RESOURCES (or FOOD FOR THOUGHT) (Part Sixteen)
Not everyone can afford to consult a functional medicine practitioner or nutritionist. But there are umpteen generous and qualified professionals who are currently, via book, blog, video, lecture and interview, seeking to help us reverse some of the devastating illnesses and effects our food and health choices have led to.
It seems that, with their help and in utilising our own good common sense, we are now being given the chance to at least explore a very necessary and urgent remedial path.
These are all passionate and compassionate people, very awake to the commercial priorities powering parts of the science community, not to speak of the food and pharmaceutical industries. They are rightfully and fiercely concerned and are working hard to bring true health back into focus.
My journey has evolved from a 'keto' approach to one of 'ketovore', in which I eat mainly animal products with a very few root vegetables for variety. I am keeping well away from my adored potatoes, having realised that eating them seems to bring back my foot pain. Roast potatoes or road trip, basically! Raw milk appears to reduce my asthmatic symptoms. I am aiming for, and am now very close to, pure carnivore.
I am observing the effects day by day. It's an on-going 'in vivo' experiment! I am trying not to be too urgent or, indeed, dogmatic or inflexible, as I know that stress and my thoughts are of equal importance to my health.
This, or full carnivore, is not necessarily an easy or desirable transition for everyone, and so I still wholeheartedly recommend starting by lowering processed carbs initially, before perhaps adopting a keto approach, for a transformative and preventative route to better health.
So here are links to the work of some of the above mentioned doctors and scientists.
I suppose I have to add the caveat that these are selected resources which I personally have learned from. These are purely recommended as food for thought. Common sense, a huge dose of curiosity and above all a desire to intelligently research, in order to nurture body and mind, are key.
A Functional Medicine approach to brain disorders:
Dr Dale Bredesen
Amy Berger
KETO/LOW CARB
Dr Bret Scher (Low Carb Cardiologist):
Dr Sten Ekberg
Dr Benjamin Bikman
Dr Andreas Eenfeldt
Dr David Unwin
Dr Unwin has also established a charity called Public Health Collaboration (https://phcuk.org/), which is dedicated to improving public health and saving the NHS money at the same time through sustainable lifestyle changes.
Dr Unwin has produced a series of charts showing the truly astonishing 'teaspoon' sugar equivalent of blood sugar produced by carbohydrates. One is shown below. Dr Unwin is successfully reversing Type 2 diabetes in his patients.
KETO AND/OR CARNIVORE:
Coming now to the keto/carnivore approach, there is no better place to hear the experiences and health benefits of those exploring keto/carnivore than:
Dr Ken Berry
Dr Eric Westman
Dr Zoe Harcombe
And a purely carnivore approach:
No Carb Life with Dave Mac:
Other luminaries in the carnivore firmament are:
Maurice Daher
Dr Anthony Chaffee - he is known as the Plant-Free Doctor due to his guidance on the anti-nutrients in plants:
Dr Shawn Baker MD
HomesteadHow (Kerry Mann):
Kerry Mann is the creator of the upcoming documentary 'Healing Humanity'. Official trailer:
That Carnivore Nurse! A young and articulate NHS nurse making waves! Here is her Youtube channel:
And here she is talking to Dave Mac at No Carb Life:
Dr Steve James
Dr James is the consultant anaesthetist who made UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid's visit to King's College Hospital, London, in January 2022, a little bit sparkier - here he talks to Unherd about his thoughts on the C19 vaccine, and the interview includes the marvellous Sky News clip of his exchange with the hapless Javid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ik6cxFBbBw
Dr James's stated intention then was to build an on-line community called 'Health Awakening'. The aim was to foster "self-empowered health rather than dependency on big healthcare, big food or big pharma". Here he talks about insulin resistance, saturated fat and heart disease https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6fy_-nEn08&t=20s
Here is the trailer of a documentary (to be released in March 2026) called The Cholesterol Code:
For mental issues reversible through diet:
Dr Chris Palmer, author of Brain Health:
Georgia Ede MD:
Nicole Laurent, LMHC:
And finally, a big, fat surprise. Curious journalists!
Nina Teichholz
Author of 'The Big Fat Surprise'
She, if I remember rightly, goes deeper into Ancel Keys' 1950s cherrypicking which led to saturated fat being linked with heart disease ...
Gary Taubes
Author of, among others, 'The Case against Sugar', 'The Case for Keto' 'Why we get Fat' and 'Rethinking Diabetes'.
RESEARCHING PHARMACEUTICALS
There is nothing more urgent in my opinion than a clear understanding of what medications such as PPIs can cause:
Is B12 deficiency Driving Cognitive Decline and Mental Illness?
'Could it be B12', the movie:
Based on the book by nurse, Sally Pacholok, "Feisty ER Nurse takes on the medical establishment when she uncovers an epidemic of misdiagnosis". Award-Winning feature film based on the true story of Sally Pacholok, RN, co-author of 'Could It Be B12?' 1st Edition (2005) 2nd Edition (2011) and new 2016 Pediatric Edition: What Every Parent Needs To Know About B12 Deficiency.
And equally important is osteoporosis (also a possible side effect from over-consumption of PPIs):
Animal Protein consumption associated with stronger bones:
A good documentary to inspire you!
The Magic Pill ... a documentary. Here is the trailer.
Here is the full documentary.
In this film one can see, among other transformations, a non-verbal autistic child start to talk and smile after her parents changed her diet!
It is beautiful to observe.
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