The Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore

On today's episode of The LLVLC Show, join Jimmy as he welcomes Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds for a very special episode.

“I think stress is all pervasive. This last year of lockdown has affected lots of people massively.”

Jackie Fletcher

“I have embraced low-carb/keto for really managing my chronic pain issue, but the additional weight loss really has made it sustainable.”

Louise Reynolds

In this interview, Jimmy talks to fellow low-carb, ketogenic podcasters Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds from the Fabulously Keto Podcast. Jackie hails from the UK and Louise is from Australia and currently living in Thailand. Tune in to hear their engaging life transformation stories, what the keto scene is like in their respective countries, and the topics they are most passionate about at the moment related to keto living. DON’T MISS THIS!

Jackie lives in the UK with her husband and twin boys. After starting on her low carb eating journey in May 2017 and then moving to a ketogenic way of eating in January 2018, she has discovered a passion for everything low carb and keto. In 2019 she decided to make low carb and keto part of her vision to help others on their journey to health and weight loss. Jackie has a certificate in the ketogenic diet, is a nutrition advisor and is a trainee Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. She is also an ambassador for the charity PHCUK.org (Public Health Collaboration) dedicated to informing and implementing healthy decisions for better public health.

Louise is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three adult sons. In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and then moved into university and college teaching roles. Since late 2015, she and Andrew have used low carb ketogenic way of living to address a number of health issues along with maintaining their respective weight losses. In 2018 she was living in the UK where she took the opportunity to live, work and travel while enjoying delicious pork scratchings and clotted cream.  Louise has now joined Andrew on his posting to Bangkok, Thailand.  

On today’s episode of the LLVLC Show, Jimmy is joined by Hank Garner to talk about what keto looks like in the real world.

“This is about getting healthy and maintaining health, not about looking a certain way.”

Hank Garner

In today’s interview, Jimmy chats with his right-hand man in the LLVLC empire named Hank Garner who is an accomplished podcaster in his own right as the host of The Author Stories Podcast. A decade ago, Hank was a low-carb weight loss success story and started blogging and podcasting (“My Low Carb Journey”) about his incredible experience and success with this healthy way of eating. But…

As Hank started getting older (he’s one month older than Jimmy) and allowing in what he describes as the “carb creep,” it led to him to inevitably regaining weight–and now he’s ready to get serious about eating better again. This brand new “Keto In The Real World” Tuesday segment of the LLVLC podcast will air every couple of weeks to help keep Hank accountable and Jimmy will provide his running commentary and wisdom on Hank’s journey to help him fine-tune his reboot.

They both sincerely hope this is an encouragement to all of you who may feel like nobody truly understands your struggle. It can feel very ostracizing at times when you KNOW you’re following everything you’re hearing you need to do to lose weight and get healthy—and it’s simply not producing results for you. Jimmy and Hank think there are a lot of you who are in this boat and they want this Tuesday segment to be for YOU.

We see you and we’re here for you! It’s the real world side of keto that you’re not really hearing a lot of people talk about. Well WE WILL! This new featured segment on The LLVLC Show will seek to rectify that and give you hope again.

On today’s episode of Jimmy Makes Science Simple on the LLVLC Show, Jimmy tackles a new study showing the real effects of the DASH diet.

“I wonder how many of these people hated the protocol they were on in this study.”

Jimmy Moore

In today’s episode, Jimmy presents a NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN episode of his show JIMMY MAKES SCIENCE SIMPLE (http://www.instagram.com/jimmymakessciencesimple) to outline important new research he wanted you to know about. It’s a study published in the May 28, 2021 issue of The Journal of Nutrition entitled “Higher Carbohydrate Amount and Lower Glycemic Index Increase Hunger, Diet Satisfaction, and Heartburn in Overweight and Obese Adults in the OmniCarb Randomized Clinical Trial”: https://bit.ly/2StsUy0

ON today’s episode of The LLVLC Show Jimmy welcomes Lesya Hozapfel to talk about carb cycling for optimal women’s health.

“I originally didn’t approach keto as a lifestyle, but instead as just a diet. I lost all this weight and gained it all right back.”

