have to accept the suffering and a...

At our last in-person event in Boca Raton in January 2020, Tekla did a great presentation on food labels and all the ways she felt they came up short, not only in terms of content but also on what foods had labels on them.  For instance, why shouldn't we see labels on apples and bananas.  Maybe not on each one but at least at the display in the grocery store.  If people saw how much sugar was in t...

Alison Gannett was an organic farmer and professional extreme skier travelling the world competing and one day she was cooking bacon at home and it caught on fire.  Her husband walked in to see her admiring the flames and realised they were really in trouble.  After a CT scan they found an orange sized tumour in her brain.   It was a type of terminal brain cancer and they reckoned she had around 6...

r. Alexandra Sowa is a dual board-certified physician of Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine, helping thousands of patients through her practice in New York.  Seeing a growing need for patients to easily be able to get access to relevant lab tests that can help diagnose as well as track responses to interventions, she has created the concept of at-home testing.  Once the kit arrives at your doo...

One of the things we have not really addressed before is the role of reduced carbohydrates in wound care and infectious diseases.  As a physician trained in these areas as well as obesity medicine, Dr. Ravi Kamepalli is working to improve patient outcomes with keto(genic)-based nutrition. "Insulin Resistance is the core problem," he said, "and I've found that cutting carbs really helps a patient t...

Allen Green weighed in at 403 lbs at age 49 when he discovered the concept of carbohydrate restriction and the ketogenic diet.  Now he has regained his health, is off all his medications, of which there were many, and he has lost almost 200 lbs to boot.  He discusses how he got to that point in the first place and what it was that made him decide that it was imperative that he correct the situatio...

The other day, Tim Noakes tweeted the following: "Third truly iconic book in low-carb literature. All written by investigative journalists who've done as much for promoting low-carb science as anyone: 'Good Calories Bad Calories' by Gary Taubes; 'Big Fat Surprise' by Nina Teicholz and now 'Ravenous' by Sam Apple. We're blessed!"  Praise doesn't come much higher than that. This is a fascinating jou...