Dr. Eric Westman, MD, MHS
@drericwestman
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Director of the Duke Keto Medicine Clinic; co-founder of @adaptyourlife ; father, piano player, writer, researcher. Keeping keto simple!
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Making masks for the community with my new sewing machine. Doing my part to make it easier for
#Masks4All
to happen NOW. Thanks to all those who are contributing to this important effort to keep us all safer.
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I'm honored to help raise awareness regarding the potential of ketogenic diets for mental health. Keep your eye on the emerging field of "metabolic psychiatry" -- fascinating and life-changing work is being done by many of my colleagues.
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🤔 CARBS ARE NON-ESSENTIAL 🤔
Yes, that’s right… consumption of carbohydrates is NOT essential. If you’re finding that very confusing, I understand. “Carbs are Non-Essential” is a fact – even though it goes against everything you may have been taught.
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I’ve been teaching keto using *total carbs* (not net) for over 20 years. Not everyone needs a strict ketogenic diet, but it’s amazing the beneficial changes many ppl experience switching from net carbs to total. For some, it makes all the difference for weight loss & blood sugar.
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Keto-friendly doc Annette Bosworth in South Dakota is at risk of losing her license in part from teaching the Keto Diet. Call or send an email now! "I support Dr. Annette Bosworth and the use of keto diets in her medical practice." Send to sdbmoe
@state
.sd.us Tel: 605-367-7781
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💥The buildup of fat in the liver comes from excessive carbohydrate intake – not from a high-fat diet. Research shows that low-carb/keto diets are highly effective for reversing NAFLD. 🙌
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🤔CARBS ARE NON-ESSENTIAL🤔
True, eating carbs is NOT essential. If you’re finding that confusing, I understand. “Carbs are Non-Essential” is a fact – even though it goes against everything you may have been taught. How's this fact changed your life? Pls share thoughts below.
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💊💉💊All diabetes drugs – all of them – have the end result of lowering your blood sugar. But rather than using drugs to help your body “handle” glucose better, why not follow a low-carb or keto diet and put less glucose into your body in the first place?📣🙌🥳
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Is it true? My state’s football team (Carolina Panthers) quarterback went vegan and started to have injuries? Some ‘game changer’ this is... Cam, ask me about Keto!
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I ordered my first ‘vanity’ automobile license plate ever!
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If these accusations are true, these academics need to be brought before a professional standards board for attempting to interfere with the peer-review process. Unethical by anyone's standards.
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KETO IS LIFE-CHANGING😍 Did you know that people who eat low carb have more energy, less hunger & reach their goals faster? Yup! It is well known to improve brain cognition, mental clarity, focus, mood, learning, memory & much more! Share in comments how keto's changed your life!
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🚫 STOP THE CYCLE 🚫
The vicious carb/sugar/craving cycle starts when you eat too many carbs. The only way to stop the cycle is to restrict carb intake.
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🚫 STOP THE CYCLE 🚫
The vicious carb/sugar/craving cycle starts when you eat too many carbs. The only way to stop the cycle is to restrict carb intake.
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In Keto Adaptation, your body burns fat for fuel vs carbs - muscle is spared, fat is burned. When ‘fat adapted’, carbs aren't needed for energy. Instead, you tap into a more abundant source of energy - fat. You can only have ONE source of fuel - carbs OR fat. You can’t have both.
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📚 A newly published paper of interest … 📚
“Effect of low carbohydrate diets on insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome”
Foley, Peter J.
Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes and Obesity: October 2021 - Volume 28 - Issue 5 - p 463-468
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Why say "Improper use of face masks increase viral transmission" instead of "Proper use of face masks reduce viral transmission"? In supply shortage, the message should be "Face masks help if properly used. Make and properly use your own mask NOW. Don't buy them."
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A paper covering 15 risk factors for chronic kidney disease did NOT EVEN MENTION a high protein intake. The biggest risk factors for CKD are type 2 diabetes & hypertension, so if there’s anything to cut back on when it comes to diet and CKD, focus on cutting carbs, not protein.
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Recent 22 y/o BF T2DM on insulin since sophomore year in high school, A1c 8%, weight 220 pounds. Goes Keto, off insulin in 2 weeks, A1c 6.5%, weight 200 pounds. Insulin was treating the food. At least give children a choice: keto vs insulin!
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Actor Rob Lowe says that his low-carb lifestyle of 20+ years has completely changed how he feels. "It made a huge difference for me.”
