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Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience

How Dietary Cholesterol Makes You Insulin Resistant with Joel Fuhrman, MD - E103

Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience

Mastering Diabetes

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.6656 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Today we are joined by an internationally recognized nutrition expert, board-certified family physician, New York Times bestselling author, and nutritional researcher Dr. Joel Fuhrman who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through plant-based nutrition. He is known as the father of “nutritarian” eating and will share his exact formula for achieving your healthiest life.

Specifically, we cover:

  • 2:30 He will define nutrient density and a nutritarian diet.
  • 7:03 What is the ANDI index and how does it calculate the nutrients in your diet?
  • 12:21 Are eggs healthy?
  • 15:42 How does dietary cholesterol affect your insulin sensitivity?
  • 19:40 How do micronutrients affect your appetite?
  • 25:17 What is the difference between appestat and appetite?
  • 27:31 A high level of micronutrients satiates your appetite.  
  • 33:00 What is the number one mistake people make when transitioning to a plant-based diet and which foods can halt weight loss?

We cover so much in this episode, you may want to take notes. We think you will appreciate Dr. Fuhrman’s attention to detail and relentless pursuit of nutritional excellence. He is brilliant! 

If you enjoyed this episode please join us and Dr. Fuhrman in spreading the word about the benefits of plant-based nutrition by sharing this episode on social media and tagging us - @masteringdiabetes 

Transcript

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0:00.0

We have to keep our bodies lean, and there's no such thing as a person who's healthy

0:04.0

who's overweight and at the same time you can't be overweight and healthy.

0:08.0

Even if your cholesterol is good, your glucose is good, blood pressure is good.

0:11.0

If you're overweight, fat cells are still producing unfavorable compounds that are shortening your lifespan. Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the

0:31.8

driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life.

0:35.7

We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your

0:38.7

ideal body weight, gain energy, and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based

0:45.6

research in the mastering diabetes program. Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes

0:52.8

and type 2 diabetes, and how to simplify your life with

0:56.3

type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity using food as medicine.

1:02.3

We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in 1 million people. We're glad to have you

1:08.4

joining us.

1:19.5

Today we are honored to be here again with Dr. Joel Furman. Now, Dr. Joel Foreman is a board-certified family physician with over 25 years practicing nutritional medicine.

1:25.8

You may have seen him on TV, on PBS. You may read one of his books,

1:30.3

or you may know someone who has been personally impacted by his tireless attention to nutritional

1:36.3

excellence. Dr. Furman coined the term Nutritarian to describe a diet that is nutrient, dense, and plant rich, and includes anti-inflammatory

1:45.6

foods that facilitate weight loss, improved immunity, and the reversal of both type 2 diabetes

1:52.1

and heart disease.

1:54.3

He is the author of not one, not two, not three, but 12 books, including six New York Times

2:00.1

bestsellers, including Eat to Live, the Eat to Live Cookbook, the end of diabetes, but 12 books, including six New York Times bestsellers, including Eat to Live,

2:02.2

the Eat to Live Cookbook, the end of diabetes, super immunity, and the end of dieting.

2:07.4

Dr. Furman is also the director of the Nutritional Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization

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