Weird to realize that there are professional carbohydrate defenders, and that the health establishment confers advanced degrees in Carbohydrate Defense.
Why?
Leaving aside the merits or demerits of carbs, the answer IMO hinges on saturated fat, which the health establishment has told us to avoid for decades.
They told us to eat carbs instead.
Therefore, if carbs fall, the nutrition establishment falls.
It was all a pack of lies.
If you're lean and healthy and you exercise with intensity regularly, there's likely nothing wrong with some carbs.
Although you might be surprised when that bowl of "healthy" oatmeal spikes your blood sugar to 180.
It goes without saying that 90% of Americans are neither lean nor healthy nor regularly exercise.
Carb restriction will do most of them a world of good.
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Does insulin cause accelerated aging, and can you slow aging and live longer and in better health by keeping insulin levels low?
Let's look at the evidence.
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Insulin is a hormone secreted by the pancreas, which maintains normal blood glucose levels by promoting cellular glucose uptake, regulating carbohydrate, lipid and protein metabolism and promoting cell division and growth.
Hormesis is a fundamental concept in biology, and in health and disease.
Importantly, you can use hormesis deliberately to improve your own health and live longer.
What is hormesis?
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Hormesis is a process in which exposure to a low dose of a toxin or stressor that is damaging at higher doses induces an adaptive beneficial effect on the cell or organism.
Hormesis is ubiquitous in living things.
Hormesis is fundamental to living organisms' ability to survive and thrive against the assaults of the environment
Hugo Schulz discovered hormesis in 1884 when he noted that yeast cells grew better in the presence of low doses of chemical disinfectants.