Dr. Deepa Mahananda, Dr. Avi Charlton & Dr. Susan Swanston - 'Low Carb Case Reports'

Dr Deepa Mahananda graduated from Western Sydney University in 2012 and completed her junior medical officer training at Concord, Canterbury and Broken Hill hospitals. Her postgraduate qualifications include the Fellowship of the College of General Practitioners, Sexual Health & Family Planning Certificate and Diploma in Child Health (University of Sydney). She is passionate about teaching and is a Conjoint Lecturer with Western Sydney University.
Deepa currently works full time at Sydney Low Carb Specialists. She is passionate about using low carbohydrate nutrition for both optimal health and chronic disease management, especially in womens’ health and is leading an educational network for low carb practising GPs in Sydney. Dr. Mahananda is a Certified Ketogenic Nutrition Specialist, credentialed by the American Nutrition Association through its Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists.
Dr Avi Charlton graduated in Medicine at Melbourne University in 2000. She trained at Box Hill Hospital as a junior doctor and has been a General Practitioner since 2003. Originally she was born in Hong Kong and speaks fluent Cantonese.
In the last 3-4 years, Dr. Charlton has taken up special interests in nutrition and the treatment of obesity and metabolic syndrome. She has treated many patients for weight management and helped them lose weight, improve nutrition and even reverse metabolic syndrome and diabetes. She has extensive knowledge using the low carbohydrate approach and practices low carb nutrition herself.
Dr. Susan Swanston is a highly skilled GP currently working in Cairns. She has a vast experience in many fields of medicine and is a fully trained and qualified vascular surgeon. Susan has been interested in weight loss for about 7 years. Her practice has evolved over that time to be more diet focused, with support for low carb, Keto, carnivore and fasting approaches.
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[@robertluff3976]

Dr Avi is the doctor I go to. She is my medical go to person. She is a great caring person and we need to support her new low carb clinic. I have been using Keto / low carb for 15 months with OMAD routine eating plenty of protein, fat and fibre. Never felt better at 67.

[@Terrierized]

Truth tellers Honourable doctors who seek and share and actually care In the face of the pharmy army I particularly liked Dr. Mahananda's talk Many thanks to you all

[@jobrown8146]

Fantastic presentations. Thank you. Congratulations to Case 1 lady on her dietary/lifestyle changes. I was surprised at how easy low carb was to sustain. Love not being hungry/angry. In fact this morning I mowed for about 1 hour (uneven yard) and had not eat since 6 pm last night. I managed to hold out until 12 noon. I did make sure that I got some electrolytes and water.

[@toni4729]

Wow, Melbourne Low Carb Clinic.

[@pepper419]

There should be low carb clinics all over Australia.

[@jeannedigennaro6484]

Love these case stories from a clinician’s POV.

[@emmagregory6596]

Great thought provoking presentations- thank you for sharing.

[@dombarton2483]

Wonderful all round. Just goes to show how simple changes can have huge benefits. I firmly believe that diet is the single most influential factor in so many modern diseases.

[@brianmcquain3384]

I really enjoyed all of the speakers! What a great thing you are all doing and I thank you!

[@jimrutherford2773]

There is a real problem in our medical system when patients are afraid to tell thier doctors that they are on a low carb diet. It demonstrates to me the ignorance of nutrition within the medical community and also the lack of tolerance to holistic approaches in medicine.

[@frostylikely]

Diagnosed with prostate cancer this morning, carnivore diet last three years. Shattered.

[@GMAAndy333]

So sorry for your diagnosis.

[@karunamayiholisticinc]

You guys know of a good low carb doctor in India?

[@adelarsen9776]

Isn't it funny ? It all comes down to what goes in the mouth. Human behaviour + Human Food = Metabolic Health.

[@veganix6757]

Anecdotes. Hahahahah

[@1timbarrett]

Case reports are by definition anecdotes, right🤔?

