The Low Carb Myth: Free Yourself from Carb Myths, and Discover the Secret Keys That Really Determine Your Health and Fat Loss Destiny by Ari Whitten & Dr. Wade Smith

Author:Ari Whitten & Dr. Wade Smith [Whitten, Ari]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archangel Ink
Published: 2015-09-06T18:30:00+00:00

9. Smoking tobacco

10. High-heat cooking

11. Excessive physical or psychological stress” 281

Did you notice anything conspicuously absent from that list? Carbohydrates!

If carbohydrates or sugars were the primary cause of insulin resistance (or even a cause), such a link would be incredibly easy to demonstrate in scientific research. Yet, the studies that have been done on this subject clearly show that this is not the case.

Neither a high-carbohydrate diet nor a high-sugar diet even make it into the top eleven causes of insulin resistance. That’s a fairly noteworthy fact considering the number of popular health gurus who are telling people that diabetes is “caused by eating too many sugars and bad carbs” or “insulin resistance is caused by anything that increases insulin.”

By far, the single most important cause of insulin resistance is Guyenet’s #1—cellular energy excess.

What does that mean? Well, in simple terms, it means chronic overconsumption of calories.

This chronic overconsumption of calories is itself highly toxic to the cells. Nutrients in the bloodstream are meant to be kept within a narrow range, and if they get either too low or too high, it can damage the health of the cells. Thus, when there is a chronic excess of nutrients in the blood, it is toxic to the cells.

If you understand physiology fairly well, you might be asking, “But isn’t this the reason we have body fat—when there is an excess of nutrients in the blood, the excess will be converted into triglycerides and stored as body fat, thus allowing nutrients in the blood to be kept in their optimal ranges?”

And this is indeed true! The problem is that when there is a chronic overconsumption of calories and a significant increase in body fatness (i.e., the person becomes overweight or obese), the body becomes less efficient at mopping up the excess of nutrients by shuttling them into body fat stores, and the result is chronically elevated levels of nutrients floating around in the blood.

If the cells were in their normal state of letting nutrients into the cell with ease, they would quickly be flooded with nutrients and would become toxic. So the cells actually respond to this chronic overabundance of nutrients in the blood by going into an intelligent and adaptive insulin resistance—they are trying to protect themselves from the toxicity of the overabundance of nutrients (fats and glucose) in the blood by becoming insulin resistant and taking in less of those nutrients. (Note: This is true more so with glucose because of down-regulating the GLUT4 glucose transporters, but the problem is the cells can’t really prevent the fatty acids from entering as these are soluble in cell membranes and can pass through them, and thus do build up in the cells. This is actually what led Neal Barnard, MD, to theorize that buildup of intramyocellular lipid is the fundamental cause of insulin resistance, which is likely why he believed—incorrectly—that the cause is dietary fat consumption, and the only solution is to eat a low-fat vegetarian diet.)

Insulin resistance is an intelligent and adaptive response (i.

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