Susan Birch is a New Zealand-based nutrition and exercise specialist, better known as “The Health Detective”. She hosts the Health Detective Podcast, is a public speaker, writer and researcher.
She has a MHSc with postgraduate training in nutrition, sports medicine and rehabilitation. She is a Functional Medicine Practitioner, Neuro-Change Practitioner and Tiny Habits Coach. She incorporates these diverse skills into her practice to create a holistic client-centered approach to help them achieve their health and wellbeing goals.
Susan works with people from all around the world. She is passionate about empowering women to take care of their health so they can have the energy and clarity to experience greater professional and personal success, and live meaningful and fulfilled lives
Watch more: [The Health Made Simple Series] Episode 2 - Protein - with Susan Birch and Tiaan de Klerk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qZ3HuPgYc8
The YouTube channel ‘Susan Birch - The Health Detective’ https://www.youtube.com/@susanbirch-thehealthdetect4568
Vincent (Ben) Bocchicchio has been at the forefront of health and wellness for nearly 50 years. As a clinician in the fields of fitness and health he has initiated and promoted behavioral interventions that have proven to be effective in the treatment and management of the degenerative diseases that plague our public health. Dr. Ben’s philosophy states that on the continuum of illness to wellness, our collective health plans should attempt to drive the needle towards wellness and away from illness through scientifically sound and safe applications of behavioural endeavors.
Dr. Ben has applied his extensive, recognized background and experience in diet and exercise as the basis of his intervention protocol. Initially (1974), he introduced slow resistance training to the exercise world in a successful attempt to provide safe, high intensity exercise to all populations. He was the first practitioner to include resistance training to phase II cardiac rehabilitation in 1982. It is now accepted, standard protocol. He pioneered high intensity exercise for high endurance athletes in the mid 1980’s. Continue reading...
Watch more: 15 Mins Twice a Week: Dr. Ben Dispelling The Myths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSW3JeTdrnA
Dr Ben's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@benbocchicchio9453
Book: 15 Minutes to Fitness
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Dr. Ben: The History of High Intensity Exercise: The Nuts and Bolts- San Diego 2021
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Annette Bosworth, M.D., (Dr. Boz), is an internal medicine physician, and an authority on optimizing brain health. Author of the bestseller, ANYWAY YOU CAN, Dr. Boz, has helped patients overcome long-term chronic conditions such as obesity, depression, autoimmune problems, & addiction.
Dr. Boz is a frequent lecturer at youth shelters, schools, universities, churches, jails, seminars, & the military. She has taught at the University Of Utah & University of South Dakota Schools Of Medicine. Being born into a farming family in rural South Dakota, she witnessed first-hand the value & importance of individual contribution to strengthening a community. She has also been featured on CNN, Time, US News & World Report, Fox News, & more.
Dr. Boz & her husband savor the adventure of raising three energetic, fast-growing sons through debate, wrestling, music, & theater.
Watch more: How KETO Improves BRAIN Health, from ADHD to Dementia | Annette Bosworth (Dr. Boz) & Dr. Casey Means https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1ZeCDp-xw
The keto mistake I wish I could undo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoYWOwnKJ3A
Dr. Boz‘s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@DoctorBoz
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Francesco Branca is the Director of the Department of Nutrition and Food Safety in the World Health Organization based in Geneva (since February 2020). Since 2005 he has been at WHO including the WHO nutrition strategy, the nutrition guideline development processes a Comprehensive Implementation Plan on Maternal, Infant and Young Child Nutrition with six global targets and initially regional targets for Europe.
Prior to that he was a Senior Scientist at the Italian Food and Nutrition Research Institute where he was leading studies on the effects of food and nutrients on human health at the different stages of the life cycle and on the impact of public health nutrition programs. He was President of the Federation of the European Nutrition Societies from 2003 to 2007.
Dr. Branca graduated in medicine and surgery and specialized in diabetology and metabolic diseases at the University Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma and obtained an Msc and a PhD in Nutrition at Aberdeen University.
Watch more: FFT 07 D2 Panel Discussion Future Strategies - Future strategies including commentary by WHO https://vimeo.com/911123882
I'm a Family Doctor near Montreal, Canada, and I have developed an expertise in metabolic health. I am board certified in Obesity Medicine by the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM). I've also taken quite a few courses on low carb/ketogenic/intermittent fasting, including some training with Dr. Jason Fung, author of Obesity Code, Diabetes Code and the Complete Guide to Fasting. I have a certificate in Nutrition and Chronic Pain, and I am currently in the process of getting certified in hormone replacement therapy.
My passion is to help patients get their health back, reach a healthy weight, feel good and love life.
