hello friends and patients dr. Barry
back again to talk to you about a very
important subject type-2 diabetes
now there's some disagreement in the
medical community about whether type-2
diabetes is a disease of diet or a
disease of genetics or a disease of
lifestyle and also is it curable or is
it not curable and so I want to talk
about this for a few minutes today and
give you some insight into the things
I've discovered over the last decade
when I've been doing this on a daily
basis type 2 diabetes is a devastating
condition people who suffer from it you
may have a family member who's lost a
leg who's on dialysis who is blind who's
who has lost toes I mean it can really
destroy your life it is a huge risk
factor for heart attack and stroke and
dementia it's something that you never
want to come close to having yet as
America and as the Western world gets
more and more overweight type 2 diabetes
becomes very very common in the past
when I was first training in medical
school it was almost unheard of for a
child to have type 2 diabetes it was it
was called adult onset diabetes back
then because no children had it now it's
very common much more common than it
should be for a child to have type 2
diabetes and that the medical community
should be ashamed of itself that there
is a such thing as juvenile type 2
diabetes that shouldn't exist so let's
talk about this and let's talk about
whether we can cure this or not we can
definitely make it better but I think we
can cure it so first of all let's talk
about the difference between type 2 and
type 1 diabetes very quickly your
pancreas makes insulin and if your
pancreas stops making insulin for any of
a variety of reasons then you have type
1 diabetes you have to have insulin or
you'll die
so type 1 diabetics are a completely
different topic it really type 2
diabetes probably shouldn't even be
called diabetes it should be called
something else because insulin is not
the solution for
to diabetes as it is for type 1 diabetes
type 2 diabetes is diagnosed in someone
who previously had normal blood sugars
and normal insulin levels and normal
hemoglobin a1c levels and who now have
elevated levels this is a terrible thing
if your doctor said oh your hemoglobin
a1c is elevated a little bit I want you
to do this and this and then we'll check
it again in six months I don't want you
to think oh well my even sees a loyal
but it's no big deal I want you to be
mortified I want you to be terrified
that your hemoglobin a1c is elevated
that should never happen if that happens
then there's you you're on the verge of
having terrible terrible medical
consequences so what's the diagnose the
definition of type 2 about diabetes so
what we go by these days is called a
hemoglobin a1c and that gives me a
three-month average of what your blood
Sugar's been doing on a daily basis it's
not exact but it's good enough that we
can diagnose you based on that if your
hemoglobin a1c is below a 5.6 or below
then that's that's fine I actually want
to be much lower than 5.6 but if it's
five point six or lower that's okay for
now if it's five point seven to six
point four then you're what we call a
pre-diabetic borderline diabetic insulin
resistant in the past we kind of acted
like well that's not terrible you know
it could be worse but I want you to
understand today that if your hemoglobin
a1c is five point seven or above you are
at huge risk of heart attack stroke
dementia losing limbs blindness dialysis
terrible terrible things I want you to
take that number very very seriously and
if your doctor if you have high blood
pressure or if you have any other risk
factors for heart disease or stroke and
your doctor doesn't tell you what your
hemoglobin a1c level is I want you to
ask him because if he didn't check it
that's a problem you guys probably need
to have a talk and you either need to
train your doctor or you need to find a
new doctor but if he says oh it was 5.8
and that's not too bad we'll just keep
an eye on it no no no I want you to get
on the internet start googling start
asking other people other doctors my 1c
is five point nine or six point two and
my doctor said that's not a big deal is
that a big deal or not it is okay that
puts you at huge risk for all these
medical things that you don't want trust
me so if your hemoglobin a1c is six
point five or higher than you are a
type-2 diabetic
maybe now how does your doctor know that
you're not suddenly a type one diabetic
well there's a couple of labs he can
check you can either check your C
peptidyl level or you can just check an
insulin level and based on those labs he
can tell you if you still make insulin
or not because if you still make insulin
you're not a type one diabetic you don't
need insulin ever and we'll get to that
but if you're a type two diabetic
insulin is never the answer for you
okay we'll get to what the answer is but
that's not it
so if your doctor says oh you're a type
2 diabetic I'm going to start you on the
insulin you need to you need to worry
about that and talk about that and say
wait a minute
don't I still make insulin and if he
says wool I don't know if you do or not
that he needs to check your say peptide
or your insulin level and know for a
fact because there are adults who become
type 1 diabetics their pancreas just
stops making insulin and if that's you
you need to know that because no pill in
the world will fix your diabetes even
your diet you won't fix it if you
stopped making insulin so you got you
have to know the answer to that so if
your doctor doesn't know whether you're
making insulin or not that's a problem
