Peter Attia· MD
because if you think about this overflow paradigm now if you take the glucose that's in the blood and simply shove it into the liver have you done anything good for this patient the answer is no because you're just covering up the problem so you take insulin and your sugars are amazing right they're normal but you shoved all this sugar into your liver what happens when you stop taking the insulin all the sugar comes rushing back out of your liver and your sugar goes high so you actually have to keep taking it to keep it bottled up all you've done is you've covered up the problem you never made it better because it's like taking garbage and throwing it under your sink you can pretend that your kitchen is nice and clean but it's gonna start to smell and that's the problem it's the whole body glucose moving the glucose from one compartment of the body which is the blood to another compartment which is the liver so you move the glucose from where you could see it into somewhere where you couldn't see it that doesn't do your body any good