Doug Reynolds and Pam Devine, founders of LowCarbUSA, discuss why they are embarking on this podcast journey and what inspires them to do what they do.&nbsp; They also touch on the amazing work they have done to get the Clinical Guidelines document published for therapeutic Carbohydrate restriction which will, for sure be discussed further in future episodes. Click here to read the current Clinical Guidelines document on the website. We hope to never have to insert commercials in our podcasts, but the work we do to put on these educational events, build the community and develop and maintain the Clinical Guidelines is not sustainable without your support.&nbsp; Please consider becoming a patron.&nbsp; Even the smallest contribution helps! Please, also, subscribe to us on Stitcher and iTunes to help us reach more people.

Kicking Off the LowCarbUSA Podcast: Episode 1

Doug Reynolds describes his heartache over his inability to help his family, especially his mom, who all need to embrace this lifestyle so badly.&nbsp; Dr. Ken Berry calls it the 'Powdered Butt Syndrome'.&nbsp; If someone powdered your butt as a baby they are unlikely to heed your advice once you grow up!&nbsp; But there are people who are open to the conversation so we focus&nbsp; on that in our efforts to change the world. We plan to never insert commercials in our podcasts, but the work we do to put on these educational events, build the community and develop and maintain the  Clinical Guidelines is not sustainable without your support.&nbsp; Please consider becoming a patron.&nbsp; Even the smallest contribution helps! Please, also, subscribe to us on Stitcher and iTunes to help us reach more people.

Personal Heartache, Can't Help My Family - Doug Reynolds: Episode 2

Dr Brian Lenzkes describes how he found the Low Carb lifestyle as he struggled with his own health while following the same Standard of Care advice he was offering to his patients.&nbsp; Seeing the great improvements in his own health, he then attended the LowCarbUSA - San Diego conference where he heard researchers and physicians from around the world talking about exactly what he had experienced for himself. His patients started asking him what he was doing to look so good.and so he started telling them that, although it wan't currently Standard of Care, this is what he was doing.&nbsp; Some of them chose to follow his lead with spectacular results.&nbsp; Now he has more and more patients coming off their meds and he is loving practicing as a doctor again.&nbsp; Helping people is the whole reason he got into medicine in the first place and now he is no longer depressed about not being able to help any of his patients with their chronic conditions. You can catch Dr Brian Lenzkes and Dr Tro Kalayjian on the LowCarbMD podcast here: We plan to never insert commercials in our podcasts, but the work we do to put on these educational events, build the community and develop and maintain the  Clinical Guidelines is not sustainable without your support.&nbsp; Please consider becoming a patron.&nbsp; Even the smallest contribution helps! Please, also, subscribe to us on Stitcher and iTunes to help us reach more people.

Internal Medicine Doc Converts to Low Carb - Dr Brian Lenzkes: Episode 3

In our last podcast we spoke with Dr. Brian Lenzkes who experienced a personal epiphany with restricting carbohydrates and is experiencing&nbsp; huge success with his patients who have adopted it.&nbsp; One of the first things he did when he got back from our conference in San Diego in July 2017 was to call his good friend, Jeff Kotterman, who is the president of the National Association of Sports Nutrition (NASN). "You've got it all wrong", Dr. Lenzkes told him, "you shouldn't be feeding your athletes carbohydrates".&nbsp; Obviously Jeff totally disagreed but after a lengthy discussion he was convinced to go back and look at the evidence.&nbsp; He looked into it thoroughly and came to the conclusion that he was, in fact, wrong and proceeded to rewrite the curriculum of his course for the National Association of Sports Nutrition. You can learn more about all the courses offered by the NASN here. We plan to never insert commercials in our podcasts, but the work we do to put on these educational events, build the community and develop and maintain the  Clinical Guidelines is not sustainable without your support.&nbsp; Please consider becoming a patron.&nbsp; Even the smallest contribution helps! Please, also, subscribe to us on Stitcher and iTunes to help us reach more people.

