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 I’m 57 and I am a husband to Louise, my rock and sweetheart. I’m a dad to our 2 grown ups kids, and a grandad (Grampy) to my daughters’ 4 beautiful children. I work as an Employment Specialist for a mental health charity supporting people with serious and long term mental health issues to find meaningful paid employment.

Having been following a keto / low carb lifestyle since October 2020 and leading what I believed to be a much more healthy and active lifestyle, in January 2023 I suffered a major heart attack!!! I’d had some warning signs a few weeks earlier and had ignored them, but this was such a shock too, a literal and physical bolt from the blue!!!

I was rushed to hospital and had a stent inserted into the main coronary artery, and another artery cleared with a balloon. Because the blockage was in the main artery, the heart attack affected a large part of the heart and caused a large amount of damage, and I was told I had been left with serious heart failure, which meant my heart wasn’t able to pump as much blood with each beat. 

I knew this was as a result of my poor lifestyle and dietary choices, together with my poor mental health issues catching up with me!

In the 4 months since the heart attack I have followed my own path to recovery and chosen to not follow the standard of care from the NHS.

Geraint’s episode 116

Baked Egg Custard – there are couple of options on this site

The Clot Thickens: The enduring mystery of heart disease – Dr Malcolm Kendrick

A Statin-Free Life: A revolutionary life plan for tackling heart disease – without the use of statins –   Dr Aseem Malhotra

The Great Cholesterol Con – Dr Malcolm Kendrick

The Numbers Needed to Treat 

Aseem Malhotra episode 100

Tony Royle episode 101

Mark Felstead episode 079

We Love Our Heart

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The Fabulously Keto Diet & Lifestyle Journal: A 12-week journal to support new habits – Jackie Fletcher

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 Hi there, I’m Coach Stephen, and I’m here to help you on your journey to optimal health. With a BSc (Hons) in physiology and health sciences, as well as a background in sport and conditioning science and the psychological aspects of athletic development, I’ve got the knowledge and skills to give you the tools you need to succeed.

Also, as a specialist practitioner in Obesity and Diabetes, and a qualified phlebotomist, I’ve helped countless people achieve their health goals. My qualifications as a phlebotomist give me the knowledge and skills to draw blood safely and efficiently, while my specialist practitioner status in obesity and diabetes means that I have the expertise to help manage these conditions. And with over 500 five-star reviews on Revero and Facebook, and around 100 video success stories on my website and YouTube channel, I’m confident that my approach to eating gets results.

Personally, I had to say goodbye to my high-carb, skim milk, orange juice lifestyle. Despite 50 years of not smoking or drinking, working out three times a week, and running three times a week, I still found myself fat, pre-diabetic, needing a colonoscopy, and with a CAC of 639. But with the right approach, you too can achieve optimal health. 

Meat RX – Dr Shawn Baker

https://carnivore.diet

Richard Smith

https://theketopro.com

X3 Bar

https://www.jaquishbiomedical.com/x3-bar/

“Nothing beats getting older and realising actually you got it all completely wrong.”

“I thought this is it, it is all genetics.”

“Even though I was the poster boy for the food guidelines and the low fat, don’t have salt, don’t have any red meat, make sure you have lots of fruit and veg, which I did. I didn’t smoke, I didn’t drink, I was an absolute state when it came to health.”

“If people are looking to improve their health, it all starts with that one small step.”

“The best time to train is when you can do it.”

“Transitioning into carnivore took me years.”

“If you are having cravings for things that you used to eat, that’s normally a sign of not eating enough.”

“It’s very difficult to eat too much ribeye because it’s so satiating. It is very easy to eat too much yoghurt because it isn’t satiating.”

“I love ribeyes and I didn’t eat a ribeye until I was 55 and I had never even seen one.”

“When you are eating this more species appropriate diet, it does seem that your allergies change or they completely go.”

Instagram: www.instagram.com@theukcarnivore

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CoachStephen

Website Details:

www.theukcarnivore.com

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Google Play

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Apple

 Jenny Phillips is a quaified nutritionist and yoga teacher, and part of the team writing five diabetes and weightloss cookbooks with Katie Caldesi and Dr David Unwin. These books really help to change lives as they provide the ‘why” – the science- plus delicious recipes.

