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Low Carb Down Under is about bringing together people with an interest in low carbohydrate nutrition.

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  • Friday · 39 min

    Dr. Mary Dan Eades - 'History of the Low Carb Diet'

    Dr. Mary Dan Eades was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas and received her undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from the University of Arkansas, graduating magna cum laude. After completing her medical degree at the University of Arkansas, she joined her husband in practice, first as a general practitioner in their Medi-Stat Medical Clinic chain and subsequently in a private practice devoted to bariatric and nutritional medicine, gaining first hand experience treating thousands of people suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, and obesity with their nutritional regimen. Dr. Eades retired from clinical practice in 2001 to devote her energies to research, writing, speaking, and the development and production of the Low-Carb CookwoRx television cooking show on PBS. She has been a guest nutritional expert on various radio and television shows across America, speaking at medical and scientific conferences and to the general public. She and her husband are currently at work on their 15th book, Protein Power 2.0, slated for publication in 2024. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 45 min

    Dr. Max Gulhane - 'Identifying and Eliminating Visceral Fat for Optimal Health'

    Dr Max Gulhane is a practicing GP registrar, host of the Regenerative Health Podcast and advocate of circadian & nutritional approaches to optimising health and reversing metabolic diseases. In this talk he explains why we should be worried about visceral fat as an optimal health 'biomarker' and the most effective strategies to eliminate it. TIMESTAMPS 00:02:14 Types of fat and sites of ectopic fat, 00:06:30 Why ectopic and visceral fat is harmful, 00:10:00 The flaws of the BMI metric, 00:14:50 LDL cholesterol is a poor a biomarker for health optimisation, 00:17:00 Drivers of visceral fat accumulation, 00:22:40 Visceral fat accumulates in proportion to a lifestyle which is incompatible with your biology, 00:23:00 Strategies for visceral fat elimination, 00:29:25 Q&A, REGENERATE is a holistic health movement based on three pillars - circadian health, ancestral diets and regenerative farming. Follow REGENERATE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/regenerate.aus/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Regenerate_Aus/ Rumble: REGENERATEHEALTHSUMMIT Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 27 min

    Dr. Paul Mason - 'The truth about high cholesterol'

    This lecture is part 1 of 4 delivered by Dr Paul Mason at the Low Carb Down Under Gold Coast conference in October 2022. Dr Mason demolishes the weak science that LDL cholesterol is inherently harmful, and brings nuance to the conversation in a way that can be easily understood. Dr Paul Mason obtained his medical degree with honours from the University of Sydney. He is also a fellow of the Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians, holds a Bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy and a Masters degree in Occupational Health. He is currently Chief Medical Officer of the Defeat Diabetes program, an evidence-based program focussed on lifestyle management of metabolic illnesses, including type 2 diabetes. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 34 min

    Low Carb Sydney 2023 - First QandA Session Day 3

    The presenters from the first session of day three of 'Low Sydney 2023' answer questions from the audience. Featuring Dr. Pran Yoganathan and Prof. Peter Brukner. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 32 min

    Dr. Robert Szabo - 'The Low Carb Clinic: treating disease with a low carb approach'

    Dr. Robert Szabo is a Melbourne based General Practitioner with an interest in the use of carbohydrate restriction and therapeutic fasting for weight loss and additional health benefits. Recognising a growing need for low carb medicine in his community, Dr. Szabo created 'The Low Carb Clinic', which is now located in Balwyn, Victoria. The Low Carb Clinic features a doctor and dietitian team approach to medically manage the application of a low carbohydrate diet to improve patient health. Further information about The Low Carb Clinic can be found here; http://www.thelowcarbclinic.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 42 min

    Dr. Eric Westman - 'LCHF and Diabetes: Theory and Clinical Experience'

