Episode 18 : Dr David Unwin - Part Two

Episode 23 concludes the conversation with the powerful and fearless Dr David Unwin, as this family GP uncovers the self-doubt and self-criticism that characterised those early days in 2012 whilst consistently reversing type 2 diabetes with low carbohydrate eating, and why the recipes suggested by him and his consultant psychologist wife Jen required a large healthy slice of tenacity to combat the naysayers. It certainly wasn't all plain-sailing in those early days, and David talks about needing to persuade and convince his partners at his practice, who were at the time making things fairly uncomfortable, but perhaps not as much as the sheer aggression and barbarity he received from so-called colleagues in the hinterland of medicine.

We touch on trolling, hate mail and why just like why perhaps love conquers all….so does working for free conquers all, and why this shift in his thinking provided the dynamite to detonate a cascade of impactful events that led to publication of groundbreaking evidence of type 2 diabetes reversal. Although working for free, David talks how paradoxically this gave him wealth without the status of any monetary value, and the fun this brought him, which has helped him overcome the self doubt and a growing, insidious, pervasive feeling that he may have actually been wrong until the age of 55.  The episode draws significant emotion from this wonderful man, and David talks about a world he once knew without obesity and type 2 diabetes, and why it will always be the inequalities of healthcare that keep him awake at night. 

Lastly, for me, personally, my final resonating message in my mind once the microphone was turned off was David's call to action and a finger firmly pointed at my generation, and those coming after me, and in fact all or our colleagues in the world. Now is our time to stand up and be counted, have you the determination to be a hero or heroine and save a life just like David?
 
Or you can wuss out and stay silent.

As in the Pink Floyd song , did you exchange a walk on part in a war  for a lead role in a cage…..?