of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes; includes increased blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat around the waist, and abnormal cholesterol or triglyceride levels.
In my humble opinion, intermittent and extended fasting is the most powerful cure for metabolic related diseases. Take a look at Dr Jason Fung work https://youtu.be/etNLeBTlGQk
Jason Fung's favorite therapy definitely belongs on the short-list of things to consider and practice.
If I had to summarize the best thing to do in 3 words, it would be, "Eat real food." However, I realize a lot of people might not know what real food is.
If I had to summarize in 8 words, it would be, "Prioritize protein, fuel with fat, and cut carbs." Adding the words, "animal-based" a could places would improve the advice even more.
Some of this is not true. I've reversed my own diabetes and insulin resistance by avoiding sugar, carbs, veg oils and all grains. I now eat mostly meat and eggs. Saturated fat and salt is not a problem. I also do 18 hour fasts every day and a 42 hour fast once a week. The food pyramid is a lie. Always has been. Once you learn the truth, good health is not difficult.
I actually go out of my way to drink saltwater, using a dash of Himalayan sea salt and a dash of Morton Lite Salt (hopefully the processing does much more good than harm).
Are you referring to ocean water. Ocean water has about 35 parts per thousand of salts. A physiological salt solution is around 9 parts per thousand, so it needs to be diluted.
I remember when a young woman died in a water drinking contest sponsored by a radio station. The sudden drop in electrolytes caused fatal brain swelling.
Good point. I shouldn't say "saltwater", but rather "water with a little salt in it". The salty water that I drink barely tastes salty, so I think it's noticeably less than ocean water.
You are at odds with Mayo Clinic on Covid and vaccines yet trust their version of SAD (standard American diet)? ‘Calories and exercise’ means if you fail, you are to blame. If you however say that added sugar, processed foods and seed oils are to blame, then blame goes to manufacturers aka Big Food. Kraft bought Heinz and Philip Morris bought Kraft ie the Big Tobacco lies are being rebranded for Big Food. ‘Anti-vaxxer’ diet equivalent is low-carb or keto.
To a you are spot on! Not many folks know Big Tobacco owns most of the processed food companies. They destroyed many lives with their pesticide laden cigarettes but I guess they were not satisfied, so they are going after the food.
Be wise eat one ingredient foods that come from the gardens or local ranchers. Organic and grassfed. As for fats, stick with grassfed butter, coconut oil, beef tallow and lard all organic of course. And my favorite bacon fat in moderation.
Spot-on Dr. Alexander. As a person who has cured his own diabetes without drugs, I can confirm unequivocally that this is directly due to the gross manipulation of our food supply. We need to collectively change our thinking. Diabetes is NOT a disease but a SYMPTOM! I'll throw this out there...that if you have or are facing diabetes and want to stop it, I would be happy to share my protocol.
Actually metabolic syndrome is a collection of 3-5 out of 5 symptoms.
And we need to distinguish between type 1 diabetes (an auto-immune condition) and type 2 (a metabolic condition) and type 3... (brain/cognitive conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's). I would expect Derek's protocol could work for types 2, 3... but only mitigate type 1, not reverse it.
Thank you for your reply. I don't have direct experience with Metabolic syndrome (thank God) but my understanding is that it represents a compilation of several conditions manifesting together, thereby increasing one's risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes – i.e. symptoms of a larger issue. The protocol I have followed (which I have recommended to, and was successful for, over 20 other people) literally reverses their diabetes; both type 1 & 2. It is by no means easy but begins with a person committing themselves to doing it. Once committed, the rest is easy!
Not quite correct. Check with Aseem Malhotra, Bob Atkins, Tom Levy (peakenergy.com). Eat plenty of meat, fish, eggs, butter, probiotics, and skip refined carbs, snacks, lattes, vegetable/seed oils. Supplement lots of vitamin C (8 - 10 g per day) to clean up arteries. And more - study, find a doc/nutrition specialist if you need a lot of help.
Also look into YouTube channels by Dr. Sten Ekberg, Dr. Berg, Dr. Ken Berry, Ivor Cummins, Low Carb Down Under..., the work of Dr. Chris Palmer, Dr. Paul Lustig...
