So I've been doing some work on this article out of Diabetes Care in March of
'08. It's a very interesting article. What they looked at is accelerated beta
cell function. You know that those beta cells are what
creates insulin
and they use Homa-IR. It's an interesting tests and I've got some
challenges with it but it's very interesting. One of the things they said
at the end, a side note: "Finally, aging per se has no effect on
insulin sensitivity independent of changes in body composition." What they
were talking about was they tended to see more of a challenge as people aged
with loss of muscle mass and that tended to create the correlation in insulin
resistance, insulin sensitivity. As I said, I've got concerns about Homa-IR just as
a technique. We'll talk about those later. In fact, we'll talk about all of this
later other than to just make one point. It does underline the importance of
muscle mass as we grow older. Big muscle mass is a big big deal. But that's
actually not what this video is about. This video is about a gift I got from
from one of my clients, patients. It's Enlightened Keto Collection
popsicles. It's ice cream popsicles, one gram of net carbs. And this is not a
commercial for them. It's a point about a couple of things. One is you send me this
and it's really good and here's one of the reasons why. Erythritol is what they
use for sweetener. Erythritol is an expensive sweetener. It's got a lot of
advantages, one of them being the taste is so much better than than the other
sweeteners. It doesn't have a better taste, etc. You don't see it very often. If
you're not aware of it, you should be. After he sent it and I
acknowledged and thanked the patient, he said, you know what, it was after I sent
that I found out that you've struggled with a sweet addiction your whole life.
And yes, I have. I've used a lot of different non-nutritive sweeteners. I
know that I've reviewed the statistics on it. I know the some of the
linkages with insulin resistance, linkages with changes in the gut
biome, etc. I'm not going to get into that today either. What I am going to mention
is something I've done a couple of videos on and that is Gymnema. What I
told the patient was, you know what, I have been struggling with all my life,
62 years really focused you know on addiction to sweet taste, stimulation of
those sweet taste buds in the back of your tongue in your mouth,
what's variant, and I won't get into all the different craving things
that you have. But what has been very interesting was I started taking Gymnema,
gosh, a couple of months ago and I have made more progress in the
past two months on my sweet addiction than I ever have in that whole
62 years. And I tried a whole lot of things, including going cold turkey. I've
got a couple of videos on it. Gymnema has been known for a long time,
it just used what at least a thousand years ago,
I mean ancient Ayurvedic medicine. So in the ancient Ayurvedic, "gymnema,"
sugar buster. So I got this a few weeks ago and unlike any time prior to
the present, these things wouldn't have lasted very long. I would have eaten
them pretty quickly but the cravings for sweet so much anymore. And I think more
of it than anything else has to do with putting gymnema powder in my morning
coffee. So this is a tribute to OAG (Old Alabama Gardener). He'd always made
something. He always finishes his video making something that's grown in his
garden. And he takes a bite, and he says, "I wish I could share it with you." Thank you
for your interest.
The Louisville event was an incredible success. Many people didn't know that
that was our first attempt to coordinate the whole thing ourselves. And it was
better than we had hoped. A lot of focus and people saying, you know what, I
know that we can deal with this together as a group. There are other people that
I'm meeting here at this event that are doing the same things I'm doing and with
success I don't have to be a doctor to know all this stuff. We are going to go
ahead and have another one on February 28th in the Hyatt Regency Grand
Cypress in Orlando.