Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Annette, comes back to finish what we failed to really get started on last week – an episode of the ever-popular ‘Ask Dr Boz’!

If you haven’t already listened to Annette’s story, check out episodes 46 and 47 where she shares her own story which we have an update to at the beginning of this week’s episode.

Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Annette Bosworth, MD is an Internal Medicine physician with over 19 years of experience helping patients overcome long-term, chronic conditions through lifestyle adjustment, preventive medicine, and other therapeutic paths. She’s been mentioned in media outlets ranging from CNN, Time, US News & World Report, to Fox News.

In addition to medicine, she loves speaking at town halls, jails, churches and universities. From politics to mission work, she lets her faith lead her to the next chapter of life-always looking for teachable moments. Along with her husband, she savors the adventure of raising three energetic, fast-growing sons through debate, wrestling, music, and theater. She fights for the underdog and encourages patients with chronic health problems to “Fight it ANYWAY YOU CAN. Ketones for Life.”

Glucose/Ketone Ratio

Annette talks a lot about the glucose/ketone ratio (or GKI). Here are a couple of tables to make it easier to see which range you are in. If your BG readings are in mmol/L just divide BG by BK and you will get a single digit number as in the GKI column in the table below – just forgot the ratio bit! So just read the digit on the left – 4, 2, 1, etc.

As an example, my current figures are falling between 1 and 2. The last measurements I took were BG 4.1 and BK 2.6. That results in 1.58 or 28.4 (x 18) in the US ratio equivalent.

The zones are general. Your results may vary. Mine do! If I want to lose weight, I need to drop below 2 (40 on US scale). My headaches are better (less frequent) at this level too.

Links

Free eBook

Book

Audio Book

Dr Boz Keto Food Guide

YouTube

Website

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Annette, catches us up with the latest on her medical licence review as well as chatting about how ketones can benefit people with Alzheimer’s and a long old ramble chat about exogenous ketones!

If you haven’t already listened to Annette’s story, check out episodes 46 and 47 where she shares her own story which we have an update to at the beginning of this week’s episode.

Based in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Annette Bosworth, MD is an Internal Medicine physician with over 19 years of experience helping patients overcome long-term, chronic conditions through lifestyle adjustment, preventive medicine, and other therapeutic paths. She’s been mentioned in media outlets ranging from CNN, Time, US News & World Report, to Fox News.

In addition to medicine, she loves speaking at town halls, jails, churches and universities. From politics to mission work, she lets her faith lead her to the next chapter of life-always looking for teachable moments. Along with her husband, she savors the adventure of raising three energetic, fast-growing sons through debate, wrestling, music, and theater. She fights for the underdog and encourages patients with chronic health problems to “Fight it ANYWAY YOU CAN. Ketones for Life.”

Links

Free eBook

Book

Audio Book

Dr Boz Keto Food Guide

YouTube

Website

Facebook

Twitter

Instagram

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Stephen, talks about his passion – heart disease – and how important being fat adapted is for a healthy heart.

Dr. Stephen Hussey MS, DC is a Chiropractor and Functional Medicine practitioner. He attained both his Doctorate of Chiropractic and Masters in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine from the University of Western States in Portland.

He is the author of two books on health:

The Health Evolution: Why Understanding Evolution is the Key to Vibrant Health

and The Heart: Our Most Medically Misunderstood Organ.

Dr. Hussey guides clients, or health participants as he likes to call them, from around the world back to health by using the latest research and health attaining strategies. In his down time he likes to be outdoors, playing sports, reading, writing, and spending time with his wife and their pets.

Links

Stephen’s website Resource Your Health

Instagram

Facebook

YouTube channel

Stephen Porges talking about his Polyvagal Theory on YouTube.

Stephen’s Top Tip

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Glenda, talks about how she reversed her Type 2 Diabetes, came off large doses of insulin, improved her previously high blood pressure and lost a lot of weight. Oh and how she is now fit enough to run away from bears!

