gary taubes ✓
@garytaubes · Oakland, California · joined 09 Jun 2009
Author of Rethinking Diabetes, The Case for Keto, The Case Against Sugar, Why We Get Fat, Good Calories, Bad Calories, Bad Science, and Nobel Dreams
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In the past two years, 14 studies have exploited the same remarkable natural experiment: the end of sugar rationing in Britain in 1953.
All have come to essentially the same conclusion: greater exposure to sugar early in life is associated with more chronic disease decades https
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@garytaubes What about its effects on alcohol, gambling, shopping addiction etc. Isnt that proof its working primarily in the brain?
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@garytaubes Not sure about semaglutide or tirzepatide, but retatrutide certainly also increases energy expenditure via glucagon.
And it's cheap too, a year's supply is under $300 if you know where to look.
https://t.co/yYlfGdT3mD
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@garytaubes These drugs in any case greatly reduce appetite, regardless of their supplemental effects
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Do GLP-1 drugs work by inhibiting appetite or by prioritizing fat oxidation over storage--changing metabolic fuel partitioning, in the lingo?
Most researchers (and X influencers) will insist it's the former, but they'll do so because they don't think deeply about the
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Could Wegovy’s weight-lowering effect be caused by how the drug affects fuel metabolism? 1/16 https://t.co/R0FwBnGQFY
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Well, this is nice to see.
And from Sam Klein of all people. He was a co-author on two major Atkins studies in the 00s, but seemed to be stumbling blindly over the results.
He seems to have his eyes open now.
Signs of a paradigm shifting?
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When we were dating, my engineer now-husband was floored that I didn’t trust Scientific American’s take on nutrition.
After we were married my husband adopted Keto and lost his T2 diabetic dawn effect and fatty liver disease. On Keto, eventually his labs made him appear to be
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I've never been a fan of the American Heart Association's version of the diet-heart hypothesis.
But what if they're right?
Shouldn't we all work diligently to lower our LDL by diet?
Let's work through the numbers and see what we have to gain.
If you're curious about how a
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@garytaubes @DikemanDave It's the food @garytaubes https://t.co/2IDIDDb2wl
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@garytaubes Looking forward. We need more books on the subject. Hope you have written about 100 million Indians a number which was < 5 million in 1977. & more than 100 million pre diabetic patients. most doctors still say it’s inherited & not a dietary problem
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1960: < 2 million Americans with diagnosed diabetes
Today: 30 million*
Is this a problem that can be solved by drug therapy?
There must be a better way
My new book, Rethinking Diabetes, is out Jan 2
https://t.co/NaU4gzarCD
#diabetes #wefightdiabetes
* https://t.co/GtlQ1DvQ5d h
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Against accounts of the same size
9 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown widely, but few of those viewers react.
Median views17 163this account5 853median for 100K–1M
Reach, %14.09%this account1.54%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %0.55%this account0.98%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 17 163 | 5 853 | 2.93× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 14.09% | 1.54% | 9.15× |
| Engagement rate | 0.55% | 0.98% | 0.56× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
60.4K1 Jan
3702 Jan
726
568
15.3K23 Aug
19.5K27 Aug
17.2K28 Aug
30.6K2 Sep
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535
422
17.7K6 Sep
Last 13 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
0.85%1 Jan
2.16%2 Jan
2.34%
1.23%
1.01%23 Aug
0.47%27 Aug
0.55%28 Aug
0.22%2 Sep
0.36%
0.24%
0.93%
0.95%
1.76%6 Sep
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 0.98%.
What the audience does
Likes66.0%1 140 in total
Reposts11.8%204 in total
Replies5.2%90 in total
Quotes0.3%5 in total
Bookmarks16.6%287 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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