National Association of Sports Nutrition President, Jeff Kotterman: Episode 4

Today we talk to Dr. Adele Hite about her herculean effort to co-ordinate the compilation of the document outlining  Clinical Guidelines for Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction for us.&nbsp; Once we established the panel of advisers she set about creating the draft of the document and then bouncing it off the panel over and over until we were happy that we had it to the point where it could be published.&nbsp; This is a massive step towards establishing the Standard of Care for the prescription of Carbohydrate Reduction as a Therapeutic Intervention.&nbsp; That has been our main focus since about April 2018 and this document is a brilliant starting point for the conversations that will eventually lead to a consensus and an SoC for practitioners using this lifestyle intervention in their practice. What's more exciting is that we have been approached by numerous people to translate it into several different languages.&nbsp; At this time we have published the Clinical Guidelines for Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction in German and Portuguese and Spanish, French, Dutch and Indonesian are close behind.&nbsp; We envisage translation into many other languages in the future. We plan to never insert commercials in our podcasts, but the work we do to put on these educational events, build the community and develop and maintain the&nbsp;Clinical Guidelines&nbsp;is not sustainable without your support.&nbsp; Please consider becoming a&nbsp;patron.&nbsp; Even the smallest contribution helps! Please, also, subscribe to us on Stitcher and iTunes to help us reach more people.

Dr. Adele Hite - Clinical Guidelines for Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction: Episode 5

Jennifer Opdycke is a Physician Assistant from Michigan who discovered carbohydrate restriction about 17 years ago through the Atkins program. She started to introduce it to her patients and found most of them responded positively.&nbsp; But within the practice she was in she was still not able to develop a patient base of her own and she had more and more patients coming to her who were keen to explore the therapeutic low carb or ketogenic option.&nbsp; She then came across an article about other PAs who had opened their own practice and she learned about the concept of Direct Primary Care. Now she has a thriving practice which integrates other components as well such as emotional, stress and sleep management.&nbsp; This innovative model allows patients to have much better direct access to their health care provider. You can contact Jennifer to find out more about their Direct Primary Care practice on their website or on Facebook. We plan to never insert commercials in our podcasts, but the work we do to put on these educational events, build the community and develop and maintain the&nbsp;Clinical Guidelines&nbsp;is not sustainable without your support.&nbsp; Please consider becoming a&nbsp;patron.&nbsp; Even the smallest contribution helps! Please, also, subscribe to us on Stitcher and iTunes to help us reach more people.

Jennifer Opdycke, PAC - How to Set Up A Direct Primary Care Practice: Episode 6

In this episode we talk with Dr. Moe St Martin about the journey back to health for him, his family and his patients.&nbsp; His journey started about 15 years ago and he has enjoyed a weight loss of 140 lbs.&nbsp; Now he successfully takes this intervention to his patients.&nbsp; His entire family had an ongoing battle with obesity and so he brought them all to our first conference ever in San Diego in 2016. Actually, he brought the woman cause he says, "we live in a matriarchal society so I needed to get the moms on board".&nbsp; He feels the information helped them understand the problem and the ongoing interactions they have been able to have with some of the speakers has helped them with breakthroughs. Dr Moe talks about how the information at the latest conference on carbohydrate addiction, especially from Dr Robert Cywes, was hugely helpful to them.&nbsp; This year the entire family (14 of them) attended and the weight loss across the entire family is astounding, However, they all realise that they are in a constant battle with addiction and now they are starting to understand how they can effectively fight it. We can't wait to see them at the next conference and check in with their family's progress. We plan to never insert commercials in our podcasts, but the work we do to put on these educational events, build the community and develop and maintain the&nbsp;Clinical Guidelines&nbsp;is not sustainable without your support.&nbsp; Please consider becoming a&nbsp;patron.&nbsp; Even the smallest contribution helps! Please, also, subscribe to us on Stitcher and iTunes to help us reach more people.

