Dr Paul Mason - Low Carb Eating - an introduction to the science

For those many who are addicted to carbs and especially sugar, I found it very helpful to regard carbs like I used to regard nicotine when I stopped smoking many years ago. I focused on the fact that it is an incredibly addictive, dangerous substance which would kill me if I didn't stop using it. Both my parents died young of lung cancer from smoking, so I had first hand experience of the danger. If you stop thinking of carbohydrates as food, but think of them as an addictive, poisonous drug, it's easier to have the willpower to quit.

Great information! am turning 65 this year. 28 months ago I began my journey to health. Intermittent Fasting and Keto/Carnivore transformed my health!

Paul could not make it any simpler! Excellent talk .

Thank you so much for all these new videos Dr Mason. I can't get enough. I'm a naturopath and email your videos to most of my patients. Hopefully soon we can have more Low Carb Downunder seminars in Sydney.

A great presentation, making the deep and meaningful simple and clear.

Another great video to watch

I love watching your videos! 2 days with no processed food especially sugar. I have autoimmune disease Hashimoto since 2011. I’m taking back my life thank you so much for all the research and study you do. I have learned so much from your videos can’t thank you enough. I can tell my body and mind is changing I just need the sugar cravings to go away willing to keep going I know I can do this with all the help that’s on YouTube encouraging!!! I do believe you are helping a lot of us that are willing to change and give it a try what can you lose!!!😊

One HUGE takeaway from this lecture, is at around 15:58 : the POLYOL PATHWAY. Contrasting the 3 percent conversion of complex carbs to fructose, in a metabolically healthy person, versus the THIRTY PERCENT conversion in an insulin-resistant person (or pre-diabetic), explains so much. Once our metabolisms are "broken", a THIRD of previously-harmless carbohydrates, become the WORST KIND OF SUGAR.

Unbelievable - Quite unbelievable - I feel privileged that I live in Sydney - All my high carb food has gone & I'm studying your presentations . Don't want to come to the clinic and not understand every word - THANKS

Fantastic presentation, so well explained and easy to understand. 👏

Fabulous. Everybody needs to know this information and it is presented in a simple, clear and concise manner.

Thanks Dr. Paul.

Great Presentation !!

Brilliant as always.

To the person who fears going cold turkey: I shifted my cravings to Kefir. Whenever i thought i need something NOW, in drank 250ml Kefir. it is not sugar free, but it helps you adapt. After 3 weeks of this i didnt need it anymore. Also you can make fatbombs if you are missing chocolate. just mix one part each of sugar free chocolate, sugar free peanutbutter and coconut oil. melt it slowly and put it in the fridge to set ( i used a plastic freeting dish with a lid). after about 1 hour cut it into bite sized pieces ( like a gaming dice) and freeze them. whenever you need something special eat one of those. They really are enough to satisfy your chocolate cravings. After a year on keto i dont need any of the stuff anymore.

You have a brilliant way of explaining things.

One of the best introdutori explanations i've watched. Thanks

Interestingly I think Paul has evolved his views on omega 6 since this lecture. In more recent talks he says that it's not the amount of omega 6 which is the problem but the fact that so much of our omega 6 intake comes from oxidised seed oils which are high in omega 6. So those who have a good omega 3 to omega 6 ratio are healthier but that the high omega 6 level is a proxy reading for oxidative damage in the body.

Thanks doc!

Thank you for posting. I wish Dr. Mason practiced in the USA.