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That sugar bowl is still full. You eat, sugar spills out, you take your insulin at nighttime, ram it back into your body so it’s not in the blood and it just goes on and on. Eventually the body kind of fills up with sugar that insulin is not strong enough to pump any more in, because remember it’s an overflow situation, it’s like that overfilled luggage.

You keep pushing it in, pushing it in, pushing it in and eventually you can’t push hard enough. So what do you do? Well, you get a second person to help pushing it in. So you double the dose of insulin and that works for a while, but then you keep going and going and going and that’s the problem. You had the wrong solution. So no matter how hard you go on that solution, you’re not going to get there.

What we should have done is empty it out instead of pushing more in. It was the wrong solution. So all that sugar just goes into your body, goes into your body, goes into your body, and over decades what eventually happens is that the entire body just starts to rot. Because your kidneys go, your eyes go, your toes go, you get diabetic foot ulcers, you get infections because there’s sugar everywhere and the bacteria love all that sugar.

Your whole body just starts to rot, every single part of your body starts to go because you’ve been shoving all the sugar into your body and none of it wants to be there and it’s all just rotting. So that’s the endgame and that’s what we face; the heart attacks, strokes, amputations, blindness, dialysis, the whole thing and we’ve not been able to stop it because we’ve been going out at the wrong way. ...

The incorrect thing to do in this case is to give more insulin. What you got to do is empty the whole thing out. You got to empty that sugar bowl. That’s the solution and that’s how you’re going to reverse the diabetes. So you can see how a misunderstanding of the paradigm of insulin resistance really leads to decades of incorrect solutions. And we see this because when we do the studies, they’ve all shown the same thing. ...

So if it’s too much sugar in the body then the solution is really, really easy. The first step is don’t put more in, so a low carbohydrate diet will really reduce the added sugars. And really the kind of drug corollary to the low carbohydrate diet is a drug called Acarbose, which blocks dietary carbohydrate absorption. So now people don’t use this a lot. ...

And the second thing is to burn it off. If you have too much sugar, either don’t put it in or burn it off. And that’s what intermittent fasting does. ...

And you can do it all without any drugs, without any surgery, without any cost, because it’s very expensive these sorts of health services in Canada, in the UK with the NHS… it’s very expensive. So there are things that are very good, but cost prohibitive. This is a free intervention. Not only free, but you can do it tomorrow and that’s the point.