[@bettywhill]

Vegan 🐷 hahahahaha

[@sheilacollins9384]

I know! The vegan doctors present them all the time. Go figure that anyone would use them.

[@piaruns7928]

Exactly, and every anecdote is a person who's feeling better - how awesome is that!?

[@hermandejong4309]

Now 70 I have been struggling with prostate enlargement for many years and although it got a little better on a ketogenic diet that I started on my own to normalize blood-pressure and had many remarkable inflammation reductions It did get some better for my prostate but not totally. Then I saw on a video named "7 things not to eat with prostate enlargement" and one of them was diary. I was still frying in butter and eating yogurt daily. The reason they said was that milk contains growth-factor IGF1 or 2 and that is great for calves but not for guys with enlarged prostates. So I quit yogurt about mid December and already felt improvement after 2 days so I also stopped with butter and use tallow and it got better and even now it feels great although not completely as a young boy jet. I do wonder if IGF's are blood proteins so water soluble like insulin, not fat soluble. I can probably reintroduce the butter because I love to fry in it as it has much less spattering. Probably Greek yogurt has about 90% water and butter only 1-2 % so IGF's should not be important in butter.

[@kaychesnut2898]

I tried to find a medical doctor who supports low carb here in Los Angeles. I think there is a real demand for this, and a clinic such as the Melbourne Low Carb Clinic is one I would support here.

[@bettywhill]

DR Berry has some links in this video to low carb doctors kzbin.info/www/bejne/onuTi4R7ppimmNE

[@worldofcyn]

wonderful. love to see people healthier and not in despair

[@hlits6310]

Thank you so much for bringing this wonderful information to us lay people

[@bradfordsimms715]

Go Mr B

[@toni4729]

Thank you Mr. B.

[@EarmuffHugger]

👍

[@ketolomics]

Challenge cases can offer the greatest learning opportunities. It's so tempting to enjoy the successes... and shrug off the rest. But engaging in the challenge cases is the only way to come to grips with them. Thank you for sharing a few of yours!! "Is there something I'm missing with this patient? Is there something else we might try?" Keep up the great work. And please keep sharing!

[@cjfredi]

Wonderful! Love the Australians! Thank you.

[@cassieoz1702]

Great presentations. Thanks you for showing us 'local' examples

[@1timbarrett]

Sorry, but I have to ask: why might a GP decline a patient’s request for a CAC score? Is it a matter of funding perhaps?🤔

[@joannekerr8839]

Fantastic - I love hearing/seeing individual case reports - thank you for these AND all your good work.

[@kerrygould1538]

Love this

[@KenJackson_US]

27:36 _"Rosuvastatin"?_ A *statin??* Why?

[@Norman_Gunstan1]

Thanks for this ❤❤

[@jimrutherford2773]

In the case of the 58 year old male who is an alcoholic, it's not the low carb diet which has failed him, it's his lack of discipline or self help that's failed him. The old adage, you can't help those who won't help themselves holds true in this case. Low card high fat diet will ONLY work if you stick to the guidelines.

[@ketolomics]

But if a physician can kindle hope by helping a patient win a few tangible improvements, the patient might begin to believe that taking another step toward recovery might be within reach. This helps explain why physicians who provide patients with formative feedback tend to cultivate durable successes. Alcoholism presents difficult challenges. So does being a single mother. So does living with a carb lover. Or being unemployed. Life isn't tailor made for adopting and maintaining healthy lifestyles. A few small changes, though, a few tangible successes, and a patient's life can begin to change in wonderful ways. And maybe, who knows but those small changes might become the keys to working through some of the many other challenges life throws at us.

[@nballa]

Did these guys hear about the zero calorie sweetners causing cancers?

[@lizardgirl72]

Google Thomas delauer erithritol. He has a good overview. There was so much in that study, no causality…just correlation and the subjects were already very metabolically unhealthy.

[@deckchaironthetitanic]

Excellent, as always. Thank you.