Dr. Sarah Hallberg was the Medical Director and Principal Investigator for Virta's landmark clinical trial on diabetes reversal. She was also one of Virta’s early employees, most ardent supporters, and an inspiration to many, many people across the globe through her TEDx Talk, "Reversing Type 2 diabetes starts with ignoring the guidelines,' which has been viewed more than 11 million times.
In 2022, Sarah tragically passed away from lung cancer, despite having never smoked. True to Sarah's spirit and persistence, she lived nearly five years following her diagnosis—nearly unheard of for anyone with stage IV cancer. During those years, she fought hard for herself and for others living with cancer, alongside her metabolic health patients.
Beyond her lasting impact at Virta, the healthcare industry at large, and countless patients, Sarah’s legacy also continues through her recently published book, Status Quo Thinking is Harming Your Health: A Physician's Final Plea.
We greatly miss Sarah, and celebrate all that she contributed to Virta, metabolic health research, and the countless people who continue to improve their health through her work. You can read more about her life and legacy here.
Watch more: Dr. Sarah Hallberg on Carb Restriction as a Sustainable Diabetes Treatment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdwnBqpBD_Q
Dr. Hallberg on Carbs, Protein and Fat, and Their Surprising Impact on Blood Sugar (Ch 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESL3_7sdCwU
Dr. Hallberg on Carbohydrate Intolerance, Insulin Resistance and Reversing Diabetes (Ch 2)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldzaLP8oAHw
Dr. Hallberg on the Type 2 Diabetes Epidemic and What We Can Do To Stop It (Ch 3)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuIUiTW6PSU
Dr. Hallberg on Why 'Eat Less, Exercise More' Doesn't Work, and Is Downright Insulting (Ch 4)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSLnt9U0CmI
Dr. Hallberg on the History & Safety of Nutritional Ketosis (Ch 5) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrt9iIAo3z0
Food for Thought conference: https://www.swissre.com/institute/research/topics-and-risk-dialogues/health-and-longevity/food-for-thought-fiona-godlee-panel.html
Dr. Hampton a board-certified family and obesity specialist with masters in nutrition and functional medicine who is passionate about removing barriers to health and equipping patients and his colleagues with the education and resources they need for success. As the medical director of the Advocate Operating System, he collaborated with clinicians and staff on programs to address social determinants of health among at-risk patient populations.
Programs like the Healthy Living program, educating patients about lifestyle helping them set realistic and attainable goals, the Food Farmacy at Advocate Trinity, and South Suburban Hospitals to increase access to fresh, healthy food for patients in partnership with the Chicago Food Depository. He also is works with patients in small groups enrolled in the diabetes prevention program (D.P.P.) and COPD programs and is currently a Regional Medical Director for the South Region in Chicago.
He’s authored the book: Fix Your Diet, Fix Your Diabetes, is an active blogger on social media, creates educational videos on YouTube, and has a podcast ranked in the top 1% entitled: Protecting Your N.E.S.T. with Dr. Tony Hampton.
Watch more: Who Should try the Carnivore Diet with DR TONY HAMPTON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS-Pbie0MJ0
Low-Carb Diets and Unlocking Longevity | Dr. Tony Hampton
Mark Hancock, MD, MPH founded Humanizing Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, together with his wife Enid, in 2015. The clinic is strongly rooted in the couple’s belief that everyone should have quality integrative healthcare options. For his entire professional career, Dr. Hancock has worked with Anthroposophic Medicine, which originally introduced mistletoe as a cancer care therapy over one hundred years ago. Dr Hancock graduated summa cum laude from Saint George’s Medical School in 2008 and was elected Chief Resident during his training at University of New Mexico Hospital. He was introduced to the advanced use of mistletoe by Dr. Maurice Orange, greatly impacting his life course. Dr. Hancock’s journey through life has been full and varied and has taken him through art, philosophy, science, and even some farm work, before ultimately landing in medicine. Read about his journey and medical philosophy at HumanizingMedicine.com.
