Notable Carnivores - Meatritionists
142 meatritionists.
Doctor
St Albans, UK
Pharmacist
Graham Phillips
Graham Phillips, BPharm, FRPharmS, Dipp Comm Pharm is a second-generation pharmacist, and Superintendent of a multi- award winning pharmacy group (www.letchworthpharmacy.co.uk) He has worked with GPs and in Primary Care widely for 35 years, and wants to see much-closer working relationships with GPs. Graham has been involved in pharmacy politics at local and national level, for 25 years including four years on the Council of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Graham has a long-term interest in Public Health: he has been involved with NHS cancer-reform strategy, was a Trustee of the National Obesity Forum and was also a member of the Healthy Living Pharmacy reference group.
The role of the Community Pharmacy in pro-active, preventive public health is among his research interests. Most recently he has styled himself as “The Pharmacist who Gave Up Drugs” and his recent project www.prolongevity.co.uk combines lifestyle interventions and DEprescribing Graham was made a Fellow of the RPSGB in 2009, and was recently appointed a Board Trustee of the UK based Public Health Collaboration “Real Food / Right Food” www.phcuk.org Graham lives with his partner Karen (a GP) in North London and has two teenage sons, the elder of whom is a Pharmacist In his free time outside pharmacy Graham lists his interests as music, politics, cinema (and he’s an acknowledged coffee addict!)
Carnifession:
Registered Dietitian
Miami, FL, USA
Doctor in Human Nutrition
Guillermo Rodriguez Navarrete
Doctor in Human Nutrition
PhD, CNS, LD-N, FACN
Fellow of The American College of Nutrition
Guillermo Rodriguez Navarrete (@nutrillermo) is a Spanish PhD in Human Nutrition, entrepreneur, and one of the most influential Nutrition experts worldwide, with over 1 million followers in his social media community. He is Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, the highest academic achievement in the field, and has created a modern approach based on the importance of quitting sugar addiction, and recovering ancestral habits to achieve health and longevity. He’s also a CNS, and a Licensed Nutritionist-Dietitian in the state of Florida For over a decade, Guillermo have been demonstrating the link between sugar and modern diseases, and guiding people globally to overcome hidden food addictions with online challenges and from his clinics in Miami and Mexico City. In 2020, he partnered with Jean Fontaine, another fellow A360 member and leading animal nutrition expert, to create the first ever multivitamin supplement based in the P. I.N. technology (Precision Intestinal Nutrition) which is expected to be released in late 2022. I last year he founded the non profit “Weight Transfer”. For every pound one of his patients loses, 1 pound of food is donated, so a person with malnutrition at the other side of the world can gain one pound of weight almost at the same time. Guillermo created a 22 day No sugar challenge that he and his team lead twice a year. It’s usually followed by over 100.000 people at the same time with the purpose of learning how to live without sugar addiction. This challenge was featured in the Toby Robbins last book “Life Force” as one of the mayor contributors to Peter Diamandis health. This year 2022, both challenge editions will have a carnivore meal plan to follow. Finally, he created an advanced inner circle group called “Sharks”, with the purpose of getting them to a 100 years of life.
Carnifession:
Doctor
Deceased
Herbert Leon Newbold
Dr. H. L. Newbold was the first place I encounter the idea of an all-meat diet. He published a number of books throughout his career, but his last one The Type A / Type B Weight Loss Book published in 1991 is by far his best overall book on diet. It represents the culmination of everything he had learned about health and nutrition up to that point in time. He practiced orthomolecular medicine and was a colleague of Linus Pauling, as well as Dr. Robert Atkins. He also worked with and was greatly influenced by Dr. Theron Randolph whose work is described in his excellent book An Alternative Approach to Allergies.
Dr. Newbold’s private practice was located in New York City. His untimely death in 1993 at the age of 72 was apparently caused by an anaphylactic reaction to an antibiotic he received in the hospital while being treated for some type of infection. I have no idea what happened to his patient’s medical records, but I would love to get my hands on them. He presents some fascinating case histories in the above mentioned book, and I imagine he had many more like them that could not be included in that small volume.
