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I also wrote “people believe what they want to believe.”

“Low-carb” is a dangerous euphemism. Every single person I’ve ever met rationalizes their own predicament and poor choices, proclaiming that they are “managing” their pre-diabetes by engaging “low-carb” while being a hypocrite and proclaiming that 80/20 “works”.

As you point out, TII diabetes IS reversible, but lo-carb does NOT need to be a new lifestyle. I cannot elaborate without giving away my little secret, but suffice to state that most people make a choice and live their choice with one foot in the grave.

Low-carb is NOT a solution unless adopted as part of a broad, comprehensive regimen to address health issues. This requires much more than simply following a ‘diet’.

It’s not merely “watching what you eat & drink” as you write, but making a choice to not poison yourself into such a precipitous state of health in which your organs fail to function properly (diabetes, among other conditions with varied names all referencing the same thing: Patient-induced symptoms).

I reversed my TII 20 years ago and STILL had follow on health conditions due to my own ignorance, part of which was the search for the perfect ‘diet’.

I have one important distinction to make between my experience and your own:

I recognized the symptoms of TII and permanently-reversed them, now able to consume ANY natural food I choose (with obvious exceptions to toxic compounds, given my “choices”).

You’re promoting sites which proffer to reverse TII but you have not (yet, I hope).

I urge you to find a local ND to assist you in guiding your body to a healing state. Including myself, I know others who saw progress of TII reversal in 6 months. If your condition is not too far progressed, you CAN still recover, but it will take potentially 1-2 years of dedication to save your life.

A small price to pay.

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Like all things in life, one decision is affected by other decisions and responsibilities.

"I recognized the symptoms of TII and permanently-reversed them,
now able to consume ANY natural food I choose (with obvious exceptions to toxic compounds, given my “choices”)."

I strongly believe that those "obvious exceptions" are all carbohydrates, like processed sugar.

My primary responsibility right now is to care for my aging parents, and their diets and eating habits strongly adversely affect my eating habit, simply because of not wanting to cook three separate meals.
But I have learned over these past 12 years that my body will tell me by my energy level, or lack thereof, what foods hurt my blood sugar.
I'm quite positive that your body has done the same.
I believe in the body's ability to heal itself.
However, with aging that healing process slows down a lot.

Another relative, my brother's wife's mother, had a cancer problem and her cancer became active again.
Her daughter had learned over many years that her cancer cells were a higher percentage of blood levels when her mother ate foods that converted to sugars quickly, like potatoes, and breads, and other sweets.
While visiting my brother, I asked her, if she liked dark green vegetables.
She said some of them, she could eat.
I got her some fresh turnip greens with purple turnips, and some fresh spinach and made her a salad, and cooked the turnip greens for about 3 hours, adding the turnips in the last 30 minutes.
She ate them and liked them.
The next day, when she had her blood tested, her doctor asked her what she had done, and said that her iron levels were way up, and that her blood cells had improved greatly to the good.
I told her that it was the micro-nutrients in the dark greens.

Whole food are a great health benefit, and processed sugars and processed flour kills.