I have founded Clinique Reversa in 2017, which is a not-for-profit program to help patients reverse their lifestyle related chronic diseases, such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, gout, hypertension, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, PCOS, NAFLD, etc.
Our program is led by a multidisciplinary team composed of nurses, kinesiologists, psychologist, pharmacist, medical assistants, and doctors, under my supervision. We teach patients to change their lifestyle habits, in particular their diet, to reach their health goals, and we accompany them along the process over the course of a few months. We deprescribe drugs along the way, as they become unnecessary.
I blog for Diet Doctor whenever time permits: https://www.dietdoctor.com/authors/dr-evelyne-bourdua-roy-m-d
I have personally started eating low carb/keto and doing intermittent fasting in May of 2016. This completely changed my personal and professional life.
Watch more: Dr. Evelyne Bourdua-Roy & Dr. Hala Lahlou - 'Can LCHF and ketogenic diets improve chronic pain?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDT3CnN29zY
Èvelyne Bourdua-Roy & Tro Kalayjian - Workshop Intro & Prevailing Outcomes in T1DM - 2024 Boca Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpylGUFk9uQ&t=560s
Elizabeth Bright, a graduate of Columbia University, is a highly respected American Osteopath and Naturopath living in Italy. She is former Chef-owner of Coppi’s Organic and The Vigorelli Restaurants in Washington, D.C. She is a master in Chau Ka Kung Fu.
She has been eating a high-fat carnivore diet and has been using it as a treatment modality since 2016.
She is 60 years old and an avid stand-up paddle boarder.
She is the author of Good Fat is Good for Women: Menopause
Watch more: Why Medications can Cause Hypothyroid, Autoimmune and Hormone Imbalances – Dr. Elizabeth Bright https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s2z68E_Z6A
Dr. Elizabeth Bright's Guide to Healthy Living https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIWkv15l4CU
Podcast: Episode #505 Elizabeth Bright on High Fat Carnivore for Menopausal Women
Dr. Rachel Brown (@carnivoreshrink) is a Consultant Psychiatrist in the United Kingdom who specializes in metabolic health and focuses on root-cause healing. She graduated from Edinburgh University in 2003 and has worked in the field of psychiatry since 2004. She is a Nutrition Network Advisor and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner. She also holds a master’s degree in medical laws and ethics and is involved in ongoing research into ketogenic diets and mental disorders. Dr. Brown is an advocate for therapeutic carbohydrate restriction and dietary modification to address underlying metabolic dysfunction and gut dysbiosis as underlying causes of mental disorders, as well as other lifestyle measures for optimizing health. She is the author of the bestselling book Metabolic Madness: Understand Why Metabolic Health Is Key to Mental Health (Your Keys to Success), which address underlying inflammation in mental disorders and uncovers why metabolic health is crucial for mental health.
Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a medical doctor and specialist sports and exercise medicine physician. Peter has had two passions during this medical career.
The first was sports medicine. Peter is a world-renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. He was the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne, has served two terms as president of the Australasian College of Sports Physicians, is the co-author of the ‘bible’ of sports medicine Brukner & Khan’s Clinical Sports Medicine, and has been team doctor to amateur and professional sporting teams such as Melbourne and Collingwood (AFL), National swimming, hockey, athletics, soccer and cricket teams as well as Liverpool Football Club in the English Premier league. Peter is Professor of Sports Medicine at La Trobe University in Melbourne.
This website focusses on Peter’s sports medicine career.
Peter’s second passion, which has developed over the last few years, is nutrition. He believes that most of what we have been told about what to eat over the last 40 years has been wrong, and as a result we have epidemics of obesity and chronic diseases such as Type 2 diabetes. Peter is the Founder and Chair of the SugarByHalf campaign and has authored the popular book A Fat Lot of Good.
You can find out all about the nutrition side of Peter’s career at the Fat Lot of Good website.
Watch more: Prof. Peter Brukner - 'Can we really put type 2 diabetes into remission?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiYxIUh413c
Dr. Peter Brukner presentation: Chronic disease. Does what we eat make any difference?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CPiiyi_xuQ
Dr. Peter Brukner - 'Why Low Carb?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WPF3RMPI9k
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Founded by Dr Peter Brukner OAM with support from a medical advisory panel of doctors and dieticians, the Defeat Diabetes Program is delivered via a mobile app. It provides an extensive range of videos from health professionals, masterclasses, cooking demonstrations, low carb and keto recipes, a meal planner and a rich library of resources, with new content regularly added.