Dr. Newbold worked extensively with people who suffered with obesity and eating disorders. He found that many of his patients were able to lose weight and stop destructive eating behavior if they ate an all-meat diet comprised almost entirely of beef. He allowed other meats as well, but – over the years – he discovered that the majority of his patients thrived on fatty ribeye steaks. Unlike Atkins, he does not single out the macronutrient carbohydrate as being the main culprit in his patients’ eating and weight problem.
Rather, Dr. Newbold takes a step back and points to what he called “new foods” in the human diet, i.e. foods such as grains and sugar as well as dairy and eggs. He felt that some people were genetically less well-equipped to handle these kinds of foods. Yes, many of these foods were high in carbohydrates, but he felt that the bigger issue was that people could become allergic to them. He explains that when a person is allergic to a food, it not only becomes addictive, but it also causes weight gain by interfering with proper hunger signaling and causing the allergic person to develop disordered eating.
Carnifession:
Researcher
Edinburgh, UK
Edinburgh University
Bipolar
Iain Campbell
Co-Principal Investigator on Baszucki Brain Research Fund Pilot Trial of a Ketogenic Diet for Bipolar Disorder at Edinburgh University.
Carnifession:
Doctor
Australia
Dog & Cat Nutrition
Ian Billinghurst
Veterinary Surgeon B.V.Sc.(Hons), B.Sc.Agr., Dip. Ed.
Nutritionist, Acupuncturist, Agricultural Scientist, Author, Lecturer, Nutritional consultant and RAW Pet Food Producer.
Dr Ian Billinghurst has worked in companion animal practice since 1975. In the mid 1980’s, following years of clinical research, he was shocked to realize the devastating effect that commercial foods had on dog and cat health and amazed at the dramatic healing power of RAW. From this clinical research came Dr Ian’s first book, “Give Your Dog a Bone”, which was the original RAW food book for dogs. This book, together with his lecture tours to the UK, US, Canada, Japan (and further books), became the spark, which ignited the worldwide RAW pet food movement. Dr Ian Billinghurst is recognized as the “Father” of “RAW” and the founder of the BARF (Biologically appropriate Raw Food) Diet. Dr Billinghurst remains as passionate as ever about Health—through Evolutionary Nutrition—with his current lectures and writings emphasizing the basic truth… “Nutrition… it’s absurdly simple.”
A Bones and RAW Food (BARF) Diet is the healthy program of nutrition that evolution designed for our cats and dogs. It is the ONLY way to approach nutrition, if a genuinely complete and balanced diet is to be achieved. When our pets face health problems such as obesity, arthritis, allergies, autoimmune disease, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, kidney disease and so many more, including cancer, the first step on the path to health is to switch to the evolutionary program of nutrition—also known as—BARF. This is the drug-free solution to the many health problems our pets face.
Carnifession:
Medical Doctor
Gloucestershire, UK
Type 1 Diabetes, Keto
Ian Lake
GP. Type 1 Diabetes. Keto lifestyles. Walking the talk to provide information on keto as a T1 option.
What we eat and when we eat, it is vital for health. The principle that we should eat real food applies in Type 1 diabetes, of course. But we have the added challenge of choosing the food that suits a body with no means of making its insulin. A keto diet makes sense in Type 1 diabetes. The good news is that it contains many great foods and recipes. It might be necessary to go without carbs, but you will not miss out on the enjoyment of eating. You might also want to grow your own food. Take a look.It is also a useful resource for people with Type 1 diabetes.
