Amy Berger – The Alzheimer’s Antidote

Amy is a U.S. Air Force veteran and Certified Nutrition Specialist who specialises in using low-carbohydrate and ketogenic nutrition to help people reclaim their vitality through eating delicious foods, and showing them that getting and staying well don’t require starvation, deprivation, or living at the gym. Her motto is, “Real people need real food!” She blogs at www.tuitnutrition.com, where she writes about a wide range of health and nutrition-related topics, such as insulin, metabolism, weight loss, thyroid function, and more. She has presented internationally on these issues and is the author of The Alzheimer’s Antidote: Using a Low-Carb, High-Fat Diet to Fight Alzheimer’s Disease, Memory Loss, and Cognitive Decline. We talk about:

  • Her way in to low carb nutrition
  • How weight loss is the LEAST impressive thing about low carb
  • Alzheimer’s as Type 3 Diabetes
  • PCOS and high insulin
  • Her depression
  • What she eats now
  • Personal carbohydrate threshold
  • Thyroid medication pitfalls
  • Mistakes made on keto
  • The variety of successful diets
  • The status of Alzheimer’s research
  • The trouble with amyloid plaque
  • High insulin

Amy can be found at:

Blog – http://www.tuitnutrition.com/

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmDz-SYYhoerycynsCm7L8g

Twitter – https://twitter.com/TuitNutrition

Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/tuitnutrition

Ally can be found at:

Twitter – https://twitter.com/paleocanteen

Twitter – https://twitter.com/paleoally

YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/c/AllyHouston