Posted on 02/28/2018 12:22:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
 "The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally" by Dr. Jason Fung (Amazon book link) |
I’ll give you an insight into the inner workings of my project:
It’s not “low-carb.”
That’s not the correct manner to address what essentially is a conditioned addiction due to propaganda, marketing, false medical information and toxic foods.
But it IS “correct carbs” & “correct foods” to round out nutrition.
For example, if you’re raising your own eggs and buying regular-cured bacon from the store, you’re bailing a leaky boat.
45 years ago??? Holy cow! Kudos for obviously doing something right. I hope the rest of your health is good (adult symptoms & conditions being what they are for most people).
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I am not infirm but 79 is a long way from teen years. Hearing is about gone and a schwannoma in the right ear makes walking a cr@p shoot but I have no real pains so yeah I am doing pretty good. Have a wife that loves me and a decent retirement so what can I complain about other than politics.
I have plenty of time to watch YouTube videos on everything. See things I didn't know existed. Learn things I never knew, so life is good.
Please see Dr. Jason Fung’s work at Intensive Dietary Management. You will enjoy his YouTube videos. There is an excellent book entitled, “The Obesity Code” which will explain it all clearly
Altering gene expression in gut flora, response of receptors in the gut, activity of cellular mitochondria within the body is also possible with Berberine added to the diet.
Barberry Berberine Diabetes & Fat Mice:
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/barberry-berberine-diabetes-fat-mice/
Fortunately, my doctor believes in very low carb diets and lots of fermented foods. He really walks the talk, too.
Unfortunately, he failed to diagnose my H. Pylori infection over two decades or more. Horrible GI problems, many trips a day to the bathroom, constant diarrhea, even chest/back/shoulder pains (others have said the same thing for H. Pylori). I just finished the two-week treatment of two antibiotics and a PPI.
In addition to that antibiotic treatment, at the start of 2018 I went completely dairy free, gluten free, zero coffee, zero alcohol and a daily probiotic supplement. These have done wonders. Going gluten free got probably 75% of the carbs out of my diet. Almost 18 pounds have come off. Killing the H. Pylor, going “partial keto,” and adding the probiotics have gotten rid of all my GI problems and all the chest/back/shoulder pains have disappeared. Side benefits are my mood and outlook are much better and my head feels clearer.
I should have done more research decades ago, been much more insistent that I be tested for H. Pylori, and learned a lot more about nutrition when I was younger.
Amazon: Ketone Test Meter
See What Are The Optimal Ketone Levels For A Ketogenic Diet?
Art Buchwald! Haven’t thought of him in YEARS. He was my Dad’s favorite — the Dave Barry of his day. Funny you should remember him. Wonder how many here know who he was.
I’ve got the extra inducement that milk proteins make me really sick and really foul up my GI tract. I’ve been trying Gluten Free to see if that was the problem and that got a lot of carbs out of my diet. Then, a couple weeks later, I went Dairy Free and that made an even bigger improvement. Two months now and I’m still on the plan. Down 18 pounds from my peak of 199.
I'm trying a "coffee substitute" now since I took all acid foods and drinks out of my diet -- no more coffee. I'm using a chickory tea with either almond milk or flax milk.
You think that regular coffee with almond milk doesn't taste the same? You should try what I'm drinking - blech!!
I am not diabetic, but I was developing insulin resistance, and my endocrinologist put me on the diabetic diet, which is similar to KETO.
I can eat all the greens veggies I want. I am supposed to limit carbs to 60g. per day or less. That’s like a piece of toast or a glass of milk with each meal and 1 snack.
If you keep your insulin response low, your insulin receptors can sort of heal themselves and eventually become less resistant. Several doctors discovered this by experimenting with their own diet and getting off the diabetic treadmill.
Insulin shots/meds make you gain weight. They also make your diabetes worse, because the resistance continues to build. The sooner the diet is corrected the better the results.
Adult diabetics will never recover enough to be able to eat carbs like young people do, but then most people aren’t able to do that either.
Right you are. The government pyramid is wrong-and it also is contrary to what we were taught about nutrition in home economics. It is especially wrong with respect to fats. Healthy fats are needed to produce good HDL.
Healthy fats containing vitamin K2 are needed to properly deposit Calcium in the bones and not the arteries. That is found in butter, milk, and meat from grass fed (not grain fed) animals. Also in free range chicken egg yolks.
Originally birthed out of the McGovern hearings. At the time, the people opposed, said there was no real proof.
The people for said it said it was too important to wait for studies. Result citizens became guinea pigs and were fed a bunch of BS regarding what was healthy.
I like to refer to it as the time when the grain lobby out did the meat lobby.
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Nice, thanks! I’m going for that book too. I think what happened to Dr. Fung was that he wrote a book for weight loss and it wound up being a smash hit for people who have diabetes. So now he’s dedicating a book to that cause.
EXCELLENT!
I can’t speak for short-term fasting, other than to say that people will not get into Ketosis with it, as several consecutive days of 100% fasting (water only) is needed.
But then again, if it works for some people, so much the better.
“... but life keeps getting in the way. haha”
Get away from people! I send my wife 1000 miles away when it’s time to fast...makes all the difference.
“How many times a month/year do you fast?”
I don’t track it, but I’d say I average 6 days consecutive about 10 to 15 times per year.
LOL...how funny!
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