Carnifession:
Medical Doctor
Omaha, NE, USA
OBYGN & Surgeon
Jaime Seeman
Dr Jaime Seeman
Public figure
👩🏼⚕️ OBGYN/Surgeon 💉
No medical advice 🙅🏼♀️
@nbctitangames 💪🏼
Mrs Nebraska 2020 👸🏼
Fit and Fabulous Podcast 🎙
@hardtokillsummit 💥
@upgrade.pi 🧬
Carnifession:
Medical Doctor
Norwood SA 5067, Australia
Keto
James Muecke
Australian of the Year 2020
Muecke was born in Adelaide and raised in Canberra. He lived in Washington DC as a child while his father worked for the Australian embassy. He attended Canberra Grammar School from 1976 to 1981.After failing to get into medicine at the University of Sydney by one mark, Muecke returned to Adelaide to study medicine at the University of Adelaide graduating in 1987. He later trained as an ophthalmologist at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and subspecialty training in eye cancer in London.
Professional life
Muecke began his career working in Kenya for 12 months.[1] After his ophthalmology training, he worked for a year at Saint John Eye Hospital in Jerusalem, including taking "outreach eye clinics" into refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.[3][8][9] He returned to South Australia and became an eye surgeon, working in private practice and as a visiting consultant at the Royal Adelaide and Women's and Children's Hospitals.[8]
In 2000, Muecke founded Vision Myanmar at the South Australian Institute of Ophthalmology.[10] In 2008, this evolved into Sight For All, a social impact organisation dedicated to fighting the causes of blindness[1] with projects in Aboriginal and mainstream Australian communities,[11] as well as training and equipping eye surgeons throughout Africa and Asia.[12] Muecke is Chair and co-founder of Sight for All.[8] Working with AusAID funding and the co-operation of both country's governments, Muecke created a program to create more than 30 specialist eye centres in Myanmar to treat cataract blindness.[9]
In the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours, Muecke was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).[13] He received the University of Adelaide's Vice-Chancellor's Alumni Award in 2019.[7]
In November 2019, Muecke was named South Australian of the Year for 2020.[14] In January 2020, he was named Australian of the Year for his work in preventing blindness.[11][10] He had planned to speak at events around the country throughout the year, but the COVID-19 pandemic meant most of his presentations outside Adelaide were delivered online.[15]
On being appointed Australian of the Year, Muecke immediately advocated for a tax on sugary drinks in the fight against Type 2 diabetes,[16][17] which is the leading cause of blindness among Australian adults.[12] He advocated for TV commercials for unhealthy products to be limited to certain hours, and asks supermarket chains to curb their "predatory sales and marketing tactics", without success.[15] Australia Post did remove junk food from their checkouts following a meeting with him.[15] In late November 2020, he gave a controversial speech to the National Press Club outlining what he described as the country's "flawed, biased and unscientific" Australian Dietary Guidelines.[18] He also brought his concerns to the Health Minister Greg Hunt.[19] He was credited by Hunt in the launching of a new ten-year National Diabetes Plan in November 2021.[20] Muecke is also a key contributor to Australian Community Media's "Silent Assassin" series on the causes and consequences of Australia's type 2 diabetes epidemic.[21][22]
In 2016, Muecke had to stop conducting surgeries due to an inherited neurological condition (focal dystonia) impacting use of his right hand.[23][24]
On 20 January 2022, the Premier of South Australia, Steven Marshall, announced that Muecke would be the state's new Lieutenant Governor, succeeding Brenda Wilson.[2] The role is appointed for a term at the "Governor's pleasure" and acts as vice-regal representative in the Governor's absence.[25]
Carnifession:
Doctor
Jay Wrigley
Twitter Profile: "Functional medicine doctor, speaker, fixing broken metabolisms & hormonal imbalance w/ various low carb protocols & supplements Consult worldwide via ZOOM Video"
Carnifession:
Nutritionist
Paris, France
Deceased
Obesity, Carnivore, Keto
Jean-Francois Dancel
Jean-Francois Dancel (a French physician) presented his thoughts on obesity in 1844 to the French Academy of Sciences and then published a book, Obesity, or Excessive Corpulence: The Various Causes and the Rational Means of a Cure.