(It can completely change how you feel, too).
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Since getting my ‘Keto Doc’ vanity license plate I’ve been stopped three times in Durham while driving in just one week!! Not by police—but by ‘keto krazies’ who want to share their stories of success!
#ketodoc
#keto
#adaptyourlife
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Please keep in mind that ideas like ‘people making their own masks’ will not be considered by health care systems, has no cost, and HAS science behind reduction of particle transmission. While approaches are multifactorial and confounded by other factors, pls tell me why NOT?
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❓ DID YOU KNOW❓ A major function of insulin (beside lowering blood sugar) is keeping fat stored in your fat cells?
True! It puts fat into your fat cells, then helps it STAY THERE.
So, IF you’re trying to lose weight, you’ve got to keep your insulin level LOW.
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People who don’t know much about keto say it’s “restrictive”, but which is more constraining: restricting sugar and starch from your diet, or being restricted from participating in certain aspects of life?
👇
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“If this were a drug, it would be approved by the FDA!” Keto article in Woman’s World issues (dated February 1, 2021) available on newsstands, starting tomorrow, Thursday, January 21, 2021.
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There's a reason sugar is often dubbed "the hidden enemy" - it's everywhere. What's more, it's often obscured in ingredients lists under a range of pseudonyms, including sucrose, high-fructose corn syrup, barley malt, dextrose, and maltose, among others.
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Keto clinic stall advice: ‘Don’t overthink it—just.stop.the.nuts!’ Patient: ‘Maybe it’s the cream? maybe it’s cheese? Maybe it’s the [enter food here]?’ Ketodoc: ‘Don’t overthink it—just.stop.the.nuts!’
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Told by doctors that cerebral palsy would make his son never walk or talk, Tyo (an engineer) reasoned that brain growth needs ketones and started the keto diet for his son (shown…
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“Elevated insulin is a major culprit behind health and weight struggles, even when blood sugar is normal”? Here’s a Sneak Peak (below) from Chapter 3: Insulin: More Than a Blood Sugar Hormone. Pre-Order now!
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Eat less, move more. Eat low-fat. Eat lots of whole grains, fruits, & veggies. Count calories. Control your portions. Sound familiar? If you followed this advice for years - only to end up in *worse* health & carrying more weight - you're not alone!
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We’re committed to helping people keep keto SIMPLE, sane, straightforward, and UNcomplicated. You can get life-changing results without trying to micromanage a hundred extraneous details. The title says it all: End Your Carb Confusion. ✅
WE WON!! Our book, End Your Carb Confusion, won “Top Keto Book” at
#MHS2022
. 🤩🥳 Thanks so much to everyone who voted. What an absolute honor and privilege it was to team up with
@drericwestman
to bring this to life.
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A new paper …
“Carbohydrate-restricted diets and Type 1 diabetes mellitus: research considerations”
Dikeman, David T. a; Westman, Eric C. b
In Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity (October 2021 - Volume 28 - Issue 5 - p 437- 440)
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🍎FRUIT IS NATURE’S SUGAR🍎
REMINDER: Fruits can elevate your blood sugar levels. Although fruits contain water, fiber, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, they also contain carbohydrates and sugar. When starting Dr. Westman’s Adapt Keto Diet, we avoid fruit altogether.
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Please consider purchasing the late Dr. Sarah Hallberg's book,
#1
New Release in Diabetes on Amazon: Status Quo Thinking Is Harming Your Health: A Physician's Final Plea.
Her legacy continues to inspire. 🫶
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IF YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT SUCCEEDING WITH A KETO DIET, YOU HAVE GOT TO REMEMBER THIS: Our bodies metabolize starches as sugar, and sugar as sugar. BOTTOM LINE: SUGAR is SUGAR.
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🥩Beef, lamb, bison and other red meats aren’t just good sources of protein. These foods provide a ton of vitamins & minerals. It’s time to stop demonizing these deeply nourishing foods – foods that healthy, robust humans have been eating for millennia.🎯
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Pleased to announce a journal issue devoted to carbohydrate-restricted diets and diabetes--I'm guest editor with Belinda Lennerz. Submit your papers!
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CARBS ARE NON-ESSENTIAL
Yes, that’s right… consumption of carbohydrates is not essential. If you’re finding that very confusing, I understand. “Carbs are Non-Essential” is a fact – even though it goes against everything you may have been taught.
