Posted on 02/28/2018 12:22:07 PM PST by nickcarraway
Cats can cure themselves from diabetes...
I’ve personally seen it.
Over time, people with type-II diabetes can be made more receptive to their own insulin, which in turn allows their bodies to effectively clear glucose from the blood without insulin medication. The trick for the vast majority of type II patients is as simple as losing weight.
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I stopped reading after this. Someone with medical expertise help.
I thought TypeII diabetes was insulin resistence, where the cells slowly are less responsive to insulin and thus the body tries to produce MORE of it in order to reduce blood glucose levels.
What they wrote seems backwards from what I’ve read before.
From my point of view, the answer is more or less:
Yes.
“Permanent weight loss without bariatric surgery is practically impossible at the population level.”
but not for someone with motivation. I’ve lost 25 pounds on a HFLC diet since last September, with 15-20 more to go.
and besides the failure rate with bariatric is about 50% by five years out ...
“I thought TypeII diabetes was insulin resistence, where the cells slowly are less responsive to insulin and thus the body tries to produce MORE of it in order to reduce blood glucose levels.”
that’s correct, but the cells can be re-sensitized with severe calorie restrictions with near zero carbs ...
Read “Enter the Zone” by Dr. Barry Sears. That’s all you need to know to PREVENT Type II diabetes, and also control it. You will become a “Born Again Eater”.
Amazing that they dare to use what was proven to work before insulin was synthesized.
How much of the population has become diabetic and fat since 1982 when insulin became widely available??
has your Doctor Approved Diet been Killing you??
how about your Government Approved diet??
My point is this, NONE of this is NEW!!!
I’m a medical underwriter. I read medical records all day for a living. I see primarily 2 kinds of people. People who are owned by the disease, and people who own the disease. The former feel powerless and rely on medication, to varying degrees of compliance. The latter take the disease by the throat and control it as the very best they can. Diet, exercise, frequent follow up, self education, listening to their MD, following Rx schedules. Two very different mindsets, and as one would expect, frequently different outcomes.
No one seeks disease, but time wears us down, disease finds us. Own it, stay focused.
Are you eating low protein too?
Skimming this quickly, it look like the Atkins diet.
bkmk
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There are four sides to the Type II problem.
The first is insulin production in the pancreas and liver.
Just producing more insulin is not enough, and too much insulin could negatively affect the second side: insulin resistance/insulin sensitivity. There are some suggestions that consuming artificial sweeteners can temporarily boost your insulin production; but in turn this could lower your insulin sensitivity.
Likewise taking injected insulin could increase your resistance to insulin.
The third side is sugar digestion and absorption in the intestines. People may have a type of bacteria in their flora that over-digests food and also contributes to weight gain.
And the fourth side is overweight and metabolic syndrome. This means it is easy to gain weight and even harder to lose it.
In any event, supplements used to achieve some of this:
Turmeric. Anti-Hyperglycemic and Insulin Sensitizing Effects. (3g x 3 day) Reduces liver glucose and glycogen production. Many other good effects.
Ginger. Fasting Blood Sugar, Hemoglobin A1c, Apolipoprotein B, Apolipoprotein A-I and Malondialdehyde in Type 2 Diabetic Patients (4g x 3 day, before meals)
Cloves. Cloves improve glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides of people with type 2 diabetes mellitus. (1g/day)
Gymnema sylvestre (300mg x 2, 15 minutes before meals.) Stimulates insulin release in vitro by increased membrane permeability. It promotes regeneration of islet cells. It increases utilization of glucose: it is shown to increase the activities of enzymes responsible for utilization of glucose by insulin-dependant pathways, an increase in phosphorylase activity, decrease in gluconeogenic enzymes and sorbitol dehydrogenase. Gymnemic acid molecules fill the receptor location in the absorptive external layers of the intestine thereby preventing the sugar molecules absorption by the intestine, which results in low blood sugar level.
Organic Spirulina pills. (Increased slowly up to 5g/day) Can improve insulin sensitivity in Type II patients by 250%.
Blood fungus, a sugar eater. Almost impossible to resist carbs when your blood sugar drops.
Lactose ferments and the above mentioned low carb diet will work over time. Eat your veggies!
Find the right doctor, do the work, fight the fight.
It's not simple, not easy...sometimes there is NOTHING to be done.
If I find I can't fight it, who knows...maybe I'll start popping pills too.
They created a cure for a disease, then gave it to the Whole Country!!!
To get a sense of how industries adapt, it helps to look back at the late 1970s, which is when the dietary recommendations for low-fat foods came out. You can see that within about five years, the food industry rolled out something like 100,000 products where they just removed fat and put in sugar and starch.
The first genetically engineered, synthetic “human” insulin was produced in 1978 using E. coli bacteria to produce the insulin. Eli Lilly went on in 1982 to sell the first commercially available biosynthetic human insulin under the brand name Humulin.
Maybe. But Vanadium and chromium are.
I think you’re both right...the body is not short of insulin with Type 2, it simply isn’t able to use the available insulin to gets its cells to process blood sugar.
The Keto diet gets close to dealing with that root cause, by giving human cells limited options to find their nourishment elsewhere (i.e., carbs), which is happens when diabetics eat ‘normally’. In the case of the Keto diet carbs are greatly reduced.
But obviously the best approach is to go beyond Keto and simply fast for at least several days - ideally longer, possibly up to a week. Doing that FORCES the body to properly use insulin - kind of resetting things. Of course there’s little money to be made by fasting, and most Americans have been told all their lives that we all need our ‘3 healthy meals’ every day (ever wonder where that came from?), so don’t expect this option to become widespread - at least not for a while. Even when I do it, I won’t tell my doctor, as they can legally confine me for 72 hours of ‘observation’...but the numbers every year do speak for themselves.
Atkins, keto... same thing I believe.
If you go keto, your liver (the center of your metabolism) goes from metabolizing carbs into blood sugar and also into fat once the insulin rises to metabolizing fats into keystones, which does not trigger insulin. Much of the body’s metabolism is the same on serum glucose or ketones but a significant portion of the krebs cycle is changed. But the lack of insulin (or the need for it) on a keto diet is exactly why it seems to make sense.
The weigh loss part if this article is pointless. You lose weight as a byproduct of not having insulin constantly telling your body to convert blood sugar to fat stores.
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