Big thanks to Dr. Taylor & you for sharing this information! Watched this video mid-March 2022 (already T2D 1-yr+). By March 25th, I'd read Dr. Taylor's work & the referenced works of others. June 6th labs: officially not diabetic, lipids all in the "healthy" range (apo-b too), and 35# lighter. Followed-up with my PCP yesterday; the best word to describe his response is 'giggly'. He got a 2-minute explanation of the program and said he's got to read up on it. Glad of that. Sorry to see other's comments that facts are not always well received.
@NutritionMadeSimple Thank you for your content! I love your balanced approach! Do you know what packets he's talking about and where I can get them? Thanks Doctor!
It's funny, when I read the original study in early 2012 and used it to reverse my t2d I told everyone about it. I was roundly criticized for spreading misinformation especially on the ADA forum (who, incidentally, published the original research). My diabetes dietitian was interested but the GP said it wasn't possible and was shocked when i passed a 2hr ogtt in his office which he gave me to shut me up about having " reversed" t2d. He said " sometimes newly diagnosed t2d can go away for a while" Well it's been 10 years and although I've put on 10kg it still hasn't returned but I'm still 20kg below the diagnosis weight. I sometimes wonder how many people have suffered terrible complications after listening to the moderators say I was lying and block me on those diabetes forums for spreading misinformation (that was linked to their own journal article)
wow. weird. a claim backed by a scientific reference should at least be looked into, not reflexively dismissed. sorry to hear, but bottomline is you found the key info, implemented and reaped the benefits!! 💪👍
Professor Taylor and his team continue to be ignored by the majority of mainstream medicine. Ron's breakthrough on T2D should be screamed from the rooftops, and he awarded a Nobel Prize. That he isn't is indicative of the pathological bias in medical research.
I am actually a Radiologist, and I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes despite my relatively average looking appearance. I had a BMI of 30(technically obese) but looked, maybe, slightly overweight. But one day I became ill and did a CT scan of my abdomen and was absolutely shocked at how fatty my liver was. My liver was so fatty that my blood vessels appeared like there was contrast dye in them despite the scan being performed without contrast. This is abnormal because the color of blood should be about equal to that of the liver on a CT scan without contrast dye. Though I have read and learned much about diabetes, even much that was discussed here, I had never read about "fat threshold." But this concept seems to be true, because everyday I see scans of morbidly obese patients who weigh upwards of 400 lbs, and these people will not have a liver as fatty as mine. On the other hand, I see patients, like myself, who have maybe an slightly overweight build and they also have very fatty livers. The point is that, you cannot rely on your outward appearance as a simple way to judge your metabolic health. It is still important to be evaluated by a physician regularly. I am one and because I put my health on the back burner, I now have to suffer with diabetes. Its a terrible disease that leads to heart disease, kidney failure, terribly dry mouth, dry skin and hair, eye problems, hypertension, loss of sensation in your limbs, and a whole bunch of other problems.
I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in January. When I watched this video I March - I was already doing 800 cal diet for 2 months. In 3 months I lost around 50 lbs. My diabetes is now reversed/in remission. My A1C went from 6.8 to 5.2 in 3 months. It works! More people need to know about it.
@@anowlonedge1815 thanks for sharing and congrats to you on reversing the type 2 diagnosis. Same boat here. Just had my A1c jump from. 5.3 to 6.8. Had been 5.3 for years and I didn't do enough to exercise and lose weight. I was really down on myself until I read this and saw the video. Going to go on keto and restrict to 20 net carbs per day and more important, exercise , walk, swim, move. Did your doctor recommend you go on medication when you were diagnosed ? Mine did. I want to try weight loss, keto and exercise first. My goal is to keep my AC1 under 5.7 for the rest of my life. I don't know how realistic that is but I am praying it is.
@Chad G Thank you! 😊 My doctor offered me to start Metformin. I was hesitant at first, but she said that it would aid with weight loss and help curb the appetite. So I agreed to try it out. I feel like it did help me somewhat mentally - knowing that there was some backup there for me. But I could totally do the same thing without it, I think. I do not take it anymore. I would be careful with 20g of net carbs. I've been doing around 80 -90 of net carbs per day. If you are too low on carbs - you will have less energy to exercise and more food cravings. You still want to get good carbs like brown rice, whole wheat bread or oatmeal. It helps to stick to the healthy diet. Exercise is important! Whatever you enjoy doing is good. I started weight lifting - loving it. Makes me feel in control of my health. I think you can totally do it and get your A1C back to normal!
Because of Gil and his super simple approach to nutrition I've started eating a whole food based healthy and simple diet. It has been three months, my BMI was okay before but after changing my diet I've dropped a couple of pounds and I love eating now, without guilt, delicious and simple. And I feel awesome. Thank You!
I think when we talk about 'weight' from the start it's really important to be clear that we mean fat mass and not muscle mass. Retaining muscle mass is so important especially as we age, and any drastic calorie reduction without supporting protein & exercise will most probably lead to detrimental muscle mass loss alongside the fat mass. "Don't try and exercise it away.." is not the ideal message imo.
I think it's important to mentioned that resistance training/cardio daily in combination with the diet is basically the magic bullet we're all looking for, because "weight" is a bit of a misnomer. When we speak of "losing weight" what we actually mean is body composition; losing the fat that's layers on top of layers around our organs and on top of our muscle.
He is soooo right about the exercise as older and heavier. At this point, the food is the most important thing in getting then weight down initially. Take a short walk everyday, and slowly build from there.
I lost over 50 pounds and have kept it off for over 20 years. Every other day fasting and low carb was the method I used. This was the first diet where I wasn't hungry. I lost most of the weight over 4 months.
I had borderline diabetes 3 years ago. I found Roy's research, and went on a diet. I lost 45 pounds, going from 185 pounds to 140. The diabetes reversed; and I have kept the weight off.
@@southern842 A balanced diet. I tracked calories (doing 1,200 a day for one month; and 1,600 for the next 2 .) I cut out processed food,.I gave up alcohol as it was the only way to hit the calorie goals.
Me too. But getting the medical profession to properly accept it is proving difficult. I was ,fat but fit and "diabetic" only thanks to one test when the flu had knocked me flat at 59. They even tried to put me on statins because of the label.
This approach worked for me. Have stayed there for 3 years. But I didn't use meal replacements (they are expensive and afterwards you just have to come up with sustainable way of eating anyway). I was probably only short stage.
Great video, and the point about exercise for weight loss is spot on, not just for diabetes, but weight loss in general. Food intake trump exercise for weight loss.
Exactly right! But unfortunately, many people take that to mean they don’t have to exercise at all. Exercise, even just a short walk a day, is great for keeping the brain sharp.
Some good points raised in this interview. My approach to manage my type2 diabetes is different from what this good doctor suggests I am 62 years old and I am type2 diabetic. Initially my weight was 115 kg at a height of 175 cm. I started 16:8 intermittent fasting. I did 45 min of low intensity fasted cardio every morning. I did resistance training 4 times a week later in the day. I ate less than 70 grams of carbs a day. In 12 weeks Ian down to 100 kg, did not and I do not take any medications I increased my muscle mass significantly and increased my strength as well. At the moment I still follow the same protocol but I eat up to 150 grams of carbs per day. My blood sugar level is perfect. I am going to drop another 10 kg but slowly in order to maintain my muscle mass. Few things to consider: Never drink your calories. 800 calories per day is too low. Exercise is extremely important, both resistance training and low intensity cardio. Reduce your carb intake. Eat a high protein low carb diet. In my experience this is the best way to manage your diabetes.
I agree with you, because it worked for me. I eat twice a day, and eat until I am satisfied. Low Carb IF works. I am not into the starving method. Six months ago I was admitted to the hospital with a fasting BS of 434 and Triglycerides at 1254. I was in Keto Acidosis for 6 weeks before going to the Dr. 4 months of low carb IF, and moderate exercise fixed everything. No Meds, no inflamtion, and back to being lean and mean at 54.
I don't think doing fasted cardio vs non-fasted cardio has any real benefits: Consider this: If you eat 2000 calories a day and burn 100 calories during your cardio, it really makes no difference whether that cardio was fasted or not. 2000 calories is 2000 calories and 100 calories burned is 100 calories burned. But I suppose these things help people mentally, like a placebo affect. Me personally I'd rather tackle a work out with some food because that would give me the energy to do a harder workout which would result in burning more calories if the effort is higher.
