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  2. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    On 27/10/2020 at 3:15 PM, Michael569 said:

    A schoolmate of mine said she wants me to see her husband because his asthma & allergies have never been worse. The poor guy can't even go to sleep without 10 puff of steroid inhaler to open up his lungs. I've always been really interested in asthma but never had the chance to "experiment" on someone besides myself. Doing a deep-dive into asthma these days to see what's out there hiding in the medical archives. Lot of controversial research out there but the majority of the evidence is unambiguous, the more animal food in the diet, the worse it usually gets for those who are predisposed. I was fighting for 3 years myself along with allergies. Asthma is such a nasty and vicious enemy but it can definitely be cured.  It is so prevalent and yet the standard medical treatment is completely useless and non-helpful. Kinda like building up a wall instead of figuring out why the water levels keep rising. The research has pretty much uncovered the most common causes yet the only therapy everybody gets is a bunch of useless inhalers....sad

    I recently learned that a former client of mine, the one I talked about previously, has died while crashing in the engine-less airplane. His wife is now left with 3 children, 2 of which in pre-school age. 

    Life is so fleeting, so fragile. This thing we are all cultivating, building, honing endlessly and then one day, an accident happens and its all gone and you're out as if you were never here, leaving a void that can never be filled. 

    Cherish the little things. Check on the people who care about you, then check on those who aren't doing too well. Most of all, reflect on the good things in life, stop aiming forward all the time (note to self) . 

    Take care you beautiful people

  3. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    11 hours ago, Thought Art said:

    I'd like to know more about sourcing the herbs. I suspect it's a huge part of this. I wanna make sure I am avoiding heavy metals and getting high quality materials.

    Other than directly contacting the company you are purchasing from and asking them or them expressly stating that on their website, you can't be sure. I also agree with @Salvijus that if you know the person yourself and you trust them and intuit that they are a conscientious person, they will probably go the extra mile compared to someone who is just selling anything for profit.  

    So my advice would be to get to know your herbalist. Herbalists are unlikely to do 3rd party testing but it is worth asking what measures they take to obtain highest quality

  4. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    ^ what the Doc said

    In my limited clinical experience with cardiac/diabetic clients, HDL tends to improve as LDL gets better but only to some extend and then it sort of hits a certain level from where it is no longer moving. 

    Eating more fibrous sources of of PUFA & MUFA like different assortment of nuts and seeds, even nut butters may help but only to the extend that they don't start making you fatter because then your LDL will creep up too :D

    HDL seems more relevant where LDL and non-HDL are over healthy limits. Once your full lipid profile is optimal, HDL is nice to have but not the most essential of the LDL, HDL, non-HDL cholesterol, triglyceride picture. 

    If you want to go deeper, pay attention to non-HDL and get your ApoB measured as well for total atherogenic particle count

  5. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    @Salvijus nobody's cutting your wings butterfly boy ;) All we're saying is that there is a reason why people train in herbal medicine for 5+ years. There are nuances which need to be appreciated. 

    I mean, if you're prescribing for yourself, knock yourself out. The moment you recommend things to others who may have less knowledge and will just 'take your word for it' that's when you're putting yourself mildly at risk. 

    Maybe my perspective is different to yours. I know our worldviews are completely different, at least basing on comments I've read from you in the past. The way I'm looking at it is through the lenses of health therapist, which is my side profession. If I give a client bunch of tinctures and they end up with anaphylactic shock response, I'm fucked. If I give a depressed client bunch of nervines and they end up with serotonin syndrom and kill themselves, we're both fucked.  If I give a pregnant women Agnus Castus tincture because someone told me it "improves the alignment of her root chackra"  or some nonsense like that, and then she loses the baby due to massive surge of Progesterone, I'm fucked and she will be traumatised for life. 

    Maybe it is selfish but with each dispensing of herbs to others come a great degree of responsibility. But again, if you are only dispensing to yourself, this may not apply. 

    I am not condemning anyone, to each their own. I'm just seeing too much bad, irresponsible advice (not pointing my finger at you, I'm generalising) given without consideration for the person's health history, environment, genetics, state of mental health and individuality. 

    That's all I'm saying. I'm fine if you disagree :)

  6. Posted

    5 hours ago, Thought Art said:

    Make sure to only take over the counter herbs and don’t self prescribe TCM.

