The Farmacy16 Okt 2023

The Low Carb GP - Dr David Unwin

Charles and Rachel talk to Dr David Unwin, @lowcarbGP, also known as the Low Carb GP, who is a GP in Southport, diabetes expert and pioneer in the low carb approach to managing and reversing Type II Diabetes. He won the NHS Innovator of the year award for the successful strategies he has developed for reversing type II Diabetes with diet. In this fascinating episode Charles and Rachel learn about how David developed his approach and how we can all consider the carbohydrates in our diet whether we are type II diabetes sufferers or not. David's other passion is for regenerative farming and he talks about this with equal passion and compares the lessons and challenges we face in medicine to those in farming

.2:50 Introduction to Dr David Unwin

4:30 How the low carb approach started

8:00 The outcomes of using the low carb approach

9:30 Why are rates of Type II Diabetes increasing and insulin resistance

14:20 The low carb approach in General Practice

19:50 Food addiction

22:25 Should we all be going low-carb?

26:50 Why is the NHS Diabetes advice not following low carb?

28:50 The Freshwell low carb app and the Diabetes UK plan: https://www.diabetes.org.uk/guide-to-diabetes/enjoy-food/eating-with-diabetes/meal-plans/low-carb

30:50 Analogies with regenerative farming

33:50 Long term effects of fertiliser

36:30 David's role at The three Owls bird sanctuaryhttp://www.threeowls.co.uk/

39:30 Nutritional density of food

41:30 Sharing knowledge between health and farming

47:00 Summary of the analogies between medicine and farming

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