How To Beat Diabetes By Changing Your Diet: Your Body In Balance
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🗓️ 28 January 2020
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Summary
The doctor told him that he would need to be on insulin to treat diabetes for the rest of his life. But he told the doctor that wouldn't work for him. Soon thereafter Bob Blackburn became the first patient the doctor had ever seen to reverse a diabetes diagnosis.
The idea of ditching meat and dairy was once unfathomable to the former Marine and professional wrestler. For decades his diet consisted of fast food, junk food, and high-fat foods. In fact, while traveling he would plan his routes around his favorite high-calorie restaurants.
But an inner health warrior was awoken inside Bob when his doctor informed him that he had diabetes. From then on, the unfathomable plant-based diet became the only diet he was interested in.
On this third installment of the "Your Body In Balance" series with Dr. Neal Barnard and "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll, Bob shares his remarkable journey—one filled with a lifetime of adventure, learning, and inspiration.
Dr. Barnard also sits down with Chuck to explore the connection between diabetes and hormones and why a dietary change can be just what the doctor ordered.
Bob's story is just one of the many featured in Dr. Barnard's new book, Your Body In Balance, which will be released on Feb. 4.
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About The Book
In Your Body in Balance, Dr. Barnard describes how food and hormones play a powerful role in:
- Fertility and menopause: Learn how foods affect the hormones that play a role in fertility, premenstrual syndrome, endometriosis, menstrual cramps, and polycystic ovarian syndrome. Learn how a plant-based diet can help manage menopause and reduce symptoms, including hot flashes.
- Sex-hormone related cancers: Read the science behind how foods affect estrogen and testosterone levels and the roles they play in breast, prostate, and other forms of cancer.
- Balancing the thyroid: Read about the surprising effects of diet on hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism.
- Type 2 diabetes: Learn about how a healthy, plant-based diet can restore insulin function and help manage type 2 diabetes.
- Regulating metabolism: Learn how a plant-based diet can boost metabolic rate and affect how body fat is stored and burned.
The book also gives readers practical tips and resources, including answers to frequently asked questions and 65 hormone-balancing recipes developed by Lindsay Nixon.
Dr. Barnard Tour Dates
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Live Podcast with Dr. Barnard and Chuck
Washington, DC – Busboys & Poets
Feb. 7, 2019 – 7-9pm
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Chuck Carroll
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Dr. Neal Barnard
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Bob Blackburn
Twitter: @bobblackburn
Facebook: http://bit.ly/diabeticwarrior
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Physicians Committee
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Facebook: https://wghtloss.cc/PCRMFacebook
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| 0:00.0 | So I went to the doctor while I was there. |
| 0:02.4 | She said, well, once you go on insulin, you know, you never come off. |
| 0:06.0 | I looked at her and I said, I'll see you in 90 days. |
| 0:10.1 | 90 days later, I took the box of insulin I put on her desk. |
| 0:15.1 | I said, I'm done. |
| 0:16.3 | She looked at me like I was nuts. |
| 0:18.1 | She said, no one's ever done that. |
| 0:20.6 | I said, like I told you, you don't know me. |
| 0:31.0 | Well, hello there. |
| 0:32.5 | And welcome to the Exam Room Podcast. |
| 0:34.5 | Brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:36.5 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:39.5 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen this week, |
| 0:42.7 | or a view, or a download, wherever it is in the world that you are. |
| 0:47.5 | We appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 0:52.5 | Welcome to part three of our special Your Body and Balance series, |
| 0:58.0 | featuring Dr. Neil Barnard and Stories of Inspiration. |
| 1:03.5 | This series, like the book of the same name, |
| 1:07.0 | it explores the science of food, hormones, and health. |
| 1:12.7 | And today we will be focusing that science on a disease |
| 1:16.1 | that is exploding worldwide. |
| 1:19.2 | And here in America, it has become an epidemic |
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