Cats can cure themselves from diabetes...
I’ve personally seen it.
Over time, people with type-II diabetes can be made more receptive to their own insulin, which in turn allows their bodies to effectively clear glucose from the blood without insulin medication. The trick for the vast majority of type II patients is as simple as losing weight.
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I stopped reading after this. Someone with medical expertise help.
I thought TypeII diabetes was insulin resistence, where the cells slowly are less responsive to insulin and thus the body tries to produce MORE of it in order to reduce blood glucose levels.
What they wrote seems backwards from what I’ve read before.
From my point of view, the answer is more or less:
Yes.
“Permanent weight loss without bariatric surgery is practically impossible at the population level.”
but not for someone with motivation. I’ve lost 25 pounds on a HFLC diet since last September, with 15-20 more to go.
and besides the failure rate with bariatric is about 50% by five years out ...
Read “Enter the Zone” by Dr. Barry Sears. That’s all you need to know to PREVENT Type II diabetes, and also control it. You will become a “Born Again Eater”.
Amazing that they dare to use what was proven to work before insulin was synthesized.
How much of the population has become diabetic and fat since 1982 when insulin became widely available??
has your Doctor Approved Diet been Killing you??
how about your Government Approved diet??
My point is this, NONE of this is NEW!!!
I’m a medical underwriter. I read medical records all day for a living. I see primarily 2 kinds of people. People who are owned by the disease, and people who own the disease. The former feel powerless and rely on medication, to varying degrees of compliance. The latter take the disease by the throat and control it as the very best they can. Diet, exercise, frequent follow up, self education, listening to their MD, following Rx schedules. Two very different mindsets, and as one would expect, frequently different outcomes.
No one seeks disease, but time wears us down, disease finds us. Own it, stay focused.
Skimming this quickly, it look like the Atkins diet.
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There are four sides to the Type II problem.
The first is insulin production in the pancreas and liver.
Just producing more insulin is not enough, and too much insulin could negatively affect the second side: insulin resistance/insulin sensitivity. There are some suggestions that consuming artificial sweeteners can temporarily boost your insulin production; but in turn this could lower your insulin sensitivity.
Likewise taking injected insulin could increase your resistance to insulin.
The third side is sugar digestion and absorption in the intestines. People may have a type of bacteria in their flora that over-digests food and also contributes to weight gain.
And the fourth side is overweight and metabolic syndrome. This means it is easy to gain weight and even harder to lose it.
In any event, supplements used to achieve some of this:
Turmeric. Anti-Hyperglycemic and Insulin Sensitizing Effects. (3g x 3 day) Reduces liver glucose and glycogen production. Many other good effects.
Ginger. Fasting Blood Sugar, Hemoglobin A1c, Apolipoprotein B, Apolipoprotein A-I and Malondialdehyde in Type 2 Diabetic Patients (4g x 3 day, before meals)
Cloves. Cloves improve glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. (1g/day)
Gymnema sylvestre (300mg x 2, 15 minutes before meals.) Stimulates insulin release in vitro by increased membrane permeability. It promotes regeneration of islet cells. It increases utilization of glucose: it is shown to increase the activities of enzymes responsible for utilization of glucose by insulin-dependant pathways, an increase in phosphorylase activity, decrease in gluconeogenic enzymes and sorbitol dehydrogenase. Gymnemic acid molecules fill the receptor location in the absorptive external layers of the intestine thereby preventing the sugar molecules absorption by the intestine, which results in low blood sugar level.
Organic Spirulina pills. (Increased slowly up to 5g/day) Can improve insulin sensitivity in Type II patients by 250%.
Blood fungus, a sugar eater. Almost impossible to resist carbs when your blood sugar drops.
Lactose ferments and the above mentioned low carb diet will work over time. Eat your veggies!
They created a cure for a disease, then gave it to the Whole Country!!!
To get a sense of how industries adapt, it helps to look back at the late 1970s, which is when the dietary recommendations for low-fat foods came out. You can see that within about five years, the food industry rolled out something like 100,000 products where they just removed fat and put in sugar and starch.
The first genetically engineered, synthetic “human” insulin was produced in 1978 using E. coli bacteria to produce the insulin. Eli Lilly went on in 1982 to sell the first commercially available biosynthetic human insulin under the brand name Humulin.
Maybe. But Vanadium and chromium are.
The short answer is yes and I’m living proof.
This requires gobs of will power.
Fasting...intermittent even, works
I got a flu shot today, and it was kinda neat. What she did was to swab the skin, dry it off, put a little band-aid on, and administer the shot through the band-aid. Hah.
As there a diabetes vaccine yet?
Type 2 diabetes leads to alzheimers
It helps Type 1, too. Obviously, it won’t cure it, but without carbs, it’s much easier to control your blood sugar. I’m Type 1 and started keto 3 months ago. A1C dropped from 7.4 to 5.4. Completely eliminated my quick-acting insulin and have cut my basal insulin by over a third. I wasn’t really overweight, but I’ve lost almost 15 pounds. I need to lose maybe 5 more and then might have to eat more to keep from losing any more weight.