BTW, I make chai lattes using organic tea powders and cinnamon in about 50% water, 30% organic half-and-half, and 20% emulsifier-free heavy cream. The grams of lactose are very few and allow my diet to remain keto.
And finally, I've heard that too much vitamin C can actually have an oxidizing effect, and that carnivores don't need much vitamin C. One of the reason I still supplement with vitamin C is that I think it may help reduce any lingering side effects from my Covid booster in November 2021.
Two things: I expect you are talking about Dr.Robert Lustig, emeritus professor UCF, specialty pediatric endocrinology. Very well informed guy, superb knowledge of all of the biochemical pathways involved in human metabolism. Second, not well known is the fact that meats contain Vitamin C. You never see it listed, it is rarely tested for.
I concur with your list of good video producers, would add doctors Jason Fung, Chris Knobbe, Nadir Ali and others who participate in the Low Carbs Down Under conferences and video presentations.
My problem with this is as follows: ‘If you get out of shape, eat too much, don’t exercise, drink and smoke, you will feel like crap and eventually something seriously wrong will happen.DUH!’ When we name it a disease then guess what? Pharma will prescribe you something. People who do the above will look at you earnestly and say ‘my Doc told me I have metabolic disorder’. Rather than ‘my doc said get in shape, start living healthily or I’ll die’.
1) They have a symptom that means there's an 80+% chance of a very serious metabolic condition
2) They have been misled by Big Farma, veganistas, "calories-in calories-out" BS, Big "Health Care", and Big Pharma...
The key insight is that cutting carbs, eliminating natural and artificial sweeteners, and eliminating seed oils, and eliminating snacking (or better yet practicing some sort of fasting) will put them on the road to metabolic health.
i also believe that, that weight chart is overdue for a make over. for a person my height and weight and age it is so low i would practically have to quit eating and exercise for hours everyday, which i wouldn't mind doing but i think it should be changed somewhat not everyone has the same metobolic make up also genetics need to be added in.
Weight really is a weak indicator compared with waist-to-height ration (should be under 1/2).
Cutting carbs, eliminating natural and artificial sweeteners, and eliminating seed oils, and eliminating snacking (or better yet practicing some sort of fasting) will put you on the road to metabolic health. Exercising 22-45 minutes a day is really important, but its purpose is not to burn off empty calories that were consumed. Eliminate the empty calories, exercise moderately, eat a couple times a day until you're full, and you'll be the right size for you.
“Eating plenty of vegetables, fruits, lean protein and whole grains
Limiting saturated fat and salt in your diet”
Please stop repeating this miss information!
Much better advice would be:
1. eat real food
2. prioritize protein,
3. fuel with fat
4. cut carbs
Grains are not healthy. Saturated fat is generally healthy. Salt is rarely an issue for those who cut carbs. Lean meat is OK but less healthy than fatty meat, especially if the animal was pasture raised or grass fed.
Stop eating wheat. No matter whole grain, organic or other. It has been hybridized to become a killer. It messes with your gut biome, regardless of gluten tolerance. Only ancient grains and sprouted wheat are safe. Read the book, Wheat Belly.
I've heard that homemade sourdough bread may be the least bad. Nevertheless, I treat bread like I treat liquor, cake, and french fries, consumed extremely rarely in very small amounts as part of some social occasion.
That dietary advice is so yesterday. Check out the new inspired recommendations from the Food Compass. Eat your way to better health by eating Frosted Mini Wheats, Lucky Charms and chocolate covered almonds. Or how about some egg substitute cooked in vegetable oil?https://sites.tufts.edu/foodcompass
I'm afraid that the Mayo Clinic is part of the medical establishment and is giving flawed guidance. Their approach to Type 2 Diabetes, in particular, is patently far less than optimal. Insulin resistance is the underlying factor in Metabolic Syndrome. Insulin resistance can be detected long before blood sugar is out of control. The body responds to the constant input of glucose from sugar and refined carbs (from snacking and meals) by producing more insulin to get the excessive contributions arriving in the blood back to set-point. The recipient cell being 'forced' by insulin to accept glucose, beyond their needs begin to be less responsive to insulin, ie they are developing insulin resistance. In response, the pancreas produces even more insulin, since the priority of the body is to keep the blood sugar level under control. This is a damaging process which, after years, finally results in sufficient damage to the pancreas itself that insulin production drops and blood sugar is now manifestly out-of-control and this can now be seen in the fasting blood sugar lab tests.
