Ok, I'm a nutritionist in California and I specialize in diabetes and obesity. We use a different numbering system here for HbA1C. 5.8% - 6.4% is prediabetic range. 6.5% and higher is diabetic.
Can you reverse tyle 2 diabetes?
The answer is yes. But you have to fix what caused it first. Most doctors don't have a clue what type 2 diabetes is, and what caused it. They think if you're overweight, as 80% of type 2s are, being overweight is what caused it.
Well the bad news is high insulin causes both.
The root of both diseases is high insulin from eating too many high glycemic carbohydrates.
All diabetes drugs just raise insulin to pound glucose into the cell. This works, depending how much insulin resistance you have. Some t 2s can shoot 40 units of insulin and it does very little to lower blood sugar. If a type 1 shot up this much they might go into a coma.
If your a1c is below 5.8% consistently, you technically are no longer diabetic or even pre-diabetic. But how did you do this? If you still have to take drugs to maintain this level, you are controlled, but you still have insulin resistance. If you go back to eating the junk foods that gave you diabetes, your blood sugar shows diabetic levels again.
The only safe way to control diabetes is diet and exercise. Diabetes drugs just raise insulin, which makes your insulin resistance worse, not better.
Most all chronic diseases we face as humans are caused by high insulin. Exercise makes your body more sensitive to insulin. If you learn the glycemic load of foods, this is your most powerful weapon against diabetes and obesity. Grains are the number 1 cause of most all chronic disease and a non-organic potato is the worst food on earth for a diabetic/anyone.