SAMA HOOLE: Type 2 diabetes is the body telling you it can no longer cope with carbohydrate. We took a disease of too much glucose and built the treatment plan around glucose.

Type 2 diabetes is the body telling you it can no longer cope with carbohydrate.

The standard advice is to base your meals on carbohydrate. Two thirds of the plate. Starchy foods at every sitting. A little something every few hours to keep you going.

We took a disease of too…

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) July 19, 2026

Type 2 diabetes is the body telling you it can no longer cope with carbohydrate. The standard advice is to base your meals on carbohydrate. Two thirds of the plate. Starchy foods at every sitting. A little something every few hours to keep you going. We took a disease of too much glucose and built the treatment plan around glucose.

Then we called the disease progressive. 

SAMA HOOLE: Every one of those rebuilds is made from what you feed it. Feed it meat, fat, sunlight and sleep, and it builds you strong. Feed it sugar, seed oil and the sofa, and it builds you soft. The body you will have next year is under construction right now.

Nobody profits from telling you the body heals itself. So nobody tells you.

Your taste buds are new every 10 to 14 days. The tongue reading this flavour is a fortnight old.

Your stomach lining rebuilds every 3 to 5 days. Last week's gut is already gone.

Your skin turns over…

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) July 19, 2026

Nobody profits from telling you the body heals itself. So nobody tells you.

Your taste buds are new every 10 to 14 days. The tongue reading this flavour is a fortnight old. Your stomach lining rebuilds every 3 to 5 days. Last week's gut is already gone. Your skin turns over every 4 weeks. You grew a whole new surface this month. Your white blood cells renew in days. Tonight's immune army was not on watch last week. Your red blood cells retire every 120 days. Four months, and the entire fleet is replaced. The fat built into your cell membranes turns over too. Years of stored seed oil can slowly be walked back out. Your liver just gets on with regenerating. It holds no grudge about the bad years. Your skeleton rebuilds over roughly ten years. The bones made in the worst years are not the ones you finish with. Every one of those rebuilds is made from what you feed it. Feed it meat, fat, sunlight and sleep, and it builds you strong. Feed it sugar, seed oil and the sofa, and it builds you soft. The body you will have next year is under construction right now. What you give it today is what it builds you into.