Much other damage has been done at this point, likely including the development of NAFLD, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cardiovascular damage, fatty tissue dysfunction etc. The process could have been detected much sooner if the bloodwork included measurement of insulin, not just fasting blood sugar. Though insulin measurement methodology has not been nationally standardized, any consistent method would show that higher and higher levels are required in order to for the body to maintain its (individualized) target fasting blood sugar level.
Dr. Kraft included insulin measurement in addition to blood sugar during glucose tolerance testing many decades ago. Dr. Pradip Jamnada gives a very good condensed explanation of the Kraft test in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxS2AayOHmo
See HOMA-IR (fasting insulin * fasting glucose / 405 in USA) and A1C blood tests. Either one would give a good proxy of what Dr. Kraft was measuring.
I think it is gross medical malpractice that Americans aren't strongly encouraged to have one or both of these tests or the Kraft Test every year of adulthood.
In my humble opinion, intermittent and extended fasting is the most powerful cure for metabolic related diseases. Take a look at Dr Jason Fung work https://youtu.be/etNLeBTlGQk
Jason Fung's favorite therapy definitely belongs on the short-list of things to consider and practice.
If I had to summarize the best thing to do in 3 words, it would be, "Eat real food." However, I realize a lot of people might not know what real food is.
If I had to summarize in 8 words, it would be, "Prioritize protein, fuel with fat, and cut carbs." Adding the words, "animal-based" a could places would improve the advice even more.
Some of this is not true. I've reversed my own diabetes and insulin resistance by avoiding sugar, carbs, veg oils and all grains. I now eat mostly meat and eggs. Saturated fat and salt is not a problem. I also do 18 hour fasts every day and a 42 hour fast once a week. The food pyramid is a lie. Always has been. Once you learn the truth, good health is not difficult.
Use an unprocessed salt such as Himalayan sea salt, so much better for you! Love your comments, it’s my understanding as well.
I actually go out of my way to drink saltwater, using a dash of Himalayan sea salt and a dash of Morton Lite Salt (hopefully the processing does much more good than harm).
Are you referring to ocean water. Ocean water has about 35 parts per thousand of salts. A physiological salt solution is around 9 parts per thousand, so it needs to be diluted.
I remember when a young woman died in a water drinking contest sponsored by a radio station. The sudden drop in electrolytes caused fatal brain swelling.
Good point. I shouldn't say "saltwater", but rather "water with a little salt in it". The salty water that I drink barely tastes salty, so I think it's noticeably less than ocean water.
Bingo!
A combination of the following can cause sodium to be an issue for many patients:
1) Consuming too many carbs (> 20, 50, or 100g/day of carbs, depending on metabolic health)
2) Consuming too much sodium in processed foods while simultaneously consuming too little potassium and magnesium.
If one consumes no processed plant-based "foods", then this combination will not occur.
You are at odds with Mayo Clinic on Covid and vaccines yet trust their version of SAD (standard American diet)? ‘Calories and exercise’ means if you fail, you are to blame. If you however say that added sugar, processed foods and seed oils are to blame, then blame goes to manufacturers aka Big Food. Kraft bought Heinz and Philip Morris bought Kraft ie the Big Tobacco lies are being rebranded for Big Food. ‘Anti-vaxxer’ diet equivalent is low-carb or keto.
To a you are spot on! Not many folks know Big Tobacco owns most of the processed food companies. They destroyed many lives with their pesticide laden cigarettes but I guess they were not satisfied, so they are going after the food.
