Professor Fred Provenza joins me to discuss behaviour-based management of landscapes and we discuss his new book - Nourishment: What Animals can teach us about rediscovering our nutritional wisdom. In addition to wisdom from animals, Fred explains how much we have to learn from plants too.

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Professor Fred Provenza joins me to discuss behaviour-based management of landscapes and we discuss his new book - Nourishment: What Animals can teach us about rediscovering our nutritional wisdom. In addition to wisdom from animals, Fred explains how much we have to learn from plants too.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

For more information visit Professor Thomas Seyfried website.

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Dr Rod Tayler joins me for the first podcast of 2019. In today's episode, we explore low carb and high healthy fat. Rod is a Melbourne based anaesthetist with an interest in weight loss and research and low carb diets. He is the co-founder of Low Carb Down Under and frequently presents to medical professionals on the long term benefits of restricting carbohydrates.

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Dr Rod Tayler - Low Carb Down Under website

Unstress episode with Professor Grant Schofield on fasting

Unstress episode with Cliff Harvey on carb appropriate diets

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Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Hello and welcome to “Unstress”. I'm Dr. Ron Ehrlich. Firstly, let me wish you a happy and healthy New Year. This is the first show of 2019. I hope you've managed to have a good break to reflect and really kickstart a great New Year.

Now, if you're a regular listener in the show you will know from our guests last year that irrespective of which chronic disease we looked at. Cancer, cardiovascular disease or autoimmune diseases diabetes, of course, the key has been the common denominator has been to keep of the insulin levels low. Now if you aren't a regular listener you have got some catching up to do.

Well, my guest today to start the year I wanted to explore this low carb and high healthy fat idea. My guest is Dr. Rod Tayler. Now Rod is a Melbourne anaesthetist with an interest in weight loss research and low carb diets. He's given so many presentations on the subject of restricting carbohydrate intake for long term health benefits. And he's done that to medical and other allied health professionals. He is the co-founder of low carb Down Under. I'm going to let him explain more. I hope you enjoy this conversation I had with Dr. Rod Taylor.

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Welcome to the show, Rod.

Dr. Rod Tayler: Ron, thank you. Good to be on with you.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Now, listen Rod we're before we dive into this topic can you give us kind of a brief rundown of your own journey that brought you to this point? Professionally I guess there was your own personal experience that informed you to get to this point. Give us a bit of a background.

Dr. Rod Tayler: Well, this topic of why we've been getting obese and thicker over time I've been discussing with doctors for a long time since the early 90s. I work in the operating theatre as an anaesthetist might I spend a lot of time with your doctors and we do get to talk about these issues. The turning point for me came in 2009 when I was given a book called “Sweet Poison” by David Gillespie. A terrific book about sugar and when I read this book, I thought my goodness sugar is a huge problem. 2009 I cut sugar out of my diet and that probably included the four or five pieces of fruit I was having today which we can revisit that issue at another time. But I dropped about eight kilograms off my middle.

I'd always been a skinny sort of a guy, but this is where I was up in the mid-fifties and I'd been putting it on a little bit, and it fell off when I did this. Like eight kilograms fell off in a couple of months and that got me really interested. I did a research project at a hospital in Melbourne on reducing sugar by taking staff members and we recruited 158 staff members to reduce the sugar intake and the results were good. Results were good. At that point, there wasn't didn't seem to be much of a low sugar community around but boy, I discovered there was actually the big low-carb community around and I started digging around in that I went on a conference in the US or a low carb conference and started meeting the network of people who really explored, of course, not only low carb certainly includes like sugar. So, I found there was a great network of people there and that that really got me following this up more and more.

Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Young boys that ever a growing movement we hear so much about it.

Dr Rod Tayler discusses low carb and high healthy fat.

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As we come to the last episode of the year I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect on 2018 and the wonderful guests we have had on Unstress. This year on Unstress we've covered topics such as sleep, nutrition, environmental issues, regenerative agriculture, functional movement, disease and mental health. In this episode, I review my highlights from the year and give you clear takeaways to be able to focus on your health moving into 2019.

