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I was watching The Two Big Lies of Type 2 Diabetes again around the 15 minute mark.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLoaVNQ3rc&t=861s
Dr Jason Fund mentions The ACCORD and ADVANCE studies (plus 2 others) where groups of people with tightly controlled blood sugars were compared with those without tight control. They found no difference with the prevalence of diabetic complications, but those tightly controlled had a 20% increased risk of death and 27% had increased weight. The tightly controlled group had people using insulin to control their type 2 diabetes.
If you watch at 21:11 he describes the Counterpoint Study by Dr Taylor at Newcastle University (Newcastle Diet) which showed that Insulin Resistance and Beta Cell Failure could be reversed using a very low calorie diet. The key seems to be to use fasting to reduce liver fat (which decreases insulin resistance) and eventually reduce pancreas fat (which then improves beta cell function).
Around 30:00 he describes the twin cycles hypothesis where excess carbs causes fatty liver and eventually fatty pancreas which causes type 2 diabetes. So he is saying that too much insulin causes type 2 diabetes, so using insulin to treat type 2 diabetes is counter-productive in the long term. His solution is to reduce carbs and use fasting to reverse type 2 diabetes.
The impression I get from watching this is that those with type 2 diabetes need to consider dietary changes and fasting to reduce fatty liver and fatty pancreas. Jason Fung uses low carb diets and fasting to get people with type 2 off all medication including insulin, which works in about 90% of cases. It is only once you have done this that the risk of diabetic complications diminishes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLoaVNQ3rc&t=861s
Dr Jason Fund mentions The ACCORD and ADVANCE studies (plus 2 others) where groups of people with tightly controlled blood sugars were compared with those without tight control. They found no difference with the prevalence of diabetic complications, but those tightly controlled had a 20% increased risk of death and 27% had increased weight. The tightly controlled group had people using insulin to control their type 2 diabetes.
If you watch at 21:11 he describes the Counterpoint Study by Dr Taylor at Newcastle University (Newcastle Diet) which showed that Insulin Resistance and Beta Cell Failure could be reversed using a very low calorie diet. The key seems to be to use fasting to reduce liver fat (which decreases insulin resistance) and eventually reduce pancreas fat (which then improves beta cell function).
Around 30:00 he describes the twin cycles hypothesis where excess carbs causes fatty liver and eventually fatty pancreas which causes type 2 diabetes. So he is saying that too much insulin causes type 2 diabetes, so using insulin to treat type 2 diabetes is counter-productive in the long term. His solution is to reduce carbs and use fasting to reverse type 2 diabetes.
The impression I get from watching this is that those with type 2 diabetes need to consider dietary changes and fasting to reduce fatty liver and fatty pancreas. Jason Fung uses low carb diets and fasting to get people with type 2 off all medication including insulin, which works in about 90% of cases. It is only once you have done this that the risk of diabetic complications diminishes.
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