Dr. David Unwin - 'Before diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes there is a long silent scream from the liver'
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Dr. David Unwin is GP based in Southport in the United Kingdom. After 25 years of attempting to treat diabetes by conventional methods, Dr. Unwin was introduced to low carb nutrition through one of his patients and the website www.diabetes.co.uk
From this revelation, Dr. Unwin now ignores official advice and treats his patients with a low-carbohydrate diet. Since adopting the approach, his practice now spends £50,000 less each year on drugs for diabetes than is average for his area.
Dr. Unwin is the RCGP National Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning in Obesity & Diabetes, as well as a Clinical Expert in diabetes. In 2015 he won the North West NHS ‘Innovator of the Year Award’ and in 2016 he won the National NHS 'Innovator of the Year Award' for his work in treating diabetes with a low carbohydrate approach.
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Bravo, I am a 74 year old man that sampled low carb about 25 years ago to treat migraines, it absolutely worked but I fell off low carb. Became Refatted with migraines became Obese and a type 2 diabetes diagnosis flipped a switch in my head. Three months latter I was I that dr. Office again and the Dr said you were type 2 with obesity, high triglycerides,high Bp, hi glucose, now your fine she then asked “what did you do?” I said the simple answer is “I stopped feeding my sugar Sugar,sugar!” She didn’t talk to me anymore. I’m 70 lighter and feel great, today I was walking and running and I don’t even breathe hard. Your talk was great.
@don berry i can tell a big difference in feeling good off sugar, but seem to fall off the wagon every so often and binge on certain things that make me feel like crap. i drink ice tea. what do you sweeten with that won't cause craving for more? i am not diabetic, but bad as i feel on a binge of sugar and carbs, i think i am close. want to stop this cycle.
Don: I am 66 years old and had a similar experience with my doctor, I was taking metformin for type two diabetes and my blood sugar was still out of control, I looked on the internet and found out about keto diet and intermittent fasting and decided to try it out, I quit taking metformin and started going to the gym, keto diet, and intermittent fasting instead. Then at my next doctors appointment I told him what I was doing and he told me I had to take metformin and there was no way I could reverse my condition without taking the metformin. My A1C at the time was 7.3, I told him we were going to find out because I wasn't going to take metformin I was going to fix what was really wrong with me....eating to much sugar and carbs. I was proven right and he was show to be the moron I suspected he was.....40 days later A1C was 5.6 Blood pressure has dropped from stage two to better than perfect and I have been going to gym religiously and feel better than I have in the last 25 years. I also have lost 36 lbs.
@@robertcarey3383 Congratulations Robert!🤠
@@sandy-rr1by I use Xylitol, sometimes called Xylit or birch sugar. It's a sugar alcohol that is poorly absorbed in the gut but metabolized by gut bacteria into short chain fatty acids which are supposed to be good. It's like a solutable diatary fiber in my understanding. The downside is that it is driving bacterial life in the gut what leads to gas. However, if you start low (like a teaspoon per day) than the bacteria can adopt and consume it in the small intestines, imho the trouble comes it it gets to the large intestines or the colon.
It's approx. 20 times as expensive as sugar which helps to reduce the consumption.
I also find that natural vanilla and even vaniline enhances the felt sweetness so that you can reduce the sugar (or Xylit) while having the same tastiness...
@@robertcarey3383 I would like to take low dose of Metformin anyhow, it has show live-prolonging properties and is taken by quite a few non-diabetics for longevity. To my humble understanding it activates the mTOR pathway and mimics fasting. I currently think how I can get it without being diabetic....
Dr. Unwin is a quiet, humble genius. Thank you for all you have done.
Thanks Dr. Unwin, I'm actually a patient at your practice...1 I lost around 30 lb by IF, and a lower carb diet a couple of years ago, lockdown saw me working from home and gaining back 14lb....but I'm back on the fasting and this has inspired me to cut down on my fave spuds and rice once more....Thank you for your efforts!
Good on ya 👌 have you tried chopped radishes for hashbrowns or roasted with a roast chicken, or mashed cauliflower for something similar? 🙏
Ditto here... Covid lockdowns brought back all my lost weight. Now I'm just a couple pounds away from my pre-covid weight and about 30 more will get me to a "healthy" BMI. IF and low carb are the keys.
Thank you so much for this. I find I am mostly leading my doctor, rather than the other way around. It is uphill all the way, as if his training and experience is counter to my results, but my results speak for themselves. Keto since February 2020, lost 40 lbs., inflammation very much under control, lower anxiety, better sleep. Never going back! Pleases keep shouting about this!
@@jacquifenn9928 If you do not want to cut out all carbs, make sure you do intermit fasting, ideally one meal a day.
Good for you!!
Brilliant mate , Im amazed how many dr's don't know this stuff , I'm a test case for my dr now .She's impressed that my liver function changed so rapidly after cutting carbs and consuming more beneficial fats typically cook my eggs with coconut oil and consume olive oil straight of the spoon every morning 15ml . I've lost 8kg in 3 months , blood test are all back to normal.
Most oils are oxidized and inflamatory for the body. See Dr. Paul Mason's findings on vegitable and seed oils. Butter, lard, and tallow, are the good, safe and very necessary fats for maintaining a healthy body.