    Yes! Very important point to make! People shouldn't be administering large doses of herbs for fun. It takes some learning and responsibility.

    Herbs can contraindicate certain medications people take, cause rise of symptoms, allergic response etc, can be inappropriate for pregnancy, lactation, children, elderly, chronically sick individuals..lots of nuances 

    Also, agreed on your other comment

    @Thought Art about price. You can find good quality for less, if you find the right provider

     

  7. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    @Salvijus Yeah. I found the best way is to find a herbalist company or a solo private herbalist who sell you whole products rather than supplements. If they make the tinctures and decoctions themselves and the dispense to their clients, even better. Especially if their website looks a little bit amateur-ish but they seem highly rated among the herbalist communities (worth joining some groups on FB) and they pride themselves with using organically grown herbs, seem to be doing things ethically etc. People like that are herder to find but they exist. 

    Also a thing to look out for is if they seem to be excessively salesy like describing all these miraculous herbs and what they do and why you need them, that's a red flag. A good herbal company will talk a lot about sourcing, about the individual herbs, the categories, the way they are grown, harvested etc. They'll have blo articles about cultivating herbs and occasional low key articles like "making your own echinacea cream" ...that sort of stuff. 

    The  moment they do a lot of adds on their website and blast you with discounts, deals , that's when you know the company is likely doing too much sales and too little sourcing. 

    I'd not buy from large international supplement companies even if they specialise on herbs. That level of supply chain complexity will increase the product price significantly or they are using some shady ways to do business if they are cheap and cutting costs on the labour force or quality standards. 

    Good herbs aren't cheap. You should expect to pay 40 dollars + for a high quality 150ml tincture and up to 10 dollars for a good quality herbal loose tea from organically grown herbs. 

  8. Posted

    Interesting topic, thanks for raising the thread. I think with herbs the key factor is sourcing and processing. There are a lot of crappy herbal products which were planted and harvested incorrectly, sprayed with pesticides and processed in a way that a lot of the therapeutic benefits would have been lost. Different herbs also require different soil quality, environment, nutrient richness in soil, moisture, dampness etc.

    Some herbalist even claim that the time of harvest during moonlight adds some health properties, I don't know if i believe that but harvesting herbs i grown myself in the middle of a night under the light of the moon sounds like an incredible experience.

    I've used a variety of herbs in my practice with some clients with mixed results. I think one i consistently see results with is aswagandha. That one seems to work even as a supplement. 

    A combination of lavender and chamomile works well for sleep and relaxation even when done as a simple infusion 

    Oregano oil seems to work well for IBS in some people when combined properly with an elimination diet. I think fennel seeds help during those times too but I've never been able to pinpoint the effects to single things because the IBS protocol generally includes lots of things we do.

    Hawthorne is an interesting one I'd like to experiment with some day but it is a tricky one because the people who could benefit from it are already on other medication that contraindicate it.

    I've had single person i put on St John's Wort once during antidepressant withdrawal and it worked beautifully but we did a lot of other things but they had a consent of a psychiatrist while we did that so could have been a bias factor too

    With most of the other adaptogens like Ginseng Panax, Rhodiola or Passiflora so far I'm unconvinced they are anything but expensive fibre. 

  9. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    Hey, 

    No judgement here, I think everybody struggles with some fort of self-frustration in our lives. I agree with@RendHeaven in that it seems like you are somewhat keeping yourself in the " I am planning to start thinking about this thing that I've been meaning to do for some time but I haven't because I'm too busy with thinking about planning it. " but you never actually get to execute on those things. Maybe out of fear? Sense of being overwhelmed? Limited time? fomo? 

    Let me throw this back at you. 

    • What do you really you want out of life? 
    • What are you truly passionate about? 
    • What makes you happy? 
    • What makes you frustrated? 
    • What do you think is holding you back from taking action?
      • Take the example of credit card. What do you think is preventing you from: logging your details to the CC company, ordering the card, registering it and starting to use it. 
      • forget about paying your credit card debit for now - this is a completely separate process that comes later. 

  10. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    It is important that you don't base your work on someone else's example entirely. Leo is a beautiful example of a fulfilling Life Purpose combined with a smart long term business strategy and marketing but some the things he does may not work for you. 

