This solved my (true to life) explanation of just how type 2 diabetes comes about. No more saturated fats for me, I'm too old to fight it. Thank you so very much.
gRetax G0D had my blood sugar high in the morning on fasting blood, also blurred vission.... was not shootimg insulin or anything but that would come later :p
I was a prediabetic when eating a vegetarian diet; when I went vegan, I was no more a prediabetic. It's been 4 years now! And beware of coconut oil, which has the double amount of saturated fats than dairy butter!
I thought the majority of saturated fatty acids in coconut oil were lauric acid, which has been shown to decrease inflammatory markers and has antibacterial and antifungal properties. About 10% of it is comprised of the palmitic fatty acid commonly found in mammalian products like dairy, so I considered it the "lesser of two evils". I don't pretend to know everything about coconut oil, so if there's something else I might be missing I'd love to be informed.
Chad I have read the same about “shorter” chain fatty acids (not short chain - less than 6 bonds of carbon). Lauric Acid falls into that medium chain (aka shorter).
Two years ago I was sitting at a dinner to honor my brothers wife passing due to lung cancer and of course the menu was all meat based so me and my wife were a sensation as we ate only bread and salad. Man sitting next to me said he got T2 and when I explained this process to him I got a blank stare as he could not beleive that the pork chop is not healthy for him. Lady doctor sitting close heard all this and also was sceptic of my explanation. They all cleaned up their plates and had another helping of grilled meats... Our habits and system are imprinted too strong, so only those who see outside the box can help themselves.
All doctors are not made equal :) some have so limited training in nutrition, they are mostly trained in how to prescribed this and that pill. They think that its bad luck to get heart disease, T2 or any other of the diseases that are strongly linked to eating animal products, it so stupid.
This is so true, especially in Texas, in my experience. I can lead my family members to the best vids with the best science, and days later they still ask, "what does it take to get into ketosis". I can lead them to water, but they won't drink.
It's crazy how what the general public and even doctors believe about diabetes is the complete opposite of what the science actually says. We live in clown world
Marie LeVasseur Brown lolll that’s so funny 😆 I was eating so many calories just from portion and my good cooking and going out! I’m pretty sure I had no clue calories mattered and just worried about “carbs” ugh!!!
This is interesting to me and has come at a perfect time. I couldn’t figure out why my morning sugar reading was so inconsistent. After dinners of multigrain pasta or multigrain breads, my morning sugar reading was under 120. After a day of and dinner of saturated fats and no multigrain pastas and breads, my reading is over 150. Makes total sense to me now.
@@aliciaali8299 not quite, amino acids and glycerol begin the process of parthenogenesis when blood sugar drops too much, this is caused by glucagon released from a-islet cells in the pancreas when carbohydrates are completely unavailable, completely being the key word here. The best way to maintain blood sugar is to eat a consistent carb diet and possibly lose a few Kg with exercise...
Berg is paid off to support the keto and coconut oil industries. He feeds us a good deal of truth, but always dishes out his bait in a pile of nicely set logic and smoothe demeanor. The public would greatly benefit sticking with Nutritionfacts.org, loaded with truth, slightly biased at times, but no harm ever dished out. I’ve seen people come and leave a hospital for 25 yrs. Dr G’s advice would save millions of these folks.
What about all the people that do keto without this issue? I’ve even read about a bunch of people with type 2 diabetes that stopped needing insulin after doing keto.
NURIA CORDERO -- those people on keto are still diabetic, they have just put their diabetes on hold. And it will return when those people make either of two changes: 1) Go off the keto diet. Very few people can sustain this for over a year. Even people with juvenile epilepsy, for which keto is very helpful, have only a 40% compliance rate after one year. 2) Start adding more protein to their keto diet. Adults have a minimal need for protein. Any excess of amino acids from protein in the diet gets the amine group trimmed off by enzymes in the liver. And what's the result? A carbohydrate and urea. And urea becomes uric acid in the blood. So not only does the Type 2 diabetes return, but the person is at increased risk of gout.
@@broddr I am 5'5" 132lbs and have been on a keto diet for quite a long time, no blood sugar issues for me... never elevated on fasting labs when i get my labs done... if you lose weight, type 2 diabetes can be reversed similar to the way gestational diabetes disappears after pregnancy.. regain the weight, it can come back.. it's much more complicated than this video states and this video is actually quite wrong in its ultimate conclusion and demonization of fat. I am an RN and medical student, BUT you are right, it is very hard to stay compliant with keto, mainly it is lack of readily available options bc there are plenty of menu items that will keep you under 25g/day of carbs
@@jeseod Only WFPB will truly reverse the T2D, keto just masks it bc you simply aren't taking in any carbs lol. You are actually making your insulin resistance worse, bc IML fats are what's deactivating insulin receptors, and those come mainly from saturated fat. It will get to the point where a measly banana will spike your blood sugar so much, you won't be able to lower it for a while. Not to mention, all the issues from the animal products you're eating!
