Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a specialist sports and exercise physician and the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. His most recent team appointments have been as Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club and, until 2017, Team Doctor for the Australian cricket team.
Peter is Professor of Sports Medicine at the La Trobe Sport & Exercise Medicine Research Centre at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Peter has published widely internationally with a number of books, book chapters and over 100 original research articles. He is the co-author of Clinical Sports Medicine, a best selling general sports medicine text in its fifth edition as well as Stress Fractures, Food for Sport, Encyclopedia of Exercise and Sport Health and Clinical Sports Anatomy.
Prof. Brukner is the founder of the public health campaign SugarByHalf and is committed to the challenge of improving Australia’s health with improved diet and increased physical activity. The profits from Peter's book 'A Fat Lot Of Good' will help to fund the campaign
Peter is also the founder of Defeat Diabetes, Australia's first evidence-based and doctor-led program that focuses on the wide range of health benefits of a low carb lifestyle, particularly for those wanting to send into remission pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic illnesses. The Defeat Diabetes Program is delivered via a mobile app. It provides 100+ hours of video from health professionals, masterclasses, cooking demonstrations, recipes, a meal planner, and a rich library of resources, with new content regularly added.
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42 responses to “Prof. Peter Brukner – ‘Low Carb and Chronic Disease’”
I don’t understand. how come these keto practitioners don’t look any younger or healthier than regular folks? What chronic diseases does eating potatoes or fruits cause?
Quality of life.
Fruit contains fructose and glucose. Fructose can only be processed by the liver. Glucose can be processed in other areas.
@Toni Praying doesn’t work either.
@Alicia Stanley
Agree with most. Not sure about Berg he is always flogging something and watch his video on skin tags!!!
Oddly the obese often look ‘young’ as their faces are full of fat, stretching out the wrinkles.
14:17 MS
thank you, i was hoping this would be discussed. thanks for saving me time.
COPD third ranked “leading cause of death” any progress here with regards to keto or carnivore diet?
If this was shown to be any good the medical and food industry would not have it debunked because there is no money in Healthy people… YOU have to wade through the BS to fix yourself..
I am 65 years old and doing Carnivore for 2 and half years and never.. I say never felt better…
Fasting lengthens telomeres, which helps a great deal with COPD! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lp_LrJL2Pk0
No mechanism of action for diet to work on copd. Inflammation lower maybe.
Awesome talk thank you.
Maybe you should get the beef industry to fund a good research study b
That is an excellent idea. It’s in the farmers interest to promote their own products.
A healthy keto / diet is amazing but during the present crisis, only a millionire can afford it.
Complete nonsense
A healthy keto / diet is amazing. Yes I totally agree unless you are in a severe financial with no income you can afford this life style. Do not use that as a excuse as it may lengthen your life. I think your statement is over the top and may prevent others from trying.
That is so not true!
This isn’t so. When you have stopped buying the rubbish you were consuming, you find you have enough money to buy the healthy food.
Not if you cook everything from actual ingredients.
Cheap value Veggies. Cheapest cuts of meat (bought in bulk or when on offer – frozen if needed).
Slow cook or Pressure cook it to avoid any waste.
It will get boring but you will be healthy and of a solid body mass.
Looking for a low carb GP doctor in the northern suburbs of Melbourne Bundoora Reservior Kingsbury areas.
Low carb doctors are probably hard to find. I took control of my own health and fixed my chronic conditions. I found a keto friendly GP, but essentially they all have to follow the government dietary guidelines which are heavily influenced by the food industry lobby groups. I educated myself via trustworthy youtube channels videos, had my chronic diseases monitored by GP blood tests etc. and after I lost many kgs, I came off all my medications. Wish you good luck on your keto journey to health.
am in Wantirna, if you’d like to travel once, then after that can do telehealth with medicare rebate
Low Carb Down Under website has a list of doctors under the Get Help drop down at top right of screen. Obviously you would have to do your own research before consulting one of them.
just go to dr berg on youtube, he will fix you up or dr anthony chaffee on youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1cqNDDG4aA pretty sure there is no such thing as a low carb doctor, they would probably lose their license, don’t trust the institutional doctors
You don’t need a doctor. Everything you need to learn is free on YouTube. After 200hrs or so you’ll know more about actual health than most doctors.
After 4years un keto diet my triglycerides are too high in 160. No sense.
thats whatthey tell you but there are studies showing both hdl and LDL are good for us, the body needs saturated fats, there are a lot of lies out there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1cqNDDG4aA
Modify. Check your Dairy intake. You could have elevated Insulin levels (hard to measure as ‘Kraft test’ is expensive and not often done. Also using hba1c as a surrogate marker isn’t accurate as your low carb will mean your average blood sugar is low).
Raised insulin could lead to raised TGs on Keto. This could also be stress related – caffeine, reduced sleep quality, work stress.
Have you included fasting or reduced eating windows?
@Xiv dr berg recommends the ‘ homa it ‘ test, its very cheap.
@ty Ty i buy marrow bone, very cheap, boil in a pressure cooker for 90 minutes, high nutrition fat soup, a little salt, it’s delicious
Too many seed oils
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Please add a link the studies mentioned in the description.
Low carbs will not do this alone, fasting, non eating is the other half of the equation i believe. Can i get an answer on this, Thanks in advance
The thing low carb is missing, is it’s not always necessary.
The real issue is poor metabolic function.
Carbs do play a role, but are a secondary player.
The real issue for most is the impaired metabolic function from excessive consumption of the PUFA Linoleic Acid. Other PUFA also have their effects but LA is the elephant in the room.
Any new good resource or documentary on Keto and Myasthenia Gravis? I’ve been looking for something but haven’t found much. I’ve been on and off low carb since 2017. Planning to do clean keto if it’s confirmed that I have MG.
I discovered Irish Butter called Connaught Gold. It is lovely. I use it to cook with instead of oil.
Also about cost of living a cheap bar of dark chocolate costs me £2.00 its gone very quickly. Sometimes starting cravings . A neck of lamb in the butchers costs £ 4 and does two meals for me. I dont think processed food with the amount of illness it creates is really that cheap.
There’s literally zero proof a keto diet is superior to a low fat wholefood plant based diet, unless one measures subject diets prior to the experimental period.
i.e. if someone was eating standard Australian kr@p diet for years prior, then switched to keto or vegan both of which contain an abundance of colored vegetables, then the fact is in both cases, nutritional intake has improved profoundly.
Brukner is yet to disprove a low fat WFPB diet has superior longevity and health advantages.
I have been doing the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting for two and a half years and my life is in a much better place. I’m a T2 diabetic and no long use two medications to control my diabetes. No longer need or use statins or medication for depression. Also deal with chronic pain including daily migraines and fibromyalgia. I restricted foods that are inflammatory to further help my conditions. Other conditions I live with I’ll bypass at this time. This is for folks like me to see this can work.
The purpose of developing drugs is not to be effective, but profitable. Sometimes these are the same thing.