The One With Neil D’Silva

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:00:32]:
Hey. Hello. Hello. Welcome back. Thank you for joining me for another episode. This episode, we are exploring something which can happen to far too many people and so often happens without people even realising that it’s happening and yet it’s very much preventable. We’re talking, all things type 2 diabetes, not type 1 Noble type 2. If you’re not sure what the difference is, don’t worry.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:00:56]:
We’ll clarify that, in the episode. And we’ll explore a lot more about it. And in order to do that, I need to bring in my my guest this week. Please welcome Neil de Silva. Hey, Neil. How are you doing, sir?

Neil D’Silva [00:01:09]:
Hi, Keith. I’m very well. Thank you. Thank you for having me on your show today. Looking forward to

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:01:15]:
it. My absolute pleasure. Thank you thank you for joining us. So I guess the first thing before we dive in, who is Neil? Tell us a little bit about yourself. Who who who are you? Who are we speaking with?

Neil D’Silva [00:01:27]:
Who am I? Okay. Right. Well, on a personal level, I’m a I’m a I’m a married man, father of 4. On a professional level, I’ve been a qualified nutritionist now for just over 10 years, and I specialise in type 2 diabetes. I lost my dad to type 2 diabetes. I undiagnosed type 2 diabetes back in 2012. Didn’t do nutrition then, didn’t understand anything about nutrition if I’m honest with you. But I knew that at the time my dad died, I wasn’t in particularly good shape.

Neil D’Silva [00:01:59]:
And my journey began very simply because I wanted to, improve my health. I wanted to, to not end up dying young like my dad. My dad died at 66. I wanted to find ways of actually improving my health without popping a handful of pills every day. I mean, I I I look back and that’s been, like, the best part of 12 years ago now. And if I hadn’t taken that journey, I’d probably be literally on a handful of pills just to keep me going every day. And so that was the start of my journey. My journey into nutrition began with my when my dad died, and it was a purely personal one.

Neil D’Silva [00:02:34]:
It really wasn’t it wasn’t designed to be a vocation. But I, you know, I was I was shortly after my dad died, I was diagnosed, with high high blood sugar, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. So it’s like the kind of the holy trinity which you don’t want. And I was at an age where, you know, things weren’t gonna be, you know, the future wasn’t looking good unless I got got to grips. And like I said, I had a choice, take some bills. I’m not I’m not anti pharmaceutical medication. I just chose I just thought there’d be a better way, a lot a better long term way. And that was the beginning of my journey.

Neil D’Silva [00:03:11]:
I lost the best part of 4 stone weight, brought my blood pressure down, brought my cholesterol down, and most importantly, brought my blood sugars down. And because of the because of the link with type 2 diabetes and losing my dad through, type 2 diabetes, I mentioned he was undiagnosed. So he had it, but as I now know, there’s about a 1000000 people in the UK that have type 2 right now, and I’ve got no idea they’ve got it because it just hasn’t been tested, and they’re not obviously symptomatic. He was one of that million people. And so type 2 diabetes has become a very personal thing for me because it it it caused me to lose my dad, and it was something that I was once affected by. And so hence, hence I specialise in helping people with, with pre-diabetes and with type 2 diabetes.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:04:05]:
Okay. I get you. I get you. So there’s there’s a few things for us to to unpack there. So I guess let’s start at the very beginning. It’s a very good place to start. So first of all, I guess, what is diabetes? What are the what are the I’m guessing 2 types because type 2, that’s presumably a type 1. So what is diabetes, and what what are the 2 types? Let’s help

Neil D’Silva [00:04:29]:
you. In its basic form, diabetes is a is is a misregulation of blood glucose. It is it is that simple. It’s the body has an inability to control blood sugars the way the body is designed to to do it. And, yes, you’re quite correct. There are there are 2 main types. There are actually different types. One of them is gestational diabetes where pregnant women, will get will get diabetes because of the function of the baby kinda messing up the woman’s blood sugars.

