Tag: obesity

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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.

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

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/.

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

British GP Dr David Oliver works in the NHS (National Health Service) at the Freshwell Health Centre. It’s a dispensing practice of seven doctors who provide medical services to about 7,000 patients living in the mainly rural area surrounded by the conurbations of Braintree, Great Dunmow and Haverhill and a longstanding close relationship with their local community. The Centre runs the innovative Freshwell Low Carb Project that grew out of concern about the rising incidence of type 2 diabetes over the last few years, alongside the widely reported rapid increase in obesity in the UK population. Dr Oliver says there is now strong evidence that these increases are linked to the large amounts of sugar, starchy carbohydrates and processed food that we, as a society, consume. For more information, you can call  Dr Oliver on +44 (0)1371 810328, email him at contact@lowcarbfreshwell.co.uk, visit the practice website at www.freshwell.co.uk or follow him on Twitter @LoCarbFreshwell

Dr Arnon Krongrad is a physician-surgeon in Florida and CEO at Allevion, a company that is building a free market for surgery and is dedicated to “rational healthcare delivery”. Dr Krongrad enthusiastically endorses low-carb, high-healthy-fat (LCHF) and ketogenic therapies to treat and prevent serious diseases. He runs a group to support people who have fitness, function and form goals. The group includes a urologist, a cardiologist, a food technologist, and several cooks and is focused on nutrition, health, and recipes. Dr Krongrad is also an enthusiastic home gourmet cook. His mission statement on his Twitter profile is: ‘Let’s get you free of doctors and drugs. A surgeon reflects on components of sustainable health: nutrition, muscle, sleep, sunshine, and sex.’ For more information, you can call +1 305 790 2363, email arnon.krongrad@gmail.com, follow him on Twitter @ArnonKrongrad or join the group’s What’s App chat forum.

Dr Marcus Hawkins BM BS (Nottingham, UK) FRNZCGP, PGCertCAvMed, leads the top performing practice of Botany Doctor in Botany Town Centre, Manukau, Auckland, New Zealand. The practice has won (Gold), East Health Trust Clinic Excellence Awards in 2014 and was Winner Best Practice Procare Quality Awards in 2011. Dr Hawkins spent six years working in both the New Zealand and UK hospital systems including Senior Registrar positions in both Intensive care and General Medicine. He promotes low-carb therapies in his practice for both treatment and prevention of serious disease. For more information, you can call +64 (0) 9 279 0460,  fax +64 (0) 09 279 4698 or visit the practice website at www.botanydoctor.co.nz.

Dr Guillermo Rodriguez Navarrete studied pharmacy and later nutrition at the University of Granada in Spain, with stays in England, Ireland and Italy, until he completed his doctorate, cum laude, in nutrition under the tutelage of Dr José Mataix Verdú. Dr Navarette currently lives in Miami, where he advises and lectures on optimum nutrition to treat and prevent serious diseases and favours a low-carb, high-fat, real-food approach. As head of the Ibero-American University Foundation in the Central American region, where he actively collaborated in the establishment of three  Nutrition Faculties in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. He  is author and editor of several books on different areas of nutrition and food and lectures and  He continues to practice nutrition education as a collaborator in TV programs on Telemundo and Univisión. Dr Navarette recently became the first Spaniard to be named Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN). He is also a member of the American Society for Nutrition, and of Doral Pro Health, a foundation that offers free health services to people without health insurance in the state of Florida. For more information, call  +1 305-335-2413, email info@nutrillermo.com, visit his website at www.nutrillermo.com and follow him on Twitter @Nutrillermo.

Dr Andy Phung is board-certified in family medicine and sees patients of all ages, from newborn to elderly, at his practice, NC Medical Weight Loss and Direct Primary Care, North Carolina. He is a strong advocate for the prevention of chronic disease through lifestyle changes rather than the current traditional medicine of prescribing drugs. Dr Phung promotes low-carb, ketogenic and intermittent fasting therapies to treat/reverse metabolic syndromes and other chronic illness. For more information, you can call him on +1 (919) -729 9431,  visit the website, drandyphung.com/, or follow him on Twitter: @drandyphung  

Dr Timothy Noonan is a family medicine physician at Allina Health in Woodbury, Minnesota. His special interests include low-carb therapies for obesity, type 2 diabetes, lipids, cholesterol, hypertension and preventive health. For more information, you can call +1 651-241-3000, follow him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TimNoonanMD/ or on Twitter @TimNoonanMD  

Michelle Mellet is a South African registered dietitian at Metabolica Med in Pretoria. She graduated with a Bachelor of Dietetics degree from the University of Pretoria and completed her community service at Tambo Memorial Hospital in Boksburg in 2018. Michelle has a special interest in weight loss, diabetes and sports nutrition. She is passionate about empowering and providing support to all individuals who wish to make better food and lifestyle choices. She works mostly with low-carb, high-fat  (LCHF) and ketogenic diets. For more information, please call +27 83 257 1868, email her at michelle.mellet@metabolicamed.co.za or visit the Metabolica Med website at http://metabolicamed.co.za.