LowCarbUSA Podcast

What an amazing couple. Dorian Greenow and Gemma Kochis, the founders of Keto-Mojo, talk about the establishment of a non-profit called the Ketogenic Foundation to fund further research into the keto diet and it's many health benefits. They are utilizing Keto-Mojo profits as well as all affiliate link monies raised by Keto-Mojo to fund the foundation. Not only that but they have huge plans to encourage other businesses in the keto space to contribute to the effort as well.

At the super successful Boca 2020 event we had a moment where Dr. Robert Cywes was at the Q&A mic and made a blanket comment that protein just turns to sugar. Dr Goldkamp voiced his disagreement with that but the Q&A session did not allow the time for either to elaborate further on the issue. I decided to take a chance and get the two of them on at the same time and discuss the issue further. Both of them were extremely respectful and a brilliant discussion ensued.

This is one of the best episodes we've done so far. Sorry it ran so long, but I couldn't cut it short, The discussion had to play out.

You Can find more on Dr Cywes here.

If you want to get hold of DR Goldkamp you can look him up in our list of providers. Use the zipcode 28560 to search for him.

Pam talks today with Karen Parrott. She has been an awesome supporter of ours and has volunteered at almost all our San Diego events. We learned about her amazing personal story and have been meaning to get her on the podcast for a long time. So glad we have finally managed to do so. Karen has struggled with her weight and binge eating since she can remember and was morbidly obese for much of her life. She had turned to every conceivable diet, without success. When she finally discovered the ketogenic diet she did have some success but kept slipping until she learned about the concept of carb addiction and learned how dealing with that addiction could helpher so much. She is now 8+ years into what she cals 'Food Sober Living' and has kept the wieght off for that 8 years!

You can reach Karen @karenspaleolife on Instagram and @gardengirl_kp on twitter.

When we were in the foyer of the Marriott hotel the night before our Boca 2020 event, we bumped into Gaby Ondrasek and Loly Trujillo and they were bouncing around like crazy things. They were just so excited and when we sat down to speak with them they told us of how they had attended our event in West Palm Beach the previous year and how they had been inspired so much that they both went back and started finding ways to reach more people. Gaby's following has grown from 6,000 to 36,000 in this last year.

It was truly humbling for us to hear this and so we sat down with them after the event and recorded this for a podcast. I know we normally try to keep our interviews to under 20 minutes but this conversation was so much fun that we just let it run. Hopefully some more of you out there will get inspired too.

If you want to catch up with Gaby or Loly you can search for 'GabyOndrasek' and 'Loly_Fit' on Instagram and other social media channels.

Dr Gurpreet Padda is an interventional pain physician who treats with patients with profound, chronic, severe pain that is unrelenting. Over time he worked out that there was more to these people's pain than just the physical source of it and that it was also a systemic or metabolic inflammatory issue and that hyperinsulinemia was at the root of it. He found that the majority of his patients were obese and either pre-diabetic or diabetic. He found that the majority of them also had leaky gut as well.

This was all caused by the standard American diet (SAD) i.e. vegetable oils, processed carbs and excessive sugar. He talks about how the junk food companies manipulate the fructose concentration higher than regular fructose corn syrup in order increase the addiction factor.

What he is doing in the community is astounding. They have over 65,000 active patients in their online program which is totally free and he even contributes more than a million dollars of his own money every year to the program.

You can find out more about this program at: https://reversingdiabetesmd.com/

Ashley Carter Youngblood resolved her debilitating reactive hypoglycemia by simply changing her lifestyle and adopting a ketogenic diet. She describes how she was scarcely able to function at all. She got to a point where if she didn't eat a large meal every couple of hours she would be so sick she could barely stand up. Once she got introduced to the idea of going ketogenic it sounded like something worth trying so she pulled the trigger. She says that within a month her condition was completely reversed and she was even able to fast for 72 hours with no issues at all.

She says she was also suffering from endometriosis which cleared up completely within a year.

We also ran a bit long as we stayed on with her for a fascinating discussion while she tested her blood glucose since it was now 4 hours after she had gone for a run and she has been documenting a ton of data on how her body is affected by different sweeteners and activities.

If you want to reach out to Ashley you can find her on: lotuslifestylecoaching.com

Interventional Cardiologist, Christian Assad, MD talks about how he discovered the benefits of the Keto / Low Carb way of life and how he now preaches the gospel to his patients and anyone else who will listen. As with most practitioners who have discovered the truth, it took a personal experience to open his eyes and make him realise that he should be teaching his patients about this.

His has gone far beyond this now and is very active on social media and on the speaker circuit trying to teach more people, and especially doctors, that they need to know about it. He is particularly vociferous about the fact that doctors are not taught this stuff in med school. We can only concur with him on this and plan to work actively with him to help try to get this important nutrition information added to the curricula for med schools.

Find Christian at: https://medhacker.com/ and @ChristianAssad on Twitter

Carolina Cartier talks to Pam about her incredible personal success in curing her PCOS and losing 200 lbs entirely through adopting an LCHF lifestyle. She had endocrine issues by the age of 28 she had never ovulated and was morbidly obese. It was at this point that a naturopathic doctor tested her insulin level and found that it was through the roof. She suggested Carolina start cutting carbs and adopting the ketogenic diet. She totally ran with this and lost 200 lbs and all of a sudden started ovulating.

She is at pains to point out that at the time she started ovulating she was still morbidly obese. The weight came off later but it is important to note that it was not her weight that was causing the PCOS and losing the weight was an awesome added bonus. Now she has 2-year old twins and she is starting to formulate a study to show scientifically that a dietary intervention is very effective in preventing and addressing PCOS and fertility issues.

If you would like to participate in the surveys to help with her research then you find them at @ketobabies on Instagram and Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/KetoBabiesFertility/).

Amber O'Hearn's discovery of the carnivore diet to address her weight loss stall on the keto diet. Not only did her weight normalise again, but she also noticed her depression and other psychiatric problems not only improved, but cleared up completely. So instead of reverting to the ketogenic diet after her weight came back down, she has remained on the carnivore diet for about the last 10 years now and is absolutely thriving!

Best way to get hold of Amber is through Twitter: @KetoCarnivore

I talk here with Peter Ballerstedt about the real differences between grass-fed and grain-finished beef and whether or not a good carbohydrate reduction lifestyle is possible if the meat is not from a grass-fed source.

Dr. Peter Ballerstedt (aka The Sodfather) received his Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in 1981 and Master of Science in 1983, both from the University of Georgia. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky in 1986, specializing in forage management and utilization, minoring in ruminant nutrition. He was the forage extension specialist at Oregon State University from 1986 to 1992.

Website: http://grassbasedhealth.blogspot.com/ Twitter: @GrassBased