Be wise eat one ingredient foods that come from the gardens or local ranchers. Organic and grassfed. As for fats, stick with grassfed butter, coconut oil, beef tallow and lard all organic of course. And my favorite bacon fat in moderation.
In other words, falling into the traps set by Big Farma sets you up to fall into the traps set by Big Pharma.
Spot-on Dr. Alexander. As a person who has cured his own diabetes without drugs, I can confirm unequivocally that this is directly due to the gross manipulation of our food supply. We need to collectively change our thinking. Diabetes is NOT a disease but a SYMPTOM! I'll throw this out there...that if you have or are facing diabetes and want to stop it, I would be happy to share my protocol.
Yes, please share your protocol when you have a chance.
I tried to upload but Substack seems to prevent it
Yes, Substack won’t let you attach files, only links... :/
Is diabetes a symptom of insulin resistance and metabolic disease?
YES!
Actually metabolic syndrome is a collection of 3-5 out of 5 symptoms.
And we need to distinguish between type 1 diabetes (an auto-immune condition) and type 2 (a metabolic condition) and type 3... (brain/cognitive conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's). I would expect Derek's protocol could work for types 2, 3... but only mitigate type 1, not reverse it.
Thank you for your reply. I don't have direct experience with Metabolic syndrome (thank God) but my understanding is that it represents a compilation of several conditions manifesting together, thereby increasing one's risk of heart disease, stroke and type 2 diabetes – i.e. symptoms of a larger issue. The protocol I have followed (which I have recommended to, and was successful for, over 20 other people) literally reverses their diabetes; both type 1 & 2. It is by no means easy but begins with a person committing themselves to doing it. Once committed, the rest is easy!
Not quite correct. Check with Aseem Malhotra, Bob Atkins, Tom Levy (peakenergy.com). Eat plenty of meat, fish, eggs, butter, probiotics, and skip refined carbs, snacks, lattes, vegetable/seed oils. Supplement lots of vitamin C (8 - 10 g per day) to clean up arteries. And more - study, find a doc/nutrition specialist if you need a lot of help.
Also look into YouTube channels by Dr. Sten Ekberg, Dr. Berg, Dr. Ken Berry, Ivor Cummins, Low Carb Down Under..., the work of Dr. Chris Palmer, Dr. Paul Lustig...
BTW, I make chai lattes using organic tea powders and cinnamon in about 50% water, 30% organic half-and-half, and 20% emulsifier-free heavy cream. The grams of lactose are very few and allow my diet to remain keto.
And finally, I've heard that too much vitamin C can actually have an oxidizing effect, and that carnivores don't need much vitamin C. One of the reason I still supplement with vitamin C is that I think it may help reduce any lingering side effects from my Covid booster in November 2021.
Two things: I expect you are talking about Dr.Robert Lustig, emeritus professor UCF, specialty pediatric endocrinology. Very well informed guy, superb knowledge of all of the biochemical pathways involved in human metabolism. Second, not well known is the fact that meats contain Vitamin C. You never see it listed, it is rarely tested for.
I concur with your list of good video producers, would add doctors Jason Fung, Chris Knobbe, Nadir Ali and others who participate in the Low Carbs Down Under conferences and video presentations.
My problem with this is as follows: ‘If you get out of shape, eat too much, don’t exercise, drink and smoke, you will feel like crap and eventually something seriously wrong will happen.DUH!’ When we name it a disease then guess what? Pharma will prescribe you something. People who do the above will look at you earnestly and say ‘my Doc told me I have metabolic disorder’. Rather than ‘my doc said get in shape, start living healthily or I’ll die’.
When I see an obese person, I think two things:
1) They have a symptom that means there's an 80+% chance of a very serious metabolic condition
2) They have been misled by Big Farma, veganistas, "calories-in calories-out" BS, Big "Health Care", and Big Pharma...
The key insight is that cutting carbs, eliminating natural and artificial sweeteners, and eliminating seed oils, and eliminating snacking (or better yet practicing some sort of fasting) will put them on the road to metabolic health.
i also believe that, that weight chart is overdue for a make over. for a person my height and weight and age it is so low i would practically have to quit eating and exercise for hours everyday, which i wouldn't mind doing but i think it should be changed somewhat not everyone has the same metobolic make up also genetics need to be added in.
