Book review of THE DIABETES CODE by Jason Fung, MD. Fung goes against the mainstream in explaining insulin resistance and hyperinsulinemia. The big problem is too much insulin. Fung explains what causes insulin resistance, how to reverse insulin resistance, and ultimately how to reverse type 2 diabetes naturally.
Prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes and reduced carbohydrates are the keys to changing insulin resistance and treating great resource for patients with diabetes, haven’t had a chance to read it yet, i’m here to help you decide if it’s worth your time. stick around to the end of the video and i’ll give you
You can use whether you read the book or not. i’m steve goldring from simplehormones.com. i help healthcare practitioners with easy to understand channel and click the little notify bell to find out whenever i post a new video. dr jason fung’s a nephrologist a kidney specialist from toronto, ontario, canada. he
Sees hundreds of patients in his clinical practice, mostly diabetic patients, obesity, and insulin resistance. he’s kind of developed a reputation for going against the mainstream when it comes to diabetes treatment and obesity treatment. i haven’t yet read the obesity code by dr phung. it’s something that’s on my
List sure there’s a little bit of overlap between the obesity code and the diabetes code. but that remains to be seen. if you know of a great book in the integrative and functional medicine space and you’d love other people to know about it, see if i can review it and get the word out. dr fung has some
Paradigm busting ideas that not everybody’s gonna agree with. he doesn’t pull any punches when it comes to the ineffectiveness of diabetes treatment over the last 40 or 50 years. health journalist nina teicholtz provides the forward for the diabetes code. her 2014 book the big fat surprise talks about a giant hoax
That was perpetuated on the american public that was basically an experiment with disastrous consequences for our health. what she’s referring to is the idea that saturated fat is the main cause of chronic diseases like heart disease. i’ve also got the big fat surprise on my list of books to review. hit the notify
Button to find out when that happens. well the diabetes code starts out with the realization that reducing our fat intake hasn’t really stopped diabetes from becoming an epidemic in the last 40 years. instead the number 108 million in 1980 to 422 million in 2014. obesity’s seen an almost identical increase in
The last four decades. 14% of u.s adults have type 2 diabetes and 38% have pre-diabetes. that’s a total of 52% of us in the u.s that have problems metabolizing glucose. in one generation, diabetes has increased by 1160%. fung places blame for the of the 1980 dietary guidelines for americans of the guidelines. it
Almost seems like the guidelines’ intention was to decrease our fat and increase our carbohydrate intake so that we eat 55 to 60% of our diet as carbohydrates. well that strategy has worked. we’ve been eating a low fat high carbohydrate diet for 40 years and we’re fatter and more diabetic than ever by a mile.
It’s rotting every system in our bodies. all that glucose floating around in your bloodstream means that your eyes rot with retinopathy, your kidneys rot nephropathy, your liver rots with fatty liver disease, your brain rots with alzheimer’s, men have erectile dysfunction and low sperm counts, women suffer with pcos
Insulin resistance and eventually type 2 diabetes. ultimately our hearts rot. heart disease is the number 1 killer of diabetics. uncontrolled blood sugar is the culprit but hyperglycemia isn’t the only problem. hyperinsulinemia and overproduction of insulin in problems. jason fung points out that diabetes
And obesity are basically inseparable, especially in terms of metabolic syndrome. the nurses health study ii in the 1980s showed that obesity was the single most important risk factor for diabetes. it also showed that maintaining normal weight, getting regular exercise, not smoking, eating a “healthy diet,” all of those
Could prevent up to 91% of type 2 diabetes. fung says that he can make you fat. he can do that by prescribing insulin. it’s well known that insulin causes weight gain. of course, insulin is secreted in response to carbohydrates. for over a century, the basic treatment for obesity and diabetes was a reduction in
Carbohydrates – cutting out beer and bread and sweets. that’s until we decided that fats were mass murderers and we need to eliminate them from our diet. now we treat diabetes with drugs, low-fat diets, and insulin. jason fung presents 3 paradigm-busting ideas in the diabetes code. the first idea in fung’s book is that
Hyperinsulinemia is the real problem. that’s what causes insulin resistance. fung compares cells to packed subway are so packed solid with glucose they couldn’t possibly fit another molecule in, just like the passengers are packed in tightly to the subway trains and the conductors are trying to push more
And more people in. at some point they just can’t get another single person into that train. this paradigm goes against the lock and key concept that insulin is a key that unlocks the door to let glucose in the cell and somehow the key is damaged or broken and no longer works. fung says that the insulin “key” works