    Rather than reaching outright, you need to find that to which you can connect within. As cliche as it sounds, the core of your Life Purpose should be tied to your values, your sense of integrity, personality and your strengths. This way each time you encounter an obstacle (and you'll encounter many if you are serious about this) you can muster internal resources to guide you rather than asking "what would Leo do". 

    Getting inspired by someone else's work is totally fine but without finding your own authentic voice and brand feeling, it will just be a frustrating imitation of someone else. The worst thing about that is that there is already one authentic Leo out there. 

    The questions you ask are deep and profound but in the end they need to be tied to one simple answer: Why should people care? Because if they don't your website won't get any traffic and the library of knowledge will remain inaccessible. 

    I'm wrestling with the same thing. My personal greatest struggle is finding my authentic voice and a sense of brand individuality, I've actually been stuck on this for the last 5 months. So by no means have I figured it out :)

  11. Posted

    Some people are extremely unlucky with dental health. My mom had to have nearly her entire palette replaced with implants by 35, cost her a small fortune.

    Me and my sister are both in 30s and neither of us has ever had a cavity or a tooth pulled. I don't even build up plaque the same way other people do, i blame it on lucky genetic lottery.  I've been eating so much sugar during my childhood and adolescence that it can't be any other way. Only been paying proper attention to dental hygiene the last 6-7 years but before it was pretty bad and irregular 

    You have your oral microbiome that had been developing your whole life and that's what's protecting you from invasive species. But genetics determine things like ph content in saliva, thickness of the enamel, resilience against damage and irritation, mucosal thickness, dental vasculature (how fast can you call on white blood cells during infection) the activity of local immune system, the thickness and height of gums above the root, resilience of gums to inflammation etc.

    . If you grind teeth at night it might weaken it. If you're stressed a lot. A lot of endurance athletes have horrible teeth because of all the crap they eat while fueling themselves during runs. 

    It's also things like exposure to alcohol containing mouthwashes, personally I think these things are disastrous, long term, for your oral microbiome balance.

    I still use floral toothpaste and see no reason not to, while i have removed a lot of other chemical containing cosmetics like shampoos , commercia deodorants etc,this one I decided to keep, i think the cost of getting it wrong and ending up with erosion is too much of a risk.

    Maybe try a few different brands? 

  12. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    Part of that is certainly that we've become better at screening and catching it much earlier and also that people are now more actively seeking medical assessment, especially men. 

    But part of that is increased stress in younger people compared to previous generations who had a lot of things taken care of for them by the government. The average 30-year old couple can no longer afford their own house without becoming tied to a bank under riddiculopusly expensive 45 year mortgage. They struggle more and more with paying bills, they don't have time to cook so they get shitty food through deliveries, they don't exercise because they are always tired. They have sedentary jobs that keep them glued to their chairs for 8-12 hours a day. They spend additional 3 hours watching TV. All that stress is medicated through innocent alcoholism (half a bottle of vine daily to calm the nerves), vaping, smoking etc. 

    Now add a child into the mix and your immune system is effectively down by 30% pretty much all the time. 

    Plus add the cocktail of air pollution, unfiltered water, chemicals, pesticides, microplastics, mould etc etc. 

  13. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    Nice thread idea! As someone who is in the middle of something similar and trying to make sales while being as ethical as possible, I can tell you that it feels like crawling naked and bare footed through thorn bushes. Especially when all you see around you are either examples of unethical marketing or bad practice. I've been exploring ways to do it better as a part of my own rebrand and migration to another platform so maybe this will help someone. 

    This mostly relates to website content and writing a copy but that's how you make sales as a small business with relatively low audience and website traffic. 

