Out There Six books popularized the lower-carb program, for those who have diabetes and those who do not. Pape visited five of the six authors. Pape looked at charts and spoke with patients directly. Here is what she observed. Glucagon converts protein and fat to glucose.
Glucagon stimulates the use of fat for energy.
Pape visited the Colorado Center for Metabolic Medicine in Boulder, Colorado. Rather than meeting with the authors, she met with a Dr. Ron Rosedale, because he works more with people with diabetes. One type 2 patient under Rosedale's care had triglycerides 7,000, an extremely high, dangerous level. The woman tried the plan, and her triglycerides went down to 500. Besides this extraordinary case, according to Pape, there were also other type 2s who had been on insulin, but after subscribing to the Protein Power plan, they no longer needed insulin injections.