Board-certified obesity medicine doctor and low-carb nutrition physician Dr. Sarah Hallberg is our guest today in Episode 990 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”
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As the progression of the low-carb, high-fat message continues to make waves amongst patients who are seeing dramatic changes in their weight and health, it makes you wonder how so many physicians and other medical professionals can continue to ignore this. From weight loss to diabetes and cardiovascular risk markers all improving on a well-formulated ketogenic diet, it seems any primary care doctor would want to welcome in another invaluable tool to their arsenal of providing the very best care for the people who come to see them. That’s exactly what happened for a physician in Lafayette, Indiana named Dr. Sarah Hallberg who took it upon herself to get educated on how carbohydrate restriction could help her see the desired results in her patients. The phenomenal results she began seeing was proof positive this was the right direction for her to shift her practice from being a primary care physician to become the medical director and founder of the Indiana University-Arnett Health Medical Weight Loss Program where our host Jimmy Moore spoke to Dr. Hallberg’s patients in 2014. Dr. Hallberg is very effective at communicating through her popular teaching videos she posts at her “Fitter U” website which caught the attention of the TEDx people who asked her to speak at their 2015 TEDx PurdueU event (watch Dr. Hallberg’s incredible presentation on reversing Type 2 diabetes below).
LISTEN TO DR. SARAH HALLBERG’S TEDX PURDUEU TALK
Reversing Type 2 diabetes starts with ignoring the guidelines
Listen in as Jimmy and Dr. Hallberg discuss how the popularity of her TEDx talk shows how desperate people are for the low-carb message, the lack of understanding patients have about what they are doing to control their diabetes, how she got into medicine later in life than most after having an interest in exercise physiology, when she was asked to start a weight loss program at her hospital, how being a “legal drug dealer” made her feel like she was part of the problem, why she was a Dr. Dean Ornish fan while in medical school, why this is not a diet but a lifestyle, why the excuses that you can’t stay low-carb long-term is foolish, the folly of trying to do a low-fat, low-carb diet, whether food quality matters on a low-carb diet, the nonsense of comparing eating a real food-based low-carb diet vs. medications, why people with metabolic disease must choose between a ketogenic diet or drugs, why weight loss is the only measure of success, the cognitive dissonance of her patients, why saturated fats are critical to being successful on low-carb, why exercise is important for health but not for weight loss, why she gives her patients a MAXIMUM of 5 minutes of exercise a day, how the TEDx event happened for her and the great success it had, how she is mentoring medical school students to show them how to use low-carb diets with patients, and her upcoming research to show the efficacy of the low-carb diet on health outcomes.
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– Dr. Hallberg’s 2015 TEDx PurdueU talk: Reversing Type 2 diabetes starts with ignoring the guidelines
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Dr. Sarah Hallberg would be a one-stop shop for us–she does most of what our other docs do separately. I wish I lived in Illinois (but not during the winter!) Boy, SHE’D be a time-saver.
She has been the ultimate blessing in my life. I’m off all medicines and down
122 lbs. Thank goodness for an open mind and a love of real food!
I want to congratulate you on your fantastic TED talk that I found on the internet and greatly enjoyed the Jimmie Moore interview. It was a breath of fresh air to finally hear someone speak out about “ignoring the guidelines”, and the significant power and positive results of doing so. I agree strongly that the guidelines are wrong and are harming people daily. I also know that you must be under great criticism. I advise you to stand your ground, as your data will support you.
I am a 63yo practicing radiologist who has had Type 1 DM for 29 yrs. I have few complications and have been extremely blessed with my outcomes with this disease. But my blessing is based upon almost ten years of very low carb diet and low dose multi injection insulin. I discovered the teachings of Richard Bernstein MD about 15 yrs ago and finally came to my senses and eventually saw him as a patient. The concepts that he taught have saved my life.
The insanity of the ADA is all encompassing. On a daily basis, I try and influence diabetics, mostly Type 2 with my experience, but all too often they look at my low carb approach as the dark side, not valid and anecdotal. They cannot accept that eating fat would not kill you, as this has been imbedded in their psyche forever. Most are professionals and physicians that I work with. The insanity is so institutionalized that only the bold and few practitioners would practice in manner not abiding by the ADA guidelines.
Changes in diabetic treatment will require a younger and more innovative group of practitioners, of which you are the finest example.
Thanks for your hard work and passion.