To fight stage 4 lung cancer I made 39 diet and lifestyle changes to help my 4 treatments. No sugar best change. Given 3 months to live in feb 2017. Today happily tumourfreetim
Jim Mim Dear Jim Mim unfortunately this stage 4 cancer lung cancer was very a real experience and the most challenging and terrifying experience that I have faced in my life. I cannot even begin to convey the shock of being told I would not live to see my daughter graduate from year 12 or my son play in the summer basketball season in 2017. The radiotherapy, immunotherapy and chemotherapy was administered by Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre at Austin Hospital. My terminal diagnosis documentation by my oncologist was accepted by an income protection insurance company. As an elected official there is public documentation in council minutes of the offical leave. I have substantial documentation that I needed to supply the Federal Family Law Courts as I was divorced in this period and in Australia your terminal status will lower your settlement as a terminal cancer patient. During this illness I lost my marriage, my main income, many friendships and face greatly reduced employment prospects because as public figure I cannot conceal my illness and I am required to supply potential employers a medical certificate that identifies my recent medical condition. So if your assertion is I did not have stage 4 lung cancer then you are slandering me as my illness and treatment is recorded by a large public Hospital, a large municipal council, a letter signed by the Minister of Local Government, the Federal Family Law Court of Australia, Australia’s largest superannuation company Australian Super, numerous CT and PET scans, and my scans, were referred, diagnosed and documented by my two private medical centres, a private lung specialist and finally I was admitted to Olivia Newton John Cancer Wellness Centre in Austin Hospital. Now can you supply any proof that you are a real person? Plus an address? Because you have just defamed me by claiming I did not have stage 4 lung cancer as you are asserting that I somehow tricked several government Ministers including the Premier, the largest super fund in Australia and several government institutions including one of the largest cancer centres and the Medicare system into treating me and processes leave and medical payments while not having cancer. So where is your proof that I did not have stage 4 lung cancer? You have a link here to tumourfreetim channel so you and your defamation lawyer may want to check that before you make further comments. The ball is now in your court to back up your claim. I have also taken the liberty of taking a screen shot of your your false, baseless and hurtful comment. Your baseless claim was distressing to read after having shared so many painful details for thousands of other terminal patients and their carers who have taken the time to visit my youtube channel tumourfreetim over the last 7 weeks. My continuing survival against the odds was not the result of any single treatment or action but caused by the dedicated application of the latest medical treatments available in Australia and complimented by dozens of diet and lifestyle changes. While my continuing survival may not accord with conventional thinking I guess that is the point. For more people to survive we need more governments to implement the changes we have underway in Victoria and the integrated health and wellbeing actions that I benefited from should be standard not just a rare and poorly understood case study.
Jim Mim Sadly in my hospital I was told that in over 500 advanced cancer cases I am only 1 of 3 who have made such a radical remission. However, my sub type of lung cancer is less than 3% of lung cancers and is noted for both being chemotherapy resistant and prone to immune system blockers. These blockers are being addressed by a range of new immunotherapy drugs such as Nivolumab etc. A very high profile case being a famous footballer here in Melbourne. His recovery was big news as he not only returned to professionals Australian Rules football but went back as captain. However, trials and studies of immunotherapy are not magic and response rates in wide studies have not matched the sharemarket hype on all these drug companies. There is now a blood test in my State here that can indicate if immunotherapy will be supplied as the primary treatment. While I was able to reduce tumours in lungs, Thyroid and adrenal gland during the 7 month period I had immunotherapy I was not able to remove one small tumour in my left bronchial node. This was then treated with radiotherapy over 20 high dose treatments. This reduced that tumour. So if you took time to view my videos you would see no magic but 24 months of treatment by one of the best cancer hospitals in Australia strengthened by complimentary health and well being actions. This all on a universal medical system (Medicare). Sadly many in US and in developing countries cannot access such free medical treatment. The sheer cost of such new treatments is simply not financially possible if your medical system is not a properly funded universal one. Given that my cases highlights an integrated health model - eg diet and medication it means I am not selling or endorsing any one drug or any one herb. Your last post has contradictory figures on lung cancer 5 year death rates. It is worth patients looking those up regarding your claim of 100% mortality at 5 years.
I saw his show on PBS Television several years ago. My Mom was just diagnosed with diabetes. It killed my Grandmother at the age of 57. That broke my 6 year old heart! So I turned into the food police. I monitored everything my Mom ate. I prepared all of her meals. I had to do a lot of scolding and pleading at first. The weight started melting off, her sugar normalized and the diabetes seemed to disappear. She dropped 65 five pounds in 6 months! She is 84 years old now and hasn't gained it back. Say what you want. This man helped me save my Mom's life!
All the people he mentions lose weight, and we do know that losing weight helps with diabetes. That doesn't mean he's right about intramuscular lipids (fat) causing diabetes.
PETER MAINWALD The "science" he gives here doesn't match up with the studies on the subject. It's not denial to recognize this. It *is* denial to keep saying something is right when the studies show it's not. Correlation is not causation. Just because you do something and something else happens doesn't mean the first caused the second. That is a fundamental concept of science. Something about this diet seems to work for some people. That's all we know. We don't know what it is, and the fact that so many lose weight,when we know that losing weight helps, makes a lot of sense.
ZipplyZane OR if he is right about it, that it is the root cause. Other doctors seem to be saying that always having carbs and sugars in the blood and stimulating insulin is what puts those lipids there, too many of them. The body is always on, always processing sugar and making fat because very few people can burn up so many calories. The food companies want to engineer food like a drug, it tastes to good unnaturally that we are compelled to eat it by our food instincts, and once we get past a certain point it is addicting. Those who are not addicted or who have stumbled on how to quit for them are so busy acting superior they do not look back at all the other people who are still stuck in this drug dealing business. The root cause to me is the food system itself. Some interesting facts I heard watching the movie "Fresh" which was a lot like "Food Inc". A lot of this stuff is tied up in our political and economic system, because crippling the public and making them dependent is what allows thugs to take over the public debate.
So we have two approaches. Ok try one for the 6 months unless numbers go bad. No change or little improvement. Try plan 2 for 6 months. Different strokes for different folks. I see 2 chances beyond pills.
My nana was in the hospital last week and she was diagnosed with diabetes. The hospital fed her orange chicken and rice for lunch with lemon pie... her sugar was 300 and A1C was 10. That is what they fed her ... unbelievable
@@percyhawkins716 Yeah, the main issue is the med school training. Big pharma/medical establishment doesn't want docs to know how to heal, but rather to be drug pushers! Thank God, it's slowly improving in the last few years since this video. More WFPB docs than ever before!
@@bryant475 yes they basically teach them which drugs to give for what conditions. They have maybe 1 nutrition class in all their training. And its appalling the food they serve in hospitals. Its a sick based healthcare system.
At 12-years-old I weighed 160 pounds, only 5 foot 3 inches tall. Now, I am 18-years-old and weigh 110 pounds and have the energy to run a 5k every day for my regular workout routine. A whole-food plant-based diet can completely transform your health, love yourself enough to make the change!
I am doing Keto, which is the opposite approach. My blood sugar is now under control and I have lost 20 lbs. I truly believe that excess sugar and massive carb loads will kill you.
After two months of (imperfectly) following the dietary guidelines of Dr. Barnard, I got my blood test today. I am most proud and ecstatic to share, my pre-diabetes status is no more!!!! Maraming salamat (thank you very much in Filipino) Dr. Barnard. 🙏🏻
People get sold on nutrient dense food by the gurus (understandable from the evolutionary standpoint but now it leads to many chronic diseases - we have better solutions). Population studies are important, not what the gurus say. Also personal experience but it can be very difficult to be objective.
I see it all the time. But there is no cure for diabetes. Everything in your body, that fights off sugar dies, and cannot be brought back to life. There are some people that can control it with diet alone. But this is managing diabetes, and not curing it.
Before insulin was used pharmaceutically, restricting carbs was the ONLY way to avoid death by diabetes. Why/when did the medical community decide carbohydrates were essential? Was it when insulin and oral hypoglycemics became easily available (and very lucrative)?
Whether you choose to go low carb or vegetarian/ vegan, there is some common ground. Both camps eat few refined carbs and both eat little processed sugar, so either discipline can combat diabetes. There is no need to attack one another's views - live and let live please, folks!
I enjoyed this speaker. I eliminated my T2 diabetes by intermittent fasting. I reduced carbs and try to avoid sugar. If your health care provider uses the word ...manage... regarding your T2...walk out... they have no intention of trying to reverse your diabetes.
I eat the same except I try to avoid sugar, Stevia is okay. I reduced carbs... for example no pizzas and on hamburgers I throw away the top bun. No Olive Garden. I rotate between OMAD and 18-6. I will follow I.F. for life, it’s easy. Good luck with your journey.
wanted to ad theres many other simple things you can add to this, also some harder things if you feel aggressive just do a lil homework by simply watching of videos of docs who dont prescribe drugs....anymore (sorry BP).
mygosh i never listened so intently and enthusiastically to one Tedtalk.. he's a fine person with fine understanding of his thing and a fine humour.. excellent presentation and speech..
Dr. Sarah Hallberg's Ted Talk advice is, if I understood correctly, the opposite of what this Doctor is saying, these two Doctors should debate Live on TH-cam.
Who would willing to admit that their way of approaching this disease is flawed? Isn't that part of the problem we face as Americans? Everyone's an expert with no actual debates or actual data to prove which is the proven method. One last thing, I would want to know how those people that did the study that Dr. Neal studied to see how the participants are doing today, a decade later. I would be willing to listen to that debate.
This guy is probably paid by the American Diabetes Association. What he recommends is the same as doctors recommend and it keeps you sick and going back to the doctor until you go blind, get neuropathy, get amputations, go on dialysis and die. Sad but true, I know from experience, believe me.
I also watched this right after watching Dr. Hallbergs and I'm left with the same feeling. They said opposite things but the diets weren't exact opposites. Maybe both approaches work by affecting different parts of the food/glucose cycle. Maybe there are additional factors that would make one a better choice than the other on a case by case basis. Yes, I'd like to see them hash it out because otherwise it just leaves us still in the dark.
Maybe the answer is to be either a carnivore or a herbivore but not an omnivore. You can keep sugar out of your cells by keeping sugar out of your blood (carnivore) , or you can keep fat out of your cells (herbivore) by keeping fat out of your blood, and either approach will work. But putting fat and sugar at the same time (omnivore) is guaranteed to put fat in your cells and keep sugar in your blood and then you have the problem. This doctor has a point as to the merits of being a herbivore. But many others have also shown that being a carnivore works as well. So what you are able to do is probably what is best for you. I could not stand to be a herbivore for more than a day. What this doctor didn't say is that we really don't have the guts of a herbivore although we have the dentition. We don't have four stomachs like a cow. Our intestinal tract is far shorter than most herbivores, even the intestinal tracts of apes.
But they 're not as short as the carnivore's intestines . Maybe they developed like something in between since humans started to cook their meat . Can't it raw like the predatorial carnivores . Apart from that , we do not have any other carnivorous characteristic . I've been a vegan for many years now . But I think your approach is very interesting about being one or the other in order to get rid of diabetes. Being an omnivore is probably a cause of many problems.
