Nutritionist, Naturopath, educator, author and PhD candidate, Cliff Harvey joins me to chat about a carbohydrate and ketogenic appropriate diet. We discuss what is an appropriate amount of carbohydrate, what ketosis is, calorie restriction, macronutrients, fasting and cancer. This episode is full of information for all of us, with practical tips around diet and nutrition.

Selected Links from the Episode

Cliff Harvey website

Cliff Harvey books:

The Keto-Appropriate Diet

The Carbohydrate Appropriate Diet

Time Rich Practice: A Step-By-Step Guide to having the time you need, and the things you want, from a business you love

99 Things You Need to Lose Fat

Time Rich Cash Option: An unconventional guide to happiness

Choosing You

Unstress episode with Prof. Dominic D'Agostino on keto nutrition

Unstress episode with Prof. Thomas Seyfried on cancer as a metabolic disease

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Dr Ron Ehrlich: Hello and welcome to “Unstress”, exploring stress and health from a holistic perspective. I'm Dr Ron Ehrlich and when it comes to what we should eat as individuals, the idea of what is appropriate for our individual needs, sensitivities and reactions would seem like a great concept. We've been exploring the theme of cancer as a metabolic disease, the importance of minimising insulin levels and the power of ketogenic diets and fasting.

Now my guest today is nutritionist naturopath educator author and PhD candidate Cliff Harvey. Cliff has been working on these very subjects for over 20 years. He's written six books. The titles of which tell you a lot about this guy “The carbohydrate appropriate diet”; “The ketogenic appropriate diet”; “99 things you need to know to lose weight”. We will cover some of those issues today. He's also written a book called “Time rich cash optional - An unconventional guide to happiness”. Another one called “Time rich practice”. Cliff is passionate. This is a quote from one of his books “As practitioners (that’s as health practitioners) we are in the enviable position of doing something we love. We have the opportunity to help people become healthier, happier, fitter and stronger”. Boy, I love that. And then he wrote a book called “Choosing you - A thoughtful inspiring book which takes you on a journey of empowerment self-belief and personal responsibility”. Well, today we chose him. I hope you enjoyed this conversation I had with Cliff Harvey.

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Welcome to the show Cliff.

Cliff Harvey: Hey Ron how you doing?

Dr Ron Ehrlich: I'm doing really well. Cliff, I've been so looking forward to talking to you. We've been following through a theme about cancer as a metabolic disease, we've been exploring ketogenic diets and all that and I know you've got a lot of research background in this but you've got a story, your own story which I thought I'd love to hear how you got into this position that you find yourself in now.

Cliff Harvey: Yes, an interesting one because it's probably quite convoluted, to be honest. I mean I started out really got into the nutrition field because of footy. I was a pretty skinny kid as a teenager and I wanted to make the top-line footy team and the coaches came to me and said well you're too small but if you put on X amount of weight not only will you play in the top team you'll captain it. If you don't put on the weight you won't play at all. So, that sort of sent me down this track of looking into everything I could around and strength training and nutrition. And so, I really started with a performance bias and that started to shift when I was first at university and this is really where the low-carb part started was we were told these very arbitrary things back in the day, we must prescribe 65% calories from carbohydrate as a minimum. We had to basically have this primacy of carbohydrate the old food pyramid style guidelines. And the interesting thing was we had learned quite different...