Speaker Schedule – Boca 2024

This schedule is subject to change.

* indicates that the session is eligible for CME credits.

Bonus Type 1 Workshop Day , Thursday January 11

10:00 am - Noon: Workshop Attendee Registration

12:00 pm

Èvelyne Bourdua-Roy

Tro Kalayjian, DO

My name is Tro Kalayjian, I am a board-certified physician in both Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine, I lost 150lbs to reclaim my health for myself and my family. I did it by ignoring much of the conventional medical advice that we have been told.  My life's goal is to get my patient's healthy, prevent disease. and get them OFF of their medications.  I completed medical school at TouroCOM in New York. I completed my internal medicine residency and chief residency within the Yale system at Greenwich Hospital. I have been practicing medicine for 8 years, the last 3 have been in private practice. My practice focuses on tracking patients seamlessly and remotely with smart-devices, including scales, blood pressure cuffs, wearable technology and continuous glucose monitors. My practices focuses on de-prescribing medications and using lifestyle, diet and exercise to improve the course of disease. 

My personal weight loss story begins at childhood. I grew up obese, in an obese family. I have personally dealt with the deep emotions and feelings involved with being overweight for most of my life. I have dealt with the same issues that many of my patients face, which affords me the capacity to empathize with them and guide them in a special way. This connection is why my patients are successful in their wellness journey, because I am not preaching from some Ivory Tower. I lived through what my patients live through, and I have experienced what they are experiencing. In order to heal myself, I studied for countless hours through medical literature, researched thousands of papers, read hundreds of books in order to find the answer, for myself, to the ever important question: Why are we fat?

And what I found during my journey and research was in such stark contrast to what we have been told. Eating multiple small meals DOES NOT speed up your metabolism. Fruit Juices ARE NOT healthy. Red Meat, Fish & Full-Fat Yogurt ARE healthy. If most physicians and nutritionists can't get it right, why do we expect anything different from our patients? Are we surprised that obesity epidemic has exploded? What patients may not realize is that most physicians DO NOT have sufficient training in nutrition and can't help you lose weight or reverse disease. Furthermore the food industry and special interests have made it so hard to understand what a healthy lifestyle really is.

Ultimately, I find I am best able to serve my patients because I understand what it is like, I have been through it, and I help my patients every step of the way.  I succeed when they succeed.

Tro Kalayjian, DO

Workshops intro & Prevailing outcomes in T1D

12:10 pm

Jessica Turton, PhD, MND, B.App.Sc (ExSpSc)

Jessica is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and the Director of Ellipse Health. She holds a PhD in nutrition awarded by the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Her thesis investigated the use and efficacy of low-carbohydrate diets for diabetes management, with a specific focus on type 1 diabetes. In 2022, Dr Turton conducted a clinical trial in collaboration with the CSIRO using a fully online delivery model which enabled Australia-wide participation. This study successfully assessed the safety and effect(s) of a nutritionally adequate low-carbohydrate diet on type 1 diabetes management outcomes (PLOS ONE; 2023).  Jessica also conducted the largest systematic review to date assessing low-carbohydrate diet interventions in adults with type 2 diabetes, and based on the collective data, she published an evidence-based approach to developing low-carbohydrate diets for type 2 diabetes management (Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism; 2019). Jessica has a passion for working with individuals to help them better understand the role of nutrition in their health. She develops personalised diet and supplement plans in collaboration with her patients to address their specific nutritional priorities, with the overarching goal of preventing and/or managing chronic disease and improving quality of life.

Jessica Turton, PhD, MND, B.App.Sc (ExSpSc)

Diet Implementation

1:00 pm

Ian Lake, BSc, BM,MRCGP

Dr Ian Lake is a Primary Care Physician in the UK who is keen to ensure that all people with Type 1 diabetes and their clinical teams know about the ketogenic diet.

After 20 years of living with Type 1, he accidentally discovered the ketogenic lifestyle which had such a profound transformation in his diabetes control from the first day; he halved his insulin doses, reduced his hypos, and had much-improved blood glucose.  Previously he was in the same situation as 70% of people with Type 1 diabetes who are losing 100 days of life every year because of their HbA1c being above 7.5%.

