Dr. Fung was the first I saw that got me started on fasting and low carb six years ago. It has worked well for me.I am no longer diabetic and lost 75 pounds without meds.
That's my story too. Jason Fung is my most valued authority. I think intermittent fasting is the most critical technique and continue fasting 12 to 18 hours a day. It's very comfortable and effective.
@@roughout how long you do it regularly? Be warned that your metabolism will slow after some time. I am the example. Best way to maintain faster metabolism is to randomize/switch fasting and feastings. So not alwas same fasting at same time, because body will adapt and slow you: cold hands/feets, slower thoughs, less rest metabolic rate +thats the worst+. No matter how less calories you eat, your body will burn daily less and less and less and even a little more increase of calories will result in fat gain...
I eat generally once a day and keto mostly carnivore. I don't have any problem with eating enough but I know some do. I vary the times and prefer eating mid afternoon. My rule is only real food if it has an ingredient label I probably won't eat it.
Following Dr fungs protocol & keto I reversed my T2D in six months after being on meds for ten years. I’ve now lost 75lbs in 7 months with 25more to go. 🎉
Congratulations people like urself are real motivation for me and the rest iam on a journey of reversing mines atleast trying,lost a lot of weight so far and my morning glucose sits at 5.7 but spikes up after a small meal so got some work to do yet.
I’m a T1 diabetic following Dr. Bernstein’s LCHP lifestyle and I also use intermittent fasting (OMAD) and decreased insulin by 86% & lost 80 lbs. it’s not one approach, but a multitude of strategies to get healthy. My A1c is 5.2 and I’m happy!
That is amazing. Thank you for sharing your experience. For me, every success story builds the pressure for a formal study that will prove that the process works.
I like Dr. Jason Fung & give him credit for walking w kings & not losing the common touch. I mean his books & everything out of his mouth is crystal. That's an accomplishment in itself👏
A co-worker nagged me for six months to read Doctor Jason Fung's book, The Diabetes Code. In October 2018 I started fasting. According to how I understand Dr Fung's book, I also went low carb high fat in the meals between fasts. In practice, I ate a lot of barbecue chicken wings. It worked great. I lost 20 kilogram in about five months. I was ecstatic. My family doctor never really bought into the idea that I might be doing the right thing. He was happy I was losing weight. My family doctor said he was surprised that I was losing weight on my own, not following his advice to eat 5 small meals a day, 300 calories each meal. He used to tell me not to eat fat. He used to tell me to have an apple about 11 pm so I would not get low blood sugar while I was sleeping. Almost everything he told me, Dr Fung's book told me the opposite. My family doctor has been my doctor for many years, all through the years I became fat and diabetic. When I following Dr Fung's book, My body weight came down. My A1C came down. I came off insulin injections.
That's very common with some older family docs. I dropped 200lbs and reversed everything including t2 diabetes almost 8 years ago. At 61 now, I switched to a younger doctor who actually gets it!!
@@chrisedler6758 lucky you , its so hard in Canada to find such a doctor ,many lost there practice ,because they did NOT follow the narrative during the last 3 years ,
Another interesting book is "lies my doctor told me" by Dr. Ken Berry. Pretty much the same things your doc was taught or just by going with "guidelines " . I had a similar issue with my doctor, but figured it out and lost 202lbs 9 years ago and have kept it off since.
@@jennifermarlow. I've been traveling during the holiday and ended up fasting for a day on some off days; really impacted my sugars dropping them up to 40 points
Jason Fung explained that he started with low carb, but working in a public hospital with rather older patients, he tried to explain them what they could eat but they were confused about what is a carb and what is not and that’s how he came to fasting. It was easier for the people to understand and implement.
Also, some patients from various parts of Asia are reluctant to give up rice entirely, and Dr. Fung found that fasting let them reduce carbohydrate intake even if they didn’t give up rice.
I started with keto and migrated to carnivore. I quickly went to eating one meal a day simply because I wasn't hungry more often. Lost over 100 lbs in 16 months. 66 years old and feel better than 30 years ago!
Yes, that was my experience. Grocery bill is lower. Much simpler since I hate cooking and cleaning. Also, I'm a carb addict so I do better without all those keto recipes that "replace" the high carb ones.
I also do not ever get hungry anymore. When I used to calorie restrict I was always starving to death. Now I eat during my eating window because the food is so very DELICIOUS!!!
I am 65 , started carnivore 5 weeks ago. Slow and steady my sugar has dropped from an average of 178 to 130. Around 6.2 A1c I have lost 15 pounds. I stopped taking metformin and have lowered my insulin units from 52 per day to 25. This morning my fasting sugar was 94 . I am very grateful to have these forums to read and interact. God bless all of you doctors who care enough to research and lead so many of us to healthier diets.
Dr. Fung works with a lot of South Asian patients who eat high carb traditionally and find it too difficult or confusing to change their diet in a radical way. It is easier and more practical to advise these patients to eat within time frames or do a longer fast.
Plus he advises them to eliminate sugar since their traditional diets also were low in sugar. We know from the research of Dr. Johnson and Lustig have shown that sugar is more dangerous than starches because half of it is fructose and fructose is just metabolized by the liver while glucose can be metabolized in all tissues of the body. So people that eat a lot of sugar are more likely to quickly get fatty liver disease. That's one of the reasons that we're seeing fatty liver disease in children with their increase in consumption of sugar and sugary drinks
Yes, I had an A1C of 12.9 and got it to 4.9 doing keto and intermittent fasting in 3 months. I then went carnivore and continue to do intermittent fasting and my A1C went from 4.9 to 4.5. So thankful for doctors who help us freely.
@@row_chee1385 I took the one pill of metformin for the initial 3 months (Sept-Dec of 2022) once my doc saw my A1C come down to 4.9 they agreed to take me off the medicine. My A1C has since remained 4.5-4.4 with avg glucose of 80 even two years later - meds free (meds for diabetes anyhow)
For some of us, fasting is easier because we're all or nothing. I have an easier time eating only in a narrow window because once I start I don't shut it off easily.
Exactly. If my eating window is closed I just say no to that cookie. When I used to restrict calories I would say to myself that one cookie would not hurt anything. But did I only eat one cookie once I got started? It's a rabbit hole. So grateful for Dr. Fung!!!
Dear Dr. Westman, I have found that combining KETO and Intermittent Fasting provides the best result. Tried both separately at first but after I combined the two, I regained my health and fully reversed Type 2 Diabetes and lost some 85 lbs of body fat in only 6 months! As an experienced athlete in my younger days, I never imagined the results I got with traditional known diet and exercise plans! This has now become a lifestyle.... Thank you for your great work and educational videos....