@@charizard9735 the point of a fasted workout is to take dietary intake out of the equation. So instead of using that as fuel you use things like excess body fat, from the start.
I'm reminded of the sage advice from George Burns on how to achieve longevity: "Eat half.". I know it is more complicated than that. A lot of Asian cultures suggest eating until you are about 75% or so full.
Quite interesting and more relevant to me than when you posted the first video on the topic. My dad (60) was diagnosed with prediabetes, basically his blood glucose levels were on the high end of normal consistently. He has cut down his added sugar intake, but I do not believe he's lost any weight. Thank you for the video (and cited sources :)
Processed carbs become sugar too in your body and excess sugar becomes fat. He needs to reduce or get rid of any processed food, especially bread, which our body treats almost like cake.
I weigh 100lbs and have pre-diabetes. This is my third round with it. #1 gestational diabetes with 2nd pregnancy at 27. Pre-diabetes T menopause when I weighted my delivery weight with 2nd pregnancy and now at 63 pre-diabetic. I am only pre-diabetic because I’ve always been extremely active and a fitness instructor.There is a stereo-type of what people with diabetes looks like and it’s not always accurate. It’s important to expand the symptoms so more people are aware that they could be at risks.
And that brings up a question that this video - and most videos about the topic - don’t answer What if you’re eating healthy - exercising - low body fat mass - sleeping well - and still struggle with higher blood glucose? Not everyone has weight to lose
I did it with a whole food plant-based diet, I lost 30 lbs which was about 16% of my weight with no exercise. I've found that if II exercised I would get very hungry & over eat.
i am so glad i found your channel. after all my research i've come down to this: avoid processed food, lose weight, be more active. mostly it seems JUST LOSE WEIGHT!.
This was a fascinating and encouraging video. Thanks Doc. I just hope that I don’t have to lose a lot of weight since I am already thin at 157 on a 5’10” frame.
Very helpful reliable fundamental information. Clears up many of confusing issues arising from conficting information due to lack of understanding of the fundamental principles.
I’m curious what Roy’s (and of course you, Gil) opinion is on this term I keep coming across coined “body weight set point” which is basically defined as “your body is used to being (and likes being) a certain weight and any attempt to change that weight, especially dramatic change, will result in a rebound or yo-yo reversal back to your set point.” This new theory is now being used as the reason diets don’t work and why most people return to their previous weight eventually. Do you think this is rubbish or is there something to this? I’m curious how this would affect those trying Roy’s dietary approach to type 2 reversal
Dr. Taylor describes how fat reduces the pancreas's ability to produce insulin. In fact, he describes reducing fat in the pancreas as "waking up the beta cells." But that sounds more like glucose intolerance - the inability of blood glucose to stimulate sufficient insulin. I understand type 2 diabetes to be more about insulin resistance - excess insulin and excess glucose in the bloodstream due to poor insulin function. Dr. Taylor seems to share this view when he describes the fatty liver as "insulin resistant." If the primary action of reducing exogenous fat is to wake up beta cells, how does this address type 2 diabetes? How are the beta cells of a fatty pancreas involved in reducing insulin sensitivity in other tissues?
Thank you for this very informative video. It confirms my personal experience that whenever I started to do workouts (half a dozen times), my weight would always increase. Very frustrating.
The only thing Dr. Taylor did not discuss which I wish he had is the prospect of reversing diabetes without weight loss simply by targetting the fat in the liver and pancreas. Granted, most people with diabetes should lose weight. But TOFIs in particular may require such as approach. The work of Dr. Robert Lustig demonstrates that liver fat can be reduced and metabolic function imoroved, without weight loss, simply by altering the composition of the diet. It doesn't necessarily require an extreme diet such as a low carb or vegan diet, either.
This is the guy i read on when my blood sugar shot up. Not sure fat on organs is the main issue it's the low carb that affects insulin resistance. Of course your blood sugar will return to normal by not eating a lot of sugar but it's more likely that the constant stream of carbs caused insulin resistance and that was the main effect. The fat reduction was a by product of the diet. But i do thank him for getting me on the right path. And really people with longer term just pushed the cells for too long and were damaged.
August 2023 I was told I was diabetic (a1c 6.6) and that Primary Dr wanted to put me on insulin. I insisted I’d wanted to try to make a difference with my diet/exercise so she gave me three months. I immediately started lowering the AMOUNT of foods I was eating and increased my intake of vegetables/fruit/fiber, drank only water or unsweet tea/coffee, limited red meat, increased nuts/seeds/whole grains. By December I lost 25 pounds and I lowered my a1c to 5.9! The weight has stopped dropping off (but I’m not gaining), I wonder if it’s due to starting taking a daily dose of Anastrozole (I also had lumpectomy/radiation for breast cancer found at the same time as diabetes. I’m also wondering about STRESS and diabetes onset. My husband died 6 months before my diagnoses (from an 18 month bout from West Nile and subsequent Myasthenia Gravis and other complications from the WN) as well as losing my sister 6 weeks before that to her second time of breast cancer and two days later her daughter passing from colon cancer). Needless to say the last several years (COVID included) have been stressful. So, any connection of stress and diabetes???
Losing liver fat and pancreatic fat is the goal, and caloric restriction is one way of solving it. I believe there should be other ways, since how come the threshold is different from person to person? Why is the liver or pancreas storing fat in the first place? Is it because it is anticipating a period of famine in the near future, a response that comes with stress or having an anxious personality? Or perhaps certain kinds of food are more prone to being converted to fat in the liver or pancreas?
it's mainly just bad diet and little exercise for many decades..think about what people eat, it's terrible..their waist gets huge and then the fat seeps into their liver..then when the liver gets too damaged it leaks fat into the pancreas and triglycerides into the bloodstream. A deadly storm.
does this mean that blood sugar spikes from processed foods or sugar dont matter for diabetes as long as i dont put on too much weight crossing my own threshold? what is the point of treating insulin resistance then? or is insulin resistance a negative health condition for e.g. CVD?
These absolute numbers when it comes to weight, and referring to ones weight when they were young, really does not take into account lean mass. As lighter people get out of shape, if they were fairly athletic to start with, they will put on weight, sure, but a significant part of what is happening to them is substitution of lean mass for fat mass. Their metabolism can get out of whack even with as little as 10-15 pounds gain, if their diet is bad enough and they are sedentary. It's exactly what happened to me. I could not possibly lose more than 18 pounds without having muscle loss compared to my late teens, and my metabolic issues are no less caused by the same issues as someone with 30-40 pounds excess weight. I should point out that in my case, I absolutely started a new exercise program that mixes resistance training and cardio. I was very active until... you guessed it, the pandemic. My body responded very quickly to reintroducing activity. I'm not just burning fat, I'm also putting on muscle. Even if I'm in my mid 40s, I'm lucky enough that it works well for me. Blood pressure greatly improved, very quickly.
This one should be pretty disappointing for many T2Ders. I used to be one of them, but slim, tall and always concious about healthy food (esp. as I was a smoker then). My GP was no help when I asked how I could have got it. Had to find out myself. On the NHS website were about a good dozen causes listed; went critically through each item and discovered my 2 cuplrits I had to tackle: Not enough sleep (5-6 hours on working days) and too little exercise aka too much sitting (over decades). Not renouncing self-made trays of Austro-Hungarian cakes, I just countered them with more vegetable meals, rich, creamy soups or salads galore. Four years later I had reached the reversal. Unfortunately, the souvenirs seem for keeps: peripheral neuropathies.
But those kinds of package diets are normally very unsuccessful for people when they have to go back to eating regular food. Did they follow on these patients and see whether they ended up relapsing? It’s very interesting that they might not have suffered the same relapse rate. I know that some people relapse, even when they have had really bad health conditions, but I think the odds are better if you’re actually scared rather than just trying to get thin.
hi, the liquid replacement diets were only for a couple months to achieve the weight loss, then there was a transition to a maintenance diet (mediterranean-like), iirc this was touched on in one of these 2 videos ft. Dr. Taylor?
Even if they gave them a program, it’s still against the odds to keep off, lost weight. Maybe it was that they didn’t feel pressured to get really thin, because it sounds like for most of these people, they were heavy enough, that, even though the weight loss was impressive, it probably still didn’t even get a lot of them into the overweight range, never mind a normal BMI range. and I suspect that a lot of relapse has to do with feeling like it’s gonna be too hard to get really thin and it doesn’t feel worth it if they’re not. The tyranny of thinness.
