Hi, my name is Dr. James Carlson and welcome to my website!  Feel free to call me Dr. Jim. I am a board certified family physician who has been practicing for over sixteen years.  Over the last ten years my practice has transitioned to a nutritional and wellness center due to my discovery of the wonders of a low carbohydrate lifestyle change.  While I still diagnose and treat a myriad of medical diseases, which you can review under the Services tab, I have begun to focus more on wellness, rather than disease.  This focus has an immediate advantage as we start our diagnosis from an optimistic 'wellness' disposition, in lieu of the pessimistic 'medical disease' perspective.

I am able to focus on wellness as people who enter into a low carb lifestyle way of life, experience a change in their medical conditions never before possible.  For instance, how many of you know that obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease can be virtually eliminated by lowering one's carbohydrate intake.  To make matters even stranger, what would you say, or think, if I told you that we all, with rare exceptions, need to be eating more saturated fat and cholesterol, not less.  How would you respond to the fact that the only thing I have seen significantly raise HDL, the heart protective cholesterol, has been the consumption of more saturated fat and cholesterol containing food.

How about if I told you that elevated triglycerides, or fats in the blood, become elevated due to the overconsumption of carbs, not fat. And that most of my type 2 diabetics are, and remain, diet controlled without the need for medications. How about the fact that if one was unfortunate enough to undergo a coronary artery bypass or have a stent placed, that person needs to be eating more saturated fat, not less.

What is most unfortunate is that after these people receive their bypass grafts or stents, they are given the incorrect dietary information. The dietary information received will actually accelerate plaque deposition, not prevent it, and this is why there is a high rate of re-occlusion, which simply means that the arteries clog up again.

I invite everyone to read the first ten chapters of my book for free.  Just click on the link found below.  I know my title may seem offensive and malicious, but it was chosen to reflect the fact that millions of people are dying horrific and tragic deaths each year. What makes matters worse is that these are preventable deaths.  And while even one death is a tragic loss, this is multiplied by millions all due to physician's dietary ignorance.  We are losing our mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, children and friends to diseases that are preventable through a simple dietary change.  A dietary change that the 'powers to be' in medicine simply refuse to acknowlege, despite the overwhelming evidence in support of a low carb lifestyle change.

The word Genocide was first introduced to us by Raphael Lemkin, who was a Polish legal scholar.  He developed the term to describe the heinous acts of Nazi Germany during World War II. It has since been used to describe what is occurring in Darfur, and what has occurred in Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Rwanda.  A rough definition of genocide is that it is the systematic, deliberate eradication of a certain population of people.  So the argument against my title is that physicians are not being deliberate when they give the incorrect dietary advice.  My counter argument is the information being disseminated to patients is indeed deliberate.  Physicians are reading their journals, obtaining dietary information at medical education seminars and then are giving this dietary information deliberately to their patients.

But wait, the argument continues, even if physicians are delivering information that's wrong to their patients and the patients are suffering and then die as a result, the doctor did not mean for their patient(s) to die.  Well, the problem with that line of reasoning is that it is up to us doctor's out there to weed through the information we receive, analyze it before we apply it to our patients, and if we see it is not working clinically, then we need to stop what we are doing.

A good example of this application is that I used a low fat, low cholesterol approach in my practice for about seven years. This information was given out to thousands of my patients.  I told my patients who were obese, had high cholesterols and triglycerides, had high blood pressure or suffered from type two diabetes, to follow a low fat low cholesterol diet.  This diet rarely worked and most of my patients need to either start medications or increase their existing medication doses.  Despite me witnessing firsthand the fact the diet failed most of the time, I continued to tell patients to follow low fat, low cholesterol diets.

In fact, I intrinsically knew the diet would fail because at most encounters with patients I would tell them to try low fat, low cholesterol, and if that did not work, we could always start medications to help.  To help?  To help who?  The only person this helps is the CEO of whatever pharmaceutical company owns the medication I need to prescribe, to treat a disease I could easily have treated had the proper nutritional biochemistry been known.

So at this point you may be wondering how I stumbled, and I did indeed stumble on the correct way to eat.  The Preface and Introduction in my book will describe the series of events which occurred that allowed me to finally understand the corrrect way to eat!


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