Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.

We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy,

and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the mastering

diabetes program.

Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and

how to simplify your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity

using food as medicine. We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in

one million people. We're glad to have you joining us.

Dieting and weight loss plans have been around for more than 100 years.

Some say that they started back in the early 1900s with recommendations like the chewing

diet that said to, well,

chew your food more.

Who knew that Horace Flesher was considered the great masticator?

And he said that nature will castigate those who do not masticate.

Now, some people say that it was even earlier than that, way back to the 1860s.

And if you trace things even further, you can look into the strict diets and regimens

of soldiers and gladiators in ancient Greece and Rome.

So basically, one way to think about it is that once we as a species started to have

enough food to go around, we started coming up with ways to stop overeating and reduce our food intake.

Now, fortunately, we've gotten a lot more sophisticated in our understanding of the human body.

So at the very least, hopefully you won't see people recommending amphetamines or tapeworms

as the best way to lose weight. But there is still a lot of bad advice out there, peddled by

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