most diabetics can’t fast. that is the problem.
fasting causes unsafe drops in insulin levels.
Diabetics can switch to a low carb diet, which very often reverses diabetes. Fasting in the form of time restricted eating is a pretty flexible tool as well. But anyone on insulin needs to be monitored so their insulin can be adjusted as they go - or so I’ve read. OTOH, depending on insulin when your problem is growing resistance to insulin seems like a poor long term strategy. Seems the question is how to coordinate a withdrawal from dependency on insulin injections.
I belong to a group of T2 diabetics, all who have or in the process of reversing their T2 through fasting and keto/low carb eating.
I am no longer pre-diabetic after 3 years of keto and fasting and 210lb weight loss.
Read up on Dr. Jason Fung. The whole point of his books is reversing T2 diabetes through fasting. There is no such thing as an “unsafe” drop in insulin. Either you make insulin or you don’t (T1) or you are insulin sensitive or you’re insensitive (T2). The only way to become sensitive again is to drop your insulin levels and keep them low for long periods of time by not eating crap that raises your blood sugar so that you have to take more and more insulin to bring it down, thus completing the vicious cycle of SAD (standard American diet.
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most diabetics can’t fast. that is the problem.
fasting causes unsafe drops in insulin levels.
*************************************************************I stopped taking the insulin (180 units a day) and began fasting. I have maintained an A1C under 6.5 and have not used insulin in over 3 years.