Dr. Louise Phillips – ‘Helping GPs to prescribe low carb’
Dr Louise Phillips is an experienced GP with a special interest in metabolic disease and using low carbohydrate diets & intermittent fasting to help improve Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, polycystic ovarian syndrome, weight issues, gout and hypertension.
Dr. Phillips graduated from the University of Queensland with first class honours in 1999 and received the Maureen Duke and Marion Sullivan Memorial Award for her GP fellowship exam in 2005. She is passionate about ongoing medical education and participates in training for GP registrars and medical students. She is a Certified Nutrition Network Medical Practitioner after successfully completing their medical certification pathway, which is one of the most rigorous trainings in this field.
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“the good thing about this is that most patients know what carbs are because we’ve been telling them to eat them for decades” 😀
Phenomenal presentation! The ‘how to teach’ section popped – as an educator/coach/trainer of adults, this is one of the most relevant aspects of communicating information which will be clearly understood and stands the best chance of helping the individual help themselves. I have recently joined the AMHS team and encourage other practitioners to do the same. Great references / sources cited. ❤❤❤❤
Excellent practical presentation for the real world. Tough to find supportive resources in rural areas, so apps, websites and books will be extremely helpful. I’d add endocrinologists to the ‘derailed’ list
FINALLY! A GP/ETC who understands the no.1 issue is metabolic health. After being “frustrated ” with the Health Care system, I decided to educate myself properly about insulin resistance and the benefits of low carb nutritional plan.
In 7 months, I lost 23 pounds and got back my “energy” and lessened and sometimes eliminated numerous health problems.
Certainly will keep this lecture and sincerely hope the Medical practitioners will take heed. Thank you for this video today 💜
Good carbs are good some people don’t but I need it
It would be wonderful if this was a mandatory course in med schools!
Great presentation-love the priority being to simplify the information, engage the patient with questions and the effectiveness of retraining Doctors because for many people the Doctor is perceived as knowing what is best. How 4 minutes of engagement can change someone’s life trajectory if they follow through taking care of themselves. I imagine it must be interesting navigating standard guidelines, recommendations versus information backed by science that may go against the accepted guidelines! What a challenge when Doctors have only minutes to assist with diet. I was thinking how important protein/fat uptake is and that is a journey in itself because we have been taught to eat lean meat and in general that red meat is bad for you. The real world affect of remaining low animal protein (because of high carb, and plant based recommendations) and in particular low animal fat to the degree we have taught (less essential nutrients) is then a necessary proclivity to increase, crave for more sugar and carbs. This could be in play and even stimulated if a person decrease their carbs without sufficiently also increasing their protein and animal fat intake.
Now… how do we break big pharma’s stronghold on medical schools’ curricula so that doctors are actually taught these fundamentals as an integral part of their education? If doctors themselves still believe carbs are essential and it’s necessary to eat multiple times a day, than there’s hardly a point in teaching them how to educate patients. Educate the doctors FIRST, and do so at med school
Good to hear this as a Dietician from neighboring Fiji 🇫🇯🙂
In my neck of the woods, there are big screens in the GPs clinics waiting room showing in loop public health advice on the current low fat high carb food guide. It would be somewhat awkward to say the least for a GP to provide contradictory advice in an adjacent exam room.
We would all love to have a GP like you. Sadly, arrogance, matched by ignorance is the norm.
About 2 years ago, I told my doctor about intermittent fasting and low carb. I provided him with links to Drs. Jason Fung and Pradip Jamnadas. He and his family went low carb and IF, and he thanked me. He’s a humble man.
One BIG problem in Canada is protocols. If you want to keep your license, you MUST follow protocols established by the College of Physicians & Surgeons. A doctor can’t just prescribe what s/he wants anymore. That all changed with “Emergency use” of the jab, and the things that must be suppressed so that allopathy can keep raking in the bucks with our sick care system.
I “have* a 5th grade understanding of health? Me, the patient?
I have to explain to my doctor what stereoisomers are and that allulose is the enantiomer of fructose and that (like thalidomide) one of the stereoisomers of C6H12O6 is a toxin (fructose) and the other is harmless (allulose). If I am at a 5th grade level, the GP must have a kindergarten level understanding.