British exercise physiology and low back pain researcher James Steele II is our guest today in Episode 601 of The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!
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James Steele has long had a curiosity about how the human body functions with a keen interest on the kind of nutrition and exercise that is optimal for functioning properly. After obtaining his Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Sports Science in 2010, he decided to continue his educational pursuits by going after a PhD in exercise physiology/biomechanics with a keen focus on isolated lumbar extension resistance exercise in the treatment of chronic low back pain and everything that goes along with that. James is a big believer in the Paleo/low-carb diet principles and their role in reducing inflammation, obesity and autoimmune issues that plagued many people in modern society. He collaborated with former podcast guest Dr. Doug McGuff earlier this year on a paper published in Journal of Exercise Physiology Online on the topic “There’s No Such Thing As Cardio.” Listen in as Jimmy engages James in a great conversation about the work he is doing in Southampton, Hampshire in the United Kingdom!
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This is completely off-topic but I’m hoping by posting here my comments will be seen:
Many of you may know that I am a major proponent of low-carb
lifestyles for “curing” just about every ailment. However, it appears
that my unfailing belief is being hugely challenged by a situation very
close to me. I don’t know if you can help at all, and understand that
giving medical advice on a blog is problematic, but we are desperate.
I’m posting on all my favorite low-carb blogs. I’ve posted about all of this before, and you might
remember some of this story, as I have done this in the past, starting
over a year ago and got some suggestions. But after a year, the
situation has gotten worse instead of better. My sister Jane was
diagnosed as Type II (runs in the family – took the lives of our
grandfather and father and all of us have carb intolerance) in 1999
after years of fighting weight issues with low-calorie, low-fat diets.
She, my brother, and I all learned about low-carb diets about that time
and all have pursued low-carb lifestyles. My sister persevered despite reluctance from her physician to use diet
to manage her blood sugar. She took Metformin from the start and over
the years has been on Januvia. She has declined other medications and
refused to take insulin. Her blood sugars have remained above normal and
she has tried all sorts of “tweakings” of her low-carb diet. Last
summer she went to see Mary Vernon (we live fairly close to her Kansas
office) and had no success. The only recommendation Dr. Vernon and her
associates made was a low-carb diet and they just couldn’t understand
that she’d been on a low-carb diet for 12 years! Jane also corresponded
with Jackie Eberstein of the Atkins Society who suggested a yeast
reducing diet, which Jane religiously followed. Not seeing great results, she, with my encouragement, has tried really
upping her fat intake and lowering protein to replicate my ketogenic
diet which I consider for me to be next to miraculous (and I suggested she check out Jimmy’s good results with his ketogenic experiement).
Nevertheless, this past year, Jane’s fasting blood sugars have risen
exponentially, and her readings since attempting to go ketogenic are
consistently between 180 and 250. First morning readings are the highest
and they drop throughout the day. However, her last A1C was 10. This is
really alarming and we have no idea what she should do. (My partner,
who is also having great results from a ketogenic diet, losing 40 pounds
in the last few months, is a retired Family Physician, so he has tried
to help her since her own doctor is not sympathetic to the idea of
treating with diet and avoiding medications. His only idea is to get her
off her beta blocker which she claims she can’t do without getting
rapid heart palpatations and severe migraines.). Her doctor wants her to
take Byetta and I’m sure will really start pushing insulin. Any ideas
what is going on here? Thoughts about what she might do?