My A1C was 5.3 yesterday, first time taken since weaning off off all my meds (used to be dependent on insulin & metformin for a decade). Not to mention, blood pressure is 110/68, better now than when I was in my 20s (off those meds too, at age 54). After years & years of struggling to keep my health/labs under control while doing the 6 meal per day ADA recommended diets that always left me hungry and stressed, I've found extreme low carb (keto/carnivore) and intermittent fasting literally saved my life-- not only making me healthier, but I so much more enjoy what I eat, I'm satiated, and it's just easier than running around always trying to balance small meals & snacks.
that's just great in one week going low carb and 18/6 fast my daily blood sugar went from 10.1 to 5.6 and lost 5 pounds , its AMAZING , my doctor was surprised but didn't ask what I did . but said we need to bring your cholesterol down , I said NO!!
@@oldbiker9739 That is amazing progress in just a week, keep it up!!! Did you see the videos from that engineer who found that the more saturated fat he ate in days before his cholesterol test, the lower it went? Since seeing his home experiments I've stopped worrying about chol.
As an endocrinologist who has been practicing for 25 years i would agree with Dr Fung. This has been used and has been advised by John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and UCL Hospital at London.
I learned so much from Dr Jason Fung! Lots of educational videos, and his books. Expose of medical system, humility , and a contagious attitude of gratitude. One of my heroes, for sure! Makes things so understandable!
Dr. Fung was one of my first vloggers who inspired me to change my diet. Dr. Berg helped put meat on the bones when it comes to how to eat Keto and do Intermittent fasting and now I mostly listen to Dr. Westman to get critical analysis of the Keto//Carnivore world to make sure I’m not following questionable advise . My doctor and the blood work/calcium scans he does is my last line of defense to make sure what I’m doing continues to contribute to good health and not causing long-term harm.
I started intermittent fasting after listening to Jason Fung in Jan 2022 after hip replacement surgery. After a year I lost about 10kg. The beginning of 2023 I continued with IF but tried keto ( below 20g carbs per day) and carnivore for 3 months. The health benefits have been awesome and I’ve gone from 89kg to 64-65kg now. Thanks to you and all the doctors out there educating us! I really appreciate it! 👍👍👍
I'm a T2d reversed by keto. This was eye opening for me to hear Dr Westman say, "insulin stops the body from burning fat"!!! For some reason, I could never get it until now. Why T2d people using injectable insulin continue to get fatter ... & definitely not fitter.
listened to jason a couple of years ago when i went down the wellbeing rabbit hole, i like his attitude, teaching none medical people about health the right, no BS pharma way.
I absolutely believe that fasting reversed my type 2 diabetes. I had lost a lot of weight doing keto, but hadn’t been able to get off of the meds. Once I started to throw in some extended fasting ……there ya go! Was able to go off the type 2 medication. Then continued with IF and also keto, and still diabetes free to this day and I still have some more weight to lose.
@@almaburns6562 at the very least, every day I was intermittent fasting. I generally follow an 18/6 IF schedule. And also everyday was doing a ketogenic diet. Then on occasion I would do a 3 day fast. Every once in a while I did 5 day fasts. Then a few times a year did a 7 day fast. So, of course all of that time before that I had been doing a keto diet for years (had lost a lot of weight) before I stumbled upon fasting. Also playing with carnivore and OMAD. In the late 90’s I had cancer twice. Just a couple of years apart. Knew if I didn’t start taking my health seriously I would die. Second cancer (triple negative breast cancer) they gave me a 5 year life expectancy. And told me *when* the cancer would come back it would metastasize in my brain, bones, or lungs. Through lots of research decided keto would be my best bet to live a bit longer. That was about 20 years ago from the breast cancer :-) and 22 years since the endometrial cancer. Oh, and about 180 lbs ago :-)
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I read a couple of his books a few years ago and my main take away was reduce the area under your insulin vs. time curve and weight loss and improved health are the results. Eating low carb and being in ketosis makes lengthening the time between meals a breeze. I never tried any sort of fasting while eating high carb. I'd think that would be miserable. Low carb is definitely the driver.
63, male, Down over 60lbs in 9 months, a1c down from an all time high of 8.2 in 2022 to 5.3 in September. Ketovore , still eating broccoli a few days a week..fasting intermittently... about to step up to carnivore and a little more focus on fasting... blood pressure is better than I've ever had it.. It doesn't match up with anything I used to accept as healthy eating... Now I feel so good I want to tell everybody I know
Hey now. Dr. Jason Fung is my weight loss guru. He was there for me when I started. 11 months later, I'm down 96 lbs. Off all my diabetic meds and eating healthy meals on omad. I send everyone who asks straight to him. I am my own hero, but you're right beside me doctor. Thank you❤.
I lost 96lbs five years ago and kept it out due to fasting and Dr. Fung. I'm not a doctor, but I was an obese person with a food addiction for most of my life , now I'm not.
Thank you Dr Westman for your calm soothing voice in your keto approach. I too started my TH-cam journey with Dr Fung before I knew what keto was. I feel that your page 4 is the best for me. I keep it on my frig. You are a very smart doctor and I love listening to you.
I started with fasting (timed eating) . Lost 40#. Then transitioned to Keto, lost another 15#. Combine the two now and maintain my weight within a 5# range effortlessly for the first time in my life. No longer suffer from HighBP, pain of Osteoarthritis, GERD, AFib, and am off all medication. I am not currently exercising (icy and wintery here) but soon will begin walking 2 miles a day again. So happy Dr Westman didn’t disregard Dr Atkinson study. Westman, Fung, Cywes, and Berry are stars.
For anyone more curious for deeper details on fasting, Dr. Pradip Jamnadas has two lectures on YT that goes over it in great detail. Insulin, what foods to eat/avoid, diabetes, the mechanics of how it works, how addiction works, etc. I've done a 48 hr fast (carnivore) and I've been doing IF. I was lowkey shocked by how better I felt during day 2. It may take a while, but you do have to go low carb. And drink your electrolytes and water. I plan on doing more 48 hrs fast, (it really helps my healing digestion) maybe I can get to 3 or 4 day fasts where the real benefits spike.
Dr Eric your sincere gentle style comes across extremely well in your videos. Thank you for helping us humans to living better more healthy life styles.
Thank you Dr Westman. Best advice from the sea of youtube advisers. I've lost 7.7 kg in 7 weeks through following your advice, diet and 1 hour of swimming per day. Thank you for starting me on my journey .
