@torontobaghead McLean’s a drunken piece of shit. Botteril has no business being on the panel and Hrudy (who was never great) is doing his best interloper impression of the CBC propaganda virtue machine.
Pathetic.
For over a hundred years, before insulin existed, carbohydrate restriction was the treatment for diabetes. Take away the sugar coming in, take away the sugar problem. It worked because diabetes is, at root, a disease of carbohydrate handling.
Then we spent fifty years calling that exact approach extreme, unsustainable, and faintly dangerous. Eat your complex carbohydrates, we said. Wholegrains with every meal. Just dose the insulin to cover it.
That advice has been a slow catastrophe for type 2 diabetics. We told a population that couldn't handle carbohydrate to build every meal around carbohydrate, then medicated the entirely predictable result, then added more medication, then called the whole sorry escalator "management."
Here's the part you don't hear at the appointment. Ketosis can put type 2 diabetes into remission. Not manage it. Reverse it. One two-year trial saw diabetes resolved in over half the group, with people walking away from their medication entirely. Other trials keep finding the same thing.
A reversed diabetic buys nothing. No metformin, no test strips, no escalating prescriptions, no lifetime of monitoring appointments. A managed diabetic is a customer for forty years.
You will never see remission advertised, because nobody profits from the cure. They profit from the queue.
So the treatment that worked for a century became the fringe. The diet that caused the problem became the official guidance. And the word "dangerous" got quietly pinned to the one approach that might end the appointment for good.
There is an animal that:
- Walks to her own food on her own legs
- Eats grass humans cannot digest
- Drinks rainwater that falls whether she's there or not
- Needs no pesticide, herbicide, irrigation, factory, or refinery
- Builds topsoil 30 to 50 times faster than nature
- Fertilises the ground that grew her dinner
- Supports dozens of wildflower, insect, and bird species
- Reproduces herself once a year, free of charge
- Produces meat, milk, butter, cheese, cream, leather, tallow, suet, bone, and broth
- Delivers complete protein, every fat-soluble vitamin, haem iron, B12, zinc, and choline
- Has done all of this, on the same hillsides, for ten thousand years
- Runs on sunlight
And we have spent thirty years being told this animal is the problem.
The fermentation tank in Singapore, drawing power from a fossil fuel grid, fed on monoculture soy from a deforested Brazilian plain, producing a beige paste with twenty-two ingredients, is the solution.
The audacity is breathtaking.