Bio
Hannah is the Founder of three specialist food companies that create food for the Ketogenic Diet based on whole foods. She founded Ketocarefoods that supplies food to the NHS for children with drug resistant epilepsy and FATT, which is a range of ultra clean and simple snacks for the ketogenic or low carb diet. None of her products have any sweeteners and are free from fillers or other processed ingredients. She also founded Natural Ketosis which delivers the complete ketogenic diet to the home.
Hannah was originally a partner in a large global law firm specializing in corporate finance but left to start making food for the ketogenic diet in 2004 having been inspired by several clinical studies showing the extraordinary results when you radically reduce your carbohydrate intake. She has been an advocate of low carb whole food diets for over 20 years. Her business has been a supporter of the charities Matthew’s Friends, Daisy Garland and Food for the Brain.
Hannah also wrote a book called Big Fat Lies (published 2010), which highlighted the many conflicts of interest in the UK Scientific Advisary Commission on Nutrition (SACN) and other government agencies which recommend our daily diet.
Her hope is that over time we will see a move away from a dependance of drugs for many modern chronic conditions and a greater engagement by the medical profession in the use of specific clinically proven diets to reverse and or manage multiple conditions.
www.ketocarefoods.com Hannah’s foods for the NHS.
www.naturalketosis.co.uk The home delivered keto diet.
www.livefatt.com The snack bar low carb company.
Show notes
I met Hannah through the nutrition world, but she’s become a fabulous friend. She stayed over recently, and we decided we should do a podcast on keto diets. This was like two friends having a chat about keto diets for an hour.
We started with – why did Hannah give up a high powered and lucrative legal career to set up a business in the keto world? Then we motored through:
– How Hannah moved from HCLF (high carb low fat) to keto to low carb and how keto became her vocation and passion.
– When did ketogenic diets first get used and why?
– What treatments were first considered for epilepsy – from fasting to the classical keto diet.
– How an approach from an epilepsy charity led to Hannah developing keto bars and then keto meals.
– Where Atkins came in (moving from epilepsy to weight loss).
– What other ketogenic diets are there? What’s the modified Atkins diet? What’s the modified ketogenic diet? Where does Medium Chain Triglycerides (MCT) oil fit in?
– Where are you on carbs vs net carbs? (This led to an interesting explanation of US food labels vs Europe’s.)
– Where are you on exogenous ketones?
– What would the clinical pathway be for a child diagnosed with epilepsy today? What can this teach us about an approach for type 2 diabetes that might be more successful?
– What should a keto diet for weight loss be? (The fat error that people make.)
– What do you think of the carnivore diet?
– How do you/people feel when in ketosis?
– What happened when you did a lot of cycling and carb fuelling recently?
– What research would you like to see happen in this field? – What do you think about Ozempic and the new weight loss drugs?
