Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Peter, dispels some of the myths that seem so dominant at the moment about eating meat and arms us with the facts we need to stand up for ourselves in a debate!

Peter uses his expertise in Agronomy to offer an interesting counter argument to the claim that ruminant agriculture is destroying the environment.

Peter earned his undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of Georgia, and his doctorate from the University of Kentucky. He has an extensive background in forage production, utilization and forage-based livestock production systems and was the forage extension specialist at Oregon State University from 1986 to 1992.

Peter’s personal experience has led him to re-examine human diet and health. What he has learned doesn’t agree with the advice given for the past few decades. This new understanding, combined with his forage background, has given him an increased passion for the key to true social, economic and ecological sustainability – ruminant animal production systems – the source of butter, red meat, and cheese!

He is affectionately known as The Sodfather – leader of the Ruminati and the Ruminant Revolution. 

We Need a Ruminant Revolution!

Presentation at the American Forage and Grassland Council Annual Conference, January 8, 2019.

Ruminant Reality: Diet, Human Health and the Environment

Presentation at Low Carb Breckenridge, 2017.

Links

Facebook @GrassBasedHealth

Twitter @GrassBased

Instagram @GrassBased

email peter.ballerstedt@gmail.com

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Shawn, talks about how following a carnivore lifestyle has greatly improved his health and fitness. 

ShawnBaker, MD is a doctor, an athlete, a father and a proponent of the carnivorous lifestyle. He cohosts the Human Performance Outliers podcast with Mike T Nelson and has a huge long list of notable achievements which you can check out at shawn-baker.com.

Links

World Carnivore Tribe Facebook group

Instagram @ShawnBaker1967

Twitter @SBakerMD

Human Performance Outliers Podcast

Patreon for the podcast

You Tube channel

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Taffy, returns for a long overdue catch up and to talk about fat!

Taffiny Elrod is a professional chef and culinary instructor located in New York City and New York’s Hudson Valley. With over 15 years of professional culinary experience, she has cooked and taught many culinary styles with a special interest in food for health and culinary traditions. Most recently, she taught professional cooking for veterans returning to the work force in New York City before opening a small restaurant with her husband in New York’s Hudson Valley.

Inspired by her success with her own ketogenic/Low Carb High Fat diet, she launched a cooking website called Keto Cooking School where she shares recipes and techniques, and plans to explore the connection between traditional, classical and the ketogenic way of eating. She also makes and sells the most amazing keto granola.

You can buy Taffy’s granola from her Etsy shop

Taffy’s website is ketocookingschool.com

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Allan, chats about fitness for the over 40s and his book “The Wellness Roadmap”.

Just before his 39^th birthday, Allan Misner had a wake up call. While vacationing at a tropical resort, he tried to play volleyball, but got too tired to stay in the game. Once an athlete, he had let himself go as work stress, a toxic relationship and, frankly, poor health choices had gotten him to well over 250 pounds. As he sat on the beach, the water lapping at his feet, he realized he needed to make a change and decided to improve his lifestyle and reclaim his fitness.

Over the next eight years, he rode countless waves of wellness and fatness. It was this rollercoaster ride that made him realize that a decision wasn’t enough. So, one day, while lying on the bed of a hotel room, hung-over and fat again, he made a commitment to his health and well-being.

Today, Allan Misner is a National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM) Certified Personal Trainer and a Functional Aging Institute (FAI) Certified Functional Aging Specialist. He is the creator of the thriving 40+ Fitness Community, providing one-on-one and group fitness coaching, nutritional guidance, and personal training for clients over the age of 40. He is also the host of the 40+ Fitness Podcast, for which he has interviewed hundreds of health and wellness experts with a wide range of specialties.

The Wellness Roadmap

As we age, it can get harder and harder to lose weight and stay fit. Decades of poor exercise and eating habits make achieving wellness after age 40 substantially different from staying healthy in our 20s. Stop wasting time with fad diets and training programs designed for millennials. This all-inclusive fitness guide will get us where we need to go.

In The Wellness Roadmap, certified personal trainer Allan Misner provides powerful tools for middle-agers who want to live happier, healthier, and more fit lives. He helps us understand our bodies’ unique needs and abilities while offering invaluable direction for choosing sustainable training, nutrition, and recovery plans that suit our specific fitness goals. In addition, he introduces the concept of the Wellness GPS to keep us focused along the way.

It’s never too late to get healthy and fit. The Wellness Roadmap shows you the way to a better life.

Links

Website https://40plusfitnesspodcast.com/ketowoman

Facebook group

Twitter

Linkedin

Podcast

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This week Amber O’Hearn returns to the podcast for a catch up and to talk about the coming-up first ever carnivore conference CarnivoryCon.

L. Amber O’Hearn, M.Sc. has been studying and experimenting with ketogenic diets since 1997, and has eaten a plant-free diet since 2009 after discovering its profound effects on her mood and cognition.

She has presented at various conferences on the role of ketosis and meat eating in brain development and evolution. Her review on the evolutionary appropriateness and benefit of weaning babies onto a meat-based, high fat, low carb diet, was included as testimony defending professor Tim Noakes in his recent trial. She is a data scientist by profession with prior publications in mathematics, linguistics, and psychology.

Links

carnivorycon.com The first ever Carnivore conference to be held in  Boulder Thursday March 6.

ketotic.org Eclectic explorations on the science of ketogenic diets. 

empiri.ca Person blog, mostly on experiences with carnivory.