Neil D’Silva [00:05:04]:
And there’s also type 3 diabetes. We won’t touch on that today. It’s quite a deep subject. The type 3 diabetes, has actually, been linked to or been been called Alzheimer’s disease. Even the Alzheimer’s Society are now linking type 2 diabetes, which becomes type 3 diabetes and causes dementia. That’s a whole different topic. Going back to your original question, type 1, type 2. So type 1 is an autoimmune condition.

Neil D’Silva [00:05:33]:
So, an autoimmune condition is where the body’s immune system attacks otherwise healthy cells. So rheumatoid arthritis, for example, is an example of a autoimmune condition. So the immune system’s got a little bit haywire, and it’s doing things it shouldn’t do. In most cases, it can be uncomfortable. It can be painful. In some cases, as in type 1 diabetes, it can actually be life threatening. So we go back to the pancreas. So the pancreas is a little organ that produces hormones and hormones in little chemical signal, the signallers that tell your body to do something.

Neil D’Silva [00:06:11]:
And one of the the, the hormones that the pancreas produces is insulin. I’m sure many of your listeners have heard of insulin. So type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks the pancreatic cells that produce insulin and effectively it kills them. So your body’s ability to produce insulin is 0. And now this is incredibly dangerous with hyperglycaemia, which is high blood sugars, or I I’d argue more seriously hypoglycaemia, which is low blood sugars. In type 1 diabetics, they can have hypo’s. I’m sure you might have heard the term hypo, which is when blood sugars go dangerously low, and, you know, you you you can die within the hour if you have a hypoglycaemic episode. So you’ll see type 1 diabetics, you’ll see them injecting.

Neil D’Silva [00:07:07]:
And, essentially, when they inject, they are just replacing the insulin that your body, a healthy person, or someone with a healthy pancreas would would otherwise produce naturally. So they are artificially, or externally, introduced initially into their systems. That’s type 1 diabetes. Generally comes on quite young. We get lots of kids with type 1 diabetes. It can come on at a later age, but, generally, kids you’d see a lot of kids with type 1, and it tends to come on really quickly. And sometimes within literally within weeks, someone can become a type 1 diabetic. Type 2 diabetes on the on the other hand, and I can only speak from years of personal experience and my own personal situation.

Neil D’Silva [00:07:56]:
Type 2 diabetes, for the most part, I mean, in my experience, over 95% of cases is diet and lifestyle related. So there’s nothing going on internally with the body. There’s no dysfunction with the immune system. It’s just we have a lifestyle where we’re not exercising, where we’re very sedentary or and or we have a diet that is pretty poor. Lots of processed foods, lots of high sugar foods, high carb processed carbs, an excess of calories. Those in turn can lead lead to weight gain, and weight gain can be a big factor for type 2 diabetes. But we say Keith type 2 diabetics, genetics do come into it. I I would argue in a minority of cases, and I mean, a very small number of cases.

Neil D’Silva [00:08:47]:
When someone comes to me and they say, oh, yeah. It’s it runs in my family. And then you look at their diet and you look at their food diary and you go, is this this this ain’t genetic. You know? Yeah. I mean, don’t don’t have 5 litres of Coke every day and blame it on your genes. So, yeah, so so the flip side to that is if it’s not genetic, i.e. it’s our diet or it’s angle. It’s our lifestyle that’s contributing to these elevated blood sugars where the pancreas just can’t cope, insulin isn’t where it’s being produced, but it’s not working the way it should work. Mhmm.

Neil D’Silva [00:09:25]:
Then my my take on that is if it’s within our gift, if it fits within our diet and our lifestyle, then we we in in my view, that should empower someone. Someone’s type 2 diabetic and you’ve got a poor diet and a poor lifestyle, that should empower you to know that at least you have a degree of control in management and potential reversal of the disease, and not just go, well, it’s in my genes. There’s nothing I can do about it because it does happen a lot. People with genetic diseases, and there there are many out there, if you Noble genetically disposed to a particular disease and you get it, it’s like, there’s nothing I can do about it. Type 2 diabetes, from my experience and in my opinion, is not one of those for the vast majority of cases.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:10:11]:
Got it. Okay. So so with type 1, type 1 is is very much genetic and it’s kind of the the luck of the draw.

