An exciting course that combines clinical relevance with practical knowledge!
Learn how to prescribe low carbohydrate diets and fasting interventions to reverse metabolic diseases!
Comprising 7.2 hours of short, concise lectures and 4.2 hours of case studies, Dr Louise Phillips will teach you to understand the science, navigate conflicting guidelines, interpret pathology and practice evidence based medicine.
Utilising real life case studies, combined with practical tutorials you will learn how to prescribe nutrition instead of pills to help your patients.
Review for "Low Carb in a Nutshell"
I thoroughly enjoyed this course. It was interesting and relevant- you are a gifted educator and passionate about how you help your patients through this approach. It’s a fascinating are of medicine!! I loved the cases- it was a privilege to feel like I was a fly on the wall in your clinic watching you bring your experience and expertise to bear on patient management. Also good to see how you document in your notes. Listening to you discuss your interpretation of pathology results especially lipids and LFTs was also helpful. I learnt lots of helpful insights pointing to fatty liver and insulin resistance as well as iron deficiency impacting HBA1C results.
Dr JM (Obesity and Bariatric Medicine GP)
Dr Louise Phillips
Dr Louise Phillips is an Australian GP and experienced medical educator. She has special skill in simplifying the complex, and using a multimodal approach to learning, with lots of pictures.
She is a Senior Lecturer with the University of Queensland, an External Clinical Teacher with the RACGP, a lecturer with The Nutrition Network and a Certified Medical Practitioner with Nutrition Network.
Dr Louise Phillips has an engaging, warm, personable style and creates interesting, relevant content that is easy to understand and remember.
Low Carb in a Nutshell Curriculum
- Introduction to Lipids (1:57)
- Part 1: Guidelines, Cholesterol, Lipoprotein physiology and Lipid subfractions (12:47)
- Part 2: Causation, Theories, Critical look at Research (16:37)
- Part 3: CAC and ratios and Summary (23:03)
- PCSK9 inhibitors, Familial Hypercholesterolemia, Lp(a), Lean Mass Hyper-Responders (22:40)
- Citation list for all Lipid talks
- Introduction to the Deprescribing Statins Tool Kit (0:33)
- Deprescribing Statins lecture (58:16)
- References for the Deprescribing Statins Tool Kit
- 1. Patient Handout - Understanding Blood Fats mmol/L
- 2. Patient Handout - Understanding Blood Fats mg/DL
- 3. patient handout mediterranean low carb diet
- 4. patient risk benefit simplified handout
- 5.patient risk benefit handout including CAC
- A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (Demasi Byrne 2022)
- Statin primary prevention US Preventive Services Task Force (Chou 2022)
- Statins CAC (Mitchell 2018)
- Introduction to Safe Prescribing (1:47)
- Lecture on Guidelines and Safe Prescribing for Low Carb Diets (17:25)
- Lecture on SGLT2 inhibitors - Implications for Low Carb Practitioners (27:43)
- Deprescribing Insulin - Dr Penny Figtree, Dr Ron Schweitzer and Dr Liz Fraser at Low Carb Down Under Conference 2022
- Reference list for Guidelines and Medication Deprescribing
- Consent for dietary interventions (consider if complex deprescribing)
- Queensland Health Patient information handout SGLT2 inhibitors and sick day management
- Deprescribing article
- Introduction to macronutrients. (0:56)
- Lecture about Macronutrients (29:54)
- Lecture about Alcohol, Artificial Sweeteners, Fibre and Magnesium (17:39)
- Lecture about Special Diets - Vegetarian, Vegan, Anti-Nutrients, Gut Biome, Carnivore (22:38)
- Reference List for Macronutrients
- Alcohol explaining to patients image
- Condiments explaining to patients image
- Patient Handout -Carnivore Diet
- Patient Handout -Essential fatty acids
- Introduction to case studies (0:59)
- T2DM case studies - part 1 (16:56)
- T2DM case studies - part 2 (31:16)
- Metabolic Syndrome case studies (21:51)
- Metabolic Syndrome in young people (14:53)
- Prediabetes in a compliant patient - case study (8:24)
- Insulin Resistance Case Study (8:42)
- Fatty liver case study (12:08)
- Lipid case studies - part 1 (14:08)
- Lipid case studies - part 2 (22:22)
- Fasting case studies (20:17)
- Food Addiction case study (16:29)
- Monitoring case studies (11:58)
- Unexpected results and Zebra case studies (27:08)
- Carnivore Cases - part 1 (typical) (9:14)
- Carnivore Case Study - part 2 (Puzzling results) (13:38)
- Women's Health Case study (8:39)
The Low Carb Doctor's Kit
This incredible patient education resource will enable you to provide effective Low Carbohydrate and Fasting interventions in 1-20 minutes. Containing all the patient education images, spiels and handouts you need, combined with a lecture on how to use them and including a patient demonstration, it makes prescribing nutrition a breeze!
This is a highly recommended adjunct to "Low Carb in a Nutshell" to enable easy implementation with patients.
Running on Time
Dr Louise Phillips will teach you the tips and tricks to running on time as a busy GP. She draws on her decade long experience of teaching and observing GP registrars, along with her own learnings. This course has been life changing for many clinicians!
Tools for Wellness
Discover how to reduce your risk of burnout and restore your life balance. This duo lecture pack teaches you the many ways you can lower stress levels during the day, whilst also teaching you how to harvest time out of your busy schedule for self care!
Health care workers are at high risk of burnout and this module will help return the joy back to your clinical practice.