Dr David Unwin FRCGP works at the Norwood NHS Surgery in Southport near Liverpool, UK where he has helped care for a practice of 9700 people since 1986 as a family doctor. To date 150 of his patients with T2 diabetes have achieved drug-free remission. This gives a remission rate of 50% at 30 months duration of those choosing a lower carb diet. This equates to a remission rate of over 20% of the diabetic population of the entire practice.  One of the best results for any clinic in the world.

For the past few years, he has been a UK Royal College of General Practitioners expert clinical advisor on diabetes. David was also elected to fellowship of the college for his work in the training of trainee general practitioners.

As a result of his interests in both better communication with patients and Type 2 diabetes he was made Royal College of General Practice National Champion for Collaborative Care and Support Planning in Obesity & Diabetes in 2015.

David has  published over 20 research papers into improving blood pressure, lipid profiles, renal function and liver function by reducing dietary carbohydrate, especially sugar. His teaspoon of sugar infographics have now been translated into thirty five languages and have been downloaded millions of times.

In 2021 one of his papers published in BMJ Nutrition(1) was voted as ‘paper of the year’ by the International Academy of nutrition educators. His 2023 BMJ nutrition paper on the low carb diet in T2 diabetes(2) is the most popular paper ever published by that journal.

With his psychologist wife Dr Jen Unwin he has presented to large audiences all over the world (Florida, Minnesota, California, Denver, New Zealand, Poland, Zurich, London, Glasgow and Edinburgh)

Dr Unwin’s work has been covered by both BBC, C4 & C5 television, The New Scientist, The Times, The Express, The Daily Mail and The British Medical Journal. As @lowcarbGP he has  107,000 followers on Twitter https://twitter.com/lowcarbGP

1.         Unwin D, Khalid AA, Unwin J, Crocombe D, Delon C, Martyn K, et al. Insights from a general practice service evaluation supporting a lower carbohydrate diet in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and prediabetes: a secondary analysis of routine clinic data including HbA1c, weight and prescribing over 6 years. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. 2020:bmjnph-2020-000072.

2.         Unwin D, Delon C, Unwin J, Tobin S, Taylor R. What predicts drug-free type 2 diabetes remission? Insights from an 8-year general practice service evaluation of a lower carbohydrate diet with weight loss. BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health. 2023:e000544.