Keto Clarity: Your Definitive Guide to the Benefits of a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet (6 page)

Stephanie Person

Stephanie is a self-taught expert on low-carb, high-fat, ketogenic diets. She began learning about the therapeutic effects of ketosis when her mother, who suffered from a terminal brain tumor, was given only six months to live. Stephanie’s mom turned to a ketogenic diet, and not only did she beat that cancer, she’s been thriving since 2007 because of those nutritional changes. Today, Stephanie is an active proponent and personal user of a ketogenic lifestyle. She recommends it with her personal training clients of all ages and shares encouraging YouTube videos about the benefits of ketosis (YouTube.com/FitSk8Chick). Learn more about Stephanie at
StephaniePerson.com
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Ron Rosedale, MD

Dr. Rosedale is an internationally known expert in nutritional and metabolic medicine and founded the first metabolic medicine center in the U.S. in 1996 in Asheville, North Carolina. His interest in metabolic medicine began when he was a student at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, where he worked with one of the world’s experts in the epidemiology of diet, cholesterol, and heart disease. Dr. Rosedale is a pioneer in applying concepts based on the biology of aging to reversing diabetes and heart disease through a nutritional approach that he developed to improve the cellular response to insulin, leptin, and mTOR. He has published a highly acclaimed book,
The Rosedale Diet
, and has been featured in many magazine and newspaper articles and dozens of radio and television interviews. For the last two decades he has lectured worldwide, including keynote presentations in Russia, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, and India. One lecture in particular, “Insulin and Its Metabolic Effects,” has achieved worldwide acclaim. Learn more about Dr. Rosedale at
DrRosedale.com
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Dr. Keith Runyan, MD

Dr. Runyan is a physician in private practice in St. Petersburg, Florida, who specializes in internal medicine, nephrology, and obesity medicine. He practiced emergency medicine for ten years before starting his private practice in 2001. In 1998, he developed type 1 diabetes at the age of thirty-eight. Although, his diabetes was fairly well controlled with intensive insulin therapy, he was plagued with frequent hypoglycemic episodes. In 2011, while training for an Ironman-distance triathlon, Dr. Runyan was looking for a better way to treat his diabetes and perform endurance exercise, and he decided to give the low-carb, high-fat, ketogenic diet a try. In February 2012, he began the diet for the treatment of his diabetes and learned that this diet was also effective for the treatment of numerous other conditions, including obesity. He added obesity medicine to his practice and became board-certified in obesity medicine in December 2012. Dr. Runyan completed an Ironman-distance triathlon on October 20, 2012, in a state of nutritional ketosis and feeling great. Learn more about Dr. Runyan at
DrKRunyan.com
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Thomas Seyfried, PhD

Dr. Seyfried received his PhD in genetics and biochemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1976. He did his undergraduate work at the University of New England and also holds a master’s degree in genetics from Illinois State University. Dr. Seyfried was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurology at the Yale University School of Medicine and then served on the faculty as an assistant professor of neurology. Other awards and honors have come from such diverse organizations as the American Oil Chemists Society, the National Institutes of Health, the American Society for Neurochemistry, and the Ketogenic Diet Special Interest Group of the American Epilepsy Society. Dr. Seyfried is the author of
Cancer as a Metabolic Disease: On the Origin, Management, and Prevention of Cancer
(John Wiley & Sons). Dr. Seyfried’s research focuses on gene and environment interactions related to complex diseases such as epilepsy, autism, brain cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases. Learn more about Dr. Seyfried at BC.edu/schools/cas/biology/facadmin/seyfried.html.

Franziska Spritzler, RD

Franziska is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator who strongly supports the use of carbohydrate-restricted diets for people struggling with diabetes, insulin resistance, obesity, and other endocrine issues. She personally follows a very low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet for blood sugar control and has seen improvements in her health as a result. At the end of 2013, she left her position as an outpatient dietitian at a large veteran’s hospital in order to go into private practice, where she uses a low-carbohydrate, whole-foods approach. She is also a freelance writer whose articles have been published online and in diabetes journals and magazines. Learn more about Franziska at
LowCarbDietitian.com
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Terry Wahls, MD

Dr. Wahls is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Iowa and a staff physician at the Iowa City Veterans Affairs Hospital, where she teaches medical students and resident physicians, sees patients in traumatic brain injury and therapeutic lifestyle clinics with complex chronic health problems that often include multiple autoimmune disorders, and conducts clinical trials. She is also a patient with a chronic progressive neurological disorder: secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. She credits the Wahls Protocol, which is based on functional medicine, with restoring her health, enabling her to now ride her bike five miles to work every day. She released a book in 2014 about her experience called
The Wahls Protocol: How I Beat Progressive MS Using Paleo Principles and Functional Medicine.
Learn more about Dr. Wahls at
TerryWahls.com
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William Wilson, MD

Dr. Wilson is an experienced family physician with a passion for helping his patients attain optimal brain function. He graduated from Macalester College in 1970 and received his MD from the University of Minnesota in 1974. He completed his residency at Regions Hospital in St. Paul in 1977 and spent over thirty years as a frontline family physician on the Iron Range in northern Minnesota, where he developed his approach to helping patients simultaneously improve their metabolic and brain health by using simple dietary changes. In 2008 he moved to the Boston area, where he now works as a hospitalist and lectures, publishes, and blogs about health. Dr. Wilson was one of the world’s first medical professionals to demonstrate that our modern diet loaded with processed food can adversely affect brain function through a revolutionary new disease model he calls Carbohydrate-Associated Reversible Brain syndrome, or CARB syndrome. Using the CARB syndrome disease model as a guide, Dr. Wilson has helped thousands of individuals improve their health and brain function by following his simple and safe treatment protocols. Learn more about Dr. Wilson at
CarbSyndrome.com.

Jay Wortman, MD