Yorksman
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If you look at the study, if I remember correctly, all the participants were under 10 mmol/L to start, as your first graph shows.
Firstly the graph doesn't show anything other the mean average level of the group, not individual results and secondly, even if it did, there is absolutely nothing to substantiate your claim that (1) it is too fast and (2) there are risks and I ask you once again to quantify the risks.
There have been many studies into acute reduction of plasma glucose levels since Ackermann et al in 1981 (Observations on the improvements in carbohydrate metabolism in diabetic and other morbidly obese patients after jejunoileal bypass). Roy Taylor of the Newcastle team comments on them in 2013, "The acute glucose-lowering effect of certain bariatric procedures before any significant weight loss has occurred has been known for decades" (Mechanism of Metabolic Advantages After Bariatric Surgery). Some of the data show reductions in fasting plasma levels from above 40.0 to below 6.0 within 3 or 4 days. Much has been published on the possible effects of the acute reduction in fasting plasma levels for example, "The authors conclude that acute reduction in plasma glucose level in this group of patients is not associated with significant changes in macular blood flow or in alteration in autoregulation." (Macular blood flow response to acute reduction of plasma glucose in diabetic patients measured by the blue light entoptic technique. Davies et al 1990). There are many similar studies into the effects on liver, kidney and cardio vascular function and nothing that I have seen supports your assertion, an assertion you do not appear to be too willing to defend and seem only able to reiterate as if by repeating it it makes it more true.