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[PoePoePoed]

my dad got diabetes from a tumor on his pancreas. anytime id mention that my dad is type 2, people would go "oh, because he had so much sugar?" and i have to tell them no, he had an infection so bad that it spiked his blood sugar into the 800s for weeks and destroyed his insulin production 🙄

[AmyOfEarth]

Thanks for pointing out that there is more to Type 2 diabetes than eating too much sugar… And also Type 1 diabetes is autoimmune so definitely not due to sugar consumption.

[catT]

Also with the coffee cortisol thing, your cortisol naturally spikes in the morning - it's literally how you wake up.

[marciadafne]

The alkaline water is one I’ve never thought made sense. Haven’t they heard about homeostasis?

[wendymuhr]

I tried a nutritionist who absolutely would not hear me out when I said I didn’t have a gluten intolerance. I also had an endoscopy which confirmed no celiac etc. Still insisted it would cure everything that ails me. Tried it for 8 weeks!! I even stayed at the calorie level she gave me (which was nearly impossible given that a lot of gluten free products are much higher in calories) and I gained 10 pounds, still had IBS flare ups, fatigue, severe nausea etc. 😤 She shut up real quick. GF is so necessary for a lot of people, but not everyone.

[bodyofhope]

I completely agree, especially with the GF swaps. I'm intolerant, and the GF swaps are often so highly processed and made with a laundry list of ingredients, not to mention 3x the cost of the original wheat products. If you're able to process wheat, then do it.
Go for something like Ezekiel bread or whole grain if you want your bread to be more healthy. But GF isn't necessarily healthier unless Gluten is legitimately f-ing you up.

[evelynlh]

Ok, but as a Canadian fake maple syrup is a crime against humanity

[punjabiqt]

The coffee and cortisol one will rile them up the most lol

[DramaGeek]

I don't believe drinking coffee on an empty stomach would make me gain weight, but it would definitely make me feel sick. I can't handle acidic drinks without food first. I hate the taste of coffee so it's not too much of an issue for me, but I have made myself sick by drinking black tea on an empty stomach.

[slothbearsrule]

Thank you for the diabetes comment! I'm type 1, so def not sugar, my immune system just hated my beta cells. And type 2 (as well as the myriad of other types) are not caused by just eating a sugary meal! So nice to see someone who knows!

[PrincessMicrowave]

Yeah the honey and maple syrup one is so important to understand. Those things are about 100x more expensive than white sugar, and I went through a phase where I would only use those to sweeten my baking. Just spent a lot of money for no reason.

[gypsymoth]

The number of times someone has found out I have t1 diabetes and said “so you used to be really heavy/ eat a lot of sugar?”

No, I was a malnourished ten year old who wasn’t even allowed to drink soda when I was diagnosed.

Thank you 😊

[eveduffy]

Thank you for talking about gf foods, as a coeliac I get so so pissed off at people ‘eating gluten free’ for health when they don’t need too and gluten isn’t bad (unless you cannot eat it!). It makes eating gf so difficult in the UK as-well when people say it’s gf but it’s not suitable for coeliacs due to cross contamination and the way it’s cooked!

[just_sadhana]

Please make a more detailed video on diabetes, pre-diabetes and insulin resistance.

[lianagheorma]

My mom is now obsessed with switching to a gluten free diet even though she doesn't have celiac. I can't convince her it's not healthier than regular grains.

[hcure]

I definitely agree about the diabetes point-- it's so much more complicated for diabetes/insulin resistance. Usually a combo of things. Like an extremely sedentary lifestyle, poor sleep, gut disbyosis/ poor microbiome, uncontrolled stress (anxiety, ptsd), hormones, and untreated infections (like parasites, candida etc), even some medications. I haven't knowingly developed diabetes yet, but I have developed blood sugar issues-- it all started when I starved myself for so long to where my blood sugar got so low that I would start to pass out. Now I have blood sugar issues (AND hormonal issues, thyroid) and carbs spike my blood sugar and cause me symptoms, so now here I am trying to reverse my blood sugar issues (I was told I'm hypoglycemic, but it's been going on for a year now. I'm at a point where I can't tolerate any carbs, otherwise I have seriously painful flare-ups. Carbs also make me feel possessed and insane like a fcking demon takes over and wants to scream and break everything). Lmao. I'm not even kidding it's how they make me feel. My life is not fun right now

[lenakix]

As a medically doctor I love your myth videos! Thanks for clearing some things up. Especially the „healthy“ sugar and the gluten free part.

[angelinawhatsherface]

Gluten sensitive person here! Thank you for clearing that up! Ive been saying that for years. Gluten free bread and baked goods especially isnt healthier, is outrageously expensive, and tastes worse, so just enjoy gluten if you can!

[janettebiggs]

I am so grateful to have the nutritionist I have. She turned me into intuitive eating. Down 25 since April. Have a lot of work to do still but am working on changing my outlook on food and why I eat it and when. There is a lot of psychology that goes into our eating patterns which gets overlooked so much of the time.

[meythefirst]

Have you done, or could you do, a video about T2 Diabetes?