I‘m 3 years into T2 diabetes reversal with very low carb/keto and fasting with an A1C in the low 5s. Off all meds. Done it without any expert help other than educating myself with the help of RUclips. It is possible and actually relatively easy.
Same for me as well. First thing I had to unlearn was the traditional LFHC and official dietary guidelines dogma that got me into T2D and Metabolic Syndrome in the first place. I'm now happy to tell anyone that "I'm a recovering diabetic" as I have reversed my T2D and Metabolic Syndrome! My primary care doctor is simply amazed at my progress over the last 2.5 years.
I think you might be giving Virta extra credit Reverting diabetes start from the war against the grains and red meat and I am 80 percent believe it started right here in America which gives us American Standard Diet , I am just a lucky person who found a new way of eating to help my pre diabete by watching RUclips
Thank you for great interview Absolutely a stroke of genius!! The world does not really appreciate yet just how monumental this is 🤗👍🙏. Millions of thanks and praise to all involved 👍
Virta is like Facebook for Diabetic people but despite Facebook it’s absolutely useful. I hope it was more affordable. I put my 25 years diabetes type 2 in remission by myself with free content like RUclips. Low carb worked for me. Intermittent fasting worked for me. Adding resistance workout worked for me. By working I mean no more meds including Insulin and 2 other oral meds. Only metformin. A1C is 5.8 - it was 8 last year - I got CGM to see my GV and Glucose fluctuation. I did all by myself with checking with my doctor and I informed her in any step. What I mean is the correct approach at least one of those, is clear. Execution is not.
@@k9rescuer934 fortunately my insurance does not believe in concept of Diabetes remission. From their perspective I am Diabetic for ever. I use Dexcom 6. I know they are expensive but they have some assistance programs if you qualify.
I do appreciate what Virta has done, but the cost is crazy. It's very simple to reverse T2D, but it takes effort. Lose weight, eat to your meter, and exercise. It takes consistency which most people are not inclinedto do. Oh, and carbs are not the devil. I eat well over 100gs a day with A1Cs in the high 4s and low 5s. 'Eat To Your Meter' with wholefoods.
Dr Scher I have 3 cardiac stents diabetes, fatty liver and hypertension most managed with medication. What direction in diet should I go? Heart healthy or Diabetic?🙄
Have you done any interviews on how chemicals (e.g. glyphosate) break metabolism? It would be interesting to see the impact of going organic on metabolism. Could he have tolerated the macros he was eating if it weren’t for environmental insults? 🤔
Up front $500, $375 every month thereafter. All you really need to do is read a couple of books , and buy a continuous monitoring kit. Maybe start a meet-up group with similar patients and share your reading and experience. Get your GP on side so you get regular A1C tests, and tell them what you are doing to drop the meds. So much better than software. If you can't get your GP to play ball then dump him or her.
Bret, please interview Zsofia Clemens PhD of the International Center for Medical Nutritional Intervention (ICMNI). The ICMNI has done remarkable research and clinical work treating autoimmune diseases, cancer, and many of the modern chronic diseases related to metabolic syndrome. They have taken the best aspects of the Paleolithic diet and the Classic Ketogenic diet. They are getting astounding results, and they have the data to prove it. I think that you and your viewers could all benefit from learning about their research.
Nice interview. Truth be told though, you don't need to use expensive medical programs and service to reverse your T2D\Metabolic Syndrome. All you need is knowledge which thankfully is becoming more and more available. Bottomline, sugar, fructose and carbs are the cause of the majority of the top diseases we have. Simply eliminating or reducing them, is all you need to do. Exercise while good is not the key or chief component as it's what you eat. You can't out exercise a bad diet. Best things are a CGM(Continous Glucose Monitor), regular lab tests, and finding out what foods are good for your body and which ones are not. One simple piece of advance. If it comes in a package, has a label on it, it's probably not good for you. Just eat real whole food.
Interesting interview. Glad I followed Sarah Halberg and Stephen Phinney before seeing this guy. I would have ignored Virta if this had been my first exposure to them. I suppose a robust ego may be an important part of the team (for attracting investors).
I admire how Sami Inkinen, when Bret Scher asked Sami for 'any last thoughts,' gave credit to Sarah Hallberg. (Stephen Phinney and Jeff Volek were acknowledged earlier in the podcast.) Sami made sure that each of Virta's giants (whose shoulders form the firm foundation of Virta Health) was given credit. Of course Sami is one of the four original Virta giants.
