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Your Best Health Ever! The Cardiologist’s Surprisingly Simple Guide to What Really Works,
by Bret Scher, M.D., FACC

Insulin IQ

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The Benefits of Fasting
—
Dr. Jason Fung of the IDM Program

My guest, Dr. Jason Fung is a passionate advocate for reclaiming our health through low-carb nutrition and intermittent fasting. As a Nephrologist, he recognized his diabetic patients on dialysis uniformly declined into worsening health. He knew something had to change. That is when he went against the prevailing paradigm and starting using low-carb nutrition and intermittent fasting as primary therapy for his patients. And he hasn’t looked back.

Now known as “The King of Fasting” he maintains a prolific blog at IDMProgram.com, and he has published
The Obesity Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss, and The Complete Guide to Fasting, and we eagerly await his new book,
The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally.

Although the benefits of fasting to treat diabetes are immense, they do not stop there. Fasting also impacts our nutrient sensors, and by doing so, may help us prevent or treat cancer, and improve our longevity. The science behind this is fascinating and continues to grow every day.

Key Takeaways:

[6:06] Dr. Fung recognized the failure in treating Type 2 Diabetes with insulin.

[15:38] Intermittent Fasting is balancing your feeding times with your fasting times.

[31:14] The science of how fasting affects nutrient sensors in the body.

[41:06] Turning down the growth factors of cancer.

[49:43] Calling out the connection between Big Pharma and the policymakers in the medical community.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Your Best Health Ever! The Cardiologist’s Surprisingly Simple Guide to What Really Works,
by Bret Scher, M.D., FACC

IDM Program

Books by Dr. Jason Fung

Diet Doctor

Exercise and Nutrition in a Fat-Adapted Diet
—
Vinnie Tortorich

Vinnie Tortorich is America’s favorite celebrity trainer, podcaster and author of Fitness Confidential. Vinnie shares how he got started in his career as a trainer to the stars, and he highlights the key differences between training celebrities for shoots and films, exercising to be health or training for competitions. As a long-time competitor in ultra-endurance races, Vinnie shares how he has used nutrition to help him achieve spectacular results in these grueling competitions. As much as he loves exercise, Vinnie firmly believes that the key to health and looking good is adopting a No Sugar, No Grains (#nsng) way of living. This has not only contributed to his success as an athlete and a model, but also helped in his battle against cancer. He is known as “America’s Angriest Trainer,” but he may also be America’s most outspoken and entertaining trainer as well.

Key Takeaways:

[2:28] How did Vinnie get started in his career?

[7:47] The role of exercise and nutrition in Hollywood vs. in health.

[18:51] How does Vinnie balance between being healthy and doing ultra races?

[22:42] The concept of being fat-adapted.

[29:05] How does Vinnie keep people motivated?

[30:37] Vinnie’s health scare – leukemia.

[36:10] In his recovery period, Vinnie adopted a ketogenic diet.

[46:33] Representing the life of a cancer survivor.

[50:06] Vinnie has a free PDF on the NSNG diet.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Your Best Health Ever! The Cardiologist’s Surprisingly Simple Guide to What Really Works,
by Bret Scher, M.D., FACC

Vinnie Tortorich

Fitness Confidential Podcast

Fitness Confidential, by Vinnie Tortorich

Born to Run, by Christopher McDougal

Cereal Killers 2, film by Donal O’Neil

Free PDF Download

Helps People Take Control of Their Medical Futures
—
Professor Tim Noakes of the Noakes Foundation

Prof Tim Noakes put his career and his reputation on the line by saying three simple words that we infrequently hear: I Was Wrong. In the 80s and 90s, he was the preeminent authority on sports performance, and he wrote the defining book explaining the importance of a high carbohydrate diet. Fast forward 20 years, and Prof Noakes’ own personal struggle with diabetes opened his eyes to the unforeseen dangers of the high carbohydrates diet. That is when he realized “I Was Wrong.” But he had no idea what was coming next. Given his position as a highly respected scientist, he was seen as a threat by the status quo in South Africa, and what ensued was a 3-year long trial intent on silencing him. Now he has committed his life to teaching the science behind low carb nutrition, how that can help athletic performance, and more importantly, how it can help improve our health. Nobody has risked more personally to proclaim this message, and that makes Prof one of the most remarkable proponents of healthy nutrition I have ever met. We have a lot to learn from Prof Noakes, and it all starts with the ability to say those simple three words: I Was Wrong.

