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23/3/2019

My Mother's Diabetes Treatment Update

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I am VERY HAPPY to see my mother's medication come down.

Just today we stopped one more - DIAMICRON which means we have now stopped VOLIBO AND DIAMICRON.
She only has 1 tablet left, and insulin.

As these medications reduce her weight is bound to start dropping, even while she eats the same amount of food. See my post on Obesity for this.
It is always amazing to see these results, but when its your own mother, it is something ELSE !

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22/3/2019

Obesity Is a Hormonal, Not A Caloric Disorder

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In my ongoing reading of The Obesity Code, Dr. Fung talks about looking at calorie reduction for weight loss.

He is suggesting that when we reduce calorie intake, the body reduces calorie burning. So reducing calories is not necessarily going to bring about weigh loss.
Calories In - Calories Out = Body Fat
This is a misleading and possibly incorrect notion. We have used this theory for years while obesity has exploded.

Dr. Fung argues that the body regulates everything. All systems in the body are regulated. Hormones regulate every system in the body. The thyroid, parathyroid, sympathetic, respiratory, circulatory, hepatic, renal, gastrointestinal, adrenal systems are all under hormonal control. So is body fat. The body actually has multiple systems to control body fat.

In UK the number of calories ingested slightly decreased in the last 3 decades, even as obesity rates increased. Even rates of caloric fat ingested had decreased while obesity rates increased.

If a women is given a calorie reduction of 500 calories per day, in short time her calorie burning will also reduce by 500 calories per day.

This is because the body also regulates a basal metabolic rate, which, when we eat lower calories  also goes down. Calories in and Calories out are NOT INDEPENDENT of each other, they are tightly related to one another. Your fat stores are regulated by hormones and if hormones regulate fat growth, then obesity is a hormonal, not a caloric disorder.​

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Obesity is a Hormonal not a Caloric disorder

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22/3/2019

Is Obesity A Survival Mechanism ?

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Are We designed to eat more to survive ?

Is Obesity caused by Survival Instinct ?

In my ongoing reading of The Obesity Code, Dr. Fung examines a commonly held hypothesis "humans are predisposed to gain weight as a survival mechanism for times of famine."

This is something we have commonly heard as a reason to gain weight. Though we live in times of plenty, our genes are designed to eat more & more. It is part of our genetic ​survival mechanism?

Dr. Fung here disagrees strongly. The arguments he presents in the book are :
  • In the wild survival does not depend on being overweight or underweight. A fat animal is slower and less agile. Predators would prefer to eat a fat and slow animal. Fat predators would find it harder to eat lean prey.
  • How many times have you seen a fat zebra or gazelle in National Geographic channel ? What about fat lions and tigers ?
  • Even in wild animals morbid obesity is rare, even with the abundance of food. 
  • Abundance of food leads to an increase in the number of animals, not obesity of the animals
  • There is no survival advantage to carrying a very high body fat percentage

I find it extremely interesting. What he is building the premise for is that :
1) we are not predisposed to overeat
2) then why are we overeating and getting to obese ?

As I continue to read the book I am learning to look at a obesity from a very different lens.

Are you obese and have always struggled with weight loss? It may not be why you think it is.

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IS OBESITY A GENETIC SURVIVAL MECHANISM

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19/3/2019

Why Does Insulin Cause Weight Gain?

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There are so many books out there on diabetes reversal. The more I read the more I am always surprised. In his book The Obesity Code Dr. Jason Fung, a nephrologist from USA is speaking about the obesity epidemic. 

Back to the point - things that surprise me. 
We are all raised to believe weight is calories in vs. calories out. "But if that were so, why did the medication I prescribed - insulin - cause such relentless weight gain?"
And that is so true. Why does insulin cause weight gain? People don't eat more on insulin, they eat the same amount, but they gain weight. Why does that happen?

"The conventional view of obesity as a caloric imbalance did not make sense. Caloric reduction had been prescribed for the last 50 years with startling ineffectiveness."

Welcome to my world. As I read more and more I get more and more astounded by what impact nutrition has and what little we know about nutrition. Our science and discussion is still rooted in old dogma, calories in and calories out; but the human body is so much more complex than that.

If you have any theories on why insulin causes weight gain feel free to post it in the comments below.

Why Does Insulin Cause Weight Gain?

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