Fabulously Keto

Stephanie Taylor

 Stephanie Taylor is Co-Founder of Happy Sexy Health, where she and her sister Nicky help people over 40 reverse chronic conditions and reclaim their vitality through primal living. A Certified Health Coach and former vegan, Stephanie’s journey from stage 4 ovarian cancer to radiant health through primal living is nothing short of remarkable.

By embracing primal eating – along with ancestral practices like sunlight exposure, grounding, movement, and deep rest—she experienced a powerful transformation.

Now, she’s on a mission to end unnecessary suffering, especially from type 2 diabetes—a fully reversible disease that still...

Jenn Trepeck

 Jenn Trepeck has been described as a “force of nature” in the wellness space. She’s been recognized as one of Podcast Magazine’s 40 under 40, nominated for the 2022 International Women’s Podcast Award for Visionary Leadership, and won Ear Worthy’s first Independent Podcast Award for Best Health Podcast and Best Independent Podcast in 2024. 

She is an Optimal Health Coach, Podcaster, and Business Consultant. 

Jenn grew up the skinny one in a family of dieters which was awesome(!) until it went away. And so began her weight management saga. Ultimately though, Jenn learned th...

5th Anniversary Highlights

 This week we are celebrating a huge milestone — five years of The Fabulously Keto Podcast.

What started back in October 2020 has now grown into over 240 episodes and countless conversations that have inspired, educated and supported listeners on their health journeys. 

To mark the occasion, I invited Louise back to join me in revisiting some of the most powerful moments from past episodes. I’ve selected five clips that capture the breadth of stories, insights and expertise shared over the years. 

It’s a chance to reflect, to celebrate, and to sa...

Patrick Holford

 Patrick Holford, BSc, DipION, FBANT, NTCRP, is a leading spokesman on nutrition and mental health and founder of both the Food for the Brain Foundation, VitaminC4Covid and the Institute for Optimum Nutrition, an educational charity that offers degree accredited training in nutritional therapy.

Originally trained in psychology. Patrick was involved in groundbreaking research showing that multivitamins can increase children’s IQ scores – the subject of a Horizon television documentary in the 1980s. He was one of the first promoters of the importance of zinc, essential fats, low-GL diets and homocysteine-lowering B vitamins and t...

Faith-Anne

 Hi, I’m Faith-Anne! I’ve been sugar and wheat free since I was four years old. Before that, I only had tiny amounts, but when I started school, my parents noticed I was getting a lot more, and they didn’t feel okay with that. Since they don’t eat sugar themselves, they decided to feed me only real food, the kind they’d eat too.

Now I feel amazing! I can focus better at school, I don’t get so fidgety, and I have loads of energy for swimming, which I love. I’m making th...

Dr Sarah Myhill

 Dr Sarah Myhill qualified from the Middlesex Hospital Medical School in 1981.  For the next 20 years she worked as an NHS GP and later moved into Independent Medical Practice with a special interest in CFS and ME . 

She practices Ecological Medicine which diagnoses mechanisms of disease with obvious implications for management. Since 1986 she has been an active member of the British Society of Ecological Medicine and has a Diploma in Clinical Nutrition. 

She is a published author and researcher on chronic fatigue syndrome and mitochondrial dysfunction. Her books include  “Chronic Fatigue Syndrom...

Dr Jen Unwin

 Dr Jen Unwin. BSc, MSc, DPsy, C Psychol, FBPsS

Consultant Clinical Health Psychologist.

Past Chair UK Association for Solution Focused Practice. Winner of the British Psychological Society Karen Ehlert Lifetime achievement award in clinical health psychology. Co-founder of Food Addiction Solutions.

Dr Jen Unwin has spent her professional life interested in the role of hope in chronic disease and how it can be used to bring about behaviour change. 

Her insights teamed up perfectly with Dr David Unwin’s interests in bringing about drug-free type 2 diabetes remi...

Casey Ruff

Casey Ruff has been a certified personal trainer since 2007. He successfully ran a metabolic testing program for a large gym and oversaw 13 programs in the west region. He has multiple certifications as a personal trainer, lifestyle coach, and performance enhancement specialist. 

