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In the second episode of a special mini podcast series on “carbohydrates and dental-systemic diseases” today, I have invited Professor Philippe Hujoel back as my featured guest for the second half of the interview. After discussing dental caries and periodontal disease and their links to excess carbohydrate consumption, I have received e-mails from my listeners who are very happy to learn about why they are unable to keep their teeth in good health. In this interview today with Professor Hujoel, I am going to ask more questions for you about the association between dental diseases and systemic diseases. Let’s tune in now for the show!   About Professor Philippe Hujoel: Educational background: Dental degree (LTH from Brussels, Belgium), specialty training in periodontics (MSD from the UW, Seattle), biostatistics (MS from UM, Ann Arbor), and epidemiology (PhD from the UW, Seattle). Job: Professor at the UW School of Dentistry and School of Public Health. Practices periodontics and dental implantology one day per week. Scientific career highlights: Worked on the application of statistical methods to dental research issues with a focus on correlated data. Worked on statistical issues surrounding split-mouth designs. Relevant vignette: Identified that several landmark periodontal trials reported misleading statistics. Participated in various clinical trials and epidemiological studies including sugar substitute studies, trials on the use of antibiotics in the treatment of periodontal disease, and cleft-lip/cleft palate research. Relevant vignette: Work on the effects of xylitol on dental caries. Led various investigations relating dental utilization patterns to both medical and dental outcomes. These investigations focused on periodontal treatments and tooth loss, exposure to dental radiography and mercury and birth outcomes, and dental treatments and birth outcomes. Relevant vignette: Association of very-low dose radiation with intra-uterine growth restriction Analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys focusing on dental-systemic disease associations and trends in disease prevalence. Relevant vignette: Multiple studies identifying that dental and systemic disease are associated because of lifestyle factors, and not because dental diseases cause systemic diseases. Since 2007 a focus on nutrition as a common cause of dental and systemic diseases. Work to date includes an overview on the evidence implicating carbohydrates as a cause of dental systemic disease-associations and the role of vitamin D on teeth and bones. Professional Awards: Recipient of the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award. He was a founding Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice. Served on the Council of Scientific Affairs and the Evidence-Based Dentistry Advisory Committee of the American Dental Association (ADA). He has been a member of several expert panels appointed by professional and government organizations responsible for providing evidence-based guidelines on cancer screening, fluoride use, and non-fluoride caries preventive agents. Order my book: Carbohydrates Can Kill. Want to support my campaign? Please click the “Donate” button in the right-hand column of this page. Contact Me  

In today’s premier episode of a special mini podcast series on “carbohydrates and dental and systemic diseases, I have the honor of having Professor Philippe Hujoel as my featured guest. While it has been a painful truth that only a very few of us has realized the serious health impacts by carbohydrates, most of us have not recognized that carbohydrates are also causing almost all the dental diseases from dental caries to malformation of the oral structures. I bet that you have tried to keep your teeth in good shape but are frustrated with the result. You are not alone. Professor Hujoel is here to tell you why. Let’s tune in and listen to what he is going to tell you. About Professor Philippe Hujoel: Educational background: Dental degree (LTH from Brussels, Belgium), specialty training in periodontics (MSD from the UW, Seattle), biostatistics (MS from UM, Ann Arbor), and epidemiology (PhD from the UW, Seattle). Job: Professor at the UW School of Dentistry and School of Public Health. Practices periodontics and dental implantology one day per week. Scientific career highlights: Worked on the application of statistical methods to dental research issues with a focus on correlated data. Worked on statistical issues surrounding split-mouth designs. Relevant vignette: Identified that several landmark periodontal trials reported misleading statistics. Participated in various clinical trials and epidemiological studies including sugar substitute studies, trials on the use of antibiotics in the treatment of periodontal disease, and cleft-lip/cleft palate research. Relevant vignette: Work on the effects of xylitol on dental caries. Led various investigations relating dental utilization patterns to both medical and dental outcomes. These investigations focused on periodontal treatments and tooth loss, exposure to dental radiography and mercury and birth outcomes, and dental treatments and birth outcomes. Relevant vignette: Association of very-low dose radiation with intra-uterine growth restriction Analyzed data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys focusing on dental-systemic disease associations and trends in disease prevalence. Relevant vignette: Multiple studies identifying that dental and systemic disease are associated because of lifestyle factors, and not because dental diseases cause systemic diseases. Since 2007 a focus on nutrition as a common cause of dental and systemic diseases. Work to date includes an overview on the evidence implicating carbohydrates as a cause of dental systemic disease-associations and the role of vitamin D on teeth and bones. Professional Awards: Recipient of the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award. He was a founding Senior Associate Editor of the Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice. Served on the Council of Scientific Affairs and the Evidence-Based Dentistry Advisory Committee of the American Dental Association (ADA). He has been a member of several expert panels appointed by professional and government organizations responsible for providing evidence-based guidelines on cancer screening, fluoride use, and non-fluoride caries preventive agents. Order my book: Carbohydrates Can Kill. Want to support my campaign? Please click the “Donate” button in the right-hand column of this page. Contact Me