I would really like to know why someone like myself that has been ultra low carb-under 20 total grams of carbs per day-for 2 1/2 years is still struggling to reverse type 2 diabetes? I walk 2 miles each morning, do 16-18 hours a day of IF. I even tried doing 8 weeks of back to back 72 fasts and still after all this effort my blood sugars run in the 200’s fasting. I’ve been tested for type 1 and for LADA and I don’t have either. Is it possible I have suppressed my insulin response so much that the glucose in my blood just keeps circulating ? I feel like an anomaly, no one has an answer to my conundrum. I’m type 2 for 24 years, 5’5” and 135 lbs.I take 2,000 ml of Metformin daily. I can’t even begin to tell you how frustrated I am. I’ve done everything suggested by all the “keto” doctors and I’ve talk to many of them personally and still I’m not getting results. Anyone that wants to take me on as a case study is welcome. 😖
Have you completed a Kraft Test with accompanying Glucagon response? I would be curious to see those results as I have never heard of someone in your situation. You may also want to try full carnivore without any dairy to see if anything changes assuming the test results are not informative enough.
@@MeatMikeD I have not done the Kraft test and I greatly doubt it is available here in Guam. As for carnivore, yes I’ve have tried doing it for a period of time and my BS numbers were still high.
Fasting after keto adaptation is like not eating , without hunger pangs .Its the best way to lose a lot of weight , as long as you get over the keto adaptation first.
For a weight control approach to diabetes type-2 Roy Taylor's Living Without Diabetes (based on fMRI imagining of what is going on in the Liver and Pancreas).
Keto/Carnivore advocates need a consistent string of New York TImes best sellers, broadcast talk-shows, informercials and psa's to spread the message backed by scientists and the, dare I say "woke" medical community.
@@iss8504 there's always more to achieving change in human beings than 'understand how it works'. The strength of Virta is their remote monitoring, data surveillance coaching
Reversal of type 2 - no: a non-diabetic A1c is 4.5%: the fact that so many have numbers of 7 or more just shows how lamentably bad the glycaemic control is. Dr Richard Bernstein almost certainly knows more about the treatment of diabetes than anyone: he presribes a low carbohydrate diet, and almost all of his tyoe 2 patients are on insulin - in very small doses. I have had type 1 since 1965, and for the last twenty years have had an A1c of 4.5, and apart from one or two microaneurisms in one eye, have no complications. Every percentage point above 4.5 increases the risk of complications by around twenty percent.
I like to know, Where dose 4.5 for HbA1c come from? By the way A1C maybe is better than on snapshot of fasting blood glucose but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Using CGM which take BG every 5 minutes and creates AGP report, is the modern data driven approach. The area under carved and data analysis on your reading specially GV. I am talking about determining SD on average and mean. I know it’s so Gigi but just one number like A1C doesn’t say anything.
@@m-hadji In fact you can't tell exactly what is the "normal" value because A1c is roughly a product of average blood sugar and average lifetime of the red cells and the latter may vary, as Dr Bikman explains: ruclips.net/video/MEzAvos1jak/видео.html
That was a complete waste of my time, nothing but sn advertisement snd very little about diet. I wanted to hear why and how a athlete at his level could become pre diabetic when moderate to high intensity interval training has the most benefit to my blood sugar management than diet alone. Habitually eating low glycemic without any higher glycemic food over time had made me less insulin semsetive because when you dont ever use much insulin your pancreas reduces production of insulin. So for him not to go into his own personal journey and management of blood sugar royally pees me off!
I‘m 3 years into T2 diabetes reversal with very low carb/keto and fasting with an A1C in the low 5s. Off all meds. Done it without any expert help other than educating myself with the help of RUclips. It is possible and actually relatively easy.
Same for me as well. First thing I had to unlearn was the traditional LFHC and official dietary guidelines dogma that got me into T2D and Metabolic Syndrome in the first place. I'm now happy to tell anyone that "I'm a recovering diabetic" as I have reversed my T2D and Metabolic Syndrome! My primary care doctor is simply amazed at my progress over the last 2.5 years.
What meds did you go off guys??
Is it gonna help me???
