Dr Penny Figtree graduated from the University of Sydney in 1993 with first class honours. With over 20 years in general practice she has now decided to focus on weight loss and diabetes.
This decision was made after seeing the power of a low carbohydrate diet to help people lose weight and for some to even reverse diabetes. Dr. Figtree has now been practising low carb medicine for more than 2 years. She describes this as the most rewarding part of her career, stopping medications and patients feeling well.
Dr. Ronald Schweitzer is a general practitioner and lecturer/tutor at the Monash University for the Year 2 and Year 4 undergraduate medical students in the Department of General Practice.
Dr Schweitzer practices all aspects of general practice, but his major area of interest is in the low carbohydrate, healthy fat (LCHF) eating approach. He embraced LCHF, both personally and professionally, in 2018 after extensive research. He now uses the LCHF approach in the management of a number of conditions including but not limited to diabetes and pre-diabetes, weight loss, fatty liver, high blood pressure (hypertension) and abnormal lipids.
Dr. Liz Fraser completed her medical training in Canberra in 2003. Since then she has worked as a GP with a particular focus on nutritional medicine and helping patients with complex health problems.
Dr. Fraser is the cofounder of Low Carb Canberra. Her passion apart from gardening, reading and interpreting scientific articles is educating other doctors on the benefits of recommending low carb to their patients.
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20 responses to “Dr. Penny Figtree, Dr. Ron Schweitzer & Dr. Liz Fraser – ‘De-Prescribing Case Reports’”
Wonderful. I have heard this from Dr. Berg, amongst a few other early influencers, for almost a decade. Good Health is finally here to stay.
Great to see doctors starting to understand the issues with our modern diets.
This low carb down under is the best educational forum I have ever watched on the internet. It helps me reclaim my life.
Dr.Figtree is Gold standard
With true compassion
Thanks 4 posting folks
Good presentations thank you from North Queensland
Dr. Liz, – “catching a patient at a teachable moment” is a big key. Mainstream medical knowledge still puts the keto diet in the “weird” category. It’s as if patients need to be at a desperate moment where they are willing to try anything before they will give it a serious try. Please, please continue. This is so important! Thank you.
Wow great content. I am sharing this one.
God bless this lady
Where can I find a low carb doctor in California?
It’s amazing how simple it is to lower your blood sugar and insulin requirements by understanding what turns into sugar in the body and how insulin is driven in part by blood sugar. Once you understand what foods increase your insulin requirements, the rest is a cake walk… lol
Always good to see enlightened GPs. There are so few!
Thank you for these presentations. Would be great if low carb was a common medical solution prescribed normally by doctors. One day maybe.
Fantastically explained
Wow mam
I’m continuously baffled at people risking poor health or death because, “I love my food too much”. That’s not a nutrition issue, that is addiction, but the situation is so rampant and widespread it has become a golden calf that it’s not cool to talk about. I would venture to say that even those doctors that poo-poo the notion of low carb are probably addicted to eating garbage themselves.
Very important to know that Hba1c does not measure fructose. So results although look great be mindful of fructose intake.
Absolutely fabulous – thank you.
Fun being a doctor these days, when your smile for a change.
This is what a hero looks like. Complicated made easy.
Andrew is absolutely right. He got the information most people don’t. But we all know that.
Many years ago I met this gentlemen on a flight. This was way before I had knowledge about T2D, carbs, injected insulin, etc. He informed me two of his toes were already amputated due to T2D, which made me very sad. He then asked the flight attendant a can of Coca Cola! He showed me how he adjusts the dosage on his insulin pump to counteract the (toxic) drink. So sad to think how many patients have gotten and continue to get bad medical advice.