@@carolnewdawn1517 coconut oil has less PUFA to oxidize than any other natural oil. Look at its lipid profile it’s almost entirely saturated fat.
Im into the cold pressed unrefined version , more $$$
Awesome, I just started low carb like 2 weeks ago. Does wonders for the blood sugar.
@@carolnewdawn1517 Olive oil.
Thank you. In october 2020 I was diagnosed with type2 diabetes and put on medication Metformin and in december Galvumet, which made me feel quite ill and upset my vision. I told my doctor of my problem and was told it would all be fine with a bit more time. My HBa1c was 71, still feeling ill, I stopped taking the meds and changed my diet, leafy greens and protein. Over the next two months I lost 12kg and my HBa1c was 35, since then the next two tests have both been 37. My health appears so much better, Im able to exercise and at 72kg feel better than I did 20yrs ago. Why didn't my doctors help me 20yrs ago? This information should be common knowledge of every doctor. Many thanks, and please keep up your amazing work.
It's not conducive to big pharma profits to get to the root cause.
I was diagnosed as diabetic about 10 years ago…was told there was nothing you could do about it.
I also researched and found that a low carb diet whoul bring your a1c down so I went low carb when it was not popular.
Like others I lost 120 lbs and my blood sugar became normal even before I had lost all the weight.
When I was diagnosed with diabetes they sent me to a class where the teacher weighed more than I did and could hardly walk…I said no thanks to their carb heavy diet and stuck to mine.
It’s crazy that people have had to educate doctors!
@@songforguy1 or BIg Sugar.
Well, this WAS common knowledge up until 100-150 years ago. Then Big Pharma and Big Food gradually took 'common sense' over, with the results we are seeing.
Thanks. It was a Harvard professor who defined a medical education as, "The warping of unsuspecting immature minds into a meticulous system of commercial superstition."
More like commercial drug and surgery pushing,,,
Which one?
Beautifully said, and though some might know it, they would rather reap the benefits of big pharmaceutical incentives. Most MDs can't survive without pushing the SAD sad American diet. Food is medicine and medicine is food, Hypocrites.
This is so true. I had type two after going on low carb reversed my condition and reduced my medication from 5 to one; this happened in only three months. So many health improvements, I'll never go back to a high carb or sugar diet. Best medical advice you can introduce.
I am a 75 year old who has had typeII diabetes since I was in my mid 20s. I have been in letosis for almost three years. I have ended almost all of my diabetic meds and currently my A1C is 6.1. What a shame I didn't know about the benefits of low carb diets many years earlier. That might have saved me from needing bypass surgery 8 years ago. Unwin is fantastic.
You are right on track now,I think. I’m full time low carb now and added IF but I am still working on that but I do get better every time I do it. Good luck,👍
Amazing, Graham! You're right, it's a huge shame, and still a massive issue with our current medical / nutritional sectors stuck believing in low fat. How many more people have to remain sick and die before they'll admit they're wrong? :(
It was done intentionally to you because they've known carbs and sugar can eventually kill you while taking the drugs to finish you off.
I want accountability for the damage they have caused...you should too.
Dr. Unwin, I just love the way you speak. I have been low carbing for about the last 20 years so my liver results are usually pretty good, but recently I ate two bags of Halloween candy (rare slip up) and had blood tests the next day. My doctor was quite concerned that my ALT and AST came back 5 xs higher than I had ever had them before. In the 180 and 110 range (USA). She sent me for an ultrasound of the liver.. fortunately all was well and I am back to normal now, but it shows you how sugar can do damage -- serious damage -- and you wouldn't even know.
Wow. Thank you for sharing this. Really makes me think about how I’ve messed up myself with sugar
I'm GP too ,and the work he is doing is really inspiring
I really love the Infographics you’re using Dr Unwin. They should be publicly displayed in places like canteens at work and schools and in GP practices, on busses etc. We need to constantly be surrounded with this info as a visual reminder because temptations are everywhere...
And most doctors ignore it until your liver is pretty much dead.
Because a doctor's job is to sell drugs and procedures.
@@aliendroneservices6621 yes, and you always have the choice which doctor to visit and if anyone at all!
Western health model is to treat symptoms, not cause. No money in healthy people.
I am glad that I quit buying health insurance and no doctors have been able to do any harm to me. I am a better doctor for myself.
they will give symptomatic treatment
I have been doing Keto, IF, ACV for over 3 years and dropped 80lbs, reversed my fatty liver, all my health problems went away including anxiety, depression and panic attacks and my blood pressure dropped to 127/81, I’m 60 and don’t remember having a normal blood pressure.
What a great video this was! This should be a mandatory video for all high school students across the world, in order to avoid so many problems later in life caused by SUGAR!
Told my doctor I had cut out all processed foods and refined carbs, and was doing keto/ LCHF. She looked at me like I had told her I was eating my own sh+t. My HBA1C was 6.5, was told nothing to worry about.
Holy crap that's healthy,,,
I elicit the same reaction when I tell people I dont eat grains. They think I'm nuts. When the majority are deluded, the enlightened are labelled as crazy.
Pretty sure I've had my Asian card revoked for quitting rice too.
