Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Dan, talks about how he changed his own health by accident after supporting his wife by switching to the low carb/keto diet she was using to combat gestational diabetes.
Owner of Deliciously Guilt Free a keto bakery in the UK, Dan wanted to have the same sweet treats but without the massive sugar and insulin spikes and so makes brownies, blondies and cakes that are less than a few grams of carbs each.
Dan also has an interest in politics, standing for Parliament three times, and has a goal to help build up the low cab community as a grassroots movement for change.
Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Dr Tro, loves a challenge! He talks about papers he has published showing the benefits of the ketogenic diet plus his own success story.
Dr. Tro Kalayjian is a board-certified Internal Medicine & Obesity Medicine Physician, who is the medical director and founder of Dr. Tro’s Medical Weight Loss and Direct Primary Care, in Tappan, New York.
Dr. Tro’s therapeutic focus includes diabetes, obesity, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, metabolic syndrome, and PCOS, and his approach is informed not only by the medical literature, and his own experience losing 150 pounds (68 kg) on a ketogenic diet. His intensive lifestyle changes for patients include diet, exercise, improved sleep hygiene, as well as stress management, and mental health. Dr. Tro is also the co-founder & co-host of the LowCarbMD Podcast.
Keto Crossover episode with the Keto Life Support podcast.
Join Daisy and Kim for a chat with their Keto Crew as they look forward to 2021 and share some top tips.
Who is in the crew? Louise Reynolds, Matt Murray, Jon Slaughter and Terri Lance.
Cohost – Kim Howerton
Kim Howerton struggled with her relationship with food from the time she was 8. As the years went by and her health problems mounted, she felt at the mercy of her body and out of control with her weight. A dedicated seeker of pleasure, she realised that life in a body that was always in pain was no way to live; that a pleasurable life starts by living in a body that feels good.
Enter Keto – a life that has brought together her love of satisfying, delicious foods in a way that makes her actually feel good. She now shares her love of all things Keto by creating recipes, running a Facebook group and her podcast Keto Life Support.
Terri has been keto for over 3 years and Paleo for 2 before that. She struggled with being overweight or obese from age of 7 until about 5 years ago and tried all types of weight loss plans and diets throughout most of her adult life.
Diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in her early 30s, Terri was prescribed many medications, typically taking three for diabetes, a statin and an ace inhibitor. She no longer takes any prescriptions and no longer has any biomarkers of Type 2 diabetes.
Terri was a middle school English teacher at the start of her career; then went back to grad school and earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology. She was then a psychologist in private practice for over thirteen years.
Terri is now a coach with IDM’s The Fasting Method. She is the Director of Retreat Development and has hosted two fasting retreats in Hawaii.
Louise Reynolds is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three adult sons.
In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and then moved into university and college teaching roles. Since late 2015, both Louise and Andrew have used low carb ketogenic way of living to address a number of health issues along with maintaining their respective weight losses. During 2018, she took a UK ‘gap year’ living, working and traveling and discovered a new found love of pork scratchings and clotted cream where she met Jackie Fletcher. Louise has now joined Andrew on his current posting to Bangkok, Thailand.
Matt is 48 and lives in Delaware, which on the East Coast of the US. He has been married for 20 years and has 3 teenage daughters, a dog and a cat.
Matt started keto four years ago after being diagnosed with T2 Diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Through diet and other lifestyle changes Matt was able to return his health and weight to normal. Matt recently started a skin care company called Nature’s JAM with his friend Jon Slaughter that makes all natural, small batch skin care products.
Jon Slaughter
Jon Slaughter lives in a town on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States near the Chesapeake Bay.
Jon stumbled upon the paleo diet while looking online for a recipe for a party. After following a paleo diet for over a year, he learned about the ketogenic way of eating from a friend who had been diagnosed with T2 diabetes. A proponent of natural remedies, Jon’s philosophy is “Do what you can first” instead of immediately going down the path of pharmaceuticals.
