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Hello and welcome back to The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show with Jimmy Moore!
Today is day one of our annual “Encore Week” where we celebrate your favorite interview guests of the past year by bringing you brand new interviews with 2009’s five best guests. All five of these interviews were selected especially by YOU and FOR you featuring the many follow-up questions you had for the cream of the crop.
Listen in today for Jimmy fresh talk with our first “Encore Week” guest: the low-carb diabetes legend himself, Dr. Richard Bernstein!
LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 319
– Visit our sponsor LO-CARB U
– Official web site for Dr. Richard Bernstein
– The Diabetes Solution: The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars
– RELATED PODCAST: Dr. Richard Bernstein On The Low-Carb Diabetes Solution (Episode 264)
Another great podcast, Jimmy! Thanks to you and Dr. Bernstein! Hopefully we’ll get that dramatic life saving promo from someone famous some day soon.
Hopefully sooner than later, Sonya!
Dr. Bernstein is very impressive. Not that it matters, but I think he’s 76 years old. He was winning scholarly awards in the year I was born. In his book, “Cheating Destiny,” James Hirsch mentions that the founder of dLife TV was a patient of Dr. Bernstein.
-Steve
Yes he was! I met the dLife Founder Howard Steinberg a few weeks ago when I was taped for an upcoming segment on dLife. He was VERY complimentary of low-carb living and mentioned Dr. Bernstein changed his life.
–Jimmy
OMG!
Dr. Bernstein said something that really shook me. He said a non-diabetic Hb-A1c is between 4.2 and 4.7. I was of the understanding that it was from about 4.7 to 6.0. I thought I had a “normal” A1c. I have type II diabetes and my blood test just came back with a 5.5 – which is up from a 5.1 a year ago. This is mainly due to the fact that I thought I was just fine. I haven’t been exercising like I was and I’m eating more volume. When I asked my doctor what a normal A1c was, he just that that I had an excellent number, he never really answered my question now that I think about it. I went from a 13.85 to a 5.1in six months, lost over 100 pounds and I was feeling I had conquered it- or at least had it under excellent control.
I looked up Dr. Bernstein’s A1c chart – It shows that optimal control is 4.0 to 4.4, good control is 4.5 to 4.9, 5.0 to 5.4 is a high A1c level and it gets way worse from there.
A 5.5 correlates to a BG level of 118! I never see a 118 on my meter, even when I get up in the middle of the night to check it. The highest I ever see even after eating is about 95-96. My fasting number is always 81-83 per my bloodwork from the doctor. Normally I test in the high 80s on my meter. After exercise I am in the low 70s or high 60s.
I guess I now have 2 new years resolutions. Get tight on food and exercise and get a better meter. Anyone know which meter is the most accurate? I don’t really care what it costs.
Jimmy,
Loved it! You two should be on together weekly! Thanks to you (and living lla vida low carb) and the information I got from the two of you I have ‘cured’ my type 2 diabetes. My A1C has been 5 consistantly for a year now. I have to fight my doc to get it done, or I did, I can get the kit at Wal Mart & do it myself if needs be. I say I am ‘cured’ as I know if I ate the way the ADA says to, I’d be right back up there in a month or so. I’ll stay lc for life, and add years to that life.
Hugs,
Gracie
I appreciate all Dr. Bernstein does. I’m wondering about his comments on phosphoric acid in diet soda, though. He said it’s only in some of them. It looks like it’s in all the major colas: Diet Pepsi, Diet Coke and Diet Dr. Pepper. There’s none in Diet Slice, Diet Sprite or Diet 7 Up. I’m guessing there are lesser known colas without it, but I don’t know.
What a great interview with Dr. Bernstein. I enjoy learning from him. He is a brilliant and wonderful man. I am glad so many agreed with bringing him back for encore week. Dr. Bernstein and Mark Sisson were the only 2 of my top 5 to make it for encore week but, at least they were my top 2.
Please interview Joel Salatin again.
Just listened to the mini-interview with Dr. Bernstein at the front of today’s podcast. Wow! Sure am glad he cleared that up! My little mind was already trying to figure out how to replace the large amount of butter I consume with something else – olive oil in my morning scrambled eggs? Yuck!
That’s why I wanted him on the show, Steve! Happy to help!
–Jimmy