Prof. Peter Brukner - 'Low Carb and Chronic Disease'

Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a specialist sports and exercise physician and the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. His most recent team appointments have been as Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club and, until 2017, Team Doctor for the Australian cricket team.

Peter is Professor of Sports Medicine at the La Trobe Sport & Exercise Medicine Research Centre at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Peter has published widely internationally with a number of books, book chapters and over 100 original research articles. He is the co-author of Clinical Sports Medicine, a best selling general sports medicine text in its fifth edition as well as Stress Fractures, Food for Sport, Encyclopedia of Exercise and Sport Health and Clinical Sports Anatomy.

Peter is also the founder of Defeat Diabetes, Australia's first evidence-based and doctor-led program that focuses on the wide range of health benefits of a low carb lifestyle, particularly for those wanting to send into remission pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic illnesses. The Defeat Diabetes Program is delivered via a mobile app. It provides 100+ hours of video from health professionals, masterclasses, cooking demonstrations, recipes, a meal planner, and a rich library of resources, with new content regularly added.

[kathleensanderson]

I started carnivore about two months ago to reduce pain from fibromyalgia (and I need to lose a lot of weight). Seeing significant improvement in my pain levels after only a few days, I put my 42 yo daughter on the diet, as well. She is autistic, mentally handicapped, has lupus (and other autoimmune conditions), and has spina bifida occulta with neurogenic bladder, and was having considerable pain and other issues, mostly from the autoimmune diseases. It was hard to get her transitioned to the diet, but at this point she is readily eating our carnivore meals. And she is doing much, much better. She doesn't communicate well, but her behavior indicates much improved levels of pain and general function. I would say to parents that they should persist in getting their child transitioned to the diet. It may have to be done slowly, with incremental changes, but don't give up. The potential improvement is worth it.

[judyfifield]

I have been doing the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting for two and a half years and my life is in a much better place. I’m a T2 diabetic and no long use two medications to control my diabetes. No longer need or use statins or medication for depression. Also deal with chronic pain including daily migraines and fibromyalgia. I restricted foods that are inflammatory to further help my conditions. Other conditions I live with I’ll bypass at this time. This is for folks like me to see this can work.

[domdom]

I remember watching Terry Wahls' "Minding your mitohondria" on YouTube 10 years ago. It completely changed my life and sent me on a quest for knowledge that landed me on low carb journey!

[carlwest]

truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

[issen]

Since adopting a high fat carnivore diet I am completely healed from nearly 30 years of obesity (I never control for calories, only for carbs, weight control is completely automatic) and my inflammatory arthritis, while still not completely gone, happens extremely rarely without any medication whatsoever.

I also suffer from anxiety and while that's not gone, it's also much better managed and now take medication for it very rarely (as in I can go several months without any).

The biggest improvement has been to my IBS, which used to be debilitating to the point of being disabling, and now usually consists of mild discomfort with very rare 1 to 3 day long flareups of intense but still manageable pain.

Furthermore, after 2 years of carnivore, all of these symptoms seem to STILL be slowly and steadily improving. Better and better "usual state", and rarer and rarer flare-ups.

Same deal with my GERD, which is almost completely gone with rare flare-ups.

Interestingly, flare-ups of GERD, IBS and arthritis seem to happen together more often than not, enough for me to have noticed the pattern, which tells me that their underlying causes must be related.

I have attempted to introduce small amounts of low carb vegetables but they usually result in flare-ups, which means that improvement to my chronic conditions is not caused by removing obesity from the picture (a common rebuttal to carnivore/keto/low carb). Interestingly, small amounts of low-fiber refined carbohydrates (sugar, refined/processed carbs like breakfast cereal or pastries) sit much better with me, so long as it's with moderation and every once in a while (large or frequent portions will induce flare-ups as well). Also, I seem to have very few problems with full fat dairy, so long as total carb intake is kept in check. If fermented, there's pretty much zero issue. If in milk/high lactose form, there is sometimes a very small amount of bloating, but even this is rare.