With his nutrition coaching certifications, he specializes in low-carbohydrate lifestyles, including ketogenic and carnivore diets. He has helped thousands of clients over seventeen years learn how to achieve their best lifestyle through movement, lifestyle management, and proper diet. 

Together with Bethany, they created Boundless Body LLC during the 2020 pandemic. He is...

John Gray

 John Gray is the author of the most well-known and trusted relationship book of all time, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. USA Today listed his book as one of the top 10 most influential books of the last quarter-century. 

In hardcover, it was the #1 bestselling book of the 1990s. Dr. Gray’s books are translated into approximately 45 languages in more than 100 countries and continues to be a bestseller.

Dr. Gray has written over 20 books. His most recent book is Beyond Mars and Venus. His

Mars/Venus book seri...

Philly J Lay

 Philly J Lay is a leading voice in natural health and host of the chart-topping podcast The Wellness Way.

Following a traumatic medical experience that left her fighting for her life, Philly rebuilt her health using natural methods and became a powerful advocate for holistic healing. 

She now uses her platform to inspire and empower others to take charge of their wellbeing, combining ancient wisdom with modern insight.

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Siouxie Boshoff

 Siouxie Boshoff: Founder of Switch Sweets formerly Scrummy Sweets, a brand that focuses on blood sugar support and truly keto family favorites reinvented without the BS (Bad Stuff ). Obsessed with non-toxic, healthier living, metabolic health, and clean living in an often dirty world. 

Clean, keto-friendly ingredients sleuth, turned commercial food maker.

Link to Show Notes on Website

https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/238.

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Rob K

 After losing his mother at just 17, Rob K made it his life’s mission to uncover the natural cures that might have saved her. He turned away from conventional treatments with harmful side effects and began exploring approaches that offer true, lasting healing.

Unsurprisingly, he found that nature holds the answers to so many of our health issues.

Over the years, Rob has created a powerful series of talks to share his findings and challenge mainstream thinking. These include: • The Marvellous Molecules • The Parasite Pisstake • The Airport Analogy

… and many more.<...

Dr Andrea Salcedo

 Andrea Salcedo, DO, MPH, FACOG is a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist, wife, and mother of three young boys. She practices full scope obstetrics and gynecology at Loma Linda University Health, an academic medical center in Southern California. Her clinical practice is diverse, ranging from low risk women’s health care to complex gynecologic and obstetric problems.

A large part of her practice involves root-cause investigation into the development of gynecologic disease. Particularly, she focuses on metabolic health, as it relates to the development of uterine fibroids, endometrial polyps, and endometriosis. She has...

Sam Feltham

 Sam Feltham has been in the health and fitness industry for over a decade. Starting out as a party coordinator at a sports centre he worked his way up to study at the European Institute of Fitness and qualified as a Master Personal Trainer. 

After 5 years of running a fitness boot camp business with a successful podcast, Sam shifted his focus to improving public health by setting up and directing the registered charity, Public Health Collaboration (Charity no. 1171887). Whose mission is to empower people to achieve good metabolic health through sustainable lifestyle changes.

Maia Sutherland

 Maia Sutherland says:

I am a life-long vegetarian turned carnivore. Now with far too much actual fuel going to my brain, I have become utterly obsessed with the topic and writing a book hoping to inspire people to spend parts of their life in ketosis and reduce their disharmonies. 

The intention of the book is that anyone from any country, religion, education and budget, can benefit from applying what is laid out inside it. Other than that, I am also studying with Dr Nasha Winters, mostly for my own understanding rather th...

John Gusty & Dr Jereny Ayres

 John Gusty – After over 30 years in the entertainment industry working “behind the curtain” for some of music’s biggest names, John turned his attention to health and wellness in an effort to help his wife heal from what was originally diagnosed as Multiple Sclerosis. He soon realized that the same deceit and profit motive that plagued the entertainment media was even worse inside the Medical Industrial Complex. As a devout agorist and champion of individuality, he now devotes his time to producing content that celebrates the spirit of sovereignty in all aspects of life.<...