I love your Dr Westman reacts series and Dr Fung is my hero and I was very happy that you mostly supported his methods of helping people (like myself) change their health for the better. Obviously I trust your judgment as well.
Fasting is not easy if your eating carbs, I can't do it because the carbs make me hungry, But if I cut all carbs and only eat meat and eggs, I can fast for 16 to 24 hrs no problem, I'm on a lot of heart medication, so the cardiologist has told me to not fast longer than 24 hrs, basically he doesn't want me taking to many pills on an empty stomach. So I'm very low or no carbs, and 16 and 8 weekdays, breakfast on the weekend and skip lunch, working for me .
Dr Fung's original clinic catchment population was multicultural and sociocultural strugglers for whom fasting (usually for religious reasons) was not a foreign concept. It was quite acceptable to his patient population whereas removing carbs from a traditional diet was problematic. Because he was dealing with very sick people, his clinic used 'therapeutic fasting'; mostly alternate day fasting and longer fasts (under supervision for anything greater than three days).
I have always liked Dr.Fong. Now I have another Doctor I like. This is in fact that simple and I do like your caution . Both your styles complement each other. Neither one of you say the other diets are wrong (unlike the other guys who hate you) in fact you suggest their way may work for some. The patient in the end is your concern, as it should always be. Maybe the rest will realise that concept and they too make their first concert the patient.
There is a lot of trials and research from a hundred years ago. So many good books on fasting out there. A hundred years ago and before fasting was much more common in treatment including much longer fasts than are mostly used today.
The time restriction to eating/fasting can be very useful for someone who has overeating as a habit. Until they can overcome the mental hunger (i.e. habit, boredom, or emotional comfort) and be able to make the distinction between that and actual physical hunger. Minimizing insulin spikes and increasing the overall satiety of the food can help with that journey, but people may be coming from many years or decades of habit forming experience. And a defined time restriction can help be a guardrail on that journey.
Thanks for all your great advice. I really enjoy watching your videos, they provide a lot of knowledge and are very helpful on a daily basis in choosing food when shopping, etc. Thank you ❤✨
Enjoyed this video. Also enjoyed reading all the success stories in the comments 😊❤. This shows that low carb and fasting both work. Agree that fasting and LC are related and like Dr.Westman said, Fasting is a subset (literally no carb, no nothing for a period of time!). Both work depending on what you’re willing or able to do. Trust the process. I Respect both of these men immensely and am forever grateful to them for giving us the tools to save our health! Blessings and good health to all who read this. We can get better ☀️❤️
Fung and fasting made me start this journey. I lost a lot of weight, felt a lot better, and at one point I realised I felt much fuller eating meat, which led me to carnivore, and that gave me muscle and energy. It's 3 years and 100 lbs ago. I'm great, but I still wonder if Fungs model (with low carb) isn't a better way to live a daily life...
Exactly. After 5 years of IF and prolonged fasting I felt I lost GLUT4 receptors as well as bone (as shown on dexascan.) imo It may not even a great idea for young people to do years of prolonged fasting because youth is when you build the most bone and muscle..
I, too, am happy to say intermittent fasting worked for me. I only eat once a day, no carbs at all. I don't take any medicines. My doctor subscribed to Ozeptic. I took it for a few months and stopped taking it last September. I am much happier to use fasting and eating food that is good for me. And yes I have lost 65 pounds but what I like is that my inflammation has stopped too. Thanks to all the doctors discussing using food instead of drugs.
Do you just eat one meal in a one hour window or half hour like mid afternoon?.. How many years..Are you losing weight and has that weight plateaued?..Or are you doing OMAD for general good health reasons?. How is your blood sugar levels? thx
I eat one meal around 4:30 or 5, I eat til im stuffed, takes about 30 min. Any snacks or extras get eaten in that window. I've been living this way for 2 years, dropped 50 pounds in the first 5 months with Keto, went Ketovore at 18 months and now doing mostly carnivore. I am 52 and in the BEST shape of my life, I could beat my 22 year old self with EASE at anything. No pain, and energy for everything and anything! I am 5'9" and 170 for 2 years, working on adding some muscle so daily gym. I do omad because I get some Autophagy benefit, now that my body is cleaned out, I don't need 5 day fasts or anything crazy. Blood sugar is perfect, remove the carbs, remove the issue.@@1Mannco
Dr. Fung is taking a particular approach in this talk, making it accessible, making it 'easy' - you tend to go a bit deeper but overall you guys are playing for the same team!! Its okay to be a bit different as long as you're generally in agreement.
I'm on mainly an OMAD fasting, with occasional 20/ 4 fasting time window. I believe it's indispensable to good health and the keto or carnivore diets. I think vegans can practice it too but wonder if they'd have nutrient problems because of their lack of animal foods.
Fasting has been a double edged sword for me. After four days of no calories my blood sugar was 418. Intermittent fasting HAS fixed my fatty liver, but extended fasting is not for me.
@@Rob-w5p I do take insulin, but I thought that not eating would eliminate the need for insulin. I have repeated the fasting, but I keep a close watch on my blood sugar and administer insulin as necessary. This seriously impacts the weight loss and makes me question whether extended fasting is worth it for me.
Your body thinks you are starving and makes the liver start cranking out glucose. My theory is most of that glucose production comes from lean tissue. I am with you- no thank you.
I had a very bad Type 2 diabetes for over 15 years and was on NPH and regular insulin with several diabetic pills and was very sick. complications of this condition my lungs, liver, kidneys, and the Harte was affected badly. also gain weight very generously. so i search about intermittent fasting. base on this information I decided to stop all the diabetic medication and started intermittent fasting and the result was unbelievable and now I am a diabetes free
Dr. Fung was one of the first people he found. Intermittent fasting has helped me tremendously. I would love to meet Dr. Fung and Dr. Westman and have a nice conversation. They both have a lot of knowledge to offer.
He nailed it. I used the gas/car analogy 15 years ago in something I sent out to people. You don’t keep pumping gas into a full tank. Same thing with your body. Extra gas in your body turns to stored gas (fat) via insulin. Insulin is like the taxi cab that shepherds the gas around your body. Stop loading and overloading your body with excess gas (sugar-carbs). You don’t need to go to the gas station every couple hours to top off your tank. You can go when your tank gets further towards empty ie. skip the between meal and extra meal eating (consuming). If you do this early in life it not only becomes your healthy habit, you’re not spending a lifetime abusing body produced insulin, so it’s very likely,y you’ll never get pre diabetes let alone diabetes. It’s so simple. I wish someone explained this to us (me) when I was a teenager. Instead, we have the food industry via advertising and propaganda (backward food pyramid) telling us the exact opposite all day long every day while we remained ignorant of the metabolic science of our body. How could that happen in the 20th and 21st century? Greed and stupidity.