Krisna is the Director of Employee Wellness for Ovadia Heart Health (Dr. Philip Ovadia) and a Metabolic Health Coach. She is the co-owner/founder of Square 1 Wellness company offering LCHF/Keto nutritional programs for individuals and companies. Krisna is the author of Finding Lifestyle Sanity: A Survival Guide. Ms. Hanks holds a MS in Kinesiology from Indiana University and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. Her experience includes many years as an executive coach for Executive Performance Training in The Netherlands as well as decades as a professional dancer in Europe and the USA. Current certifications include, Dr. Sear’s Health Coaching, Worksite Wellness, Senior Fitness, Iyengar Yoga, Classical Pilates and now the inaugural coach practitioners’ program of the Nutrition Network.
Watch more: Boundless Body Short- Krisna Hanks from Square One Wellness on a Meat-Centric Diet! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En21udFJQLs
EP 483: Fit and Thriving Over 65 with Krisna Lee Hanks MS MBA and Shawn & Janet Needham R. Ph. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM3xisi5MjQ
Dr Zoë Harcombe is a researcher, blogger and public speaker. She has a PhD in public health nutrition – her thesis being a review and meta-analysis of the evidence supporting the introduction of dietary fat recommendations in 1977 and 1983. Dr Harcombe has also authored multiple books on the subjects of nutrition and health. Read more.
Watch more: Dr. Zoë Harcombe on the Mess: The Money vs. the Evidence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=UzX1QTSSw88
Dr. Zoë Harcombe - 'What about fiber?' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KrmpK_Lckg
Zoë's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ZoeHarcombe
Dr. Abbi Hernandez received her PhD in Medical Sciences with a concentration in Neuroscience from the University of Florida. Her research focuses on the role of peripheral health in aging and Alzheimer’s related cognitive and neuropathological decline. Her work investigates the Gut-Brain-Axis’s role in AD through studying and manipulating the gut microbiome in transgenic AD rats, as well as the role of metabolic function as a potential mediator of decline.
Allison Herschede, RN, CDCES, is a Registered Nurse, Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (formerly known as CDE), the author of a book about diabetes and pregnancy, and is the lead diabetes educator at diaVerge.
She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 18 months old in 1981, and only knew the standard diabetes recommendations until discovering low carb in 2010.
Upon changing her diet, Allison was able to reduce her insulin needs by 50%, lose 55lb and safely eliminate 15 prescription medications.
She is one of the founders of TYPEONEGRIT, a group of type 1 adults and families who follow Dr. Richard K. Bernstein’s plan for diabetes management, and are thriving.
Allison lives in the USA with her husband and three children. Her book, Grit Pregnancies, a guide to healthy pregnancy with type 1 diabetes using Dr. Bernstein’s principles, was published in April 2021 and is available at numerous online retailers in the USA as well as internationally.
Watch more: LOW CARB & TYPE 1 DIABETES IN PREGNANCY | ALLISON HERSCHEDE, RN
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a137FGJp4w
Allison Herschede - Hormonal Challenges for Women With T1D – Boca 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2QA-X1k7fY&t=1744s
Allison's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@GritCDE
Dr. Valisa E. Hedrick is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech, USA. Her current research primarily focuses on the development and translation of dietary assessment methodology for the prevention and treatment of obesity and related comorbidities. Specific research areas are focused on the quantification and dietary analysis of sugar-sweetened beverage intake, as well as the effects of sugar-sweetened and artificially-sweetened or non-nutritive sweetener beverages on cardiovascular-related outcomes using subjective and objective dietary assessment methods within clinical-community based settings.
Dr. Hedrick has over 60 peer-reviewed publications and is currently the principal investigator on three National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants. Two of these grants examine the impact of non-nutritive sweetener intake on glycemia in older adults with prediabetes. Read more
Published Research: Adolescents perceive a low added sugar adequate fiber diet to be more satiating and equally palatable compared to a high added sugar low fiber diet in a randomized-crossover design-controlled feeding pilot trial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29751193/
The late Adele Hite, PhD, MPH, RD was a registered dietitian with a masters’ degree in public health nutrition and a PhD in rhetoric, communication, and digital media. She also had extensive graduate training in nutritional epidemiology.
