L. Amber O’Hearn

Amber has been studying (and eating!) low carb diets of some form or other for the last 25 years, the last half of which has been specifically the Carnivore Diet, which she helped bring into modern awareness by giving the first conference talks on the diet in 2017, organising the first Carnivore conference in 2019, and writing the first scientific paper with "Carnivore Diet" in the title in 2020. As such, she has unique insight into the history of this trend and the common pitfalls of new adopters and influencers. Amber is a free speech maximalist and advocate of privacy-enhancing and censorship-resistant technologies.

Selected relevant publications:

• O’Hearn, Amber. "Can a carnivore diet provide all essential nutrients?" Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes and Obesity 27(5):p 312-316, October 2020. | DOI: 10.1097/MED.0000000000000576
• O'Hearn, L. Amber "Signals of energy availability in sleep: consequences of a fat-based metabolism." Frontiers in Nutrition 11 (August 29, 2024).
• O’Hearn, L. Amber. "The therapeutic properties of ketogenic diets, slow-wave sleep, and circadian synchrony." Current Opinion in Endocrinology & Diabetes and Obesity 28(5):p 503-508, October 2021. | DOI: 10.1097/MED.0000000000000660
• Feinman, Richard D, Katharina Lechner, Eugene J Fine, Jennifer Elliott, Maeve Thompson-Starkey, L Amber O’Hearn, and Nicolai Worm. “Re-Evaluating Low-Carbohydrate Diets and Mortality.” The Lancet Public Health 7, no. 7 (July 2022): e581. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(22)00118-9.
  
• O’Hearn, L Amber. “My Case Against Uricase: A Critical Examination of Hypotheses.” Journal of Evolution and Health: An Ancestral Health Society Publication 4, no. 1 (February 4, 2020). https://doi.org/10.15310/J34145990.
  
• O’Hearn, L. Amber. “Evidence on Chronic Ketosis in Traditional Arctic Populations.” Journal of Evolution and Health 3, no. 1 (February 19, 2019). https://doi.org/10.15310/2334-3591.1101.
  
• Amber O’Hearn, Eric C. Westman, William S. Yancy, Neville Wellington, "Chapter 2 - Nutritional aspects." Editor(s): Timothy David Noakes, Tamzyn Murphy, Neville Wellington, Hassina Kajee, Sarah M. Rice. Ketogenic. Academic Press,2023,Pages 71-104,ISBN 9780128216170, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-821617-0.00002-4.

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