Type 1 Diabetics MUST Do This to Reduce Insulin

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well hello everyone today um I want to talk about type 1 diabetes in relationship to doing keto as well as intermittent fasting there’s been a lot of questions on this topic um type 1 diabetes is a situation where you can’t produce insulin anymore the cells that make insulin of the pancreas just are broken and this is the problem because now you can’t regulate blood sugars so your blood sugar goes really really high so a person that’s type 1 is dependent on um insulin now what did they do before they discovered insulin they did low carb right because if you lower your carb you decrease the need for insulin and that’s really the point about this interview with Manuel who is a type 1 diabetic is that the goal is to take the least amount of insulin possible to have normal blood sugars because everyone’s worried about high blood sugar but what about the high insulin you have to take the damage is just as bad as the high sugar so welcome manual I appreciate you taking the time out to tell us about your story um super excited to be here dog absolutely a pleasure uh this is something that I I’ve obviously felt that responsibility as I’ve gotten better in the subject I’ve gotten more control over my body like the fact that you are here giving me the opportunity to share this knowledge that I’ve accumulated um I’m definitely honored by it awesome how long have you been a type 1 diabetic Corp so it’s going on 21 years now I believe I’m 41 I developed the condition um when I was 19 or 20 years old and uh I I have a a theory that I believe that I was probably and you can tell me what your thoughts are doc I think I mentioned this before I believe I was a type 2 diabetic but then I didn’t pay attention to my body at all and I didn’t know what the heck was happening for a few years potentially until I I was actually living in Mexico and then I lost so much weight and I was going for the diabetic process of like having to go to the bathroom every 30 minutes and I couldn’t sleep well and I was weak and then my father was the one that told me you’re describing to me diabetes and that was the first time that I even understood what diabetes meant so I think that I was a few years already in the making until the pancreas collapsed on me that’s my theory and I could be wrong so this is an interesting point I just I won’t spend too much time but I want to just mention typically type 1 is autoimmune but but what about what about a situation where a lot of the type 2 diabetics um after a while have to start taking insulin because the cells of the pancreas just start dying out now this brings up an interesting point if you if you never had the autoimmune situation and this came from just going from type 2 to type 1 who knows who knows if that cell can’t come back I mean I would never rule it out as uh impossibility so that’s good data okay so here’s the thing the first question is um you before you did keto or intermittent fasting you were taking how many units of insulin per deck so uh I think um I can I can say that I have been pretty much skinny my whole life um all the way to obviously the age of 30 something I’m 41 now metabolism started going downhill I wasn’t eating that well that healthy and um I believe that I was averaging before Keto somewhere around 40 units a day which by the way I go to the doctor’s office and it’s crazy how low the standards are and you know that really well doc like the medical community standards are extremely low compared to your standards that you have for People’s Health I go to the doctor and I tell them yeah I’m I’m taking 40 units a day of my fast acting insulin and I’m taking uh 25 minutes a day of my long acting insulin two types of insulin and they look at my a1cs and they look at my body in general and they say wow you’re in really good shape which tells me I always Justified and I use that as like oh I’m in really good shape I don’t really have to do much of anything and my wife would always say but but that doesn’t make any sense because there’s so much more that we can get with our bodies and how much better we could get and I’m like oh yeah we’ll see so I used to take a lot of that insulin and I felt it was okay because uh when compared to other diabetics that were being treated on these practices the doctors were blown away with me some of these guys were taking 200 units a day like you know today yeah because the average the average is uh 0. 5 to 1 1 um times your kilograms in weight so I don’t know let’s say you were 180 pounds you’d be taking about 40 to 80 units per day on average but that was um but some people yeah they’re like 200 which means they’re eating a lot of carbohydrates to the people to push down that sugar so I think I think I was in the low end so I guess I was a a good behaving diabetic all right compared to where I’m at today doc yeah I think it was absolutely terrible uh now that I look at it as like the hindsight I’m like oh my god there was so much more to accomplish with the correct system I you know obviously I’ve been close to you for many years now I wish I would have paid attention earlier doc uh a lot more in detail because my life has dramatically changed even though I was at the lowest end of insulin use um I was still using anywhere from 20 units a day on a good day to 50 units a day on a day in which I misbehaved meaning that I I tried a couple of pizza slices I got four kids so things in my kitchen can get crazy so I I maybe put things in my mouth that I shouldn’t have so you know then we go into insulin resistance problems and other things because as I eat that stuff my body cannot handle it like if I had a piece of pizza and I have to dramatically increase my insulin use so on a bad day 50 maybe even six units of insulin that my body’s not responding to that was and I felt that I was pretty decent because like you said right now 40 to 80 is the average I think I was generally in the lowest side of things so that’s not it wasn’t terrible right now I can tell you it is terrible so so um so you get on keto you start doing fasting um all of a sudden this is an adjustment you’re like well wait a second I’m taking a lot less insulin you probably even nervous you’re taking so so small amounts like you you went down to uh what was correct me if I’m wrong but it was like three units or something units three units right now a bad day for me a bad day is five units of insulin you know what I told you I told your dog that uh 20 was a good day 50 is a bad day so right now I I went down to two on a good day and five on a bad day all right and it’s it’s it’s pretty dramatic so like based on on my theory at the beginning of the interview which you said that who knows maybe I was not even a type 1 to begin with ever so I’ve been decreasing it so so the one thing that I found is the the long acting one I use one called Lantus uh the long acting one I’ve been lowering it and I’m doing I went from 25 to Now using 10 a day this is one time a day 10 units so that one is the one that I have felt that is the most important one that if I completely take it away like here’s the thing I’m only eating once a day right now and I love it and I’m not hungry like something that we can talk about too like I I really it’s it’s it gives me goosebumps because it’s an experience that I I didn’t even know was possible like the whole thing of one meal a day I was like this is not realize it’s not superhuman I can’t do that now it’s just for me really normal like I I can go by an entire day and not feel hungry and it’s amazing and you kind of transition and so you go for the path of like first the addiction to food and the impulses of food then you get out of the addiction and now it’s a mental side of things so now you move out of the mental limiting factor that you cannot do that and now it’s like oh wow so I don’t r