Neil D’Silva [00:10:19]:
It can be genetic, it can just be that the immune system just has a trigger, has a moment where it just goes haywire.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:10:27]:
Yeah.

Neil D’Silva [00:10:28]:
It can do lots of other things when it goes haywire, you know, haywire. But in the case of type 1, yeah, it’s just it it attacks the pancreatic cells and destroys them. And once and once they’re destroyed, yeah, you’re in you’re in some trouble without external external insulin to control your blood sugars.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:10:46]:
Got you. And and once, if if you’re in that situation, then as you say, you need those external factors to control the blood sugar, and presumably that’s for the for the rest of your rest of your natural life.

Neil D’Silva [00:10:57]:
Yes. You’re right. Yeah. I mean, sometimes type type 2 diabetics will inject, but, again, it’s in the minority of cases. Injections of insulin for type 2 diabetics generally only really happen when other, particularly oral medications, haven’t worked or haven’t worked as expected. Got a couple of friends who are type 2 diabetic who do inject, but, again, very, very, very rare. It’s very rare indeed.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:11:26]:
So type 2 is the one which is brought on by our by our diet, by our lifestyle, and actually, it’s an interesting I like the way you you phrase it there that, if you have type 2, then realise that you can you can, change what’s happening by by adjusting your your diet, your weight, your exercise, your metabolism, all these things, which we’ll look at in a moment. And I guess the the thing that that pinged for me there was if you have type 2 diabetes, that means you have proved that you can actually have a big amount of control of your body. You’ve you’ve engineered the situation, albeit unwittingly. You’ve engineered the situation, which is created by 2, which means you can engineer a situation to get out of it because you’ve created it. You’ve proved you’ve got great control over your body.

Neil D’Silva [00:12:20]:
Absolutely. I mean, reversal, my success rate on reversal is about 80 percent, so I can never guarantee it because some people some people’s bodies just don’t respond to the point that reversal and remission happens. Some people can have it just, you know, they could be had a type 2 diabetic 30 odd years, and best you can hope for is effective management. But, yeah, you’re quite right. Someone’s I I I look back on my diet and my lifestyle in my twenties thirties, and I I lived a life on the road a bit as well. And garage food and hotel food and, you know, I was quite partial to your pot noodle from time to time. And I look back on it, you know, fizzy drinks and, you know, it was just a bad diet. It was a diet that, you know, I would cringe at now, but at the time, I didn’t know any better.

Neil D’Silva [00:13:17]:
I think I didn’t think I ate badly, which was ironic because I look back and go, that was really bad. But normally, it is it is the smoking gun, and you’re quite right. If you can identify the issues in your diet, which is obviously where I come in to help people, improvement in diet and lifestyle in in virtually every case leads to an improvement in blood sugar control. That can simply result in maybe a reduction in medication. It can be yeah. It it it can result in health improvement, generally, more energy, better sleep, those sorts of things. And in terms of die type 2 diabetes itself, yeah, in more cases than not, it can be reversed. It does take some work.

Neil D’Silva [00:14:01]:
It’s not easy. Having done the journey, it’s not an easy journey, but, I look back over 12 years and think where I’ve been now. And, given that, you know, once upon a time I was morbidly obese, we might not even be having this conversation. And I do reflect on that because there are many, many people in my situation now which, you know, they, you know, they need help. And just a couple of bits I’ll just touch on, which more listeners might find interesting. Excuse me. When people say they’re diabetic, 1 in 10 just under 1 in 10 will be type 1 diabetic, and around 9 in 10 will be type 2.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:14:43]:
Oh.

Neil D’Silva [00:14:43]:
So that about 8% are type ones. The 2 the other 2% are the really, you know, the rarer ones like gestational diabetes, but 90% of people who say they are diabetic without qualifying whether they are 1 or 2. 90% of people who are diabetic will be type 2 diabetic. And another interesting number, for your for your listeners to consider, go back to my dad. As I mentioned, he was undiagnosed. So he lived with it apparently about 5 years, but never had the test done. He was getting some of the symptoms, but never was was never really really joining the dots, and I didn’t know then what I know now. What I do know now is that there’s about a 1000000 people, as I mentioned at the start, there’s about a 1000000 people in the UK who have type 2 diabetes right now at this moment in time and have no idea they’ve got it.

