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Dr. Anthony Chaffee - 'Ketogenic Carnivore athletes'
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 donât 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 hi...
A/Prof. Ken Sikaris - 'Changing Views of Fat Metabolism'
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...
Dr. Liz Fraser - 'Truth, Trust and Evidence'
Dr. Liz Fraser completed her medical training in Canberra in 2003. Since then she has worked as a GP with a particular focus on nutritional medicine and helping patients with complex health problems.
Dr. Fraser is the cofounder of Low Carb Canberra. Her passion apart from gardening, reading and interpreting scientific articles is educating other doctors on the benefits of recommending low carb to their patients.
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Dr. Kieron Rooney - 'Sugar and Cancer - Bench to Bedside'
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.
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Dr. Paul Mason - 'Trust Issues: How Bad Science Sells Drugs'
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...
Dr. Georgia Ede - 'Nutritional and Metabolic Psychiatry: The New Science of Hope'
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...
Dr. Stephen Phinney - 'Optimising Weight and Health with an LCHF Diet' - Part 3
Part 3 of 3
On 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.
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Peter Defty - 'Winning on Fat: What the FASTER LCD Cohort do in the Real World
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 âOptimized Fat Metabolismâ (OFM).
Peter has competed in the Western States 100 among many other events and coaches ultra athletes on using fat as fuel.
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Dr. Rangan Chatterjee - 'Low Carb, Slow Carb and the Microbiome'
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...
Dr. Ben Bikman - 'GLP-1 Drugs: Consequences and Considerations'
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.
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Dr. Paul Mason - 'Lies, Bias and Big Pharma: Accident or Design?'
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...
Dr. Stephen Phinney - 'Optimising Weight and Health with an LCHF Diet' - Part 1
Part 1 of 3
On 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.
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A/Prof. Ken Sikaris - 'Analysing The Cholesterol Message'
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...
Prof. Peter Brukner - 'Are Low Carb Diets Associated with Type 2 Diabetes? The Monash Study'
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...
Jimmy Moore - 'What's Going On In The Low-Carb World?'
Jimmy Moore hosts the biggest website in the world dedicated to the spreading of information about living a Low Carbohydrate and Higher natural Fat (LCHF) lifestyle: www.livinlavidalowcarb.com
He has also co-authored two books: the best-selling âCholesterol Clarityâ and the recently released âKeto Clarityâ which are considered leading books in the field of LCHF nutrition.
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Prof. Karen Dwyer - 'Cardiac - Kidney - Metabolic (CKM) Syndrome'
Dr. Karen Dwyer graduated from The University of Melbourne in 1994 and completed physician training in Nephrology in 2001. She completed her PhD in 2004 through the University of Melbourne and then spent two years in Boston, USA.
As a nephrologist and transplant physician, Dr. Dwyer has a keen interest in metabolic health. In 2020 she became a fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine and is undertaking training through the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners. Karen is passionate about improving the health and well-being of the community taking a holistic and integrated approach with an emphasis on lifestyle management.<...
Leah Williamson - 'Brisbane Paleo Group'
Leah Williamson is a mother of two and the founder and director of the Brisbane Paleo Group. After years of struggling with her weight and related health issues Leah discovered The Paleo Diet and had fantastic success in solving many of her health issues as well as managing to lose 30 kilograms.
Inspired by her new lease on life, Leah formed the Brisbane Paleo Group to help others to discover that eating Paleo need not be difficult or expensive. The Brisbane Paleo Group is Queenslandâs largest Paleo group with over 300 members in meet up and over 450 in a...
Dr. Alok Gupta - 'The Role of Ketogenic Diet in Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD)'
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...
Low Carb Sydney 2023 - Second QandA Session Day 1
The presenters from the second session of day one of 'Low Sydney 2023' answer questions from the audience. Featuring Dr. Deepa Mahananda and Nicole Moore.
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Jessie Reimers - 'The Heart Foundation Petition'
Jessie Reimers is the creator of a petition to change the way the Heart Foundation Tick is used to label foods in Australia so that it no longer may appear on highly processed and unhealthy foods like margarine. Jessie makes a strong case for the criteria to be changed and shares her extensive knowledge about what is really making us sick and overweight.
Jessie is passionate about educating and empowering people nationwide and globally about the effect food, drugs and household toxins have on our health. She shares her story about moving from devastating chronic illness to...
Low Carb Sydney 2023 - Second QandA Session Day 3
The presenter from the second session of day three of 'Low Sydney 2023' answers questions from the audience. Featuring Dr. Paul Mason.
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Dr. James Muecke - 'Unblinding: Reversing the blinding risk of diabetes... naturally'
Dr James Muecke AM is a South Australian based ophthalmologist and visiting consultant at Royal Adelaide and Womenâs and Childrenâs Hospitals. Dr. Muecke graduated with Honours from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1987. Following his internship, James lived and worked as a doctor in Africa and subsequently as an eye surgeon in the Middle East, battling malaria, wild animals, and rebel soldiers. He founded 'Sight For All' in 2008, turning his boundless energy into a fight against blindness in the Aboriginal communities of Australia and some of the poorest countries of Asia and Africa.
