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I just received the copy of the DVD I purchased over the Internet. I have watched it and have now passed it on to my family doctor along with links to your blog and to clinical research you and your associates have done. I am very hopeful that he will get on board.

My husband’s cholesterol has gone up since going off Statin drugs. We just go the results back and I am hoping that he will now agree to trying your plan. How long do you think it will take before a test might show changes in his blood chemistry? (BTW, his fasting sugar was fantastic: 5.5. However, he has many of the risk factors for “pre-diabetes”.) It would be good for him to have at least an interim goal marker for this new way of eating. Just getting my husband to try it is asking a lot of someone who loves (is addicted to?!) carbohydrates! LOL!

By the way, would you mind sending me your email address? Or, would you prefer me contacting you this way?

Eekoshi pitamaa.
Heather
Camperville, MB

Dr Jay’s Reply:

My apologies for taking so long to get back to you. I am glad you are sharing the documentary. It is a good teaching tool.

If you think your husband is at risk but he has normal fasting blood glucose, there are other things that can indicate if a problem is developing. The problem with doing a FBG is that the body can maintain normal values even after you start to develop insulin resistance. Since we don’t test for insulin resistance (by testing insulin response) and look only at the FBG we can miss that. A good surrogate marker is the lipid profile. We are told to be concerned about a high total cholesterol and high LDL when, in fact, the most important markers are the HDL and triglyceride readings. If the HDL is tending to be low and the triglycerides are tending to be high, even if they are still within normal limits, this is a pretty reliable indicator of insulin resistance. You can ignore LDL and total cholesterol and focus on getting the triglycerides down and the HDL up. This can be achieved by following a very low carb/high fat diet. If you do this, LDL takes care of itself in the sense that the LDL becomes healthier. This is measured by LDL particle size, but, again it is not something that we routinely test. However, if you stick to a low-carb diet and you get HDL up and triglycerides down, you can assume that the LDL particle size has shifted to the healthy type.

Hope this is useful advice.

Dr. Jay’s Reply:

It all seems to hinge on compliance. The more you can stick to a low-carb diet the better the results. And the power of the diet is often greater than that of the antihypertensive and hypoglycemic medications, so your observation that you had to get of the meds is quite correct. Sometimes people don’t realize this and can end up feeling badly, with too low blood pressure and too low blood sugar. Good luck and keep us posted on your progress.

I have used your name if my heading. — I hope you don’t mind.

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Thank You
Tom

That sounds encouraging. — I have some American Indian Movement friends here in White Earth, Minnesota as well as the White Earth Tribal Council and Winona LaDuke of The White Earth Land Recovery Project that I will contact and offer a viewing of My Big Fat Diet! — This will have an impact for sure! Nobody can see this work and not become enlightened!

I currently have my copies of My Big Fat Diet circulating with some other local groups and communities around here and I’m planning on having a showing at our Community and Cultural Center and Theater here in Detroit Lakes.

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http://www.whiteearth.com/home.html
http://nativeharvest.com/

Once this catches fire I believe it will spread rapidly throughout all of the Americas and Canada and the United States and the entirety of the North American and South American Continents and then follow suit throughout the entire rest of the world!.

Thank You, — I am honored to be able contribute to such a worthy, life altering cause!

I can’t imagine why PBS and Frontline are not showing and highlighting this, full feature!

Is it being held for commercial profit and that is the hold up or what?

If it is then let’s start a fund raising campaign right now and get whatever amount of money is necessary and buy it and turn it over to the public good!

If that’s not the problem then let’s get a promotional campaign going to get this where it belongs!

There isn’t any question that this is way ahead of any average mentality and average comprehensibility but it’s so true that there is no doubt whatever that it will ring through once exposed.

You rolled the snowball off the mountain but it got caught by a mighty branch right after it started down. — We are going to remove that branch!

I myself will personally work fervently on this to that end until this is accomplished!

This is far to important to allow it to sit idle!

Dr. Jay’s Reply:

I don’t think it is a question of raising money to get it broadcast. I think what is required is for an American broadcaster to get interested in it and then it would have a chance to get aired. It is being shown at the Native American Film Festival in San Francisco this week so that may be an opportunity. Here’s hoping.

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