IBS, Psoriasis, Anxiety, Sleep Apnea, Much More with Larry and Kay Lynne Diamond You Cured What?!

Husband and wife Larry and Kay Lynne Diamond share their family's experience healing from a wide variety of health conditions.
For complete show notes, visit http://youcuredwhat.com/podcast/diamondLarry and Kay Lynne Diamond, a husband and wife, have healed from many health conditions. They have put sleep apnea, severe allergies, joint pain, anxiety, depression, psoriasis, and more into the past. They healed themselves using a combination of modern science and ancestral wisdom. They also helped their young daughter's health significantly. And Larry now helps others as a coach and researcher for The Fasting Method (TheFastingMethod.com). He offers a free consult to see if personalized coaching is a good fit at https://thefastingmethod.as.me/larry-consult

[0:55] Joe plugs his "website of healing" project: DiseaseReversals.com

[1:55] Joe introduces Larry and Kay Lynne Diamond.

[2:55] Larry gives some background on his health background. His journey to health started on May 1, 2013. He was 47 years old and "completely breaking down". Anxious, fatigued, weak.

[4:10] Larry had sleep apnea and severe allergies. He was on lots of meds for his allergies.

[5:20] Larry's intuition told him that, at age 47, he was going to die by age 50 if he didn't make major changes.

[6:40] Kay Lynne mentions one of the questions Larry posed: "Why am I hungry all the time?"

[8:50] Larry describes some of his work as a coach and researcher with The Fasting Method.

[11:10] Larry has had clients improve many health conditions and health markers such as triglyceride:HDL ratio.

[13:00] Larry had severe IBS. He was often brought to his knees in pain after eating and he often had bloody stools. Lots of inflammation too.

[14:45] Using historical, anthropological thought process, Larry privileged "real" foods in his diet.

[15:55] To combat insulin resistance, Larry decided to lower his carbohydrate intake. He started to question the popular idea that fat is bad for you.

[18:00] Larry only lost 2 pounds the first month by lowering carbs and not snacking. . . but by the end of the first month, he was no longer hungry all the time. That was "game over for illness" and "the start of a new chapter in my life".

[19:40] "In less than a month, I changed my biology."

[20:30] Kay Lynne started to change her diet about eight months later. She was in rough shape. Almost 200 pounds (at five-foot-two), with joint pain, sleep apnea, anxiety, and depression (and medications for some of these conditions).

[21:50] Larry took over the cooking. So they were having healthy meals at home.

[22:30] "I had basically accepted by that time I was just overweight... I had accepted the joint pain and the back pain as 'approaching middle age'".

[23:10] "Even bigger than dropping the weight, he was so much happier."

[24:00] By Christmastime 2013, Larry (five-foot-nine) was around 230 pounds. He lost about 60 pounds in seven months (and went on to lose a total of about 100 pounds in a year).

[26:00] Kay Lynne mentions how upset she was when they determined they should remove corn from their diets.

[28:35] Going grain-free (including dropping corn), Kay Lynne's joint pain started to go away (including her hip pain in the middle of the night). This major effect was confirmed when she had some corn chips and her hip pain came back within 8 hours.

[30:40] Kay Lynne lost about 20 pounds from January to June 2014.

[31:10] After a surgery that did not allow Kay Lynne to exercise for a couple months, she continued losing weight; she lost approximately 20 more pounds that summer.

[31:50] What were the staple foods in the Diamonds' diet? "Meat and veg". Whole foods, close to nature, cooked in natural fats. Primal.

[36:40] How did Kay Lynne's anxiety and depression respond to the new diet? She was able to taper off her anxiety and depression medications.

[37:55] Larry and Kay Lynne have also started a morning meditation practi