Diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 13, Carolina struggled with weight gain and infertility for 16 years before finding keto.
After significant weight loss and reversal of her PCOS diagnosis, Carolina embarked on a career change from Financial Analyst to Certified Nutritionist and will be graduating with a Master’s in Nutrition from Bastyr University in June 2020. Her research thesis title is “Perception and Awareness of Carbohydrate Controlled Diets for the management of PCOS: A benchmark study.” It examines the experience of women who have modified their diets in an effort to normalize their cycles combined with the experiences of clinicians and their perception of carbohydrate controlled diets.
Now five years keto, Carolina loves sharing the life-changing power of dietary change with others and hopes to continue her research in a PhD program.
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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Carolina, returns for a catch up after her first appearance on the podcast just over two years ago when she was about to give birth to twin boys. She has been crazy busy and chats to me in this first of two episodes about her Masters research project.
Diagnosed with PCOS at the age of 13, Carolina struggled with weight gain and infertility for 16 years before finding keto.
After significant weight loss and reversal of her PCOS diagnosis, Carolina embarked on a career change from Financial Analyst to Certified Nutritionist and will be graduating with a Master’s in Nutrition from Bastyr University in June 2020. Her research thesis title is “Perception and Awareness of Carbohydrate Controlled Diets for the management of PCOS: A benchmark study.” It examines the experience of women who have modified their diets in an effort to normalize their cycles combined with the experiences of clinicians and their perception of carbohydrate controlled diets.
Now five years keto, Carolina loves sharing the life-changing power of dietary change with others and hopes to continue her research in a PhD program.
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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Lucy, talks about her new low-carb business ventures and shares some of her favourite, helpful analogies.
Dr Lucy Burns graduated from Medicine at Monash University in 1993 and completed general practice training in 1998. After watching the astronomical increase of obesity, diabetes and chronic disease, she changed her practice style and began to address the root cause of disease through lifestyle changes. She became a certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician and a clinical hypnotherapist. She is a sought-after public speaker and has spoken at multiple medical conferences on the management of obesity and weight loss.
Lucy lives on the Mornington Peninsula with her husband and 2 teenage daughters. They have a small acreage with 3 horses, a miniature cow, a goat, 3 dogs,4 cats, 4 ducks, 3 frogs, and a bearded dragon. Life is busy!
Lucy runs a successful weight loss clinic called Epiphany Medical Weight Loss and advises a low-carb lifestyle. The clinic has become so busy that it’s time to expand into an online program. She, along with her colleague Dr Mary Barson, has formed a business called Real Life Medicine™ and they are launching a program that addresses both the physiological and psychological causes of obesity.
Following the hormonal model for obesity, the program follows a low carbohydrate approach, addresses gut health and recommends intermittent fasting. They implement positive psychology and hypnotherapy to promote behavioural change. Both Dr Lucy and Dr Mary draw upon their experience to address sugar and food addiction with a positive, compassion centred approach. Their patients are empowered and achieve long term sustainable change.
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Lucys previous podcast episode with Jo Pollott was Episode #55.
Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Colin Stuckert, talks about the ancestral health principles he loves by and which inspired his company – Wild Foods.
Colin’s story began as a professional poker player out of college, where he was abe to make enough money on his computer in the wee hours of the morning to invest in a small juice bar inside of an LA Fitness.
The first business wasn’t enough, and he continued his entrepreneurial journey starting a Crossfit Gym just a couple of miles down the road. It became the largest Crossfit Gym in the local area, and is still running today.
Colin Started blogging and writing soon after starting the gym, and gained a passion for content and content creation. He took his followers on his journey of getting 3 certifications in Crossfit, and learning how to cook. Colin was actually an active coach for his Crossfit gym during most of the process and coached thousands of clients in his years at the gym.
Colin’s passion for writing continued to flourish, and he published 7 books while growing his blog, agymlife.com. It was around here that he realized Florida, and Southwest Florida in particular, did not have the infrastructure he needed to change the world. After a brief stint as a consultant at a real estate firm, he packed everything he cared to bring with him and set out on a journey to find a new home.
