Real Health and Weight Loss Podcast

We are all familiar with Santa’s jolly belly, but is Santa’s belly actually healthy? In this episode, Dr Lucy Burns and Dr Mary Barson discuss the causes of visceral and abdominal fat storage and why a beer belly is so harmful to our health. They chat about the relationship between belly fat and inflammation and give you 3 things you can do to reduce belly fat. They have a free e-book – The Doctor...

It is important to understand the influences behind the guidelines, as many people fear challenging them. In this episode Dr Lucy and Belinda Fettke discuss marketing propaganda from processed food companies and the vested interests of religious ideologies in influencing diet globally, unpacking the complicated motivations driving these interests. Extra show notes & episode transcript https://...

Dr Lucy’s fascinating chat with Belinda Fettke continues this week.  Belinda shares her discoveries about the Diabetes Bill of Rights, published by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She brings to light the forces behind the concerning one-size-fits-all health reform message advocating for a plant-based diet, devoid of animal protein and dairy, which is sweeping across America and embeddi...

Dr Lucy chats with Belinda Fettke this week, sharing how she was inspired into action by what happened to her husband, Dr Gary Fettke, a practising orthopaedic surgeon in Tasmania, Australia. She shares with us Gary’s own health battles, the court battle resulting from Gary’s eagerness to help his diabetic patients save their limbs and how she became an incredible voice of truth. She also brings t...

Abso-freakin-lutely!  For many of us, the all-or-nothing mindset does not serve us well in this environment. We can find ourselves eating everything in sight with the promise of a new year’s resolution. It doesn't have to be this way. Dr Lucy and Dr Mary discuss the concept of identity and recommend James Clear's technique of embracing your new identity with small steps every day that confirm who...

You better watch out! You better not shout! Christmas time can be the great undoing for many people, but it doesn't have to be that way.  Dr Lucy and Dr Mary chat about common marketing tactics that drive some of our thinking around Christmas celebrations. They give some actionable advice to help you navigate the marketing minefield of Christmas. Christmas Masterclass https://www.rlmedicine.com/ch...

If your blood sugar is fine, then everything is fine, right? Not necessarily. Dr Mary Barson (she's back!) and Dr Lucy Burns discuss the often-misunderstood link between the carbs we eat, the sugar in our blood and the role of insulin. These medical doctors explain insulin resistance and what to do about it in easy-to-understand terms. No Sugar https://www.rlmedicine.com/nosugar Extra show notes &...

Join Dr Lucy Burns this week as she interviews two wonderful women Louise Reynolds and Jackie Fletcher about their own weight loss stories and the life changing discovery of low carb/ keto. They talk about the different ways they approach keto and how what works for one does not necessarily work for the other. They chat about the concept of being a moderator or an abstainer and that yet again you...

This episode was a request by the doctors who listen to our podcast and have questions about some of the more nuanced approaches to risk management in cardiac health. Dr Lucy chats again with Dr Bret Scher a renowned low carb cardiologist on some of the more advanced technical details, including LDL lipid subfractions and Lipoprotein(a) Diet Doctor https://www.dietdoctor.com Extra show notes &...

Join Dr Lucy Burns as she chats with Dr Bret Scher, a wonderful low carb cardiologist who now has the fabulous job of being the medical director of the world famous “Diet Doctor” website. In this episode, they discuss all things heart health, do some myth busting around cholesterol and also chat about the somewhat “unsexy” path of being moderate, over being an extremist. Diet Doctor https://www.di...

Join Dr Lucy Burns as she interviews Clarissa Kristjansson, a menopause and mindfulness coach. Clarissa was a high-powered executive until she found her whole world crashing down in her perimenopause phase. She discovered mindfulness and went on to become a mindfulness practitioner. In this episode they discuss the enormous benefits practicing mindfulness can have on health in general. Clarissa di...

Join Dr Lucy as she chats with alcohol coach Emma Gilmour.  Our consumption of alcohol is on the rise and for many of us, it is now causing some health issues or problems in our life. We may be thinking of changing, reducing or stopping but don’t really know how. The pressure to drink in our society is enormous and so for some people this serves as a barrier to stopping or reducing alcohol. Just l...

Megan Pfeffer returns with Dr Lucy for part 2 of their discussion on lipoedema. This episode they discuss how managing the inflammatory load of lipoedema is important. This is done by focusing on nutrition, sleep and stress management. It's important to get an accurate diagnosis with a suitably qualified healthcare worker like a doctor, physiotherapist, or physical therapist who has an interest in...

