How Do You Know if You’re HEALTHY? Cholesterol & Uric Acid LAB TEST Results | Dr. Robert Lustig

[@dd5783]

Dr. Lustig is a National Treasure!!!!!!!

[@arosalesmusic]

The insurance industry does not want to pay for the fasting insulin test, not because it is expensive in and of itself, but because it is not in their best financial interest. They want people to be metabolically unhealthy, otherwise who needs medical insurance companies?

[@robinq5511]

Every time I hear Dr Lustig I learn something new about things I have heard before. I save them all and watch over & over. I do use a CGM, but unfortunately it is not as accurate as blood testing with a meter but it does show trends.

[@homomorphic]

If you listen to Lustig and act on what he says, you're gonna be ok!

[@callofthewildbuck]

would you be willing to share which CGM you use? and it's better to stick with a traditional glucose meter?

[@bonnieschmidt5882]

I agree about the better accuracy of finger sticks, but it’s hard to catch the peak of the spike. And to be fooled by the dips. Or how walking keeps my BG stable until I stop walking when it rises again. Also, there’s information that you can get during your sleep.

[@haroldwagner4586]

I am double boarded ER and IM Listing is the real deal and one of the few doctors that could even teach me something. He has raised Metabolic medicine to a new LEVELS ( Play on words)😂

[@homomorphic]

So glad that someone with impeccable credentials like Lustig decided the truth is more important than money.

[@danger_pig]

I love this guy

[@BarbaraGallo-bl3ti]

The only thing that changed in 1980 was the food industry, switching to high fructose corn syrup, because it was government-subsidized and cheaper than cane sugar which has a tariff. Being so much cheaper, they decided to go by the tobacco industries playbook and used its addictive quality and put it in all foods. This pushed up the sale of snack foods while computer games reduced physical activity. The perfect storm.

[@homomorphic]

This is definitely part of it, arguably the largest part, but the problem has its origins much earlier than 1980.

[@TomSmith-cv8hk]

Low fat push done the most damage to modern health in my mind. High Fructose Corn Syrup isn't World wide.

[@homomorphic]

@@TomSmith-cv8hk HFCS is absolutely world wide, and it is very likely the most significant factor in the accelerating incidence of metabolic syndrome. The low-fat nonsense accelerated the damage that HFCS did, but it was HFCS doing the actual damage.

[@kenadams5504]

​@@homomorphic Fructose is actually a mitachondrial poison . Chronic damage to mitachondria can result in cells using fermentation of glucose/glutamine to make ATP , aka the Warburg Effect /cancer .

[@wellnesssecrets2014]

True

[@tomhermens7698]

Food suppliers are not being checked as to what they are flogging. Is there an ombudsman or inspectorate? There are too many unhealthy foods on the market.

[@gungagalunga9040]

But could fasting glucose be influenced by the "dawn phenomenon "?

[@re1]

He is amazing, the professor you would love to have.

[@beNETiq_ru]

it's actually simple eat meat and do fasting for faster weight loss, wp

[@aajitpal]

Do resistance exercise too so that muscle loss is less than fat. I did 18:6 for 4 months lost almost 50 pounds i which lost a lot of muscle mass too which is required for glucose dump.

[@Jona07111]

I'm not a Plant-Based guy, but on the later segment, Lustig does say that meat typically has high levels of purines, so if you have or are worried about developing hyperuricemia, then maybe don't go ham on the meat.

[@dr.jeffstone9424]

Why would my glucose clear to 120 at 10:30pm, 70 at 3am, 120 10:30am 200 at 11:30. No food eaten and moderate exercise 1 hr stating 9am. Adult diabetic 25 years, fasting insulin 16. Love your talks and depth on knowledge.

[@beth2500]

If your a1-c is 16 you are lucky your still alive

[@SueMiddleton-ky7gt]

Shouldn't you include insulin response test with OGTT?

[@tybofborg]

The lab where I had my OGTT done offered a package that did include insulin response testing. Problem is, they needed IV blood for the insulin so they drew IV blood 3 times. This gives you a fuller picture, but it's a lot easier to just measure fasting insulin (and all the other markers) with an IV blood draw, and then do 3 finger pricks for the glucose response test.

[@RickTeale]

I asked my doctor to add fasting insulin, hsCRP, homocysteine and lipid fractionation to by labs. None of those were done. There was a c-peptide result. How does c-peptide compare to an insulin measurement. Can c-peptide and fasting glucose be used to calculate HOMA IR?

[@him-hk7ii]

Yes there is a correction algorithm to accommodate c peptide. The Fasting Insulin is far superior to use

[@chochooshoe]

c-peptide is actually a better test than insulin - the beta cells create equal amounts of insulin and c-peptide but the latter is more stable.

[@wellnesssecrets2014]

Excellent content & presentation. Learn 30 Wellness Secrets to prevent or reverse Lifestyle Disorders

[@bestdoom1236]

Ha. He didn't want to endorse Dr. Hyman's company. Haha. He probably did not get invited to participate. In all seriousness, Dr. Lustig is indeed a National Treasure. His book Metabolical and his famous frase "feed the gut, protect the liver" were key influencers in my move to a whole-foods, plant-dominant diet. Result: Fasting insulin down from 15 to 5, ALT down from 45 to 20, HsCRP down from 1.5 to 0.3, Triglycerides down from 100+ to 55, Urid Acid down from 7 to 6.1 (still working on that one), and APOB down from 90 to 65.

