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> What is the alternative, credible source backing up this idea that carbs are harmful?

I didn’t say that, you read that in.

However, as it relates to T2D as I stated there is not a single case where the patient did not chronically spike their insulin levels through consumption of carbs/sugars. I’d welcome you to find any study or record of a single T2D patient that did not consume carbs/refined sugars.

Similarly, I would welcome you to present a single study or patient on record successfully reversing their diabetes without changing their diet to reduce, if not eliminate, carbs/refined sugar.

There are hundreds if not thousands of studies on reversing diabetes, I’m link just one. The study notes that reversing T2D isn’t a goal in modern medicine rather management. But it’s also noted that prior to development of insulin, low carb diets were the prescribed treatment/management of T2D and it shouldn’t come as a surprise it is the very thing modern studies are finding reverses T2D. So low carb diets go back at least 100 years to pre-insulin treatment and are not new as many like to pretend.

If it were plastics like you suggest, I find it odd that T2D can both be avoided and reversed with similar dietary approaches minimizing carbs/refined sugars. But maybe it is, again that can continued to be studied, but in the meantime we have a working solution to avoid 100% of cases.

Still I am not demonizing carbs, it’s possible that at least some people can manage them just fine. However, on the other end of the spectrum dating back thousands of years, first documented by Egyptians, carbs/grains/sugars have been used as tools to fatten up live stock. They cause high blood sugar, they overwhelm and fatten the liver, and they trigger the production/release of insulin which is a hormone that tells the body to enter a catabolic state and store energy in fat cells.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6520897/



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