He feels so healthy and alert that he has had the confidence to resume sports in the great outdoors solo, which he had to stop because of safety concerns around diabetes.  

 In 2020, he organised the Zerofive100 project, a 100-mile run over five days with zero calories, water only. One other person with Type 1 was in the team of eight. It was designed to address clinical concerns about the keto diet in type 1 diabetes and was a success. There were no issues at all.

Realising there was a need for quality information, he has written professional courses on keto diets, which are intended for clinical teams and will also appeal to people living with Type 1. He also has a website dedicated to providing information for fellow T1s.

 ‘There is a lot of misinformation out there and people are getting confused.  My aim is that all people with Type 1 diabetes are aware of the ketogenic lifestyle and get access to expert help from clinicians who are trained in keto lifestyles. People should know their options so that they can make informed choices supported by their clinical teams. This is a chance for a new start for some people, and I hope they, too, discover the benefits of this lifestyle very soon.’

Ian Lake, BSc, BM,MRCGP

Low-Carb in T1D: Getting started, troubleshooting and guidance

2:10 pm

Belinda Lennerz, MD

Dr Lennerz is credentialed in pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology. She joined the endocrine division at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2015.  Dr. Lennerz' research focus is on understanding mechanisms that regulate food intake and energy homeostasis in obesity, and carbohydrate restriction in types 1 and 2 diabetes and carnivore and ketogenic diets. She is widely published researcher with Dr David Ludwig from Harvard.

Belinda Lennerz, MD

Medication & Technology Implementation

3:10 pm

Allison Herschede, BSN, RN, CDCES

Allison has been living with type 1 diabetes for 42 years. She was diagnosed with T1D at only 18 months old, and has known nothing else. She struggled with diabetes management for 29 long years before learning about low carb. She was able to reverse early diabetic complications and completely turned her health around.

Allison is co-founder and admin of TypeOneGrit™, a 3000+ member group of type 1 diabetics and their families. She also leads two pregnancy groups for diabetes and specializes in diabetes in pregnancy. She authored the book, "Grit Pregnancies; How to Have a Healthy Pregnancy and Normal Blood Sugars with Type 1 Diabetes". 
 

Allison is a Registered Nurse, Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, public speaker, and is the lead diabetes educator at diaVerge Diabetes. She helps her clients consistently achieve normalized blood sugar levels, dramatically reducing their blood sugar averages and A1c.

Allison Herschede, BSN, RN, CDCES
diaVerge Diabetes
[email protected]
Fax: 1(866) 411-5552
Allison Herschede, BSN, RN, CDCES

Hormonal challenges for women with T1D

4:00 pm

Ian Lake, BSc, BM,MRCGP

Dr Ian Lake is a Primary Care Physician in the UK who is keen to ensure that all people with Type 1 diabetes and their clinical teams know about the ketogenic diet.

After 20 years of living with Type 1, he accidentally discovered the ketogenic lifestyle which had such a profound transformation in his diabetes control from the first day; he halved his insulin doses, reduced his hypos, and had much-improved blood glucose.  Previously he was in the same situation as 70% of people with Type 1 diabetes who are losing 100 days of life every year because of their HbA1c being above 7.5%.

He feels so healthy and alert that he has had the confidence to resume sports in the great outdoors solo, which he had to stop because of safety concerns around diabetes.  

 In 2020, he organised the Zerofive100 project, a 100-mile run over five days with zero calories, water only. One other person with Type 1 was in the team of eight. It was designed to address clinical concerns about the keto diet in type 1 diabetes and was a success. There were no issues at all.

Realising there was a need for quality information, he has written professional courses on keto diets, which are intended for clinical teams and will also appeal to people living with Type 1. He also has a website dedicated to providing information for fellow T1s.

 ‘There is a lot of misinformation out there and people are getting confused.  My aim is that all people with Type 1 diabetes are aware of the ketogenic lifestyle and get access to expert help from clinicians who are trained in keto lifestyles. People should know their options so that they can make informed choices supported by their clinical teams. This is a chance for a new start for some people, and I hope they, too, discover the benefits of this lifestyle very soon.’