The number of times I’ve told people that I’m a type 1 diabetic and eat one or two meals a day, only to be told smugly and sententiously that I MUST EAT SIX SMALL MEALS A DAY for my health… it seems countless. So now I mostly don’t talk about being nearly a carnivore and not eating often. Sometimes it’s best to keep my mouth shut.
I like this guy's approach. He's not bashing it, he's just being honest and objective. Not a scientifice statement here, but there is a reason various cultures and religions throughout the world have traditions of fasting.
Don’t diss Dr Fung until you listen to him and read his books … Dr. Fung ALSO promotes eating ketogenically WHILE intermittent fasting. Keto alone is just not enough for some patients.
Dr Westman speaks highly of Dr Fung and says that both ways work well but fasting is easier and more efficient coupled with a keto diet... No dismissal! ..
Dr Fung is one of the best doctors on TH-cam and one whom I totally trust and follow. His take on IF to cure diabetes as well as hypertension is brilliant! I, plus so many others who followed Dr Fung, have seen results. I love Dr Fung and his work to help human kind! I hope he doesn’t stop.
Great video. Since 2020, I've been keto with fasting (primarily 20:4, with periodic multi-day fasts). I've achieved great results and feel fantastic. The area where I struggle the most is knowing when to quit eating, when my eating window is open. I can't count the number of times that I've heard the adage "You can eat all of the animal protein and fat you want. Your body will tell you when you've eaten enough." Although I want to believe that, it just hasn't proven true for me. It's easy for me to fast, but once I start to eat, I want to eat everything in sight. If it's on my plate (or nearby), by God, I'm gonna eat it. LOL So, I have to be really careful when my eating window is open that I eat only a reasonable amount of food/calories (even with all of the calories being 'quality' calories/foods). I believe that the Energy Model and Insulin Model have to be used together, to achieve substantial fat-loss and metabolic-improvement results. The low-carb, fasting lifestyle has greatly improved my quality of life and, probably, my lifespan, too.
Just to add on to what I've already said, I loved Dr. Fung's statement that even when you overeat for a period of time (such as during the holidays), it's easy to get back on track, but simply restricted windows and/or by going back to very low carb. I've had my friends tell me, "I've blown my diet, and have ruined myself." That's just not true. Cut the insulin levels, by fating and/or keto, and you'll get right back on the wagon. This lifestyle (blood glucose lowering) is sooooooooo much better than the calorie-restriction method (by itself) that has been preached for so many years.
I can't hear the name of the 1923 book he has on low carb/diabetes study?! Can someone comment please?! Thanks Dr. Westman you are amazing...and Dr. Fung!!!!❤
I just want to say about the large long term safety study’s those cost a lot of money to run. And there’s no money to be made. So we will probably never have those. But with the number of people now doing intermittent fasting and all the people who have done fasting throughout history if it was harmful we certainly would know it by now! I know personally nothing worked for me till I started intermittent fasting I’m down 35lbs and no longer considered pre diabetic. Still on my journey and I’ve got a ways to go but I’m sold! So personally for me stay away from sugar, gluten, processed foods and intermittent fast. With occasional 2 or 3 day fasts. It’s been game changing! I’m not willing to not eat fruits or higher carb veggies. Those are healthy foods, so I want to keep them in my diet.
Primero leo todos los comentarios porque alienta mucho saber que estamos en el camino correcto Muchas gracias al Dr fung y decenas de médicos que hacen la labor. En México el personal médico te sigue indicando una dieta comiendo 5 veces al dia y dandote muchos medicamentos. Yo los ignore, lei los libros del dr Jason Fung y heme aqui sin medicación, sin diabetes, ayuno Intertermitente, comiendo cetogenico y _a veces low carb_ Mi agradecimiento a los medicos que nos ayudan sin esperar nada a cambio con esta información super valiosa que _literalmente nos salva la vida_
Dr. Fung was the first I saw that got me started on fasting and low carb six years ago. It has worked well for me.I am no longer diabetic and lost 75 pounds without meds.
That’s very good
That's my story too. Jason Fung is my most valued authority. I think intermittent fasting is the most critical technique and continue fasting 12 to 18 hours a day. It's very comfortable and effective.
@@roughout how long you do it regularly? Be warned that your metabolism will slow after some time. I am the example. Best way to maintain faster metabolism is to randomize/switch fasting and feastings. So not alwas same fasting at same time, because body will adapt and slow you: cold hands/feets, slower thoughs, less rest metabolic rate +thats the worst+. No matter how less calories you eat, your body will burn daily less and less and less and even a little more increase of calories will result in fat gain...
I eat generally once a day and keto mostly carnivore. I don't have any problem with eating enough but I know some do. I vary the times and prefer eating mid afternoon. My rule is only real food if it has an ingredient label I probably won't eat it.
Same, 8 years keto no meds A1C usually 4.8 to 5.1 lost 75 1bs. Intermittent fasting, variable times. I am so thankful for Dr Fung!
Following Dr fungs protocol & keto I reversed my T2D in six months after being on meds for ten years. I’ve now lost 75lbs in 7 months with 25more to go. 🎉
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Great Job!
Amazing! The lost secrets of medicine.
Congratulations people like urself are real motivation for me and the rest iam on a journey of reversing mines atleast trying,lost a lot of weight so far and my morning glucose sits at 5.7 but spikes up after a small meal so got some work to do yet.
I am 55 was a diabetic for 20 years but since starting fasting last February I am no longer a diabetic and my knees feel like I am in my 20s
How many hours do fast
What's your routine?
Please share your fasting routine and diet?
Sir please give me advice how you do it. Thank you sir
Lost 70lbs following Dr Fung. He's awesome. Works for me.
I’m a T1 diabetic following Dr. Bernstein’s LCHP lifestyle and I also use intermittent fasting (OMAD) and decreased insulin by 86% & lost 80 lbs. it’s not one approach, but a multitude of strategies to get healthy. My A1c is 5.2 and I’m happy!
That is amazing. Thank you for sharing your experience. For me, every success story builds the pressure for a formal study that will prove that the process works.
Type 1 ?
I like Dr. Jason Fung & give him credit for walking w kings & not losing the common touch. I mean his books & everything out of his mouth is crystal. That's an accomplishment in itself👏
A co-worker nagged me for six months to read Doctor Jason Fung's book, The Diabetes Code. In October 2018 I started fasting. According to how I understand Dr Fung's book, I also went low carb high fat in the meals between fasts. In practice, I ate a lot of barbecue chicken wings. It worked great. I lost 20 kilogram in about five months. I was ecstatic. My family doctor never really bought into the idea that I might be doing the right thing. He was happy I was losing weight.