you need the answer to that question so
let's say he did check a seed peptide or
an insulin level and you're still making
insulin you've just become resistant to
it what are you gonna do well there's
all these pills for type 2 diabetes and
he'll probably start you on warning for
a while that's fine but I want you to
consider that pill a band-aid until you
can fix the underlying problem yourself
because type 2 diabetes is a is a
disease of diet okay slender people who
eat paleo diets in other countries never
have type 2 diabetes it's exclusively
and we call it a lifestyle disease but
that's really not even true because you
can exercise you can live on the
treadmill and if you don't change your
diet you'll never cure your type-2
diabetes so that's the first thing I
want you to understand is the the
solution is your diet you have to fix
your diets okay now let's talk about
that is it is it fat that's making you
type 2 diabetic is it protein what is it
90 percent of the time it's starches and
sugars ok so if you're a diabetic it's
not cute that you drink two or three
cokes a day or sodas a day in the South
I told you we call them cokes but soft
drinks that's not funny that's not a
joke you're doing permanent damage that
can never be taken back
if you're drinking teas with that sweet
and if your drink putting sugar in your
coffee if you're drinking fruit juices I
don't care if the organic fruit juice I
don't care if there are no sugar added
fruit juice you are making your diabetes
worse you're literally giving yourself
diabetes by drinking those things stop
that immediately someone with the
hemoglobin a1c a 5.7 or higher doesn't
ever need to drink a calorie ever if
it's an occasional treat that's fine but
as far as a daily basis you don't need
to drink any calories if you're drinking
calories you're making your diabetes
worse okay you there there are essential
amino acids you have to have them those
are protein building blocks or you'll
die you have to have them there are
essential fats fatty acids you have to
have them or you will die there is no
such thing as an essential sugar there
is no such thing as an essential carb
there is no such thing as an essential
starch you don't ever need them in your
diet ever now the big corporations can
make all kinds of things out of grains
and grasses and starches and sugars so
they will pay every big Association
every medical association to say oh gosh
you need your whole week you need your
grains you need your your all this stuff
no you
need any of that okay your body will
actually get better and get more healthy
and flourish by not eating those things
okay so you have to understand type-2
diabetes is a disease of your diet which
means your diet caused it that's the bad
news
the good news is that you can use your
diet to cure it yes security that's
right I firmly believe that in many of
more and more doctors today are
believing that as well William Davis a
very prominent cardiologist believes you
can cure type 2 diabetes dr. Jason Fung
a very prominent nephrologist or kidney
specialist he believes you can cure your
type-2 diabetes not believe it - and I
want you to believe it I want you to
investigate this and I want you to cure
your type-2 diabetes and prevent
yourself from ever having it to start
with now do you need to lose weight
to cure type 2 diabetes indirectly yes
when you get off the starches and off
the grains and off the grasses and off
the sugars you're naturally going to
lose weight and that's going to
naturally lower your blood sugar which
is going to naturally lower the amount
of insulin that you need and that's
gonna make you naturally lose weight and
it may be a little slower than you want
to and if you want to see your doctor
and see if he can help you hurry up the
weight loss that's that's acceptable but
I want you to understand the reason
you're overweight if you are is because
of your diet now if your doctor has
checked
your thyroid labs and your other labs
and we know there's no medical reason
for you to be able to wait it's your
diet and you can play reindeer games and
you can pretend like you never eat
anything or you only eat raw cabbage on
Tuesday I'm sorry if you're overweight
and your lab work is normal it's your
diet I'm sorry okay so by fixing your
diet you can fix your diabetes and so we
talked about this cure and people say
well you can't cure it you can just get
your a1c level down low enough that we
can say it's controlled but if you're
anyone sees below 6.4 then you're not
diabetic because that's the definition
of diabetes right so but I want you to
get your a1c down under 5.7 so that
you're not even pre-diabetic anymore and
that's completely in your hands you can
do that you can listen to this video
today you
Google a few things you can do some
research and you can cure your type-2
diabetes and you don't even need a
doctor to help you do it I'd prefer if
you did have a doctor because you need
someone to check these labs to make sure
you haven't become a type 1 diabetic but
after that you can do it yourself you
don't need me you don't need your doctor
you don't need anybody you can do it
yourself with enough knowledge okay what
about the medications don't they cure
the type 2 diabetes all the pills for
type 2 diabetes none of them cure that
condition all they do is they keep your
blood sugar lower and more and more
research is showing that the blood sugar
being high in your blood is just a
symptom of the diabetes that's not
actually the diabetes okay that's like
if you have the flu and it would make
