Interesting presentations and publications by the experts

• Dr. Chris Knobbe, MD

  • Diseases of Civilization: are seed oil excesses the unifying mechanism?, Low Carb Denver, 2020, Diseases of Civilization: are seed oil excesses the unifying mechanism?
  
  

• Jim/James McCarter, MD, Phd

  • The top myths about ketosis debunked by clinical trials, 25 december 2019, Debunking common keto myths (transcribed here, slides available here). All of the following claims are false: 1 Keto is unsustainable. 2 Keto will cause diabetic ketoacidosis. 3 Keto will cause hypoglycemia. 4 Keto will deprive the brain of required glucose. 5 Keto will impair the heart and cause vascular damage. 6 Keto will worsen the blood lipid profile. 7 Keto will cause inflammation. 8 Keto will cause hypothyroidism. 9 Keto will harm the liver and increase liver fat. 10 Keto will harm the kidneys. 11 Keto will cause muscle loss. 12 Keto will cause loss of bone mineral density. 13 Keto is just a fad. 14 Keto is not the standard of care. 15 Keto benefits are limited to weight loss. 16 Keto weight loss is just water. 17 Keto will cause “keto flu.” 18 Keto will cause constipation. 19 Keto will require too much sodium. 20 Keto sodium will cause hypertension. 21 Keto will cause adrenal fatigue. 22 Keto will cause gallstones and requires a gallbladder. 23 Keto increases mortality in nutritional epidemiology studies. 24 Keto requires meat consumption. 25 Keto will increase cancer risk. 26 Keto increases circulating saturated fat. 27 Keto provides inadequate dietary fiber. 28 Keto interferes with the gut microbiome. 29 Keto is environmentally unsustainable. 30 Keto foods are too expensive. 31 Keto will interfere with exercise. 32 Keto will deplete muscle glycogen. 33 Keto will raise long-term risk of gout. 34 Keto will increase long-term risk of kidney stones. 35 Keto will cause “keto crotch.” 36 Keto will cause “keto bloat.” 37 Keto will confuse the public. 38 Keto will undermine science. 39 Keto will cause diabetes. 40 It’s better just to stay with usual care for diabetes management.
  
  

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• Peter Brukner, MD

  • Low carb guidelines and position statements, 11-13 October, 2019, Low-carb guidelines and position statements from the UK, Australia and the US as issued by their national diabetes associations, heart associations and dieticians associations : lowcarb is certainly on the agenda of all these organizations. All of them feel the need to confirm the existance of the lowcarb trends. All of these associations are prepared to admit that lowcarb diets are safee and may be effective, but they claim lowcarb diets are not shown to be safe in the long term and may have potential health risks related to the kidneys and cardiovascular diseases. They are still concerned about saturated fats, and claim there is no evidence for type 1 diabetes. Living lowcarb may even be dangerous for children.
  
  

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• Jacqueline Eberstein, RN

  • Women's Health and Keto, 10 January 2020, part 1 and part 2: risks associated with high-carb intake that can be avoided/mitigated when using low-carb: polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), gestational diabetes, etc.
  • KetoCon 2017 Barriers to Weight Loss: Worried about breaching through a plateau? What might interfere with weight loss? What about a yeast infection? Why monitor all thyroid values, i.e., including TSH, free T3 and free T4? Bottom line: have realistic expectations! Follow inches, not the scale! Living low-carb is not a diet, but a lifestyle. If you want to enhance your health, just do it!
  
  

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• Robert Cywes, MD

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    Interview, 2 July 2019

    Personal weight-loss story: Fat is a very good source of energy. If you eat enough fat, you will eat enough protein. Carbohydrates are not essential for life.
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    Understanding carb addiction

    • Part 1, 22 October 2019: one does not get fat by eating real food, only by eating carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are not essential for human consumption and are a non-essential food for life. Carbohydrates are a highly endorphin-activating drug
    • Part 2, 25 October 2019: why we are addicted to carbohydrates: obesity is a substance abuse problem. Obesity is not a calorie problem. Obesity is a substance abuse problem that should fall in the same category as opioids and alcohol, nicotin and opioids. We crave for carbohydrates, not for the nutrition value, but simply for the carbohydrate high.
  
