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Healing Diabetes with a Plant-Based Diet with Cyrus Cambata and Robby Barbaro

Robert Sikes

• October 17th, 2022

It's important to go outside of your comfort zone, learn from others, and not have a dogmatic view of the world when it comes to nutrition. Cyrus and Robby are treating their type 1 diabetes through a plant-based diet, and it was wonderful to discover that we have more in common than not. I thoroughly enjoyed this conversation and I know you'll learn something from it as well.

What we discussed:

Their backstory and diagnoses (1:43)
Dietary changes and results they saw (7:10)
Glucose changes and carbohydrate consumption 16:15)
Reasons for success with varying nutritional protocols (19:07)
Insulin resistance (27:44)
Becoming fat adapted and the science behind that (30:04)
What they believe is the primary driver for the prevalence of diabetes today (32:43)
Taking responsiblity for your own health (39:28)
Resistance training and cardio and their effect on insulin sensitivity (41:24)
The importance of weight training, regardless of your diet (48:24)
Blood markers to keep track of on a regular basis when making a dietary change (52:27)
Oral glucose tolerance tests (1:01:53)
The cholesterol debate (1:03:33)
Finding common ground within differing viewpoints (1:07:33)
What they eat in a typical day (1:08:48)