@@jeseodisn't that the point though? The moment you quit keto, the damage from the high fat diet catches right back up to you after a short while. Previous comment acknowledged that you don't get blood sugar issues in the meantime.
This explains why one needs to cut carbs to as close to zero as possible on a keto diet. The body just can't deal with it anymore. Makes sense. I wondered why that was. It also explains why high carb + high fat often leads to diabetes.
you are one of the few people on here who seems to get that its not just the fat, its the fat plus the carbs simultaneously in excessive quantities that leads to weight gain which leads to insulin resistance (more aptly insufficient amount of insulin available)
Thanks for the awesome video! People really need to know what is actually behind diabetes. Your videos always inspire me to keep posting on my channel!
as a medical student, I can tell you this video is actually a controversial viewpoint. the presenter is cherry picking data and misrepresenting some of the well known processes. saturated fats have been demonized by organizations such as this for years when in fact they play an important role in human metabolic pathways. as my final comment on here, I will just say that some of what he is saying is possible, it is NOT the complete picture. for example, people on ketogenic diets for extended periods of time do not have long term insulin resistance. WHY? if saturated fate caused permanent insulin resistance, those ketogenic diet people would have similar symptoms of elevated glucose levels as type II diabetes but the don't.. WHY? because what is really going on is that while it is true that fat does not stimulate insulin production, their bodies undergo gluconeogenesis and glycogenolysis to obtain the sugars needed to produce ATP to keep the body going (for time constraints, i'm not going to cover the entire metabolic map on here, it's quite extensive) but, once glucose levels then rise enough, the b-islet cells secrete insulin to allow those sugars to become usable and enter the intercellular spaces vie their GLUT transporters. needless to say, there is much more to the story than what this video presents and the best piece of advice for treating type 2 diabetes is to just lose a few Kg.. or pounds or whatever weight system you choose to use... just put the fork down and go for a walk or swim or whatever you can do... eat more vegetables and balance the diet out but stay away from heavily process junk food that adds sugar to everything.. and stay.
medical student here too - I second jeseod. It is interesting to see the degree of cherry picking it takes to paint the narrative that saturated fats (in a vacuum, which is not how real life works anyways) is the reason for insulin resistance. Try to look up the criticisms to these papers, and you'll start to see a more nuanced understanding of what's going on. It is not a coincidence that the shift in American's diets from meat/dairy/seafood/natural fats to much more processed grains, sugars, and refined vegetable seed oils in the late 1970s onwards, has coincided with the dramatic shift in metabolic disease during this time.
Damn! So many students at the same time! I'm not surprised it is controversial. The egg industry successfully made their product deemed healthy after decades of being prohibited to say so. Money can do everything it seems.
@@goku445 prior to going on Leto, your body has stores of glycogen as well as triglycerides… When you go into ketosis, you no longer have sugar or carbohydrates to allow you brain to function. So, what happens is, your body breaks down triglycerides and glycogen and runs them through a metabolic pathway called gluconeogenesis. This allows your body to raise blood sugar levels to meet its needs, but it is not “elevated” like in diabetes, only enough to meet your body’s needs
My family has a history of diabetes. My father has type 2 diabetes and had angioplasty last year. I have been very persistent on being informative on this matter, not only for my father, but for me. I tried gluconize to track my intakes and physical activities, and the results are excellent. I also lost 4lbs since I am overweight for my age.
I'm very thankful for this video. It is exactly what I need to show my recently diagnosed diabetic father. He doesn't believe me when it comes out of my mouth but he said he'd be willing to listen to my sources for himself. So between Dr. Greger and Dr. Barnard he should be alright.
Unbeknownst Thanks, but I will stick with Dr. Neal Barnard, the true expert in the field of diabetes and Dr. Michael Greger, the man who shows the actual science using the actual studies. The low carb nonsense is for the vultures and is setting people up to die as it always has. If the diabetes doesn't kill him then the heart disease and cancer would.
Its weight as in water weight since water is necessary to store carbs. Plus calorie deficit makes anyone lose weight. Doesn't mean they lose fat or more fat if they had gone WFPB
Well, to be fair. I think Dr. Barnard was saying it first. It is a euphemism of course but the low-carb crowd always loses their minds when they hear them say this. Even the video doesn't show the molecules gumming up anything. Just a figure of speech. :-)
Reginald Finley - and wonderful figure of speech it is! 🤩 i always use words like ‘gum’ when discussing molecular biology! Helps me understand the hard ones! DOC Greger = genius 🧐🤓
What about saturated fat from coconuts/coconut products? Being grain-free, I eat a lot of coconut wraps (usually smeared with sunflower seed butter, which has more saturated fat). Is there a such thing as “healthy” saturated fat??
