Posted on 07/15/2018 10:08:37 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
The keto diet has been a proven tool to help people lose weight and even fight off inflammation. But there's another chronic condition that the keto diet can successfully treat: diabetes. Specifically, type 2 diabetes.
We spoke to Steve Phinney, MD, PhD, chief medical officer at Virta Health, who explained which patients can benefit the most from the keto diet, and how to successfully use the diet to treat type 2 diabetes. He stressed that the treatment of type 2 diabetes with the keto diet should be done under close medical supervision, especially if the patient takes medication that lowers blood sugar or blood pressure as it can lead to dangerous side effects.
But once you get the go-ahead from your doctor, here's how it works:
In addition to helping regulate blood sugar levels and fighting insulin resistance, Dr. Phinney notes that the keto diet has powerful anti-inflammatory effects. Since inflammation may be a cause of diabetes, this is especially beneficial for type 2 diabetes patients.
When done properly and under medical supervision, a ketogetnic diet can help reverse type 2 diabetes. If you're thinking of giving it a shot, be sure to talk to your doctor or healthcare provider to create an effective, sustainable plan.
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Aboriginal Australians die 10 years earlier.
I totally agree with you.
‘What I hate is all the seniors who get sick every winter who are not tested for vitD deficiency ever. Just treated for their respiratory viruses and never told their D levels need to be over 60 to get through flu and cold season.
Western medicine considers nutrition a cute little helpful tip instead of PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING.
I don’t have meal plans. I just focus on healthy animal proteins (from healthy animals as best as I can find or afford), add veggies (more cooked than salads but raw is fine in addition). And at least a serving of cooked root veg a day, like sweet potato or potato. Even cooked and cooled rice would be good for the gut bugs.
Seeds, nuts, beans can be part of your allowed carbs. You can decide how many carbs to aim for, try that for a week or so, and adjust carb level as needed (maybe you went too low, or too high?). And your extras that are not sweet that are important to you. Coffee? Scotch? Mine is 92% dark chocolate. A food, not a candy. Fruit is far sweeter than it.
Good luck. The first few days without the breads, sugars, juices, fruit, will be difficult, feed your gut bugs those root veggies when you get the craving. Have some potato salad in the fridge.
Isn’t it wonderful? I’m right there with you, lost weight and my blood pressure went down to normal! Yay!
The best probiotic in the world is made by this one real scientist in England (he can’t help where he was born, right?), it’s called elixa. https://www.elixa-probiotic.com One reason why it’s so much better than others is because he has made it to actually make it into the intestine. But there are other reasons. You can do it once for 6 days, wait a month, do it again. Would work excellent with a prebiotic focused diet (using your allotted carbs on starches the good gut bugs like).
But if you don’t want to spend that much, and just take one pill daily, I like a soil based probiotic. My favorite is Prescript Assist because it works for me, but right now it was recalled due to not mentioning it might have been exposed or contain some allergens like nuts and whatever. I don’t care. I’m still taking mine.
Whole eggs in kerrygold butter for me. Which means I can’t have meat.... but I eat turkey bacon on other occasions! If I wanted it with my eggs I’d have to cook the eggs in coconut oil. Which is also good. But I love that butter.
I think lerrygold is a cultured butter. It’s pretty easy toake if you have access to good cream.
“Aboriginal Australians die 10 years earlier.”
is that due to lack of fruit?
“If you’re going on a very low carb diet to cure your type 2 diabetes, DO NOT CONSULT WITH YOUR DOCTOR as often they won’t even be encouraging, following some other dumb government diet guidelines.”
Generally the case, but if you REALLY want to tell your doctor, expect just what you describe and be prepared to find a new doctor. And keep in a few things about Type 2 diabetes:
1) The doctors can lose their licenses if they don’t treat your blood sugar (even though that’s a symptom, not the cause)...so they’ll always insist on that, even if they’re ok with Keto/Fasting. Think of the guidelines as laws, when they pertain to doctors.
2) The American Diabetes Association entire existence depends on Americans having diabetes - the more, the merrier, at least for them.
3) Diabetes is obviously a huge industry in the country, just as tobacco was, and hence the people/companies cashing in are in no hurry to see people self-curing.
4) Also aligned with Big Diabetes is Big Food. If the word ever gets out that today’s hybridized wheat is basically poison as our bodies have huge difficulties processing it, then there will be really big-time impacts to the food industry, since at least half of our food contains this wheat (pastas, breads, snacks, etc.). Sugar is also, of course, a killer. Also, similarly for the slightly less harmful high-carb foods, including potatoes and rice, very big impacts.
Thankfully, though, this is still a state-secret, so their jobs are safe.
“He wasn’t to happy about me dropping the Lipitor either.”
Please don’t get me started on Statins, but I am started.
Statins have a funny role in medicine. Virtually everyone who takes them says there are side effects, most relatively minor (leg cramps and some memory problems), but also some very serious (including diabetes and cataracts, which they finally admitted to last year). Yet EVERY DOCTOR who pushes them says that VERY FEW people have any side effects.
To put it another way, we’re being played here.
“I make my own bread, giving that up will be hard.”
Look up Einkorn Wheat, it is the wheat that are ancestors lived on, and the wheat that our bodies are adapted to. Still high carb (although about 25% less than today’s wheat), but much less impact in spiking insulin levels and other bad things. If you are diabetic, I wouldn’t recommend even Einkorn, until you’ve first cured your diabetes.
wow that’s great
“Dr. Fung said in the 1950s people ate junk white bread with junk jam...They were not fat.”
It was the wheat. When Mr. Borlaug hybridized it (kicking in between 1960 and 1980), yields went up something like 5-fold, ending world hunger...but humans have trouble with that same wheat, we’re not yet adapted to it. Maybe in another 10,000 or so years, we will be.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug
Interesting what you said about the bison meat. I am fairly certain I saw it at my local IGA. Have to see if they put it on sale. Thanks for all the tips. We have watched a lot with Dr Peterson and his daughter Mikaela who conquered depression and severe juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (2 joint replacements as a teen!) and Dr Shawn Baker all who are talking about the carnivore diet.
“do aborigines in northern latitudes with no access to fruits have high cancer rates?”
No, but then no one told them they’d have high cancer rates if they didn’t eat fruits.
No gall stones either.
Yeah it would seem that it is a myth - or at least fiber is only required to help you pass those things which perhaps you should not be eating!?
you might want to go read Dr Shawn Baker
he has a post about blood sugar levels and diabetes and zero carbs
very interesting, a bit of a long read but worth it.
https://www.shawn-baker.com/
https://www.shawn-baker.com/the-meat-blog/2018/5/1/k3o1g0w5ej4zydt54sxfdtbqtju7eg
the more one learns about the deep state and the globalists and everything else, the less far-fetched it seems.
actually I heard that the food pyramid was designed by the dept of agriculture rather than FDA, but you are still correct.
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