She has worked with food since her own recovery from breast cancer in 2003 (20 years ago!) where the appliance of science helped her to optimise her own health through food and lifestyle. So far she is on the right side of a predicted 50% chance of a recurrence (scary!) and has reverse aged in the process!

In addition to nutrition coaching and yoga classes, she offers fabulous low carb retreats in the West country – a chill zone for healthy living.

Eat to Outsmart Cancer: How to create optimal health for prevention & recovery – Jenny Phillips

The Diabetes Weight-loss Cookbook (Kyle Books, 2019)

Reverse Your Diabetes Cookbook (Kyle Books, 2020)

The 30-Minute Diabetes Cookbook (Kyle Books, 2021)

The Low-Carb Weight-Loss Cookbook (Kyle Books, March 2022)

The Low-Carb Italian Kitchen (working title) (Kyle Books, March 23)

Katie Caldesi

117: Katie Caldesi – Low Carb the Caldesi Way

Dr David Unwin

066: Dr David Unwin – The Low Carb GP

Dr Jen Unwin

037: Dr Jen Unwin – Fork In The Road

Protein Calculator

Food Tracking – Cronometer

Caldesi Restaurants

“You then get the risk of recurrence, because my cancer was really big and it was grade 4, so it was really active. It tends to be in younger women and it tends to be really nasty. My risk of recurrence was 50%.”

“As a nation we are overfed and undernourished.”

“I love this idea of reverse aging.”

“The nice thing about low carb is that it can be really simple.”

“That gives people a lot more satiety, so they are not ravenous all the time and it is quite a revelation very often for people.”

“We didn’t used to have Tescos on every corner when we were cavemen.”

“One thing I see quite a lot of particularly in healthier women or women that perceive they have a healthy diet is low protein.”

“I do think it is challenging if someone is excluding all animal products.”

“You don’t want to spend all your time as a slave to the oven.”

“People are also quite shocked, they seem to eat so much really good food and they don’t put on weight. So that’s a bit of a revelation to people.”

“Think about

 Prior to switching to a low carb way of eating, Viv Hamilton had been obese for about twenty years and had had the usual experience of yoyo dieting.

After a serious car accident in 2019, she was told by the surgeon that she would develop severe arthritis and need a knee replacement within about 3 years. After about 9 months of rehabilitation, the arthritis symptoms developed and began to rapidly worsen. 

Luckily Viv and her husband are patients at the Freshwell surgery. When Viv’s husband was recommended to try going low carb, she decided they would go low carb together. She thought it would help if she lost some weight before the anticipated knee replacement operation. However, there didn’t seem to be much information about going low carb as a vegetarian. Cutting out wholegrains went against the traditional advice for vegetarians who are told to combine pulses with wholegrains to obtain complete proteins from plants. Viv did her own research and found out that small seeds (flax, hemp, sesame, chia etc) are not only low carb, they have a better nutritional profile than starchy grains and they are at least as good in complementing the profile of amino acids in pulses.

Switching to low carb was transformational for Viv. Within four months the arthritis symptoms had disappeared. In total she has lost over 6 stone, and is now in the healthy weight range. IBS symptoms have also gone away and she has been de-prescribed most of her blood pressure medicine.

As a way of saying thank you, she volunteered to help others on their low carb journey, volunteering for Freshwell and the Colne Valley PCN and joining the charity, The Public Health Collaboration as an Ambassador.

Public Health Collaboration (PHC)

Public Health Collaboration (PHC) YouTube

Freshwell Website

Freshwell Play Store App

Freshwell Apple App Store

White Chocolate

“The scary thing was that it totally undermines all your ideas about cooking and food.”

“Traditionally for IBS they say don’t go long periods without food, eat little and often.”

“Knowing what I knew about being vegetarian, it was actually quite scary to say I have got to cut out all the grains when I went low carb.”

“Mushrooms are actually a complete protein.”

“When I was a teenager I discovered I was getting addicted to caffeine.”

“You might be surprised that a vegetarian is worried is being pushed to plant based food.”

“The other side of that environmental question is if your diet makes you sick, what is the environmental impact of being sick?”

“I personally am choosing not to eat meat but am happy to support other people to eat the meat.”