@@henrytang2203 "Pretty sure I've had my Asian card revoked for quitting rice too"
LOL
I wish YOU were my GP (local community Doctor). I'm getting zero Keto-fasting support from my Surgery, despite slow weight loss and improved blood results.
Keep up the good work, I'm following your links now. Thank you.
GP stands for general practitioner, good for nothing practically=just ok for everything.
Ten year old children are getting type 2 diabetics. Something to think about.
Glucose-fructore corn syrup ?
Sugary cereal such as Cheerios, Cinnamon toast crunch are one of the root causes.
@@Eddy-my3zf and seed oils
The food pyramid and the never proven, but often disproven lipid hypothesis, as well as everything else mentioned.
Thank you for this most interesting information. I started my journey woe-KETO, now 4 years in ... 270lbs to 110lbs. Reversed the T2 after 2 years. I have shared this video to a page I manage which I know will be helpful. thank you again!
Wow! Well done. I went low (almost zero) carbs and high fat 3 months ago. Lost 17 pounds so far.
That’s amazing!
What is the page you manage? I’d be interested in joining.
That is amazing Janet.
What a wonderful presentation. I was diagnosed with Abnea at 42 years old. I had a cpap machine for 20 years. I cured my abnea (after 20 years) by losing some weight, but also daily juicing with 1 lemon, 1 apple, 2 carrots and a piece of ginger. However, I was not diagnosed with diabetes until 2011. I reversed my diabetes in 2018 by becoming vegetarian and practicing intermittent fasting 8/16 and occasional 24 hour fasts.
Dr Jason FUNG said, " think of your stomach as a sugar bowl. Every time you eat you fill it with sugar. If you keep eating the bowl overflows". Then my penny dropped. Love peace & health to all of you. Many thanks Dr Unwin for saving lives.
Thanks. Have been suffering from severe sleep apnea at least for 25 years. Last year lost 17 kilo from january to may , starting at 96. Starving metode, calorie count low fat diett. Still suffering from sleep apnea (and hungy all the time) Then went Keto and dropped down to 71 kg. Sleep apnea disappeared!. My specialist got a long face never to believe this could happen. Beside this, all blood samples perfect. Never hungry , have stayed stable at 71 kg and no apnea since last summer. 1,73m tall, age 61. Feel grate (20 years younger)
To keep it short, thank God for doctors like you
Years ago I had high BP and i was overweight. My GP did a blood test and after looking at my liver numbers he asked me "are you a heavy drinker?" and i'm (was) not. After that there was no advice how to improve my liver health just "we should continue with observation". That was not helpful.
Overdosing on fructose and high fructose corn syrup is such a new cause for fatty liver disease that it puzzles some doctors!🤠
Too many doctors just do the minimum to get their credentials and I suspect couldn't care less about health, biology, or getting the latest info. Try to get a better doctor and keep informing yourself. My daughter says when I try to advise her "You're not a doctor", but I tell her yes but I can read and inform myself from reputable sources, the same as doctors SHOULD be doing.
Don't drink don't eat fruit bread or sugar,,,
@@SandyCheeks63564 Indeed, people are thought to treat certain professions and especially science as a religion that cannot be questioned (just be obedient).
Even when that is exactly the opposite of what the scientific process actually is.
The liver is also regarded as being the organ that is associated with anger or grumpiness.
It would be interesting to correlate the Alt, GGT and Triglyceride levels to grumpiness in people.
Interesting. Anecdotally I worked with two men who had tight 'pregnant' looking midsections, and they were fonts of rage and sarcasm. No one would dream of hiring guys like that for Santas. Grumpiness was their "good" days.
How can one be cheerful when one is increasingly sick?
If your liver is married then it’s probably grumpy.
Anger comes from the hypothalamus I believe,,,
Then why don't the medical fraternity lower the bar for T2 D to A1C to 5.5 so people could be alerted earlier to help the situation.
Here's the real question... Why does my doc base his conclusion that I have "excellent glucose metabolism" on a combination of my fasting blood glucose, and my hba1c? Those two numbers are satisfactory, true... But I had to find out by myself that my blood sugar regularly spiked to over 200... Regularly as in at every meal....
So, by the time my doc would have figured out that I had a glucose metabolism issue, I probably would have been full blown diabetic... Or dead from a heart attack, since I had a calcium score of 500..
Our medical establishment is like a fire department that warns you that your house is on fire when it's already burned down.
$$pharmaceutical
I agree, my GP (specialized on internal medicin) looked to my blood panel (complete: lipids, liver, sugar, kidneys...), said that it is fine, just here and there marginally higher and described a Statin for slightly increased LDL-C. To my question about all other numbers he said that is was fine. I asked for a print-out (to the annoyance of the front desk nurse who want to charge me 20 cts for the paper - LOL, while the statin I was prescribed on is about 1000 USD/year and thats supposed for the rest of my life). Back to the point: my Hdl-c was 30 and my TRIG was over 300 mg/dl. A clear sign of insulin resistance and maybe even pre-diabetes. Hypoglycemic dislipemia and I had to diagnose it myself while my GP didn't recognize it (just because the fasting glucose was fine, HbA1c was not measured). I stopped the Statin after 8 weeks, went on LCHF - for 7 months now - and lost 10 kg (20 pounds).
