LowCarbUSA Podcast

Nadia Pateguana is a Naturopathic Doctor focusing on PCOS at 'The Fasting Method' with Jason Fung and Megan Ramos.  She has an amazing story of how she came to the realisation that diet and lifestyle could, and should, be the answer to PCOS and other metabolic conditions.  Some of her more profound statements were: "Women with PCOS are not infertile, they are anovulatory, i.e. they are not ovulati...

After being vegetarian for over eight years, Dr. Tony Hampton started doing some research and started to see more and more data showing that the Low Carb diet had better outcomes for diabetes, obesity and many other chronic diseases than the diet he had been following.  He says he learned more on YouTube than he did during his medical training.  He started trying it out himself and one of the firs...

Eric Reynolds was a cop with the Boynton Beach Police Department near West Palm and he got shot in the foot by an armed bank robber they were chasing and he ended up killing the suspect in the process.  The whole incident left him in a pretty bad way and he started to display many signs of PTSD.  He discovered the keto diet and, not only did his health improve drastically and all the excess weight...

Dr Kristin Baier is a family medicine physician who recently became board certified in obesity medicine as well.  Back about ten years ago she was diagnosed with Lupus and was experiencing all the usual symptoms.  She started focusing on a nutritional solution since she did not want to remain on medications and steroids for the rest of her life.  The first book she read suggested going vegan to so...

When Adrianna Stephenson's son was just nineteen months old he was diagnosed with a golf ball-sized brain tumour in and around the hypothalamus. He immediately underwent a subtotal resection but about 3 months post-op the tumour had grown back to almost it's original size already. Adrianna and her husband, as well as the surgeon, did not want him to undergo another operation and so chemo was their...

Dr. Richard Margolis is psychiatrist who, together with his nurse wife, Lisa, have embraced the ketogenic lifestyle with great success.  We spoke to them about how and why they got started and they really wanted to talk about the power of doing it together and how it's so much easier to be successful if couple support each other. That was a great talk but the conversation eventually migrated to th...

Dr. Lewis Cantley has made significant advances in cancer research stemming from his discovery of the signalling pathway phosphoinositide 3-kinase (Pi3K) in 1984.  It is an enzyme that mediates pretty much everything that insulin does, in the liver, in the fat cells, and it mediates the lowering of serum glucose levels because it drives glucose into the muscle, AND into tumours. Since tumours thri...

Dr Paul Mason presents a detailed explanation of how poor metabolic health is the major contributing factor with complications and fatalities as a result of Coronavirus.  He goes on to show how, just by changing their diet and cutting carbs and increasing saturated fat could start reducing the risks for those people almost immediately.  Dr. Mason is a Sports and Exercise Medicine Physician who als...

LowCarbUSA® has partnered with Restore Health to provide a certified coaching program to support people adopting the Low Carb (or Ketogenic) Lifestyle.   The program is brilliantly sequenced and rolled out in a manner that enables the client to make these behavioural changes in a methodical and sustainable fashion and you get paired with a real, live health coach and use Smart devices to make trac...

Captain Brian Gaudette was born to be a soldier.  He joined the army at 18 and served initially as an infantryman and later trained for and became an Apache Pilot.  However he started putting on a lot of weight and developing spatial disorientation in the cockpit.  The doctors couldn't tell him what was wrong with him and immediately grounded him.  After many months of desperate searching he final...

Jayne Bullen is the leader of The Noakes Foundation and works closely with Prof Noakes and a team of visionary scientists in Cape Town, addressing the escalating obesity and diabetes crisis in South Africa and the world through research and community education interventions.  She talks here about how she found the Low Carb Lifestyle to solve her own metabolic issues and then walked away from her c...

The movie "Fat Fiction" was supposed to be coming out in a number of Movie Houses around the world but due to the COVID-19 crisis, the producers have opted for a number of online premiers instead. I discuss when and how this will work with producer Jennifer Isenhart. If you are up to a small donation for one of the Foundations mentioned: https://thenoakesfoundation.org/donate https://www.nutrition...

