Seems like a violation of Le Chatelier’s principle. The claim is that a reduction in a stress ( blood sugar ) will stimulate a response appropriate to its increase ( more insulin ). Not saying this is impossible, just puzzling.
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My wife is type 2 and this is very interesting indeed.
I began a vegan diet with no added salt or sugar and focused on whole, fresh foods. I was off my diabetes meds within a month and my blood sugars are in the normal range still three months later. I don’t really worry about calories...although have been slowly losing my extra pounds.
Type II diabetes is where you have plenty of insulin but the cell receptors for the insulin dont work. The drugs you take for Type II are not insulins but those to get those receptors working.
To say that this fad diet works by getting your pancreas to start pumping insulin is so stupid I laughed in my oatmeal.
600 calories a day
Maybe it’ll reverse the diabetes, maybe it won’t. But it’ll certainly damage your heart.
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Both my cardiologist and primary have told me to lose 30 lbs. If I do, I “could” be off my medications (well...I’ll still need the thorazine ;0]). Milkshakes and salads... its worth a shot.
Read more here, and google it too. A poster above was laughing at this since he mistakenly thought that insulin resistance is not affected by diet or weight status, but for the great majority of T2DMs, it is the overweight/obesity that increases their requirements for insulin. Indeed, about 25% of T2DM patients get insulin by injection to override the resistance when the other drugs cease working well.
Sorry...that's far too narrow a definition of Type II diabetes.
My body produces more than enough insulin. The problem is at the cellular level where the insulin is not able to "unlock" the cell to gain entry so the cell can utilize the sugar in the blood stream and convert to energy.
Medicines like metformin and the glitizones can help the body use the insulin normally to eliminate the excess sugar in the blood stream.
A lower calorie diet will surely help but only when combined with regular exercise will these medications work at peak efficacy and in best case eventually not be needed.
Five years ago I was 60 pounds heavier, ate/drank whatever I felt like that wasn’t high in sugar, was sedentary, smoked a pack a day and had to take Metformin to control my blood sugar.
Then one day I experienced chest pains, which turned out to be heart disease. Four clogged arteries, two of which got stents.
I quit smoking, drastically changed my diet (low fat, low salt, low cholesterol, low sugar, whole grains, fruit, vegetables, nuts, ultra-lean meats), took up exercise, lost 60 pounds, and now my A1C is almost always in the low 5’s (5.1 - 5.3), and I am not on Metformin.
My doc says that I have a history of diabetes, though I am not currently diabetic.
This is interesting - what do you think? Good science?
Good for all the rest of you. I already have a BMI of 18.8, so cutting calories is not going to help.
I’ve gone from being misdiagnosed as type 1 in the hospital about 3 months ago, having a reading above 747 and a a1c of 13.5 “was 169 pounds 5’7 “ from day one I avoided there diet of to many carbs per day i kept it under 150 carbs for weight loss and slowly got a bit better then i lowered it to the under 50 carbs for fat burning and got a bit better readings currently i’m on the 600 cal a day diet under 50 carbs a day and only 2 meals a day no snacks with a good 24 hour fast once a week to break through the liver dumping effect/weight loss wall that happens when your body gets used to higher numbers it also lowers over all readings and repairs the body. currently my morning reading sits at 81 and after meal readings return to low 80’s fast i’m on nothing but supplements and currently 147 pounds. I will try this for the full 2 months to cut the organ fat down.
Also, stop eating ALL white rice.