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Intermittent fasting for Diabetes management: voodoo medicine or magic bullet?

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infoman1960

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Type of diabetes
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Tablets (oral)
Anyone familiar with Dr. Jason Fung and his program of intermittent fasting for Diabetes management? He claims that it can actually reverse the course of the disease by improving the body’s insulin resistance. I recently learned of it, but am not fully convinced that it's a sound approach that can do what Dr. Fung claims. I’m still reading and researching, though what I’ve seen so far has me a bit intrigued. I’m actually considering giving it a try and blogging about my results at http://damnyoudiabetes.com/. Any feedback regarding intermittent fasting or my blog is very much welcomed.
 
Is that the same as 5/2? People trying to lose weight seem to have a lot of success. Now I'm in my 60s, a lot of my friends have now retired and have decided to lose the excesses of their busier working lifestyles. They all seem to do really well, but then they don't have diabetes to consider. NoCrbs4Me sums up what a lot of diabetics are successful with and that's cutting carbs. Using your meter will help you decide by how much you should reduce carb and so long as you don't replace ALL of the carb calories with some other calories (FAT for example) then weight loss will also occur, so long as your metabolism is working OK.
 
I haven't tried 5:2 myself but a neighbour diabetic on metformin does it since about a year and swears by it. Actually I don't think he is on metformin any more as his bg has improved a lot. He is in his early seventies.
 
There is some interesting contradictory information on the web. Some reports suggest that I.F can actually lead to diabetes and that women have a greater disposition than men to develop the illness after I.F. Other research completely discounts this. I myself was on the 5:2 immediately before my T1 diagnosis, of course I'll never know if it was a trigger. I was also under a huge amount of stress at the time which may have been worsened by high BS's, difficult to know which came first.
 
If you were diagnosed as T1, then it's highly unlikely that a 5:2 diet would be the cause. The cause is likely to be a considerable time previous to your diagnosis.
 
I'd be interested in a comparison of IF when med/high carbing v IF when low carbing.
 
Ive seen a few shows on the 5:2, across the board for all folk it seems to be a very positive thing, something im keen to look into.

* I find Jason Fungs talks really interesting too, this one in particular, which covers a few good angles -
 
I've posted before that I have a fasting day from supper (9ish pm) through to breakfast the day after (7ish am). I feel regenerated every time and it gives my body a rest and as @nomistheman says it has healing benefits.
Mind you I'm in permanent ketosis!
 
I have watched some of his lectures on YouTube. I haven't made my mind up on him yet either.

I agree with him that insulin causes type 2 diabetes and that treating it with glucose lowering drugs is like treating a fever without treating the infection.

I'm also reading interesting stuff on the interaction of protein and insulin and the Insulin Index at the moment.
 
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