You haven’t offended me.
I don’t mind your process.
I am looking at things from many directions. I am following doctors who approach things from many directions.
I listen to Dr. Greger, yes, and Dr Ornish, and Dr. Barnard, and Dr. Esselstyne and Dr. Mercola and Dr. Seyfried and Dr. Berg and Dr. Fung and Dr. Longo and Dr. Patrick and Dr. Bredesen and Drs Sherzai, etc. I read PubMed article after article and listen to T.Colin Campbell and Dr Hyman and the list of doctors I listen to every day is quite long and I read Discover Magazine and Science Digest and I look at the Alzheimer’s sites and they list a lot of research and the Parkinson’s community lists a lot of research and so does the Autism community and the Diabetes communities.
My only point to you is that you are throwing out Dr. Barnard’s research or not including it and I don’t know if you really tried his process.
You gave me a Diabetes master from the Keto perspective and I was already aware of it and I gave you Mastering Diabetes from the Whole Food Plant Based perspective and I don’t know if you are really aware of the Whole Food Plant Based perspective or what your thoughts on things like the Blue Zones are. The Okinawans or the Adventist longevity studies., etc. Being in the Whole Food Plant Based communities, I read comments by people who have reversed all kinds of diseases.
You mention brain issues and I take that very seriously. The Sherzai’s approach versus Dr. Bredesen and I am waiting for Dr. Ornish’s study and have kept Dr. Barnard’s thoughts in the back of my head and I am fully aware of the war between these communities.
I guess, I just find staying neutral and not trying to figure out which one is better even but just listening and trying things and, yes, measuring things like A1C, and blood sugar, which I am aware both Whole Food Plant Based and Keto can lower, but I do believe the science that you can reverse T2D with diet and I believe fully that I have done that. I am watching my brothers and their spouses and my friends do Keto, but my younger brother and his wife moved from prediabetic to diabetic using Keto and my diabetic friends didn’t get off their meds, but they might not be disciplined enough to succeed with Keto and that is a really big deal to me. They either have to get more disciplined and use intermittent fasting or switch to whole food plant based, but they don’t like vegetables and fruit all that much and, right now, their blood sugar spikes any carbs, because keto makes you more sensitive to carbs.
The Whole Food Plant Based on-line communities have so many people who have gotten off of all their diabetes meds and that is something I don’t throw out.
Dr. McDougall, who would be the most controversial of the Whole Food Plant Based diet said that when Diabetics go on his diet, he needs to talk with their doctor immediately, because their meds have to drop so fast and he is white potatoes and people have lost hundreds of pounds on his diet.
I don’t do better or worse because people need to be able to do the diets and succeed.
The Okinawans were living into their 100’s only eating 6% of their calories from fat, so Keto isn’t the only game in town is what I am saying to you.
I know that you will be more capable of analyzing the research better than I am even capable of and I can see that you judge Dr. Greger as less than people like Dr. Patrick, but he has walked me through so many things and everything he has given me to try has worked, so I just consider him a friend even though I don’t know him.
I watched Bob’s interview with Dr. Mercola and I am sure he feels the same way. If someone helps you through something like a stroke, you don’t even want to be part of any discussion throwing them under the bus ever.