Are human beings anatomically more similar to natural carnivores or to natural herbivores? Let’s find out…. Intestinal tract length. Carnivorous animals have intestinal tracts that are 3-6x their body length, while herbivores have intestinal tracts 10-12x their body length. Human beings have the same intestinal tract ratio as herbivores. Stomach acidity. Carnivores’ stomachs are 20x more acidic than the stomachs of herbivores. Human stomach acidity matches that of herbivores. Saliva. The saliva of carnivores is acidic. The saliva of herbivores is alkaline, which helps pre-digest plant foods. Human saliva is alkaline. Shape of intestines. Carnivore bowels are smooth, shaped like a pipe, so meat passes through quickly - they don’t have bumps or pockets. Herbivore bowels are bumpy and pouch-like with lots of pockets, like a windy mountain road, so plant foods pass through slowly for optimal nutrient absorption. Human bowels have the same characteristics as those of herbivores. Fiber. Carnivores don’t require fiber to help move food through their short and smooth digestive tracts. Herbivores require dietary fiber to move food through their long and bumpy digestive tracts, to prevent the bowels from becoming clogged with rotting food. Humans have the same requirement as herbivores. Cholesterol. Cholesterol is not a problem for a carnivore’s digestive system. A carnivore such as a cat can handle a high-cholesterol diet without negative health consequences. A human cannot. Humans have zero dietary need for cholesterol because our bodies manufacture all we need. Cholesterol is only found in animal foods, never in plant foods. A plant-based diet is by definition cholesterol-free. Claws and teeth. Carnivores have claws, sharp front teeth capable of subduing prey, and no flat molars for chewing. Herbivores have no claws or sharp front teeth capable of subduing prey, but they have flat molars for chewing. Humans have the same characteristics as herbivores. But aren’t humans anatomically suited to be omnivores? Nope. We don’t anatomically match up with omnivorous animals anymore than we do with carnivorous ones. Omnivores are more similar to carnivores than they are to herbivores. The opportunistic feeder theory has been thoroughly debunked. This theory states that because humans can eat like omnivores, that we must therefore be omnivores. However, mere behavior doesn’t indicate suitability. There are plenty of things we can do as a species that would threaten our survival if we all considered them suitable default behavior, such as shooting each other, lobbing hand grenades, or sending spam. cut and paste from an article by steve pavlina
Dr. Barnard's book saved me. My blood sugar numbers are now in non-diabetic range. I did add regular exercise, kept a food journal (and still do), and eat a plant based diet which all amounted to me progressively improving and losing weight. Not saying that the low carb way does not work for some. It also may work. I tried it and hated it so it amounted to it not working because I was non compliant.
Went on keto diet. Weight 270->210. A1C 7.5->5.0 and no more meds. Kept weight off for 5 years. What wrong with that? Nothing. Do it. On an average day I consume no sugar. Blood sugar around 85. Works for me. I’m 72 YO male.
I thought Dr. Barnard was a quack. But I decided to give WFPB a try on March 4th, when I was told my A1c was 8.3 and I have a fatty liver. Well, now it's August 19th and my A1c is now 5.9 (will find out about the liver tomorrow at the dr.). Point is, under 5.7 means diabetes is reversed and I'm almost there. I hope to be about 5.0 in the next four months. But yes, this diet really does work!
I was a type 2 diabetic for nearly 18 years. The diabetes was getting so bad on medications that I was told that I needed to start injecting insulin. I started a whole food plant based lifestyle about 14 months ago and I no longer have the symptoms of diabetes and without medications. Thank you for this wonderful information Dr. Neal Barnard!
It works! I reversed my dad's diabetes entirely in 4 months feeding him a whole food plant based diet. Lost 80 pounds and no longer met the criteria to be a diabetic. Go figure, nature made food exactly how our body needs it to thrive.
Unfortunately, this information (from 2012) is in direct contradiction with what many doctors & dietitians are recommending today in 2022. As an aging, common sense person TRYING to achieve some semblance of control over an increasing problem with diabetes, (without resorting to the use of any medication), and using a strictly homeopathic approach, it is extremely frustrating to constantly come across these “professional” opinions that are in direct contradiction to one another. Also, when considering a strictly vegetable diet, I ask myself why most vegetarians that I meet always appear to be somewhat anemic looking, I have NEVER met one that I could say “now there’s a healthy looking guy”. I am finding that eating a healthy, well rounded meals in smaller portions, and limiting myself to one or two meals a day makes more sense. I stay completely away from the myriad of JUNK products sold in the U.S. as “food”, and try to eat organic products.
mmmHHHHMM. Spot on. we evolved over 300,000 years ago. made tools to hunt. we made weapons and didn't have to savagely claw an animal to death and naw their neck off. We don't need jumbo teeth. I love me some meat, veg and fermented everything. We ate all of those things over these years. Not soda, ring dings or pharmaceuticals
Good luck on your journey. I found eating a small amount of meat and fruits during a meal and then filling up on vegetables worked best for me. On my down days I find myself eating big hearty portions really fast.
So change to a nutritionalist who knows what they are talking about. I did…I changed my diet as proposed in this video and dropped my A1C from 6.5 to 5.5 in less than 3 months.
As a physician of 37 years and diabetic, I found not eating starches and sugars reduced my diabetes and gave me an A1C of 5.1 for two years now. I think the vegetarian diet is Not the way to go for better health. Every single part of my blood work has been normal since doing the ketogenic diet. I will not get into follow the money subject.
+Will Wraspir Hey Will, I used to think like you too, I looked at but avoided the keto diet thinking it was a fad. Now I'm on month 3 going on 4 and you don't "give in" and eat a bunch of carbs, your body actually adjusts, unlike all those other diets like Atkins I still eat carbs when I want to, thats how it should be. But I eat under 60g per day on average. I can go up to 100g if I feel the need, but I don't mostly, obviously it varies with activity level.
***** lol I just told you people in nutritional ketosis don't crave carbs, rather we adapt to having lower blood sugar. you are right, people get sugar cravings, because their blood glucose is too low for them. But, being a carb eater, you need more glucose in your blood than does someone in nutritonal ketosis. to each his own, I'm glad people are trying different things and increasing our knowledge .
***** no...I don't think our bodies need them any more than an alcoholic needs alcohol. It's a conditioned craving, like alcoholism. If a person is a carb loader and he has become so by consuming refined sugars and starches then that is what he will crave...and switching to green leafy veggies will not be satiating because he likely would not be able to consume enough volume in a day. You say you consume 3000-5000 calories per day...if I may ask, what is the macronutrient breakdown of your diet and the source of the carbohydrates?
@@dilwich He's not off mark with his advice, reducing foods high in sugar and fats helps with managing diabetes. Doesn't matter whether it's a vegan or some low-carb diet. If you eat lean meats it's fine, but reducing meat consumption is a must for most people as they eat it way more than they should.
5:03 - notice the tiny bowl of rice. They don't eat huge amounts of rice in Japan. Traditionally, rice was money. You paid your taxes with rice. You ate some rice to show you were doing well, but you didn't eat this huge bowl or bed of rice like we eat in the US. Also, traditional servings are small, there's tons of vegetables, traditionally protein was fish or even things like crickets, and the food had lots of fiber. And even now the Japanese walk a TON compared to Americans.
I wish the speaker stated more about the diet itself. He did a pretty good job of general description along with some anecdotes but it left me wanting more
Self promotion. Not an educational vid. The analogies were in some instances very poor and displayed a concerning lack of knowledge and understanding. Or maybe it was just dumbed down.
I followed this for years and got worse. Now I do not eat grain including rice and oats. I don't eat potatoes or sugar. Hardest thing in the world to do, but it's either that or kidney disease, heart disease, neuropathy and death.
In the last 6 months I've lost 20 pounds, reversed my pre-diabetes, fatty liver, normalized my liver enzyme levels, dramatically reduced my bad cholesterol, and increased my good cholesterol. How? common sense diet: I eat only when I'm hungry and not a lot; every day I eat nuts, seeds raw veggies and plain yogurt. I use olive oil only, I never, ever eat out or buy processed foods. I have completely replaced red meat and pork with fish. I walk an hour a day. This is all.
I went plant based reluctantly in June 2017. I was surprised to learn I feel so much better. I don't see myself every going back. I didn't expect to feel this much better and different.
I went meat based from plant. And I feel fantastic about my body. And I enjoy my steak and doner much. And I appreciate lifestyle of our ancestors for at least of last 600000 years (paintings on cave walls etc) is mostly dedicated to hunting. So I appreciate now that my body is tuned to meat eating.
@@greenleafyman1028 I think there were not so much fruits in the Ice Age (when our ancestors left Africa). So Inuits or Saami will show how to survive in the Cold (definitely there is no bananas or potatoes around). P.S. Hunting is what drove human evolution. Pushing to tool making and dog domestication to cooperate in hunting. I am a phycisian so I have got some insights like requirement to Vit B12 or hem iron that we obtain from animal products. And the best proof is the fact that nothing is more enjoyable and palatable than a piece of juicy and lighty charred steak (just trust our Mother Nature, we humans crave for animal products, that's why many vegan products imitate just burgers, fish fingers, fried chicken etc. I have seen fake burgers made from soybean, but never seen fake banana made from mutton.
@@AnneGarberKompaore Thats a great idea! Yes, of course they have got something CommoN - they both make money on people concerns about diet and health. Barnard and Berg, they know what to say and why to say it. (Of course, for me as a LCHF dude Dr Berg is a relevant source of information). P.S. if you up to LCHF i highly recomend you @KenDBerryMD.
@@happyTruePeople I find it a little comical how keto people refer to stone age and Dr Barnard goes pre stone age! I believe both have some truth, and in a short talk like the science is too briefly explained.
After watching"What the Health", I was so angry with our government agencies lying to me, I have embarked on a Plant based diet, into day 10. Feeling better than ever, and enjoying your information and content. Thank you!!!!!!
You would do better to watch videos from Dr. Eric Berg or Dr. Ken Berry. This video is 10 years old and the information has been proved mostly incorrect.
@@davidbrogan606 Then how do you explain the Japanese diet, high in carbs but a population with a much lower rate of diabetes? The truth is that there is probably more than one way to achieve remission of diabetes. The one common denominator seems to be weight loss and the diet used to achieve that may not be as important as the end result. I know a couple of people who had diabetes and had a gastric bypass to lose weight...After the weight loss their blood sugars returned to normal even though they never followed any special diet, and both had a complete remission of diabetes while eating whatever they wanted. I am familiar with both doctors Berg & Berry, but they obviously don't have all the answers either.
@@CaneFu The Japanese diet is far lower in carbs than the American diet. Other differences are that the Japanese actually eat vegetables with their rice. The fiber nullifies some of the carbs. The Japanese do not eat much sugar. The American diet is loaded with sugar and bad fats such as corn, soy, canola, and sunflower oils which are full of Omega 6 fatty acids that cause inflammation and harm the body. The Japanese do not eat nearly as many processed foods as Americans. That being said, there is plenty of diabetes in Japan.
@@CaneFu Oh, so the answer is--quit shoving food down your mouth at breakneck speed, constantly. Why is that so hard for people to do? Americans eat too much processed food, and don't eat any vegetables--a fast track to diabetes and death
I had exactly the same feeling when I watched it too. I immediately adopted a plant based diet. My LDL cholesterol dropped by 50% in 2 months. These keto scams will be responsible for countless premature deaths for years to come.
Dr Neal Barnard when we T2 D eat two much sugars it’s got to turn to bad fats so their lies the problem of diabetes. In 2020 the experts found we must all reduce are sugar load so our blood sugars can drop to below 5.6 mmol/ L even as low as 4.6 mmol/L at least once a day to give the lnsulin a chance to recharge. Seven years ago my T2D was 83 mmol/mol now it is 43 mmol/ mol for the last 4 years. At 78 years if I can do it so can most people. The cure is stop eating Too many many sugars and carbohydrates.
Vegans have lower rates of diabetes and several other chronic diseases common in developed countries, including cardiovascular disease, our number one killer. Link on request.
14 years ago I was tested for my cholesterol It was over 280. A friend told me to watch "Forks Over Knifes" and I went on the WFPD overnight knowing I was having a second cholesterol test in 5 weeks. (It was now 6 months later.) After just 5 weeks my new cholesterol total was under 150 with the bad one below 80. I havn't looked back. Well, actually, a few years ago I did add a few oysters once in while, but otherwise, it's WFPB all the way.