I used to listen to you in the past and was diagnosed as prediabetic. I was constantly having fatigue and tiredness etc. Then I listened to Dr. Jason Fung, Dr. Nader Ali, Dr. Bret Sher, Dr. Ken Berry, Dr. Tim Noakes etc and tried high animal fat (butter, ghee, fatty meat) diet with no starchy food and lots of vegetables. Contradicting your understanding of how it all works based on research papers, I am now only 67 Kg for 170cm height. It took only 2 months to shed extra 10kgs and did not gain it back again. I feel much better and stronger. My body is becoming more muscular even though I do not do any exercise (using any gym). When required, I can run half a mile without feeling tired. I feel so light now that I tend to run every now and then, just as I used to do when I was eight years old, just because it feels young (I am 42 now)! Recently tried a 4 days water fast while replacing my carpet with laminate flooring and did not feel weak at all. One key point you did not mention in this video and that is, when you eat high fat with no carbohydrate, you do not need insulin and so, the insulin receptor mechanism in the muscle cell does not matter. if you eat high natural fat diet, your body runs on Ketons and not on sugar. I guess, try high natural fat (from animal source) diet with low carbs (loads of vegetables with no bread or rice or potato etc) for three months and then tell the world how your health was affected.
The more we learn about saturated fat the more the evidence keeps stacking up against high-fat diets. Healthy whole food carbs should be our main calorie source and science is helping to prove this more and more.
Fat in the muscles doesn't come from fat in the blood, it comes from too much sugar is in the cell, where the cells pack it away as fat. Eating a lot of fat WITH a high carb diet will give you all sorts of trouble. There was no mention of how much carbs the people were eating to have a BS spike when you add fat. If it is high (and most "low carb" diets are actually still too high for good health). So, if you add fat to too many carbs, Yes, there are problems. Yet, if you eat entirely carnivore, your blood fats will improve, your type 2 diabetes will disappear, you will loose weight and feel great. Glucose causes excess sugar and insulin in the blood and will clog up your blood vessels. Any carbohydrate will turn into glucose when you digest it, that causes excess insulin to move it out of your blood to save your blood vessels and then the cells will be overloaded with sugar that is stored as fat to protect the cells. When you eat less carbohydrates, your body doesn't have huge spikes of glucose to deal with and can rest and heal from the damage and will start to release fat from the cells and use it for fuel. This man has NO understanding of how fats and carbs work in the body and this is entirely backwards. Nor does he understand keto diets. The huge increase in processed carbohydrate rich food for the last 50 years is directly related to the huge increase in type 2 diabetes, obesity, heart disease and a host of inflammatory diseases.
@Carol D.: please continue with this 100% experimental, never systematically researched diet and enlighten us with your life-expectancy outcome; Where you are correct: yes, all that processed crap, including processed carbs, is a problem and one(!) reason for the obesity crisis; but only because highly processed plant-based foods are bad, this doesn't imply that meat (processed or not) is automatically better; nobody wants huge glucose spikes, which is why nobody in a healthy mind seriously advertises refined sugars, but real/whole food. That's not the same. Moreover, it's hard to deny that overeating on carbohydrates, especially eating 24/7 without ever giving our metabolism a break, isn't that healthy either, yes, for insulin sensitivity but also e.g. regarding the aging-promoting effects on the mTOR pathway. But what you don't realize is that a ketogenic and/or carnivore diet in this regard isn't any better: some amino acids, especially leucine (high in animal protein!), trigger the same insulin spikes as pure glucose and also inhibit the anti-aging effects that are achievable via calorie restriction and fasting the same way as carbohydrates do. Complex carbohydrates from whole foods (+plant protein + sources of MUFA + PUFA) preferably combined with intermittent fasting is a much superior solution compared to the carnivore experiment. Where you are also correct: a state of ketosis is nothing inherently bad, to the contrary, it's our default program in times of starvation. But some people don't want to starve all the time, but also live occasionally. Out of curiosity: why do you think vegans are leaner, have a lower HbA1c, less cardiovascular events and lower inflammatory markers than omnivores?
@balr0gath snow Do you have evidence? Many thousands of people are eating low carb/high fat diets and reversing their type 2 diabetes. My husband, a type 1 diabetic, has lowered his A1c to a healthy normal rate by cutting way back on the carbs and eating a lot more fatty meat. His blood pressure is down, his labs are all good. Insulin is excreted to deal with high blood sugars from eating carbohydrates. Fat rarely affects insulin at all, how on earth could it make you insulin resistant?
@@___Chris___ Ketosis is the default state not just when you are starving, but when you eat few carbs. You can eat a lot of food and be full and happy AND in ketosis. Ketosis is designed to release the energy from fat cells. Low carbs and high fat release leptin, one of the hormones that tells you that you are full and satiated! All complex carbs break down into glucose rather than the few amino acids might cause you to release some glucose from your liver. Type 1 diabetics find they need a small bolus with certain amino acids, yes, but the need significant insulin to deal with even complex carbs. It is true that low glycemic carbs are better for you than the higher ones, but even whole wheat bread shoots your blood sugars up faster than sugar! Intermittent fasting is excellent for health! It's a lot easier on a low carb/high fat diet than a low fat diet.
