Ontario, Canada-based nephrologist, weight loss, and diabetes health expert Dr. Jason Fung is our guest today in Episode 945 of “The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show.”
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We have a serious problem with the way we look at and treat people with Type 2 diabetes around the world. This is of great concern to a nephrologist and nutritional health practitioner with a focus on diabetes named Dr. Jason Fung. He’s from Intensive Dietary Management in Scarborough, Ontario where patients are put through various protocols to help them control their disease naturally and without the knee-jerk need for medications. Dr. Fung has shared some very enlightening video lectures on YouTube (see below) where he makes the case that you can reverse diabetes through nutritional protocols to get to the root of the insulin resistance that causes it. He’s a big believer that it’s not about controlling blood sugar, but rather insulin levels.
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How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally
The Two Big Lies of Type 2 Diabetes
Listen in as Jimmy and Dr. Fung share why he decided to study nephrology, how he noticed Type 2 diabetes and kidney disease went hand in hand, why the positive low-carb research was shocking to him (because it showed just the opposite of what everyone thought), why you have to treat patients with kidney disease ten years before the disease manifests to reverse the diabetes, why saying that diabetes can be reversed or cured makes you look like a quack, the absurdity of going back to your old diet again after fixing the underlying insulin resistance, why all the focus of controlling Type 2 diabetes being placed on weight loss is wrong, we shouldn’t treat high blood sugars (the symptom) but rather the insulin resistance (the cause), why giving more insulin in diabetics is like giving alcoholics more alcohol, why treating Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes with the same treatment is misguided, the two big lies being told to people with Type 2 diabetes, the doctors who support the American Diabetes Association can’t face the cognitive dissonance that they’re wrong, why he can get half of his patients completely off insulin for good, why the low-carb message isn’t embraced more with so many patients doing well on it, and his upcoming video series on intermittent fasting. Don’t miss this compelling conversation!
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Hi Jimmy,
I was amazed at what Dr. Fung had to say. He is a credible speaker and backs up what he says with research. What I don’t understand is why we let the mainstream get away with misleading the public. My daughter has type 2 diabetes and her nutritionist prescribes a low-fat carbohydrate diet. Your Podcast and the many other nutritional health people I listen too need to get together and hold these mainstream people accountable. Just today President Obama was on the news talking about how global warming is negatively effecting our health. How about the food we eat; hormones, pesticides and GMO foods. As well as what gluten does to our immune systems and out health. I’m just so grateful that your voice and common sense is out there Jimmy. Thank you for teaching the public and telling the truth!
Unfortunately Dr. Fung does not understand what type 2 diabetes is, and hence his claims are irrelevant to the condition. Elevated blood glucose in a non-diabetic due to carbohydrate intolerance is very common in the population — more so than even type 2 diabetes. Fung confuses the latter with the former.
T2DM is a phenomenon of inappropriate secretion of glucagon from the islet alpha cells, inducing excessive glycogenolysis in the liver. This is the result of morphology of the nearby beta cell that reduces or eliminates the strong early insulin secretory pulse in response to a meal containing carbohydrate and/or protein, both of which stimulate release of stored insulin in a non-diabetic. See Unger, Charrington, et al — glucagonocentric model of diabetes, an area of unchallenged (at least, not successfully and not recently) research going back to the 1960s.
T1DM involves the same endrocrinological effect but a different mechanism amongst beta cells.
Neither form of diabetes is so easy to reverse. What Fung talks about has nothing to do with reversal of either condition in the islets.