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  Dr. Ravi Gornall - 'Leptin and weight loss resistance' 04.10.2026 46min

  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 1godz 3min

  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 49min

  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 31min

  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 33min

  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 33min

  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 34min

  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 36min

  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
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  Dr. Alok Gupta - 'Low Carb for Renal Patients: My Experience' 04.10.2026 35min

  Dr Alok Gupta is a nephrologist with over 12 years of experience in treating a wide range of both acute and chronic renal conditions. He looks after patients suffering from Chronic Kidney Diseases, Renal Transplantation, Resistant Hypertension and provides Dialysis care. He has special interest in medical management of kidney stones.Originally from New Dehli, India, Dr. Gupta received training in general medicine and advanced training in nephrology. He then went on to complete a two year clinical fellowship in nephrology in Toronto, Canada. Upon his arrival in Australia Dr. Gupta practised at Mildura Base Hospital in regional Victoria. In 2015, he was awarded his FRACP in Medicine and Nephrology by Royal Australasian College of Physicians. He has honorary appointments at Royal Melbourne Hospital and Monash Rural School of Medicine.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. Rangan Chatterjee - 'Low Carb, Slow Carb and the Microbiome' 04.10.2026 24min

  Dr. Rangan Chatterjee graduated from Edinburgh University Medical School in 2001. Initially, he worked as a hospital doctor for six years before switching to General Practice medicine. He holds a BSc Honours Degree in Immunology and is a member of the Institute of Functional Medicine in the United States. Recently, Dr. Chatterjee also starred in the popular BBC1 documentary series 'Doctor In The House'.Dr. Chatterjee believes that lifestyle and nutrition should be seen as first line medicine. He is dedicated to empowering his patients with the knowledge and motivation they need to achieve and maintain optimal health. He has a particular interest in the emerging science of the gut microbiome and applies an integrative medical approach in his work that combines the best of nutritional science, conventional medicine and advanced diagnostics to find the root cause of illness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Dr. Sanjeev Balakrishnan - 'Nutrition For Mental Health' 04.10.2026 26min

  Dr. Sanjeev Balakrishnan holds a Master of Medicine in Family Medicine from the National University of Singapore and is currently a GP working in Perth, Western Australia. Dr. Balakrishnan has more than two decades of experience and is very passionate about the management of obesity, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome through healthy eating. He is an advocate for the low carbohydrate-high healthy fat diet and is the creator of Low Carb WA. He is a fully credentialed Family Physician in Singapore and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.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 - 'Treating concussion: A nutritional perspective' 04.10.2026 40min

  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. Ben Bikman - 'GLP-1 Drugs: Consequences and Considerations' 04.10.2026 46min

  Dr. Benjamin Bikman earned his Ph.D. in Bioenergetics and was a postdoctoral fellow with the Duke-National University of Singapore in metabolic disorders. He is currently a professor of pathophysiology and a biomedical scientist at Brigham Young University in Utah. Dr. Bikman's professional focus as a scientist and professor is to better understand chronic modern-day diseases, with a special emphasis on the origins and consequences of obesity and diabetes, with an increasing scrutiny of the pathogenicity of insulin and insulin resistance. He frequently publishes his research in peer-reviewed journals and presents at international science meetings.Dr. Bikman has long been an advocate of a ketogenic diet in light of the considerable evidence supporting its use as a therapy for reversing insulin resistance. His website InsulinIQ.com promotes dietary clarity, healing, and freedom through evidence-based science about insulin resistance. Employing cell-autonomous to whole-body systems, Dr. Bikman's recent efforts have focused on exploring the intimate associations between the metabolic and immune systems.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. Jeff Volek - 'The Art and Science of Low Carb Living: Cardio-Metabolic Benefits and Beyond' 04.10.2026 56min

  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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  Jayne Bullen - 'Changing Consensus' 04.10.2026 37min