It's better than dairy and is good at helping to keep down B.O. and moisturizing especially in its virgin form and really good for gum and skin tissues when ozonated. It has its uses externally at least. I prefer coconut butter internally or for ingestion personally as it is more whole than coconut oil.
It really sucks that I didn't know about this before, I have relatives who have lived with diabetes for years which means they probably have killed many of their beta cells by now making a complete reversal of the disease impossible. At least I can now tell them how to effectively get better and not worsen their condition.
jon it does but it doesn’t mean they would or would have listened. Most people I love and friends don’t want to hear it like my dad when he was diagnosed with D2. Wouldn’t listen to me. Listened to doctors instead. Same with co workers who are D2. They prefer their insulin so they eat what they want. But you know now and maybe you can make a difference to someone. Don’t give up though the resistance is high
@@scwheeler24 Yeah, I know many wouldn't listen but a couple would and have. My mom who's had diabetes for a couple decades now is following a whole food plant based diet after I told her about all the benefits and caveats. She's a great cook so my dad (who's borderline diabetic) now eats more fruits and veggies and significantly less animal products, although, still far from becoming vegan. But that's about it, friends, uncles, cousins and my sister (she's vegetarian and doesn't feel the need to give up dairy) won't really pay much attention to what I say...
@@kazuoua That is great news! I am glad to hear that. It makes me sad to watch my dadwho just recently developed neuropathy. But we shouldn't stop informing people. I am living proof.
@@scwheeler24 my experience has been quite similar! I have a brother with hypertension and the beginnings of fatty liver disease. He got hypertension after doing keto for months with a week of the carnivore diet each month. He did lose weight (and gains it back), but his circulatory system has suffered, and he still believes that crap that the macho guys dole out. We have another brother with Type2 diabetes. He will watch a video and not get mad at me, but he makes no changes in his diet other than cutting his overall food intake just a little bit. I'm the oldest, ate the least meat (plant based 1.5 yrs now) throughout my life, and easily keep a bmi of 23. I believed that "saturated fat is fine" myth for over 10 years. I had put on 20 lbs over that time and occasionally felt my blood pressure rise.
So is body fat saturated or unsaturated? What happens when our body starts releasing our own body fat- can that clog up the cells receptors? I'm confused.
So how would this express itself. With an intubated patient. On a Diprovan drip. As when we do routine scheduled blood glucose. Not seeing any changes. What do you say is supposed to happen?
@@aaronmills4946 whey protein is insulinogenic in the first hour. Then your insulin will be lower for 24 hours thanks to it's insulin sensitivity effect
I don't subscribe to the keto hype but even if a high fat and close to zero carb diet does indeed lead to increased insulin resistance of peripheral tissues, this is not a cause of hyperglycemia, hence no diabetes. The insulin resistance in this case is a physiological reaction to spare the glucose for neurons, red blood cells and whatever other cells there are that can't survive on fat (or mostly on fat I should say) and at the same time to spare the muscle tissue from effects of excessive gluconeogenesis. Certainly though if the fat intake long-term exceeds the amount the body needs as energy source, the excessive fat will be stored and the portion of it stored in muscles will lead to lasting insulin resistance (and obesity as well of course). However, as long as the blood glucose levels are maintained almost exclusively by gluconeogenesis, as it is in cases of a strict keto diet, DM cannot develop. Further on, any excess of carbohydrate intake beyond what covers body energy needs is converted into lipids which again lead to increased insulin resistance, however in this case in combination with readily available blood glucose and a result of situation typical for type 2 diabetes. Thus the conclusion again is that neither fat nor the sugars are a cause of type 2 DM but rather the excessive energy intake in any macronutrient form, aka overeating. Had to look it up, but there are plentiful studies describing pancreatic beta cells proliferation both in rodent and in human models, so it is not true that beta cells once lost are necessarily lost for ever. The studies cited in this video are indeed talking about high fat intake effects on muscle cells, but not high fat/low carb diet as such, so they cannot be used as an argument against the keto diet (which I again don't follow and think it is unhealthy for many different reasons).
It's more complex than that, a recznt study showed that different people react different to different foods. For some they have thus effect for some not
My simple answer: KETO is a starvation diet. Starvation means weight loss, means better blood markers, means better results with diabetes. BUT when you go back to eat normal again, all the fat comes back. Plus the long-term health problems you get with loads of animal products....
Eni the same would apply to high carb pbd people too. They start adding fats, meat, dairy or sugar even in moderation will affect their insulin. I believe you’re right when it comes to long term though and I believe people have a more difficult time sticking with ketogenic than with wfpb.
i am little bit confuse, saturated fats are bad but how about other oil fats. because you said other oils are bad as well. please help, link the video can i have a oil fat ?
no fear oils in general are highly processed and very caloric dense. It should be avoided as much as possible when cooking. It’s best to eat some fat that’s in the food as in avocados, walnuts or seeds
This doesn’t make sense to me. I just don’t understand how Dennis here on RU-vid channel Beat Diabetes is doing great on keto. So, if fat were the issue, then how is it that he maintains his blood glucose doing keto? There has to be another explanation.
