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Did you know that many blood sugar problems (dysglycemia) are closely related to psychological conditions, like bipolar, schizophrenia, and major depressive disorder? It is also almost unbelievable that approximately 60% of people with diabetes have some type of mental disorder, and some people have known genetic SNPs that predispose them to schizophrenia. That also makes one wonder about the connections related to bipolar and other mental disorders. That concept was not etched in stone. But the curtain is currently being lifted on those conditions, and new connections are being made and explored. New ideas around processed food additions and methylation dysregulation are coming to light. Those ideas are opening the door to dietary interventions and orthomolecular (use of specific supplements) support. In this episode, Dr. Karl tackles a big topic by segmenting it into smaller ideas to make it a little more coherent and easier to understand. Not everything that he talks about today has been proven, but some p

In Dr. Karl’s view, Dr. Gaby is singularly the most authoritative person when it comes down to what we know about supplements and their specific applications for various conditions. Dr. Gaby spent almost 40 years studying, accumulating, and applying various supplements. He has become the definitive source for determining what we know about supplements and how to use them to benefit us and improve our health.We are currently a culture overwhelmed by the clever marketing of false information, particularly around supplements. Unfortunately, that information is full of specious claims that offer no solid research. That tends to leave most of us very confused regarding the truth about specific supplements.Dr. Karl feels that he, too, would be lost regarding supplements without Dr. Gaby’s 1,458-page Nutritional Medicine textbook, which removes the fog of false claims and covers 400 different conditions. The book is Dr. Karl’s foundation for finding out what we know, what is safe, and the doses Dr. Gaby recommends a

This is the final part of the interview that Dr. Karl did with Dr. Alan Gaby, an internationally renowned researcher and physician who has focused on nutritional medicine. Dr. Gaby has been called the “Father of Nutritional Medicine”.In this episode, they talk about DHEA and the results it has when used appropriately. They explain what labs generally do, and they talk about iron and why it is important. They also discuss the value of doing an elimination diet and much more. Stay tuned! We hope you will enjoy the last part of Dr. Karl’s interview with Dr. Alan Gaby.DHEADHEA is a steroid hormone that gets produced naturally in the adrenal glands. In males, fifty percent of the DHEA gets produced in the testes and fifty percent in the adrenals. In females, only about ten percent of the DHEA comes from the ovaries. The other ninety percent comes from the adrenals.DHEA and MenopauseWhen women are given DHEA as a supplement at menopause, it sometimes relieves some of their menopausal symptoms, and in a few cases th

People who have accomplished much in their lives have often said that they stood on the shoulders of the giants who laid the groundwork for their discoveries and accomplishments. Dr. Karl unequivocally states that Dr. Gaby dramatically changed his interest in and his ability to practice nutritional medicine. Dr. Gaby’s life work is his Nutritional Medicine. It represents about 40 years of research and his personal experience of treating patients and teaching medical school students like Dr. Karl. Dr. Karl sees Dr. Gaby's work as his backstop around what we know about using a particular substance (or supplement) for a condition.  In this episode, Dr. Karl and Dr. Gaby discuss some things that might be considered controversial. Stay tuned. We hope you enjoy the conversation!COVID Many decisions related to COVID and nutritional medicine get based on what we already know from the research on preventing and treating other infections. That is because there is not much funding behind nutrition research. Hidden

Welcome to another episode of The Keto Naturopath!If you want to know what is true and accurate, well-researched, and effective in terms of supplements for a given condition, there is only one reference that can offer you that. It is the eight-and-a-half pound book, Nutritional Medicine, and stands as a definitive resource second to none. Nutritional Medicine is a science-based textbook, the result of 36 years of research by renowned authority on nutritional medicine, Dr. Alan R. Gaby.This podcast is about Dr. Alan Gaby, the person who created that book. He comes from a different era and thinks in a way that is rare to find today. As a physician, he documented all the work he did in terms of research and treating the patients in his practice over the decades. So, if you want to know what works, what does not, and why, Dr.Gaby is the one to talk to. He truly knows what he is talking about. Dr. Karl recently interviewed Dr. Alan Gaby. That interview will be coming up in a subsequent podcast. Dr. Gaby embodies t

