Shashikant Iyengar (“Shashi” to those close to him) from India is closely associated with Anup Singh of Dlife.in and has been on a low-carb diet for the past six years. He is into his seventh year of type-2 diabetes remission, regularly sees clients and has successfully applied low-carb therapies to treat diabetes, obesity and other metabolic disorders. In the interim, Shashi has completed more than 10 certificate courses in low-carb therapies to treat and prevent chronic, life-threatening nutrition-related diseases. Seven are from the Nutrition Network, one from the American Nutrition Association and two diplomas in Low Carb Nutrition and Sports Nutrition in India. Shashi is a founding and an accredited member of The Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners in India. Recently, Metabolic Multiplier recognised him as a Low Carb Social Media Influencer in India. For more information, call him on +919930699683, follow him on Twitter @shashiiyengar or email shashikantiyengar@gmail.com.
Johannesburg dietitian Amanda Kotze represents the Pretoria-based practice of ketogenic dietitians, Metabolicmed Dietitians, in River Club, Gauteng. The practice offers personalised, individualised medical, therapeutic dietary advice to improve metabolic health and treat or prevent a host of diet-related issues. For more information, call +27826905729, email amanda@metabolicamed.co.za, make a booking bookings@metabolicamed.co.za, visit the website www.metabolicamed.co.za or follow her on Instagram @Amanda Kotze4
Address: Nutritionist, São Paulo State of São Paulo 04035-001 Brazil
May Ishii is a nutritionist, researcher and personal development specialist in Sao Paolo, Brazil. She is certified by the Tim Noakes Foundation’ Nutrition Network, where she specialised in professional application of low-carb and ketogenic diets. Her work combines self-knowledge and nutrition, added to her experience and my clinical practice, with results of individual and group follow-ups, focused on weight loss and metabolic disorders. May has a strong family history of obesity, type 2 diabetes and cancer. These challenges led her to study food as medicine and to include the practice of fasting. She offers in-person and online consultations. For more information, call +55 11 94263-2935, email contato@mayishii.com.br, visit her website at www.mayishii.com.br or follow her on Instagram www.instagram.com/mayishii
South African-born Dr Simon Johnson is a knee and shoulder orthopaedic surgeon in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand who actively promotes low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) diets to his patients to boost health and prevent disease. Dr Johnson has limited his practice to knee and shoulder surgery because he believes that a limited scope of practice is the best way to deliver repeatable high-quality service. His special interests lie in uni-compartmental (or partial) knee replacements and arthroscopic (keyhole) surgery and nutrition as a powerful preventative measure. He recognises the role that obesity plays in his patients and says that the condition often precludes being able to operate on them. He believes that official dietary guidelines need a complete overhaul because people want to follow rules and comply. “Even if the rules are wrong and onsensical, they will still follow them – and that applies to doctors, too,” he says. As an active member of the New Zealand Orthopaedic Training Committee, he participates regularly in the education and training of orthopaedic registrars. Dr Johnson graduated as a medical doctor from the University of the Witwatersrand Wits university where also specialised in orthopaedic surgery and later completed his training training in England. He worked with Read more [...]
