A chef and a doctor discuss why medicine took over 20 years to recognize insulin resistance as a major health problem. They point to institutional inertia, ego among medical leaders, and funding from pharmaceutical and food companies as reasons for the delay.
I've been hearing about insulin resistance from the beginning. So why the F is it taking the industry so freaking long to acknowledge this? What is going on, man? It's been 20 years plus.
Honestly, I do think ego is a big part of this. The leaders that have been saying this for so long— cholesterol, cholesterol, cholesterol— for them to admit that they were wrong, that's a big shift. It's the institutions that have been built around this, like the American Heart Association, funding from the Pharmaceutical companies, funding from the food industry play in all of this as well. That is very real. Some people think it's a grand conspiracy that maybe started with one or two people. I don't think that's true. When institutions are built around a certain concept, it is very hard to get that to change. And I'm very hopeful that 20 years from now, people aren't still having this conversation.
I've been in this field 20 years as a chef.