In the finale of the special series on “Carbohydrates and Cancer” today, for the Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show, Rainer Klement, PhD and Ulrike Kämmerer, PhD are my featured guests. Both both Dr. Klement and Professor Kämmerer are working at the University of Würzburg, in Würzburg, Germany.   As I have continued to review literatures including those are related to cancer etiology and treatment, I came across an excellent article by Dr. Klement and Professor Kämmerer, “Is there a role for carbohydrate restriction in the treatment and prevention of cancer?” On October 31, 2011, I wrote an article for this website in affirming their findings. I was subsequently connected to this pair of brilliant cancer researchers, and discovered the interesting story of Dr. Lucy Kunz, who was interview on this podcast on last Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Each of Professor Kämmerer and Dr. Klement has had a unique personal journey, which motivated them to joining the fight against cancer. I am going to ask them lots of questions about the relationship between carbohydrates and cancer. I trust you want to know about their answers to my questions. Let us tune in now for this interesting and informative episode!   About Professor Ulrike Kämmerer After Dr. Ulrike Kämmerer finished her PhD thesis in Biology (about myocarditis and picornaviruses) at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, she worked as a PostDoc at the Universities of Tübingen and Dresden. In 1996 she joined the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the University of Würzburg, where she predominantly worked as reproductive biologist with her main focus on human reproduction and the role of dendritic cells therein. As “side” projects several ontological aspects were in the research area as well, especially the remarkable similarity between the benign human placenta and malign tumors. This in the end led to the focus on metabolism of invasive cells and to the question, how the remarkable lactic acid production of malign cells could be influenced by specific therapies. Due to missing medical approaches, nutrition came into the focus. As a result, a ketogenic diet seemed to be a remarkable tool to positively influence the situation of a cancer patient. This was tested in a first small study and the experimental work with sugar metabolism and the nutrition of cancer patients in now the main focus of her work. Having learned from intensive literature research and own experimental data, she changed her diet in 2007 to a very low carbohydrate to ketogenic diet and still felt very well on this nutrition with all laboratory parameters having changed to the very best and feeling able to scope with the multiple tasks in teaching, research and doing lots of administrative work for her department.   About Rainer Klement, PhD After graduating with a Diplom in physics from the University of Heidelberg in 2005, Dr. Rainer Klement started doing research as a Ph.D. student at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), situated on top of the “Koenigstuhl” above the famous castle of Heidelberg. He mainly worked on identifying stellar streams, which are groups of stars travelling on similar orbits through the Milky Way and are though to be remnants of former satellite galaxies that got disrupted by the Milky Way’s tidal field. He initiated a planet search campaign that lead to the discovery of the first “extra-Galactic” planet HIP13044b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIP_13044_b)  After receiving his Ph.D. in Astronomy in 2008 he continued to work as a Postdoc at the MPIA for two years as part of the European Space Agency’s GAIA satellite mission. During that time, Dr. Klement undertook an advanced course in medical physics at the German Cancer Reseach Center in Heidelberg, realizing that this could provide the opportunity to combine his background in physics with his general interest in medical topics. In the beginning of 2011, he gladly to[...]

