Everything that we were taught about nutrition and diabetes back in the day was wrong. Today we know that sugar is poison and fat is fine. And that Type 2 diabetes can be reversed.
Welcome to Episode 9 of Everything is Everything, a weekly podcast hosted by Amit Varma and Ajay Shah.
In this episode, Amit talks about how he reversed his Type 2 Diabetes -- and along the way, he tells us the history of how the Sugar Lobby of America shaped a dangerous consensus that led to the Obesity Epidemic. The key part in Amit's understanding what food does to our bodies was using a continuous glucose monitor (CGM) -- something that Ajay recommended to him. Ajay discusses his nuanced learnings about food from using the CGM. Their recommendations include essential books about Indian and Soviet politics -- a great diet for the brain!
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
00:00 Teaser and packaging
00:50 Introduction: Ajay Makes People Cry
02:44 Prologue: Sugar is Poison
05:11 Chapter 1: The Addiction
07:59 Chapter 2: Diabetes
12:46 Chapter 3: Dogmas and the Sugar Lobby
20:40 Chapter 4: Amit's Journey -- Reversing Diabetes
52:19 Chapter 5: Amit's Recco
55:27 Chapter 6: Ajay's Recco
USEFUL RESOURCES:
1. Amit on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
2. Ajay on Twitter: [ Ссылка ]
3. The Seen and the Unseen -- Amit's audio podcast: [ Ссылка ]
(Also on all podcast apps. And YouTube, though less than 1% of listens come from here: [ Ссылка ]
4. Ajay's organisation, XKDR Forum, on YouTube: [ Ссылка ]
5. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah: [ Ссылка ]
6. The Art of Clear Writing -- Amit's writing course: [ Ссылка ]
7. The Case Against Sugar -- Gary Taubes: [ Ссылка ]
8. The Big Fat Surprise -- Nina Teicholz: [ Ссылка ]
9. The Obesity Code -- Jason Fung: [ Ссылка ]
10. Sweetness and Power -- Sidney Mintz: [ Ссылка ]
11. Nina Teicholz on The Joe Rogan Experience: spotify:episode:6pFSP4gXRxcaDLISlbZVXt
12. The Diabetes Code -- Jason Fung: [ Ссылка ]
13. The perfect treatment for diabetes and weight loss -- Jason Fung interviewed by Diet Doctor: youtube.com/watch?v=1a2Fsfa8e4I
14. The Botany of Desire -- Michael Pollan: [ Ссылка ]
15. Caste, Capitalism and Chandra Bhan Prasad — Episode 296 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
16. The Four Quadrants of Conformism -- Paul Graham: [ Ссылка ]
17. Ajay speaks out against Hydroponics: [ Ссылка ]
18. Host-diet-gut microbiome interactions influence human energy balance -- Karen D Corbin et al: [ Ссылка ]
19. Are all calories created equal? Your gut microbes don’t think so. -- Anahad O’Connor: [ Ссылка ]
20. Louie -- Louis CK: [ Ссылка ]
21. Shruti Jahagirdar is the Sporty One -- Episode 289 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
22. You can contact Shruti Jahagirdaar here: [ Ссылка ]
23. The Emergency: A Personal History -- Coomi Kapoor: [ Ссылка ]
24. Coomi Kapoor Has the Inside Track — Episode 305 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
25. Gyan Prakash on the Emergency — Episode 103 of The Seen and the Unseen: [ Ссылка ]
26. FreeStyle Libre Glucose Monitoring System (Reader & Sensor): [ Ссылка ]
27. Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire -- David Remnick: [ Ссылка ]
29. The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama -- David Remnick: [ Ссылка ]
Produced and edited by Vartika Singh: [ Ссылка ].
Thanks to Gaurav Chintamani for helping with the sound: [ Ссылка ]
Chapter images by Simahina: [ Ссылка ]
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