It's here at last!!   'Fat Fiction' premiers in Los Angeles on March 13 and after that it will show in numerous theatres around the world.  How do you get to see it??  Go to the 'Fat Fiction' movie page on  FanForce (https://fan-force.com/films/fat-fiction/) Don't see a screening in your town or city??  Register to host a viewing in your area.  It's so easy!!  Select the movie house you want to ha...

Dr Jodi Nishida is a Pharm D, based in Honolulu, Hawaii.  She has a great personal keto story and has gone on to establish a sustainable keto lifestyle practice in partnership with a physician which is proving to be extremely successful.  What's incredible is that Blue Shield Blue Cross is watching how they are doing very closely to see how they can help all their employer groups get healthier and...

Rarely will you come across a kinder and more empathetic physician. Dr. Hassina Kajee was running a High Care Emergency Unit in Cape Town, South Africa. After seeing so many people die she started looking at the stats and worked out that most deaths were from chronic diseases. So she opened a Low Carb Clinic and saw results really quickly and decided this is what she wanted to do. "This is Actuall...

What an amazing couple. Dorian Greenow and Gemma Kochis, the founders of Keto-Mojo, talk about the establishment of a non-profit called the Ketogenic Foundation to fund further research into the keto diet and it's many health benefits.  They are utilizing Keto-Mojo profits as well as all affiliate link monies raised by Keto-Mojo to fund the foundation. Not only that but they have huge plans to enc...

At the super successful Boca 2020 event we had a moment where Dr. Robert Cywes was at the Q&A mic and made a blanket comment that protein just turns to sugar. Dr Goldkamp voiced his disagreement with that but the Q&A session did not allow the time for either to elaborate further on the issue.  I decided to take a chance and get the two of them on at the same time and discuss the issue further.  Bo...

Pam talks today with Karen Parrott.  She has been an awesome supporter of ours and has volunteered at almost all our San Diego events.  We learned about her amazing personal story and have been meaning to get her on the podcast for a long time.  So glad we have finally managed to do so.  Karen has struggled with her weight and binge eating since she can remember and was morbidly obese for much of...

When we were in the foyer of the Marriott hotel the night before our Boca 2020 event, we bumped into Gaby Ondrasek and Loly Trujillo and they were bouncing around like crazy things.  They were just so excited and when we sat down to speak with them they told us of how they had attended our event in West Palm Beach the previous year and how they had been inspired so much that they both went back an...

Dr Gurpreet Padda is an interventional pain physician who treats with patients with profound, chronic, severe pain that is unrelenting.  Over time he worked out that there was more to these people's pain than just the physical source of it and that it was also a systemic or metabolic inflammatory issue and that hyperinsulinemia was at the root of it.  He found that the majority of his patients wer...

Ashley Carter Youngblood resolved her debilitating reactive hypoglycemia by simply changing her lifestyle and adopting a ketogenic diet. She describes how she was scarcely able to function at all.  She got to a point where if she didn't eat a large meal every couple of hours she would be so sick she could barely stand up. Once she got introduced to the idea of going ketogenic it sounded like somet...

Interventional Cardiologist, Christian Assad, MD talks about how he discovered the benefits of the Keto / Low Carb way of life and how he now preaches the gospel to his patients and anyone else who will listen.  As with most practitioners who have discovered the truth, it took a personal experience to open his eyes and make him realise that he should be teaching his patients about this. His has go...

Carolina Cartier talks to Pam about her incredible personal success in curing her PCOS and losing 200 lbs entirely through adopting an LCHF lifestyle. She had endocrine issues by the age of 28 she had never ovulated and was morbidly obese. It was at this point that a naturopathic doctor tested her insulin level and found that it was through the roof.  She suggested Carolina start cutting carbs and...

Amber O'Hearn's discovery of the carnivore diet to address her weight loss stall on the keto diet. Not only did her weight normalise again, but she also noticed her depression and other psychiatric problems not only improved, but cleared up completely.  So instead of reverting to the ketogenic diet after her weight came back down, she has remained on the carnivore diet for about the last 10 years...

I talk here with Peter Ballerstedt about the real differences between grass-fed and grain-finished beef and whether or not a good carbohydrate reduction lifestyle is possible if the meat is not from a grass-fed source. Dr. Peter Ballerstedt (aka The Sodfather) received his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in 1981 and Master of Science in 1983, both from the University of Georgia. He received his...