“All food which is not flesh ―all food rich in carbon and hydrogen [i.e., carbohydrates] ―must have a tendency to produce fat,” wrote Dancel.
Dancel also noted that carnivorous animals are never fat, whereas herbivores, living exclusively on plants, often are. (*snip*)
Dancel claimed that he could cure obesity “without a single exception” if he could induce his patients to live “chiefly upon meat," and partake “only of a small quantity of other food."
Dancel argued that physicians of his era believed obesity to be incurable because the diets they prescribed to cure it were precisely those that happened to cause it. (pp.151-152)
https://www.en-futoraba.com/topics/2018/10/22108/
At the same time these authors universally forbid the use of meat, and permit only an exclusively vegetable diet. Any one, after reading the preceding pages, is competent to judge how great must be the error of these writers, who always end, however, by affirming obesity to be incurable. Incurable, no doubt, it is, by such treatment. But to diminish obesity, without affecting the general health, the patient must feed chiefly upon meat. I say chiefly, because man, being naturally dis[65]posed to partake of both animal and vegetable food, cannot live exclusively upon meat without prejudice to his general health. The use of a small quantity of vegetable matter will not prevent the diminution of fat. At a future page the several alimentary substances will be arranged from a chemical point of view, in the order they truly occupy as reducing or inducing obesity. For the present, it may be stated that among alimentary substances, exclusive of meat, those containing the greatest amount of water, such as watery vegetables, sweet fruits, &c., have an especial tendency to develop fat. The result of my own observation, in a great number of cases, is in perfect accordance with the chemical fact, viz., that the chief constituents of fat are also constituents of water. So that although a person should live exclusively upon meat, and at the same time drink a great deal, he would not experience any perceptible reduction of fat. This affords an explanation why many who eat very little, but drink large quantities of water, beer, cider, brandy or wine, labour under obesity. Whoever desires to avoid corpulence must therefore feed chiefly upon meat, partaking very sparingly of any other kind of food, and at the same time should drink but little.
If a supply of fat, equal in combining proportion with the alkali ingested, be supplied by means of food to the body, the action of the alkali upon the previously deposited fat constituting the obesity, must be null. For the speedy reduction of obesity, therefore, the food must contain a less than ordinary amount of the elements of fat, by making it to consist chiefly of meat, and bringing about a reduction of the superabundant fat by means of alkalis, which should be administered in every variety of form, in order not to induce a sense of disgust on the part of the patient.
Carnifession:
Obesity Physician
Denver, CO, USA
Keto
Jeffry Gerber
Dr. Jeffry N. Gerber, MD, FAAFP 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.
Nutrition and its effects on health are areas of interest for Dr. Gerber. Frustrated with spiraling healthcare costs related to the treatment of conditions like overweight, obesity, diabetes, atherosclerosis and heart disease just to name a few, Dr. Gerber has been focusing on prevention and treatment programs using low-carb high fat (LCHF), Ancestral, Paleo and Primal diets to treat and prevent these chronic conditions. He maintains a database of patients, looking at weight loss and improved cardio-metabolic markers, demonstrating the benefits of these types of diets. Redefining healthy nutrition is a goal. Dr. Gerber speaks frequently about these important issues to patients, the community and other health care professionals.
We have been helping our patients improve their health and optimize their weight with prescribed lifestyle modification. We redefine healthy nutrition and teach patients about the relationship between unhealthy refined and processed foods and chronic illness. The science of carbohydrate and fat metabolism, insulin resistance, inflammation and chronic metabolic disease is revealing.”
Carnifession:
Obesity Physician
North West, UK
Psychology with Dr David Unwin's GP Office
Jen Unwin
This website is the one I wish I had stumbled across 46 years ago. If I could have had this knowledge at the age of 10 it would have saved A LOT of heartache. My aim is to share with you what I now know about sugar addiction. This knowledge has finally enabled me to overcome decades of struggles with weight, food cravings and the growing hopelessness of finding a long-term solution. I want to spread a little light to those of you still trying to find your own path forward to food freedom.
