Ep:38 Understanding Diabetes: Insulin Resistance and Pre-Diabetes 

I get the feeling that my doctor is not as smart as this guy. What a smart man!

The water wave metaphor is stunning in explaining insulin resistance 💦

One year ago i was overweight and pre-diabetic, so i went on a carnivore,eggs, and some cheese diet! Lost 41lbs and put my pre-diabetes in hibernation!

I love how he snapped a little bit with the cholesterol 😆

He's my doc, has been for just over a month. He is describing my situation with Diabetes Type 2 perfectly....

My doctor checked my Hba1c and my triglycerides and put me on blood pressure, statin and metformin instantly. I refused to take those and went carnivore.

@1:59😂 “Sugar is sugar by the time it enters your blood stream”.

Wow doc Cywes- you are amazing!! That analogy just blew me away. You have given me an insight into the complex human body by explaining insulin’s job in our body & it’s direct relationship to our hormones!! Love your work!!

Another excellent video. I have recommended that some of my diabetic patients watch your videos.

my non-biological dad has diabetes now so out of curiosity I started checking my fasted glucose~ ended up being around 105. Since I started considering me pre-diabetic I have something important to focus on and am happy to go back to keto. ❤needed a stronger motivation than being fit~

I think I'm insulin resistant but with good blood sugar readings, can't wait for our consultation to solve issues

I recently asked my GP for an Insulin & C-peptide test and was refused. The tests would have been the second time they'd been done in 20yrs of being diabetic.

,,,excellent physician.

You the man Dr. C

I just love your videos keep them coming

Great analogy with the pond.

I like this guy.

Fantastic!!

This was so helpful! Thank you! I am insulin resistant and my doctor recently diagnosed me as “prediabetic” based on an A1C level of 4.7 and a fasting blood glucose of 107. I had to call the medical assistant back to get further explanation as to how that could be. I started on the Metformin in hopes that it will help in addition to a low carb diet and exercise.

Go Blue!!! Great info - thank you for sharing!

Thank You...the pond illustration is perfect as to understand. Cheers from Pennsylvania......go Blue....

This man is a miracle worker..

he just makes sense!

Thank you Dr Cywes. Very clear and informative video.

Excellent information I would like with Spanish subtitles for my community #ketomywaymaria

bloody fascinating can't get enough of those vidéos

So glad you posted I couldn't remember your name. Great video

I suggest people read up Dr. Steven Gundry’s work on body health including insulin. Start with his book ‘Diet Evolution’

Want to have those good vibrations.

Your videos are so awesome and so much great info to help people!

I would like to hear you elaborate more on the use of anticoagulants particularly in the case of A-fib.

Thank you! 😊

I think I love Dude.

One thing not strictly correct is it does actually matter what type of carbs you eat. Prior to 1980 Chinese ate 65% carbs -obesity and diabetes< 1%. Now diabetes 10,9% due to refined sugars. Fructose can only be metabolized in the liver. Overdose causes fatty liver which then cant handle glucose without lots of insulin. This leads to a huge increase in insulin resistance and diabetes. Fructose: poison in the dose much more potent cause of insulin resistance than glucose.

I lost 70 lbs (255 to 185) over this past year on a keto lifestyle. My doc was amazed at the results and did a OGTT. Baseline fasting glucose was 90. Two hour blood glucose was 118. He told me I’m still insulin resistant because my 2 hour wasn’t low enough. My A1c was 5.2. He wants to start me on Actos. Is it time to look for a new doctor?

oooOOOooOoooOoohhhhhhhh now I get it....!

Why are sugar test strips so bloody expensive

I have been very confused about fasting insulin. It has been as high as 68 -- before I began eating ketogenically over for 6 months ago. I am now with an A1C of 5, (down from 6.4) fasting glucose of 89, and current fasting insulin of 27. Will my fasting insulin ever normalize? I also have a CAC score of 619 and am dealing with recommendations to increase statins and take a stress test. My treating physicians do not understand or seem to appreciate insulin resistance as a root cause issue. I feel I am managing my insulin resistance all by myself and am not sure about how to best navigate all of this. So confused.

