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Zand, you might find this interesting..... I know my body is VERY acidic - and is now beginning to shed the acidity. I get about the lymph being clogged and how fruits, which are astringent, could help to cleanse it. Interestingly, although I plan to go all fruit for a while (not...

I did not get this from Dr. Greger. Never heard him speak about it. This has been my viewpoint for many a year. Ok, it is a very basic interpretation - of course there are far more complex processes involved - but in layman' terms it is an easy way to understand it. Catabolism in essence is...

There are studies out there - Michael Greger seems to have quite a lot of references out there but unlike LCHF it is not (yet) in the psyche and the interest is not there. That does not mean there is no credence. Many of us were experimenting with LCHF long before the data was there. They do...

Dr. Neil Barnard's book on reversing diabetes seems a good place to start. I downloaded mine on Kindle. John McDougall's programme is good too and I am pretty sure much of that is on his website. Neither seem to restrict whole carbs specifically, unlike the 80/10/10. Joel Furhman seems to be...

Whilst I do believe that humans need some animal protein due to various factors like low L-Lysine in plants and non-existent B12, I also feel that a diet that is plant-heavy rather than meat-heavy is a key to actually healing the body. Many of us are where we are due to toxins. Although not...

Hi Zand. This is the main reason I am transitioning over to this. Not without doing lots of research first, mind, watching loads of videos, etc., as I was caught in the LCHF trap of thinking we need heaps of protein and fats just to exist...! Over the last few months I was finding it...

That is true, however I do feel that if you have a meter, testing for DP can be a good indicator. If your BG is generally higher in the morning than the night before then IR is a distinct likelihood

Weird isn't it. That doing the one thing you would think would be in direct opposition to diabetes, can actually work. Last night when I went to bed, my BG was 7.8 (which was considerably lower than it has been in recent times on LC). This morning it was 6.2..! No more DP...! Dr. Khambatta...

The thing is, I felt the same. When eating LCHF, virtually any carbs would send my BG into orbit. Although I am now having a fair amount of fruit, rice, sweet potato, beans, etc., yet without the meat and high fat my general BG is lower than it was before and as long as I keep the fat low, is...

That is partly true, but the real point is that the glucose is high and the insulin higher because something is blocking the glucose from getting into the cells. Drs. Khambatta, Greger, Bernard, Esselstyn, Campbell et al believe that it is excess fat that is blocking the glucose uptake. In...

There are groups around the World eating high carb diets, and groups around the World eating high fat diets where diabetes is unheard of, or at least virtually unheard of. It comes back to eating whole food, unprocessed diets, whatever they might be. Jay Wortman did his study on Canadian...

If that is the case, then how come people like Cyrus Khambatta are consuming 10, 15 times the amount of carbs they used to yet have far better insulin response now? How come that within a week I am now eating lots of fruit, rice, beans, etc., and am still only taking around 30 units insulin or...

How can a low fat diet starve the body of lipids if it still carries excess fat..? It is widely known that the body can burn fat when excess glucose is depleted. The concept of this is that it seems to be able to restore insulin sensitivity. Reversing diabetes isn't just about lowering blood...

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/what-causes-insulin-resistance/ I can see how this works. Whilst LCHF would reduce the blood sugar, simply because it is low carb, and low carb keeps the insulin requirement down, it does not necessarily reduce insulin resistance. Many consuming a LCHF regime...