Glenda grew up slim until she had her appendix out when she was 13 and then started to gain weight. Her family lived below the poverty line and they ate lots of store-bought bread with margarine and white sugar on it to keep their bellies full. With 11 mouths to feed and little money, food was all you had. They rarely ate meat or veg but did have lots of coleslaw because cabbage was cheap!

Glenda continued to gain weight through nursing training and after marriage, esp after pregnancy. She tried many diets but just kept gaining weight. Her doctors put her on a low calorie program but it wasn’t sustainable – she would lose but then gain more until she reached 253 pounds at only 64 inches tall.

Glenda ended up with high blood pressure and on insulin with her Type 2 Diabetes and considered having bariatric surgery to treat her severe diabetes of 24 years. She found bariatric surgeon while wintering in Arizona and he told her to start a ketogenic diet, get off her insulin and she wouldn’t need surgery.

He was right.

Glenda is now the same weight as when she got married. She is down 115 pounds using keto and then adding Dr Fung’s fasting protocol. Despite doctors telling her that keto is unsustainable, Glenda is now into her 3rd year eating this way. She no longer has cravings and is finally happy living inside her new, smaller body. She has found the support of patient groups online to be invaluable on her journey to health and wellness.

How To Make Mayonnaise

The easiest way to make mayo is with a stick (aka immersion) blender and a narrow container just wide enough to hold the blender. Add the ingredients in the order listed below and let them settle so that you can see the separate layers of oil floating on top of your acid and egg. Put the stick blender in the container so that it sits over the egg. Keep it still while you blend for about 20 seconds and then move it up and down to thoroughly mix the rest of the oil in. Et voila!

1 egg

1 tsp Dijon Mustard

Salt & Pepper and/or any seasoning you fancy.

1 Tbsp acid – lemon juice, white wine vinegar, AVC or whatever you prefer.

1 cup light flavoured oil – light olive oil or avocado probably best choice.

This video shows how to make it. I struggle to find a light enough oil here in France so rarely make my own mayo. I find olive oil too strong but can only get the extra virgin so that doesn’t help! Some people say avocado oil doesn’t taste great but that some strong seasoning like cayenne pepper helps. Let me know what floats your boat when it comes to keto mayo.

Glenda’s Top Tip

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Jennifer, carries on talking about how she reversed her Type 2 Diabetes, came off all her meds and stopped kidney disease in its tracks by switching to Keto. She has also set up a Keto candy company so that she can indulge her sweet tooth in a healthy way and allow others to do the same.

Jennifer is 48. She lives with her 3 cats, 2 dogs, 9 chickens, and 2 life partners about 10 minutes from the University of Georgia, on a beautiful piece of land with a stream, waterfalls, a quiet forest, massive gardens and a hobby orchard they’ve planted with blueberries, figs, pawpaws and pecan trees.  

Jennifer has struggled with obesity her whole life, as has her family.  Since starting keto in late 2015, she has lost 100 lbs and reversed her Type 2 Diabetes, got off all the drugs, her kidneys are back to normal and she is healthier than ever. 

Her two life partners also went keto to support her (they have been a triad for almost 20 years). Her partner Gloria, who is a famous sex therapist, has lost 25 lbs and her partner Will, who is a chef, he lost 180 lbs.  He discovered a passion for keto cooking and specifically keto candy, so last year they started a healthy low-carb candy company called Moons Grove Farms.

Jennifer also helps Karen Ogilvie with the Keto Science Alliance family of Facebook groups. They are big groups and Karen’s doing a great job promoting a science-based, evidence-backed approach to keto that makes a ton of sense.  

Jennifer believes there are healthy ways to enjoy food, without triggering unhealthy eating habits or causing bad physical issues.  She has struggled with food addiction and doesn’t want to go back to that struggle, but she does want to enjoy life (and a wide variety of food) as much as possible without being unhealthy in any way, and share what she has found with others.