Address: The Fasting Method, Round Rock Texas 78664 United States
Larry Diamond, M Sc, is a fasting coach at The Fasting Method, a programme developed by Canadian nephrologist Dr Jason Fung and Megan Ramos. Larry has successfully lost 120lb and has reversed his metabolic syndrome and sleep apnea through intermittent fasting and a real, whole-food diet. He is currently off all medications and has radically improved the health of both his wife and daughter in the process of restoring his own. Dr Fung and Megan were so impressed with Larry’s background in academic research and the radical transformation stemming from his self-guided research that they invited him to train as a fasting coach. For more information, you can email larry@thefastingmethod.com, visit the website, thefastingmethod.com, or follow him on Twitter: @natureboyrr
Address: The Fasting Method, 22 Decarie Cir Toronto Ontario M9B 3H8 Canada
Megan Ramos is CEO and co-founder with Dr Jason Fung of The Fasting Method, an innovative method of time-restricted eating and fasting strategies for treatment, prevention and reversal of type 2 diabetes as well as sustainable weight loss and improvement in metabolic conditions such as polycystic ovarian syndrome, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and more. Megan is a Canadian clinical educator and expert on therapeutic fasting and low-carbohydrate diets, having guided more than 14,000 people worldwide to better health. She is co-author with Dr Fung of the New York Times Bestseller Life in the Fasting Lane. For more information, you can email megan@thefastingmethod.com, info@thefastingmethod.com, visit the website, www.thefastingmethod.com, or follow her on Instagram and Twitter: @meganjramos, @fastingmethod
Dr Estrelita van Rensburg qualified as a medical doctor in South Africa and now runs Wellness EQ from her base in Edinburgh, Scotland. Wellness EQ is a 3-month, step-by-step online programme that Dr van Rensburg developed to teach people what a healthy diet is from a metabolic perspective. The programme includes delicious recipes from natural ingredients, self-monitoring tools, weekly e-mail support as well as one-to-one online chats. Dr Van Rensburg is also author of Eat Well or Die Slowly published in August 2020. After medical school, she worked as a university consultant and researcher for 16 years before joining the pharmaceutical industry in a global position. During this phase of her career, she became acutely aware that the medical profession focused primarily on treating disease symptoms through prescribing medication rather than finding preventative solutions. She began researching preventative medicine. She became aware of misconceptions and misinformation regarding human nutrition in the mainstream media and medical community as important driving forces in increasing modern day lifestyle diseases. With this information, she and her business partner developed a healthy eating programme and tested it on ourselves and close associates over a period of several months. Wellness EQ Programme is the result of their Read more [...]
Address: The Fasting Method, San Diego California 92110 United States
Terri Lance PhD is a behaviour coach at The Fasting Method. Behaviour coaching combines Terri’s research knowledge in the areas of therapeutic fasting and nutrition with her clinical experience as a licensed behavioural psychologist and educator. She practises what she preaches. Terri achieved 85lbs weight loss and reversed type 2 diabetes through intermittent fasting and low-carbohydrate eating strategies. Being able to regain control of her weight and health inspired her to educate others on sustainable dietary strategies. In 2017, she began training with Dr Jason Fung and Megan Ramos to become a behavior coach to help others address their mindset and develop healthy, sustainable habits. Coach Terri launched a new podcast with Daisy Brackenhall called Monday Mindset to share insights and strategies related to mindset and sustainable behaviour change. For more information, you can email terri@thefastingmethod.com, follow her on Instagram @spartytsl and @mondaymindsetpodcast.
Dr Ann Childers is a child, adolescent and adult psychiatric physician with a special interest in nutrition, sleep, diabetes and metabolic syndrome in West Linn, Oregon in the US. Dr Childers runs the Life Balance NorthWest Lifestyle Psychiatry practice and has now incorporated telehealth into her practice and sees more than 50 patients a week. Her approach to psychiatric treatment is holistic and integrates standard psychiatric care with principles of nutrition and restful sleep. She welcomes those who desire an integrated approach to psychiatric care, sleep and metabolism management. Dr Childers was ranked among the 5 top MDs by Onalytica on the topics of obesity, diabetes and sugar. She is in demand as a local and international lecturer and has published a number of textbook chapters, among them Nutritional Aspects of Psychiatry for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: The Essentials (Cheng and Myers, 2011). Her lectures and podcasts can be viewed and heard on YouTube and elsewhere. Dr Childers is a member of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Medical Association, the Nutrition and Metabolism Society, Obesity Medicine Association, a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and Medical Advisor to the Hypoglycemia Support Foundation. She is also a US Air Force Read more [...]
