Why We Get Sick?
Truth & Dogma
The key to avoid chronic illnesses, especially type 2 diabetes, is to eat and behave in line with human evolution.
In the last fifty thousand years, a maximum of 2% of our genes have changed, whereas our diet has changed insanely, consisting of refined carbohydrates, high fructose corn syrup, sugar, trans fat, and an endless list of junk foods. While the "health" care system became a multitrillion-dollar industry and despite billions of dollars pouring into medical research, diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular, and neurodegenerative diseases reached a mind-blowing epidemic dimension. Why? Mainly because of two reasons.
1. Plain wrong dietary guidelines that are based on flawed nutritional advice – namely, to minimize protein and saturated fat intake and increase carbohydrate up to 65% of total daily calories. The obesity epidemic started exactly after “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” was published in 1980. According to a report released on April 4, 2023, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
37.3 million Americans, about 1 in 10, have diabetes.
About 1 in 5 people with diabetes don’t know they have it.
96 million American adults—more than 1 in 3—have prediabetes.
More than 8 in 10 adults with prediabetes don’t know they have it.
For people aged 10 to 19 years, new cases of type 2 diabetes increased.
39% had chronic kidney disease, and 12% reported having vision impairment or blindness.
69% had high blood pressure.
2. The current medical system is organized to diagnose the disease and suppress the symptoms with drugs. It has no intention to identify and heal the root cause, which lies in our unhealthy diet and lifestyle.
By communicating the genuine science about the underlying cause of diseases, we enable people to heal themselves through a diet and lifestyle intervention almost independent of medication. This is what functional medicine does successfully.
There are a lot of medical and nutritional myths, promoted by mainstream media and the conventional medical establishment, engrained in the minds of the masses as truth. The diseases are just only suppressed by medication, without addressing and treating the root cause, until the patients die of being too fat and sick. The minds of people are hijacked by “good cholesterol” and “bad cholesterol”. The people are kept in ignorance and deception by the spread of false information. When you google, over 90% of the hits are “eat-vegetables-exercise-more” copy-paste.
MEAT & HUMAN EVOLUTION
We are not evolutionarily adapted to our current environmental conditions. This disproportion is the root cause of all chronic diseases. Our physiology, metabolism, and genetic material have developed over the course of 2.6 million years of human evolution, while the agricultural revolution was only about 8 thousand years ago. The result is that over 98% of our genes still behave as they did during the generations of our ancestors before the agricultural revolution. Our metabolism still runs optimally and most efficiently on saturated fat, as it did during hunter-gatherer times.
The changes are by far faster than our genes and metabolism can ever adapt. Since our diet and lifestyle are very foreign to our bodies, they are facing a constant hormonal disorder. Over the course of 2.6 million years of evolution, our ancestors went hunting, ate animals, and had to fast until the next hunt. That is why we exist. That is the reason our brain is this size. The good news is that we can easily mimic this with a low-carb, high-protein, high-fat diet combined with intermittent fasting.
Knowledge of early human evolution and data from recent studies of hunter-gatherer societies suggest that humans evolved in environments where they intermittently experienced extended time periods with little or no food. During 2.6 million years of evolution, our ancestors went hunting, ate animals, and had no food until the next hunt. On the other hand, we have used sugar as a source of energy since the agricultural revolution. The conclusion is that our body is specifically designed to use fat for energy. With a low-carb, animal-based diet combined with intermittent fasting you are putting the body in its evolutionary setting. This is the secret of healthy aging.
Intermittent fasting is backed by a ton of scientific evidence. A growing body of research suggests that intermittent fasting is a more realistic, sustainable, and effective approach for weight loss, as well as for diabetes prevention. By intermittent fasting, you switch the source of energy from sugar to fat.
Here I quote from “Strong Medicine,” written in 1962 by Dr. Blake F. Donaldson, MD. An amazing read!
“Continuous success in any line of endeavor, including weight reduction, demands rigid adherence to biological laws. […] During the millions of years that our ancestors lived by hunting, every weakling who could not maintain perfect health on fresh fat meat and water was bred out. There are probably only two perfect foods, fresh fat meat and clean water. People have only been eating junk for eight thousand years, and that is a fleabite in evolution. […] Sugar and carbohydrate stimulate the pancreas to secrete large amounts of insulin. And insulin induces the conversion of sugar into fat. Insulin not only stores the sugar as fat, but it also inhibits the breakdown of fat. Therefore, the key to weight loss is this: Keep the insulin level low. To gain strength as you lose weight, and not be hungry, is a real trick. You will have to eat a large amount of fresh fat meat to burn off your fat. You will be allowed nothing with it but a demitasse of black coffee. In my own experience only about four in a hundred of the insulin-taking diabetics seen in the office need to have insulin continued. The rest just requires normal food and normal weight.”