Lucy Kunz, Ph.D. is my featured guest for today’s Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show, which is the third episode of a special series on Carbohydrates and Cancer. As I cited in the JEV News on March 2, 2012, that “more cancer victims need to give carbohydrate restriction or ketogenic diet a try for the sake of improving their odd of winning the battle against cancer.” Here is Dr Kunz the person in point! Dr. Kunz, an American/German world class swimming champion, was found having ovarian cancers on December 1, 2003, but refused to give herself up to the evil disease. Despite that she has had many surgeries, chemotherapies, and courses of radiation during the last eight years, she has continued to swim and compete in many swimming contests, from which she has won so many medals. For the last two years, she has adopted carbohydrate-restricted diet under the guidance from a team including Ulrike Kämmerer, PhD, Rainer Klement, PhD, and others. Up to date, her PET Scan on November 16th, 2011, which shows no tumor growth, in comparing with one done on June 8th, 2011. In this interview, I am going to ask Dr. Kunz about her experience in fighting against cancer. I bet you want to listen to it . Let’s tune in now! About Lucy Kunz, PhD: Excerpt from the German Newspaper Main Post, January 31st, 2009, Nr. 25, SWT Page 17, Local Sports (translated by Lucy Kunz, PhD.) English Translation of “Eine Weltmeisterin und ihr harter Kampf” A World Champion Swimmer and her Fight to Win: Schonungen resident and art historian Lucy Kunz swims to beat her main opponent—cancer Known for her American accent, the smile on her face and the kind words she always finds for others, Dr. Lucy Kunz, director of the swimming programm for Schweinfurt’s largest sports association, is well-known and well-liked not only in the pools where she trains but far beyond them. The American-born trainer is greeted warmly by the life guards at the local pool „Das Silvana“, given a New Year’s gift from the Silvana’s restaurant, and generous help from an instructor in styling her hair for the press photos. For the first time, the current world champion and record holder in life saving swimming speaks openly about her difficult battle with cancer, as well as her hopes and goals. It was last year, in June of 2008, during the competition in Berlin, Germany, when Kunz became a world champion in life saving swimming. (1) She swam the 200 meter race in obstacle swimming in the wold record time of 2:49.58, breaking the previous record by a over 14 seconds. The German Secretary of Commerce, Michael Glos, wrote a letter of congratulation in which he praised the willpower and iron discipline with which she was able to assert herself in this swimming meet amongst 4000 competitors. In the previous years Kunz has won gold, silver and bronze medals in German Masters competitions. In the year 2008 alone she earned eight gold medals in Bavarian championships. In addition, she was a multiple winner in the German International Championships for the Handicapped, in which she participed in the category AB („generally handicapped“). That she has accomplished all of this is especially remarkable in light of her recent background: the 53 year old has had to live with the diagnosis of ovarian cancer and the continually required therapies since November of 2003. At the invitation of Dr. Johannes Dietl, Professor and Director of the Women’s Clinik, University of Würzburg, she composed an essay entitled: „ I live and I swim with the Diagnosis Cancer.“ Kunz was born in Salem, Oregon and has lived in Germany since the early 1980′s when she studied at the University of Münich with a Rotary International Scholarship. She now lives in Schonungen, near Schweinfurt, with her husband and three children. She trains three to four times a week in addition to the many hours of teaching at the pool. During her 100 days of chemotherapy, which began in the summer of 2004,[...]

In today’s Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show, I am presenting to you the second episode of a specially series on Carbohydrates and Cancer. I am greatly honored to have Professor Thomas Seyfried as my featured guest. To effectively preventing and treating diseases, we must first know their etiology that helps create the best clinical strategies. Unfortunately, exploring the etiology of diseases is difficult in most of the cases. The hope of a breakthrough with a correct study result or results is even slimmer, if the direction of a study is wrong, based on a wrong hypothesis. In addition, the study conclusion could be skewed because of mishandlings in the study method and interpretation. Therefore, sound hypotheses are an important and only come from those researchers and clinicians who are brave to break themselves away from the mainstream and work hard for finding the truth. Professor Seyfried and his coworkers have devoted to cancer research particularly in the association between diet and cancer. I am sure that, like myself, you want to hear what Professor Seyfried is going to share with us his knowledge in this important topic. About Professor Thomas Seyfried: Professor Seyfried received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Biochemistry from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1976. Dr. Seyfried served as a Chemist and Bacteriologist in the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neurology at the Yale University School of Medicine, and he went on to serve as an Assistant Professor in Neurology in the same department while at Yale. Prior to receiving full professorship, Dr. Seyfried was an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Boston College. Dr. Seyfried also served with distinction in the United States Army during the Vietnam War, receiving numerous medals and commendations. Other awards and honors have come from such diverse organizations as the American Oil Chemists Society, the National Institutes of Health, the American Society for Neurochemistry, and the Ketogenic Diet Special Interest Group of the American Epilepsy Society. Dr. Seyfried has participated on the editorial board of the Journal of Neurochemistry, and is presently on the editorial boards of Nutrition and Metabolism, Neurochemical Research, the Journal of Lipid Research and ASN Neuro. Dr. Seyfried’s research program focuses on gene environmental interactions related to complex diseases, such as epilepsy, autism, brain cancer, and neurodegenerative (the GM1 and GM2 gangliosidoses) diseases. He also recently served as chair, Scientific Advisory Committee, National Tay-Sachs & Allied Disease Association. His laboratory explores neurological disease management using lipid biochemistry and principles of metabolic control theory. This theory is based on the idea that compensatory brain metabolic pathways are capable of modifying the pathogenesis of complex diseases despite the continued presence of the genetic or environmental defects responsible for the disease. By shifting the brain metabolic environment, diet and drug therapies can potentially mask or neutralize molecular pathology. The diet therapies used include caloric restriction, fasting, and the low carbohydrate, high fat, ketogenic diet. These diseases include epilepsy, autism, cancer, and lipid storage disease. The goal is to manage complex diseases with non-toxic therapies that have immediate translational benefit to the clinic.   Order my book: CarbohydratesCanKill. Want to support my campaign? Please click the “Donate” button in the right-hand column of this page. ContactMe

