Posted on 11/03/2021 9:46:17 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Around one in twenty people in Scotland diagnosed with type 2 diabetes achieve remission from the disease. This suggests people are achieving remission outside of research trials and without bariatric surgery. Recognising individuals in remission, following their progress, and better understanding the factors involved in remission could lead to improved initiatives to help others.
There were an estimated 463 million people with diabetes in the world in 2019, of whom 90-95% have type 2 diabetes, and these numbers are rising due to ageing populations, growing obesity and sedentary lifestyles. Some people with type 2 diabetes have achieved remission after bariatric surgery, or after taking part in a research trial of a very low-calorie diet, but it is unknown how many people in the general population are in remission. Using a national register of people with type 2 diabetes in Scotland, Mireille Captieux and colleagues estimated how many people were in remission in 2019 and described the characteristics of those in remission and not in remission.
Of 162,316 patients aged over 30 years who were eligible for the analysis, 7,710—around 5%—were in remission in 2019. Individuals in remission tend to have not previously taken glucose lowering medication; have lost weight since their diagnosis; be older; have lower blood sugar levels at diagnosis; or have had bariatric surgery. Understanding how many individuals are in remission as well as their characteristics creates a baseline against which to evaluate future initiatives and studies. It could also help clinicians identify patients with whom to discuss remission and weight management options.
"We have been able to show, for the first time, that 1 in 20 people in Scotland with type 2 diabetes achieve remission. This is higher than expected and indicates a need for updated guidelines to support clinicians in recognising and supporting these individuals."
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I used to think that Type 2 was just a low insulin production issue, but one of my friends who has diabetes tells me it’s also an insulin resistance problem. From what their doctors have told them it sounded like some of them had a chance of getting off of insulin if they got their weight under control and quit eating sugars and starches.
I haven’t looked for studies on diabetes since despite what my insurer insists I don’t have it. They kept badgering me to accept a home test unit and to shut them up I finally took it. So now I have a toy to entertain myself with. I rarely get a reading as high as 120.
“Honestly surprised its not higher”
You have to be diagnosed with it before you can recover from it. I know there are many who realizes something was wrong, and just stop eating carbs the way the government was telling them to.
Why did your insurer insist you had it? There are companies you can order blood tests through now. You can get an A1C test without your regular doctor even knowing.
I get a big blood lab done twice a year and the one that appears to have gotten them all excited is one where my fasting blood sugar registered 118.
That got flagged and they started bugging me about diabetes. I kept telling them that no doctor has ever diagnosed me with diabetes and I didn’t need their tester. They didn’t give up but finally I did just to get them to shut up about it. It’s a nifty little Livongo machine and I play with it once a day. It’s free so what the hell. If they’d send me a home cholesterol tester that would actually be useful but of course they give me something that I really don’t need.
you overthought it
it was more of a dig on the lack of appealing scottish “food”
Is there evidence that cholesterol is a good predictor of heart health. Do they check your homocysteine?
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You’re an ass.
My husband had Type 2 diabetes. A few years ago, he had a near deadly fall and was in ICU for a month. Cured his diabetes, but I don’t recommend this to anyone...
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Not eating so damn much and fasting are what’s allowed me to lose 25 pounds. It’s also pushed my A1C down to 5.8. I’ve just started ozempic as well to keep the weight loss rolling. I still enjoy food, just a lot less quantity.
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I’m in Dr. Fung’s Facebook group and have read his books. I don’t have diabetes nor am I obese, but I do need to shed a few extra pounds and I want to choose to live as healthy as possible.
I highly recommend his YouTube videos, blogs and books. He is a wise man and has tremendous success. He bucks the traditional approach that the FDA recommends and that doctors follow in lockstep. There is no money for the medical industry to make with his approach and I have found it easy to follow with minimum hunger. Once you go low carb/high fat, your cravings disappear. Combine that with intermittent and occasional longer term fasting and many health risks decline - diabetes, Alzheimer’s, cancer, hypertension.
I fast every day either for 16 or 18 hours and do a 36 to 42 hour fast once a week or so. It’s easier than one would think. I haven’t yet ventured into doing a longer term fast - I’m building up to that. You get autophagy with longer term fasts - this means kicking out damaged old cells and replacing with new ones. Plus, it is a natural way to boost your HGH which is the fountain of youth.
Our bodies are designed for feast and famine. It’s only the last 100 years or so that we consistently consume 3 meals a day plus snacks.
“Around one in twenty people in Scotland diagnosed with type 2 diabetes achieve remission from the disease.”
Around 19 in 2 0people in Scotland do not know that the Keto diet will eliminate (remission) or at least greatly minimize the need for diabetics to be on meds.
“On what plan? It seems like the standard treatment makes it worse - and the science backs that up?”
Here’s what happened. People with Type 1 diabetes basically had a death sentence and rarely made it to adulthood. Early on, for both Type 1 and Type 2, they had figured out what eating less carbs meant lower blood sugar, and that was a good thing (they knew this by smelling urine for ‘sweetness’, with ‘sweetness’m meaning they had super high blood sugar, and they knew that healthy people didn’t have ‘sweet’ smelling urine). This lasted until about 100 years ago.
Then insulin was discovered and isolated, and it was a godsend to Type 1’s as it meant they could live near-normal lives.
At the same time, for Type 2’s, they also ‘forgot’ their early treatments, since insulin also brought down their blood sugar levels.
So problem solved for both types, except one small detail - no one bothered to check if insulin injections help Type 2’s in the long run by preventing the debilitating complications that arise. If they had bothered checking, they would have realized that the injections provided no improvement, and possibly make things worse, and definitely made things worse than going primarily on a low-carb diet, and then (maybe) taking drugs and insulin, but at much lower levels.
But why bother checking on whether people are being helped by the standard ‘treatment’, since the standard ‘treatment’ was bringing so many people into ‘the system’, for the rest of their lives?
“There’s no cure for type 2 diabetes, but losing weight, eating well and exercising can help you manage the disease.”
The sentence is technically correct, except for the fact that their definition of ‘eating well’ means carb-loading...so it’s not ‘eating well’ and therefore you get no remission.
Thanks! I appreciate the brief overview!
Interesting. Thanks!
I’d have to look. The test is primarily for a rare kidney disease but they check all sorts of things.
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