Episode 2462 – On this Friday’s show Vinnie Tortorich welcomes author Gary Taubes and they discuss investigating diabetes research, how the research evolved, his new book “Rethinking Diabetes,” and more.
Investigating Diabetes
- Vinnie considers Gary Taubes a “forefather of low carb”. (2:30)
- Gary came along and gives context, history, and details around the science of low-carb. (3:30)
- His background is as an investigative journalist in controversial scientific topics led him to researching dietary science.
- Why was the science so weak initially? (13:00)
- He explains the challenge of testing humans and shortcuts taken to “prove” hypotheses.
- Gary’s latest book is called “Rethinking Diabetes”. You can find it in Vinnie’s Book Club here: https://amzn.to/3Vf0JAz
- He also co-authors a Substack with Nina Teicholz called https://substack.com/@unsettled science.
- He shares how his investigations have also become research into medical history. (27:00)
- He reviews the very interesting and varied history of treating diabetes.
- Vinnie tells Gary about Bethany McKenzie who was in his first documentary. (37:00)
- Her son developed T1 Diabetes and she started him on a ketogenic diet; doctors wanted to take her son away from her.
- Gary goes into more history about discovering how to control diabetes. (39:00)
- He discusses Elliott Joslin, Richard K. Bernstein, and others.
- Agencies like the ADA end up committing to ideas because of funding. (53:00)
- Gary prefers to think that the ADA’s intentions are to help, but that they haven’t set up their system in a way that allows them to pivot easily.
- Gary is also interested in learning about metabolic psychiatry and people like Dr. Chris Palmer, and recent guest Dr. Georgia Ede. (1:00:00)
- The reality is ketogenic therapies can help with diabetes, brain health, and more. It may not help everyone, but it has the potential of drastically reducing disease states.
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