Jon loves to cook and create delicious recipes that are simple. He has shared his keto experience and recipes with family, friends, and anyone else who wants more information. He likes creating simple recipes that anyone can make because he believes living a ketogenic lifestyle will make for a happier planet one person at a time.
Jon’s other hobbies include hiking, kayaking, and homesteading. He keeps a brood of hens as a source for fresh eggs, landscapes with edible and medicinal plants, makes medicinal tinctures and herbal tea blends, and makes his own personal care products such as face cream and hand salve.
Jon partnered with his best friend, Matt, to turn his hobby of making natural skin care products into a business. Together they launched nature’s JAMTM making handmade, all natural skin care products in small batches. “When someone uses one of our products, I not only want them to love how it makes their skin look and feel, I want the aroma to lift the person up and make them feel good.”
Keto Crossover episode with the Keto Life Support podcast.
Join Daisy and Kim for a chat with their Keto Crew as they look back and reflect on their 2020.
Who is in the crew? Louise Reynolds, Matt Murray, Jon Slaughter and Terri Lance.
Cohost – Kim Howerton
Kim Howerton struggled with her relationship with food from the time she was 8. As the years went by and her health problems mounted, she felt at the mercy of her body and out of control with her weight. A dedicated seeker of pleasure, she realised that life in a body that was always in pain was no way to live; that a pleasurable life starts by living in a body that feels good.
Enter Keto – a life that has brought together her love of satisfying, delicious foods in a way that makes her actually feel good. She now shares her love of all things Keto by creating recipes, running a Facebook group and her podcast Keto Life Support.
Terri has been keto for over 3 years and Paleo for 2 before that. She struggled with being overweight or obese from age of 7 until about 5 years ago and tried all types of weight loss plans and diets throughout most of her adult life.
Diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in her early 30s, Terri was prescribed many medications, typically taking three for diabetes, a statin and an ace inhibitor. She no longer takes any prescriptions and no longer has any biomarkers of Type 2 diabetes.
Terri was a middle school English teacher at the start of her career; then went back to grad school and earned her PhD in Counseling Psychology. She was then a psychologist in private practice for over thirteen years.
Terri is now a coach with IDM’s The Fasting Method. She is the Director of Retreat Development and has hosted two fasting retreats in Hawaii.
Louise Reynolds is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three adult sons.
In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and then moved into university and college teaching roles. Since late 2015, both Louise and Andrew have used low carb ketogenic way of living to address a number of health issues along with maintaining their respective weight losses. During 2018, she took a UK ‘gap year’ living, working and traveling and discovered a new found love of pork scratchings and clotted cream where she met Jackie Fletcher. Louise has now joined Andrew on his current posting to Bangkok, Thailand.
Matt is 48 and lives in Delaware, which on the East Coast of the US. He has been married for 20 years and has 3 teenage daughters, a dog and a cat.
Matt started keto four years ago after being diagnosed with T2 Diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Through diet and other lifestyle changes Matt was able to return his health and weight to normal. Matt recently started a skin care company called Nature’s JAM with his friend Jon Slaughter that makes all natural, small batch skin care products.
Jon Slaughter
Jon Slaughter lives in a town on the mid-Atlantic seaboard of the United States near the Chesapeake Bay.
Jon stumbled upon the paleo diet while looking online for a recipe for a party. After following a paleo diet for over a year, he learned about the ketogenic way of eating from a friend who had been diagnosed with T2 diabetes. A proponent of natural remedies, Jon’s philosophy is “Do what you can first” instead of immediately going down the path of pharmaceuticals.
Jon loves to cook and create delicious recipes that are simple. He has shared his keto experience and recipes with family, friends, and anyone else who wants more information. He likes creating simple recipes that anyone can make because he believes living a ketogenic lifestyle will make for a happier planet one person at a time.
Jon’s other hobbies include hiking, kayaking, and homesteading. He keeps a brood of hens as a source for fresh eggs, landscapes with edible and medicinal plants, makes medicinal tinctures and herbal tea blends, and makes his own personal care products such as face cream and hand salve.
