Type 2 diabetes was long called a permanent, one-way road. A professor in Newcastle showed that for many people, it simply is not.
Roy Taylor's idea was that type 2 diabetes is driven by fat spilling into two organs that should stay lean, the liver and the pancreas. Everyone has a personal fat threshold, the amount their body can store before it starts backing up into those organs. Cross your own line, and the machinery that controls blood sugar starts to choke.
To test it, the DiRECT trial enrolled people diagnosed within the last six years, not yet on insulin, and put them through a structured, supervised weight-loss program. After one year, 46% were in remission, with normal blood sugar and off their diabetes medication. In the group that changed little, almost no one was.
And the more fat they lost, the more it worked. Among those who lost 15 kilograms, about 33 pounds, or more, 86% reached remission. Among those who lost none, zero did.
Be precise about the word. This is remission, not a cure, and it holds only while the weight stays off. Put the fat back on, past your threshold, and the diabetes can return.
The lever is the fat in your organs, and getting it off is what turns the disease around. Cutting the carbs is one sustainable way to keep it off.
(Lean et al., Lancet, 2018)
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In 2015, America quietly deleted a rule it had pushed for almost forty years.
Starting in 1977, official advice told everyone to keep dietary cholesterol under 300 milligrams a day. For most people that meant a quiet war on the egg yolk. Then the 2015 advisory committee reviewed the evidence and dropped the number entirely. Cholesterol, they wrote, is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.
The reason is simple. The cholesterol you eat has a smaller, more variable effect on your blood than the 1970s science assumed. Your liver makes most of your cholesterol and adjusts to whatever lands on your plate.
Now be fair. This is not a blank check. For roughly one in four people, dietary cholesterol still nudges blood levels up, and blood cholesterol is a separate question from heart-disease risk. Even the guidelines still say eat sensibly. This is a dropped limit, not a free-for-all.
But the egg took the fall for forty years, and it is low in saturated fat and packed with real nutrition. For most healthy people it was never the villain the label made it out to be.
Your body regulates cholesterol. Let the egg back on the plate.
#NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #eggs #cholesterol #realfood #breakfast #wholefoods #vinnietortorich
🚨 BREAKING: JD Vance just revealed on Joe Rogan that the COVID vaccine made him the sickest he's been in 15 years. Not COVID. The shot.
He says he caught COVID five separate times. None of them compared.
Then he dropped this: we're not even allowed to talk about vaccine side effects in this country.
Rogan followed with the receipts. Pharma companies have paid billions in criminal fines but remain completely exempt from vaccine injury liability.
Vance then pointed to Big Pharma political donations. When Rogan asked who they donate to, Vance's answer was immediate.
This clip is making the rounds for a reason. Watch it before it disappears. 🔥
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The best tennis player alive kept collapsing in the big matches. Then he cut one thing from his plate.
For years Novak Djokovic was freakishly talented, but he'd wilt in the long ones. Gasping for air, doubling over, sometimes quitting mid-match.
Around 2010 a nutritionist ran a test and found a strong sensitivity to gluten. Not celiac, but real. So he cut gluten, grains, and most refined sugar. He says the change was almost immediate. Lighter. Clearer. He could finally breathe deep in the fifth set.
Then came 2011: three Grand Slam titles, a 41-match winning streak to open the year, and world number one. He wrote a whole book about it called 'Serve to Win.'
No secret supplement. No magic pill. He took the grains and the sugar off the plate, and the greatest of all time got even greater.
Cut the grains. Cut the sugar. That's NSNG®.
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🚨 CHARLIE KIRK NAILED IT FLAWLESSLY:
"It's not Islamophobia to notice that a man who wants to globalize the intifada is about to run America's largest and once greatest city. It's not Islamophobia to notice that Muslims want to import values into the West that seek to destabilize our civilization...It's cultural suicide to stay silent."
Do NOT let this pro-Islam communist tell us who we are and what to do!
"Islamists do not believe in freedom of speech, period. You cannot question Muhammad, you cannot make fun of him, you cannot question the state."
"Islam is not compatible with Western civilization, period. I'm not talking about individual. We're talking about the macro ideology where many of them gather together and what that metastasizes into."
He was so spot-on 🙏🏻
Every Fourth of July they run the hot dog eating contest and tell you it started in 1916, when four immigrants stood outside Nathan's and ate hot dogs to prove who loved America most.
It never happened.
There's no 1916 contest. No newspaper covered it, because there was nothing to cover. The whole story was invented in the early 1970s by two press agents, Max Rosey and Mortimer Matz, to sell hot dogs. In 2010 Matz admitted it to the New York Times. "In Coney Island pitchman style, we made it up."
The real history is plainer. Nathan Handwerker opened his stand in 1916 and sold a hot dog for a nickel. The first documented contest was 1972. ESPN put it on TV in 2004. In 2021 a man ate 76 of them in ten minutes and was called a champion.
A made-up tradition, built to sell the most processed food in America. The buns, the fillers, the whole circus.
Eat real food. That's NSNG®.
#FourthOfJuly #IndependenceDay #hotdog #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #processedfood #junkfood #realfood #history #mythbusting
So Much of Parenting Is Just Making the Right Choices. And Kids Can Hear the Word No.
At Chuck E. Cheese's, surrounded by obese parents and kids eating pizza — eating a salad. Neither child obese. The choices made early compound over decades. Chicken McNuggets and burgers and fries and pizza aren't inevitable — they're a default that parents accept because it's easier than saying no. Kids push back. They always do. They also adapt. The parent who holds the line on food is giving their child a gift that lasts a lifetime.
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MILTON FRIEDMAN:
"CONSUMERS DON’T PRODUCE INFLATION."
"PRODUCERS DON’T PRODUCE INFLATION.
