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The Magic Pill

JohnEGreen

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Have just watched a documentary film The Magic Pill it is an amazing film in my view and I am not prone to wild enthusiasm of such films but I believe it to be a must watch.

It is available on you tube but runs an hour and 29 minutes so not a casual watch but worth every minute.

The trailer

The full program

 

Thanks for posting. Read comments yesterday on this film and thought I would search for it. Will grab a cuppa and watch now.
 
Also on Netflix, I watched it yesterday after someone started a thread on it and I thought it was very good / encouraging.
 
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eggs11 said:
Thank you so much for posting @JohnEGreen, what a great film. My nephew is autistic, so a doubly interesting view for me.
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Just planning to watch now - I have an adult autistic son who I care for so should be interesting. Only issue is that because of his autism he only eats about ten different things and it is so impossible to move him forward so it may be frustrating too!
 
AdamJames said:
Also on Netflix, I watched it yesterday after someone started a thread on it and I thought it was very good / encouraging.
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I have the low carb one in my docco play list on Netflix, I will get around to watching today, I can't think of the members name who posted here the other day about it either.

I doubt if I will watch the keto movie he also posted about.

Edit: It was @rab5 that posted it.
 
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Thank you @JohnEGreen for this it was an inspirational watch - even my husband who isn’t a convert to keto found it interesting. We have an adult autistic son who also has epilepsy,asthma and severe mental health probs and I so wish I could persuade him to give it a try but he has a very limited food list.
 

What's the name of the 'low carb' one? I'm not sure I've seen it.
 
AdamJames said:
What's the name of the 'low carb' one? I'm not sure I've seen it.
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It might be "That Sugar Film" which was mentioned on the forum recently. Available on Amazon.
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Sorry, I re-read and saw Tipetoo is talking about a Netflix documentary.
 
I didn't know it was available on Netflix or whether any one had posted about it before just felt after watching it that I needed to share.

I have seen the "That Sugar Film" and that was very good as well.
 
AdamJames said:
Thanks, looks like they are the same thing. It's the one I watched recently.
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I think it is the same, Pete Evans has written a lot of cookbooks one of which is called "Low Carb, Healthy Fat", this where I got mixed up about the video name I think.

Here's a link to Pete Evans website, that has some video clips on it

He is co host of the Australian reality cooking show My Kitchen Rules, with Manu ????.

https://peteevans.com/
 
I watched a couple of his videos on YouTube. He says no dairy but doesn't say why. He also says use filtered, 'clean' water and pasture fed meat. Sometimes, I do wish chefs looked through the windows of their Porches at us little people. His recipes looked nice, though.
 
Just watched the Magic Pill. Really enjoyed it. Thanks for posting about it
 
Started watching it on youtube last night, went to continue this morning and it appears to have been 'pulled' due to copyright infringement...........
 
slip said:
Started watching it on youtube last night, went to continue this morning and it appears to have been 'pulled' due to copyright infringement...........
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Try a 30 day Netflix trial.
 
It can also be rented on Amazon for £3.49.
 
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