David Unwin is a primary care physician in the UK. For the last eight years he’s been running a long term cohort study in his clinic, in which he treats his diabetic patients with a low carb diet. The study has generated massive amounts of useful data on what happens when patients with type 2 diabetes switch to a low carb diet. And the results have been pretty astounding, with patients going in to complete remission from their diabetes (something which was previously thought to be virtually impossible), lowering their blood pressure, improving their cholesterol levels, losing weight, improving their liver and kidney function, and being able to go off drugs that they would otherwise likely have had to stay on for the rest of their lives.
Dave just discovered this now? My dad developed Type 2 diabetes in the 1980s, he dropped sugar, dropped processed foods, went natural, and never had to take a shot or a pill. Lived to a 101 without much difficulty. Doctors, always the last to notice.
Another tale, is the gall bladder surgeon who denied that excessive corn syrup could cause gall bladder symptoms. Three years later, he’s telling everyone what he discovered.
Indeed. Sugar (and simple carbs) is a killer. Meat and vegetables. I dropped 30lbs over about four months and have kept it off for over two years. No more gout. No blood pressure issues.
Personal experience speaking
I have been on weight watchers for the last 2 years. My diet has changed substantially because refined carbs are full of points and keeping to my point level and eating a heavy refined carb diet leaves me hungry. Now I eat mainly protein, vegetables and fruit with very little starchy foods, refined carbs or sugar.
Results are that my sugar has gone from 6.7 to 5.3, my blood pressure has gone from 140+/90+ to 120/80 and my weigh from 285 to 200.
I also have much more energy.
The diet promoted by Health Canada is killing us.
Follow the science they say.
So full of it they are.
The next thing they’ll ‘discover’ is that children wearing a mask in school all day inhibits oxygen flow thus reducing oxygen intake to the lungs and ultimately oxygen supplied to the brain, resulting in a drop in overall IQ levels. This will impact the next generation if there is one once the fertility levels drop.
I wonder how the ‘plausible deniability’ plea will play out. Probably as well as that plea “We were only following orders!” did at Nuremberg.
Check out Dr. Jason Fung, Toronto kidney specialist. Runs a metabolic clinic (has a YouTube channel) and has been reversing Type 2 diabetes for years with low carb and/or intermittent fasting. Mainstream Med won’t give him the time of day, but lo and behold, he’s saving thousands of lives.
Oh, and I also dropped 30 pounds and reversed nearly a dozen chronic (some of 40 years’ duration) health issues by going low carb and cutting sugar and processed foods.
A friend of mine was morbidly over weight, type 2 she lost over three hundred pounds and is no longer type two. Hubby was borderline, keep in mind big pharma keeps changing the numbers to include more people having type two, I cut out all sweets and carbs for him and all his blood work came back tickety boo.
Thanks Kate. Interesting stuff.
Doctors are becoming about as useless/harmful as teachers. (In general, there are of course many gems in the gravel pit)
There’s a reason tax-slaves eat grains that are best used to feed cattle, and will kill humans decades before their time. They’re cheap.
We’re expected to work like dogs so our masters can enjoy organic meat and vegetables at every meal and plenty of free time to while away at the gym. And eat worse food than their lapdogs get, to boot.
I developed type II 14 years ago. For a while I managed to keep sugars in check with exercise and low carb diet and lost 20 pounds.. But low carb diet resulted in Meniere’s disease. Not good. Then I heard that cinnamon lowers blood sugars, so I went back on carbs and took cinnamon with every meal. Sugars stayed low and I gained back the 20 pounds.
After 4 years cinnamon stopped having any effect, so I lowered carbs (not to the point where I developed Meniere’s again) and went on metformin. Over the next 10 years, even with low carb (I lost 40 pounds, no fat on this bod) I had to gradually increase medications as it became increasingly difficult to keep sugars low. Now I am maxed out on metformin, glyburide and trajenta and sugars keep rising. 2 months ago I started on insulin.
I know people who went low carb and got off the needle, but it isn’t a guarantee.
Ménière disease is a disorder caused by build of fluid in the chambers in the inner ear. What does that have to do with a low-carb diet? Eating essentially only meat, vegetables and fruit (depending on what kind) can, and does, resolve a multitude of serious conditions. It can put Crohn’s and ulcerative colitis in remission (I have Crohn’s). And re: diabetes it’s been known for years to work successfully. Why mainstream medicine has continued to ignore that is beyond me. I guess that shouldn’t be surprising. Look what they’ve done re: denying early effective Covid treatments.
Low-carb re:diabetes works for animal mammals too. We adopted an obese diabetic 10-year-old female cat that nobody wanted. So the shelter gave her to us, saying she’d need insulin for the rest of her life. Nope. I cut the carbs out of her diet (cats being obligate carnivores don’t naturally eat carbs in any case) and she was off insulin after three weeks. She lost her excessive weight and lived to be 19 years old. We just lost her this spring. She also turned out to have a wonderful, feisty personality.
The cause of Meniere’s (a disorder caused by a build-up of fluid in the chambers in the inner ear) is unknown, but believed to be due to a carbohydrate deficiency.
It certainly was in my case.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24959782/
The use of low-carbohydrate diet in type 2 diabetes – benefits and risks
Throughout my life, I have always found that regular drams of whiskey, coupled with moderate but regular intakes of tobacco and weed, and tempered by a healthy avoidance of stress about everything, has been an antidote to hypochondria.
Whatever gets you through the night.
I have usually resisted telling people what to do, but, given these days, I would humbly suggest that you quit falling prey to the subtle aspects of this long con, which include your falling into stress and fear about every little damn thing, and scrambling for medical solutions, etc.
Hey, if you are fat and tired of it, then lose it. If you are afraid of mortality, get a safe space and see if it helps.
Eat well, fear not, and wake up. It is OK. Stop falling prey to the nuanced game.
Ok, time to finish my drap of rye and ciggy, then off to bed for a good healthy nine hours, to awaken, after a 12 hour fast, to a nice bowl of gruel and a grateful heart for another day under the sun.
And that, my friends, is how it is done, until we all die in obscurity.
Peace.