My wife just received test results that she is at risk of Type 2. She's always been a very lean person. She is 5'8" and ~126lbs. She was also at risk of gestational diabetes when she was pregnant 15 months ago. To look at her, one would think she's closer to underweight than overweight. She's had visible abs throughout her adult life. She has a relatively strong upperbody, but her legs aren't very strong. Her cardio is also poor. My instinct is just a general diet cleanup, and regular cardio and strength training. She can't lose much weight. Is it the case that her personal fat threshold is extremely low, or could it be related to lack of cardio? Lack of muscle in her legs?
Can anyone answer these questions... or direct me to a FAQ... - Must the weight loss be that quick and radical. I knocked off 10 pounds in two months using keto. Wouldn't ketosis also remove fat from organs quickly enough for similar results. - If I'm near normal weight, would I have to stay on the Taylor regimen for 8 weeks. (I'm afraid I would be seriously underweight.) - Must I use Dr. Taylors shakes. Would a store-bought shake of 100 calories work as well. - If I used a commercial keto shake of 100 calories that is both 100 calories and low carb, would that be better?
I've been getting these numbers for weeks, that's why they're dropping down the amount of insulin in my hypo that I dial up, to less insulin every 5 days until I have no insulin, I started out with dialing up 20 on the hypodermic at night and 20 in the morning then I went down to 18 in the hypodermic in the morning to 20 at night, and now starting tomorrow I'll be doing 15 in the morning and 18 at night, so I'm reducing the insulin to where I don't have to take it anymore because I'm eating right and my numbers are good non-diabetic numbers, I'm getting numbers in the morning like 89 before meal and after meal 117, and lunch 1:15 before meal and 1:11 after meal, dinner 117 before meal and 110 after meal, which are non-diabetic numbers basically.
Well the experiment was well designed to test the hypothesis but I don't believe for a minute most people will adhere to it beyond 2 years which is considered the threshold of a successful, sustainable weight management intervention. Then we have the fact the patients have learned how to lose weight by drinking essentially processed food. Are they going to keep on eating junk shakes or real food? They have not learned sustainable habits to maintain weight, they will revert back to their pre diet habits.
Have you ever talked about other underlying causes for metabolic dysfunction? I am currently 30 years old, 6’1, 170 pounds. I weight train so I’m heavier than my natural body weight (slender frame) but very low body fat. However my triglycerides are elevated and I have had very slight elevated glucose. I have Wilson’s disease and have been chelated of copper for 7 years and then on 150mg of zinc per day for 3 years after I got off the chelator. I have read that a copper deficiency has some interesting correlations with metabolic issues. I know this is a pretty niche questions but maybe you could cover something like “other things that could cause diabetic like markers to elevate that’s not diabetes at all.” Thanks a bunch.
I'm a healthy individual and I've been healthy most of my life yet I have type 2 diabetes. BMI around 22 and 17% body fat, and exercise regularly. I'd like to know what was the BMI of the people in the study. Were these unhealthy, overweight individuals? I ask this because I'd like to know in my case, do I still have too much fat in my pancreas and liver, or am I a different case where it is more about genes because diabetes runs in my family?
@@sanjdip Yes. The NHS has done them. A BMI of 23 is their cutoff iirc. Bangladeshi cutoff is 21! This is partly influenced by diet, however. Too many calories from white rice and ghee.
It’s hard for us skinny fat people who go for years under crap medical system and stay on drugs not realizing we can lose 20lbs and reverse this. Now after 20 years it may be too late.
I’m a type 2 diabetic I’ve been doing low carb for years . I keep my blood sugar about 127 eating all I want just going 20 carbs a day. But they say don’t count calories eat till your comfortably stuffed. Not working for weight loss. I purchased Roy’s book on Audible . Two days ago I started eating 1000 calories a day for ten weeks . I’m curious the results . So far2 pounds lost . Blood sugar steady . 10 weeks will be April 27th
Thanks for the video. Straight to the point. What about those who are not overweight? Is the answer do a diet to lose weight and that will take care of even prediabetes?
hi, a new study just wrapped up on this. unpublished yet. I posted about it here (should be the last post from a couple days ago): facebook.com/DrGilCarvalho/
But are there any meal replacement packets in the USA that would work, especially vegan meal replacement! If you can answer this Sir it would be so helpful. Thank you.
Correct me if I didn't catch it right. The weight maintenance bit was a little flimsy. They had at most 6 months follow up, right? So that's where the rubber really hits the road. How to continue 1 year, 3 years etc to beyond 10 years maintaining that weight. Just restricting calories forever with sheer willpower is not the answer even with the motivation from knowing the benefit and having felt it. Enjoying a physically active life is part of it, but even that can be hard to keep coming back to. I'm actually hopeful that intermittent fasting and similar approaches might be relatively easy to go back to when relapsing and relapsing is guaranteed for over 90 % people over the long term. Maybe it's some other approach that's individually reasonably easy to go back to, but I would definitely keep fasting and intermittent fasting on the short list. Going back to just healthy foods as a basis is given as well.
Learn new eating patterns and don't be a glutton. Seriously. It's not that hard. Cutting out the ridiculous snacking most people have through time restricted feeding is, indeed, a great tool. Three meals over 6 to 10 hours. No snacking. People didn't used to graze like cows before we had so much convenience foods.
I am a 66 year old female post bariatric surgery patient. I had my surgery in 2004 and lost about100 pounds and kept it off till around 2018. Since then I've gained almost 50 pounds. I also developed what I'm told is "Reactive Low Blood Sugar". Eight weeks ago I had my gallbladder removed and lost 15 pounds. Then 4 weeks ago my liver enzymes went over 1000 and I was hospitalized. If I keep my calories at 600-800 daily, I can maintain my weight. I have an appointment with a bariatric nutritionist but I'm not holding on to hope for answers. Do you have any thoughts for finding answers?
the 600-800cals is a short-term intervention to achieve fast weight loss but it's followed by a higher calorie 'maintenance' phase (detailed in his book), maintaining such a low calorie intake indefinitely may create other issues. the nutritionist may help you estimate how many calories you expend daily so you can aim for that range. it may also be helpful to try to figure out what changed since you kept the weight stable for so long (14y) then suddenly started gaining again. perhaps stressful life changes? I'm just speculating but figuring this out and addressing it with the help of qualified professionals may help identify the causes and improve upon it! :)
My relatives had bariatric surgery and their surgeon told them to drink a glass of heavy cream every morning with their vitamins so they could absorb them better. Now they've put all the weight back on and have high cholesterol and recurring kidney stones but they still listen and drink their cream every morning 🤦
Wouldn't losing weight without excersize be detrimental for the muscles? Btw, I lost a lot of weight and started excersizing during the same time period. I remember that during the first weeks (or maybe a couple of months) I was gaining weight instead of losing it but I just continued and the weight started to drop eventually.
It is detrimental to muscle certainly, but if I did it again I'd up the protein from food. However if you weight train etc with low calories you're likely to be ravenously hungry. Just lose the weight then put the muscle back on imo. Your body will put on the muscle you need. The only thing I would say extra to that is that you don't need the same muscle on your legs if you're not lugging around 20-100kg of fat.
These are the kinds of tips that took me decades of yoyoing and "dieting" to realize. A 200 lb person and a 150 pound person may have to eat at only like a 100 calorie difference to maintain the same weight. You could eat like a "normal" person, but you won't make any marked progress. You're forming long term habits physiologically and psychologically that will not help you in the long run. You need to define a time frame in which you strictly cut your diet and focus on nutrient rich food and reducing stressors because at 500+ cal deficit you don't want an excuse to break your momentum. Make a plan to lose weight, then a separate plan to maintain your weight and prevent yoyos. Don't mix your weightloss diet with your maintenance diet or you may be confusing your body.
I wonder how much someone would have to lose if she is overfat but not overweight? I’m not even pre-diabetic, but my A1c has gone up over the last few years and from my blood sugar monitor I see that my body‘s reaction to some carbs, even high, fiber, healthy ones supposedly, is with a spike above 140 and sometimes up to 180. my waist is not big. I’ve done similar protocols and I can tell you after years of keeping my way down after a big loss and getting older, cutting calories that much gets harder. I’ve done enough things where it seems like my body should be able to shift back-and-forth between burning sugar and fat butt. It doesn’t seem to want to access the fat very easily.
