I lived with prediabetes for over 20 years without knowing it. Got blood work every year but doctors did not mention anything about it. I found out last year when researching online and started to fast daily from 16 - 20 hours, gradually. Now am very okay with extended longer fasting with no issues. My blood glucose dropped from 118 stubborn and consistently the past decades to the lower 80. Fasting, exercise and low carb diet definitely bring excellent results, but need to do the right ways. Eating correctly is important. Eat the real Foods, cook your own meals, plenty of rest after exercise. After my 20 hours fast or any length of fasting from 16 hours, I start always will a ceremonial matcha latte with plain almond creamer, no sugar, a piece of dark 90% chocolate, plain yogurt, avocado.... overall soft foods, and best of all homemade bone broth. The solid foods follow one hour later. Do research, people, and do the right way and you will get results in no time.
My dr didn’t tell me anything from my blood tests until I’d become a full blown type 2 diabetic 😢 and I requested blood tests constantly as I had symptoms i didn’t understand and was panicking about. I had blood tests for over a year and he said nothing.
@@skulltaylor1616 File a complaint with whoever is supposed to be regulating doctors. No wonder so many of them get sued eventually for malpractice. A psychiatrist put something in my medical record without talking to me about it. I only found out when my lawyer sent me my medical records during my disability case which I did win but it took time of course.
@@skulltaylor1616 I understand, I could tell quite a story about one Endocrinologist telling me I had type 2 diabetes and the next guy changed my diagnosis to type 1 diabetes. They are 2 very different situations with different causes and different treatment plans. There are specific tests that can be done to determine exactly what is going on but the tests aren't even routinely ordered. I guess the doctors blame the insurance companies for not wanting to pay for anything which unfortunately there is truth to. The system is just a mess!
My glucose 70-140 during my 20 hr fasting. I eat from 4pm to 7pm glucose during that time glucose 80-90 average. I have watched all your videos and are reading your bookWhy get sick. But I am confuse about IR it’s like it 180 out
I managed my son's type 1 diabetes for several years, and in the case of type 1 diabetes, you know that the insulin you use is what's required to manage the total daily effects of food. I started him on a very carb controlled diet at about 25% carbs (30 grams 3x per day) and about 60% fat. He had to use about 1 unit of insulin for every 6 grams of carbs he ate at a meal, or about 5 units per meal x 3, and also basal insulin about 8 units a day. On a suggestion of a high carb type 1 diabetic researcher, I tried a 75% carb diet for 10 days. Within 3 days I had to reduce his insulin to 1 unit per 15 grams of carbs. His basal insulin also dropped a little. This happened gradually over 3 days though. Note that his total daily insulin requirements were the same, even though the insulin for a given number of carb grams was greatly reduced. When he returned to the 25% carb diet it also took about 3 days to go back to his old carb ratios. Now, it does demonstrate that muscles will load up on fatty acids or on glycogen depending on what is present. The 25% carb diet produced less variability in blood sugar, and particularly less risk of low blood sugar and lower peak blood sugar that occurred later. This also shows that insulin resistance should be based on insulin required to manage total energy expenditure. Some high carb advocates point to the fewer carbs covered by a unit of insulin and refer to it as insulin resistance, but on a total food basis there was no change. However, also note that low carb diets don't require LESS daily insulin than high carb diets. The exception would be that if the high carb diet pushes blood sugar up faster, it might result in hypersecretion of insulin which may also result in lower lows, and an increase in counter-regulatory hormones like cortisol, adrenaline and glucagon, so high carb might require a little more insulin because people hyper secrete, but carbs don't tend to do this if they are consumed around activity. Also the lowest insulin requirements occurred when switching from high fat to high carbs, but the lowest occurred in the 3 days switching from high carb to high fat. Overall, low carb/high fat lowers peak spikes after meals, raises baseline blood sugar, raises fasting insulin slightly, and reduces the overall range on the high and low end, but has no effect on total daily insulin exposure unless enough fast carbs are consumed to cause high spikes which result in hypersecretions, hypoglycemic trending, and stress hormone counter regulation. Oh, and one more thing, "slow, low GI carbs" like al dente pasta and legumes required 1.5-2.0x as much insulin to manage relative to their carb content than other carb sources, and extended over 6-12 hours. They seem to stimulate the release of liver glycogen as they pass through the intestines, so low GI carbs are probably the worst for total insulin exposure. There are other experiments showing that the carb to fat ratio of a diet has no effect on daily insulin exposure at the same level of calories though it does profoundly affect blood sugar variability.
