Posted on 10/28/2024 8:53:52 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
Adults with type 2 diabetes on a low-carbohydrate diet may see benefits to their beta-cell function, allowing them to better manage their disease and possibly discontinue medication, according to new research.
Beta-cells are endocrine cells in the pancreas that produce and release insulin, the hormone that controls blood sugar levels.
People with type 2 diabetes have a compromised beta-cell response to blood sugar, possibly due in part to eating too many carbohydrates. Beta-cell failure or insufficiency on top of insulin resistance is responsible for the development and progression of type 2 diabetes.
"This study shows people with type 2 diabetes on a low-carbohydrate diet can recover their beta-cells, an outcome that cannot be achieved with medication," said Barbara Gower, Ph.D. "People with mild type 2 diabetes who reduce their carbohydrate intake may be able to discontinue medication and enjoy eating meals and snacks that are higher in protein and meet their energy needs."
The researchers gathered data from 57 white and Black adults with type 2 diabetes, half on a low-carbohydrate diet and the other half on a high-carbohydrate diet, and examined their beta-cell function and insulin secretion at baseline and after 12 weeks.
All of the participants' meals were provided. People on the carbohydrate-restricted diet ate 9% carbohydrates and 65% fat, and participants on the high-carbohydrate diet ate 55% carbohydrates and 20% fat.
The researchers found those on a low-carbohydrate versus a high-carbohydrate diet saw improvements in the acute and maximal beta-cell responses that were 2-fold and 22% greater, respectively. Within each race group, Black adults on a low-carbohydrate diet saw 110% greater improvements in the acute beta-cell response, and white adults had improvements in the maximal beta-cell response that were 48% greater than their respective counterparts on the high-carbohydrate diet.
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I went on a low carb boot camp diet for three months and lowered my AiC to 5.5 without meds. It took a serious commitment but it worked, Nothing tricky, just don’t eat sugar or starch, meaning no sugar, no bakery, no rice, no potatoes, no pasta, no alcohol; some weight exercise to prevent sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass) but nothing drastic; a brisk half hour walk every day also. Turned the trick. No rocket science involved.
That was me before 9 months on a zero carb carnivore diet.
Now 5.5 A1c (last 15 months) blood sugar average now 93 since the first month of diet.
No longer on diet and system tolerates sugar and carbs like it should but I do not go o c erboard and still conscious about the miracle I was given.
True story.
You know Democrats are going to continue to get into office, so why do you vote?
that is severe...I believe it works but most of a regular diet is eliminated and for most people that is unsustainable.
You know you’re going to die, right?
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You might die tomorrow.
About 5 years ago, I went to some of the points you suggest (lite weight-lifts, brisk walks a couple of times a week, more fruit, massive cut on bakery goods, moderate alcohol (1 per day), keeping a nut-glass around for evening snacks, and one salad/fruit day a week. Sugar issues lessened.
I suspect most people when they hit around age 50 to 60...ought to shift food/energy strategies and add three hours of hiking/walking into their lives.
“I went on a low carb boot camp diet for three months and lowered my AiC to 5.5 without meds.”
My friend did the same thing a few years ago, using your same method. She dropped her A1C to a perfect level, and dropped 25-30 pounds. Not sure how long, but it took less than 6 months.
She was a “bread-aholic” so it was tough for her, but she did it.
What’s with this *may be allowed to discontinue medicine*? What decent dr would keep someone on medicine they don’t need?
If your blood sugar levels are good, what is the point of the medication?
This was known over 100 years ago when diabetics were told to stay clear of carbs, but then it was ‘forgotten’ when Insulin came around and drugs took over. Then it was ‘relearned’ about 50 years ago, when we were finally able to measure blood-Insulin levels (which are at super-low concentrations, in diabetics and non-diabetics alike...which is why it took so long to figure out how to measure it). And that was when the HONESTY ended in the Insulin/Diabetes world.
Once they were able to measure Insulin levels (50 years ago), then they know EXACTLY how to deal with Type 2 diabetes, which was to cut down as much as possible on carbs. Sounds easy enough until one considers that carbs are presently something like 60% of all calories and 90% of junk food calories that Americans eat (and roughly similar elsewhere in the world).
And so the Empire strikes back and until 2019 even the AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION said eating carbs was just fine for Diabetics...just shoot enough Insulin to ‘offset’ it (as if mega-dosing Insulin is good for you...it’s not, which is why Diabetics kept getting sicker and sicker). And even starting in 2019 when the ADA finally couldn’t ignore the anti-carb groundswell, they used weasel-words, something like ‘reducing carbs may help some people, somewhat’.
Finally, now, after 50 years of Ground-Level REVOLT (called Atkins, Ketogenic, and finally Carnivore), medical research has been dragged kicking and screaming into looking seriously at low-carb and near-zero carb....but they knew it all along, just too much money was being made in getting people sick.
But it’s not over. With dubious ‘science’, as usual, the Global Warming crowd has now taken-up ending beef, which is a critical to ending carb reliance, at least for most people (remember when AOC talked about outlawing cows, it was her who came up with the idea). So the battles never end.
I’m old enough to remember being on the Stillman Diet!
Wow, even with all my research, I hadn’t heard of it. Just a quick look at it tells me that he was getting close, but didn’t understand the need for fat, particularly saturated fat, but he had carbs figured out, for sure!
duh
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