From this panel discussion https://youtu.be/1cl2IX94GCI

A Dr. John McDougall posits that T2D is caused by fat clogging insulin receptors, and that white sugar and rice can reverse T2D.

A Dr. Michael Klaper Says that if your eating a whole food plant based diet nothing will shoot your blood sugar up

Dr. John McDougall references this paper https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM197103112841004 where sugar is increased in t2d to give greater glycemic control "Sugar makes insulin better and cures diabetes" !?!??!?!?!?!?

I can't find the full paper just the abstract.

Question: How on earth does any of this work and is this speaker credible?

As far as I understand it T2D is a syndrome of insulin resistance which has caused very poor glycemic control, so the patient is effectively carbohydrate intolerant.

This speaker suggests that increasing sugar intake when carbohydrate intolerant improves glycemic control, and reverses T2D... what? What?

I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.

Acupuncture, considered superstitious and irrational as far back as the seventeenth century, gained popularity in the west when it was reintroduced by the Chinese Communist government in 1949. This reinstatement of the once outlawed practice was possibly driven by nationalistic motives or the need to provide basic healthcare to a large population. Since its adoption acupuncture has been extensively studied and is now generally seen as ineffective, although some argue that it may have limited applications due to the placebo effect. However, I believe that the placebo effect has been exaggerated, even by prominent skeptics, allowing pseudoscience to firmly get one foot in the door.

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