Dr. Sanjeev Balakrishnan holds a Master of Medicine in Family Medicine from the National University of Singapore and is currently a GP working in Perth, Western Australia. Dr. Balakrishnan has more than two decades of experience and is very passionate about the management of obesity, type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome through healthy eating. He is an advocate for the low carbohydrate-high healthy fat diet and is the creator of Low Carb WA. He is a fully credentialed Family Physician in Singapore and is a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners.
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20 responses to “Dr. Sanjeev Balakrishnan – ‘Busting Low Carb Myths’”
Love this “frequently asked questions” kind of presentation
Lots of luck getting the GP who understands what you’re doing (20 minutes in)
I’m a Singaporean living in Perth too. Please let me know how to reduce my IGE which is 850. Been a carnivore for 4 years.
Thank you for the clear presentation Dr. Balakrishnan. It’s extremely helpful & I’ve subscribed.
Loved his presentation, to the point.
Excellent presentation!
Well organized and fully understandable. My carnivore purpose is to outlive all the doctors who told me it’s unsustainable or I need a metphormin/statins/PPI. 😂
My motivator for going low carb was finding out that having diabetes (I was diagnosed in Oct 2021) can cause blindness and kidney problems leading to dialysis. My husband was on peritoneal dialysis (Wegener’s Granulomatosis). We researched both types of dialysis. Both types have a huge impact on your life. The low carb lifestyle can be both difficult and simple. Difficult because we are going against the current normal way of eating, but simple because it is such an easy way to remit diabetes and other health issues without drugs. And goodbye food cravings and being hangry.
Great presentation!
In my 70’s and been on a high fat/low carb diet most of my life since my teens and I’m still waiting for the unsustainability to kick in, lol.
My motivator is watching my mother suffer from diabetes watching her progress through chronic kidney disease. And now she is on dialysis twice a week. The chronic inflammation has likely caused vascular dementia. The two decade usage of statins has weakened her muscles causing so much muscular pain as a side effect that she didn’t walk. Now she is bedridden. It is a miserable path that I will not follow.
I first visited Dr Sanjeev after a telephone conversation with Dr Rod Taylor. I was one of the people Sanjeev spoke about – already on low carb but unable to find a GP who understood what I wanted. I am pushing 75 years of age and walk 7 days a week and cycle 100kms each week (in three sessions). Those exercise levels are maintained to keep my cardiovascular system in good health – it has nothing to do with weight control – low carb does that. I take full responsibility for my health. I use an iWatch linked to my iPhone to monitor my heart rate, energy burnt, my average speed and VO2 max – not for absolute data but to monitor trends. I’m looking for any significant change which might indicate an issue which needs addressing. There are no guarantees in life, but it is possible to stack the odds in your favour. As for sustainability, I started my low carb journey about 25 years ago. Thank you Sanjeev for addressing my needs.
love your presentation
Don’t blame the burger, blame the bun. Great talk, thank you.
Excellent presentation, doctor. Thank you!
My triglycerides went from 7.2 to 0.7 after 3 months on carnivore.
Very happy this guy is my GP
Excellent presentation from a Doctor in the thick of it. This Doctor is truly enlightened. And I like the way he answers the questions your own GP is not interested in answering. Keep spreading the word.
My motivation was low energy, 25 kg excess weight and some old football (soccer) pains. Everything got resolved and now playing again at the highest level in the old boys.💪🏻
PS. You CAN sprint very fast and continue doing that for a very long time even when your body is running on fat! Don’t believe the lie that you need carbohydrates!
5.5 years keto now! 🙌 feeling amazing