Does eating to control blood sugar help you lose weight?

A new study suggests there is no difference between eating in a personalized manner to control blood sugar and eating a standard low fat diet. But before you conclude that blood sugar is useless for weight loss, let's understand the details of the study and really understand how monitoring blood sugar can help you achieve your health and weight loss goals.
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[@saltrock9642]

My doctor suggested “keto” in Jan 2019 because of high blood glucose in order to avoid drugs. I lost 80 pounds, blood sugar went to normal and the amount of added benefits was and still is mind blowing. I’m still low carb and all my health markers are great. Thanks Doc!

[@jackschitt6235]

Is it safe to do permanently? Aren't most medical doctors against it? I'm diabetic but my diagnosis is type ONE. I'm on an insulin pump. I'm overweight according to the BMI but not in a big way. I follow Dr Bernstein the 88 year old t1d who says carbohydrate is the enemy of the diabetic. Most people in the diabetes world think that is extremism though. I do see why so many people are struggling to decide on who they should trust. Especially if you aren't just looking at short term weight loss results but long term health outcomes etc.

[@scotmcpherson]

good for your doctor...I am bringing studies into my doctor to get her to change her mind about dietary recommendations.

[@scotmcpherson]

@@jackschitt6235 do more youtube watching, and learn about studies that follow people and track their diet for multiple years that show that keto diets seem to lower risk of heart disease and stroke.

[@jackschitt6235]

@@scotmcpherson I've been reading books about diabetes and related matters since my diagnosis close to 25 years ago. My last A1C was so low it wasn't even "pre" diabetes. I'm 160 pounds at 58. After my first treadmill stress test recently the cardiologist was in and out in 2 minutes. Things look great, c ya later masturbater!

[@scotmcpherson]

@@jackschitt6235 my a1c was 11.5 this past janauary. I expect it to be between 6 and 7 this coming friday blood draw, and believe it will go below 5 over the next 3 months if I keep up what I am doing. My doctor said I must have medicine and prescribed Ozemple to me. Thankfully the insurance said no, and I just kept on with the keto. Next friday when she sees me shes going to say the Ozemple worked great, and I am going to tell her...No it didn't. Oh and I weighed 290 in early january, and now I weigh 260 3 months later. If I can get to 225, I will be as hard as a rock.

[@l.i.archer5379]

"Does eating to control blood sugar help you lose weight?" ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY!! I work with a Type 1 diabetic, and I put him on Keto in January. Since then, he's lost 20 lbs, went from a 48" waist to 32", blood sugars stabilized, CBCs much improved, BP much improved, energy levels higher, no more cravings for sugar/carbs, not wasting money on junkfood, sleeps much better, much better moods, fungal nails healing, skin on his feet getting better, vision getting better, and a whole slew of improvements to his overall health.

[@laurasc84366]

20 lbs 48" to 32 " men are so lucky

[@rickyb8636]

I haven't watched the video yet but I lost over 100 pounds when I started to treat myself for T2 diabetes. At 63 I had been very obese for over 40 years and could never lost the weight no matter how much I tried. When I was diagnosed with T2 I refused insulin and decided to treat myself by eating only the foods that agreed with my meter. My goal was to achieve fasting blood sugars in the low 5's (mmo/l) and postprandials not over 6.5, a fairly narrow range. I wasn't trying to lose weight but to my surprise it just started falling off of me. As long as I kept to my blood glucose numbers the weight just continued to drop and I have kept it off for the last 8 years. I once weighed 360 pounds and am now 195. Also, my unmedicated blood pressure was 170/100 and I was able to go off meds and keep it at 120/70 within 2 weeks. Based on what I have learned I probably had a high insulin problem (my doctor refused to check it) and lowering my glucose numbers most likely corrected that, allowing my body to release the fat from my cells, while normalizing my blood pressure. My biggest problem was so-called "healthy whole grains", which were spiking my blood sugars dramatically. Once I quit wheat and other high impact carbs I was off to the races. I maintain an A1C in the low 5's.

[@jamiem3115]

Well done. Trying to convince people to remove the carbs from their food intake isn’t easy.

[@skinnydee1886]

Ricky B, Congratulations 🎊 you're doing a very good job 👏 keep it up! I wish that I can be in the 5's but I can't because eating strictly low carb makes me lose too much weight; weight that I can't afford to lose! Sometimes I eat rice and potatoes because I don't want to get too skinny! God bless you on your journey 🙏

[@williamwightman8409]

Congrats on applying the feedback day after day and never giving up. Most people will settle for an early death rather than give up life-long carb addictions. I watched a young boy wait for his parents to get out of view in the grocery store. He then proceeded the the Fruit Loop cereal stand and started opening a small package, until he knew I was watching.

