Does Butter Raise Insulin And Make You Fat? The Low-Carb Experts Respond To This Claim

[cure]

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DR. ANDREAS EENFELDT, Swedish doctor and low-carb blogger :

Certainly there seems to be some insulin response to dairy, possibly due to the milk protein (and of course the lactose). That said, I hardly think butter is making anybody fat. Milk (and possibly cream and cheese) can be a problem for very sensitive individuals though, as they contains more lactose (milk sugar) and milk protein.

Saying butter can triple insulin levels is only true relative to starvation levels. In the López study, insulin got only marginally higher with butter than with isocaloric meals containing different fats: about 205 pmol/L compared to average about 165 with other fats. Thats about 25% higher, not 200% higher (“tripled”). Additionally there is a lot of statistical uncertainty in those numbers. Plus, butter contains some carbs and protein, the oils do not. So we shouldn’t be surprised that the insulin levels got a bit higher after the butter meal.

If you instead substitute bread for the butter, calorie for calorie, the insulin levels would shoot through the roof. In other words, if eating more butter makes you eat less bread, that will surely make you thinner, not fat. That seems to be the way it works for me and my patients. I eat more butter than ever, more than most people, and I am as thin at 38 as when I was 20.

[Ashka9]

Ghee is better than butter...but always again use even ghee in moderation.

[suramo Star in reply to Ashka9]

@Ashka

madam. Don't worry about homemade ghee and cow ghee. Fermentation makes them not only harmless but also useful. You can take as much as possible within the limits of 60% of your daily calorie intake. That's not going to make you fat. Instead you will lose weight and your waist circumference will also reduce. They contain sct which are absorbed via portal vein into the liver to be burnt off immediately to produce atps.

[cure Administrator]

once again congratulations Hidden ...ab bhai party toh banti hai ye bat pe....

And it is said any Hba1c below 5.5 means diabetes is in remission...you got 4.8 which means your diabetes is in very fast remission....

[Hidden in reply to cure]

Only with the diet I follow

Else it will spike

[cure Administrator in reply to Hidden]

hmmm guess shredded coconut may also help in reducing GI of other carbs???

[suramo Star]

cure

"Plus, butter contains some carbs and protein, the oils do not. So we shouldn’t be surprised that the insulin levels got a bit higher after the butter meal." I don't know which butter he is talking about but our cow ghee and clarinated butter - desi ghee do not have carbs in them. Also i don't know which butter meal he is talking about.

I also don't understand why starvation should raise insulin levels. Starvation is a catabolic state. Insulin must be at its lowest levels during starvation. Dairy is a different thing. They contain milk sugar. As such fats do not raise insulin levels.

Cure. I'd asked you a question you didn't answer. Buttermilk is the liquid left after churning out butter from curd. It should contain milk sugar and that too in abundance. How do you justify taking BM by us the D people ?

[cure Administrator in reply to suramo]

Bhai @suramo

Ayurveda prohibits curd for a diabetic... reason behind is not sugar...surprisingly ayurveda talks about salt to be avoided in diabetes...I don't know why...

As per ayurveda diabetes is due to aggravated Kafa dosh. And curd aggravates kafa so..curd is prohibited.

[suramo Star in reply to cure]

@Cure

D is a diseases of edema. Salt aggravates edema. So prohibited. We can take rock salt - sanchal and sindhalun. They contain potassium. Better than sodium.

[suramo Star in reply to cure]

@Cure

D is a diseases of edema. Salt aggravates edema. So prohibited. We can take rock salt - sanchal and sindhalun. They contain potassium. Better than sodium.

[cure Administrator in reply to suramo]

hmmm edema...so connected with BP???

Does curd increases edema??

[suramo Star in reply to cure]

@Cure

don't know. You are the master of ayu. But some people even if nonD gets puffiness on face and experience joint pains.

[Vsthak]

How to regain mass and muscle after losing the same due to pre diabetic?