Everyday Wellness: Midlife Hormones, Health, and Science for Women 35+ BONUS: Rethinking Diabetes: Treatment and Management in the Modern Era with Gary Taubes
Oct 20, 2025
Gary Taubes, an investigative journalist and author behind 'Rethinking Diabetes,' dives deep into the complexities of diabetes management. He discusses the staggering costs tied to diabetes care and critiques the limitations of current treatment paradigms. Gary highlights how the arrival of insulin shifted dietary advice and questions whether patients truly receive informed choices about newer drugs like GLP-1s. He also shares compelling stories of how low-carb diets have challenged traditional practices, urging a reevaluation of entrenched medical assumptions.
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Drug-Centered Diabetes Care Became Default
- Diabetes care assumed patients could eat carbs and be 'covered' by drugs, which became the default approach.
- This assumption was never properly tested and shaped decades of treatment choices.
How Insulin Shifted Dietary Practice
- Before insulin, physicians used high-fat, low-carb 'animal' diets and kept patients alive.
- After insulin's discovery, doctors fed carbs to avoid insulin shock and shifted to 'free diet' practices.
Miracle Cure Exposed Long-Term Harms
- Insulin therapy improved short-term survival but revealed long-term complications decades later.
- Physicians sought better drugs rather than reexamining dietary causes of complications.
