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High blood glucose is one part of the problem.

High insulin levels is a bigger part of the problem.

High glucose causes swelling, microvessel damage, blindness,

but high insulin clogs up the cell and causes all of the downstream effects from metabolic syndrome.

Inflammation, dementia, cardiovascular disease.

So insulin is the thing to watch. Carbs are a drug. Why are all the comfort foods carbs?

Because it changes how we feel. If it changes how we feel, it's a drug.

Diet is 80% of the solution. But now we live in such a complicated world, and there's more and more factors that complicate it.

For optimal health, we want to do all of them for a period of time.

And that's where a lot of people miss out.

Oh, I'm just going to do this one. It's like, no.

Your body can't operate if you're violating one of these.

I tell people it's a low-carb diet, it's a moderate protein diet, the fat is just the rest.

The reason the keto diet works, it's because you're lowering insulin, you're reducing the addictive

foods that make you overeat.

Because this is all about hunger.

What would you say is the biggest lie people still believe when it comes to metabolic health?

I think the biggest and most dangerous lie is that fat is dangerous.

And the fact that there are still low fat products out there

promoted as healthy I think it's that simple because fat is the fundamental fuel it's the one

the body stores as a reserve. And throughout history, I believe that fat has always been the

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