Catherine Crofts PhD

@JeffryGerberMD Wow!!

Wild foxes frolicking in our driveway. They follow us walking the dog and enjoy the interactions.

@BenBikmanPhD @VigilantFox @BenBikmanPhD I agree with you. I believe there should also be a focus on minimally processed, high nutrient density foods.

I think any conversation on this topic is a good one, but I do wince a bit at hearing the focus on organic foods or, for example, promoting the use of real sugar over high-fructose corn syrup. I believe the priority should be to get people to: 1. Control carbohydrates: 70% of our calories come from carbohydrates and most people eat these 6-7 times per day. This creates a scenario where blood glucose and insulin levels are elevated every waking moment. This promotes chronic disease via insulin resistance (and other mechanisms). To put it simply, don't get your food from bags and boxes with barcodes. If you want carbs, focus on whole fruits and vegetables. 2. Prioritize protein: Humans should be eating animal-sourced protein, especially ruminant meat. 3. Don't fear fat: Our fat-phobic culture has us removing very nutritious fats, including from fruits and animals. Any natural fats, including fruits (e.g., olives, coconuts, etc.; not seed oils) and animals should be consumed liberally. Importantly, nature's best proteins come with fats; that's how we should eat them. When we eat protein with fat, we digest the protein better and we experience greater muscle growth. This is an optimal dietary pattern to vastly improving human health. Interestingly, even if we stick to GLP-1, this way of eating increases the GLP-1 response by almost 3X in humans. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39113385/

RFK Jr. Drops "Crazy" Plan to Finally Tackle the Diabetes Epidemic He says you can make "diabetes disappear" for a "tiny fraction" of the cost of putting every obese American on Ozempic. The solution is not loading Americans on pharmaceuticals but giving “every American three meals a day of organic food,” Kennedy says. What a crazy idea! “Diabetes is treatable with food and exercise, and so is obesity,” Kennedy declared. This seems like common sense, but you can imagine the pushback such a proposal would get. Why? Because the medical industries that are supposed to make us healthier “actually make more money if we get sicker.”

How Health Systems World-wide Fail Type 2 Diabetics We identified three shortcomings of health systems in T2DM: (i) failure in early detection; (ii) failure in understanding the actionable lifestyle drivers; and (iii) subsidizing the causes of the disease tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

@LowOxCoach1 I hope you heal fast. NB: I had surgery in 2018 - a 6" scar centered on my elbow. Surgeon was impressed as to how well it healed. I was serious keto before and afterwards.

Can we talk? I had a surgery (due to a mole that tested positive for melanoma) in my calf; the melanoma had penetrated a bit, so it's wasn't good news. The surgery was pretty significant; it was certainly a big excision. (If you've ever had a brush with melanoma, you know they don't take prisoners when they go after it.) But here's the thing: I've been carnivore-ish for about 2-3 years. After the initial biopsy (about 6 weeks before surgery), I got REALLY serious. Just meat, salt water - and my beloved coffee. I have a 4 inch incision in the back of my calf. Do you know I had no pain from it in less than a week? When the stitches were taken out at 11 days post surgery, it looked great! And have really been back to doing anything (including sprinting up the stairs) for probably 2+ weeks? The surgery was a month ago. I honestly think being carnivore has a lot to do with that.

@ValerieAnne1970 While I don't disagree in principle, may I make a suggestion? ADHD is mostly genetic/epigenetic. So it's sugar in a foetus or during (or before) pregnancy - not in a "baby", which can imply after birth. I do agree that keto can improve ADHD symptoms. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC64…

Sugar In A Baby's Brain Is Called ADHD. Sugar In An Adult's Brain Is Called Dementia & Alzheimer's. Sugar In Your Eyes Is Called Glaucoma. Sugar In Your Teeth Is Called Cavities. Sugar On Your Skin Is called Aging. Sugar In Your Sleep Is Called Insomnia. Sugar In Your Blood Is Called Diabetes. Excess Sugar In Your body Is Called Cancer. Know What You Are Putting In Your Body. Detox From Processed Sugars & Become The Healthiest Version Of Yourself.