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Previous Unstress episodes 

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Dr. Ron Ehrlich: Hello and welcome to “Unstress”. I'm dr. Ron Ehrlich. Well, this is the last episode of the year and it's been quite a year, we've covered some amazing territory, I've had some fabulous guests as I've often said the podcast is how I just love doing it because I get to ask all these experts, all these wonderful people questions every week and they answer them and I learned so much and I hope you do too.

I just wanted to recap on some of the themes we covered this year because it's a great opportunity to just take stock of what we've done. We kicked off of course, early in the year with a whole section on sleeping and breathing and there's no accident about that. I've often said if it's the most important part of the day. We talked to the sleep physician that I work with here in Sydney, Dr. Hanna and we went into some basics. I then spoke to the sleep whisperer, Dr. Chris Winter who's written that fabulous book “The Sleep Solution”.

Of course, sleep is all about consistently good night's sleep, is a question of quantity getting enough sleep and for 90% of us that is seven to nine hours of sleep per night. And quality breathing well while you're asleep and that led us onto a whole range of podcasts that I've done sprinkled throughout the year on breathing because breathing something we get very little thought to and yet the more I learn about it the more I realise it is just so important. It actually does balance out our body chemistry, it can affect our mood, we can use our breath so effectively to calm down. We can use our breath when we exercise to increase our breathing rate and our energy flow, we can use our breath to control our autonomic nervous system which is what we spoke about with extreme wellness with Professor Mark Cohen.

And I had two fabulous guests Rose Albert Courtney who is an osteopath but after 30 years of Osteopathy decided that the best thing she could do for her patients and her knowledge was to do a PhD in breathing after 30 years of practice. And she is an absolute legend what she doesn't know about breath well, I wouldn't say isn't worth knowing but anyway she knows a lot. And then, of course, we spoke to Patrick McEwen who is one of the senior people in the Buteyko breathing technique.

So, breathing and sleeping were a very important part of it. I just think it is worth reflecting on what it and what happens when you're not breathing well because hormonally growth hormone goes down and we need that for repair, that part of our nervous system the sympathetic or flight-or-fight part becomes far more active and our cortisol levels go up. The parasympathetic which is the rest and digest goes down. Testosterone fertility libido and even testicular size get that goes down when you do not get a consistently good night's sleep. Our DNA is affected and that part of our DNA that is involved with our immune system is down-regulated and that part of our DNA our genetic makeup which promotes chronic inflammation is up-regulated. That is a serious problem because chronic inflammation is the common denominator in all disease.

We hear a lot about insulin resistance and of course, when you're not sleeping well insulin resistance is increased and that increases your likelihood of contracting diabetes or being obese. And there are two other hormones one called leptin which controls fat metabolism, that goes down so you're not metabolising your fa...

At this point in the year, I like to do a review. To take the opportunity to look back on 2019 and wonderful guests I've spoken to on Unstress. This year saw a vast number of topics covered, perhaps one of my favourite and most prominent being regenerative agriculture. It's something I'm very passionate about as it affects us all. In this episode, I share some of my highlights from this year on Unstress. I hope it provides you with inspiration and empowerment moving into 2020.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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At this point in the year, I like to do a review. To take the opportunity to look back on 2019 and wonderful guests I've spoken to on Unstress. This year saw a vast number of topics covered, perhaps one of my favourite and most prominent being regenerative agriculture. It's something I'm very passionate about as it affects us all. In this episode, I share some of my highlights from this year on Unstress. I hope it provides you with inspiration and empowerment moving into 2020.

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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Megan Ramos, co-founder and director of the IDM (Intensive Dietary Management) with Dr Jason Fung, a pioneer in the use of therapeutic fasting for weight loss and type 2 diabetes reversal. In this episode, we discuss how chronic disease is linked to insulin and blood sugar, why insulin that is too high or too low is an issue, and the details of low carb, healthy fat diet. 

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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Megan Ramos, co-founder and director of the IDM (Intensive Dietary Management) with Dr Jason Fung, a pioneer in the use of therapeutic fasting for weight loss and type 2 diabetes reversal. In this episode, we discuss how chronic disease is linked to insulin and blood sugar, why insulin that is too high or too low is an issue, and the details of low carb, healthy fat diet. 

You can also watch this episode at www.DrRonEhrlich.com.

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