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EventsInsight: Beating diabetes with Dr. Michael Mosley – full episode online
Here’s a new 50-minute long video featuring Dr. Michael Mosley, about how to beat type 2 diabetes. It focuses on intermittent fasting using the 5:2 method, i.e. two days of severe calorie restriction per week.
I’m a big fan of intermittent fasting for reversing type 2 diabetes, but I’m not a fan of calorie counting. It’s not necessary – there are way simpler and more effective ways to do intermittent fasting (see below).
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information there is in that video.
They demonize meat, salt and fat
equally with sugar. They have an
advocate for an 8 week 800 calorie
a day diet. Their experts all seem
a bit clueless and it results in the
audience admitting that they are
still confused. Nothing to learn here.
An interesting dynamic was the participation of the president of the Australian Diabates Assocation, who had differing views. The camera repeatedly zoomed in on him as Mosley went through the food table saying certain foods, which the website of the diabetes association said were to be preferred, were terrible. So the producers were looking for a visible action, demonstrating that the producers of the show were sympathetic to Dr. Mosley.
The fellow from the international diabetes organization was likewise chanting cant from the old hymnal. Mosley and Taylor were politely accommodating, trying to emphasize common ground. It would be interesting to learn the political dynamics behind the scenes.
I thought the moderator was superb.
equally as bad as sugar?
He may have presented a low carb diet, but
not a high fat diet. What do they
suggest people eat after the 8 weeks
on the starvation diet? They had nothing
to offer on that score.
You seem to think there was a clear
message from the show, but members
of the audience stated that they were
still confused.
I think shows like this cause more
damage than not having them at all.
People with cognitive dissonance
tend to give up and this show fostered
that, just as the disease maintenance
associations such as the ADA and
AHA wish (credit to Bob Niland).
equally as bad as sugar?"
No. I think you either misinterpreted Dr. Mosley or are referring to the views of the diabetes associations. Mosley was only talking about fasting in order to reduce insulin and reduce liver fat and pancreas fat (deferring always to Taylor on the science). You can't eat a lot of meat and reduce insulin, so reducing meat as part of a fasting protocol makes sense. To fast one has to reduce calories, so fat needs to be reduced, but Mosley emphasized several times not to consume low-fat foods. By touting a Mediterranean style diet he was not advocating low meat and fat, as a genuine Mediterranean diet has both. I don't recall Mosley said anything about salt.
The clinical experience of Dr. Fung is that low-carb, high-fat often is insufficient to reverse frank type two diabetes. One needs to go the extra step to fasting protocols and that means reducing meat and fat. Mosley did not address a maintenance diet, as that was not the focus of the show. The focus was on a fasting diet protocol to reverse type two diabetes, rather than just "manage" it.
Sure people were confused because the diabetes associations are spouting nonsense. People are trained to uncritically accept medical "authority" yet the authorities appear to be demonstrably wrong and talk out the side of their mouths when confronted.
video? Your perceptual abilities
are different from mine.
"...genuine Mediterranean diet..."
Sounds like "No true Scotsman." (wiki)
"...focus was on a fasting..." So, if
they didn't say what to do after the
fast is over, then what good was the
presentation?
I mix Dr. Richard K bernsteins low carb with intermittent fasting PhD Kristi Varady every other day 500 to 600 calorie
Result is about 80% fat 16.666 % protein and 3.333 carbs on eat days and a 500 to 600 calorie soup on modified fasting days
Salmon stock seaweed salsa Sourcream
I have fasted longer but this works for me. I aim for 1800 calorie egg and butter and coffee breakfast on eat days and 1800 calorie beef and veggie dinner.
175 pounds for six feet is not to low and not to high.
Eric
Some like me are fine with the same routine
USE TO BE 360 plus pounds
I started at 100kg.
8 weeks later I was 82kg.
The key is that the diet isn't really all that restrictive and it's only for 8 weeks.
Once you break off from high intensity carbs a couple of days later the visceral desire for the carbs calms down. The key is using protein and fat for satiety but also lots of vegetables for flavour and for meals to be larger - and drinking lots of water - as sometimes we confuse thirst for hunger.
I'd very strongly recommend it.
This is the first thing i've seen on Dietdoctor.com which disappointed me.