Brukner, Peter, MD

Dr. Peter Brukner is a world renowned physician with a thriving sports medicine practice in Melbourne, Australia. He has served as team doctor and Head of the Sports Medicine Department for many international teams including Australia’s Olympic team and their national cricket team as well as the Liverpool Football Club in England. It was whilst he was with the Liverpool team, in fact, that he made a profound personal discovery and started to become known as a Low Carb Doctor as well.

Dr. Brukner had been struggling for years putting on about a pound a year and developing other disorders such as Non Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). He has been great friends with Professor Tim Noakes for many years and on hearing that he had done a ‘one-eighty‘ on carbohydrates he thought he should take a look at it. After reading ‘Good Calories, Bad Calories‘ by Gary Taubes and ‘Big Fat Surprise‘ by Nina Teicholz he became convinced.

Dr. Brukner decided to try low-carb eating. He noticed a dramatic change within the first few days. First he noticed that he was no longer constantly hungry and soon cut back to 2 meals day. He started losing about 2 lbs a week and after 13 weeks he had lost 33 lbs. Then he had his bloodwork done and everything was back to normal. Even he his fatty liver problem which he had struggled with for years had vanished.

At that time, the athletes Dr. Brukner was working with noticed the difference and started asking what he was up to. Many of those athletes adopted his new strategy.

One Australian cricketer had struggled for years with a knee condition similar to rheumatoid arthritis. Seeing the Low Carb Doctor’s success he decided he wanted to try ‘Doc’s Diet’ too. After 3 weeks he mentioned to Peter that he had ‘forgotten’ to take his injection. As the drugs wore off over time, the pain did not return.