Low Carb San Diego 2026 is shaping up as more than a meetup for people counting carbs. At the Wyndham San Diego Bayside Hotel in San Diego, the four-day Symposium for Metabolic Health will pull together the low-carb world’s clinical side, with talks that reach beyond meal planning into brain health, women’s health and chronic disease care.
The meeting runs August 13-16, 2026, and attendees can join in person or via livestream. In-person tickets are listed at $499, with livestream access at $99. LowCarbUSA says the symposium is ACCME-accredited and offers 28 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits, along with four years of CEU credit for NASN practitioners, which gives the event real weight for clinicians trying to keep up with the fast-moving metabolic health conversation.
For a keto enthusiast, the value is practical as much as scientific. LowCarbUSA says the audience includes healthcare professionals, researchers and health-conscious attendees who want evidence-based approaches for type 2 diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and related issues. That means the sessions are likely to touch the questions people actually take home from a conference: how carbohydrate reduction fits with GLP-1 therapies, what changes when metabolic therapy is used for neurological and mental health conditions, and where low-carb eating still has room to grow in everyday care.
A special focus day, The Metabolic Roots of Obesity & Type 2 Diabetes, will anchor the program. LowCarbUSA says that day will cover GLP-1s, neurological and mental health applications of metabolic therapy, women’s health across the lifespan, longevity, exercise physiology, vegetarian ketogenic approaches, and food systems policy. The program is expected to feature more than 20 expert presenters, including Peter Ballerstedt, PhD, on malnutrition, ruminants, sustainability, animal-source foods and protein quality; Robert Cywes on obesity and type 2 diabetes; Ben Bocchicchio on career opportunities in metabolic health; Siobhan Huggins on whether improving metabolic health could help prevent cancer treatment-related lymphedema; and Adrian Soto-Mota on a pilot study comparing a door-delivered ketogenic diet with ADA-style meals for people with type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes and prediabetes.
Poster presentations will also be part of the San Diego schedule, with a $99 fee for accepted abstracts that is waived for SMHP members, including student members. LowCarbUSA says recordings and educational resources will be available, and the organization is positioning the event as part of a broader mission around therapeutic carbohydrate reduction and metabolic therapies.
Doug Reynolds and Brian Lenzkes have described this as the 11th Annual Symposium for Metabolic Health, and Reynolds has said that “everything came out of that one event” in San Diego in 2016. That origin still matters here: what began as a niche gathering now reads like a map of where low-carb culture is headed, with brain health, cardiometabolic disease and clinical nutrition all sharing the same stage.
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