David Unwin

You can put it into remission.

And today I'm joined by Dr. David Unwin to talk about his experience as a primary care doctor in the NHS system, what it looked like for him treating type 2 diabetes before and after he discovered low-carb nutrition, ketogenic interventions, and the concepts of food addiction.

So he goes through all of these different aspects of treating type 2 diabetes with the key being looking at what is the cause, not just treating the blood sugar, but looking at what is the cause of the disorder.

And that's how you can most effectively treat it.

And the way it's affected his life and his patients' lives is quite dramatic.

So I hope you enjoy this interview with Dr. David Unwin.

Many of the interventions we discuss can have potentially dangerous effects if done without

proper supervision.

It's well under the normal level of 140 over 90.

I've also included a research link in the show notes down below to a study done by the wonderful UK doctor, Dr. David Unwin, who did a study in his patients and he found that when they ate a low carbohydrate diet, all of their blood pressures returned to normal.

and most of them were able to stop all the blood pressure medication that they were taking, therefore eliminating all the copays and all the side effects and all the potential ramifications that come from taking several prescription medications together on a daily basis.

I have multiple videos on this channel that explain to you how to eat a very low carbohydrate diet, all of the delicious foods that are involved in a low carb diet, and all of the nutrition facts how many vitamins, where to get my minerals, where to get amino acids and fatty acids.

I can't wait for you to join us, be inspired, and be part of this movement for change.

My next guest is Dr. David Unwin, an NHS family doctor in Southport in the UK, who's helped 150 of his type two diabetes patients achieve drug-free remission using a low carbohydrate approach, one of the best results of any clinic in the world.

He's also Royal College of GPs advisor on diabetes, has published 20 research papers, created the viral teaspoons of sugar infographics, which I use and recommend all of the time.

And in 2021, one of his papers published in BMJ Nutrition was voted paper of the year.

We run and host the world's most, um, active and online engaged social platform.

Um, it's a forum like Dr. David Unwin, um, mentioned, and it's basically a community of, um, of people and patients that have diabetes or have an association to diabetes, whatever type that may be, where they can talk to each other, get advice and support, and help learn and, and, and kind of grow and develop from them.

We also run the world's most engaged, um, diabetes Facebook community, um, and we have over 325,000 members.

Over the last four years we've been, um, collecting data from patient fe- feedback, from surveys, and also sentiment analysis on the forum, and combining this with the latest evidence base to create, um, digital health interventions.

For someone with pre-diabetes, a diagnosis of pre-diabetes doesn't automatically mean that if you carry on in the same route, you know, obviously it would lead to pre- to Type 2, but actually there's something that you can do about it.

And for Type 1 diabetes, which has had a little bit of a mention today, blood glucose, blood glucose normalization can occur if you do reduce the carbohydrates and the sugar intake that you're eating, and y- that means that you're able to kind of improve your management and reduce your long-term complications.

So like [laughs] Dr. David Unwin mentioned as well, here he is, um...

And I have apologized for him being a troll, by the way, numerous times.

If you just turn it around, then [clicks tongue] you'll find it a lot easier, honestly." [laughs] Um, and, um, a prime example of using the correct end of the hammer is this chap, who's sitting on the front row right here, and he'll be speaking over the weekend, um, called Dr.

David Unwin.

He's a GP, um, who's, uh, based in the northwest of England, um, in a town called Southport.

Um, and over, uh, the past year, he's managed to reduce, um, the drugs costs, um, for his practice by £39,000 in drugs diabetes alone, and that's just in one practice.

So my aim in life is to give people an informed choice.

And I think David Unwin mentioned yesterday, he always talks to his patients, do you want to have... medication for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the way you eat? And they will choose that, but at least they can choose, and they know what the right thing is, right? So, okay, so that's my philosophy slide done.

Quick few words about Swiss Reef.

So we're 153 years old.

So what's going to happen to the libid profile? What's going to happen to, and we've all been asked that, right? But without very long term data, it's hard to have an answer.

So I want to show this to you quickly.

This is a study by David Unwin, and he took almost 70 people who were diabetic or pre-diabetic, overweight, and he put them in a low-carb program.

And you have the pre-intervention kind of parameters, and you've got the post-intervention parameters.

I mean, there is a counterculture.

Was it David Unwin or

Peter Unwin up north who's

done all this great stuff for type 2 diabetes just with diet? And we know that, you know, we control it completely with diet.

It's well under the normal level of 140 over 90.

I've also included a research link in the show notes down below to a study done by the wonderful UK doctor, Dr. David Unwin, who did a study in his patients, and he found that when they ate a low carbohydrate diet, all of their blood pressures returned to normal, and most of them were able to stop all the blood pressure medication that they were taking, therefore eliminating all the copays and, and all the side effects and all the potential ramifications that come from taking several prescription medications together on a daily basis.

I have multiple videos on this channel that explain to you how to eat a very low carbohydrate diet, all of the delicious foods that are involved in a low-carb diet, and all of the nutrition facts.

How, how many vitamins, where to get my minerals, where to get amino acids and fatty acids.

I'm making a very quick video, uh, for the wonderful 10-year celebration of Low Carb Down Under.

So really I am of course, uh, Dr. David Unwin.

I...

Where am I? I'm in the Mediterranean.