Just fine. it’s just that there’s too much glucose already in the cell and no more will fit. fung devotes 3 chapters on how about insulin and how it makes insulin resistance worse by increasing hyperinsulinemia. he talks about results from the accord study where 10,000 including high levels of insulin which
Reduced glucose. however, the patients that received higher levels of insulin died 22% more frequently than patients receiving a lower dose of insulin. chapter 11’s about how oral hypoglycemics also fail to reduce insulin resistance. sulfonylurea drugs like glipizide and glyburide decrease blood glucose by
Increasing insulin secretion. that makes insulin resistance worse. fung talks about a 2012 randomized trial between sulfonylureas and metformin. they both decreased blood glucose but the sulfonylureas increased vascular disease by up to 40 percent more than metformin. sulfonylureas also caused a lot of weight gain in
Those same patients. thiazolidinediones do reduce glucose and they don’t necessarily increase insulin, but they increase the chance of bladder cancer. they also appear to increase heart attack risk. multiple reviews of all the randomized trials of diabetes drugs including metformin and insulin have basically
Shown that none of them reduce the complications of diabetes. most of the drugs have failed as hyperinsulinemia treatments and some of them actually made hyperinsulinemia worse. chapter 12 is about how low calorie diets and exercise really fail to make any difference in weight loss or insulin resistance. an incredible
2008 statement from the american diabetes association told diabetics, “dietary strategies including reduced calories and reduced intake of dietary fat can reduce the risk for developing diabetes and are therefore recommended. intake of sucrose and sucrose containing foods by people with diabetes does not need
To be restricted.” carbohydrates and glucose are exactly the things that cause high blood glucose, high insulin levels, and decreased blood glucose. fat does not increase insulin. fat does not affect insulin resistance. but the ada is telling diabetics that they need to eat that they need to not worry about
Sugar??? logic behind these statements. the nurses dietary fat or cholesterol and heart disease. study, had about 50,000 women eating a low-calorie with really good compliance, there were no improvements in heart attacks or strokes and the total weight loss for all of those women averaged less
Than a quarter of a pound . . . after eight years of dieting. well, exercise has been a major treatment for both obesity and diabetes for a number of years. unfortunately it hasn’t really resistance isn’t caused by a lack of exercise. that lead to high levels of insulin. drugs, low-fat diets, calorie restriction,
Exercise – none of those make a dent in diabetes. so how can we effectively treat type 2 diabetes? that’s the last section in the diabetes code. fung’s answer is pretty simple and it’s based on the idea that diabetes is a dietary disease and so it can only third paradigm in the book the diabetes code. how
Do you fix insulin resistance and diabetes? you fix your diet. fung suggests 4 simple rules that are easy to follow on diet. the first is to avoid fructose. fructose contributes to fatty that are both common in type 2 diabetes. rule and enjoy natural fats with a low carbohydrate food. enjoy whole foods that don’t
Have a lot of chemicals and added carbohydrates and number 4 is burn off excess glucose through intermittent fasting. well it doesn’t take a massive clinical trial to understand how to effectively treat type 2 diabetes. reduce carbohydrate intake. reducing glucose is the simplest and fastest way to reduce
Or reverse insulin resistance. it often happens within a couple of weeks. so here’s the bottom line – 3 takeaway bullet points that you can pass on to patients, whether you read the book or not. 1. hyperinsulinemia – too much insulin – is the real problem in diabetes. 2. insulin resistance is caused by too much glucose
Already inside the cells 3. diabetes can be reversed through diet. you can do that by number 1 – reducing dietary carbohydrates and reducing the glucose that comes in and then number 2 – burning off excess glucose using intermittent fasting. should you take the time to read the diabetes code by dr jason fung and judge
Its merits for yourself? will clarify and simplify insulin resistance or patient. this stuff just makes sense. it’s also very patient friendly. dr fung has a relaxed, engaging writing style that uses a lot of vivid illustrations to help patients understand complex concepts that might be difficult to grasp
Otherwise. the diabetes code definitely isn’t too difficult for most lay people to understand. friend of mine i was coaching through pcos it’s been really informative. i’ve been decreasing carbs the last couple of weeks, from 100 to 75 to 50. i’m going to try to stay in the 20 to 50 range after that. i also started
Doing intermittent fasting and eating within about an eight and a half hour window. it’s been great. i feel really good and full.” if you like this review of the diabetes code by dr jason fung, hit the like button and the subscribe to find out the next time i release some new videos. forward to talking to you again soon.
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Dr Jason Fung on Hyperinsulinemia, Low-Carb, and Intermittent Fasting: The Diabetes Code Book Review By Simple Hormones