He hasn’t beat diabetes. He has only masked it. He can’t tolerate carbs. Ask him why he doesn’t eat fruits and whole grains. He has no insulin resistance. Because he has diabetes.
These studies were a revelation to me as I had no idea that fat affected insulin and blood sugar in any way. I´m interested in how intake of simple sugar interacts with high fat in increasing liver and heart disease, diabetes. I wish I hadn´t ignored the sciences during my pre and post grad years.
Dr Greger and Dr Fung have completely different outlooks on controlling insulin resistance. Does anybody have any opinions on this? As I'm so confused at which evidence and theory to believe
Jasmine Usoro-Brown I agree. The biggest difference is the ROOT cause of the disease with Dr. Gregers explanation being founded in a strong base of science whereas Dr. Fungs is trying to be based in logic. How does diabetes occur you ask? Dr. Fung: “well we eat so many carbs and processed carbs and our pancreas has to churn out so much insulin to keep up it eventually just stops working due to being overworked then we get insulin resistance.” Nice okay and where is the research proving this point? Any RCTs? No? Dr. Fung “everyone has diabetes and donutsandsugarindustrydogmakjsdcbkuwebckuwrvbiuh” Shame. What about you Dr. Greger? “Well particularly saturated fat that largely comes from the animal based diet we eat taken up by our muscle cells becomes toxic due to DAG and ceramide production causing the ROS that blocks the insulin signaling pathway leading to insulin resistance and overtime turns into full blown diabetes and likewise when you clear the fat out of the blood diabetes can be reversed.” Wow. Alright and where are your RCTs? “See above” *mic drop*
Low carb diets simply treat the symptoms of type 2 diabetes. To address the root cause a plant based diet is the answer according to many scientific studies including these. A low-fat vegan diet and a conventional diabetes diet in the treatment of type 2 diabetes: a randomized, controlled, 74-wk clinical trial "In an analysis controlling for medication changes, a low-fat vegan diet appeared to improve glycemia and plasma lipids more than did conventional diabetes diet recommendations." DOI: 10.3945/ajcn.2009.26736H Veganism and its relationship with insulin resistance and intramyocellular lipid. "Vegans have a food intake and a biochemical profile that will be expected to be cardioprotective, with lower IMCL accumulation and beta-cell protective." DOI: 10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602076 Dietary fat, insulin sensitivity and the metabolic syndrome "In conclusion, there is evidence available in humans indicating that dietary fat quality influences insulin sensitivity and associated metabolic abnormalities. Therefore, prevention of the metabolic syndrome has to be targeted: (1) to correct overweight by reducing the energy density of the habitual diet (i.e., fat intake) and (2) to improve insulin sensitivity and associated metabolic abnormalities through a reduction of dietary saturated fat, partially replaced, when appropriate, by monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats." DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2004.02.006
He's discussed vaccines quite often in his live segments but only briefly. He appears to find vaccines beneficial and useful for saving human lives and appears to be a proponent of them. As he should be.
Is there a relationship between Dietary Saturated Fat and IMCL? I’ve also heard that when fat is preferred by muscle cells, and insulin levels are low, they start sparing glucose (for more important organs like the brain). Which is different than outright resisting the insulin signal.
I’m not sure that reducing fat intake directly affects intramyocellular lipids (IMCL). There seems to be conflicting studies. For example, this study included runners, who are not a typical representation of the population, but it was concluded that a medium fat diet improved lipids whereas a low fat diet made lipids worse (triglycerides and total cholesterol being the markers).www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3182469/
Read another article that points to studies indicating the type of fat is important. PUFAs and MUFAs seem to up-regulate LDL receptor activity and clearance whereas SFAs decrease the LDL receptor and clearance!!!academic.oup.com/jn/article/135/9/2075/4664084
I think this article helps a bit in the context of the "athletes' paradox": www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4762133/pdf/41048_2015_Article_13.pdf As I understand, it seems like accumulating diacetylglycerol(DAG) and ceramides play an essential role in explaining why excess dietary saturated fats cause insulin resistance, while "burning" IMCL as an energy source for aerobic exercise doesn't; regarding LDL: there is also the theory that the increased cell membrane (=phospholipid double-layer) fluidity has an effect of MUFA and PUFA fascilitates LDL endocytosis, therefore clearing the bloodstream from LDL
I would really love to hear a debate with other leading doctors (notably Dr. Malhotra, another hero of mine) who continue to assert that carbs cause T2D and insulin resistance. Can anyone point me in that direction? Cheers!
Avacado, walnut, hazelnut, olive oil, hemp seed oil. But still not good if you use it in excess. So called "healthy" fats are healthy when used instead of bad fats like butter, margarine and omega 6 loaded seed oils not neccesarily healthy on their own; it is best to get fats from nuts, seeds, avocados, tahini etc.
