Meat the Facts: Red Meat Causes Diabetes?

Two major papers have recently made headlines, claiming a link between red meat intake and Type 2 Diabetes. The media has been grilling the story, cooking up conflict and confusion. In this video, I break down the serious limitations in those studies and explain why giving up red meat to prevent diabetes is not a fruitful endeavor.

Paper 1: Wang et al. Integration of epidemiological and blood biomarker analysis links haem iron intake to increased type 2 diabetes risk. Nature Metabolism; August 2024.

Paper 2: Li et al. Meat consumption and incident type 2 diabetes: an individual-participant federated meta-analysis of 1·97 million adults with 100 000 incident cases from 31 cohorts in 20 countries. Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology; Sept 2024.

Carnivore Diet for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Chapters
0:00 – Red Meat Linked to Type 2 Diabetes?
1:09 – Paper 1: Heme Iron and Diabetes
2:50 – Is this Relevant to You?
4:08 – Summary of Paper 1
5:00 – Paper 2: Meta-Analysis of 31 Cohorts
8:14 – Summary of Paper 2
9:38 – Why do I care?
10:53 – Carnivore diet for Inflammatory Bowel Disease

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[chargermopar]

If red meat caused diabetes Shawn Baker would have been in a coma years ago!

[InTheWrongTimeline]

They sure didn't go to India, where type 2 diabetes is crazy high, but heme iron consumption is generally zero.

[wcneathery]

"Sweets and desserts, French Fries and refined grains" absolutely had nothing to do with causing diabetes 😅

[Baabaabelle]

Mainstream media is full of lies. Dr Ben Bikman explains insulin the best imo.

[werquantum]

You possess the rare skill of clarity of explanation. Tough to do for the highly intelligent and highly educated. Thank you.

[TOMGARVEYtheKETOCOOK]

So, first thing I would look for is who's funding the study, also what type of diet they were eating! As a type 2 diabetic, the standard American diet caused most of my problems! Keto low carb lifestyle saved me.

[drscott]

5 years carnivore diet my H-A1c has dropped like a rock, my fasting insulin level and glucose looks perfect

[stephencarlson]

Headlines with words like could, may, and might before the causal statement, might as well say could not, may not, might not.

[KatieZeldin]

I remember a study in which sandwiches and lasagnas were defined as meat. We need to triple check every word in
these studies, we're dealing with con men here.

[cdinaz]

I see these headlines and roll my eyes. I watch Nick's vids because he's an objective subject matter expert that takes the time to unpack the studies so that I can feel justified in rolling my eyes.

[XaqNautilus]

I sincerely believe we need a scientific paper grading website. So many scientific papers should be given an "F" and considered irrelevant or worse: abject propaganda.

[mattyb]

My uncle had diabetes for 18+ years. Nothing docs did helped.... it was gone within 2 weeks of carnivore diet.

[lauraon]

It's so scary to read these headlines. When I eat vegetables - even though I love them - I get so sick. Thanks for another helpful video!

[robmorgan]

I used to be a type 2 diabetic. Going carnivore reversed that condition. Carbohydrates and sugar is the enemy not meat

[MK-ftqt]

I've found that lower carb intake drastically reduces triglycerides even when I eat high amounts of meat.

Studies also show that smokers tend to eat the Standard American Diet and drink alchohol.

[mariosmusik]

I'm happy I found your channel. There are so many, often contradicting recommendations for what is a healthy diet. Like it's "well known" that red meat is unhealthy.

Since I once wanted to make the perfect nutrition plan for me and stumbled across totally different recommendations for macros and micro nutrients even from governmental organisations of different countrys, I took it easy and fokus on enough protein, an adequate amount of calories and try to eat not so much sugar, but more fruits and vegetables.
Not caring to much about specific foods wich are said to be super helthy or unhealthy

[Illbebacc]

My mom recommended this channel to me yesterday and I'm super thankful she did! New subscriber for sure!

[divadyrdnal]

There is a link, eating meat and cutting out carbs fixed my diabetes!

[chamuuemura]

In Japan diabetes translates to “urine sugar disease”. It’s always been known that “sweet desserts and refined grains” would have more to do with diabetes than any meat consumption. Diabetes was always rare when refined foods were rare but has scaled up with consumption of refined foods. For the record, red meat has always been treasured, but historically just too expensive to be common food.

[michellesummers]

"Muddy the metabolic waters." Love it ❤😂 You make the technical stuff fun and interesting, and that says a lot!! Thanks for what you do! You have helped me greatly!