Im totally confused by your position again. In both the following points you seem to contradict yourself.
1. You are measuring your success, or not, by means of fbg are you not? And periodic self administered OGTT? yet you say measuring bg isn’t good enough to be classed as remission.
2. You say in your first sentence ANY method of weight loss works, but then say low carb only lowers BG and is only an alternative to drugs and doesn’t achieve remission.
What do you define as remission, other than blood glucose? How are you measuring it?
2. Any weight loss works including
weight loss by low carb. But not low carb
by itself. If you are doing a low carb diet but replacing all the calories lost from carbs with calories from fat or protein, in that case you have no weight loss, so all you can achieve is lower bgs without improving beta cell function. Ie you lower bg, but do it by putting less sugar into your blood but
not by getting more out. Most definitions of remission ae based on HBA1C or FBG readings, so by that standard you could call it "remission". I don't, for me it has to involve repairing the beta cells so that
they lower the blood sugar for me.
1. You have said before that these tests measure different things. My take on it is that they measure the same thing, ie BG, but in different contexts. HBA1C and FBG can both be brought down by putting less sugar into your blood in the first place (eg low carb). But that will not improve
removal of sugar from the blood. Only the beta cells themselves can do that (by producing enough insulin for example). There are various tests available to the scientist eg C Peptide etc that measure beta cell function fairly accurately. The nearest to those that we can get in the outside world is the OGTT - although it's not perfect as it includes an element of IR. If the typical low carber does one of those, using a measured amount (75 g) of high GI glucose their 2hr post prandial bg will skyrocket. In much the same way as if they ate a high carb meal and, as they say on the forum, it "spikes them". Even if they have been doing low carb for years previously.