Posted on 11/16/2019 7:00:34 PM PST by ConservativeMind
A body of research putting people with Type 2 diabetes on a low calorie diet has confirmed the underlying causes of the condition and established that it is reversible.
Get rid of the fat and reverse Type 2 diabetes
The body of research by Professor Roy Taylor now confirms his Twin Cycle Hypothesis -- that Type 2 diabetes is caused by excess fat actually within both liver and pancreas.
This causes the liver to respond poorly to insulin. As insulin controls the normal process of making glucose, the liver then produces too much glucose. Simultaneously, excess fat in the liver increases the normal process of export of fat to all tissues. In the pancreas, this excess fat causes the insulin producing cells to fail.
The Counterpoint study which was published in 2011, confirmed that if excess food intake was sharply decreased through a very low calorie diet, all these abnormal factors would be reversed.
The study showed a profound fall in liver fat content resulting in normalisation of hepatic insulin sensitivity within 7 days of starting a very low calorie diet in people with type 2 diabetes. Fasting plasma glucose became normal in 7 days. Over 8 weeks, the raised pancreas fat content fell and normal first phase insulin secretion became re-established, with normal plasma glucose control.
Keep the weight off and keep the diabetes at bay
"The good news for people with Type 2 diabetes is that our work shows that even if you have had the condition for 10 years, you are likely to be able to reverse it by moving that all important tiny amount of fat out of the pancreas. At present, this can only be done through substantial weight loss," Professor Taylor adds.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Makes sense.
Cut out the crap. Get your health back.
Eat the fat, ditch the carbs!
50% of diabetes is preventable. Sen. Tom Colburn, M.D. said it.
However, it means getting rid of body fat, not fat in the diet. With the the keto diet, you eat a lot of fat, but your body starts burning body fat.
My A1C was normal in three weeks and the VA took me off all my diabetes medicine.
3 weeks?! Im at 7.6 A1C....doc recommended Keto and intermittent fasting. On 500m Metformin x2 /day.
I was taking two metformin and two glipizide a day. I lost 85 pounds since January 15 and am taking no pills for diabetes.
My morning fasting glouse levels run between 90-95.
Congratulations on your success!
I tried a 4 day fast, reputed to ‘reset the pancreas’.
It didn’t.
Not just type 2 Diabetes is reversible, but high blood pressure and heart disease as well.
The best diet for reversing poor health is a whole food, plant based diet.
Healthy eating y’all!
That’s awesome. My hubby has lost around 50 since starting keto a year ago. He was borderline diabetic, and had high cholesterol. His blood sugar numbers came within normal range quickly. It took longer for the cholesterol numbers, but they are normal now too. Not even including statins ever got those numbers to normal ranges.
It's not the weight itself causing diabetes, and it's not the calorie reduction that fixes it.
Weight is a correlated with diabetes. Too much insulin causes both.
The calorie reduction works because if you cut out half the amount of food you are cutting out half the stuff that's causing a problem. But you don't have to cut half the calories. You can just cut out the stuff that's problematic and eat more of the stuff that isn't.
Sunday: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Monday: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Tuesday:
Wednesday: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Thursday: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Friday: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
Saturday: 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm.
If you don't exercise then disregard the above schedule. Instead remain immobile and eat until your skin grows into the couch's upholstery. (That's a thing, lol.)
Diabetes Type I, which (generally) used to be known as Juvenile Diabetes, is an autoimmune disease, meaning someone’s body stops producing insulin for reasons unrelated to the behavior of the that person. (Autoimmune means the person’s body is working against or even attacking itself.) Diabetes Type II, on the other hand, occurs when someone’s body stops producing insulin or becomes resistant to insulin temporarily, on account of obesity caused by overeating or by pregnancy. It is sometimes when people say, “She has Adult Onset Diabetes†or “She has Type II Diabetesâ€, when the person they are talking about may in fact have Type I Diabetes, but had been diagnosed as an adult, such as Mary Tyler Moore, who was the spokesman of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation for decades. The expressions “Juvenile Diabetes†and “Adult Onset†rarely are used these days because they muddy the waters, when what really matters is whether the type of diabetes someone has is autoimmune, regardless of his or her age when developing diabetes.
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“A body of research putting people with Type 2 diabetes on a low calorie diet has confirmed the underlying causes of the condition and established that it is reversible.”
Even though the article is 2 years old, and there’s no fuzz to it at all (it is definitive), this is something that VERY FEW diabetics even know, because the ‘medical community’ simply REFUSES to accept what is right in front of their faces.
As to motivation, there are a lot of players with very high stakes in not wanting diabetes cured, and others who simply do not want to deal with the fact that they’ve spent their careers telling their patients what they need to do to keep getting sicker and sicker, and giving them drugs to speed it along.
But you also have another group getting into the act, and these people have tremendous political power - The Left. For them, they know that the only effective way to lose weight that is working with real people is the Keto Diet. And they know that Keto means EATING MEAT, and eating meat means eating MORE cows, pigs, and chickens - not less...and certainly not eliminating meat, as they are now pushing to do.
It’s the battle of the ages - the Left is essentially telling Americans (and others around the world), that you MUST GET SICK in order to ‘save the planet’...needless to say, for most people, their health comes out slightly ahead of planet-saving - the Left knows just that. That’s why the Left needs to keep this information locked-down.
One side is going to win - but the battle is now being joined.
One doctor described diabetes this way. Basically,when too much glucose is in the blood to fuel the body cells close their walls to anymore glucose so it stays in the blood. As long as sugar stay in the blood,the insulin that pushes the sugar gets blocked. That is why you become insulin resistant. When the sugar stays in the blood, it turns the blood acidic, so it begins to dissolve cell walls. This is why diabetics find it hard to heal.
Cut your carbs through the day until your body needs carbs and you can minimize diabetes. Also talk a half hour walk a day so that your cells will use the sugar they have stored.
I strongly urge everyone to read the book Delay, Don’t Deny : Living an Intermittent Lifestyle by Gin Stephens. Intermittent fasting can improve and eliminate many health issues with an added benefit of weight loss.
LOW CARB / KETO PING!!!
This one’s worth a ping. It’s from 2 years ago, but this is the first that I’ve seen it. What’s amazing is that the ability to reverse diabetes has been shown over and over again when people have their stomachs stapled and thereby lose a bunch of weight...it’s not news, but the approach isn’t even seriously recommended to diabetics - instead they’re given the usual meaningless words to ‘lose weight’, and to also start on these drugs (knowing that the patients will actually gain weight, just from the drugs).
And just for definition - Reversing diabetes does not mean curing diabetes, as it will come back come back if you go back to your old lifestyle. But reversing does mean you will have (and maintain) normal blood sugar without drugs, as long as you maintain the lifestyle that got you there. My understanding is that some people cannot fully reverse diabetes by going Keto and losing the weight, as they’ve been diabetic so long that they have trouble producing enough of their own insulin - but many others, probably a majority of diabetics, can fully reverse their condition.
[p.s., anyone wanting to join, or leave, my Low-Carb ping list, just let me know, privately or publicly]
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