To monitor my blood levels I bought a glucose/ketone/uric acid tester (7 USD) and a lipid panel tester (120 USD) in order to test in a higher frequency. HDL is now 50 mg/dl and rising while TRIG is 80 and falling. Funnily LDL-C dropped also 10%. In the Framingham Offspring Risk Calculator my CVD odds ratio fell from 1.6 ("very high risk") to 0.7 ("low risk") - and that on lifestyle and food only.
AND: I don't think Doctors are evil money-making monsters. I think they are badly trained in the fields of nutrition and physiological chemistry. Unfortunately, while the science has created a lot of new information on metabolic disorder, the medical practice is still locked in the "fat is bad - eat 5 x a day a lot of carbs" doctrine of the 70ies.
Because they should be testing fasting insulin as well. T2D is insulin resistance, not lack of insulin. The liver is the screaming, cause it is insulin resistant
Doctors are also treating symptoms, not the whole individual. Well, allopathic doctors. I am considering seeing a functional doctor. I am already reversing my diabetes, by following the advise of people like Jason Fung.
That would cut into big pharma’s money making machine. Healthy people do not yield profits or repeat customers who are dependent on their drugs so they simply don’t educate the masses whatsoever!
Intermittent and prolonged fasting should be part of LCHF lifestyle, together with removing all processed foods and vegetable oils.
And removing fruit and alcohol,,
You've got to remember though, the studies on intermittent fasting were done on men. Women's bodies are different and cannot withstand the stress of going without food, especially carbs... important hormones are knocked out of balance, estrogen levels drop resulting in irregular and lost menstrual cycles, and thyroid hormones decrease resulting in slowed metabolism and hypothyroidism. It's clear that fasting and low carb diets work amazingly for men, but not so well for women long term.
“Should be…” says who? It is important to keep from being a keto cop and telling others what they should be doing with their journey. We are not all alike.
Yes yes yes. No alcohol, oils, fruit or processed stuff. I am on meat, eggs and dairy and love it
Dr. Pelz here on RUclips has a whole channel about how women can do fasting safely and effectively. Both men and women evolved in the same paleolithic environment, with the same foods and occasional lack of food. It doesn't make any sense that men would evolve to thrive in those circumstances while women would evolve to wither away and suffer. Evolution works the same way on everyone - species are whittled down to perfectly match their environment. If some people have a bad reaction to fasting, it is due to epigenetic factors, i.e. the damage they have done to their body through living at variance with its natural requirements.
Very interesting from a UK doctor, as I am English. I was amazed that Dr Unwin has been recognised by the NHS for his work, and yet the diet advice on how to lose weight on the NHS website is still the food pyramid you advise against. How can we get this to change? I would love to try, as I know many people who would benefit from the correct approach to weight loss.
Great idea!
I agree. I’m also staggered that the arguments and evidence is so compelling for low carb, yet there appears no will to get the message out there.
Yes it’s weird isn’t it? He gets an award for his results but it is not recognised as the way to go for the NHS.
I'm living in the UK have done keto for 9 mths. Reversed my type 2. Fatty liver gone have so much energy. Stay off carbs, vegetable oil . Sugar and Cancer are connected. Read up on the scientific proof. Cancer feeds off Sugar fact....
There’s lots of good books on it. Give it a whirl.
It’s more difficult to lose weight on it if you are post-menopausal but you will feel miles better.
Amazing clarity and easy to understand walk-through. Big thanks 🙏
This is how my father died. I started correcting my diet shortly after. triglyseride 40 now.
Thank you Dr Unwin,
I'm in Melbourne Australia, but I'd appreciate having you as my GP.
Very comprehensive study of type 2 diabetes and its links to other organs and medical conditions. Thank you very much.÷))
Thank you for sharing your insights, Dr. Unwin! You have helped me take much better care of my patients 🩺👩⚕️
Thank you ! Such a clear explanation of such a massive problem in the world......and how to fix it xxx
The best description yet of the link between fatty tongue and SA. Also the correlation of fatty liver and high triglycerides also nicely made. Excellent points.
What a fantastic explanation and promising lecture for anyone struggling with these health problems.
Congratulations to Dr Unwin for your patience and care to unravel this mess and give millions of people hope, well done 👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋
The traditional medical system giving out such wrong advice and treatments should hang their heads in shame!!!
Our GP surgery does not have time to upload and update medical notes on our record....what you did and do for your patients is 1000% massive and almost nothing at our GP surgery
FANTASTIC presentation!! Thank you Doctor!
I love listening to your information and I am grateful for the information. I have a fatty liver but also having a issue with I think gastric issue so to be determined I’m on Pepcid . Your a fantastic doctor for sharing all your information to help people thank you
Dr David Unwin 1 of maybe 2 at at push 3 other Physicians in the UK that is working in this space, amazing work. I'm actually quite embarrassed that there are not more like him...👍🏻 keep going Doc Unwin excellent work
Thank you so much!! I went to so many doctors and non told me anything about high carbs.
Why would they,,,? They want you as their sick patient,,,
Majority of doctors do not know anything about the beneficial law carb diet and IF.