Does the book explain what to do after you lose the initial 33lbs? I have about 140lbs to lose as well as work on my diabetes. I would like to know if you have to maintain that weight for a certain amount of time before losing more weight. Thanks for the video. I am a subscriber now!
after that initial phase of rapid weight loss on the liquid diet there's a subsequent maintenance phase where people transition on to a 'normal' solid but healthy, weight-maintaining diet. it's basically a diet low in processed stuff, like a clean Mediterranean diet
@@NutritionMadeSimple Thanks. I am planning to go through the book and try it out. I've tried many styles of diet before, but my diabetes has been hard to control no matter what I cut or restrict, whether time or food. Interesting enough when I finally do have it in check, something else goes out of control and that medication raises my A1C and fasted blood sugar all over. I'm finally on a regimen keeping it in check, but it's slowed down my digestion and even though I eat less and more healthy, my weight slowly rises. I've tried to move more, but I am limited since I was hospitalized for septic shock and all the sedation and medication developed a left drop foot. I've found a way to move more in small doses, but sometimes it is difficult. I'm willing to try this out, under medical supervision of course, to give me a push in the right direction. Thanks again. The logic seems to align with my research and personal journey of mostly the faulty logic behind other diets. God bless you. Hope your journey continues to reach the people that need your voice.
If you have 140 pounds to lose, I'm taking a wild guess that a 33 pound loss will not take you under your personal threshold. This part of Taylor's advice sounds impossible, to me. It doesn't make sense.
Have a look at Dr Now’s diet protocols. He’s a leading bariatric surgeon based in Texas and his work is documented in “my 600lb life”. He puts his patients on a low carb 1200 cal diet plus surgery.
I’m totally confused, been diabetic for 12 years. On high fat low carb intermittent fasting 18-6 nearly 3 years , when I finished growing as the professor says I was 72 kgs, now 75 kgs and 178cm. was 180cm. I’m 78 and my A1 C is going up last time 6.3 today 6.9 at the doctors. Why is my A1C going up when I’m doing everything right?
Dr Valter Longo who wrote the book The Longevity Diet and who does studies on fasting and I.F. does Not recommend anything over 12 hours for I.F. nor does he recommend skipping/delaying breakfast for more than 5 days a week. He didn't state exactly what goes badly just that his research showed that it was detrimental over time. He also stated that after 65 (from his blue zone - centenarian stuides) that after 65 people need to eat more protein to stay healthy. He recommends fish, and eggs if I recall.
Diabetes is also caused by too much intracellular lipids in cells, especially muscle cells. Because of this, insulin cannot get glucose into the cells. This explains why people with diabetes are tired. This intracellular fat can be reversed with a low fat diet.
So....if it's beta cells not functioning due to interstitial fat accumulation in the liver and pancrease, can you please explain hyperinsulinemia in pre-diabetics?
Why ethnic minorities? And “minority” relative to what group? Unclear whether we’re talking about socioeconomic factors or genetics. What if you’re genetically an ethnic minority (Bengali) and adopted into and raised by a caucasian Western family since the age if 2? The standard American diet alone can account for diabetes regardless of genetic factors. Are we saying some genomes (e.g., those considered minorities in the West) are by definition likely to develop diabetes?
I agree with the Doctor about not exercising to lose weight. When I started my Keto/IF journey I didnt do any exercising for the first three months and when I started, I started SLOW and LOW. Sixty-one week later and I'm down 92lbs! Fifty pounds to go! I like your channel, but is there any way ti the videos fown to ten minutes? My ADHD kicks in right around there. lol! Seriously, it does.
I believe I've more or less "cured" my diabetes by switching to a low fat vegetarian diet and strenuous exercise almost every day. Took about a year. A1C went from 7.3 to 5.0 in that time. Recently I've reintroduced cookies and "added" sugar to my diet. So far my A1C has increased as a result but only to 5.2 from 5.0. But if I gain weight I'm certain I'll become diabetic again so maybe it is better to describe my diabetes as "in remission". From what I understand most people with type 2 diabetes don't have much problem producing enough insulin and that their problem is insulin resistance. This researcher seems to emphasize insulin production as the main problem. I think he's out to lunch with the advice on exercise. Obviously most people were never athletes like I was but exercise is still one of the best things EVERYONE can do. Just be reasonable and do a moderate amount that you can manage every day.
@@Mezzala9 No it hasn't. That is ridiculous. Sure when you exercise you get a little hungrier and your NEAT goes down some. But not enough to completely erase the total calorie expenditure of exercise. Exercise is NOT useless to lose weight. It is silly to say shit like that. Even if you don't lose any weight at all exercise will redistribute the fat from your internal organs to other areas of the body. Sumo wrestlers are grossly obese and yet since they train for hours every day they have relatively little fat around their organs.
@@Mezzala9 That is just nonsense. The guy doesn't know what he is talking about. The fitter you get the less your body will compensate with lowering NEAT and making you hungry and the more calories you can expend and the more weight you can lose and the more food you can eat. Exercise spawns a "virtuous" cycle. It is f'ing stupid to say exercise is not effective in losing weight.
@@donwinston Suomo wrestler average lifespan is between 60-65 years of age, at least according to this: check out the referencesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumo#:~:text=Sumo%20wrestlers%20have%20a%20life,toll%20on%20the%20wrestler's%20body. Watch the video again to see what Dr. Taylor says about exercise for people who have not be regularly exercising. There's the rub. People walk 2 miles, consider it exercise, and drink a shake. Far more calories than what they expended!
I guess when you think "25lb less would make me underweight" it would be a sensible approach to loose that weight, and after that gain some weight back as pure muscle?
Big thanks to Dr. Taylor & you for sharing this information! Watched this video mid-March 2022 (already T2D 1-yr+). By March 25th, I'd read Dr. Taylor's work & the referenced works of others. June 6th labs: officially not diabetic, lipids all in the "healthy" range (apo-b too), and 35# lighter. Followed-up with my PCP yesterday; the best word to describe his response is 'giggly'. He got a 2-minute explanation of the program and said he's got to read up on it. Glad of that. Sorry to see other's comments that facts are not always well received.
thank you so much for sharing. made my day :) congrats on the success!
@NutritionMadeSimple Thank you for your content! I love your balanced approach! Do you know what packets he's talking about and where I can get them? Thanks Doctor!
It's funny, when I read the original study in early 2012 and used it to reverse my t2d I told everyone about it. I was roundly criticized for spreading misinformation especially on the ADA forum (who, incidentally, published the original research). My diabetes dietitian was interested but the GP said it wasn't possible and was shocked when i passed a 2hr ogtt in his office which he gave me to shut me up about having " reversed" t2d.
He said " sometimes newly diagnosed t2d can go away for a while"
Well it's been 10 years and although I've put on 10kg it still hasn't returned but I'm still 20kg below the diagnosis weight.
I sometimes wonder how many people have suffered terrible complications after listening to the moderators say I was lying and block me on those diabetes forums for spreading misinformation (that was linked to their own journal article)
wow. weird. a claim backed by a scientific reference should at least be looked into, not reflexively dismissed. sorry to hear, but bottomline is you found the key info, implemented and reaped the benefits!! 💪👍
People on diabetes forums don’t like to be told to cut their energy intake.
What is stopping you from losing the 20kg?
Professor Taylor and his team continue to be ignored by the majority of mainstream medicine.
Ron's breakthrough on T2D should be screamed from the rooftops, and he awarded a Nobel Prize.
That he isn't is indicative of the pathological bias in medical research.
I am actually a Radiologist, and I was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes despite my relatively average looking appearance. I had a BMI of 30(technically obese) but looked, maybe, slightly overweight. But one day I became ill and did a CT scan of my abdomen and was absolutely shocked at how fatty my liver was. My liver was so fatty that my blood vessels appeared like there was contrast dye in them despite the scan being performed without contrast. This is abnormal because the color of blood should be about equal to that of the liver on a CT scan without contrast dye. Though I have read and learned much about diabetes, even much that was discussed here, I had never read about "fat threshold." But this concept seems to be true, because everyday I see scans of morbidly obese patients who weigh upwards of 400 lbs, and these people will not have a liver as fatty as mine. On the other hand, I see patients, like myself, who have maybe an slightly overweight build and they also have very fatty livers. The point is that, you cannot rely on your outward appearance as a simple way to judge your metabolic health. It is still important to be evaluated by a physician regularly. I am one and because I put my health on the back burner, I now have to suffer with diabetes. Its a terrible disease that leads to heart disease, kidney failure, terribly dry mouth, dry skin and hair, eye problems, hypertension, loss of sensation in your limbs, and a whole bunch of other problems.