Neil D’Silva [00:15:35]:
And that’s a serious problem. That’s a big that that that really is a big problem because left untreated, whether they change their diet and lifestyle or not, but left untreated with pharmaceutical medication, it can become really serious. It could it it can create some serious issues. Now it is the leading cause of limb and limb amputation in the UK. It is one of the leading causes of blindness. As I mentioned, there are links between type 2 diabetes and dementia now. It damages the kidneys. It damages the cardiovascular system.

Neil D’Silva [00:16:11]:
It pretty much screws up every major system of the body. So left undiagnosed, you can see how, you know, it’s picked up perhaps, you know, later down the line, you know, with a random blood test, you know, and doctor goes, oh, by the way, you’re type 2 diabetic. So it can be a can be a shock to some people. Yeah. But undiagnosed, untreated, you know, there’s a million people out there. It’s estimated that have type 2 at this moment in time, and they’ve got they’re blissfully unaware. And, ignorance is not bliss in this case. Trust me.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:16:46]:
No. Absolutely not. Absolutely. That’s that’s a lot of people who are walking around with effectively a ticking time bomb inside.

Neil D’Silva [00:16:52]:
Absolutely. Yep.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:16:54]:
Yeah. Are you you you were mentioned talking about, you know, the the unhealthy, less than healthy diets and and the pot noodles and the fast food and stuff. There’s a friend of mine who, he does a lot of traveling with his business all over the place. And, yeah, he used to always be showing photos of it, the fast food meal that he just had or he would live off at the hotel and so on and go from place to place to place to place until one day the doctor said, ah, you got type 2 diabetes now. It’s like, oh. And, he he wasn’t particularly unfit or or anything, but it was just the diet with with with everything that he was doing. You mentioned, your dad was undiagnosed. You mentioned lots of people living with it without without recognising it.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:17:42]:
What are the kind of symptoms that we might look out for that that might flag us to go, maybe I need to I just need to get checked up.

Neil D’Silva [00:17:50]:
So the number one symptom, in my opinion, and this actually I I look back at conversations with my dad in 2011, early 2012. He used to mention that he, he was tired because he was up a couple of times in the night going to the toilet. And you know what? I didn’t do then what I do now, and I certainly didn’t know then what I know now. But getting up in the middle of the night on a regular basis to go to the toilet is the number one symptom.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:18:23]:
Interesting. Okay.

Neil D’Silva [00:18:25]:
If you get up now and again, once or twice a month, it almost certainly isn’t an issue. And, you know, as you get older, you know, particularly guys, you know, as you get older in your fifties and sixties and seventies, you know, we and and ladies as well, you know, your bladder is not as strong as it used to be or maybe you drunk a lot before you went to bed. There are times where you’ll get up in the middle of the night to have a quick peep. But if you are getting up every single night and you’ve not had a blood sugar test done in the last couple of years, and especially if you are over 40.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:19:05]:
Right.

Neil D’Silva [00:19:05]:
I can only say you must go and get a a hba one c test done. It it might be something completely unrelated, in which case it can be dealt with. It might be type 2 diabetes, in which case it cannot be ignored. Mhmm. There are some other symptoms as well, constant hunger, constant thirst, because, obviously, you’re peeing out a lot. Wounds that take a long time to heal, intermittent blurriness blurriness in the vision, so not not not persistent, but your vision just momentarily even for, like, a quarter of a second just intermittently blurs and comes back.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:19:41]:
Oh, okay.

Neil D’Silva [00:19:42]:
That that can be that can be a symptom of high blood sugars. The thing to note as well is with type 2 diabetes, in in almost every case, and there will will always be exceptions to this, but in almost every case, the problem with type 2 diabetes is not that blood sugars are too low. It’s that they are too high.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:20:03]:
Right. Yes.