    • Brand consistency - everything you do, write, create and show to people needs to fall under your branding guidelines. Best work with someone who has done this before. This helps the customer clearly distinguish your brand from the 5 other competitors they saw today. 
      • Brand colours - you can't blast random colours across your web and social content. You need to have a blend of agreed bland colours. Also, be clear on how those colours interact and how they work together, test the contrast (you want AA or AAA rating). Agree on font colours, leading colours, accent colours and special colours (for buttons, frames etc). Also make sure your colours pass the colourblindness test (use Adobe colour tool for that). 
      • Fonts, font sizing, font spacing - absolute consistency across all platforms
      • Logo (used everywhere) - colour consistent with your branding colours 
      • Voice & Style of communication - has to be consistent across all platforms. Always know who you are talking to. Personally, I find this the most challenging part of the branding. 
    • When writing your marketing copy, focus on description rather than persuasion. Simply tell the story of what your product does rather than trying to convince the reader toi buy from you. Deliberately introduce some vagueness and let the customers fill in the gaps with their imagination  A lot of copies are written in a "push push" way rather than simply describing how your product supports the client and helps you remove their pain. The moment you start pushing them to make a sale through buttons , CAPS and all sort of clickbait techniques, you're compromising your ethics and business integrity, in the future potentially even your Google SEO. Same goes for social advertisement. 
    • Not every website visitor is in the transaction stage - some people are just browsing and if you keep pushing them down a sales funnel they will get upset and leave. This is why it is important to have some simple "about" - subpage for those who are just browsing and a more direct sales funnel page for those who are almost ready for a transaction. Transaction page needs to be clear, simple and 100% concise. No bs, no fluff.  
    • Content over fluff - remember that every word on your website (unless your website is a blog) is a sales copy. So treat everything you write as such. Make every word count. Clarity, consistency, simplicity, stay away from technical jargon unless your audience is technical or academic. 
    • Empathy - if you are offering a service that is supposed to make someone's life better, spend some time, before writing your copy, about what state the reader is in when they read the copy. What do they feel? What do they fear? How easily overwhelmed are they? How easily confused are they? What is likely to discourage them? 
    • Create an avatar of your ideal client persona  - self explanatory but not easy to do
    • 0.2 - 2 - 6 second rule - the numbers may be a bit off but basically, people make a decision whether an article is worth reading within a fraction of second. This happens subconsciously, especially if you are trying to speak to people who are generally overwhelmed . Then if they decided that it is worth browsing, they may take another 2-3 seconds to photo reading through (keywords, highlights, words they are searching for, "is this for me?". Once they acknowledge that article is worth reading they will spent about 6-8 seconds reading the first paragraph which is why you need to grab attention immediately, in the first paragraph by talking about the client, not yourself. if you lose them there, they leave. Once they are past 6-10 seconds they continue reading unless it turns out that the article is not for them and about them - then they leave. 
    • Only talk about yourself through the lenses of the client: "Example: I am xyz and I help people who XYZ"  Rather than writing 5 paragraphs about how awesome you are your education, background and why you do what you do. People generally don't care about you, they only care about themselves and their problems (I don't mean this in a negative way, more from a business transaction way. That's just how it is. ) 
    • Always assume that your website visitor doesn't know who you are, what you do, how you do it, why you do it  - you need to be able to clarify these things to them immediately. Spell it out clearly without being too pushy
    • Dangerous words & statements in your marketing copy  
      • Patronising - "let me tell you why" , "I'm sure you can do better"  ,  "You haven't seen what XYZ is until you try my XYZ thing" 
      • Being too presumptuous - "I'm sure you've heard , I'm sure you've seen the ..." I assume you've come to this website because...." 
      • Bragging & belittling the reader 
      • Being too rational and too technical 
      • Talking too much about yourself 
      • Trying to sound like an influencer (unless your clients want that) 
      • Mixing tenses between present, future, past perfect, present perfect etc - stick to one 
      • Excessively masculine style of writing (bro language using words like - strategy, tactical, conditioning, workout, dominating, influence, power etc) 
      • Too much fluff & vagueness - turning the sales copy into poetry (Example of a fluff: "I will guide you through a journey of self discovery and recognition of your inner power, helping you rekindle that flame , showing you how to realise your greatest potential"
        • caveat - some softness is good and it helps to empathise with clients and is more accepted by female readers but important not to soften up the entire copy unless your service requires it specifically

    Bonus: Don't assume that just because your business is ethical you don't need to master the technical side of online business. Even if you don't plan to abuse it, you need to educate yourself on Google SEO basics and the advertisement standards. 

    There is much more but I find these were helpful. 

  14. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    On 04/04/2024 at 3:29 PM, ZenAlex said:

    1. Taking an Anti-histamine. I've ordered a DAO test offline, I know some people don't agree with it, but I'll see what it says. I'm not gonna do a low histamine or elimination diet yet, especially not without consulting a doctor after getting some indication it is a histamine issue, but do you reckon taking an AH would be a decent indicator? Any potential negatives/side effects to taking an AH if I have no histamine issues?

