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

Retired family medicine physician Dr. Ken Peters and his enthusiastic wife Peggy Holloway are our interview guests today in Episode 885 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

You know how sometimes you meet a man and wife who were meant to be together? Well, today's interview guests certainly fit within that category in a big way and they have quite the story to tell about how they discovered the powerful effects of a low-carb, high-fat, ketogenic diet which helps them run circles around their fellow long-distance biking challenges. They are Omaha, Nebraska-based married couple Dr. Ken Peters and Peggy Holloway. If you have read the success stories chapter in Jimmy latest book Keto Clarity, then you will already know about the fascinating story of these two seniors--Ken is 72 and Peggy is 61--who got on board with nutritional ketosis and now can't shut up about it with anyone and everyone they come across. After Peggy was a guest friend on Jimmy's Friday podcast "Low-Carb Conversations" in Episode 123, several listeners asked for her to be on "The Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show" along with her husband to talk more about how they incorporate keto into their active lifestyle. You asked for it and now you've got it! ENJOY!

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 885
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Check out Katie's Keep It Real Food Co. grain-free, low-carb snacks
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Get Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide To The Benefits Of A Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet available in hardback, Kindle e-book, and Audible audiobook and visit KetoClarity.com for more information
- Peggy Holloway on Facebook
- RELATED PODCAST: Low-Carb Conversations #123: Courtney Ferreira And Peggy Holloway Examine The 5 Metabolism Death Foods

Former Navy SEAL, medical doctor and sleep medicine specialist Dr. Kirk Parsley is our interview guest today in Episode 883 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

Sleep (along with stress) is perhaps one of the biggest non-dietary factors that plays such an instrumental part in the weight and health success or failure that people tend to have. If you get an adequate amount of restful, rejuvenating sleep in bed at night, then your health will be rewarded for giving it what it wants. But for most people, they are living their lives on a significant sleep deficit and that is taking a major toll on their quality of living that cannot be ignored any long according to Dr. Kirk Parsley, MD, who served as the Naval Special Warfare’s expert on Sleep Medicine and is certified in hormonal modulation lecturing extensively on sleep, wellness, and hormonal optimization. He is working on a book on sleep optimization, but caught the attention of people like Robb Wolf because of a TEDxReno talk he gave on the subject of sleep last month called America's biggest problem.

Listen in to hear Jimmy and Dr. Parsley discuss his story being an active member of the Navy SEALS team, why he bases his lifestyle philosophy for wellness on evolutionary principles, how most chronic health problems of today are completely unnatural and unnecessary, the indelible connection between sleep and hormones, and a whole lot more! You'll quickly notice Dr. Parsley is 100% committed to helping people live the highest quality of life possible, and achieve their health, performance, and longevity goals. ENJOY!

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 883
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Try the many flavors of products from Quest Nutrition
- Ray Audette bio
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Get the Ketonix breath ketone analyzer from Ketonix.com or on Amazon.com in the STANDARD or SPORT edition
- Dr. Kirk Parsley bio
- DocParsley.com
- VIDEO: Dr. Parsley's TEDxReno talk: America's Biggest Problem
- Dr. Kirk Parsley on Twitter
- Dr. Parsley's Sleep Cocktail

A legendary founding member of the modern Paleo movement Ray Audette is our interview guest today in Episode 882 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

When you think about the Paleo movement these days, so many great names come to mind--Robb Wolf, Mark Sisson, Sarah Fragoso, Nora Gedgaudas, and more. But two decades ago, there were very few people sharing about how our ancestors ate and lived in pursuing and maintaining optimal health. It was the very infancy of the modern Paleolithic diet advocacy with names like Dr. Boyd Eaton, Dr. Mike Eades, and Dr. Loren Cordain. But one man who helped merge the message of Paleo with low-carb, high-fat diets was a self-professed "computer nerd" named Ray Audette who researched and studied the Paleo lifestyle to help him with his own health issues which all got considerably better once he made the switch over to a concept he refers to in the title of his book about it called Neanderthin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body. This is now considered a classic Paleo book and the Kindle version is now available with new information if you have never read it before. Listen in to hear Jimmy and Ray discuss how he was talking about Paleo long ago, why he has decided to make a comeback of sorts after all the new voices have been on the scene, and so much more! Ray is one-of-a-kind and you'll find that out very quickly in today's interview.

