Missed that. Pretty accurate, though.

Is Dr Fung's old website still available? I've been trying to access it to read some of his old blog posts, but it keeps taking me to the new site.

I think all of the old blog posts have been moved to the new site.

http://carbsanity.blogspot.ca/2011/...c-fat.html#more

A blog by CarbSane looking at the Newcastle/fasting approach to diabetes. As usual, she kicks the shins of some of my low carb heroes in the process. But this time she has a point--sometimes low carbers are too quick, when intermittently very low calorie approaches are effective vs. diabetes, to say, "well, if calories were that low, carbs had to be too, so that's what had the effect." Taking glucose out of the picture makes obvious sense for somebody who's glucose intolerant, but there's a difference between blood glucose that's flat because you haven't eaten glucose and blood glucose that's flat because you've recovered insulin sensitivity.

There's been sort of a mirror image, where people claim low carb is only effective vs. diabetes because of weight loss, equally wrong--low carb has that second advantage of not taking in the glucose that you don't tolerate well.

The first Dr Fung thread was started in July 2014 and I remember that he had been only blogging about a year, short enough to be able to catch up. Since the archives on the new site start at August 2013, It appears they have all been moved over now.

Check out all the low carb luminaries he has planned for his own podcast "coming soon" ...a great list! https://idmprogram.com/podcast/

If you want to hear some of his previous podcast interviews or those on YouTube, you may have to do a "Search" for his name or Megan in those stores. He had good ones with Robb Wolf, Dave Asprey, 2KetoDudes, KetoVangelist, etc, etc

I am going by something said to me by another poster, that she noticed that Dr Fung has not made any new posts to his blog since August 30. At that time I directed her to the new site where I've been reading the newer posts, but can't seem to find what she's referring to.

Thank you so much for posting this link. I just read the whole thing, including all the comments. As a type 2 diabetic, I can keep my glucose in a good range only by staying VLC. One bite of carb and I'm spiking. And even LC, losing weight is very hard for me. On the other hand, I have a friend who always ate a lot of carbs in the form of processed foods. When I told her to eat low carb to lower her A1c, she lowered total carbs, but at the same time cut calories extremely low. She has lost 35 lbs and her A1c is now normal. It sounds like this is what they are talking about in this blog. Maybe I'm the one who is doing it wrong. Maybe I need to try the 8 weeks of low calorie and see what happens, even though this goes against everything I've believed for so long.

My body takes a while to lock down on change. My BG took about a year to stabilize down. Likewise, with my weight loss.

This is a slow process. It took time to break the system, and it takes time to recover. IMO, switching plans is counter productive. "Pick one and stick with it" seems to be the best advice.

But that's me.

Same with Kelley Pounds...this post, Diabetes – A Disease of Glucose Intolerance, under the thread about her blog.
https://lowcarbrn.wordpress.com/201...se-intolerance/

VLC works for me as well in addition to overall improvement of health. For me, there's no need to change what brought me here (my current state of health). I understand there are other approaches that work for other people, and that's why we are all trying to identify the approach that works most effectively for ourselves.

The Obesity Code Pilot Podcast via 2KetoDudes.

http://www.2ketodudes.com/show.aspx?episode=84

This pilot episode is a fabulous review of Everything insulin resistance, obesity, ketosis, Fasting, Paleo, stevia, etc.
It is a highly edited and skillfully produced podcast with Carl, Richard, Gary Taubes, Nina Teicholz, Dr. Fung...very professional. I was a bit skeptical when it was announced that it would be interviews with IDM patients (shades of J. Moore) but nothing like that at all. Very polished professional interview. Unexpected, the patient also dealt with breast cancer, treated with conventional surgery plus the help of Dr. Nasha Winter of Optimal Terrain. (http://forum.lowcarber.org/showpost...9&postcount=100) and covers extended fasting for cancer and alternate natural sweeteners as well.

Edit Add: Diet Doctor article on upcoming podcasts: https://www.dietdoctor.com/brand-ne...ty-code-podcast

I actually still like Jimmy Moore's interviews with various intermittent fasters. Of course he's a better interviewer now that he's dropped the joy buzzers and other poorly-placed jokes.

I wasn't sure what to think of the podcast, I expected more of a back and forth interview, but it was pretty listenable. I guess it's good to have a bit of format variety out there, different things will appeal to different people. Maybe they're trying to get this out there while minimally distracting Dr. Fung and Megan Ramos from their practice.

Some of the soundtrack made me think of Steven Seagal movies.

I liked the content, but man I do not like the music pauses. That's something that works in film documentaries because you're looking at something. In audio, it's a waste of my time. And an annoying one.

https://idmprogram.com/eat-fast-break-fast/

Dr. Fung's back to the written word this week, no musical interlude. He mentions a recent study where breakfast skippers had more atherosclerosis. Nice, clear post.

One thing that I think gets left out when people look at some studies where breakfast skipping does correlate with increased body weight--take a very lean person, and somebody who's fatter. Tell them both to fast for 24 hours. Assuming they're both fasting novices, who do you think will have an easier time of it? There may be exceptions, but generally, it's easier to fast if you have the resources (body fat) to sustain a fast. There are studies where given only very dull food, lean people eat to maintenance, where obese people will have more of a tendency to greatly undereat, to maybe around 400 calories a day. We're talking very bland food, fed in such a way that nobody has any idea how many calories they're taking in.

Though Dr. Fung himself says:

*** in my Intensive Dietary Management Program, we stress that you sometimes need to change things up. ***

So yeah, you have to give things time, but still might to need to change things also.