Insulin Resistance and Triglycerides

Popular low-carb authors like Atkins, Eades, and Taubes tend to promote the idea that repeated consumption of carbohydrates causes insulin resistance. This appears to be false. Insulin resistance appears to be caused by excess triglyceride synthesis in the liver.

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[starhelk]

It is inaccurate to say that Taubes is promoting any kind of diet. His book discusses what causes us to become fat and it also looks at the so-called science behind things like the low fat diet, the lipid hypothesis, etc. I don't believe you have read his book. You also misrepresent the Atkins diet - while it starts off by eliminating all carbohydrates for a short duration of time it then re-introduces high quality carbohydrates in phase 2 of the diet.

[180degreehealth]

@starhelk Taubes does posit that a ketogenic diet is the ideal solution to obesity, which is promotion of a certain diet and a certain belief if you ask me, despite many of his materials that he used to build this thesis contradicting that view (such as T.L. Cleave). I have read his book multiple times and all the works he cites - from Burkitt to Cleave to Banting, and know the Atkins and other low-carb diet programs front and back. Low-carb theory is innaccurate.

[jezzieBell05]

Its a mechanical problem. Lipids coat insulin receptor sites, glucose cannot be transported efficiently. The glucose then stays in your blood for too long and your brain keeps sending signals to the pancreas to increase insulin production to "clear" the sugar still left in the blood. This produces an oversupply of insulin causing fatigue and obesity. It's a good indication that humans are ill adapted for a high fat diet, consider as well we have amalyse in our saliva and our brain needs glucose.

[marshbox]

@180degreehealth

What about the inuit. Before their diet changed to include carbs they had no incidences of heart disease or insulin resistance. Their diet was carb free and about 70% of their calories came from fat. How you do you counter that ??

[Jibbie49]

U r so full of it.

[gledalac1979]

@TheAmericanWaySeries

Insulin levels are high if Cortisol is high to deal during chronic stress as Insulin inhibits Cortisol through 11β-HSD1. Insulin is also secreted through glucogenic amino acids . Insulin is anti inflammatory and promotes satiety and you think there is too much of it ? Why do diabetics shoot up insulin then ?

[studentoflife01]

Mushrooms (Sugar/Tegas/Shen), Plants (Fat/ojas/jing), and animals (Protein/chi/pranna). This guy is right to assume sugars role, but is incorrect to believe that we can just eat ice cream, and sap. Rather we need to combined them together. Another set is pee hole, the poop hole, and the mouth hole. You pee protein, you poop fat, and oxygen breaks down sugar. Or another view is yin and yang. There can't be a yin and a yang without a demulsifier/emuslifer that keeps them together yet separate

[studentoflife01]

Just like in Traditional Chinese Medicine, or Ayurvedia. There is the chi, jing, Shen or Pranna, ojas, and tegas. There are also 3 macronutrients sugar (Tegas/Shen), Fat (Ojas/jing), and Protein (Chi/pranna). Just because you eat a lot of sugar doesn't mean you're going to be the smartest kid on the block, but rather it's a balancing act between the three 'energies'. Just as there are 3 dimensions so to are there 3 living states Mushrooms, animals, and plants.

[studentoflife01]

Well what I'm saying is is that I believe that sugar protein and fats are not just calories. But they have whole entire waste disposial systems that surround each macronutrient. Each macronutrient has its role to play aside from giving us energy. For example sugar connects cells together. Sugar surrounds cells to give signals to other cells. People equate that with the brain, but truth is is that mental powers are not soly guided by how sensitive we are. We have a will (Fat), and attention

[studentoflife01]

Just because sugar has a smaller energy content that doesn't mean that it is the primary source. Because humans are so evolved, we have a larger energy void and I predict that we need protein more than sugar.

[gledalac1979]

@180degreehealth

Insulin resistance is caused by prolonged chronic exposure to Cortisol and it is done to keep the glucose supply steady for the brain in times of stress. It's really funny when these low carbers talk of insulin and can't make up there mind whether insulin is bad by itself or if it's insulin resistance . They usually claim it's both in some way . Gary Taubes is obsessed with Insulin, over 200 references in his book, I felt tired after reading his book once never mind more...