Robert Lustig explains how your body converts amino acids and fat into glucose for energy. Explorer William R. Stefansson documented Inuit populations thriving on diets with almost no carbohydrates, relying entirely on this conversion process.
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You can make glucose from amino acids and fat and that glucose will cause. That goes into pipe oscillations, well, sialic acid, but your body makes that too. So it's basically glucose, galactose, mannose and sialic acid. Eskimos don't. Eskimos, right. Don't have carbohydrates. Don't have carbohydrates. And their diet, now they do. Now they do. And now they're sick. William R. Stefansson, famous arctic explorer, he didn't go to the North Pole first, but he went to the North Pole most. He, he was my mother's late husband's brother in law. William or Stefansson's Harvard chair is in my office at my house. Okay. I own all of Stefanson's books. I have his entire library. And he was shipwrecked amongst the Inuit in 1914 and lived amongst them for a year and a half. And he noticed that Eskimos at the time, now Inuit, there was no diabetes and no cancer. And he ended up writing a book in 1939 called Cancer A Disease of Civilization.