Tag: low-carb

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

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

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 [...]

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 Miriam John is a British GP who runs Fixin’ D2, an innovative 12-week Low-Carb diet programme for her patients with type 2 diabetes at the NHS Aurora Medcare practice in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. The programme is set up to run in her primary-care network for a patient population of around 30,000. For more information, you can email miriamjohn@nhs.net and follow her on Twitter @DrMJohn1.

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

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/.

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 [...]

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/.  

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.  

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

Dr Rimas V Janušonis is a family medicine physician in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the US and uses low-carb diet therapies in his practice at ThedaCare Physicians-Oshkosh. Dr Janušonis speaks from personal experience of the benefit. He struggled with his weight throughout his life, aggravated by the stress of medical school and residency. He had tried the conventional advice to  “eat less and move more” that “is routinely taught as gospel truth” in his profession without success. After routine lab work showed that he had developed metabolic syndrome, that was the “wake-up call he needed” to change his lifestyle and eating habits. He did further reading and research and fully implemented carbohydrate restriction. His metabolic syndrome resolved, he lost weight and has kept it off. It’s still work in progress, he says, but at least he knows he will be around to see his kids (and grandkids) grow up. Results have been so good and sustainable that he felt rejuvenated in his desire to help patients lose weight, improve their health and cardiovascular status, better control their diabetes and even put it into remission. For more information, you can call him on +1 920-237-5000, fax +1 920-237-5011, email him on Rimas.Janusonis@ThedaCare.org Read more [...]

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.

Dr Stefanus “Stef” Snyman is a South African occupational medicine practitioner in Somerset West. Dr Snyman’s passion is to help reverse insulin resistance (IR) in the workplace and the risk it poses to employee health, functioning and productivity. He is an experienced advisor to companies to help address these and other risks in the workplace.He works in an interprofessional team to solve complex problems related to IR and other non-communicable diseases using a bio-psycho-social-spiritual approach. The foundation of his team’s approach is a low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LCHF) lifestyle to reduce and even wean persons off chronic medications and to optimise supplementation and exercise. The team collaborates with a pharmacologist, physiotherapist, psychologist, clinical pastoral counsellor and occupational therapist. Dr Snyman also heads an international team developing a state-of-the-art mobile app, called I Can Function, to help reverse insulin resistance. He believes that this innovation will “totally revolutionise the way patients are managed by giving the power back to them to navigate islands of care and to utilise cutting edge technology to get support”. Anyone with conditions, such as obesity, diabetes, arthritis, hypertension, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, burnout and depression is welcome to contact him. He consults at workplaces or via Zoom or Skype, Read more [...]

Canadian Isabelle Couture is a low-carb, keto coach at Ceto-Solutions, based in Quebec. For most of her life, Isabelle followed “expert” advice to be slim and healthy, both on the nutritional and athletic side. Despite all her efforts, she became morbidly obese and severely depressed. In 2017, with her scientific background in microbiology and immunology, she decided to do her own research into optimum nutrition for health and weight loss. She came across compelling scientific evidence for benefits of low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) and ketogenic diets and changed her eating habits to go with the evidence. She quickly lost weight, has maintained the weight loss, weaned herself off all drugs and no longer has symptoms of depression. Her goal now is to help others who want to regain control of their lives and health, one meal at a time. Isabelle trained as a low-carb, keto coach at Ceto-solutions, affiliated with Dr Evelyne Bourdua-Roy. For more information, call her at +1-450-587-2057, email: coach22@cetosolutions.com, visit her website at https://cetosolutions.com or follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Isabelle-C-Coach-certifié-Céto-Solutions-404098930317083/

Teresa Henry is a nutritional therapist and runs Slender Health Nutrition based in Fuengirola, Spain. Teresa helps local and international clients by providing personalised nutritional therapy programmes specialising in diabetes, menopause, weight loss programmes.  She graduated from the College of Naturopathic Medicine (CNM, UK and International) after studying a 3-year Diploma in Naturopathic Nutrition. She is also trained in genetic testing interpretation and evaluation and is a DNAFit Certified Nutritionist. That allows her to combine the sciences of biochemistry and nutrition with natural therapies and lifestyle changes to support many conditions through nutrition. These include  diabetes, hypertension, hypothyroidism, hormonal problems, fertility, irritable bowel syndrome, chronic fatigue, gallbladder problems and many more. For more information, you can call Teresa on +34 711 008 090, email info@slenderhealthnutrition.com, visit her website at www.slenderhealthnutrition.com, follow her on Twitter @slenderhealthNT or on Facebook

Dr David G Harper is an associate professor at the University of Fraser Valley, cancer researcher, nutrition counsellor, and advocate in Canada. Dr Harper is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Canadian Clinicians for Therapeutic Nutrition that advocates for evidence-based nutritional policy and recommendations and recognizes the therapeutic benefits of low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets as one option for improved health. He is author of The BioDiet. For more information, you can call +1.604.669.9194, email david@biodiet.org or visit his website at biodiet.org.