My family doctor said he was surprised that I was losing weight on my own, not following his advice to eat 5 small meals a day, 300 calories each meal. He used to tell me not to eat fat. He used to tell me to have an apple about 11 pm so I would not get low blood sugar while I was sleeping. Almost everything he told me, Dr Fung's book told me the opposite. My family doctor has been my doctor for many years, all through the years I became fat and diabetic. When I following Dr Fung's book, My body weight came down. My A1C came down. I came off insulin injections.
That's very common with some older family docs. I dropped 200lbs and reversed everything including t2 diabetes almost 8 years ago. At 61 now, I switched to a younger doctor who actually gets it!!
@@chrisedler6758 lucky you , its so hard in Canada to find such a doctor ,many lost there practice ,because they did NOT follow the narrative during the last 3 years ,
@@chrisedler6758 Lucky finding such a doctor
Another interesting book is "lies my doctor told me" by Dr. Ken Berry. Pretty much the same things your doc was taught or just by going with "guidelines " . I had a similar issue with my doctor, but figured it out and lost 202lbs 9 years ago and have kept it off since.
@@jennifermarlow. I've been traveling during the holiday and ended up fasting for a day on some off days; really impacted my sugars dropping them up to 40 points
Jason Fung explained that he started with low carb, but working in a public hospital with rather older patients, he tried to explain them what they could eat but they were confused about what is a carb and what is not and that’s how he came to fasting. It was easier for the people to understand and implement.
Makes sense 👍
Also, some patients from various parts of Asia are reluctant to give up rice entirely, and Dr. Fung found that fasting let them reduce carbohydrate intake even if they didn’t give up rice.
Does this work on people with idiopathic diabetes?
I started with keto and migrated to carnivore. I quickly went to eating one meal a day simply because I wasn't hungry more often. Lost over 100 lbs in 16 months. 66 years old and feel better than 30 years ago!
Yes, that was my experience. Grocery bill is lower. Much simpler since I hate cooking and cleaning. Also, I'm a carb addict so I do better without all those keto recipes that "replace" the high carb ones.
And Betsey you are paying for Dr or pills!
I also do not ever get hungry anymore. When I used to calorie restrict I was always starving to death. Now I eat during my eating window because the food is so very DELICIOUS!!!
@@CarnivoreNanaAre not or aren't?
I am 65 , started carnivore 5 weeks ago. Slow and steady my sugar has dropped from an average of 178 to 130. Around 6.2 A1c I have lost 15 pounds. I stopped taking metformin and have lowered my insulin units from 52 per day to 25. This morning my fasting sugar was 94 . I am very grateful to have these forums to read and interact. God bless all of you doctors who care enough to research and lead so many of us to healthier diets.
Dr. Fung works with a lot of South Asian patients who eat high carb traditionally and find it too difficult or confusing to change their diet in a radical way. It is easier and more practical to advise these patients to eat within time frames or do a longer fast.
Plus he advises them to eliminate sugar since their traditional diets also were low in sugar. We know from the research of Dr. Johnson and Lustig have shown that sugar is more dangerous than starches because half of it is fructose and fructose is just metabolized by the liver while glucose can be metabolized in all tissues of the body. So people that eat a lot of sugar are more likely to quickly get fatty liver disease. That's one of the reasons that we're seeing fatty liver disease in children with their increase in consumption of sugar and sugary drinks
Trouble is if you run on carbs your hunger makes it hard not to eat every few hours.
Yes, I had an A1C of 12.9 and got it to 4.9 doing keto and intermittent fasting in 3 months. I then went carnivore and continue to do intermittent fasting and my A1C went from 4.9 to 4.5. So thankful for doctors who help us freely.
Were you on meds?
@@row_chee1385 I took the one pill of metformin for the initial 3 months (Sept-Dec of 2022) once my doc saw my A1C come down to 4.9 they agreed to take me off the medicine. My A1C has since remained 4.5-4.4 with avg glucose of 80 even two years later - meds free (meds for diabetes anyhow)
Fung is one of the best Dr's that is practicing.
For some of us, fasting is easier because we're all or nothing. I have an easier time eating only in a narrow window because once I start I don't shut it off easily.
This ^ . Also i hate cooking.
As a lifelong procrastinator, "doing nothing" fits right in with my lifestyle. LOL. Sad but true, it's a natural thing. And it works!
Lol me neither 😂
Exactly. If my eating window is closed I just say no to that cookie. When I used to restrict calories I would say to myself that one cookie would not hurt anything. But did I only eat one cookie once I got started? It's a rabbit hole. So grateful for Dr. Fung!!!
@@tom-u8k6y so what do you eat if you don't like to cook ?
Dear Dr. Westman, I have found that combining KETO and Intermittent Fasting provides the best result. Tried both separately at first but after I combined the two, I regained my health and fully reversed Type 2 Diabetes and lost some 85 lbs of body fat in only 6 months! As an experienced athlete in my younger days, I never imagined the results I got with traditional known diet and exercise plans! This has now become a lifestyle.... Thank you for your great work and educational videos....
My A1C was 5.3 yesterday, first time taken since weaning off off all my meds (used to be dependent on insulin & metformin for a decade). Not to mention, blood pressure is 110/68, better now than when I was in my 20s (off those meds too, at age 54). After years & years of struggling to keep my health/labs under control while doing the 6 meal per day ADA recommended diets that always left me hungry and stressed, I've found extreme low carb (keto/carnivore) and intermittent fasting literally saved my life-- not only making me healthier, but I so much more enjoy what I eat, I'm satiated, and it's just easier than running around always trying to balance small meals & snacks.
Same here but I was not as bad as u were but was well on my way! A1C is now 5.5 after struggling with 6.7 and heavy meds… off all meds now!
that's just great in one week going low carb and 18/6 fast my daily blood sugar went from 10.1 to 5.6 and lost 5 pounds , its AMAZING , my doctor was surprised but didn't ask what I did . but said we need to bring your cholesterol down , I said NO!!
So glad you turned it around before it got worse!!! @@skepticalmechanic
@@oldbiker9739 That is amazing progress in just a week, keep it up!!! Did you see the videos from that engineer who found that the more saturated fat he ate in days before his cholesterol test, the lower it went? Since seeing his home experiments I've stopped worrying about chol.
yes I did it was fantastic we need more engineered type doctors .
As an endocrinologist who has been practicing for 25 years i would agree with Dr Fung.
