Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Amber, returns to talk about KetoAF. This is part of a trilogy starting with April Ihly’s episodes 100 and 101, followed by Siobhan Huggins’ episodes 107 and 108 and is itself a two-parter so make sure to come back next week to finish the story.
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.
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Growing on the enormous popularity of last year’s first CarnivoryCon, 2020 sees it double in size. Onwards and upwards for a fabulous conference. Get your tickets here carnivorycon.com.
Amber’s Website and Social Media
ketotic.org Eclectic explorations on the science of ketogenic diets.
empiri.ca Person blog, mostly on experiences with carnivory.
Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Nadia, talks about her experience with PCOS and how she now helps other women to manage the condition through her role as a coach for IDM’s The Fasting Method.
Nadia is a Naturopathic Doctor and dietary coach for The Fasting Method with Megan Ramos and Dr. Jason Fung.
She focuses on Metabolic Syndrome and Insulin Resistance expressing Diabetes, Obesity, Fatty Liver and PCOS. Nadia is a speaker and author of the book The PCOS Plan.
Daisy’s latest extraordinary women, Kim and Terri, join forces with Daisy for the first Ketoverse crossover episode with Kim’s podcast Keto Life Support.
If you are in the UK or Europe, these are the yummy crisps I was talking about. Zero carb and deelish!
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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.
Daisy’s latest extraordinary woman, Mende, chats about lipedema – how it has impacted her and how she now helps other women combat the disorder.
Mende is 46 years old and has been married to her college sweetheart for 27 years They have four beautiful children: one girl and three boys. They have a small hobby farm in rural Missouri where they grow honeybees, mushrooms, heirloom vegetables, goats and chickens. Mende is a baker and cake decorator, and she teaches junior high and high school cooking classes at her local homeschool co-op. Mende has also taught many community education classes on a variety of subjects at both a local technical school and the farmers’ market.
Mende has used her cooking and teaching experience to coach women with lipedema in the keto way of eating. Mende is passionate about keto and wants all women who suffer from lipedema to find the same physical, emotional and spiritual healing she has experienced.
Mende has been larger than a size 18 since she was 18 years old and has tried just about every “diet” out there and failed to lose the wight or keep it off. The only semi-success she had is when she went on the Atkins diet about 15 years ago, but she found it too hard to maintain, and gained all her weight back and more.
Not only has Mende struggled with her weight, but her legs and hips have always been disproportionately larger than the rest of her body and are often swollen and painful. Her mom has never been overweight, but she has the same large, swollen and painful legs, and so do many female members of her family. Doctors had no answers, so Mende figured it was just her genetic lot. She never gave up searching online for an answer and, in 2015, Mende discovered The Lipedema Project. She watched the documentary The Disease They Call Fat and she knew she had found the answer.
In August 2016, Mende received an email invitation from Catherine Seo for a seminar about lipedema and the keto way of eating. Mende had no idea what keto was, and when she realized it was “another diet,” she was skeptical, at best. She didn’t understand how it was any different than the Atkins plan she’d been on before, and was doubtful that it would work for her anyway. But, Mende was also desperate for something to help her, so she started keto if only to prove that it would fail her too.
Her goal was to be a size 14 again… the size of her teenage self. Mende has lost 100+ lbs and is now a size 6. She had also suffered from debilitating migraine headaches since elementary school and they are completely gone!
Mende has a condition called lipedema that causes her pain and fluid retention. The swelling is well-controlled and the pain is nearly gone. Keto is her new way of life and Mende is excited to see where this keto journey will take her!
Mende received her training as a keto coach from the Noakes Foundation’s Nutrition Network. She is serves as a faculty member and facilitator for the Beyond Lipedema Masterclass and Mini-Masterclass, and she is a coach with Lipedema Simplified.
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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Use discount code KETOWOMAN12 to get 12% off your order at Wild Foods.
