Episode 221: Drs. Catherine Seo & Leslyn Keith

Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD
Podcast. Catherine Seo, PhD is Founder & CEO of Lipedema
Simplified & The LipedemaProject, Inc., course director for
MasterClass: Beyond Lipedema and a professor of psychology. She
produced and directed the documentary, The Disease They Call FAT,
and was one of the co-authors of the book, Lipedema-The Disease
They Call FAT: An Overview for Clinicians. Dr. Seo’s research
focuses on empowering women who experience the distortions of
body image and the role of nutrition for treating lipedema. She
holds a doctorate in Psychology with a concentration in Media.
She has lipedema, lymphedema, and has struggled with obesity. She
has dedicated over 40 years to learning and teaching how to bring
knowledge, compassion, and humor to living with a chronic
condition.


Leslyn Keith is a certified lymphedema therapist and has a
Clinical Doctorate in Occupational Therapy with an emphasis on
lymphedema and obesity. Dr. Keith has started four lymphedema
therapy programs in California including two in private practice.
She has treated lymphatic and fat disorders for over 20 years and
currently researches, consults, and lectures on lymphedema,
lipedema, and obesity nationally and internationally. She is the
author of two books about and published several
articles about the efficacy of a ketogenic diet for lymphatic and
fat disorders. Currently, Dr. Keith is Director of Research and
Board President for The Lipedema Project and an
instructor in lymphedema therapy for Klose Training.


In this conversation, Brian, Leslyn, and Catherine discuss the
definition of lipedema and lymphedema, how people struggling with
either of the above diseases can find relief for their condition
with the ketogenic diet, the need for taking a holistic approach
to health in order to recover from lipedema, the importance of
considering bio-individuality when helping patients, research
that has been done on using the keto diet to treat lipedema and
lymphedema, the speaker line-up for Catherine and Leslyn’s
upcoming symposium, liposuction surgery and its place in the
treatment of lipedema and lymphedema.


For more information, please see the links below. Thank you for
listening!


Links:


Leslyn Kieth:


Email: leslyn@lipedemaproject.org



Catherine Seo:


Email: catherine@lipedema-simplified.org

Lipedema Simplified



Dr. Brian Lenzkes:


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Dr. Tro Kalayjian:


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