Do you ever feel super sad to see others prescribed unhelpful diets?

This year alone, I've heard about patients with inflammation-based diseases prescribed strict diets of fruit juices to aid in recovery, and people with type two diabetes and gastroenteritis prescribed low fat, high grain diets ostensibly to lose weight. It's not my position to argue against someone else's doctor - and I doubt that would really work even if I can personally attest to the longterm weight loss and better overall health (case study of one!). I only have my own experience with the benefits of fasting and keto for my own conditions, and resources from organ specialists that I'll share with those interested. But to see in real-time how many people are suffering from decades of failed nutrition policy really sucks. I wish we could hurry our way past this era of profit-driven medicine, and lean into newer research in these fields. Fasting is free, and for many people it does phenomenal things for long-hurting bodies. Anyway, just wanted to share The Sad where others might feel the same. Everyone's on their own journey, but damn, it hurts to see so many needlessly suffering.

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I think about this every. single. day. And it not only makes me sad, it makes me mad. I get mad because doctors should know better. For example, my dad passed away from heart complications from type 2 diabetes because he was given the wrong advice for 30 years. He was handed pills instead of being told to fast and drastically cut carbs. When my sister handed him a copy of Dr. Jason Fung’s book The Diabetes Code in 2017, he diligently read it and followed the advice. Then he reversed his disease and came off all meds. However, it was too late for his heart. The 30 years of diabetes led to heart failure.

The thing that makes me so mad is that if his doc had told him 30 or 20 or perhaps even 10 years prior the correct advice, he would have followed it. How in tarnation can a doctor go to a gazillion hours of med school and not know that diabetes is reversible with fasting and a drastic reduction in carbs? And why give someone drugs that make them feel like their diabetes is managed when actually, it’s destroying their body bc drugs can’t reverse like diet can.

This experience put me on a crazy mission to discover what else is wrong in medicine besides just diabetes care. I had no idea what I would uncover.

Exhibit A: cancer–cheap treatments hushed up because they make big pharma no money.

https://fastwell.substack.com/p/an-odd-cure-for-incurable-cancer

Exhibit B: mental health. Taking people off of sugar has dramatic mental health benefits. One Harvard professor is trying to get the word out, but the medical community is largely ignoring his research.

https://fastwell.substack.com/p/how-one-harvard-doc-is-astonishing

Exhibit C: statins are the scam of the century, and the entire heart disease hypothesis is based off of false science. But, it makes the processed food industry a lot of money to keep circulating the lie that red meat and saturated fat cause heart disease.

https://fastwell.substack.com/p/positive-fasting-adaptations-heart

Exhibit D: autoimmune. Can often be cured by going on a zero-carb diet. Why do I have to dig around on PubMed for this kind of stuff when my mom, who has rheumatoid arthritis and has visited a rheumatologist for 15 years, has never been told that a zero-carb diet can heal autoimmune. And it’s right there in the medical literature!

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jir/2013/872632/

https://fastwell.substack.com/p/autoimmune-diseases-and-hope

Sometimes, I just can’t even wrap my head around the ineptness, corruption, and down right evil in the medical community. I don’t mean every last doctor, but the system is actually evil.

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I am really sad about this too, to see them buying a lot of food, because “experts” say this certain food will lower blood sugar and cholesterol. So they eat A LOT of that, in obvious surplus. But you know deep within that even only 24 hours of fasting will make a huge difference for them, than eating all that stuff.