[WhiskeyX]

That is exactly correct. You’ll find the upcoming videos to be especially interesting in your case.

The vast majority of the medical community is locked into a set of standard practices which and medical school training which virtually guarantees Type II diabetics will slowly or quickly see their insulin and glucose control spiral out of control as they age no matter how hard they try to restrict calories, restrict sugars, and exercise like demons one or more hours per day. It is a vicious cycle where their pancreas is stimulated to produce ever more insulin in an ever increasingly failed effort to improve cellular insulin sensitivity, and remove glucose from the bloodstream. The cells reject the glucose erroneously identifying the glucose as a foreign substance triggering an immune reaction and an inflammatory response, and they send messages to the brain signaling the onset of starvation and a need to slow the metabolism down and store all available fats into the adipose tissues as a reserve for a period of famine, while also signaling the need for increased hunger for more sweets to meet the erroneous starvation crisis.

As the insulin levels keep going up, the insulin locks up the fats in the adipose tissues ever more tightly, and refuse to release them to be used up as fuel. So, the adipose tissues just keep adding fat and refuse to release the fat. when the metabolism demands ever more calories energy and fails to get that energy from additional inputs of sugars and other carbohydrates, the metabolism turns to the protein found in the muscles, dissolves the muscles and uses the proteins to synthesize glucose to put into the bloodstream, raising the blood sugars again, while wasting away the muscles. Some of the muscle being wasted away is the heart muscle, leading to increased risk of heart failures.

The diabetic medications which treat the disease by increasing insulin to remove glucose from the blood also insures weight gain, insures wasting of muscles, and inhibits the ability to remove fat from adipose tissues. Unless this vicious cycle can be broken, it is only a matter of time before the increasing weight caused by the increasing insulin results in critical medical emergencies and death. However, one way of breaking this vicious spiral has been used by some people to reverse the cycle, lose substantial weight, and regain much of their health.

[3D-JOY]

I’ve been looking for some answers for over an hour...too tired now...check on them tomorrow...

[PA Engineer]

Good post and explanation. Something else for your reference. Moses Maimonides stated this over 800 years ago.

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

People need to heed this advice more today than ever before.

It may be hard to believe that our current medical crisis goes back to the advent of electricity. Proctor and Gamble had to do something with all that candle wax.

[Yosemitest]

Like I said, I'm a retired air traffic controller, and NOT a medical expert.
BUT ... I can read and learn from books.

Now that being said, I BELIEVE that given time, the body CAN heal itself ... IF you only know how to listen and HEED the signals it gives you.
I do NOT know HOW to do it, but I BELIEVE it CAN be done.
I also believe that the foods listed in the Old Testament as "clean" are a CLUE to good health.
I know from reading and experience that dark green vegetables cooked at low heat until at the taste you prefer, are a big help, and eaten raw are good for you ( micro-nutrients).
I know that extra virgin olive oil, and even some real fats, are good for diabetics (in moderation).
There are times, more lately than it use to be, that I want to throw all those meds into the trash, and just do it by myself.
Those meds keep me weak, and I hate them.
But when my body gets that overly hot sensation, and my muscles get that tired and a burning sensation, sometimes a couple of slices of 100 % whole wheat bread will help me to stop it.
But most of the time it won't, so I get out my insulin and take my shot.
Again ... I HATE IT !
Then there are other times, if I eat too many carbohydrates, or if it has been too long since I took my meds, I get the "sleepys" snd I can't stay awake.
I've learned that there's no point in fighting it, so I go lay down and take a nap.
Normally it takes about an hour and a half, to two hours before I wake up, and that's to a "bladder call" .
If I'm still sleepy, I go lay back down, but sometimes, if my schedule is way off, I'll try to fight it, and stay awake to get back on schedule.

Weight also can create a knee problem, and that will slow down the exercise part of the equation.

So again, IT IS EASIER TO 'PAY ATTENTION AND STAY HEALTHY' ... than it is to 'GET HEALTHY' ... !

[Yosemitest]

"However, one way of breaking this vicious spiral has been used by some people to reverse the cycle, lose substantial weight, and regain much of their health."

What "WAY" is that, since diabetes meds are a self-defeating downward spiral ?