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If you want to reverse diabetes you need at least some fasting. Keto can do a heck of a lot to help, however the incretin effect will cause insulin levels to in
by foxyv 8y ago
If you want to reverse diabetes you need at least some fasting. Keto can do a heck of a lot to help, however the incretin effect will cause insulin levels to increase during mealtimes sabotaging the necessary reduction in insulin resistance for your liver and pancreas.
Dr. Jason Fung, a kidney specialist, runs an intensive dietary management program in Canada and has written a book called "The Diabetes Code" that describes the methods they use to reverse Type 2. I would recommend that anyone with Type 2 diabetes read at least that book and maybe also his other book called "The Obesity Code."
- splatt 8y agoFung is a quack.
- throwaway8879 8y agoAgreed. I've read his book on diabetes and intermittent fasting. I have a problem with anybody who makes the claim that there is more to weight loss than "calories in calories out". There isn't.
- tomhoward 8y agoThat sounds like a beg-the-question dismissal. Why must the body adhere to a reductionist calories-in/calories-out model as if it’s a simple furnace, when it’s clearly vastly different from a furnace? Why the need to ignore the involvement of neurotransmitters, hormones, enzymes, organ function, emotions, microbiotas, inflammation, and countless other inter-related components and processes that would easily explain why metabolism differs so much from one person to another, as distinct from furnaces that all combust in the same way? I mean, sure, calories-in/calories-out is ultimately right when you reduce everything down, but why the need to wave away the influence of the above factors on the flow of calories in and calories out?
- tonysdg 8y agoPresumably (and I'm partially speculating here, since it's not my expertise) because all of the neurotransmitters, hormones, etc. pay heed to the same laws of thermodynamics that everything else does. Your genes may influence how many calories you burn, the foods you eat may influence how full you feel, your hormones may influence where fat develops and disappears -- but thermodynamics require that if you expend more energy than you take in, the difference will have to come from somewhere, and that's ultimately how weight loss works.
- tomhoward 8y agoYep, I acknowledged that in the last sentence of my comment. My point is it's not at all simple, and it's certainly not as simple as the "calories-in/calories-out" mob claim. If it were so simple, obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders wouldn't be the widespread and profound problems that they are. And my larger point is that the "calories-in/calories-out" call is a euphemistic way of trolling people who suffer these conditions.
- raphaels7 8y agoHi foxyv, I'm the co-founder of Nutrita and wanted to say your comment is spot on. Dr.Fung and his IDM clinic are getting amazing results. We're big fans of theirs