[itissteve]

She wasn't a member here but we relied often on her knowledge and her ability to impart it. Very often we recommend that new members of Diabetes Forum view Dr. Hallberg's TED talk about using ketogenic diets for diabetes. The video has had 8.6 million views and has introduced many people to the idea that diabetes can be better controlled or even put into remission by eating very low amounts of carbohydrates. Many of us are proof that Dr. Hallberg was right.

Dr. Hallberg was in her 40s and died of Stage 4 lung cancer even though she never smoked. She battled cancer for several years. She was a colleague and principal investigator at Virta Health; a retrospective on her impact there is here. I am thankful for her willingness to promote a medical opinion that sometimes is unpopular but is gaining scientific ground all the time.

 

[Overdrive]

I have watched several of her youTube videos and learned a lot even tho I eat a 95% WFPB diet but nothing I eat is refined or processed. I too was saddened to hear of her untimely death. I did not even know she had lung cancer until I read it by someone who commented about it on YouTube. May she RIP.

 

[DarianBlackburn]

I can personally sue Dr. Hallberg, who recommends the keto diet. People with diabetes should not be allowed to not consume carbohydrates. Otherwise, the liver starts to break down fats. Does anyone understand the body's energy supply system at all? What are you talking about?! How can you give up carbohydrates to get remission in diabetes which is not curable, and then complain that ketones are collecting in the blood?! This is equivalent to eating fatty foods, cholesterol goes up, and your liver will turn it into a carbohydrate that won't be absorbed due to remission (no insulin). This is a direct pathway to mc38 cell line and cancer cell testing. Stop killing people. Diabetes was never curable.

 

[itissteve]

I can personally sue Dr. Hallberg, who recommends the keto diet. People with diabetes should not be allowed to not consume carbohydrates.

Keto eating plans do include carbohydrates, just not as many as the standard diabetic diet recommends. There is study after study (most of them good valid work) about keto eating improving blood glucose and cholesterol markers. Keto/low-carb is not for everyone; no single eating plan or course of treatment is. But there are many diabetics and people with metabolic syndrome who can testify that eating keto has them healthier than they were when they were eating 140-165 grams of carbs a day and taking insulin or meds to counteract them.

Why do you believe Dr. Hallberg was so far off the mark?

 

[mbuster]

I can personally sue Dr. Hallberg, who recommends the keto diet. People with diabetes should not be allowed to not consume carbohydrates.

What rational do you base your statements on?

 

[koreyrobson]

That is very sad to me. May they rest well.