Hey folks this is able James and thanks so much for joining us on the show.

Did you know that doctors were treating diabetic patients with high-fat low-carb diets

all the way back in the 1700s.

Until the discovery of insulin in the 1920s,

diabetes was largely treated and managed with dietary intervention

using high-fat meats and fibrous veggies then called the animal diet.

Though high-fat ketogenic diets were found to effectively treat diabetes for over a

century, they were largely abandoned due to the rapid adoption of insulin in the 1920s,

which was considered then to be a miracle cure.

Prioritizing drugs over lifestyle with insulin therapy, however, led to unexpected long-term complications

in patients, including damage to large and small blood vessels that results in heart disease,

strokes, kidney damage, neuropathy, amputations, blindness,

dementia, and a decrease in life expectancy.

Now more than a century after the discovery of insulin, despite all advances in modern science and medicine,

blood sugar control at the population level is getting worse.

Once a rare condition, diabetes is now so common that drugstores dedicate entire aisles to it.

One in every four dollars spent in American health care goes to diabetic patients

with over $300 billion in direct costs every year.

The diabetes story is a metaphor of the rapid adoption of a wonder drug without knowing the

long-term consequences. And in an age when

Hollywood influencers and the media are touting the seemingly miraculous benefits

of our latest weight-loss wonder drugs at GLP Agonists like Ozempeck, it's worth examining the long-term

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