Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis
Defiant Health Radio with Dr. William Davis
The Crime Called Type 2 Diabetes
The crime is not having type 2 diabetes. The crime is that conventional forces in healthcare essentially turn a blind eye to all the ways available to NOT be a type 2 diabetic.
Pharmaceutical executives throw lavish parties to celebrate the huge revenues that derive from diabetes drugs that now include the awful GLP-1 agonists, while almost no one in healthcare shows people how to not be diabetic--THAT's the crime.
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Why would I call type 2 diabetes a crime? Let me draw an analogy for you. Say it's January and it's really cold outside, and I come by your house, and I take a bucket of water and I pour it on your front doorstep. Then I knock on your door after the water freezes and I step back, hoping you'll step out onto your doorstep. You do. You come out and you promptly slip and crack your head on the pavement or fracture your hip or have some other terrible injury. Whose fault is that? Is that your fault because you didn't spread salt, you didn't shovel your walk? Or is it my fault for having poured that water that froze on your doors? Obviously it's my fault, right? Well, let's apply that analogy. Bear that in mind with type 2 diabetes. So let's let me paint that picture. I'm going to give you a diet that causes diabetes, type 2 diabetes, or at least doesn't do any good in reducing blood glucose. I'm going to deprive you of the knowledge, the common widespread knowledge that's well established on such things as nutrients that reduce, mitigate, or minimize insulin resistance. That's the process that leads to type 2 diabetes. And I'm going to tell you about other things like disruptions of the gastrointestinal microbiome that likewise contribute to the process that leads to type 2 diabetes. In other words, conventional advice, or at least indifference and ignorance on the part of your doctor, dietitian, and others has taken you down the path or will take you down the path to have type 2 diabetes, along with 37 million other Americans that are have already well established type 2 diabetes, the larger number that has prediabetes, and the even bigger number that will have diabetes down the road. So, in other words, conventional ignorance, indifference, and focusing on such things as medications and procedures deprive you of the real information. So it's important for you to know type 2 diabetes is easily and readily reversed. Sadly, the last person you want to ask on how to accomplish this is the doctor or the dietitian or some other person who purports to be an expert in health. Now, it helps to understand what diabetes is, type 2 diabetes. So, of course, type 1 diabetes means something injured your pancreas, the beta cells that produce insulin that don't recover, and you need to take insulin injections. There's no way around that. Though, by the way, we know with good science that process is initiated in children by consumption of wheat, the gliden protein of wheat, in the presence of vitamin D deficiency. That science is well worked out. I hardly ever talk about that's a topic for another day, though. Let's focus on type 2 diabetes. So type 2 diabetes is a situation where blood glucose, blood sugar goes really high, and blood insulin goes very high also because your body, your muscles, your liver, your brain, other organs are no longer able to normally respond to insulin. Insulin is meant to reduce that blood glucose and push that glucose into your body's cells. Well, because your muscle brain and other organs are unable to properly respond to insulin, your pancreas overproduces huge amounts of insulin. If we were to look at your fasting insulin, so your insulin without provocation of diet, a good insulin level is four microunits per liter or less, somewhere between zero and four. If we check your insulin level and someone who had type 2 diabetes or prediabetes, you see levels of 70, 130, sky high. Not 10% worse, not 20% worse, 10 fold worse, 100fold worse. So that insulin resistance, once you get that process going, it adds to abdominal fat expansion. It makes it harder and harder and harder over time to control blood glucose. It increases your risk for coronary disease, heart disease, dementia, carotid disease, peripheral vascular disease that leads to amputations, kidney disease, all the familiar things you know that happen to people with type 2 diabetes and death, typically eight years earlier than other people who are non-diabetic. You know, it wasn't that long ago that the American Diabetes Association, the president, said many times, he repeated himself many times, you cannot get rid of type 2 diabetes. Meaning you must submit to drugs, oral drugs at first to reduce blood glucose, and then finally insulin. And so that's that's the standard formula, right, for type 2 diabetes that the doctor gives you. Now, here's the truth. The majority, not everybody, but the majority of people, probably 90% or more, are able to get rid of type 2 diabetes. You know, I was a type 2 diabetic 35, no, 40 years ago, when I made the mistake of going on a low-fat vegetarian diet, and I became a type 2 diabetic. I stopped doing that, learned some lessons along the way, and no longer a type 2 diabetic, in fact, have ideal blood glucose and uh and a hemoglobin A1C. By the way, the targets we would shoot for would be a fasting glucose of 60 to 90 milligrams per deciliter, and a hemoglobin A1C, that long-term measure of blood glucose, of 5.0% or less. So people on