I am a super fan! I started listening to this podcast about 7 months ago, thinking it was just a healthy eating podcast. But within a few weeks, I started really eating plant focused and soon swore off all meat! I’ve never felt better in my life. I have had type one diabetes for 30 years and have had OK control. But once I went vegetarian, my blood sugars became so stable I thought I found the cure for diabetes! For a few days, I wasn’t even taking insulin for my meals-I didn’t know what was happening. But then this series on type 1 diabetes and Plant based eating made everything make sense, and validated me. Thank you so much for this podcast! It literally has changed my life. And my boyfriend, who has always said “pork runs through my blood, I’m from North Carolina” has embraced this lifestyle and says his digestion has never been better. I’m sold on plant based! I can’t wait to get my next blood panel… lol
In March 2019 I began eating wfpb. Within 6 weeks I stopped my diabetes meds. Acid reflux, migraines, skin issues all went away. I eventually stopped anti inflammatory meds, cut my cholesterol meds in half and reduced my blood pressure meds. The food heals your body
Finally the answer is right in front of us. The MD's have not been curing us. They need to get this right and educate and train patients on how and what to eat. Send a whole food plant dietitian to your home and teach you how to shop and prepare meals. Way less expensive and cure people. The current medical industry on chronic illnesses is a joke. They are just pumping us with foreign chemicals and not curing us.
since I started this plant base diet since 07/2022 my A1C was10.0 I was at 270 lbs. now as of 01.11.2023 my A1C is 5.3 and weight is at 211 lbs. Big thanks to my God and the doctors
@@TheRealTommyBear33plant based is a subset of vegan. So no animal products. But instead of eating French fries and bread or vegan processed food, you mostly try to eat vegetable, fruits, nuts, seeds, grains, and legumes. So basically trying to avoid refined foods and refined oils
Whoa!! I’m trying the low fat raw carbohydrate diet and becoming a believer. I had 2 eggs and sausage patties 2 days ago and sugars way too high. Same thing with coffee and milk? Was it the milk?
Finally! Someone explains this in a way that makes sense to me. I have never believed the hype that we shouldn’t eat any fruit and many vegetables. We should be eating more Whole Foods as he says and not processed foods.
Like this site. Just found it. Been doing WFPB since last summer. I’m slowly 🙁 losing wt. but the labs must be getting better and better! Enjoying the process. Because there is a mental clarity I didn’t expect. The big black dog of depression as stated by Abe Lincoln and Winston Churchill, has morphed into a little Black and white Boston terrier with a smiling face! I’m nearly 70. Dieted yo-yo since pre puberty. Was never slender but not obese in my youth. It did finally happen. Doc said to take these meds or I won’t need to worry about retirement. The lipid panel was that bad. I was a pre diabetic animated stick of butter with hair on top. I said “No” to the drugs. I’m an old RN. I knew the answer wasn’t in pharmaceuticals. I was raised SDA by my momma, (not dad), but carnivorous. I knew the other side of that coin though, it didn’t take much research to hook well into it with the help of Utube, and probably God. I cannot believe how this way of eating has been so satisfying I don’t even desire all the SAD foods I was addicted to. Still learning. And loving it.
Thank you! I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic when I was 6. I have always eaten low carb, but was stupid and tried keto and went under 20 carbs a day, and wound up in the emergency room almost dead. I will never listen again to anyone telling me I can't eat carbs, I just make sure I eat healthy unprocessed, whole grain and low glycemic carbs.
Yes you sure went overboard our body does need glucose. Good to know about the carbs with fiber.I don't eat pastries or cake anymore accept for special occasions.We can't go carbless completely.
The sourdough and sprouted wheat bread sure tastes good and they are better than regular wheat bread.Daves killer bread tastes better than Ezekiel bread both of these are pretty pricey.
@@vanihansen2136 glycemic rate doesnt matter. What matters is keeping fat under 10g a day so you can really burn serious body fat off and stay massively insulin sensitive. Dietary fat blocks the insulin receptor.
He never cease to amaze me how clearly, thoroughly and at ease he explains detailed and precise informations that is sooo valuable and enriching. Thank you for having him. Never misses his interview and each time I learn more.
