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Do you want to know more about low carb as a treatment for obesity and disease? Perhaps nobody can explain it better or more enthusiastically than dr. Mary Vernon.
Mary Vernon, MD, is one of the world’s foremost experts on treating obesity and diabetes with low carbohydrate nutrition. She’s a practicing family physician, educates doctors on low carb and is active in and former president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (doctors specializing in treating obese patients).
This is an interview I did with her at the recent ASBP conference in Las Vegas.
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I am sorry that Dr. Vernon is not able to provide better care through her clinic.
Fortunately, Jimmy Moore put us in touch with Jackie Ebelstein at the Atkins Institute and she examined the food journals and blood tests and suggested candida overgrowth and made some tweaks to Jane's diet and medications that have helped. Still, in spite of a very strict Atkins-style diet that has even eliminated nuts and cheese, her fasting blood sugar is regularly around 140. So, it is possible that some people have a degree insulin-resistance that does not allow their high blood sugar to abate even with low-carb diets. There is something hormonal going in that causes the liver to produce glucose, I suppose. I wish Dr. Vernon could have helped us, but maybe no one really understands insulin-resistance completely.
Jag heter ubbe o jobbar i usa med fetma och halsa generellt. Jag har anammat lag carb och hog fett/protein fett i ca 8 ar. Jag kallar det normal carb diet och pastar att folk ater "hog carb diet" om dom ater som dom flesta americaner. En sak som jag tycker ar lite overlooked i denna interview, och det ar nagot som jag jobbar med, det ar food addiction. Folk som ater mycket high carb ner regulerar sin formaga att producer och ta upp dopamin. Da soker kroppen sin drog (carb mat) for att stimulera utsondring av dopamin igen, men sa smaningom produseras inte mycket dopamin alls. Da gor dom till sin Dr som sajer
"du maste ga ner i vikt och har far du depression medicin" Det funger inte sa bra da dom gar in i den onda cirkeln manga Americaner ar i. Det vore toppen om du kunde addressera detta problemet med sa folk forstar. Oftast borjar kroppen kunna fa i gang sin dopamin utsondring och mar da mycket battre. Det vore aven toppen bra om du addresserar toxic overload som kroppen lagrar i fett cellerna och stanger dom, eller sa blir patienten illamaende, eller sjuk.
Jag hoppas att du ursakta min Svengelska
Jag tycker det ar toppen att du gor vad du gor.
Ubbe
P.S Du kanner nog min kompis i Sverige Mats Forsenberg
I read through all of your comments, and it strikes me that all you got from this great video was that Dr. Vernon does not look like someone who takes care of herself? Like Dr. Eenfeldt stated, but neither of you personally know, is that after menopause all kinds of things happen to a woman's body that she just has no control over. Even with extreme low carbing and exercise, I still am pudgy. I also had a radical hysterectomy that cut through all of my stomach muscles and now I have a pouchy stomach, it will NEVER be flat. But do I explain all of this to people so they don't judge me and think I don't care about how I look? No I don't, because there are always things going on with people that you will never know. And the truth is...... women age differently than men and that will always be true.
Just had to share my opinion. And I am grateful to Dr. Vernon for all she has accomplished.
Hi Janknitz...
I'm a dietitian that certainly does not subscribe to that train of thought.
A registered dietitian interviewed me, http://elisazied.com/2011/06/a-fix-for-stubborn-fat/, and it got me nowhere in the nutrition community. It is unfortunate that leaders in the nutrition field have this opinion based on what I'm not sure.
If "downtown"dietitians and doctors give any credence to low carb or Atkins type diets, they would have to also admit that the whole "medieval demonology" of fat causing diseases is false. They would have to admit that the "low fat" advice that they have been giving for the last fifty years is worthless nonsense. I think it would be easier to change a persons religion.
"Never argue with a person whose job depends on him being right" H.L. Mencken
And doctors are often even more reluctant to accept evidence that contradict what they've taken for granted after years of university and practice, especially when they are being bribed by Big Pharma.
