I finally spent some time to watch Jason Fung’s video about insulin resistance and treating Type II with fasting or restricted eating times. It makes a lot of sense.
If we eat frequently our body is flooded with the insulin that we are resistant to and we become even more resistant to it.
Fung appears to be becoming much like the young doc who was so maligned about the benefits of Vitamin D3 and in time has been proven right.
It looks to me like there is a lot of bad medicine being practiced in treating Type II such as the recommendation by some to eat smaller meals more often. That just keeps the insulin pump primed all the time. Not good.
I can testify that the discipline not to eat anything white and to just give up on between meal snacks is more than just a little difficult. Weaning off of food is similar to when I quit my 50 year habit of chewing tobacco. You just have to quit buying the stuff and quit period. Any backsliding lights the fire again. Sort of reminds me of my days offshore on rigs, you have to put going home out of your mind and let the day you get on the helicopter come as a surprise.
If we can really burn off all the carbs as we bring them in, our health issues are greatly minimized.
Unfortunately, we can possibly do enough activity to burn all carb calories off just as they enter our bloodstream, all day and night long—especially if our glucose and insulin regulation mechanisms are already overwhelmed and dysfunctional.
The alternative with carbs is to eat less of them until our dysfunction is truly healed and no drugs are involved. No drug addresses the root cause of our carb dysfunction.