  

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• Focusing on type 1 diabetes

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    Robert Cywes, MD

    • Understanding diabetes, focusing on treating type 1 diabetes, 26 January 2020
    • Understanding type 1 diabetes, 25 January 2019 Chapter 6 of the series "Diabetes understood" focusing on type 1 diabetes: A type 1 diabetic can lead a normal life!
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    Ken D. Berry, MD

    5 steps for type 1 diabetics to start a low-carb diet, 15 November 2019: low-carb, ketogenic and carnivore diets are very safe for both type 1 and type 2 diabetics. The 5 steps: (1) go see your knowledgeable doctor and inform him/her to get their advice on a lowcarb/ketogenic diet; (2) get a continuous glucose monitor; (3) download a chronometer or a macronutrient tracking app on your phone to determine the number of carbs grams and protein grams in your food; (4) transition to a lowcarb/ketogenic/carnivore diet slowly. Count on a 1-3 months transition. Decrease your total carb intake with, e.g., 10% a week and adjust your insulin dose as you go; (5) read Dr. Bernstein's book. Dr. Bernstein himself is a type 1 diabetic and provides hands-on recipes to stabilize blood glucose evolutions; (6) join the TypeOneGrit facebook group
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    Andrew Koutnik, PhD

    • Low carbohydrate diet for type 1 diabetes, 11 October 2019: patient and research perspective. The available evidence today indicates that the very low carbohydrate diets with less than 50 grams of carbs per day improves the glycemic control better than any other currently available therapy.
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    Jake Kushner, MD

    • A practical guide to low-carb nutrition for type 1 diabetes, 3 March 2019
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    Jessica Turton, RD, PhD

    • Low-carbohydrate diets for type 1 diabetes, 2 August 2018: her experience with introducing a low-carb diet to type 1 diabetics from a nutritionists/dietician's point of view. The answer to the question "Why should one go for low-carb?" is very simple: "Big inputs make big mistakes, small inputs make small mistakes", as quoted by the oldest surviving type 1 diabetic Kanji Ishikawa in Japan, until 2009.
  
  

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• Zoë Harcombe, PhD

  • Low-carb Denver, 2019, 19 March 2019, What about fiber?: If enough protein and fat are consumed, there is no need for dietary fiber. De-facto, fiber is non-essential. There is no evidence-base for the dietary guideline targets for 14g of dietary fiber per kcal food.
  
  

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• Erynn Kay, physician assistant

  • Low-carb Breckenridge 2017, 16 July 2017, Does fiber make you fat? The gut's effect on weight and metabolism: Researchers can predict with 90% accuracy whether a person is obese or lean by looking at the gut flora. The gut bacteria are fed by dietary fiber. They can only predict with a 58% accuracy by looking at your own genetic material.
    Whether you are lean or obese paleo and lowcarb diets are relatively low on fiber. Enough fibre to keep your intestins healthy is best. Zero fiber is only good for few people.
    If you want to have a healthy gut, you should eat your vegetables! Vegetables are high in prebiotic fiber to feed your gur flora: artichoke, onion, garlic, broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, avocado, zucchini, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, swiss chard, asparagus, fennel, celery, brussel sprouts, mushrooms.
    It is also best to: count total carbs, not net carbs; avoid antibiotics unless really necessary, including in food and water; avoid c-sections unless necessary; breastfeed whenever possible over using formula; avoid a sterile environment!
  
  
  • Low-carb Breckenridge 2018, 8 September 2018, Is lowcarb enough?: A look at food quality and ancestral principles. The hygiene hypothesis: a low dose exposure to a wide variety of bacteria is beneficial to help balance our immune system. So it is best to not be overly hygienic.
    The balance between Omega-6 and Omega-3 oils should be 1:1.
    You are what you eat eats. If what you eat eats healhy foods, you will eat healthy food. Grass-fed animals have more vitamins and minerals and anti-oxidants than grain fed animals.
    Organ meats are by far better nutrient sources than vitamin and mineral supplements. Also do not fear raw food, as the cooking process reduces the effectiveness of nutrients.
    Become nutrient seekers: pay attention to food quality. Incorporate more organic food, more pasture-raised, more grass-fed, more raw. Sprout something ferment something, drink more broth and eat more organ meat!
  
  

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• Ivor Cummins, PhD

  • Dublin, 19 July 2016, Wanna know how to collapse yhour heart disease risk? Ok then...: the huge fructose intake drives insulin resistance
  • 16 Aug 2018, Want to fix your heart disease? Okay then -- here you go!: you can resolve the progressive disease of atherosclerosis by focusing on key factos to reduce a high CAC score. The most important driver for high CAC scores is high insulin. Lower your insulin levels, and your CAC score will drop significantly.
    Make sure you get a CAC scan. It only takes 5 minutes and learns you a lot. If you get a high score, you should check your blood lab reports to identify the reasons and take real action! Living lowcarb is very likely to reduce your CAC score. Have this score checked every couple of years.
  
