Do you want to see type 2 diabetes reversed on TV, using a low-carb approach? Here's the first episode of Doctor in the House, a great new show on BBC with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee.
Dr. Chatterjee spends two months helping a family where the husband has out-of-control type 2 diabetes. The husband is a walking time bomb for a heart attack or worse.
The prescription? A low-carb diet, intermittent fasting (eating only allowed during 10 hours per day) and some high-intensity interval training. After a while they add 24-hour fasting a few times a week.
The result? A revelation. In just two months his blood sugar control improves massively, he's already off most of his diabetes drugs and he lost tons of weight. He feels fantastic.
Old-school dietitians freak out
Can you see how dangerous this must be? All that sudden health and weight loss? Danger is apparently what old-school British dietitians see. The British Dietetic Association immediately put out a press release:
BDA: BDA alarmed by controversial and potentially dangerous advice in BBC's 'Doctor in the House'Amazingly this is not a joke and they probably do not realize how absurd they sound. Isn't getting personalized advice based on cutting-edge science, via their own in-house doctor a good thing? Isn't massively improved health - even being able to get off medications - a good thing?
Isn't it perhaps even better than following obsolete guidelines via the Church of Dietetics, while staying sick and on drugs?
