Fabulously Keto

 Sara Aguilar is a Health Anthropologist passionate about leveraging the best of ancestral wisdom and modern-day technology to optimise all areas of health. She is a restless adventurer at heart who is passionate about fitness, nutrition and ancestral living. 

The Founder of Keto Supplements, which she originally set up to source ketogenic supplements to alleviate her husband’s epilepsy. Sara is also Director of Real Ketones Europe. Sara strongly believes in the health boosting benefits of a low carb and ketogenic diet—as personally experienced by herself and her husband—and as a way of alleviating chronic illnesses worldwide.

Dom D’Agnostino 

https://health.usf.edu/medicine/mpp/faculty/ddagosti

Planet Organic – high quality ingredients, fish oil, bone broth 

https://www.planetorganic.com

Real Ketones USA

https://realketones.com

Real Ketones Australia

https://realketonesaustralia.com/

Real Ketones UK and Europe

http://realketones.co.uk/

“Sugar, be tired, or drink alcohol were the three main triggers for seizure”

“And I just had a lightbulb moment, I thought, well, if it works for them, then it probably works for anyone who gets seizures and definitely for epilepsy and from that moment on, I was literally on a mission to get these exogenous ketones for my husband.”

“My background is anthropology, I hadn’t worked in health and supplements and lifestyle. So to be able to just learn more about health and ancestral living and from a kind of an evolutionary perspective on creating health for us was fantastic.”

“I do more of a flex keto diet, which I think is more natural because it represents how we would have evolved, sometimes being in ketosis, sometimes running on carbs.”

“He hasn’t  had a seizure for over 2 years”

“I found a more low carb paleo approach suits me best and with lots of intermittent fasting. I’ll often be in ketosis, but I wouldn’t say I do a strict ketogenic diet, it’s more of a flex keto diet, which I think is more natural as well, because it represents how we would have evolved, sometimes being in ketosis, sometimes running on carbs.”

“I think they [exogenous ketones] support the transition to a ketogenic diet when you’re first starting.”

“Personally I use them maybe once a week, maybe once every two weeks. If I’m really tired, or if I’m doing a longer fast, because they really help with fasting. I wouldn’t take them every day because I don’t need to take them every day.”

“I would recommend the first step is to take out the inflammatory and input remove that eliminate those you want to clean your environment before you start throwing supplements in”

“The

 Dr David Unwin FRCGP works at the Norwood NHS Surgery in Southport near Liverpool, UK where he has cared for the same population since 1986 as a family doctor. To date 102 out of 201 of his patients with Type 2 diabetes have achieved drug-free remission. This gives a remission rate of 50% at 30 months duration of a lower carb diet, one of the best results for any clinic in the world.

For the past few years, he has been a UK Royal College of General Practitioners expert clinical advisor on diabetes.  

Dr Unwin’s work has been covered by both BBC, C4 & C5 television, The New Scientist, The Times, The Daily Mail and The British Medical Journal. As @lowcarbGP he has over 62,000 followers on Twitter

Southport (UK) GP, Dr David Unwin has seen a lot of changes to the health of his community over the years.  The surgery has over 9500 patients, which since 1986, has seen an 8 fold increase in Type 2 Diabetes.  As his patients were becoming sicker, he became increasingly frustrated that he couldn’t help them other than prescribing more medication.  That was until 2013 when one of his patients decided not to follow his advice.  Instead, she challenged him to look at how eating carbohydrates actually was making her sicker.  Now, as the ‘Low Carb GP’ Dr Unwin advocates for the use of low carbohydrate diets for not only Type 2 Diabetes but other health conditions such as high blood pressure and fatty liver. 