    If the AH helps, it would be an indicator enough. It is important not to take it when you're testing for DAO, as it could skew the results.The evidence on DAO as a marker of histamine issue is still debated https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10346277/ but it might at least show you which direction to aim 

    On 04/04/2024 at 3:29 PM, ZenAlex said:

    Fasting. I was considering a fast to see if it changes anything. I have seen a success story where someone literally got rid of their Long Covid symptoms 90% with a fast and then did Keto immediately after. It seems to have had massive benefits for them. Any advice on fasting?

    Fasting can temporarily get rid of your symptoms if they are caused by your digestive tract simply through the removal of triggers. In such case it could be useful to help you zoom in to the root of the issue.

    But starving yourself may not be sufficient enough to 'cure' this thing, whatever it is. I don't like to use fasting as a therapeutic long-term tool because of how catabolic it is and how stressful it is to the body.

    It tends to be used as an avoidance tool for people who have eating disorders (e.g. " I have a food phobia so I just won't eat anything convincing myself that fasting is good for me even tho I'm slowly turning myself into a skeleton"). 

    And so, although it can be a good temporary strategy while seeking out the root cause of your symptoms, I wouldn't approach it as a long-term solution. Same with most elimination diets. 

    Did you get the results of that fatty acid profile back, Alex? 

  16. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    Sam's content is so popular because he is a nice and chill dude. His content is sort of relaxing to watch like ASMR. He has a likable character, does not promote crappy supplement products and has been vocal about his steroid use unlike others in the industry.

    But yeah, his diet and lifestyle can be a bit worrisome and he might not make it pass 45 if he continues heading the similar way that Rich Piana did

    I am also worried about how his "normal" behaviour is sort of normalising steroid use and a lot of young guys are jumping that wagon. His dietary advice to his fans is also pretty bad I think.

    I hope he will seek help of some sort of support before anything happens but more likely scenario is sudden cardiac arrest. 

  18. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    @QVx basically this guy's protocol https://www.instagram.com/p/CxJOSG6Squd/

    • Barbell Squat
    • Penchpress (occasionaly varied with inclined benchpress) 
    • Wide Pullups 
    • Standing shoulder press 
    • Pendlay Rows 
    • Dips 
    • unassisted Situps (+ I add hanging leg raises) 

    It's pretty simple in design but fairly demanding. All of it is free weights, no cables, no machines. 

    Overall, I really like his approach, I agree with most of his ideas as they are supported by the wider evidence, and in my entire fitness journey (since 15, I'm now 33), nothing has ever worked as effectively as this. Same as you I was following split training on and off for years but after some newbie gains, I felt like I was stagnating for years. 

     

  20. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    22 hours ago, ZenSwift said:

    @Michael569 in not sure! I expect to have to pay to get some comprehensive results. 

    Best find out. If you have to pay for everything, the price will scale up. 

    In general, I'd say there are tiers of tests that are worth doing as men and women age and then there are specialist tests which are worth doing if you experience symptoms (e.g. fatigue, hair loss, lethargy, palpitations etc) 

    In general, if you are otherwise healthy and have no symptoms, I'd start with Tier 1 and see how much you can get from your MD. Then if you want to know more, Tier 2-4 you may need to pay private (possibly even Tier 1 as doctors don't like to test in the absence of symptoms which I can understand) 

    . You can drop this all in Chat-GPT and ask it to explain to you what each does and why they are good to know. 

    Tier 1 (very important to keep an eye on, past 30-35 or with a family history of heart disease, hypertension or FH) 
    Very high level of evidence certainty in relation to all-cause mortality and CVD

    • Blood Lipid Panel (inc. HDL, LDL and Total Cholesterol + triglycerides)
    • Blood Pressure 
    • Anthropometric measurements - waist: hip ratio & BMI 
    • Glycated haemoglobin HbA1C + fasting glucose 
    • Liver enzymes (ALT, AST & GGT) + maybe liver scan if you're a bit older or have a history of drug/alcohol abuse. 