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Watching other costly approaches to health care flail, a new simple mantra could be: 'You can do that, or you can just cut the carbs!'
#ACA
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A very important point to remember if you are or have ever struggled with obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, acid reflux (GERD), etc. “It is not your fault.” (Excerpt from my book, End Your Carb Confusion at .
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👎 Just say, "No!" to Carbs 👎 … both sugar and starch. Think delicious proteins like beautiful cuts of steak and fats (in limited quantities), like avocado, and non-starchy vegetables. If trying to lose weight, stick to 20 grams TOTAL carbs a day.
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Honored to be a part of this great movie, Fat Fiction, and low carb keto movement!
"I can treat all the conditions I used to treat, with medications, just by changing the food."
@drericwestman
@drjasonfung
@ProfTimNoakes
#fatfiction
#documentary
#health
#healthyeating
#lowcarbdiet
#nutrition
#dietaryguidelines
#lowcarblifestyle
#lowcarb
#diet
#science
#insulin
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#CHOLESTEROLFACT
Heard foods rich in cholesterol (egg yolks, bacon, etc.) cause your blood cholesterol level to rise? Wrong! Truth is cholesterol in your diet has almost no effect on your blood cholesterol. Most cholesterol in your body is there because your own body produced it.
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@deckerlesscarbs
@DaveKeto
@siobhan_huggins
@FatEmperor
Clinically, Keto fixes NAFLD 100%. Here was our paper....
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Want advice about politics? Ask a politician. Business? Ask a businessperson. Vaccines? Ask an immunologist. Drugs? Ask a drug company. Prevention? Ask a public health expert. I follow science-based opinions with tools that I have right now. It’s that simple.
#MasksSaveLives
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Support grass-roots funding of low-carb related research! Dr. Baker and the carnivore diet study. Join me!
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WHY BREAD IS NOT HEALTHY
I get it. Making a sandwich for lunch feels like a quick & easy option. But remember, bread (especially wholewheat bread) is a refined carbohydrate, which means it's responsible for spiking your blood-sugar levels WAY up before crashing them WAY down.
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FAT ADAPTATION on Keto/LC Diet: Once you're ‘fat adapted’ (burning stored fat for fuel), you don’t need to eat carbs (glucose) to give you energy through the day. Instead, you tap into a more abundant source of energy, which is fat. This is the most desirable state for your body.
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Thank you
@VinnieTortorich
for Fat: A documentary 2 now available on Amazon Prime. I’m proud to be a part of this practical film! It will educate many about the healthiness of eating fat and how fat has been demonized.
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Just back from Shenzhen, China. Thx to the leaders and staff of Boan Central Hospital for their ‘hospitality!’ Primary hospital and clinic treatment will be low carb diet!
#keto
@…
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📚 Newly published paper that you may find interesting… 📚
Renal function in patients following a low carbohydrate diet for type 2 diabetes: a review of the literature and analysis of routine clinical data from a primary care service over 7 years.
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Travelled to China to advise a Keto Clinic, and establish the Chinese Lifestyle Medicine Association, on behalf of HEAL Clinics. With Jackie Eberstein.
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Andreas, have we ever seen a simple solution overlooked and even derided by experts?
@hazenTX
I wonder if they're right. These statistics strongly indicates that wearing masks at least don't seem to increase the risk of infection:
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#CHOLESTEROLFACT
Calling HDL "good" & LDL "bad" cholesterol is old, oversimplified, incorrect thinking. There's no difference between HDL & LDL particles - it's the exact same cholesterol. Download my "8 Ways Keto Improves Heart Health" to learn more...
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I know what confounders are, I know what RCTs are, but I know that absence of RCT evidence is NOT proof of no effect. This picture haunts me:
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📚 A newly published paper of interest 📚
Effect of low carbohydrate diets on insulin resistance & the metabolic syndrome
Foley, Peter J.
From the journal, Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes & Obesity: Oct. 2021 - Vol 28 - Issue 5 - p 463-468
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To the universe: ‘Ketones are molecules that carry energy, and might even have anti-inflammatory effects. Ketones are nothing to be afraid of!’ (Unless you feel sick and have no insulin, like untreated Type 1 diabetes, or taking an SGLT2 inhibitor—which I am not referring to!)
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BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS
Keto is not restrictive. You can eat bacon & eggs for any meal of your day! Restrictive is always being tired, taking meds every day, struggling to fit into clothes! We prefer restricting carbs vs. dealing with all of that.
