Wed, Jan-08-14, 07:25
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Senior Member
Posts: 15,075
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Plan: mostly milkfat
Stats: 190/152.4/154
BF:
Progress: 104%
Location: Ontario
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Insulin toxicity and how to cure diabetes
Jason Fung is a Nephrologist in Scarborough. One of my Dad's global warming sites did a post on the Diabetes/very low calorie diet study, and somebody in the comment section posted some of this guy's videos. I somehow managed to have no idea who this guy is. I'm sure somebody must have posted about him here before, but I must have missed it.
Fung reduces insulin resistance to being mostly caused by excess insulin--so his approach is to get insulin as low as possible. So while he seems to advocate low carb and adequate protein, and is very fat-friendly, he considers therapeutic fasting the cornerstone of insulin resistance/type II diabetes reversal.
I think I've read that Donaldson used to start his low-carb plan with a two-day fast. One of those earlier advocates did, anyways. The point was to reduce insulin as much as possible, as quickly as possible. Atkins reasoned that just going more or less carb-free--induction--should work as well. But it didn't always work, did it? Because we have the fat fast--and what's that, but an emergency induction, meant to do basically what induction was supposed to do--jump-start fat loss, by getting insulin levels as low as possible.
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