Dr. Gabriele Faerber talks about her use of a ketogenic diet to help women with lipedema in her clinic in Germany and she shares her dietary recommendations she gives to her patients. She also talks about how her patients respond to a ketogenic diet. After first training and working as a general practitioner, Dr. Faerber specialized in phlebology in 1989 and in lymphology in 1998. In 2008, she qualified in nutritional medicine and has since then focused on the treatment of overweight and obese patients with lymphatic disorders and lipedema. Her scientific interests include the connection between obesity, inflammation, and metabolic disorders; vascular and lymphological diseases; and lipedema. Currently, she is a board member of the German Societies of Lymphology and Phlebology, and she has been appointed to help draft a revision of the German lipedema treatment guidelines.

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