Awesome. So gorgeously, and succinctly stated. I'm going to pin this to my computer screen, and watch it daily, until it sinks into my dense head ! I guess it just takes a bit of ethics and persistence with fighting the bs in the mind; one doesn't have to be a PhD in Biochemistry to accomplish this. Aarre Peltomaa
What if i might have insuline resistance but i fast a couple of times a month and do intermittent fasting for many days in the same month (im a woman) but i eat 2 slices of whole grain bread or 50 grams of whole grain pasta during the day? Whats your opinion on this? Thank you
I love all your material Ben, but I’ve been on a carnivore diet, a strict, carnivore diet literally just meat eggs, eggs, water salt for almost 8 months. I have slowly tried to re-introduce some things like avocado, cabbage, strawberries, watermelon, blueberries, etc. little things like this And the second I put any type of carb or sugar back in my body I start having hypoglycemic episodes, my blood sugar drops. I’ve never been diabetic, but I’m having a lot of gut issues the past few years, which I did not know was actually my gut and until enough trial and error. I seem to have developed serious food, sensitivities and intolerances. My body literally cannot process or break down anything besides meat and eggs right now I can’t even do dairy butter or any type of oil. I suspect that I have really bad leaky gut, potentially Cibo, and the G.I. doctors I’m working with just found a C.diff infection in my colon. I am going Monday morning to have an endoscopy and eventually a colonoscopy. I am having more testing done to see if I officially have SIBO and carbohydrate, intolerant test, and many other test to see what’s going on with me. TMI. But I have had serious diarrhea for like a straight seven or eight months now. Going carnivore did help a laundry list of serious health concerns I had but it has not fixed everything. I constantly feel fatigued, I still get bloating and crazy, diarrhea, stomach cramps, abdominal pains And I have moments where I am just fine and all of a sudden it feels like the life is being sucked out of me. I do believe there are a few things happening to me. I do believe because of the leaky gut. It is brought on some type of diabetic gut which has given me diabetic symptoms, but I have checked with multiple endocrinologist, and I am not diabetic, but I have every class symptom of diabetes right now. I have lost a lot of weight considering I’m already petite and tiny. Before my health got really bad I wait about 113 pounds and I got all the way down to 98 pounds. And my weight fluctuates between 90-97 pounds right now. I am a 32-year-old white, female and previous to this. I am blessed and thankful to say I have been in perfect health my entire life. I I’m desperate, but hopeful that someone truly has the right information to get me the right help because I believe I have a bit of a web of issues going on but the way most of these careless western doctors tackle things are with antibiotics. And from my own obsessive research, I’ve had a basically become my own doctor, and if I am dealing with all these gut related issues, the last thing I need to mess up my gut Microbiome even further is to take more antibiotics. Which can actually for my research, make it much worse for me, but these doctors are not educating me that’s why I come watch and find men like you guys, I’m not even a doctor, but this makes more sense to me than these careless cookie cutter doctors who were trained by the system to throw antibiotics at you. I don’t know where to start first do I heal the leaky gut or do I have to get rid of the bad bacteria La like SIBO and C.diff first in order to heal it?
This sounds like a clear example of oxalate dumping. On the carnivore diet, you are suddenly not getting oxalates intake, so your body takes the opportunity to dump oxalates, and on the way out they can produce the symptoms you describe. See Sally Norton's YT interviews and get her book Toxic Superfoods. The key is to moderate the dumping by adding a tiny amount of oxalate back into your diet to curb your body's excessive enthusiasm. I drink 2 cups of black tea daily for a total of 40 mg of oxalate and 2 thumbnail-sized pieces of dark chocolate for another 25 mg. That restrains the dumping but still leaves a margin for clearance. It can be a long process.
