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Fasting For Life

Ep. 58 - 100 Years Since Discovering Insulin: Good or Bad? | Neon Revolution, What's Old is New Again | Obesity, Blood Sugar, Insulin Resistance, Cancer, Heart Disease, HbA1c and Fasting | Low Carb Diets, Keto | Free OMAD Intermittent Fasting Plan

Fasting For Life

Scott Watier

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Nutrition

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Get your FREE BOX OF LMNT hydration support for the perfect electrolyte balance for your fasting lifestyle with your first purchase here! In this episode, Dr. Scott and Tommy dive into the history of the last 100 years since the discovery of insulin. Medical and technological breakthroughs are oftentimes significant inflection points for society, but not always in the positive ways they're expected to be. They discuss where we came from, the state of the union of society's health, where we're headed, as well as how to accelerate positive change.   Carbohydrate restriction for diabetes: rediscovering centuries-old wisdom. Belinda S. Lennerz,1,2,3 Andrew P. Koutnik,4,5 Svetlana Azova,1,2,3 Joseph I. Wolfsdorf,2,3 and David S. Ludwig1,2,3. J Clin Invest. 2021;131(1):e142246.https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI142246.   Have a question you'd like us to answer? Click here to send it to us or leave us a voicemail we can play on the show!   Show Transcript: www.thefastingforlife.com/blog   If you enjoy the podcast, would you please tap on the stars below and consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcasts/iTunes? It takes less than 60 seconds, and it really makes a difference in helping to bring you the best original content each week. We also just enjoy reading them!   Sign up for the Fasting For Life newsletter at www.thefastingforlife.com   Join the Community on Facebook!   Follow Fasting For Life: www.facebook.com/thefastingforlife www.instagram.com/thefastingforlife

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0:00.0

Hello, I'm Dr. Scott Watier.

0:03.4

And I'm Tommy Welling, and you're listening to the fasting for life podcast.

0:07.1

This podcast is about using fasting as a tool to regain your health,

0:11.9

achieve ultimate wellness, and live the life you truly deserve.

0:15.0

Each episode is a short conversation on a single topic with immediate actionable steps.

0:20.0

We cover everything from fat loss and health and wellness to the science of lifestyle design.

0:25.0

We started fasting for life because of how fasting has transformed our lives and we hope to share the tools that we have learned along the way. Hey everyone welcome to the fasting for life podcast my name is Dr. Scott

0:43.4

Watier and I am here as always with my good friend and colleague Tommy

0:45.9

Welling good afternoon to you sir. Hey Scott how are you doing fantastic I think

0:52.1

today is going to be a monumental episode.

0:57.0

Wow.

0:58.0

So now that I've put that out there, we have to deliver, so no pressure.

1:01.0

And this might be a multiple episode article that we've kind of

1:04.9

stumbled across but I think it probably has that much potential for impact and

1:10.9

maybe uncovering some of the inadequacy of the understanding of what it is that we're dealing with when we talk about blood sugar and health related conditions related to blood sugar.

1:21.6

So with that, that was a mouthful. I'm excited to kind of

1:25.4

to kind of start uncovering this and unpacking it so people can kind of peek

1:29.2

behind the curtain so to speak. Yeah, me too. And I love the history behind this.

1:33.8

So what we're going to be diving into and how long this question has been around and what

1:38.8

we've already discovered and what we're quote unquote rediscovering and how it's applicable to today and how the problems keep getting worse but even though the solutions have have been discovered a long time ago.

1:52.0

Yeah, I know when I was growing up and this is probably a weird analogy but

1:55.6

neon was a big thing right so in the 80s late 80s early 90s neon

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