On today’s Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show, I am presenting to you the premiere episode of a special series on Carbohydrates and Cancer.   As I continue to review literatures in a broad spectrum, I have a keen interest in several subjects, which include mental disorders, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes mellitus, cancer, and so on. Other than that I frequently write about these subjects, I have also wanted to invite experts in the respective subjects to this podcast for sharing their expertise with you and me. I always hope that, with my passion, I can help many of you become aware of the importance of each disease in our lives and be actively preventing diseases from happening. As a physician, I have encountered so many patients who lost lives to cancers. I felt so helplessly, because a majority of my colleagues has not known that carbohydrates have a dangerous role in cancer development and metastasis. They still think that cancer is a deadly disease with no hope in prevention or treatment. Now, I want you to know THAT IS FALSE! Just tune in and listen to what I want to share with you now.   Robert Su, Pharm.B., M.D.   Order my book: CarbohydratesCanKill. Want to support my campaign? Please click the “Donate” button in the right-hand column of this page. ContactMe  

Mr. Mark Sisson is my featured guest for today’s Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show. Mr. Sisson is well known for his web blog, “Mark’s Daily Apple”, in which he writes about Paleolithic diet. Mark earned a BA degree in biology. Also, he was a marathoner and iron-man triathlete. His terrible health consequences with high-carbohydrate diet, which was intended for high performance in sports, prompted him to delve into reviewing nutritional literatures, as that I have done, and found the dietary advantages of Paleolithic diet. Over the years, I have criticized the medical and nutritional professionals for their practices with the junk science. Amid the attempt of monopolizing the dietetic matters by the American Dietetics Association, I am very interested in learning from someone with the first-hand experience in nutrition and health. I believe you know what I meant. Come now and join me in this informative interview. About Mark Sisson Mark Sisson is the founder and publisher of MarksDailyApple.com, the leading primal/paleo blog on the Internet. His 2009 release of the Primal Blueprint in hardcover sold through six printings (130,000+) copies, while his 2011 companion guidebook, The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation, climbed to #1 on amazon.com’s exercise&fitness and diet&weight loss lists in a single day. Mark is a former world-class marathoner and Ironman triathlete. He holds a BA from Williams College in Biology, was a liaison to the International Olympic Committee representing the sport of triathlon, and is founder and CEO of Primal Nutrition, Inc., a Malibu, CA, nutrition and publishing operation. Besides blogging daily, Mark conducts seminars across North America and hosts an annual 3-day Primal retreat in California. He lives in Malibu, CA with his wife Carrie and two children.   Order my book:CarbohydratesCanKill. Want to support my campaign? Please click the “Donate” button in the right-hand column of this page. Contact Me    