Dr Moe - The journey For His Family AND His Patients Back To Health: Episode 7

After his exoneration by AHPRA (Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency), Dr. Gary Fettke now looks to the future.&nbsp; In previous interviews we talked to Dr. Fettke about his incredible personal story discovering LCHF and putting his brain tumour into remission and then about his persecution by the AHPRA for trying to help his patients reverse their diabetes and prevent them from having their feet amputated. He has now been cleared of all charges. We have not had a chance to speak to him since that exoneration so we took the time to sit down with him at this year's LowCarbUSA® event in San Diego and talk to him about what was next. Apart from going after all the governing bodies involved in his persecution to obtain a public apology, he is mainly focused on being available in a mentoring role to other medical practitioners who are being maliciously persecuted for advocating a Low Carb-Healthy Fat lifestyle as an intervention.&nbsp; This just reinforces our opinion of him and his wife Belinda as a couple of the finest human beings we have come to know. &nbsp;     The work we do to put on these educational events, build the community and develop and maintain the  Clinical Guidelines we have published is not sustainable without your support.&nbsp; Please consider becoming a patron.&nbsp; Even the smallest contribution helps! Please, also, subscribe to this podcast on Stitcher and iTunes to help us reach more people.     &nbsp;

Dr. Gary Fettke Moves On After Exoneration: Episode 8

Jess Dudley has always been adamant that the path to success for many people on this Low Carb Lifestyle journey lies in small groups and the sense of community that they breed.&nbsp; She says' "A community, at it’s best, inspires us and helps us build each other up!&nbsp; We link arms and endeavour to understand each other!&nbsp; Our common goal: learn, grow, heal and feel better!" For her, a community is a place she can get involved. She found the more she stayed involved with others, the more she wanted to stay strong for others. She says, "We come from a place with food where we won’t do it for ourselves, but we will do it for someone else!" She's been involved in over 150 small groups in 2017-18.&nbsp; She's led or facilitated meetings online, in living rooms, coffee shops,&nbsp; the local hospital, gym and even her church.&nbsp; People do better when they are connected to each other.&nbsp; A small group experience can keep us focused, provide inspiration, direction and give us a place to add value. You can read more from her in her blog post here. &nbsp;     The work we do to put on these educational events, build the community and develop and maintain the  Clinical Guidelines we have published is not sustainable without your support.&nbsp; Please consider becoming a patron.&nbsp; Even the smallest contribution helps! Please, also, subscribe to this podcast on Stitcher and iTunes to help us reach more people.     &nbsp;

Small Groups Get it Done - Jess Dudley: Episode 9

As an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Gary Fettke had been experiencing some flak within the hospital environment in Tasmania, Australia for advocating dietary change for his diabetic patients to avoid having to amputate their feet, but he never expected to actually get reported.&nbsp; When the first report to AHPRA came through he and his wife Belinda were gobsmacked.&nbsp; It was like a slap in the face.&nbsp; He was being disciplined for helping to heal his patients.&nbsp; How was that even possible? So Belinda set about trying to understand why.&nbsp; Not only did she discover a massive conspiracy between the Australian Dietetics Association, the Cereal Industry and his own hospital to silence him, but she also unwittingly came across the truth about the origins of the propaganda that the Plant-Based Diet is superior to one including animal products. They go as far as insisting that it is the only diet and actively campaign for legislation to have animal products banned and even advocate for having animals culled. And it goes back way further than any of us even imagined.&nbsp; Way before Ancel Keys and the McGovern Commission.&nbsp; It dates back to the late 1800's and early 1900's, the 7th Day Adventist Church, the Temperance Movement and a young girl, at the time, named Ellen G. White!&nbsp; And they don't even deny it.&nbsp; There is no secret agenda here, it is their mission to advocate the Plant-Based-Diet and they proudly admit to that. "We are not against the Plant Based Diet", Belinda says, "We are just against people trying to dictate or legislate that we can't eat meat or animal products if we choose to."&nbsp; After dedicating herself to this research for the last 4 years she is, without question, the leading authority on this subject. &nbsp;     The work we do to put on these educational events, build the community and develop and maintain the  Clinical Guidelines we have published is not sustainable without your support.&nbsp; Please consider becoming a patron.&nbsp; Even the smallest contribution helps! Please, also, subscribe to this podcast on Stitcher and iTunes to help us reach more people.     &nbsp;