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This week’s episode is with the following members of the Fabulously Keto Facebook Group 

Eranda Wickramasinghe

Heidi Cuthbertson

Janet

JoAnn McManamy

Matthew Dowse

Nicola Lock

Rich Smith

Stephanie Hewitt

Su Bailey

Lois Butterfield

We discuss what we enjoyed from the PHC Conference. The speakers we enjoyed and some of the points that were important to the speakers.

PHCUK

https://phcuk.org/

Patrick Holford

Food for the brain

https://foodforthebrain.org/

Zofia Clemens

Paleomedicina

https://www.paleomedicina.com/en

Podcast links

059: Eranda Wickramasinghe – Engineering A Diabetes Solution

078: JoAnn McManamy – Forgetting to Live

070: Nicola Lock – New Year’s Resolutions

138: Richard Smith – The Keto-Pro

TLC Fundraising for a study on putting Type 2 Diabetes into remission

https://www.gofundme.com/f/tlcstudy

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 The current decline in our nation’s health makes me frustrated, furious and fired up to create change!

I am driven by a feeling of duty, to pass on the knowledge I have gained in turning my own health around (I was obese for over 25 years) to others. To do this, I spend most of my working days on several different approaches to health education.

I am passionate about preventing and reversing, diabetes type 2, obesity and metabolic syndrome across the UK. Therefore, I spend my working days on several different approaches. I created an organisation called Health Results to help people explore, measure, and improve their metabolic health and I am a benefactor to two charities the Public Health Collaboration (PHC) and the Colourful Life Foundation.

I am a dad to 7 wonderful children, 2 adorable grandchildren and husband to a great wife. My day job after the morning school run is following my passion to educate our country about metabolic health and I also executively chair several companies that I previously founded. I love adventures too, and have trekked to the North Pole, sailed across the Atlantic, undertook some mammoth Strive Challenges and more recently, along with several members of the PHC cycled 500 miles in five days with Zero calories! See “Zero five 500” on YouTube.

* I have wrote several health books, Primal Cure, Britain is Sick, Primal Gourmet and more recently Fat & Furious.

* In 2020 I founded Health Results to help the nation get healthier.

www.healthresults.com

*I am a patron and main benefactor to the charity PHC (Public Health Collaboration), which aims to put prevention at the heart of the nation’s healthcare system.

In a Previous life….

* Owner & CEO of the UK’s fastest growing company 1996 “Sunday Times”

* Created jungle.com in 2000, built to £100 million in annual sales, then sold to Argos

* Created Gempoia, which floated in 2006

* Started Colourful Life Charity in 2011 and over the past 11 years have built 14 schools in India, 4 in Tanzania and 1 in South Africa. Our charity has Sir Richard Branson as its sole patron and we currently have over 13,800 children studying at our schools.

* 2011 E&Y Turnaround Entrepreneur of the year

*Owner & CEO of the UK’s fastest growing company 2012 “Sunday Times”

* Walked to the North Pole 2014

*Owner & CEO of PCW International Business of the Year 2014

* Stepped down as CEO 2018 to focus on studying health (especially my own)

* Bought back Gemporia, built it to £100m turnover and in 2019 so as to concentrate on getting the nation healthy, transferred 75% of ownership to employees.

The Primal Cure: Avoid Being a Sick Statistic – Steve Bennett

https://amzn.to/3IhHSyp

Primal Gourmet: Recipes For Primal Living – Steve Bennett

Fat & Furious: Not Your Usual Diet Book, The Primal Way To Live Healthier For Longer. – Alternative to Keto & Paleo Diets to Lose Weight. Supported by 23 medical professionals – Steve Bennett

The Colourful Life Foundation

The Public Health Collaboration

Zero Calories – Five Days – 500 miles | The Documentary

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 Louise returns to the podcast to share with you details of her new role. We also have a general catch up. She also shares how she manages to stay keto with two jobs to maintain.

PHC Conference

PHC Livestream

The Fabulously Keto Diet & Lifestyle Journal: A 12-week journal to support new habits – Jackie Fletcher

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 Ally Houston is a former physicist who fixed his brain with food. After adopting a ketogenic diet seven years ago he changed career to empower others to turn their health around like he did.

