The Truth About Fasting For Diabetes – With Megan Ramos
The Resetter Podcast with Dr. Mindy
Dr. Mindy Pelz
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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This episode covers the benefits of replacing diabetes medication with fasting to address illness at the root.
Megan Ramos is a clinical educator and expert on therapeutic fasting and low-carbohydrate diets, having guided more than 14,000 people worldwide through The Fasting Method program she co-founded with Dr. Jason Fung. She is the co-author of the New York Times Bestseller Life in the Fasting Lane.
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| 0:13.6 | recognize that there are these certain times in the calendar year where it's easier to fast and there are these certain times that humans have made it more difficult to fast and that's okay and it's about finding the balance between the two and you know practicing good meal timing habits during the quote-unquote feasting times. |
| 0:17.2 | Resetters Dr Mindy here and I am on a mission to teach you just how powerful your body was built to be. |
| 0:26.4 | This podcast is about giving you the power back and helping you believe in yourself. Mejepo So hopefully all my fasting fans out there know who Megan Ramos is. |
| 0:46.0 | She has been really deep in the work with Dr. Jason Fung, who wrote the obesity Code and many other beautiful fasting books and many of them |
| 0:56.2 | co-authored with Megan. |
| 0:58.6 | And they have been applying the principles of fasting to a type 2 diabetic community. |
| 1:05.0 | And what's really interesting in this interview is you're not only going to hear |
| 1:10.0 | some of the amazing results they've seen and the application of fasting to |
| 1:16.7 | patients with type 2 diabetes but Megan has her own journey and I didn't realize |
| 1:21.6 | that before I talked to her on this episode that she really at in her late 20s was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and was one of Dr. Fung's first fasting test subjects. |
| 1:35.4 | So her fasting story is phenomenal |
| 1:38.9 | and she tells it in the beginning of this episode |
| 1:42.3 | and then in the back half of the episode we really |
| 1:44.7 | dove into some pretty profound nuance around fasting that many of you are going to |
| 1:51.0 | be excited to hear. |
| 1:52.6 | Like, what do you do if ketones are going up |
| 1:57.0 | and you're not feeling very good? |
| 1:58.4 | She had a really good hack for that. |
| 2:00.9 | And how does she break her fast and what does she think about what we need to do |
| 2:06.1 | around breaking a fast and maybe one of the most interesting conversations is that what fasting length is she a fan of and why. |
| 2:17.0 | So really the history of fasting is told and how it got to this modern world is really told in this episode and I'm |
| 2:26.0 | really excited to bring it to you all but more importantly Megan and Dr. |
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