I was a farmer’s daughter and everything we ate was fresh. When I was i never heard about diabetes. Now I am here in the UNITED STATES, I am 84 yo and I have diabetes. When i was growing up we never have fried food or using oil or never eating processed food. My father also refused to used industrial fertilizer demanded by our government. We ate grilled pork on Wednesday & meat on Saturday, the rest of the week were grilled small fish or fish stew with a lot of vegetable, & of rice. We never ate cookies.candies,bread or drink soda. Only during Christmas we can have limited cookies, candies, walnuts, apples (From U S ) . We have sugar cane field . My dad sells the 3 kinds of sugar and let us children use molasses. The diesel of sugar. Using cooking is nil in our family. My dad when eating fried food orb food sautéed in oil had stomach ache and vomiting. But I won’t use industrial fertilizer in my farms. It’s the root of all illnesses. My grandpa died at 104 yo with out seeing a doctor, dad and 2 brothers died at 87 years old. Good eating is important to us
Makes sense, your lecture . I am sure it helps many diebetic. I am Dr who is a diabetic for 30 years, struggled for many ways to stop the complication of diabetic Through: Medication, Diet Excercise I am sure that this the best way to flow the diabetic community. Good bless you.
This was absolutely amazing! We several friends who have diabetes and I want to understand the disease as much as possible to be able to help them. Love this interview ❤️
Good luck..ppl are not always receptive unless they ask you for advice..and especially if you don't have a degree..silly but true..maybe your friends and family are different..I wish you success..I'm trying to assist one person at a time..challenging and rewarding..so many people are oblivious to food is medicine.
@@erichardson8811 “good luck” You echoed my immediate thoughts. I have 60 year old niece, 10 years my junior who has been diabetic for a very long time. She is living in another country so we communicate by phone. From listening to her I have concluded that her knowledge regarding diabetes and food is very limited. I am very cautious when it comes to sharing videos like this with her; and when I do I know it is falling on deaf ears. For the past year her health has been going down hill and I am very concerned about her well being. I am feeling very helpless and very worried about her.
@@edesouza2279 Hello my friend, do you no there's a cure to this disease , I make use of herbal remedy which I ordered from Dr uromi on RU-vid I can say I'm diabetes free, why not give it a try
@@edesouza2279 yes I know how you feel..I tried to tell my girlfriend she takes insulin shots and the pills..she's labeled obese and she refuses to listen..she's 30 years old and just had her foot amputated due to poor circulation..related complications to diabetes..smh..I don't know what else to do..maybe she'll listen..but I doubt it..sad.
You can always test yourself with a glucose meter an hour to two hours after eating a particular food. That will let you know how much the food raises blood glucose.
What I'm really l with this and I just started watching it is how he differentiates between complex carbohydrates and the simple refined foods that people know as carbohydrates, The sugar and white flour and all of that. Most people in fact are completely unaware of what a whole grain is, for example, how many people eat millet in this country? It's used as bird seed lol. Same for kasha, barley, whole oat groats instead of rolled oats. It makes a huge difference and I'm really happy to see him making that initial differentiation. I think it's an important one.
My name is Dia and I am Mauritanian. I am diabetic since 2008 and I was almost able to stabilise my Diabetes then It went bad again. I’d hope that I found out about your channel before now but like the French say “it is better late than never”. I enjoy listening to your very clear explanation of what diabetes is all about. Thank you so much and I’ll keep consulting all your videos and share them with friends who know English as Mauritania is a French/Arabic speaking country.
I lost weight following The Mayo Clinic Diabetic Diet book written by Paul D. Hensrud and have kept most of it off due to mostly following this diet. This diet recommends whole grains and to avoid refined processed carbs as Cyrus advised to do. I tried following Cyrus's diet recommended in Reversing Diabetes and I did not lose any significant weight. I had to measure my portions of food as advised in the Mayo Clinic Diabetic Diet while primarily following a whole food plant based diet to lose weight. Found Cyrus book before finding Mayo Clinic Diabetic Diet book and have Cyrus to thank for convincing me how dangerous the keto diet is to follow as eating all the fat recommended in this diet just increases insulin resistance.
Fat increases insulin resistance, because if you eat a lot of fat the cells just take it in and don't want carbs as they already have fat for energy. If your cells took in a lot of fat for energy, they resist insulin as they don't want any more energy from carbs. Eating a lot of fatty foods can increase spikes in blood sugar if eating both fatty foods and carbs together as the cells will take in fat easily and the carbs will have a harder time getting into the cell due to insulin resistance caused by all the fatty foods one ate.
