Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a specialist sports and exercise physician and the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. His most recent team appointments have been as Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club and, until 2017, Team Doctor for the Australian cricket team.
Peter is Professor of Sports Medicine at the La Trobe Sport & Exercise Medicine Research Centre at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Peter has published widely internationally with a number of books, book chapters and over 100 original research articles. He is the co-author of Clinical Sports Medicine, a best selling general sports medicine text in its fifth edition as well as Stress Fractures, Food for Sport, Encyclopedia of Exercise and Sport Health and Clinical Sports Anatomy.
Prof. Brukner is the founder of the public health campaign SugarByHalf and is committed to the challenge of improving Australia’s health with improved diet and increased physical activity. The profits from Peter's book 'A Fat Lot Of Good' will help to fund the campaign
Peter is also the founder of Defeat Diabetes, Australia's first evidence-based and doctor-led program that focuses on the wide range of health benefits of a low carb lifestyle, particularly for those wanting to send into remission pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic illnesses. The Defeat Diabetes Program is delivered via a mobile app. It provides 100+ hours of video from health professionals, masterclasses, cooking demonstrations, recipes, a meal planner, and a rich library of resources, with new content regularly added.
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18 responses to “Prof. Peter Brukner – ‘Can we really put type 2 diabetes into remission?’”
Yes. Yes we can
I am 74 ,male, same scores as #143 . When I got the 7.1 score last week I asked my Doctor do I get a gold star. She said no. 6.5 maybe but the target is <6.0. I live in Thailand so cutting rice is not easy. I do OMAD most days + exercise and eat more plant based now.
Weight gain or loss is a symptom, not a cause. Congratulations Dr. Brukner. From Canada
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I agree .
Got off carbs walk on average 25km at average 4.5kmph a week.
Drink only water and reduced coffee with milk to one a day.
Reduced meals to one a day in the evening and portion sized to a soup bowl 1/4 cup protein rest legumes veg salad no potato rice pasta once a fortnight.
I won’t look back have all the benifits mentioned feel very fresh now more active and sleep is just great
Got these results.
I use the term _remission_ for what I have achieved by low carb diet alone (since Oct 2021) simply because I know that if I start eating too many carbs I will end up with diabetes again.
Mid forties, Never had tests, but awareness of T2d led me to avoid carbs 👍
I thought Covid was our greatest threat ;)… feel 6.5 is WAY to high. As with BP they are raising the bar. My goal is sup 5.6, and more ideally under 5.
I reversed my T2D inside three months with low carb, having come off Metformin after just two months. My Hba1c has been perfectly low (under 40 mmol – it was 105 when first diagnosed) for over three years. Trig to HDL ratio of 1. That is all without exercise as I am disabled. My doctor still says I’m diabetic.
Absolutely we can!
It’s not a matter of remission, it’s a matter of restoring homeostasis. Clear all the things out of the body that should not be there such as heavy metals, chemicals, synthetics, petrochemicals. Then bring the minerals, fats, Acidity/alkalinity into proper levels and ratios so that the body can function in an efficient balanced manner then all dis ease and illness would be gone. Minds and temperaments would be restored to balance. But this can’t be allowed because there would be no huge resources generated for those who want it.
“Ancel Keys would be proud of that straight line” I had to laugh out loud upon hearing that….
I did it
What about type 1?
Why would a diabetic eat one single gram of carbohydrate. Diabetes is elevated blood glucose with virtually all of it from eating it. Here’s an idea – stop eating it. The requirement for dietary carbohydrate is zero, not one gram ever. How is it possible to have elevated glucose if you don’t eat glucose. I eat none as I eat carnivore. The chances of me being diabetic are exactly zero. Forget low carb. Go NO carb. How about a study on a group of diabetics eating ZERO carbohydrate. See how many stay diabetic.
Of course! It’s called “cure” instead of “treat”. 🙂 And we KNEW this in the 70s, when my father was diagnosed. And he’s in his 90s, never taken a med.
You’re actually saving lives. The people behind Covid aren’t going to be very happy about that.
Yes, we know it can be put in to remission for most people. But the question I want an answer to is that is it possible that for some fit people on keto with low IR it is still not possible for total remission? I want to hear about the outliers, of which I may be one. My A1C remains around 7.0 after years of keto.
Fantastic! I took several screencaps to print off and take to my GP who is a medication junkie (we’re constantly butting heads but if I change GPs I lose my bulk-billing).