{"podcast":{"title":"Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson","slug":"fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256","podcast_index_feed_id":940256,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/forku/","website_url":"https://www.forku.com","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/788b2349-48f2-498b-af8c-3fc9e102deaa/FU-2026-1.png","author":"Terry Simpson","episode_count":135,"summary":"Fork U(niversity) Not everything you put in your mouth is good for you. There’s a lot of medical information thrown around out there. How are you to know what information you can trust, and what’s just plain old quackery? You can’t rely on your own “google fu”. You can’t count on quality medical advice from Facebook. You need a doctor in your corner. On each episode of Your Doctor’s Orders, Dr. Terry Simpson will cut through the clutter and noise that always seems to follow the latest medical news. He has the unique perspective of a surgeon who has spent years doing molecular virology research and as a skeptic with academic credentials. He’ll help you develop the critical thinking skills so you can recognize evidence-based medicine, busting myths along the way. The most common medical myths are often disguised as seemingly harmless “food as medicine”. By offering their own brand of medicine via foods, These hucksters are trying to practice medicine without a license. And though they’ll claim “nutrition is not taught in medical schools”, it turns out that’s a myth too. In fact, there’s an entire medical subspecialty called Culinary Medicine, and Dr. Simpson is certified as a Culina…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T16:19:44.473681+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256"},"episode":{"title":"Diabetes, Weight Loss, Remission or Cure","slug":"diabetes-weight-loss-remission-or-cure","published_at":"2026-05-28T07:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256/diabetes-weight-loss-remission-or-cure","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256","url":"https://forku.com/episode/diabetes-weight-loss-remission-or-cure","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e/episodes.captivate.fm/episode/8d1c413c-7a98-4ad9-afdf-72b694d65f62.mp3","summary":"Type 2 Diabetes, Bariatric Surgery, Fasting, and GLP-1s: What We Finally Learned About a Disease We Thought We Understood For years, I watched something happen in bariatric surgery that made very little sense, according to the medical textbooks of the time. Patients with type 2 diabetes would undergo surgery, and within days, their blood sugars would improve dramatically. Some would leave needing far less insulin. Others would stop insulin entirely. Many of them would eventually remain off diabetes medications for years. Now here is the important part: They had not yet lost significant weight. That observation mattered enormously. Because if diabetes improvement were simply the result of fat disappearing from the body over time, then blood sugar should improve slowly over months as weight comes off. But that was not what we saw. Instead, patients barely eating — sipping broth and protein shakes while recovering from surgery — were suddenly metabolically different almost immediately. At the time, we knew it worked. What we did not fully understand was why. And honestly, that story tells you something important about medicine and science: sometimes clinical medicine notices the truth before biology fully explains it. For decades, type 2 diabetes was often taught in very mechanical terms. You gained weight. You became insulin-resistant. The pancreas worked harder and harder until it “burned out.” Then you needed insulin. That explanation was not entirely wrong. However, it was incomplete. Furthermore, it encouraged a kind of fatalism around type 2 diabetes, as though progression were inevitable and irreversible for everyone. Then, bariatric surgery complicated the narrative. Meanwhile, researchers like Professor Roy Taylor at Newcastle University began developing a much m…","meta_description":"Type 2 Diabetes, Bariatric Surgery, Fasting, and GLP-1s: What We Finally Learned About a Disease We Thought We Understood For years, I watched something h…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1075,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256/episodes/diabetes-weight-loss-remission-or-cure/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fork-u-with-dr-terry-simpson-940256/diabetes-weight-loss-remission-or-cure.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}