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YouTubeAn excellent 11-min video worth watching! Fast paced, information rich, big picture video. He outlines the 'ectopic fat theory' of diabetes. Essentially, the accumulation of fats in non-fat cells in various parts of our body like muscles, liver and pancreas leads to various stages of diabetes. Later, our eyes, nerves and limbs start deteriorating.
This video is best suited for medical professionals and researchers. However, the big picture can be grasped by lay persons too. The big picture is that diabetes is essentially a fat-centric disease, and that we must eat a low fat diet to tackle it. Worth watching!
Dr Rogers refers to the Banting Lecture 2004 by Michael Brownlee as the best publication ever on diabetes: The Pathobiology of Diabetic Complications: A Unifying Mechanism. [I couldn't find a recording on YouTube; if you do, please share]
A super technical video that explains how too much fat inside our cells leads to glucose overload in our blood.
A fast-paced, information rich video that explains the gist of the matter: if we eat high fat foods, our blood sugar levels rise and stay high for many hours. What to do? Eat low fat meals. In WFPB circles, doctors usualy target 10% to 12% total fat intake. Dr Peter Rogers argues that we should aim for even lower: something like 5%, just like Drs Kempner (3% fats) and Dr McDougall (7% fats).
Previous version: here (30 mins, 2022).
Dr Peter Rogers gave this 2-hr lecture on Chef AJ Youtube channel. Full of information! It combines insights from several other videos into one compact and cohesive presentation.
Dr Rogers explains that all of these conditions are inter-related and influenced by the food we eat.
[Great Video!] Is diabetes & hypertension related to dementia? An insightful presentation by Dr Peter Rogers.
Key idea: capillary wall thickening ("capillary basement membrane" in particular; such thickening is a common feature of diabetes and hypertension due to scarring and inflammation of capillaries) → reduced oxygen supply to cellular structures (neurons, for example) → neuron death → cognitive impairment (dementia).
[The situation is exacerbated by factors like rouleaux formation of RBCs ('blood sludge effect' due to high fat meals), vasoconstriction due to excess sodium (and low potassium, low magnesium), and ramping up of neuronal metabolic demand due to excitotoxins (found in processed foods with MSG, MfG and so on). All of these concepts are explained in detail in other videos by Dr Peter Rogers.]
What to do? Take diabetes and hypertension very seriously (before we become cognitively so impaired that it's too late to take any action): adopt Low Fat, Low Sodium WFPB guidelines diligently. Avoid processed foods.
(1) What causes diabetes? (2) How may we reverse it? Is it possible that the vast majority of doctors (including endocrinologists) don't actually have a good understanding of (1) and (2)? In the video below, Dr Peter Rogers shares his personal story, and his frustration and anguish with endocrinologists (doctors who are expected to know the most about diabetes).
As a neuroradiologist, Dr Peter Rogers sees "tons of diabetes, hypertension and cerebrovascular disorders". That motivated him to study, 'what exactly is diabetes?'
Step 1: Dr Peter Rogers re-read the standard medical textbooks on the subject - he didn't learn much (beyond what he already knew from medical school).
Step 2: He then read the works of Kempner (1930s-1950s), Pritikin (1970s-1980s), McDougall (1980s-), Barnard (1990s-), Roy Taylor, … and learnt a lot! Through adoption of WFPB guidelines, Type 2 diabetes can actually be reversed in the vast majority of patients! That's a medical miracle!
Step 3: He did a deep dive into research papers by Brownlee & Shulman. And books and research papers by several other researchers and doctors: Sweeney, Himsworth, Rabinowitch, Sloop, Richard Moore, and more.
Brownlee and Shulman are not obscure scientists. They are contemporary, mainstream scientists who have been invited for the prestigious Banting Lecture in 2004, and 2018, respectively.
[What is a Banting Lecture? Given by the person who's awarded the Banting Medal, which is awarded annually to honor highly meritorious career achievement in the field of diabetes research. The name of the award refers to Canadian physician Sir Frederick Banting, who was a seminal scientist, doctor and Nobel laureate for the co-discovery of insulin. The lectures are currently hosted by the American Diabetes Association.]
The writings of these researchers and doctors explain the root cause of diabetes. Put together, they corroborate & underscore the WFPB approach for Type 2 Diabetes reversal.
Step 4: Dr Peter Rogers wanted to know more from endocrinologists. A meeting with top endocrinologists was disappointing -- they hadn't read any of these research papers and books, and were not interested in veganism. Duh!
Summary: All this knowledge about reversal of Type 2 Diabetes via WFPB guidelines is out there in myriad medical research papers and books, yet the vast majority of doctors and endocrinologists today are not familiar with it.
Dr Peter Rogers summarizes his personal quest for learning about diabetes, and who knows what in medical circles.
In this video, Dr Peter Rogers helps us understand why the vast majority of doctors don't read the latest research papers or do their own research into medical subjects after they get a license to practice. Video summary by Dr Peter Rogers:
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