This is interesting… to be frank, i really don’t agree with a lot of this talk, although I agree we should be eating less animal fats. I just watched another Ted Talk on Diabetes/Insulin Resistance which said to cut CHOs and consume lots of fats because of its minimal effect on insulin sensitivity, compared to the effect of CHOs and CHONs on Insulin resistance. I’ve also seen a number videos of nutritionists saying that omega 3s and 6s (6 to a degree, but still essential) are good for increasing insulin sensitivity. Also, monounsaturated fats, which are found in both meat and vegetable fats, has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity. Meat + land animal products also have, omega-6s, Vitamin b12 and highly bioavailable Iron (healthy blood) and Protein, which essential for adequate hormone levels… insulin is a hormone. Also, this video ignoring the fact that, for many people, animal products, which tend to come from dry grasslands and native rangeland, unsuitable for growing crops, make up a significant portion of their caloric intake. It may be doable for a white collar worker to consume only plants however, that won’t work for a huge proportion of people who exert their bodies at their job. For many people, the nutrient-density of animal products allows people to be adequately fed. [also, on a global scale, 7+ billion people can not be fed with only 1/3 of the world’s landmass suitable for growing modern crops… animal product coming from native rangeland environments are really crucial for a lot of folks, both in diet and livelihood]. Also, I know that seafood, specifically mussels, snails oysters and other similar species, have been a part of our diet since long before the stone age as they offered an easy and plentiful beachside snack to early humans. This food source contributed vastly to early humans in East Africa (roughly 50 million years ago) being able to/feeling comfortable in migrating to new areas; there was assurance of a plentiful food supply to sustain their travel. Maybe conventional, herbicide-rich, grain-fed animals that stand in crowded pens for most of their life will produce meat that is unhealthy for us however, animal products, in general? No, honey… I feel this Ted Talk was a vast oversimplification of our collective nutrient/dietary needs, genetic ancestry, and biochemical interactions. Also, to say that our bodies are still pre-stone age when that was 2.6 million years ago but, at the same time, humans can alter their genetics in one lifetime through dietary choices… no I’m open to new information but a…gerbil test??? Ha.. no..
My grandmother was a diabetic. Taking numerous pills a day, wasting dollar after dollar on expensive meds. She always watched her sugar intake and made an effort not to eat too many carbs and sweet foods. She died a diabetic. Know what she never gave up? Animal products. She ate meat and dairy until the day she died, and never got better.
It is impossible to “watch” your sugars if you eat processed foods. Many, many foods have maltodextrin in them and it has twice the glycemic index of table sugar. It will never show up a “added sugar” on a nutritional label.
@@hulamei3117 You should check Dr Neal's talk on the dairy and why it is so addictive. Search "What the Dairy Industry Doesn't Want You to Know - Full talk". It's long but worth watching. I'm also struggling on dairy 😅
For everyone pointing out there are 2 contradicting TEDx talks on this subject, please remember there is no one size fits all solution for diabetes. That way of thinking is what has gotten us to this sorry state. Depending on the root cause of an individuals insulin resistances some will need to go the Dr. Barnard route. Others will need to employ the Dr. Hallberg method. Personally my sugars go through the roof when I eat fat, but I dont assume everyone's bodies behave the same. Clearly Dr. Hallberg's patients are an example of that.
Just humor and eloquence. Carbs will definitely raise blood sugar. I am diabetic for over 25 years and always uncontrolled. Now I am on a low carb diet and it's working well. Reduced medication and A1C.
It will appear too... For awhile. HOWEVER, you're merely replacing one disease process, Diabeties, with heart disease, harding of the arteries, kidney disease, fatty liver and/or cancer.
Do you mean veggies/beans/some fruit is what you're reducing? Or are you referring to processed and ultra processed carbs such as candies/packaged sweets and bread?
A very very good and true lecture. 2 Years back in the age of 55 i was diagnised TYPE TWO diabetes. I was lucky a got a doctor who never gave me a single medicine rather strictly supervised my diet and walking schedule. Alhamdo lillah i am living quite a normal life. 2 hours walk...change in eating habitts plus selective foods end up symptoms.
Yes, I watched that one also. However low carb high fat does not cure, it merely bypasses the need for insulin (to transport glucose into the cell) in the production of energy. It makes more sense to me to actually fix the problem (remove the fat from the cell) than change the body's primary fuel source (glucose) to a secondary source (fat).
That's a good start. Now it's time to step it up and go read some journals, books, textbooks .etc. and see what the literature says? What the majority of studies say? Then hopefully that'll clear up all this stuff? Or try a diet yourself, gather data on yourself then modify if it doesn't work?
Dear Doctor Barnard, I bought your book about the reversal of Diabetes. My husband has been diabetic for about ten years now but he has been very sick for about 5 years, that was when we noticed his situation because he lost a lot of weight all of a sudden (I must mention that all his family is diabetic and many have already died because of it). Now, his sugar is all over the place going up and down without any control. I tried to help him with this diet (I have been following your diet for about 2 years and feel great!) but he was very scared because in just a couple of days of trying his sugar dropped down so dramatically that we were about to take him to the hospital. He gets all shaky, cold and loses conscience...So he is very afraid to try again... What can I do? I know this is the way for healing but I am so worried first, that his sugar gets so low that could be dangerous, and second, that he loses more weight (he is already very thin and weak). I would appreciate your advice on how to proceed, this is very important for me because unless he goes back to normal soon, he will have very serious problems in a short time. Thank you for your help in advance..... Lucy
Hi. I'm not here telling you that Dr. Eric Berg will be the solution for your husband's case. But he was the solution for me and my father. Take a look at his channel and search about Keto Diet. I reversed my father's diabetes and took myself out of pre-diabetes range! And now I'm living on a low carb lifestyle, which is not so "extreme" as keto diet. But following a keto diet was extremely important in the first months. Ps: I know that what I am telling here (keto) it's totally different from what doctor Neal indicates.
I don't know, but he has an organisation called PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine). There are lots of advice, videos, & information on it.
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A lot of unbiased, unequivocal modern research points to sugar as the culprit in our current western diet causing the huge upswing in diabetes and obesity. Sugar in all it's many forms is in some 80% of processed foods. That increase in added sugar in our diet began at almost the same time our obesity crisis was noticed, some 30 years ago, just as we increased our intake of processed foods. I don't think that's a coincidence and neither do many researchers.
That's what some people will tell you, the actual evidence they claim is nowhere near as compelling. There are so many confounding factors out there it is impossible to make a serious claim just by noticing how one thing, like sugar say, seems to co-incide with obesity. Consider for a moment that sugar is used to make a whole range of high fat foods palatable and consumption of those has risen. Consider we've all become a lot more sedentary over that same period and people play with computers and the Internet instead of going outside. Consider that consumption of Omega 6 oils relative to Omega 3 oils rose drastically in the 70's and has stayed with us ever since, that's the ratio that appears to confer the healthiness found in the Mediterranean diet. The possible factors involved in the obesity epidemic are many.
Tom Dimitropoulos ...so there really is no ability to be in research without being a sell-out...like the grain board...the dairy board...fast food lobbyists....meat producers...etc.etc.. ...what research can be done...that once it produces results...is capable of remaing free of any accusations...of collusion...with some lobby group or marketing board somewhere....specially if it produces results favouring one of these.....
Love the metaphor of insulin as a key trying to operate in a gummed up lock. Really made the concept clear for me. Dr. Bernard makes these explanations look easy, but they're not. Therein lies the art. He's a superb lecturer/teacher.
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse Congrats for posting the most oblique and least substantiated comment on this page. You should change your handle from "suprememasteroftheuniverse" to "suprememasterofvagueness".
say what you will. Call us omnivores, call us herbivores, call us carnivores. It doesn't matter what you want us to be. If you are fighting these problems with your health give this a try. If you don't get any better after changing your diet in this fashion you can still go back to taking pills and giving yourself shots and watching your your health go down hill. All I am saying is to try and remove your EGO from your health care.
That is the most sensible comment I have read in a long time. People get so emotional about the idea of giving up animal products, but hey, if it works it’s a no brainer. The ONLY hard thing about the whole food plant based diet is re-learning how to cook and shop, but once you’ve got it down it’s easier, cheaper and immeasurable healthier.... And if it doesn’t work for you there are always the expensive pills and shots. They work, right?
Golden Child I have gone carnivore to cure myself and it is working amazingly! Carbs hated me and almost killed me. I loved Plants but they poisoned me...eliminating plant toxins has given me the first improvements in my autoimmune disease.
@@wdiddy1 It makes perfect sense if you realize that he may have another agenda other than diabetes. Maybe it has more to do with protecting animals. Low carbs was the only way I beat diabetes.
It is ripe for politicization that racial differences might affect dietary guidelines. It's so hard for them to admit that certain people might be genetically able to digest carbs better than others.
Thank you for sharing your thought-provoking TEDx talk on tackling diabetes with a bold new dietary approach. Your insights on the relationship between diet and diabetes are both insightful and inspiring. Your approach to promoting plant-based diets as a solution to this condition is innovative and holds great promise. Your message is clear, concise and easy to understand, making it accessible to a wide audience. Your passion for helping those with diabetes and improving their health is evident and truly inspiring. Your contribution to this field is invaluable and we appreciate the work you do. Great job!
Sorry ... I am an omnivore leaning towards carnivore, and chose low carb/keto as the way to reduce my blood sugar, blood pressure, and thyroid levels ... It has worked for the past year and a half, and I lost 40 lbs in the process. No seed oils ... good fats from animal sources, coconut oil, avocado oil ... But, if vegan works with the same results for someone, then so be it. May we all be healthy!
Good job, I'm a surgeon who amputates diabetic feet and legs. I have been advocating Keto since I was nearly diabetic 10 years ago. I've become more and more a carnivore and now 60 years old with no medications and my labs are great.
@@thesimplegospel3529 Thanks for your thoughts, but there is increasing scientific evidence pointing at longer life expectancy, fewer heart related incidents, and cleaner arteries in people who are eating "good natural fats" derived from animals, avocado, and coconut sources. Shorter life expectancy, more arterial deteriorations and calcifications are being directly linked, in numerous scientific studies now available, to the constant consumption of seed based, highly processed oils, plus overloads of fructose, which both contribute to faster cell oxidations and cell death. Knowledge is power, and freedom of choice belongs to everyone. That's the lovely part of living where we do. Eating "whole" foods, and avoiding highly processed "non foods", is a choice we both can make to move towards optimal health. On that, I'm sure we can both agree. :)
@@thesimplegospel3529 Here is one talk which describes how our human bodies have changed over the course of human developmental history. Dr. Michael Eades - 'Paleopathology and the Origins of the Low-carb Diet', given on June 20, 2020. He looks at the structural development of our digestive systems compared with earlier forms of mankind and apes .. He looks at the culture and health issues related to early Egypt and the times of the pharoahs. He examines jaw and teeth structures, and the prevalence of obesity and heart disease in this culture.
@@equteachme Thank you for the references ... It shows your care for this topic, similar to my own care, but down a different path. My belief, and as I study the topic, it strengthens, is that "knives" work better for me than "forks". However, as I've said already, the "forks" path may work sufficiently well for someone else. Sticking to natural and whole food sources as much as possible and staying away from gmo items, highly processed items, especially processing that uses high fructose corn syrups and sugars, might be an area upon which we might agree?
Working with a Naturopathic doctor now who is prescribing the previous type of diet taught by Dr Sarah Hallberg. I am slightly insulin resistant apparently and carbs in the form of grains and starchy veggies are out for now. This video seems to be outdated info.
It doesn't matter if his theory is correct or not. By following what he is saying, you are becoming vegetarian, eating lots of fruit and veges, and not eating junk food. Even if it doesn't reverse diabetes, it's going to be a lot healthier for you
14 months ago I was diagnosed with diabetes. I decided to eat a low carb diet and after only 3 months I had put my diabetes into remission. I have reduced my weight by 20% over the 14 months without even trying.
Ya know on another channel he calls himself a doctor, an MD to be specific... But actually he's just an animal rights activist. Great observation Dave!
It’s a bit facile. Confront a Labrador puppy with a bunny and he will invite it to play. Give a two year old boy a spear and he will throw it at something or someone. Our rootstock many millions of years ago was a herbivorous/ omnivorous ape, we are the omnivorous /carnivorous version. We didn’t need to evolve big teeth, we evolved big brains and hands. We need animal fats in childhood to grow those big brains. Without it we get stunted growth and lowered intelligence.