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Don’t overthink it: there’s no comparison in deaths between high and low mask wearing cultures. I wonder why there isn’t more attention given in the US to the success in Asia?
#MasksSaveLives
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Thanks, Alan. What a kind message.
I was a young doctor and I was curious. All these years later, I am honored & humbled to have worked with so many patients, as well as the next generation of doctors, to educate about the incredible therapeutic power of carbohydrate reduction.
As far as I know, only one MD asked to review Atkins' clinical data, Dr. Eric Westman, Duke University. He concluded, Atkins was right, we should have been looking at blood sugar and insulin. His book can help you prevent or reverse pre-diabetes.
@drericwestman
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Duke Med bookstore snacks. Me:’do the pork rinds sell?’ Clerk:’oh, yeah. Cuz the low carbs.’ Times are ‘achangin’! @ Duke Medical Center
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Did you know that 1 in 3 people in the U.S. have diabetes?
There is an emerging global epidemic of diabetes that can be traced back to a rapid increase in obesity and physical inactivity.
Know the facts and know that there are solutions.
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TRUTH ABOUT ACID REFLUX: Do you have heartburn (acid reflux, GERD)? Avoiding favorite foods/drinks, as you heard they're heartburn triggers? Coffee, tomato sauce, sausages, other acidic, spicy, & fatty foods DO NOT cause heartburn-CARBS eaten with them do!
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It’s really kind of embarrassing - as a fellow academic (Duke).
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“If you want something you’ve never had, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done. You’re giving up sugar and starch, but in return you’ll get your like back.”
~ Eric C. Westman, MD
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Today, I’m super excited and very proud to announce the opening of the Adapt Your Life Academy. The first course offering is Keto Made Simple. More to come! See
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Chris and I have both seen this in patients. It's not an exaggeration to say that keto can be lifechanging -- full stop. Someday ketogenic diets will be a routine part of standards of care (or at the very least, *a suggested option*) in mental health care.
I just had two different conversations about
#BrainEnergy
and the
#metabolic
theory of
#mentalhealth
. Both people were really excited to learn more.
When they realized that I include treatments that have put schizophrenia into remission, they were both flabbergasted.
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GT does it again! Just out: The Case For Keto. These two expositions together are as compelling as Good Calories, Bad Calories! Proud that my team and Duke Peds played a role!
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Complex carbs are good for people with type 2 diabetes, right?
❌WRONG!
All carbs - simple and complex - are broken down into glucose, and glucose is what enters your bloodstream.🩸
Find out more in Dr. Westman’s FREE, live workshop on April 29.
👉
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We need
#DietaryGuidelines
not just for healthy people, when so many Americans have underlying conditions of overweight, obesity, and diabetes.
#DelaytheDGA
until it provides options for ALL Americans!
@USDA
@HHSGov
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@ProfTimNoakes
It was my pleasure to be part of the New Atkins team: steve phinney, jeff volek, and Atkins Nutritionals (2010). I have my first solo book with Amy Berger slated for December release: End Your Carb Confusion. Stay tuned!
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Warmest wishes to you and your loved ones for the 🎉🎊🥳Happiest, Healthiest New Year 2022! 🥳🎊🎉
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Heard today in a Keto Clinic: ‘I’m saving $125 a month by not taking insulin anymore, and my blood sugars are all under 100 (6)!’
#keto
‘I’ve never had such a low hemoglobin A1c!’
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*BIG NEWS*
I've started a PODCAST!! 🤩
It's called Keto Made Simple -- look for it on your favorite podcast hosting platform. 🍗🥦🥑🥩
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Selenium is a trace mineral needed for healthy immune function, antioxidant activity (helps to recycle glutathione – the body’s “master antioxidant”), and converting the inactive thyroid hormone T4 into the active form, T3. Keto diets can provide plenty of selenium. ✅
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☕️🌶️Think you need to give up coffee, spicy foods, tomato sauce and other acidic foods if you have heartburn or acid reflux (GERD)? Think again!
Most people who go on a low-carb or keto diet get relief from heartburn within just a few days. 👏
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Life-changing things are happening through Duke Keto Medicine Clinic’s academic (NON-PROFIT) research and education initiatives. Delivering “low carb/keto grocery basics” to disadvantaged community members is one of our most important programs. See
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Thank you for this excellent review of the science,
@LowCarbRD
. In 20 yrs of clinical research and practice using LCHF/keto, I’ve never even mentioned reducing omega 6s, and it works wonderfully. Just cutting carbs gets the job done!
