I like that you are brave and walk where other angels might fear to tread!
. And reading you is really interesting - as I am quite sure you represent many diabetics in your attitude and treatment choice - just you are very expressive and honest about it. You've been very informative for me about this for sure.
But lots of us in this forum have read and researched a lot about T2D, and share info with each other about the causes, and diet and exercise treatment. I, in particular, for instance, really like the evolutionary biology look at T2D. (I am not so up with auto-immune diseases.) And read up on many scientific papers - as many of the regulars on the forum do.
They basically do know what's going on - the scientific community, and discovering more and more all the time. But as far as I know there is no controversy over the fact that T2D is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, and food most certainly has a lot to do with it! (I am not so convinced it has much to do with the so-called lowered activity levels. But the food industry won't like me saying that.) There isn't any controversy over insulin resistance being at the root of T2D, along with beta cell failure, and we know quite a lot about what causes insulin resistance. And it seems to be that the genetic factor - all those 40,000 (from memory) genes that contribute to giving a person the 'on' switch to developing T2D in certain situations - is about having a particular fat storage pathway. A fancy way of saying when you lay down fat stores - those fat stores go to your liver and pancreas first and foremost. This kept your ancestors alive during times of food shortage, but in a food environment of high carbohydrates and food toxins like trans fats and high fructose corn syrup in everything processed, and processed food being the norm - is dangerous for folk like us in a food environment of particular plenty.
Your sharing your point of view has helped me a lot in understanding why someone with T2D would choose the adding insulin path (and as you say - many do). And for you in your life - that method of treatment is working well for you. But as I know T2D comes first with overproduction of insulin by the body, in response to a high carbohydrate diet, then the cells resist the insulin, as high insulin is toxic to our cells - adding insulin will never make you better! As T2D is your body's response to an originally toxic situation - too many carbs, too much insulin - and our highly-robust-yet-sensitive-at-the-same-time blood glucose regulation system starts to work badly, and eventually - well. Once one knows this - how to happily add more insulin?
Mind you, I got T2D in a rush, as it were, and my health was failing enormously. Yours was more gradual? I wanted to know what was happening to my body and fix it as best I could - and fast. And for me - going from having a relatively normal life, then injecting insulin - I just could not imagine that for me at that time. I'm back to a relatively normal life, but it did take a pretty massive concentration of my energy. (That concentration of energy, by the way, was, and is greatly frowned upon in the medical community in my country - NZ. Considered bad for one's health and wellbeing! lol.)
Like NoCarbs I do not eat like a rabbit! A carnivore indeed (although probably not at NoCarbs level!) But yes, I have to put the energy you might put into the insulin and level reading, into food and preparing it (and BG reading). Not to mention the donning the short-sprint shoes, and lifting weights. (Good for the heart!)
Ah yes. We do all have to make a deal with our shared devil - the diabetes. And we can all make different deals for sure.