But you know that you do NOT have to suffer from diabetes, now, right?! Reverse it. Off topic… you are fine as hell, man!
Are you counting your calories now and losing body fat?
Save your body and your health with intermittent fasting. It works.
A prolonged water fast will fix it very quickly
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I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in January. When I watched this video I March - I was already doing 800 cal diet for 2 months. In 3 months I lost around 50 lbs. My diabetes is now reversed/in remission. My A1C went from 6.8 to 5.2 in 3 months. It works! More people need to know about it.
congrats! happy to hear
what does remission/reversed means? does it means you can eat carbs in moderate ? not like previously ofcourse.
@000 00 It means that your blood sugar levels are in the normal range (A1C
@@anowlonedge1815 thanks for sharing and congrats to you on reversing the type 2 diagnosis. Same boat here. Just had my A1c jump from. 5.3 to 6.8. Had been 5.3 for years and I didn't do enough to exercise and lose weight. I was really down on myself until I read this and saw the video. Going to go on keto and restrict to 20 net carbs per day and more important, exercise , walk, swim, move.
Did your doctor recommend you go on medication when you were diagnosed ? Mine did. I want to try weight loss, keto and exercise first.
My goal is to keep my AC1 under 5.7 for the rest of my life. I don't know how realistic that is but I am praying it is.
@Chad G Thank you! 😊
My doctor offered me to start Metformin. I was hesitant at first, but she said that it would aid with weight loss and help curb the appetite. So I agreed to try it out. I feel like it did help me somewhat mentally - knowing that there was some backup there for me. But I could totally do the same thing without it, I think. I do not take it anymore.
I would be careful with 20g of net carbs. I've been doing around 80 -90 of net carbs per day. If you are too low on carbs - you will have less energy to exercise and more food cravings.
You still want to get good carbs like brown rice, whole wheat bread or oatmeal. It helps to stick to the healthy diet.
Exercise is important! Whatever you enjoy doing is good. I started weight lifting - loving it. Makes me feel in control of my health.
I think you can totally do it and get your A1C back to normal!
Because of Gil and his super simple approach to nutrition I've started eating a whole food based healthy and simple diet. It has been three months, my BMI was okay before but after changing my diet I've dropped a couple of pounds and I love eating now, without guilt, delicious and simple. And I feel awesome.
Thank You!
I think when we talk about 'weight' from the start it's really important to be clear that we mean fat mass and not muscle mass. Retaining muscle mass is so important especially as we age, and any drastic calorie reduction without supporting protein & exercise will most probably lead to detrimental muscle mass loss alongside the fat mass. "Don't try and exercise it away.." is not the ideal message imo.
I think it's important to mentioned that resistance training/cardio daily in combination with the diet is basically the magic bullet we're all looking for, because "weight" is a bit of a misnomer. When we speak of "losing weight" what we actually mean is body composition; losing the fat that's layers on top of layers around our organs and on top of our muscle.
You are the most likable guy on TH-cam. Period.
He is soooo right about the exercise as older and heavier. At this point, the food is the most important thing in getting then weight down initially. Take a short walk everyday, and slowly build from there.
I lost over 50 pounds and have kept it off for over 20 years. Every other day fasting and low carb was the method I used. This was the first diet where I wasn't hungry. I lost most of the weight over 4 months.
What has been your maintenance eating plan? Same?
I had borderline diabetes 3 years ago. I found Roy's research, and went on a diet. I lost 45 pounds, going from 185 pounds to 140. The diabetes reversed; and I have kept the weight off.
How tall are you?
@@keovezo 5 foot 9.
@@southern842 A balanced diet. I tracked calories (doing 1,200 a day for one month; and 1,600 for the next 2 .) I cut out processed food,.I gave up alcohol as it was the only way to hit the calorie goals.
Well done, thanks for sharing!
One of my coworkers just found out he’s pre-diabetic. I’m sharing this video with him.
Me too. But getting the medical profession to properly accept it is proving difficult. I was ,fat but fit and "diabetic" only thanks to one test when the flu had knocked me flat at 59.
They even tried to put me on statins because of the label.
What a terrific guy, I learned so much! Thanks to you both for bringing us this well researched information.
This approach worked for me. Have stayed there for 3 years. But I didn't use meal replacements (they are expensive and afterwards you just have to come up with sustainable way of eating anyway). I was probably only short stage.
Blown away by what I’ve seen here. It could change my life. I’ve got a lot to research and discuss with my GP. ❤ Thank you AGAIN!
Great video, and the point about exercise for weight loss is spot on, not just for diabetes, but weight loss in general. Food intake trump exercise for weight loss.
Exactly right! But unfortunately, many people take that to mean they don’t have to exercise at all. Exercise, even just a short walk a day, is great for keeping the brain sharp.
@@BetterMe981and the cardiovascular system.
Some good points raised in this interview. My approach to manage my type2 diabetes is different from what this good doctor suggests
I am 62 years old and I am type2 diabetic. Initially my weight was 115 kg at a height of 175 cm.
I started 16:8 intermittent fasting.
I did 45 min of low intensity fasted cardio every morning.
I did resistance training 4 times a week later in the day.
I ate less than 70 grams of carbs a day.
In 12 weeks Ian down to 100 kg, did not and I do not take any medications
I increased my muscle mass significantly and increased my strength as well. At the moment I still follow the same protocol but I eat up to 150 grams of carbs per day. My blood sugar level is perfect. I am going to drop another 10 kg but slowly in order to maintain my muscle mass. Few things to consider: Never drink your calories.
800 calories per day is too low.
Exercise is extremely important, both resistance training and low intensity cardio. Reduce your carb intake. Eat a high protein low carb diet. In my experience this is the best way to manage your diabetes.
I agree with you, because it worked for me. I eat twice a day, and eat until I am satisfied. Low Carb IF works. I am not into the starving method. Six months ago I was admitted to the hospital with a fasting BS of 434 and Triglycerides at 1254. I was in Keto Acidosis for 6 weeks before going to the Dr. 4 months of low carb IF, and moderate exercise fixed everything. No Meds, no inflamtion, and back to being lean and mean at 54.
I don't think doing fasted cardio vs non-fasted cardio has any real benefits: Consider this: If you eat 2000 calories a day and burn 100 calories during your cardio, it really makes no difference whether that cardio was fasted or not. 2000 calories is 2000 calories and 100 calories burned is 100 calories burned. But I suppose these things help people mentally, like a placebo affect.
Me personally I'd rather tackle a work out with some food because that would give me the energy to do a harder workout which would result in burning more calories if the effort is higher.
@@charizard9735 fasted cardio uses fat calories for energy instead of glucose.
@@charizard9735 the point of a fasted workout is to take dietary intake out of the equation. So instead of using that as fuel you use things like excess body fat, from the start.
@@FrightF It makes no difference - if you are going to eat the same amount of calories in the day.
I'm reminded of the sage advice from George Burns on how to achieve longevity: "Eat half.".
I know it is more complicated than that.
A lot of Asian cultures suggest eating until you are about 75% or so full.
Quite interesting and more relevant to me than when you posted the first video on the topic.
My dad (60) was diagnosed with prediabetes, basically his blood glucose levels were on the high end of normal consistently. He has cut down his added sugar intake, but I do not believe he's lost any weight.
Thank you for the video (and cited sources :)
Processed carbs become sugar too in your body and excess sugar becomes fat. He needs to reduce or get rid of any processed food, especially bread, which our body treats almost like cake.
what a nice guy man
One of your best videos: objective and positive with usable and useful information
I weigh 100lbs and have pre-diabetes. This is my third round with it. #1 gestational diabetes with 2nd pregnancy at 27. Pre-diabetes T menopause when I weighted my delivery weight with 2nd pregnancy and now at 63 pre-diabetic. I am only pre-diabetic because I’ve always been extremely active and a fitness instructor.There is a stereo-type of what people with diabetes looks like and it’s not always accurate. It’s important to expand the symptoms so more people are aware that they could be at risks.