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 882
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Get the Ketonix breath ketone analyzer from Ketonix.com or on Amazon.com in the STANDARD or SPORT edition
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Try the many flavors of products from Quest Nutrition
- Ray Audette bio
- Get the updated Kindle version of Neanderthin: Eat Like a Caveman to Achieve a Lean, Strong, Healthy Body
- Neanderthin.com
- Ray's extensive bibliography list

Cardiologist Dr. Eric Thorn and registered nurse Marylou Van Hintum are our interview guests today in Episode 881 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

One of the most exciting developments that has been happening within the medical community over the past few years is a growing tide of healthcare providers who have become frustrated by the failure of the traditional model for medicine and are willing to look outside the box in treating their patients through nutrition and lifestyle modalities as the first option rather than so quickly turning to a prescription medication. Today's podcast interview guests certainly fit that mold. They are an Arlington, Virginia-based cardiologist and obesity medicine physician named Dr. Eric Thorn and a real food-based registered nurse named Marylou VanHintum. Together they joined forces to open the Center for Cardio-Metabolic Health and Weight Loss in September 2012 providing medically-supervised, nutritional rehabilitation to treat metabolic syndrome, promote weight loss, reduce risk for heart disease, and improve overall quality of life. The nutritional plan they incorporated with their patients is a low-carb, high-fat diet with real, whole foods that help heal the damage that has accumulated over years, even decades, and the patients receive personalized follow-up to help them with their specific individualized needs to lose weight and get healthy.

Listen in to hear Jimmy, Dr. Thorn, and Marylou share about how they came to low-carb nutrition from within the traditional medical establishment, how they came to realize how low-carb nutrition could be used as a powerful tool for promoting optimal health, why weight loss isn't really the primary focus of their work with patients, how a cardiologist is able to talk about eating high-fat foods like bacon without getting ostracized by his colleagues, the impact of stress on your health during transitional periods in our lives (as Dr. Thorn and Marylou are currently going through parting ways but continuing their work with patients), and a whole lot more! Jimmy met these two at the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP) meeting a couple of years ago and this was such an intriguing discussion about the future of health and the intricate role nutrition will have to play in patient health in the coming years.

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 881
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Get Dr. David Perlmutter's FREE newsletter, videos, and high-quality supplements
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Check out Katie's Keep It Real Food Co. grain-free, low-carb snacks
- Dr. Deborah Penner bio
- Dr. Eric Thorn bio
- EricThornMD.com
- Dr. Thorn on Twitter
- Marylou Van Hintum
- "Real Food Corner For Health & Weight Loss" Facebook group
- RELATED PODCAST: Low-Carb Conversations #111: Dr. Eric Thorn And Marylou Van Hintum Examine Saturated Fat And Heart Disease

Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine and medical bariatrician Dr. Spencer Nadolsky is our interview guest today in Episode 880 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

Self-experimentation when it comes to the subject of nutrition and health is an absolute must. The quantified self movement is growing by leaps and bounds because patients are so fed up with the failure of the current model for healthy living being used by conventional medicine that they've grabbed back control of their own health and doing their own n=1 experiments to test how their body responds to any given stimuli. But today's podcast interview guest isn't just some patient--he was traditionally trained in medical school and has been treating patients himself as their medical doctor. His name is Dr. Spencer Nadolsky (listen to his previous interview on the show in Episode 552), an osteopath and obesity medicine specialist in Virginia, who decided to test the controversial dietary waters by shifting his meals over from low-carb to high-carb to see what would happen.

Listen in to hear Jimmy and Dr. Nadolsky discuss his recent bodybuilding show, why counting macronutrients and calories were a critical element in helping him reach his body composition goals while maintaining excellent metabolic health, his foray into wanting to experiment with a high-carb diet to see what would happen, the reaction he received from the low-carb community to his n=1, and a whole lot more. It's an interesting chat about keeping an open mind and never getting too dogmatic about what you believe regarding nutritional health. ENJOY!

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 880
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Try the many flavors of products from Quest Nutrition
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Low-carb Paleo beef jerky from Primal Pacs
- Dr. Spencer Nadolsky
- The Low Carb to High Carb Switch – Part 1
- Dr. Nadolsky on Facebook
- Dr. Nadolsky on Twitter
- Dr. Nadolsky on YouTube
- Dr. Nadolsky on Instagram
- RELATED PODCAST: The LLVLC Show #552: Dr. Spencer Nadolsky Is A Physician Who Practices What He Preaches To Patients

Nutrition and personal fitness training expert Mike Sheridan is our interview guest today in Episode 879 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

In this day and age of instant information at your fingertips with the click of a mouse searching the Internet on virtually any topic you want to learn more about, it can be a bit daunting trying to sift through it all to know what to believe about any given subject. The challenge in the world of diet, fitness, and health is the fact that there are so many cultural norms that people simply believe at face value that have never been proven by any research--and yet people buy into them hook, line, and sinker. This doesn't sit well with a nutrition and fitness expert named Mike Sheridan who believes the public deserves to hear the truth about what we REALLY know about nutrition rather than the propaganda that has been put out there in the mainstream of our culture regarding this subject.