Start your FREE trial today: https://www.defeatdiabetes.com.au/about-defeat-diabetes/
Dr. Laura Buchanan is a board-certified family medicine physician with a passion for using lifestyle modification as the first-line standard of care wherever possible. She completed her family medicine residency at Wake Forest in 2022 and was a valedictorian of her class at the University of Florida College of Medicine. For her undergraduate education she received a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences from the University of South Florida, from which she graduated summa cum laude.
The mission that drives her is to help people age successfully. She has been passionate about fitness and health since she was a young child. That passion was initially derived from a love of sports but has since evolved and expanded to include a passion for healthy living generally, including the importance of nutrition, exercise, mental wellness, and an optimal use of the medical system. She sees her role as a doctor being two-fold: promoting prevention and practicing medicine.
Watch more: Dr. Laura Buchanan ON The Power of Continuous Glucose Monitors in Managing Diabetes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e__LJkSx6cY
Why Our Medical System Doesn’t Properly Address Obesity & Diabetes - Dr. Laura Buchanan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=remy50MrXHo
Jayne believes research in healthcare needs better funding and strong minds. Since joining in 2015, she has grown The Noakes Foundation into one of the key research funders in South Africa, an entity that is changing the way the nation eats.
As the Chief Operating Officer of The Noakes Foundation, she established Eat Better South Africa alongside inspiring colleagues and Prof Noakes. Most recently she was appointed as Managing Director of the Nutrition Network, where she has taken the lead in the process and creation of this educational and networking platform founded by The Noakes Foundation in partnership with an esteemed team of doctors and scientists.
After realizing the dichotomy between brand research budgets and human health research, she decided to leave the corporate research world and took the leap into medical and biological research to bring her experience in big biz research into new areas to affect change to human health.
Jayne is an MBA, High Dip in Marketing and International Relations, graduate. She began her career taking products into Africa and researching local markets in the West and East African block and later moved to the UK to read for an MBA at Leeds University, later conducting Pan European media research and strategy evaluation. She is also a Movement Medicine Teacher, a Mind-Body Medicine Practitioner and a mom.
Watch more: Jayne Bullen - Fake Foods: Lies, Myths, Mistakes and Fraud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZBE473dD3c
Using Science to Improve Modern Medicine and Nutrition! | Jayne Bullen, The Noakes Foundation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2X4d1e_PT0A
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Dr Louise Burke. Researcher, leading sports dietitian, chair of sports nutrition at the Mary McKillop Institute for Health Research.
Professor Louise Burke is a sports dietitian with nearly 40 years of experience in the education and counselling of elite athletes. She was Head of Sports Nutrition at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) from 1990 to 2018, and continues at the AIS as Chief of Nutrition Strategy. She was also the dietitian for the Australian Olympic team for the summer Olympic Games from 1996 to 2012.
Professor Burke’s publications include more than 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters, and the authorship or editorship of several textbooks on sports nutrition. She is an editor of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism.
She was a founding member of the Executive of Sports Dietitians Australia and is a Director of the IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition. She was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2009 for her contribution to sports nutrition.
In 2014 she was appointed as Chair in Sports Nutrition for the Mary MacKillop Institute of Health Research at ACU in Melbourne.
Watch more: #7 - Sports nutrition for optimal sports performance with Dr Louise Burke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su8fbVY_bJY
Research: Ketogenic low-CHO, high-fat diet: the future of elite endurance sport? https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP278928
Article: The Low Carb, High Fat Diet: Is it beneficial for endurance performance? With Professor Louise Burke https://www.dietitianapproved.com/blog/lowcarbhighfatdietfortriathlon
Dr. Burke is a Professor of Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Cognitive Aging and Memory Center (CAM) at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She received her PhD in Neuroscience & Pharmacology in 2009 from the University of Arizona and went on to complete a Postdoctoral Fellowship (2009-2013) at her alma mater. The overarching goals of her NIH-funded research program are to 1) pinpoint alterations in how different brain regions communicate over the lifespan and how this contributes to loss of function in advanced age, and 2) to design therapeutic strategies for alleviating cognitive dysfunction in order to promote positive health outcomes in the elderly.
Watch more: Sara Burke, PhD - Targeting metabolism to enhance cognitive resilience during aging https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pssS-X_qP98
Research: Metabolic switching is impaired by aging and facilitated by ketosis independent of glycogen https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32369441/
A long-term ketogenic diet in young and aged rats has dissociable effects on prelimbic cortex and CA3 ensemble activity https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.18.529095v1
A Ketogenic Diet Improves Cognition and Has Biochemical Effects in Prefrontal Cortex That Are Dissociable From Hippocampus https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/aging-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00391/full
Article: Unlocking the secrets of diet and brain health https://eu.gainesville.com/story/lifestyle/health-fitness/2017/10/07/changemaker-unlocking-secrets-of-diet-and-brain-health/18436523007/