Angela Stanton

 Angela A Stanton, PhD has earned her doctorate in NeuroEconomics (experimental neuroscience using economic models) and is also fMRI certified, having earned the following degrees: PhD Claremont Graduate University in Economics with dissertation in neuroscience; fMRI certification at Harvard University, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging; MS in Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University; MBA at University of California, Riverside; BSc Mathematics, UCLA. 

Her doctoral research focused on understanding how human decision-making is influenced by neurotransmitter changes. She ran clinical trial experiments, gaining an appreciation of the role hormones play in emotional and ph...

Dr Neecie Moore

 Dr. Neecie has a rich history of leadership in businesses that make a difference. She has owned and operated inpatient and outpatient treatment centers; mentored start-up high tech companies; researched alternative and complimentary nutritional solutions; and consulted with the only company with a viable fuel cell technology in massive production. As an experienced and respected results-oriented trainer, she has trained coaches, wellness advocates and businesses all over the world.

Dr. Neecie not only speaks authoritatively on Life / Trauma Coaching, but she is also an extraordinary trainer and motivator. She has the rare a...

Graham Phillips

 Graham Phillips BPharm FRPharmS is a second generation community pharmacist. He describes himself as “The Pharmacist who Gave Up Drugs! “

Having played a very senior leadership role in the pharmacy profession he became disillusioned with the NHS one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare with its emphasis on waiting for symptoms to arise before treating (suppressing?) them with drugs. He pioneered a new approach using his scientific knowledge, clinical expertise and new technology which resulted in the ProLongevity service. 

The ProLongevity programme helps people who want to lose weight, improve wellbeing and avoid/reverse diabet...

Alex Ellis

 Creator of Movement Mavens Therapy Balls and host of The Body Nerd Show, Alexandra Ellis is a Mobility Coach and wellness expert who helps active people move smarter, maintain their bodies, and maximize strength with customized wellness plans so they can enjoy life without pain.

Her teaching and studies focus on injury prevention, rehabilitation and wellness, inspired by her studies at UC Davis where she earned a BS in Exercise Biology.

Her programs have helped people worldwide get stronger and out of pain so they can step into their greatest potential. 

Doug Reynolds

 Doug Reynolds is the author of The Road to Metabolic Health, the Founder and CEO of LowCarbUSA® and President of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners.   

LowCarbUSA (now called Symposium of Metabolic Health) provides a platform for internationally renowned scientists and medical practitioners to present the ever-increasing body of evidence on the benefits of reducing carbohydrates in the diet and adding in healthy fats. It has now evolved into one of the primary resources for the low carb community.  This includes a huge library of educational videos, a growing database of practitioners and dietit...

Gayle Gerry

 Gayle Gerry qualified in 1998. She spent her first 8 years in Accident & Emergency, and was also in the Army reserves as a Nursing officer. During this time she did operational tours to Kosovo, then was compulsory mobilised to Iraq in 2003 as a specialist A&E nurse based in the 200 bedded field hospital.

The move to general practice was by accident when she met a GP who was desperate for a nurse. At this point she was looking to change career.

She met a patient in 2012 who ended up putting this diabetes into r...

Netta Gorman

 Netta Gorman is the person behind Life After Sugar… because real life carries on even when you’re sugar free. Netta has been living happily free from sugar, flour and sweeteners since July 2015 (6 years now!). She spent most of her thirties and early forties struggling with chronic constipation and digestion issues but she never thought that her love for chocolate and desserts had anything to do with it. Doctors kept telling her to eat more fibre, but this was making things worse, not better. 

In July 2015, she got to a breaking point where her pa...

Dr Sunny Kaler

 Dr. Sunny Kaler is a distinguished forensic psychiatrist with a unique specialisation in metabolic psychiatry. With a profound dedication to the integration of mental and physical health, Dr. Kaler utilises the principles of functional medicine to provide holistic education. 

A passionate advocate of the low carb, high fat ketogenic lifestyle, Dr. Kaler has a personal lived experience in managing both his physical and mental health through this approach. 

Dr. Kaler’s expertise extends beyond patient care, as he is deeply involved in education and advocacy. Committed to empowering others, Dr. Kaler...

