Lipoedema Research, Keto & Metabolic Health with Siobhan Huggins

um but yeah i didn't think about it until i got diagnosed i was like oh because originally it's just like well that's just how i'm shaped like that's how it's distributed it's just what it is so um but yeah it was very very interesting experience

It is really interesting that, you know, what you said is that by actually losing some weight, it almost allowed you then to see that there was a lipoedema there.

Because otherwise it's almost like camouflaged in all of the rest of it.

But, you know, two key things you said when you just shared your story.

One was experimenting on yourself.

And the second one was that you went to PubMed.

Now, for anyone that doesn't know, PubMed is an online repository of all sorts of research papers.

It's where the super scientists go to see what research has been done previously and try and understand that.

And I think that really, to me, typifies your story in this.

you obviously had this experience where the lipoedema became illuminated, I suppose, because of the things that you'd been doing.

But you then threw yourself into research and experimenting with yourself, which kind of brings you to where you are now, that you've really, really dived into...

And over the course of time that you've understood about this, and I guess I'm kind of working on it, maybe it was about 20, you said about 2020 or so that you learned that you had this.

Even just I imagine in the six years since then, so much more seems to be known about the condition.

Would you agree?

Yeah.

Oh, yeah, definitely.

Like when I read through in 2020, there was not a whole lot.

And it was like such a small world that when I went in for the diagnosis from the specialist, she had actually written some of the papers that I had read.

So it was like such a small thing where the clinicians are working with people are also the people who are publishing on it.

And so when I went in, I was like, hey, I read your work.

Really love the stuff you're doing.

I have some questions on it.

So while she's examining me, it's like, hey, do you think this is what's happening? Do you think this is what's going on? And it was definitely a much smaller world.

And you can look at this, too.

PubMed has a timeline feature where you can see the number of publications based on a search query, like Lipoedema, over a period of time.