Peter Attia· MD
we had this guy he's actually in his forties he had a non-healing diabetic foot ulcer for like a year followed by a plastic surgeon so he actually into the hospital and I saw him because I was seeing him for his diabetic foot infection gave him antibiotics I said you know your problem is not your foot your problem is your diabetes right because you know the reason you have this foot ulcer is because of diabetes you don't get foot ulcers if you're not diabetic right unless you have severe PVD or something right but the point is that if it's that diabetes was just causing your foot ulcer you got to get rid of your diabetes I talked to his dad because this guy was like in his forties and a dad was Greek Orthodox so his dad was like oh yeah yeah yeah yeah let's do this so we put him on and we put him and fairly strict restriction we started I think on a week of fasting and then 36 hours three times a week and that ulcer healed like within three weeks it was like ridiculous how quick that thing just healed up