Most Doctors are taught very little about foods diet nutrition, but mostly how to prescribe medicine.
I googled as you instructed for your sugar equivalent glycemic chart and was not able to find it. Will be giving my church a KetoDiet presentation and found really use the visual aids. Thank you
I love this. We really ought to be taking this message to our church family. It's very hard to stay healthy when everybody's bringing mac and cheese and pie to the potluck. Try explaining to a dear 75yo lady why you won't touch her food, and you'll see what I mean. 😉
I would love to do that as well at my church, praying hearts will be ready.
I just commented but I want to add more.
I was suffering, health wise. I continually gained weight even when I wasn't eating that much. I couldn't figure it out. I thought that I had auto immune disease because I had terrible skin reactions that lasted for weeks. Flare-ups. Even had to go to emergency rooms late at night for cortisone shots, antibiotics and a slew of other medications so many times I have lost count. I didn't know what to do. So I wanted to see if I could cure it with changing my diet. Process of subtraction/addition/subtraction of foods till I found that the carbs and dairy were causing the flare ups. I haven't had an incident since I began keto. So it all ties in and makes sense. I wish I had discovered keto way, way before. I believe I could have avoided all those sicknesses and excess antibiotics/medication/pain killers. Oh well. Better late than never right? 🙂
The fatty tongue visual is very helpful.
My mom is not statistically significant or peer reviewed but her experience has had real significance among her circle of friends and family.
22 months ago, my 80 year old mother finally had a follow up appointment with her physician which was delayed for months because her doctor has been in charge of treating Covid patients in the hospital and in nursing homes and was not able to meet with her.
She had a full blood panel taken for this visit and her doctor was astounded at the progress she had made during the last year. She is now no longer diabetic and she was instructed to stop taking insulin after having been on it for 12 years. Her doctor also praised her kidney function which has never looked better. Also, she couldn't believe that her total cholesterol was only 139, with LDL of 67, HDL of 60, and triglycerides of 82 which is a big improvement for her. According to the Framingham Heart Study, these numbers mean that she is virtually "heart attack proof" as many plant based doctors have noted.
Her physician mentioned that she is reconsidering the diet for her family based on this experience. She also asked my mom to share her experience with our community after the pandemic. All of these results are exactly what I had hoped would occur. Here is the menu that I had developed for her to try to mimic what she was used to eating -> "GSP Mother's Menu" - While this menu is not a pure whole foods plant based diet, it appears to be health promoting enough to work for her. My understanding is that low carb diets are a workaround that do not address the root cause of diabetes which is excess intramyocellular lipids and the resulting insulin resistance (excess saturated fats and refined sugar/flour are the most common cause of this metabolic system failure). Cheers!
Tg: 380
Hdl: 25
Ldl: 80
Vldl: 77
Cholesteol: 150
I'm 34 and not sure where I'm headed. Lost 20 kgs in three years and continue losing weight. I'm 19bmi now soon will be under weight. I'm 5,10. Unable to gain weight. Liver profile always comes out good. Anypiece of advice. I look forward to see my 1.5y and 6y kids grow up but when I look at myself looks like I'm nearing it.
if you have unexplained weight loss, I advice you consult it to a doctor to be checked properly for any hidden medical conditions.
I could listen to you all day. Thank you fir sharing your deep knowledge. Such a blessing.
It's mostly because our modern life style & the toxic food ie: junk food, poor food, and luck of both right informations & minerals in our bodies..
Thank you for sharing this video.
Why are you propagating this bullshit about a pandemic when we had an eight-year low flu season that year total viral season for the flu was an eight-year low and those numbers can be found publicly
@@josephd.4890 please , where and how can I get such information about the flu? Thank you
@@grmalinda6251 Ivor Cummins videos
21:50 I'm 195lbs and 5'11 I have suffered with sleep apnea for decades. I wouldve never guessed that insulin and visceral fat had anything to do with it. I also wonder if that's why I'm so tongue-tied sometimes and have difficulty saying words properly.
Please give a list of healthy numbers for a blood test panel for all.
It’s very clear by looking at Ruth’s picture that she has not only lost weight but has reclaimed her normal aesthetically proportionate figure. In my mind this is a manifestation of becoming healthy from the inside out.
Exactly
In 2001 I was diagnosed with diabetes and driving school bus, shortly public transportation, 6 years. When I became insulin dependent, I left transportation. With questions about triglycerides, just answered, thank you. Understanding diabetes. I make pictures. I am no scientist.
Love hearing Dr. Unwin.
Fascinating.. If more physicians would pay attention to all the coinciding values so much could be accomplished ..
Thank you Dr. Unwin. I've followed a low carb high fat diet for a couple years to the degree that I follow a Keto diet. My weight fell rapidly at first and then stabilized, it has been stable for 2 years. Mostly I eat one substantial meal a day, usually breakfast eg steak, mushrooms, tomatoes followed by grazing from the refrigerator on cheese, butter, berries and cream throughout the rest of the day as I feel like. I don't count calories or grams of carbs but I now have very low body fat just by eating when and how much I feel like. I no-longer take milk in tea or coffee but pouring cream (or drink those black). Milk is not low carb but cream is.
