Common sense is really emerging in medicine. As the study below clearly shows, a low carb diet leads to liver thrombosis and specific insulin resistance (in the liver only), which are key components of type 2 diabetes. In fact, the research indicates that consuming a high fat, high carb diet is LESS harmful than consuming a high fat, low carb (keto) diet. This latter type is often referred to as the „Western diet“ and is ridiculed in the medical literature as a major cause of most metabolic diseases. Although the article does not discuss endocrine aspects that may also be implicated in this pathology, there are already other studies that have implicated cortisol.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080909131223.htm
It is a well-known fact that low-carb diets raise basal cortisol. Despite this well-known fact, which even medicine does not deny, research on keto diets and insulin resistance somehow fails to make the connection between endocrine imbalance (high cortisol) caused by low-carb diets and type 2 diabetes. I'm not sure what else needs to happen before doctors realize that obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and even cardiovascular disease are endocrine disorders caused by cortisol/estrogen/prolactin, not just „eat more and move less“. Speaking of the latter cliché, I'll post another thread soon showing that diets are actually harmful and a change in the attitude of medical professionals on this issue is needed.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/amp/322724
“…Ketogenic diets are low-carbohydrate, high-fat diets that have been shown to reduce weight. They change metabolism so that energy comes from fat instead of sugar. When researchers in Switzerland examined what happened to mice in the early stages of a ketogenic diet, they found that the animals showed a poorer ability to regulate blood sugar compared with similar mice on a high-fat, high-carbohydrate diet. In a paper on their work now published in the Journal of Physiology, they note that “even though [keto diet]-fed animals appear healthy in the fasted state, they exhibit decreased glucose tolerance to a greater extent than [high-fat diet]-fed animals.” The reason for this, they found, was that the livers of the keto diet-fed mice were not responding as well to insulin. This condition, which is known as insulin resistance, raises the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.”
“...However, the researchers found that the main reason for decreased glucose tolerance in the keto diet-fed mice was due to insulin resistance in the liver “rather than impaired glucose clearance and tissue glucose uptake.” Despite extensive research into the causes of insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes, they are not completely understood. One thing that scientists do know is that fat-like substances called lipids are “clearly associated with insulin resistance.” Even here, however, many questions remain, such as, “Is the link due to circulating fats or to fat buildup in tissue?”
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