Presentations

I’ve done more than a hundred talks on diet and health in recent years. I calculate that more than 10 000 people have listened to them. A good start, but there was a lot of work and travel involved.

Four months ago I uploaded this video of my presentation from the AHS conference in Los Angeles. It’s been viewed more than 60 000 times on YouTube already. Just one talk has reached far more people than all those before it combined.

Obviously there are big (infinite?) possibilities here. There will be more videos this year, specially designed to be shown online. I’m studying how to do it well.

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One of the people who have taught me the most about presentations is the American-Japanese guru Garr Reynolds. We met when I attended his excellent presentation seminar in Paris this past winter. Mr Reynolds is also interested in LCHF, and he has now analyzed my lecture video on his blog:

Presentation Zen: MD’s provocative presentation at health symposium

Fairly good grades and I got some extra pointers by mail. Next time the sound recording will be much better, I’ve ordered some equipment for that.

If you want to change your world then it’s like mr Reynolds says: “presentation matters”. I highly recommend his first book: Presentation Zen.

One of my idols is Nancy Duarte, the presentation guru who wrote two of my favorite books on the subject. Her company, Duarte Design, developed the presentation for the Oscar winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, the one that won Al Gore a Nobel Prize.

I sent her a tweet about my talk at AHS. It would not have been the same without her books.

I did not expect an answer. I’m sure Duarte gets loads of similar mails every day.

But she did answer. Read more »

After quite some work it’s now on YouTube – my talk from Los Angeles last month, edited with the slides included.

These 44 minutes (+ Q&A) summarizes what is about to happen. How uncovering the mistake behind the obesity epidemic makes it possible for us to help others eat real food and improve their weight and health, without hunger.

If you like the lecture please share it with friends who may be interested. Share it on Facebook, tweet it, embed it on your blog (like above), mail it to friends. Like it on YouTube. Whatever suits you. Let’s spread the revolution across the world.

All comments are welcome.

PS: Once again a special thank you to Jimmy Moore who made this possible by generously giving me his speaking spot at AHS.

I am finally done editing my lecture from Los Angeles last month. For different reasons editing two cameras + my slides together turned into a whole lot of work, but I also learned a few things.

Hopefully it will be uploaded to YouTube within 24 hours.

This was a bit scary but a lot of fun. I’d say the talk was very well received. A big thanks to Jimmy Moore who actually gave me his speaking spot a year ago.

During the Q&A none other than professor Robert Lustig was the first one to step up to the microphone. He basically agreed with everything, but wondered if removing most of the sugar and adding more fiber to the diet would not be enough. This to avoid being “extreme”. Read more »

The conference so far is absolutely great. Probably the best I have ever been to. Today I’ve listened to some fascinating talks from Robert Lustig (even better than his Bitter Truth-talk), Mark Sisson (about play) and a mindblowing talk on dental caries and malocclusion (overbites, crooked teeth etc).

Updates will have to wait a few more hours because I’m preparing for my own talk called “The Food Revolution”. Links for those of you who have just seen it:

• Scientfic studies
• LCHF for beginners

In August many of the most important leaders of the Paleo / LC movement go to Los Angeles for the first Ancestral Health Symposium.

I’m one of the presenters and today is the deadline for an abstract. I just finished a draft. You are welcome to read it and comment. This 150 word text will hopefully make people interested in listening to my lecture: Read more »

Do you want to change the world? A presentation can often be the most effective way. Nancy Duarte’s excellent example above shows you how to do it.

I recommend Duarte’s book Resonate and the book Presentation Zen (all the books by Garr Reynolds are great).

Personally I am doing 14 lectures in 15 days right now, on diet and health. Plenty of opportunities to practice trying to change the world…