Jamie, interestingly, obese mothers are more at risk for developing gestational diabetes and they tend to have fat babies (1). Many of these moms were already at risk before the pregnancy usually as a consequence of a high-fat and/or sugar diet(2). If a mother is already resistant, more glucose in the blood will be moved into the placenta. The baby is then getting more sugar than it needs and stores it as fat. This can cause the baby to pump out more insulin than needed and can lead to obesity and diabetes later in life(3). The mechanism that causes this is believed to be free-fatty acids (FFA) in the cells which block insulin receptors in pregnant women(4). 1.) care.diabetesjournals.org/content/30/8/2070 2.) zums.ac.ir/files/metabolic/files/30.pdf 3.) www.diabetes.org/diabetes/gestational-diabetes/how-will-this-impact-my-baby 4.) link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11892-003-0024-y
Reginald Finley Wow, thank you for sharing the articles! So very interesting. My interest specifically is because my sister had GDM and now in her 50’s has pre T2. She is pretty fit and tries to eat well but won’t let go of her daily ice cream! I wonder if this along with a carnivore diet is her weak link. Perhaps at some point she will come over to WFPB but I fear things will have to get worse before she does. Otherwise my interest was peaked because while I am learning about disease reversal, a co-worker developed GDM and I wondered if she could reverse it WHILE pregnant if she made the transition to WFPB but I am not seeing any evidence of this in the literature but rather the usual postpartum reversal. Do you have any knowledge of reversals while pregnant with adoption of WFPB diet? Thank you!!!!
A moment's silence for all the Hamburger; Double Large Patty; With Condiments Vegetables And Mayonnaise users & Cheeseburger; Double Large Patty; With Condiments users & Croissant With Egg Cheese And Sausage users.
He made a distinction between plant based fats and animal fats. He specifically said that ANIMAL fats are harmful. Nut and avocado, olive fats are NOT harmful. Virgin tropical fats are not the problem here.
I'm curious how does the body know the difference between plant-based saturated fat vs an animal-based saturated fat? So would the relationship between someone with elevated cholesterol and diabetes mean that if you have higher cholesterol levels then your at even higher risk for diabetes? Genetic factors seem to be the main cause. Elevated lipids are an issue for me even while on a whole food diet. Genetics play a role here so I'm taking statins. So am i at higher risk for diabetes?
Jeff Eppenger yes technically you would be but cholesterol or even dietary cholesterol if it plays a role in the pathogenesis of T2D then it would be minor or indirect at best. It’s really all about saturated fat and In one of the studies they tried using polyunsaturated fats to see if it caused the same insulin resistance and found that only saturated fats seemed to cause any measurable change in insulin sensitivity. As long as you’re eating a whole food plant based diet with low fat especially trans and sat fat you should share the extremely low risk of developing T2D regardless of your individual genetic makeup. But yes genetics do play a role even after all the above mentioned. Just remember “genetics may load the gun but its diet and lifestyle that pull the trigger”
@@aaronmills4946 thank you for your comment your quote at the end in particular was a very good analogy. I tend to overthink things is why watching these video clips may not be healthy for me either. If that makes sense?
@@eppyz I get it. I've done a ton of my own research on the studies and many of them I've found because dr. Greger show cases them in his videos. Watch all his vids on diabetes and you'll have a pretty good idea and strong base to how diet affects it. He's been pretty thorough thoughout the years
@@chikkmagneet I have been watching for a very long time also Dr Berg. 2 Dr's with a big following actually Bergs following is larger and thus the problem. Too much info out there and not all programs work identical in every person. I ate plant based for 5 yrs and had to eat all the time because i wasn't getting enough calories..I found i was deficient in several nutrients. I found that out by lab tests done by an endocrinologist. And unless you get certain labs done? You don't even know. I'm not talking about the basics like B12, i found out my thyroid was messed up from not getting enough iodine. My Dr doesn't know for sure. Before the diet no thyroid issues after i do. So you need to find what works for you. I'm still figuring things out and i have nothing against Greger i own his books and watch his videos but all I'm saying is sometimes too much info can hurt people as well. Especially people that are desperate or scared or like me just over think things.
@@eppyz I had same confusion too. I think the most important thing is not eating any food in a box and eating everything in moderation. Include these 3 essential factors that influence health. Sleep, diet and Physical activity. Fat is important for hormone synthesis. Eat egg and chicken at least 1-2times a week. Drink milk sparingly like 1 cup a week. I noticed a change in my overall well-being when I started consuming them. You can have a look at the blood-type diet. It doesn't emphasize the 2 extreme: Keto and Vegan. According to the diet, Type A do well with a predominantly vegetable diet and less fat. Eat fat in moderation. Avoid soft drinks. Sleep well, the body heals itself when you do.
I truly believe that Dr. Greger's whole, plant based diet is the way to go, but there seems to be a lot of Keto people claiming that it their diet controls diabetes...is that only because they eat very low carb?
If you never eat sugar you never get a spike in sugar. They aren't controlling or curing anything but rather are only masking it. As soon as they eat a piece of candy or anything rich in sugar or carbs their blood sugar is going to go through the roof. The sad truth is their underlying condition is progressively getting worse due to their high fat lifestyle.
@@ChappySinclair The biggest problem with low carb high-fat diet isn't even diabetes but the overall increase in mortality rate. Your risk of dying of pretty much anything goes up. Everything from heart disease and diabetes to cancer and kidney disease is increased with a low carb high fat diet. But to answer your question, a low-carb high fat diet does not put diabetes into remission. To blame sugar for why there is high blood sugar in your body is like blaming water for why your toilet is backed up and overflowing. The water isn't an issue because it's necessary to flush a toilet but until you remove the clog the water won't go anywhere. It's the same for blood sugar in your body. The blood sugar is the water in my example and the fat that's coating the cells is the toilet paper and feces gunking up the toilet stopping the water from getting down the drain or by comparison sugar from getting in the cell. By not eating sugar and just sticking to eating high fat low carb you are essentially just continuing to make bowel movements in a toilet with no way to flush it and eventually the toilet will become harder and harder to repair. More fat builds up in the cell blocking sugar from getting in by preventing insulin from functioning properly and then sugar gets stuck in the bloodstream .
All Heart Surgeons and cardiologists nowadays talk about insulin resistance and improving metabolic health by eating more FAT ( Keto diet) and no or low carbs and little protein. As opposed to this, on the other hand, you talk about eating NO FAT and more carbs and moderate protein. Who is right? I feel lost in the crossfire.
Does anybody know if beta cells are destroyed by saturated animal fats if we strictly avoid carbs? Or is just the combinations of carbs plus fats that causes all these devastating effects? If Michael Greger is right ALL long-term keto dieters should have destroyed pancreases! Is this really the case? Probably not.
Its confusing. So, literally every animal product are actually unhealthy? What if someone eats in low portions or occasionally? My uncle turned 80 this year and he has to take like 5 to 7 pills a day because he has high blood pressure and problems with his kidneys. He drink at least one full glas of self made rum (he make himself) and like 3-5 full glasses of beer a day, parallel to his medications. He also eats mostly only fish (he take from the lake right in front of his house) and if meat then from his own animals (he has a farm), also eggs from his own chickens. He has been doing this for at least 50 years. Despite all of that, he is very fit, drive car and even motorcycle. The only thing on him is that he has a huge belly, like 9 months pregnant type of belly.
"What if someone eats in low portions or occasionally?" Yes, absolutely. You can be healthy even if you eat some animal products from time to time. Unfortunately, nowadays most people do not really know what moderation or adequate amount of animal products really is. "He has been doing this for at least 50 years. Despite all of that, he is very fit, drive car and even motorcycle" People seem to forget or just don't know that genetics is super powerful. Why are there people who get lung cancer after 5 years of smoking cigarettes, but there also are people who have been smoking for 50+ years and their lungs are just fine? Almost everything comes down to genetics (genetic predispositions), environmental factors (pollution etc.) and of course diet (but some people are simply more resilient) Also, please remember to consider other things that veganism encompasses, that is eliminating animal suffering and environmental protection. Veganism is not a diet, it's a philosphy and it extends to the diet (plant-based diet is simply the most sustainable and environmentally friendly).
Talking about palmitic acid. Its not highest in animal fat. Its highest in palm oil. I think palm oil should be blacklisted as the world's unhealthiest fat.
Interesting. Going to continue with my progress towards a whole food plant based vegan diet. I will never be sugar, oil, or salt free though. Love my tropical fats and sea salt far too much. I just take care to obtain them sustainably and fair traded.
only animals have B-12.. may want to re-think vegan... and if you are thinking you will jut get it from algae paste.. that's still a single cell life-form.. then again, plants are alive too.. if your objection is to eating things that are alive, well, news for you, that's the entire food chain and how it works.
@@jeseodIt is recommended that everyone after the age of 50 take a supplement for vitamin B12 regardless of what diet they are on since most people tend not to absorb vitamin B12 from food very well as they age. I supplement for vitamin B12 so I am not worried about it.
@@jeseod If all the animal products on the market came from wild animals that died from natural causes or were made ethically in a lab somewhere and everything else were fair traded and sustainable then I wouldn't care what anyone eats or wears or consumes. A person could even be wearing fur for all I care as long as no animal had to be harmed, harassed or killed for it. It's the way that many of the things that are acquired on the market for consumption that I have a problem with, not necessarily the consumption itself.
I experimented on myself twice (as a non diabetic slim person) with a blood sugar meter. I did two weight gain experiments, one high carb, one high fats. The first, in 2017, I gained 30lbs, high carbs, with pasta, bread, chocolate. Blood sugars by the end reached over 7.0 throughout the evening and failed to come down, I actually became pre-diabetic. The second, in 2019, I gained 30lbs again, normal carb amounts and all extra calories from animal fat and saturated fats. Blood sugar tested at the end again stayed flatlined at 5.0-6.0 all day long with no increases in the evening AT ALL. Perfectly normal. Quite interesting! I could gain fat with normal metabolic values by adding animal fats and saturated fat, but extra carbs caused insulin resistance and early state type II diabetes. Yes my experience is anecdotal, but it shows the opposite than what this video says, for me at least.