This has been used and has been advised by John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, and UCL Hospital at London.
Both Dr. Westman and Dr. Fung are medical heroes! Both of them got me on the right track - fasting knowledge and low carb meals. Many thanks you two!
I learned so much from Dr Jason Fung! Lots of educational videos, and his books. Expose of medical system, humility , and a contagious attitude of gratitude. One of my heroes, for sure! Makes things so understandable!
The style of presenting Dr. Fung’s seminars with your presentation I found to be very good
I really like Dr Fung . He is one of my Favs to follow ! I love his sense of humor ! Things that make you go,hummm?🤔
Love Dr Fung! His videos on keto are what got me started on losing 120 lbs and a ton of non-scale issues.
Dr. Fung was one of my first vloggers who inspired me to change my diet. Dr. Berg helped put meat on the bones when it comes to how to eat Keto and do Intermittent fasting and now I mostly listen to Dr. Westman to get critical analysis of the Keto//Carnivore world to make sure I’m not following questionable advise . My doctor and the blood work/calcium scans he does is my last line of defense to make sure what I’m doing continues to contribute to good health and not causing long-term harm.
Exactly what happened to me
I started intermittent fasting after listening to Jason Fung in Jan 2022 after hip replacement surgery. After a year I lost about 10kg. The beginning of 2023 I continued with IF but tried keto ( below 20g carbs per day) and carnivore for 3 months. The health benefits have been awesome and I’ve gone from 89kg to 64-65kg now. Thanks to you and all the doctors out there educating us! I really appreciate it! 👍👍👍
Love your message Dr Westman, precise insights delivered with such humility 👏✌️
I'm a T2d reversed by keto. This was eye opening for me to hear Dr Westman say, "insulin stops the body from burning fat"!!! For some reason, I could never get it until now. Why T2d people using injectable insulin continue to get fatter ... & definitely not fitter.
listened to jason a couple of years ago when i went down the wellbeing rabbit hole, i like his attitude, teaching none medical people about health the right, no BS pharma way.
As for food costs, I just generally require less food now that I eat 1.5 times a day and don't snack
I absolutely believe that fasting reversed my type 2 diabetes. I had lost a lot of weight doing keto, but hadn’t been able to get off of the meds. Once I started to throw in some extended fasting ……there ya go! Was able to go off the type 2 medication. Then continued with IF and also keto, and still diabetes free to this day and I still have some more weight to lose.
What was your extended fasting schedule like--how long did you fast each time to reverse your diabetes?
@@almaburns6562 at the very least, every day I was intermittent fasting. I generally follow an 18/6 IF schedule. And also everyday was doing a ketogenic diet. Then on occasion I would do a 3 day fast. Every once in a while I did 5 day fasts. Then a few times a year did a 7 day fast. So, of course all of that time before that I had been doing a keto diet for years (had lost a lot of weight) before I stumbled upon fasting. Also playing with carnivore and OMAD. In the late 90’s I had cancer twice. Just a couple of years apart. Knew if I didn’t start taking my health seriously I would die. Second cancer (triple negative breast cancer) they gave me a 5 year life expectancy. And told me *when* the cancer would come back it would metastasize in my brain, bones, or lungs. Through lots of research decided keto would be my best bet to live a bit longer. That was about 20 years ago from the breast cancer :-) and 22 years since the endometrial cancer. Oh, and about 180 lbs ago :-)
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I read a couple of his books a few years ago and my main take away was reduce the area under your insulin vs. time curve and weight loss and improved health are the results. Eating low carb and being in ketosis makes lengthening the time between meals a breeze. I never tried any sort of fasting while eating high carb. I'd think that would be miserable. Low carb is definitely the driver.
I believe and follow Dr. Fung’s teaching. It has worked for me.
I learnt about IF by listening to Dr Fung’s lectures. I also watched his video on how corrupt the entire medical industry has become. He is awesome.
63, male, Down over 60lbs in 9 months, a1c down from an all time high of 8.2 in 2022 to 5.3 in September. Ketovore , still eating broccoli a few days a week..fasting intermittently... about to step up to carnivore and a little more focus on fasting... blood pressure is better than I've ever had it..
It doesn't match up with anything I used to accept as healthy eating... Now I feel so good I want to tell everybody I know
another excellent commentary/reaction video! Go Dr Fung Go!
Hey now. Dr. Jason Fung is my weight loss guru. He was there for me when I started. 11 months later, I'm down 96 lbs. Off all my diabetic meds and eating healthy meals on omad. I send everyone who asks straight to him. I am my own hero, but you're right beside me doctor. Thank you❤.
I lost 96lbs five years ago and kept it out due to fasting and Dr. Fung. I'm not a doctor, but I was an obese person with a food addiction for most of my life , now I'm not.
Thank you Dr Westman for your calm soothing voice in your keto approach. I too started my TH-cam journey with Dr Fung before I knew what keto was. I feel that your page 4 is the best for me. I keep it on my frig. You are a very smart doctor and I love listening to you.
He is the best doctor to explain the science. I have page 4 on my frig too. Lost 30 lbs and at my goal.
I started with fasting (timed eating) . Lost 40#. Then transitioned to Keto, lost another 15#. Combine the two now and maintain my weight within a 5# range effortlessly for the first time in my life. No longer suffer from HighBP, pain of Osteoarthritis, GERD, AFib, and am off all medication. I am not currently exercising (icy and wintery here) but soon will begin walking 2 miles a day again. So happy Dr Westman didn’t disregard Dr Atkinson study. Westman, Fung, Cywes, and Berry are stars.
I"m a big fan of both Dr. Westman and Dr. Fung. Glad to see this video.
Dr fung's books are really interesting. Reading the one on cancer right now.
For anyone more curious for deeper details on fasting, Dr. Pradip Jamnadas has two lectures on YT that goes over it in great detail. Insulin, what foods to eat/avoid, diabetes, the mechanics of how it works, how addiction works, etc.
I've done a 48 hr fast (carnivore) and I've been doing IF. I was lowkey shocked by how better I felt during day 2. It may take a while, but you do have to go low carb. And drink your electrolytes and water. I plan on doing more 48 hrs fast, (it really helps my healing digestion) maybe I can get to 3 or 4 day fasts where the real benefits spike.
Thank you for adding your knowledge and commentary on Dr Fung's video!
Dr Eric your sincere gentle style comes across extremely well in your videos. Thank you for helping us humans to living better more healthy life styles.
Thank you Dr Westman. Best advice from the sea of youtube advisers. I've lost 7.7 kg in 7 weeks through following your advice, diet and 1 hour of swimming per day. Thank you for starting me on my journey .