A smart, articulate man. He needs to sell this to various national health services
Virta should be nominated for a Nobel Prize
I think you might be giving Virta extra credit Reverting diabetes start from the war against the grains and red meat and I am 80 percent believe it started right here in America which gives us American Standard Diet , I am just a lucky person who found a new way of eating to help my pre diabete by watching RUclips
Thank you for great interview Absolutely a stroke of genius!! The world does not really appreciate yet just how monumental this is 🤗👍🙏. Millions of thanks and praise to all involved 👍
Virta is like Facebook for Diabetic people but despite Facebook it’s absolutely useful. I hope it was more affordable. I put my 25 years diabetes type 2 in remission by myself with free content like RUclips. Low carb worked for me. Intermittent fasting worked for me. Adding resistance workout worked for me. By working I mean no more meds including Insulin and 2 other oral meds. Only metformin. A1C is 5.8 - it was 8 last year - I got CGM to see my GV and Glucose fluctuation. I did all by myself with checking with my doctor and I informed her in any step. What I mean is the correct approach at least one of those, is clear. Execution is not.
Hadji, I would love to hear an expanded version of how you managed your dt2 so successfully, how long it took you, obstacles and overcoming them
Do an interview with Shawn Baker
@@Norman_Gunstan1 thanks for suggestion:)
When you put your diabetes in remission did your insurance stop paying for your CGM? I’m wondering how much that costs when it’s no longer covered.
@@k9rescuer934 fortunately my insurance does not believe in concept of Diabetes remission. From their perspective I am Diabetic for ever. I use Dexcom 6. I know they are expensive but they have some assistance programs if you qualify.
Thank you. Thank you. I wish this message could be shouted from the roof tops!! Well… this works too!!
RIP Sarah!
Inspiring! Amazing stuff, faith in humanity restored 🙂
this sounds great, If the ADA recommends this why isnt it in the mainstream?
I do appreciate what Virta has done, but the cost is crazy. It's very simple to reverse T2D, but it takes effort. Lose weight, eat to your meter, and exercise. It takes consistency which most people are not inclinedto do. Oh, and carbs are not the devil. I eat well over 100gs a day with A1Cs in the high 4s and low 5s. 'Eat To Your Meter' with wholefoods.
Great podcast.
Dr Scher I have 3 cardiac stents diabetes, fatty liver and hypertension most managed with medication. What direction in diet should I go? Heart healthy or Diabetic?🙄
You can choose the same foods for both! If you are on medication, please work with your doctor.
www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb
Have you done any interviews on how chemicals (e.g. glyphosate) break metabolism? It would be interesting to see the impact of going organic on metabolism. Could he have tolerated the macros he was eating if it weren’t for environmental insults? 🤔
Up front $500, $375 every month thereafter. All you really need to do is read a couple of books , and buy a continuous monitoring kit. Maybe start a meet-up group with similar patients and share your reading and experience. Get your GP on side so you get regular A1C tests, and tell them what you are doing to drop the meds. So much better than software. If you can't get your GP to play ball then dump him or her.
Is it possible to reverse t2d when you're already on dialysis? Asking for a friend
Bret, please interview Zsofia Clemens PhD of the International Center for Medical Nutritional Intervention (ICMNI). The ICMNI has done remarkable research and clinical work treating autoimmune diseases, cancer, and many of the modern chronic diseases related to metabolic syndrome. They have taken the best aspects of the Paleolithic diet and the Classic Ketogenic diet. They are getting astounding results, and they have the data to prove it. I think that you and your viewers could all benefit from learning about their research.
I agree.
Nice interview. Truth be told though, you don't need to use expensive medical programs and service to reverse your T2D\Metabolic Syndrome. All you need is knowledge which thankfully is becoming more and more available. Bottomline, sugar, fructose and carbs are the cause of the majority of the top diseases we have. Simply eliminating or reducing them, is all you need to do. Exercise while good is not the key or chief component as it's what you eat. You can't out exercise a bad diet. Best things are a CGM(Continous Glucose Monitor), regular lab tests, and finding out what foods are good for your body and which ones are not. One simple piece of advance. If it comes in a package, has a label on it, it's probably not good for you. Just eat real whole food.
Interesting interview.
Glad I followed Sarah Halberg and Stephen Phinney before seeing this guy.
I would have ignored Virta if this had been my first exposure to them. I suppose a robust ego may be an important part of the team (for attracting investors).