Ian Lake, BSc, BM,MRCGP

Exercise how to

4:30 pm

Ian Lake, BSc, BM,MRCGP

Dr Ian Lake is a Primary Care Physician in the UK who is keen to ensure that all people with Type 1 diabetes and their clinical teams know about the ketogenic diet.

After 20 years of living with Type 1, he accidentally discovered the ketogenic lifestyle which had such a profound transformation in his diabetes control from the first day; he halved his insulin doses, reduced his hypos, and had much-improved blood glucose.  Previously he was in the same situation as 70% of people with Type 1 diabetes who are losing 100 days of life every year because of their HbA1c being above 7.5%.

He feels so healthy and alert that he has had the confidence to resume sports in the great outdoors solo, which he had to stop because of safety concerns around diabetes.  

 In 2020, he organised the Zerofive100 project, a 100-mile run over five days with zero calories, water only. One other person with Type 1 was in the team of eight. It was designed to address clinical concerns about the keto diet in type 1 diabetes and was a success. There were no issues at all.

Realising there was a need for quality information, he has written professional courses on keto diets, which are intended for clinical teams and will also appeal to people living with Type 1. He also has a website dedicated to providing information for fellow T1s.

 ‘There is a lot of misinformation out there and people are getting confused.  My aim is that all people with Type 1 diabetes are aware of the ketogenic lifestyle and get access to expert help from clinicians who are trained in keto lifestyles. People should know their options so that they can make informed choices supported by their clinical teams. This is a chance for a new start for some people, and I hope they, too, discover the benefits of this lifestyle very soon.’

Ian Lake, BSc, BM,MRCGP

Fasting (intermittent and multi-day)

5:10 pm

Lester Hightower

Lester Hightower is the father of an 18-year old son with type 1 diabetes. Lester is a technology entrepreneur, has been married for twenty-six years, and is the father of two children. Lester’s son, Andrew, was diagnosed with T1D in 2010, at the age of five, and has followed Dr. Richard K. Bernstein’s diabetes management regimen since diagnosis. Lester is an ardent student of and advocate for low-carb eating and Dr. Bernstein’s diabetes management regimen. Lester is a founding board member of the not-for-profit Rivere Foundation, which does most of its advocacy work through its Let Me Be 83 trademark. Lester holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Florida State University.

Lester Hightower

Beth McNally, MS, MA, CNS, LDN

Beth McNally’s journey with nutrition began in 2015 when her son was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
From the first questions of “what is Type 1 diabetes, exactly?” and “what is a carb anyway?” to “how do
you manage T1D to achieve normal blood sugars to protect our son?”, Beth’s family has relied on
Therapeutic Carbohydrate Reduction (TCR) for more than eight years to make diabetes easier to
manage.
Even after achieving normal blood sugars for her son, the questions kept coming: How does the body
work? How do I make sure my child is getting everything he needs in his diet? Will he grow? In pursuit of
answers, Beth completed a Master of Science in Nutrition and Integrative Health, became a Certified
Nutrition Specialist® and a Certified Ketogenic Nutrition Specialist®, and a Licensed Nutritionist (LDN).
She is currently completing dietetics studies.
Beth believes every person diagnosed with T1D should have an opportunity to learn how their medical
condition can benefit from a therapeutic approach to nutrition. Sharing her knowledge as a clinical
nutrition professional and as a caregiver, Beth has a private practice that teaches and guides families
living with T1D to use TCR to achieve better diabetes outcomes.
Beth is also the CGM Maven on Miriam Kalamian’s Keto for Cancer nutrition team, educating people on
how to use continuous glucose monitors to understand the impact of food and lifestyle choices on their
management of their cancer diagnosis.

Beth McNally, MS, MA, CNS, LDN

Parent Perspective

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Early Registration

Day 1 (Type 1 Day) - Friday, January 12

8:00 am

Registration / Expo

9:00 am

Doug Reynolds, MHP

Doug Reynolds is the Founder and CEO of LowCarbUSA®.  The original organization was founded in the beginning of 2016 with the initial  intention of providing  a platform, through an annual conference, for internationally renowned scientists and medical practitioners to present the ever-increasing body of evidence on the benefits of reducing carbohydrates in the diet (and adding in healthy fats).  He felt that education about the power of the low carb/ketogenic diet for the individual who may not get the information from their medical team or from mainstream nutrition advice, and for practitioners who may then be able to prescribe it in their practice was critical.