The Överkalix study could be one of the most important studies ever done to show that some of the changes passed down to the next generation have little to do with one’s parents’ DNA. Those changes are more about the stresses that one’s parents’ grandparents (including the grandfathers and great-grandfathers of the fathers) experienced pre-puberty. That study changed everything in terms of how the scientific world looked at genetic inheritance. One man spent most of his life documenting it, yet his initial work was deemed non-credible. Today, we will share the story of what happened.Dr. Lars Olov BygrenIn the 1980s, Dr. Lars Olav Bygren, a Swedish Preventative Health Specialist, took it upon himself to find out what the long-term effects of the feast and famine years might have on the children and also their subsequent children and grandchildren, growing up in Överkalix in the 1800s. A culture of recordkeepingÖverkalix was an area that had a culture of recordkeeping. So, Dr. Bygren was able to access all the

40,000 babies were born during the Dutch winter famine of 1944-1945. It was the first time in documented history that all the details of the effects of famine could get followed for generations to come. For those pregnancies that survived, the results were unexpected in many ways. This episode is about what we learned.Today, Dr. Karl continues to explain the value of the Dutch Winter Famine of 1944-1945. The precise time frame in which it happened, coupled with the literacy, education, and the number of people who experienced the famine have allowed for accurate studies to be done on the impact of starvation on human health over the generations.Pregnancy and birthsOf the 30,000 people who starved during the Dutch winter famine, we have been able to establish the variables and information regarding the pregnant mothers and the length of time that their unborn fetuses were exposed to the famine. Fetuses that were conceived late during the famineGenerally speaking, those fetuses that were conceived late during t

Never before in history has there ever been such a well-documented, yet devastating, famine that affected so many people. In the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945, food got shut off for 4.5 million people of all classes for seven months. The caloric intake dropped to 450 calories per person. Then, almost instantaneously after the war ended, everyone had all the food they needed. The effects of that on that entire population got tracked for a generation. The children born to pregnant mothers were affected, and so were their children and their grandchildren. That horrible and protracted act of inhumanity became the birthplace of epigenetics. LegacyThe legacy of the famine of the Dutch Hunger Winter was a well-documented experience that has helped scientists to measure the effects of famine on human health. It became known as the Dutch Famine Birth Cohort Study.The findings of the Dutch Famine Birth Cohort StudyThis study found that most children of pregnant women exposed to famine were susceptible to diabetes, o

It’s unbelievable to think that there’s a method to assess your genetic mutations and to support your aberrant mutations that are hypo-functioning and hyper-functioning to create a better metabolic life. That has to do with learning ‘what you are made of’, in terms of your genetic (genome) report, and seeing what areas of your genes contribute to everything from a sense of holding you back to contributing to various disorders and diseases.Last time, we spoke about depression, suicidal ideation, and some of the underlying causes that are easily treatable, which can change with subtle interventions like a change in diet and ketones. Today, we are picking up where we left off. We will be focusing on some genes associated with emotional disorders and mental disorders like psychosis, bipolar, schizophrenia, and severe depression.Genomic irregularitiesAnother layer that needs to get looked at is genomic irregularities.Common mutationsThe common mutations found in a population are called polymorphisms. There are few

Whether you refer to the teenagers in your family, your children, or possibly even yourself, everyone’s lives have become very restricted during COVID, and that creates the risk of severe depression. This podcast connects the dots of some things you can do to change that for everybody.Today, Dr. Karl will continue with the idea of GABA versus glutamate. He will explain how ketosis or ketones affect that and how applying GABA reduces rates of suicide. He will also discuss crisis management around the idea of suicidal ideation and suicide in general.Not feeling good When you are not feeling good about yourself, the thoughts you have tend to lead you to a place, neurotransmitter-wise, where you are pro-glutamate and not supportive of GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid).From ketones to GABATo go from ketones to GABA is pretty quick, and you can adopt a lifestyle that gets you there and keeps you there if you are mindful about what you eat.MindfulnessMindfulness will cause you to produce more GABA than glutamate, which

