so I wrote about it in the diabetes code which was about how you could actually reverse type two diabetes and that that got published in 2018 it wasn't until 2021 that the American Diabetes Association finally said that it's a disease that can be reversed there's criteria for remission it's a reversible disease it's like goodness it took you know you know all this time and me calling it the biggest lie in type 2 diabetes for them to finally admit what was pretty obvious to anybody who would think about it like I don't think anybody really thought about it for for a long time or if they did they they simply went with a consensus which is again slightly horrifying to me so if you eat say uh that food the insulin is going to go up and insulin is a hormone it's a natural hormone everybody says I'm trying to demonize it I'm not it's a natural hormone but the issue is that if it's too high it's bad if it's too low it's bad and that's no different than any other hormone thyroid ormo if it's too high it's bad if it's too low it's bad I'm not saying that thyroid armone is bad for you but you want to have it in the normal range so insulin's job it has many jobs but one of its jobs is to tell you to store energy and this is a survival mechanism obviously so in if you're you know a caveman or cave woman and food is scarce and stuff so when you eat you want to be able to store some of that your body will store that in the form of body fat it's a store of calories of no more and no less but it's regulated that is the the hormones tell you when to put it in and when to take it out so when insulin goes up you simply you you you simply tell your body that you want to take the calories that you're eating right now and you want to store some of it away for future use which is smart right um and it turns off fat burning and it turns off sugar burning so you know your body has two sources of energy GL glucose which is sugar and fat okay so you can store sugar in the form of glycogen in the liver and you can store fat in the form of body fat when insulin goes up what happens is that you stop burning glucose and you stop burning fat so insulin inhibits lipolysis which is the breakdown of fat and it inhibits uh it's it inhibits glyco glycolysis which is um the glycogenolysis sorry which is the breaking down of glycogen so you basically stop burning sugar you stop burning fat and you store it right so that's that's sensible if you're eating it then you don't want to use your stores you want it because you're putting it in not taking it out so essentially when you're eating you're storing calories that's what insulin is telling you to do if if if the food that you eat shoots your insulin way up high you're going to store more of it if your insulin goes down only then can you actually burn those sugar and fat which are those stores of calories because when insulin goes down your body senses okay so I'm not getting food anymore so I have no source of energy coming in I need to use my own stores of energy and and and burn it right so not difficult when you eat insulin goes up you store energy when insulin is down which happens when you don't eat then that's when you burn calories in the form of sugar or fat so therefore if you really want to burn fat you simply cannot have insulin way high like because you're fighting yourself all the time so even if you cut your calories but you keep your insulin levels very high you can't burn those calories so what happens so say you eat 2,000 calories normally you burn 2,000 calories now you drop it to, 1500 calories going in but you keep insulin levels very high because you're eating you know very high carboh Foods you're stacking all the time you're eating all the time well if you're only taking in 1500 but you you can't burn sugar you can't burn your stores of fat what's going to happen well the only way you can balance this equation and 1500 going in and 2,000 going out is for you to drop how much you burn from 2,000 to 1500 so people talk about this because it's this metabolic rate which is how much energy you're burning now has gone down and happens with dieting because you haven't watched what's happening with with your hormones because you've kept the insulin too high now you use something like it fasting for example where you allow insulin levels to fall as you allow insulin levels to fall you take away this block to fat burning and sugar burning so now suppose you eat 1500 calories because you dropped one meal however because you allow your insulin levels to fall you can take 500 calories out of your fat stores so you've got 1,500 in food you got 500 from your body fat stores so you don't have to drop your your your your the energy expend the 2,000 calories so therefore that's exactly what you want to happen e