However, his mission quickly evolved when he realized how important this was to the medical professional community.  Valuable tools are needed, not only to provide hope to their patients to reverse and prevent disease, but restore hope to that very practitioner. This is why they went to medical school and got professional training, to help people heal and not just put Band-Aids on and never address the root cause of the problem.  Too many practitioners are being taught that the many chronic diseases our communities are facing are just chronic and processive.  With effective tools and supportive information, complications can be stopped in their tracks and further complications reduced and the disease process may even be reversed.

The tools and resources Low Carb USA has been providing,  not only includes the live conferences, but also  includes a huge library of educational videos, a growing database of practitioners, and nutritionists and sports trainers who are open to  the carb restriction conversation as well as a searchable database for papers and articles covering the research into the evidence supporting this lifestyle.

Most importantly, though, he has coordinated the establishment of a panel of advisors to oversee the creation and maintenance of a set of 'Clinical Guidelines for Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction' which was first published in May, 2019.

He has worked tirelessly over this period during the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown to now establish a nonprofit, the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners for which he now serves as the President.  This organization will house most of the above body of work as education and training of Metabolic Health Practitioners and the entire community interested in making a difference in worldwide metabolic health.  The aim is to stall and reverse the increasing prevalence of noncommunicable, lifestyle related diseases, influenced by metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance.  Accreditation pathways have even been established for practitioners within this society to introduce credibility to the practice of therapeutic carbohydrate restriction and to help establish alternative Standard of Care for those whose metabolisms are different because they don’t eat excessive carbohydrates.

Doug Reynolds, MHP

Opening Remarks

9:30 am

Eric Westman, MD, MHS

Dr. Eric C. Westman is an associate professor of medicine at Duke University Health System and director of the Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic. He combines clinical research and clinical care to deliver lifestyle treatments for obesity, diabetes, and tobacco dependence. He is an internationally known researcher specializing in low-carbohydrate nutrition.

Dr. Westman is currently the vice president of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians and a fellow of the Obesity Society and the Society of General Internal Medicine and

Past President of the Obesity Medicine Association and a Fellow. In 2010, He was named the Obesity Medicine Association’s “Bariatrician of the Year'' for his work in advancing the field of obesity medicine as well as the Society. 

He is also a recipient of the Society’s Steelman-Seim Educator Award for advancing the cause of health care through education and teaching. He graduated from Stanford University (A.B.), University of Wisconsin (M.D.), University of Kentucky and Duke University (M.H.S.) is board certified in Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine and has a Master’s Degree in clinical research, with over 90 peer-reviewed publications to his name. Including this study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, entitled "A Low-Carbohydrate, Ketogenic Diet versus a Low-Fat Diet To Treat Obesity and Hyperlipidemia."

He has dedicated his life to helping people with various medical conditions such as Type 1 & Type 2 Diabetes, Metabolic Syndrome, Obesity, Hypertension, and many others through diet and lifestyle choices. He believes that using standard medical protocols often treat the symptom and not the cause. He has spent the past 20+ years doing clinical research and providing care to his patients, with an extremely high success rate, through theoretical and practical experience. 

Over 170 million Americans suffer from obesity, pre-diabetes, and type 2 diabetes. Yet, the clinical research he has conducted at Duke University shows that this American Medical Association-recognized disease can be put into remission – without medications – through a low carbohydrate ketogenic diet alone. 

Dr Westman’s experience is vast, and the results have been astounding… 26,000 pounds lost, 98% of patients affected by Type 2 Diabetes off insulin, 4,000 patients, 28,000 clinical visits

Dr. Westman has co-authored the books Cholesterol Clarity, Keto Clarity and The New Atkins For A New You.

Dr. Westman has told the story a few times at our previous events, about how he ended up writing a letter to Robert Atkins, which led to a meeting at Atkins' clinic. The meeting in turn led Dr Westman to convey that he was a little confused about the low carb diet, and he challenged Dr Atkins a bit, saying he was not convinced.  That in turn led Dr Atkins to challenge him back to find the flaws and prove that it did not work.  But as Dr Westman admits, he could not, and he only proved to himself the profound benefits of therapeutic carbohydrate reduction! He later co-authored a study, which led to another, larger study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, entitled "A Low-Carbohydrate, Ketogenic Diet versus a Low-Fat Diet To Treat Obesity and Hyperlipidemia."