Key Takeaways:

[4:44] A court attempted to use Prof Noakes as an example to take away free speech from doctors in South Africa.

[10:22] Type 2 Diabetes is a chronic disease of nutrition.

[16:29] The concept of hunger.

[19:12] Athletes should self-experiment with a high-fat diet.

[28:34] How do we break the cycle of industry-funded influence?

[36:41] Social media helps to substantiate a healthy, high-fat diet.

[41:17] Converting doctors is critical to promoting the low-carb diet.

[47:12] Goals of the Noakes Foundation and the Eat Better South Africa campaign.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Your Best Health Ever! The Cardiologist’s Surprisingly Simple Guide to What Really Works,
by Bret Scher, M.D., FACC

The Noakes Foundation

Books by Professor Noakes

Part 3: It’s Time to Revolutionize Health Care
—
HD of Hormones Demystified

HD of HormonesDemystified.com is back on the Boundless Health Podcast. Once again, this well trained and highly respected endocrinologist brings his entertaining, thoughtful and witty no-nonsense perspective to help us dissect some big topics.

In this episode, we explore HD”s own personal journey with Time Restricted Feeding, and of course we tackle insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia and how that relates to low-carb diets possibly being the cure for IR and even diabetes. We delve into the brave new world we are in with an army of engineers and critical thinkers forcing us to reframe how we see certain paradigms in medicine, and how the new venture with Amazon, Berkshire and JP Morgan will change medicine as we know it.

Lastly, we explore his latest blockbuster blog post on Why Smart People Make Stupid Decisions regarding their health care. You do not want to miss this episode!

Key Takeaways:

[2:41] What drew HD toward time-restricted feeding and intermittent fasting?

[10:16] The benefits of having obsessed engineers in the medicinal realm.

[14:47] HD’s thoughts on glucose tolerance testing.

[23:12] How do we define normal ranges?

[25:52] Should a ketogenic diet be a standard of care for a patient with Type 2 Diabetes?

[32:19] The Unconventional Medicine model may not be financially viable.

[38:17] Top 10 Reasons Why Smart People Are Stupid About Their Health.

[52:21] Defending Big Pharma.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Your Best Health Ever! The Cardiologist’s Surprisingly Simple Guide to What Really Works,
by Bret Scher, M.D., FACC

Unconventional Medicine: Join the Revolution to Reinvent Healthcare, Reverse Chronic Disease, and Create a Practice You Love, by Chris Kresser

“Top 10 Reasons Why Smart People Are Stupid About Their Health” from Hormones Demystified

Part 2 To Help Us All #RethinkLDL
—
Dave Feldman of CholesterolCode.com

During Dave Feldman’s second appearance on the podcast we delve deeper into the results of his Ketofest experiment and how his research is revolutionizing the way we look at cholesterol. According to Dave’s ‘energy status’ theory, the body as a system anticipates its energy needs and regulates how it mobilizes long term and short term energy storage. This makes cholesterol a passenger in an energy delivery system, not an inherently harmful doer of evil. Dave also shares the secrets of his future experiments, and explains why Lipidology is an engineer’s “Holy Grail.” This is not your every day conversation!

Key Takeaways:

[1:08] Dave shares the results of his experiment from Ketofest.

[5:25] Can higher dietary fats really lower cholesterol?

[9:10] Does the body anticipate the use of energy?

[15:33] The energy delivery theory.

[28:00] Why a low fat-high carb diet is better than a high carb-high fat diet.

[42:44] Have an alternative theory to Dave’s theory? He wants to hear it.

[45:51] Dave will self-experiment with cookies to put his theory to a test.

