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I have no legal training so this an uninformed opinion. The clearest evidence for malpractice is the continuing treatment of type 2 diabetes with high carbohydrate diets. We now know that that this is absolutely wrong and harmful to the patient since it is the high carbohydrate diet (not the underlying insulin resistance) that causes the long term complications in type 2 diabetes. Looking back one can see that the discovery of insulin was the problem as it allowed the prescription of higher carbohydrate diets to both type 1 and type 2 diabetics at the very moment when Newburgh in Ann Arbor was about to prove (in early 1920s) that a high fat diet could reverse the metabolic abnormalities in persons with type 2 diabetes. Analysis of some of his papers suggest that he had indeed "reversed" the disease in at least some of his type 2 diabetic patients (as I discuss in a subsequent column). Newburgh was of the opinion that if insulin had not been discovered, he would have come up with a better (low carb high fat) solution for the management of type 2 diabetes. I would guess that medical schools still teaching that persons with type 2 diabetes need to eat high carbohydrate diets, would be an obvious target for exploratory legal actions. Practitioners who have in the past and who still follow this practice surely have the defence that was what they were taught? An interesting development is that official guidelines now allow prescription of low carbohydrate diets for diabetes so that an appeal to authority figures - "this is what the official guidelines mandate" - may no longer be a protection against malpractice. With regard to heart disease, I think the picture is more complex. All we know is that the diet-heart and lipid hypotheses are false. But we do not yet and may never have definitive evidence from RCTs that a diet that lowers blood triglycerides protects against heart disease. I think the closest we will come in near future will be evidence that lowering triglycerides, glucose and insulin with a low-carbohydrate high-fat diet and supplementing with vitamin K2 may slow, or perhaps prevent progression, or perhaps even induce some regression in established areas of coronary atherosclerosis. That would be pretty good evidence that the low-carbohydrate high-fat diet is the best option we currently have for preventing progression of coronary atherosclerosis.

Thanks Rod. As I indicate it's just such a privilege to be able to share this information with the CrossFit community. I believe we have passed the Tipping Point as far as acceptance of the LCHF diet goes. We must just keep driving the message as hard as we can: One person (one meal) at a time.

Thanks so much Scott. When I was approached by Greg Glassman and Karen Thomson to spend time writing for this website I jumped at the opportunity. For the reasons that you describe. This is the opportunity to write about the real truth in medicine. There is no way that my articles would be published in the conventional scientific/medical outlets open to medical scientists. For the reasons that the articles are too long; they are too historical; and they don't present the modern consensus of whom we call The Anointed. That is how the truth is very effectively suppressed. Since this historical perspective is not taught in the conventional medical curriculum, the truths that we uncover are not and will perhaps not for the foreseeable future be taught to our modern medical students. So they remain ignorant of the vast body of science completed by some truly remarkable scientists 60 or more years ago. These scientists knew the truth but their ideas have not been allowed to survive. I cannot begin to tell you what a privilege it is to be able to present this material in this way. I wake up every morning with the excitement of not knowing where my research of this topic will take me at any given moment on any given day. All I know is that at the end of the search we will find the truth that is being suppressed by the influences you mention. Our joint responsibility is to bring that truth to the attention of all those whose lives will be enhanced by it.

more points i extracted from his lecture: He references a study looking at rates of statin-associated T2D as a function of glycemic status (normal fasting glucose vs pre-diabetes) and plasma triglyceride concentrations (> or < 150mg/dL) [so (1) No pre-diabetes vs (2) diabetes VS (3) triglycerides < 150mg/dL vs (4)triglycerides > 150mg/dL] EVENT RATE (%): Incident diabetes event rates::: - No pre-diabetes & triglycerides < 150mg/dL = 2.82 - Pre-diabetes & triglycerides < 150mg/dL = 12.02 - No pre-diabetes & triglycerides >150mg/dL = 5.04 - Pre-diabetes & triglycerides > 150mg/dL = 22.14

here are some points i extracted from his lecture: 1. Development of statin-associated T2D varies as a function of pre-treatment glycemic & lipid status 2. Either pre-diabetes or a plasma triglyceride concentration of >105 mg/dL at baseline increases risk of statin-associated T2DM 3. Combined pre-diabetes and a plasma triglyceride concentration >150 mg/dL increases risk of statin-associated T2D by ~ 6-fold 4. Measurement of fasting plasma glucose and triglyceride concentrations prior to statin therapy can provide information to help mitigate the potential adverse effects of incident T2D

I will deal in detail with Reaven's concerns about elevated blood cholesterol concentrations and the dangers of a high fat diet. I think it was a serious error that he made with unfortunate long-term complications. I speculate that he was influenced by the cardiologists with whom he worked at Stanford Medical School. For Reaven to have suggested that a high fat diet is the cure for metabolic syndrome (Syndrome X) would likely have led to his excommunication from the US medical fraternity much as had happened to Englishman John Yudkin MD who challenged the diet-heart hypothesis and warned about the danger of sucrose (sugar). So Reaven chose to study the insulin resistance syndrome and assumed that the dietary interventions he had tested in RCTs were enough to prove his bias. But, as I show, they were not. He fell short of doing definitive studies to determine whether carbohydrate-sensitive hypertriglyceridemia was the key driver of coronary arterial disease, rather than cholesterol and dietary fat according to the Keys diet-heart model. Had he done the definitive studies he could have answered the question already more than 20 years ago.

I've just logged in to make the exact same comment… you beat me to it!

I've asked CrossFit to sort this out. The figure went missing somewhere in the production process. Hopefully it will be put in place pretty soon. It's quite a compelling figure.

Fabulous reference. Thanks for sharing Sarah. Hope you enjoy the rest of this series. I have so enjoyed writing it. Something I have wanted to do for years. Thanks to Greg Glassman and CrossFIt for giving me the space here to go into the depth that the topic really requires. Hope there are more surprises for everyone as we go deeper into the topic!

Hope everything gets back to normal for you soon! My husband and I were just saying last night that now that we are closer(way closer) to 40 than 30 things feel “off” a little more than they used to. More so for him than me. 😉

Run 5k: 30:17 Not my worst (pretty close though), but hey got it done! Got a cramp halfway through so took a few 15-30sec walk breaks.

Muchas gracias Hector!! Un gusto en conocerte!!

SO MUCH SWEAT!!

Hard to distinguish sweat from just wet.

Thank you Boglarka! was good to meet you! Jonny

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Yelitza, gracias por tus palabras, un placer trabajar contigo!!

Well said, Juan.

Somehow I suspected today was going to be running - lol

Yelitza, gracias por tus palabras, un placer trabajar contigo!!

Luis un placer enorme el concerte!!