Susan wrote:

It's never just ONE hormone, they all readjust to compensate for each
other, but with a pituitary or adrenal tumor secreting excess ACTH and
cortisol, there's no predictability or rhyme or reason for the hormonal
secretion patterns.

The problem with focusing on insulin is that there is no such thing as
just one hormone; the endocrine system is incredibly complex and
operates on feedback loops that change everything else in the system.
It's not about just insulin or just cortisol or just thyroid or just
estrogen/progesterone imbalance... it's all one system and you can't
change any individual bit of it without changing ALL of it. There is no
simplistic cause-and-effect in the endocrine system; everything is a
cause and everything is an effect and it goes on like that, wheels
within wheels.

My understanding is that Taubes book is primarily a review of the stuff
we've known for a long time about carb, fat, insulin and glucagon; it
sounds like it's primarily just a typical explanation of low-carb,
though much more well-organized than most. No one posting about it has
said anything unfamiliar or new yet. But I'm not into it very far yet,
so don't know if there will be more useful info or not.

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