'Medicine Committed Dietary Fraud' with Dr Peter Brukner

<p>Dr. Peter Brukner is one of Australia&#39;s most decorated sports medicine physicians. He is former head of medical and performance at Liverpool FC, team doctor for Cricket Australia, Cathy Freeman&#39;s doctor at the Sydney 2000 Olympics, and now one of the most credible voices in the low-carb and diabetes reversal space.</p><p><br></p><p>In 2012, at 60 years old and working in Liverpool, Brukner had a fatty liver, high triglycerides, elevated insulin, and a strong family history of type 2 diabetes. He tried a low-carb diet for 90 days. He lost 13 kilograms. Every blood marker normalised. The fatty liver (present for a decade) was gone.</p><p><br></p><p>What followed was a complete reorientation of his career: founding Sugar by Half, writing the bestselling &#39;A Fat Lot of Good&#39;, developing the Defeat Diabetes program, and becoming one of the most persistent critics of dietary guidelines that he believes are built on fraudulent science.</p><p><br></p><p>This is a wide-ranging, evidence-dense conversation covering the politics of how fat got demonised, why the medical system structurally cannot update itself, the real mechanism behind type 2 diabetes, the legitimate and illegitimate uses of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, athlete nutrition, injury recovery, and where AI is headed in medicine.</p><p><br></p><p>Watch all of our interviews at <a href="https://discernable.io/interviews" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">https://discernable.io/interviews</a></p>