Your talk is so inspirational. It's time to change the way we eat. Thank you so very much for choosing this life mission to help this very sick America that is getting sicker. Also I loved the simple explanation of food and the human body. My neighbor just had his leg cut off because of the 2 diabetes. Love your work and THANK YOU!
Big difference in comments in plant based and carnivore. The carnivore ones have a high numbers of wonderful results and cures, not so much in the plant based comments.
I've been following a very strict ketogenic diet for 15 months. I had my cholesterol checked Feb. 2019 and again the other day August 2019. I'm concerned. My total cholesterol was 184 now increased to 220. My HDL was 88 now 90. My LDL 86 to a whopping 120 and my triglycerides 48 to 49. I don't know about staying on these diet. I feel good and lost about 18 pounds but I want my heart to be healthy too! Thoughts?
Michele Berthelsen please do some research regarding cholesterol because there's a lot of nonsense spoken and written about trying to get it down to very low figures. Much of it to do with big Pharma wanting to get as many people as possible onto drugs which make them a LOT of money and really mess with people's health in the long run. We need cholesterol and getting our numbers really low is NOT good for us. Since all your other stats are great and you've lost weight and feel good I wouldn't worry, but some research would probably help allay your fears.
Hi, Michele. I'm curious if you've learned anything new since this post. I agree that keto works to lose weight but not that it's sustainable or the healthiest approach in the long term. How are you doing now? Thanks for sharing!
@@tracydehoff I am doing great and still on keto. I went off a bit a few days, but steady keto WOE. I am within a few pounds of "my" goal weight. I am actually right where I should be according to the BMI chart. I will get labs done to see where those numbers lie which I was concerned about. Thanks for checking in!
I am 60 yrs.old, vegan since 1993 (20 years). I have check-ups at a clinic staffed with USC trained doctors. At my l last visit, about 6 months ago, I asked the doc if I had to have tests for diabetes, prostate and colonoscopy; he told me that because my lifestyle (diet and moderate exercise), it was not really necessary if I didn't want to...
hey there..can i ask a quick question..do u think b12 is vital for vegans? or that vegan diet is complete in itself and we dont need any supplements? Also do u think nuts and seeds can be consumed regularly long term or are they problematic?
My kind of doctor he tells the truth thank God for such a wonderful man he does practice what he preach because you can see it on his body and hear it in his speak he is the real deal it's about the diet not about the pill
This is fascinating to learn. Dr Barnard is the best doctor I can listen to hours and hours, what he said is so interesting knowledge that we can learn from his expertise. Thank you so much for giving us very impressive and interesting lecture.
Great advice. I managed to keep diabetes at bay for more than 10 years with exercise and mostly vegetables. Do not get me wrong - I like eating meat and butter and cheese, but limit this. Also love the presentation and the humor. Thank you doctor.
I think the person that said it's not one-size-fits-all is absolutely right. I do Keto. I do one meal a day or omad, and I do intermittent fasting or IF. I lost 80 lb and I think the key is actually losing weight more than what you eat losing the weight getting you down to normal size is pretty much the key. I also do extended fasts. I also take K2 mk7 & magnesium, D3, B vitamins., C. I tried apple cider vinegar but I don't feel like it did much for me. I don't have Gerd or any of those problems which is what I hear everybody say they use it for.
I became a vegetarian and then tried to be a raw vegan but could only do it for 4 weeks. After one year of no animal products, no processed food and very little fat I had another heart attack and still have diabetes. So now I am going on low carb as a last resort.
Raw diets are not necessarily the best with all foods. For many foods there is better absorption of nutrients after cooking. Carrots are a good example of this. In regard to your heart health, be sure to measure your homocysteine level Hcy. On a vegetarian diet you may be lacking B12 and Omega3 and may still have a high Hcy. Without proper nutrition the omnivore will be better off than the vegan. p.s. Be sure to get enough sleep. Melatonin will help to reduce Hcy and inflammation.
SWProspector I am on top of it and also take supplements. I was also just sick of eating vegies and spending so much time on my diet with shopping and food prep and cooking. I worked in a research hospital most of my life and my friends are a physicians with a few doctors thrown in and they don't now what is happening to me.
try high fat. low carb, but be sure it's high "healthy" fat -- grass fed butter. butter is not evil. I believe this can be extremely healthy for some. many get better lipid profiles when their body isn't working so hard to have enough fat. our bodies make cholesterol. and to whoever cited eggs=bad, this has been disproven. so much misinformation out there. it does take a lot of research and learning. good luck.
Thank you for all of this wonderful information. My mother has diabetes and my father died at 44 of a massive heart attack. I will be taking these suggestions and also sharing this video as it makes perfect sense that diabetes keeps getting worse in America.
Also in Australia. I had an Uncle who had Diabetes Type 2 since he was 30 years old. He was obese or overweight for most of his life and unfortunately ignored the health advice he was given until soon before he died.
We evolved as hunter gatherers the fact we have opposing thumbs meant we could produce tools to hunt kill skin our prey We harnessed fire to warm us cook our food and protect us from other carnivores. As hunter gatherers eating only happened if we found or killed food. This is where we need to aim our eating habits I like Dr. Sarah Hallberg's Ted Talk advice much more than this guy.
Dealing with diabetes for more than a decade felt like an endless battle that drained my physical and emotional reserves. I tried one treatment after another, hoping to find a solution, but it always seemed out of reach. Then, by a stroke of luck, I was i
You need to do your own research. Listen to Dr Neal Barnard. He's written a book on how to reverse diabetes. He's seen patients heal from diabetes... Also, search for a free vid on YT: "Simply Raw, Reversing Diabetes in 30 days" There's lots of stuff available...
Judy BW Indeed! My own dad started living as he suggests, back in the ‘90s after a very scary hospital visit. Strict diet, no sugar, fats, or carbs. Add light exercise (walk) after eating. Get Dr. Barnard’s book, as suggested. I am very happy to say that I still have my dad around, and he FEELS GREAT! At 82 years of age, he has met his first great-grandson when my mom drove them across the country last summer. Obviously she also has benefited from the lifestyle. Best health to you! ☮️
@@hannahnymoose I think he was referring to insulin resistance with his analogy that "the lock is filled with gum". I am surprised he didn't specifically say that that's what insulin resistance is.
To fight stage 4 lung cancer I made 39 diet and lifestyle changes to help my 4 treatments. No sugar best change. Given 3 months to live in feb 2017. Today happily tumourfreetim
tumourfreetim well done, mate!
Stay strong!💪💪💪💪
Jim Mim Dear Jim Mim unfortunately this stage 4 cancer lung cancer was very a real experience and the most challenging and terrifying experience that I have faced in my life. I cannot even begin to convey the shock of being told I would not live to see my daughter graduate from year 12 or my son play in the summer basketball season in 2017. The radiotherapy, immunotherapy and chemotherapy was administered by Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre at Austin Hospital. My terminal diagnosis documentation by my oncologist was accepted by an income protection insurance company. As an elected official there is public documentation in council minutes of the offical leave.
I have substantial documentation that I needed to supply the Federal Family Law Courts as I was divorced in this period and in Australia your terminal status will lower your settlement as a terminal cancer patient. During this illness I lost my marriage, my main income, many friendships and face greatly reduced employment prospects because as public figure I cannot conceal my illness and I am required to supply potential employers a medical certificate that identifies my recent medical condition. So if your assertion is I did not have stage 4 lung cancer then you are slandering me as my illness and treatment is recorded by a large public Hospital, a large municipal council, a letter signed by the Minister of Local Government, the Federal Family Law Court of Australia, Australia’s largest superannuation company Australian Super, numerous CT and PET scans, and my scans, were referred, diagnosed and documented by my two private medical centres, a private lung specialist and finally I was admitted to Olivia Newton John Cancer Wellness Centre in Austin Hospital. Now can you supply any proof that you are a real person? Plus an address? Because you have just defamed me by claiming I did not have stage 4 lung cancer as you are asserting that I somehow tricked several government Ministers including the Premier, the largest super fund in Australia and several government institutions including one of the largest cancer centres and the Medicare system into treating me and processes leave and medical payments while not having cancer.
So where is your proof that I did not have stage 4 lung cancer? You have a link here to tumourfreetim channel so you and your defamation lawyer may want to check that before you make further comments. The ball is now in your court to back up your claim. I have also taken the liberty of taking a screen shot of your your false, baseless and hurtful comment. Your baseless claim was distressing to read after having shared so many painful details for thousands of other terminal patients and their carers who have taken the time to visit my youtube channel tumourfreetim over the last 7 weeks. My continuing survival against the odds was not the result of any single treatment or action but caused by the dedicated application of the latest medical treatments available in Australia and complimented by dozens of diet and lifestyle changes. While my continuing survival may not accord with conventional thinking I guess that is the point. For more people to survive we need more governments to implement the changes we have underway in Victoria and the integrated health and wellbeing actions that I benefited from should be standard not just a rare and poorly understood case study.
Jim Mim You have no photo ID or subscribers with your TH-cam account. Is there a reason for that? 😎
Jim Mim Sadly in my hospital I was told that in over 500 advanced cancer cases I am only 1 of 3 who have made such a radical remission. However, my sub type of lung cancer is less than 3% of lung cancers and is noted for both being chemotherapy resistant and prone to immune system blockers. These blockers are being addressed by a range of new immunotherapy drugs such as Nivolumab etc. A very high profile case being a famous footballer here in Melbourne. His recovery was big news as he not only returned to professionals Australian Rules football but went back as captain. However, trials and studies of immunotherapy are not magic and response rates in wide studies have not matched the sharemarket hype on all these drug companies. There is now a blood test in my State here that can indicate if immunotherapy will be supplied as the primary treatment. While I was able to reduce tumours in lungs, Thyroid and adrenal gland during the 7 month period I had immunotherapy I was not able to remove one small tumour in my left bronchial node. This was then treated with radiotherapy over 20 high dose treatments. This reduced that tumour. So if you took time to view my videos you would see no magic but 24 months of treatment by one of the best cancer hospitals in Australia strengthened by complimentary health and well being actions. This all on a universal medical system (Medicare). Sadly many in US and in developing countries cannot access such free medical treatment. The sheer cost of such new treatments is simply not financially possible if your medical system is not a properly funded universal one. Given that my cases highlights an integrated health model - eg diet and medication it means I am not selling or endorsing any one drug or any one herb. Your last post has contradictory figures on lung cancer 5 year death rates. It is worth patients looking those up regarding your claim of 100% mortality at 5 years.
I saw his show on PBS Television several years ago. My Mom was just diagnosed with diabetes. It killed my Grandmother at the age of 57. That broke my 6 year old heart!
So I turned into the food police. I monitored everything my Mom ate. I prepared all of her meals. I had to do a lot of scolding and pleading at first. The weight started melting off, her sugar normalized and the diabetes seemed to disappear. She dropped 65 five pounds in 6 months! She is 84 years old now and hasn't gained it back. Say what you want. This man helped me save my Mom's life!
All the people he mentions lose weight, and we do know that losing weight helps with diabetes. That doesn't mean he's right about intramuscular lipids (fat) causing diabetes.
ZipplyZane he doesn't..
ZipplyZane omg, zipplyzane, you are in denial
PETER MAINWALD The "science" he gives here doesn't match up with the studies on the subject. It's not denial to recognize this. It *is* denial to keep saying something is right when the studies show it's not.
Correlation is not causation. Just because you do something and something else happens doesn't mean the first caused the second. That is a fundamental concept of science.
Something about this diet seems to work for some people. That's all we know. We don't know what it is, and the fact that so many lose weight,when we know that losing weight helps, makes a lot of sense.
ZipplyZane OR if he is right about it, that it is the root cause. Other doctors seem to be saying that always having carbs and sugars in the blood and stimulating insulin is what puts those lipids there, too many of them. The body is always on, always processing sugar and making fat because very few people can burn up so many calories.
The food companies want to engineer food like a drug, it tastes to good unnaturally that we are compelled to eat it by our food instincts, and once we get past a certain point it is addicting. Those who are not addicted or who have stumbled on how to quit for them are so busy acting superior they do not look back at all the other people who are still stuck in this drug dealing business.
The root cause to me is the food system itself.
