A new book by Gary Taubes
Publication Date: January 2, 2024

Yay! There are so many people who change their diet and are not diabetic any more.

I suspect many in the health field are also addicted. Thinking diabetics "can eat like everyone else" when NO ONE should be eating that way, for instance.

It's the normalization of snacking replacing eating meals. Marketing pressure. People dismiss it because we're soaking in it.

Metformin, now Ozempic: I've heard these hailed as "miracle drugs" when they are about distorting, or even paralyzing, the digestive system.

I see this as trying to compensate for eating so much stuff that isn't actually food. And I don't think we can come up with that much of a miracle.

Will be interesting to see if he explains The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model in the same way he has for 20 years or adds the more nuanced explanation by adding the impact of energy toxicity.
"Although stable and lower blood glucose levels are a positive marker of metabolic health, merely treating the symptom (i.e. elevated blood sugar) rather than addressing the cause (i.e. insulin resistance, energy toxicity and excess body fat) doesn’t help."

The same could be said for many other medications that merely cover up a symptom: If you put makeup on a pimple, it only hides the pimple, instead of eliminating the pimple. Underneath the makeup, that pimple is still festering.

The reason antibiotics work to alleviate infections is that they work with the body to eliminate the infection. They don't just cover up the infection.

These are the drugs that really were breakthroughs. And now, the pharma industry doesn't care. A drug which suppresses symptoms, like arthritis drugs and cortisol, doesn't fix the problem.

But that means a lifetime on the drug, does it not? For their bottom line, THIS is the breakthrough.