Lesya Hozapfel

Lesya Hozapfel is a Nutritionist and Mama of two girls. She’s lost 110 lbs with Clean Keto and now helps women lose the weight they want with a Holistic Clean Keto Lifestyle without obsessing over calories and macros.

In this interview, Jimmy talks to ketogenic diet nutritionist Lesya Holzapfel about the complex and misunderstood concept of carb cycling. So many people in the keto community take a hard-nosed approach to introducing more carbohydrates into the diet on purpose, but Lesya makes the case that it comes with incredible benefits to the health of women especially. Jimmy and Lesya hit on all kinds of issues about keto in this insightful interview today!

On today’s episode of Jimmy Makes Science Simple on the LLVLC Show, Jimmy takes a deep dive into critical thinking skills and shows you how to avoid propaganda.

“People hear you say something and automatically think that you believe one way or another.”

Jimmy Moore

In this episode of The LLVLC Show, I talk about critical thinking skills and why they are important, how to use them in a real world setting, what the most important critical thinking skills are to use, and some ways to improve your critical thinking skills quickly. All rational thought and objectiveness in discussing ideas publicly it’s pretty much out the window. But we can all do our part to think much more critically so we don’t fall into the trap of being a zealot! The learning starts here.⁣

On today’s episode of The LLVLC Show Keto Alyssa Rogers shares her keto success story.

“I don’t call it stress management. I like stress perception better.”

Alyssa Rogers

In this interview, Jimmy chats with keto success story, Certified Primal Health Coach, and great friend Alyssa Rogers (@compasscoachalyssa). Jimmy met Alyssa in person a few years back at a keto conference in Houston, Texas where she broke down crying in appreciation for his work. Now she’s inspiring her clients to make changes in their own life–and she’s come full circle appearing on Jimmy’s podcast! Tune is as Jimmy and Alyssa talk all things keto, carnivore, and living healthy.

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On today’s episode of Jimmy Makes Science Simple on the LLVLC Show, Jimmy peels back the layers on another stack of cutting edge keto research.

“The side effects of the drugs they give people with Alzheimer’s can make quality of life difficult.”

Jimmy Moore

In this first clip Jimmy shares from a February 23, 2021 study published in the journal Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy entitled “Randomized crossover trial of a modified ketogenic diet in Alzheimer’s disease”: https://alzres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13195-021-00783-x

New Zealand researchers at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand used a modified ketogenic diet over a 12-week period on patients with a diagnosed case of Alzheimer’s disease. Primary outcomes included basic cognitive tests and quality-of-life improvements. Secondary outcomes included cardiovascular risk marker changes. The ketogenic diet beat the low-fat one across the board!

Next up Jimmy shares from an April 9, 2021 study published in the Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology entitled “Feasibility of Continuous Ketone Monitoring in Subcutaneous Tissue using a Ketone Sensor”: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19322968211008185

At long last, a continuous ketone monitor (CKM) very similar to how a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) works is currently undergoing research and testing before coming to the market. Just like the CGM, the new CKM will not be measuring blood but rather interstitial fluid which is generally excepted as a proxy for blood readings.

In the first-ever human trial of continuous ketone monitoring, they tested 12 healthy individuals eating a low-carb diet and wearing 3 CKM‘s over a 14-day period and comparing those readings to a finger prick blood ketone test (using the Precision Xtra device from Abbott). Watch this video to find out just how accurate the CKM is and a couple of questions that Jimmy has about this new technology.

To wrap up this episode, Jimmy shares from a March 12, 2021 study published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise entitled “The Effects of Exercise on Beta-Hydroxybutyrate Concentrations over a 36-h Fast: A Randomized Crossover Study”: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33731648

On today’s episode of Jimmy Makes Science Simple on the LLVLC Show, Jimmy tackles a new study that has important information concerning Alzheimer’s Disease.

“I bet all of these participants would have done even better with higher fat intake.”

Jimmy Moore

Today on Jimmy Makes Science Simple on LLVLC (@jimmymakessciencesimple) I have a February 23, 2021 study published in the journal Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy entitled “Randomized crossover trial of a modified ketogenic diet in Alzheimer’s disease.”