Links

Use code MGFDAISY15 at the checkout to get 15% off your goodies!

Moons Grove Farms website  

Facebook page

Jennifer’s Facebook page

Jennifer’s Top Tip

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Jennifer, talks about how she reversed her Type 2 Diabetes, came off all her meds and stopped kidney disease in its tracks by switching to Keto. She has also set up a Keto candy company so that she can indulge her sweet tooth in a healthy way and allow others to do the same.

Jennifer is 48. She lives with her 3 cats, 2 dogs, 9 chickens, and 2 life partners about 10 minutes from the University of Georgia, on a beautiful piece of land with a stream, waterfalls, a quiet forest, massive gardens and a hobby orchard they’ve planted with blueberries, figs, pawpaws and pecan trees.  

Jennifer has struggled with obesity her whole life, as has her family.  Since starting keto in late 2015, she has lost 100 lbs and reversed her Type 2 Diabetes, got off all the drugs, her kidneys are back to normal and she is healthier than ever. 

Her two life partners also went keto to support her (they have been a triad for almost 20 years). Her partner Gloria, who is a famous sex therapist, has lost 25 lbs and her partner Will, who is a chef, he lost 180 lbs.  He discovered a passion for keto cooking and specifically keto candy, so last year they started a healthy low-carb candy company called Moons Grove Farms.

Jennifer also helps Karen Ogilvie with the Keto Science Alliance family of Facebook groups. They are big groups and Karen’s doing a great job promoting a science-based, evidence-backed approach to keto that makes a ton of sense.  

Jennifer believes there are healthy ways to enjoy food, without triggering unhealthy eating habits or causing bad physical issues.  She has struggled with food addiction and doesn’t want to go back to that struggle, but she does want to enjoy life (and a wide variety of food) as much as possible without being unhealthy in any way, and share what she has found with others.

Links

Use code MGFDAISY15 at the checkout to get 15% off your goodies!

Moons Grove Farms website  

Facebook page

Jennifer’s Facebook page

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Jackie, talks about how keto makes her feel so amazing that she is doing things she never thought possible and is even changing her career to share her passion.

Jackie, 55, is married with 16 year old twins. Jackie lives in Essex, England near the border of north east London.

Having always felt overweight she starting dieting in her early teens, trying many different diet over many years. She now understands that insulin resistance was probably part of the reason she had a massive ovarian tumour, which was removed along with one and a half ovaries when she was 17. Then going on to suffer with debilitating migraines and later on gallbladder attacks.

Believing diets don’t work and the only way to lose weight is eat less, move more she felt a failure. Believing it was all her fault she couldn’t lose weight or do exercise.

By February 2016 she weighed 208lbs and through stress, not sleeping much and working a 12 hour night shift every week, her weight went up and up to 231lbs by May 17.

Through firstly low carb and then a ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting she has so far lost 53lbs.

She has also started exercising and won a bronze medal in TaeKwonDo sparring.

Jackie is passionate about the ketogenic way of eating and wants to empower others to take back control of their eating, weight and health.

Jackie is currently training to be a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner.

Jackie is launching Fabulously Keto, aimed at over 40s who want help with coaching for their keto lifestyle. In September 2019 she is launching a new podcast also called Fabulously Keto.

And the peacocks? Beautiful but noisy!

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Links

Website

Facebook Group

Twitter

Instagram

Books

Heal Your Headache by David Buchholz

The Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod

Stress Less, Accomplish More by Emily Fletcher

Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes

Keto Clarity by Jimmy Moore

Jackie’s Top Tip

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary women, Louise and Suzie, return to the podcast to chat about the recent PHC conference that was held in London.

Louise

Louise Reynolds is a military wife to Andrew and mum of three adult sons. In her working life, she was the first Australian female paramedic to gain a PhD and has spent the last 15 years teaching university paramedic and health science programs in Australia and now the UK. Since 2015, she has been using low carb/keto to maintain her 130lb (60kg) weight loss. In her spare time, she is strength training at the gym and planning overseas travel.

