Video post: What is insulin resistance?

March 24 by in Diabetes, Insulin

I recorded another video log this week, discussing and explaining how type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance actually work.

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Dr. Jason Fung

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5 comments

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Liz
March 24
Any thoughts on gestational diabetes? A colleague has been diagnosed and she was instructed to eat 6x a day and carbs each time! Surely this is wrong!

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Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor
March 25

Any thoughts on gestational diabetes? A colleague has been diagnosed and she was instructed to eat 6x a day and carbs each time! Surely this is wrong!

Low carb can be used to help prevent gestational diabetes.
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/gestational-diabetes-pregnancy
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Maggie
March 27
As a person who was diagnosed with Insulin resistance ...no one told me to change my diet ...and I carried down the road that I was travelling ...thank you to Dr Angarhard Powell ..who looked at me and said...I can cure this...and all by diet ....she told me to eat a low carb high fat diet ..sh3 pointed me to many books and also to diet doctor ....I was already on a high fat diet ...because I had worked out that low fat foods where crammed with sugars....my problem was that I was a carb junkie ...I ate carbs along with high fat foods at every meal....although I never ate a lot of food....my appetite was suppressed...what she taught me was to keep the good high fats and to ditch the carbs ......and wooohooo I am healthy again ...thank you Dr Angarhard Powell and Dietdoctor for helping me so much to get my health back ....yes after 19 months if I am honest ...I have a few higher carb days....but overall I am eating a healthy low carb high fat diet and I am fasting because I am so full naturally for 16 hours a day ...the two combined have left me well again ...I eat now when I am hungry and I stop when I am full...I do not count calories or anything ...I just eat and am healthy ...thank you for realeasing me from being absorbed in food...I now no longer am ...and best bit...I am now well and no longer Insulin resistant along side Metabolic Syndrone !
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Maggie
March 27
I will also say that my older sister is in trouble with her diabetes...she is in a terrible state and now has gone from tablets to injections...I have told her about a low carb high fat diet and she has told me to go away ...because her diabetic team in the uk have told her to eat a high carb diet...my heart breaks as I watch her demise ...but she will not look at diet doctor or listen to me ...because she says that her uk diabetic team know what is best...watching her go downhill is awful to watch...when simple changes to her diet could help her so much ...take care all
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Carol
March 28
That’s sad. One last throw of the dice might be Diabetes UK. They advocate low carb. She might look at them. Otherwise we can’t blame ourselves for the action of others.