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Therapeutic fasting is rapidly gaining popularity as an effective way to combat insulin resistance and manage type 2 diabetes.

Despite being a more recently discovered means of achieving diabetes reversal, therapeutic fasting has in fact been around for thousands of years, traditionally used by many cultural and religious groups across the globe.

In this fascinating presentation, Accredited Practising Dietitian Camilla Dahl offers her knowledge and expertise on therapeutic fasting and time-restricted eating integrating the latest evidence and research. She explains the biochemical mechanisms of fasting on gluconeogenesis, ketosis, hormonal pathways (including insulin and ghrelin secretion), and the impact of successfully manipulating these processes for type 2 diabetes reversal.

Although a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes can be alarming, it is important to consider that chronic hyperinsulinaemia has often being present for an extended period of time prior to a diabetes diagnosis. This hyperinsulinaemia is largely asymptomatic, beyond physically presenting in the form of weight gain, especially central adiposity. Therapeutic fasting is a promising means of addressing this ongoing insulin resistance and decreasing central adiposity and waist circumference.

Camilla explains how to achieve this improvement in diabetes management, with the potential for reversal through utilising real-life examples, and guides us through the implementation of therapeutic fasting, with useful strategies for addressing common barriers experienced by clients in their usage of therapeutic fasting techniques.

Summary:

• Therapeutic fasting has the potential to lower HbA1C, waist circumference, and reverse type 2 diabetes.
• Short-term fasting in well-nourished people does not deprive the body, but rather unlocks its metabolic potential, inducing a state of gluconeogenesis and ketosis, burning existing fuel sources.
• Therapeutic fasting enhances insulin sensitivity, allowing the body to better adjust when foods are consumed.
• Hunger cues come and go in waves of ghrelin, indicating that a natural adjustment to Therapeutic Fasting is possible.

Camilla Dahl is an APD specialising in low carbohydrate nutrition at Diversa Health in Melbourne. She has a Master of Nutrition and Dietetics with previous education in biomedicine and exercise science, she is an advocate and proponent of low carb having supported hundreds of patients in the treatment of a range of common and chronic conditions with the approach of reversing insulin resistance.

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