Since this blog originates in Sweeden, we do not want to give the impression to the world that we Americans have anything to do with bribery. Please refer to it as "Corporate Sponsors" as in this case, or my favorite "Campaign Contributions" for big political stuff as happens daily in our democratically elected government. Remember the golden rule - "He who has the gold rules." (and pizza is a vegetable).
I can totally sympathize. Dietetics is an entire profession of people who were given the wrong information and build their careers on perpetuating this misinformation. If they fail to toe the party line, then they are working outside the "standard of care" and are open to attack. You are very brave to think outside the box!
The sad part is that most RD's (doctors, and diabetes educators, too!) fail to look at what's happening in front of them. The long-term "success rates" for individuals whom they prescribe low fat, low calorie diets has to be abysmal, but they don't take the next step that people like Doctors Vernon, Schwarzbein, Eenfeldt, and Wortman did to try to find out why this doesn't work and what DOES work. And when their suggestions don't work, they decide that a patient is cheating or "non-compliant" rather than finding out WHY their approach fails again and again.
Are you a patient of Mary Vernon? Does she communicate and follow-up with you? Any idea why my sister had such a dismal experience with her?
could it be that when you cycle to work you are creating muscle which is heavier than fat? just a thought, I've found looking in the mirror a better barometer than checking out the scales although I confess I do so from time to time just as a sense check. Six weeks ago I embarked upon a programme of eating plenty of raw vegetables oily fish, porridge in the morning and a light tea in the evening fresh salsd and meat, supported by swimming every other day and a nightime supplement of ProArgi Plus for my vascular health. The current result is circa 16 pounds of fat loss. I initially tried a fast but my tongue erupted in ulcers, I then opted for a more PH friendly diet and have stuck with it. I'm 11 stone 10 now. I haven't calorie counted or bothered with a low carb anything though I suspect that's perhaps the kind of 'diet' that I'm on, I enjoy one or two chocolate sweets every other day to try and avoid binge cravings. I also cut down on alcohol. Good luck all especially at this time of year where temptation is every second advert.
http://www.coconutresearchcenter.org/
As we age, the first thing to slow down is Progesterone which helps control many of the Estrogen issues ... like fat, blood pressure, diabetes ... all sorts of stuff. The body begins to lay down a layer of fat at first because the Progesterone has slowed or stopped and is no longer there to control it. This layer of fat will also produce Estrogen which will lead to an increase in the Estrogen issues; especially since the Progesterone is not comng back on it's own. The new layer of fat will ensure that your body has the Estrogen it needs to continue to function, but it will also cause you a few problems until your glands finally shut down.
I read that overweight/obese women may actually have more Estrogen than young menstruating women. Scary!
This cycle also happens to men! It's why they get the belly. Their Progesterone also decreases and allows Estrogen to take over and their Testosterone begins to decline leading to the belly.
Progesterone is an amazing hormone ... it's really a "regulatory" hormone and NOT a "sex" hormone. It helps with glucose metabolism, is used to regenerate myelin, protects agains estrogen, is an anti-inflammatory ... amazing stuff. You should look it up - I think you'd find it an interesting subject. But you want to keep "some" of the new "fluff" since you'll need it in the future; kind of a good news bad news thing. :-)
This appeared to annoy Mary a few times. As a viewer, it annoyed me, too.
Holding your commentary to the end would be helpful and appreciated.
And this is what's so frustrating. Even the enlightened doctors just give up on women after 50. Well, you're supposed to be dead, you old woman. "You're on your own" is hardly what anyone wants to hear from their doctor.
But in fact we are living to 80+, and we have plenty of money. I seriously suggest you all start treating us. There is such a thing as science - doctors could do the research and develop treatments, if they could just get over their biases about older women.
Notice no one talks about men's health in this fatalistic way.
Try some Coconut oil, its healty and in some cases do uppregulate the metabolic rate.
Try to minimize Goitrogen food!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goitrogen