My A1c has stayed around 5.6 - 5.7 for the past few years. Despite me lowering my carbs considerably and doing intermittent fasting and lots of exercise I cant seem to lower it from that level. Any thoughts on this ? I am a 62 year old woman
@sandraredmond4812 Hello Sandra, I agree with you that it does not seem to be so simple for everyone. I have some people around me for whom getting out of IR is not that easy. Some ideas to share: --> Do you have any data like insulin / HOMA / QUIKI index? To follow them in time and see if they change? Because your HbA1c may stay the same (for now), but still in the same time your insulin resistance might have started to improve. (= less insulin required to maintain the same glucose level) --> Did you investigate whether you may have some chronic inflammation going on? This may feed insulin resistance. (And high insulin itself is feeding inflammation). It may come from some foods seen as "keto-friendly" and that you may not suspect. For instance in some people with histamine sensibility: dairy products, nuts, and many other foods keep some inflammation running on a daily basis, in the intestines and eveywhere else in the body. --> Did you investigate whether a high level of stress might be the issue in your case? High cortisol --> high blood glucose. One may eat less than 20g of carbs and still have high blood glucose - and therefore high insulin, and therefore IR still going on - "just" because of nervous stress / cortisol. Lack of sleep, blue light and bad circadian rythm fall into this category (--> they increase cortisol production). Too much cardio exercise too. A "not-very-happy" psycho-emotionnal life, stressful relationships, etc. play a big role here too (unbalanced vagus nerves functioning --> big physiological impact) --> Sometimes too it is interesting to investigate for vitamins and minerals in case there could be some deficiencies. Good luck to you. Hope this may help or give you some ideas/potential solutions for improvement.
I think it is still a win. If you had not done so well, your A1c would have likely climbed to a much higher level. Also, it may be that aging will require greater effort to control
Fasting made my Hashimoto hypothyroidism worse, way way worse. Now do intuitive eating as I’ve done my whole life. No white carbs at all. Low carb , low glycemic index, 30 grams protein at each meal. Lots and lots of veggies
Hi folks thanks for the info it very informative, I have recently been diagnosed type 2 diabetic and also have NAFLD because of this I have tried to change my life style and the types of food I eat, I have been intermittent fasting for about 5 weeks now I'm doing 6/18, on top of this I'm also doing a 40hr fast every week starting Thursday at 18:00hrs and finishing Saturday at 12:00hrs, combining a low very carb diet I am losing weight to be fair especially around my belly . my blood glucose ranges from 5.2 -6.8 mmol/L, after my 40 hr fast I check for ketones in my urine and there's nothing, I was wondering why that is if you guys know and could tell me that would be appreciated, thanks
U can also get fasting insulin blood tests and another I don’t know the name but it tells if u have too much insulin. I am diabetic and would get this all the time
That's true in my case, I reversed type 2 diabetes in 6 weeks, I stopped 6 tablets a day I was taking. 3 years down the road I think I'm still insulin resistant...I haven't done any insulin test but my A1c went up a few points after I relaxed my fasting. Carbs didn't not change, if anything I reduced carbs to about 5%. I also reversed fatty liver, I did a test and the doc was impressed, he did think it was possible to reverse it so much. My advise is to do anything in your power to become diabetic.... There's no going back from that.
This is because when you fast your liver takes the opportunity to purge its glut of glucose. That's how grateful it is that you're fasting and it can relieve itself, like a kid on a 10 hour road trip when you finally stop at a rest stop.
I fast at least 17 hrs a day 6 days a week, Some 24-40 hr fasts when I feel the need. Don't eat preservatives, seed oils ,fast food and only occasional berries and sweets. ie. birthdays. My glucose was always 88-94 during labs. Decided to do an A1C and found it to be 5.7. I'm clueless of why or what to do now. Certainly don't want it to go higher.
The mistake people make when fasting is they fast for 2 or 3 days then they don’t fast again until a year or 2 later. For every 1 day of eating fast for at least 2-3 days..and cycle. I am referring to water fasting NOT intermittent fasting..Do not worry about hunger because after you cycle this method after a month or so your hunger impulses will disappear forever.Your insulin will become hyper sensitive which will help you maintain weight and muscle mass..I am a practitioner not a theorist of this method. I personally cycle every 7-14 days meaning I water fast for 7-14 days then I eat for 2-3 days..repeating this process while simultaneously applying resistance training. My resting heart rate doesn’t exceed 70 and my blood pressure remains at a healthy low. I am over 40…I also suggest drinking daily shots of apple cider vinegar while fasting to help cleanse the colon coupled with lots of mineral water.
