6x The Carbohydrates For 1/3 The Insulin...Meet Maia – E116

Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience

Mastering Diabetes

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 20 April 2021

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Maia was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 2015.⁣
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She was told by her doctor what many type 1’s are told at the time of diagnosis, eat a low-carb diet. She followed their advice and returned to her life as an athlete.
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Later, she decided to go full keto which worked for a while and she was able to maintain an A1c of 7.1%. Eventually, she developed amenorrhea (loss of her period) and was unable to keep her blood glucose from spiking during exercise. ⁣
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She searched online and discovered the work of Anthony William and his book, Liver Rescue. She followed it for 2 weeks and ate just raw fruits and veggies.
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Within those 2 weeks of being on a low-fat, plant-based, whole-food diet her blood glucose dropped, she gained tons of energy and decided she couldn’t go back. This leads her to the Mastering Diabetes book which she read in one night while she was attending college and she was blown away by the science.
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Date: August 2019 to January 2020
Fasting BG (mg/dL): 180 to 120
A1c (%): 7.1 to 6.3
Weight (lbs.): 150 to 136
Carbohydrate to Insulin Ratio: 7:1 to 20:1
Total Cholesterol: - to 116
Carbohydrates p/day (g): 50 to 300

After switching to a low-fat, plant-based, whole-food diet, Maia now eats whole-carbohydrate foods without experiencing dramatic blood glucose spikes, she enjoys her food, her period returned and has more energy than ever.

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0:00.0	pretty interesting that now, even though I'm eating, like I said, like five times the amount of
0:05.1	carbs, I'm taking a third of the insulin. After I went on the keto diet, it was about seven. I think
0:10.1	it was 7.1. And now I'm back down to 6.3. So after being vegetarian for a year, it's definitely
0:16.1	proven pretty well. One of the things Cyrus talked about in the book was that, you know,
0:20.4	how do we
0:20.8	induce insulin resistance in rats when we're studying a diabetes model? And it's you feed them a high
0:26.1	fat diet. And it's exactly what I was doing at the Diabetes Research Center at UCSF.
0:30.6	And it's like, you know, everything is clicking. Yeah. It's crazy that this isn't more widespread
0:37.2	knowledge. And it's crazy that every doctor I've ever had has looked at me and said, a vegetarian diet, as a diabetic, I don't think that's going to work, you know?
0:45.6	So here I am thriving.
0:47.2	I love running long distance.
0:49.7	I backcountry ski a couple mountains in a day.
0:52.0	You know, like there's no limits.
1:05.0	Yeah. backcountry ski a couple mountains in a day, you know, like there's no limits. Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the
1:09.7	driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life. We'll teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health
1:11.4	for the rest of your life.
1:13.6	We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain
1:18.3	energy, and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the
1:24.4	mastering diabetes program.
1:26.7	Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes and how to simplify
1:33.4	your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity using food as medicine.
1:40.8	We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in one million people.
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