26. Defeating Diabetes with Dr. Roy Taylor

Lab Rat Chat - Episode 26 with Dr. Roy Taylor

In this episode of Lab Rat Chat, Danielle and Jeff chat with Dr. Roy Taylor,  a physician and author, who is currently the Director of Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre at Newcastle University.   He has been conducting research on type 2 diabetes since 1978 and in 2011, Taylor showed that the disease was a simple, reversible condition of excess fat within the liver and pancreas. Taylor developed the system now used throughout the United Kingdom for screening for diabetic eye disease, which has resulted in a major reduction in blindness due to diabetes across the UK. He is the author of Life Without Diabetes, a popular guide to understanding and reversing type 2 diabetes and achieving lasting remission (link below).

Topics discussed in this episode:

• Dr. Taylor’s extensive and impressive background as a physician and scientist.
• What diabetes is and the differences between type 1 and type 2 diabetes.
• How the use of animals in his early research was crucial in order to understand the disease process.
• The role of physicians in not only managing their patients through the use of medicine, but in ways to prevent and/or cure their condition through diet and exercise.

Purchase Lab Rat Chat merch and help support our podcast and biomedical research!

https://labratchat.myteespring.co/

Sign up for the Lab Rat Chat newsletter!

https://www.amprogress.org/raising-voices/lab-rat-chat/

Resources & Links:

• Dr. Taylor’s Book: Life Without Diabetes: The Definitive Guide to Understanding and Reversing Type 2 Diabetes
• Reversing Type 2 Diabetes - Newcastle Magnetic Resonance Centre - Newcastle University (ncl.ac.uk)
• Americans for Medical Progress
• Americans for Medical Progress COVID-19 Resources

Follow us on Twitter! Facebook! Instagram!
https://twitter.com/thelabratchat 
https://www.facebook.com/labratchat 
https://www.instagram.com/thelabratchat 

All Lab Rat Chat episodes are edited by Audionauts: https://audionauts.pro/