Hite’s doctoral work in rhetoric, communication, and digital media centered on the historical, political, and sociocultural contexts surrounding the creation and evolution of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans. As many people are now learning, the first 1980 Dietary Guidelines were not based on a substantial body of scientific evidence. Hite’s dissertation explored the forces that helped to shape how and why the Dietary Guidelines define what a “healthy diet” is.
She began her work with low-carb diets in 2006 at the Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic, assisting Dr. Eric Westman in educating patients with obesity, and type 2 diabetes about how to make successful, sustainable changes in lifestyle, diet, and health.
Hite’s experience with patients at Duke inspired her to return to graduate school to learn more about why communication and beliefs about nutrition are the way they are.
Hite’s expertise and interest in nutrition, food, and public health covered a wide range of topics. She wrote articles in the areas of health science, food studies, and public health policy. She presented papers at national and international conferences for scholars and professionals from a variety of fields, including nutrition, rhetoric, dietetics, agriculture, and evolutionary health.
Watch more: Lakes-Area Low Carb Conference - Year Two (Session 2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smMqZ4QKI5E
Dr. Adele Hite - The Society for Metabolic Health Practitioners: Oh, the places we’ll go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmEWfSSvZec
AHS17 Jumping out of the nutrition system - Adele Hite and Sean Mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8_gBw_WwTU
Dr. Michael Hoffmann obtained his medical degree at the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa and neurological subspecialty fellowship training in stroke from Columbia University. This was followed by two senior doctorates, one in cerebrovascular medicine (MD) and one in behavioral health (PhD). Dr. Hoffman’s main areas of research have concerned cognitive disorders after stroke and how to improve brain health and fitness based on scientific principles and evolutionary insights.
Dr. Hoffman is currently a Professor of Neurology with the University of Central Florida and has recently served in a number of administrative leadership positions, such as Associate Dean of Academic Assessment and Chief of Neurology Services and Director of the Stroke Center at the Orlando VA Medical Center. He is the founding director of comprehensive and primary stroke centers in 5 tertiary medical centers to date in the USA and South Africa and has current licenses in Florida and Kentucky and previously in Canada, Germany and South Africa. Dr. Hoffman is also a cognitive neurology consultant at the Roskamp Neuroscience Institute in Sarasota, Florida where he focuses on frontotemporal disorders, traumatic brain illness and neuro-toxicological syndromes such as Gulf War Illness. Continue reading.
Premium conference: Drl Hoffmann - The Whispering Brain and Opportunities to Avert Calamity – Boca 2024 https://www.lowcarbusa.org/videos/premium-event-videos/2024-boca-videos/
My name is Kelly Hogan, and I want to be your coach. My story starts in 2004, when I visited my doctor for a check-up, stepped on the scales, and saw the number: 262. I’ll never forget that moment. My eyes welled with tears. My doctor very gently but firmly recommended that I lose at least 100 pounds. He said it very casually, as if he had recommended that I wear blue. Or part my hair on the other side.
Sure. Let’s do that. Let’s lose 100 pounds. I wish I had thought of that.
My life changed that day, though, because my doctor introduced me to a new way of eating. It wasn’t easy, but I knew if I didn’t do something, my health would be gravely affected. With time, I would lose that 100 pounds–and more. I broke my addiction to sugar and carbohydrates. I healed.. Continue reading.
Kelly's YouTube channel 'myzerocarblife': https://www.youtube.com/@myzerocarblife
Patrick Holford is a pioneer in the field of nutrition. He’s now written over 45 books translated into over 30 languages and selling millions of copies worldwide, including The Optimum Nutrition Bible, The Low GL-Diet Bible, Optimum Nutrition for the Mind and The 10 Secrets of 100% Healthy People, 10 Secrets of Healthy Ageing and Good Medicine.