Unfortunately I put on 8kg in 8 weeks following a full carnivore diet. I also damaged an already damaged (nafld) liver, blood work showed alt doubled in that time. I was so disappointed...
These diets are not for everyone. They're very extreme. Unfortunately commenters will jump in with all sorts of ridiculous recommendations. Old fashioned lower carb diets with fruit, veg, olive oil, nuts, lean protein and small quantities of starch is much less aggressive. The people who fast successfully are one in a million. It just seems lije everyone's doing it because they all frequent these same video's. Lower carb is recommended in my country but not the extreme fasting and carnivore .
Sounds like you did something incorrectly. Please give details about your carnivore diet. Plus, there’s a difference between Grainfed carnivore and grass fed carnivore.
Because their training makes them believe that there's a pharmaceutical solution to any problem, for T2d's in particular the solution is nutritional & nutrition isn't really part of their training.
Hmmmm pretty much not true. Control your saturated fat intake. I stopped eating animal products and I minimize saturated fat. I mostly eat whole food plants and I beat 15 years of insulin dependent diabetes. All carbs and I not only beat diabetes but CVD, stage III kidney failure, erectile disfunction, all 5 symptoms of metabolic disorder, peripheral neuropathy and I was blind from diabetic retinopathy! I just passed a complete FAA eye test and qualify for a medical certificate to fly my plane again....they don't let you fly when you are blind! I do fast but its the plants that cured my medical issues and keep them in check. This guy is a one trick pony and it is not even a very good trick. His APO(b) is through the roof, mine is in the low end of normal. A low carb, high fat diet increases you all cause mortality by 30%.....good luck with that!
Not true at all. Animal protein is a complete protein; plant protein is not. Hence the reason all vegetarians have to supplement with vitamins and minerals. B vitamins are a common thing vegetarians have to supplement.
@@LauraB.335All vegetarians? I have been on a full whole food plant based diet for 30 years. Never had any nutritional deficiencies, including protein, B vitamins, etc. What you stated may be true for a vegetarian that consumes processed foods, but as far as those that stick to a whole food plant-based unprocessed diet, you are grossly incorrect. I take no supplements of any kind. All my nutritional needs come from what I eat.
@@kneegrease - just because you take no supplements doesn’t mean you don’t need them. I’m not talking about people who eat junk food; I’m talking about vegetarians who eat plant protein. Plant protein just doesn’t have what a human needs. Ben Bikman did a video with Danica Patrick where they talked about this specifically at the end of the video. Plus, when you take concentrated sources of plant protein such as pea or soy protein, they are very high in anti-nutrients and heavy metals.
@@LauraB.335 Like I said before, I do not eat processed foods. Pea protein and soy protein is processed. You should read the book, The China Study. It May change your life.
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I lived with prediabetes for over 20 years without knowing it. Got blood work every year but doctors did not mention anything about it. I found out last year when researching online and started to fast daily from 16 - 20 hours, gradually. Now am very okay with extended longer fasting with no issues. My blood glucose dropped from 118 stubborn and consistently the past decades to the lower 80. Fasting, exercise and low carb diet definitely bring excellent results, but need to do the right ways. Eating correctly is important. Eat the real Foods, cook your own meals, plenty of rest after exercise. After my 20 hours fast or any length of fasting from 16 hours, I start always will a ceremonial matcha latte with plain almond creamer, no sugar, a piece of dark 90% chocolate, plain yogurt, avocado.... overall soft foods, and best of all homemade bone broth. The solid foods follow one hour later. Do research, people, and do the right way and you will get results in no time.
My dr didn’t tell me anything from my blood tests until I’d become a full blown type 2 diabetic 😢 and I requested blood tests constantly as I had symptoms i didn’t understand and was panicking about. I had blood tests for over a year and he said nothing.
@@skulltaylor1616 File a complaint with whoever is supposed to be regulating doctors. No wonder so many of them get sued eventually for malpractice. A psychiatrist put something in my medical record without talking to me about it. I only found out when my lawyer sent me my medical records during my disability case which I did win but it took time of course.
@@jackschitt6235 I feel like we can’t trust anyone
@@skulltaylor1616 I understand, I could tell quite a story about one Endocrinologist telling me I had type 2 diabetes and the next guy changed my diagnosis to type 1 diabetes. They are 2 very different situations with different causes and different treatment plans. There are specific tests that can be done to determine exactly what is going on but the tests aren't even routinely ordered. I guess the doctors blame the insurance companies for not wanting to pay for anything which unfortunately there is truth to. The system is just a mess!