Glucocentricity “The irrational belief that lowering blood sugar levels using any available pharmacological means will produce a reliable reduction in blood glucose levels which will result in health improvements” youtube.com/watch?v=Ahvijx… @PREKUREOfficial @BioDesignHub

Words of wisdom from Ben! Healing reduces many hormone levels. @PREKUREOfficial @BioDesignHub

It's been a big year for me with many ups and downs. One thing that has really helped is learning GoodJelly.com writing processes with wider applications. Their "Plan for Done 2025" course enrollemts are now open. goodjelly.com/offers/4YFeXfy…

@TempleDietitian Until we get a continuous insulin sensor, a one-off static single fasting insulin doesn't tell us enough - especially if it is under 15 mU/L. Insulin can fluctuate 7 mU/L within minutes due to oscillatory secretion from pancreas and short half-life. mdpi.com/2227-9059/9/7/…

It should be criminal not to pull a fasting insulin and c-peptide at every yearly physical. Just had a PCOS client tell me she was denied a fasting insulin from 3 different endocrinologists. WHY?

Maybe the best way we can take the strain off our healthcare service is to reduce the need for an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. #PreKure #WholeNZ. waikatotimes.co.nz/society/350286…

@pjfoot1859 @CarynZinn @marcushnz @grantsnz @lowcarbGP We have limited access to the GLP1 agonists in NZ because of the global supply issue. Yes, there is an increasing demand for them in NZ, to the extent that the government has had to restrict who gets publicly funded access.

@CarynZinn @marcushnz @grantsnz @lowcarbGP @PharmacistCath Does the increasing promotion and availability of ozempic impact on acceptance of your strategy? The perception. driven by msm and funded by pharma, that it's a relatively quick and easy fix would seem difficult to overcome..

Kicking off medical clinic engagement in our Reverse T2D research using #wholefood, carb reduction in primary care. ⁦@marcushnz⁩ ⁦@grantsnz⁩ ⁦@lowcarbGP⁩ ⁦@PharmacistCath⁩ Check our website for details wholenz.org/research-proje…

Reducing HbA1c from 101 to 43 and deprescribing 65 units of insulin all through therapeutic carbohydrate restriction. Sometimes, the most effective treatment for improving quantity or quality of life isn't medication. #hyperinsulinaemia

Vintage fats may be key to health

@_eleanorina It was a long, hard, but satisfying day. Wish I had the continuous lactate meter. That would be fascinating to have tracked

@PharmacistCath have fun!

Start time minus 14 minutes. Good day at the #TaraweraUltraTrail #zeenya

@lowcarbGP @JeffryGerberMD @grantsnz @CarynZinn @lowcarb_aus @MaxGulhaneMD @anthony_chaffee @drjenunwin Many wonderful people come and visit us. The more the merrier

@JeffryGerberMD @grantsnz @CarynZinn @PharmacistCath @lowcarb_aus @MaxGulhaneMD @anthony_chaffee @drjenunwin It’s a fabulous place Jeff I didn’t know we were walking in your footsteps!!

Here we are New Zealand A 3 day event kick starting a whole food low carbohydrate approach to change the future of people with T2 Diabetes Three professors came !! Inc @grantsnz Prof Paul Worley & Prof Bruce Arroll We agree eat nutrient dense foods that dont put blood glucose up

Studying ketosis in mice only occurs when you feed the mice akin to humans having donuts every day. Nice analogy @I_mitochondria

@JimJohnsonSci @RDValerie I agree

@RDValerie Agree. Love Alicia Keys but the curating of alternate realities is scary.

Interesting thread.

This is a great thread. When an individual twists the narrative and insists our memories are faulty, (when they are not) its called gaslighting. But what about when a big corporation or government distorts memories?

@tennis152 @BenBikmanPhD New school of thought is that they were slow burning, non autoimmune type diabetes, that was misdiagnosed as t2d.

@BenBikmanPhD What about type 2 that becomes type 1?

You've heard of #type2diabetes and #type1diabetes, but have you heard of Double Diabetes? Sometimes called "diabetes 1.5". These are terms to refer to the transition from type 1 diabetes into type 2 diabetes. In other words, a type 1 diabetic becomes insulin resistant. This was the focus of a recent publication (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38341550/). A common theme (sign) of the onset of double diabetes is weight gain and increasing insulin dose. Interestingly, the insulin dose is more than just a feature of the problem--it's causing it (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32312900/). Essentially, the more a person with type 1 diabetes consumes refined starches and sugars to necessitate greater insulin doses to maintain euglycemia, the more the person becomes progressively more insulin resistant (i.e., type 2 diabetes). Indeed, this is where I disagree strongly with the authors in the initial manuscript. Rather than prescribing commonly-used anti-diabetic therapies, like GLP-1 agonists or SGLT2i, just encourage carbohydrate restriction, would lowers the required insulin dose, which leads to improved insulin sensitivity. Simple!