Maggie Stewart

Margaret Stewart, also known as Maggie, is a Personal Trainer from New Hampshire. She has a bachelor’s degree in Forest Science and Masters degree in Watershed Management, neither of which she uses currently but provided travel and adventure in her younger days and kept her in good physical shape, which became a value, as did love of the outdoors. 

Now she teaches people to use machine weight circuits at a YMCA and hosts the Off of the Couch Podcast.

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Dr Kevin Gendreau

Dr. Kevin Gendreau is a board-certified obesity medicine physician, author, and a passionate advocate for metabolic health. After overcoming his own struggles with obesity and reversing type II diabetes through lifestyle changes, Dr. Gendreau dedicated his career to helping others achieve lasting health. 

He works full time in a metabolic weight loss clinic in Massachusetts, USA and recently wrote the “Metabolic Health Handbook: A Doctor’s Guide to Overcoming the Hormonal and Biological Barriers to Fat Loss.” This book is a comprehensive guide filled with science-backed strategies, practical tools, and 200+ recipes.

This...

Dr Jim and Betsy Waller

 Dr Jim Waller moved to a low carb diet over 20 years ago, as part of a healthy lifestyle and because of his family history of significant cardiovascular disease. Dr Jim Waller is a retired colorectal surgeon.

Betsy was in the Women’s Army Corp. She was then a Vocational Rehabilitation Counsellor and has lifelong interest in movement therapies, sports medicine, kinesiology and yoga.

Betsy met Jim in 2020, 51 years after graduating the same high school class. They had both lost their spouses and they got together and are now mar...

Barbara Diaz de Leon

 Barbara Diaz de Leon is a licensed Registered Nurse, double-certified health coach and author of the international best seller book ‘Feel Great in 28!’ Barbara experienced a remarkable health transformation in her fifties, which ignited her passion for empowering other women to achieve similar life-changing results.

Dedicated to guiding women in midlife and beyond, Barbara’s coaching practice focuses on helping clients reclaim their vitality, shed unwanted pounds and fully embrace life. Her approach involves simple, sustainable strategies in nutrition, exercise, lifestyle, and mindset that provide lasting results for her clients.

Resid...

Dr Brian Lenzkes

Dr. Lenzkes is a board certified Internal Medicine physician who was in a standard medical practice for 18 years who now practices in  a Direct Primary Care clinic focusing on metabolic health and wellness. He is the co-host of the Low Carb MD Podcast and host of the Life’s Best Medicine Podcast. He has an undergraduate Biology degree from UC Irvine and attended medical school at USC. 

He lives in San Diego, CA with his wife, two daughters and a couple of Labradoodles.

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Karen Gaul

 Karen Gaul says:

I’m 71 years old & have been dieting since the age of 9! Yes 9 years old…hard to believe but true.

My mum had taken me to our family GP with concerns about my development as I was somewhat bigger than my peer group. If more thought had been given then both mum & the GP would perhaps have realised I was at the start of puberty…earlier than most but true.

My early puberty resulted in decades of see-saw dieting following in the footsteps of my mum who was a s...

Tracey McBeath

 Tracey McBeath – The Health & Healing Coach lives in Melbourne, Australia. She is a mum of 5, author, health coach and coach mentor, a Nutrition Network lecturer, qualified personal trainer, public speaker, and the founder of the Low Carb Lifestyle Hub. 

Tracey has been working full time as a health coach in the low carb space for over 7 years, after being propelled to totally change her lifestyle at 40 after a fatty liver and pre diabetes diagnosis. 

Now at nearly 50 she has never been leaner, healthier and full of as much energy. 

As an...

Dr Rob Cywes

 Robert Cywes M.D., PhD is a clinically practicing doctor and surgeon in Florida and Idaho. His mission is educating the public about a carbohydrate addiction approach to treating obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome. Understanding the importance of replacing carbs in your diet with real food while simultaneously replacing carbs as a toxic, harmful response to emotional tension with a more effective diverse healthy set of emotion management tools for lifelong sustainability of mental and physical health, happiness and well-being. 

Converting people from toxic sugar burners to healthy fat (keto) burners while ad...

