Sarah Hallberg，Virta Health的医疗主任，分享了她近二十年来治疗肥胖和2型糖尿病患者的经验。她通过研究和临床实践，成为低碳水化合物治疗糖尿病的坚定支持者。在访谈的上半部分，Sarah挑战了关于饮食脂肪和碳水化合物在血浆脂肪酸和甘油三酯组成中的作用的传统观念，并强调了理解代谢疾病早期预测因子的重要性。在下半部分，她讲述了自己被诊断出肺癌的个人故事，以及她如何平衡工作、家庭和抗癌计划。

🩺Sarah Hallberg通过临床实践发现，低碳水化合物饮食对逆转肥胖和2型糖尿病有显著影响，她强调了这一治疗方法的有效性。

🧬Sarah讨论了脂肪酸的种类及其代谢过程，并解释了如何在标准血液检测中解读这些数据，特别指出棕榈油酸作为代谢疾病早期的重要生物标志物。

🥬Sarah探讨了饮食组成与代谢标记物的关系，以及为何早期治疗前驱糖尿病和代谢综合征对于预防疾病发展至关重要。

🩹Sarah分享了自己被诊断出肺癌的经历，以及她如何制定治疗计划，延长生存时间，并在面对生命威胁的并发症和癌症复发时保持积极态度。

🤒Sarah反思了患有慢性癌症的生活态度，以及她如何平衡工作、家庭和个人时间，展现了她在逆境中的坚韧和乐观。

Sarah Hallberg is the Medical Director at Virta Health and a physician who has spent nearly two decades treating patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes. In the first half of this episode, Sarah discusses how she became a huge believer in the efficacy of carbohydrate restriction for the treatment of type 2 diabetes through her research and clinical experience. Sarah challenges the common beliefs about the role of dietary fat and carbohydrate on the plasma makeup of fatty acids and triglycerides. She also expresses the importance of understanding early predictors of metabolic illness—highlighting one particular fatty acid as the most important early predictor—before finishing with a discussion about how doctors might be able to personalize patients’ metabolic management in the future. In the second half of this episode, Sarah tells the personal story of her own lung cancer diagnosis. She talks about dealing with her grief, deciding to continue her work while prioritizing her family, and how she devised a plan to extend her survival as long as possible.  

 

We discuss:

How Sarah discovered the profound impact of carbohydrate restriction for reversing obesity and type 2 diabetes [3:15]; Prediabetes and metabolic syndrome: prevalence, early signs, and the importance of treating early [16:00]; Overview of fatty acids, how they are metabolized, and understanding what you see in a standard blood panel [29:15]; The relationship between diet composition and metabolic markers [35:15]; Why palmitoleic acid is such an important biomarker [48:15]; The best early indicators of metabolic disease [1:00:00]; Personalized management of metabolic illness [1:07:00]; Sarah’s cancer diagnosis and the beginning of her journey [1:15:15]; The emotional impact of a devastating diagnosis [1:27:15]; Sarah’s plan to extend survival [1:36:45]; Sarah’s aggressive treatment plan [1:47:30]; Life-threatening complications and the return of her cancer [1:59:00]; Sarah’s reflections on her approach to life with chronic cancer and balancing her time [2:11:00]; and More.

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