#331: Prof. Roy Taylor – Diabetes Remission, Very-low Calorie Diets & the Twin Cycle Hypothesis
Sigma Nutrition Radio
Danny Lennon
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🗓️ 5 May 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Roy Taylor is Professor of Medicine and Metabolism at the University of Newcastle in the UK. There he is also director of the Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre. Prof. Taylor is an Honorary Consultant Physician at Newcastle Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.
Since publishing his "twin cycle" hypothesis of type 2 diabetes in 2008, Prof. Taylor and colleagues have published several fascinating studies with potentially large implications for the potential to put diabetes into remission.
Three of the most important trials were the Counterpoint Study, the Counterbalance study and the DiRECT study. All of which will be discussed in this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. As always, I am your host, Danny Lennon. And today we have |
| 0:08.8 | an episode with a name that many of you, I'm sure, are very familiar with. If you do any amount of |
| 0:15.4 | reading in the area of nutritional science or health science related to various clinical issues, particularly type 2 diabetes, |
| 0:23.8 | then you will know the name of Professor Roy Taylor. He is Professor of Medicine and Metabolism at |
| 0:30.3 | the University of Newcastle in the UK. And there he's also the director of the Newcastle Magnetic |
| 0:36.7 | Resonance Center. |
| 0:38.3 | Professor Taylor is an honorary consultant physician at Newcastle Acute Hospital's NHS Trust. |
| 0:44.3 | And since publishing his twin cycle hypothesis of type 2 diabetes back in 2008, |
| 0:51.3 | Professor Taylor and his colleagues have published several fascinating studies |
| 0:56.5 | with potentially large implications for the potential to put diabetes into a mission |
| 1:02.3 | from the use of specific dietary strategies used in a clinical setting and then management |
| 1:08.4 | in the long term. And we will get to some of this in our |
| 1:11.2 | discussion. Three of the most important trials along this journey, the counterpoint study, |
| 1:17.9 | the counterbalance study and the direct study are going to be discussed at various points in |
| 1:24.0 | this discussion. And they may be studies that you have came across and certainly |
| 1:28.4 | within the last couple of years the results of the direct trial and the subsequent |
| 1:34.7 | follow-ups from that and published reviews that followed that as well have also |
| 1:39.0 | shed a lot of light on this area and have caught a lot of attention even outside of |
| 1:43.3 | academia and research and have made their lot of attention even outside of academia and research |
| 1:44.6 | and have made their way into all sorts of mainstream news stories which undoubtedly many of you |
| 1:50.0 | have been looking at. So hopefully we'll be able to get into some of the thinking behind that |
| 1:56.2 | and some of the journey that Professor Taylor has plotted from that initial hypothesis to ways to try |
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