- Messages
- 1,398
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
We know that Type 2 can be controlled with diet and drugs or insulin. But we know that even with good BG levels, we still have the disease and the high BG levels would come back if we stopped the "treatment."
So what would count as a "cure"? It would have to eliminate a chronic and progressive illness. A onetime course of drugs that reverses insulin resistance forever? A daily pill that, taken for the rest of your life, would have the same effect, with no side effects at all? Allowing a return to a diet containing "normal" amounts of carbohydrates?
For more advanced cases, the "cure" would also have to fix a worn-out pancreas that is tuckered out from producing excess insulin for years....
So what would count as a "cure"? It would have to eliminate a chronic and progressive illness. A onetime course of drugs that reverses insulin resistance forever? A daily pill that, taken for the rest of your life, would have the same effect, with no side effects at all? Allowing a return to a diet containing "normal" amounts of carbohydrates?
For more advanced cases, the "cure" would also have to fix a worn-out pancreas that is tuckered out from producing excess insulin for years....