Despite it being discovered many years ago, lipoedema – a build-up of fat, normally in the legs and arms – is widely misunderstood. More than one in ten women worldwide have the condition, which can be painful, affect mobility, and lead to social stigma. Megan Pfeffer, specialises in the treatment of lipoedema through a tailored keto diet. She discusses with Dr Lucy the signs and symptoms of lipoe...

In this amazing episode Dr Lucy Burns chats with Dr Rowena Field about chronic pain. Rowena is a physio and she herself suffered from chronic back pain. So frustrating as a physio to have back pain despite doing all the usual physio techniques. She commenced a ketogenic diet and incredibly her back pain resolved. Rowena has gone a step further and actually done research on this! She now has a PhD...

Join Dr Lucy as she chats with physiotherapist Trisha Cashmere on the importance of the common problem of knee pain. They chat about ways to not only prevent knee pain but also on how to manage it without surgery.  Trisha Cashmere is a physiotherapist and the owner of The Healthy Body Company. She and her team have designed a wonderful 12 week recovery program so you can rid yourself of knee pain...

Dr Deepa Mahananda is an expert in women’s health. She runs the Sydney Low Carb Specialists Clinic with her husband and helps many women on their low carb journey. Today she shares her story with Dr Lucy. Deepa discusses her diagnosis of severe endometriosis at the age of 23 and how by following a low carb real food diet, she has had 2 children and now lives symptom and medication free. Deepa shar...

Dr Lucy chats with Dr Ali Young about burnout. Burnout is a phenomenon that is increasing in prevalence. It is well known amongst health care workers but is also on the rise in mums. Burnout has massive implications on our health and weight management. Dr Lucy and Dr Ali talk about the reasons why this occurs, the neurotransmitter response, the metabolic hormonal response and most importantly the...

Join Dr Lucy as she chats with another real life woman. In 2018, Louise was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. She discovered low carb and lost 35 kgs (over 75 pounds). Unfortunately she found herself highly stressed during covid as the manager of an aged care facility and put it all back on, plus a bit more. She became extremely unwell with very bad type 2 diabetes and extremely high blood pressure....

Join Dr Lucy as she chats with a real woman, Lisa-Marie. Like many of us, she grew up thinking she wasn’t thin enough, that her body wasn't good enough. She spent her life dieting. They talk about traditional dieting and the emphasis on weight loss at any cost. They chat about the processed food that is encouraged by many of the big dieting firms. Finally, they chat about Lisa-Marie's experience o...

Join Dr Lucy as she chats with another real-life woman, Bec Mills. Bec has been off and on a diet for 25 years. She is an expert dieter. She discusses the brutal regimes she did in the quest for thinness. Like many women she was trapped in the calories in, calories out game.  She did daily gym sessions (sometimes multiple) and survived in 1200 calories a day, until that all become too much and she...

Join Dr Lucy as she chats about her favourite topic, Sugar! This topic gets a fire in her belly and she discusses her two pet peeves. One is junk food and the other is “health” food. She talks about the dopamine effect of sugar, food engineering and the billions of dollars the processed food industry puts into advertising, all designed to get us hooked from a young age. Dr Lucy then chats about th...

This week Dr Lucy chats with US based surgeon and carb addiction specialist Dr Robert Cywes. Dr Cywes treats hundreds of patients with carbohydrate addiction and see obesity as the result of addiction not the actual problem. Like Dr Lucy and Dr Mary, he is really interested in helping people get to the root cause of their relationship with food. In his practice he treats obesity and metabolic dise...

In this episode, medical doctors and weight loss experts Dr Mary Barson and Dr Lucy Burns get back to the all-important basics. Our bodies are literally built of protein, we can’t store it, we need to eat it and it is vital that we get enough. Learn how to build your plate to ensure you get enough of this vital macronutrient. Extra show notes & episode transcript https://www.rlmedicine.com/92...

The majority of people want to make other people happy. This is of course, the beautiful, kind and empathic part of human nature. However, many of us do this at a cost to our own health. Join Dr Lucy as she chats with business coach Donna Hann. Donna helps women find balance and reduce overwhelm and burnout so they can achieve the things they want to do in their businesses. There is so much parall...