 Dr Rachel Brown is a Consultant Psychiatrist and certified functional medicine practitioner. Dr Brown is an advocate for metabolic psychiatry and the use of nutritional ketosis in the treatment of major mental disorder. Dr Brown is trained in the use of Ketogenic diets for mental disorder by Dr Georgia Ede and is a published author in this field. She is also a Nutrition Network Advisor and is a coach for metabolic mental health strategies at MetPsy.com.

Vanessa Spina

Ketogenic Girl

https://www.ketogenicgirl.com/

Beef Farm

“I was scared for the first 6 months, I thought when is my heart going to explode.” – Ally Houston

“Scotland has been seen as the sickman of Europe.” – Ally Houston

“The less sun you have the younger you die.” – Ally Houston

“Isolation is one of the worst emotions in terms of stress response that you elicit in the body.” – Dr Rachel Brown

“You end up with situations where broccoli wins.” – Ally Houston

“You can jack up the amount of energy you are producing by positively affecting what foods you’re choosing to put in.“

“I have found as time has gone on, I agree less and less with the separation amongst the different medical specialties.” – Dr Rachel Brown

“There’s nervous system signalling from the gut to the brain.” – Dr Rachel Brown

“Gliadin, which is a wheat protein component, interacts with the receptor in the intestine wall and opens up the tight junctions to give you leaky gut.” – Dr Rachel Brown

“One of the big factors seems to be having high levels of insulin over

 Richard Smith was 33 when he learned he was Type II diabetic with a body fat percentage just under 60%. He suffered with other ailments that impacted his life. After a ‘Well Man’ test with my doctor the found out his blood glucose levels were through the roof, blood pressure was high, kidneys were in bad shape and Pattern B LDL cholesterol was high. 

Richard hated his life and something had to change. His friend Jonathan introduced him to keto. Within the first month, he lost 2 stone. By month 4, he had lost an amazing 4 stone – that’s 56lbs in 120 days! Over 12 months, his total loss of body fat was over 100lbs.

Richard is a Nutritionist, Professional Athlete and British Champion. He felt like he had a secret, a secret he needed to share with the world and help transform the health and lives of others, so he set up Keto-Pro.

Keto-Pro provides the support and the supplements that help people as they adopt the diet. They also make sure that people have access to affordable, high premium products that pack in a tonne of health benefits.

Today, Richard has thousands of customers who have transformed how they look and feel. 

116: Geraint Hole – From Long Term Anxiety To Taking On Life

111: Ella and Mark Brereton – Keto Fitness Club

“I actively tried to consume the foods that we were told were good for us, the foods that  we needed to consume to be fit and healthy. These just seemed to make me worse.” 

“I deleted the photos and never showed anyone because I was so embarrassed about the way I looked.” 

“The mental clarity that I had was one that I hadn’t experienced since I was a child.” 

“I decided to ignore their advice and persevere.”

“Within the fitness community we are told that we need carbohydrates for energy to train and we need carbohydrates to build muscle.”

“Their first reaction is “Well my doctor say this” – A doctor isn’t a nutritionist.”  

“Consuming that bowl of muesli in the morning signals the body to store fat as well as causing autoimmune disease.”

“Cholesterol is not the cause of cardiovascular disease.” 

“We put these foods in that are damaging our bodies, even to the extent with cancers. Cancer cells are fueled by glucose.”

“Anything that you can think of seems to stem from insulin resistance and inflammation.”

“I will tell the restaurant that I am allergic to vegetable oil.”

“I love the foods that I eat and I could never go back to these fake foods, these Frankenfoods that are found within the supermarket that we have unfortunately been brainwashed to believe are healthy.”

“Living this lifestyle is a healing lifestyle and the weight loss is a side effect.”

“I take my hat off to them. They have created a perfect business model that generates stupid amounts of money but unfortunately millions and millions of people are dying off the back of th

 There are two parts to this week’s podcast. The first part is a request from Dave Feldman to find Lean Mass Hyper Responders in the UK who would be willing to be filmed in a documentary they are producing and filming in London next week. 

The second part walks through my TaeKwonDo journey and reflects on how the journey has parallels with making a diet and lifestyle change. 

Jeff Kotterman podcast

096: Jeff Kotterman – Low Carb Sports Nutrition

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/096

Jeff’s TRiSystem website:

http://trisystem.com

http://nasnutrition.com

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