  

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• Peter Attia

  • 14 January 2020, Introductory video on a framework for nutrition and fasting: discussing the Standard American Diet (SAD), Time Restricted Fasting (TRF), Dietary Restriction (DR), in relation to Intermittend Fasting (IF) and Calorie Restriction (CR)
  • Interview, 11 September 2018 How it all got started with dr. Peter Attia: how he got into practicing low-carb and longevity research
  
  

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• Nina Teicholz

  • 6-8 October 2017, Low Carb Down Under The real food politics
  • 6-8 October 2017, Low Carb Down Under Vegetable oils: the unknown story: vegetable oils are not made of vegetables, but are really bean oils. Vegetable oils are very unstable and very prone to oxidation. They were never intended for human consumption but as machine lubricants and fuel.
  
  

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• Eric Westman, MD

  • Low-carb Denver, 19 March 2019, Keto Medicine, the practice of carbohydrate restriction: introducing how he got interested in low-carb research; illustrating results of ongoing research and sketching why poeple might fail when they try the ketogenic lifestyle. Bottom line: living low-carb works fine when it is done well. When people fail, this is largely due to unrealistic expectatinos, misinformation and bad advice, carb pushing friends and family, stress or physiological reasons
  • Adapt your Life, 11 July 2018, Long term effects of a keto/low carb diet
  • KetoCon 2017, Scientific support for ketogenic lifestyles: proven uses of low-carb high fat (LCHF) and ketogenic lifestyles: obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes mellitus, type 1 diabetes mellitus (improved glycemic control), gastro esophageal reflux disease (GERD), polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), epilepsy. Promising uses of LCHF/keto lifestyles: cancer (adjuvant therapy, prevention), Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain injury, glycogen storage disease (McCardie's disease). Since 2000, the evidence for "Keto" has surpassed the evidence required to approve a new drug. An LCHF or ketogenic lifestyle is healthy, and can be used as a therapy for chronic medical conditions. Individuals with medical conditions (e.g., heart failure) require special consideration and medical monitoring.
  
  

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• Chris Kresser, MS

  • Personal website, 22 February 2019, Shaking up the Salt Myth: the dangers of salt restriction: The Intersalt Study of 1988 was designed to resolve contradictions in ecological and epidemiological studies, but failed to demonstrate any linear relationship between salt intake and blood pressure. When eating a whole foods diet, most people tend to consume the appropriate amount of salt that lowers the mortality risk.
  
  

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• Jason Fung, MD

  • Private seminar series, 2013, The Aetiology of Obesity:
    • The Aetiology of Obesity, Part 1: A New Hope
    • The Aetiology of Obesity, Part 2: The New Science of Diabesity
    • The Aetiology of Obesity, Part 3: Trial by Diet
    • The Aetiology of Obesity, Part 4: The Fast Solution
    • The Aetiology of Obesity, Part 5: Diet and Disease
    • The Aetiology of Obesity, Part 6: Dietary Villains, Fat Phobia
  
  

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• John Schoonbee, MD

  • Who benefits from LCHF?: Who benefits from LCHF financially?: LCHF from an insurer's view. Who benefits? 1. The people who produce and sell the food; 2. the people who treat obese and chronic illnesses: drugs, medical devices, medical doctors, private hospitals, the food industry, the diet industry; 3. the pension fund and the annuity business. If everyone would become very very healthy, they would have to pay large amounts of money before people die.
    Who will benefit if the world shifted to lowcarb? 1. Certain food segments: the vegetable and fruit based oil companies; 2. people who write books on LCHF; 3. state health funders, like the social security insurance services; 4. the life and health insurance industry; 5. everybody on earth would benefit from living lowcarb.
  
  

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• Roger Unger, MD

  • Introducing a glucagon-centric view on diabetes: insulin is not essential for life, 21 May 2014, Prize lecture by Professor Roger Unger, Rolf Luft Award 2014 Event: Insulin does not directly regulate glucose tolerance in mice without functioning beta cells. The interaction with glucagon is extremely important!
  
  

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• Rachel Roberts

  • Very informative video introducing the ketogenic diet with a full transcription with illustrations.
  
  

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