Some interesting facts I heard watching the movie "Fresh" which was a lot like "Food Inc". A lot of this stuff is tied up in our political and economic system, because crippling the public and making them dependent is what allows thugs to take over the public debate.
Just watched two TED talks on diabetes, one after the other. The first said "cut-out carbs, eat fats". The second said "cut-out fats, eat carbs".
So did I, although the food the first one gave examples of eating plants eg muffins with coconut oil.
Same here
I just saw that too 😂 So confused 🫤
yep, lol, so who to believe? I say in trust in nature, if man made it dont eat it...
So we have two approaches. Ok try one for the 6 months unless numbers go bad. No change or little improvement. Try plan 2 for 6 months. Different strokes for different folks. I see 2 chances beyond pills.
My nana was in the hospital last week and she was diagnosed with diabetes. The hospital fed her orange chicken and rice for lunch with lemon pie... her sugar was 300 and A1C was 10. That is what they fed her ... unbelievable
They must have idiots in the kitchen or she got somebody else's food.
@@percyhawkins716 I don't blame the cooks... I blame the medical professionals
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You're probably right. The Docs probably weren't attentive or concerned enough to attend to the details.
@@percyhawkins716 Yeah, the main issue is the med school training. Big pharma/medical establishment doesn't want docs to know how to heal, but rather to be drug pushers! Thank God, it's slowly improving in the last few years since this video. More WFPB docs than ever before!
@@bryant475 yes they basically teach them which drugs to give for what conditions. They have maybe 1 nutrition class in all their training. And its appalling the food they serve in hospitals. Its a sick based healthcare system.
At 12-years-old I weighed 160 pounds, only 5 foot 3 inches tall. Now, I am 18-years-old and weigh 110 pounds and have the energy to run a 5k every day for my regular workout routine. A whole-food plant-based diet can completely transform your health, love yourself enough to make the change!
Keep going.. You're a hero.. 🤗👍
Great job! Are you still WFPB at 22? I hope so!
You need animal products in your diet!! I ruined my health being a vegan!! Please research that!!!!
I am doing Keto, which is the opposite approach. My blood sugar is now under control and I have lost 20 lbs. I truly believe that excess sugar and massive carb loads will kill you.
Still on keto
@@nizamansari569 Since I started keto and carnivore and cut out most carbs I have lost weight and do not get sleepy as much.
Limit sugar to manage diabetes. Stop eating animal products and fats to reverse and abolish T2 diabetes.
After two months of (imperfectly) following the dietary guidelines of Dr. Barnard, I got my blood test today. I am most proud and ecstatic to share, my pre-diabetes status is no more!!!! Maraming salamat (thank you very much in Filipino) Dr. Barnard. 🙏🏻
This is AMAZING. There are 20 people on the internet, all with drastically different approaches and they ALL cure diabetes.
AMAZING!!!
Yes it looks like anyone can promote their own fad diet under the ‘TED’ banner
People get sold on nutrient dense food by the gurus (understandable from the evolutionary standpoint but now it leads to many chronic diseases - we have better solutions). Population studies are important, not what the gurus say. Also personal experience but it can be very difficult to be objective.
I see it all the time. But there is no cure for diabetes. Everything in your body, that fights off sugar dies, and cannot be brought back to life. There are some people that can control it with diet alone. But this is managing diabetes, and not curing it.
I share your frustration. Completely contradictory "solutions"
It’s so weird. This guy is pushing processed “meats” and chemicals instead of plant fats. Why would an MD tell you to eat fake foods?
went vegan for 2 years, but only when I started with very low carb, that's when my diabetes got better.
Before insulin was used pharmaceutically, restricting carbs was the ONLY way to avoid death by diabetes. Why/when did the medical community decide carbohydrates were essential? Was it when insulin and oral hypoglycemics became easily available (and very lucrative)?
Whether you choose to go low carb or vegetarian/ vegan, there is some common ground. Both camps eat few refined carbs and both eat little processed sugar, so either discipline can combat diabetes. There is no need to attack one another's views - live and let live please, folks!
***** Herbivores?
100% yes
I enjoyed this speaker. I eliminated my T2 diabetes by intermittent fasting. I reduced carbs and try to avoid sugar.
If your health care provider uses the word ...manage... regarding your T2...walk out... they have no intention of trying to reverse your diabetes.
I eat the same except I try to avoid sugar, Stevia is okay. I reduced carbs... for example no pizzas and on hamburgers I throw away the top bun. No Olive Garden.
I rotate between OMAD and 18-6.
I will follow I.F. for life, it’s easy.
Good luck with your journey.
Did the speaker talk about intermittent fasting? 🤔
But he was not talking about a low carb diet. Maybe a complex carb diet but rice is nothing but carbs. I'm confused.
wanted to ad theres many other simple things you can add to this, also some harder things if you feel aggressive just do a lil homework by simply watching of videos of docs who dont prescribe drugs....anymore (sorry BP).
I'm pretty sure Dr. Bernard said to reduce meat intake.
mygosh i never listened so intently and enthusiastically to one Tedtalk.. he's a fine person with fine understanding of his thing and a fine humour.. excellent presentation and speech..
Thank you TEDx. Mindblowing.
Dr. Sarah Hallberg's Ted Talk advice is, if I understood correctly, the opposite of what this Doctor is saying, these two Doctors should debate Live on TH-cam.
Who would willing to admit that their way of approaching this disease is flawed? Isn't that part of the problem we face as Americans? Everyone's an expert with no actual debates or actual data to prove which is the proven method. One last thing, I would want to know how those people that did the study that Dr. Neal studied to see how the participants are doing today, a decade later. I would be willing to listen to that debate.
@@ih8work1 Check out Cyrus Khambatta, PhD and Robby Barbaro MPH interviewed on Rich Roll podcast.
I just watched her before seeing this video. I thought the same as you.
This guy is probably paid by the American Diabetes Association. What he recommends is the same as doctors recommend and it keeps you sick and going back to the doctor until you go blind, get neuropathy, get amputations, go on dialysis and die. Sad but true, I know from experience, believe me.
I also watched this right after watching Dr. Hallbergs and I'm left with the same feeling. They said opposite things but the diets weren't exact opposites. Maybe both approaches work by affecting different parts of the food/glucose cycle. Maybe there are additional factors that would make one a better choice than the other on a case by case basis. Yes, I'd like to see them hash it out because otherwise it just leaves us still in the dark.
Maybe the answer is to be either a carnivore or a herbivore but not an omnivore. You can keep sugar out of your cells by keeping sugar out of your blood (carnivore) , or you can keep fat out of your cells (herbivore) by keeping fat out of your blood, and either approach will work. But putting fat and sugar at the same time (omnivore) is guaranteed to put fat in your cells and keep sugar in your blood and then you have the problem.
This doctor has a point as to the merits of being a herbivore. But many others have also shown that being a carnivore works as well. So what you are able to do is probably what is best for you. I could not stand to be a herbivore for more than a day.
What this doctor didn't say is that we really don't have the guts of a herbivore although we have the dentition. We don't have four stomachs like a cow. Our intestinal tract is far shorter than most herbivores, even the intestinal tracts of apes.
David Mills Don’t know if you will get this message, but that is a profound comment. It goes to the heart of what the blonde lady doctor’s message is.
Check out Cyrus Khambatta, PhD and Robby Barbaro MPH interviewed on Rich Roll podcast.
But they 're not as short as the carnivore's intestines . Maybe they developed like something in between since humans started to cook their meat . Can't it raw like the predatorial carnivores . Apart from that , we do not have any other carnivorous characteristic .
I've been a vegan for many years now . But I think your approach is very interesting about being one or the other in order to get rid of diabetes. Being an omnivore is probably a cause of many problems.
@Betsy Ross Inuits are largely carnivores and they don't have cancer
Are human beings anatomically more similar to natural carnivores or to natural herbivores? Let’s find out….
Intestinal tract length. Carnivorous animals have intestinal tracts that are 3-6x their body length, while herbivores have intestinal tracts 10-12x their body length. Human beings have the same intestinal tract ratio as herbivores.
Stomach acidity. Carnivores’ stomachs are 20x more acidic than the stomachs of herbivores. Human stomach acidity matches that of herbivores.
Saliva. The saliva of carnivores is acidic. The saliva of herbivores is alkaline, which helps pre-digest plant foods. Human saliva is alkaline.
Shape of intestines. Carnivore bowels are smooth, shaped like a pipe, so meat passes through quickly - they don’t have bumps or pockets. Herbivore bowels are bumpy and pouch-like with lots of pockets, like a windy mountain road, so plant foods pass through slowly for optimal nutrient absorption. Human bowels have the same characteristics as those of herbivores.
Fiber. Carnivores don’t require fiber to help move food through their short and smooth digestive tracts. Herbivores require dietary fiber to move food through their long and bumpy digestive tracts, to prevent the bowels from becoming clogged with rotting food. Humans have the same requirement as herbivores.
Cholesterol. Cholesterol is not a problem for a carnivore’s digestive system. A carnivore such as a cat can handle a high-cholesterol diet without negative health consequences. A human cannot. Humans have zero dietary need for cholesterol because our bodies manufacture all we need. Cholesterol is only found in animal foods, never in plant foods. A plant-based diet is by definition cholesterol-free.
Claws and teeth. Carnivores have claws, sharp front teeth capable of subduing prey, and no flat molars for chewing. Herbivores have no claws or sharp front teeth capable of subduing prey, but they have flat molars for chewing. Humans have the same characteristics as herbivores.
But aren’t humans anatomically suited to be omnivores?
Nope. We don’t anatomically match up with omnivorous animals anymore than we do with carnivorous ones. Omnivores are more similar to carnivores than they are to herbivores.
The opportunistic feeder theory has been thoroughly debunked. This theory states that because humans can eat like omnivores, that we must therefore be omnivores. However, mere behavior doesn’t indicate suitability. There are plenty of things we can do as a species that would threaten our survival if we all considered them suitable default behavior, such as shooting each other, lobbing hand grenades, or sending spam.
cut and paste from an article by steve pavlina
Extra ordinary way of teaching.
Dr. Barnard's book saved me. My blood sugar numbers are now in non-diabetic range. I did add regular exercise, kept a food journal (and still do), and eat a plant based diet which all amounted to me progressively improving and losing weight. Not saying that the low carb way does not work for some. It also may work. I tried it and hated it so it amounted to it not working because I was non compliant.
What kind a plant base diet do u eat
@@EricJackson76 i try to get my mom to eat like this but she's jus stuck in her ways and refuse to give up certaing foods
Kudos. I'm working towards being a "flexatarian" with mostly plant-based foods
Are you still doing well
Went on keto diet. Weight 270->210. A1C 7.5->5.0 and no more meds. Kept weight off for 5 years. What wrong with that? Nothing. Do it. On an average day I consume no sugar. Blood sugar around 85. Works for me. I’m 72 YO male.
exactly ... well done
Check out Cyrus Khambatta, PhD and Robby Barbaro MPH interviewed on Rich Roll podcast.
Still on low carb
I guess it's OK if you don't expect to see 80
Keto wrecked my gall bladder and swell my liver. Its not for everyone
You're incredible, good knowledge and wonderful sense of humor. I love you ❤️
I thought Dr. Barnard was a quack. But I decided to give WFPB a try on March 4th, when I was told my A1c was 8.3 and I have a fatty liver. Well, now it's August 19th and my A1c is now 5.9 (will find out about the liver tomorrow at the dr.). Point is, under 5.7 means diabetes is reversed and I'm almost there. I hope to be about 5.0 in the next four months. But yes, this diet really does work!
Indeed! Great testimony! And the quacks are the drug pushers :) I'm a future WFPB doc myself, Barnard, Fuhrman, Greger, etc., are my heroes :)
I was a type 2 diabetic for nearly 18 years. The diabetes was getting so bad on medications that I was told that I needed to start injecting insulin. I started a whole food plant based lifestyle about 14 months ago and I no longer have the symptoms of diabetes and without medications.
Thank you for this wonderful information Dr. Neal Barnard!
but what did you Exactly eat for Breaskfast, Lunch and Dinner??????