@@BCSTS she is correct, in fact a lot of doctors are now sounding the alarm on keto diets, because it can actually make you a type 2 diabetic because your body begins to lose the ability to handle insulin and even produce insulin.
@@michelep.7249 I think that's more vegan theory and propaganda than medical facts. Many formerly overFAT type 2 diabetics have slimmed down following low carb high fat diets. It's carbohydrate that sends the blood sugar up. You can eat a lot of protein and fat and it wont cause that bad blood sugar spike many get after eating lots of carbs.
I’ve just discovered you guys! This is one of the best diabetic info I’ve gotten, I wasn’t going to eat grapes, bananas, beans or tomatoes. I’m a bad diabetic type 2 but want to clean up my act. I’m going to check out your book and have subscribed with notifications. I should have stopped YouTubing long ago, today, glad I didn’t. Thank you so much! 😢
My father let us stayed away from refined and processed foods when we were growing up. He also refused to use commercial fertilizers on his farms and pesticides too.
Great information on oatmeal types. For past few months I've been eating old fashioned rolled oats, and reason is because of videos and articles by particular doctors, all of whom say they eat the rolled oats. I'm speaking of Dr. Esselstyn, and Dr. McDougall in particular. Also Rip Esselstyn who has the youtube channel Plant Strong. Finally, I watched a video or maybe it was an article in which blood glucose responses between steel cut oats, rolled oats, one minute, and instant were tested. The steel cut and rolled were pretty close; the steel cut was best but only by a hair. Both the steel cut and rolled were significantly better than the one minute and instant types. And of course the convenience of cooking rolled for just 3 minutes in microwave plays big factor too in my decision.
I know that he has alopecia, but why does he always look so jaundice? How am I supposed to take health advice from someone who looks so unhealthy??🤦🏻♀️
This guest speaker is very knowledgeable, much more intelligent than some extremism vegan doctors. Some vegan doctors said refined grains and sugar don’t matter, which totally discredited themselves.
@@hobbyfarmer1452 I think you misunderstood what Dr. McDugall. From what I understand it is heavy on starch and complex carbohydrates and no oil. He has had thousands of patients reverse chronic diseases. In that context in one of his episodes he mentioned something on sugar and refined grains compared to fat. But if I remember correctly that was just a comparison. What Dr Cyrus is saying is similar to what Dr McDougall also states broadly speaking.
I’m a diabetic have been for quite a number of years I came across The Exam Room by pure accident and I’m thoroughly enjoying it I love it an will be tuning in from here on in it was broken down in terms that I can relate to and thank you so much 😢 Annabelle 54:37
I want Cyrus make a video or do it live here in the chatroom showing his blood sugar test after eating sweet potatoes or oatmeal so we can see how his blood sugar spike after eating those carbs.
Sweet potatoes in moderation ie a one inch piece with peep baked. The great thing zbout sweet potatoe is there is something in addtion to high vitamin Content that reduce pain. And inflamation. So if you're taking insulin. Or going for your A1C bloids or need to go i to hopital for any reason it minimises the pain of hzving a line put in of having blood taken. Also minimises post operative pain. In my experience. Try feedjng it to banies before their immunisations.
Second to last point: When people talk about "sourdough" bread, most of the time they are talking about bread made with refined white flour. If you can find a sourdough (or natural levain) made from whole or whole sprouted grains, that's different and better. A distinction that should be made!
Just tuned in to ‘Physicians Committee’ and heard Dr. Cyrus talk about Diabetes. Just amazing. Understand a lot more about eating healthy carbs for Diabetes. Oh my gosh!
Should distinguish between sweet corn, which is harvested while the grain is immature and hydrated on the plant, and cornmeal, which is allowed to dehydrate in the field prior to harvest, and most often sold refined with the germ and much of the fiber removed. When buying cornmeal, look for *stone ground* cornmeal, which includes the germ of the grain.
Thank God I found one channel supporting plant based diet . I am following vegan since by birth .Got too confused to what to do. I have improved lipid , Ha1bc with vegan , millets and intermediating fasting
When eating chia, flax, nuts or seeds: As well as keeping amounts relatively small, is it best to eat in isolation & to wait 2 or 3 hours before resuming the high carb foods? Chia, nuts & seeds are fine this way but flax is more tricky because most like to add to oats. Is this actually necessary or not?