The increasing rates of suicide and addiction are serious issues that seldom get discussed publicly, and most people tend to think that there is nothing that can be done about them.Contrary to that is the use of ketones and ketosis to change one’s emotional disposition. That information is serious and important, and it is not difficult to understand it or carry it out. We hope you will agree with that as we all climb out of this pandemic together.CovidThe first reports of Covid came out a year ago. People found themselves having to stay inside their homes, college students were unable to have a normal year, and high-school students could not celebrate their graduations. The pressures of the Covid situation also left many of us with ongoing sets of problems, which include mental health issues.Suicide rates are on the riseThe problem that we are going to focus on today is that suicide rates are on the rise.The ketogenic dietDr. Karl got into the ketogenic diet for his health because he was looking for something

Long before you come to a formal diagnosis, there is a lot that you can do to improve your situation without the use of any medication. It’s time to look into some basic and some of the less basic things that you can do for yourself, like getting to know about your genome “SNPs”, the light you get exposed to, vitamin D, and getting off carbs as much as possible. Although the results will be dramatic, they will be slow at first. There is so much more to share, but this is a place to start.Today, Dr. Karl would like to continue with the topic of S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder), and look further into some mental disorders, even though we will be talking about the same variables in each of those.Looking at the medication level as the last priorityIf you look at the medication level as the last priority, rather than the first, you should be able to mitigate the thing in the end which needs to get treated with medication.A serious flawDr. Karl explains that when things get categorized so specifically and only

S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder) keeps coming back for many of us every winter, and as we get older, it gets harder for us to deal with it. The risk factors for S.A.D. include being female, living far from the equator, having a family history, and having an MTHFR gene mutation. All of that is true for Dr. Karl, apart from being female. In this episode, we share some things you can try for yourself. We know that some people have a genetic predisposition for S.A.D., and that also needs to be looked at. What we are sharing today is what Dr. Karl does for himself with what has become his must-do list of actions each year. We will also talk about what S.A.D. is, why some people get it, and what you can do about it. What S.A.D. isS.A.D. occurs in winter, regardless of where in the world you are. S.A.D. is the SNP MTHFR and that methylation intersection. That means that with S.A.D., you would be either undermethylated or over methylated due to other mutations that you may have. It affects neurotransmitters and t

Dr. Karl first got exposed to genomic mutations (SNPs) back in 2003, when he worked with autistic children. At the time, he thought that he had found correlations (spoiler alert- autism is very multifactorial) with that condition. Then he began requesting other SNP lab tests with his patients. The helpfulness of those tests has not diminished over the years. He now includes the SNP as part of the four panels he does on his clients in his flagship program (Bio-Integration Code). It has helped him tremendously in changing people’s lives.We have reached the final portion of our four-part analysis of what we do in our programs. We are doing that to give you a clear picture of how we find out more about each person in our program. Dr. Karl believes that it is important. It is where he has been coming from in all his years of sitting across the table from people. We can look more deeplyFortunately, we are now in an era when we can look more deeply at the labs (blood work), the genomic work, the hormonal panels, and

We are bringing you Part 3 of our four-part investigation into how people differ from one another, despite having similar conditions like obesity, fatty liver, infertility, or hormone imbalances.The data that we are covering in this investigation shows us how to help people return to health from their current situation, condition, or disorder. Today, Dr. Karl follows up on how we measure micronutrient deficiencies. A new era of malnutritionMalnutrition is no longer about people not having enough food. It is about not having nutrients.Intracellular micronutrient assessmentsWhen we look at people with intracellular micronutrient assessments, we go deep. Most people find that they have several unknown nutrient deficiencies. The Dutch Test The Dutch Test is a convenient 22-hour urine test, measured at four different places. It will give a graph to show the rise and fall of your hormones over that period. Doing the workThe people who do Dr. Karl’s program need to be prepared to do the work which is to document the

