Posted on 10/29/2010 11:21:29 AM PDT by Niuhuru
Several times a month I find myself delivering bad news to a patient: “You have diabetes.” The follow-up isn’t much better. The patient asks how to make it go away, and my response, often with a wistful sigh, is: “Right now, there’s nothing.”
But that’s not quite the case any longer. Evidence is accumulating that bariatric surgery—an extreme measure for the very obese that involves reducing the size of the stomach to promote weight loss—may “cure” diabetes.
(Excerpt) Read more at health.msn.com ...
You can eat the sugary after you have the surgery?
Badly written story when they neglect to mention that this works for type 2 and not type 1.
I know someone who had a pancreas transplant which cured them of a very severe case of diabetes. They must now take anti-rejection drugs every day for the rest of their life, but the diabetes is gone.
Yeah there is a way to make it go away.
STOP EATING LIKE A PIG.
Wonder if someone who did not have the surgery ate as though they had, would they have the same results?
I also know someone who had a pancreas transplant. She had type I diabetes prior to that, not afterward. She got a 3-organ transplant. I do not remember what other 2 organs... she was in bad shape (under 30 yrs old at the time) before the transplants.
My understanding is they have to eat protein first, then veggie. Sugary foods will cause severe GI issues.
With government bureaucrats running health care, this surgery will be the cure for diabetes in the future. It will be much less expensive than financing years of insulin shots or the ineffective oral medications for diabetes available today.
If you stop eating sugar and all forms of wheat, most folks can cure themselves of type 2 diabetes. No reason to have surgery like this, which carries much morbidity with it.
BTW, there is now a product in development stages that performs the same as a bypass but does so with much less invasive surgery. It is a GI “sleeve” that is implanted for a period of time to physically bypass the upper GI tract without actually having to cut / alter the tract. Unfortunately not here in the US yet.
The person I know was also Type 1, and prior to the transplant spent about 3-4 months out of every year in the hospital from various complications.
Just like there is a 100% effective way to prevent unwanted pregnancy and STD’s, there is a 100% effective way to prevent type II diabetes. Before I get flamed about obesity and genetics let me add this: I recently watched a Discovery Channel documentary on a teenage boy who had gastric bypass surgery. His mom claimed his obesity was genetic. The doc said that was fine, but genetic obesity was only 30% of the cause. So if the kid was 200 lbs overweight, only 60 lbs could be attributed to genetics. The other 140 lbs are from what?
I was a Type 2 diabetic until I went on the Dukan Diet this year. Not only did I lose weight (I was not obese) but I am no longer a diabetic, my cholesterol is 106 and my insurance company DECREASED my premiums.
It can be done.
There are other things that can cause type 2 diabetes - high levels of stress, chronic pancreatitis caused by disease or bacteria. I was in the hospital and got an MRS infection from a minor surgery. The bacteria infected my gall bladder, liver and pancreas and I developed Type 2 diabetes. I am not overweight.
Was a full blown pancreas transplant or islet cells transfusion? With the islet cells, they are introduced like chemo into the bloodstream, they migrate to the liver, where they take up residence and they begin to produce insulin like a pancreas. The liver still does everything else it does, it just takes on the added job of producing insulin.
Saw this on the local news in DFW a few years ago. A young lady left behind a lifetime of insulin injections and glucose monitoring within a week or so. How ever long it took for the islet cells to begin to produce insulin. Expensive and experimental, though.
Not always true. Many people say that all that is necessary is to stop eating sugar ... first, that is rather difficult with sugar being added by the manufactures to just about every food product out there. But even if you do go “sugar free”, that may not be enough. Many people do not understand that the problem is with how the body processes carbohydrates. Sugar is just one type of carbohydrate. There are several others. Many “diebetic” products are sugar free but high in other forms of carbohydrates and the net result is .... no change, the person remains a diabetic.
True management of the type II diebetic condition requires substantual reduction in carbs as in the South Beach Diet or the Atkins diet.
I have heard that islet cell transfusion works very well for some people, but the person I know required a full organ transplant. Hers was the worst case of Type 1 diabetes I am personally familiar with. I do not think she would still be alive today if she had not received a new pancreas.
Wow, nice smear on everyone with diabetes. I hope you never get it.
The rest is follwoing the Oprah Diet, which means you have to consume enough food to feed a baby whale.
*2.5 metric tons of chicken (fried) a month
*3.0 metric tons of cheese, fried/grilled a month
*2.0 metric tons of chips/onion rings/chitlins a month
*5.0 metric tons of champagne/wine/soda a month
*3.0 metric tons of assorted varities of candy/bonbons a month
You can find the supplies at your online commodites supply seller and iin no time you too can be JUST LIKE OPRAH!!
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