I've stopped caring about anything this waste of carbon dioxide says.
The Obesity Code is an excellent book. I also found Dr Fung's other "code" books excellent: the Cancer Code and the Diabetes Code. I particularly found the fact that cancer cells are only able to make ATP via glycolysis interesting, because it implies that what we eat also affects how likely we are to have cancer.
I think it's unusual to say that insulin is bad. Chronic insulin resistance is surely a sign of poor metabolic health, because it means that the body has had to secrete a lot of it to address persistently high levels of glucose in the bloodstream, which is caused by eating too much sugar in any of its forms. Sugar (and by extension carbohydrates) is what is bad.
Like you said, it's a critical hormone and we cannot function without it. T1D is an inability to secrete enough insulin and those affected waste away very quickly without medical aid.
I was surprised to learn of this too. It seems relatively easy to try, so I'm going to give it a go.
It started out very civilly but I think Victoria tripped something in Prof. Kay when she interrupted him when he was speaking, while he had abided by the rules and had given her the floor. Oh dear.
It went downhill very rapidly after that. I've gone through some of his content and think Prof Kay's actually very likeable, but this was stressful for me to watch. I feel sorry for Victoria. I see why he'd go on to say that the persona is a double-edged blade. It'd be difficult for me to link such videos to friends.
Is it catatonic?
I reckon you know about this already, but I've seen a lot of posts on the fediverse about using uBlock Origin with Noscript because uMatrix stopped being supported. It seems that some haven't realized that uMatrix's functionality is in uBlock Origin!
https://github.com/gorhill/ublock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-mode
So I thought I'd put it here just in case.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
I love that this quote and the book named after it was mentioned. As a species we are awful at thinking about large, noisy datasets. Randomness, especially over long periods of time, is very unintuitive. So the point Prof. Kay makes about bad statistics being the basis of modern nutrition is not only salient, it deserves consideration even when we read the research conducted in randomized controlled trials.
Add to that the inherent tendency to remember only the things we know or care about and it's clear that studies based on self-reporting are going to be very difficult to correctly interpret.
This is my first time encounter with him, and he seems like a very reasonable person in the video. The persona he puts on in his attempts to game the algorithm and bait people into watching his videos must be horrible!
Since the YouTube algorithm tends to surface things that are popular, I imagine he must have trouble getting views if all he does is talk about the science in a professional way. It's always a swim upstream to even say anything against popular opinion, but the curse Ancel Keys and industrialized food has put on the field of nutritive science appears to be a particularly formidable one.
Vitamin C Overuse Can Worsen Oxalate Load: Vitamin C metabolizes into oxalic acid, so excessive vitamin C intake—particularly intravenous high-dose therapy—can exacerbate oxalate crystal formation in tissues and veins, causing fibrosis and vascular damage. This is a caution against indiscriminate use of vitamin C supplements without considering oxalate toxicity risks.
I was mildly horrified to learn of this because I was given high doses of vitamin C as a child to "bolster my immune system."
I also recently learned that sugar reduces the body's ability to uptake vitamin C, and the body is also able to recycle vitamin C quite efficiently, so there is no need to supplement vitamin C since you only need a small amount from your diet.
The title has some questionable sounding terms in it, I agree. But the content of the video is not sensational and the existence of oxalic acid in some foods is indisputable. Especially if you ask my friends that have kidney stones...
To address your second point, Sally Norton does have academic credentials. They are listed in the video description:
Sally holds a nutrition degree from Cornell University and a Master’s of Public Health degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She worked in the field of Integrative Medicine at UNC Medical School as Project Manager of an NIH-Funded project for expanding medical education to include more awareness of holistic and alternative healing arts.
Sally has published popular articles in academic and popular journals, and appeared in numerous interviews (including with Dr. Joseph Mercola) discussing the widespread but little-known harmful effects of oxalates in our food.
I have the impression that she started her study in nutrition because she experienced a lot of poor health caused by oxalates, but please correct me if I'm wrong. As a result, even if anecdotal, I find her experiences fascinating because they seem so genuine to me.
The condition of being a billionaire is pathological, and should be dealt with in an appropriate way to pathology.