[Johneseed]

This is a great talk and helped answer many lingering questions i have had. I have been eating a meat based diet with fasting regiments for 4 years now and have been feeling better and thinking clearer every day. Good Job Prof Brukner

[wsue]

Your sense of humor keeps me engaged. Thank you!

[therealdeal]

Important information! Great presentation. Love your sense of humor. 🙂

[louisejames]

Had to start a keto diet for gallbladder removal op. I've got 9 chronic illnesses in addition, 4 autoimmune. & Menopausal flushing. Almost instantly, hot flushes ceased. Fatigue from fibromyalgia which has been increasing exponentially in the last couple of years, has reduced noticeably. I've only been doing it a couple of weeks! I also lost a significant amount of body fat.

This lecture only confirmed my suspicion that the diet drastically improved my symptoms. Cheers Prof! 😁👍 Also, you kept it interesting, I didn't fall asleep once 😂😂😂 (biochemistry background and I fell asleep in many, many lectures in my youth and that was when I was healthy 😅🤣)

[loonb]

Thank you greatly my friends. Its a God Blessed work and experience.
❤❤❤
with Love from Belarus.

[karenohanlon]

I discovered Irish Butter called Connaught Gold. It is lovely. I use it to cook with instead of oil.
Also about cost of living a cheap bar of dark chocolate costs me £2.00 its gone very quickly. Sometimes starting cravings . A neck of lamb in the butchers costs £ 4 and does two meals for me. I dont think processed food with the amount of illness it creates is really that cheap.

[wigglywrigglydoo]

I would love to listen to discussion between Dr Paul Mason and Sally K Norton.

[scoobtoober]

The typical tests like seyfried have pointed out will not show or do not relate to t2d. a1c is a good start. For me before and after LCHF omad life altering for the better changes. My fasting glucose was identical. It didn't tell any story. Doc's need to regulary do fasted and glucose charge, insulin levels. And maybe many other tests. We are our own advocates. Hearing alzheimers people at 80% insulin resistance is very telling of the overview of this video. Thanks for sharing
This youtube channel is probably one of the greatest contributions to the world. Nobel prize needed for these doc's and hosts. Lustig where "sugar the bitter truth" and paul mason talking about fiber and IBS patients kicked me off on my journey. I'm so grateful. I try to help anyone that is willing to listen of the 180 degree notions of the usual things to do. How did we get here and were we need to go. I hear various problems and suggest doing the opposite in a proven/scientific or anecdoetal way. Don't tow the line.
My stats are 50lbs lost in 4 months. BP 25 points down 115/65. HDL up 20 points (45 top 65). triglicerides down 20 (95 to 75). I feel so much better. I love being thin again. And can eat good fats to reckless abandon. Not quite. But my stomach feels nothing. It's as if it's not there.

[pointshealthcoaching]

We've straggled so far off course when it comes to basic nutrition that we now have to call it by special names, do 'RCT's", have debates with guru's & labeling of different cultish type platforms - it's a wonder we're not already extinct as a species.... but it does seem we're heading in that direction... thx for all you 'LCDU'

[mardeanchandler]

Dr Chris Palmer, from Harvard, has more information on Keto diet and mental health issues.

[evelyngreen]

Maybe you should get the beef industry to fund a good research study b

[coweatsman]

The purpose of developing drugs is not to be effective, but profitable. Sometimes these are the same thing.

[DorotheasFavs]

Please add a link the studies mentioned in the description.

[mattm]

Improvements and energy stamina are really not surprising on keto to me. I’m not a doctor, but it would make sense that if you reduce the amount of sugar and carbohydrates in your diet, you wouldn’t be experiencing the highs insulin in your bloodstream which could cause fatigue of course I could be wrong.

[Damudean]

Why is drugs tried before a lifestyle that seems the wrong way round?