Longevity
Type 2 Diabetes – Entirely Unnecessary
Type 2 Diabetes is not inevitable – it's a mismatch between your genetic makeup and the modern environment. The good news: it's entirely reversible.
Longevity
Type 2 Diabetes is not inevitable – it's a mismatch between your genetic makeup and the modern environment. The good news: it's entirely reversible.
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We modern humans drift through life without truly understanding what's happening to us – and more importantly, why.
To put it abstractly: Most people never really ask themselves throughout their entire life who is actually looking out at the world through their eyes. Who or what exactly is "I"?
Modern diseases "just come with the territory"
It's much the same with our modern ailments. Cavities – you just get them, there's tooth replacement after all. Autoimmune diseases? Rare before, now they're part of the package. Type 2 Diabetes, a rotting foot? It's all fine, as the saying goes.
That's exactly how we live. Psychologists – completely overwhelmed. Metabolic clinics – appointments available from 2026 onwards. And if you get a sore throat, well, you could just go to the emergency room!
Somehow we're mad, in the literal sense. We could just ask ourselves: What exactly is Type 2 Diabetes? Where does it come from? Does God want us all to be metabolically sick?
Speaking of God and religion: Of course, you only understand Type 2 Diabetes – like many modern diseases – if you know something about human evolution, which has been ongoing for about 2 million years.
Type 2 Diabetes develops because cells and mitochondria – the place where energy is burned – become saturated with fatty acids. It's a condition of fatty acid dominance (Q).
When this gets out of hand, we barely burn carbohydrates anymore, which consequently pile up. A scientist named Sir Philip Randle discovered this, which is why the underlying mechanism is called the Randle Cycle. Too much fat oxidation = little carbohydrate oxidation.
This mechanism exists for a reason – and this is the crucial point – because our ancestors – remember, 2 million years ago – constantly battled carbohydrate and calorie scarcity. They had no pasta, no bread rolls, and no ice cream.
If you're the type of person who still carries a few archaic genes, then you get Diabetes because your cells live in the Stone Age but get fattened up with bread rolls by you. A very, very simple connection.
The classic proof-of-concept is known in research – but we rarely hear about it. Aboriginal Australians – that is, people of indigenous descent – become diabetic much more quickly – compared to the non-indigenous population of Australia, about 3 times more frequently.
Aboriginal Australians who live in the city and are already ill become metabolically healthy again when they return to their indigenous environment or at least emulate this lifestyle or diet (Q). This "Bush Tucker" diet has even been reported in the news (Q).
A renowned scientist pioneered research on all this – her name is Kerin O'Dea from the University of South Australia. She still gives lectures today, primarily to educate people of indigenous descent.
To educate them that Type 2 Diabetes is not a fate, but a mismatch between genetic equipment and environment. And that Type 2 Diabetes is reversible, as has long been proven in studies (Q).
What we just can't seem to understand: We are indigenous too. Only not quite so badly affected anymore – we've adapted a bit better to the sins of modernity. But we too, until recently, had various "safety buffers," such as constant food scarcity up until the early 20th century.
Back then, people also had to haul coal and the sofa up to the sixth floor of the house (movement!), the body had to generate its own heat much more (energy consumption!) because heating was much worse, there was no sugar, and there were no refrigerators.
If we don't soon understand that our modern lifestyle is a disease-promoting one-way street, civilizational diseases will continue to increase drastically. We have the opportunity right now, at any time, to change that.
Good advice: Take the exit while you still can! How to do that is a constant topic for us – just stick with it!