Neil D’Silva [00:20:04]:
And as I said to someone recently, low blood sugars will kill you in half an hour. Mhmm. High blood sugars will kill you over 10 years. And that’s one of the problems we type 2 is that the symptoms can take up to 5 to 10 years to actually become apparent where someone thinks to themselves, I’m getting up twice every night to go to the toilet. Maybe I should go to my doctors. As soon as you start getting these symptoms, particularly if you’ve got a poor diet and lifestyle Yeah. That obviously is a factor. Then, a hba one c test, it certainly is on should be on the cards.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:20:43]:
And you you can get that, from from your local doctor?

Neil D’Silva [00:20:47]:
You can. I mean, you can do your own ones now. You know, there are home kits you can get for h b a one c, and some people, will go down that route because, obviously, once you have your doctor tested, it’s on your medical records. I don’t see that patently as a problem. But I I know some people have got their own test done because they’d rather not get their doctor involved, and then they dealt with they dealt with them. So whatever works for the individual, I would say from my experience about 95% of people go to their doctors. A few people will do their own thing because that’s what they choose to do, and that’s absolutely fine. But, certainly, if you’ve got had a test done for a couple of years, there is no reason, in my opinion, why a doctor should refuse because it’s just part of a good health regime where you are looking after your own health.

Neil D’Silva [00:21:38]:
Yeah. So get one done if you’ve not had one done.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:21:41]:
Yeah. That that makes sense. That’s certainly some some helpful symptoms to look out for. We know that it can be managed, and we know that in many cases, it can be overcome, and that’s that’s something you you work with a lot of people to to to help them with. Can what are what are some sort of lifestyle or dietary tips that we might adopt? So people are listening thinking, oh, I wanna make sure that that doesn’t happen to me. I don’t I don’t end up developing type 2. What what are some things that we could we can we can do? Do we need a complete complete change of lifestyle or are there sort of smaller tweaks that we can do?

Neil D’Silva [00:22:19]:
In terms of in terms of lifestyle itself, obviously, regular exercise is good. Within, you know, within anyone’s personal capabilities, whether that’s going out for a walk for 10 minutes a day or going down the gym 5 times a week. Whatever you can do, unless you’re physically unable to move, you should do it within your capabilities.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:22:38]:
Yeah.

Neil D’Silva [00:22:38]:
If you can get out I mean, even half an hour’s will it’s good for your mental health as well, but it’s obviously good for your physical health. The more you can do, within your own abilities, the better. But you can’t out exercise a bad diet. So it’s no good. And I’ve seen people go down the gym, and I’m not gonna mention brands, but they go down the gym, spend an hour down the gym on all the machines, and then they go next door to the fast food out there. Really? Yeah. You can’t diet diet. So if someone’s got a choice between improving diet or doing more exercise and they can do one or the other, I’d always go diet route.

Neil D’Silva [00:23:13]:
The diet is, 80 80% of the solution, whereas exercise is probably 20% combined. It is very powerful, but diet is far more important. In terms of what someone should do or not do, they always have to revolutionise what you do. And sometimes the small sustainable changes are the ones that actually last the longest. So the big thing, bear in mind, type 2 diabetes is a a dysregulation in blood sugar control is to control your blood sugars. Yeah. And blood sugars, for the most part, are controlled by the carbohydrates that you eat. But I won’t vilify carbohydrates because there are different types of carbohydrates.

Neil D’Silva [00:23:58]:
There’s carbohydrates in fruits and vegetables, which in my view are absolutely fine. They’re natural. But there’s also carbohydrates in chocolate bars and fizzy drinks and fast food and, you know so it is it is about looking at the types of food that you’re eating. If you’re eating a lot of foods that come in packets or tins or have been processed, have multiple ingredients on the back, high particularly in sugar, and you’re eating those on a regular basis, then that should be something to consider. In the in in my book, which I will will touch on in a moment, there’s a couple of golden rules. So if I have to sum up, someone said to me, what do I need to do? I’ve got I’ve got 30 seconds. Tell Tell me what I need to do. I mean, that’s such a big subject.

Neil D’Silva [00:24:47]:
I have 2 golden rules. Okay? The the first is my 10000 year rule.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:24:54]:
Mhmm. And the

Neil D’Silva [00:24:54]:
10000 year rule is essentially imagine think think back 10000 years. What were we eating 10000 years ago? You know, we would eat, the fruit that grew in the trees. We eat the vegetables that we grew. We eat the nuts, the seeds, berries that we would forage. We eat the fish that we caught and the animals that we hunted. Those are the sorts of things that the human body is designed to run on and run pretty effectively on. Alright? It’s a good balance. It isn’t it’s not extreme.

