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🗓️ 19 March 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Tired of conflicting advice on diabetes? This episode sets the record straight. Dr. Robbie Barbero, who reversed his own Type 1 diabetes with a plant-based diet, unpacks the science on what really causes insulin resistance.ro
You'll be shocked to learn it's NOT sugar as you've been told. Dr. Barbero reveals new research proving dietary fat - not sugar - is the true culprit behind the diabetes epidemic.
He'll also share his own protocol for reversing pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes through a high-carb, low-fat, plant-based approach.
Don't miss this revealing look at the real factors driving the diabetes crisis and take control of your insulin levels and health.
Highlights:
00:00 Intro
01:04 Dietary fat and sugar's role in insulin resistance
04:06 Low fat, high carbs diet for managing Type 1 diabetes
06:16 Robby’s typical daily routine – exercise and diet
10:12 Monitoring blood glucose levels
12:30 Eat more salad
15:39 Do plants want to kill us?
17:16 Healthy packaged foods and use of microwaves
20:56 The experiment with liquid sugar diet
22:12 The biggest impact is what you not eat
24:40 Find what is best for you
26:04 Joe’s story about his dad
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0:00.0 | It's not actually sugar that is the problem. |
0:04.6 | It is dietary fat, excess dietary fat that leads to insulin resistance |
0:11.0 | and that's the cause of pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes. |
0:14.0 | All right, that's fair, but is there a common enemy, which is processed foods? |
0:19.6 | Yes. |
0:20.6 | 100%. |
0:21.8 | Process foods, trans fats. I mean, these are common enemies that we should absolutely all avoid. |
0:28.0 | And we should really be focusing on whole foods. |
0:30.0 | From our perspective, we're teaching people to get more whole plants. You don't have to eat any specific food in order to meet your nutritional requirements and perform to your to your goals. |
0:43.2 | Welcome to the Hardway Podcast with Joe the Cenna, |
0:46.1 | founder and CEO of Spartan Races. |
0:49.4 | We're teaching you how to overcome your obstacles in your life |
0:52.3 | the same way we teach our 10 million |
0:53.8 | plus Spartans to overcome obstacles on the course with insight from the smartest |
0:58.0 | most accomplished experts from every corner of the world get ready to elevate your life |
1:02.4 | today. |
1:04.0 | All right, Joe Descenta here, CEO and founder of Spartan and host of the Hardway |
1:08.4 | podcast. I've got Robbie Barbero on the phone, plant-based diabetic cure of all. |
1:16.2 | You can cure diabetes, can't you, Doc? |
1:19.3 | That's a great question. |
1:21.8 | We can reverse insulin resistance in anybody who has insulin resistance, which is actually a lot more people listening to the show than they think. |
1:30.0 | A lot of people have and don't know it. |
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