Weight really is a weak indicator compared with waist-to-height ration (should be under 1/2).
Cutting carbs, eliminating natural and artificial sweeteners, and eliminating seed oils, and eliminating snacking (or better yet practicing some sort of fasting) will put you on the road to metabolic health. Exercising 22-45 minutes a day is really important, but its purpose is not to burn off empty calories that were consumed. Eliminate the empty calories, exercise moderately, eat a couple times a day until you're full, and you'll be the right size for you.
You might find this short video by Dr. Jason Fung helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6vkEIeBj_E
Again, your recommendations are all wrong. The medical profession is carrying out mass murder through metabolic illness.
Mass second degree murder.
STOP DRINKING TRANSWEISER
Yeah, actually all consumption of alcoholic beverages, sugary beverages, and even artificially sweetened beverages, should be stopped.
“Eating plenty of vegetables, fruits, lean protein and whole grains
Limiting saturated fat and salt in your diet”
Please stop repeating this miss information!
Much better advice would be:
1. eat real food
2. prioritize protein,
3. fuel with fat
4. cut carbs
Grains are not healthy. Saturated fat is generally healthy. Salt is rarely an issue for those who cut carbs. Lean meat is OK but less healthy than fatty meat, especially if the animal was pasture raised or grass fed.
Stop eating wheat. No matter whole grain, organic or other. It has been hybridized to become a killer. It messes with your gut biome, regardless of gluten tolerance. Only ancient grains and sprouted wheat are safe. Read the book, Wheat Belly.
I've heard that homemade sourdough bread may be the least bad. Nevertheless, I treat bread like I treat liquor, cake, and french fries, consumed extremely rarely in very small amounts as part of some social occasion.
YES!
That dietary advice is so yesterday. Check out the new inspired recommendations from the Food Compass. Eat your way to better health by eating Frosted Mini Wheats, Lucky Charms and chocolate covered almonds. Or how about some egg substitute cooked in vegetable oil?https://sites.tufts.edu/foodcompass
They're magically delicious!
Or is it tragically malicious?
it is ALL JUST PLAIN MURDER ANY WAY YOU LOOK AT IT
I call BS on the DASH diet.
I'm afraid that the Mayo Clinic is part of the medical establishment and is giving flawed guidance. Their approach to Type 2 Diabetes, in particular, is patently far less than optimal. Insulin resistance is the underlying factor in Metabolic Syndrome. Insulin resistance can be detected long before blood sugar is out of control. The body responds to the constant input of glucose from sugar and refined carbs (from snacking and meals) by producing more insulin to get the excessive contributions arriving in the blood back to set-point. The recipient cell being 'forced' by insulin to accept glucose, beyond their needs begin to be less responsive to insulin, ie they are developing insulin resistance. In response, the pancreas produces even more insulin, since the priority of the body is to keep the blood sugar level under control. This is a damaging process which, after years, finally results in sufficient damage to the pancreas itself that insulin production drops and blood sugar is now manifestly out-of-control and this can now be seen in the fasting blood sugar lab tests.
Much other damage has been done at this point, likely including the development of NAFLD, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cardiovascular damage, fatty tissue dysfunction etc. The process could have been detected much sooner if the bloodwork included measurement of insulin, not just fasting blood sugar. Though insulin measurement methodology has not been nationally standardized, any consistent method would show that higher and higher levels are required in order to for the body to maintain its (individualized) target fasting blood sugar level.
Dr. Kraft included insulin measurement in addition to blood sugar during glucose tolerance testing many decades ago. Dr. Pradip Jamnada gives a very good condensed explanation of the Kraft test in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxS2AayOHmo
See HOMA-IR (fasting insulin * fasting glucose / 405 in USA) and A1C blood tests. Either one would give a good proxy of what Dr. Kraft was measuring.
I think it is gross medical malpractice that Americans aren't strongly encouraged to have one or both of these tests or the Kraft Test every year of adulthood.