SAME
1. Fast
2. Control Carbs
3. Prioritize Protein
4. Don’t fear Fat
I love Dr Fung!! Thank you for great information! I am on week 8 to remove a diagnosis that l got 10 weeks ago. Thank you for the great information
Wat are u doing pls?
This is the extracted gold from the interview! Thank you!!
This information is GOLDEN! Thank you
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My glucose 70-140 during my 20 hr fasting. I eat from 4pm to 7pm glucose during that time glucose 80-90 average. I have watched all your videos and are reading your bookWhy get sick. But I am confuse about IR it’s like it 180 out
what about the exercise portion of this? Should i exercise fasted? What type of workouts?
I managed my son's type 1 diabetes for several years, and in the case of type 1 diabetes, you know that the insulin you use is what's required to manage the total daily effects of food. I started him on a very carb controlled diet at about 25% carbs (30 grams 3x per day) and about 60% fat. He had to use about 1 unit of insulin for every 6 grams of carbs he ate at a meal, or about 5 units per meal x 3, and also basal insulin about 8 units a day. On a suggestion of a high carb type 1 diabetic researcher, I tried a 75% carb diet for 10 days. Within 3 days I had to reduce his insulin to 1 unit per 15 grams of carbs. His basal insulin also dropped a little. This happened gradually over 3 days though. Note that his total daily insulin requirements were the same, even though the insulin for a given number of carb grams was greatly reduced. When he returned to the 25% carb diet it also took about 3 days to go back to his old carb ratios. Now, it does demonstrate that muscles will load up on fatty acids or on glycogen depending on what is present. The 25% carb diet produced less variability in blood sugar, and particularly less risk of low blood sugar and lower peak blood sugar that occurred later. This also shows that insulin resistance should be based on insulin required to manage total energy expenditure. Some high carb advocates point to the fewer carbs covered by a unit of insulin and refer to it as insulin resistance, but on a total food basis there was no change. However, also note that low carb diets don't require LESS daily insulin than high carb diets. The exception would be that if the high carb diet pushes blood sugar up faster, it might result in hypersecretion of insulin which may also result in lower lows, and an increase in counter-regulatory hormones like cortisol, adrenaline and glucagon, so high carb might require a little more insulin because people hyper secrete, but carbs don't tend to do this if they are consumed around activity. Also the lowest insulin requirements occurred when switching from high fat to high carbs, but the lowest occurred in the 3 days switching from high carb to high fat. Overall, low carb/high fat lowers peak spikes after meals, raises baseline blood sugar, raises fasting insulin slightly, and reduces the overall range on the high and low end, but has no effect on total daily insulin exposure unless enough fast carbs are consumed to cause high spikes which result in hypersecretions, hypoglycemic trending, and stress hormone counter regulation. Oh, and one more thing, "slow, low GI carbs" like al dente pasta and legumes required 1.5-2.0x as much insulin to manage relative to their carb content than other carb sources, and extended over 6-12 hours. They seem to stimulate the release of liver glycogen as they pass through the intestines, so low GI carbs are probably the worst for total insulin exposure. There are other experiments showing that the carb to fat ratio of a diet has no effect on daily insulin exposure at the same level of calories though it does profoundly affect blood sugar variability.
Great interview!!! So true it’s fast the changeover!! 3 days I think but you gotta watch the sodium, potassium and electrolytes. 🎉❤
Sounds good. But if I focus on fruits and vegetables and fatty meat, I won't be in ketosis. What will happen to my blood sugar?
Are sourdough breads (home made) better than yeasted breads?
Awesome. So gorgeously, and succinctly stated. I'm going to pin this to my computer screen, and watch it daily, until it sinks into my dense head ! I guess it just takes a bit of ethics and persistence with fighting the bs in the mind; one doesn't have to be a PhD in Biochemistry to accomplish this.
Aarre Peltomaa
Why fruits? does it mean I can have fructose brownies with some added fiber and some antioxidants?
