Episode 73. Sports Medicine and Low Carbohydrate Diet with Dr Peter Brukner

Dr Peter Brukner OAM is Professor of Sports Medicine at the Latrobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre at Latrobe University and is one of Australia’s most respected and best known specialist sports physicians. He has a deep breadth of knowledge and experience and was a founding partner at the Olympic Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne as well as a sports physician to the Collingwood and Melbourne AFL clubs, Liverpool Football Club and has served as team doctor to the Australian cricket team, Socceroos and several Olympic teams. He has authored multiple best-selling books on sports medicine and more recently has become interested in the important relationship between lifestyle and health and after determining that he was pre-diabetic he embarked on a low carbohydrate ketogenic style diet. He has subsequently become a strong advocate of the low carbohydrate diet both in managing a healthy BMI and avoiding development of the metabolic syndrome and all its consequent health effects and authored the very popular and best-selling book A Fat Lot of Good. He energetically has also established the not for profit campaign Sugar By Half. He joins us today to discuss his experience and journey to a low carbohydrate diet and how such an approach may be highly beneficial to athletes of both amateur and elite persuasions. Please enjoy this podcast.

Useful references include:

- www.lowcarbdownunder.com.au

- peterbrukner.com

- youtube Professor Tim Noakes – “Medical aspects of the low carbohydrate lifestyle”

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Dr Luke Crantock MBBS, FRACP, is a gastroenterologist in practice for over 25 years. He is the founder of The Centre for GI Health, based in Melbourne Australia and is passionate about educating General Practitioners and patients on disease prevention and how to manage and improve their digestive health.