Nutrition includes both what and when we eat. Elimination diets help many, often beginning by reducing sugar and processed foods. Others choose vegetarian, carnivore or eliminate problematic foods. Evidence also supports benefits of spending some time in a state of ketosis which can be achieved through nutrition (low-carbohydrate and ketogenic diets), fasting, exercise, and (possibly) supplements. 
by Cecile Seth · Published January 28, 2024 · Last modified March 1, 2024
The Harvard Business School Women’s Association (HBS WA) sponsors a series of alumni roundtable discussions including on the Future of Food. At our January meeting we discussed food first trends for 2024 and upcoming...
by Cecile Seth · Published January 25, 2024 · Last modified March 25, 2024
We celebrate a practice-changing publication, Low-Carbohydrate and Ketogenic Dietary Patterns for Type 2 Diabetes Management, in Federal Practitioner for January, 2024. The Federal Practitioner’s wide-reach includes clinicians within the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department...
by Cecile Seth · Published April 7, 2022 · Last modified December 31, 2023
There are many camps within the low-carb community with differing views. These differences are most likely to occur in areas where the science is not yet settled. Consensus to collaborate is important in a...
by Adele Hite · Published July 6, 2021 · Last modified February 21, 2023
Best way to eat for metabolic health. Do I have to lose weight? Encouraging your clinician, deprescribing, research. Frequent blood sugar monitoring.
by Cecile Seth · Published April 6, 2021 · Last modified January 15, 2024
Clinician-approved, carb-appropriate guides for patient education Here are some overviews of low carbohydrate eating plans for you to use in your patient education. These are all variations on carbohydrate reduction. Choose the guide that...
by Cecile Seth · Published April 5, 2021 · Last modified February 7, 2024
We’re celebrating our Organizing Research team launching a big project with Metabolic Multipliers Sarah Rice & Nutrition Network. References Resource – Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction Each curated by 40+ conditions with a metabolic component as...
by Cecile Seth · Published January 25, 2021 · Last modified May 22, 2024
Clever eats. Patient Education. Progressive steps. Nutrients. Good, bad & ugly. Satiety. Hunger. Intermittent fasting. Ultra-processed foods.
by Nicholas Norwitz · Published October 8, 2020 · Last modified December 27, 2022
Doctor Vyvyane Loh, “Dr. Mom”, Internal and Obesity Medicine board-certified Founder and Leader of Transform Alliance for Health.
by Mani Malagón · Published September 29, 2020 · Last modified January 6, 2023
Nick Norwitz started as a carb-fuled marathon runner. After his lifestyle destroyed his health, he turned to a ketogenic diet to heal.
by Nicholas Norwitz · Published September 28, 2020 · Last modified December 27, 2022
Nicholas Norwitz grew up eating a “healthy” diet. Developed Osteoporosis & Ulcerative Colitis that he resolved with a ketogenic diet.
by Mani Malagón · Published September 3, 2020 · Last modified April 9, 2021
My son’s friend, Cassandra Hauser, and I had planned a trip driving through South America in the summer of 2019. But, when my brother’s long-term caregiver became very ill with lung cancer I brought...
by Mani Malagón · Published May 21, 2020 · Last modified November 19, 2022
Hypoglycemia & hyperglycemia, low or high blood sugar levels, interact with ketone levels to produce either symptomatic or asymptomatic conditions. Layperson definitions & leading-thinker discussion.
by Cecile Seth · Published May 14, 2020 · Last modified November 12, 2024
It depends on who you ask, but there are some generally agreed upon parameters for measuring metabolic health. It can be measured in our blood or bodies. These medical, physiological and laboratory test markers...
by Mani Malagón · Published May 9, 2020 · Last modified August 13, 2022
Metabolic health – normal versus insulin resistant muscles affect basal metabolism.
by Christie Barnett · Published April 29, 2020 · Last modified November 30, 2023
What is lifestyle medicine? Is it metabolic healing? Lifestyle medicine can be the central vehicle for metabolic normalization. Generally speaking, with lifestyle medicine, metabolism is improved with behaviors rather than with the stuff of conventional...
by Cecile Seth · Published April 17, 2020 · Last modified March 26, 2024
Best keto resources for families and patients: | Keto diet overviews | Keto support groups | Best keto books | Keto for Psych | Low-carb & keto success stories || Best keto resources for...
by Cecile Seth · Published April 13, 2020 · Last modified November 30, 2023
Building a team to treat any illness with medical ketogenic therapies is often a difficult, multi-step process. Ketogenic dietary intervention is in its early stages in healthcare. Yet research has demonstrated its potential effectiveness...
by Cecile Seth · Published March 12, 2020 · Last modified May 3, 2022
Raj Seth’s notes for his recent podcast on LowCarbMD with Doctors Brian Lenzkes and Jason Fung. Fat as a kid I had always been fat as far back as I can remember. I developed...
by Christie Barnett · Published March 8, 2020 · Last modified October 26, 2021
Chris Palmer, MD was a co-author of this 2018 case study which showed an improvement in schizophrenic symptoms in young Ecuadorian twins on a ketogenic diet. They were a male and a female, diagnosed with...
by Christie Barnett · Published November 18, 2019 · Last modified March 19, 2023
This dietary treatment, the ketogenic diet, based on ancient medicine, is making a comeback as a treatment for epilepsy. Dr. Palmer‘s perspective on the ketogenic diet controversy Connections between epilepsy and psychiatric illnesses Ketogenic...
by Cecile Seth · Published July 23, 2019 · Last modified January 25, 2023
Major Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease Studies show that major risk factors for Alzheimer’s include metabolic, lifestyle and genetic factors: Problems with brain glucose usage related to Alzheimer’s One significant alteration experienced by Alzheimer’s...
by Christie Barnett · Published July 15, 2019 · Last modified October 26, 2021
Chris Palmer. MD just published Diets and Disorders: Can Foods or Fasting Be Considered Psychopharmacologic Therapies? It is in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry(1) and you’ll find an executive summary in this post. First...
by Cecile Seth · Published July 8, 2019 · Last modified January 1, 2023
“Americans Can’t Afford to Wait Any Longer. It’s Time to Overhaul the U.S. Dietary Guidelines.” More than 50 doctors, researchers, and clinicians signed an open letter that was published in the New York Times...
by Cecile Seth · Published June 20, 2019 · Last modified November 28, 2022
Perhaps those suffering from treatment-resistant depression could find some relief with the ketogenic diet? Any attempt to try this MUST be medically supervised because there are both psychiatric and metabolic dangers in this dietary...
by Christie Barnett · Published May 17, 2019 · Last modified March 20, 2023
Did keto cure her schizophrenia? Starting at the end, Doris ended up ok. Her ketogenic diet put her schizophrenia into remission. Remission is not a cure, but a state where the disease symptoms reverse. ...
by Christie Barnett · Published May 14, 2018 · Last modified December 27, 2022
Christie Barnett’s keto journey: Sitting in a nursing home with my dying mother is where it all began for me, Christie Barnett. There she was, a 71-year-old formerly dignified college instructor, stuck in a...
