When Low-Carb Finally Clicks | Dr. Shawn Baker & Dr. Avi Charlton

Avi is a General Practitioner, or family doctor, working in Melbourne, Australia. She has been a GP for 20 years and worked in the same clinic for over 15 years. She loves her job and looks after families, coughs, colds, diabetes, metabolic diseases, cancers, basically anything that comes into the door. 

Her journey started when her kids started to get older and she joined the gym to try to lose weight and get fit about 7 years ago. She started going to the gym, also took up running. She has since ran 2 full marathons. She joined the local gym for an 8 week body transformation challenge. The gym coach prescribed a set diet in which she had to measure a certain protein, carb and fat ratio. This made her lose fat and was basically a low carb diet. 

Since then, she has looked into science. She did a Low Carb for physician course by Low Carb Down Under and also courses by Nutrition Network and read many books. She also connected with others with similar interests such as Tracey McBeath, health coach. They set up a support group called Low Carb Melbourne. She has been a speaker for Tracey's Low Carb Lifestyle Long Weekend, telling her story.  

With work, I have been prescribing a low carb or keto lifestyle to my patients. I have reversed diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome and other chronic conditions. Patients feel better, gain more energy and lose weight. 

At the moment, she is studying with ACNEM (Australasian College of Nutrition and Environmental Medicine) and hoping to become a fellow in that college. She has learnt to prescribe lifestyle medicine, especially nutrition, to improve her patients' health.

You can find Avi at: www.Dravicharlton.com and on IG: @dr_charlton_low_carb_gp

Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 05:34 Lifestyle and metabolic diseases 11:25 Experience as a low-carb physician 16:58 Imaging studies 21:37 Removing processed foods from diet 24:41 How long to start seeing results 28:45 Conflicts of interest 34:17 Protein 38:30 Veganism and mental health 43:34 Doctor visit time limitations 48:35 Ideal practice 51:51 Chronic disease expenditures

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