Patrick started his academic career in the field of psychology. He then became a student of two of the leading pioneers in nutrition medicine and psychiatry – the late Dr Carl Pfeiffer and Dr Abram Hoffer. In 1984 he founded the Institute for Optimum Nutrition (ION), an independent educational charity, with his mentor, twice Nobel Prize winner Dr Linus Pauling, as patron. ION has been researching and helping to define what it means to be optimally nourished for the past 25 years and is one of the most respected educational establishments for training nutritional therapists. At ION, Patrick was involved in groundbreaking research showing that multivitamins can increase children’s IQ scores – the subject of a Horizon television documentary in the 1980s. He was one of the first promoters of the importance of zinc, antioxidants, high-dose vitamin C, essential fats, low-GL diets and homocysteine-lowering B vitamins and their importance in Alzheimer’s disease prevention.
Patrick is the Founder of the Food for the Brain Foundation and on the board of trustees, and a Director of the Brain Bio Centre, the Foundation’s treatment centre that specialises in helping those with mental health issues, ranging from depression to schizophrenia. He is an honorary fellow of the British Association of Nutritional Therapy, as well as a member of the Nutrition Therapy Council and the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council. He is also Patron of the South African Association of Nutritional Therapy. In 2014 Patrick was inducted to the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame.
Watch more: Patrick Holford - 'What’s driving Alzheimer’s?'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LkRW-n5-90
Patrick Holford‘s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@PatrickHolford
Book: Full list https://www.patrickholford.com/foreign-editions/
Kyla is a Psychotherapist & Master Practitioner in evidence-based treatments for sufferers of Anorexia, Bulimia, Binge Eating Disorder, ARFID, Orthorexia and OSFED. She also practices an anti-diet approach for people with weight concerns.
After training with The National Centre for Eating Disorders (UK) she founded ACFEB and developed a number of training courses in eating disorders and weight concerns for health professionals in Australia and New Zealand.
The Australian Centre for Eating Behaviour is part of her vision to create a high quality standard of professional knowledge in the treatment of eating disorders and weight concerns in Australia, making it safer for sufferers and their families to access effective support. Kyla is dedicated to building a network of dedicated, qualified health professionals through the Australian Centre for Eating Behaviour.
She has forged a partnership with Dr Eric Stice at The Oregon Research Institute to ensure that Australia and New Zealand have access to their groundbreaking eating disorder and obesity prevention programs, the Body Project and Project Health. She has also visited The Maudsley and Springfield University Hospitals in London to learn about their patient treatment methods, and to learn the MANTRA method of treating adults with anorexia nervosa.
She also has extensive knowledge and experience specifically related to metabolic surgery and works as part of two multidisciplinary clinical teams in addition to working in private practice and is a member of the Australia and New Zealand Metabolic and Obesity Surgery Society (ANZMOSS).
Kyla migrated to Australia, from the UK over 20 years ago, but still retains much of her ‘Pommy’ weirdness and can’t bring herself to change her pronunciation of the words yoghurt and pasta!
Learn more on the 'Change your Relationship with Food Podcast' youtube.com/@ChangeyourRelationshipwith-o5v
Dr. Horvitz is a sought after family physician, physician entrepreneur, and pioneer in the Direct Primary Care clinical model. Dr. Horvitz has been practicing patient-focused, proactive Direct Primary Care since 2008. He graduated from Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1991 and completed his Family Practice Residency with Board Certification in 1994. Dr. Horvitz completed another Board Certification and Fellowship in the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine in 2019.
Dr. Horvitz has a strong interest in Wellness and Prevention. Through his training and continued learning and research, Dr. Horvitz brings a blend of traditional, functional and holistic treatment / evaluations with an emphasis on reversing chronic diseases by searching for root causes of health and wellness. Dr. Horvitz uses a systems based approach to your evaluations and treatment. Dr. Horvitz process for evaluating your health issues is unique.
Watch more: Ep 69 Dr Steven Horvitz - The Most Important Blood Tests You Can Get - and Virus Stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtS4gQnR_rk
Podcast: Episode 40: The Real Dr. Steven Horvitz
https://lowcarbmd.com/podcast/episode-40-the-real-dr-steven-horvitz/