Valeria Burnazov is a mental health dietitian at the Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences. She includes evidence-based advice on a low-carb, high-healthy-fat approach to patients where appropriate, based on research on the link between food and mood. For more information, you can call +1 416-357-8989 or email her at valeria.burnazov@gmail.com
Address: Av. Conselheiro Aguiar 1472 Recife State of Pernambuco 51110-020 Brazil
Dr Jacques Waisman is an internal medicine, pulmonology and intensive care specialist in Recife, Brazil. Dr Waisman now practises integrative medicine at the Waisman Clinic with a focus on physiology and a focus on active and healthy longevity. He uses low-carb, ketogenic diets and intermittent fasting as treatment strategies for obesity and health in his daily practice. Dr Waisman is also a World Crossfit Placement 809 Open Games Scale Senior 2020. For more information, you can call him on +55 81 99417-1494, email him on drjacqueswaisman@gmail.com, visit his website at www.clinicawaisman.com.br, follow him on Twitter @jacqueswaisman, Facebook: Jacques Waisman / Clinica Waisman, and Instagram: @drwaisman/ @clinicawaisman.
Keith and Michelle Norris are co-founders of Paleo f(x)™, an organization dedicated to three inter-related goals: to create the world’s best holistic health and wellness event; to inspire and empower individuals everywhere to find optimal health and to flourish; and to create a forum where ancestral health ideas can be turned into real world practices that improve human wellbeing. A major focus of their work is optimum nutrition that includes low-carb lifestyles where appropriate. To that end, they hold the event that seeks to provide attendees with a valuable and unforgettable health experience. It is based on turning the theory of ancestral health into the practices that allow good health to flourish. For more information, call +1 (512) 492-2773, email keith@paleofx.com, visit the website at www.paleofx.com/, follow them on Facebook www.facebook.com/PaleoFX/, on Instagram www.instagram.com/paleofx/, onTwitter twitter.com/PaleoFX and Youtube www.youtube.com/user/PaleoFX/.
Dr Gaja Andzel is an endocrinologist and functional medicine specialist based in Loma Linda. Dr Andzel has personal experience with type 1 diabetes. Coupled with her years of working with patients, she combines conventional medicine with evidence-based, whole-person, integrative therapies in creating personalised care and treatment plans. Therapies include a low-carb, high-healthy fat and ketogenic approach to nutrition and food as medicine. Dr Anzel’s degree in medicine was conferred by the Medical University of Warsaw, a prestigious European medical school established in the early 19th Century. In 2006, she moved to the US and received internal medicine training at Loma Linda University, followed by an endocrinology fellowship at Banner University Medical Center, Phoenix, Arizona. For more information, please call +1 909 222 6022, email INFO@BeWellEndocrinology.com or visit www.BeWellEndocrinology.com.
British-born Canadian resident Dr Cathryn Zapf is an MD who has has been using low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) therapies in clinical practice for 20 years. Dr Zapf has two board certifications in family medicine and functional medicine and is in practice at the Paleo Medical Clinic. The clinic offers in-person medical consultations and international online health coaching. The practice is moving at the start of June from Canmore to Calgary in Alberta, Western Canada. For more information, you can call +1 403-688 1883/403-265-4142, email paleoclinic@gmail.com, visit the Paleo Medical Clinic website on https://paleomedical.com/, follow the clinic on Facebook and Instagram
Address: Topaz Way, Cape Town Western Cape 7979 South Africa
Cape Town specialist physician Dr Hassina Kaje runs a medical practice based on “understanding the patient who has the disease within the context of the disease that the patient has”. Dr Kajee also sees healthy patients wanting to prevent disease. She counsels patients on lifestyle, including diet, nutrition and fasting, based on low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) therapies, as well as stress management, sleep hygiene, relationships and exercise. In short, she counsels her patients on healthy living and ageing well. She changed her medical practice after becoming dissatisfied with the conventional model of “palliative”, chronic disease medicine while she was running the High Care Unit of a prominent Cape Town tertiary hospital. At that time, she came to realise that a well-formulated LCHF diet was a key factor in reversing diabetes and chronic disease. Dr Kajee resigned from hospital work after trying to implement LCHF and becoming overwhelmed by the many acute and acute on chronic medical cases that made her unable to make a substantial difference. She now practises medicine more in line with her personal understanding of integrative chronic disease and obesity reversal practice. Dr Kajee sits on the board of directors of the Noakes Foundation and is co-founder and Read more [...]
