Dr Rod Tayler joins me for the first podcast of 2019. In today's episode, we explore low carb and high healthy fat. Rod is a Melbourne based anaesthetist with an interest in weight loss and research and low carb diets. He is the co-founder of Low Carb Down Under and frequently presents to medical professionals on the long term benefits of restricting carbohydrates.

Selected Links from the Episode

Dr Rod Tayler - Low Carb Down Under website

Unstress episode with Professor Grant Schofield on fasting

Unstress episode with Cliff Harvey on carb appropriate diets

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Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Hello and welcome to “Unstress”. I'm Dr. Ron Ehrlich. Firstly, let me wish you a happy and healthy New Year. This is the first show of 2019. I hope you've managed to have a good break to reflect and really kickstart a great New Year.

Now, if you're a regular listener in the show you will know from our guests last year that irrespective of which chronic disease we looked at. Cancer, cardiovascular disease or autoimmune diseases diabetes, of course, the key has been the common denominator has been to keep of the insulin levels low. Now if you aren't a regular listener you have got some catching up to do.

Well, my guest today to start the year I wanted to explore this low carb and high healthy fat idea. My guest is Dr. Rod Tayler. Now Rod is a Melbourne anaesthetist with an interest in weight loss research and low carb diets. He's given so many presentations on the subject of restricting carbohydrate intake for long term health benefits. And he's done that to medical and other allied health professionals. He is the co-founder of low carb Down Under. I'm going to let him explain more. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Dr. Rod Taylor.

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Welcome to the show, Rod.

Dr. Rod Tayler: Ron, thank you. Good to be on with you.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Now, listen Rod we're before we dive into this topic can you give us kind of a brief rundown of your own journey that brought you to this point? Professionally I guess there was your own personal experience that informed you to get to this point. Give us a bit of a background.

Dr. Rod Tayler: Well, this topic of why we've been getting obese and thicker over time I've been discussing with doctors for a long time since the early 90s. I work in the operating theatre as an anaesthetist might I spend a lot of time with your doctors and we do get to talk about these issues. The turning point for me came in 2009 when I was given a book called “Sweet Poison” by David Gillespie. A terrific book about sugar and when I read this book, I thought my goodness sugar is a huge problem. 2009 I cut sugar out of my diet and that probably included the four or five pieces of fruit I was having today which we can revisit that issue at another time. But I dropped about eight kilograms off my middle.

I'd always been a skinny sort of a guy, but this is where I was up in the mid-fifties and I'd been putting it on a little bit, and it fell off when I did this. Like eight kilograms fell off in a couple of months and that got me really interested. I did a research project at a hospital in Melbourne on reducing sugar by taking staff members and we recruited 158 staff members to reduce the sugar intake and the results were good. Results were good. At that point, there wasn't didn't seem to be much of a low sugar community around but boy, I discovered there was actually the big low-carb community around and I started digging around in that I went on a conference in the US or a low carb conference and started meeting the network of people who really explored, of course, not only low carb certainly includes like sugar. So, I found there was a great network of people there and that that really got me following this up more and more.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Young boys that ever a growing movement we hear so much about it.