In this episode we speak to Judy Satish, a Podiatrist in Townsville, who has been practicing for over 40 years - she's a self proclaimed "bossy health professional"  from Bundock St Podiatary and learn about warning signs from your feet, that your body may be in distress. Judy specialises in aged-care and high-risk feet and in this episode speaks about not only early warning signs of diabetes and metabolic syndrome, but discusses her own journey and tips about how her own low carb learnings helped mitigate some of her health challenges.  Judy worked in India focusing on with people w ..read more

In this episode Emma speaks with Don McKay, who is a Health and Performance Coach, Consultant, Trainer, Author, Keynote Speaker, nutrition geek, avid learner/experimenter and student of everything to do with optimal health and resilience. Don really resonated with Emma at the Low Carb Roadshow in Cairns recently.  Don's background was extremely stressful in Law enforcement for over 35 years and after changing his life dramatically, he now helps others with his high energy, well thought out strategies. Don talks about not only his own journey, but the experience of finding the 7 Pillars of ..read more

In this episode Emma speaks to the very knowledgable Dr Laureen Lawler Smith from Low Carb Keto Health, about cholesterol, her story and the learnings of the last 5 years immersed in the low carb and keto space. She speaks about "snackcidents", binging better and about how she started her own journey. She also discusses what she shares with her patients, plus the better benchmarks of metabolic syndrome. This interesting episode explores life from a Doctor's point of view is is exceptionally enlightening.  Laureen Lawlor-Smith has been a doctor since 1982. She has owned and managed her own ..read more

Marilyn Ocean is a Registered Nurse, Psych-K Health and Wellness Facilitator, Certified Life Coach, Certified Hypnotherapist, and holds a Master Certification in NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and Neuro Psyche Empowerment In this inspiring and energetic episode, Emma and Marilyn talk about insulin resistance, insulin sensitivity, blood glucose, diabetes and blood sugar control. Marilyn shares how she lost 25kg, and some of the challenges to staying on this lifestyle. She speaks about the new weight loss drugs and their implications, plus food and satiety. You can also find her on facebook ..read more

In this episode Emma speaks to Engineer  Marty Kendall, an engineer with a passion for nutrition who seeks things numerically. Marty Kendall about real food. Marty's message is simple - eat real food! Marty is passionate about helping people understand the dogma behind our food insustry and all the beliefs we have that aren't founded in proof.  He's obsessed about building the evidence that out current systems are making us sick and addicted.  For him, this story is personal - Marty's wife his a type 1 diabetic and his family health is a priority. Understanding how food impacts ..read more

Dr Suresh Khirwadkar is a GP and Board Certified Lifestyle Physician, who goes under the name - The Meat Medic. Dr Suresh shares his own journey in this interesting podcast episode. He loves to help people improve their physical and mental health through proper diet, nutrition and lifestyle changes, after seeing fabulous changes himself. He's also created comprehensive, no-nonsense guides and health courses for you to learn how to improve your health, saving your time and money at the doctor and is offering them to you as well. Support the show ..read more

In this episode Emma speaks to Brendan Reid, Author of The Fat Ginger Nerd. The book tells the story of Brendan's personal weight loss journey - largely as a memoir, at the same time offering insight into various aspects of the consequences of carrying excess weight Brendan had long tried his best to follow the standard food pyramid advice for many years in order to get healthy, without success. But according to the experts, he just wasn’t trying hard enough. In under two years, Brendan lost more than 50 kilograms – – after figuring things out in his own way, and has remained weight stable now ..read more

In this episode Emma chats to Dr Peter Brukner, who is a specialist sports and exercise physician. they talk about "ground up" change and Peter shares his health story.    Peter is the co-founder of the public health campaign SugarByHalf and is committed to the challenge of improving the nation’s health with improved diet and increased physical activity.  His best selling book "A Fat Lot of Good" was published in 2018. Peter is also the Founder and Chair of Defeat Diabetes, an app- and web-based program, aimed at improving diabetes control through diet. His latest book The Diabe ..read more

Dr James Muecke is an eye surgeon based in Adelaide who has been working tirelessly behind the scenes to change the trajectory of the health epidemic and the avalanche of diabetes that is becoming so prevalent in our society. He speaks on low carb down under here. Dr James founded the organisation Sight for all and is now their patron. He has beem working to have the food and dietary guidelines changed and recently suceeded with a bitof help from his friends ;) in low carb being added as an option on the Diabetes Australia website. In this episode, Emma and Dr James talk about seed oils, eyesi ..read more

Natalie E West is a Clinical Psychotherapist and Nutritional Psychologist. She specialises in self image and the power of not only food as nutrition, also mental wellbeing.  Her own journey is an inspiring one too! She's passionate about the messages we send ourself - most times we don't even know we are doing it! Natalie is a sought-after speaker and educates on connecting mind, gut and body in both professional and personal lives and these roles in determining your entire life’s experience. You can follow Natalie on instagram too, for passionate self love messages. Support the show ..read more