Refreshing response to this interview. Thank you

his wife is the amazing one!

Well done John S. I am bewildered that so called experts are still appearing on tv. promoting the food pyramid and condemning saturated fat!

John, if I may please ask, what is the one thing that, with a magic wand, you would change from your GP or Diabetes Educator? Your experience is important and I would value your answer. Thank you.

Many doctors like him were doing what the guidelines recommended. Science changes and we must change with it but often new research takes 5-10 years to become mainstream among the professionals!!!! Not ideal but many people are more interested in self education

Absolutely! Here is a man and his wife who were willing to say they were wrong. Who were truly selfless in going about rectifying their mistakes....

Is that pride? Or arrogance? In their defence, physicians are taught to think that they have all the answers, or at least act as if they do - no matter how nonsensical that is. When their intellectual curiosity dies, a physician becomes essentially useless.

Many go into medicine for the $ so it doesn’t surprise me that a remedy that works may not be “recommended.”

Arrogance or Greed as he says doctors are Paid more when following the Guidelines.

Yes, a humble man with a powerful message. He who humbles himself at first shall be exalted in the end, and, conversely, pride cometh before the fall.

Maybe you should call it "low glycemic load" according to their guidelines for diabetes. Then he will understand ;-)

I have had support for low carb from a GP, but currently have a GP who only talks about cholesterol and weight loss. It's a frame of reference that won't be shifted by patients

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Yes! And yet many people are interviewed by Dr. Sher because they have done the research and put in the work to write a book and/or create a website. After all, a lot more people can be helped via books and websites than one can do in person! And in more parts of the world. Books, in particular, can continue to help others even long after the author has died. So I have no problem at all with interviews of authors. It's the quality of their thinking and their work that matters most. That said, David Unwin's story is interesting.

@@Jefferdaughter Thank you. I love books, it teaches all who read it in perpetuity. Where would the diabetic community the world over be, if Dr Richard K. Bernstein did not deem fit to write ‘The Diabetes Solution’ Thousands, if not Hundreds of Thousands of diabetics, especially Type1 diabetics, owe their good diabetes management, to the knowledge he imparted through his book.

understand what you are saying, but Books and merch, or some kind of self finance system, are many times the only way these kind of studies can be financed . A corporation wont spend millions to research the impact on a disease's progression from lifestyle and diet changes. Not to mention that these renegades usually face the wrath of the establishment science, state institutions and corporate interests once the question the orthodoxy. At least in the beginning.

I think a person with metabolic issues, like myself, can eat a wfpb diet but without the grains & tubers. Beans & legumes would be an absolute must though. WFPB is my fav way to eat, taste wise, but my excess weight will not budge. Currently switching to low carb, mostly plants, eggs, some meats. Finally I have some HOPE. Good luck with your own health journey. 👍🏼

How is it that in the past Doctors or physicians knew more than they did later on?

That is very encouraging for me to read! The whole reason I came across Dr Unwin is because I was researching precisely this - how to get an elderly relative off those very same meds! First I have to persuade other family members that it's possible.

Doctors in the past didn't know any more than they do now. In fact, the history of medicine is a horror show, for anyone who decides to delve into it. Not only were doctors rampantly poisoning and killing their patients, they were indirectly responsible for the craze of witch-burnings because they had worked so hard to discredit and spread fear about their professional rivals, the herbal wise-women and midwives who often had better results than the doctors did. For hundreds of years, doctors were putting mercury into medicines. You can read up on the history of "calomel." From about the 1840s until WWI, this mercury-containing medicine was being used in "heroic doses" for just about everything (previously, it was normal to use it in smaller doses). It has the side effects of causing gangrene in the flesh, loss of teeth, and of course extreme neurotoxicity. Everyone was taking it for every little problem. It was even made into a salve used for diaper rash. It certainly shortened people's lives, but we don't know by how much. Another fun chapter in the history of medicine is the so-called "everlasting pill." This was a bullet of antimony that could be swallowed. Antimony is toxic, so the body would quickly try to get rid of it by having a full-blown case of diarrhea. What made the pill everlasting was that the patient would then dig it out of the chamberpot and return it to the doctor, so that it could be used again. Antimony has an arsenic-like effect on the body, resulting in cardiotoxicity, headaches, dizziness, depression, vomiting, and eventual damage to the liver and kidneys. The list could go on and on. Probably the most harmless treatment that historical doctors used was leeches. Leeches actually can help with various health problems. Of course, the doctors didn't use fresh leeches for each patient, though, so they sometimes passed syphilis and other diseases from one patient to another. We like to think we've got it all figured out now, but that's exactly what people thought back then too.

whats the update how is it going

It’s 2024. How are you doing?

It's June 2024, I'm officially 15 kilos lighter that I was in 2022! I'm still determined

@@ummj.2738 Yay!!! It’s June 2024, and I am just beginning low carb. I prefer veg so: ditching grains and high carb plants & adding some meat. Wish me luck!

@@sandraelder1101 My friend, Miriam, God bless her, keeps checking in on me & motivating me, so get yourself a motivator to keep you on track xxx

Anet Roper, are you having some success with giving your patients a choice and doing LCHF to reverse diabetes or prediabetes?

Which hospital? Need allies :)

Ha! Definitely!

Wow! That's great! Hope I have eyesight improved.

Good to know. Yes, so many things improve on low carb. I saw a youtube vid on Macular Degeneration and the best diet is low carb, and especially avoid vegetable oils...that was the biggie...Animal fats and olive oil are fine though. Looking forward to keeping/improving my eyesight too.

I just heard about that effect yesterday and was surprised by it. Could it be related to high blood sugar compromising the minuscule blood vessels of the eye?

@@coffeemachtspass very interesting.

@@coffeemachtspass - It does seem likely that avoiding the damage to the vascular system that sugar is known to cause is helpful to the eyes. After all, amputations and blindness are well-known consequences of prolonged high blood sugar levels, aka diabetes. Avoiding the seed oils (corn, soy, etc) and eating adequate amounts of natural fats and the fat soluable vitamins also seems likely to help preserve and maybe improve eyesight.

Well done Christa. Very inspiring. Keep it up.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

I wish you had that advice too. I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes and was encouraged to diet with Dr Mosley's book ( based on Dr Unwins research). This stopped it and healed my gut. I'm not keto now and feel healthy and can eat a variety of food

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Very interesting about dairy & skin health 🍶🍧

Jammie Dodgers my very favourite biscuit when I was a kid.

@@janmargaret7972 My son and I looked at them longingly, but alas, both being keto, we resisted the temptation. Some day I may try them. They're not available in the US, unless you buy through Amazon.

Elizabeth Blane I am on a low carb lifestyle now so don't have them any more. 😊👍

@@janmargaret7972 Fun to reminisce, though!

Do you live in USA. Think difference is that added sugar is a big thing in America. The recipes that I've made from USA have so much sugar in them. I always have to cut down. Also in uk we don't have that terrible corn syrup. Corn syrup is evil!! 🤑🤑

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Pearls of Wisdom and Food with Carnivore Well said!!

When I looked it up 48 mmol/ mol is equal to 6.5% That seems high to me. I thought is would be closer to 5.6.%

Emery Cole HaHa!! Same here...we are in Mississippi and I get the same response 😆

I live north ☝️of the Mason Dixon line and it's the same here.

I think he said a slice of whole meal bread is equivalent to 3 teaspoons of sugar not 3 tablespoons