I admire how Sami Inkinen, when Bret Scher asked Sami for 'any last thoughts,' gave credit to Sarah Hallberg. (Stephen Phinney and Jeff Volek were acknowledged earlier in the podcast.) Sami made sure that each of Virta's giants (whose shoulders form the firm foundation of Virta Health) was given credit. Of course Sami is one of the four original Virta giants.
I would really like to know why someone like myself that has been ultra low carb-under 20 total grams of carbs per day-for 2 1/2 years is still struggling to reverse type 2 diabetes? I walk 2 miles each morning, do 16-18 hours a day of IF. I even tried doing 8 weeks of back to back 72 fasts and still after all this effort my blood sugars run in the 200’s fasting. I’ve been tested for type 1 and for LADA and I don’t have either. Is it possible I have suppressed my insulin response so much that the glucose in my blood just keeps circulating ? I feel like an anomaly, no one has an answer to my conundrum. I’m type 2 for 24 years, 5’5” and 135 lbs.I take 2,000 ml of Metformin daily. I can’t even begin to tell you how frustrated I am. I’ve done everything suggested by all the “keto” doctors and I’ve talk to many of them personally and still I’m not getting results. Anyone that wants to take me on as a case study is welcome. 😖
Look at what Ben Bikman says about glucagon
@@dianechilds1857 I follow doctor Bikman and have spoken to him personally. Thank you for commenting.
Have you completed a Kraft Test with accompanying Glucagon response? I would be curious to see those results as I have never heard of someone in your situation. You may also want to try full carnivore without any dairy to see if anything changes assuming the test results are not informative enough.
@@MeatMikeD I have not done the Kraft test and I greatly doubt it is available here in Guam. As for carnivore, yes I’ve have tried doing it for a period of time and my BS numbers were still high.
Looks like you are a type 1 - have the tests redone
Kiitos
Fasting after keto adaptation is like not eating , without hunger pangs .Its the best way to lose a lot of weight , as long as you get over the keto adaptation first.
For a weight control approach to diabetes type-2 Roy Taylor's Living Without Diabetes (based on fMRI imagining of what is going on in the Liver and Pancreas).
I do not think Sami is the one who is wholly responsible for the new sugar/insulin paradigm of T2D treatment.
I would love to see Sami Inkinen collaborate with Mark Cuban (CostPlus pharmacy) to pull the rug from underneath the "health"care industry.
Keto/Carnivore advocates need a consistent string of New York TImes best sellers, broadcast talk-shows, informercials and psa's to spread the message backed by scientists and the, dare I say "woke" medical community.
There are more people that will become diabetic than there are right now.
over 200 a month us? not in this lifetime
Virta works with big companies. It's cheap compared to being sick. But individuals don't need it if they understand how it works.
@@iss8504 there's always more to achieving change in human beings than 'understand how it works'. The strength of Virta is their remote monitoring, data surveillance coaching
Virta are vultures taking advantage of the joke of the health care industry in America
Reversal of type 2 - no: a non-diabetic A1c is 4.5%: the fact that so many have numbers of 7 or more just shows how lamentably bad the glycaemic control is. Dr Richard Bernstein almost certainly knows more about the treatment of diabetes than anyone: he presribes a low carbohydrate diet, and almost all of his tyoe 2 patients are on insulin - in very small doses. I have had type 1 since 1965, and for the last twenty years have had an A1c of 4.5, and apart from one or two microaneurisms in one eye, have no complications. Every percentage point above 4.5 increases the risk of complications by around twenty percent.
I like to know, Where dose 4.5 for HbA1c come from? By the way A1C maybe is better than on snapshot of fasting blood glucose but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Using CGM which take BG every 5 minutes and creates AGP report, is the modern data driven approach. The area under carved and data analysis on your reading specially GV. I am talking about determining SD on average and mean. I know it’s so Gigi but just one number like A1C doesn’t say anything.
@@m-hadji In fact you can't tell exactly what is the "normal" value because A1c is roughly a product of average blood sugar and average lifetime of the red cells and the latter may vary, as Dr Bikman explains: ruclips.net/video/MEzAvos1jak/видео.html
That was a complete waste of my time, nothing but sn advertisement snd very little about diet. I wanted to hear why and how a athlete at his level could become pre diabetic when moderate to high intensity interval training has the most benefit to my blood sugar management than diet alone. Habitually eating low glycemic without any higher glycemic food over time had made me less insulin semsetive because when you dont ever use much insulin your pancreas reduces production of insulin. So for him not to go into his own personal journey and management of blood sugar royally pees me off!