    Dr. Eric C. Westman is an associate professor of medicine at Duke University Health System and director of the Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic. Dr. Westman combines clinical research and clinical care to deliver lifestyle treatments for obesity, diabetes and tobacco dependence. He is an internationally known researcher specialising in low-carbohydrate nutrition and is co-author of 'The New Atkins For A New You', 'Keto Clarity' and 'Cholesterol Clarity'. He has also helped do several high-quality scientific studies on low carb. Dr. Westman is currently the vice president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians and a fellow of the Obesity Society and the Society of General Internal Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 1 hr 1 min

    Dr. Benjamin Bikman - 'How insulin resistance interacts with metabolic health'

    Dr. Benjamin Bikman earned his Ph.D. in Bioenergetics and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Duke-National University of Singapore in metabolic disorders. He is currently a professor of pathophysiology and a biomedical scientist at Brigham Young University in Utah. Dr. Bikman's professional focus as a scientist and professor is to better understand chronic modern-day diseases, with a special emphasis on the origins and consequences of obesity and diabetes, with an increasing scrutiny of the pathogenicity of insulin and insulin resistance. He frequently publishes his research in peer-reviewed journals and presents at international science meetings. Dr. Bikman has long been an advocate of a ketogenic diet in light of the considerable evidence supporting its use as a therapy for reversing insulin resistance. His website InsulinIQ.com promotes dietary clarity, healing, and freedom through evidence-based science about insulin resistance. Employing cell-autonomous to whole-body systems, Dr. Bikman's recent efforts have focused on exploring the intimate associations between the metabolic and immune systems. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 46 min

    Dr. James Muecke - 'Turning the tide'

    Dr James Muecke AM is a South Australian based ophthalmologist and visiting consultant at Royal Adelaide and Women’s and Children’s Hospitals. Dr. Muecke graduated with Honours from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1987. Following his internship, James lived and worked as a doctor in Africa and subsequently as an eye surgeon in the Middle East, battling malaria, wild animals, and rebel soldiers. He founded Sight For All in 2008, turning his boundless energy into a fight against blindness in the Aboriginal communities of Australia and some of the poorest countries of Asia and Africa. Dr. Muecke's commitment to social impact and humanitarian endeavours has earned him a string of awards. He received an Outstanding Service to the Prevention of Blindness award by the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology in 2011, a Member of the Order of Australia in 2012, a South Australian Community Achievement Award in 2013, the Australian Medical Association’s President’s Leadership Award in 2013, Ernst & Young’s Social Entrepreneur for Australia in 2015 and The University of Adelaide’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2019. In 2020, Dr. Muecke was named Australian of the Year and vowed to use his platform to advocate for measures to tackle preventable blindness caused by diabetes. The book 'Dark PR' referenced by Dr. Muecke in this presentation is available for pre-order from the publisher https://darajapress.com/publication/dark-pr-how-corporate-disinformation-harms-our-health-and-the-environment and on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Dark-PR-Corporate-Disinformation-Environment/dp/1990263488 Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 28 min

    Dr. Sean Kristoffersen - 'LCHF in General Practice'

    Dr Sean Kristoffersen was born in Sydney and grew up in both Australia and Norway. After employment as a soldier in the Australian Army, he completed a Science degree and worked as a scientist within the pharmaceutical industry. After completing his medical degree at the University of Sydney, he worked at Nepean Hospital in Sydney’s West and as a rural doctor. Dr Kristoffersen and his partner Dr. David Lim now operate the Church Street Medical Practice in Sydney's Newtown. They apply the principals of Low Carb, High Fat in the practice and have achieved remarkable success in many of their patients with insulin resistance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 43 min

    Dr. Tania Farrar - 'Food for Thought: Ketogenic Diet Therapy as Epilepsy Treatment'

    Dr. Tania Farrar completed her medical degree at the university of Notre Dame and attained accreditation in Neurology from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians training at St Vincent’s Hospital, Royal Price Alfred Hospital, Orange Hospital and Royal North Shore Hospital. Dr. Farrar is also a clinical lecturer for the University of Notre Dame, School of Medicine, Sydney and a tutor in Neurology for the University of Sydney. Dr. Farrar undertook an Epilepsy Fellowship at Westmead Hospital and was trained in complex epilepsy assessment and management, surgical epilepsy evaluation as well as cranial and intracranial EEG monitoring. Dr. Farrar has presented research in Australia, as well as overseas, and has been 1st Author on publications including articles on the assessment of patients with seizures. She is undertaking further study and research on the role of ketogenic diet therapy in refractory epilepsy and hopes to establish an adult ketogenic diet therapy clinic in NSW. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 37 min

