Which Program is Best for Me?
1 Aug 2016 · 6 min
Dr. Hyman compares three programs by length and focus: The Blood Sugar Solution targets diabesity over 8 weeks, the 10 Day Detox resets food addiction in 10 days, and Eat Fat, Get Thin uses dietary fats to shift metabolism in 3 weeks. Pick based on your goal and timeline.
Questions this episode answers
August 1, 2016
Eight weeks
Ten days (author notes it can be done for longer)
Three weeks
152 pounds of sugar and 146 pounds of flour per person per year
Chapters
Hey everyone. Welcome to my weekly house call. Your chance to ask me your questions. And this week's question is. Hey, Dr. Hyman, I'm ready to start a path toward my best health, but there's so many good options out there. I'm trying to choose between the blood sugar solution, the 10 Day Detox Diet, Eat Fat, get thin, which one's best for me. It's a great question. And ultimately, any plan that gets rid of toxic food, processed food, sugar, and has real whole foods as medicine is a great step. And each of these programs starts with this foundation. So let's talk about the differences. The first difference is the length of time. The blood sugar Solution is an eight week program. The 10 Day Detox is a 10 day program, but you can actually do it for longer. And the Eat Fat, get Thin program is a three week program. The next difference is the focus of each program. The blood sugar solution program was designed for anyone dealing with sugar issues. Diabetes, prediabetes, obesity, insulin resistance, all that, what I call diabesity. The blood sugar solution is a personalized approach to your health that works by pinpointing and then eliminating the true underlying causes of your blood sugar issues. It treats the imbalances in your body that are actually driving the disease, rather than just merely treating the symptoms as they pop up, like high blood sugar or high blood pressure with medications. Put another way, it treats the real causes of weight gain and illness instead of just suppressing the symptoms with medication. Now this program is going to help you pass your blood sugar test with flying colors. You're going to learn how you can root out the real causes behind blood sugar imbalances and you get rid of those problems. At the root, it also focuses on what supplements help balance your blood sugar. And if you're insulin resistant or a type 2 diabetic, or anyone dealing with blood sugar issues, this program can be extremely helpful. And if you're a type 1 diabetic, this program can also be helpful to live a healthy blood sugar balancing lifestyle. The blood sugar solution is for anyone dealing with diabesity or looking for a deep reset and has led to an astounding set of results for hundreds of thousands of people. Next, the ten day detox diet. Well, that grew out of a deeper understanding of the biology of food addiction and how it's so often at the root of people's failure to change their behavior and their diet. The fact that we eat 152 pounds of sugar and 146 pounds of flour per person per year makes it impossible for people to control their behavior around food. These substances are highly addictive. In fact, they are eight times as addictive as cocaine. I mean, rats will keep eating sugar even while they're getting electric shocks to make them stop. The truth is that we blame people for being overweight, but it's not their fault. Our taste buds, our hormones, our brain chemistry, they've all been hijacked by the food industry. The 10 day detox diet helps to reset your hormones, reset your brain chemistry. It turns off inflammation and resets your metabolism in just 10 days. And the result is not only a significant jumpstart in weight loss, but also dramatic change in health. So this is a great program for anyone who wants to get rid of their sugar and and their processed carb addiction. It's a great starting point for anyone who might have any diet that's heavy in processed foods or junk foods. And it's looking for a reset 10 days, not a big commitment. You can kickstart your health and get on track with this program. And I find that once people see the results, then they no longer want to do the other stuff and they want to continue this for much longer period of time. I've taken literally thousands and thousands of people through the 10 day detox and the results have been miraculous. It's amazing what your body can do in just 10 days. It's like you get to turn your body back to its original factory settings in just 10 days. And now my most recent program, Eat Fat, Get Thin, also gets rid of all this processed food and sugar, trans fats, all the toxins in our diet. But it places an emphasis on the importance of fat. Because I talked about sugar, I felt like I needed to talk about fat. For so long we avoided fats because we thought they'd make us fat. We thought they'd cause heart attacks. But the recent research has proved otherwise. And I detail all of that at length in the book. If you're Interested, there's over 500 references on why this isn't true, that fat doesn't make you fat and fat doesn't cause heart disease. Now Eat Fat get then uses the power of fat to help our metabolism, our brains, our skin, our hormones and our guts. We use super fats like MCT oil, which helps fuel weight loss and so much more. Eat Fat, Get Thin is also going to help you get dramatic weight loss and healing in just 21 days, which is about the time it takes to switch your metabolism from running on sugar to running on fat. Now just three weeks, you're going to shift from fat storage to fat burning. That sounds great, right? You're going to stop sugar and refined carbs for sure, and those cravings are just going to go away. But you're going to replace it with awesome food with fat. Creamy, yummy, luscious, filling fat. But it's not fattening fat. Okay, you're going to learn to welcome these foods back in your diet while losing weight and restoring your health and energy and vitality. It's really possible this program is going to show you how to do it. If you're a chronic dieter and you've been avoiding fat without any weight loss, or you're looking for a way to reignite your health with foods that taste good and are good for you, I recommend the Eat Fat, Get Thin program. During our beta program for Eat Fat, Get Thin, we saw people lose up to 46 pounds in three weeks. The average was about 7 pounds. The average blood sugar dropped 23 points, which is a lot. There was a 68% reduction in all symptoms from all diseases, whether that's headaches or joint pain or allergies or digestive issues, migraines, you name it, they got better. It was amazing. So any of these three programs can be a great fit for you if you're looking to kickstart your health, as long as you check with your doctor, especially if you're taking meds and you should be fine to start right away. Now I want to hear from you. Have you done the blood sugar solution program or the 10 day detox diet or Eat Fat Get Thin? What's worked? What's been your experience? Share it with us. Comment below or on my Facebook page. And if you like this video, share with your friends and family on Facebook and Twitter and be sure to send in your questions to drhyman.com and maybe next week I'll make a house call to you.
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