Low Carb Down Under

Episodios

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  Dr. Kieron Rooney - 'Sugar and Cancer - Bench to Bedside' 05.10.2026 26m

  Dr. Kieron Rooney, BSc (Hons); (RNutr.); PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney.He completed his PhD in Biochemistry in 2004 and for the past 10 years has investigated both human and small animal studies investigating the role of diet and physical activity on parameters of fuel storage and utilisation as they pertain to dysregulated metabolic states such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Jeffry Gerber - 'Framingham and the Muddy Waters' 05.10.2026 41m

  Dr. Jeffry N. Gerber is a board certified family physician and owner of South Suburban Family Medicine in Littleton, Colorado, where he is known as “Denver’s Diet Doctor”. He was also the co-convenor of 'Low Carb Vail 2016'.Dr. Gerber has been providing personalised healthcare to his local community since 1993 and continues that tradition with an emphasis on longevity, wellness and prevention.Nutrition and its effects on health are areas of interest for Dr. Gerber and he has been focusing on prevention and treatment programs using low-carb high fat (LCHF), Ancestral, Paleo and Primal diets to treat and prevent chronic conditions.Dr. Gerber maintains a database of patients, looking at weight loss and improved cardio-metabolic markers, demonstrating the benefits of these types of diets. He speaks frequently about these important issues to patients, the community and other health care professionals. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Claire McDonnell Liu - 'ADHD, Autism and Metabolic Health' 05.10.2026 40m

  Claire McDonnell Liu is an independent nutritionist with over 10 years of expertise as a metabolic health specialist. She originally qualified in the UK, supporting patients with low-carb nutrition therapy within the NHS, and delivering school food improvement and education programs across the UK, before relocating to Australia. Claire has a particular interest in metabolic nutritional support for adults and children with neurodivergent conditions, including ADHD and ASD, delivering school programs and individual consultations.Claire has affiliations with non-profit and charitable metabolic health organisations, as a health researcher, writer, and project manager, including with the Australasian Metabolic Health Society, the Nutrition Coalition, Public Health Collaboration, Matthew’s Friends, and Low Carb Down Under.You can follow Claire’s Low Carb Down Under blog contributions here; https://lowcarbdownunder.com.au/category/news/Her regular metabolic health podcast here; https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq3-b1Ya_LEfZg97jZqI9yQ and her nutrition work here; https://leafie.org/Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Paul Mason - 'Trust Issues: How Bad Science Sells Drugs' 05.10.2026 42m

  Dr Paul Mason obtained his medical degree with honours from the University of Sydney, and also holds degrees in Physiotherapy and Occupational Health. He is a Specialist Sports Medicine and Exercise Physician.Dr Mason developed an interest in low carbohydrate diets in 2011. Since then he has spent hundreds of hours reading and analysing the scientific literature. For a number of years Dr. Mason has been applying this knowledge in treating metabolic and arthritis patients who have achieved dramatic and sustained weight loss and reductions in joint pain.Dr. Mason is also the Chief Medical Officer of Defeat Diabetes, Australia's first evidence-based and doctor-led program that focuses on the wide range of health benefits of a low carb lifestyle, particularly for those wanting to send into remission pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic illnesses. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Peter Brukner - 'LCHF: Health, Performance and Politics' 05.10.2026 49m

  Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a specialist sports and exercise physician and the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. He has recently been Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club and is currently Team Doctor for the Australian cricket team.Peter is Associate Professor in Sports Medicine at the Center for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He has served two terms as President of the Australian College of Sports Physicians during which time he was instrumental in the establishment of a specialist level training program in Australia for sports medicine physicians. Peter was the first Australian to be elected to the Board of the American College of Sports Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Marty Kendall - 'Managing Insulin to Optimise Nutrition' 05.10.2026 21m

  Marty Kendall is an engineer and the husband of a Type-1 Diabetic. He runs the blog https://optimisingnutrition.wordpress.comIn this video Marty discusses how the recent food insulin index data can be used to manage the insulin load of our diet in order to normalise blood glucose levels.For a more detailed analysis of his presentation view the article https://optimisingnutrition.wordpress.com/2015/03/23/most-ketogenic-diet-foods/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Despina Kolivas - 'Defeat Diabetes Research Study: Preliminary Results' 05.10.2026 31m

  Despina Kolivas is a Ph.D. student in the School of Allied Health, Human Services & Sport, La Trobe University, Melbourne. Her research examines the impact of a digital application (Defeat Diabetes) that provides education and support to implement a low carbohydrate diet, in people with type 2 diabetes.Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Paul Mason - 'Fixing Medicine' 05.10.2026 33m