Eric Westman, MD, MHS

Standard of Care - Advances and challenges in type 1 diabetes care*

10:15 am

Jessica Turton, PhD, MND, B.App.Sc (ExSpSc)

Jessica is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and the Director of Ellipse Health. She holds a PhD in nutrition awarded by the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Her thesis investigated the use and efficacy of low-carbohydrate diets for diabetes management, with a specific focus on type 1 diabetes. In 2022, Dr Turton conducted a clinical trial in collaboration with the CSIRO using a fully online delivery model which enabled Australia-wide participation. This study successfully assessed the safety and effect(s) of a nutritionally adequate low-carbohydrate diet on type 1 diabetes management outcomes (PLOS ONE; 2023).  Jessica also conducted the largest systematic review to date assessing low-carbohydrate diet interventions in adults with type 2 diabetes, and based on the collective data, she published an evidence-based approach to developing low-carbohydrate diets for type 2 diabetes management (Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism; 2019). Jessica has a passion for working with individuals to help them better understand the role of nutrition in their health. She develops personalised diet and supplement plans in collaboration with her patients to address their specific nutritional priorities, with the overarching goal of preventing and/or managing chronic disease and improving quality of life.

Jessica Turton, PhD, MND, B.App.Sc (ExSpSc)

The Postprandial State - Current research on low-carbohydrate diets for type 1 diabetes*

11:00 am

Belinda Lennerz, MD

Dr Lennerz is credentialed in pediatrics and pediatric endocrinology. She joined the endocrine division at Boston Children’s Hospital in 2015.  Dr. Lennerz' research focus is on understanding mechanisms that regulate food intake and energy homeostasis in obesity, and carbohydrate restriction in types 1 and 2 diabetes and carnivore and ketogenic diets. She is widely published researcher with Dr David Ludwig from Harvard.

Belinda Lennerz, MD

Children living with Type one Diabetes - Current and future research questions pertaining to
therapeutic dietary carbohydrate reduction in children*

11:45 pm

1st Type 1 Panel

Eric Westman, Jessica Turton, Belinda Lennerz*

1:00 pm

Lunch / Expo / Breakout: Lester Hightower

2:30 pm

Robert Cywes, MD, PhD

Dr. Cywes is Dual Board Certified in General Surgery and in Pediatric Surgery. He specializes in Pediatric and Adult obesity, diabetes and metabolic management including bariatric surgery.  His focus is on helping people understand and treat the true cause of obesity and diabetes.  He has been doing bariatric surgery for 19 years and has performed around 7000 surgeries.  Despite this, Dr Cywes firmly believes that obesity and diabetes are not treated by surgery, however, surgery may be a invaluable tool along the journey of becoming carbohydrate-free.

His medical training began in Cape Town, South Africa where he received his medical degree from The University of Cape Town training with Prof Tim Noakes amongst others. In 1989, Dr. Cywes moved to North America and completed a year-long residency in pediatric surgery at Ohio State University's Columbus Children's Hospital before moving to Canada where he completed his general surgery residency and specialized in minimally invasive surgery at the University of Toronto.  Dr. Cywes also earned a PhD in liver transplant immunology and the effect of glucose metabolism on vascular endothelium injury, working with Dr David Jenkins, the father of the Glycemic Index.

After completing his paediatric surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Dr. Cywes was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Paediatric and Fetal Surgery at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where he did hepatic stem cell research.  During this time, Dr. Cywes became increasingly interested in adolescent obesity and the impact of carbohydrates on the liver and metabolic syndrome in young patients. Dr. Cywes’ research led to a comprehensive understanding of the toxicity of chronic excessive carbohydrate consumption as the primary cause of obesity and so-called obesity-related co-morbidities. In the late 1990s Dr Cywes understood that the prevailing treatment of obesity using a Calories in, Calories out (CICO) model was erroneous, and he developed the Carbohydrate Insulin Model of Obesity and Diabetes (CIMOD). Using this model in combination with his understanding of the psychology of addiction, he developed a clinical program to treat obese adolescents using this approach. Dr. Cywes relocated to Jacksonville, Florida where he joined the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the Nemours Children's Clinic and Wolfson Children's Hospital. This led to a national meeting in Jacksonville where guidelines for adolescent obesity surgery were established.