In today’s episode of The Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast, the finale of the special series on Alzheimer’s disease, I am honored to have Ms. Darlene Kvist back as my featured guest. After interviewing three experts in this special series on Alzheimer’s disease, I, like you, want to know about how nutrition is actually playing its role in the development, aggravation, prevention, treatment or even reversal of this terrible disease as well as other neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’ disease, ALS, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy and so on. We all know now that restricting carbohydrates is very critical in dieting. However, we need to know why some foods, which are easily available, are actually the culprits for Alzheimer’s disease. For that, I am very eager to learn the facts from the nutritional perspective of Ms. Kvist. Let us tune in and learn what Ms. Kvist will tell us. About Darlene Kvist, M.S., C.N.S., L.N. Ms. Kvist is founder of Nutritional Weight and Wellness and co-author of “Picture Book for Zone Cooks”, Darlene has over 25 years of experience as an educator, counselor, and psycho-nutritional consultant. She enjoys problem solving to help clients with complex health needs and chronic conditions feel better. She is a licensed nutritionist who earned the title Certified Nutrition Specialist from the American College of Nutrition, a prestigious association composed of medical and research scientists to further nutrition research.  She currently serves on the Board of Dietetics and Nutrition Practice for the State of Minnesota. Darlene is an avid learner with the ability to use scientific information in an intuitive, caring manner to assist clients in making lasting lifestyle changes to increase their health and well-being. She has an active practice which focuses on psycho-nutritional counseling, a unique form of counseling she developed to meet client’s emotional and nutritional needs. The media often call upon Darlene’s nutritional expertise. She has been quoted in articles in Time magazine on low-carbohydrate eating and in the Star Tribune newspaper on trans fats, along with several other newspapers.  Darlene developed and hosts the popular “Dishing Up Nutrition” radio show Saturday mornings on FM107.1. Darlene’s passion to educate motivated her to develop several nutrition classes. Class materials are based on current research, as well as Darlene’s years of experience from individual counseling.  She frequently speaks to corporations and organizations as part of wellness programs and conferences.  Her interactive presentation style engages listeners and empowers them to apply the concepts to their lives. Popular topics range from Jump Start Your Metabolism to Balanced Foods for Balanced Moods to Stress-Busting Foods. Nutritional Weight & Wellness Website: www.weightandwellness.com Ms. Kvist’s Podcast, “Dishing Up Nutrition”: http://www.weightandwellness.com/dun_radio.html   Order my book: CarbohydratesCanKill. Want to support my campaign? Please click the “Donate” button in the right-hand column of this page. Contact Me

Professor Guilio Maria Pasinetti is my featured guest for the fourth episode of the special Alzheimer’s series on today’s Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast Show. So far, we have been discussing Alzheimer’s disease and carbohydrates in an interviewing with Stephanie Seneff, PhD, to learn about the association between Alzheimer’s disease and cholesterol, and with Mary Newport, MD, for listening to her personal experience in taking care of her husband, Steve, who has suffered with Alzheimer’s disease. Today I am very excited and honored to have Professor Pasinetti here with me to sharing both his clinical experience as a neuropsychiatrist and his research findings as an academician on Alzheimer’s disease. His discussion is expected to reaffirm the link between Alzheimer’s disease and carbohydrates. This is going to be a very informative interview that you absolutely do not want to pass up! About Giulio Maria Pasinetti, MD, Ph.D Dr. Pasinetti is Professor of Psychiatry and Professor of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine (MSSM) and Professor of Geriatrics and Adult Development at The Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development. He is on the U.S. Army Advisory Board, Neurotoxin Research program. He is Director of Basic and Biomedical Research and Training, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Director of Translational Neuroscience Laboratories, Bronx Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He has completed research for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. The primary research goal in his lab is to investigate the biological processes which occur when, during aging, subjects with normal cognitive functions convert into the very earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and then to frank dementia. His long-term goal is to improve the diagnosis of patients who are in the very earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and to identify early molecular neurobiological abnormalities so that effective pharmacological treatments to slow or halt disease progression can be developed. Toward this goal, he has initiated a series of studies to characterize gene activities in the brain of early AD cases and animal model system of AD neuropathology, using high throughput cDNA and microarray genomic studies. His recent studies have found that the expression of genes involved in synaptic functions, cell cycle, transcription/translation control and cytoskeleton/cell adhesion, may play an important role in the onset and possibly the clinical progression of Alzheimer’s disease dementia. He is presently characterizing the functional role of these abnormal expressed genes in the brain using experimental gene therapy and transgenic mouse models of AD type neuropathology. Giulio is a member of the Career Development Committee at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the NDNG Study Section Committee at NIH, the NCCAM Study Section Committee at NIH, the ZAT1 DB16 Study Section Committee at NIH, the National Scientific Board at the Alzheimer’s Association, the National Scientific Advisory Council at AFAR, the Scientific Advisory Board at Medical Marketing Research International, UK, the Australia Advisory Board at the National Health and Medical Research Council, Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e.V. Advisory Board, and Alzheimer’s Society of Canada National Scientific Advisory Board. He is winner of the 2002 Dana Alliance for Brain Initiatives Award, the 2000 Zenith Award from the Alzheimer’s Association, and the 1999 Temple Foundation Discovery Award from the Alzheimer’s Association. He coauthored A ketogenic diet as a potential novel therapeutic intervention in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Transgenic neuronal expression of proopiomelanocortin attenuates hyperphagic response to fasting and reverses metabolic impairments in leptin-deficient obese mice, Caspase Gene Expression in the Brain as a Function of the Clinical Progression of Alzheimer Disease, and H[...]

