In case you’ve never really noticed it before, there is a treasure trove of educational and entertaining information available to you on YouTube. My wife Christine and I used to regularly post a series of videos about low-carb on there and had a lot of fun doing it (life and lack of time because of my podcast recording schedule made us stop). We still post videos there from time to time to use in the social media and in blog posts, like Christine getting a heart scan done, promoting the May 2012 Low-Carb Cruise, sharing about my one-week fasting experiment, posting an old Milwaukee radio interview I did in 2006, blasting the ignorance of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, demonstrating the absurdity of vegans claiming babies won’t eat meat, and even posting the entire “Why We Get Fat” lecture with slides from Gary Taubes. Yes, we stay busy in the video format, but we’re not the only ones sharing fantastic information on YouTube. I’ve been seeing some truly amazing stuff in the past couple of weeks and there have been five brand new MUST-SEE health videos posted that I think will be well worth your time to watch. If you have some extra time to set aside in these last few weeks of December 2011 to view these videos, then I highly encourage you to do so–they’re THAT good! ENJOY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLjgBLwH3Wc
Perhaps the most intriguing video getting passed around the Paleo/low-carb blogosphere this week is this incredible TEDxIowaCity presentation from a clinical professor of medicine named Dr. Terry Wahls. She really has an extraordinarily inspiring story to tell of how she was able to overcome a devastating diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 2003 that seemingly doomed her to living in a tilt-recline wheelchair for the rest of her life. But thanks to nourishing her body with real whole foods that will look very familiar to people who are livin’ la vida low-carb, these days she is bicycling to work on a daily basis with no signs of the debilitating effects of MS anymore thanks to what she calls the Wahls Protocol™. Dr. Wahls is currently looking for a publisher who will get her message out in book form–tentatively titled UP FROM THE CHAIR: Defeating Progressive MS Without Drugs. And just yesterday I secured a podcast interview with her that will be recorded in January and aired as soon as I can find a spot for her in my schedule. I cannot wait to hear more from this real-life medical miracle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkdFkPxxDG8
If you are not a regular reader of Swedish physician Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt’s English “Diet Doctor” blog, then you are missing out on some remarkable insights from one of the world’s foremost authorities and advocates for a high-fat, low-carb diet. In fact, in his home country they refer to this way of eating as LCHF which you can learn more about in this one-page plan on my “Eat Like A Swede” blog. One of the most fascinating things I’ve seen from Dr. Eenfeldt over the past couple of years is his willingness to travel literally around the world to expand his knowledge of the healthy low-carb lifestyle by attending various obesity conferences and even speaking at high-profile Paleo/low-carb events such as the annual Low-Carb Cruise (where he will be one of the featured guest speakers in May 2012) as well as his well-received lecture at the inaugural Ancestral Health Symposium (#AHS11) in Los Angeles. He’s also used these opportunities to interview some of the best and brightest minds in the realm of low-carb living as evidenced by this interview with long-time low-carb researcher Dr. Stephen Phinney, author of two fantastic books in recent years–The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living: An Expert Guide to Making the Life-Saving Benefits of Carbohydrate Restriction Sustainable and Enjoyable and New Atkins for a New You: The Ultimate Diet for Shedding Weight and Feeling Great. There are so many intriguing and practical insights into the low-carb lifestyle that Dr. Phinney shares in this video (including how long it takes for your body to get readapted to low-carb if you decide to have a “cheat day” as Jessica Biel does) that you won’t want to miss a single moment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaquSijXJkQ
As if his interview with Dr. Phinney wasn’t already a big enough treat for low-carb fans, Dr. Eenfeldt was also able to speak with one of the most energetic and enthusiastic defenders of healthy low-carb living–Lawrence, KS-based family care physician Dr. Mary Vernon from Innovative Metabolic Solutions. Dr. Vernon has been at the forefront of educating both doctors and patients about the value of using carbohydrate-restriction in the treatment of obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. In this video interview with Dr. Eenfeldt, she explains the nuts and bolts of why livin’ la vida low-carb works so remarkably well at improving the weight and health of her patients and why she is so passionate about getting this message out to her fellow medical care providers. If you want to learn more about the low-carb protocol Dr. Vernon uses with her diabetic patients, then be sure to pick up a copy of a book she co-wrote with Jackie Eberstein called Atkins Diabetes Revolution: The Groundbreaking Approach to Preventing and Controlling Type 2 Diabetes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhObSu7y2_A
Yo wassup ya’ll?! Alright, quick show of hands for all you Sean Croxton fans out there. REPRESENT! For those of you who don’t know, Sean is the guy behind the wildly popular Underground Wellness brand (YouTube videos, podcast, blog and more!) and Sean’s just doing his thing dropping truth bombs in the world of diet and health everywhere he can. He recently finished writing an e-book called The Dark Side Of Fat Loss that exposes some key concepts that can making losing weight a whole lot harder than it needs to be. In this video, Sean zeroes in on the hormone leptin and makes the case that having a leptin imbalance will lead to all sorts of problems for those of you desiring weight loss. While most of the low-carb community tends to focus almost primarily on the role insulin plays in fat metabolism, perhaps this quick primer video will get you to thinking about how leptin is involved as well. This correlates well with the information you hear from well-respected physicians like Dr. Ron Rosedale and Dr. Jack Kruse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUrS_j-IQUk
And finally, it’s been a while since I shared one of the fantastic low-carb recipe videos from my good buddy Kent Altena at the Atkins Diet Geek Blog. You may know Kent as “bowulf” on YouTube and the man has been a beast posting hundreds of videos there with nearly 2.5 million views for many years now following his amazing 200-pound weight loss success following the Atkins diet right about the same time that I lost my weight. One of Kent’s favorite videos to do is cooking up low-carb recipes in his kitchen like this one I’m sharing today. After years of requests from his fans to write a cookbook, he’s now giving his fans what they want by being one of the featured recipe contributors in the brand new Low Carbing Among Friends: Volume 1 which was discussed in a podcast interview last month with the creators Ian & Jennifer Eloff on my podcast. Fans of low-carb recipes will LOVE this low-carb cookbook that Kent was able to be a part of. I can’t wait to meet my fellow triple-digit Atkins weight loss success on The 5th Annual Low-Carb Cruise in May 2012!