In 2004, Dr. Cywes established Jacksonville Surgical Associates to continue his work in both adolescent and adult obesity treatment and surgery, and in 2013 opened a practice in West Palm Beach, Florida.  He now works with a highly experienced team of professionals from a variety of medical sub-specialties to better care for obese patients.  He has developed the practice into a nationally recognized Center of Excellence for obesity surgery. The practice uses a cognitive behavioral therapy approach that addresses carbohydrate addiction, along with bariatric surgery, to help patients manage the cause of their obesity long term. Based on his extensive clinical research and observations, Dr. Cywes lectures internationally regarding the physiological impact of carbohydrate consumption as the primary cause of the current Chronic Non-Communicable Disease (CNCDs) epidemic.  He also lectures on the behavioral aspects of carbohydrate addiction as the cause of obesity and obesity-related co-morbidities and the use of substance abuse methodology, rather than a diet and exercise approach, to the effective long term treatment of obesity.

Dr. Cywes is a member of ASMBS (American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery) and is a member of the ASMBS Childhood Obesity Committee. He is also a member of APSA (American Pediatric Surgery Association). He has earned a Centers of Excellence designation by the Surgical Review Corporation. Dr. Cywes trains other surgeons to perform bariatric surgery as well as developing an aftercare model to help patients maintain weight loss.

Dr. Cywes and his team are active in obesity research, including an ongoing Adolescent Bariatric Surgery trial. He has become one of the foremost authorities in the treatment and management of obesity in adolescents. He recently co-authored a book, Diabetes Unpacked outlining an effective approach to understanding and treating diabetes into remission. Dr. Cywes' vast experience in pediatric and general surgery serves him well in using bariatric surgery to treat obesity in both adults and children.

Dr Cywes maintains an active clinical practice in Palm Beach Gardens and in Jacksonville as well as being active on conveying the CIMOD message on social media and through his websites – Obesityunderstood.com and diabetesunderstood.com.

Robert Cywes, MD, PhD

Clinical implementation of low-carbohydrate diets in T1DM – experiences from adults and children*

3:15 pm

Ian Lake, BSc, BM,MRCGP

Dr Ian Lake is a Primary Care Physician in the UK who is keen to ensure that all people with Type 1 diabetes and their clinical teams know about the ketogenic diet.

After 20 years of living with Type 1, he accidentally discovered the ketogenic lifestyle which had such a profound transformation in his diabetes control from the first day; he halved his insulin doses, reduced his hypos, and had much-improved blood glucose.  Previously he was in the same situation as 70% of people with Type 1 diabetes who are losing 100 days of life every year because of their HbA1c being above 7.5%.

He feels so healthy and alert that he has had the confidence to resume sports in the great outdoors solo, which he had to stop because of safety concerns around diabetes.  

 In 2020, he organised the Zerofive100 project, a 100-mile run over five days with zero calories, water only. One other person with Type 1 was in the team of eight. It was designed to address clinical concerns about the keto diet in type 1 diabetes and was a success. There were no issues at all.

Realising there was a need for quality information, he has written professional courses on keto diets, which are intended for clinical teams and will also appeal to people living with Type 1. He also has a website dedicated to providing information for fellow T1s.

 ‘There is a lot of misinformation out there and people are getting confused.  My aim is that all people with Type 1 diabetes are aware of the ketogenic lifestyle and get access to expert help from clinicians who are trained in keto lifestyles. People should know their options so that they can make informed choices supported by their clinical teams. This is a chance for a new start for some people, and I hope they, too, discover the benefits of this lifestyle very soon.’

