Treating Diabetes with a High-Fat Low-Carb Diet… in the 1700’s?

Did you know that doctors were treating diabetic patients with high-fat low-carb diets all the way back in the 1700s?

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.

Gary Taubes is an award-winning investigative science and health journalist and bestselling author of “Why We Get Fat” and “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” as well as his new book “Rethinking Diabetes.” Gary has dedicated his work to dismantling conventional nutritional theory with his research lectures and books. Learn more from Gary Taubes by subscribing to his Substack: https://unsettledscience.substack.com/

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