What if i might have insuline resistance but i fast a couple of times a month and do intermittent fasting for many days in the same month (im a woman) but i eat 2 slices of whole grain bread or 50 grams of whole grain pasta during the day? Whats your opinion on this? Thank you
Rather get your carbs from vegetables. Bread and pasta aren't good choices when trying to reverse insulin resistance
I love all your material Ben, but I’ve been on a carnivore diet, a strict, carnivore diet literally just meat eggs, eggs, water salt for almost 8 months. I have slowly tried to re-introduce some things like avocado, cabbage, strawberries, watermelon, blueberries, etc. little things like this And the second I put any type of carb or sugar back in my body I start having hypoglycemic episodes, my blood sugar drops. I’ve never been diabetic, but I’m having a lot of gut issues the past few years, which I did not know was actually my gut and until enough trial and error. I seem to have developed serious food, sensitivities and intolerances. My body literally cannot process or break down anything besides meat and eggs right now I can’t even do dairy butter or any type of oil.
I suspect that I have really bad leaky gut, potentially Cibo, and the G.I. doctors I’m working with just found a C.diff infection in my colon. I am going Monday morning to have an endoscopy and eventually a colonoscopy. I am having more testing done to see if I officially have SIBO and carbohydrate, intolerant test, and many other test to see what’s going on with me.
TMI. But I have had serious diarrhea for like a straight seven or eight months now. Going carnivore did help a laundry list of serious health concerns I had but it has not fixed everything. I constantly feel fatigued, I still get bloating and crazy, diarrhea, stomach cramps, abdominal pains And I have moments where I am just fine and all of a sudden it feels like the life is being sucked out of me.
I do believe there are a few things happening to me. I do believe because of the leaky gut. It is brought on some type of diabetic gut which has given me diabetic symptoms, but I have checked with multiple endocrinologist, and I am not diabetic, but I have every class symptom of diabetes right now. I have lost a lot of weight considering I’m already petite and tiny. Before my health got really bad I wait about 113 pounds and I got all the way down to 98 pounds. And my weight fluctuates between 90-97 pounds right now. I am a 32-year-old white, female and previous to this. I am blessed and thankful to say I have been in perfect health my entire life.
I I’m desperate, but hopeful that someone truly has the right information to get me the right help because I believe I have a bit of a web of issues going on but the way most of these careless western doctors tackle things are with antibiotics. And from my own obsessive research, I’ve had a basically become my own doctor, and if I am dealing with all these gut related issues, the last thing I need to mess up my gut Microbiome even further is to take more antibiotics. Which can actually for my research, make it much worse for me, but these doctors are not educating me that’s why I come watch and find men like you guys, I’m not even a doctor, but this makes more sense to me than these careless cookie cutter doctors who were trained by the system to throw antibiotics at you.
I don’t know where to start first do I heal the leaky gut or do I have to get rid of the bad bacteria La like SIBO and C.diff first in order to heal it?
Kefir will help you heal your gut. Learn to make your own.
Find functional medicine doctor, take berberine, get fecal transplant....there is more, but I've seen this get better...
Wish you the best
This sounds like a clear example of oxalate dumping. On the carnivore diet, you are suddenly not getting oxalates intake, so your body takes the opportunity to dump oxalates, and on the way out they can produce the symptoms you describe. See Sally Norton's YT interviews and get her book Toxic Superfoods. The key is to moderate the dumping by adding a tiny amount of oxalate back into your diet to curb your body's excessive enthusiasm. I drink 2 cups of black tea daily for a total of 40 mg of oxalate and 2 thumbnail-sized pieces of dark chocolate for another 25 mg. That restrains the dumping but still leaves a margin for clearance. It can be a long process.
My A1c has stayed around 5.6 - 5.7 for the past few years. Despite me lowering my carbs considerably and doing intermittent fasting and lots of exercise I cant seem to lower it from that level. Any thoughts on this ? I am a 62 year old woman
@sandraredmond4812 Hello Sandra, I agree with you that it does not seem to be so simple for everyone. I have some people around me for whom getting out of IR is not that easy.
Some ideas to share:
--> Do you have any data like insulin / HOMA / QUIKI index? To follow them in time and see if they change?
Because your HbA1c may stay the same (for now), but still in the same time your insulin resistance might have started to improve. (= less insulin required to maintain the same glucose level)
--> Did you investigate whether you may have some chronic inflammation going on? This may feed insulin resistance. (And high insulin itself is feeding inflammation). It may come from some foods seen as "keto-friendly" and that you may not suspect. For instance in some people with histamine sensibility: dairy products, nuts, and many other foods keep some inflammation running on a daily basis, in the intestines and eveywhere else in the body.