To try low carb I suggest being strict about it and sticking with the experiment for at least a month to give your body the time it needs to change from burning carbs to burning fat (your body prefers carbs to fat at first, give it the opportunity to adapt by cutting out carb consumption as much as possible initially, just cutting down is not sufficient to get your body to switch).
The best thing I ever did was to go low carb.
Thank you Dr. Unwin yet agian. You're amazing.
Dr. Unwin, I am sure that your patients love you! I will follow your sheets for my patients’ and my own diet.
How does this say 'no viewers'? I'm here! 😵💫
515 now.
Dr Unwin is saving lives.
I've done low carb in the past with good results. Went away from it and more recently have had a problem with headaches. I'm not sure if migraines or what, although a sibling has had migraines... I've gone back to low carb and the headaches seem to be gone.
Interesting results. You’re doing great work for your patients. How do your patients do wrt LDL on the low carb diet? Is high LDL associated with higher CVD? If so, is there any concern there?
It is so sad that we trust our doctors - I went Paleo felt so healthy - then my doctor put the fear of God in me as my cholesterol was high - so I went 15 years longer getting more and more sick in both body and brain - I now through my own research understand that doctors are following wrong science on cholesterol - my cholesterol now is rocket high and I am pleased to say at 54 - I feel AMAZING and all my crazy health issues have nearly reversed - plus my brain has calmed down - I am now a Carnivore - 2.5 years - eat loads all day - 5foot 6 and I weigh between 58 to 62 kilos - eating lots and lots of tallow, duck fat and even begun to eat raw beef fat as I now realise it is great for brain health.
So sad that the medical profession is keeping us sick. Well done to you Dr Unwin - it is just so sad the NHS and the BMA are ignoring everything. I have had to educate my doctors - but now have no intention to ever go back to the doctors.
My dr suggested keto. I have a genetic joint issue and was desperate..I followed the guidelines..im a nurse and it wasnt working.. 6 mo ths into keto so much amazing results and my total cholesterol went up. I told her to trust me like I trusted her and told her to find the research amd find the opposimg view. Mext visit she agreed she was wrong. There is hope..I asked her to reass all her patients on statins. 🙏
It's about money for themselves, dumb & dumber ..!!
Big pharma is killing people!!!
Years ago, my GI doc diagnosed fatty liver, and when I asked how to treat it, he told me to lose weight. How, I asked, what should I be eating? He had no clue. The internet had conflicting advice. 2 years ago I discovered Dr. Berry, went dirty keto, and in 3 months my liver function tests were normal. My weight has not really changed, so I am starting IF and carnivore to get that taken care of, and treat the rheumatoid arthritis.
Dr Berg is Excellent, also Dr Ken Berry 👍
what's a dirty keto?
@@theotherchannel2028 processed meat and stuff
My GGT is abnormal. When I asked why my gp said just stop drinking. When I said that I didn't drink at all, she didn't know what to say.
At least you got your GGT tested. My doctor's live panel excludes it.
Crazy, isn’t it
and btw you can have low normal blood sugar and still have negative effects cause of high insulin so its not only the high blood sugar its also high insulin an i would say high insulin is even more damaging then high glucose
Yes, insulin can be elevated for decades and be doing quite a bit of damage behind the scenes - all with fairly normal glucose levels. Therefore, it is important to test for ketones so you know how insulin is behaving.
Awesome video, all! Sending my daughter a message to throw away the 9.07 kg bag of Basmati Rice from Walmart I bought her family and the high tech rice steamer! Any chance we get a link to his diet or food list he's recommending?
Hi @MegaHugro check out the videos of Dr Eric Berg on RUclips, they have a lot of details about what to eat
Dr Ken Berry
Dr Cywes
William Davis
Ivor cummins
To whom ever is editing these downunder videos, a lot of these videos have loud and distracting mouth sounds for the speakers. I don't know if you can reduce them or not. But please do if you can. Thanks
Excellent presentation
Agree with this. I would add that in my view the liver acts to buffer blood glucose by synthesising glycogen under the influence of insulin. Excess blood glucose above what is required for metabolism is stored largely in the liver as glycogen. Hepatic glycogen can quickly be converted back to blood glucose when required during fasting conditions.
Fatty liver significantly impairs this function of the liver as hepatocytes are full of fat blocking glycogenesis. They cannot effectively buffer the blood sugar associated with excessive calorie containing diets and the result is type 2 diabetes. The key to reversing this situation is removing the fat from the liver which can be done relatively quickly with severe calorie restriction for a few weeks as Professor Taylor has shown. This should be the standard of care offered by the NHS to all newly diagnosed type 2 DM and fatty liver disease.
I'm trying that now,,,!
The liver stores up to 100gm of glycogen whereas muscles store 500 to 1000g of it depends on how muscular you are. Up to 30% of glucose is converted to fructose in the liver when blood glucose is high.
@29:00 The table of foods and their sugar equivalents is awesome … and shocking! Thanks!
Something you said at 20:20 is not seeming fully correct.
Higher carbs lead to higher insulin production, this in turn gives rise to insulin resistance. Pancreases increases insulin production as your glucose level is high, this leads to constantly high insulin. This in turn leads to cells to down regulate insulin which increases insulin even more
I think it's the insulin receptor proteins that are down regulated, not insulin.
