Prof. Peter Brukner – ‘Are Low Carb Diets Associated with Type 2 Diabetes? The Monash Study’
Peter Brukner OAM, MBBS, FACSP, FACSM, FASMF, FFSEM is a specialist sports and exercise physician and the founding partner at the Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre in Melbourne. Peter is a world renowned sports medicine clinician and researcher. His most recent team appointments have been as Head of Sports Medicine and Sports Science at Liverpool Football Club and, until 2017, Team Doctor for the Australian cricket team.
Peter is Professor of Sports Medicine at the La Trobe Sport & Exercise Medicine Research Centre at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Peter has published widely internationally with a number of books, book chapters and over 100 original research articles. He is the co-author of Clinical Sports Medicine, a best selling general sports medicine text in its fifth edition as well as Stress Fractures, Food for Sport, Encyclopedia of Exercise and Sport Health and Clinical Sports Anatomy.
Prof. Brukner is the founder of the public health campaign SugarByHalf and is committed to the challenge of improving Australia’s health with improved diet and increased physical activity. The profits from Peter's book 'A Fat Lot Of Good' will help to fund the campaign
Peter is also the founder of Defeat Diabetes, Australia's first evidence-based and doctor-led program that focuses on the wide range of health benefits of a low carb lifestyle, particularly for those wanting to send into remission pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic illnesses. The Defeat Diabetes Program is delivered via a mobile app. It provides 100+ hours of video from health professionals, masterclasses, cooking demonstrations, recipes, a meal planner, and a rich library of resources, with new content regularly added.
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That´s a funny question when I completely reversed my T2D about 14 years ago with a low carb diet. Lost 200+ lbs and my plaque psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis went away as well. I guess some ppl are still trying to put a negative spin on any dietary lifestyle that doesn´t fit with the corporate image of a ´healthy diet.´
Me too. Oct 2021 went low carb, 3 months later had remitted my diabetes. Since then I have lost 25% of my starting weight and am almost at my ideal weight. I do have excess skin which I realise may be why I haven’t got down to my previous low weight.
Congratulations 👍🇿🇦
If we can not trust the veracity of clinical trials, we must use anecdotal.
Need to trust who is orchestrating the trials and the main players – how much money changes hand?
Fantastic, thank you.
When you consider the impact false or misleading information like this has on health and the economy it’s hard to fathom that anyone with a conscience could be party to it.
Always follow the money.
I feel very angry too at the lack of integrity in much of the medical world these days. AND my N=1 of cutting the carbs (not really low) remitted my diabetes, so *in my case* it DID *NOT* CAUSE DIABETES it reversed it! So much for the findings. And according to what people are posting there are many other people who have managed to remit theirs. Well done folks for ignoring the guidelines (yes a hats off to Dr Sarah Hallberg and her TED Talk).
This study is bordering on criminal in my opinion. Shame on them, especially Professor Courten. So many will justify their chronic desease diet and suffer later in life.
Here I was thinking science was about facts….
At least you are able to defend yourself. Imagine what happens when a patient attempts constructive dialogue with Dr Bloat.
We ask you all the time.. – Could you please use the description box to give the date of these talks !?
Many thanks folks
Yes this is terribly important
It looks like Sept 2024
That’s the date of the published Rebuttals
I’ve become very weary of PhD’s the last ten years
Really bad science. Thanks for nailing them. The press release is outrageous.
Well I bet that caused a good laugh. Who the heck wrote that? Had to be a vegan.
This is crazy! Ideologues dressed as distinguished professors have captured academia in every university
Great observation of false nutritional studys. Thank God we have honest people like you and Paul who keep us fathead informed. Thanks.
It’s amazing how this “study” could pass peer review and be published!
They don’t care if it is false.
They are paid to create doubt and confusion. Mission accomplished.
The author’s reply to question 5 by Prof Brukner is backwards! Normally, when data is adjusted for other factors, relationships get weaker, not stronger. It’s highly suspicious that only after adjusting the data for other factors did they find a connection between low-carb diets and diabetes. Their inability to find this relationship in simpler circumstances suggests their conclusion may not be true. It’s the equivalent of saying “I found the thing because I made the maths complicated.” That’s not good science!
Think of it like this: if you have to twist the numbers around to find what you’re looking for, maybe it wasn’t really there in the first place.
And in no 6 her reply crazy admitting defeat.
The author is basically saying “Well, it’s not the low carb diet that causes diabetes, it’s the obesity… but we’re still going to say low carb diet is associated with diabetes!” That’s like blaming the fork for making someone gain weight instead of what and how much they eat. She calls herself a professor. I think not.
I been questioning the recommended diet for diabetic for decades. The only ones benefiting from that is the Pharmaceutical companies making you more dependent on insulin injection. After showing Dr Troy Stapleton video to a friend who is a Type 1 diabetic he changed to a low carb high fat diet 8 years ago and would never go back to what the doctors recommend for him for over 40 years .
Great lecture!