[@TomSmith-cv8hk]

Great vid, great info. I notice Dr Lustig avoids going near no carb, just calls out lifestyle. I'd love to know what he thinks of HFG with LFI and good Hba1c.

[@BeBedabit]

My Lyme doc once did some kind of blood test that required me to go eat syrup laden pancakes and return for blood draw. I had been on Atkins for years and did not want to do it. She insisted. Within an hour and half of that horribly high carb meal, my blood sugar dropped like a bomb. I was weak, shaking, crazy. Family members had to help me 7:20 into a restaurant. Took me two days to recover. Have stayed basically low carb now years. A1C is 5.1.

[@davidreece1642]

Do those following a low carb/carnivore diet have a great incidence of gout compared to those on a standard processed Western diet?

[@elenaortega5459]

How come eating only carnivore with no sweets, the uric acid is fine? Could Lincoln had had a sweet tooth?

[@callofthewildbuck]

No fructose to create uric acid. But purines are still in protein.

[@elenaortega5459]

@@callofthewildbuck how come eating only carnivore does not raise uric acid levels?

[@farmer_donny]

​@@callofthewildbuckyour body is able to convert glucose to fructose.

[@jamesdean7756]

@@farmer_donnywho knows what’s true anymore.

[@farmer_donny]

@@jamesdean7756 a very true statement. I have found a few doctors that I'm prepared to believe. And some things I can test out on myself.

[@tcskeith]

I went keto 2 years ago because my A1c was over 10.. it's now 4.9. however, my uric acid level has skyrocketed to over 10.. I've had non stop gout attacks and I'm tired of dealing with it so unfortunately I've got no choice but to cut out meats or cut way back and eat more salads.

[@gungagalunga9040]

Check out dr berg and dr ekberg videos on uric acid

[@aajitpal]

Increase your Vitamin C intake daily by a whole lot! Check out Dr. Berg video for this specific issue. I make a whole lemon slice smoothie every day to keep my uric acid in check and it works.

[@jamesdean7756]

your eating the wrong kind of meats What are they. Crappy factory farm meat ?

[@gungagalunga9040]

@jamesdean7756 my messages deleted wow

[@Fiftyfive45]

Yes, share what red meat you are getting, hopefully not branded packed with artificial sugars vegetable oils and more things. Or dirty commercial questionable keto products.

[@agentcontrast9784]

ada/american colleges are so slow in updating guidelines based on sound principles...$ is likely behind such themes as he suggests..the us government needs to step in....but again $/lobbying is likely a barrier... its really a joke at the end of the day.

[@homomorphic]

...and I wonder why they're so slow to modify guidance? Could it be MONEY+ + money from the food industry

[@samblackwell9839]

I am a huge fan of Dr. Lustig, but understanding his message is sort of analogous to reading your blood lab results - that is, understanding his overall message sometimes means filtering out the random confusing comments much like reading your lab results is better thought of as an overall picture, rather than putting value in each data point. Case in point, at 5:59 he says a fasting blood glucose of 91 is "not doing great" and is "already a problem." Utterances like that are like verbal clickbait. Let's say (real case) a 44-year-old female has a fasting blood glucose of 91 along with ALT of 10, AST of 16, waist circumference of 23 inches, A1C of 4.3%. Are we really going to put her in the category of normal-weight people with metabolic disease? It's almost hypocritical of him to say that, as he prefaces the first interview by saying that the overall picture is nuanced and complicated, but then goes on to say that 91 mg/dL is a problem. The cynic in me wonders why he would make this kind of statement, and I'm guessing it has to do with selling something.

[@callofthewildbuck]

no, I don't think he's saying that 91 mg/dL is an automatic metabolic issue. I think he's saying if that is consistently in the 90s then it's best to watch it. it will creep up overtime. It's a warning, that's what I think he's saying.

[@samblackwell9839]

@@callofthewildbuck You're giving him a generous interpretation in the timestamped comment. He in fact says that fasting blood glucose is not the right metric to use as a warning for metabolic function, but that it's the "last marker to change." He recommends fasting insulin and ALT as examples of better warning markers, and I am inclined to agree. In my real example above, I admittedly don't know her fasting insulin (wasn't tested), but given all her other metrics, it's almost certain that her 91 mg/dL was simply dawn effect or mild fasting rise, etc. Having it "creep up over time" is definitely a concern, but that will only happen as a result of the overall metabolic picture getting worse (especially in the metrics that Dr. Lustig mentions as better for demonstrating metabolic health). My (only) problem with him is that he doesn't qualify such simplified statements and thereby dilutes his own message.

[@GlobalDrifter1000]

Rob looks to be over fed

[@samblackwell9839]

He has said in multiple interviews that 1-2 beers/day is okay. lol

[@persimmonpuddin]

I had fasting insulin levels tested with my other blood work recently (fasting for 13 hours). I'd been IF and ketivore for months prior and kept carbs to