Dr. David Unwin - 'Can we beat T2 Diabetes? HOPE on the horizon'

From this revelation, Dr. Unwin now ignores official advice and treats his patients with a low-carbohydrate diet. Since adopting the approach, his practice now spends £50,000 less each year on drugs for diabetes than is average for his area.

Dr. Unwin is the RCGP National Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning in Obesity & Diabetes, as well as a Clinical Expert in diabetes. In 2015 he won the North West NHS ‘Innovator of the Year Award’ and in 2016 he won the National NHS 'Innovator of the Year Award' for his work in treating diabetes with a low carbohydrate approach.

[lindabarousse]

I love all your presentations. You have a kind voice...easy to listen to and learn. Thank you. 😊

[carolashlee]

I listened to your talk on non fatty liver disease.
That was me, 20 years of being told I have fatty liver, high cholesterol & hyper insulin.
Low carb / keto has fixed all of that.
I now am working on my auto immune and trying carnivore.
My asthma has gone also

[cookshackcuisinista]

Dr. Unwin, you are a delightful speaker, and the care you have really comes through in your presentation. I fall off the wagon every once in a while, but low carb is the way to go!

[markopolo]

What a lovely, caring doctor he is. Truly changing lives.

[Vitatalks]

These are amazing results. Well done. This should become national dietary policy for those with diabetes. Yet we still have diabetes guidelines advising people to still eat massive quantities of carbs!

[akanecortich]

I have no problem maintaining a keto diet. It is pretty simple, though you end up tending to limit the variety of your diet. I find hunger control comes from adjusting the level of fat in my diet. Nevertheless, even if you don't lose a ton of weight, losing a ton of HbA1c is the real issue. If that happens your cholesterol becomes irrelevant because good blood glucose levels means low LDL glycation, which is the real cholesterol nasty.

[sandraray]

I so enjoyed this talk. The power of using a paradigm of hope instead of fear and compliance!!!

[KetoMama]

I love your Witty since of humor and how fun you make learning thank you

[joannabenson]

You are a national treasure! Actually an international treasure!

[shereemoon]

So hopeful about Dr. Unwin’s message. I so pray the world will embrace this proven answer.

[bubbasizemore]

Fantastic job! Excellent presentation.

[helentucker]

I wish more doctors would follow your example

[Bob.W.]

Thanks. 3 months of low carb - went from an a1c of 9.0 to 5.8. Not sure how that transposes to mmol/mol.

[gracelynmeade]

DR Urwin is a genius. Sadly, the majority of GP's are out o touch with current reality and all they think about is prescribing drugs and collaborating with big pharma. All my GP cares about is putting me on Satins as my LDL is high. Despite the fact that all my other blood markers are excellent, he is insisting on me taking statins. He did not even take my blood pressure or test my urine. The service or diabetes in my practice is scandalous.

It is like another Afghanistan. We need practical and accessible information that patients easily understand. We need to lock up the food manufactures, put them on trial. Your presentation is so informative.

[ronosmo]

Best T2 remission talk ever! Thankyou Dr Unwin.

[magma]

WONDERFUL presentation & inspiration. Thank you.

[DMC]

When will the food marketing people get the message that low fat isn't necessarily healthy and high fat unhealthy? Adverts on TV and food packaging perpetuate the myth.

A few years ago the Daily Mail published a story stating that saturated fat had no link to heart disease and how LCHF was a better choice of diet. It all seems to have been forgotten again.

At a recent visit to my surgery the nurse told me to cut the fat from my diet when my triglycerides & LDL were found to be high. I'd come off the LCHF diet a few years ago and I was hammering the rice and bread again. So I know the answer.

[rfshields]

Introduce patients to intermittent fasting, keto way of eating, high healthy fats, and Autophagy...

[justinrickert]

What is the best blood test for diabetes?

[globalko]

My father have had high BP for 10 years, got a heart attack a years ago. Got put on both BP reducing and statins and was told by the doctor that he will never be able to stop using the medications, he is in his early 60s and I mean what kind of a mentality does the doctor have to tell a patient that? in regards of hope