To that end, he's written a couple of books that take on the common wisdom on diet and fitness and turn them on their head with Eat Meat And Stop Jogging: 'Common' Advice On How To Get Fit Is Keeping You Fat And Making You Sick and Live It, NOT Diet!: Forget Cardio. Forget Calories. Listen in to hear Jimmy and Mike have an in-depth conversation about the role of fat in the diet, why carbohydrates really aren't necessary for human health, the nonsensical nature of the calories in/calories out message, how people are causing more harm than good engaging in cardio exercise, his passion for helping people realize how easy it is to get and stay fit, why he believes conventional wisdom has people "overworked and underfed," and his driving philosophy to enjoy what he is doing so that it never feels like work. You'll get to hear all of this and a whole lot more in today's fun and encouraging interview!

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 879
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Low-carb Paleo beef jerky from Primal Pacs
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Get Dr. David Perlmutter's FREE newsletter, videos, and high-quality supplements
- Mike Sheridan bio
- Eat Meat And Stop Jogging: 'Common' Advice On How To Get Fit Is Keeping You Fat And Making You Sick
- Live It, NOT Diet!: Forget Cardio. Forget Calories.
- The Blog Of Mike Sheridan
- EatMeatAndStopJogging.com
- Mike on Twitter
- Mike on Facebook

Biological anthropologist, professor of psychology, and brain health researcher Dr. Aaron Blaisdell is our interview guest today in Episode 878 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

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When Gary Taubes released his seminal nutritional health book Good Calories Bad Calories in 2007, no doubt he couldn't have imagined at the time just how many people from a variety of academic and professional backgrounds would be influenced by his work. One such person who was influenced by Taubes is an associate professor of psychology at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and a participating member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute named Dr. Aaron Blaisdell. You may recognize his name as one of the two co-founders (with Brent Pottenger) of the annual Ancestral Health Symposium Paleo conference and he's been conducting some pretty fascinating research with lab rats in recent years, including this fascinating April 2014 study published in Physiology & Behavior looking at the role a low-fat, junk food diet plays on obesity and cognitive function. In fact, Dr. Blaisdell gave a lecture about his research at the 2014 Ancestral Health Symposium (#AHS14) entitled Functional Frivolity: Human Brain Evolution and Play (watch the lecture below).

Listen in as Jimmy and Dr. Blaisdell share about how Taubes was a major influence on his interest in nutrition and health, his research using lab mice to examine the mental and brain health impact that diet plays, why he thinks "ancestral" is a more complete term to use to describe the healthy lifestyle currently promoted as "Paleo," where he see the ancestral health message going in the coming years, full details on the results of his latest rat experiments, the development of a new website dedicated to crowd sourcing n=1 experiments all in one place, and so much more! It's a fabulous conversation between two of the leading voices in the ancestral health community.

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 878
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Get Dr. David Perlmutter's FREE newsletter, videos, and high-quality supplements
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Try the many flavors of products from Quest Nutrition
- Dr. Aaron Blaisdell's Comparative Cognition Laboratory
- Ancestral Health Society
- April 2014 study published in Physiology & Behavior: Food quality and motivation: A refined low-fat diet induces obesity and impairs performance on a progressive ratio schedule of instrumental lever pressing in rats
- VIDEO: #AHS14 LECTURE:
Functional Frivolity: Human Brain Evolution and Play
- COMING SOON: HealthCrowds.com
- RELATED PODCAST: The LLVLC Show #830: Brent Pottenger And Karen Phelps Give The Lowdown On AHS14 At Berkeley

Chiropractor and real foods-based nutrition practitioner Dr. Deborah Penner is our interview guest today in Episode 877 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

There are so many amazing voices out there trumpeting the cause of real food in helping people improve their health in ways they never thought would be possible without the medications and procedures that modern medicine has said is the inevitable path. And today's interview guest knows this a bit more than most having been raised on a large Mennonite farm with honeybees, oranges, cattle, pigs, sheep and fresh fruits and vegetables from their homemade garden. She is a Chico, CA-based chiropractor and nutritional wellness practitioner named Dr. Deborah Penner from Whole Food Medicine and Chico Creek Wellness And Chiropractic. Jimmy met her in person a couple of months back at the Ancestral Health Symposium in Berkeley, California where she shared her passion for teaching, preaching, and sharing as much information about a whole foods, low-carb, ketogenic diet with fantastic results. Recently, she has been conducting keto-adaptation food groups with fantastic results, including producing weight loss when people got stuck, resolution of migraine headaches, and diabetics who were taking insulin no longer having to do that anymore.

Listen in as Jimmy and Dr. Penner talk about how she was able to find robust health in her mid-50's, how she evolved from recommending whole grains to no grains to high-protein and now ketosis, why all of her patients are given a blood glucose meter and ketone testing sticks to check their progress at home, how quickly changes begin to happen in her patients, some important aspects to getting keto-adapted that nobody talks about, how she helps people with a compromised biliary tract or no gallbladder get into ketosis, why shifting macronutrients alone may or may not be enough, her focus on nutrient-dense, high-fat foods to produce therapeutic ketones, her detox program that helps make adapting to the ketogenic diet easier, and so much more! Dr. Penner is one of the champions of low-carb, high-fat, ketogenic living working on the front lines of changing lives one patient at a time.

