Rethinking Diabetes: Inspiring UK-based Healthcare Professionals Achieving Remarkable Outcomes

Jul 30, 2021

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Dr. Ruth Tapsell is an NHS GP and an ambassador for the UK’s Public Health Collaborative, a nonprofit organisation dedicated to improving the quality of public health education. She and her colleagues have been having outstanding success helping patients to reverse their type 2 diabetes with a low carbohydrate diet. During a time when improving metabolic health is more important than ever, Ruth is showing that it is indeed possible to turn the metabolic supertanker around quickly and effectively.

On this podcast, Ruth shares her perspective as a GP treating type 2 diabetes and prediabetes with a low carb approach. We discuss the effects this approach could have on a societal scale, including improved public health outcomes and huge financial savings, should the NHS adopt lifestyle interventions as the first-line treatment for metabolic disorders. Ruth also offers resources for making the change to low carb, for both health care consumers and practitioners.

As a reminder, the information provided in this podcast is for general informational purposes only and does not constitute the practice of medicine or other professional health care services, including the giving of medical advice.

Here’s the outline of this interview with Ruth Tapsell:

[00:00:13] Public Health Collaboration; The Real Foods Rocks Festival.

[00:00:19] Podcast with Sam Feltham: Real Food Initiatives for Public Health in the UK.

[00:00:36] Ruth's background and interest in low carb.

[00:00:59] David Unwin, Scientific Advisory Board member for the Public Health Collaboration in the UK.

[00:02:54] Treatment options prior to using a low carb approach.

[00:06:02] In patients with prediabetes, 93% attained a normal HbA1c; Study: Unwin, David, et al. "Insights from a general practice service evaluation supporting a lower carbohydrate diet in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and prediabetes: a secondary analysis of routine clinic data including HbA1c, weight and prescribing over 6 years." BMJ nutrition, prevention & health 3.2 (2020): 285.

[00:07:31] Virta Health.

[00:11:13] Public Health Collaboration on YouTube.

[00:12:42] Low carb and heart disease.

[00:13:46] Effects of ketogenic diet on cardiovascular indices; Virta Health paper: Athinarayanan, Shaminie J., et al. "Impact of a 2-year trial of nutritional ketosis on indices of cardiovascular disease risk in patients with type 2 diabetes." Cardiovascular diabetology 19.1 (2020): 1-13.

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