Jon partnered with his best friend, Matt, to turn his hobby of making natural skin care products into a business. Together they launched nature’s JAMTM making handmade, all natural skin care products in small batches. “When someone uses one of our products, I not only want them to love how it makes their skin look and feel, I want the aroma to lift the person up and make them feel good.”
Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Chef Taffy, chats about Christmas culinary traditions in this special throwback episode to the early days.
Taffy Elrod is a professional chef, cooking instructor, recipe developer, food writer and former restaurant owner, with over 20 years’ experience in the food industry.
Born into a family of artists and cooks in Ann Arbor, Michigan, she learned early on that food was a powerful medium for creation and change. She is passionate about empowering others to cook and enjoy the food that matters most to them.
Taffy resides in New York’s Hudson Valley, where she cooks and develops recipes with her husband Pizza Man and their rescue cat Kit-Kat.
Taffy’s Yorkshire Pudding:
Preheat oven to 425F (220C)
1 cup heavy cream
3 large eggs
2 tablespoons melted fat or butter
1/2 cup unflavoured whey protein powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
Additional 1/2 cup hot fat – preferable beef drippings
Mix wet ingredients then stir in dry ingredients or mix briefly in blender.
Heat beef fat in a pan or muffin tins in preheated oven.
Add batter and bake at 425F (220C) until puffed and brown.
You can replace the whey powder with egg white powder but use a little less – 1/4 to 1/3 cup.
Richard is a 55 year old software developer and technical speaker who built financial systems to expose risk on Wall Street and has worked on systems from industrial robots to payroll. At 38, he was the public-facing chief executive of a major software component company when he discovered he had type 2 diabetes. At 40 he retired, to devote his time into learning about type 2 diabetes and reversed his own with the ketogenic diet 7 years ago.
With Carl Franklin he founded the 2 Keto Dudes podcast (over 250,000 monthly downloads), and the international Ketofest event to help popularize the intervention as a treatment for type 2 diabetes.
At age 52 Richard went back to school to study Biochemistry. He graduated in 2020 and is now working as a student researcher in a computational Chemistry lab working towards a PhD.
Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Richard, returns to the podcast for a rambly chat about Covid-19, vaccines, Bets and a general catch-up. This is the first of a two-parter.
Richard is a 55 year old software developer and technical speaker who built financial systems to expose risk on Wall Street and has worked on systems from industrial robots to payroll. At 38, he was the public-facing chief executive of a major software component company when he discovered he had type 2 diabetes. At 40 he retired, to devote his time into learning about type 2 diabetes and reversed his own with the ketogenic diet 7 years ago.
With Carl Franklin he founded the 2 Keto Dudes podcast (over 250,000 monthly downloads), and the international Ketofest event to help popularize the intervention as a treatment for type 2 diabetes.
At age 52 Richard went back to school to study Biochemistry. He graduated in 2020 and is now working as a student researcher in a computational Chemistry lab working towards a PhD.
Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Nikola, talks about how she low carbs in the UK – both for her own health and to help others optimise theirs.
Nikola is an award winning coach, author, speaker, human physiology mentor, educator, woman in technology, orchid obsessive, and has been low carb since 1999. She is on a mission to free people from Diet Prison, remove the linguistically horrific words “weight loss” from common usage and her 2020 mission statement is “Assist the UK to eat itself healthy.”
Nikola also wants to disrupt the diet industry paradigm and move us away from guilt and shame when it comes to food and our bodies. She is one of the only people working within the diet industry to work on the mental/mindset side of body composition management, to break people away from “victim mentality” and so ensure long term success.
Nikola began her low carb life on the 6th of December 1999. The lifestyle suited her body a great deal, however she very soon discovered that there was a dearth of UK centric information and that most of the information coming from the US actively contradicted the UK’s food context and labelling laws.
Because of this, Nikola set up the Low Carb in the UK Website (https://lowcarbinthe.uk) in August 2000 as well as a Yahoo! Mailing list to help people connect with UK centric Low Carb information.
