when folks started getting unexpectedly cured of T2D after bariatric surgery, it soon became clear that a near-starvation diet with nearly zero carbs for a few weeks would break the deadly insulin-increase-cell-receptor-decrease death spiral and reset the sensitivity of cell insulin receptors once they were no longer having to protect themselves from being poisoned by massive amounts of insulin.
As far as established T1D is concerned, a “cure” by diet alone is complete hogwash as in T1D, autoimmune attacks on the Islets of Langerhans have irreversibly destroyed the pancreas’ ability to manufacture insulin.
Right. They also found that healthy cell replacement triggered new attacks killing them. These studies resulted in reclassification of T1D from “chronic” to “terminal”. You would think simply observing a day without insulin would have made that classification obvious.
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RE : the “hogwash”, the implication is the diet creates the physiological environment by which new cells are generated. That fits serendipitously with the fact that a huge amount of inflammatory response in human physiology is due to human metabolism not being adapted to managing the sugar load generated by the modern sedentary lifestyle.
When most of us were serfs, or had to get by on hurculean manual labor to make a living it wasn’t as pronounced, but with heavy automation coincident with “savory” being found to be enhanced in cheap foodstuffs by the addition of sugars there was the onset of a near perfect storm upon human physiology overall. It tracks perfectly with a host of maladies.