I came across this TED talk the other day, one to do with a Surgeon's story about his initial judgement of an obese, Diabetic woman in need of an amputation of her foot.
At the time he saw that patient, he felt justified in his "contempt" for this patient that 'deserved' this complication of not paying attention to herself, not caring enough to eat right or exercise or even try to put some effort forth to keep her weight in check.
When the shoe was literally on his foot when he later developed metabolic syndrome and diabetes, he really did some soul searching as to how this could happen to him; and maybe how it could happen to anyone else- including that patient he saw in the ER years ago.
What if our current understanding, and our working model of obesity, from suspected behavioral indiscretion to overweightedness to insulin resistance to disease ... is wrong?
Could it be reverse from what it actually is? Do we suffer from "Idea Resistance"? Is diabetes possibly just a proxy for metabolic illness?
Why do some patients NOT have diabetes when they have extremely high BMIs? Why do some patients have severe metabolic syndrome with a much lower BMI? Is today's diet the real trigger for this whole cascade of metabolic events that is leading to one of the most common causes of death in Americans today?
Dr. Peter Attia has started a non-profit company that is looking at this very issue in a multidisciplinary, research-oriented way, aiming to get to the truth.
Take a look at this talk. It is well delivered, has a great message, as well as some real honesty that is not heard all that often in the main stream medical publications of today. I believe the 15 minutes will open your mind, and is well spent.
What if......?
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