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December 10, 2024 76 mins

Gary Taubes on Diabetes: The 'Sugar Disease' and it's Forgotten 'Animal Diet' Sponsor: In-15 Home Insulin Testing https://metabolica.bio Continuous Ketone Monitor: https://Sibiosensor.com/ContinuousKet... Gary Taubes is an investigative science and health journalist, author of Rethinking Diabetes (2024), The Case for Keto (2020), The Case Against Sugar (2016), Why We Get Fat (2011), and Good Calories, Bad Calories (2007), published as The Diet Delusion in the UK. 04:00 Why Gary hates writing 07:00 Who Gary writes for 08:00 ‘Rethinking Diabetes’ Gary’s book 12:00 Conventional diabetes treatments are failing 13:00 Why see Claire, rather than your doctor or diabetes educator 14:00 Carb-rich diets harmful 18:00 Diabetes rare: years without a single case of diabetes 19:00 Increase in diabetes tracked sugar industry rise 21:00 The lost 'Animal Diet' 22:00 Disgusting fact - urine tasted to diagnose diabetes 24:00 The original high-fat Ketovore diet for diabetes 24:30 Insulin discovery eradicated diet therapy for diabetes 25:00 Treating the patient - at the risk of killing the patient28:00 Insulin a miracle cure - treating starving emaciated kids 29:00 Rising from the dead 30:00 How insulin side effects first appeared 31:00 High-carb diets, needed more and more insulin 33:00 patients cannot metabolize carbs safely 34:00 No one advised to go back to the lost 'animal diet' 36:00 Gary’s sons’ foods 38:00 Plant-based chat 39:00 Obesity in kids 40:00 Keto for Parkinsons Disease 42:00 Ancel Keys cholesterol diet 45:00 High carb diet treated with drugs did not work 46:00 Dietary Cholesterol no effect of serum cholesterol - blindingly obvious since the 1960s 49:00 Carbs a poison to a diabetic. Insulin is the antidote, but the antidote is poison. 51:00 Exercise - you wouldn't tell me not to exercise. 54:00 "I don't think diet therapy will ever be the dominant advice" 55:00 Keto: "We’re biased"

1:02 Gary a smoker

1.04 Drinking orange juice vs a cigarette

1:05 What Gary's family eat

1:08 GLP wonder drugs

1:10 Frightening insulin drugs

1:14 Bad science and dogma

11:15:00 Connect with Gary and follow his work here Follow Gary Taubes's work: Substack: 'Uncertainty Principles' https://substack.com/@garytaubes Family Health Lab Podcast: Health Trailblazers S2: E04 Host: Claire McDonnell Liu, Nutritionist and podcast host claire@leafie.org Tech: www.0ad.com.au IMPORTANT - The content in this video is not a substitute for medical advice. Always consult with your physician regarding your health matters. Individuals’ lifestyles, bodies and health histories vary. The author does not assume any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by the choice to implement any of the health strategies.

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