--> Did you investigate whether a high level of stress might be the issue in your case? High cortisol --> high blood glucose. One may eat less than 20g of carbs and still have high blood glucose - and therefore high insulin, and therefore IR still going on - "just" because of nervous stress / cortisol.
Lack of sleep, blue light and bad circadian rythm fall into this category (--> they increase cortisol production). Too much cardio exercise too. A "not-very-happy" psycho-emotionnal life, stressful relationships, etc. play a big role here too (unbalanced vagus nerves functioning --> big physiological impact)
--> Sometimes too it is interesting to investigate for vitamins and minerals in case there could be some deficiencies.
Good luck to you.
Hope this may help or give you some ideas/potential solutions for improvement.
I think it is still a win. If you had not done so well, your A1c would have likely climbed to a much higher level. Also, it may be that aging will require greater effort to control
@@carolroth1713 still kind of frustrating and I wonder what else I should be doing
@@carolroth1713 i was expecting my A1c to be between 5.2 and 5.4. Was disappointed to see it stuck at 5.6
01:26 “You are cooking with gas.” Yeah, we want to do that while we still can. 😳
You will love inductive technology.
What difference does cooking with gas makes
Fasting made my Hashimoto hypothyroidism worse, way way worse. Now do intuitive eating as I’ve done my whole life. No white carbs at all. Low carb , low glycemic index, 30 grams protein at each meal. Lots and lots of veggies
How long did you fast for.
Go watch Dr Elizabeth Bright
Thanks.
Hi folks thanks for the info it very informative, I have recently been diagnosed type 2 diabetic and also have NAFLD because of this I have tried to change my life style and the types of food I eat, I have been intermittent fasting for about 5 weeks now I'm doing 6/18, on top of this I'm also doing a 40hr fast every week starting Thursday at 18:00hrs and finishing Saturday at 12:00hrs, combining a low very carb diet I am losing weight to be fair especially around my belly . my blood glucose ranges from 5.2 -6.8 mmol/L, after my 40 hr fast I check for ketones in my urine and there's nothing, I was wondering why that is if you guys know and could tell me that would be appreciated, thanks
What is a better indicator of insulin resistance. Triglycerides/HDL ratio, HOMA IR, or HBA1C?
What test determines this?
20oz mtn dew with 5tsps of addl sugar is about 100gms of sugar. Finger pricks every hr for 5 hrs works?
U can also get fasting insulin blood tests and another I don’t know the name but it tells if u have too much insulin. I am diabetic and would get this all the time
Fasting insulin test
That's true in my case, I reversed type 2 diabetes in 6 weeks, I stopped 6 tablets a day I was taking. 3 years down the road I think I'm still insulin resistant...I haven't done any insulin test but my A1c went up a few points after I relaxed my fasting. Carbs didn't not change, if anything I reduced carbs to about 5%. I also reversed fatty liver, I did a test and the doc was impressed, he did think it was possible to reverse it so much. My advise is to do anything in your power to become diabetic.... There's no going back from that.
My fasting glucose goes up when I am fasting. I've done 36 hour, 48 hour and 60 hour, but my blood glucose is higher. Which is frustrating.
This is because when you fast your liver takes the opportunity to purge its glut of glucose. That's how grateful it is that you're fasting and it can relieve itself, like a kid on a 10 hour road trip when you finally stop at a rest stop.
was that explanation ?
I fast at least 17 hrs a day 6 days a week, Some 24-40 hr fasts when I feel the need. Don't eat preservatives, seed oils ,fast food and only occasional berries and sweets. ie. birthdays. My glucose was always 88-94 during labs. Decided to do an A1C and found it to be 5.7. I'm clueless of why or what to do now. Certainly don't want it to go higher.