1. Never see yourself as a problem consider yourself as
2. Interesting puzzles of your own body 
3. Be curious - see yourself as a lifelong experiment which you are continuously refining by noticing what is working and do more of it.
4. Look after your pet human - you

Are we blaming salt for what sugar did: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZVTsHyLU0 

Low carb down under Black Swan presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCzm9-J_Ok  

Protein and kidney function article: 

https://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/Fulltext/2021/10000/Renal_function_in_patients_following_a_low.8.aspx

Roy Taylor: long silent scream of the liver: 

"So we did an audit of all the people in my practice with type two diabetes. In 1986, this is a practice of 9500 people, there were 57 individuals with Type 2 Diabetes. Fast forward, we've now got 473 in the same population."

"I’ve got an eightfold increase in the people suffering with diabetes in my lifetime."

"Every practice, I know, and every country that I've ever visited around the world has a similar problem."

"I see this avalanche of suffering."

"You know, when I was a child, there was onl

 Amy Eiges is a health coach and reformed chronic dieter who is passionate about helping others recover from the diet-binge-gain-shame cycle she struggled with for years. Since discovering a ketogenic and low-carb lifestyle, she has lost 225 pounds and has both reversed pre-diabetes and resolved lifelong depression. 

“When I was just starting out, facing over 200 pounds to lose seemed insurmountable, and the idea I would ever be where I am now was unfathomable. Know this: I am not extraordinary. I just finally got the right advice, put one foot in front of the other and didn't look back. I know now that it can be done, but after battling this war for 40 years I had lost hope that it was really, truly possible. I am living proof that it is.”

Amy considered bariatric surgery when she weighed 400lbs but felt that it wouldn’t be right for her as she was concerned she would replace her food addiction with another addiction. When she found keto it was at the right time when some of life stressors had been overcome and she could focus on herself and her health. She is sad that she got such bad advice from experts but recognises that she might not have been in the right place earlier in her life and at the same time regrets the time wasted. She is now a health coach who can give to others a chance she didn’t get so that they don’t have so much wasted time, like she did.

1. Hope - it is possible
2. Are you hungry? Be aware of foods that keep you full and those foods that light up your brain 
3. Not every food experience has to be a party in your mouth
4. Slip up? Get right back to it without judgement and shame

Diet Doctor 

https://dietdoctor.com

Dr Tro

https://doctortro.com

Nutrition Coalition

https://www.nutritioncoalition.us

Down Dog

https://www.downdogapp.com

"I went to my first Weight Watchers meeting I was maybe five or six, I remember tagging along with my mom. I remember the weigh in person looking at me and then looking at my mom and spelling something that started with an O.   I knew even at that really young age that she was calling me fat."

"It was just a lifetime of just not being able to figure it out.  Constantly starting a new diet, having that kind of sort of false hope that comes with a new diet and a new plan."

"The best experts and all the doctors and nutritionists and dietitians and diet programmes, just all that false hope, never really worked and it wasn’t for the lack of trying. "

"I just thought I was broken."

" I chose to join Weight Watchers 35 times over the course of my life."

"I really had dieted my way up to 400lbs."

"It felt

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 Dr Lucy Burns is a GP and a lifestyle medicine physician. She works on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria. Dr Lucy, along with practice partner Dr Mary Barson run Real LIfe Medicine. This was the inspiration to create an online learning platform to share this information far and wide. 

Lucy has muscular dystrophy which impairs her mobility. In her 20’s she managed her weight with exercise. Alas, this is no longer possible. She became overweight/obese and was insulin resistant. Two years ago, she lost 20 kgs by adopting a low carb lifestyle and more importantly has maintained this. 

Dr Lucy is known for her positive can-do nature and is an eternal optimist. Despite this, she has experienced depression for many years, which is now in remission thanks to her lifestyle changes. 

She practices meditation daily (well at least second daily). Dr Lucy also speaks at conferences for doctors on weight management, as well as events for the general public, and is now considered an expert in this field. Dr Lucy is a mum to two teenage girls - say no more.

