Type 2 Diagnosis Confirmation + Remission?

[chrisjohnh]

If you are a true insulin overproducing T2 then insulin production never stopped for you , your body was overrun with the stuff and it stopped working as it should. This is Taylor's (and many others) flaw in their theory.

I am not sure that this is so. Taylor’s work predicts a long period of elevated basal insulin, fighting against ever-rising IR, before gradual pancreatic exhaustion sets in, whereby T2D then acquires an altered character more akin to T1.

 

[bulkbiker]

I am not sure that this is so. Taylor’s work predicts a long period of elevated basal insulin, fighting against ever-rising IR, before gradual pancreatic exhaustion sets in, whereby T2D then acquires an altered character more akin to T1.

Taylor has really only tested his theories on the fairly newly diagnosed.
The pancreas of such guinea pigs shouldn't have had time to become "exhausted".

By removing the requirement for excess insulin production either through starvation (Newcastle Diet) or cutting carbs enough to allow normalised pancreatic function to be restored is what works.

To claim that insulin production ever "stopped" for a T2 is therefore a bit nonsensical.