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 ...
“The best diet for reversing poor health is a whole food, plant based diet.”
Uh-oh! I’ve lost 35 lbs, lowered my blood pressure and triglycerides the wrong way! Meat, cheese, sometimes a few veggies...
I think you will note dozens of FReepers have had immense success with reversing their health conditions through a lower carb approach over the past couple years in which I’ve been posting these studies. You could imagine I’m pretty happy we will have FReepers around a lot longer now.
One could ask, “Why not simply change one’s diet to using the Okinawa approach?” I’m not against such a diet, but any diet needs to be adhered to to succeed. People are finding that a low carb approach is pretty easy and provides very quick benefits. Their hunger goes away while accomplishing their goal. The other diets generally leave these same people hungry and their goals don’t get met because their bodies are out of whack. They have already over used carbs and eating high carb, but less, doesn’t work. They have abused carbs so much their liver and pancreas are dysfunctional.
As an illustration, I doubt doctors or friends would have much success telling functional drunks to simply cut down your drinking by 30% and you will get healthy again. Keep drinking 70% of what you do, because that won’t hurt you and people can easily manage 70% of their normal alcohol volume. It’s just the little extra that makes you dysfunctional.
Why is the drinking advice I offer bad or not a parallel of your dietary approach? Eating or drinking less is the key, right? Maybe shifting to drinking a different alcohol will do it, like changing to rice from bread?
This study shows positive results from subjects who had provably reversed diabetes and they were able to measure the amount of fat removal was needed for diabetes to go away.
I don’t see how your protest provides a substantive rebuttal to the study’s work. Can you elucidate your thoughts?
I like your rants, logi_cal869. It keeps you engaged and questioning and I know you mean well for others.
How are your arteries looking?
Good luck!
My brother in law has type 2 and is now on insulin and is getting necropsy in his feet. He refuses to diet or lose weight. I have never understood it.
Doctors don’t say there is any hope for diabetics, outside of drugs and a high carb diet. Of course, a high carb diet and drugs don’t “fix” anything.
Doctors have been telling my BIL for the 13 years I have known him to lose weight. He just wont do it.
Avoid carbs and sugars both as fruit and candy, bread, pasta and your A1C1 will drop. If you can follow that restrictive a diet. 1 to much protien causes joint pain, 2 don’t have GI diseases caused by osteoarthritis drugs. 3 eat in moderation all food groups.
I have Gastropresis slow digestion from OA drugs, so it pushes me to Type 2 Diabetes. Your diet is limited to what you actually digest. If it is left in your stool, you have to eliminate it. Leads to Colon issues too as you have no to little fiber in your diet.
A relative of mine who had such severe Type 2 Diabetes she was on self-administered insulin, went on a closely monitored diet, NOT specifically aimed at calories or fat, but specifically tailored to her, based on regular blood tests, has taken her off of insulin, off of all former diabetes meds and now has her in a pre-diabetic stage. She has lost some weight, but merely losing weight was never the goal - getting he body to operate correctly vis-a-vis insulin and blood sugar was the goal. She sees the doctors in charge of this regime twice a month - once for new blood tests and consultations and a week later, with the blood analysis at hand they discuss next or continuing steps to work on. For the very first time in her life she is religiously doing what her doctors recommend. That in itself is a life-changing thing for her. In the past she could easily be described as any doctors worst patient.
I DOUBT the Drs were advocating Keto
You get healthy to lose weight, you don’t lose weight to get healthy.
Weight loss is a by-product of healthy choices.
I eat a lot of plants on a Keto diet. But I do eat beef and fish. Especially grass-fed beef and the SMASH Fish (Salmon, Mackerel, Anchovies, Sardines, and Herring). But always try to eat wild-caught fish, much more good Omega-3 fats.
Or my Kerrygold.
You mean this?
MCT oil...
I recently started supplementing with MCT oil after reading about its benefits (heart, brain, metabolism, energy...) and I’m wondering if anyone here can share their experience with the stuff. I chose Brain Octane by Bulletproof Inc.
My experience I’ve learned is typical. First, not good because of stomach irritation and diarrhea. I gave it another chance and the bad symptoms didn’t happen again....not like before. A week later, no bad news. My mind/cognitive state does seem a bit snappier and energy level is slightly above average. Drinking approx 1Tbs/day.
-Thanks.
My friend reversed her Type II, and lost about 30 pounds in a year, just through diet. No sugar, bread, rice, etc. She got too thin. (Two years later she died from metastitized breast cancer. She wondered if the diet for diabetes, and rapid weight loss weakened her immune system. Who can know?)
Vermont cows give the best milk. The price of milk is killing the old family dairy farms here.
First off, apologies for my tone. I’m horribly-frustrated at the level of ignorance on health matters. If you’ve never done outreach, it’s impossible to grasp my meaning.
2nd, I did not critique the study, but your footnote comments. I cannot elaborate further on the revelations my book will expose, but suffice to state that I consistently berate ‘diet’ as a four-letter-word (i.e., an obscenity) and a tool of manipulation.
The sooner that everyone grasps that reality the better off everyone will be, mentally & physically. Conservatives are especially sensitive to manipulation, hence my frustration in some of these threads.
I do appreciate your efforts to break through the morass of health hyperbole, but I get especially-frustrated at anything which promotes restrictive ‘dieting’ as a way of life. This includes the hysteria about ‘low carb’ (which is NOT the converse of “excess”). There is as much evidence for harm to health from such approaches as there is to short-term benefits. The prudent approach would be to err on the side of caution, yet the mantra - including the other FReeper’s comment in reply to my ‘rant’ which touts ‘keto’ - is to ignore difficult truths and revel in the emotional satisfaction of short-term benefits, rationalizing “Why not?” for engaging it long term rather than investing as much energy in health/dietary research as “Fantasy Football”, social media or any other obsession.
To-wit, I am obsessed with solving this western health crisis and I believe that I’ve nailed it.
Again, I cannot elaborate.
However, as a practical matter from which all can benefit, Keto (aka Atkins) is a good “regimen” (i.e. “short-term”) to launch into a realistic lifestyle approach (Paleo-like, but “Paleo” is overly-simplistic and ignorant of other factors), but all considerations must be weighed, including factors about which most are especially-ignorant (one of which being the gut, another being all sources of toxicity, not merely “gluten” or “carbs”).
And to your comment “note dozens of FReepers have had immense success with reversing their health conditions”: Those results were most certainly NOT achieved in mere weeks and I assure you with near certainty that in many-to-most cases I can find hypocrisy compromising the touted gains despite measured results in tests or at the scale, unfortunately being the unmistakable results of my research/counseling/outreach, repeated ad nauseam with subjects at a rate of over 9-in-10 people who tout the measured results of adopted extremes.
One final word: Your use of the word ‘diet’ with “Okinawa approach” is a misnomer: Okinawans do NOT ‘diet’, they LIVE.
There is a life lesson in there.
Be well and keep at it.
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