Welcome back to the Diet Doctor podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Brett Schur. Today I'm joined by Dr.

Ian Lake, a general practitioner, a GP in the United Kingdom. Now, Dr. Lake is a little bit different

than most GPs as he himself has type 1 diabetes, and he is really focused on treating patients with type 1 diabetes with

low carb nutrition. So we're going to talk about, you know, his experience when he was diagnosed,

he was diagnosed sort of late with type 1 diabetes at age 30, so an adult onset. And what his

his sort of progress was about treating his own diabetes, learning the role of carbohydrates

and low carb and then how he uses that with his patients. But he's also the organizer of 0-5-100

or the 0-5-100 project, zero calories for five days covering 100 miles.

Now, on the surface, it might seem kind of crazy.

Why would anybody do that?

And that's some of the pushback he got.

But as you'll see, he did it for very specific reasons to address very specific concerns

about both people with type 1 diabetes and people without diabetes about whether they need sugar

and glucose, whether they can adequately run on no calories and on their own body fat,

and whether the production of ketones would then potentially be dangerous for people with diabetes

and how low can blood sugar go.

And they collected a wealth of data.

And it was a great experiment, which they did safely and successfully,

as you'll hear about.

And sort of what the implications are,

both for people as individuals and for healthcare practitioners.

So I really hope you enjoy hearing from Dr. Lake

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