My brightest early memory is of some warm cheese scones, covered in melting butter. I was maybe 4 years old. I already loved sugar and carbohydrate heavy foods. I saved all my pocket money to spend on sweets. Food was front and centre in our family and I’m pretty sure my Mum was a fellow addict looking back. The tragic death of my father’s brother and then his own life-threatening illness put a strain on the family when I was still only young and I turned to food for comfort and amusement.
I loved sneaking food from the kitchen; buttered toast, hot milk with loads of sugar, condensed milk, baking chocolate or whatever was available. I also adored baking and cooking, so was an avid maker of cakes, biscuits and puddings. Needless to say, by 12 years old I was over 12 stone or 76 kilos in new money. I hated being overweight but looking back can see I was already addicted to sugar. I got the shakes if I couldn’t eat regularly and eating was how I managed boredom and other emotional states.
I went on several crazy diets with my mum over my young teenage years. Egg and grapefruit was a memorable one. I finally managed to lose 20 kilograms when I was 16 and absolutely determined to get a boyfriend! The magic formula was boiled eggs for breakfast, apple and edam cheese for lunch and dinner without the carby part of the meal or pudding. I was thrilled with what I’d achieved but hadn’t yet understood that I would never be able to moderate my relationship with carbohydrate. So, when it crept back into my diet the weight crept back on. This ushered in decades of successful dieting, followed by weight re-gain and a cycle of misery. Meanwhile, I succeeded in all other areas of my life. I qualified as a Clinical Psychologist and had a career I loved. I married my wonderful husband and we made a beautiful family. Still I struggled with food cravings, weight gain and increasingly desperate attempts to maintain a healthy weight. I really disliked being overweight but I absolutely loved eating.
Finally, at 48 years old I stumbled across a book by Dr John Briffa called “Escape the Diet Trap’ in the sale section at the supermarket. This was to be my ‘fork in the road’ moment and the beginning of my food freedom journey. The knowledge in the book was about low carbohydrate or keto diets and why they work. I understood the science and dove straight in, going cold turkey from sugar and carbohydrates. I felt pretty grim for about 8 days whilst my body learned to burn fat instead of glucose for fuel but soon felt better than I had for years both mentally and physically. My husband and I later took this knowledge and started to help patients at his GP practice to reverse their diabetes and other chronic health conditions. We were both amazed at the results people were able to achieve and have both spoken internationally on the topic.
Low carb eating was a big part of the answer for me and many others but not the whole story. It was the start. Lots of things have tripped me up along the way and sent me back into weight gain and struggles with food cravings. There was much more for me to learn personally about staying in recovery from sugar addiction. The information that has been most useful to me about food but also about understanding addiction is now here on this site. I am not smug. I have no doubt I will have future struggles with food but I now have the knowledge to re-gain the right path and that is what I’ll share with you.
Carnifession:
Medical Doctor
Warrington, UK
Keto
Joanne McCormack
Joanne McCormack is a UK family doctor (qualified 1986) who worked as a safeguarding children’s doctor for several years as well as a family GP. Her website, www.fatismyfriend.co.uk, helps people and their families change their lifestyles, particularly if they have diabetes, or are at risk of developing it. She uses low-carbohydrate, ketogenic, intermittent fasting, and time-restricted ways of eating and living. She does not use low-calorie diets, and she advises against low-fat eating because of the risk of missing out on the fat-soluble vitamins and essential fats. She has followed a low-carbohydrate diet herself since 2014.