Check in with Dr. Cyrus Khambatta Mastering Diabetes it works
And that brings up a question that this video - and most videos about the topic - don’t answer
What if you’re eating healthy - exercising - low body fat mass - sleeping well - and still struggle with higher blood glucose?
Not everyone has weight to lose
I did it with a whole food plant-based diet, I lost 30 lbs which was about 16% of my weight with no exercise. I've found that if II exercised I would get very hungry & over eat.
That's superb!
This is what the internet is for. Brilliant video!
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Brilliant! Such a wealth of information and broken down beautifully.
I learned a lot from the video but after reading the comments I was reconfused. It's better for me to ignore the comments.
The most important video on diabetes you will see.
i am so glad i found your channel. after all my research i've come down to this: avoid processed food, lose weight, be more active. mostly it seems JUST LOSE WEIGHT!.
Cannot recommend this video enough. Thank you for giving us hope!
Why isnt this on tv. News why isnt my doctor handing out this book. Gee
This was a fascinating and encouraging video. Thanks Doc. I just hope that I don’t have to lose a lot of weight since I am already thin at 157 on a 5’10” frame.
Great info straight from the source. Roy brings hope to the patients. Thank you both.
Very helpful reliable fundamental information. Clears up many of confusing issues arising from conficting information due to lack of understanding of the fundamental principles.
MOST IMPORTANT & INFORMATIVE VIDEO EVER TY
My most controversial take from this:
if your significant other has a problem with you getting healthier, that relationship should end then and there
controversial indeed :)
That’s why I live a solitary existence, most of what is out there is toxic.
I’m curious what Roy’s (and of course you, Gil) opinion is on this term I keep coming across coined “body weight set point” which is basically defined as “your body is used to being (and likes being) a certain weight and any attempt to change that weight, especially dramatic change, will result in a rebound or yo-yo reversal back to your set point.” This new theory is now being used as the reason diets don’t work and why most people return to their previous weight eventually. Do you think this is rubbish or is there something to this? I’m curious how this would affect those trying Roy’s dietary approach to type 2 reversal
This is great advice, the mentality relating to exercise and weight loss is inspirational. Thank you.
Have you ever published any video on the type 1 diabetes? I would be very interested. Thanks and keep up the good job!
Dr. Taylor describes how fat reduces the pancreas's ability to produce insulin. In fact, he describes reducing fat in the pancreas as "waking up the beta cells." But that sounds more like glucose intolerance - the inability of blood glucose to stimulate sufficient insulin.
I understand type 2 diabetes to be more about insulin resistance - excess insulin and excess glucose in the bloodstream due to poor insulin function. Dr. Taylor seems to share this view when he describes the fatty liver as "insulin resistant."
If the primary action of reducing exogenous fat is to wake up beta cells, how does this address type 2 diabetes? How are the beta cells of a fatty pancreas involved in reducing insulin sensitivity in other tissues?
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!! is one of the best video I have seen in my life !
Thank you for this very informative video. It confirms my personal experience that whenever I started to do workouts (half a dozen times), my weight would always increase. Very frustrating.
The only thing Dr. Taylor did not discuss which I wish he had is the prospect of reversing diabetes without weight loss simply by targetting the fat in the liver and pancreas. Granted, most people with diabetes should lose weight. But TOFIs in particular may require such as approach. The work of Dr. Robert Lustig demonstrates that liver fat can be reduced and metabolic function imoroved, without weight loss, simply by altering the composition of the diet. It doesn't necessarily require an extreme diet such as a low carb or vegan diet, either.
This has been very motivating. Thank you so much
Thank you for all your accurate information. Great job!
Best Diabetes Info on youtube
tks!!
Thanks, Gil and Roy!
This is the guy i read on when my blood sugar shot up. Not sure fat on organs is the main issue it's the low carb that affects insulin resistance. Of course your blood sugar will return to normal by not eating a lot of sugar but it's more likely that the constant stream of carbs caused insulin resistance and that was the main effect. The fat reduction was a by product of the diet. But i do thank him for getting me on the right path. And really people with longer term just pushed the cells for too long and were damaged.
This was very informative, great work.
Very nice info Thank you Both
August 2023 I was told I was diabetic (a1c 6.6) and that Primary Dr wanted to put me on insulin. I insisted I’d wanted to try to make a difference with my diet/exercise so she gave me three months. I immediately started lowering the AMOUNT of foods I was eating and increased my intake of vegetables/fruit/fiber, drank only water or unsweet tea/coffee, limited red meat, increased nuts/seeds/whole grains. By December I lost 25 pounds and I lowered my a1c to 5.9! The weight has stopped dropping off (but I’m not gaining), I wonder if it’s due to starting taking a daily dose of Anastrozole (I also had lumpectomy/radiation for breast cancer found at the same time as diabetes. I’m also wondering about STRESS and diabetes onset. My husband died 6 months before my diagnoses (from an 18 month bout from West Nile and subsequent Myasthenia Gravis and other complications from the WN) as well as losing my sister 6 weeks before that to her second time of breast cancer and two days later her daughter passing from colon cancer). Needless to say the last several years (COVID included) have been stressful. So, any connection of stress and diabetes???
Wonderful info.
Losing liver fat and pancreatic fat is the goal, and caloric restriction is one way of solving it. I believe there should be other ways, since how come the threshold is different from person to person? Why is the liver or pancreas storing fat in the first place? Is it because it is anticipating a period of famine in the near future, a response that comes with stress or having an anxious personality? Or perhaps certain kinds of food are more prone to being converted to fat in the liver or pancreas?
Perhaps, by living a happier life, one can put on more weight before triggering fatty liver…
it's mainly just bad diet and little exercise for many decades..think about what people eat, it's terrible..their waist gets huge and then the fat seeps into their liver..then when the liver gets too damaged it leaks fat into the pancreas and triglycerides into the bloodstream. A deadly storm.
Fascinating. Thank you very much.
Always informative, thank you.
Seems like diabetes also has mitochondria disfunction. Would like to hear more about that too.
Thank you. This was very interesting. The links were very helpful. Kate
Well done, super clear with no mumbo jumbo LOL
does this mean that blood sugar spikes from processed foods or sugar dont matter for diabetes as long as i dont put on too much weight crossing my own threshold? what is the point of treating insulin resistance then? or is insulin resistance a negative health condition for e.g. CVD?
I remember BBC talking about the study when it was first published!
These absolute numbers when it comes to weight, and referring to ones weight when they were young, really does not take into account lean mass.
As lighter people get out of shape, if they were fairly athletic to start with, they will put on weight, sure, but a significant part of what is happening to them is substitution of lean mass for fat mass. Their metabolism can get out of whack even with as little as 10-15 pounds gain, if their diet is bad enough and they are sedentary. It's exactly what happened to me. I could not possibly lose more than 18 pounds without having muscle loss compared to my late teens, and my metabolic issues are no less caused by the same issues as someone with 30-40 pounds excess weight.
I should point out that in my case, I absolutely started a new exercise program that mixes resistance training and cardio. I was very active until... you guessed it, the pandemic. My body responded very quickly to reintroducing activity. I'm not just burning fat, I'm also putting on muscle. Even if I'm in my mid 40s, I'm lucky enough that it works well for me. Blood pressure greatly improved, very quickly.
This one should be pretty disappointing for many T2Ders. I used to be one of them, but slim, tall and always concious about healthy food (esp. as I was a smoker then). My GP was no help when I asked how I could have got it. Had to find out myself. On the NHS website were about a good dozen causes listed; went critically through each item and discovered my 2 cuplrits I had to tackle: Not enough sleep (5-6 hours on working days) and too little exercise aka too much sitting (over decades). Not renouncing self-made trays of Austro-Hungarian cakes, I just countered them with more vegetable meals, rich, creamy soups or salads galore. Four years later I had reached the reversal. Unfortunately, the souvenirs seem for keeps: peripheral neuropathies.
But those kinds of package diets are normally very unsuccessful for people when they have to go back to eating regular food. Did they follow on these patients and see whether they ended up relapsing? It’s very interesting that they might not have suffered the same relapse rate. I know that some people relapse, even when they have had really bad health conditions, but I think the odds are better if you’re actually scared rather than just trying to get thin.
hi, the liquid replacement diets were only for a couple months to achieve the weight loss, then there was a transition to a maintenance diet (mediterranean-like), iirc this was touched on in one of these 2 videos ft. Dr. Taylor?