Neil D’Silva [00:25:23]:
It’s just a good balance of carbohydrates, good carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. If our dietary choices for the most part are based on that one golden rule, If you think to yourself before you eat or you you eat what you’re about to eat, think to yourself, could I have got this 10000 years ago? If the answer is yes, you know what? It’s probably natural. It’s probably okay for you. It’s probably good for you. If the answer is no, it’s come from a factory. It’s got 30 ingredients, most of which I don’t understand, and it’s highly processed with lots of added sugars, then you’ve gotta make a choice. But all that helps. We, you know, we make choices and Mhmm.

Neil D’Silva [00:26:04]:
We live by the consequences of those choices. So the 10000 year rule, could I have got this 10000 years ago, is one of the rules I teach my clients. The second rule is my catch it, grow it, rear it rule. So, again, going back to your food choices, you’ve got your, you know, you’re preparing your dinner or you’re in a supermarket and you’re making you’re doing your weekly shop and think to yourself, you pick up a product, whatever it might be, could I catch this? Could I grow it? Or could I rear it? Mhmm. If the answer is no to any of those three questions, it probably isn’t natural. It’s probably been through a factory. It’s probably had good things taken away from it and not so good things added to it. And certainly, it’s not on a consistent basis.

Neil D’Silva [00:26:56]:
It probably isn’t very good for your health. We all have our little indulgences. I don’t mind a little bit in chocolate now. I used to be a chocoholic once upon a time. I put a chocolate once or twice a month now, and I do it in control. And that’s not good for me, but I like chocolate. So I’m not perfect, but I don’t eat it every day, and I certainly would eat it every day. I have a bit a little bit of alcohol.

Neil D’Silva [00:27:15]:
Yeah. I probably I don’t know. I bought a month, maybe, of wine. I’m not perfect, so I do have I I still enjoy the, you know, the the those indulgences. But for the most part, 90% of my diet is based on the one of those two rules. So if your listeners can take one of those two rules or both of them and start applying it with the food buying decisions because, you know, it all starts with the decision to buy it in the 1st place when you’re in a supermarket. Once you put it home, once you’re in the cupboards, it’s too late because you can’t see it. Yeah.

Neil D’Silva [00:27:47]:
Yeah. All goes back to making new choices when you’re. Use one of those two rules, the 10000 year rule or the catch it, grow it, rear it rule. And for the most part, you can’t go wrong.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:28:01]:
Okay. Yeah. That that makes sense. I I I like that, and I like like the way you mentioned that it’s okay to have, you know, to have a an indulgence from time to time, like, a little treat, but make it a treat. Don’t make it a an everyday occurrence.

Neil D’Silva [00:28:16]:
Yes. Yeah.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:28:17]:
Got it. You mentioned your book there. Time is as it always started, it’s starting to to to run away from us, but a good Blakemore for us to finish on your book. Tell tell us a bit about your book. What what what can people find from it, and where can they find it?

Neil D’Silva [00:28:32]:
So this is my book, the KISS plan, my 4 step guide to prevent or reverse type 2 diabetes. And the KISS has got 3 s’s as you can probably see, which is keep it smart, simple, and sustainable, which are the 3 keys to success. It’s gotta be smart. We’ve gotta keep it simple, and those those changes have to be sustainable. It took me three and a half years to write the book. It’s my dad’s legacy. I’m hoping that by writing the book, I can help countless people that I’ll never get, get to meet change lives and either help them to prevent. So the book isn’t based just on reversing type 2 diabetes.

Neil D’Silva [00:29:13]:
It’s about prevention as well. So there’s loads of good things in the book, that covered diet and nutrition and lifestyle and the psychological part of being healthy as well and other things like the holistic side, like our sleep quality and our stress levels and how they affect our body. Yeah. I mean, the book has been a labor of love for me. On many occasions, almost didn’t happen, but it did, and it was published in November, 2023. And, I’m getting great feedback on the Noble. And it’s appealing to people not saying not just type 2 diabetics, but people who just want a simple guide. I wrote the book for my dad.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:29:58]:
Mhmm.

