<p>Cyrus and Robby are the co-authors of the New York Times bestselling book Mastering Diabetes: The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 1.5, Type 2, Prediabetes, and Gestational Diabetes.</p>
<p>They are also the team behind MasteringDiabetes.org, an online coaching platform for people living with all forms of diabetes that focuses on low-fat plant-based whole-food nutrition.</p>
<p>Cyrus has a PhD in nutritional biochemistry from UC Berkeley and has been living with type 1 diabetes since 2002.</p>
<p>Robby has a master’s degree in public health and has been living with type 1 diabetes since 2000.</p>
<p>Current medical wisdom advises that anyone suffering from diabetes or prediabetes should eat a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet. But in this paradigm shifting book, they go through a century of research to reveal how that advice is misguided.</p>
<p>If you fall anywhere on the diabetes spectrum, this is a must listen.</p>
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Episode Outline</h2>
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<li><a href="#t=06:33">06:33</a> The different types of diabetes and prediabetes</li>
<li><a href="#t=16:04">16:04</a> How the conventional wisdom of a low-carb, high-fat diet is misguided</li>
<li><a href="#t=28:24">28:24</a> Why food is medicine and what they recommend for reversing insulin resistance</li>
<li><a href="#t=43:20">43:20</a> The green, yellow, and red food choice list for reversing insulin resistance</li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Key Points</h2>
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<li>The common understanding is that there are two types of diabetes—type 1 and type 2. In truth, there are six types today: type 1, type 1.5, prediabetes, type 2, gestational, and type 3 (Alzheimer’s disease). To simplify things, we can think of these six types as being in one of two buckets: autoimmune (types 1 and 1.5) and non-autoimmune (prediabetes, type 2, gestational, and type 3 or Alzheimer’s disease).</li>
<li>Insulin resistance is the number one connecting puzzle piece between prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, and type 3 diabetes. And insulin resistance is the thing that will make your life with type 1 and 1.5 diabetes very complicated. So, if you can get a handle on what insulin resistance is and reverse it using food as medicine, your symptomology can practically disappear in the non-autoimmune bucket; but, in addition to that, it can make your life with type 1 and 1.5 diabetes way easier.</li>
<li>Whether you are injecting insulin or are trying to get the insulin you are producing endogenously to work more efficiently, subscribe to a low-fat, plant-based, whole-food diet which is low in trans-fat, low in saturated fat, low in advanced glycation end products (AGEs), low-heme iron, and low in excess sodium. If you put this all together, you will basically reverse insulin resistance by minimizing excess dietary fat.</li>
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Powerful Quotes by Cyrus and Robby</h2>
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<li>In the first six-to-12 months of eating a low-carbohydrate diet, all of these positive benefits come around. But if you fast-forward and move one, two, five, or ten years into the future, the picture changes in a very negative way. ~Cyrus</li>
<li>We’re unifying everybody who is living with any form of diabetes to focus on one thing: What lifestyle choices can you make to allow insulin to work more efficiently? ~Robby</li>
<li>The easiest way to shut doors to energy is to block insulin from working. Insulin is the most powerful anabolic hormone in your body. ~Cyrus</li>
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Cyrus Khambatta PhD and Robby Barbaro MPH on Mastering Diabetes – The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 2 and Prediabetes! </strong>

Cyrus Khambatta PhD and Robby Barbaro MPH on Mastering Diabetes – The Revolutionary Method to Reverse Insulin Resistance Permanently in Type 1, Type 2 and Prediabetes! </strong>

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