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Professor Grant Schofield is Professor of Public Health (Auckland University of Technology) and director of the university’s Human Potential Centre (HPC) located at the Millennium Campus in Auckland, New Zealand.His research and teaching interests are in wellbeing and chronic disease prevention especially reducing the risk and eventual mortality and morbidity from obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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. His most recent team appointments have been as Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club and, until 2017, Team Doctor for the Australian cricket team.Peter is Professor of Sports Medicine at the La Trobe Sport & Exercise Medicine Research Centre at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Peter has published widely internationally with a number of books, book chapters and over 100 original research articles. He is the co-author of Clinical Sports Medicine, a best selling general sports medicine text in its fifth edition as well as Stress Fractures, Food for Sport, Encyclopedia of Exercise and Sport Health and Clinical Sports Anatomy.Prof. Brukner is the founder of the public health campaign SugarByHalf and is committed to the challenge of improving Australia’s health with improved diet and increased physical activity. The profits from Peter's book 'A Fat Lot Of Good' will help to fund the campaign http://www.sugarbyhalf.com/Peter is also the founder 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. The Defeat Diabetes Program is delivered via a mobile app. It provides 100+ hours of video from health professionals, masterclasses, cooking demonstrations, recipes, a meal planner, and a rich library of resources, with new content regularly added. 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

Dr. Cate Shanahan is a board certified Family Physician. She trained in biochemistry and genetics at Cornell University before attending Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She practiced in Hawaii for ten years where she studied ethnobotany and her healthiest patient’s culinary habits.Dr. Shanahan is also science director of the LA Lakers PRO Nutrition program, consultant for Mark Sisson's Primal BluePrint certification program and author of the underground classic 'Deep Nutrition: Why Your Genes Need Traditional Food', and the easy-to-read executive summary of holistic nutrition, 'Food Rules: A Doctors Guide to Healthy Eating'. Dr Shanahan became an advocate for healthy living when she began to observe dramatic declines in the health of her patient's bone structure, immune-system function, and behavioural development in subsequent generations of patients in the same family. She attributes these changes to the two most powerful toxins in the food supply: Vegetable oils and sugars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Dr. Mary Dan Eades was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas and received her undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from the University of Arkansas, graduating magna cum laude.After completing her medical degree at the University of Arkansas, she joined her husband in practice, first as a general practitioner in their Medi-Stat Medical Clinic chain and subsequently in a private practice devoted to bariatric and nutritional medicine, gaining first hand experience treating thousands of people suffering from high blood pressure, diabetes, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, and obesity with their nutritional regimen.Dr. Eades retired from clinical practice in 2001 to devote her energies to research, writing, speaking, and the development and production of the Low-Carb CookwoRx television cooking show on PBS. She has been a guest nutritional expert on various radio and television shows across America, speaking at medical and scientific conferences and to the general public. She and her husband are currently at work on their 15th book, Protein Power 2.0, slated for publication in 2024.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

Dr Max Gulhane is a practicing GP registrar, host of the Regenerative Health Podcast and advocate of circadian & nutritional approaches to optimising health and reversing metabolic diseases.In this talk he explains why we should be worried about visceral fat as an optimal health 'biomarker' and the most effective strategies to eliminate it.TIMESTAMPS00:02:14 Types of fat and sites of ectopic fat,00:06:30 Why ectopic and visceral fat is harmful,00:10:00 The flaws of the BMI metric,00:14:50 LDL cholesterol is a poor a biomarker for health optimisation,00:17:00 Drivers of visceral fat accumulation,00:22:40 Visceral fat accumulates in proportion to a lifestyle which is incompatible with your biology,00:23:00 Strategies for visceral fat elimination, 00:29:25 Q&A,REGENERATE is a holistic health movement based on three pillars - circadian health, ancestral diets and regenerative farming. Follow REGENERATEInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/regenerate.aus/Twitter: https://twitter.com/Regenerate_Aus/Rumble: REGENERATEHEALTHSUMMITPlease 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

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

Dr. Eric C. Westman is an associate professor of medicine at Duke University Health System and director of the Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic.Dr. Westman combines clinical research and clinical care to deliver lifestyle treatments for obesity, diabetes and tobacco dependence. He is an internationally known researcher specialising in low-carbohydrate nutrition and is co-author of 'The New Atkins For A New You', 'Keto Clarity' and 'Cholesterol Clarity'. He has also helped do several high-quality scientific studies on low carb.Dr. Westman is currently the vice president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians and a fellow of the Obesity Society and the Society of General Internal Medicine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

Dr Sean Kristoffersen was born in Sydney and grew up in both Australia and Norway. After employment as a soldier in the Australian Army, he completed a Science degree and worked as a scientist within the pharmaceutical industry. After completing his medical degree at the University of Sydney, he worked at Nepean Hospital in Sydney’s West and as a rural doctor. Dr Kristoffersen and his partner Dr. David Lim now operate the Church Street Medical Practice in Sydney's Newtown. They apply the principals of Low Carb, High Fat in the practice and have achieved remarkable success in many of their patients with insulin resistance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Tania Farrar completed her medical degree at the university of Notre Dame and attained accreditation in Neurology from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians training at St Vincent’s Hospital, Royal Price Alfred Hospital, Orange Hospital and Royal North Shore Hospital. Dr. Farrar is also a clinical lecturer for the University of Notre Dame, School of Medicine, Sydney and a tutor in Neurology for the University of Sydney.Dr. Farrar undertook an Epilepsy Fellowship at Westmead Hospital and was trained in complex epilepsy assessment and management, surgical epilepsy evaluation as well as cranial and intracranial EEG monitoring. Dr. Farrar has presented research in Australia, as well as overseas, and has been 1st Author on publications including articles on the assessment of patients with seizures. She is undertaking further study and research on the role of ketogenic diet therapy in refractory epilepsy and hopes to establish an adult ketogenic diet therapy clinic in NSW.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

Pete Evans is an award-winning Australian Chef, restaurateur, cookbook author and television presenter on Australia's most popular show 'My Kitchen Rules'.Pete is one of Australia’s leading authorities on healthy cooking and lifestyle and is dedicated to improving peoples lives through education about nutritional food and wellness. He embraces the Paleo lifestyle and has eliminated grains, sugar and dairy from his cooking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Steve Phinney is a physician-scientist who has spent 35 years studying diet, exercise, fatty acids, and inflammation. He has held academic positions at the Universities of Vermont, Minnesota, and California at Davis, as well as leadership positions at Monsanto, Galileo Laboratories, and Efficas.Dr. Phinney 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

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