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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27 responses to “Dr. Jessica Turton – ‘Eat MORE to lose weight’”
Excellent Presentation ..
Gratitude & Appreciation 💫
One of the best explanations of resting metabolic rate and diets that I have heard.
Excellent diction.
It would be interesting to see the participants’ “bloods” throughout the study.
Are you a vampire?
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.
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.
try unsalted butter whipped in a blender
butter blended into your 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!
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.
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.
Excellent presentation! It was very informative. Thanks for sharing!👍👍👍
Thanks for summing up the actual knowledge and bringing it to us. This was brilliant!
This was stunning. So much fundamental information in such a short time. By far the best speech I ever heard on this topic. A big THANK YOU and greetings from germany.
Superb presentation, thank you. Makes complete sense. If only the medical profession was so enlightened!
Great to know there are real doctors like Jessica actually helping clients to improve their health and lose weight. The reduction in BMR she described resulting from “conventional” calorie controlled diets explains everything. It saddens me when I see heavily overweight people at the gymn, slogging away on the treadmills – they are really doing their best to adhere to the misguided advice they get from their medical practitioners, who, to my mind, are out and out charlatans.
Brilliantly and well explained- thank you Jessica ❤