Speakers

PrerecordedGary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist and co-founder and president of the non-profit Nutrition Science Initiative. He is the author of The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It (2011) and Good Calories, Bad Calories: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on Diet, Weight Control and Disease (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK.

Dr. Robert Lustig is a neuroendocrinologist whose clinical research has focused on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system, and the dissociation of caloric equivalence of foods from its metabolic effects.

PrerecordedDr. Sarah Hallberg is the Medical Director at Virta Health, the first clinically-proven treatment to safely and sustainably reverse type 2 diabetes without medications or surgery. As a physician and exercise physiologist with a passion for helping people be healthy through diet and exercise, she is responsible for providing medical supervision to Virta’s expert team of physicians and oversees the clinical strategy for Virta Clinic participants.

PrerecordedDr Scher is a board certified cardiologist and lipidologist who has spent years learning the invasive procedures and the medications used to treat heart disease. He realized nutritional and health science is frequently misinterpreted, and strives to educate the world about better ways to understand this.

With over 400 million YouTube views and 3.1 million subscribers, Dr. Berg is a renowned expert in in Healthy Keto™ and intermittent fasting. He has spent the last 30 years helping people to transform their health and lose weight.

Dr. Brian Lenzkes is an internal medicine doctor in San Diego who has been focusing a good part of his practice on clinical nutrition. He has owned his own medical practice with a group of physicians since 2004 and is also a professional speaker on health.

PrerecordedDr. William Yancy is an Internal medicine doctor, obesity medicine specialist, researcher and Fellow of The Obesity Society and a diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. He has spent most of his career researching obesity and treatments for obesity. He is an associate professor of medicine at Duke University and a staff physician and a researcher at the Durham VA Medical Center.

Dr Michael Eades received his BSCE degree in Civil Engineering from California Polytechnic University, Pamona, California and his MD from the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences. In 1996, Dr Eades co-authored (along with his wife), their first joint book project Protein Power, which became a national and international bestseller, selling over 3 million copies and spending 63 weeks on the NY Times Best Seller List. Both continue to write and share their knowledge.

Dr. Mark Cucuzzella, Air Force Reserve Lieutenant Colonel (ret), practices Family Medicine in Ranson and Martinsburg, West Virginia. He is a Professor at West Virginia University School of Medicine and conducts Continuing Medical Education courses on health, fitness, and running through HealthFitU and developed the US Air Force Efficient Running Program. Mark has been an advocate for nutritional science and helped develop the MEDCHEFS program for WVU School of Medicine and has published several papers on low carbohydrate diet for Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome.

Dr. Lucia Aronica is lecturer in nutritional genomics, ketogenic diets, and fast-mimicking diets at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and Stanford Continuing Studies. She is also Lead Instructor of the Epigenomics and Microbiomics module of the Stanford Genomic Certificate and serves as R&D Platform Lead – Genomics- at Metagenics.

Chris Webster, is a health scientist whose research focuses on the physiology of adaptation to low carbohydrate high fat (LCHF) diets. In his PhD, he characterizes the health, diets, eating behaviors, and perceptions and experiences of individuals with type 2 diabetes who self-selected and sustained their versions of LCHF diets in a real-world setting. He also uses stable isotope tracers for the quantification of gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis in type 2 diabetes patients in response to a meal.

Chris Knobbe, is an ophthalmologist and Associate Clinical Professor Emeritus, formerly of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, in Dallas, Texas. Dr. Knobbe is the founder and president of Cure AMD Foundation™, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the prevention of vision loss from AMD.

Nadir Ali is an interventional cardiologist with over 25 years of experience. He is also the chairman of the Department of Cardiology at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center. Before working as a cardiologist, he served as an assistant professor of medicine for eight years at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he also received his medical training. He has championed many aspects of the science and practice of a low-carb lifestyle in the local Clear Lake area since 2013.

Dr. Jeffry N. Gerber, is a board certified family physician and owner of South Suburban Family Medicine in Littleton, Colorado, where he is known as “Denver’s Diet Doctor”. He has been providing personalized healthcare to the local community since 1993 and continues that tradition with an emphasis on longevity, wellness and prevention.

As a health educator and cancer researcher, Dr. David G. Harper has studied the impact of diet on human health for many years. The culmination of that extensive work is the BioDiet, a ketogenic food regimen that he and his wife began in 2012.

Brian Sanders is the filmmaker behind the feature-length documentary Food Lies and host of the Peak Human podcast. He graduated from UCLA with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

James Smith is a research scientist based at the University of Cape Town. He leads the low carbohydrate diet research group that he started together with Prof Tim Noakes in 2012. His research areas include type 2 diabetes management with carbohydrate restriction.