His plan was to visit Austin, San Francisco, and Denver to decide on where he could begin working on his vision, but didn’t make it past Austin. He signed a lease within a couple of days and put in his first order for what would become Wild Foods in October of 2014.
The products were easy to decide on – he only added products the he would use in his everyday life. Starting with a sustainably sourced Grass Fed whey paired with an MCT oil, and moving right on to Locally Roasted organic coffee and tea. Within 6 months Wild Foods had a booth on the floor of the biggest Paleo conference in the world – Paleo f(x). The feedback was amazing, even drawing a specific compliment from Mark Sisson, a hero of Colin’s saying that Wild’s packaging was amazing and they were onto something.
What Mark didn’t know was that Colin was still running this thing out of his apartment on Rainey Street in Austin, the same apartment he’d signed a lease for after the first leg of his journey. The apartment had bags, labels, coffee, charcoal, all kinds of pieces of the puzzle. He had employees come while he was sleeping and worked long into the night after he woke up.
Colin grew the team first of just him to 25 employees in 2018.
Colin reads over 100 books a year, and he’s been an entrepreneur for over a decade. His ability to adapt, refocus, and be agile in all things business and life have made his company successful. Yet, his mission has made his BRAND a success. The Wild Mission, where they believe real food is medicine, and that education is the world’s greatest asset.
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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Siobhan, returns for the second part of her chat where she goes into the gory details of what happened during (and after) her high carb experiment.
Siobhan (she’-VAUN) Huggins is an independent researcher focused on lipidology, the immune system, and metabolic diseases.
She spends most of her time at cholesterolcode.com where she works alongside Dave Feldman. She has been keto since August of 2016, and on a predominantly carnivorous diet as of October 2017. She has lost 80 lbs, reversed hypertension, and found a passion for research along the way.
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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Siobhan, returns to the podcast to talk about her experimentation with KetoAF and how she finds it helps her. We also chat about her time in Sweden and how she likes chatting to Uber drivers and converting them to keto!
Siobhan (she’-VAUN) Huggins is an independent researcher focused on lipidology, the immune system, and metabolic diseases.
She spends most of her time at cholesterolcode.com where she works alongside Dave Feldman. She has been keto since August of 2016, and on a predominantly carnivorous diet as of October 2017. She has lost 80 lbs, reversed hypertension, and found a passion for research along the way.
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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Terri, returns for the second part of our chat to talk about mindset and how we can alter it to help us achieve our goals.
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.
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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Terri, talks about how she reversed her Type 2 diabetes through diet and fasting. She now works as a coach for IDM and is also their Director of Retreat Development.
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.
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Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Louise, returns to the podcast to chat about her travels over the last 18 months when she has been living and working in the UK and seizing the opportunity to see as much of Europe as possible during her stay.
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 addressed a number of health issues along with maintaining their respective weight loss. For the last 18 months while living and working in the UK, she took the opportunity to travel throughout the UK and Europe.
Louise will now be joining Andrew on his next posting in Bangkok, Thailand.
Daisy’s latest extraordinary man, Chris, talks about his role as education manager at Perfect Keto, how he uses exogenous ketones and MCTs as well as recommendations for how best to use them as part of your ketogenic diet if you choose to.
Chris Irvin is a nutrition science researcher and writer with an expertise in ketogenic dieting.
Chris holds a master’s degree in exercise and nutrition science and spent his time in graduate school studying the ketogenic diet for performance and therapeutic applications. Chris is the education manager at Perfect Keto and strives to make the ketogenic diet easy and keto science accessible to everyone.
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“He called to wish me ‘Happy Birthday.’ Then he said, ‘I’m failing everything.'”
In 2013, Malcolm gave a talk at the University of Pennsylvania on the subject of proof. How much evidence do we need of the harmfulness of some behavior, before we act? The lecture was about the long-ago fight over miner’s asthma — and about the unexpected death of a Penn student named Owen Thomas. Revisionist History returns to the question at the heart of the the talk, with a visit to Owen Thomas’s family.
CTE – Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive degenerative disease of the brain found in people with a history of repetitive brain trauma (often athletes), including symptomatic concussions as well as asymptomatic subconcussive hits to the head that do not cause symptoms.