Your A1c should be lower with those daily readings. I'm diabetic and I range between 110-120 but my A1c generally is 5.9-6
Your A1c should be around 5.2 unless you are having some spikes which you are not realizing
The mistake people make when fasting is they fast for 2 or 3 days then they don’t fast again until a year or 2 later. For every 1 day of eating fast for at least 2-3 days..and cycle. I am referring to water fasting NOT intermittent fasting..Do not worry about hunger because after you cycle this method after a month or so your hunger impulses will disappear forever.Your insulin will become hyper sensitive which will help you maintain weight and muscle mass..I am a practitioner not a theorist of this method. I personally cycle every 7-14 days meaning I water fast for 7-14 days then I eat for 2-3 days..repeating this process while simultaneously applying resistance training. My resting heart rate doesn’t exceed 70 and my blood pressure remains at a healthy low. I am over 40…I also suggest drinking daily shots of apple cider vinegar while fasting to help cleanse the colon coupled with lots of mineral water.
He mentions high BP and insulin? So this system can reduce BP as well . Clever,
Unfortunately I put on 8kg in 8 weeks following a full carnivore diet. I also damaged an already damaged (nafld) liver, blood work showed alt doubled in that time. I was so disappointed...
Could you be choline deficient?
These diets are not for everyone. They're very extreme. Unfortunately commenters will jump in with all sorts of ridiculous recommendations.
Old fashioned lower carb diets with fruit, veg, olive oil, nuts, lean protein and small quantities of starch is much less aggressive.
The people who fast successfully are one in a million. It just seems lije everyone's doing it because they all frequent these same video's.
Lower carb is recommended in my country but not the extreme fasting and carnivore .
Sounds like you did something incorrectly. Please give details about your carnivore diet. Plus, there’s a difference between Grainfed carnivore and grass fed carnivore.
*Prove it*
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why are doctors saying that fasting and keto diet is bad for you?
Because their training makes them believe that there's a pharmaceutical solution to any problem, for T2d's in particular the solution is nutritional & nutrition isn't really part of their training.
They are indoctrinated by pharma, not educated, no profit in healthy clients.
1:40 good news for type 2s.
what do you think about the method "mastering diabetes"? they say - based on science also - the opposit...
Cooking with fat, professor Bikman.
High Quality Meat is High Quality protein?
REALLY?
Fasting is terrible for fertility hormones.
try reading Fast Like a Girl by Dr. Mindy Pelz
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Hmmmm pretty much not true. Control your saturated fat intake. I stopped eating animal products and I minimize saturated fat. I mostly eat whole food plants and I beat 15 years of insulin dependent diabetes. All carbs and I not only beat diabetes but CVD, stage III kidney failure, erectile disfunction, all 5 symptoms of metabolic disorder, peripheral neuropathy and I was blind from diabetic retinopathy! I just passed a complete FAA eye test and qualify for a medical certificate to fly my plane again....they don't let you fly when you are blind! I do fast but its the plants that cured my medical issues and keep them in check. This guy is a one trick pony and it is not even a very good trick. His APO(b) is through the roof, mine is in the low end of normal. A low carb, high fat diet increases you all cause mortality by 30%.....good luck with that!
Your way of doing things sounds impressive, however, there are so many experts that say the exact info that the good Dr has suggested. Very confusing.
Respectfully, Please tell this gentleman to stop scratching himself on ALL of his videos. It’s very distracting. Perhaps he needs some Omega 3s🙏🏻
Plant-based protein is healthier than animal protein. Animal protein is second hand. It is best to get your protein from the source.
You've been brainwashed and institutionalized. Good luck on the way back to normalcy.
Not true at all. Animal protein is a complete protein; plant protein is not. Hence the reason all vegetarians have to supplement with vitamins and minerals. B vitamins are a common thing vegetarians have to supplement.
@@LauraB.335All vegetarians? I have been on a full whole food plant based diet for 30 years. Never had any nutritional deficiencies, including protein, B vitamins, etc. What you stated may be true for a vegetarian that consumes processed foods, but as far as those that stick to a whole food plant-based unprocessed diet, you are grossly incorrect. I take no supplements of any kind. All my nutritional needs come from what I eat.
@@kneegrease - just because you take no supplements doesn’t mean you don’t need them. I’m not talking about people who eat junk food; I’m talking about vegetarians who eat plant protein. Plant protein just doesn’t have what a human needs. Ben Bikman did a video with Danica Patrick where they talked about this specifically at the end of the video. Plus, when you take concentrated sources of plant protein such as pea or soy protein, they are very high in anti-nutrients and heavy metals.
@@LauraB.335 Like I said before, I do not eat processed foods. Pea protein and soy protein is processed. You should read the book, The China Study. It May change your life.