Dr Penny Figtree,Australia-Low Carb In Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

Guest Speaker Dr Penny Figtree, at MHC - II

Session started with Host Mr Anup Singh giving a Brief introduction of Dlife.in being one of the largest platforms and the Low carb community and also about the education wing of Dlife that offers Diploma courses for health, wellness and nutrition. Brief introduction of Dr. Penny was given by Mr. Shashikant as another host and went on with the session by asking Dr. Penny what made her step onto the world of Low Carb. Dr Penny said, just like any doctors, she would prescribe various medicine to her patients visiting for various metabolic disorder, obesity was one of such kind. She observed that despite prescribing medicine she could never see even a satisfactory sustained results among her patients. She started researching on therapies for diabetic and struck on to some video of metabolic therapies. Being a doctor, she could follow and started using low carb diet plans it on her patients and was surprised to see the impact of reversing the metabolic disorder. This made her transform from prescribing medicine to prescribing low carb diet plans to her patient and now she has adopted this as her first line of therapies for all her patients reporting with various metabolic disorders. Session continued with Mr. Anup raise a query to Dr. Penny as what are the main root cause of CKD. Dr Penny said that it's an auto immune disease with majority of people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) the root cause is metabolic dysfunction, high insulin resistance, high blood sugar. When kidney stops functioning properly tats when a patient reports of insulin resistance as part of Kidney Dysfunction. She shared her personal opinion that an individual should always be concerned about insulin resistance tat has direct impact on Kidney dysfunction Preview the video and hear what Dr. Penny talks in detail about the Low Carb Diets and how it can benefit patients suffering from chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) .

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About Dr Penny Figtree

Dr Penny Figtree is a GP in Port Macquarie for 18 years. She has spent lot of time with patients suffering for various diseases and helping them to cure with diet Plans for dietary disease. Dr She has helped patients using various diets such as low-fat diets, Optifast, the 5:2 fast but nothing really worked. In the end she would just say “ as long as you are not gaining weight then that’s great”. Until one day Dr Figtree read a book called “ Always Hungry” By Professor David Ludwig that explained the insulin carbohydrate model of obesity.

Dr. Penny is backed with over 2 decades of experience in medical profession. She is passionate over helping patients to achieve perfect health by deploying and customized diet plans based on a low-carb ketogenic diet also helps in weight loss management. With over 20 years of experience in general practice, Dr Figtree has witnessed the remarkable impact of a low-carb diets on patients struggling with obesity and diabetes.