Dr. Muec...
Marty Kendall - 'Engineering The Optimal Diet'
Marty Kendall is an engineer and the husband of a Type-1 Diabetic. He runs the blog https://optimisingnutrition.wordpress.com
In this video Marty discusses how he has applied food insulin index data using multi criteria analysis to determine the optimal diet to suit particular nutritional goals.
For more details on his presentation you can view the individual food lists; http://optimisingnutrition.com/2015/10/19/optimal-foods-for-different-goals/
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Prof. Peter Brukner - 'The Politics of Diet'
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...
Lisa Scherger - 'My Healthy Type 1 Son'
Lisa Scherger is the mother of a teenage son who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes in 2012.
Here she relates how she has managed to normalise his blood sugar levels by ignoring the standard dietary advice for diabetes management and following a Low Carbohydrate, High Fat diet.
Lisa's blog is http://diabeticalien.blogspot.com/
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Dr. Paul Mason - 'Dr. Paul Mason vs Prof. Behind Dietary Guidelines'
The Lecture that almost didnât happen.
Dr Paul Mason was invited to present on Nutrition at the prestigious Royal Australasian College of Surgeons Annual Scientific Congress, agreeing to provide a 40-45 minute lecture.
Three weeks before the conference, Dr Mason was notified that the offered time allocation had been reduced by half. No official explanation was provided, however there were suggestions in informal discussions that there may have been some âbehind the scenesâ influence. No evidence was ever provided to support this, and after some intervention from one of the section convenors, the presentation time w...
Dr. Troy Stapleton - 'LCHF to manage Diabetes'
Dr. Troy Stapleton is a 43 year old radiologist. He graduated from the University of Queensland Medical School in 1993 and completed his fellowship training as a radiologist in 2005. Currently he is the Director of Radiology for the Sunshine Coast Health Service.
Two years ago at the age of 41, Troy developed type 1 diabetes. He followed standard dietary advice for 2 months. After much research, he changed to a Low Carb High Fat lifestyle. This has led to dramatic improvements in his quality of life as well as his health biomarkers.
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Dr. Gary Fettke - 'Is it Safe to Eat Real Food? The Land, The People, The Police'
Dr Fettke discusses the role of processed foods and inflammation in chronic disease, the importance of regenerative farming and his personal journey fighting industry & regulatory capture for the right to treat his patients with ancestrally-appropriate nutrition.
Filmed live at 75 Reid St, Fitzroy for the fourth REGENERATE summit on March 23rd, 2025.
REGENERATE is a decentralised health summit shedding light on the causes and solutions of modern diseases.
The three pillars of REGENERATE are:
1. Circadian and quantum health
2. Ancestral nutrition
3. Regenerative farming
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Website: www.regnerateaus.com
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LCDU Melbourne Audience QandA Afternoon Session - 15th November 2014
An audience Q&A session with some of the presenters from the Melbourne Low Carb Down Under Seminar held on the 15th of November 2014.
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Dr. Max Gulhane - 'Sunlight and Cancer: Beyond Skin Deep'
Dr Gulhane presents the evidence for sunlight, Vitamin D system and circadian rhythms in regulating cancer defense and immune function in the body. He also discusses nuances surrounding skin cancer and how to safely obtain sunlight in a skin-type appropriate manner.
Filmed live at 75 Reid St, Fitzroy for the fourth REGENERATE summit on March 23rd, 2025.
REGENERATE is a decentralised health summit shedding light on the causes and solutions of modern diseases.
The three pillars of REGENERATE are:
1. Circadian and quantum health
2. Ancestral nutrition
3. Regenerative farming
Follow REGENERATE
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Vicky Kuriel - 'Case Reports from an LCHF Dietician'
Vicky Kuriel is a registered Australian Dietician and the co-founder of Acacia Health (http://acaciahealth.com.au). Her qualifications and experience cross the spectrum in the health, nutrition and fitness industries. She has 16 years experience in consulting, presenting, lecturing, training, instructing and writing and is recognised as a pioneer of Pilates in Australia.
Vicky is a proud proponent of a Low Carb, High fat lifestyle. Her beliefs, recommendations and dietary protocols may be contrary to the Australian Dietary guidelines however she has spent years engrossed in the health, fitness and nutrition industry researching, experimenting and fine-tuning. This...
Dr. Ron Rosedale - 'The Early Ancestral Connection Between Protein, Cancer, Aging and TOR'
Dr. Ron Rosedale is an Internationally known expert in nutritional and metabolic medicine and is with one of the founding fathers of the modern low-carb, high-fat, ketogenic diet community.