Need to put the 3.2M in the graphic for better visual comparison and move the banana in graph up for easier scanning. Otherwise, great .Why isn’t there a low carb GP in Canberra?
So get your triglycerides down by lowering carbs and this is a regimen to resist Covid19 along with supplements of Zinc, high C, D3 + K2, Copper Cu, and Quercitin? I am exercising both cardio and muscle building. I am a Carnivore in the 🇺🇸. Still running with all original equipment and in the sunlight daily no mental issues no prescription.
Thank you for all you do!
Thank you for the informative video…very informative for my situation. Here in Canada we look at ALT and AlK phosphase as part of the standard lipid profile. I believe we can request GGT as an add on test. Will do so!
I’ve had NAFLD now for over a decade (now age 47) and quite possibly since my childhood years. My diet consisted of too many carbs, sugars my whole life. 6’ tall, was 220lbsat max and now down to 180 after reducing sugar to literally nothing and carbs down to minimal. I’m still suspecting excess insulin production as the root cause of my issues and am extremely sensitive to any carbs. Ie. sleep disruption
I wish you were located locally but thank you for posting this. I’ll ensure I follow a more strict no carb lifestyle :)
Hi. I had fatty liver on U sound 16years back I was asked if I was alcoholic. The operator of scan said they see this more now (16years back!) Nothing was followed up with me. I had high triglycerides and have had small stroke at 55yrs. Blood pressure up. Heart calium scan 65percentile. I discovered i got blurred vision an hour after cake. I pee protein sometimes. Minòr kick stand degradation. Xmas I ate 6 sweets and had a couple of wines and a beer. I felt so poorly. I measured fasting bg glucose and was 6.4 cleary abovr normal of 5.0 (7.0 up is T2 ).
I looked into this stuff on youtube with rob lustig. Sten eckberg. Ben bickman. Jason fung. Ken berry. Dr bos etc etc and was pleased to seee dr unwin video. The strength of character to admit knowledge gaps is lacking in every gp ive know and they get very defensive if you have read up. Fortunately for the wirlds health cogs are now cast and they are beginning to groan into motion. This life saving knowledge is gradualy filtering through and even the most luddite health care providers who were tought 30yrs ago from books written 20years before that are beginning to wake up.
Fasting insulin level is massive benefit rather than hba1c or fasting bg - as neither show the pancreas is having to work say 3-5x normal to keep bg ok. So your sick and damaging things for years prior to T2. Essentially missing the boat and walking blind into T2 when simple test 8years before would have woken need for dietary change.
Also healthy Fats are good e g. Kerrygold grass fed butter, avocado oil and good olive oil, red meat fat. Cheeses. Just dont have carbs and sugar with them.
LDL is not the bad guy. Its normal. Needed and healthy. Its not Bad.
It is turned Bad by having excess sugar in blood often. This glycates the LDL making it small and dense... these now stick to your artery linings and are the seed of arterial plaques/atherosclorosis/heart attack/stroke /pulmonary embolism.
Drop sugar. carbs and
your bg goes down..
Blood pressure goes down..
HDL goes up..
Triglycerides goes down..
Fatty liver clears..
Arterial plaque growth stops..
Existing plaques reduce and blood flow increases..
Prediabetes reverses..
T2 Reverses..
Massive weight loss..
Arthritic joint pain reduces..
Polysystic ovary reduces boosting fertility..
Dementia and Altzheimers improve..
You sound like a caring doctor. My GP practise couldn’t give a toss about their patients and I’m not
exaggerating.
Thanks for this video! After reading and watching a lot of info on fatty liver, I’m convinced that this is where diabetes makes its home. The pancreas issues, compromised beta cells, is a secondary result of too much sugar/fructose.
I wish doctors went right after that testing and diagnosis and start their patients on clearing the liver fat out.
An understanding by patients of the metabolic processes might lead to more compliance?
Is it possible to receive that list presented by Dr. Unwin, which shows what product break down into who many teaspoons of sugar?
30:10 Processed meats are not unhealthy. We've been processing meats for all of human existence (smoking, salting, fermenting); there are only certain processes and meat qualities that are dangerous.
Bologna salami packaged turkey and ham,,,
WROOOOONG, non organic cattle and pigs are fed with GMO glyphosate treated corn and soy . Add antibiotics to fight crowed conditions causing infections, steroid and growth hormones, synthetic amino acids designed to metabolize corn and soy that disrupt our own amino acid chains, you have a perfect storm of shit meat burgers you are shoving down your throat. If you start with shit meat the processing aspect should be the least of your worries. I wont even mention carcinogenic nitric salts, endocrine disrupters found in colorants and taste enhancers, I have said enough already.
Processed meat they sell are not healthy with all the additives and toxins. Only fine if you smoke, cute or whatever yourself and know exactly what goes into it
Thank you Sir!
Sat 11-13-21. Absolutely wonderful information for T2D, and any one wanting to lose weight. Dr David Unwin, it would be very interesting if you and Dr Ken Berry, Tennessee USA, who stresses low carb to carnivore to heal the body of so many health issues.