your fever go up right and so if you
took some Tylenol and it made your fever
go down then did you cure the the flu
with your Tylenol no I don't think so
did you make your flu better no all you
did was lower the temperature you
lowered your fever that's all you did
and that's what the pills for type 2
diabetes do they lower your blood sugar
but many doctors and a couple of huge
studies have recently shown that even if
you take the pills and keep your blood
sugar low you're still doing the damage
behind the scenes it doesn't lower your
risk of mortality or morbidity at all by
taking the pills and keeping your blood
sugar down you have to fix this
condition this disease with your diet
okay what about exercise now exercise is
great and if you do resistance training
and you build muscle that's probably
going to help you keep your blood sugar
down but is he gonna cure your diabetes
probably not no probably not exercise is
great for you it's great for your brain
it's great for your body and hundreds of
ways but exercise is never going to help
you lose weight and it's probably not
going to help you cure your diabetes
okay
the number one way you're going to cure
your diabetes is by fixing your diet
with either a ketogenic diet to start
with and then morphing into a paleo diet
some people can keep doing ketogenic
forever but if you're eating starches
and sugars and carbs simple carbs you're
never going to cure your diabetes okay
if you go see a nutritionist and he or
she's not in the know
they may tell you how your type 2
diabetic you need to eat more whole
grains if your doctor or your dietitian
tells you as a type 2 diabetic you need
to eat more whole grains you need to
probably look elsewhere for advice ok so
I want to leave you with a couple of
books that you can read yourself and if
you read these books you'll be smarter
than the average dietitian or doctor
when it comes to type-2 diabetes
sorry doctors and dietitians the truth
is what it is if you don't like it that
doesn't change it ok the first one is
called the obesity code by dr. Jason
Fung
he's a prominent nephrologist or kidney
specialist and he is on top of this you
read that book and you'll understand
this you'll never be tricked again the
second one is one called keto clarity by
Jimmy Moore he's just a guy who was
obese and diabetic and he said you know
what I'm sick of this I'm gonna fix this
and he did so much research on his own
that he is he has fixed his obesity is
fixed his diabetes and now he's helping
other people do the same thing a third
book is called the Paleo diet by Cordain
I love this book it was one of the very
first books that woke me up and got me
interested in this sort of thing I
highly recommend all three of those
books to help you cure your type-2
diabetes and in the process you're going
to lose weight as well you're going to
lower your risk factors you're going to
lower your risk of heart attack stroke
dementia kidney failure all these things
okay there's so many of my patients
running around with a hemoglobin a1c of
five point seven eight nine and other
doctors have told them well that's okay
we'll just keep it there but then a few
years later their creatinine level
starts to elevate and they're like well
I've got kidney pride sale yer I don't
understand what's going on and all the
doctors act like I don't know why you
have kidney failure but just don't take
this and this and this and we'll keep
watching that anyone see mm-hmm guess
what people that anyone see the insulin
the the sugar that's what's causing the
kidney failure okay I have other
patients with elevated a1c and they go
and see the endocrinologist he's like
well we're just gonna watch and you take
these pills and then a few days a few
years later they've got fatty liver
disease and everybody's like I don't
know why you have that I don't know it's
just I don't know it's a thing so just
try to you know limit
your saturated fat intake and I'm going
okay that's not what caused that and
that's not what's gonna cure that you
have to fix your fatty liver you have to
fix your kidney failure by fixing your
diet okay there's no pill that's going
to do that for you you have to eat the
right things and you have to avoid the
wrong things that's just the long and
the short of it and if you don't like
that you can just click away from this
video and pretend you didn't hear it but
you've heard it and you've been told and
you've been warned and if you don't heed
my words you'll suffer later okay
more and more doctors are waking up to
this that slightly elevated a1c is not
okay somebody with an insulin resistance
with an elevated insulin or an elevated
C peptide that is a huge risk factor
that's not okay alright so get with your
doctor get with your dietitian and ask
them about these things make notes and
take notes and say hey what the heck dr.
berry said this was not okay that my a1c
was 6.2 is is it okay or not okay and if
they get upset that you bring
information that you learned on the
internet you probably need to find a new
doctor I love it when patients bring
stuff that they heard or read on the
internet when they print stuff out and
they bring stuff to me that means that
they care about their health that's
actually a good thing that's not bad
doctors if your patient brings you stuff
and you get irritated by that you maybe
need to look in the mirror and refocus
because you're trying to help people
don't you want their help in helping
them I do I like it when patients are
motivated and want to help themselves so
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