Diabetes, caused by hormonal (PUFA etc) not blood sugar dysfunction - Dr Ray Peat

Ray Peat | Mark's Daily Apple Health and Fitness Forum page

Originally Posted by Paleobird

From Ray Peat's blog:

"A daily diet that includes two quarts of milk and a quart of orange juice provides enough fructose and other sugars for general resistance to stress, but larger amounts of fruit juice, honey, or other sugars can protect against increased stress, and can reverse some of the established degenerative conditions.
Refined granulated sugar is extremely pure, but it lacks all of the essential nutrients, so it should be considered as a temporary therapeutic material, or as an occasional substitute when good fruit isn't available, or when available honey is allergenic."

Um, no. That sounds like a good way to induce a diabetic coma.

That makes the assumption that sugar causes diabetes. According to Ray Peat, it does not. This is actually an ASTOUNDINGLY informative article. It's mindblowing and definitely worth a read.

Glycemia, starch, and sugar in context

Essentially, Peat claims that sugar does not cause diabetes, but rather diabetes is caused by a high intake of unsaturated fat, too much cortisol production, too much muscle meats, particularly poultry, which is rich in tryptophan, and a thyroid imbalance - basically, it's a hormonal issue, not a blood sugar issue, and it's not that sugar is unhealthy rather an epidemiological flaw - people with poor diets tend to eat lots of sugar - it's a correlator but not the cause, just like salt is demonized because it's found in the causation foods - processed meals.. Give the article a read - you won't regret it. It's making me think about my own incorporation of starch into my diet, and it's convincing enough to make me want to eat a lot less starch and a lot more fruit and sugar. I'm not comfortable with all the milk though because it seems to give me acne.

Personally, I don't believe that sugar is the cause of diabetes, and this article reassures my thought processes. I've always attributed that to grains and polyunsaturated fat intake. I have said hundreds of times that PUFA oils are the WORST thing in the SAD - far worse than grains - and he seems to agree. He even hates fatty fish like salmon...not sure if I agree with that one, but the effects of polyunsaturated fat oxidation in the body is extremely damaging, and fish oil is almost entirely unsaturated with the majority as PUFA's. Anyway, I don't think it's the carbs in the grains that make them bad but rather the anti-nutrients, inflammatory proteins and rancid fats.

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07-02-2012, 10:01 AM #7

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