Is that the one I keep getting email from that claims you can lose 37 lbs, in 4 week?
Before insulin was discovered in 1921, people with diabetes didn’t live for long; there wasn’t much doctors could do for them. The most effective treatment was to put patients with diabetes on very strict diets with minimal carbohydrate intake. This could buy patients a few extra years but couldn’t save them. Harsh diets (some prescribed as little as 450 calories a day!) sometimes even caused patients to die of starvation.
http://diabetesstopshere.org/2012/08/21/the-history-of-a-wonderful-thing-we-call-insulin/
Before I started keto about 2.5 years ago I was 150 lbs heavier and while taking nearly 400 units of insulin a day (360 to be exact) had fasting blood sugar readings over 250. I'm now 150 lbs lighter, normal fasting sugars and I haven't taken any insulin in over two years...and never will again.
BookMark
Im keto and I no longer show any signs of diabetes for over a year now (and other medical issues cleared as well). You would think my doctor would like this... you would think
Anyone reading this.....
Do a Youtube search under Joe Rogan and Keto.
Good stuff there with experts on the subject
Look into Intermittent Fasting also.
You are welcome
If you’re going on a very low carb diet to cure your type 2 diabetes, DO NOT CONSULT WITH YOUR DOCTOR as often they won’t even be encouraging, following some other dumb government diet guidelines.
Truths:
1. A ketogenic diet will CURE your diabetes.
2. Most keto diets don’t take into account the gut biome so the gut bugs’ cravings will make your diet fail at some point.
3. If you go for a very low carb diet, and use the carbs you allow yourself to feed a healthy gut bug population, you will have no diabetes and no bad cravings and you will feel very good mentally. (The most beneficial gut bugs crave fibrous cooked veggies and cooked and cooled, reheated potatoes and other tubers.)
But yeah, it should work! You don’t even have to stay constantly “in keto” but avoiding all the sugars will cure the diabetes. You need to remember food cravings come from the bacteria, and the bad ones want sugar sugar sugar. You need those to die out and the healthy ones will crave roasted veggies and potatoes. I promise.
I wouldn’t ask my dr about anything diet related. He’s watched me lose 50-60 lbs over the last couple years and has zero understanding about keto/ low carb.
He wasn’t to happy about me dropping the Lipitor either.
I know a woman who was on insulin and medications and was still having problems keeping her diabetes under control. She went on a strict Keto diet and was able to gradually get off all of them. She did find out that she can’t eat pork as it wreaks havoc with her diabetes.
Information is everywhere ping
Bkmk
This is interesting stuff. I actually met with Virta when I was doing a consulting gig with a large financial institution who was looking for innovative ways to help their diabetic population. Virta was a tad too “radical” for this company, so they settled on Livongo, a digital solution.
But the outcomes from Virta are really compelling. More than likely we all “should” be on some type of ketogenic diet.
Tie back to later low carb thread...
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3671127/posts?page=1
No gall stones either.
Personal experience: Yes. Type II here, halved my med and felt my first low in...ever.
I feel better than I have in 30 years.
I’m type 1. Switched to keto last December. I was not really overweight, but have lost 20 pounds of middle-age spread. A1C went from 7.3 to 5.3. Bolus insulin eliminated entirely and basal insulin decreased by a third. Lows are very rare and highs are nonexistent. Low carb is THE answer to diabetes.