If I could I would change my title from Mbaker to 80/20 rule. The context of this is that if you are in the 80 (the side that can get excellent control or reversal), then the tools at your disposal are diet, exercise, fasting, lifestyle, drugs, meditation, sleep, stress management and perhaps a few other things. LCHF works well for T2, as it is truly sustainable and for meat / fish eaters an option other than RAW. Diet is the biggest and most important key, exercise adds about 20% if you mix cardio and resistance training. Fasting mixed with diet and exercise will again get you to your goals quicker. I would suggest that if you can do these (diet, exercise and fasting) you may not need drugs and your blood pressure should (80/20 rule) improve. So yes we are all different, but I would say most controlled T2's do at least one of the three in brackets.