    Dr. Peter Brukner - 'SugarByHalf: Anatomy of a Campaign'

    Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a specialist sports and exercise physician and the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. He has recently been Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club as well as team doctor for the Australian cricket team. Peter is Associate Professor in Sports Medicine at the Center for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He has served two terms as President of the Australian College of Sports Physicians during which time he was instrumental in the establishment of a specialist level training program in Australia for sports medicine physicians. Peter was the first Australian to be elected to the Board of the American College of Sports Medicine. In this video Professor Brukner gives an update on one year of 'SugarByHalf', a campaign to halve Australia's sugar consumption. Cutting added sugar by half is the quickest, cheapest and most effective way of reducing chronic disease. Please get behind this fantastic campaign and help get Australia healthy again. Website: http://www.sugarbyhalf.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sugarbyhalf/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/sugarbyhalf YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClWo0Jih-dyqpJtp7quLe7w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 35 min

    Pete Evans - 'The Paleo Way - Putting It All Into Practice'

    Pete Evans is an award-winning Australian Chef, restaurateur, cookbook author and television presenter on Australia's most popular show 'My Kitchen Rules'. Pete is one of Australia’s leading authorities on healthy cooking and lifestyle and is dedicated to improving peoples lives through education about nutritional food and wellness. He embraces the Paleo lifestyle and has eliminated grains, sugar and dairy from his cooking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 52 min

    Dr. Stephen Phinney - 'The Art and Science of Low Carb Living and Performance'

    Steve Phinney is a physician-scientist who has spent 35 years studying diet, exercise, fatty acids, and inflammation. He has held academic positions at the Universities of Vermont, Minnesota, and California at Davis, as well as leadership positions at Monsanto, Galileo Laboratories, and Efficas. Dr. Phinney has published over 70 papers and several patents. He received his MD from Stanford University, his PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from MIT, and post-doctoral training at the University of Vermont and Harvard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 32 min

    Dr. Caryn Zinn - 'Food Quality'

    Dr Caryn Zinn is a senior lecturer and Associate Professor at Auckland University of Technology. She is also a New Zealand Registered Dietitian and teaches/researches in the area of nutrition, both from a public health and a sports performance perspective. Her current research (and that of her students) includes applying the Low Carbohydrate, Healthy Fat (LCHF) nutrition paradigm as a tool for losing weight, improving health and optimising sports performance in a variety of different population groups. Dr. Zinn is also the co-author of the books ‘What The Fat?’, 'What The Fat?: Sports Performance', 'What The Fast?' and 'What The Fat?: Recipes'. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 36 min

    Dr. Hasthi Dissanayake and Timothy Trudgen - 'Traditional Aboriginal Diets and Hope for Health'

    Dr. Hasthi Dissanayake is a Research Fellow in Indigenous Health and the trial coordinator for the Elcho Health and Wellbeing project. She has significant expertise in developmental origins of health and disease, specifically in cardiovascular physiology and non-invasive techniques for assessing vascular health. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2019 for her work in identifying newborns at risk of later cardiovascular disease. Her current work focuses on finding sustainable long term, culturally acceptable programs for the prevention of chronic diseases in remote Australian communities. Timothy Trudgen is a cross-cultural educator and consultant, who has worked closely with the Yolngu people of North East Arnhem Land for more than seven years. He is proficient in the Yolngu language and has extensive knowledge of Yolngu culture. His work has involved him providing education, training and cultural support to Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians, to help them understand each other’s worlds. Tim’s work builds on the 35 years that his family have been working in the Arnhem Land region empowering Yolngu people. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 1 hr 10 min

