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<blockquote data-quote="Yorksman" data-source="post: 492061" data-attributes="member: 55568"><p>Well the term 'reverse' is used by the researchers and it was observed that people who underwent bariatric surgery appeared to be cured of their diabetes, but it needs qualifying.</p><p></p><p>It is the so called 'inevitable profession of the disease' that is reversed or rather 'halted'. The medical profession were full of doom merchants more or less telling you that you couldn't do anything about it and that inevitably you would need to get stronger and stronger medication to control it. It is this progression that is now seen as avoidable, if the individual is motivated enough to to lose a large amount of weight. It is possible to get back to normal levels and it is possible to stay at those normal levels but, you have to be careful and it is vey easy to slip back into bad old habits.</p><p></p><p>If you have lost say 40% of your beta cell mass, you won't recover that. You will stay at 60% plus, get back some of the other 40%, but you don't know how much. It used to be thought that what was dead was useless and would not recover but research shows that some of it will because it is not all necessarily dead, just blocked, by fats in the pancreas. Some of these can be unblocked and wil work again. But, there is currently no way of telling how much so, easy on the jam doughnuts <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Actually it is nice to know that if you get back to normal levels and you are on a diet that you find OK, you can carry on quite happily if you remain sensible. And once you start learning about what you can eat and what you should avoid, in time, things become second nature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yorksman, post: 492061, member: 55568"] Well the term 'reverse' is used by the researchers and it was observed that people who underwent bariatric surgery appeared to be cured of their diabetes, but it needs qualifying. It is the so called 'inevitable profession of the disease' that is reversed or rather 'halted'. The medical profession were full of doom merchants more or less telling you that you couldn't do anything about it and that inevitably you would need to get stronger and stronger medication to control it. It is this progression that is now seen as avoidable, if the individual is motivated enough to to lose a large amount of weight. It is possible to get back to normal levels and it is possible to stay at those normal levels but, you have to be careful and it is vey easy to slip back into bad old habits. If you have lost say 40% of your beta cell mass, you won't recover that. You will stay at 60% plus, get back some of the other 40%, but you don't know how much. It used to be thought that what was dead was useless and would not recover but research shows that some of it will because it is not all necessarily dead, just blocked, by fats in the pancreas. Some of these can be unblocked and wil work again. But, there is currently no way of telling how much so, easy on the jam doughnuts :) Actually it is nice to know that if you get back to normal levels and you are on a diet that you find OK, you can carry on quite happily if you remain sensible. And once you start learning about what you can eat and what you should avoid, in time, things become second nature. [/QUOTE]
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