@@henji9165 get Dr Barnard's book
It works! I reversed my dad's diabetes entirely in 4 months feeding him a whole food plant based diet. Lost 80 pounds and no longer met the criteria to be a diabetic. Go figure, nature made food exactly how our body needs it to thrive.
Great personality and positive delivery
Unfortunately, this information (from 2012) is in direct contradiction with what many doctors & dietitians are recommending today in 2022. As an aging, common sense person TRYING to achieve some semblance of control over an increasing problem with diabetes, (without resorting to the use of any medication), and using a strictly homeopathic approach, it is extremely frustrating to constantly come across these “professional” opinions that are in direct contradiction to one another. Also, when considering a strictly vegetable diet, I ask myself why most vegetarians that I meet always appear to be somewhat anemic looking, I have NEVER met one that I could say “now there’s a healthy looking guy”. I am finding that eating a healthy, well rounded meals in smaller portions, and limiting myself to one or two meals a day makes more sense. I stay completely away from the myriad of JUNK products sold in the U.S. as “food”, and try to eat organic products.
mmmHHHHMM. Spot on. we evolved over 300,000 years ago. made tools to hunt. we made weapons and didn't have to savagely claw an animal to death and naw their neck off. We don't need jumbo teeth. I love me some meat, veg and fermented everything. We ate all of those things over these years. Not soda, ring dings or pharmaceuticals
Forgot to say this guy looks anemic, skin and bones. Sunken in face and thin skin
Good luck on your journey. I found eating a small amount of meat and fruits during a meal and then filling up on vegetables worked best for me. On my down days I find myself eating big hearty portions really fast.
So change to a nutritionalist who knows what they are talking about. I did…I changed my diet as proposed in this video and dropped my A1C from 6.5 to 5.5 in less than 3 months.
@@baretvickery5681 Thanks for sharing
As a physician of 37 years and diabetic, I found not eating starches and sugars reduced my diabetes and gave me an A1C of 5.1 for two years now. I think the vegetarian diet is Not the way to go for better health. Every single part of my blood work has been normal since doing the ketogenic diet. I will not get into follow the money subject.
Please, show me someone on keto diet with diabetes.
***** Timothy Noakes recently got diabetes!! Dave Apsrey has it and has to take metformin as well. So does Jimmy Moore!!
+Will Wraspir Hey Will, I used to think like you too, I looked at but avoided the keto diet thinking it was a fad. Now I'm on month 3 going on 4 and you don't "give in" and eat a bunch of carbs, your body actually adjusts, unlike all those other diets like Atkins
I still eat carbs when I want to, thats how it should be. But I eat under 60g per day on average. I can go up to 100g if I feel the need, but I don't mostly, obviously it varies with activity level.
+Will Wraspir it is unsustainable not because low fat plant based is better but because we like our bread pasta rice desserts and chips
***** lol I just told you people in nutritional ketosis don't crave carbs, rather we adapt to having lower blood sugar.
you are right, people get sugar cravings, because their blood glucose is too low for them. But, being a carb eater, you need more glucose in your blood than does someone in nutritonal ketosis.
to each his own, I'm glad people are trying different things and increasing our knowledge .
*****
no...I don't think our bodies need them any more than an alcoholic needs alcohol. It's a conditioned craving, like alcoholism. If a person is a carb loader and he has become so by consuming refined sugars and starches then that is what he will crave...and switching to green leafy veggies will not be satiating because he likely would not be able to consume enough volume in a day.
You say you consume 3000-5000 calories per day...if I may ask, what is the macronutrient breakdown of your diet and the source of the carbohydrates?
Best lecture i have ever heard about diabetes. Will share with other diabetics. May his tribe increase!!
Excellent, very practical and enjoyable
Lecture.
Thank you Dr Barnard.
Great presenter, good use of humor and analogies to make the content easy to comprehend.
Just a shame he is well off the mark with his advice.
@@lepus6511 Just keeping in the swim Levi just keeping in the swim . . . .
@@dilwich He's not off mark with his advice, reducing foods high in sugar and fats helps with managing diabetes. Doesn't matter whether it's a vegan or some low-carb diet. If you eat lean meats it's fine, but reducing meat consumption is a must for most people as they eat it way more than they should.
5:03 - notice the tiny bowl of rice. They don't eat huge amounts of rice in Japan. Traditionally, rice was money. You paid your taxes with rice. You ate some rice to show you were doing well, but you didn't eat this huge bowl or bed of rice like we eat in the US.
Also, traditional servings are small, there's tons of vegetables, traditionally protein was fish or even things like crickets, and the food had lots of fiber. And even now the Japanese walk a TON compared to Americans.
This is Dr. Neal Barnard who is in Washington DC. I went to his presentation in Tenleytown. It was fascinating
Roland Harris was thanks a lot
I wish the speaker stated more about the diet itself. He did a pretty good job of general description along with some anecdotes but it left me wanting more
Dan T See: "The Program For Reversing Diabetes" book and cookbook by Dr. Barnard.
Self promotion. Not an educational vid. The analogies were in some instances very poor and displayed a concerning lack of knowledge and understanding. Or maybe it was just dumbed down.
Chris Hunt The program is based on 3 steps. 1. Avoid animal products. 2. Keep oils low. 3. Choose low glycemic index, complex whole grain carbs.
There is no diet just lifestyle changes. Fruit, vegetables, legumes, starch, nuts and seeds, that's the basics
@@cityvisual self promotion of what? Evidence? Promotion of what, broccoli?
I followed this for years and got worse. Now I do not eat grain including rice and oats. I don't eat potatoes or sugar. Hardest thing in the world to do, but it's either that or kidney disease, heart disease, neuropathy and death.
Lol
In the last 6 months I've lost 20 pounds, reversed my pre-diabetes, fatty liver, normalized my liver enzyme levels, dramatically reduced my bad cholesterol, and increased my good cholesterol. How? common sense diet: I eat only when I'm hungry and not a lot; every day I eat nuts, seeds raw veggies and plain yogurt. I use olive oil only, I never, ever eat out or buy processed foods. I have completely replaced red meat and pork with fish. I walk an hour a day. This is all.
"I eat only when I'm hungry and not alot" same it's amazing what happens when we listen to our bodies
Awesome job!!!! Keep walking!!
Thank you for this and for your PCRM website!
I went plant based reluctantly in June 2017. I was surprised to learn I feel so much better. I don't see myself every going back. I didn't expect to feel this much better and different.
I went meat based from plant. And I feel fantastic about my body. And I enjoy my steak and doner much. And I appreciate lifestyle of our ancestors for at least of last 600000 years (paintings on cave walls etc) is mostly dedicated to hunting. So I appreciate now that my body is tuned to meat eating.
@@greenleafyman1028 I think there were not so much fruits in the Ice Age (when our ancestors left Africa). So Inuits or Saami will show how to survive in the Cold (definitely there is no bananas or potatoes around).
P.S. Hunting is what drove human evolution. Pushing to tool making and dog domestication to cooperate in hunting. I am a phycisian so I have got some insights like requirement to Vit B12 or hem iron that we obtain from animal products. And the best proof is the fact that nothing is more enjoyable and palatable than a piece of juicy and lighty charred steak (just trust our Mother Nature, we humans crave for animal products, that's why many vegan products imitate just burgers, fish fingers, fried chicken etc. I have seen fake burgers made from soybean, but never seen fake banana made from mutton.
@@happyTruePeople I would like to see Dr Bernard and Dr Berg (Keto TH-cam speaker) have a debate. Doe they have some common points?
@@AnneGarberKompaore Thats a great idea! Yes, of course they have got something CommoN - they both make money on people concerns about diet and health. Barnard and Berg, they know what to say and why to say it. (Of course, for me as a LCHF dude Dr Berg is a relevant source of information).
P.S. if you up to LCHF i highly recomend you @KenDBerryMD.
@@happyTruePeople I find it a little comical how keto people refer to stone age and Dr Barnard goes pre stone age! I believe both have some truth, and in a short talk like the science is too briefly explained.
12 years later, this Ted Talk has not aged well.
After watching"What the Health", I was so angry with our government agencies lying to me, I have embarked on a Plant based diet, into day 10. Feeling better than ever, and enjoying your information and content. Thank you!!!!!!
You would do better to watch videos from Dr. Eric Berg or Dr. Ken Berry. This video is 10 years old and the information has been proved mostly incorrect.
@@davidbrogan606 Then how do you explain the Japanese diet, high in carbs but a population with a much lower rate of diabetes? The truth is that there is probably more than one way to achieve remission of diabetes. The one common denominator seems to be weight loss and the diet used to achieve that may not be as important as the end result. I know a couple of people who had diabetes and had a gastric bypass to lose weight...After the weight loss their blood sugars returned to normal even though they never followed any special diet, and both had a complete remission of diabetes while eating whatever they wanted. I am familiar with both doctors Berg & Berry, but they obviously don't have all the answers either.
@@CaneFu The Japanese diet is far lower in carbs than the American diet. Other differences are that the Japanese actually eat vegetables with their rice. The fiber nullifies some of the carbs. The Japanese do not eat much sugar. The American diet is loaded with sugar and bad fats such as corn, soy, canola, and sunflower oils which are full of Omega 6 fatty acids that cause inflammation and harm the body. The Japanese do not eat nearly as many processed foods as Americans. That being said, there is plenty of diabetes in Japan.
@@CaneFu Oh, so the answer is--quit shoving food down your mouth at breakneck speed, constantly. Why is that so hard for people to do? Americans eat too much processed food, and don't eat any vegetables--a fast track to diabetes and death
I had exactly the same feeling when I watched it too. I immediately adopted a plant based diet. My LDL cholesterol dropped by 50% in 2 months. These keto scams will be responsible for countless premature deaths for years to come.
Dr Neal Barnard when we T2 D eat two much sugars it’s got to turn to bad fats so their lies the problem of diabetes. In 2020 the experts found we must all reduce are sugar load so our blood sugars can drop to below 5.6 mmol/ L even as low as 4.6 mmol/L at least once a day to give the lnsulin a chance to recharge.
Seven years ago my T2D was 83 mmol/mol now it is 43 mmol/ mol for the last 4 years. At 78 years if I can do it so can most people. The cure is stop eating
Too many many sugars and carbohydrates.
Melvyn Asplett, I totally agree with you. I hate to disagree with Dr. Bernard, but I do.
Vegans have lower rates of diabetes and several other chronic diseases common in developed countries, including cardiovascular disease, our number one killer. Link on request.
Melvyn Asplett
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Some Guy we can communicate through messenger ,Portsmouth england
24 hr fasting every day should do it rofl( joke ) in case someone tries it !
14 years ago I was tested for my cholesterol It was over 280. A friend told me to watch "Forks Over Knifes" and I went on the WFPD overnight knowing I was having a second cholesterol test in 5 weeks. (It was now 6 months later.) After just 5 weeks my new cholesterol total was under 150 with the bad one below 80. I havn't looked back. Well, actually, a few years ago I did add a few oysters once in while, but otherwise, it's WFPB all the way.
What is WFPB ?
@@joyfulable whole food plant diet
I hope this works, I’m 14 years old and my cholesterol is 283
Thanks friend, very good!
Would you mind telling what WFPD is/means?
Amazing video, and a great teaching tool. I have a question though, if one follows this diet, are they still taking their diabetic medications?
Debunked: Fat is good, lower your carbs.
vegetable fat is NOT good, animal and fish fat all the way
Lazar Otasevic Then why do almost all of the healthiest vegetables have no fat in them
Glenn M Yes very true!
stankwho Debunked: Being scared of the truth makes stupid, lower your standards!
This is interesting… to be frank, i really don’t agree with a lot of this talk, although I agree we should be eating less animal fats. I just watched another Ted Talk on Diabetes/Insulin Resistance which said to cut CHOs and consume lots of fats because of its minimal effect on insulin sensitivity, compared to the effect of CHOs and CHONs on Insulin resistance. I’ve also seen a number videos of nutritionists saying that omega 3s and 6s (6 to a degree, but still essential) are good for increasing insulin sensitivity. Also, monounsaturated fats, which are found in both meat and vegetable fats, has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity. Meat + land animal products also have, omega-6s, Vitamin b12 and highly bioavailable Iron (healthy blood) and Protein, which essential for adequate hormone levels… insulin is a hormone.
