Fatty Liver Expert: Your Liver Is Filling With Fat Right Now - Dr David Unwin
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Every taxpayer in England pays an extra £7,000 in tax per year for the consequences of ultra-processed food.
White chocolate is about 80% white sugar.
Women who consume two or more diet drinks daily have more than double the risk of early-onset colorectal cancer compared with women who drink less than one diet drink per week.
Two-thirds of the cost of ultra-processed food in England is caused by lost tax revenue from people not working because of illness.
Neko Health's body scanner takes 2,000 to 3,000 photos of a person's body.
Continuous glucose monitors can be purchased on Amazon for $20 to $30.
A pediatrician is a doctor who specializes in diseases of children under 16 years old.
Pediatricians have had no training in type 2 diabetes because type 2 diabetes in children is a new disease.
For each year of poorly controlled type 2 diabetes, a person loses about 100 days of life expectancy.
A single slice of white bread contains about 0.5 sugar cubes of sugar.
A full loaf of white bread can contain up to 12 sugar cubes of sugar.
Magnesium is very difficult to get in sufficient amounts from diet without supplementation.
Every 4 grams of carbohydrate is broadly equivalent to one teaspoon of sugar.
A small slice of brown bread is about three teaspoons of sugar equivalent.
Eating more carbohydrates makes people hungrier.
The Public Health Collaboration was set up by 16 clinicians.
A rapid blood sugar rise after drinking orange juice causes the body to release insulin rapidly.
People in England spend up to 23 years at the end of their lives in poor health.
Repeated crop production with only nitrogen fertilizer reduces zinc content in crops.
The average person in England spends nearly a quarter of life managing chronic illness or disability.
Magnesium glycinate does not help relieve constipation.
Dr. David Unwin was named in 2018 among the top 10 most influential doctors in the United Kingdom.
Eight forms of cancer are strongly associated with diabetes.
High blood glucose over time damages arteries.
Very high blood glucose can damage the glycocalyx lining of arteries within six hours.
A 150-gram serving of boiled rice has a glycemic-load equivalent to about 10 teaspoons of sugar.
A standard bottle of barbecue sauce contains about 30 sugar cubes.
The wheat in bread turns into sugar during digestion.
Jen Unwin has written a book on ultra-processed food addiction.
Chronic hyperinsulinemia can inhibit apoptosis.
Overall lifespan is slowly increasing in England.
Repeated crop production with only nitrogen fertilizer reduces magnesium content in crops.
Many medications interfere with magnesium absorption.
Neko Health was started by Spotify founder Daniel Ek.
Children worldwide are suffering from type 2 diabetes.
Approximately one third of people worldwide with type 2 diabetes do not know they have type 2 diabetes.
Recent studies show that certain tumors directly consume lipids to build their cell membranes.
Elevated C-reactive protein is heavily correlated with tumor progression.
Diet is the second most common cause of cancer after smoking.
Crops grown today have lower nutrient profiles than crops grown 100 years ago.
Type 2 diabetes used to be called maturity-onset diabetes.
People can have fatty liver for about 10 years without knowing it.
In Dr. David Unwin's north-of-Liverpool practice, 93% of patients with prediabetes achieved normal blood sugar after adopting a low-carbohydrate diet.
In Dr. David Unwin's practice, patients with type 2 diabetes for five years had about a 50% chance of achieving normal blood sugar after adopting a low-carbohydrate diet.
Starting the day with a sugary breakfast without enough protein drives hunger.
Digestion breaks starchy carbohydrates down into free sugar.
Salivary amylase turns starch into sugar.
High consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages is linked to a 78% higher risk of estrogen-dependent endometrial cancer in women.
High sugar intake causes chronic hyperinsulinemia.
Apoptosis is the natural process in which damaged or cancerous cells self-destruct.
Fructose is converted into lipids in the liver.
Diets high in added sugars chronically elevate C-reactive protein.
Elevated C-reactive protein is heavily correlated with metastasis.
Health span is declining in the United Kingdom.
The United States has the largest health span-to-lifespan gap on Earth.