Finally a physician with the the best interest and facts for its patients. I had my physical several months ago, and was told by my doctor that I am pre-diabetic, and his answer was for me to start taking medication to control my blood glucose!? I am not a health expert but I didn't like his uneducated advise; so I fired him. I admit to have a sweet tooth for refined sugar based foods every once in a while, specially around the holidays; but I also have had a very well balanced highly nutritious diet all my life. The blood glucose results was a wake up call to say the least; so I stopped cold the consumption of refined sugar/carbohydrate based foods; even the complex carbohydrates based foods, because everywhere on the internet, friends with diabetes, and physicians advised that complex carbohydrates will raise your blood sugar just as bad as refined carbohydrates! Personally when my blood sugar fall below 88 I feel extremely weak, and have no energy at all. My ideal blood glucose level is between 90 and 97; I generally feel much healthier and full of energy. For weeks I have being battling with which is my ideal blood sugar level? this video however answered my suspicions, thank you!
Even I don’t eat plant base only, I have a big garden, I have broccoli,cauliflower, 4 different cabbages, bokchoi, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and fruits growing, and I decide this year to use a Hugh quantitive of leaves and make vegetables soups, juices I combine leaves with fruits, and canning all of them bugs 🐛 start eating them, and I use them during the year! I bake, I eat a little piece of cake made at home only. I am 67 don’t drink any kind of pills! All my teas are made fresh from the house and medicinal plants! Walk a mile every day, work inside and outside the house every day at least 8 hours!!
I love taking "carbophobes" to coronometer and showing them that all those "low-carb" foods (e.g. cabbage, kale, peppers, green beans) are actually approximately 3/4 carbohydrate by dry weight (the solid part, i.e. the veg without all the water).
Cyrus, what does 30g of fat look like on a person’s plate eating for the day? Please describe, otherwise this is just a number that I can’t relate to! And does the 2 tbsp of ground flaxseeds take up most of that 30g, or is that separate? I’d love to know a day in a life of your eating. How do you eat 700+ carbohydrate units and still be under 30g of the fat each day? Waiting to here from you, and apologised if this question has been answered already. I really need to read your book, this is fascinating. xx
Thank you. What is startling is how many views the high fat low carb (low fiber) diet video's have, versus this one. It shows us where the priorities are with many humans. I believe healthy carbs are healthy as long as you are not allergic to them. Been vegan 20+ years.
@@BCSTS In what way is it not?. The human body fuels on glucose, not on fat. We require healthy carbs and som fat, but not, in my opinion, 50-75% fats. Diabetes is a disease of fat toxicity, not of healthy carbohydrates. Marathoners load up on carbs, not on a cup of coconut oil.
Bread. We should all be making our own bread and sourdough bread from the best flour we can source. As long as we rely on manufacturers we will get an inferior product most of the time.
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I am still learning. Been doing this for a bit over a year and the hardest was cheese, but it is gone and I have no triggers for that. The hardest now for me is my family doesn't see how important wfpb eating is. My sons n husband are athletes and it is that constant protein issue in our discussions. They are now down to just fish but still cheese and junk foods., which irritates me but they are grown. They are all over 6 ft 4 with no health issues at the moment so discussions are hard. I had no health issues either but during pandemic just wanted to do as much as I could to fortify my immune system even with vaccine. I say all this to say keep the info flowing. I use this info as a great discussion base with my family. When I cook it is all wfpb..eat it or cook for yourself. Happy to say they are way to lazy to cook a second meal with the one in front of them smelling so good. And they eat..telling themselves, this is not all plantbased.. I say WHATEVER. While they are not 100% on board they respect my boundaries and do not try to change my mind about how I am eating.
I was about to change the channel as you were not saying anything new to me- UNTIL you started talking about potatoes. I was always told that potatoes are worse than sugar to the diabetic. I haven't eaten a white potato in forever! how bad is plant based butters? Have to put something on a potato. I also used to eat the skins for the fiber. But I've had cancer and now would peel potatoes to avoid deadly nightshades which are found in the green that you often see. When I was first told that I was diabetic I was drinking a gallon of orange just about every day. I reversed my diabetes by tweeking my diet a thousand times over the 25 years between age 30 and 55 before I ended up on medication for my blood sugar. I eat fruit which includes the fiber (including carrots) but avoid the juice. You know, since I haven't been eating white potatoes I got into the habit of sauteing vegetables to eat with my ocassional morning egg. ( was told for years that eggs were ok as long as I keep the yoke soft or runny, so disappointed when that was changed). Anyway, I eat beets almost every day. Oh, and I only use a small amount of olive oil to keep things from sticking to the pan- but not most advise against any. I don't know how to cook without something- plant based butters or olive oil. I take omega 3, but just finally let a doctor talk me into taking statins.