In the third episode of a special podcast series on Alzheimer’s disease, I have the honor of having Mary T. Newport, M.D. here as my featured guest on today’s Carbohydrates Can Kill podcast show. Dr. Newport, a neonatologist (physician who specializes in newborn health), has become very knowledgeable regarding Alzheimer’s disease, which is a disease supposedly related to aging, because she has to take care of her husband who sufferes with this terrible disease. As I mentioned in Episode 84 of this podcast on January 18, 2012, we have found amyloid plaques in the brain of the patient with Alzheimer’s disease. However, we have also found reducing or eliminating the amyloid plaque formation does not stop the symptoms of the disease from deteriorating. It is true that restricting carbohydrate consumption could improve the symptoms, likely because of the formation of beta-hydroxybutyrates, which is a ketone body. Nevertheless, consuming medium-chain triglycerides could even facilitate the formation of beta-hydroxybutyrate in the liver, therefore, “may be” helpful in improving the symptoms. Through her personal experience in taking care of her husband, Steve, she is the person who can offer us the first hand knowledge about What If There Was a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease and No One Knew?” Let’s start our interview with Dr. Newport now! About Mary T. Newport, M.D. Mary T. Newport, M.D. grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, attended Xavier University for pre-medicine, and graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1978. She was trained in Pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, and completed her fellowship in neonatology, the care of sick and premature newborns, at the Medical University Hospital in Charleston, SC. She has practiced neonatology in Florida since 1983 and has been medical director of the newborn intensive care unit at Spring Hill Regional Hospital since opening in 2003. Dr. Newport is employed by the All Children’s Specialty Physicians group, who provide newborn services to Spring Hill Regional Hospital. She is also volunteer clinical faculty for the Department of Pediatrics, University of South Florida since January 2004. She previously practiced neonatology and served as medical director at Mease Hospital Dunedin, after founding the newborn intensive care unit at that hospital in 1987. Dr. Newport has been married to Steve Newport since 1972 and they have two daughters and a grandson. She has written an article, “What If There Was a Cure for Alzheimer’s Disease and No One Knew?” relaying her family’s experience with this disease and her research into a dietary intervention that may benefit persons with Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases. September 27, 2011 marks the date of the release of her book, Alzheimer’s Disease: What If There Was A Cure? Dr, Mary T. Newport’s websites: www.coconutketones.com coconutketones.blogspot.com/ Order my book: Carbohydrates Can Kill. Want to support my campaign? Please click the “Donate” button in the right-hand column of this page. Contact Me

In today’s podcast, I am presenting you the second episode of a special podcast series on Alzheimer’s disease. Stephanie Seneff, PhD of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is my featured guest on the Carbohydrates Can Kill podcast. Dr. Seneff is going to discuss the role of cholesterol in the development of Alzheimer’s disease. As I told you in Episode 84 of this podcast on January 18, 2012, there are studies on Alzheimer’s disease that report an inverse correlation between the value of total serum cholesterol and the severity of loss of cognitive functions. While we understand that an increase in VLDL and some subgroup of LDLs, as well as triglycerides is the risk factors for atherosclerosis and other diseases, we realize an increase in total serum cholesterol, which includes HDLs and some “healthy” LDLs, should not be a risk factor without further investigation. Despite some articles sponsored, by pharmaceutical companies, claim the benefit of statin drugs on dementia or Alzheimer’s disease, we cannot help but doubting about the mechanism behind the claim(s). I am going to ask Dr. Seneff more about the impact of cholesterol on the development of Alzheimer’s disease. I can sense how much you want to know about this disease. Let us start our interview with Dr. Seneff now! Dr. Stephanie Seneff’s Homepage: http://www.csail.mit.edu/user/1389 Order my book: Carbohydrates Can Kill. Want to support my campaign? Please click the “Donate” button in the right-hand column of this page. Contact Me About Stephanie Seneff, PhD Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. She has a Batchelor’s degree from MIT in biology with a minor in food and nutrition, and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, also from MIT.  Throughout her career, Dr. Seneff has conducted research in diverse areas, including human auditory modeling, spoken dialogue systems, natural language processing, information retrieval and summarization, and computational biology. She has published nearly 200 refereed articles in technical journals and conferences on these subjects, and has been invited to give several keynote speeches. Dr. Seneff has recently become interested in the effect of drugs and diet on health and nutrition, and she has written several essays on the web articulating her view on these topics. She is currently developing spoken dialogue systems to support intelligent search and summarization of vaccine adverse reaction reports and user-provided reviews of drug side effects. She is the first author of three papers published in 2011 in medical journals on theories proposing that a high-carbohydrate diet contributes to the metabolic syndrome, to Alzheimer’s disease, and to autism.

