LowCarbUSA Podcast

LowCarbUSA co-founders Doug Reynolds and Pam Devine interviewed Tracey McBeath, The Health & Healing Coach who lives in Melbourne, Australia. Tracey totally changed her lifestyle at age 40 after a fatty liver and prediabetes diagnosis and is now a Nutrition Network lecturer, qualified personal trainer, and the founder of the Low Carb Lifestyle Hub. She is also is the author of the book, 'You Have Today'.

Tracey has now put on a couple of summits as well and they discuss the upcoming Men's Health Matters Series to be held by the Low Carb Nutrition Hub on November 12, 19, & 20. The event is available for live streaming and recordings are available for purchase.

You can find all her stuff on her website at: https://traceymcbeath.com.au/

We speak with Pete Delannoy, PhD, a highly trained biochemist, certified Primal Health Coach, and Nutrition Network Advisor in the application of the keto lifestyle to put gout in remission, reverse diabetes, and help clients lose weight.

In this compelling interview, Pete discusses many issues, including:

• the relationship between the glucose-centric model of insulin resistance and fructose/uric acid metabolism.
• working to have more research conducted on the causes and treatments of gout.
• making people aware of the fact that when someone is suffering from gout, there is almost no chance that they are not suffering from one or more chronic diseases.

"We cannot look at gout like it's a bastard stepchild," said Pete. "A gout sufferer needs to be analyzed for their complete blood panel. 74% of gout sufferers have high blood pressure, 71% have kidney disease, 25% have diabetes, and approximately 15% have cardiovascular disease. We need to start asking questions about the role hyperglycemia plays, and we need to understand to a much greater degree how these biochemical pathways are all related."

"By shifting to a low-carb diet and monitoring uric acid, about 50% of the people with gout can put it into remission."

LowCarbUSA® Founder and CEO Doug Reynolds recently had an encouraging conversation with Tro Kalayjian, DO and Laura Buchanan, MD, MHP, about developing low-carb/keto resources for practitioners and patients. The interview is now available as Episode 95 of the LowCarbUSA® podcast. Dr. Tro is on the Board of Directors of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners (The SMHP) and a well-known practitioner in the world of therapeutic carbohydrate restriction (TCR) and metabolic health. He runs Tro's Medical Weight Loss & Direct Primary Care in Tappan, NY.

Laura Buchanan recently completed her third year of residency and has joined The SMHP board of directors, with a goal of helping to to provide resources for future medical students and residents, whose careers could be shaped by having more formal education about how TCR can be used to treat obesity, reverse type 2 diabetes, and improve metabolic health. Laura recently joined Dr. Tro's practice, where she began seeing patients just last week.

Doug spoke with Tro and Laura about their hopes of developing a community where practitioners, many of whom are working in solo practices, can work cooperatively to create information, policies, and support systems to make it easier and more efficient to build a business that can help greater numbers of patients. "I've always been passionate about developing information doctors can use to better serve their patients," said Dr. Tro. "The question we need to ask is how can we work together in a way that makes the process easier and more efficient? An important part of that involves providing more resources and opportunities for new doctors."

In an article published last March (https://thesmhp.org/low-carb-couple-smhp/), Laura and her husband, Dr. Matt Calkins, spoke with The SMHP about the lack of education medical students receive in the area of nutrition, especially anything related to low-carb or ketogenic diets. They are both members of The SMHP's Resources Committee (Matt is the committee chair), which was formed to curate resources on nutrition and metabolic health, and then work with medical students, residencies, and clinicians to integrate them into their educational programs and daily practices.

During the podcast interview, Laura explained how she relied on the LowCarbMD podcast over the past several years to learn about TCR. The hope is that future medical students will be able to learn about these therapies as part of their formal curriculum, and that easy-to-access information, supported by scientific evidence and reliable research, will be available to any practitioner who needs it. The interview provides a great deal of reason for optimism, as opportunities in the world of TCR become more accessible to new doctors like Laura. Dr. Tro and Laura detailed many of the successes that are occurring everyday for patients, including drastic weight loss, reductions in A1C, reversal of type 2 diabetes, and de-prescription of medications.

