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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dr. Fung, btw, is not a diabetes doctor and his science is iffy.  He's a nephrologist.

Intermittent fasting is permission to skip breakfast, if you need it.  I generally skip breakfast because I find that I get hungry for lunch when I have breakfast.  Generally, though, the way to lose weight is to cut calories a lot, not just skip breakfast or, in a more extreme form of IF, only eat one large meal per day.  [/quote]

IF is much more than just skipping breakfast, though that is one model.  A better model is actually eating breakfast and lunch and then fasting through to the next breakfast; it aligns better with natural cortisol and glucose spikes.  And there are many other types.

Dr. Fung's nephrology practice is mostly people with T2D since diabetes is the #1 cause of kidney disease.  He's not a board-certified endocrinologist, but he has vast clinical experience with reversing Type 2 diabetes through LCHF diets and fasting.  [/quote]

Dr. Fung is not an endocrinologist and doesn't understand insulin.  Losing weight is a great idea for many (not all) T2Ds.  His science is iffy.  Which is a kind way of saying, wrong.[/quote]

Let's be real here.  Most endocrinologists do not actually make type 2 diabetes better.  They believe that T2D is irreversible and progressive.  And they make it so.  They recommend diets that keep baseline insulin very high which worsens insulin resistance.  When insulin resistance worsens, they prescribe insulin.  Which makes their patients fatter and more insulin resistant.  And so they raise the insulin dosage...so the disease is progressive and irreversible.

But let's say you were, I dunno, a nephrologist focused in helping your patients avoid having to do dialysis because of diabetic kidney damage.  You'd focus on the diabetes.  And if you knew that hyperinsulinemia was the core problem, you'd treat that with low carb diet and intermittent fasting.  And wow...you'd see dozens and then hundreds of patients reverse their diabetes "progression".

So yeah.  Not an endocrinologist.  Just a clinical doctor with actual success helping diabetics get healthier, not believing that it's impossible and that diabetes is always progressive.  [/quote]

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