Also, this video ignoring the fact that, for many people, animal products, which tend to come from dry grasslands and native rangeland, unsuitable for growing crops, make up a significant portion of their caloric intake. It may be doable for a white collar worker to consume only plants however, that won’t work for a huge proportion of people who exert their bodies at their job. For many people, the nutrient-density of animal products allows people to be adequately fed. [also, on a global scale, 7+ billion people can not be fed with only 1/3 of the world’s landmass suitable for growing modern crops… animal product coming from native rangeland environments are really crucial for a lot of folks, both in diet and livelihood].
Also, I know that seafood, specifically mussels, snails oysters and other similar species, have been a part of our diet since long before the stone age as they offered an easy and plentiful beachside snack to early humans. This food source contributed vastly to early humans in East Africa (roughly 50 million years ago) being able to/feeling comfortable in migrating to new areas; there was assurance of a plentiful food supply to sustain their travel.
Maybe conventional, herbicide-rich, grain-fed animals that stand in crowded pens for most of their life will produce meat that is unhealthy for us however, animal products, in general? No, honey… I feel this Ted Talk was a vast oversimplification of our collective nutrient/dietary needs, genetic ancestry, and biochemical interactions.
Also, to say that our bodies are still pre-stone age when that was 2.6 million years ago but, at the same time, humans can alter their genetics in one lifetime through dietary choices… no
I’m open to new information but a…gerbil test??? Ha.. no..
People like to hear good things about their bad habits.....
Dr. Neal Barnard is an excellent speaker, and I love hearing his personal journey as well as the science.
Looks good despite not being a youngster, dresses nice, sounds good, makes sense. And he doesn't use complicated words
"Dr."? Right! A doctor of animal rights activism, that's about it.
@@doctorkayakthe best docs out there, the only ones I listen and trust.
@@doctorkayak Yes, because animal products are unethical, unhealthy and the cause of all diseases.
Pleasure watching this show.. and very informative
My grandmother was a diabetic. Taking numerous pills a day, wasting dollar after dollar on expensive meds. She always watched her sugar intake and made an effort not to eat too many carbs and sweet foods. She died a diabetic. Know what she never gave up? Animal products. She ate meat and dairy until the day she died, and never got better.
It is impossible to “watch” your sugars if you eat processed foods. Many, many foods have maltodextrin in them and it has twice the glycemic index of table sugar. It will never show up a “added sugar” on a nutritional label.
I think my love for ice cream, yogurt and cheese is not helping my effort to not be a diabetic!
@@hulamei3117 You should check Dr Neal's talk on the dairy and why it is so addictive. Search "What the Dairy Industry Doesn't Want You to Know - Full talk". It's long but worth watching. I'm also struggling on dairy 😅
For everyone pointing out there are 2 contradicting TEDx talks on this subject, please remember there is no one size fits all solution for diabetes. That way of thinking is what has gotten us to this sorry state. Depending on the root cause of an individuals insulin resistances some will need to go the Dr. Barnard route. Others will need to employ the Dr. Hallberg method. Personally my sugars go through the roof when I eat fat, but I dont assume everyone's bodies behave the same. Clearly Dr. Hallberg's patients are an example of that.
My sugar dropped from over 300 to less than 100 when I went to a carnivore diet and energy when up as well as dropped over 2 pants sizes!
I just listened to Dr hallberg's video and now this I'm so confused
Yes me too. It completely contradicts this… Hallberg seems more believable somehow?? Lol. I just don’t know.
Just humor and eloquence. Carbs will definitely raise blood sugar. I am diabetic for over 25 years and always uncontrolled. Now I am on a low carb diet and it's working well. Reduced medication and A1C.
It will appear too... For awhile. HOWEVER, you're merely replacing one disease process, Diabeties, with heart disease, harding of the arteries, kidney disease, fatty liver and/or cancer.
@@pcatMe Watch Dr Ken Berry.
Do you mean veggies/beans/some fruit is what you're reducing? Or are you referring to processed and ultra processed carbs such as candies/packaged sweets and bread?
What vegetables did u use to make oil??
A very very good and true lecture.
2 Years back in the age of 55 i was diagnised TYPE TWO diabetes. I was lucky a got a doctor who never gave me a single medicine rather strictly supervised my diet and walking schedule. Alhamdo lillah i am living quite a normal life.
2 hours walk...change in eating habitts plus selective foods end up symptoms.
tell us more (-_-)
Diabetes vids: one says 'Cut carbs, boots fat'. The other says 'Cut fat, boost carbs'. So helpful when you get clear advice.. Charlie
I just finished watching another TED TALK that described "curing" diabetes with a low carb, high fat diet, lol.
Yes, I watched that one also. However low carb high fat does not cure, it merely bypasses the need for insulin (to transport glucose into the cell) in the production of energy. It makes more sense to me to actually fix the problem (remove the fat from the cell) than change the body's primary fuel source (glucose) to a secondary source (fat).
That's a good start. Now it's time to step it up and go read some journals, books, textbooks .etc. and see what the literature says? What the majority of studies say? Then hopefully that'll clear up all this stuff?
Or try a diet yourself, gather data on yourself then modify if it doesn't work?
The scientific literature says that vegans are leaner and have lower diabetes rates. care.diabetesjournals.org/content/32/5/791.short
Exactly me too, just now... thats why i have doubts regarding both of them...
What is really missing is exercise. Human have consumed meats forever, we need them, we also need exertion to keep our bodies in good working order.
Dear Doctor Barnard, I bought your book about the reversal of Diabetes. My husband has been diabetic for about ten years now but he has been very sick for about 5 years, that was when we noticed his situation because he lost a lot of weight all of a sudden (I must mention that all his family is diabetic and many have already died because of it). Now, his sugar is all over the place going up and down without any control. I tried to help him with this diet (I have been following your diet for about 2 years and feel great!) but he was very scared because in just a couple of days of trying his sugar dropped down so dramatically that we were about to take him to the hospital. He gets all shaky, cold and loses conscience...So he is very afraid to try again... What can I do? I know this is the way for healing but I am so worried first, that his sugar gets so low that could be dangerous, and second, that he loses more weight (he is already very thin and weak). I would appreciate your advice on how to proceed, this is very important for me because unless he goes back to normal soon, he will have very serious problems in a short time. Thank you for your help in advance..... Lucy
Hi. I'm not here telling you that Dr. Eric Berg will be the solution for your husband's case. But he was the solution for me and my father. Take a look at his channel and search about Keto Diet. I reversed my father's diabetes and took myself out of pre-diabetes range! And now I'm living on a low carb lifestyle, which is not so "extreme" as keto diet. But following a keto diet was extremely important in the first months. Ps: I know that what I am telling here (keto) it's totally different from what doctor Neal indicates.
Hi Dr this us really profound.Can you please make a video on a menu including breakfast,lunch and dinner.
I don't know, but he has an organisation called PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine).
There are lots of advice, videos, & information on it.
I was just diagnosed broader line pre-diabetes. This is a great talk.
What's in ur diet carbs or proteins more
@@HinduHeritage Now, more proteins, sugar going down, cholesterol is dropping and I’ve lost 25 pounds so far.
@@RickieVz1 so you are on keto . ?
@@HinduHeritage yes, now I am.
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Nice guy, but Sarah Halberg DO has overwhelming numbers of success. Jason Fung MD book "The Diabetes Code"2016 is of complete help.
A lot of unbiased, unequivocal modern research points to sugar as the culprit in our current western diet causing the huge upswing in diabetes and obesity. Sugar in all it's many forms is in some 80% of processed foods. That increase in added sugar in our diet began at almost the same time our obesity crisis was noticed, some 30 years ago, just as we increased our intake of processed foods. I don't think that's a coincidence and neither do many researchers.
That's what some people will tell you, the actual evidence they claim is nowhere near as compelling.
There are so many confounding factors out there it is impossible to make a serious claim just by noticing how one thing, like sugar say, seems to co-incide with obesity. Consider for a moment that sugar is used to make a whole range of high fat foods palatable and consumption of those has risen. Consider we've all become a lot more sedentary over that same period and people play with computers and the Internet instead of going outside. Consider that consumption of Omega 6 oils relative to Omega 3 oils rose drastically in the 70's and has stayed with us ever since, that's the ratio that appears to confer the healthiness found in the Mediterranean diet. The possible factors involved in the obesity epidemic are many.
rubbish. The sheer amount and quality of the evidence regarding the increase in carb intake and frank sugar intake totally refutes your statement.
Brilliant use of humour and commonsense. 11/10
That why he is a sell out to the Grain Board
Tom Dimitropoulos ...so there really is no ability to be in research without being a sell-out...like the grain board...the dairy board...fast food lobbyists....meat producers...etc.etc..
...what research can be done...that once it produces results...is capable of remaing free of any accusations...of collusion...with some lobby group or marketing board somewhere....specially if it produces results favouring one of these.....
Yes, a brilliant presentation. He's just wrong.
Love the metaphor of insulin as a key trying to operate in a gummed up lock. Really made the concept clear for me. Dr. Bernard makes these explanations look easy, but they're not. Therein lies the art. He's a superb lecturer/teacher.
That sounds like a real comment.🙄
Barnard is a liar and he knows it. He has an agenda.
@@suprememasteroftheuniverse Congrats for posting the most oblique and least substantiated comment on this page. You should change your handle from "suprememasteroftheuniverse" to "suprememasterofvagueness".
God bless you
Thanking you for the good advises
say what you will. Call us omnivores, call us herbivores, call us carnivores. It doesn't matter what you want us to be. If you are fighting these problems with your health give this a try. If you don't get any better after changing your diet in this fashion you can still go back to taking pills and giving yourself shots and watching your your health go down hill. All I am saying is to try and remove your EGO from your health care.
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That is the most sensible comment I have read in a long time. People get so emotional about the idea of giving up animal products, but hey, if it works it’s a no brainer. The ONLY hard thing about the whole food plant based diet is re-learning how to cook and shop, but once you’ve got it down it’s easier, cheaper and immeasurable healthier.... And if it doesn’t work for you there are always the expensive pills and shots. They work, right?
My Favorite talk on Food and Diabetes so far.
Are you suggesting fix what works ?
Totally opposite of the last Ted talk advising 0 carbs. No rice etc.
Ya what's up with that? This guy saying eating carbs is fine doesn't make sense though.
Golden Child I have gone carnivore to cure myself and it is working amazingly! Carbs hated me and almost killed me. I loved Plants but they poisoned me...eliminating plant toxins has given me the first improvements in my autoimmune disease.
@@wdiddy1 It makes perfect sense if you realize that he may have another agenda other than diabetes. Maybe it has more to do with protecting animals. Low carbs was the only way I beat diabetes.
@@beastshawnee4987
Many of us are different in many ways!
It is ripe for politicization that racial differences might affect dietary guidelines. It's so hard for them to admit that certain people might be genetically able to digest carbs better than others.
How to get this diet and recipes. Please help.
Thank you for sharing your thought-provoking TEDx talk on tackling diabetes with a bold new dietary approach. Your insights on the relationship between diet and diabetes are both insightful and inspiring. Your approach to promoting plant-based diets as a solution to this condition is innovative and holds great promise. Your message is clear, concise and easy to understand, making it accessible to a wide audience. Your passion for helping those with diabetes and improving their health is evident and truly inspiring. Your contribution to this field is invaluable and we appreciate the work you do. Great job!
Sorry ... I am an omnivore leaning towards carnivore, and chose low carb/keto as the way to reduce my blood sugar, blood pressure, and thyroid levels ... It has worked for the past year and a half, and I lost 40 lbs in the process. No seed oils ... good fats from animal sources, coconut oil, avocado oil ... But, if vegan works with the same results for someone, then so be it. May we all be healthy!
Good job, I'm a surgeon who amputates diabetic feet and legs. I have been advocating Keto since I was nearly diabetic 10 years ago. I've become more and more a carnivore and now 60 years old with no medications and my labs are great.