In our last episode, we covered the beginning of what we do in this program. Dr. Karl’s intention is for you to get to know the various components personally because he feels that it is reasonable for you to seek out a local physician wherever you live. It is more than likely that you will find a physician in your area who is doing, or at least thinking, in the same way as Dr. Karl does. Dr. Karl put all the components together, and with a lot of struggling, managed to create a process that can get reproduced. The process is very worthwhile. Most people who go through Dr. Karl’s program follow up again in six to twelve months to get retested.The four conditionsIn the last episode, Dr. Karl followed the conditions of infertility in a woman in her late thirties, a hormone imbalance in a woman in her early fifties in her perimenopause state, and obesity and fatty liver in two men.The four panelsToday, we will be pulling those conditions through the four panels to show you how those panels will have benefited eac

Today, Dr. Karl will be covering how to do his 90-days, deep-dive, data-driven program to help people with certain conditions know what is going on with them, and how to treat it. He will discuss four different conditions: infertility, hormone-imbalance, Crohn's disease, and obesity, and explain how people can address and get to understand them more deeply. He will go through four different panels and make the information in each of them easy for you to understand.Dr. Karl suggests that upon hearing this information, you seek out a physician in your area because his program works only in the United States, and in New York and New Jersey, the laws make it awkward for him to order labs because they fear competition.  Getting sickIn 2012, Dr. Karl got very sick with ulcerative colitis and also Crohn's disease. Although he had no history of either condition, he had both, and they blew up over the course of one to two months. Things that would have aided his recovery in a short timeHad Dr. Karl had the m

We have another exciting topic today. It is a fascinating ancestral story of Laron’s syndrome, Sephardic Jews, the Spanish Inquisition, a village in Ecuador, and a possible secret to longevity and avoiding cancer. Hint: IGF-1 plays a vital role in all of this. But how?We will be giving you some more information on Laron Syndrome, in addition to that which we shared in the podcast that we did on the same topic about two years ago, in order for you to gain a simple and practical understanding of some of the interplays of hormones and biochemistry.A genetic conditionLaron Syndrome is a genetic condition for which you have to be homozygous. The symptom is being small. That condition could be historically related to populations in the world like the Pygmies. Growth hormoneWe all have growth hormones that get sent out from the pituitary gland throughout our whole body. Laron Syndrome is a condition in which people have a genetically-altered growth hormone receptor on the liver. Ordinarily, growth hormone gets produ

We are talking about dairy today. Many conditions are associated with dairy, like prostate and breast cancer, making autism worse, asthma, acne, etc.In this podcast, we will share some factual reasons why that is so and what you can do to fix it. KetoKeto formally means that you have measurable ketones in your bloodstream. People following a ketogenic diet often become very good at tracking their ketones and glucose numbers. They tend to become disappointed, though, when they see their ketone levels dropping to a low level, which happens as their bodies become more efficient at producing and consuming ketones.The heart of keto is about dropping the carbs in your diet lower and lower.William WilderThe ketogenic diet was conceived by William Wilder back in 1921. It was then formulated by Dr. Peterman, who worked with him, and it came out in a research paper in 1928.The ketogenic diet cures people from being diabetic for the rest of their life. DairyDairy is controversial with all the keto gurus because after cu

Happy New Year to all our listeners!Today’s podcast is an important one for many people and specifically for the lady who sent Dr. Karl an email all about Lipedema, which he unfortunately lost and was never able to find again.This podcast is about how Dr. Karl would approach things if talking to someone who needed help with Lipedema. His method is comprehensive and thorough, and it is way more helpful than just using Keto. Nobody truly knows what causes Lipedema, so you have to take a broad look at the things that affect one’s immune system and the dysregulated ability to produce fat cells. We are sure that you will find all this information very helpful if you are suffering from Lipedema.The causeTo find the cause of most medical conditions, you need to look at your environment, which includes what you eat, what you breathe, what you absorb, what you are exposed to, coupled with your genome.The obstacles to you living a healthy lifeTo live a truly healthy life, you first need to identify and then remove all