Even if they gave them a program, it’s still against the odds to keep off, lost weight. Maybe it was that they didn’t feel pressured to get really thin, because it sounds like for most of these people, they were heavy enough, that, even though the weight loss was impressive, it probably still didn’t even get a lot of them into the overweight range, never mind a normal BMI range. and I suspect that a lot of relapse has to do with feeling like it’s gonna be too hard to get really thin and it doesn’t feel worth it if they’re not. The tyranny of thinness.
Aside from 3 meal replacement shakes, Prof Taylor stated that participants were also consuming non starchy "salad stuff" for gut maintenance.
I used Keto lost 60 within 8 months. Now startinstalling to allow othe foods such as beans. I was 36 waist and xl shirt now 32 waist and med shirt.
My wife just received test results that she is at risk of Type 2. She's always been a very lean person. She is 5'8" and ~126lbs. She was also at risk of gestational diabetes when she was pregnant 15 months ago. To look at her, one would think she's closer to underweight than overweight. She's had visible abs throughout her adult life. She has a relatively strong upperbody, but her legs aren't very strong. Her cardio is also poor. My instinct is just a general diet cleanup, and regular cardio and strength training. She can't lose much weight. Is it the case that her personal fat threshold is extremely low, or could it be related to lack of cardio? Lack of muscle in her legs?
Can anyone answer these questions... or direct me to a FAQ...
- Must the weight loss be that quick and radical. I knocked off 10 pounds in two months using keto. Wouldn't ketosis also remove fat from organs quickly enough for similar results.
- If I'm near normal weight, would I have to stay on the Taylor regimen for 8 weeks. (I'm afraid I would be seriously underweight.)
- Must I use Dr. Taylors shakes. Would a store-bought shake of 100 calories work as well.
- If I used a commercial keto shake of 100 calories that is both 100 calories and low carb, would that be better?
I've been getting these numbers for weeks, that's why they're dropping down the amount of insulin in my hypo that I dial up, to less insulin every 5 days until I have no insulin, I started out with dialing up 20 on the hypodermic at night and 20 in the morning then I went down to 18 in the hypodermic in the morning to 20 at night, and now starting tomorrow I'll be doing 15 in the morning and 18 at night, so I'm reducing the insulin to where I don't have to take it anymore because I'm eating right and my numbers are good non-diabetic numbers,
I'm getting numbers in the morning like 89 before meal and after meal 117, and lunch 1:15 before meal and 1:11 after meal, dinner 117 before meal and 110 after meal, which are non-diabetic numbers basically.
Very enligthening!
Well the experiment was well designed to test the hypothesis but I don't believe for a minute most people will adhere to it beyond 2 years which is considered the threshold of a successful, sustainable weight management intervention. Then we have the fact the patients have learned how to lose weight by drinking essentially processed food. Are they going to keep on eating junk shakes or real food? They have not learned sustainable habits to maintain weight, they will revert back to their pre diet habits.
Have you ever talked about other underlying causes for metabolic dysfunction? I am currently 30 years old, 6’1, 170 pounds. I weight train so I’m heavier than my natural body weight (slender frame) but very low body fat. However my triglycerides are elevated and I have had very slight elevated glucose. I have Wilson’s disease and have been chelated of copper for 7 years and then on 150mg of zinc per day for 3 years after I got off the chelator. I have read that a copper deficiency has some interesting correlations with metabolic issues. I know this is a pretty niche questions but maybe you could cover something like “other things that could cause diabetic like markers to elevate that’s not diabetes at all.” Thanks a bunch.
will keep in mind and try to bring on an endocrinologist to address diabetes causes other than excess fat mass. thanks!
I'm a healthy individual and I've been healthy most of my life yet I have type 2 diabetes. BMI around 22 and 17% body fat, and exercise regularly. I'd like to know what was the BMI of the people in the study. Were these unhealthy, overweight individuals?
I ask this because I'd like to know in my case, do I still have too much fat in my pancreas and liver, or am I a different case where it is more about genes because diabetes runs in my family?
BTW, my HA1c has been 5.2/5.3 for the past 6 months, but my daily FBS in the morning averages 130. How should interpret these results?
@@sanjdip Are you Indian/Pakistani/Desi by any chance?
We're more prone to T2 diabetes in general and at even lower BMIs than other ethnicities.
@@waleedabbas4996 Has there been any clinical studies about Asians Indians and what the target BMI needs to be?
@@sanjdip Yes. The NHS has done them. A BMI of 23 is their cutoff iirc. Bangladeshi cutoff is 21! This is partly influenced by diet, however. Too many calories from white rice and ghee.
great video, thanks!
It’s hard for us skinny fat people who go for years under crap medical system and stay on drugs not realizing we can lose 20lbs and reverse this. Now after 20 years it may be too late.
I’m a type 2 diabetic I’ve been doing low carb for years . I keep my blood sugar about 127 eating all I want just going 20 carbs a day. But they say don’t count calories eat till your comfortably stuffed. Not working for weight loss.
I purchased Roy’s book on Audible . Two days ago I started eating 1000 calories a day for ten weeks . I’m curious the results . So far2 pounds lost . Blood sugar steady . 10 weeks will be April 27th
Very interesting
Excellent video!
Thanks for the video. Straight to the point. What about those who are not overweight? Is the answer do a diet to lose weight and that will take care of even prediabetes?
hi, a new study just wrapped up on this. unpublished yet. I posted about it here (should be the last post from a couple days ago): facebook.com/DrGilCarvalho/
But are there any meal replacement packets in the USA that would work, especially vegan meal replacement! If you can answer this Sir it would be so helpful. Thank you.
There are lots of vegan meal replacements , Huel , jimmyjoy , soylent , etc
Correct me if I didn't catch it right. The weight maintenance bit was a little flimsy. They had at most 6 months follow up, right? So that's where the rubber really hits the road. How to continue 1 year, 3 years etc to beyond 10 years maintaining that weight. Just restricting calories forever with sheer willpower is not the answer even with the motivation from knowing the benefit and having felt it. Enjoying a physically active life is part of it, but even that can be hard to keep coming back to. I'm actually hopeful that intermittent fasting and similar approaches might be relatively easy to go back to when relapsing and relapsing is guaranteed for over 90 % people over the long term.
Maybe it's some other approach that's individually reasonably easy to go back to, but I would definitely keep fasting and intermittent fasting on the short list. Going back to just healthy foods as a basis is given as well.
Learn new eating patterns and don't be a glutton. Seriously. It's not that hard. Cutting out the ridiculous snacking most people have through time restricted feeding is, indeed, a great tool. Three meals over 6 to 10 hours. No snacking. People didn't used to graze like cows before we had so much convenience foods.
I am a 66 year old female post bariatric surgery patient. I had my surgery in 2004 and lost about100 pounds and kept it off till around 2018. Since then I've gained almost 50 pounds. I also developed what I'm told is "Reactive Low Blood Sugar". Eight weeks ago I had my gallbladder removed and lost 15 pounds. Then 4 weeks ago my liver enzymes went over 1000 and I was hospitalized. If I keep my calories at 600-800 daily, I can maintain my weight. I have an appointment with a bariatric nutritionist but I'm not holding on to hope for answers. Do you have any thoughts for finding answers?
the 600-800cals is a short-term intervention to achieve fast weight loss but it's followed by a higher calorie 'maintenance' phase (detailed in his book), maintaining such a low calorie intake indefinitely may create other issues. the nutritionist may help you estimate how many calories you expend daily so you can aim for that range. it may also be helpful to try to figure out what changed since you kept the weight stable for so long (14y) then suddenly started gaining again. perhaps stressful life changes? I'm just speculating but figuring this out and addressing it with the help of qualified professionals may help identify the causes and improve upon it! :)
My relatives had bariatric surgery and their surgeon told them to drink a glass of heavy cream every morning with their vitamins so they could absorb them better.
Now they've put all the weight back on and have high cholesterol and recurring kidney stones but they still listen and drink their cream every morning 🤦
What if you’re underweight? Then what can you do?
Wouldn't losing weight without excersize be detrimental for the muscles?
Btw, I lost a lot of weight and started excersizing during the same time period. I remember that during the first weeks (or maybe a couple of months) I was gaining weight instead of losing it but I just continued and the weight started to drop eventually.