I'm trying to find the guidance video you mentioned on the RCGP site. Can't seem to figure out where it is. Trying to figure out if I need a liver scan and? if I do ... what will it do to help me? I've already reversed type 2 diabetes and my last blood work showed improvement all around - but not normal yet. But, that blood work was taken 4 months ago and I continue low carbohydrate intake and feel that I am probably healing slowly. *I feel great! Energy all the time (mental and physical) and think this is an odd time to suddenly decide I need a liver scan.
There are different types of sleep apnea. My mom has central apnea. I had very small airways and snored even while using a c-pap or v-pap. My mom is 84 and has done well on cpap for past 25 years. I had double jaw surgery in 2017, Dr moved both jaws forward. I no longer have sleep apnea and my diabetes and metabolic syndrome are improving with lo carb diet and fish oil.
Thank you Dr Unwin, I was able to learn more from you about non alcohol LD and IR to get back on a healthier low carbohydrate diet pathway. Had to source how to reduce NAFLD, lower raised triglycerides on own as I was given diagnosis with little information provided by GP other than loose weight.
A serious problem, at least in the USA is that doctors do not test GGT. I am suspicious the reason is that it always came back elevated and they didn't know why. ALT and AST are far more likely to be normal when GGT is not normal. But no one I know - knows anything about GGT. I have had it tested only a few times myself and I had to pay for it myself.
Why do so many people do not develop type 2 diabetes despite their unhealthy lifestyle? I on the other hand are not a bakery type person. I barely eat icecream etc. and yet I developed type 2 diabetes at age 65. I inherited this gene from my mother since 3 of us siblings have this condition. Some just much earlier than me.
But you may have been eating bananas,rice,potatoes,fries and bread, cereal and oatmeal.These are all very high carb as is milk and sugared pop
The NHS is a fix and repair service not a health service
How can I help my friend who will not stay off high carb foods. Will not eat a high fat diet. Has a habit of avoiding healthy fats. Will not except the fact that a keto type diet can reverse the weight gain. I have tried for 3 years by leading by example by eating a LCHF diet and losing 40 lbs reversing several heath issues.
G.C.W. Fasting with or without a low fat diet may be able to help your friend.🤠
Ask if he has any preferences for his pending funeral!
Elevated blood tryglyceride represents large amonts of fat being sent to storage in the fat cells. The root cause is the inability to burn fat because of high insulin levels from the standard high carb processed food diet. All the burden of this precess is placed on the liver. If you have a lot of fat cells the liver is somewhat protected. If you are TOFI it is far worse.
NAFLD is caused by fructose poisoning. Period.
"Drug free T2D remission can be sustained" with low carb. You bet, I have been doing it for 24 years since diagnosed at age 40! It saved my future. Yes, I am a know it all aerospace engineer and "hate banannas".
I am a multidimensional know it all and hate fruit alcohol sugar and wheat,,,
Finally a simple explanation for us simple people
Thank you!
Regarding GGT, Koenig & Seneff have found, that GGT 60 years ago was below 20 in men, and below 10 in women.
GGT 50 (the false high range of GGT ) reflects an over 2 fold risk in all cause mortality, CVD, and cancer.
The ALT range 50 years ago was below 25.
The final proof of health is not simple blood tests, but Watt per kg bodyweight, at lactic acid 1.5mMol…. 4 Watts per kg at this low level of LA is Proof of good health
Stephanie Seneff? I've gotten some very useful information from her in the past, so I'll be sure to check that out!
My doc, who is a very nice guy, said he had never seen anyone lower their ldl and total cholesterol with diet alone, before me. He still wanted to talk about statins, though he didn’t push. Oh yes, my HDL/triglyceride ratio is
How long does it take for. a low carb diet to reverse prediabetes?
So what tests do we need to do to check it earlier to make sure?
I’m 61 tomorrow, 2 years reversed T2D of 11 years hypertension etc. using LCHF the Dr Mosley way.
My GGT is 8. Is there any problem with very low GGT readings?
Trigs 0.6
HDL 2.4
LDL 5.2
Dawn Effect still evident around 8mmol/l
HbA1C as low as 40 but often at 44 mmol/l
BMI 25
Sorry so late, but Happy Birthday and Congratulations! :)
My boyfriend died of Covid, but he had COPD from smoking 🚬. So how many people who had died had previously smoked? He was also 40 lbs overweight
Doc are they counting people killed by hart disease in the number of people killed by diabetes?
Yes, national statistics take this into account.
Great reminders. Thank you ❤
The problem in many, if not all medical systems is that few people working in it are ever monitoring people long term.
As such they never get proper feedback, rely on what they were thought decades ago, never improve skills.
Not getting confronted with the mistakes they make, they do not learn and start to think they are a special breed of people, above all others.
This very dangerous, especially with the vulnerable people they have to treat (this is one of the damaging effects in the Cov situation right now).
If things are going well, they did it, if not, the patient did it...that sort of behavior develops over time!
And when these medical people get pushback from someone that actually spend the time to look-up the latest insights, they get clearly insulted.
Can cirrhosis of the liver be reverse. What supplements can reverse scar tissue fibrin on the liver?