Awesome video! I wish I could get answers to, how to eat a plant-based diet, while following a low fiber diet for bowel obstruction prevention? I'm trying my best to eat vegan, but it is mainly white rice products, white potatoes, half bananas, zucchini, fresh made vegetable juice (mainly carrot, lemon, apple) oats, once a week & I found some no oil Italian bread. It's definitely tough, but I'm trying.
I love garnet yams. They're dark fleshed, absolutely delicious! What I like to do with them is boil them, then cut them up and put them in a pan with vegetables. Whatever I have in the house and put a little nutritional yeast and a little liquid Bragg aminos and that's breakfast. I like red potatoes as well on Yukon Gold, but I've really love the particularly garnet yams!!
I eat a low fat high carb diet, with about 50% of my calories from fresh fruit and the rest from fresh and cooked veggies, and starches (usually potatoes and rice) along with some beans and fermented foods like tamari and kimchi. In the beginning of my transition to this diet, I put my meals in chronometer for about 2 months. Now, I consume about 2700 calories a day and my omega 3 has never been lower than 100%. So, if you get enough calories you'll be fine. I've been doing this for 3 months and I've lost 5 kilos so far ☺ (though I'm not massively overweight, I had out on 15 kilos and crept over my BMI).
The only thing the doctor is wrong on is he is pushing a low-fat diet. High Fat or not worrying about the amount of fat is Keto, Carnivore, Paleo etc. We know that a high fat diet does not make a fatty liver. But a simple sugar or simple carb diet (sugary foods and drinks) is what makes a fatty liver and messes up your Pancreas and leads to insulin resistance. I'd like to ad that a Mediterranean Diet with 'lot's of meat's' is the best way to go if you suffer from low-blood sugar and if you want to be a centurian or live long. Note: You can also have pasta but the pasta has to be imported and of the highest quality (Duram Wheat Semolina)---as long as you don't do it. Moderation is key to the pasta. Baked potatos if fine. Keep thee hoagies and mom& pop high quality pizzas to a minimum and for special occasions. You need to add fat to your complex carbs to slow the absorbtion (like butter and olive oil). He is wrong about that too! My Endocrinologist is correct about that and I agree. When you add butter, olive oil or a fatty meat to your meal....it slows down the absorbtion of the whole meal. This is key!!!
I eat low carb with protein and fat to satiety. I agree that I can have a potato, carrots, legumes, fruit etc in moderation, but I avoid the processed foods and I’m not that into sweet potato anyway, so no loss there.
Very interesting i am just learning about low carbs ,a few days ago and now i am understanding how to balance my carbs in my diet so as to be healthier
Eliminating all the fat rich whole foods and eating carb rich foods is what made me insulin resistant on bp meds and feeling like crap every day. When I limited my carb intake to around 40 g per day which could include a potato etc, and increased non-processed fats to satiety, I lost weight, went off bp meds, corrected insulin resistance and felt so much better. This presenter is speaking half truth. There are published clinical trials that show that adding healthy fat to a carb dense fibre rich food actually blunts the glucose spike and therefore the insulin response. It’s recent news.
Cyrus is a genius with a bio chem PhD. I'm going to 100% take his advice. Since just not eating carbs doesn't reverse insulin resistant fat jammed cells. He makes it simple to understand and simple to do. Dr Barnard recommends the same low fat approach. I recommend that everyone find a RU-vid with Neal Barnard explaining insulin resistance. It's pure gold.
@@tanyasydney2235 That’s the one thing these guys never mention - one size doesn’t fit all - if my husband eats a banana his glucose spikes. If he eats a banana with natural peanut butter he does not spike.
Thank you for being the dedicated, thoughtful, and compassionate doctor that you are, you are more honest than I imagined, thank you so much Dr Igudia RU-vid channel for curing my type 2 Diabetes, you are amazing
