496: Use These 3 Daily Hacks to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally | Dr. Jason Fung
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://bit.ly/496drjasonfung
Dr. Jason Fung (IG: @drjasonfung) is a physician, researcher and New York Times bestselling author and currently practices as a nephrologist (kidney specialist).
He is the co-founder of The Fasting Method, which provides the education, tools and community needed to successfully implement intermittent fasting.
Today we’re discussing Jason’s book, The Diabetes Code: Prevent and Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally.
These days, most doctors, dietitians and even diabetes specialists consider type 2 diabetes a life sentence that only gets worse over time. Throughout our conversation you’ll learn this isn’t the case and that it’s totally reversible with diet and lifestyle modifications. Stick around and learn exactly what to do to reverse diabetes without medication.
In this episode, we discuss:
- Obesity, prediabetes & type 2 diabetes are reversible conditions
- What causes hyperinsulinemia?
- The physiology of eating carbs
- How a fatty pancreas causes type 2 diabetes
- High fructose diets lead to a fatty liver
- Waist circumference is the most important measure of metabolic health
- The five components of the metabolic syndrome
- Understanding blood glucose vs. body glucose
- The top two recommendations for treating type 2 diabetes naturally
- The most effective fasting routine to lose weight
- How long does it take to get off insulin when you modify diet & lifestyle?
- What is basal metabolic rate?
- Walking after meals lowers your blood glucose
- Focus on eating whole foods
- Stop eating 6x a day
- Consider using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM)
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Related links:
Dr. Jason Fung - The Diabetes Code (book)
Follow Dr. Jason Fung on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
Listen or watch Dr. Jason Fung previously on TUHP (episodes #369, #380, and #467)
Dr. Jason Fung - The Obesity Code (book)
Dr. Jason Fung - Life In The Fasting Lane (book)
Dr. Jason Fung & Jimmy Moore - The Complete Guide to Fasting (book)
Dr. Jason Fung - The Cancer Code (book)
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Use Fasting as a Tool to Lose Weight & Prevent Disease | Mike Mutzel (#492)
How to Stop Gaining Weight by Turning off Your Fat Storage Switch | Dr. Richard Johnson (#488)
This Is Why You’re Unhealthy & How to Fix It! | Dr. Casey Means (#479)
Surprising Hacks to Balance Your Blood Sugar & Beat Inflammation | Jessie Inchauspé (#476)
Kick Sugar to the Curb to Reduce Inflammation & Restore Your Health | Julie Daniluk (#450)
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| 0:00.0 | coming up on the ultimate health podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | So the whole process, you're making things worse because you never fix the underlying problem. |
| 0:08.2 | And this is how people treat it. And the doctor said, well, the treatment is correct because |
| 0:12.4 | the blood glucose is fine. Therefore, this must be just the way the disease is. |
| 0:17.6 | It's chronic and progressive. Not understanding that their entire treatment paradigm |
| 0:23.6 | was quite incorrect. In fact, what you should have done was get people to lose weight, not gain weight. |
| 0:29.2 | If you give drugs that make people gain weight, your diabetes will get worse, right? |
| 0:34.0 | And patients saw it all the time. They're like, he gave me this insulin, I gained like 30 pounds. |
| 0:38.9 | And then you gave me more insulin, right? And it's like, how is that making better? It's like it's not. |
| 0:44.4 | What if you use something instead? So if you have too much glucose in the body, |
| 0:49.6 | there's only two things you want to do to get rid of it. You either put less glucose in, |
| 0:54.6 | or you let your body burn it off. |
| 0:59.9 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health Podcast Episode 496. I'm Jesse Chapus and I'm here to take |
| 1:08.6 | your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you in-depth conversations with health and |
| 1:12.8 | wellness leaders from around the world. This week, Dr. Jason fungus back on the show. |
| 1:17.6 | Jason is a physician, researcher, and New York time-specelling author, and currently practices |
| 1:23.0 | as a nephrologist or aka kidney specialist. He's a co-founder of the fasting method which |
| 1:28.2 | provides the education, tools, and community needed to successfully implement intermittent fasting. |
| 1:34.1 | Today, we're discussing Jason's book, The Diabetes Code. Prevent and reverse type 2 diabetes |
| 1:39.3 | naturally. These days, most doctors, dietitians, and even diabetes specialists consider type 2 diabetes, |
| 1:46.0 | a life sentence that only gets worse over time. Throughout our conversation, you're going to learn |
| 1:50.6 | this isn't the case, and it's totally reversible with diet and lifestyle modifications. Stick around |
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