Big Pharma Sells Risky Meds We Don’t Need for Disorders It Made Up That We Don’t Have

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125. Our understanding of diabetes has improved significantly since 1997.

Including knowledge of the threshold at which consumption of high fructose corn syrup, among the other dietary culprits, becomes deleterious to insulin secretion, and glucose absorption.

For example, we didn't know until relatively recently that high fructose corn syrup supresses the secretion of a hormone called leptin. When we eat, our stomachs stretch, and when they do, they activate what are called stretch receptors. And these stretch receptors secret a hormone called leptin, which travels from our stomachs to our brains, and tells our brains: "Stop eating. We're full." So HFCS suppresses the secretion of this hormone, so we keep eating and eating and eating because we don't feel full.

Increased fatty tissue in the abdomen leads to the secretion of another hormone called resistin. It's called that because it creates resistance to insulin in what are called the target cells, the cells that burn sugar for energy. Insulin is the hormone that gets glucose out of the bloodstream and into the target cells, where it is burned up. And insulin resistance is all that Type II Diabetes is.

When our knowledge of a disease changes, the medical community makes the changes necessary to being able to diagnose and treat it appropriately.

Granted, it's easier to blame corporations for a massive conspiracy than it is to make some significant lifestyle changes on one's own. So the paragraphs above represent a significant portion of the patient education I do every single day in clinic.