The Role of Foods in Insulin Resistance and Diabetes | National Diabetes Program | Episode Two 

Kudos to you for making this positively life-altering shift!

It's oversimplified. "Fat" cannot enter cells. "Fatty acids" can enter cells. And fatty acids come from two sources: • Eating fat • Eating carbs → excess carbs are converted into fatty acids ("de novo lipogenesis). So carbs can, in fact, cause Type II Diabetes.

He didn't put it all together. He intentionally left out all information regarding fatty acids and de novo lipogenesis. In other words, he intentionally didn't inform you that the "fat" that goes into cells are actually fatty acids. And he didn't tell you that your body will convert excess carbohydrates into fatty acids through a process called de novo lipogenesis. He is taking advantage of your trust.

It is from consuming carbs and sugar. Humans make the exact same fatty acids that this guy is talking about out of excess carbs and sugar. *_SOURCE:_* *Title:* De novo lipogenesis in the liver in health and disease: more than just a shunting yard for glucose *Authors:* Francis W. B. Sanders Julian L. Griffin _"Hepatic de novo lipogenesis (DNL) is the biochemical process of synthesising fatty acids from acetyl‐CoA subunits that are produced from a number of different pathways within the cell, most commonly carbohydrate catabolism."_ The fatty acids that cause Type II Diabetes come from bith fat and carbs. This vegan conveniently leaves out the part about carbs and de novo lipogenesis because it completely destroys their position.

Indeed. 😂

Carnivore here. Not disappointed at all because I know the whole story. What he isn't telling you is that it is *_fatty acids,_* not "fat" that enters cells and causes Type II Diabetes. And he also isn't telling you that humans make fatty acids out of excess carbohydrates. This process is called "de novo lipogenesis". So, yeah, not dissapointed at all. But I do feel sorry that the people you are trusting to take care of your health are intentionally withholding information from you in order to push their religion.

I'm am similar to you. I eat WFPB but my brother and father, who loved their burgers and fries but disliked vegetables, both died, at 54 and 65, from "sudden onset" diabetes which quickly revealed itself to be the beginning of pancreatic cancer. My brother died 7 months to the day following his cancer diagnosis. And actually, he lived a relatively long time, compared to many who are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. My father died within about 3 months. I was nervously watching my own diabetic markers rise. I became pre-diabetic. But I've been eating devotedly WFPB for about 7 years, and now my glucose (and other) markers are all normal. I eat all the fruit and whole, unrefined carbs I want, which is a lot, and it doesn't spike my blood sugar. This way of eating works, and it can save lives.

HbA1c shows how much sugar is attached to the *_OUTSIDE_* of cells, not how much sugar is getting inside your cells. In other words, HbA1c helps _estimate_ how much sugar is flowing around in the blood, but it doesn't ahow how much sugar is going inside of the blood cells. The job of insulin is to move the sugar that is flowing in the blood stream into the blood cells. So, if everything is healthy, your insulin will be putting all the sugars into the cells which means there will not be a lot of sugars sticking onto the outside of cells. So, when your cells are cooperating with insulin, insulin is putting sugars *_INSIDE_* the cells and doesn't stick to the outside which means tests that measure how much sugars are on the outside of cells won't have much to measure → HbA1c is lower when cells are not resisting insulin. But if your cells are not cooperaring with insulin → if your cells are insulin resistant, then the cells will not allow insulin to bring the sugars inside of them. If the sugars are not getting inside, there will be more sugars outside that will get stuck onto the outside of the cells. The more sugars are getting stuck onto the outside of cells, the higher your HbA1c will be because HbA1c is measuring how many sugars are sticking to the outside of cells. Here is an analogy to help think about it. Imagine you are in your house. Now a delivery driver brings three containers of milk to your doorstep and knocks on your door. You open the door he tries to give you all three containers of milk. You take all three because you have no milk in the house. Then one week later he comes again to give you three containers of milk. He knocks and you open the door but you tell him you only need two this time because you still have milk inside. So he gives you two of the three containers of milk and leaves the third container in front of your door. So, now you have lots of milk inside your house and a little milk outside your house. Then the next week he brings another delivery of three milks. He knocka on the door. You ooen but you tell him you only need one milk because you still have so much inside. So he gives you one of the three milks and leaves the other two milks outside of your house. Now you have lots of milk inside and more milk outside than the week before (one milk was left outside last week and now two more were left out this week). Then this repeats again the next week → the delivery man comes with three milks. He knocks on your door. But this time, you don't even open the door. You yell from inside "Please go away! I don't need any more milk! My house has too much milk already!" So now the delivery man leaves all three milks outside your house. In this story, your house is a blood cell. The milk containers are sugars. The delivery man is insulin. In this story, the HbA1c test would be counting the "milk" that you didn't take from the delivery man. The HbA1c test would be counting the "milk" that the "delivery man" left outside on the doorstep. It doesn't count the milk you took inside. "Milk resistance" can be seen in how you took less and less milk inside from the delivery man each week. So, if your cells are filled up with sugar on the inside, the cells will *_resist_* insulin and not take any more sugar inside from insulin. It is like the cells have locked their doors and will not open up to insulin to take sugars anymore. So, in this case, if the cell is resisting insulin and is locking the door, it doesn't matter how maby insulins come to bring sugar → no matter what, the cell will not take in more sugar. Adding more insulin will not help because the cell doors have locked. You must stop adding sugar to your body. Once you stop adding sugar, your cells will use up the sugar they have inside. Once the sugars inside the cells are running low, your cells will automatically stop resisting insulin and will open up to insulin again to get more sugars. Hope this helps.

@@Hertz2laugh thank you