Initially trained in molecular biology, Suzie Edge completed her medical degree specialising in trauma and orthopedics.  During her time working in the UK NHS, she became increasingly disillusioned with medicine and embarked on a career change, this time as a history focussed writer.  Her focus on health, not only in her medical practice, but also for herself and how she can best achieve her health and physical activity goals lead her to low carb keto.  But it wasn’t without some challenges which we discuss how reaching out for help and connecting with community has helped her overcome and fully commit to positive lifestyle changes. Suzie shares some of her morning routines, including cold water showers.

1. We need to unpack the stories in our head
2. Set yourself healthy boundaries which support your way of life
3. Understand the emotion you’re soothing when falling off the wagon.

Real Life Medicine 

Katrina Ubell

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/weight-loss-for-busy-physicians/id1199570390

"I feel like my ‘Fluffy’ is asleep when I don't have sweet food, whether it's sugar or alternate sugars"

"It is all about progress, not perfection."

"You can’t hate yourself thin, you can’t guilt yourself into being well and you can’t shame yourself into losing weight."

"It is very hard to intuitively eat processed food but if you are doing real food then it is easy."

"People often think that women in bigger bodies are lazy or something and they're often the opposite. They're the most driven, organised perfectionistic people who are high achieving in every aspect of their life, except their food. And it's common."

"We tell our patients to pick a protein, add some veggies. If the proteins really lean, add some fat and add some flavour, some salt and some he

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 Dr Suzie Edge trained as a molecular biologist before moving to medicine where she became interested in trauma and orthopaedic surgery, and pre-hospital emergency care (something I have in common with Louise). 

After becoming somewhat disillusioned with medicine and the NHS she did a masters degree in modern history and during lockdown started to make medical and human body history content on social media, particularly on TikTok where she has gained 197,000 interested followers. 

She has recently signed a publishing deal for her first non-fiction book and writes fiction in her spare time. 

Suzie became interested in low carb and keto after years of not understanding how diet and exercise were not helping her achieve sporting goals. She is especially interested in how online communities can help each other with their goals, and fight off the dangerous onslaught of pharma-backed government policies. 

Suzie is a keen martial artist (something I have in common with Jackie) and has a senior brown belt in her current disciple Sooyang Do, a derivative of Taekwondo. 

Suzie lives in Scotland with her husband and two teenage girls and their spaniel, Scout.

Initially trained in molecular biology, Suzie Edge completed her medical degree specialising in trauma and orthopedics.  During her time working in the UK NHS, she became increasingly disillusioned with medicine and embarked on a career change, this time as a history focussed writer.  Her focus on health, not only in her medical practice, but also for herself and how she can best achieve her health and physical activity goals lead her to low carb keto.  But it wasn’t without some challenges which we discuss how reaching out for help and connecting with community has helped her overcome and fully commit to positive lifestyle changes. Suzie shares some of her morning routines, including cold water showers.

1. Remember to try new things - just give it a go
2. Community - find your tribe
3. When you get up - have a cold shower!  

Diet Delusion by Gary Taubes AKA 

Good Calories, Bad Calories - Gary Taubes

https://amzn.to/37fPKhp

"I think that what I've done over the years, which has been the worst thing that I could have done was to say to myself, every weekend look Monday, I'm going to start again, going to go low carb, I'm going to cut out the seed oils, everything is going to be wonderful. And by Wednesday, Thursday, it's all gone a bit wrong, because well, for a lot of reasons I could probably guess. And I've raided the bread bin."

"I think doing that half hearted kind of keto is probably the worst thing you can do."

"I came at the end of that thinking I got to do something about this."

"I reached out to an online community UK low carb and said, Look, guys, I need some help here. I'm struggling."

"I can honestly say for nearly 10 years, I did that half assed start Monday, fall away by the Wednesday Thursday."

