"Jackie Patti" wrote in message
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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.


I think the reason Taubes focuses on insulin is that's where most fo the
research has been done at the time of his work. It probably catches a good %
of the T2DM & obese out there, but certainly not all.

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.

I think his book is more about how we've come to this point of
understanding...with "researchers" having tunnel vision and all...not seeing
(or trying to see) the full picture and blindly slaving (or getting rich) at
finding prove for what they want to believe.
Well, at least in the first chapter....

It may well be that from time to time the medical research needs to be
reviewed by objective external reviewer team. Heck, if Taubes can do it
than those with more formal and current research backgrounds can do so too.