    Tier 2 (fairly important to know), 

    • Kidney health (creatinine, GFR, cystatin C) for a start, more if something shows up 
    • TSH & fT3 (thyroid) 
    • Vitamin D

    Tier 3 (conditionally interesting - with occurrence of symptoms) 

    • Hormonal panel (LH, FSH, Testosterone, oestradiol, SHBG etc) 
    • Full Blood Count + B12 + Folate
    • Full iron panel 
    • Red Cell Fatty Acids  - only private
    • Vitamin & Mineral panels 

    Tier 4 (speculatively interesting) 

    • DEXA for bone mass  - more relevant as you age, although sometimes they also do peripheral muscle mass and subcutaneous fat density, which is interesting even for a younger individual 

    Bonus Tests - all will have to be 100% private funded 

    • V02 Max - massive predictor of all cause mortality and your overall fitness level 
    • Grip Strength  - strong predictor of frailty risk and your overall strength 
    • ApoB100 - strong determinant of CVD risk 
    • LP(a) - once in a lifetime, a strong determinant of CVD risk 
    • ApoE4 - once in a lifetime, a strong determinant of Alzheimer's risk 
    • Methylmalonic acid (if vegan or vegetarian) 

  23. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    @Princess Arabia haha fair point:) i never said you did, sorry if it came out that way 🙏

    Just thought that describing how it is would help but ignore of that was irrelevant comment.

    Those foods can (although i wouldn't say they "definitely do") contribute to weight gain but on their own they are not obesogenic, that's an important difference to make

    Either way, it might not be the pasta or carbohydrates per se but more a combination or lack of variety that is causing that effect in your own body.

    Hard to tell without more info. 

     

  24. Posted · Edited by Michael569

    22 hours ago, Princess Arabia said:

    These foods, and I stress, I BELIEVE, are responsible for diabetes and high blood pressure. 

    Weight gain, solely, is the cause of type 2 diabetes. Having more fat than your body can handle. 

    I know social media love to blame individual food groups for diabetes causality and each of the tribes has their culprit.

    For low carb people it is sugar

    For vegans, it is oils

    For carnivores, it is sugar and grains and oils

    For raw foodies it is "unnatural food" (whatever the hell that means)

    And so on...

    Yet, where total calories are accounted for, no sole group has ever been linked to diabetes pathophysiology. Not gluten, not carbs, not oils and not red meat.

    This is because type 2 diabetes is an energy status disease. Not a food consequence disease.

    Once your body crosses its adipose  (fat) tissue tolerance , things start backing up as circulating glucose and fatty acids can no longer be stored in cells.

    And so pancreas becomes fatty and so does liver. In an attempt to mitigate the damage of unmanaged glucose circulating the body, these organs become wrapped in a layer of deposited fat.

    The glucose and the fatty acids having nowhere to go, start remaining in the circulation for a long time, causing irreversible damage to eyes, kidney, arteries, heart, lungs etc,

    This is because the cells of your body are now insulin resistant, screaming "enough, i can't take more glucose". 

    When this happens the person becomes diabetic.

    For that reason the ONLY way to reverse type 2 diabetes is to lose weight. It really is that simple (in theory, because losing weight is anything but simple). This is a phenomenon that has been proven over and over in Large human clinical trials of the most rigorous standards.

    And this is what all diets that claim they can reverse diabetes have in common, they help people lose weight. That's it.

    There are no magical effects. Managing glucose spikes through glucose avoidance is a popular strategy but unless that strategy produces lasting weight loss, it doesn't work

    You lose the excess weight, your cells start taking up glucose, you remove fat from liver anf pancreas, diabetes is on the remission 

    Unless the damage has become so severe that your pancreas is irreversibly damaged, unable to produce insulin or that your liver, through the effects of becoming fatty, now has a stage of cirrhosis, in which case the patient is entering the final stage of his/her life 

    The interesting thing about that adipose (fat) tissue tolerance is that this is genetically given and while some people can become enormously obese and not get diabetes, other only need to gain a few pounds and become diabetic literally overnight, i once worked with a lady who became diabetic during pregnancy because she gained about 3 kilos of fat. 

    The moment you see someone on social blaming particular foods for diabetes development, independently of total calories, you can pretty much assume straight away they they have never bothered to look into the evidence on diabetology and they have a bias and an agenda