Ian Lake, BSc, BM,MRCGP

Exercise and Therapeutic Carbohydrate Reduction – Current research and clinical experiences*

4:00 pm

TBD

Cognitive and Psychological Implications of Carbohydrate Restriction in T1DMs – concerns and lived
experiences*

4:45 pm

2nd Type 1 Panel

Robert Cywes, Ian Lake, TBD*

6:00 pm

Low Carb Wine Tasting / Expo /

7:30 pm

Low Carb Dinner (Included in your ticket)

Day 2 - Saturday, January 13

7:30 am

Expo

8:00 am

Peter Brukner, OAM, MBBS, FACSP, D Sc, FASMF, FACSM, FFSEM

Can we really put type 2 diabetes into remission?*

9:30 am

Michael Hoffman, MD

TBD*

11:00 am

Dr, Ben Bocchicchio

Exercise Physiology: The Stress Test for Metabolic Health*

12:15 pm

Lunch / Expo / Breakout:

1:45 pm

Mark Cucuzzella, MD, FAAFP

Combat Veterans and Metabolic Illness- Can a Brief Intervention Create Retreat*

3:15 pm

Gurpreet Padda, MD, MBA

TBD*

4:45 pm

Ben Bikman, PHD

Shrinking Fat Cells: Energy vs. Insulin*

6:00 pm

Low Carb Wine Tasting / Expo / Poster Presentations

7:30 pm

Low Carb Dinner (Included in your ticket)

Day 3 - Sunday, January 14

7:30 am

Expo

8:00 am

Tro Kalayjian, DO

TBD*

9:30 am

Phillip Ovadia, MD

Fanning the Flames: Inflammation's Contribution to Heart Disease*

11:00 am

Eric Berg, DC

Is Keto Backed Up By Science or Not*

12:15 pm

Lunch / Expo 

1:15 pm

Dominic D’Agostino, PhD

TBD*

2:45 pm

David Diamond, PhD

Should one fear high LDL on a low carb diet*

4:15 pm

Final Panel

Open ended Panel Discussion*

5:30 pm

RAFFLE DRAW (Includes 1 set of 2 Tickets to a future LowCarbUSA event!) 

5:45 pm

Doug Reynolds, MHP

Doug Reynolds is the Founder and CEO of LowCarbUSA®.  The original organization was founded in the beginning of 2016 with the initial  intention of providing  a platform, through an annual conference, for internationally renowned scientists and medical practitioners to present the ever-increasing body of evidence on the benefits of reducing carbohydrates in the diet (and adding in healthy fats).  He felt that education about the power of the low carb/ketogenic diet for the individual who may not get the information from their medical team or from mainstream nutrition advice, and for practitioners who may then be able to prescribe it in their practice was critical.

However, his mission quickly evolved when he realized how important this was to the medical professional community.  Valuable tools are needed, not only to provide hope to their patients to reverse and prevent disease, but restore hope to that very practitioner. This is why they went to medical school and got professional training, to help people heal and not just put Band-Aids on and never address the root cause of the problem.  Too many practitioners are being taught that the many chronic diseases our communities are facing are just chronic and processive.  With effective tools and supportive information, complications can be stopped in their tracks and further complications reduced and the disease process may even be reversed.

The tools and resources Low Carb USA has been providing,  not only includes the live conferences, but also  includes a huge library of educational videos, a growing database of practitioners, and nutritionists and sports trainers who are open to  the carb restriction conversation as well as a searchable database for papers and articles covering the research into the evidence supporting this lifestyle.

Most importantly, though, he has coordinated the establishment of a panel of advisors to oversee the creation and maintenance of a set of 'Clinical Guidelines for Therapeutic Carbohydrate Restriction' which was first published in May, 2019.

He has worked tirelessly over this period during the COVID-19 outbreak and lockdown to now establish a nonprofit, the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners for which he now serves as the President.  This organization will house most of the above body of work as education and training of Metabolic Health Practitioners and the entire community interested in making a difference in worldwide metabolic health.  The aim is to stall and reverse the increasing prevalence of noncommunicable, lifestyle related diseases, influenced by metabolic dysfunction and insulin resistance.  Accreditation pathways have even been established for practitioners within this society to introduce credibility to the practice of therapeutic carbohydrate restriction and to help establish alternative Standard of Care for those whose metabolisms are different because they don’t eat excessive carbohydrates.

Doug Reynolds, MHP

Closing

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