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.
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
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 [...]
Dixie Huey is a US health and nutrition coach who runs the Favor Fat practice, based in Washington. In addition to being a Nutrition Network Advisor with The Noakes Foundation, she has a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and French from Duke University and an MBA in finance from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. From a previous career, she is a certified sommelier through the Court of Master Sommeliers and earned distinction for the Wine & Spirits Education Trust Advanced level. If you’re looking to pair your nutrient-rich, fat-forward food with a glass of wine, she’s happy to help. Dixie offers 20+ years of blended experiences in the culinary, fitness, coaching and management consulting worlds plus extras such as numerous diet failures, eating disorders of the past plus information and insights on how she discovered the pleasures of the table while dining around the world. Like many, she has endured her share of diet failures and even an eating disorder. Hers is a story of earned knowledge, personal failure, and paradox: most health coaches aren’t foodies and most foodies don’t have an eating-disordered past. For more information, call +1-415-283-7830, email favorfat@gmail.com, visit the website favorfat.com or follow her 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 [...]
Address: 280 Riverview Pkwy Santee California 92071 United States
Dr Kristin Baier is double board-certified in Obesity Medicine and Family Medicine. She recently relocated to San Diego to serve patients through a nontraditional healthcare model with an emphasis on metabolic health. She is in practice with Dr Brian Lenzkes at Low Carb MD San Diego: Metabolic Health & Direct Primary Care. The clinic specializes in weight-loss management and associated co-morbidities through lifestyle and nutrition. To ensure quality of care, Dr Lenzkes and Dr Baier will be capping the number of patients they can serve in their practice. Both follow the LCHF lifestyle and speak from personal experience of the benefits. For more information, you can call +1 619-492-5787, visit the Low Carb MD San Diego or follow Dr Baier on Twitter and Instagram: @doctoringketo
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.
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 [...]
Adam Pike is an attorney, legal advisor and founder of Pike Law, an agile, adaptable law firm in Cape Town advising and assisting clients in diverse sectors. These sectors include health and matters relating to academic bullying and shareholder activism. Pike Law was the firm that assisted Prof Tim Noakes in an unprecedented trial over more than four years. With Pike as instructing attorney in the case, Pike Law helped Noakes’s legal team beat the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) twice. For more information, you can call +27 21 7950345; email adam@pike-law.co.za; visit the firm’s website at www.pike-law.co.za; connect with him on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/adampikelaw; or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Pike_Law
Address: Ulaishah, King Saud Medical City Riyadh Riyadh Province 12746 Saudi Arabia
Dr Mohammad Altayaran is a radiologist in KSMC in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia who can offer medical diagnostics for patients, he can correlate clinical, lab data with imaging that help in diagnosis. He has an interest in low-carb evidence and can correlate the changes via imaging. Although a visit to a primary physician or specialist is required initially to evaluate the patient, the radiologist communicates with the physicians and patients to individualize the imaging exam and to give an appropriate diagnosis, and recommendations. For more information, you can email him on Altayaran.m@gmail.com or follow him on Twitter @DeepKetosis.
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
Address: The Fasting Method, Toronto Ontario M6R 2L2 Canada
Dr Nadia Brito Pateguana is a doctor of naturopathic medicine and a fasting coach at The Fasting Method, a program developed by Dr Jason Fung and Megan Ramos. Dr Pateguana uses low-carb and intermittent fasting for metabolic syndrome. She is author of The PCOS Plan, Prevent and Reverse Polycystic Ovary Syndrome through Diet and Fasting, co-authored with Dr Fung. For more information, email her on nadia@thefastingmethod.com, visit the website (https://thefastingmethod.com/) or follow her on Twitter @nadia_pateguana. You can also click here to set up a time for a free 20-minute consultation to check whether the program is suitable for your needs: https://nadiaidmprogram.as.me/IDMNadia
Dr Marcus Hawkins has more than 30 years practising medicine, the first 15 as a hospital-based doctor and the next 15 years as a family physician in both the UK and New Zealand, where he is now based in Botany, Auckland. Dr Hawkins discovered the low-carb, keto diet in 2017 first through the movie, The Magic Pill, and then through his own extensive reading and research. He has become a passionate advocate for LCHF and keto eating. Dr Hawkins is convinced that it is the best way of eating for humankind and is based on good scientific evidence. For more information, you can call him on +64 (0) 92790460, email marcus@botanydoctor.co.nz, visit his website at www. botanydoctor.co.nz or follow him on @lowcarbdoctornz or join his Facebook group at LCHF DOCTOR NEW ZEALAND.
