Something positive occurs when food (I would think the dysfunction surrounds carbohydrate use) is restricted and not allowed an extended time to adversely influence blood pressure regulation over 24 hours.
I do know people who go low carb or who greatly reduce weight achieve much better blood pressure regulation.
It sounds like eating calories all through the day and evening is inherently unhealthy for Type 2 diabetics (and obviously others).
I intermittently fast between bites...
Bkmk
I don’t have diabetes, but I discovered I had astronomical blood pressure a couple of years when giving blood. I refuse to reduce my life to being a revenue stream for the big-bureaucrat/big-pharmaceutical criminal-complex and will NEVER go on any medication of any kind, ever.
I got it under control with alternate-day fasting and nattokinase + serrapeptase.
Alternate-day fasting does get pretty hard after awhile, but it works.
I lost about 40 pounds last year without even really trying. I ate anything I wanted between noon and 6. Took a new job that required high energy in the morning and went back to normal eating and gained 20. Thinking about changing jobs to more be more consistent with the intermittent fasting, I was feeling pretty good.
My direct observations as a Type 2.
Easily testable by anyone with the disease.
I finally spent some time to watch Jason Fung’s video about insulin resistance and treating Type II with fasting or restricted eating times. It makes a lot of sense.
If we eat frequently our body is flooded with the insulin that we are resistant to and we become even more resistant to it.
Fung appears to be becoming much like the young doc who was so maligned about the benefits of Vitamin D3 and in time has been proven right.
It looks to me like there is a lot of bad medicine being practiced in treating Type II such as the recommendation by some to eat smaller meals more often. That just keeps the insulin pump primed all the time. Not good.
I can testify that the discipline not to eat anything white and to just give up on between meal snacks is more than just a little difficult. Weaning off of food is similar to when I quit my 50 year habit of chewing tobacco. You just have to quit buying the stuff and quit period. Any backsliding lights the fire again. Sort of reminds me of my days offshore on rigs, you have to put going home out of your mind and let the day you get on the helicopter come as a surprise.
Fasted for a week back in the day. Amazing things happen after day two.
Bkmk