    Dr. Stephen Phinney - 'Optimising Weight and Health with an LCHF Diet' - Part 1

    Part 1 of 3 On November 25th 2014 Dr. Stephen Phinney presented this Workshop at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne to outline some of his research on Low Carb, High Fat nutrition and to give audience members the opportunity to ask questions. Dr. Phinney is a physician-scientist who has spent 35 years studying diet, exercise, fatty acids, and inflammation. He has published over 70 papers and several patents. He received his MD from Stanford University, his PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from MIT, and post-doctoral training at the University of Vermont and Harvard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 28 min

    Dr. Troy Stapleton - 'Low Carb Management of Type 1 Diabetes'

    Dr. Troy Stapleton graduated from the University of Queensland Medical School in 1993 and completed his fellowship training as a Radiologist in 2005. Currently he is the Director of Radiology for the Sunshine Coast Health Service. At the age of 41, Troy developed Type-1 Diabetes. He followed the standard dietary advice for 2 months but was not able to attain normal blood sugar levels. After much research, he changed to a Low Carb High Fat lifestyle. This has led to dramatic improvements in his quality of life as well as his health biomarkers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 29 min

    Brendan Reid - 'Low Carb for Weight Loss: What We Are Told and Why'

    Brendan Reid is a former fat broadcaster turned fat software developer. He lives in Dunedin, New Zealand, now minus the fat. After finally losing more than 50kg (111 pounds) in under two years, Brendan's original weight loss success story was featured on Diet Doctor in 2017 and since 2019 he has spoken of his experience at live events both at home and overseas. Between his ongoing work and video game habits, his book 'The Fat Ginger Nerd' took around five years to write and around forty years to live. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 1 hr 7 min

    Dr. Georgia Ede - 'Nutritional and Metabolic Psychiatry: The New Science of Hope'

    Dr. Georgia Ede received her B.A. in Biology from Carleton College in Minnesota, then spent seven years as a research assistant in the fields of biochemistry, wound healing and diabetes before going on to earn an M.D. from the University of Vermont College Of Medicine. Dr. Ede then completed her residency in general adult psychiatry at Harvard's Cambridge Hospital in 2002 and was a staff psychopharmacologist at Harvard University Health Services from 2007 to 2013. In 2013 she left Harvard to become the psychiatrist for Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts where she provides nutrition consults as well as psychiatric services to Smith students. Dr. Ede was the first and only psychiatrist at Harvard University Health Services to offer nutrition consultation as an alternative to medication management to students, faculty and staff. Her areas of expertise include ketogenic and pre-agricultural diets, food sensitivity syndromes, and college mental health. She explores food’s powerful effects on brain chemistry, hormonal balance and metabolism for Psychology Today and on her website www.DiagnosisDiet.com. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

  • Friday · 26 min

    Dr. Paul Mason - 'The shady truth about statins'

    This lecture is part 2 of 3 delivered by Dr Mason at the Low Carb Down Under Gold Coast conference in October 2022. Dr Mason exposes the catastrophic harms caused by the first cholesterol lowering drug, Triparanol, and the guilty verdict that followed. This is followed by a brief history of statins, including the high rates of cancer in test animals seen with the first statin to come to market, and the massive (+$1,000,000,000) legal payouts made to settle lawsuits from statin side effects. Specific statin side effects, including dementia are covered, followed by a close analysis of the measurable benefits that may be attributed to statins. This includes a review of a recent paper co-authored by David Diamond, Ben Bikman and Paul Mason that discusses how to identify who is likely and not likely to benefit from statin therapy using triglyceride and LDL levels. https://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/fulltext/2022/10000/statin_therapy_is_not_warranted_for_a_person_with.14.aspx Dr Paul Mason obtained his medical degree with honours from the University of Sydney. He is also a fellow of the Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Physicians, holds a Bachelor's degree in Physiotherapy and a Masters degree in Occupational Health. He is currently Chief Medical Officer of the Defeat Diabetes program, an evidence-based program focussed on lifestyle management of metabolic illnesses, including type 2 diabetes. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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