Carnifession:
occupations
Florida, USA
Joe Anderson
4. What books or people were most influential in guiding you to this way of eating?
Initially, the writings of Vince Gironda and Rheo Blair. Once we began the zero-carb diet, and saw how successful it was we read everything we could get our hands on that was low-carb, very low- carb or zero-carb. We were fascinated as to why this diet would produce such significant improvements in Charlene’s health. We read so many books, articles and web-sites! Here is a quick list of works that stood out the most:
“Neanderthin” by Ray Audette
“The Fat of the Land” by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The Type A / Type B Weight Loss Diet by H. L. Newbold
“Calories Don’t Count” by Taller
“Not By Bread Alone” by Lutz
“Strong Medicine” by Donaldson
“Eat Fat Grow Slim” by Mackarness
“Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” by Weston A. Price
“Hormonal Enhancement” by Rob Faigin
Although not a book, Stefansson and Andersen’s 1928 Bellevue all-meat diet study was fascinating to read as well!
5. Do you eat only meat, or do you include eggs, cheese, and cream in your diet?
We only eat meat. I had used eggs and cream early on when I was lifting heavy and working out. But I noticed that eggs and dairy gave me puffy eyes, frequent headaches and a stuffy nose. It wasn’t difficult to stop eating them!
6. What percentage of your diet is beef verses other types of meats?
We are 100% beef and have been almost from the beginning. If I have a desire for chicken or pork I’ll eat it but the desire is seldom if ever there. We didn’t set out to be “beef only”. When we started we ate fish, bacon, chicken and lamb as well. However, we quickly noticed that we never felt as good with other meats as we did with beef. The more we ate beef the less we desired other meats.
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Carnifession:
Zerocarb Veteran
Austin, TX, USA
Nutrition With Judy
Judy Cho
Through nutritional therapy, I can help and support the mind and body through nutrition intervention. With healing powers of food coupled with therapies such as Stress Management and Behavioral Therapy, we can heal our bodies and strive to be our best selves, inside and out.
I am passioned to give back by healing others with a nutrient-dense Carnivore diet.
My goal is to empower clients to positively impact their quality of life.
We do this by making modifications to your diet to best manage your health while also building individualized tool-kits to help handle stress, sleep and life, as we know it. Together we will build out short-term and long-term goals and better skills, such as skills for coping, effective communication and processing of thoughts and feelings. There is no one diet or tool-kit that can help someone overcome years of nutritional deficiencies, yo-yo dieting and overall harm to the body.
I work with all ways of eating and specialize in:
CARNIVORE KETO
GUT HEALTH
FASTING
DIABETES SUPPORT
CHILDREN’S HEALTH
Carnifession:
Zerocarb Veteran
Kelly Williams Hogan
I am a very public advocate in the Zero Carb community. I blog about my journey in carb-elimination.
Welcome to My Zero Carb Life
I decided in January 2015 to write about the journey I began ten years ago to free my diet from carbohydrates. I started off as a low-carb dieter, and eventually I found I worked best with zero carbs on my plate. I was able to maintain a zero carb lifestyle through two pregnancies, and my husband and I are raising our children on a low-carb diet.
If you’re just coming to this blog for the first time, I suggest starting here:
My Doctor Said Lose 100 Pounds
That’s post number one, and you can click through each one in chronological afterward.
Carnifession:
Obesity Physician
Tennessee, USA
Ken D. Berry
Physician fighting to END the Chronic Disease Epidemics caused by Hyperinsulinemia.
Carnifession:
Obesity Physician
Fall River, MA, USA
Double Board Certified Physician
Keto
Kevin Gendreau
Double Board Certified Physician | Author | Proud Uncle | Check out my new weight loss book, “Fasting While Furious” on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3hxy9WO
Kevin Gendreau, M.D.Aug 28, 2021What an enlightening lecture by Dr. Bret Scher re: LDL & low carb diets! He discussed the utility of CAC scores vs. CTA, the importance of Apo B in assessing cardiac risk, & the assertion that metabolic health & cardiac health are in fact ONE & THE SAME!@bschermd@lowcarbusa
Melissa - Liberal Carnivore Replying to@KevinGendreau@lowcarbusaand@bschermdAt my 1 year anniversary of being a carnivore I got my CAC score done. I’m 65 and ate SAD for 64 of those years and ended up at 250 pounds. I’m now down 60 pounds and my CAC score was a 13 out if 100. Never eating any other way!Aug 28, 2021
Kevin Gendreau, M.D.@KevinGendreau·Aug 28, 2021Replying to@mwjeepster1@lowcarbusaand@bschermdThanks for sharing! Congrats!!
