Lies I Taught in Medical School Quotes

“we have an involved test called an oral glucose tolerance test with insulin levels. This involves measuring your fasting blood glucose and insulin levels, then drinking a syrupy solution, waiting, and taking additional blood glucose and insulin measurements hours later.133 This is what’s required to detect abnormal insulin dynamics and is rarely done.”
― Robert Lufkin, Lies I Taught in Medical School: How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life

“The important question is this: Do artificial sweeteners increase insulin levels? Sucralose raises insulin by 20 percent, despite the fact that it contains no calories and no sugar. This insulin-raising effect has also been shown for other artificial sweeteners, including the “natural” sweetener stevia. Despite having a minimal effect on blood sugars, both aspartame and stevia raised insulin levels higher even than table sugar. Artificial sweeteners that raise insulin should be expected to be harmful, not beneficial. Artificial sweeteners may decrease calories and sugar, but not insulin. Yet it is insulin that drives weight gain and diabetes.92”
― Robert Lufkin, Lies I Taught in Medical School: How Conventional Medicine Is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life