Mauricio Silva is a passionate IT Engineer from Chile, who has been studying metabolism and its relationship with human health for five years. He collaborated with Método Grez specializing in his Food Handling Programs and the science for LCHF and keto. Prior to this, he studied at the Metabolic Technology Center and certified as a Metabolism Advisor. Today he actively collaborates in the low-carb and keto community of Dietdoctor and disseminates his work and science through his Twitter account. Mauricio is currently completing the Noakes Foundation’s online ethics course. He has advised and trained people of all ages – adolescents, youth and adults – on how to improve their relationship with food, update their eating habits, reverse metabolic syndrome, overweight and obesity. He has also collaborated with patients with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes, helping them to complement their medical and nutritional treatments with the application of keto, LCHF and Método approaches, adding their knowledge of advanced mindfulness practices and other tools of Zen Meditation, relaxation and sleep hygiene. For more information, you can email him at maurosilvaelgueta@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter: @DeMetabolismo.
Sharon Atkins is a professional health coach, a certified low-carb and keto coach who works with clients locally and internationally on achieving their health and weight loss goals. She is also a speaker on wellness, goal setting, limiting beliefs and values. Sharon says that she draws on her passion for wellness and healthy living and her coaching training and experience to make a real and lasting impact on others’ lives. “Coaches provide that vital (and missing) layer of support to help clients make lasting diet, lifestyle, and behaviour changes, cope with stress, and provide moral and emotional support,” she says. For more information, call her on +27 76 8108104, email sharon@supershazzer.com, visit the Super Shazzer website at https://www.supershazzer.com/ follow her on Twitter twitter.com/Supershazzer, Instagram – Super Shazzer instagram.com/supershazzer/, Wellness Girl instagram.com/wellnessgirl_za/ – and Facebook – Super Shazzer facebook.com/supershazzer/ and Banting and Wellness facebook.com/BantingandWellness/.
Elina Rofin is a dietitian at the Glandt Center for Diabetes Care in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Center is run by Israeli endocrinologist Dr Mariela Glandt who has pioneered low-carbohydrate, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) and ketogenic diet therapies to treat and prevent obesity, type 2 diabetes and related complications in Israel. Elina is part of the Center’s multidisciplinary team that guides and advises patients in LCHF and keto for chronic disease. For more information, you can call +972 3-7208533, email her at elina.rupin@gmail.com or visit her website at https://www.er-nutrition.com/
UK pharmacist Graham Phillips enjoys a reputation as “the pharmacist who gave up drugs”. He is founder of ProLongevity: Live Healthy for Longer, a clinically-tested, 8-week programme that helps people to lose weight, improve wellbeing and avoid or reverse type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. The programme involves no drugs, no hunger, and no calorie-counting. It uses a combination of clinical expertise and new Continuous Blood Glucose (CGM) technology to monitor real-time blood sugar levels. The practice provides personalised advice based on clients’ unique body data. For more information, call: +44 (0)1727 834 365, 7768 275 802, email graham.phillips@manorpharmacygroup.co.uk. Follow Graham on Twitter @grahamsphillips and @longevity_pro, Facebook and Instagram. You can also find him on LinkedIn. To watch him on YouTube, click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y42qa2qXbI&list=PLlj7ik5G2huKW5SDwysnz0fibGjJ3_IhS www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwtlkUbsjYk&t=9s www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSIeXTQpxiI&t=1s
Dr Jason Chiu is a physician, a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and The American Board of Preventive Medicine in Manhatten, New York. He runs Sutton Medical, a multi-service medspa clinic offering clinical services of aesthetics, wellness, and weight loss. Dr Chiu uses low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) and ketogenic diets and practises a ketogenic diet himself. He says that this gives insight for better success and compliance with a ketogenic diet. Dr Chiu breaks down the plan into easy, actionable steps, and gives clients and patients the support they need to achieve their desired results, whether their weight loss goals involve a few pounds or a major lifestyle overhaul. For more information, you can call him on +1 646-925-9743, visit the Sutton Medical website or email him on suttoneast53@outlook.com
