Defeating Diabetes: Foods to Improve Blood Sugar | Brenda Davis, RD

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

People can live with type 2 diabetes for years as their health slowly declines. That doesn’t have to be you.

Dietitian Brenda Davis explains why insulin resistance does not improve despite following the typical nutrition guidelines they’ve been given. In fact, the very foods that are being avoided are often the ones that can bring blood sugar back under control.

Discover what these powerful foods are and how they can improve and potentially even reverse type 2 diabetes as Brenda joins “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room Podcast.

— In this interview —

- Type 2 diabetes: Where are we going wrong?

- Ultra processed foods and diabetes

- Whole foods and insulin resistance

- Overlooked foods that can improve diabetes

- Where the typical diabetes diet goes wrong

- Protein and fat

- Carbs

- Steel cut vs rolled oats

- And more!

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When: April 17-18, 2025

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0:00.0	Today on the exam room.
0:04.0	Type 2 diabetes is actually quite reversible in a lot of people.
0:10.0	So if we get to the root of the disease, diet can be a profound and powerful tool,
0:15.0	driving type 2 diabetes into remission.
0:22.2	Welcome to the exam room podcast, brought to you by the Physicians Committee. Hi, I'm the
0:27.4	weight loss champion Chuck Carroll, raising health IQs coast to coast and around the world.
0:32.9	Hi to the exam room. He's listening in Lowell, Massachusetts, Abilene, Texas, and Frankfurt, Germany.
0:39.6	Wherever you are, we appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place.
0:44.0	This is episode 20 of Season 8, number 619 overall.
0:49.5	You know, people can live with type 2 diabetes for years, only as those years roll by to see their health
0:57.2	slowly decline but that doesn't have to be you you see that health decline can come even if a person
1:05.2	is following what has been prescribed to them as the typical diabetes diet, you know, the one that the doctors will
1:11.7	give you when you have first been diagnosed with it. They're not trying to harm you, but there is,
1:17.3	as research now shows, a big piece of the puzzle that has been missing. And explaining that for us
1:24.6	today is dietician Brenda Davis. She is going to share with us why insulin
1:29.5	resistance does not improve despite following that typical nutrition guideline that we are so often
1:37.1	given. In fact, Brenda will share with us the very foods that are being avoided why they're often
1:44.0	the ones that can bring blood sugar
1:45.6	back under control.
1:47.0	We've got a lot of ground to cover here.
1:49.1	If that sounds like you may have heard that a time or two, oh wait, there are new wrinkles
1:53.2	of plenty, my friends.
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