"The Keto/Paleo Diet"
Presenter: Jasmine Blake Hollywood, DCN, LDN, CNS, BA-Psy, CRPS, ORDM
Original Date: October 4, 2025
This continuing education presentation critically examines the ketogenic and Paleolithic diets, with emphasis on their metabolic impacts, adaptability, and research limitations. While both diets are commonly promoted for weight loss and disease management, emerging evidence raises concerns about the long-term physiological consequences of the ketogenic diet, specifically its tendency to elevate total and LDL cholesterol and promote muscle catabolism, particularly in the thigh region, due to chronic reliance on gluconeogenesis. In contrast, the Paleolithic diet, despite being frequently dismissed from dietary consensus, shows flexibility and potential when modified to accommodate various dietary patterns, including low-carb, Vegan, Tarian styles, ketogenic, or high-protein.
Bio: Jasmine holds a doctoral degree in clinical nutrition (DCN) from Maryland University of Integrative Health. She is a member of the American Nutrition Association and holds a board certification as a clinical nutrition specialist (CNS). With her extensive experience in live webinar presentations, she is equipped to lead workshops that engage and educate participants on various aspects of nutrition and body-mind-spirit wellness. Dr. Hollywood is also the founder of True P.A.L.E.O. Inc, a growing volunteer-based Personalized Alternative Lifestyle Education Organization that focuses on body-spirit-soul practices for lifestyle recovery. With working in the field of integrative and nutritional medicine for 5 years, over 9 years of nutrition and integrative health clinical education to include health and fitness behavioral psychology, and over 16 years of personal experience, her primary focus is centered on clients who endure trauma and/or extreme stress with endocrine and/or mental health conditions. Her background as both a peer and a professional create a strong foundation for the development and success of her organization's lifestyle recovery program as well as any other organization she collaborates with. Jasmine’s greatest achievement is meeting God. Being able to publish 4 lifestyle recovery case reports and 1 systematic review in peer-reviewed medical journals including Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal, the Journal of the American Nutrition Association, and Advances in Mind-Body Medicine are other great achievements. Her belief in God and his mission to use her voice in authorship has led her to write and self-publish 12 nutrition and body-mind-spirit books on platforms such as Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing and Google Play Books. Additionally, she is the founder of the EatitUP™️ Research League, a federally registered and FWA approved online research institution created to perform holistic research on lifestyle recovery. As the active Chair, this organization and its volunteers seek to publish research on how using body (nutrition), mind (mental health rejuvenation and renewal), and spirit (faith-based) practices can help individuals in need of lifestyle recovery lead productive lives. Furthermore, she has developed other research organization sub-divisions within True P.A.L.E.O. Inc, an internal institutional review (IRB) board, expert review panel (ERP), and ensuing research journal, named Journal of Integrative Nutrition.
NUNM is accredited by the North American Naturopathic Continuing Education Council (NANCEAC). This activity qualifies for 1.5 General CEUs Total.