"I didn't even recognise in myself that I was getting bigger, you

 Robert Cywes M.D., PhD is a clinically practicing doctor and surgeon in Florida and Idaho. His mission is educating the public about a carbohydrate addiction approach to treating obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Understanding the importance of replacing carbs in your diet with real food while simultaneously replacing carbs as a toxic, harmful response to emotional tension with a more effective diverse healthy set of emotion management tools for lifelong sustainability of mental and physical health, happiness and well-being. 

Converting people from toxic sugar burners to healthy fat (keto) burners while addressing the cause of addiction to carbs from an emotion management perspective. 

Sometimes using obesity surgery and devices as tools along the way, and helping people who have had bariatric surgery stay healthy and not relapse

Dr Rob Cywes is the ‘Carb Addiction Doc’ whose medical practice focuses on the psychology and physiology of carbohydrate addiction.  He was not overweight until he moved to the USA and started to eat SAD (Standard American Diet) when the weight piled: he gained 100 pounds. He realised that his weight struggle wasn’t a problem with calories, but a dysfunctional relationship with a drug called sugar.  When he treated sugar like a drug and himself as a drug addict, he was able to lose the weight and has remained stable for 22 years. He now recognises that there is a physiological component and a psychological component and for many, they have two jobs: firstly, deal with the psychological component in order to be successful in managing the emotional tensions which lead to secondly, dealing with physiological dependence of those instant gratification foods leading to carbohydrate addiction. 

1. Take ownership of your dependency on sugar and starch as a form of emotional management
2. Eat the elephant in small pieces
3. Be the tortoise, not the rabbit.  Think of change as a habit. 

Glycaemic Index - David Jenkins 

Down Dog App

"When I moved to the US, I gained a tonne of weight, well over 100 pounds.  I struggled with that, and eventually found that the problem wasn't so much a calorie problem, as it was a dysfunctional relationship with a drug called sugar"

"There are two aspects to carbohydrate addiction is that there's a physiologic and psychological component, and you can look at them separately or together."

"The commonest cause of death is human behaviour"

"So the challenge is that we have diminished self-care, and maximised productivity, almost like when machines.  Then, it's much easier to look at an instant gratification system that gives us instant relief."

"It's about the relationship and we'll look at why people overdo alcohol, carbohydrates, nicotine, whatever it may be."

"Addiction management is about empowerment and enrichment of your life."

"Deprivation is the dietary module and that is why 98% of diets fail."

"A snack is always, always, always an emotional event."

"All human beings, every day, need to manage anxiety, stress, depression, anger, fear, frustration, sadness, boredom, and pleasure. I call that emotional tension."

"Those M&M’s t

 Suzanne Facer-Reeves has been obese all of her life and has tried most of the diets out there. It had resulted in a constant yo-yo effect that just made her get bigger. 

Her weight has caused medical problems and she was heading towards becoming diabetic, like her Mum who died in her early 60’s as a result. 

Something else had to change, she had always said that she felt it was like an addiction. When the press reported from medics that all obese people are advised to do is just move more and eat less, she would often say “No it’s not”. Finally, she discovered low carb and now knows that the addiction was carbs. Currently, Suzane is 11 stone lighter, very much in control of food and feeling the best she ever has.

An incredible weight loss of journey of over 70kg (11st or 154lb). Suzanne had tried all the diets. She was a yo-yo dieter and each time would put on more weight. Then in her 50s she started to have health issues which meant that she needed to find a solution.  Tom Kerridge’s Dopamine Diet book lead her to the Diet Doctor, which got her started and on her low carb journey and she hasn’t looked back.

1. Start slowly - lower the carbs slowly
2. Don’t let the scales rule you
3. In the early days use fat bombs and cheese

The Dopamine Diet - Tom Kerridge

https://amzn.to/3oAV87C

https://www.dietdoctor.com

"I was a saccharin addict, I would have 10 sweeteners in each cup of coffee"

"Clothes shopping - the first time in my life I can shop in every shop" 

"I think he thinks he’s got a new woman because he says ‘you've changed’ which is because I talk even more now than I used to before! "

"He's loved me for what I am - when I am - whenever so that that is very supportive of him."