READ THE STUDY HERE: Randomized crossover trial of a modified ketogenic diet in Alzheimer’s disease | Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)

New Zealand researchers at Waikato Hospital in Hamilton, New Zealand used a modified ketogenic diet over a 12-week period on patients with a diagnosed case of Alzheimer’s disease. Primary outcomes included basic cognitive tests and quality-of-life improvements. Secondary outcomes included cardiovascular risk marker changes. The ketogenic diet beat low-fat by every measure!

While I always appreciate new research that shows benefits with nutritional ketosis, I’m always flummoxed by the rationale for why researchers do things the way they do. In this study, they modified the ketogenic approach by lowering the fat to 58% of calories and feeding the participants in excess of 15% of calories from carbohydrate. Since they were measuring a neurodegenerative condition and looking for what effects ketone bodies would play in the brain, it was odd they insisted on a version of keto that only produced mild ketosis.

If they examined all the research of epilepsy another neurodegenerative diseases, then they would’ve seen a very different diet—upwards of 90% fat. I think they could have gone in between the diet they chose and the therapeutic diet for epilepsy and shown far greater results. Their concern was compliance with the diet and they included sweets in what they offered.

Despite these challenges in the research, I think it’s a pretty good study because we don’t have enough positive papers on Alzheimer’s disease with a ketogenic approach. Hopefully this study proves the efficacy of the intervention and they will do larger scale studies for they can do a more therapeutic level of ketogenic diet. I enjoyed sharing this one with you all today!

In Episode 1727 Jimmy welcomes Dr. Jen Unwin to talk about how to break your addiction to crappy carbage.

“The solution for an addiction is abstinence.”

Dr. Jen Unwin

Dr. Jen Unwin BSc, MSc, DPsy, FBPsS is a consultant clinical health psychologist based in the United Kingdom. She works with the NHS helping patients manage chronic illness and achieve wellbeing. She also works with her GP husband Dr. David Unwin helping patients stick to lifestyle changes. Dr. Unwin is a fellow of the British Psychological Society and a former chair of the UK Association for Solution Focused Practice.

Today Jimmy welcomes in a UK-based clinical psychologist and sugar addiction researcher named Dr. Jen Unwin who has a brand new book entitled FORK IN THE ROAD (http://www.forkintheroad.co.uk​). ⁣Jimmy and Jen discuss the intricacies happening in the brain that lead us to want to choose more sweet and sugary foods and how low-carb keto helps to calm those lingering cravings.

In this episode of Jimmy Makes Science Simple on the LLVLC Show, Jimmy tackles a study that looks into whether a combination of exogenous ketones and hypocaloric keto can increase fat loss.

“You have to continuously drink ketones to maintain the levels in your blood.”

Jimmy Moore

Welcome to Jimmy Moore’s brand new show JIMMY MAKES SCIENCE SIMPLE where he breaks down the latest nutritional health studies into language that makes them easier for you to understand and apply to your life.⁣

Today we have a fantastic March 24, 2021 study published in the journal Frontiers in Nutrition entitled “The Effects of a 6-Week Controlled, Hypocaloric Ketogenic Diet, With and Without Exogenous Ketone Salts, on Body Composition Responses.”

READ THE STUDY HERE:

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2021.618520/full

Dr. Jeff Volek and his team of fellow researchers at The Ohio State University wanted to see if there was any difference in fat loss and other body composition changes with the addition of exogenous ketones twice daily over a 6-week period with a hypocaloric ketogenic diet vs. a ketogenic diet with a placebo (a low-fat group was also added as a control). The theory is that supplementing with additional beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) would result in muscle preservation as well as an increase in body fat loss over keto alone. But that’s not what happened.
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There was no difference in weight loss or fat loss between the groups and after the first two weeks there was no difference in blood ketone concentrations. In other words, the endogenous production took over after adaptation and provided all the benefits they needed. Gee, imagine that!

Anyone pushing exogenous ketone supplements on you as a weight loss tool REALLY need to read this study and realize just how much they are lying to their clients and customers. Don’t fall for the marketing gimmicks and the sad sob stories of how their life has been changed because they drink ketones. You can make all the ketones you need endogenously through carbohydrate restriction. Nuff said!

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