Hosted by LowCarbUSA and the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners
August 17 – 20, 2023
This exciting Symposium for Metabolic Health San Diego 2023 is all about metabolic health. It includes up to the minute information about low carb treatments in oncology, neurology, cardiology, and psychiatry, including ketogenic psychiatry. The Symposium is hosted by LowCarbUSA and the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners. It’s a strategic conference of experts on prevention as well as remission of metabolic disorders. Metabolic strategies can target conditions like cancer (including glioblastoma), obesity, Type 2 diabetes, and hypertension. Cardiovascular disease, epilepsy, and fatty liver can — and do — go into remission. We will cover Alzheimer’s, neurological disorders, mental health conditions, and more… Nutritional interventions and metabolic protocols address, and can dramatically improve mitochondrial functioning. They are literally life-saving and life-changing.
Speakers represent a veritable “Who’s Who” in metabolic health breakthroughs and medical and nutritional interventions from around the world.
Let’s get to know a few on a first-name basis.
Miriam Kalamian, EdM, MS, CNS
Miriam is a leading voice in the keto movement, and she tells the story of her son’s brain cancer. She’ll be hosting a panel on the first day of experts using low carb approaches in cancer treatment. She has first hand experience in using a ketogenic diet to fight her son’s malignant brain tumor, write a book about it, and share her experience. It’ll be so wonderful to have her moderate the speaker’s panel on the first day of clinicians and scientists studying ketogenic metabolic therapies in cancer.
Matthew Phillips, FRACP
Matthew is a physician and research neurologist in New Zealand, and an innovator. He proposes a need to radically rethink the concept that cells are the building blocks of life. Instead, he argues that mitochondria are the fundamental essence of complex life. And — if you have good mitochondria and cell health, you’ll have good health. This Symposium, he says, is “not just about listening to presentations; it’s about engaging in critical discussions, questioning old paradigms, and being part of the shift towards more comprehensive health strategies.” He is a trailblazer, and the first physician to conduct randomized trials to examine the benefits of ketogenic strategies for people with Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s. He’s currently conducting a trial using ketogenic diet and fasting in patients with glioblastoma multiforme. Remarkable!!
Jayne Bullen
Jayne is managing director of Nutrition Network with a research, science and MBA background. She’ll be speaking about “Gut-Brain” inspired by her own journey to achieve remission from metabolic illness and its connection to psychiatric conditions. “It’s obvious that all diseases begin and end in the gut, once we really start to look at it,” said Jayne. “So from an immunity perspective, every digestive disease that’s known is caused by and replays into the diet. And the massive increase in gut problems and dysfunctional digestive system conditions that we’re seeing in the world today is obviously directly correlated with the gross overconsumption of carbohydrates.”
Brian Lenzkes, MD
Brian is an internal medicine physician in San Diego who shares his own battle with metabolic illness. He is open about the fact that that in spite of his medical knowledge, he’s struggled with obesity all his life. In 2017, he even became prediabetic. Even so, he was voted “Top Doctor” in San Diego for 11 years, and yet saw more and more patients declining and needing more and more medication. Something was missing. Fortunately, he attended LowCarbUSA two years ago, and what he learned there changed his practice and transformed his life. As a result, he is now a co-host on Low Carb MD, is Medical Director for TriSystem Nutrition, and has been a speaker on Nutrition Network and many podcasts. As you can imagine, he’s excited about the prospect of working with medical professionals to reverse the healthcare crisis the world is facing.
Robert Cywes, MD, PhD
Robert trained in South Africa and currently practicing in Jacksonville and Palm Beach, FL. He’s a pediatric surgeon, and adult bariatric surgeon, who developed the Carbohydrate Insulin Model of Obesity and Diabetes (CIMOD). He speaks internationally on the physiological impact of carbohydrate consumption as the primary cause of the Chronic Non-Communicable Disease (CNCD) epidemic. He developed a program for adolescents that treats carbohydrate addiction and obesity, and families with obese teens seek him out as a foremost authority on the treatment of adolescent obesity.
Nasha Winters, ND, FABNO
Nasha is a global healthcare authority and best-selling author in integrative cancer care. After creating robust educational programs for both healthcare and the public, she has a new focus: opening a comprehensive metabolic oncology hospital and research institute. Explicitly unique, it will offer the best standard of oncology care along with the most advanced integrative therapies.
Chris Knobbe, MD
Chris is an ophthalmologist and researcher, formerly from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and is known for his work connecting westernized diets and polyunsaturated vegetable oils to numerous chronic diseases. Conditions like coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke, cancers, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, obesity, Alzheimer’s disease, autoimmune diseases, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) can all be linked to seed oils. Don’t miss his presentation, “Omega-6 Apocalypse: Vegetable Oils, Overweight, and Chronic Disease – What’s the Evidence?”
The list goes on… and on!
Dominic D’Agostino PhD, Anthony Chaffee, MD, Wafaa Abdel-Hadi MD, Patrick Philips, FRACP, Brad & Maggie Jones — and those are the giants speaking on just the first day. Jay Wortman, MD, Peter Ballerstedt, PhD, Michael Hoffman MD, Gary Taubes MD, Belinda Lennerz MD, Mark Cucuzzella MD, Tony Hampton MD, Steve Phinney, MD PhD…. does it get any better than this?
This gathering is rich with world-renowned experts who have personally witnessed the gamut of diseases and catastrophic illnesses brought to remission by nutritional interventions focused on restoring metabolic health with a low carbohydrate / healthy fat lifestyle — for some that’s a ketogenic diet, or what we call a KMT (a ketogenic metabolic therapy used seriously as treatment), but there are other low-carb strategies we can use to achieve metabolic health.
The first day of the Symposium for Metabolic Health will focus on cancer treatment. (Yes, cancer!)
After that, for the remaining 3 days, we’ll hear from everyone I’ve mentioned and more — doctors, nutritionists, fitness experts, researchers… about insights, protocols, treatments, outcomes, emerging research, and significant successes with patients. And we’ll bring it home and use what we learn from these experts to enrich our care and treatment of you.
We can’t think of any better way to learn the most up-to-date science, absorb the clinical research, and come back better.
Our Presentation
We’re excited to present our own clinical results at this conference. Our research poster showcases how we use metabolic approaches and Ketogenic Psychiatry to treat anxiety and depression across the board. Our results highlight how to figure out who gets better with this nutritional ketogenic approach — real life folks with complex and multiple psychiatric symptoms and disorders. We’ve got data on what it takes to engage, get into ketosis, get your symptoms into remission, and achieve metabolic health.
And we’re so excited to share it at this Symposium in a veritable feast of trailblazers who are brilliant, passionate, and highly professional.
Just imagine: Every person who is speaking at Symposium for Metabolic Health San Diego 2023 has seen the kind of dramatic remission that most people think is just not possible in a long list of life-limiting and life-threatening conditions: Alzheimer’s, stroke, epilepsy, brain injury, obesity, addiction, OCD, eating disorders, diabetes, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, cancers like glioblastoma multiforme.
We’re truly in a new era of healing and restoration based on scientific research into metabolic therapies.
It’s changing lives. And it could just change yours.
Everything we do is to improve our patients’ outcomes with more effective treatment… so you can enjoy a healthier, richer, more rewarding life. You’re why we get up in the morning.
To the restoration of your best self,
