567: How to Naturally Reverse Insulin Resistance & Type 2 Diabetes | Dr. Jason Fung
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 31 October 2023
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/HeX--GOnqRk
Dr. Jason Fung (IG: @drjasonfung) is a physician, researcher, 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.
Jason recently released The Diabetes Code Journal: The Official Workbook for Reversing Type 2 Diabetes Through Healthy Eating and Fasting.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What causes type 2 diabetes?
- The insulin resistance - diabetes continuum
- What is hyperinsulinemia?
- The underlying problem with type 2 diabetes
- The 5 markers of metabolic syndrome
- Does prescribing insulin fix type 2 diabetes?
- Insulin resistance takes 10-15 years to turn into type 2 diabetes
- Early signs of diabetic kidney disease
- Cholesterol is not the main cause of heart disease
- Type 2 diabetes is reversible
- Body mass index (BMI) is deceiving
- The process called de novo lipogenesis (DNL)
- Type 1 diabetes needs insulin treatment
- 3 ways to lower insulin naturally
- Ketosis is an ultra-low-carbohydrate diet
- Reducing calories doesn’t address the root cause of the problem
- Intermittent fasting is a powerful tool to control type 2 diabetes
- Does fasting impact the basal metabolic rate (BMR)?
- Fasting doesn’t cause muscle loss
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Related links:
Dr. Jason Fung - The Diabetes Code Journal (book)
Follow Dr. Jason Fung on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube
Listen or watch Dr. Jason Fung previously on TUHP (episodes #369, #380, #467, #496, #510, and #523)
Dr. Jason Fung - The Diabetes Code (book)
Related episodes:
Fasting Expert: The Complete Guide to Fasting (Do It Correctly!) | Dr. Mindy Pelz (#550)
The Real Cause of Insulin Resistance & How to Fix It! | Dr. Robert Lustig (#542)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Insulin's pushing harder, it's pushing harder, it's pushing harder, |
| 0:05.4 | but at some point it reaches its limit. |
| 0:07.5 | And then, you know, no matter how hard insulin pushes, |
| 0:10.1 | you can't shove any more glucose into that cell. |
| 0:13.3 | And therefore, that's when the glucose winds up in the blood, |
| 0:16.3 | and then you get diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. |
| 0:18.5 | But the process has been going on for a long time before. |
| 0:22.1 | The problem is not really insulin. |
| 0:23.8 | The problem is that you really have just too much glucose around, |
| 0:26.5 | so the solution, of course, is to get rid of some of the glucose. |
| 0:30.5 | You can get your sugars down into the normal range, |
| 0:32.9 | so therefore, you can reverse your type 2 diabetes. |
| 0:35.1 | So that's what we should be aiming for. |
| 0:42.5 | Hello and welcome to Ultimate Health podcast episode 567. |
| 0:46.8 | I'm Jesse Chapus, and I'm here to take your health to the next level. |
| 0:50.4 | Each week, I'll bring you long-form conversations |
| 0:52.9 | with health and loans leaders from around the world. |
| 0:55.7 | This week, I'm speaking with Dr. Jason Fang. |
| 0:58.5 | Jason is a physician, researcher, New York Times bestselling author, |
| 1:03.0 | and currently practices as an nephrologist, |
| 1:05.7 | which is a kidney specialist. |
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