@bschermd
@DietDoctor
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Yes - we said it.
💥Type 2 diabetes is CHOICE. You don’t have to have it.
If you currently have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes … and you’d like to NOT have it anymore … register for Dr. Westman’s FREE live workshop on April 29 at 8 PM Eastern time.
👉
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#CHOLESTEROLFACT
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Despite what you've been hearing for years about the dangers of red meat, the TRUTH is, red meat is loaded with nutrients that are especially good for heart health.
OPEN ENROLLMENT, JUNE 23-30 - CHOLESTEROL COURSE with Dr. Westman.
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STOP THE CYCLE! Do you know what happens in your body when you eat too many carbs? Whether you eat fruit, pasta, or nuts, remember "Carbs Are Carbs", so if you’re having too many carbs, your blood sugar will spike. This causes the release of insulin, and... (see photo)
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Let me know what you think of our new paper addressing how to use a Keto Diet to treat overweight and obesity.
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Keto works on ANY BUDGET!
There are plenty of great keto foods that come in cans. Don’t let tight finances or limited cooking skills get in the way of you doing keto, losing weight, and feeling better than you have in years. (Maybe ever!)
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Want a SIMPLE & SANE approach to keto? Overwhelmed by the minutiae?
Doing the final touches on this book I wrote with
@TuitNutrition
-- available for pre-order NOW!! (Check it out here: )!
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PART 1: IS ALL DAIRY CREATED EQUAL? Whipped Cream ✓ Sour Cream ✓ Hard, Aged Cheeses ✓ Full-Fat Unsweetened Yogurt ✓ are part of a well-formulated, healthy ketogenic diet - great sources of protein, fat, potassium, and calcium (if you're not dairy intolerant).
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The bias against low carb diets in the US dietary guideline process is exposed!
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”The fear of dietary fat led to the Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes epidemics”. Give good health 🎁 with my
#1
NEW RELEASE, End Your Carb Confusion, by Eric C. Westman, MD, with Amy Berger, CNS. Sneak Peak (below).
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The assault on physicians and science must end | American Medical Association. I wholeheartedly agree with this editorial. AND I’m a Keto physician/supporter—which is based on science, too.
#maskssavelives
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Another great study by Dr Will Yancy at Duke and the Durham VA!
More trial evidence that low carbohydrate approach is more powerful than drugs.
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Congratulations, Trish!! Another wonderful keto success story on the cover on the May 10, 2021 edition of “Women’s World” magazine. Trish’s story is true – she lost 216 lbs. at age 66, by following my Duke University Clinic’s keto/low-carb plan.
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Speaking at ASIPP. Many pain docs now using keto diet to reduce opioid use, and see reduction in arthritis pain, fibromyalgia pain!
#asipp2019
@ Caesars Palace
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🟡 A Very Special Announcement… Coming Soon! 🟡
I have a very special announcement (and full details) to share with you very soon regarding the support and advancement of keto medicine and research at my Duke Keto Medicine Clinic, located at Duke University in Durham, NC.
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Overheard from a Duke Medicine resident shadowing at the Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic: 'This is like an infomercial for LCHF!' Indeed!
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📚 Another of my recently published papers that you may find interesting📚
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Pathophysiological Perspective
Eric Westman, MD
Dept. of Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC, US
From Frontiers in Nutrition: 10 August 2021
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👎 Just say, "No!" to Carbs 👎 … both sugar and starch. Think delicious proteins like beautiful cuts of steak and fats (in limited quantities), like avocado, and non-starchy vegetables. If trying to lose weight, stick to 20 grams TOTAL carbs a day.
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KETO IS LIFE-CHANGING😍Did you know, people who eat low carb have more energy, less hunger & reach their goals faster? Yup! It’s well known to improve brain cognition, mental clarity, focus, mood, learning, memory & much more! Share in comments how keto has changed your life!
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JUST SAY “NO!” TO CARBS!
It is true … sugar and starches DO provide quick bursts of energy. The problem is, when you start eating more than you’re burning, it turns to fat.
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Keto is about one thing only: keeping your TOTAL Carbohydrate Intake LOW. That's right -- keep your total carb intake low and you're on a ketogenic diet! No apps, meters, powders, or potions required. MCT oil? Collagen powder? Fat bombs? Nope, nope, and nope. Not needed.
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