On a more sobering note, they discussed the many challenges doctors face, including insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, and food manufacturers. Perhaps most discouraging was the news that the West Virginia hospital Dr. Mark Cucuzzella convinced to stop selling sugary beverages, recently reversed that decision.

James and Doug discuss the health benefits of organ meats, and the fact that their consumption, particularly in the U.S., has declined over the past several decades. This is unfortunate, according to James, and is due in part to several misconceptions people have about organ meat. "Organ meats are the most nutrient dense foods on the planet, and we're not eating them," He said. "In essence, organ meats are Mother Nature's multivitamin. I believe that eating nose to tail is one of the most important things in a person's diet. Currently 92% of the U.S. population is nutrient deficient."

James explained how we miss out on benefits when we only eat muscle meat and skip the organs. He also acknowledged that many people fear the taste of organ meat or have some other reason for avoiding it. He said one common misperception is that consuming organs will result in vitamin toxicity, such as from too much Vitamin A. "That's actually not true," said James. "When the vitamins are coming from a whole food source, the body will absorb what it needs, and get rid of what it doesn't need." "Another myth you hear a lot with organ meats is that organs are the processing and storage site for toxins, and that's actually incorrect as well," he said. "Organs are more like a filter than a sponge. Their job is to process and convert potentially toxic byproducts into more water soluble forms that can be excreted."

James developed Pluck as the perfect gateway into eating organs because it doesn't taste like organ meat. "What you taste is the savory, deliciousness of umami (the fifth taste). Eating organs support the health of your organs." He explained that the nutritious Pluck seasoning tastes great and will help even picky eaters develop a liking for organ meats. He said that consuming the Pluck seasoning consistently was a form of micro-dosing that would confer nutritional benefits, and that a reasonable goal would be to eventually add organs to the diet for maximum benefits.

LowCarbUSA® Founder and CEO Doug Reynolds had a fascinating conversation about ketone dosing with BioSense Chief Medical Officer Naomi Parella, MD, and BioSense President and CEO Jim Howard.

If you've ever been interested in easily measuring and tracking your level of nutritional ketosis over time, and in using these results to help you better manage your metabolic health and fat burning , you will be fascinated by Episode 93 of the LowCarbUSA® Podcast.

The Biosense® device measures breath acetone, which is produced as a byproduct of ketogenesis. The concentration of acetone in the breath indicates one's level of nutritional ketosis. The Biosense® system is intended for self-testing of acetone and is intended for home (lay user) or professional use in the management of patients seeking to reach or maintain nutritional ketosis.

Dr. Parrella is a family physician and obesity medicine specialist. She is a nationally recognized expert and frequently invited speaker, educator and strategist for universities, hospitals, communities, and businesses. An Associate Professor in both the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Surgery, she is the Chief of Lifestyle Medicine, the Medical Director for Rush University's Center for Weight Loss and Lifestyle Medicine, and the Director of Strategic Planning and Implementation within the Department of Surgery.

Jim Howard is a 27-year MedTech executive focused on value creation with novel approaches to patient care. He is passionate about behavioral changes in chronic diseases, putting healthcare in the hands of patients. Throughout his career, Jim has had great success scaling companies and attracting capital with disruptive digital health and software devices, including AR/VR, genomics, cardiovascular, and clinical decision support. He has used non-traditional strategies in the successful development of global health tech companies.

You can connect with BioSense on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or on their website.

Ede Fox, aka. The Black Carnivore discusses how by 2015 she had reached an all time high weight of 246 lbs, she was in a lot of pain and decided she really need to do something about it. She had a go at the keto diet and found that even before she really lost a lot of weight, the pain was going away and the brain fog lifted and her life was improving immensely. She went on to lose about 80 lbs which she was really happy with but continued to suffer from certain health problems that she learned had cleared up for a lot of other keto diet adopters, but not for her. Her asthma and eczema and other allergies were still uncontrolled and she was taking a bunch of medications to control them.

She started to hear about the carnivore diet and she first decided to try a beef and butter diet she had heard about. It was supposed to be for 3 days but she decided to do it for 2 weeks and by day 2 she said she felt phenomenal. All her allergies cleared up and she knew that this was going to be home base for her, diet wise from then on. She's gone on to create a community for other black people who wanted to try this way of eating to provide the support they really need. You can reach out to her for help or to learn more on Instagram @BlackCarnivore.

Today we talk with Brett Ender (aka @MrSollozzo) and hear how he reversed debilitating ulcerative colitis by adopting a carnivore diet. He had started to notice symptoms while at college but while serving an internship after that and commuting 4 hours a day by train to and from New York City. He started to notice more and more blood in his stool but was too embarrassed to mention it to anyone and just assumed it would heal on its own. But it just got worse and worse and at its peak he was going to the bathroom 30 times or more a day and effectively he was just passing straight blood! Finally he tells a doctor and ends up on a drug called REMICADE which does help but it is $65,000 per infusion and he is told he will need an infusion every 6 - 8 weeks for the rest of his life.

Then he stared to hear that a carnivore diet approach might help him and when he heard doctors like Shawn Baker talk about it he though it might be worth trying. He started to notice improvements . Before long all his symptoms had evaporated. But he was still on the REMICADE and experiencing a lot of bad side effects from it. He had to work really hard to convince his doctor to take him off it but finally he did and it's been plain sailing every since!!

Doug Reynolds interviews Frank Llosa about his new concept of hard ketones. It comes in the form of R1,3-Butanediol, an alcohol without the toxicity and side effects of the ethanol contained in beer, wine, and hard liquor (visit This Page to enjoy a 15% discount at checkout). Frank, who competed as an elite Division 1 track athlete, is well known for his ketone ester product, KetoneAid KE4 Pro, a performance-enhancing drink used by many elite athletes and others. By splitting off the R1,3-Butanediol molecule from the ester molecule you essentially have something which, while technically an alcohol, contains no ethanol with all it's toxic side effects. It is billed as the "World's First Ketogenic, Ethanol-Free Alcohol". The beverage contains no sugar, no carbs, and only 75 calories (100% from the alcohol). Most people who consume it get that chilled feeling, according to Frank, It's more of a relaxed state compared to that experienced when consuming an ethanol based drink. It raises blood ketones 5 times more per gram than MCT oils. Frank explains that some of his customers are using R1,3 as a way to transition away from traditional alcoholic beverages. During the interview, Doug explains his own experience with the R1,3 Selzer (he tried three cans) and describes the product's effects.

At a time when nearly 90 percent of our human population is metabolically unhealthy, we were extremely interested to meet Jaron Lucas, who has devoted his career to helping dogs regain their health through proper nutrition. Jaron sat down with LowCarbUSA® co-founder Doug Reynolds for an incredibly informative podcast interview.

After personally discovering many of the health benefits after implementing a ketogenic diet for himself, Jaron wondered if he could use what he learned to improve the health of his own dog by changing the formulation of the food he served. "I discovered that the pet food industry is a very large industry with many really terrible products in it, including dry kibble. After doing a good amount of research, I started to believe strongly that we could create something better."

So he co-founded the Yumwoof Natural Pet Food company along with two others who, like him, had spent years working in the tech industry. The stated mission of their company is to increase the health span of dogs through the creation of healthy food for dogs. "We went back, and we looked at NIH studies that have been done over the last 10 to 15 years," said Jaron, "and we looked at the AAFCO (Association of American Feed Control Officials) dog food nutrient profiles with the goal of creating an industry-leading low carb dog food."

He discovered that many of the most popular brands of dog food are loaded with nearly 50% carbohydrates, a fact that does not align well with the primarily meat-based diet that dogs historically consumed. "One of my biggest pet peeves in the pet food industry is the marketing lie that rice and potatoes are good for your dog," said Jaron. "There no scientific evidence to show that dogs were digging potatoes out of the ground and eating them. They're just chains of simple sugar molecules that raise blood insulin levels, and cause the same kind of damage in dogs as they do in humans."

He talked with Doug about the surging rates of obesity in dogs, which he says is caused by diets containing too many carbohydrates and the feedings which, in many cases, are too frequent. "We're seeing a 60% obesity rate in dogs," he said. "When dogs eat too much (carbs), they can't store it anymore in their fat cells. Diabetes rates have almost doubled over the last 20 years in dogs."

According to an article Jaron recently wrote, "...canine diabetes is up 79% since 2006, 56% of dogs are now classified as obese, and almost half of dogs over the age of 10 will develop cancer." He explained how he and his partners have created a recipe that includes important vitamins and minerals dogs need, as well as other ingredients such as antioxidants and MCT oils. "Might that help them live longer?" The answer is yes," said Jaron. "There have been many studies done to show that dogs with more antioxidants in their diet benefit."

Discussing a study that compared dogs that ate a processed diet, (dry kibble) to dogs that ate a natural diet of whole foods, he says, "Unsurprisingly, the group of dogs who were eating whole foods had doubled the microbiome diversity than the other dogs, which is associated with greater longevity," said Jaron. "We are trying to apply this latest nutrition evidence to fulfill our company mission of extending the lifespan of all dogs."

He went on to explain how popular dog food companies exploit the current labeling requirements, specifically the fact that carbohydrates do not need to be listed per FDA and AAFCO requirements. The reason, according to Jaron, is motivated by profit. Carbohydrates in the form of rice and potatoes are cheap, and their use leads to larger margins. he also explained how many brands use ingredients like beef meal, chicken meal, fish meal, and other byproducts to make their products more profitable. "Not a lot of people know this, but beef meal is where they just take the beef bones and put them through a highly processed manufacturing process to extract all the protein that's left. There's a lot of ultra processing going on in the creation of most dry kibble."

"This is a topic that's really important to me," said Jaron. "The largest pet food companies who manufacture dry kibble are also effectively in control of the regulating body in pet food. I think that a grassroot action is really the only way that we can achieve change." He has launched a petition aimed at getting United States lawmakers to add carbohydrate nutritional information to pet food labels. "This is really a passion project for me," he said, "I think we need to work to bring a greater level of honesty to the pet food industry, for the benefit of consumers and their dogs.

Ken Berry, MD, speaks with LowCarbUSA® co-founder Doug Reynolds about the proper human diet, as well as the importance of getting to know the people behind the screen, by meeting others in person at live events.

Dr. Berry was a presenter at the hugely successful Low Carb Boca Conference, and will be presenting at the upcoming Low Carb San Diego Conference to be held August 25-28. Tickets to the San Diego event are now available at a special early bird price. Use code 'EarlyBirdSD' to save 35% on tickets, spectacular low-carb-dinners, and CME/CMHE credits if you register now.

"If you try to feed a highly processed modern diet to us, we get fat, we get sick, we get pre-diabetic, and we get fatty liver," said Dr. Berry. "Well, in that same vein, I think there's a need for human interaction, a need to be part of a tribe, a need to meet new people, and form lasting meaningful relationships in person. I think the research is very clear that that's very important for overall mental health..."

Dr. Berry said he believes social media can help people learn about health and nutrition, and can help them make important connections, but ultimately there is no substitute for actually meeting other people in person.

"When you meet people in person, it's almost like a family reunion," said Dr. Berry. "It's the coolest thing, you've never met these people in your life, but you feel like you're at a reunion of family or old friends. It's like I've been following you for two years on Instagram, it's so wonderful to meet you in person. I think it takes those social media relationships to the next level, a deeper and more meaningful level. I think it's almost magical."

The new relationships one makes at an in-person event can be life-changing, said Dr. Berry. "You're going to walk away with a cell phone full of new contacts, new cell phone numbers, and new email addresses... I would encourage everyone, if you have not been to one of these low carb events, save up your money, I promise you it is an investment in your long term physical and mental health, to be part of this tribe. Take a friend with you, find a buddy who maybe doesn't live in the same town, but is also interested in low carb and say, Hey, let's go to this thing, let's meet there and make some new friends."