Does Red Meat Cause Type II Diabetes?

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Dr. Mark Hyman

Nutrition, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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View the Show Notes For This Episode Get Free Weekly Health Tips from Dr. Hyman Sign Up for Dr. Hyman’s Weekly Longevity Journal Get Ad-free Episodes & Dr. Hyman+ Audio Exclusives Recently, a study made headlines linking red meat consumption to an increased risk for type 2 diabetes. It’s no secret that navigating the realm of nutrition has become a challenge for the general public. That’s why, on today’s Health Bites episode, we’re diving deep into the findings from this study, “Red meat intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in a prospective cohort study of United States females and males,” published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. I unpack the study’s design flaws, inaccuracies, and where the researchers got it straight up wrong. This episode is brought to you by Rupa University, Happy Egg, and Mitopure. Rupa University is hosting FREE classes and bootcamps for healthcare providers who want to learn more about Functional Medicine testing. Sign up at RupaUniversity.com. Shopping for better eggs shouldn’t be confusing. Look for the yellow carton at your local grocery store or visit happyegg.com/farmacy to find Happy Egg near you. Support essential mitochondrial health and save 10% on Mitopure. Visit TimelineNutrition.com/Drhyman and use code DRHYMAN10. In this episode, I discuss (audio version / Apple Subscriber version): What we can and cannot learn from observational research (3:42 / 1:56) “Red meat intake and risk of type 2 diabetes in a prospective cohort study of United States females and males” study design and findings (9:01 / 7:15) Issues with the study design and why it does not prove that red meat causes type 2 diabetes (20:01 / 16:23) What have other studies found? (39:20 / 35:42) The root cause of type 2 diabetes (44:02 / 40:24) Strategies to address type 2 diabetes (44:29 / 40:51)

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0:00.0	Coming up on this week's episode of the doctor's pharmacy.
0:03.0	There was a large study of about 11,000 people who shopped at health food stores.
0:06.4	Half of them were a vegetarian or vegan and half of them ate meat.
0:09.3	But they ate meat in the context of a healthy diet.
0:11.7	If your meat intake is with
0:13.0	hamburgers and fries and Coke, well it's probably not the hamburger, right?
0:18.0	If you're a health care practitioner like I am, you know how hard it is to keep your
0:22.2	medical knowledge up to date, especially when it comes to functional and specially lab testing.
0:26.5	You could spend a ton of time waiting through the latest medical literature, but that can be hard to fit into an already busy schedule.
0:32.3	A better answer is Rupa University.
0:35.0	Rather than spending countless hours combing through reports, Rupa University hosts a free
0:38.7	training session every week, led by an industry expert who provides up-to-date overviews of the labs, topics and health concerns that you want to be focused on.
0:46.2	Rupa University is the number one educational institute or over 20,000 practitioners a year learn about functional and specially lab testing. If you want to level up
0:53.6	your knowledge on functional lab tests, make sure to visit rupa University.com.
0:58.4	Eggs are a fantastic source of protein, vitamins and minerals and egg lebles are often a source of confusion.
1:05.2	What a lot of people don't know is that not all eggs are created equal.
1:08.6	Just like humans, the nurture and care given the hens, the food they eat, the air they breathe, the space they have to
1:14.6	roam and forage impacts the quality of their life and ultimately the quality of their eggs.
1:19.5	You can actually see and
1:24.0	see that deep orange nutrient-tense yolk
1:26.0	and that's why I love happy egg
1:29.0	and the high standards they've set.
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