Dec 23, 2021
Dr. Philip Ovadia is a cardiothoracic surgeon who found himself becoming morbidly obese and running the risk of ending up on his own operating table. He came across the ketogenic diet and the concept of carbohydrate restriction initially at a conference where Gary Taubes was talking. "What he was saying made a lot of...
Dec 16, 2021
This is such an amazing story! Bethany McKenzie is a mom on a mission to tell the story of how she manages her son's Type 1 Diabetes through diet and lifestyle in spite of the resistance from the doctors and supposed specialists. "I just tell my story in a very common way", she says and in doing so she is reaching...
Dec 1, 2021
At our last in-person event in Boca Raton in January 2020, Tekla did a great presentation on food labels and all the ways she felt they came up short, not only in terms of content but also on what foods had labels on them. For instance, why shouldn't we see labels on apples and bananas. Maybe not on each one but...
Nov 23, 2021
Alison Gannett was an organic farmer and professional extreme skier travelling the world competing and one day she was cooking bacon at home and it caught on fire. Her husband walked in to see her admiring the flames and realised they were really in trouble. After a CT scan they found an orange sized tumour in her...
Nov 12, 2021
r. Alexandra Sowa is a dual board-certified physician of Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine, helping thousands of patients through her practice in New York. Seeing a growing need for patients to easily be able to get access to relevant lab tests that can help diagnose as well as track responses to interventions,...