Jaywood,
I listen to podcasts as well...set the the speed to 2x and you can hear double the information.
The Dr. Westman talk is back on YouTube at another link. Same lousy production, good talk on diabetes studies.
http://youtu.be/SCGDAwp-y0o

Also remembered I have the slide deck from a presentation to physicians about results of studies using the Atkins diet. PM me your email if you want a copy.

I am so glad I found this area!! My best friend has gained tons of weight around 300 and is pretty miserable with back issues both shoulders and so much going on!l I can't get her to understand that LC could help her.

We are getting together for a camping trip and I told her I was back on low carb and asked her if she ever tried it. She is afraid to but what she is doing isnt working either. I will look at the few programs I see many of you are on here and see if that would work for her.

Give her a copy of Dr. Bernstein's book. For real.

Have you looked at all the past links in the Research/Media section? It's the sticky at the top. LOTS of good reading!

My mother's new doctor actually FINALLY told her she needed to reduce her carbs. To 120g...

Seriously, NOT ENOUGH. But even at that level it is starting to bring her blood glucose down. She hopes to get off insulin and meds completely. Of course I said "well she needs to get them lower." My parents were both on the phone and poo-pooed that. Then, I told them I didn't eat more than 30g. "Oh, honey, that's too low," mom said. And the I told them I'd lost 16lbs in a month. And that I ate LC veggies, eating super healthy. I could practically hear mom wrinkling her nose at the idea. I'd like to see her give up her tomato soup and Cheetos...ha!

But to get back to the topic, she was diagnosed over 16 years ago and this is the first time a doctor has gotten hard-nosed about diet. (There was the one though that told her she needed to lose weight, and she flipped out. Needless to say, she never went back to him.) Every other has just ordered blood tests and brought out the prescription tablet. I think she's finally in a place to listen. Who knew maturity could wait as late as 68 to develop. I'm guessing near-death experiences are effective motivators.

I used to work with a doctor's wife, and the stories she told about Pharm reps wining and dining doctors was nauseating. And the trips offered... It happens. Good ol' USA...

My Mother's (old) doctor's goal for her was A1c under SEVEN. >.<

Between my brother and me, we've gotten her down to six. If he'd stop bringing the candy (and chips and boxed macaroni and snack crackers and...) in the house, who knows? She's like a toddler... and she'll "steal" double handsful of anything she can get that is sweet and salty and carby...

I have had a wee look there. But that is part of the problem. My reading list is HUGE. I am going to follow Janet's advice and get my computer to read it all to me at double speed!!!

Need more hours in a day.

You see I have my own reading lists as well on top of this, on the other aspects of research that I am still active in, and I am trying to put together grant applications for a Masters project. Oh go I sound like I'm moaning.

Its actually really fun to read about it all, and I am one of the strange people that reads journals as magazines.

I just saw an endocrinologist in a huge practice.

He ignored everything I said and tried to put me on statins and give me Ambien and send me for a sleep study and refer me to a nutritionist because I should be eating no more than 1400 calories a day. I informed I had lost 70 pounds on low carb ten years ago and kept it off.

And over his head was this Diabetic Plate that said 1/4 plate fruit and 1/4 plate whole grains and use those fats and oils sparingly!

(None of his advice or offered drugs or other experts had anything to do with my problem, as I explained until he practically threw me out.)

WereBear, I am sorry. It is so like cardiologists and heart disease. Just a very few are beginning to even think about suggesting low carbs and fat for a heart patient.

My hope is, that with the ability to research medical issues, our younger generation has a better chance in standing up to Doctors in bed with Pharma. I see all of these problems with my mother, who living in Germany, with major heart and other problems, has a huge drawer full of meds. from various docs and specialists. "B" doesn't know or often care what "A" was doing, as long as the money flows, and when that is used up we will let u have a transfer to another specialist. Sometimes I think, if we just do the opposite of what they are telling us, we would be in better shape.

Diabetes is also very personal to me... I tested as pre-diabetic a few years ago. Since then, I've stuck pretty closely to a low carb diet, moved and changed doctors. My new doctor looks at me blankly "diabetes, I don't see it" and my endo who I see for thyroid issues, saw my blood work and stated clearly "You do not have diabetes!" She knows that I am doing low carb... and just says, "well it seems to work, so keep it up,whatever you are doing".

My uncle died of complications of diabetes and my grandmother had it in her later years.

My brother has type 1.5... and was on a crazy number of needles every day .. some days he used 8. I talked to him about LC many many times. He was struggling with weight, fatigue, wildly fluctuating blood sugar, an A1C over 12 (I think that's what he said). He's now adopted a fairly low carb diet and has cut way way back on the needles. I don't think he'll ever get off them but it makes me so happy to see him taking control of his life. It totally pisses me off that it was my word against his doctor's word about how to treat it. He doesn't read much so these are pretty much the only voices he heard about it.

This forum is a group of people who have broken away from the official UK diabetes website -- they originally called the site "Eat to your meter"... It's not as active as it was when it started but you may find some support there.
http://www.diabetessupportforum.org/

I find that Janet Teicholz's new book, "The Big Fat Surprise" is a great reference to quote bits from to people who want to argue.

They need to watch an Intensive Dietary Management program video, "How to Reverse Diabetes Naturally"
http://intensivedietarymanagement.c...etes-naturally/
His first diabetes talk to doctors on Insulin Toxicity is just plain scary, lots of studies and complex slides, distracting restaurant noise, but great information if anyone wants to delve into more detail.

Louise, there are other simple short videos posted on the diabetes sub-forum that explain using LC for diabetes. This interview with Dr Jay Wortman is good, others more recently posted as well.
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthread.php?t=453027