"INFLATION IS PRODUCED ONLY BY TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT CREATION OF MONEY, AND NOTHING ELSE."
Norway flew its own chefs and a half-ton of food to the World Cup in America.
The headlines told you it was because the team thinks American food is poison. That part is not true. Their head chef said it plainly. They brought salmon, halibut, brown cheese, and pressed their juice from local oranges, for dietary consistency and a taste of home. Not a boycott.
But the story put a spotlight on something that is true and documented.
The US food supply runs on thousands of additives. A lot of them were never independently tested, and a long list of them are banned or restricted in Europe.
Your sandwich bread can contain azodicarbonamide, a dough conditioner that is illegal in the EU and the UK. It is in the buns, the bagels, and the fresh-baked loaves here.
Some American oranges are dyed with Citrus Red 2, a petroleum dye allowed on the peel and rated a possible carcinogen. The color you read as ripe can be painted on.
Red 40, Yellow 5, and Yellow 6. In Europe, foods with these dyes carry a warning that they may affect activity and attention in children. In America, no warning, no label, just brighter cereal.
This is not an accident. It is the law. In Europe a chemical has to be proven safe before it goes in your food. In America it stays in your food until somebody proves it dangerous. Same brands, same packaging, different recipe, because Europe makes them reformulate and we do not.
You do not need a private chef and a cargo plane. You need to read the label. Cut the sugar and the grains and most of this stuff disappears on its own. Real food does not come with an ingredient list you cannot pronounce.
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🚨🚨 REMEMBER: Receiving chemotherapy against cancer also eliminates your NK cells and your T cells. And the only thing that protects your body against cancer is your lymphocytes; the NK cells and the T cells...
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, oncology expert.
An associate professor of medicine at Duke named Eric Westman has been quietly reversing type-two diabetes for twenty years inside an academic medical center.
Westman is board-certified in both Obesity Medicine and Internal Medicine. He directs the Duke Lifestyle Medicine Clinic. He founded the Duke Keto Medicine Clinic in 2006 after his own clinical research showed something most diabetes educators still refuse to admit out loud.
Type-two diabetes is a carbohydrate-tolerance disorder. The standard treatment is wrong.
The mainstream protocol is drugs. Metformin, then insulin, then more insulin, then SGLT2 inhibitors. Doctors add a new medication every time the disease progresses. The disease always progresses.
Westman tried something different. He put his diabetic patients on a strict ketogenic diet. Meat. Eggs. Fish. Cheese. Butter. Leafy vegetables. Below twenty grams of carbohydrate a day.
In 2008 he published the results in Nutrition and Metabolism. Eighty-four obese adults with type-two diabetes. Twenty-four weeks. The low-carb keto group dropped their HbA1c by 1.5 percentage points. The comparison group dropped 0.5. Three times the result. More patients in the keto group eliminated their diabetes medications entirely.
He has continued publishing in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Nutrition and Metabolism, and Diabetes Therapy. Hundreds at the Duke clinic have walked out of his office no longer diabetic.
The American Diabetes Association quietly softened its carbohydrate recommendation in 2019. Their current position is that there is no ideal carb amount and that low-carb eating is a valid choice for diabetics. Most frontline diabetes counselors did not get the memo. The standard hospital meal tray still arrives with juice and toast.
Westman did the work twenty years before the consensus shifted. He is still doing it.
The cure has been on the plate the whole time.
He has been quietly handing it out.
#NSNG #EricWestman #Duke #Keto #DiabetesReversal #LowCarb
🚨WARNING: That "plain" beef you're grabbing at the grocery store? It's NOT just beef anymore!
Flip the package— they're sneaking in "natural flavorings" that could be hiding TOXIC chemicals.
Why? "Natural flavorings" hide 3,000+ chemicals that can seriously harm:
- Propylene Glycol: Same stuff in antifreeze, can irritate your gut.
- BHA (Butylated Hydroxyanisole): Linked to cancer in studies.
- Diacetyl: Causes "popcorn lung" in factory workers.
- MSG derivatives: Hidden in yeast extract, triggers headaches & more.
- Cochineal: Bug-derived, major allergen for some.
- Castoreum: Extracted from beaver anal glands.
- Polysorbate 80: Emulsifier linked to gut inflammation & potential fertility issues.
No reason for this in fresh meat—unless they're masking crap quality.
Buy local, grass-fed, or organic ONLY! Who's with me? 🔥 RT & tag a friend!
Support your local rancher, farmer, farmer's market, local butcher...
The Most Dangerous Idea In Human History Is This Idea that Cholesterol Causes Heart Attacks.
~ Dr. Cate Shanahan, MD
It was NOT true. It was NEVER true. It was NEVER proven, yet it was accepted as fact.
Cholesterol is in every one of our cells. It is essential to life, to animal life. All animals, not just humans, every form of animal must have cholesterol in our cell membrane.
Healthy Cholesterol Is Crucial For A Thriving Life.
Top 15 Cholesterol Benefits:
• Prevents dementia & cognitive decline
• Protects against all cause mortality
• Production of all steroid hormones
• Necessary for muscles & bone density
• Protective against stroke & heart disease
• Important for lungs & airways
• Building block of all cells & mitochondria
• Absorption of Vitamins A, D, E & K
• Critical for digestion & bile acids
• Immune system protection against infections
• Lowers risk of cancer & death
• Lowers risk of depression & suicide
• Lowers stress, cortisol & anxiety
• Protects against chemicals, toxins & heavy metals
A low carbohydrate diet prioritizing nutrient dense animal foods, eliminating harmful seed oils & excess sugar, provides the best healthy cholesterol profile.
This approach keeps Triglycerides low & HDL high, which is one of the best biomarkers for Cardiac health.
TG/HDL ratio optimally should be less than 1.5 for zero CVD risk.