I was hospitalized for a "hypertensive crisis" three years before I was diagnosed diabetic. I've gone back through my records and found that my doctor tested my A1c at 5.5 (he did not test fasting insulin.) If he'd had any sense, he'd tested the markers you mentioned. In my mind, specifically fasted insulin. I'm betting it was over 10. If he had, I may have had the opportunity to avoid becoming diabetic. Instead, how did I respond? I ate fewer calories, more frequently, and moved around a lot (daily walks) per the advice I was given. 😡

Question: In your other video about carbohydrates and Keto lifestyle, you advised to not worry about leafy greens and vegetables as long as we avoid starches like potatoes etc.. Does that advice about vegetables in regard to their carbs apply to T2D or were you referring to a healthy metabolism? Thanks in advance Doc. C.

I am trying to spread this message about athletes and carbs.

This is such important information! Is there a chart for these numbers somewhere that I can refer to when I talk to (educate) my PCP? She has ordered and A1C and lipid panel but is hesitant to test my insulin.

So here's my issue. I'm 6'2 265lbs @ about 12% body fat. I work out ALL THE TIME, I lift heavy and make sure to keep my heart rate within fat burning range. I eat A LOT and "carb up" often before lifting to help with ATP. Recently, my fasting blood sugar has been around 100-108. When I eat food it goes down to about 80-95. I can figure out for the life of me why my fasting sugar would be higher???

C-Peptide 1.4 and A1C 5.8 on a low carb Keto diet. What does it mean?

Has Doc ever done a vid on fasting?

Dr. Cywes how would you account for the Kenyan runners whose diet is 80 percent carbs but apparently don’t have a diabetes issue?

Doc what about rice diet experiments and pritkins? Can we agree on the fact that energy distribution is what matters? Both high carb low fat and high fat low carb diet works?

Doc 15:00 I am an athlete (hockey) please tell me how to eat and I will do it?!!!

So now I understand why people who make intermitent fasting, not only loss weight but has muscle gain... because insulin excess block the steroidogenesis pathway....

Is Cywes a Welsh name?

Ohh yes, now I understand 😁 hahahaha

unua!

My doctor at Kaiser Permanente refuses to check my insulin level.

He's wearing Michigan State but he doesn't practice in Michigan? Just curious

Every doctor I go to tells me there isn’t an insulin test 🙄

On the level of pure information, we have no essential problem with this individual.. but on the level of personhood, there is much that is problematic about both his attitude and his self-regard. Apart from the troubling deadness in his eyes, and the complete lack of any emotion vaguely resembling warmth, care, affection, good humor, we are left with a rather toneless and robotic delivery of that essential information, against the backdrop of barely veiled superiority and condescension.. for course, he knows ever so much more than we do, and he is quite impatient that we should see that as soon as possible. 'so I have all things, but have not love, I am but a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. My suggestion for this self-appointed master of all things biochemical - first, find love and genuine care for your subjects and then learn how to express it so that it is perceivable and palpable to them.. remove the deadly glare from your cold visit and soften your features so that they can convey the gender emotions and sensibilities. Stop dividing up the nutritional world into American and non-american.. America is a huge nation, filled with innumerable kinds of people from all over the world, and at all levels of knowledge and skill and wisdom. America contains the most brilliant minds as well as the least. America is not simply a nation which eats extraordinarily high carbohydrate meals, but a nation of vegans, vegetarians, carnivores, and all varieties of mixtures thereof. Stop blaming America for the bad habits of the world, and start praising America for all the brilliant minds that she offers that world. You can do it Robert, all it takes is some genuine love.

I want to put a comment on you tube video..... Why do you have to cuss!.! I want to forward these great videos to people but I will not forward something with curse words in it. Surely you are educated enough that you dont have to curse to communicate.