Neil D’Silva [00:29:58]:
My dad was an intelligent man. He ran his own business. He could pick up a book. He could apply things, but he knew nothing about nutrition. So I’ve not overcomplicated the book. You know, some of my level of experience and knowledge would pick this book up and go, wow. It’s quite simple, innit? But that was the whole point. This isn’t written for someone like me or someone with a deep understanding of standing of nutrition.

Neil D’Silva [00:30:21]:
It’s designed for someone who really doesn’t understand even the basics and wants an easy introduction into in into really simple ways that they can they can improve their health.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:30:34]:
Got it. And and where where can we get hold of the book?

Neil D’Silva [00:30:37]:
The book is on Amazon. So you can get it on Kindle. You can get it on Paperback. And this one here is the, this is the hardback. Hardback. Bit of a beast, but it’s it’s it’s it’s great in hardback, I must say. Yeah. But it’s something you can get on Kindle and paperback as well.

Neil D’Silva [00:30:55]:
And, if you wanna find out more about the book, it was paid on my website. If you go to w w w.thekissplan.com, so k I s s s, three s’s, the kiss plan dot com. I have actually put a page together which explains a little bit more about the book, what it is, what it does, how it can help you. And if you fancy a PDF copy, certainly at the time of recording this this this great podcast, there’s a 50% discount off of the PDF copy of the book. If you don’t wanna buy from Amazon, don’t wanna get it on Kindle or paperback or hardback, you just want a PDF copy, there’s a 50% discount, on my website at the moment.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:31:39]:
Love it. And so for people who wanna find out more or maybe get in touch with you, is that the best place for them to do it through the kiss

Neil D’Silva [00:31:47]:
plan dot com? The kiss plan dot com is actually yeah. That is the page for the book. And my main website is, diabetes solutions dotco.uk. There you go. As as if I imagine, it pops up on this. So, yeah, diabetes solutions.co.uk is my web address and it kind of does what it says on the tin.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:32:09]:
And they can find out more about you. Find they’ll be Noble obviously, they’ll be able to find the book there as well. Yeah.

Neil D’Silva [00:32:15]:
The books there, my sort, programs. I outline my support programs. If there’s anyone out there listening that’s got pre diabetes or type 2 diabetes, you can book a free, 15 minute session with me, complete it free of charge, no obligation. If you just wanna chat about your your your worries or your concerns about diabetes. And, obviously, if you fancy going on to a longer term program, we can talk about that as well if you want to.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:32:41]:
Brilliant. So that’s, www.DiabetesSolutions.co.uk that link, the link to the book, Facebook, all that sort of stuff is gonna be in the show notes for this episode. As always, keithblaymorenoble.com/show. Look for the one with Neil De Silva, or go to diabetes solutions.co.uk. Neil, time has, as it always does, it’s it’s it’s run out for for for this episode. But thank you so much for for sharing some really, useful insights into into type 2 diabetes and the sorts of things we we can look out for and the sorts of things we can do to prevent ourselves from, from developing it. That’s really important.

Neil D’Silva [00:33:27]:
And and thank you for the opportunity to talk about it. It is a really important topic. It does affect 100 of millions of people across the world, and, I’m hoping that certainly with the help of the book, I can chip away at that, and I can help people not just in the UK, but, further afield, to improve their health.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:33:46]:
Yeah. Let’s hope so. Let’s hope so. Thank you so much, Neil. Do check him out. Do check him out. Thank you, dear, for your listeners. Thank you for for for joining us on the on this journey.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:33:56]:
Check out Neil’s book. Check out his website. Find out a bit more. Remember, if you like this episode, give us a like, a comment, a share, subscribe, a review. It all helps. We’ll catch you in another episode very soon. And until then, I’ll leave you with Neil’s absolute favourite quote. It’s from Jim Rowan.

Keith Blakemore-Noble [00:34:15]:
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you’ve got to live in.