Dr. Ryan Attar

T1 diabetes A1c check: 4.8%

@MatthewModine Wow, such a hero. what an incredible story!

My uncle, Captain Wylder Modine, was a real B-17 "Flying Fortress" pilot during WWII. After returning from a bombing mission, he got hit by anti-aircraft fire and almost had his right arm taken off. He had his crew bail, but his co-pilot was shot up really bad and couldn’t parachute, so my uncle, with one arm, landed the heavily damaged B-17 in a field behind enemy lines. He was awarded the Air Medal and Purple Heart. I talked with him before making MEMPHIS BELLE in 1989. He gave me his dress uniform to wear in the film and said, “when you put that on, don't disrespect it.”

@OTRDoubleYellow Haha.. yup. All fights turn into a grapple after the first few punches

@ryanattar The only thing I knew about wrestling is that after getting into a fight with a kid on the wrestling team was to never do that again. 😂

Every wrestler knows and loves this movie. The peg board scene is legendary. Wrestling shaped me more than anything else growing up. The hard work, brutal practices, and… the weight cutting. Sitting in the cafeteria watching your friends eat while you’ve got a match coming up and you’re still a pound or two over. I didn’t understand at the time this sport was building character in me that would carry me through my life after. When I got diagnosed with T1 diabetes at age 26 and had to completely change how I ate to achieve normal blood sugars. It was hard… but I already knew how to do hard. I had grit. Wrestling taught me that years earlier. Thank you, @MatthewModine!

@drterrysimpson You forgot to remove the quote from your ChatGPT generated AI response

@SomerwilTara @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk I feel bad for their followers. The “fat doesn’t make you fat” mantra that is constantly be chanted by Cywes, Berry, Ovadia, and others are harming folks like the ones sitting in this audience 😬 — x.com/ifixhearts/sta…

@ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk Him and Dr Ovadia the same . If leading by example should be the right message, then I'm sorry, how can one believe in the power of carnivore diet? Not very convincing that is perfect human diet. Oh, by the way, I forgot about Dr Berry latest pictures 😅 👊

🎤 LIVE with Dr. Robert Cywes at Meatstock 2026 🥩 Fresh off the stage after his powerful talk on Understanding Insulin Suppression on a Low-Carb Diet - and the conversations are just getting started! If you missed it, you missed something special… but don’t worry, you can still learn from Dr Cywes inside our Carnivore Training, where he dives even deeper into the science behind insulin, addiction, and metabolic health. Come find us at the stand - we’d love to chat!

@richcollins @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk Totally agree. And folks should be seeking results, and not set on a particular method, as influence push

@ryanattar @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk People should spend more time of the forums and less listening to influencers. Plenty of bias there as well but at least you see a broad sample of experiences.

@richcollins @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk No doubt. Influencers leading conferences like this like Cywes and Ken Berry do not agree with this though. This really harms people.

@ryanattar @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk It depends on the individual. Some need more fat to increase calories out. Some need less. Self experimentation is key.

Do you think these carnivore influencers should keep telling folks “fat doesn’t make you fat”? Or does everyone have their own personal fat or carb threshold which they should be mindful of to stay lean or lose weight? Can some, like yourself, tolerate a lot more than others, like Cywes and the Meatstock audience, tolerate much less?

@ryanattar @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk If you can’t find a lean sample you aren’t really looking. I can think of many but I frequent the discussion groups.

Their influencers constantly chant the mantra “fat doesn’t make you fat” which is just not true and harming them. Sure some folks can tolerate more than others but this is the exception, not the rule. You can’t even get a lean sample of high fat influencers.. Cywes and Ovadia are obese. Ken Berry has a dad bod and beer belly. 🤷‍♂️

@ryanattar @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk I’m sure it’s an unbiased sample 🙄

@richcollins @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk The influencers who “effortlessly lose body fat” eating at excess seem to be outliers.. It seriously doesn’t seem to be working for most in the room..

@ItIsMikeFitz @ryanattar @NutritionNetwrk Question is why he’s eating “excessive calories” on a carnivore diet while others properly self-regulate, including those who possibly eat more kcal/ffm but effortlessly lose body fat.

@richcollins @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk No idea who the other person is, but same idea, she obviously eats the amount of energy her body needs.

@ryanattar @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk I wasn’t talking about Baker

@richcollins @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk Baker is an athlete and eats the amount of fat he needs. Cywes seems to be very sedentary and consumes too much fat. Same goes for what looks like most of this audience x.com/ifixhearts/sta…

@ryanattar @ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk Also on a high fat carnivore diet. Perhaps something more than fat content is at play

@ItIsMikeFitz @NutritionNetwrk Emperor’s New Clothes for the high fat carnivore folks

@NutritionNetwrk If Dr. Cywes doesn't eat any carbs why does he look like he's about 8 months pregnant?

@ItIsMikeFitz It’s probably just short lived RBCs because you aren’t a carnivore.

May 1 2026 Monthly #A1C check: 4.7% Also posting CGM records and my macros for the past 3 months since I'm an open book 😁 #grit #t1d

@SamaHoole This meme I made sums it up..

"Just eat the Mediterranean diet. It's the gold standard." Which Mediterranean, exactly? The Mediterranean is not a country. It's a coastline that touches three continents, twenty-one nations, four major language families, and approximately every climate from desert to alpine. The traditional diets along that coastline have almost nothing in common, and the things they do have in common are not the things the food pyramid is selling you. In Sicily they eat sardines and lamb offal and ricotta made that morning. In Provence they cook everything in duck fat and butter, and the only person eating salad is the tourist who got sunstroke. In Andalusia the highest culinary honour goes to a pig that has spent six months eating acorns under a holm oak, then been cured for three years in a mountain cellar. In Crete the shepherds drink raw goat milk warm from the udder and eat lamb stewed with its own fat in a clay pot over olive wood. In Lebanon the festival meal is whole roast lamb with the kidneys and liver wrapped inside it. In Greece the village feast is goat slaughtered that morning, organs grilled first, the rest stewed for the evening. None of these meals look like a wholegrain pasta primavera with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil. The "Mediterranean diet" you've been sold was constructed in 1958 by an American researcher who visited Crete during Lent, recorded what people were eating during a forty-day religious fast, and presented it as the year-round national diet. It is the dietary equivalent of visiting Britain on Good Friday and concluding that the British live exclusively on hot cross buns. The actual Mediterranean diet was always animal fat, organ meats, cured pork, hard cheese, and whatever could be slaughtered for the saint's day. The version on the food pyramid is what poor people ate when they couldn't afford the real one.

@_totalpain_ Yeah, just noticed that Diabetes Daily is no more. I have a copy of the article and plan to host it on my site in the near future.

10 years ago, I had the honor of shadowing Dr. Bernstein at his office. It was an incredible experience that still impacts the management of my own T1 diabetes and that of my patients today. Read about my time with Dr. B in this article I wrote back then diabetesdaily.com/blog/2014/08/3…

Can someone let Terry know that I miss him? He has a lovely face.

@ChrisVMDHealth @grok I thought so too! It looks off..and the detector says….

@drterrysimpson @Grok why does this look like AI?

Well as a physician and GLP-1 user (zepbound) I guess my "ozempic" face is horrific eh?

@adamcarolla I’m sure @VinnieTortorich would love these too!

@adamcarolla @adamcarolla Noodle Revolution or any egg white based noodle. Great taste and consistency like a real noodle. What I like the most, it’s all protein too💪since it’s made from egg whites. This same company has a “rice” too. amzn.to/4e4NlbR

What’s the best low carb pasta