  Dr Paul Mason obtained his medical degree with honours from the University of Sydney, and also holds degrees in Physiotherapy and Occupational Health. He is a Specialist Sports Medicine and Exercise Physician.Dr Mason developed an interest in low carbohydrate diets in 2011. Since then he has spent hundreds of hours reading and analysing the scientific literature. For a number of years Dr. Mason has been applying this knowledge in treating metabolic and arthritis patients who have achieved dramatic and sustained weight loss and reductions in joint pain.Dr. Mason is also the Chief Medical Officer of Defeat Diabetes, Australia's first evidence-based and doctor-led program that focuses on the wide range of health benefits of a low carb lifestyle, particularly for those wanting to send into remission pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic illnesses. Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Peter Brukner - 'The SugarByHalf Campaign' 05.10.2026 55m

  Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a specialist sports and exercise physician and the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. He has recently been Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club and is currently Team Doctor for the Australian cricket team.Peter is Associate Professor in Sports Medicine at the Center for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine at the University of Melbourne. He has served two terms as President of the Australian College of Sports Physicians during which time he was instrumental in the establishment of a specialist level training program in Australia for sports medicine physicians. Peter was the first Australian to be elected to the Board of the American College of Sports Medicine.In this video Professor Brukner introduces 'SugarByHalf', a new campaign to halve Australia's sugar consumption. Cutting added sugar by half is the quickest, cheapest and most effective way of reducing chronic disease.Please get behind this fantastic campaign and help get Australia healthy again.Website: http://www.sugarbyhalf.com/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sugarbyhalf/Twitter: https://twitter.com/sugarbyhalfYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClWo0Jih-dyqpJtp7quLe7w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Hasthi Dissanayake and Timothy Trudgen - 'Traditional Aboriginal Diets and Hope for Health' 05.10.2026 36m

  Dr. Hasthi Dissanayake is a Research Fellow in Indigenous Health and the trial coordinator for the Elcho Health and Wellbeing project. She has significant expertise in developmental origins of health and disease, specifically in cardiovascular physiology and non-invasive techniques for assessing vascular health. She was awarded a PhD from the University of Sydney in 2019 for her work in identifying newborns at risk of later cardiovascular disease. Her current work focuses on finding sustainable long term, culturally acceptable programs for the prevention of chronic diseases in remote Australian communities.Timothy Trudgen is a cross-cultural educator and consultant, who has worked closely with the Yolngu people of North East Arnhem Land for more than seven years. He is proficient in the Yolngu language and has extensive knowledge of Yolngu culture. His work has involved him providing education, training and cultural support to Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Australians, to help them understand each other’s worlds. Tim’s work builds on the 35 years that his family have been working in the Arnhem Land region empowering Yolngu people.Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Georgia Ede - 'Nutritional and Metabolic Psychiatry: The New Science of Hope' 05.10.2026 1h 7m

  Dr. Georgia Ede received her B.A. in Biology from Carleton College in Minnesota, then spent seven years as a research assistant in the fields of biochemistry, wound healing and diabetes before going on to earn an M.D. from the University of Vermont College Of Medicine.Dr. Ede then completed her residency in general adult psychiatry at Harvard's Cambridge Hospital in 2002 and was a staff psychopharmacologist at Harvard University Health Services from 2007 to 2013. In 2013 she left Harvard to become the psychiatrist for Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts where she provides nutrition consults as well as psychiatric services to Smith students. Dr. Ede was the first and only psychiatrist at Harvard University Health Services to offer nutrition consultation as an alternative to medication management to students, faculty and staff. Her areas of expertise include ketogenic and pre-agricultural diets, food sensitivity syndromes, and college mental health. She explores food’s powerful effects on brain chemistry, hormonal balance and metabolism for Psychology Today and on her website www.DiagnosisDiet.com.Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Low Carb, High Fat Interviews 05.10.2026 16m

  Guests at a recent Low Carb Down Under dinner to welcome Professor Jeff Volek to Australia were interviewed and asked to speak about their personal LCHF journeys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Ravi Gornall - 'Leptin and weight loss resistance' 04.10.2026 46m