Bitten Jonsson

 Bitten is a Registered Nurse since 1973, worked with addiction medicine since 1987 and sugar addiction since 1993. Developed a Holistic Addiction Treatment model, worked with group treatment for many years. She has been teaching and training professionals since 2012. 

Bitten is a recovering alcoholic and her understanding of addiction has been a 26 year journey. She started to learn about addiction in the 70s when she commenced her recovery from alcohol addiction. She fell in love with addiction medicine. She learnt that those recovering from drug and alcohol addiction who also smoke and eat junk food have a...

Nicola Lock & Jackie Fletcher

 Nicola Lock was a medical secretary in the NHS for 15 years, primarily in Mental Health Services, and after having her children set up as a freelance medical transcriptionist which she has been doing for the last 20 years, mainly in private healthcare.

Her interest in low carb began about 9 years ago after discovering Michael Mosley’s 8 week blood sugar diet. Over the years she had made several attempts at losing weight by following the recommended low fat, eat less/move more model, which either failed or, if she succeeded initially, she then put...

Marisa Matos

 Marisa Matos is a registered nutritional therapist and a dedicated advocate for root cause medicine, empowering individuals to reclaim control over their health and well-being. As the founder of UltiVita Health, she specialises in working with complex chronic illness and mystery illness.

With a Bachelor’s degree in Microbiology and Genetics and extensive training in nutritional therapy, nutrigenomics, and functional blood chemistry analysis, Marisa employs a science-based approach to restore metabolic imbalances, often utilising ketogenic metabolic therapy. 

She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree, focusing on the therapeutic benefits of the ke...

Graham Phillips

 Graham Phillips BPharm FRPharmS is a second generation community pharmacist. He describes himself as “The Pharmacist who Gave Up Drugs! “

Having played a very senior leadership role in the pharmacy profession he became disillusioned with the NHS one-size-fits-all approach to healthcare with its emphasis on waiting for symptoms to arise before treating (suppressing?) them with drugs. He pioneered a new approach using his scientific knowledge, clinical expertise and new technology which resulted in the ProLongevity service. 

The ProLongevity programme helps people who want to lose weight, improve wellbeing and avoid/reverse diabet...

Jackie Fletcher and Louise Reynolds

 In this episode Louise Reynolds and Jackie celebrate the 4th anniversary of The Fabulously Keto Podcast.

In this special episode we discuss our recent experiences with Megan Ellam’s Megg fast program.

We share our personal results, including weight loss, improved glucose control, better sleep and enhanced mental clarity. 

Louise emphasises the importance of planning, electrolytes and meal preparation for success in the Meggfast program. Whilst Jackie has more of fly by the seat of your pants approach.

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Lierre Keith

 Lierre Keith is the author of seven books, including The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability, which has been called “the most important ecological book of this generation.” 

She is coauthor, with Derrick Jensen and Max Wilbert, of Bright Green Lies: How the Environmental Movement Lost Its Way and What We Can Do About It. 

She is the founder of WoLF (Women’s Liberation Front), a nonprofit which is suing the state of California on behalf of women forced to share prison cells with men. She lives in the redwoods with an enormo...

Megan Ellam

 Megan Ellam is the award-winning author, photographer, and recipe developer behind the Mad Creations blog, cookbooks, and keto product range.

A self-confessed foodie, Megan’s passion lies in creating amazingly delicious low carb and keto recipes.

Her approach to recipes is through a love of fresh, tasty and easy to prepare meals.

Megan found her love of everything keto when she was diagnosed with insulin resistance and lost 45 kgs changing to a low carb lifestyle.

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Suzanne Alexander

 Suzanne Alexander, M.Ed., is the co-author and editor of the highly acclaimed book, ‘The Ancestral Diet Revolution,’ along with Dr. Chris Knobbe, MD. She is a multi-award-winning educator with over 30 years of experience in the classroom and a highly accomplished ancestral health and nutrition researcher. Suzanne’s unwavering dedication to her research has taken her on daring, life-threatening expeditions across the globe, living with tribes and studying their diets and lifestyles. Her recent return from Tanzania, East Africa, where she lived with seven remote tribes, is a testament to her uncompromising dedication to discovering the mos...