  Jayne Bullen is an MBA Chevening Scholar, High Dip in Marketing and International Relations graduate. In her MBA at Leeds University, she focussed on the regulation of marketing to children in the food and fast food categories, later conducting Pan European media research and strategy evaluation in this area for various global health bodies and brands.Jayne believes research in healthcare needs better funding and strong minds. After realising the dichotomy between brand research budgets and human health research, she decided to leave the formal research world, committed to bringing her global experience in big biz research, systems, and policy change expertise into new areas to affect change to human health.As an extension of her collaborative vision for the future of human health and better healthcare systems, she co-founded Nutrition Network and has been its Managing Director since it was founded in 2018. As the Chief Operating Officer of The Noakes Foundation, she established Eat Better South Africa alongside inspiring colleagues and Prof Noakes and believes in building stronger collaboration in the nutrition and science game.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 - 'Lies, Bias and Big Pharma: Accident or Design?' 04.10.2026 46min

  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. Anthony Chaffee - 'Ketogenic Carnivore athletes' 04.10.2026 1godz 3min

  Dr Anthony Chaffee is an American medical doctor specialising in Neurosurgery who over a span of 20 years has researched the optimal nutritional habits for athletic performance and health. It is his assertion that most of the so-called chronic diseases that doctors treat these days are actually caused by the food we eat, or don’t eat, and can in many cases be reversed easily with dietary changes.Dr. Chaffee began his University education studying Molecular & Cellular Biology with a Minor in Chemistry at the University of Washington in Seattle at the age of 15, which culminated in attaining his MD from the Royal College of Surgeons.Dr. Chaffee is an All-American rugby player and a former professional athlete in England and America, having taken several years off from his education for the pursuit of sports between his undergraduate degree and medical school. Throughout his athletic career he saw first hand the monumental difference that diet makes to performance and recovery.Dr. Chaffee almost accidentally came across and practiced a fully carnivorous diet from age 20 to 25, having first learned of the toxic nature of plants during his University education. Since then he has rediscovered this truth and more and has dedicated many years and a large part of his professional practice to the study and education of diet and nutrition. He personally practices a fully carnivorous diet and currently resides in Perth, Australia where he does private consultations and clinics in functional medicine and nutrition.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. Jason Fung - 'The Aetiology of Obesity' 04.10.2026 45min

  Dr. Jason Fung completed medical school and internal medicine at the University of Toronto before finishing his nephrology fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles at the Cedars-Sinai hospital.He now has a practice in Ontario, Canada where he uses his Intensive Dietary Management program to help all sorts of patients, but especially those suffering from the two big epidemics of modern times: obesity and type 2 diabetes.Dr. Fung uses innovative solutions to these problems, realising that conventional treatments are not that effective in helping people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  A/Prof. Ken Sikaris - 'Changing Views of Fat Metabolism' 04.10.2026 28min

  A graduate of the University of Melbourne, Dr Sikaris trained at the Royal Melbourne, Queen Victoria, and Prince Henry's Heidelberg Repatriation Hospitals. He obtained fellowships from the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia and the Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists in 1992 and 1997 respectively.Dr Sikaris was Director of Chemical Pathology at St Vincent's Hospital in Melbourne between 1993 and 1996. A NATA-accredited laboratory assessor, Dr Sikaris specialises in Prostate Specific Antigen, cholesterol and quality assurance and is currently chair of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry Committee on Analytical Quality. His expertise is highly sought and he has presented extensively at national and international symposiums. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  Justin Hansen and Julie Reid - 'Low Carb for Type 1 Diabetes' 04.10.2026 26min

  Justin Hansen and Julie Reid are the parents of three young children, including Patrick who was diagnosed with Type-1 Diabetes two years ago.After struggling to normalise Patrick's blood glucose levels by following the recommended Australian diet for diabetes management, Justin and Julie discovered Low Carb via Dr. Richard K. Bernstein's 'Diabetes Solution' and the Facebook group TYPEONEGRIT.By adopting a Low Carb lifestyle and incorporating the latest Continuous Glucose Monitoring technology, Patrick now has a HBA1c of a non-diabetic and many symptoms of his food allergies have disappeared. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices