LowCarbUSA Podcast

Dr. Richard Margolis is psychiatrist who, together with his nurse wife, Lisa, have embraced the ketogenic lifestyle with great success. We spoke to them about how and why they got started and they really wanted to talk about the power of doing it together and how it's so much easier to be successful if couple support each other.

That was a great talk but the conversation eventually migrated to the situation where one partner did not have the other's support and was even being sabotaged by that partner in their efforts to get healthy. I think the real take-away gem from this was Richard's thoughts on that form a psychiatrist's point of view.

Dr. Lewis Cantley has made significant advances in cancer research stemming from his discovery of the signalling pathway phosphoinositide 3-kinase (Pi3K) in 1984. It is an enzyme that mediates pretty much everything that insulin does, in the liver, in the fat cells, and it mediates the lowering of serum glucose levels because it drives glucose into the muscle, AND into tumours. Since tumours thrive on glucose, they thought to develop a Pi3 Kinase inhibitor in order to try to treat tumours but the inhibitor resulted in startling rises in blood glucose levels.

In order to manage this they tried using many different drugs, including the use of Metformin with very limited success. Most people had to drop out of the treatments as their glucose levels rose dangerously high. Also, for those who could stay on the treatment only got, on average a life extension of just short of one year.

His team then tried advocating a very strict ketogenic diet for a small control group and had great success for those who did stay in the diet (which was most of them). Together with the results they have on combining the ketogenic diet with a Pi3K inhibitor in rat models which, in his words, produced miraculous results they now have formal human clinical trials underway which I am confident will produce miraculous results as well.

Dr Paul Mason presents a detailed explanation of how poor metabolic health is the major contributing factor with complications and fatalities as a result of Coronavirus. He goes on to show how, just by changing their diet and cutting carbs and increasing saturated fat could start reducing the risks for those people almost immediately.

Dr. Mason is a Sports and Exercise Medicine Physician who also holds degrees in Physiotherapy and Occupational Health. He is a believer of the scientific process and is happy to challenge medical orthodoxy when it conflicts with the available evidence. He holds views on many topics including saturated fat and cholesterol, dietary fibre and sun exposure which contrast with those of conventional medical wisdom.

He has also authored a chapter on nutrition in an internationally recognised Sports Medicine Textbook (Clinical Sports Medicine, 5th edition, volume 2) and is involved in curriculum development and teaching within the Australasian College of Sports and Exercise Medicine. He regularly lectures on nutrition and health both nationally and internationally.

In his clinic, Dr Mason takes a holistic approach in managing complex medical conditions in patients ranging from the general public to Olympians. He was worked with several elite sporting teams previously and is currently a Doctor to the Australian Olympic rowing team.

LowCarbUSA® has partnered with Restore Health to provide a certified coaching program to support people adopting the Low Carb (or Ketogenic) Lifestyle. The program is brilliantly sequenced and rolled out in a manner that enables the client to make these behavioural changes in a methodical and sustainable fashion and you get paired with a real, live health coach and use Smart devices to make tracking a total breeze.

Another unique feature of this program is that the exercise component incorporates Dr. Ben Bocchicchio's SMaRT™ exercise philosophy which advocates a 15 minute workout only twice a week for maximum muscle mass and strength benefits. Not only that but it activates the same metabolic pathways that the ketogenic diet does and so forms the perfect adjunct to the diet.

No one believes that a 15 minute workout twice a week can do anything useful yet people are seeing visible results in as little as 4 or 5 workouts. It's quite astounding. You can learn more about it here.

Captain Brian Gaudette was born to be a soldier. He joined the army at 18 and served initially as an infantryman and later trained for and became an Apache Pilot. However he started putting on a lot of weight and developing spatial disorientation in the cockpit. The doctors couldn't tell him what was wrong with him and immediately grounded him. After many months of desperate searching he finally discovered on his own that he had Hashimoto's Disease and he had also read that people were reversing it with whole food, low carbohydrate diets.

He finally conceded to try it and was astounded to find that within about 6 weeks he lost 30 lbs, got his brain back and was able to be reinstated as a pilot. His problem was how to be able to sustain this way of eating when deployed. He solved the problem by making soups from organic produce and grass fed beef and canning them in his garage. Then he sent cases of these soups ahead and ate them exclusively while overseas. As a result he became known as Captain Soup.

His story was highlighted in the epic, recently released, documentary called Fat Fiction which you can find on Amazon. This is the link for the US but if you are elsewhere in the world, just search for 'Fat Fiction' on Amazon.

Brian is still flying Apaches but he now also has a business called Captain Soup where me makes and ships cases of frozen soup all around the US. Make sure you check it out.

Jayne Bullen is the leader of The Noakes Foundation and works closely with Prof Noakes and a team of visionary scientists in Cape Town, addressing the escalating obesity and diabetes crisis in South Africa and the world through research and community education interventions. She talks here about how she found the Low Carb Lifestyle to solve her own metabolic issues and then walked away from her corporate job to join the Noakes Foundation and help them to find ways to fund their research and help train practitioners at the same time.

You can learn more about The Noakes Foundation at: https://thenoakesfoundation.org/ You can learn more about The Nutrition Network at: https://courses.nutrition-network.org/courses/?affcode=173323_7bl_2brm

The movie "Fat Fiction" was supposed to be coming out in a number of Movie Houses around the world but due to the COVID-19 crisis, the producers have opted for a number of online premiers instead. I discuss when and how this will work with producer Jennifer Isenhart.

If you are up to a small donation for one of the Foundations mentioned:

https://thenoakesfoundation.org/donate https://www.nutritioncoalition.us/donate Ketogenic Foundation is very new and doesn't have a a donate page yet. We will provide a link as soon as they do.

Fat Fiction US West Coast Premiere - April 2, 2020 Fat Fiction US East Coast Premiere - April 4, 2020 Fat Fiction Australian East Coast Premiere - April 3, 2020 Fat Fiction UK Premiere - April 9, 2020 Fat Fiction Australian West Coast Premiere - April 10, 2020 Fat Fiction South African Premiere - April 11, 2020

It's here at last!! 'Fat Fiction' premiers in Los Angeles on March 13 and after that it will show in numerous theatres around the world. How do you get to see it?? Go to the 'Fat Fiction' movie page on FanForce (https://fan-force.com/films/fat-fiction/) Don't see a screening in your town or city?? Register to host a viewing in your area. It's so easy!! Select the movie house you want to have it in and choose a date and time and they do the rest.

Once it is approved you get a bunch of promotional materials to help you sell the minimum threshold of seats for it to go ahead. As you get to the end of the registration process, we highly encourage you to select one of the three foundations to benefit from a portion of the box office takings.

1. The Noakes Foundation - Founded by the iconic Prof. Tim Noakes to raise money to spread the low carb lifestyle to poorer communities and fund research.
2. Ketogenic Foundation - Created by Keto- Mojo founders Dorian Greenow and Gemma Kochis to fund research into the Ketogenic Diet.
3. The Nutrition Coalition - An advocacy group established by Nina Teicholz to campaign for the USDA dietary guidelines to be based on rigorous science.

Dr Jodi Nishida is a Pharm D, based in Honolulu, Hawaii. She has a great personal keto story and has gone on to establish a sustainable keto lifestyle practice in partnership with a physician which is proving to be extremely successful. What's incredible is that Blue Shield Blue Cross is watching how they are doing very closely to see how they can help all their employer groups get healthier and save themselves a ton of money. This initiative is also creating jobs for pharmacists outside of the pharmacy environment.

Part of the Blue Shield Blue Cross mandate is that she ensures this is sustainable so she takes a day out each week to go out into the community and what she is achieving is amazing. She has been contracted by 7-Eleven Hawaii to vet all the keto products in a new keto section they are planning in all their stores. This is incredibly exciting for it's potential to expand world wide when she makes a success of it.

Some ways to get in touch with Jodi and some helpful sites below:

Website: Nutrition Network: Instagram: @theketoprescription.com Facebook; Jodi Nishida

Rarely will you come across a kinder and more empathetic physician. Dr. Hassina Kajee was running a High Care Emergency Unit in Cape Town, South Africa. After seeing so many people die she started looking at the stats and worked out that most deaths were from chronic diseases. So she opened a Low Carb Clinic and saw results really quickly and decided this is what she wanted to do. "This is Actually Real Medicine", she says.

She reached out to Professor Noakes to ask what the Noakes Foundation was doing to take this to the poorer communities and at the same time started talking with Noakes Foundation General Manager. Jayne Bullen and local actress Euodia Samson. Through the discussions among the three of them, the Eat Better South Africa program was born. They have run a number of interventional programs in the rural communities now with great success. Hassina was invited onto the Noakes Foundation as a director and she is also the medical director for the Eat Better South Africa Foundation.

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