Dr. Rosedale is a pioneer in applying concepts based on the biology of aging to reversing diabetes and heart disease through a nutritional approach that he developed to improve the cell function. His classic 2004 book 'The Rosedale Diet' outlines the key nutritional approach that has become a standard bearer for the healthy way to doing a low-carb diet successfully.
Dr. Rosedale was founder of the Rosedale...
Dr. Anthony Chaffee - 'Rethinking Autoimmune Disease'
Dr Chaffee presents his paradigm-altering thesis that autoimmune diseases are the result of the body's attack on plant compounds. He presents evidence that removal, as in a carnivore diet, leads to remission of a wide range of autoimmune diseases.
Recorded remotely for the fourth REGENERATE summit on March 22nd & 23rd, 2025.
REGENERATE is a decentralised health summit shedding light on the causes and solutions of modern diseases.
The three pillars of REGENERATE are:
1. Circadian and quantum health
2. Ancestral nutrition
3. Regenerative farming
Follow REGENERATE
Website: www.regnerateaus.com
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Dr. Zeeshan Arain - 'Why aren't I losing weight on LCHF?'
Dr Zeeshan Arain graduated from Monash University in 2003 after moving to Melbourne from Sydney. He worked at Box Hill Hospital for a number of years, predominantly in the Accident and Emergency Department before making the switch to General Practice. He is very experienced in the field of sports medicine (he currently works as the head doctor for the Melbourne Demons in the AFL) and in the management of osteoarthritis.
Dr Zee has a fierce passion for the role of nutrition in weight loss as well as the prevention and management of diseases such as diabetes, cholesterol disorders...
Public Health Collaboration 2023 Panel Discussion - 'Do we need to eat plants?'
A panel of nutrition experts discuss the topic 'Do we need to eat plants?'. Featuring Dr. Hayley Wood, Dr. Chidi Ngwaba, Patrick Holford, Dr. Anthony Chaffee, Dr. Shawn Baker and chaired by Dr Campbell Murdoch.
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Dr. Michael Hoffmann - 'Brain Failure and the Low Carb Diet Imperative'
Dr. Michael Hoffmann obtained his medical degree at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and neurological subspecialty fellowship training in stroke from Columbia University. This was followed by two senior doctorates, one in cerebrovascular medicine (MD) and one in behavioral health (PhD). Dr. Hoffmanâs main areas of research have concerned cognitive disorders after stroke and how to improve brain health and fitness based on scientific principles and evolutionary insights.
Dr. Hoffmann is currently a Professor of Neurology with the University of Central Florida and has recently served in a number of administrative leadership positions, such as...
Dr. Zeeshan Arain and Tom McDonald - 'LCHF and Sports Performance'
Dr Zeeshan Arain graduated from Monash University in 2003 after moving to Melbourne from Sydney. He worked at Box Hill Hospital for a number of years, predominantly in the Accident and Emergency Department before making the switch to General Practice. He is very experienced in the field of sports medicine (he currently works as the head doctor for the Melbourne Demons in the AFL) and in the management of osteoarthritis.
Here he chats with Melbourne Demons player Tom McDonald about his switch to a Low Carbohydrate, High Fat diet and the affect it has had on his performance...
Gary Taubes - 'Obesity as a Fat Accumulation Disorder: A History Lesson in How to Think'
Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative (NuSI.org). He is the author of 'The Case For Keto' (2020), 'The Case Against Sugar' (2016), 'Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It' (2011) and 'Good Calories, Bad Calories' (2007), (published as 'The Diet Delusion' in the UK).
Gary is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, and has won numerous other awards for his journalism. These include the International Health Reporting Award from the Pan American Health Organization and the National Association...
Darryl Edwards (The Fitness Explorer) - 'The Power of Primal Play'
Darryl Edwards (a.k.a. The Fitness Explorer) is a movement therapist, paleo nutritionist, blogger and published author of âPaleo Fitnessâ from London, England. He speaks about his experiences with a primal lifestyle that has made him fitter and healthier in his forties than ever before.
Darryl is a contributor to Paleo Magazine and has been a presenter at various symposiums such as Paleo:f(x), PrimalCon, AHS (Ancestral Health Symposium) and other events globally introducing the world to âPrimal Playâ. More information about Darryl can be found by visiting his website: www.thefitnessexplorer.com
Lea...
Dr. Philip Ovadia - 'Fanning the Flames: Inflammation's Contribution to Heart Disease'
Dr. Philip Ovadia grew up in New York and holds degrees from Pennsylvania State University and Jefferson Medical College. His extensive medical training includes a General Surgery residency at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and a Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at Tufts â New England Medical School. He practiced cardiothoracic surgery in multiple states before founding Ovadia Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2020 and subsequently launching Ovadia Heart Health.
After facing his own health challenges as an overweight child and adultâeven as a cardiac surgeonâDr. Ovadia transformed his health by questioning conventional dietary advice and embracing a low...
