Jim Grasser @303BBQ - Twitter Profile

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23 days ago

Call me cynical, but I sometimes suspect modern medicine is motivated more by money than by helping patients get truly healthy. A good example of this (of many) is how the official diabetes diagnostic cutoff has changed over the decades: - Pre-1997: Fasting glucose ≥140 mg/dL to diagnose diabetes - 1997: Dropped to ≥126 mg/dL (and it’s stayed there ever since) Even further, in 2003 they lowered the prediabetes threshold to 100 mg/dL, dramatically expanding the pool of people being funneled toward a full diabetes diagnosis and, of course, put on drugs years earlier than before. Of course, I appreciate earlier detection, But the actual health outcomes of such modest changes in glucose are minimal. But it is certainly a convenient way to qualify far more people for lifelong glucose-lowering medications instead of fixing the actual root cause (insulin resistance, of course) through lifestyle and diet first.

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Jim Grasser @303Barbecue

almost 3 years ago

The 303 BBQ team competed at the 28th annual Colorado Barbeque Challenge this weekend. We finished: 10th chicken 9th pork ribs 32nd pork butt 11th brisket 11th overall Congratulations to Clark Crew BBQ on their grand championship and Gettin’ Basted on their reserve! #bbq