Low-carbohydrate diet

And exactly what you are saying, it's like the person has hypertension and then you are like, oh, I am going to renew the prescription for your antihypertensive.

No one is teaching the person to do low carb.

The person doesn't even have the way to do low carb because they only have rice in their house, right? And then the person looks at you and they say, I already have this prescription, doctor.

I don't have the money to get the prescription.

I can't

I am not compromising on leaving this behind.

I am investing on what is coming next.

investing in your future it's like studying for tests you know all these things we do and and i heard it said one time and i love it it's so true is that bad habits you get instant gratification from good habits you don't see it right away so it's harder to have good habits because you do it it's just like faith you plant the seeds you don't see the it didn't grow for a long time and then 10 years later someone says you know when you said this 10 years ago it really made me think right? And then it made me, not that you have to be jumping on them and, you know, even keto and low carb, when you're the evangelist in everyone's face, no one wants to listen to you.

Exactly.

Well, that's, that's true, and, and Ron's had the experience of, uh, being kicked out of the, uh, of the university lecturer circuit because, uh, you know, he wanted to talk about low carb and so on.

So, you know, um, so doctors stay in their comfort zone.

Um, you know, they, they don't know anything about nutrition and exercise, so they just push it aside and, and, and, uh, and send it off to the dieticians or, you know, who are very helpful.

Um, and you said, well, gut microbiome testing doesn't really have much of a place, and I do tons of microbiome testing.

Um, of course, I mean, I fix a lot of things by, you know, just getting the, the sugar and the fructose out of someone's, uh, life, uh, because that's what feeds the bad bacteria... [clears throat] the bad bacteria or the bacteria that actually cause a lots of acidic- acidity and hence leaky gut with all the things you mentioned, Pram.

But I have lots of patients as well that do have watched every low-carb Don undertale video already, and they're on low carb, so I don't have to brainwash them again.

It's beautiful.

So the American Heart Association is caving in on low carbohydrate diets.

The American Diabetes Association is already recommending a low carb diet deep, deep in their guidelines on page 192 or something.

But now the American Heart Association has just issued a brand new scientific statement about the comprehensive management of cardiovascular risk factors for adults with type two diabetes.

Very important population, very at risk population.

Hmm.

For those who are unable to adhere to a calorie restricted diet, which means a semi starvation diet for the rest of your life, most humans aren't able to starve themselves for their entirety of their life.

And so they're saying, instead of calorie restricting for the rest of your life, then do a low carb diet and you'll reduce your A1C and your triglycerides.

Holy moly.

Got a bit of an idea of who's here.

I'd like to tell you a little bit about why I'm here, why I'm promoting low carb, high fat as a dietician.

And of course, um, you know, the dieticians, as you might know, are very much mainly against low carb, high fat.

So how did, how did I land up promoting what I'm promoting? Start off with a few personal things.

So on a personal level, low carb, high fat has given me a renewed passion for nutrition.

It certainly waned there for a few years.

I am now leaner and healthier and fitter than I was 11 years ago when I got married and when I was training for Ironman Triathlon.

I don't get any hay fever symptoms whatsoever anymore.

So we'll do our best.

So yes, as Rod said, I am the, uh, owner of Livin' La Vida Low-Carb blog.

I started that right after my Atkins weight loss success in 2004.

Currently gets about a quarter million readers a month.

And then, uh, this is the show that...

How many people listen to the Livin' La Vida Low-Carb Show? Thank you, guys.

And if you're not, you're going to after today, right?

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So there we have it.

High saturated fat, low carb diets can not only help your patients lose weight, they also won't kill you.

But at this point, I'd like to caution you with regards to the use of Ozempic and other similar dr-drugs to help your patients lose weight.

What I'm about to present is all readily available data from published studies, which makes it somewhat concerning how these drugs are currently being used.