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 877
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Get the Ketonix breath ketone analyzer from Ketonix.com or on Amazon.com in the STANDARD or SPORT edition
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Check out Katie's Keep It Real Food Co. grain-free, low-carb snacks
- Dr. Deborah Penner bio
- Whole Food Medicine
- Chico Creek Wellness on Facebook

Certified Nutrition Consultant, gut health expert, and New York Times bestselling author Brenda Watson is our interview guest today in Episode 876 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

When your work is lauded and endorsed by two such highly respected giants in the health community like Dr. William Davis, author of Wheat Belly, and Dr. David Perlmutter, author of Grain Brain, then you must be doing something right. For today's podcast interview guest Brenda Watson, that must mean she's doing something VERY right. She has dedicated her career for over 20 years to helping people achieve vibrant, lasting health through improved digestive function. You may have even seen her on several PBS specials educating the public through enthusiastic lectures as she has established herself as one of the foremost authorities in America on optimum nutrition, digestion, and natural detoxification methods. Brenda has written a total of eight previous books related to gut health and will be releasing her latest on October 7, 2014 entitled The Skinny Gut Diet: Balance Your Digestive System for Permanent Weight Loss.

Listen in as Jimmy and Brenda discuss the details of what she shares in her new book on one of the hottest topics in the health community, some of the latest research related to the connection between the microbiome and obesity, why the gut bacteria of lean people and overweight people are so radically different, the intricate role that carbohydrates play in the body turning into sugar ad disrupting the balance gut bacteria, her reaction to the rise in interest in resistant starch and whether she thinks it's an effective way to feed the gut flora, how people can safely shift the foods they eat to improve the bacterial composition, and so much more. Everyone is keenly interested in this subject of gut health nowadays and Brenda Watson has been at this for nearly two decades researching it and finding what works for her clients. Listen and soak in her wisdom!

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 876
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Get the Ketonix breath ketone analyzer from Ketonix.com or on Amazon.com in the STANDARD or SPORT edition
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Check out Katie's Keep It Real Food Co. grain-free, low-carb snacks
- Brenda Watson bio
- The Skinny Gut Diet: Balance Your Digestive System for Permanent Weight Loss
- SkinnyGutDiet.com
- Brenda on Facebook
- Brenda on Twitter
- Brenda on YouTube

Self-taught chef, gluten-free Paleo food catering business owner, and author Simone Miller is our interview guest today in Episode 875 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”

Over the past few years we have seen a huge influx of brand new Paleo cookbooks hitting the market from mostly enthusiastic bloggers and social media darlings who know how to whip up recipes that are delicious, pleasing to the eyes, and fit within a healthy lifestyle. But today's podcast interview guest brings a little more experience to the table than just posting a photo with some ingredients and directions. She's a San Francisco, CA-based professional chef named Simone Miller from "Zenbelly" who has been working in the culinary world for almost 20 years and she's watched how the food trends have come and gone over the years. And when Paleo made a bona fide difference in her life, she committed to starting a 100% gluten-free catering company that would specialize in Paleo cuisine. Simone sees her role in the Paleo community as an ambassador for bringing real food back to the kitchen and dinner table again where she thinks any home cook could produce a quality dish that is elegant, delicious and artfully prepared just like you'd find in a fine restaurant. When you focus on using fresh ingredients like what is available when you eat Paleo, that's not difficult to do as Simone explains in today's show.

Listen in as Jimmy and Simone dig deeply into what she wrote about in her brand new 2014 release The Zenbelly Cookbook: An Epicurean's Guide to Paleo Cuisine, why she values creating meals that are quick and easy to make at home, how the focus of her blog has been to show people how simple and beautiful eating healthy can look like, why she doesn't think people should view Paleo as a restrictive diet in any way, the reality that people need to learn to get in the kitchen and cook more than they probably already are doing, why she vary rarely spends hours in the kitchen cooking dinner and yet still produces a great meal, her hope and desire that her book inspires people to get excited and have fun about cooking at home again, and why she's no fan of Paleo perfectionists. What a fabulous conversation with someone who knows a trick or two in the kitchen to pass along to you. ENJOY!

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 875
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Try the many flavors of products from Quest Nutrition
- SUPPORT OUR SPONSOR: Low-carb Paleo beef jerky from Primal Pacs
- Simone Miller bio
- The Zenbelly Cookbook: An Epicurean's Guide to Paleo Cuisine
- Zenbelly.com
- Zenbelly Blog
- Simone on Twitter
- Simone on Pinterest