Yes, but being T2D is worse
by the term weightless they are talking about fat loss. they whole conversation was about removing fat from the liver. so, you have your answer there.
It is detrimental to muscle certainly, but if I did it again I'd up the protein from food. However if you weight train etc with low calories you're likely to be ravenously hungry.
Just lose the weight then put the muscle back on imo. Your body will put on the muscle you need. The only thing I would say extra to that is that you don't need the same muscle on your legs if you're not lugging around 20-100kg of fat.
What about pre-diabetes underweight people?
These are the kinds of tips that took me decades of yoyoing and "dieting" to realize. A 200 lb person and a 150 pound person may have to eat at only like a 100 calorie difference to maintain the same weight. You could eat like a "normal" person, but you won't make any marked progress. You're forming long term habits physiologically and psychologically that will not help you in the long run. You need to define a time frame in which you strictly cut your diet and focus on nutrient rich food and reducing stressors because at 500+ cal deficit you don't want an excuse to break your momentum. Make a plan to lose weight, then a separate plan to maintain your weight and prevent yoyos. Don't mix your weightloss diet with your maintenance diet or you may be confusing your body.
I wonder how much someone would have to lose if she is overfat but not overweight? I’m not even pre-diabetic, but my A1c has gone up over the last few years and from my blood sugar monitor I see that my body‘s reaction to some carbs, even high, fiber, healthy ones supposedly, is with a spike above 140 and sometimes up to 180. my waist is not big. I’ve done similar protocols and I can tell you after years of keeping my way down after a big loss and getting older, cutting calories that much gets harder. I’ve done enough things where it seems like my body should be able to shift back-and-forth between burning sugar and fat butt. It doesn’t seem to want to access the fat very easily.
Is he from Liverpool , he sounds like Ringo
Does the book explain what to do after you lose the initial 33lbs? I have about 140lbs to lose as well as work on my diabetes. I would like to know if you have to maintain that weight for a certain amount of time before losing more weight. Thanks for the video. I am a subscriber now!
after that initial phase of rapid weight loss on the liquid diet there's a subsequent maintenance phase where people transition on to a 'normal' solid but healthy, weight-maintaining diet. it's basically a diet low in processed stuff, like a clean Mediterranean diet
@@NutritionMadeSimple Thanks. I am planning to go through the book and try it out. I've tried many styles of diet before, but my diabetes has been hard to control no matter what I cut or restrict, whether time or food. Interesting enough when I finally do have it in check, something else goes out of control and that medication raises my A1C and fasted blood sugar all over. I'm finally on a regimen keeping it in check, but it's slowed down my digestion and even though I eat less and more healthy, my weight slowly rises. I've tried to move more, but I am limited since I was hospitalized for septic shock and all the sedation and medication developed a left drop foot. I've found a way to move more in small doses, but sometimes it is difficult. I'm willing to try this out, under medical supervision of course, to give me a push in the right direction. Thanks again. The logic seems to align with my research and personal journey of mostly the faulty logic behind other diets. God bless you. Hope your journey continues to reach the people that need your voice.
@@8bitrich849 Measure your calories. Log the weight of every gram of food. You will be shocked at how much you are eating.
If you have 140 pounds to lose, I'm taking a wild guess that a 33 pound loss will not take you under your personal threshold. This part of Taylor's advice sounds impossible, to me. It doesn't make sense.
Have a look at Dr Now’s diet protocols. He’s a leading bariatric surgeon based in Texas and his work is documented in “my 600lb life”. He puts his patients on a low carb 1200 cal diet plus surgery.
I’m totally confused, been diabetic for 12 years. On high fat low carb intermittent fasting 18-6 nearly 3 years , when I finished growing as the professor says I was 72 kgs, now 75 kgs and 178cm. was 180cm. I’m 78 and my A1 C is going up last time 6.3 today 6.9 at the doctors.
Why is my A1C going up when I’m doing everything right?
Dr Valter Longo who wrote the book The Longevity Diet and who does studies on fasting and I.F. does Not recommend anything over 12 hours for I.F. nor does he recommend skipping/delaying breakfast for more than 5 days a week. He didn't state exactly what goes badly just that his research showed that it was detrimental over time. He also stated that after 65 (from his blue zone - centenarian stuides) that after 65 people need to eat more protein to stay healthy. He recommends fish, and eggs if I recall.
?i weigh 130 cant loose anymore or ill fly away 😢 mostly plant based diet not happy with numbers.
The last few pounds are the most difficult to lose.
Stick with it :)
Diabetes is also caused by too much intracellular lipids in cells, especially muscle cells. Because of this, insulin cannot get glucose into the cells. This explains why people with diabetes are tired. This intracellular fat can be reversed with a low fat diet.
I have never been overweight so losing weight will not work for me. If I were to lose 15% of my body weight I'd be skeletal.
Can you do a video on hemangioma in the liver? What causes that? And can diet alter that progression. Thanks.
Only at 7m and this is amazing
So....if it's beta cells not functioning due to interstitial fat accumulation in the liver and pancrease, can you please explain hyperinsulinemia in pre-diabetics?
Does Dr. Carvalho lecture in Portugal? How can I find his lecture schedule ?
Why ethnic minorities? And “minority” relative to what group? Unclear whether we’re talking about socioeconomic factors or genetics. What if you’re genetically an ethnic minority (Bengali) and adopted into and raised by a caucasian Western family since the age if 2? The standard American diet alone can account for diabetes regardless of genetic factors. Are we saying some genomes (e.g., those considered minorities in the West) are by definition likely to develop diabetes?
I agree with the Doctor about not exercising to lose weight. When I started my Keto/IF journey I didnt do any exercising for the first three months and when I started, I started SLOW and LOW.
Sixty-one week later and I'm down 92lbs! Fifty pounds to go!
I like your channel, but is there any way ti the videos fown to ten minutes? My ADHD kicks in right around there. lol!
Seriously, it does.
I believe I've more or less "cured" my diabetes by switching to a low fat vegetarian diet and strenuous exercise almost every day. Took about a year. A1C went from 7.3 to 5.0 in that time. Recently I've reintroduced cookies and "added" sugar to my diet. So far my A1C has increased as a result but only to 5.2 from 5.0. But if I gain weight I'm certain I'll become diabetic again so maybe it is better to describe my diabetes as "in remission". From what I understand most people with type 2 diabetes don't have much problem producing enough insulin and that their problem is insulin resistance. This researcher seems to emphasize insulin production as the main problem. I think he's out to lunch with the advice on exercise. Obviously most people were never athletes like I was but exercise is still one of the best things EVERYONE can do. Just be reasonable and do a moderate amount that you can manage every day.
He said exercise is good, but not to lose weight. This has been backed up many times.
@@Mezzala9 No it hasn't. That is ridiculous. Sure when you exercise you get a little hungrier and your NEAT goes down some. But not enough to completely erase the total calorie expenditure of exercise. Exercise is NOT useless to lose weight. It is silly to say shit like that. Even if you don't lose any weight at all exercise will redistribute the fat from your internal organs to other areas of the body. Sumo wrestlers are grossly obese and yet since they train for hours every day they have relatively little fat around their organs.
@@Mezzala9 That is just nonsense. The guy doesn't know what he is talking about. The fitter you get the less your body will compensate with lowering NEAT and making you hungry and the more calories you can expend and the more weight you can lose and the more food you can eat. Exercise spawns a "virtuous" cycle. It is f'ing stupid to say exercise is not effective in losing weight.
@@donwinston Suomo wrestler average lifespan is between 60-65 years of age, at least according to this: check out the referencesen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumo#:~:text=Sumo%20wrestlers%20have%20a%20life,toll%20on%20the%20wrestler's%20body.
Watch the video again to see what Dr. Taylor says about exercise for people who have not be regularly exercising. There's the rub. People walk 2 miles, consider it exercise, and drink a shake. Far more calories than what they expended!
@@donwinston Where is the proof that Sumos have such low amounts of fat around their organs?
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I guess when you think "25lb less would make me underweight" it would be a sensible approach to loose that weight, and after that gain some weight back as pure muscle?
If you're already that lean, your main problem is likely to be a lack of muscle tissue rather than too much fat.
if lowering fat in the liver and pancreas is the goal, wouldn’t water fasting be faster?