Dr. Allan E. Sosin of the Institute For Progressive Medicine (Episode 156)
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Hello and welcome back to the most popular low-carb podcast available anywhere at any price — and Free to boot!! — The Livin’ La Vida Low-Carb Show With Jimmy Moore!
Today Jimmy brings you his interview with Dr. Allan E. Sosin, founder and director of the Institute for Progressive Medicine, located in Irvine, California.
Dr. Sosin is a board-certified specialist in both Internal Medicine and Nephrology, who supports a naturopathic approach to health management.
Listen in as he explains to Jimmy how the healthy low-carb lifestyle is much more sensible approach to handling diabetes and high blood-pressure than the standard multi-pill regimens being hawked by practitioners of the more traditional western medicine.
Don’t forget: Dr. Sosin and dozens of other doctors who advocate a lower-carbohydrate approach to healthy living can be found at Jimmy Moore’s Mammoth List Of Low-Carb Doctors. Look for one in your city, town, hamlet or village!
LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 156
- Jimmy Moore’s List Of Low-Carb Doctors blog
- The Institute For Progressive Medicine web site
- Dr. Allan B. Sosin bio
- RELATED PODCAST: Interview with an associate of Dr. Sosin at the Institute for Progressive Medicine named Dr. Julie Kahn
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Well, Dr. Sosin was doing pretty well until he made the distinction between good fats and “bad” ones such as those found in bacon and eggs! Good job, Jimmy, not screaming, “WHAT??” I do wish the medical community would come to the realization that natural fat, either saturated or otherwise, is NOT dangerous to humans. But then after extolling the virtues of good fats (oils), he contradicted himself by saying that meat and chicken are good for satiety. Ummm, those have ANIMAL fats in them, doc! As I keep reminding my family, how can foods that we’ve eaten for millions of years with no problem now suddenly be dangerous? I did enjoy how you led him along with your questions, causing him to refine his responses, such as the differences in the types and sizes of LDL molecules and the ratios between the various cholesterol components, etc. So, even though he started out the interview stating that cholesterol was important to consider in heart disease, he ended with a sort of depends on who and what kind. As Gary Taubes wrote, correlation is not causation. Or, as in Nina Planck’s book, Real Food, just because the firemen (LDL) are at the fire (ruptured artery), doesn’t mean they caused the blaze (heart attack).
Yeah, I bit my tongue when he stated that vegans have the best cardiovascular health because they’re not eating all that saturated fat. Oh well, he’s most of the way there if we can get him to slowly see what we see in the scientific data.
THANKS Kathy!
So this is a doctor who is treating symptoms with supplements. So, he must be missing the point. A better way is to fight the cause. As we low carbers know, the cause is carbs. Next time, explain this to him Jimmy
. On top of this, his way of treating high cholesterol (cutting dietary fat and cholesterol and prescribing niacin) made me shiver. I keep loving your show and I admire you for still having your tongue.
My motto with these interviews is firm, but respectful. I’m not gonna hammer ‘em over the head, but I do want them to be honest and held accountable. I tried hard to get him to clarify himself on the cholesterol issue.
Great podcast Jimmy.
I was disappointed by Dr. Sosin’s description of type 2 diabetes. He pretty much describes it as a lifestyle induced disease. This is not good for the patient. Lifestyle choices influence the disease in one direction or another. Exercise and low carbing improve blood glucose and insulin resistance while sedentary lifestyle and the typical SAD diet exacerbate the illness. It isn’t the cause of the disease. There are many type 2s that are not overweight nor sedentary. So what does he suppose caused their diabetes?
The truth is we are not 100% sure what causes diabetes. Many are now pointing to insulin resistance as the cause of type 2 diabetes. It could be a matter of which came first the chicken or the egg. However, I’m truly tired of doctors turning the victim into the criminal. Instead of placing this undue guilt upon their patients, they should start telling them the truth and stop shuffling them off to ADA seminars. At this point type 2 diabetes can be put into remission not cured. Yet - the doctors willing to show their patients the truth (low carbing being a huge part of that truth) are few and far between. We could put a huge halt in the progression of this illness. I thank you for taking on part of this fight.
~Danielle