That's great
I love your Dr Westman reacts series and Dr Fung is my hero and I was very happy that you mostly supported his methods of helping people (like myself) change their health for the better. Obviously I trust your judgment as well.
Fasting is not easy if your eating carbs, I can't do it because the carbs make me hungry, But if I cut all carbs and only eat meat and eggs, I can fast for 16 to 24 hrs no problem, I'm on a lot of heart medication, so the cardiologist has told me to not fast longer than 24 hrs, basically he doesn't want me taking to many pills on an empty stomach. So I'm very low or no carbs, and 16 and 8 weekdays, breakfast on the weekend and skip lunch, working for me .
I watched another video (can’t remember which one) but he said if you fast more than 24 hrs you lose muscle mass.
Dr Fung's original clinic catchment population was multicultural and sociocultural strugglers for whom fasting (usually for religious reasons) was not a foreign concept. It was quite acceptable to his patient population whereas removing carbs from a traditional diet was problematic. Because he was dealing with very sick people, his clinic used 'therapeutic fasting'; mostly alternate day fasting and longer fasts (under supervision for anything greater than three days).
I have been LCHF AND Intermittent fasting every day since 2017. No more diabetes. No more obesity. Prescription strength treatment.
Thank you for these videos. They are really helpful. We don't really know what to believe so we need you explain what is true and what is not.
I had a dear friend that due to medical reasons ended up fasting for an extended period of time, and she no longer needed insullin.
Thank you! I ❤ Dr. Fung!
I respect Dr. Fung abd Dr. Westman. Both are my favorites.
I have always liked Dr.Fong. Now I have another Doctor I like. This is in fact that simple and I do like your caution . Both your styles complement each other. Neither one of you say the other diets are wrong (unlike the other guys who hate you) in fact you suggest their way may work for some. The patient in the end is your concern, as it should always be. Maybe the rest will realise that concept and they too make their first concert the patient.
There is a lot of trials and research from a hundred years ago. So many good books on fasting out there. A hundred years ago and before fasting was much more common in treatment including much longer fasts than are mostly used today.
The time restriction to eating/fasting can be very useful for someone who has overeating as a habit. Until they can overcome the mental hunger (i.e. habit, boredom, or emotional comfort) and be able to make the distinction between that and actual physical hunger. Minimizing insulin spikes and increasing the overall satiety of the food can help with that journey, but people may be coming from many years or decades of habit forming experience. And a defined time restriction can help be a guardrail on that journey.
I love Dr Fung! He saved my quality of life, and as an older parent, saved my two children's quality of life.
Thanks for all your great advice. I really enjoy watching your videos, they provide a lot of knowledge and are very helpful on a daily basis in choosing food when shopping, etc. Thank you ❤✨
Enjoyed this video. Also enjoyed reading all the success stories in the comments 😊❤. This shows that low carb and fasting both work. Agree that fasting and LC are related and like Dr.Westman said, Fasting is a subset (literally no carb, no nothing for a period of time!). Both work depending on what you’re willing or able to do. Trust the process. I Respect both of these men immensely and am forever grateful to them for giving us the tools to save our health! Blessings and good health to all who read this. We can get better ☀️❤️
This video should be required viewing!
Wow, this is a bold claim! I'm curious to learn more about the science behind it.
I am diagnosed with diabtes II about 2 years ago. I do intermittend fasting, I eat low carb and managed the disease this way sucessfully. My A1HB 5.8
Good video lesson. Keto alone worked to get my blood sugar in range while controlling my cravings.
This is a great video, thank you Dr Westman.
Thank you for being part of the future
Fung and fasting made me start this journey. I lost a lot of weight, felt a lot better, and at one point I realised I felt much fuller eating meat, which led me to carnivore, and that gave me muscle and energy.
It's 3 years and 100 lbs ago.
I'm great, but I still wonder if Fungs model (with low carb) isn't a better way to live a daily life...
I have no comments at all but i just want to say, long live Dr Jason Fung and may God bless you.tq all
Best Dr. Westman reacts video so far.
My concern with fasting over 24 hours is diabetic sarcopenia. Loss of muscle means less places to absorb glucose from the blood.
Exactly. After 5 years of IF and prolonged fasting I felt I lost GLUT4 receptors as well as bone (as shown on dexascan.) imo It may not even a great idea for young people to do years of prolonged fasting because youth is when you build the most bone and muscle..
I, too, am happy to say intermittent fasting worked for me. I only eat once a day, no carbs at all. I don't take any medicines. My doctor subscribed to Ozeptic. I took it for a few months and stopped taking it last September. I am much happier to use fasting and eating food that is good for me. And yes I have lost 65 pounds but what I like is that my inflammation has stopped too. Thanks to all the doctors discussing using food instead of drugs.
This is not a dig, (I may be late to the party) but:
Oooh a positive react vid!
Thanks for all you (both) do!
I do OMAD, one meal a day, so I fast every day! I also do a 2 day fast from Sunday Til Tuesday because I LOVE Autophagy!
Do you just eat one meal in a one hour window or half hour like mid afternoon?.. How many years..Are you losing weight and has that weight plateaued?..Or are you doing OMAD for general good health reasons?. How is your blood sugar levels? thx
I eat one meal around 4:30 or 5, I eat til im stuffed, takes about 30 min. Any snacks or extras get eaten in that window. I've been living this way for 2 years, dropped 50 pounds in the first 5 months with Keto, went Ketovore at 18 months and now doing mostly carnivore. I am 52 and in the BEST shape of my life, I could beat my 22 year old self with EASE at anything. No pain, and energy for everything and anything! I am 5'9" and 170 for 2 years, working on adding some muscle so daily gym. I do omad because I get some Autophagy benefit, now that my body is cleaned out, I don't need 5 day fasts or anything crazy. Blood sugar is perfect, remove the carbs, remove the issue.@@1Mannco
Dr. Fung is taking a particular approach in this talk, making it accessible, making it 'easy' - you tend to go a bit deeper but overall you guys are playing for the same team!! Its okay to be a bit different as long as you're generally in agreement.
INGENIOUS CONTENT !
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I'm on mainly an OMAD fasting, with occasional 20/ 4 fasting time window. I believe it's indispensable to good health and the keto or carnivore diets. I think vegans can practice it too but wonder if they'd have nutrient problems because of their lack of animal foods.
Fasting has been a double edged sword for me. After four days of no calories my blood sugar was 418. Intermittent fasting HAS fixed my fatty liver, but extended fasting is not for me.