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Your Best Health Ever! The Cardiologist’s Surprisingly Simple Guide to What Really Works,
by Bret Scher, M.D., FACC

Cholesterol Code

Remnant Cholesterol: What Every Low Carber Should Know

Insulin Resistance: A True Measure of What Ails Us?
—
Ivor Cummins

After a blood test left him with more questions than answers, my guest, Ivor Cummins, began applying his problem-solving, tactical engineering point of view to explain why his blood tests were abnormal, an answer his physicians were unable to provide. From there, he turned his attention to explaining the root cause and pathophysiology of the most common diseases of our time- obesity, diabetes, heart disease just to name a few. He has spent countless late nights scouring decades-old research and has come up with a clear common thread- insulin resistance. To combat IR, he advocates a low-carb, high-fat lifestyle, and his book (due out the end of Feb 2018), written with Dr. Jeffry Gerber, Eat Rich, Live Long, makes the case, in a rational and reasonable manner, that a low-carb diet along with lifestyle changes is the key to improving health.

During our conversation, we discuss insulin resistance and insulin tests, the importance of adipose and which food products to eliminate from a diet.

Key Takeaways:

[4:41] How Iver came to be a proponent of a low carb diet.

[11:25] Why is insulin resistance not being tested properly?

[16:08] What is the mechanism linking cardiovascular disease, cancer, and inflammation?

[21:30] The Kraft test works, but do you need it?

[27:48] Adipose is an important endocrine organ.

[34:43] Linking LDL to cardiovascular disease.

[43:20] Eat Rich, Live Long focuses overall good health.

[48:02] PUFAs are bad, period.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Your Best Health Ever! The Cardiologist’s Surprisingly Simple Guide to What Really Works,
by Bret Scher, M.D., FACC

Fat Emperor

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#LDLBS on Twitter

Making Sense of LDL with Prof. Ken Sikaris

Finding The Sleep Solution
—
Dr. Chris Winter

How to get a better night’s sleep is on the front of just about every magazine cover these days. New methods, products, and books promise a sleep experience like no other. But, few of these practices or gadgets get to the root cause of why people aren’t sleeping. My guest, Dr. Chris Winter, is an expert on sleep with over 25 years of sleep medicine and research experience. His book, The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It is a no-nonsense, practical guide to getting the sleep your mind is craving.

During our conversation, we discuss how insomnia is really a fear and overcoming the fear can be a cure, how so much of sleep hygiene and proper sleep starts in your mindset, the role of high-tech gadgets in sleep and how getting to the root cause is the key to sleep disorder treatment.

Key Takeaways:

[3:24] Dr. Winter investigates the different conditions that create issues for sleeping.

[6:21] Important aspects of sleep hygiene often misconstrued.

[22:35] How to nap correctly.

[27:25] The problems and benefits of sleep aids, pills and high-tech gadgets.

[51:21] Dr. Winter likes to illustrate points by sleeping in extreme places.

Mentioned in This Episode:

Your Best Health Ever! The Cardiologist’s Surprisingly Simple Guide to What Really Works,
by Bret Scher, M.D., FACC

Dr. Chris Winter

The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It, by W. Chris Winter

Moving Past the High Cholesterol Myth and On to Preventing Metabolic Disease with a Low-Carb Lifestyle
—
Dr. Jeffry Gerber

This week I welcome Denver’s Diet Doctor, Jeffry Gerber, to discuss how we look at cardiovascular risk and health in general. It’s about going beyond traditional risk factors that have been perpetuated for decades and decades. And, it’s about looking at metabolic health through a different lens. As you will hear, it’s not all about LDL cholesterol, it’s more about insulin resistance ? looking at your insulin levels and how your body responds to them. How higher insulin levels over time can be destructive for our bodies and our health ? possibly more so than the “bad” cholesterol.

We also discuss the importance of daily nutrition, having an open mind, focusing on prevention, low-carb and/or keto diets, and how statins can backfire. The bottom line is that if you are focusing on whole foods, from the earth and from animals, and you are avoiding grains and sugars, you are well on your way to a healthy low-carb lifestyle.

Key Takeaways:

[4:01] The ‘bad’ cholesterol issue has been a distraction from researching the true metabolic markers of overall health.

[12:22] How to present a low-carb, high-fat diet to health care professionals.

[16:47] Dealing with controversy in the low carb community.

[21:55] Common themes of vegetarian diets and low carb diets.

[26:47] Is high LDL a good predictor of cardiovascular risk?

[31:51] Remembering Dr. Joe Kraft and his insulin assay.

[42:31] The LDL hypothesis and the use of statins.

[50:35] A human’s quest for protein.

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