"The doctor was always telling me throughout my life, I've heard it, you need to lose weight, you need to lose weight. Do you want to see a dietitian? I’ve heard that quite often."

"When I had my children because of my life, so far, I was conscious that I didn't want them to become fat." 

"I actually feel loathed to actually make a cake now, because I'm thinking, ‘no, I'm going to poison you with sugar’"

"I love mince pies.  I’m going to have a little mince pie, it’s only a little one. And, you know, I didn't like the taste anymore."

"It’s not what your body wants, it's the habits in your head, isn't it? You know, which you've got to try and go through."

"I'm still learning now that, actually you don't, it makes no difference, whether it is the season or the celebration."

"I know when I'm full now, because, throughout the whole of my life, I never knew that."

"I knew that for my body, low carb was the answer. "

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 David Wolfe MS, RD, INFACT Internationally Certified Food Addiction Counselor, SUGAR C/L, coach and chef.  He is the understudy to Bitten Jonsson and co-leader of the ‘Sugarbomb In Your Brain’ Facebook group. David created a food plan for Dr. Vera Tarman's Renascent Food Addiction Treatment Centre in Toronto, Canada.  

David is now the co-founder of SUGARx global, a new online community providing sugar/drug food addicts with the best possible advantages to achieve ongoing freedom from addiction.  He developed a program called CARE: Connection, Action Steps, Recovery Protection and Education. He co-authored the book ‘THE FIX for Cravings’ with Cynthia Myers-Morrison.

As part hisINFACT training,  David did an assessment of his food addiction tendencies.  The results came back: he was an early stage food addict.  The result did not come as surprise given that his mum and sister were both also food addicts. 

Working as a bariatric dietician he used the Intensive Outpatient Protocol for those having considering weight loss surgery and started running intensive relapse prevention groups.

David explains the triangle of romance, debate and guilt in identifying trigger foods and how building a community is so important in supporting those living with addiction and in their recovery. 

The FIX of Cravings: One(S) That Didn't Work, and Now One Which Works - Cynthis Myers-Morrison and David Avram Wolfe

https://amzn.to/3vJed95

1. Find a group of people
2. Ask for help
3. Realise that it is not about the food

INFACT - International Food Addiction Counsellor Training

https://infact.is

Bitten Jonsson Diet Doctor

12 Steps Fellowship For Food  - e.g. Overeaters Anonymous

https://oa.org

"Another aspect of my childhood is my mom has been in food addiction recovery, since I was very young, two or three"

"I come from a family that loves to feed people." 

"I remember as a kid, I always ate brown food."

"There I was pushing sugar, that’s what dieticians do in nursing homes, so it was a big conflict for me"

"I attended a training called InFACT [International food addiction counsellor training program]. During the intake for that program, I had to do an assessment on myself and went through it with the woman who was running the program and she said to me, ‘Dave, you're an early stage food addict’."

"My mom is a food addict. My sister was a food addict. So it's like, you shake my family tree, a bunch of addicts come out." 

"It was the first time I really confronted the fact that I was addicted."

"If you have a food that you debate whether you should or shouldn't consume, then it's a trigger. It will cause cravings. If you have a food that when you eat it, you feel guilty afterwards, guilt debate, remorse, regret, then it's a trigger food."

"Or if you have romance, it's kind of more like anticipation, longing,

 As the Harpenden Ambassador and volunteer for the UK charity, The Public Health Collaboration, Eranda is a passionate patient advocate for anyone suffering from type 2 diabetes, prediabetes or obesity: it’s possible to reverse* these through simple and manageable lifestyle changes, to feel happier and healthier, and to live a life of abundance. (*technical term is remission)

It starts with hope, the simple idea that “things can get better for me and there is a realistic way for me to feel happier and healthier”. Hope combined with support opens up a world of possibilities. It doesn’t take superhuman effort or willpower, it just takes the willingness to believe things can get better and to take small steps to make it so, with support every step of the way.

Eranda is also the proud dad of a wonderful little boy and considers himself the luckiest husband in the world with the most brilliant, beautiful and supportive wife he could hope for. He is grateful every day for how positive changes have transformed his life for the better.

Eranda Wickramasinghe reversed his Type 2 Diabetes in twelve weeks using a low carb approach. It wasn’t for the lack of willpower, he had run 13 marathons. It was the advice that was the problem. He found hope by having a strategy that he could make significant changes to improve his health. There was no stopping him. 

He now works to bring home to others do the same in his community as an ambassador for the Public Health Collaboration UK. He considers himself a role model for others around him who want to make the change and improve their health and their lives.

1. Don’t panic - have hope - that is where it starts
2. Chose the style of change that suits you
3. Focus on yourself and don’t waste your energy on convincing others

PHC UK

https://phcuk.org

Dr Jen and Dr David Unwin video

https://youtu.be/kTDaWkwIpuo

Atomic Habits - James Clear

https://amzn.to/3pcf9S5

Be Brilliant Every Day: Use the Power of Positive Psychology to Make an Impact on Life - Andy Cope and Andy Whittaker

https://amzn.to/3DUtw1k

Sidney Banks

The Chimp Paradox: The Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness: The Acclaimed Mind Management Programme to Help You Achieve Success, Confidence and Happiness - Prof Steve Peters

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"So my grand plan was I'm going to cut calories, as I've done before, do huge amounts of exercise, drop all the weight, and then go to the doctor surgery."

"The hunger always won" 

"Their message of hope really resonated with me"

"I get to be the dad that I want my son to remember"

"It’s not a deficiency in willpower that is the problem" 

"The mainstream advice just doesn’t work" 

"Eat less - move more is not a method, it is a result"

"Mass-produced C.R.A.P. adds to the bottom

Belinda Fettke

For more than half a century we’ve been told to eat a diet high in grains and low in saturated fat and instead of improving health outcomes the incidence of non-communicable disease has escalated. 

Discovering Belinda's husband, Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Gary Fettke, had been targeted for 'active defence' by the cereal industry in 2014 and subsequently became the only medical doctor in the world - 'silenced' - from providing nutrition advice to his patients; people with metabolic disease and the complications of Type 2 diabetes, requiring debridement and even amputation of their lower limbs, was unbelievable... 

Belinda began her research into the vested interests and ideology shaping our dietary and health guidelines to clear Gary's name. She began asking why 'plant-based' dietary and health guidelines had become strict rule books, who was writing them and who was defending them! Incredibly she discovered... the answers were buried in the pages of history.

Belinda Fettke was the voice during the time when her husband, orthopedic surgeon, Dr Gary Fettke was being silenced by the cereal industry.  She uncovered deep in the history books, that our dietary guidelines, research and medical curriculum was being rewritten to remove animal protein and fat, replacing them with fruit, grains, nuts, seeds and plants as ‘God’s appointed diet for man’. This is clearly not evidence-based but ideological and religious.  Now our doctors, nurses and dietician education is being influenced by the food industry and religious sects. 

David Gillespie 

https://amzn.to/3FIWyDc

1. Eat for your health - Eat fresh, local and seasonal 
2. Don’t fear the fat 
3. Find a good community that you can discuss and debate with - who are not afraid to question

Banta, J. E., Lee, J. W., Hodgkin, G., Yi, Z., Fanica, A., & Sabate, J. (2018). The global influence of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on diet. Religions, 9(9), 251. 

PHC UK 

Virta Health 

Nutrition Coalition 

2020 Australian of the Year James Mueke https://www.australianoftheyear.org.au/recipients/james-muecke/2209/ 

https://www.sugarbyhalf.com

https://www.youtube.com/c/lowcarbdownunder

"I've always been a butter girl, so thank goodness butter came back"

"This is a tsuna