As a GP this book is powerfully validating

I have been practicing as a GP (family physician) for more than 35 years. Over that time I have seen the physical and mental health of our population deteriorate due to burgeoning rates of chronic disease and mental health issues. Nine years ago I diagnosed an overweight 31-year-old man with type 2 diabetes. I gave him the standard lifestyle and dietary advice, as recommended by our local Diabetes Association guidelines. I saw him again 3 months later and he had lost 21 kg and he had put his diabetes into remission. I assumed he had followed my advice. I was astounded when he told me he had achieved this with a ketogenic diet, which I knew very little about. So I started reading about low carbohydrate and ketogenic diets. I quickly learned they were far more effective than the standard "healthy whole grain/low fat diets" that the guidelines told us we should be recommending. My cognitive dissonance was intense! However I continued researching - reading many books along the way, and listening to numerous podcasts. Dr Catherine Shanahan's Deep Nutrition was amongst those books and after 2 years of research I felt confident enough to start recommending low carbohydrate/healthy fat diets (which do not include seed oils) to my patients. The results have been astonishing, with many patients losing weight, reversing their diabetes, improving their mental health, losing their aches and pains and reducing or stopping Long term medications.
Dark Calories is a superbly written book. I would regard it as a medical textbook! For me it completely validates my new way of practicing. Thank you Dr Catherine for the huge amount of time and effort you have put into writing this very important book.

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