Dr. Jessica Turton – ‘Eat MORE to lose weight’
Dr. Jessica Turton is the Director of Ellipse Health and holds a PhD in nutrition awarded by the Faculty of Medicine and Health at the University of Sydney. Her thesis investigated the use and efficacy of low-carbohydrate diets for diabetes management, with a specific focus on type 1 diabetes. Dr. Turton conducted a clinical trial in collaboration with the CSIRO using a fully online delivery model which enabled Australia-wide participation. The aim of the study was to assess the safety and effect(s) of a nutritionally adequate low-carbohydrate diet on type 1 diabetes management outcomes.
Jessica has also co-authored several research articles in leading scientific journals, including "An Evidence-based Approach to Developing Low-carbohydrate Diets in Type 2 Diabetes: A Systematic Review" in Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism. Jessica was invited to speak at the American Diabetes Associated Conference in June 2020 to present the evidence for low-carbohydrate diets and nutritional ketosis in the treatment of diabetes and obesity.
Jessica has a passion for working with individuals to identify the primary nutritional problems affecting their health and preventing them from reaching their goals. She was the recipient of the Charles Perkins Centre Summer Research Scholarship in 2016/17 where she was part of a team that conducted analyses to investigate the association of industry-funding and results in published studies examining the effect of whole-grain intake for cardiovascular disease prevention.
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Excellent Presentation ..
Gratitude & Appreciation 💫
One of the best explanations of resting metabolic rate and diets that I have heard.
In the early 2000s I lost 90lb with Weight Watchers and also lost my gallbladder. Then I gained all the weight back. In 2017 I started low carb and I lost 70 of those pounds and kept them off forever. This lady is spot on
That’s why I call it WWWW — you always need to go back! Lol
You’re one of the lucky minority. Well done btw.
Excellent diction.
It would be interesting to see the participants’ “bloods” throughout the study.
Thanks for your enlightening talk. I’ve learnt in my life to not be focussed on weight loss. It will happen but it’ll creep back on. In my late 60s I’ve finally found what works for me. An eating lifestyle that I can reduce weight, feel satisfied, not focus on food yet be healthy. Eating more protein and fat and reducing carbs and processed foods – to none. 👋🏻👏🇦🇺
Same here, 74 live in Bangkok.
I don’t think ancel keys is a good example of trust worthy professor but he is a great example for how corruption and money can influence health of the world so easily to our detriment.
yeah he totally ignored SUGAR which tracked along with heart disease nicely
Well said !!
Excellent point. And his 1944 refeeding study was total junk like everything else he did. If somebody is in semi-starvation for a long time, just give him high fat normal food, steak and so on. There was no need to study it and waste taxpayers money.
Hello from North Carolina, USA! Very informative and useful talk!
Yes Jessica, you have reinforced what I have learned in 4 years of research online to try to improve my T2 diabetes.
Learning from drs. Paul Mason, Eric Westman, Gary Fettke, Ken Berry and a dozen others.
That was quite a good presentation
Such a clear, educational talk. I can forward this video to my friends and family who are still confused.
thank you for a great presentation!!! and to LCDU for providing it here.
Not me, been carnivore for over a year now and I eat a lot of meat and I maintain. THE ONLY WAY I started to get rid of stubborn belly fat and love handles is prolonged fasting. I’m currently on my 3rd rolling 48 hour fast this week. 8 lbs. down in one week. It’s so easy to fast when all you eat is meat, eggs, & fish!
Same doing rolling 72h but I eat all I want
What amount of food do you eat between these fasts before starting the next fast?
Lol third rolling 48h fast this week? That means you’ve been fasting for 6 days! I’d suggest amending your post or everything else you said would be classed as bs.
Excellent presentation. Answers a lot of questions.
Thank you Dr. Jessica. Great talk. Well, you taught me something today. I consume a lot of fat and not enough protein. Sounds stupid: I can’t tolerate milk, so I add cream to my coffee.
Amazing talk! Your team should be writing the Australian Dietary Guidelines! Really! Please submit your application! And, if you are not able to participate, then please invest some effort to check them and highlight what’s right and what’s wrong with them!
One day, medical science will find that insulin resistance and diabetes cause obesity. Obesity isn’t what cause diabetes, and that #LCHF is the way to go. I lived like that in 2015, lost 22kg, had oodles of energy, never felt down or depressed, never had cramps nor restless legs, but couldn’t afford the meat due to my various disabilities. In 2016, wife dragged home industrial bakery bread and then followed another six of a total of twelve strokes, 4 of which basal ganglia, two cerebellar. 48 GP’s, 2 dermatologists, 2 physicians, a top oncologist and three teams of psychiatrists never saw I was diabetic. Cranberry juice sent me to ER in a crisis, and I was finally diagnosed at age 50. When I was 4, my mom’s young lady friends urged her to have me tested. While all were in denial, doctors also didn’t like to be told, my organs failed. In my country, doctors don’t get trained to be on the lookout for diabetes. Imagine this: I grew up on a farm with sheer abundance of red meat, yet got fed starch mostly. Despite various auto-immune diseases.
Nice approach, and I guess very helpfull for motivating people 👍
I’ve done a few cuts down to a low body fat in my life. Almost every single time I got a really bad flu at the end of it. I think the calorie restriction diminished my immune system.
Excellent presentation. Even if I agree with everything that is said, I still would prefer to lose weight by prolonged water fasting, because believe that there are even more benefits to that approach.
Yes. We *know* what long-term caloric restriction does. You’ll initially lose some weight, but your metabolism will slow down, your energy will drop, you’ll feel cold, you’ll always be hungry, your meals will never satiate you, and you’ll develop an obsession with food, maybe even an eating disorder. Practically no one can live like this. And when you start eating reasonably again, it’ll take a long time (and a lot of weight gain) before you can restore you metabolism. So we *know* this is a highly unhealthy way to lose weight.
Yet it’s by far the most commonly recommended weight loss method… what nonsense.
20 years of pills and following advice from UK NHS did notning tohelp my blood sugars. Watching low carb down under,ivor cummins etc and cutting out carbs (bread crisps,potatoes, rice and pasta) and walking 4 miles twice a day my blood sugars plummetted to normal and i lost 30kg in 9 months. My GP actually told me i was too thin and should attain to increase my weight from 70kg to 80-85kg. That was easy. I just started eating carbs again.