So coconut oil is more damaging than flax or hemp oil? I always try to add plenty of fiber with high fat, natural, unprocessed foods such as avocado (which are naturally high in fiber anyway). Also take non GMO sunflower lecithin in the morning with my smoothie and/or nuts/nut butter (almond, pistachio, cashew, coconut on flax bread). Still getting 75-100 grams/fiber per day plus fresh veggie juice daily to scrub and energize.
I have been listening to Dr. Gregor for years; his take is no oil, which is highly refined. Avocados are ok in small amount. Ground flax seeds and chia seeds are great fat source and versatile.
Avocados and nuts are high in calorie and not so high in micro nutrients. They are ok if you eat enough high nutrient food and don't end up with consistent calorie surplus.
I was a vegan for almost a year. Higher cholesterol, high blood pressure, borderline diabetic. Aches and pains all the time. Tired. I went keto....lipid panel in healthy range, blood pressure healthy, sleep better, feel better. You don’t get diabetes from healthy fats, lean meats, and low carb. It’s the other way around. My wife works in a cardiac unit at the hospital and now is working on nurse practitioner. All the diabetics are high-carb-eaters and love their sugar. It’s not eggs, chicken, avocados and cheese making these folks sick as hell.
I can assure you that one year of a (poorly planned) vegan diet or tbh any diet, unless you only drank water and ate apples, could destroy your health. Unless you have some allergies, intolerances or genetic predispositions, there is no way that veganism caused any of these things, you simply had or were close to having these problems before going vegan. I also don't believe you actually had a balanced vegan diet and cared to ever check what nutrients you have to be especially aware of.
I don’t think anyone said anything about avocados making people sick. Those are plant-based sources of fat and should be fine to consume. If you’re going to be vegan, you’d do better to be a whole plant-based vegan and do not consume refined oils and processed foods. Also, you want to add whole fruits, some greens, legumes, non-starchy vegetables and starchy vegetables. Maybe you’d like to get your fats from things like avocados, nuts and seeds. It’s also good to add an iodine rich source of food once in a while. A diet like this can be created with no deficiencies if supplemented with B12. Most authorities would agree.
I eat plant based for over 10 years now. Never ever get sick, no ailments, perfect health. You must have made some very poor choices for your health to detoriate like that on a plant based diet.
My REAL MEDICAL doctor tried to convince me I was diabetic. They're also deploying rhetoric like "pre diabetic" or "pre diabetes" and drawing equivalencies between A1C and Type II diabetes. I just said no to drugs, said I'd come back in two months for another test. I went home, cut the sugar out of my coffee and that's it. I drink about three to four cups a day. Went back to the doctor and everything was swell just as I anticipated. Here we are telling me that I just had to cut down on fat and eat more carbs to fix it? Not buying it, sorry. I would guess intermittent fasting would be superior to whatever is being recommended here. Too little or too much of any of these macronutrients is problematic that's a reason why every dietary ideology is problematic.
@@Goodfellas900 Anyone can lower their A1C exactly like I did. They may have to sacrifice their sweet rolls, donuts, or whatever the nasty source of sugar it is in their diets. Unless they're Type1 diabetic of course it will work. It's not a cure. FTR Your body is what cures you. Work with your body stop fighting against it (inflammation, blood pressure, temperature, cough, perspiration, cholesterol etc etc).
@@blacksmithie My doctor was conflating those things and that's another problem with healthcare today. He didn't differentiate, he said "carbs". I agree he should have. Intermittent fasting and getting off ALL carbs for 12-13 hours a day should solve the problem of insulin resistance and it's more important than ever when we have horrors assaulting our population these days like "Type 3 Diabetes." We need a break from stuffing our faces with carbs all day long, it doesn't matter what kind. There's all kinds of nonsense out there about this topic. Just eat potatoes for 60 days! 30 bananas a day! And all the rest of it. Our brains need a timeout. It doesn't take some stupid diet like "Keto" to make that happen. Just learn how to fast well and you're done.
You are right, but not all meat types are equal - bacon, fatty fish are the worst and not to forget the way the meat is cooked - fried and grilled one is very bad because the fat turns into trans-fat which our body don't know how to handle it aka pure poison - rotting in our guts and blood.
@Alco Goblin here is the last video of this person who healed his body with meat, so he says. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P3pO_2eQzcY.html I don't eat meat. And I think he would have had the same results in a vegetarian diet. Liam, the guy on the video, is susceptible to food poisoning. He has been food poisoned more times and he also takes a lot of supplements that obviously his diet doesn't provide. Still is interesting the way this guy got healed when doctors don't offer anything acceptable. What do you think?
Regularly watching these videos helps you "keep the faith" and stay on the "straight and narrow," in our "fallen" dietary world where Saturated Fat temptation is everywhere. (This is also why regular worship, so go back to your Church/Synagogue, etc..) Thanks, Doc!