@@thesimplegospel3529 Thanks for your thoughts, but there is increasing scientific evidence pointing at longer life expectancy, fewer heart related incidents, and cleaner arteries in people who are eating "good natural fats" derived from animals, avocado, and coconut sources. Shorter life expectancy, more arterial deteriorations and calcifications are being directly linked, in numerous scientific studies now available, to the constant consumption of seed based, highly processed oils, plus overloads of fructose, which both contribute to faster cell oxidations and cell death. Knowledge is power, and freedom of choice belongs to everyone. That's the lovely part of living where we do. Eating "whole" foods, and avoiding highly processed "non foods", is a choice we both can make to move towards optimal health. On that, I'm sure we can both agree. :)
@@thesimplegospel3529 Here is one talk which describes how our human bodies have changed over the course of human developmental history. Dr. Michael Eades - 'Paleopathology and the Origins of the Low-carb Diet', given on June 20, 2020. He looks at the structural development of our digestive systems compared with earlier forms of mankind and apes .. He looks at the culture and health issues related to early Egypt and the times of the pharoahs. He examines jaw and teeth structures, and the prevalence of obesity and heart disease in this culture.
Check out Cyrus Khambatta, PhD and Robby Barbaro MPH interviewed on Rich Roll podcast.
@@equteachme Thank you for the references ... It shows your care for this topic, similar to my own care, but down a different path. My belief, and as I study the topic, it strengthens, is that "knives" work better for me than "forks". However, as I've said already, the "forks" path may work sufficiently well for someone else. Sticking to natural and whole food sources as much as possible and staying away from gmo items, highly processed items, especially processing that uses high fructose corn syrups and sugars, might be an area upon which we might agree?
Saving me from diabetes when it almost took my life is what I will always be grateful for, Thank you Dr Obaz, you are indeed a professional...
Working with a Naturopathic doctor now who is prescribing the previous type of diet taught by Dr Sarah Hallberg. I am slightly insulin resistant apparently and carbs in the form of grains and starchy veggies are out for now. This video seems to be outdated info.
Nah it's not
It doesn't matter if his theory is correct or not.
By following what he is saying, you are becoming vegetarian, eating lots of fruit and veges, and not eating junk food.
Even if it doesn't reverse diabetes, it's going to be a lot healthier for you
14 months ago I was diagnosed with diabetes. I decided to eat a low carb diet and after only 3 months I had put my diabetes into remission. I have reduced my weight by 20% over the 14 months without even trying.
Neal, excellent capture of attention, delivery of content in context, and explaining in a manner worth remembering.
On top of that, he dresses nice, and is clean cut.
Ya know on another channel he calls himself a doctor, an MD to be specific... But actually he's just an animal rights activist. Great observation Dave!
Very informative . Whole lotta thanks for the post tbh !
Just watched his interview on London Real and he looks the same exact age as 6 years ago!
Humans are not herbivores, we are and have been since the beginning of time carnivores.
we are omnivores . . . not carnivores that would imply we can only eat and digest meat
Just a WARLORD I stand corrected. Thanks
It’s a bit facile. Confront a Labrador puppy with a bunny and he will invite it to play. Give a two year old boy a spear and he will throw it at something or someone. Our rootstock many millions of years ago was a herbivorous/ omnivorous ape, we are the omnivorous /carnivorous version. We didn’t need to evolve big teeth, we evolved big brains and hands. We need animal fats in childhood to grow those big brains. Without it we get stunted growth and lowered intelligence.
Angela Frith you are right. I’m learning so much from my hasty comment. Thanks
Your talk is so inspirational. It's time to change the way we eat. Thank you so very much for choosing this life mission to help this very sick America that is getting sicker. Also I loved the simple explanation of food and the human body. My neighbor just had his leg cut off because of the 2 diabetes. Love your work and THANK YOU!
Big difference in comments in plant based and carnivore. The carnivore ones have a high numbers of wonderful results and cures, not so much in the plant based comments.
@@safffff1000that’s not what the large bodies of evidence says about plant based and animal based dietary patterns
@@jasonrios3120 Yes I know that is why I posted it because it shows an alternate successful extremely long lived creature that doesn't eat plants.
I've been following a very strict ketogenic diet for 15 months. I had my cholesterol checked Feb. 2019 and again the other day August 2019. I'm concerned. My total cholesterol was 184 now increased to 220. My HDL was 88 now 90. My LDL 86 to a whopping 120 and my triglycerides 48 to 49. I don't know about staying on these diet. I feel good and lost about 18 pounds but I want my heart to be healthy too! Thoughts?
Michele Berthelsen please do some research regarding cholesterol because there's a lot of nonsense spoken and written about trying to get it down to very low figures. Much of it to do with big Pharma wanting to get as many people as possible onto drugs which make them a LOT of money and really mess with people's health in the long run. We need cholesterol and getting our numbers really low is NOT good for us. Since all your other stats are great and you've lost weight and feel good I wouldn't worry, but some research would probably help allay your fears.
Hi, Michele. I'm curious if you've learned anything new since this post. I agree that keto works to lose weight but not that it's sustainable or the healthiest approach in the long term. How are you doing now?
Thanks for sharing!
@@tracydehoff I am doing great and still on keto. I went off a bit a few days, but steady keto WOE. I am within a few pounds of "my" goal weight. I am actually right where I should be according to the BMI chart. I will get labs done to see where those numbers lie which I was concerned about. Thanks for checking in!
@@micheleberthelsen1900 Thanks for the update. Happy to hear that you're doing well! I'd be curious to hear about the impact on your cholesterol.
@@micheleberthelsen1900 Hi, how are you doing now, after another year? ;)
I am 60 yrs.old, vegan since 1993 (20 years).
I have check-ups at a clinic staffed with USC trained doctors.
At my l last visit, about 6 months ago, I asked the doc if I had to have tests for diabetes, prostate and colonoscopy; he told me that because my lifestyle (diet and moderate exercise), it was not really necessary if I didn't want to...
hey there..can i ask a quick question..do u think b12 is vital for vegans? or that vegan diet is complete in itself and we dont need any supplements?
Also do u think nuts and seeds can be consumed regularly long term or are they problematic?
My kind of doctor he tells the truth thank God for such a wonderful man he does practice what he preach because you can see it on his body and hear it in his speak he is the real deal it's about the diet not about the pill
Dr Barnard is a genus, i am trying to train my brain and my wife to follow his teachings.
c'mon give him the credit at least for being part of a species
Training the wife might be a bit of a stretch!
That was inspirational and awesome.
This is fascinating to learn. Dr Barnard is the best doctor I can listen to hours and hours, what he said is so interesting knowledge that we can learn from his expertise. Thank you so much for giving us very impressive and interesting lecture.
Great advice. I managed to keep diabetes at bay for more than 10 years with exercise and mostly vegetables. Do not get me wrong - I like eating meat and butter and cheese, but limit this. Also love the presentation and the humor. Thank you doctor.
this guy is 62 years old !!!!!!!!!!!! wow!!!!!!!!!!
Hair dye.
Plant Eats wow! 😉
so what
I'm 63, and in the right light, I look 30. Harsh light, not so much.
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Thx much Dr Barnard keeping us aware of this topic.
I just saw a video saying the exact opposite of what you're saying-somebody is lying. This is why no one gets well.
I know a lot of people who have recovered from diabetes using diet changes.
I think the person that said it's not one-size-fits-all is absolutely right. I do Keto. I do one meal a day or omad, and I do intermittent fasting or IF. I lost 80 lb and I think the key is actually losing weight more than what you eat losing the weight getting you down to normal size is pretty much the key. I also do extended fasts. I also take K2 mk7 & magnesium, D3, B vitamins., C. I tried apple cider vinegar but I don't feel like it did much for me. I don't have Gerd or any of those problems which is what I hear everybody say they use it for.
I became a vegetarian and then tried to be a raw vegan but could only do it for 4 weeks. After one year of no animal products, no processed food and very little fat I had another heart attack and still have diabetes. So now I am going on low carb as a last resort.
do some research, experiment, gather data on yourself and see what happens?
Tharun Sonti That's all I have been doing but I am running out of time.
Raw diets are not necessarily the best with all foods. For many foods there is better absorption of nutrients after cooking. Carrots are a good example of this.
In regard to your heart health, be sure to measure your homocysteine level Hcy. On a vegetarian diet you may be lacking B12 and Omega3 and may still have a high Hcy. Without proper nutrition the omnivore will be better off than the vegan.
p.s. Be sure to get enough sleep. Melatonin will help to reduce Hcy and inflammation.
SWProspector I am on top of it and also take supplements. I was also just sick of eating vegies and spending so much time on my diet with shopping and food prep and cooking. I worked in a research hospital most of my life and my friends are a physicians with a few doctors thrown in and they don't now what is happening to me.
try high fat. low carb, but be sure it's high "healthy" fat -- grass fed butter. butter is not evil. I believe this can be extremely healthy for some. many get better lipid profiles when their body isn't working so hard to have enough fat. our bodies make cholesterol. and to whoever cited eggs=bad, this has been disproven. so much misinformation out there. it does take a lot of research and learning. good luck.
Thank you for such wonderful information! Blessings
Very interesting and helpful talk. Thank you
Will this diet help me get a jawline like him?
Lol. Super manly looking w that structured jaw & cheekbones.. his thoughts about a career? Model..or doctor?
great. Thanks for the helpful video
There are amazing people on this planet..... this man can be found in that category......fascinating
I agree...
He's amazingly good at spreading propaganda.
Thank you for all of this wonderful information. My mother has diabetes and my father died at 44 of a massive heart attack. I will be taking these suggestions and also sharing this video as it makes perfect sense that diabetes keeps getting worse in America.
Also in Australia. I had an Uncle who had Diabetes Type 2 since he was 30 years old. He was obese or overweight for most of his life and unfortunately ignored the health advice he was given until soon before he died.
Sorry about your dad, yes this nutritional protocol works! It's Whole Food Plant Based :) Dr. Joel Fuhrman's "Eat to Live" Cookbook is a must have!
We evolved as hunter gatherers the fact we have opposing thumbs meant we could produce tools to hunt kill skin our prey We harnessed fire to warm us cook our food and protect us from other carnivores. As hunter gatherers eating only happened if we found or killed food. This is where we need to aim our eating habits I like Dr. Sarah Hallberg's Ted Talk advice much more than this guy.
Dealing with diabetes for more than a decade felt like an endless battle that drained my physical and emotional reserves. I tried one treatment after another, hoping to find a solution, but it always seemed out of reach. Then, by a stroke of luck, I was i
Just listened to another Ted Talk with different approach. Is any of this real?
You need to do your own research. Listen to Dr Neal Barnard. He's written a book on how to reverse diabetes. He's seen patients heal from diabetes...
Also, search for a free vid on YT: "Simply Raw, Reversing Diabetes in 30 days" There's lots of stuff available...
Judy BW Indeed! My own dad started living as he suggests, back in the ‘90s after a very scary hospital visit. Strict diet, no sugar, fats, or carbs. Add light exercise (walk) after eating. Get Dr. Barnard’s book, as suggested. I am very happy to say that I still have my dad around, and he FEELS GREAT! At 82 years of age, he has met his first great-grandson when my mom drove them across the country last summer. Obviously she also has benefited from the lifestyle. Best health to you! ☮️
@@annecaulder9495 no fats or carbs? Where do you get at least 1500 calories from proteins?
He failed to talk about insulin and insulin resistance. Disappointed.
Cos he doesn't believe that insulince resistance is caused by too much glucose or continued consumption of fructose.
@@hannahnymoose I think he was referring to insulin resistance with his analogy that "the lock is filled with gum". I am surprised he didn't specifically say that that's what insulin resistance is.
I turned my health (pre-diabetic) completely around by simply WALKING 7,000 - 10,000 steps per day.
i agree with you. i walk double the amount and my bmi fell by 10. I am 18.8 bmi.
If you walk without changing your diet it won't last. Check back in in a couple of years and let's see how you are doing.
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