Peter Attia: What if we're wrong about diabetes?

YouTube ^ | Jun 25, 2013 | Peter Attia; TED MED

[WhiskeyX]

As a young ER doctor, Peter Attia felt contempt for a patient with diabetes. She was overweight, he thought, and thus responsible for the fact that she needed a foot amputation. But years later, Attia received an unpleasant medical surprise that led him to wonder: is our understanding of diabetes right? Could the precursors to diabetes cause obesity, and not the other way around? A look at how assumptions may be leading us to wage the wrong medical war.

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[WhiskeyX]

Nutritional Health Series, Part 5

Peter Attia: What if we're wrong about diabetes?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMhLBPPtlrY

This video is one in a series of videos and websites which are being posted on FreeRepublic in the coming days in regard to nutritional health. In the beginning these videos were being posted as a rebuttal to an article and comments in another posted article on FreeRepublic remarking on obesity. Due to the strong interest in obesity and nutritional health as it relates to Type II Diabetes, the videos relating to Type II diabetes and how to reverse the progression of the disease are being moved forward among the other video topics in this series. Expect to see a mixture of videos regarding the role of carbohydrates in the diet and their relationship to nutritional health topics ranging from metabolic syndrome and Diabetes to dementia, Parkinson's Disease, Altzheimer's Disease, and more. The effects of standard government sponsored diets, health association diets, and alternative diets upon everyday nutrition, sports nutrition, and diabetic nutrition will be mixed in with videos focused on the use of various low carbohydrate and high fat (LCHF) diets, such as the ketogenic diets as a treatment for Type II Diabetes.

Anyone who is interested in following this series of posts about nutritional health is invited to request a ping.

The Nutritional Health Series includes the following FreeRepublic posts and links:

Nutritional Health Series, Part 1:

Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3357352/posts

Nutritional Health Series, Part 2:

Dr David Perlmutter: Grain Brain, Eating Fat Makes You Smart, and Why (Brain) Size Matters

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3357380/posts

Nutritional Health Series, Part 3:

Reversing Type 2 diabetes starts with ignoring the guidelines | Sarah Hallberg | TEDxPurdueU

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3357393/posts?page=33#33

Nutritional Health Series, Part 4

Dr. Peter Attia: Readdressing Dietary Guidelines

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3357711/posts

Nutritional Health Series, Part 5

Peter Attia: What if we're wrong about diabetes?

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[Ditter]

Bump for later

[sportutegrl]

But the food pyramid says we need to eat 7 to 9 servings of grains and pasta daily.

[Seruzawa]

I’ve lost count of the things that allopaths have been wrong about.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Well Dr. Peter, I guess your hubris led you to the conclusion you are right about everything. Bet the good Doctor was an Obama supporter until recently.

Feeling contempt for a patient? What a dick.

[Talisker]

I've lost count of the things that allopaths have been wrong about.

They're fantastic at trauma medicine and crisis care.

Everything else, not so much.

[Diogenesis]

Diabetes is caused by lawyers who foisted the
“food pyramid” on real people.

The same lawyers created ObamaCARE to destroy
the rest of America’s health,
and then imported new diseases into America
to murder the rest.

[Gay State Conservative]

I have Type 2...developed in my 40’s.Some years back I lost about 40 lbs...got very close to a “normal” BMI.My diabetes went away and my hypertension almost went away.Then my hip exploded...couldn’t exercise.My weight went back up and both problems returned.

[matthew fuller]

Thanks for posting this- if you are running a ping list on nutritional health, please add me to it. Thanks, matthew fuller.

[vbmoneyspender]

Feeling contempt

It's what liberals do best.

[freemama]

Please add me to this ping list.

[DLfromthedesert]

Try gluten free. I lost a lot of weight and corrected BP spikes.

[alloysteel]

Under the umbrella term “diabetes” there are at least TWO separate but different disorders. One, the Type I version, is a result of the pancreatic beta cells able to produce little or no insulin, and is the result, usually, of the body raising an autoimmune response to the presence of these cells, killing them off. The Type II version results from the body having enough insulin, but the cells themselves have developed a resistance to accepting the insulin, and then cannot properly utilize the glucose circulating in the bloodstream as an energy source.

Both result in an excess of glucose building up in the body, and this excess leads to nerve and organ damage over time, that can be debilitating, incapacitating or deadly.

But anyone who has a decent doctor, and has been diagnosed as having either diabetes or a syndrome called prediabetes, is aware of the physiological symptoms and some of the prognosis.

Diabetes may be related in some way to a tendency to alcohol dependency, as alcohol is burned much like glucose at the cellular level. And it is more readily absorbed through the cell wall of the individual cell than glucose molecules.

Of course, alcohol has an effect on cellular energy production much like using a blowtorch to toast marshmallows - a little applied very slowly, goes a long way, and it is easy to have the process go awry in so many ways.

[yoe]

Filed for later....thank you so much!

[DannyTN]

Add me to the ping list

[traderrob6]

I cut my carbs down to 50g/day when I turned 58 and self diagnosed myself with pre-diabetes. Lost 60# and Levi 517s 29W-32L jeans now fit perfectly.

That combined with walking 5mi/day on treadmill has lowered my BG to very near perfect.

[BuffaloJack]

> I’ve lost count of the things that allopaths have been wrong about.

You mean like salt? Salt content of blood is regulated by the adrenal gland, salt isn’t a cause; it is an effect. Go on a low sodium diet and all you wind up doing is giving your adrenal gland a workout, trying to manage the salt.

[Rusty0604]

UNTIL you get diabetes. Then the carbs become bad for you. Never mind if it doesn’t make sense, these “experts” know what they’re doing.

[nclaurel]

If you read Dr Sarah Hallberg’s suggestions and compare to gluten free it is close be because she feels grains are too carb heavy. Low carb is healthy. American obesity is strongly related to carbs and sugar.