my programs typically have fasting blood glucose in the 80s and a hemoglobin A1C in the 4 point something range. It's easy to do. So how do you do that? How do you not have type 2 diabetes? Well, you can't listen to conventional thinkers because they are guilty of causing, like pouring water on your doorstep in January, right? They're causing the problem. They're part of the problem. So the solution, once you hear it, you're saying, well, gee, that seems so obvious. Why did my doctor tell me this? So if part of type 2 diabetes is high blood glucose, let's avoid foods that raise blood glucose, right? What foods raise blood glucose the most? Wheat, grains, and sugars, and processed, ultra-processed foods, right? So we eliminate those foods. We don't restrict fat. We don't restrict cholesterol. And by the way, saturated fat, cholesterol, all those things they've talked about for the years do not raise blood glucose. They have nothing to do with blood glucose. So we're going to eliminate the foods that raise blood glucose. That alone has a huge effect in reducing your blood glucose and your diabetic tendency. It's not just a matter of raising blood glucose. Remember, there's something called amylopectin A in wheat and grains. That's the carbohydrate responsible for the flagrant rises in blood glucose when you consume, say, a bagel or a sandwich or a bowl of pasta. There's other reasons why that works. You're eliminating gliadin-derived opioid peptides. Those are appetite stimulants. So when people go wheat and grain free, they say, I'm not hungry anymore. I used to have rat this awful ravenous hunger all the time, middle of the night, even after eating a big bowl of pasta, I'm filled to burst. I'm still hungry. All that goes away because you banished gliden-derived opioid peptides and because we're not limiting fat intake. Fat is satiating. So if you have more olive oil and you don't trim the fat off your pork or beef, you eat the skin on chicken and fish, you're getting more fat. It's satiating. So you're going to find that your hunger is dramatically reduced. And you might not even recognize what hunger feels like. It might feel just like a little restlessness. It's not that gnawing, desperate feeling you may have had during your grain consuming days. So that's step one. Then we address common nutrient deficiencies caused by modern life. For instance, if this was a natural wild world, you would get your water, right? From a stream or river or lake that is water running over rocks and minerals. You can't do that. Water in the modern world is filled with sewage and farm runoff and pesticides and herbicides and other garbage. You would get sick if you did that, right? So we have to filter our water. And of course, we don't eat wild plants anymore. You don't go into the forest, right, and gather plants. You go to the grocery store and you buy commercially produced produce or even hydroponically grown produce. And the magnesium content of both that filtered water and your produce is much reduced, almost non-existent. So we're going to supplement magnesium because magnesium plays a big role in regulating insulin and blood glucose. Likewise, vitamin D. It's if it's if it's winter where you are right now, you probably didn't go outside. Or if you did, you're wearing an overcoat and pants, right? Most of your surface area of skin is covered, and the sun is too weak to activate vitamin D in the skin, so we'd get vitamin D. We get iodine because people forgot that iodine has to come from the ocean or from iodized salt by FDA mandate in 1924, but people forgot. And in fact, the FDA tells us cut back on your salt because they misinterpreted the evidence, by the way, a conversation for another day. But you need iodine. People forgot that iodine deficiency was a huge public health problem, one of the biggest public health problems all throughout human history, in populations that lived away from the sea, away from the ocean, where all the iodine on this planet is located. So if you're living in the mountains or inland, like the Midwest and the US or other place away from the ocean, you need to get iodine. Likewise, omega-3 fatty acids. People used to get omega-3 fatty acids from a combination of eating organ meats, especially brain, and seafood, of course. Well, no one wants to eat brain anymore because of the silly advice to cut your saturated fat and cholesterol. So most modern people have become squeamish and averse to eating organ meats, so most won't do that anymore. And of course, we can't eat all the seafood we want because we have this issue now of mercury and even more recently, microplastics in seafood. So we have to limit our seafood exposure, so we thereby get omega-3 fatty acids from supplements. Those four things magnesium, vitamin D, iodine, and omega-3 fatty acids. It sounds random. They're not random. These are nutrients lacking in modern life that when restored synergize, synergize to minimize insulin resistance, which then cascades into reducing blood glucose, accelerating the loss of abdominal fat, and of course, many, many other benefits. Lastly, we're going to address the microbiome, the gastrointestinal microbiome, because it has been massively disrupted by modern exposure, overexposure to antibiotics, and other factors. And among the effects is the loss of literally hundreds of beneficial species. Now, those beneficial species had roles. They were doing good things for us when we had them. Among their roles was to suppress the overpopulation of fecal microbes. So fecal microbes we're supposed to have in the colon where your stool is created. And fecal microbes like E. coli and Salmonella and Campylobacter and Pseudomonas were supposed to be in the colon, but they were kept at a low level by beneficial microbes. When you take antibiotics, it wipes out selectively those beneficial microbes, does not wipe out the colonic or the fecal microbes. So the fecal microbes are allowed to overpopulate. And then remarkably, in about half the U.S. population, those overpopulated fecal microbes ascend into the 24 feet of small intestine. Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. We say SIBO, SIBL. Well, the small intestine is very permeable. And when you have trillions of unwanted fecal microbes colonizing the small intestine, they live and die very rapidly. Microbes typically last only a few hours. They die, release their toxic components, such as the endotoxin in their cell walls, and that gains access into your bloodstream. And that's called endotoxemia, a major driver of insulin resistance, and thereby high blood glucose. Now there are other ways to do this, but this is how I do it. We adopt a diet where we banish all wheat grains and sugars and go back to whole foods, meaning meats, avocados, eggs, whole foods, not processed foods. But it starts with elimination of wheat grains and sugars, the things that raise blood glucose and push you down the path of diabetes, type 2 diabetes. Then we restore the nutrients that, when put together, synergize to further minimize insulin resistance. Then we address the SIBO, or at least the colonic dysbiosis, that contributes to endotoxemia, a major driver of insulin resistance and the expansion of abdominal fat. Now, if you want to know how to do each of these things, see my other videos where I discuss each of those components, how to get your vitamin D right, how we address SIBO. And by the way, we use we use something called SIBO yogurt, my recipe for SIBO yogurt, a collection of microbes like lactobacillus rotori, lactobacillus gastri, and bacillus subtilus, species specifically chosen because they colonize the small intestine and colon. Very few beneficial microbes have that ability. So I've chosen those three because they colonize the small intestine. Actually, in the case of bacillus subtile, it germinates. It's a spore. It germinates in the ilium, in the distal small intestine. So they they take up residence in the small intestine and produce what are called bactericins. These are natural antibiotics effective in killing those fecal microbes. In other words, the bactericins produced by these microbes are smarter than prescription antibiotics that are stupid because they kill everything, including those beneficial microbes that you need. Now, you do that. I call that SIBO yogurt. The good thing about SIBO, well there's many good things about SIBO yogurt, we're going to also ferment it for an extended period to get really high bacterial numbers. We want hundreds of billions. We don't want the few billion or millions of a commercial probiotic. So, by the way, of all the things you do to rebuild the gastro-intestinal microbiome, the least important thing is a probiotic. People think it's the most important thing. It's not. It's the last item on the list of things you can do to rebuild a healthy microbiome. But we start by getting this SIBO yogurt because those three microbes colonize small intestine, produce bacteria, but also help bring back many of the lost species. It's not quite clear how they do that, but these are so the species of SIBO yogurt are keystone or foundational. They help bring back the lost species, like fecalobacterium, acromancer, lacnospiration, and many others. It also helps to get fermented foods. That's another way. So if you want the full approach, please see all my other videos, my the hundreds, uh I'm sorry, the thousands of blog posts I have on WilliamDavisMB.com. And of course, my books, especially Super Gut and Superbody, Superbody being my most recent book that tells you how to restore shape and body composition and don't fall into this awful, awful trap of GLP1 agonists and other misguided ways of losing weight. But there you go. If you have type 2 diabetes, you can. Now, one warning. If you are on any kind of medication to reduce blood glucose or blood pressure, you need to talk to your health care provider because the drop in blood glucose or andor the drop in blood pressure can be precipitous. You could actually pass out. You could actually go into a hypoglycemic coma. In other words, you're going to have so much profound control over blood sugar and blood pressure that you have to anticipate that. So typically, what people will do is if you're on long-acting insulin, cut your dose in half. If you're dosing before meals, cut that dose of fast-acting, uh, fast-acting, say regular insulin, in half and then taper down, follow your glucose uh closely. Likewise, blood pressure, you have to talk to your healthcare provider because some blood pressure medications can't just be stopped. Beta blockers and clonidine, for instance, cannot just be stopped, they have to be weaned. So I wish that wasn't true. But and so if the doctor says, well, you can't get rid of high blood pressure, or you can't get rid of uh type 2 diabetes, or you can't reduce blood glucose, but uh, run away. Find somebody smarter who under has at least knows something about diabetes and hypertension. That let's accept. They were probably giving you bad information all along, so don't be surprised if you get pushback. But no, with proper guidance, it is easily possible to no longer be a type 2 diabetic.