@@Rob-w5p I do take insulin, but I thought that not eating would eliminate the need for insulin. I have repeated the fasting, but I keep a close watch on my blood sugar and administer insulin as necessary. This seriously impacts the weight loss and makes me question whether extended fasting is worth it for me.
Your body thinks you are starving and makes the liver start cranking out glucose. My theory is most of that glucose production comes from lean tissue. I am with you- no thank you.
No denying the fact that Dr. Fung has changed the diet world. I love him and all of his books. ❤🎉
I had a very bad Type 2 diabetes for over 15 years and was on NPH and regular insulin with several diabetic pills and was very sick. complications of this condition my lungs, liver, kidneys, and the Harte was affected badly. also gain weight very generously. so i search about intermittent fasting. base on this information I decided to stop all the diabetic medication and started intermittent fasting and the result was unbelievable and now I am a diabetes free
I like Dr. Fung, fasting helped me.
The ketogenic diet has been called a fasting mimicking diet. So both work.and together, they are synergetic.
Dr. Fung was one of the first people he found. Intermittent fasting has helped me tremendously. I would love to meet Dr. Fung and Dr. Westman and have a nice conversation. They both have a lot of knowledge to offer.
That is wonderful. Good to know since I have type 2 diabetes.
He nailed it. I used the gas/car analogy 15 years ago in something I sent out to people. You don’t keep pumping gas into a full tank. Same thing with your body. Extra gas in your body turns to stored gas (fat) via insulin. Insulin is like the taxi cab that shepherds the gas around your body. Stop loading and overloading your body with excess gas (sugar-carbs). You don’t need to go to the gas station every couple hours to top off your tank. You can go when your tank gets further towards empty ie. skip the between meal and extra meal eating (consuming). If you do this early in life it not only becomes your healthy habit, you’re not spending a lifetime abusing body produced insulin, so it’s very likely,y you’ll never get pre diabetes let alone diabetes. It’s so simple. I wish someone explained this to us (me) when I was a teenager. Instead, we have the food industry via advertising and propaganda (backward food pyramid) telling us the exact opposite all day long every day while we remained ignorant of the metabolic science of our body. How could that happen in the 20th and 21st century? Greed and stupidity.
Great information, thanks so much, Blessings.
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The number of times I’ve told people that I’m a type 1 diabetic and eat one or two meals a day, only to be told smugly and sententiously that I MUST EAT SIX SMALL MEALS A DAY for my health… it seems countless. So now I mostly don’t talk about being nearly a carnivore and not eating often. Sometimes it’s best to keep my mouth shut.
I started intermittent fasting on 11/18/24. I have type two diabetes. I weigh 193 pounds. I am 5’8”.
Really enjoyed dr. Fung's humorous jokes, nd knowledge ❤️
I like this guy's approach. He's not bashing it, he's just being honest and objective. Not a scientifice statement here, but there is a reason various cultures and religions throughout the world have traditions of fasting.
love The Fungster! the Lord High Grandmaster Fung of Fasting Fungadelia.
Don’t diss Dr Fung until you listen to him and read his books … Dr. Fung ALSO promotes eating ketogenically WHILE intermittent fasting. Keto alone is just not enough for some patients.
Dr Westman speaks highly of Dr Fung and says that both ways work well but fasting is easier and more efficient coupled with a keto diet... No dismissal!
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Dr Fung is one of the best doctors on TH-cam and one whom I totally trust and follow. His take on IF to cure diabetes as well as hypertension is brilliant! I, plus so many others who followed Dr Fung, have seen results. I love Dr Fung and his work to help human kind! I hope he doesn’t stop.
buen video y excelente mensaje......saludos desde Panamá
Dr fung is correct about his fasting I tried it and I got good results but due to stress I went back to eating
It's true, but you have to practice low carbohydrate diet too.
Fasting can make insulin as near to normal as possible
Great video. Since 2020, I've been keto with fasting (primarily 20:4, with periodic multi-day fasts). I've achieved great results and feel fantastic. The area where I struggle the most is knowing when to quit eating, when my eating window is open. I can't count the number of times that I've heard the adage "You can eat all of the animal protein and fat you want. Your body will tell you when you've eaten enough." Although I want to believe that, it just hasn't proven true for me. It's easy for me to fast, but once I start to eat, I want to eat everything in sight. If it's on my plate (or nearby), by God, I'm gonna eat it. LOL So, I have to be really careful when my eating window is open that I eat only a reasonable amount of food/calories (even with all of the calories being 'quality' calories/foods). I believe that the Energy Model and Insulin Model have to be used together, to achieve substantial fat-loss and metabolic-improvement results. The low-carb, fasting lifestyle has greatly improved my quality of life and, probably, my lifespan, too.
Just to add on to what I've already said, I loved Dr. Fung's statement that even when you overeat for a period of time (such as during the holidays), it's easy to get back on track, but simply restricted windows and/or by going back to very low carb. I've had my friends tell me, "I've blown my diet, and have ruined myself." That's just not true. Cut the insulin levels, by fating and/or keto, and you'll get right back on the wagon. This lifestyle (blood glucose lowering) is sooooooooo much better than the calorie-restriction method (by itself) that has been preached for so many years.
its funny how the ancients were right all along and modern science is just starting to find this out.
I can't hear the name of the 1923 book he has on low carb/diabetes study?! Can someone comment please?! Thanks Dr. Westman you are amazing...and Dr. Fung!!!!❤
I just want to say about the large long term safety study’s those cost a lot of money to run. And there’s no money to be made. So we will probably never have those. But with the number of people now doing intermittent fasting and all the people who have done fasting throughout history if it was harmful we certainly would know it by now! I know personally nothing worked for me till I started intermittent fasting I’m down 35lbs and no longer considered pre diabetic. Still on my journey and I’ve got a ways to go but I’m sold! So personally for me stay away from sugar, gluten, processed foods and intermittent fast. With occasional 2 or 3 day fasts. It’s been game changing! I’m not willing to not eat fruits or higher carb veggies. Those are healthy foods, so I want to keep them in my diet.
Primero leo todos los comentarios porque alienta mucho saber que estamos en el camino correcto
Muchas gracias al Dr fung y decenas de médicos que hacen la labor. En México el personal médico te sigue indicando una dieta comiendo 5 veces al dia y dandote muchos medicamentos. Yo los ignore, lei los libros del dr Jason Fung y heme aqui sin medicación, sin diabetes, ayuno Intertermitente, comiendo cetogenico y _a veces low carb_
Mi agradecimiento a los medicos que nos ayudan sin esperar nada a cambio con esta información super valiosa que _literalmente nos salva la vida_
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