Back in 2015, Dr. Gendreau weighed 306 pounds. He was diagnosed with morbid obesity, diabetes, fatty liver disease, obstructive sleep apnea and depression.
“For years, I hid behind my weight. I used it as a shield to block me from being my true self. When my sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2016, I lost 125 pounds to improve my health so I could better care for her children. After her passing, I became a board-certified weight loss physician to help others change their lives for the better.”
He says a common misconception by patients is that life is “easy” for him now that he’s “skinny.”
“I still deal with the same insecurities, cravings, and social anxiety as I did when I weighed 306 pounds. I’m a work in progress—just like everybody else!”
Dr. Gendreau works in the outpatient setting, seeing patients at his office in Fairhaven and via telehealth from home.
He began working at Southcoast Health after graduating from residency in 2017. “I was born at Charlton Memorial Hospital and raised in Fall River. It’s great to be back home!”
As a child, he was always fascinated by the wondrous world of science. “I knew I wanted to help people from a very young age, but it wasn’t until my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer during my teenage years that I ultimately committed to a career in medicine.”
The field of medicine is fascinating from an intellectual standpoint, but what keeps him going are the relationships he builds with his patients. “Building long-lasting doctor-patient bonds —where we work together toward a common goal — is incredibly fulfilling and exciting!”
As a physician and children’s book author, he recognizes that he may be a potential role model for patients, readers and young members of his community. As such, he feels it’s important to be his most best self and live his most authentic life.
“I have been an open and proud member of the LGBTQ+ community since coming out in my mid-20s. Although I have known I was gay since before puberty, I hid in the closet for many years, fearing social rejection and isolation. Pride Month is an important time of year for me, as I now get to openly celebrate my most unique qualities as a human being.”
The LGBTQ+ community has been fighting for certain civil rights and privileges like gay marriage, the right to serve openly in the military and workplace protections since the events at the Stonewall Inn in 1969.
“I suspect we will need to be our own advocates to ensure equality for years to come! Pride month is important to shed light on members of the LGBTQ+ community as worthy, creative, productive and integral members of our society.”
For anyone struggling with their identity, Dr. Gendreau shares some supportive advice:
“It’s very cliché for an adult, out gay man to say ‘It gets better.’ When you’re in high school, the struggle is real. Everybody is trying to fit in. The focus is certainly not on standing out. Someday, however, you will be loved and embraced for your unique and incredible qualities — sexual orientation and gender identity included! When you’re in the closet, it can feel like agony, dreading that someone may find out your secret. Being in the closet is like living inside a restrictive cocoon for years and years. You’ll be so much happier as a butterfly.”
Currently, Dr. Gendreau is writing a children’s book about the coronavirus pandemic. “I’m also working on a weight-loss book centered around intermittent fasting and a low carbohydrate approach to obesity. I’m hoping to be done with both projects by the end of 2020!”
Learn more about Southcoast Health celebrating diversity and inclusion.
Carnifession:
Zerocarb Veteran
Kevin Stock
What is the Carnivore Diet
“What is the Carnivore Diet?”
Maybe you’ve heard about it – this diet where you can eat as much meat as you want and watch as fat falls off and muscles grow without even going to the gym.
The Carnivore diet was featured on Good Morning America and written up in the NY Post. Some call it a fad diet. Others believe it’s the answer to our crippling health.
It’s a diet where you eat animal-based foods only. Just meat.
No plant-based foods allowed. No fruits. No vegetables.
It sounds contrary to the advice of every health “expert” over the last 50 years.
It sounds “too good to be true” or flat out absurd.
But if you hear me out, not only will it change the way you look at food forever, but I think it could change your life.