Twitter @drloureynolds

Suzie

Suzie Edge is a former NHS doctor and medical molecular biologist. She trained in the department of orthopaedic surgery but left recently to set up her own business, helping others in real-food health with their digital media marketing and social media content, an area she worked in before being a doctor. 

Suzie has been through her own health and weight loss journey, discovering low carb and the keto way of eating through the work of Gary Taubes and Robert Lustig. She now spends her time thinking about how we might get the messages of low carb and real food out as far as possible.

At home Suzie is a Mum of two girls whose diet she is finding harder and harder to influence. 

Twitter @edgesuz

Facebook @EdgeAgainstTheGrain

Instagram @doc.edge

What If Health podcast

Support Suzie on Patreon

PHC UK

You can find videos of previous year’s presentations on the PHC YouTube Channel. Watch that space too for the 2019 presentations which should be released within a few months.

How about a fun day out for all the family where you can meet with like-minded people who are into real food?

Low Carb Denver videos

Zoë Harcombe What About Fibre?

David & Jenn Unwin Behaviour Change “In a Nutshell” & Picking Our Low Carb Battles.

Louise’s Top Tips

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary people, Siobhan and Dave, talk about what n=1 experiments they have been up to lately and quitting diet soda addiction.

Siobhan has lost nearly 80 pounds over the course of about 2 1/2 years, using a combination of a ketogenic and carnivorous diet. Along the way she’s also found the diet improved symptoms of depression, and keratosis pilaris as well as resolved her hypertension, eczema, and chronic joint and back pain.

She now works with Dave Feldman full time, studying lipid metabolism and the immune system, along with plenty of n=1 self experimentation.

You can find her at CholesterolCode.com, at her sideblog dentritica, or you can follow her on Twitter @Siobhan_Huggins.

Siobhan’s presentation at CarnivoryCon 2019.

Siobhan’s presentation at Ketofest 2018.

Dave is a senior software engineer and entrepreneur. He began working with programming and system engineering at a very young age and has always enjoyed learning new mechanistic patterns and concepts.

After starting a low carb diet, Dave found his cholesterol numbers increased considerably. He then began reverse engineering the lipid system through self-experimentation and testing, finding it was very dynamic and fluid. He has now demonstrated this multiple times by moving his cholesterol up and down substantially. in a matter of days. 

Find Dave at CholesterolCode.com and follow him on Twitter @DaveKeto.

Dave’s presentation at CarnivoryCon.

Dave’s presentation at Low Carb Salt Lake.

Siobhan’s Top Tip

Dave’s Top Tip

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Bec, talks about how she lives a life with no limits as a Type 1 Diabetic. She has twice swum solo across the 20-kilometre Rottnest Channel, sailed across the Atlantic, and become a SCUBA dive guide to prove it! 

Bec is the CEO of the Type 1 Diabetes Family Centre in Western Australia, an Australia-first centre for people with type 1 diabetes. Diagnosed with type 1 in 2001, Bec believes that there are no limits on a life with type 1 diabetes, and she has twice swum solo across the 20-kilometre Rottnest Channel, sailed across the Atlantic, and become a SCUBA dive guide to prove it. 

She manages her type 1 with multiple daily injections, a low carbohydrate diet, frequent connection with the type 1 tribe and plenty of active living.

Bec holds qualifications in Law and Arts, a Masters in Public Health, and a Diploma of Business (Governance). She is an Adjunct Research Fellow at Curtin University, a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Community Directors and a Fellow of Leadership WA. She is the only Australian to have been selected as one of the 100 Fellows of the global Facebook Community Leadership Program.

Links

website

email

Dr Bernstein’s Diabetes Solution Richard K Bernstein MD

The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance Jeff S Volek PhD RD & Stephen D Phinney MD PhD

Bec’s Top Tip

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