[@MTtroutfisher406]

Hi, if it's not too much trouble, what foods did you eat that agreed with your meter? I'm trying to help a friend and if you had any things to eat and things to stay away from, that might really help him! Thanks in advance!

[@rickyb8636]

@@MTtroutfisher406 tell your friend to read the book Diabetes Solution by Dr. Richard Bernstein. Explains it all.

[@MsTony1402]

It‘s the carbs! There is no doubt in my mind whatsoever. Lost 100 pounds & reversed my T2 diabetes over 3 years ago eating very low carb. Never counted a single calorie; they‘re the most useless measure in all of this!

[@AzaleaBee]

CGMs at the very least can help us learn more about our own personal health and how our bodies respond to certain things we eat. Scales are not made just for overweight people. They are a tool to help us monitor our weight. In the same way, CGMs should be accessible and affordable to those who want to use them. We shouldn't have to wait until we are already sick.

[@robyn3349]

I, too, am baffled by this study.

[@DrTonyHampton]

Nuance in how we interpret nutritional studies will help keep us from trusting studies that may not add value.

[@GrumpyGrebo]

Eating to control anything is more than half the battle with losing weight: sticking to the parameters of a diet.

[@lizb8843]

I have lost 25lbs and decreased my A1C from 6.7 to 5.7 in the last few months doing keto and intermittent fasting BUT I tried those 2 things unsuccessfully for 2 years. It’s only once I focused solely on my blood sugar and lessened my eating window to not just skipping breakfast, but also eating dinner by 4pm. If it was too high, I didn’t eat, I’d wait for it to go down. Now I eat between 11am-4pm and a 24hr fast once a week. I use CGM even though it’s expensive. I’m on Medicare and they won’t pay for it unless you’re already a diabetic AND on insulin 🙄🤔. Sure, never mind helping me not become a diabetic in the first place! Unfortunately I think I’m now a hyper responder. I don’t think I’m that lean, but when I did keto before this my LDL didn’t go up. Now it’s 248 and the small size is high. My triglycerides are low, HDL high, coronary calcium score is 0. Starting to switch to Mediterranean keto. I tried multiple glucose meters with a finger stick, but the readings weren’t that accurate.

[@arifaahamed7239]

My LDL is high too. Try decreasing your saturated fat intake and it might help. Good luck.

[@wishbone20t]

Through testing blood sugar and finding out which foods do what to me I've been able to lose 60 lbs. I was diagnosed 3 years ago with type 2, I weighed 290 lbs that time now I weigh 230 and still dropping. I had my metformin reduced from 1000 mg to 500 my most recent A1C was 6.3. I am generally low carb, I can comfortably eat less than 100 carbs per day. I do have heart diseases as well with two stents over the last 13 years, so I generally avoid high fats as well. To be honest I don't exercise but I'm not giving up and I still plan to do so. If I could just get the exercise part I know I would hit my goal of 210- I will get there.

[@Gigi-nv5ev]

All that is excellent. I would like to see you stay on your Metformin doses until you can get your A1C into The Five Club. When you A1C is in the Five Club, you body really doesn’t “know” that you have diabetes! Another way to boost Metformin is to take supplements of Berberine, R-Lipoic Acid, and Citrus Bergemot! All of these will further boost the power of Metformin (which is a good, old drug) to take your numbers even lower! All the best to you! Keep up the good and healthy work!!

[@Gigi-nv5ev]

Losing weight is mostly about what one eats. Exercise is good for so many functions in the body and it is also important to build and maintain muscle mass. Start a small routine of exercise and every time you finish your workout-say: “Victorious!” Or “I have prevailed.” You say this because you are doing what 99% of people will not do!! ✨⭐️✨

[@williamwightman8409]

Measure glucose by any method, period. I just knocked out all symptoms from my active virus (that starts with a "C", ends with "19") down to zero with a zero carb/high healthy fat, modest proteins/OMAD eating style. This took only four days. I still am test positive but at least now asymptomatic. My average 4-day glucose and ketone levels have been 76 mg/dL and 1.2 mmol/L. Was riding my bike and walking outdoors today, would not have been possible just 3 days ago. More on the topic my weight has been dropping 1.2% per day, most of that is water loss, but the ketone levels and OMAD assure that the continued loss will be adipose. I am continuing to exercise to prevent muscle loss. To top it off, I am not hungry in the 23 hour non-feeding window. Don't do this without being healthy.

[@markiangooley]

When I finally decided to tighten control of my blood glucose after decades of type 1 diabetes, I gained weight… because of course I simply took more insulin. Changing diet actually helped me lose weight, and going carnivore helped most.

[@EarleHartshorn]

Would love to see a continuous ketone monitor. Just because glucose is under control does not mean that insulin is under control, and I submit that lowering insulin levels is the 1st step towards weight loss.

[@vas4739]

Being on keto and IF at this point doesn’t allow me to obtain a CGM through my Medicare and even if it DID there’s no way I could afford it. What I would LOVE to use it for is to see what foods might make my sugars rise either immediately or postprandial since I have at times tested a higher diabetic A1c.

[@cassieoz1702]

CGMs have been incredibly useful to bust so many of the dogmatic rules about choosing carbs and totally killed the sparking mythology surrounding the GI concept.

[@iss8504]

I never found that looking at the glycemic index ever helped.

[@JWB671]

I have a type one diabetic child so I deal with insulin a lot. You can have great BG control and still get fatter and fatter if you create an energy surplus. If you are in an energy surplus as a type one diabetic, it just requires more and more insulin to stay in range, and you will get fatter and fatter. Being in an energy deficit always require less insulin than if you aren’t.

[@jeffreypua1981]

Thanks Dr. Scher once again. I like how his experimental algorithm that didn’t change macros did not work. Let alone it fails to actually just include a blood sugar measurement. CGMs clinically help in my practice because it’s a biofeedback tool and another source of data for the patient’s metabolic response to food order or composition and their context of their meals.

[@mercedezlucke-benedict1122]

Thank you

[@DarthNoshitam]

Brett what do you think about the research replication crisis? I always think about that when I see videos analyzing studies

[@Spyhero-ig9qf]

Good job

[@CarbageMan]

This is good timing. I'm looking into trying the Signos CGM for a few months.

[@AzaleaBee]

I look forward to your comments about how that works for you. I want to recommend a CGM to a family member but want to be sure I choose the right one.. I've seen several videos discussing how some are not accurate and others are better.

[@CarbageMan]

@@AzaleaBee Yeah, they are expensive and inaccurate. Do look at the CGM guide he linked to (don't recall if it was in the description or at the end.)

[@AzaleaBee]

@@CarbageMan Oh, it is in the description. Thank you for this.

[@CarbageMan]

​@@AzaleaBee You bet!

[@BigPictureYT]

Why create an algorithm instead of wearing a CGM? It makes no sense.

[@inspiredtosoar3526]

I lost 20 pounds over 6 months monitoring my blood sugar

[@frostfox1208]

I’m thinking about donating plasma once a week . I wonder about being Keto and plasma donation? Any experiences?? Anyone?

[@martinbeverley9536]

I have donated plasma for a long time. (Fortnightly donations are the most you can do in South Australia.) Since I went semi-keto a couple of months ago, my BP has gone down slightly and my Hb has gone up slightly. I have not noticed any other changes.

[@scotmcpherson]

Doctpr, the evidence is there, it's just individually reported anecdotal evidence. Too many people have shown that using glucose monitoring (I use conventional blood sample monitors) as a tool for learning your glucose pattern following a given meal or snack has shown that you learn what you should and should not eat or not eat too much of. I agree measuring alone isn't going to help much, but it is a tool used to make better decisions and to learn. For instance. I can eat a burger with a 60 g carb bun, hit 150 and back to low 100s or 90s within an hour, but I learned that if I eat proteinaceous food that contains 30 grams of complex carbs (a cup of pistachios for instance), my glucose levels will ride in the 120s for several hours while the carbs are processed and digested slowly. My glucose monitoring has causatively lead me to intermittent fasting (4 eating hours / 20 fasting hours) to get and hold my glucose levels low, this in turn has resulted in DRAMATIC weight loss. But when I eat, I can pretty much eat what I want such as the above mentioned burger with carb rich bun.

[@CashMoneyMoore]

Decent study, bad interpretation online

[@sanautin]

👍👍👍👍

[@timshel011]

Maybe we could use CGMs to determine the weather...would that work ?

[@MichaelCouvillion]

Why do we call this "a glucose metabolism problem" or "metabolic syndrome"? Isn't the mechanism behind this that the cells of your body have down-regulated the insulin receptors on their membranes as a response to chronic elevated glucose and insulin? The cells don't have a problem metabolizing glucose, they just have too much glucose to metabolize. Your cells are basically trying to prevent their own destruction - this doesn't seem like a "problem" or a "syndrome". The problem is you are eating too damn much of the wrong thing.

[@janeknight3597]

So you would think it would reverse, but it does not!

[@my-yt-inputs2580]

Guess we should look at who funded this study. These are PhD/PhD candidates right? OMG

[@GregariousAntithesis]

Purely ridiculous normal healthy blood sugar range is 70s-140s. Where did we ever come up with a range that is no higher than 120s? Telling people that BS can cause regular people who eat healthy whole food diets undue stress and anxiety. It really makes me angry. Dr. Scher why dont you go look at the criteria for a glucose tollerance test and make note of a healthy non diabetic response and quit promoting unrealistic, unscientific blood sugar expectations. Its unprofessional and based on nothing.