The premature death rate in the United States is nearly twice the average of comparable countries.
Magnesium threonate crosses the blood-brain barrier.
Magnesium threonate does not help relieve constipation.
Serum magnesium levels do not reliably reflect intracellular magnesium levels.
Fat accumulation in the pancreas can impair insulin production.
In the United States, nutrition labels include fibre within total carbohydrate.
Continuous glucose monitors provide immediate glucose feedback.
Insulin resistance tends to cause weight gain around the abdomen.
Acid-reducing medications interfere with magnesium absorption.
Most magnesium in the human body is located inside cells.
A person's waist circumference should be less than half of their height.
Abdominal fat is more concerning for health than fat on the legs or arms.
Cancer is a rising cause of mortality among people with diabetes.
Insulin moves glucose from the bloodstream into cells.
Excess carbohydrate can be converted into fat inside cells.
About one third of people in the developed world have fatty liver disease.
Fatty liver can cause insulin resistance.
In Dr. David Unwin's practice, patients with early type 2 diabetes had a 73% chance of achieving normal blood sugar after adopting a low-carbohydrate diet.
The glycemic index compares carbohydrates with pure glucose.
Glycemic load uses food portions to predict how a portion of food will affect blood sugar.
Metformin is the most commonly used drug for type 2 diabetes.
A ripe banana contains more sugar than an unripe banana.
A 90% dark chocolate bar contains about two teaspoons of sugar.
At normal blood glucose, five liters of blood contain about one 4-gram sugar cube's worth of glucose.
Starchy carbohydrates are made of glucose molecules linked together.
In the United Kingdom, nutrition labels list carbohydrate separately from fibre.
Dietary fat is needed for fat-soluble vitamins.
Jen Unwin's GRIN model has been published.
Jen Unwin has published many papers on ultra-processed food addiction.
About 14% of the population has some aspects of ultra-processed food addiction.
Dr. Unwin has achieved drug-free remission of type 2 diabetes in 157 patients.
Diabetes can reduce blood supply to the toes.
Cometeer coffee is flash frozen with liquid nitrogen.
Cometeer coffee is delivered on dry ice in recyclable aluminum capsules.
A large French study found that drinking 100 milliliters of sugary drinks per day is associated with an almost 20% increased risk of overall cancer.
Drinking 20 ounces of sugary soda daily is linked to shortened telomeres equivalent to 4.6 years of extra biological aging.
Fructose is processed in the liver.
Junk food is linked to all-cause mortality.
Healthy life expectancy in the United Kingdom has fallen by roughly two years over the last decade.
Men in the United Kingdom can expect to spend about 60 years in good health.
Women in the United Kingdom can expect to spend about 60 years in good health.
The United States has lower overall life expectancy than almost all peer nations.
Waist circumference should be less than half of height as a measure of metabolic health.
Magnesium absorption decreases with age.
Cattle can die from seizures if they do not receive magnesium supplementation when grass is deficient in magnesium.
Magnesium deficiency can cause seizures.
Fiber supplements can help reduce LDL cholesterol.
Ketchup contains a significant amount of sugar.
Stress can raise blood sugar levels.
YouTube uses AI and users' viewing behavior to recommend videos.
Hemoglobin A1c is a measure of average blood sugar over the preceding three months.
Bergen-Belsen was a World War II concentration camp where prisoners were starved.
The three macronutrients are protein, fat, and carbohydrate.
Insulin is produced by the pancreas.
Pure glucose has a glycemic index of 100.
A ketogenic diet is very low in carbohydrates.
Jen Unwin is a consultant psychologist.
Continuous glucose monitors can show glucose spikes.
High blood sugar can slow wound healing.
Cometeer coffee is precision brewed at 10 times normal coffee strength.
C-reactive protein is an inflammation marker.
Magnesium citrate can help relieve constipation.
Grass staggers in cattle is caused by magnesium deficiency.
Neko Health tracks moles during its health scan.
The Public Health Collaboration is a British charity.
It is possible to take too much vitamin D through supplementation.