Is There a Difference Between a Low Carbohydrate Diet and a High Protein Diet

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• [6:21] Dr Wood's carnivore diet experiment
• [9:38] The commonly accepted theory of glucose and insulin
• [12:02] Insulin and the liver
• [15:28] Blood sugar
• [18:43] Healthy fat tissue as a metabolic buffer
• [20:56] Fasted cardio, carbs, and the insulin switch
• [29:01} Helpful blood tests

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About Dr. Wood

Dr. Tommy Wood is a UK-trained MD with a PhD in physiology and neuroscience. He received an undergraduate degree in biochemistry from the University of Cambridge before attending medical school at the University of Oxford. 

After working as a junior doctor in central London, he moved to Norway for his PhD work and then to the University of Washington as a postdoc, where he’s now an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. 

Tommy’s work and research interests include the physiological and metabolic responses to brain injury and how that impacts brain health across the lifespan, as well as developing easily-accessible methods with which to track health, performance, and longevity in both elite athletes and the general population.