I managed to avoid going on the diabetic register - my T2 was steroid induced due to treatment for inflammatory arthritis
three months later thanks to Dr Cavan's book, this site and a LCHF diet it was 38.
I'm absolutely positive that if I go back to my former carb and sugar laden diet then I'll end up with T2 again so I'll be sticking to my new regime.
I see two categories of cures, depending on the cause of the high glucose.
In the quote, we have an example of hyperglycaemia caused by something other than primary beta cell failure or primary insulin resistance. There's a crucial fact that a lot of people don't know -- and I suspect that includes many HCP's. That fact is: when diagnosing diabetes mellitus, the cause is not a criterion. The only criterion of "diabetes mellitus" (DM) is the hyperglycaemia itself.
Ask what the cause is, and the answer will be "beta cell failure" and "insulin resistance". But that's only, say, 99% of the time. If the "nondiabetic cause of the diabetes" is removed, and the beta cells weren't severely damaged in the meantime, then the hyperglycaemia is cured.
OK, now to the category we really care about: the cause being beta cell failure or death, sometimes compounded by insulin resistance. But it's widely acknowledged -- maybe not yet the majority opinion, but it's widely believed -- that we can eat our way to being diabetic by eating sugars and white flour. It stands to reason some people can achieve cure by reversing the diet.
I agree that many people would relapse if they went back to a regular high carb diet. I say that doesn't matter in practice because high carb diets are unhealthy anyway. Once you eat your way into remission, you can eat high carb
any time you wish, just not
every time. That is, even though there are hordes of people who can never be cured, they would have to carb up diligently for a year or three in order to bring back the illness. You
can indulge in cake at a birthday party.
It's seems like weekly this Website has a testimonial of somebody losing two, three stone and achieving a low A1c all within months. Close enough to a cure for me.