Nikola has over 20 years’ experience in assisting UK mums struggling with “pregnancy belly” and the “middle ages middle” to gain more energy than a toddler, a slender optimal body, and far more importantly, much better health and a renewed sense of confidence and self-love.
Nikola went all in with a coaching career via Low Carb in the UK in October 2019, having worked on the business part time since 2016. Via her innovative H.O.P.E Protocol, she has assisted thousands of people with their body composition goals via her website, books, courses, and 1:1 client work.
Nikola has written three books based around living a low carb life, written using UK information and from a UK angle. They are well received by her audience, and she is planning a 4th book in 2021 “How to tame type 2 diabetes”
Nikola was awarded “Best Nutritional Coach & Mentor 2019 – London” in the 4th Annual GHP Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Awards 2019 and “Most Inspirational Nutritional Coach & Mentor (London): Nikola Howard” in in the 5th Annual GHP Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Awards 2020.
Nikola was awarded “Best Women’s Weight Loss Coach – South East England” in the 3rd annual GHP Fitness and Nutrition Awards 2020
Before going all in, Nikola studied Physics and Chemistry at University and then worked in IT roles for both public and private sector clients, starting as a desktop support person in 1989, and rounding out her IT career as a Data Centre Manager before she left to work on Low Carb in the UK full time. She managed people and projects as well as stakeholders for over 30 years. This means that she brings forward that logical and structured approach into her client work.
Fabulously Keto is a weekly podcast cohosted by Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds.
They interview a range of guests using real food, low carb, keto and carnivore ways of eating. They also feature a quarterly AMA – Ask Me Anything episode – where they answer your low carb and keto questions.
Jackie lives in the UK with her husband and twin boys. After starting on her low carb eating journey in May 2017 and then moving to a ketogenic way of eating in January 2018, she has discovered a passion for everything low carb and keto. In 2019 she decided to make low carb and keto part of her vision to help others on their journey to health and weight loss. Jackie has a certificate in the ketogenic diet, is a nutrition advisor and is a trainee Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. She is also an ambassador for the charity PHCUK.org (Public Health Collaboration) dedicated to informing and implementing healthy decisions for better public health.
Louise is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three adult sons. In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and then moved into university and college teaching roles. Since late 2015, both Louise and Andrew have used low carb ketogenic way of living to address a number of health issues along with maintaining their respective weight losses. During 2018, she took a UK ‘gap year’ living, working and traveling and discovered a new found love of pork scratchings and clotted cream where she met Jackie Fletcher. Louise has now joined Andrew on his current posting to Bangkok, Thailand.
Join me, Jackie and Louise for a Ketoverse Crossover episode. They asked me to appear as a guest on their podcast – Fabulously Keto – so it is a fair bit about me but also a chat about a few things, including how to deal with things you find addictive. This is the first of two parts.
Fabulously Keto is a weekly podcast cohosted by Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds.
They interview a range of guests using real food, low carb, keto and carnivore ways of eating. They also feature a quarterly AMA – Ask Me Anything episode – where they answer your low carb and keto questions.
Jackie lives in the UK with her husband and twin boys. After starting on her low carb eating journey in May 2017 and then moving to a ketogenic way of eating in January 2018, she has discovered a passion for everything low carb and keto. In 2019 she decided to make low carb and keto part of her vision to help others on their journey to health and weight loss. Jackie has a certificate in the ketogenic diet, is a nutrition advisor and is a trainee Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. She is also an ambassador for the charity PHCUK.org (Public Health Collaboration) dedicated to informing and implementing healthy decisions for better public health.
Louise is a military wife to Andrew and mum to three adult sons. In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain her PhD and then moved into university and college teaching roles. Since late 2015, both Louise and Andrew have used low carb ketogenic way of living to address a number of health issues along with maintaining their respective weight losses. During 2018, she took a UK ‘gap year’ living, working and traveling and discovered a new found love of pork scratchings and clotted cream where she met Jackie Fletcher. Louise has now joined Andrew on his current posting to Bangkok, Thailand.