I am starting a special podcast series on Alzheimer’s disease this week. In today’s episode of The Carbohydrates Can Kill podcast, I am going to discuss Alzheimer’s disease and Carbohydrates with you. I am hoping that, with this series, I could help you learn more about this terrible disease. With the knowledge offered to you here from me and four of my featured guests of this podcast series, I hope you could help your loved one or friend who unfortunately has suffered with Alzheimer’s disease improve his symptoms and possibly recover from this disease. And, I also hope that, with the knowledge offered here, you would take whatever necessary measures to prevent you and your loved ones and friends from suffering with Alzheimer’s disease. Are ready for this informative show? Let us tune in now! Order my book: Carbohydrates Can Kill. Want to support my campaign? Please click the “Donate” button in the right-hand column of this page. Contact Me

On today’s episode of The Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast, Mr. Tom Naughton and one of his fans, food blogger Mr. Drew Kime are my featured guests for the Listener’s Roundtable Discussion Edition 11. After airing the Listener’s Roundtable Discussion Edition 10 on November 30, 2011, many of you told me how much you appreciated the discussion between Mr. Naughton, his fans, and me. I have long realized that discussion made between someone from the audience and Mr. Naughton always stirs up a great interest from you. This is not just because the questions from the audience are so interesting and shared by many of you, but also because Mr. Naughton’s articulated answers made a great deal of sense. I bet that you want to listen to this interview now! Links: Tom Naughton’s Fat Head site Drew Kime’s How To Cook Like Your Grandmother blog

I wish you a Healthy, Happy, and Prosperous New Year. I am very happy to have Ms. Adele Hite back to join me on today’s episode of the Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast as my featured guest. She and I will discuss what was going on behind the doors of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC), whose members decided what the American people should eat for good health. Ms. Hite, joined by Ms. Pam Schoenfeld, came to this podcast, “19: Pam Schoenfeld and Adele Hite: The 2010 USDA Food Pyramid Proposal Is Wrong” on October 20, 2010, to discuss why the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans is counter to science and harmful to Americans’ health. Despite the fact that Ms. Hite and several concerned physicians, scientists, nutritionists and citizens voiced their objections to the guidelines, the US Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services went ahead to implement these dangerous public policies. To help explain what has been going on behind the closed doors of the DGAC, Ms. Hite has collected a volume of information that illustrates why both the USDA and HHS have been so adamant in enacting these poor health policies. When you and I hear what Ms. Hite will share with us, I am convinced that we will all wish to take charge in keeping ourselves healthy! Let us tune into this interesting and serious interview. Ms. Hite’s link: The Healthy Nation Coalition

Happy Holidays to you, my dear listener. I also hope that you enjoyed eating low-carb dinners and fun parties for this special holiday season. To continue my effort in helping you collect more delicious menus and recipes, another famous recipe-writer, Ms. Dana Carpender, is joining me today as my featured guest for The Carbohydrates Can Kill Podcast. Ms. Carpender is a best-selling cookbook writer who had health problems until she realized that her consumption of carbohydrates was at fault. She changed her health with carbohydrate restriction, and began to write cookbooks for sharing her menus and recipes with someone like you who want to restore your health with carbohydrate restriction. I am sure that you want to know what menus and recipes Ms. Carpender is going to offer. Let us tune in and start my interview with her now. Link for Ms. Carpender’ website, Hold The Toast (http://holdthetoast.com/)