  Dr. Ravi Gornall graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine alongside a Bachelor of Surgery at Imperial College London before making the move to Australia in 2009. She is an experienced GP and attained a Fellowship of the RACGP in 2015 with a Diploma in Child Health.Ravi became interested in functional and integrative medicine after her own health journey and the birth of her three children. She completed the ADAPT Functional Medicine Practitioner Training Program with the Kresser Institute and is currently finishing a Master of Integrative Medicine at Southern Cross University and a fellowship with the Australasian Integrative Medicine Association.Contact Details for Dr. Gornall:https://www.foundationsclinic.com.au/[email protected] consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Stephen Phinney - 'Optimising Weight and Health with an LCHF Diet' - Part 3 04.10.2026 1h 3m

  Part 3 of 3On November 25th 2014 Dr. Stephen Phinney presented this Workshop at Epworth Hospital in Melbourne to outline some of his research on Low Carb, High Fat nutrition and to give audience members the opportunity to ask questions.Dr. Phinney is a physician-scientist who has spent 35 years studying diet, exercise, fatty acids, and inflammation. He has published over 70 papers and several patents. He received his MD from Stanford University, his PhD in Nutritional Biochemistry from MIT, and post-doctoral training at the University of Vermont and Harvard. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Prof. Jeff Volek - 'Nutrition for Optimising Athletic Performance' 04.10.2026 49m

  Professor Jeff Volek is a Professor at The Ohio State University, USA where he teaches and leads a research team that explores the physiological impact of various dietary and exercise regimens and nutritional supplements.Dr Volek has published over 250 scientific manuscripts and is the co-author of 'The New Atkins for a New You', 'The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living' and 'The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance'. Prof. Volek’s most significant line of work has been a series of studies performed over the last 15 years. These have been aimed at better understanding what constitutes a well formulated low carbohydrate diet and its’ impact on obesity, body composition, adaptations to training and overall metabolic health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Louise Phillips - 'Helping GPs to prescribe low carb' 04.10.2026 31m

  Dr Louise Phillips is an experienced GP with a special interest in metabolic disease and using low carbohydrate diets & intermittent fasting to help improve Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, polycystic ovarian syndrome, weight issues, gout and hypertension.Dr. Phillips graduated from the University of Queensland with first class honours in 1999 and received the Maureen Duke and Marion Sullivan Memorial Award for her GP fellowship exam in 2005. She is passionate about ongoing medical education and participates in training for GP registrars and medical students. She is a Certified Nutrition Network Medical Practitioner after successfully completing their medical certification pathway, which is one of the most rigorous trainings in this field.Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Peter Defty - 'Winning on Fat: What the FASTER LCD Cohort do in the Real World 04.10.2026 33m

  Peter Defty is a nutrition expert, ultra-endurance athlete and General Manager of Vespa Power. Vespa Power is on the cutting edge of nutrition science and has developed a safe, healthy approach to fat adaption for endurance athletes called “Optimized Fat Metabolism” (OFM). Peter has competed in the Western States 100 among many other events and coaches ultra athletes on using fat as fuel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Carolyn Rogers - 'The Psychology of Food and Overeating' 04.10.2026 33m

  Carolyn Rogers is a Brisbane-based Psychologist who works in private practice. She has a special interest and extensive experience in weight management and eating disorders. Before becoming a Psychologist, Carolyn was a Registered Nurse and she has a passion for health and science. In this presentation Carolyn describes a number of studies done by Psychologists using animal models, and later human models, to show the addictive properties of sugar. Sugar and highly-palatable processed foods can produce the same brain responses as substances of abuse. These processed foods pose a problem for anyone trying to control their weight because they hijack the appetite leading to a vicious cycle of overconsumption, withdrawal symptoms when access is denied and cravings, leading to further overconsumption.Carolyn Rogers can be contacted via her website at www.carolynrogers.com.au Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Low Carb Sydney 2023 - First QandA Session Day 3 04.10.2026 34m

  The presenters from the first session of day three of 'Low Sydney 2023' answer questions from the audience. Featuring Dr. Pran Yoganathan and Prof. Peter Brukner.Please consider supporting Low Carb Down Under via Patreon. A small monthly contribution will assist in the costs of filming and editing these presentations and will allow us to keep producing high quality content free from advertising. For further information visit; https://www.patreon.com/lowcarbdownunder Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Prof. Grant Schofield - 'How We Can Change the Way We Eat' 04.10.2026 36m

  Professor Grant Schofield is Professor of Public Health and Director of the Human Potential Centre at AUT Millenium in Auckland, New Zealand. Prof. Schofield’s research and teaching interests range from understanding and improving lifestyle behaviours (such as sleep, nutrition and physical activity), to wellbeing epidemiology and human performance.Prof. Schofield currently leads a team of researchers investigating the role of insulin in the development of chronic disease and the feasibility of adherence to diets which are low in carbohydrate but high in fat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices