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066: Dr David Unwin – The Low Carb GP


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Dr David Unwin

 Dr David Unwin FRCGP works at the Norwood NHS Surgery in Southport near Liverpool, UK where he has cared for the same population since 1986 as a family doctor. To date 102 out of 201 of his patients with Type 2 diabetes have achieved drug-free remission. This gives a remission rate of 50% at 30 months duration of a lower carb diet, one of the best results for any clinic in the world.

For the past few years, he has been a UK Royal College of General Practitioners expert clinical advisor on diabetes.  

Dr Unwin’s work has been covered by both BBC, C4 & C5 television, The New Scientist, The Times, The Daily Mail and The British Medical Journal. As @lowcarbGP he has over 62,000 followers on Twitter

Southport (UK) GP, Dr David Unwin has seen a lot of changes to the health of his community over the years.  The surgery has over 9500 patients, which since 1986, has seen an 8 fold increase in Type 2 Diabetes.  As his patients were becoming sicker, he became increasingly frustrated that he couldn’t help them other than prescribing more medication.  That was until 2013 when one of his patients decided not to follow his advice.  Instead, she challenged him to look at how eating carbohydrates actually was making her sicker.  Now, as the ‘Low Carb GP’ Dr Unwin advocates for the use of low carbohydrate diets for not only Type 2 Diabetes but other health conditions such as high blood pressure and fatty liver. 

Dr David's Top Tips
  1. Never see yourself as a problem consider yourself as
  2. Interesting puzzles of your own body 
  3. Be curious - see yourself as a lifelong experiment which you are continuously refining by noticing what is working and do more of it.
  4. Look after your pet human - you
Resources Mentioned

Are we blaming salt for what sugar did: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyZVTsHyLU0 

Low carb down under Black Swan presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoCzm9-J_Ok  

Protein and kidney function article: 

https://journals.lww.com/co-endocrinology/Fulltext/2021/10000/Renal_function_in_patients_following_a_low.8.aspx

Roy Taylor: long silent scream of the liver: 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3593165/

Quotes by Dr David Unwin

"So we did an audit of all the people in my practice with type two diabetes. In 1986, this is a practice of 9500 people, there were 57 individuals with Type 2 Diabetes. Fast forward, we've now got 473 in the same population."

"I’ve got an eightfold increase in the people suffering with diabetes in my lifetime."

"Every practice, I know, and every country that I've ever visited around the world has a similar problem."

"I see this avalanche of suffering."

"You know, when I was a child, there was onl

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