List of videos, podcasts, lectures, interviews.

Support Amber on Patreon.

Twitter

Facebook

diagnosisdiet.com Dr Georgia Ede’s website.

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Emmy, chats about how she ketos as a twenty something and the ups and downs she has experienced so far.

Emmy is a twenty-something from southeastern Connecticut, famously known in the keto world as Keto Dude Carl Franklin’s daughter. She spends her days working as a mechanical designer and her evenings eating yummy keto food, starting new crochet projects, and drinking vodka seltzers with friends.

She started her keto journey in the spring of 2016 in an effort to shed her college weight and support her dad. Since then, she has been in and out of fat adaptation a few times, learning a lot about herself along the way. Emmy hopes to normalize the ketogenic way of eating and enlighten as many young people as possible about keto as a way of preventing obesity and disease, not just healing it. Today, Emmy maintains the ketogenic way of life to maintain levels of energy, focus better at work, and stay in control of making good food choices.

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Christine, talks about her “joyful keto life” – how she reversed her fatty liver, lost over 100lbs and is now able to do all the things she found hard to do before. She runs local meet-ups and also has a blog JoyfulKetoLife.com.

Christine, aged 51, is married to her college sweetheart and is the mother of two young adults in their 20s. They live in a suburb of Detroit with their two cats, Miki Roomba and Kitty.  She’s known around her small town as “Keto Christine” and loves sitting down one on one over a cup of coffee with heavy whipping cream to share the amazing, healing benefits of her new lifestyle. She encourages people who are new to keto to – learn the science, apply the science and change your life!

Christine battled obesity for over three decades.  She tried every weight loss program imaginable with no long term success and many years of frustration and disappointment. Just before her 49th birthday, she discovered that she had a fatty liver as well as the ovarian cysts she was having an ultrasound for. As she began to research the consequences of fatty liver she began learning about hormones and how a high carb diet was destroying her health.  

A random google search about fasting and hormones, led her to the work of Jason Fung and the Diet Doctor website and she committed to a strict Keto diet with Intermittent Fasting. As a result, she has lost over 100 pounds and is now at a very healthy weight with healthy metabolic function.

Christine likes to joke she’s an “accountant turned blogger” and as a new writer, she’s exploring avenues to share the message of this healing lifestyle with a wider audience. Her website, JoyfulKetoLife.com, fulfils her passion to help inspire and motivate individuals in their own physical, emotional, and spiritual healing.

Links

Diet Doctor – A Beginner’s Guide

Jason Fung’s video lecture series The Aetiology of Obesity

Books

Jason Fung The Obesity Code

Gary Taubes Why We Get Fat And What To Do About It

Gretchen Rubin The Four Tendencies

Christine’s Links

Website JoyfulKetoLife.com

Facebook Joyful Keto Life

Instagram KetoChristine317

Twitter KetoChristineMI

Patreon Joyful Keto Life

Email Christine@joyfulketolife.com

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Tom, talks about his latest movie – Fat Head Kids: Stuff About Diet & Health I Wish I Knew When I was Your Age. Tom and Daisy also chat about the origins of the infamous Fat Head pizza dough, why bacon and eggs is the best breakfast ever and how Tom deals with people who like to preach to him about what he should eat and write about.

Tom Naughton began his professional life as a writer and editor for Family Safety & Health magazine. In the many years since, he’s worked as a freelance writer, a touring standup comedian and a software programmer.

Fat Head, his humorous documentary about the lousy health advice handed down from official sources, has been seen on Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime, as well as on television networks in several countries. His speeches and other health-related videos have been viewed by millions of people online. Tom now lives on a small hobby farm with one wife, two daughters, two dogs, one cat, and dozens of chickens.

Chareva Naughton began her art career illustrating forestry training manuals while a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, West Africa. She later studied computer animation and web design in Santa Monica, California. Her graphics are included in many of Tom’s projects, including his speeches, blog and documentary films. When not hunched over a computer or drawing pad, Chareva enjoys spending time with her family, learning aerial silks, gardening and tending to the animals.

Links

Fat Head Blog

Fat Head Kids book and film site

DVD on Amazon

Trailer for the film

The original Fat Head pizza dough recipe is on Cooky’s blog Cooky’s Creations – The Holy Grail of Keto: Low-Carb Pizza Crust.

Fat Head is less of a mouthful to be fair!

Cooky’s Creations blog

Fat Head pizza blog post

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Anne, talks about how she lost her sight as a young child and the impact that had on her life. Much later, as an adult, she had to have a liver and kidney transplant. Sadly the transplants started to deteriorate… but then she found keto.

Anne was born apparently healthy but developed acute nephritis at the age of two, and suffered a traumatic injury to her left eye when she was almost five.

She lost all the sight in her right eye by the age of nine and so has lived with blindness for most of her life.

In her forties, she had kidney failure and discovered that she also had polycystic liver disease which is hereditary.

A liver and kidney transplant in 2001 saved her life and keto keeps her healthy.

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Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Richard, chats to Daisy about his university studies, how he surprised her with a visit a few months ago (which is quite some feat as she lives in the middle of nowhere in rural France!) and what exciting new projects he has up his sleeve.

Richard is a 53 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 5 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. 

Last year Richard went back to school to study Biochemistry, and he is currently producing videos debunking bad science journalism.

Links

Richard’s blog easylocarb.com

Twitter @khiron

Instagram @easylocarb

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