Reversing Type 2 Diabetes
The Doctors Kitchen - Reverse Diabetes with Dr David Unwin
I’ve been away from this keyboard for a few days as I’ve been launching a new website for a client. I’ve also been listening to podcasts and watching YouTube videos on the subject of reversing type 2 diabetes.
Being in remission from type 2 as a direct result of low carbohydrate living I’ve got a lot of time for Dr Unwin and his work. He is a GP in the UK who has been treating his patients with a low carbohydrate diet and has had great success in reversing type 2 diabetes in his patients.
In the video linked to above, he talks about this and how he has worked with his patients in a collaborative way to achieve even better results. I wasn’t aware of this aspect of his work properly until watching this but it makes sense that if you can get your patients to work with you, then the results will be better.
A point he brought out of particular interest to me here was that of sugar addiction. I have doubted this as a concept in the past but I think I was wrong to do so. Logically and with retrospect I think I could have been addicted to sugar and its various forms - be it processed carbohydrates, starchy carbohydrates or just sugar itself.
Having another cup of tea this morning without milk, something I would have thought impossible in previous years, I realized that I would not like milk in my tea as it would be too sweet. So this small thing is itself a turn around of many years almost conditioned behavior to think you need to have milk with tea. A very British thing I would say but for me a wrong thing non the less.